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The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
A Present to Mr.. Bryan.

Among the most ardent of the all
mirers OF Mr.. Bryan is Frank HibbarJ.
the sage of IrvingtDn. and he has Just
sent a testimonial of his regard fo'
the Bryan family. Mr.. and Mrs. HI
bard selected i'm their early youth what
are now two large. fine silver sruce
trees from the arbOreal treasures IN
his evergreen farm which he do
termined. as far back as 1896. should
adorn the home grounds of the den D.
cratic leader.
A few days ago he concluded TIA,
now was the time as the trees had
grown to the height of sixteen feet.
and to move them safely was some
thing of a problem. He had .hem
sarefully dug and the dirt undisrurbed
around the roots. walled in with wood
and cemented. Then he secured a
driver and had them taken overland 20
Lincoln from his place west Of Oma-
ha. The tree planting is in prog
ress to the delight of Mrs. Bryan and
the family.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
BULGARIAN SITUATION.

The Bulgarian cabinet decided to re-
ject the proposal emanating from Lon
don for the payment of indemnity to
Turkey as a condition of recognizing
Bulgaria's independence.
Turkey fears Bulgaria's military &C
tivity will yet bring on war and de-
clines to be responsible for the re-
suit. Great Britain. France and Rus
STA agreed on a program to be sub
mitted to the other powers as basis
for the proposed conference.
Germany has assured Turkey she
will follow the lead of England in the
matter of the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, so that Austria-H Hungary
stands alone. The Servian govern
ment believes war will be avoided.
Prince Ferdinand, as the GEAR OF
the Balkans" made his triumphal en-
try into the capital amid scenes OF pa
triotic enthusiasm. Great Britain re-
ceded from her original position and is
now willing that the proposed confer
ence of the powers to settle the crisis
in the near east shall take under ad-
visement other questions in addition to
those involved in the annexation of
Bosnia and Bulgarian Independence.
A Turkish cruiser and three torpedo
boats arrived at Saloniki on the way
to the Island of Samos, a Grecian pos
session. This is Turkeys answer to
the proclamation by the Cretans Of
union with Greece
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
QUARANTINE ORDER MODIFIED
Gov. Sheldon Makes Some Changes
After Advising With State vsteri-
marian and Other Parties.

Governor Sheldon, after advising
with State Veterinarian Charles A.
McKin. has issued notice of modifica-
ton of his recent quarantine against
anthrax among cattle in Wyoming and
South Dakota counties, bordering ON
Nebraska. and Sioux county, Neb. He
has modified the former proclamation
by raising the quarantine against
Laramie county, Wyo., and by raising
it as to q part of Converse county,
Wyo., and provides for terminating
the quarantine against South Dakota
counties and Sioux county, Neb.. when
ever it shall be shown that death loss
has decreased and carcasses of all
animals which have died have been
burned. The modification may be en-
forced any time after October II. The
governors new proclamation is as Ioi-
lows:
THAT part of quarantine order. I'M
der date of October 2, 1908, placing a
quarantine against Laramie and Con-
verse counties, of the state of WyOm-
ing. is hereby changed to read as fol-
lows:
"That portion Of Converse county.
Wyoming, north of the Chicago and
North Western railroad, and that por-
ton that lies east of the line drawn
from Lusk. due north of Weston cOun-
ty line, thence east to Wyoming and
Dakota line.
"The quarantine order of October ?.
against all portions of Converse coun-
ty not mentioned and included in the
above description, and all of Laramie
county, Wyoming, is hereby raised.
"The quarantine now existing
against Fall River, Clay and that por
ton of Yankton county. lying east Of
the James river. in South Dakota. and
that portion of Sioux county. Nebras-
ka, lying north of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad and west Of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad will be raised or terminated
when it shall be determined that the
death loss from anthrax among the
live stock has ceased, and the car
cases of all animals which have died
therefrom have been burned.
This modification of quarantine
shall take effect and be in force from
and after October II, 1908. 10 such
time as it's conditions have been full
filed"
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21

The average man would sooner face
a 2OO-pound human antagonist than a
5O-pound dog which he could choke to
death in three minutes. / have seen
a charging ran scatter half dozen
men. any one of whom could have
mastered the brute in a moment, and
not one OF whom was, in ordinary mat
tiers, a coward. There are instances
on record of men who with their bare
hands have held and baffied an ugly
bull; but it was only the pressure OF
grim necessity that taught them their
powers. Put a man against an animal,
and the man looks around for weap-
ons or support, whether he needs
them or not There was time when
he did.
For man, to-day the most lOrdly Of
animals, was once well nigh the most
humble of them all. He has come
I'D or. of a state in which fear was the
normal condition of existence; fear
of violence, of the dark that gave OPP
portunity for violence; fear of falling,
OF animals, of being alone. And into
the plastic gray cells of our brains
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
IN EWSN0TES|
} FOR THE 5
BUSY MAN |
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
PERSONAL.

President Roosevelt will visit Eng
land after his African trip early in
1910. He will deliver the Romanes
lecture at Oxford and will receive the
honorary degree of d. c. L.
Rev. Francis J. Mcconnell, Phi. d.,
pastor of the New York Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal church. Brooklyn, N.
Y, has accepted a call to the presi-
dency of De Paw university, Green
castle, Ind.
DR.. Won Tiedmann, postmaster at
Cortez. New, was arrested and
charged with embezzling $4,4OO of the
funds of that Office.
Clerk James McKenny of the United
States supreme court celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of his entering
the clerks office in Washington.
A message just received from DR..
Frederick A. Cook, written February
&c, says he was making a straight
line for the pole.
David w. Hill of Poplar Bluff. Mo-,
has resigned as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator.
Horace ID. Taft, principal OF Tart
school at Watertown, Conn.,. and
brother of William H. Taft, refused a
nomination for representative in the
state legislature.
Harry X. Thaw was sent back 10
Matteawan Hospital for the Criminal
Insane by order of Justice Mills OF the
New York supreme court.
Col. Ike T. Pryor of San Antonio
Tex, was elected chairman OF the ex-
ecutive committee of the transmits
sissippi congress.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21

| 1.-THE princess recently escaped from the
| and of the Turk, and is now living in
| England. Her highness, who was the
| wife of Prince Samy. the sultan's neph-
| aw. tells an interesting story of her life
one of the most exclusive houses in
| rurkey-the royal hareml
Life in a Turkish harem is an at
| tractive theme to all except those who
have to endure it. The whispers of
| fancy have made free with what is,
| after all. a very wonderful institution.
In the popular imagination, it is the orr
entail home of those who only know
the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and
repOse, whose every sense of enjoy
ment is lavishly catered for by beau
tiful slaves, skillful to delight. There
is, however, another and more truly
realistic. more tragic. side of the pic
ture; and it has been my lot to learn
that the life of prisoner is none the
less irksome because ones captivity
is associated with a gorgeous palace,
or a fragrant and beautiful garden.
l spent many years in harem in
Constantinople. My father was the
late Gluridi-Zade Hilmay Pasha aide
de-camp to the sultan, and general
in the Turkish army. Although a close
student of western civilization, he, of
course. had, in a measure, to comply
with the custom of the country, more
especially in a country where every
insignificant innovation is gravely re-
garded as helping to undermine the
dynasty. His house accordingly con-
tanned its selamlik and its harem.
The selamlik is that section set aside
for the men, and is entirely stated by
male servants; while the harem is re-
served exclusively for women, and
none but the master, the women and
the eunuchs are permitted to enter it.
When once a girl reaches her teens
in Turkey she is required by the in
exOrable laws of the land to take the
veil;" and from that moment her per-
sonal liberty is at an end.
Having gained some insight in west
ern civilization from my family. whose
views were also shared by my Eng
lish governess, 1 dreaded the taking
of the veil long before the fateful day
was reached. However, as l have al
ready explained. there was no posi-
bility of escape; and so at Is found
myself involuntarily clustered in
convent.
Mine was not the feeling of the nun
who lays the cross to her bosom,
spurning the pain and welcoming with
jOy her functions as bride of heaven.
Mine was the shrinking of pure girl
soul from a horrible sense of impend-
ing evil. The future had an indie
scribable terror l was we'll clothed.
we'll fed, incarcerated amidst surround
ings of silk. satin and jewels, and
waited on day and night by slaves
whose position in life only differed
from my own in a small degree; for
while the slaves were recognized as
such, l became slave in all but name.
The women of the harem, other
than slaves, have no influence over
their lord and master. Their sole &C.
cupatiOn lies In an unceasing attempt
to outrival each other. They pass
their languid time in dressing, paint
ing their compilations bewitching
hue. pertaining. and receiving visits
from female friends or professional
buffoons. The later, with their coarse
jests, their coarser anecdotes and gen
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
liaht Sentence for Evans.

Yokohama Lieutenant Frank
Evans of the battleship Louisiana, who
recently was court-martialed on
charge of absenting himself from his
post while officer Of the deck, disre-
spect to his superior officer and intox.
ication, has been found guilty of the
two former charges. Rear Admiral
Sperry received the papers while the
battleships were at Manila and has
just announced his verdict. The SEN
tence provides that Lieutenant shall
lose $50 numbers and shall be pub
licly reprimanded.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
GENERAL NEWS,

Fifteen people lost their lives in the
burning of a Detroit & Mackinaw
railway relief train which was carry
ing inhabitants of the little village of
Metz. % miles north of Alpena, Mich,
to safety from the forest fires which
were sweeping away their homes. The
train was ditched by spreading rails
at Nowicki Siding. few miles south
of Metz, and the the cars were burned,
IL women and children and four men
perishing. The forest fires in North
ern Michigan were reported to be
raging with most disastrous results.
The German balloon Plauen, which
left Berlin in an endurance contest,
was picked up in the North sea by a
trawler. Clinging to the balloon were
the two aeronauts. Hackstetter and
Schneider. in an almost exhausted con-
dition.
One man was drowned and IS per-
sons were thrown into a panic when
the steamer New York of the Albany
Day line was rammed by a tug in the
North river.
Fire destroyed two big salt ware
houses in South Chicago, ILL.,, the loss
being about $4,000.
John and Peter Bohli, brothers. of
ingalls, Crossing. n. Y, were muir
dered by robbers.
In the fourth game of the worlds
baseball championship series, Chicago
defeated Detroit. to Q.
Putnam county, Ohio, voted to re-
tain saloons.
Louise H. Chamberlin, a sister of
Perry S. Heath, former assistant post
master general and later editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune. was burned to
, death an Albuquerque, N. NJ.
Thomas Howell. aged 81. shot and
killed Mrs. Ben Davis at Drummond.
Mont.
A mob of many thousands of Der.
sons, called together by the suffra-
gettes. besieged parliament and kept
5000 London police busy for hours.
James S. Kennedy, a New York
banker, has given 100000 to the
Presbyterian hospital of that city of
which he is president.
Harry Cahill, alias James Cole. said
to be the son Of an Alaskan delegate
in congress, was arrested by the Chi
cago police on a charge of robbing a
bank at Ladysmith, Wis.,, Of $4,000.
Government chemists were said to
have solved the problem of making
paper from cornstalks.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21

eral vulgarity, make a sort of divertiSe-
ment for some: but it is all very maui
seating to an educated woman.
When the master resolves to pay
the harem visit, it is the duty of the
chief eunuch in some cases to make
an official announcement. and the
favorite wife arranges the program for
her lords delectatiOn. To please him
is her highest ambition; she has moth
ing else to live for. She cannot play
Vashti. for Esther is ever ready to
take her place.
1t is the custom in Turkey for mothers
with eligible sons to call upon those
who have daughters. The girls are
ushered into the reception room and
paraded for inspection. While drink
ing a cup of coffee, the maternal eye
passes them in critical review.
1t is the husbands special privilege
to be able to divorce his wife twice.
IL he does it third time she is really,
free. Should he have exhausted his
stock of legal indulgences. however,
he can hire someone else to go through
the form of marriage with his divorced
wife; and the newly welded husband
with all expedition-that is to say, at
Once-revOkes the marital compact,
and the first husband is thereby alb
solved from the divorce disabilities
previously incurred, is entitled to re-
marry his former wife. and divorce
her again twice or thrice il he de-
Sires it.
BY this device he can avail himself
of unlimited divorces. The most
trifling matter. even the spelling of a
meal, is sufficient to warrant a decree
absolute. / remember delightful
bride being instantly divorced because
the husband, on lifting her veil for the
first time, found that she had a small
fiesh-mark on the face.
On becoming Prince Samy's wife J
went to live in the palace of the sui
tana, who is sister of the sultan The
palace is one of the finest on the banks
of the BOsphorus. Its exquisite suites
of apartments were furnished with
every modern luxury and comfort, but, &.
in spite of all, it yet remained a YER
table dungeon. Grilles (cafess) were
fitted to every window; and each night
the keys were turned in the locks by
huge eun.c chs, as if they were gaolers
as. indeed, they were.
To speak above a whisper was dan
gerous. for it was impossible to know
what spies We're lurking behind the
arras, ready to pour reports into the
ear of the master, i'm order to obtain
some little remuneration as a reward
for treachery.
Why, | wonder. do Turkish men
persistently blind themselves to the
fact that underneath the calm exterior
which q woman has to assume there
reigns a passionate discomfort? The
harem is based on unreality, and
it's entire superstructure is a fabric of
make belief Was there ever anything
so fiagrantly fallaciOus as the theory
that it is possible to develop and con
serve the best qualities of woman's
nature by literally lettering her to a
group of slaves and guardians? The
attempt to make a woman lOvable and
LOYAL by penning her up in an atmos-
phere of suspicion. and subjecting her
every movement to an outrageous
form of espionage, is preGestined to
failure; and fail it undoubtedly does.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
A Valuable Acquisition.

The state historical society has re-
Gently obtained from W. Jackson Bell
of Mt Ayr. Ia. four bound volumes
Of the New York Tribune. covering
the period from January 2. 1858. to
gives the society nearly a complete
file of the Tribune. from it's beginning
down to the close of the civil war.
These files NAV be used by the public
at the rooms of the society
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
Kaiser Approves Annexation.

Budapest.-The emperor gave an
audience on Friday to the German am
bassador, Herr Won Thchirsky, who
presented a letter from Emperor Will
liam expressing his approval of the an
nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and assuring the Austrian emperor of
Germany's support in the present stu
alton. Emperor William thus is the
first sovereign to reply to Emperor
Francis Joseph's letter announcing
the annexation Of the provinces and
his decided attitude gives great salts
faction in may quarters.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
Appeals to Supreme Court.

James Lille. sentenced to e'obt
years for robbing an old soldier
named Thomas NJ Martin of Gage
county. has appealed his case to tie
supreme court. The robbery occurred
October II. 1906. but Little left and
travelled over a large rart Of the glcbe.
including Alaska. before he was ar
rested. He was convicted of beating
and robbing Martin of $40. Martin
had just cashed a pension warrant for
$72. He visited Beatrice and started
home with a half gallon of whiskey
in his possession. He stopped at the
home of the Lilies, where two broth
ers took few drinks and invited Mar
tin to STAY for supper. Later on ne
was robbed.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
81 EXPECT TO BE ELECTED"
Such is the Language Used by Taft to
Washington Correspondents.

WashingtOn.-'1 expect to be elect
ed to the presidency" said Judge Taft,
standing in the East room of the
White House facing thirty or forty
newspapermen who had congregated
to congratulate him after he had spent
the day as President Roosevelt's guest
The answer was in response to a
question after a brief discussion of
Mr.. Taft's recent tour through the
southern states, of which he had spok-
en- as pleasing experience. With re-
ference to that tour he would only
say he thought it would open the way
for improved republican conditions in
future campaigns. Judge Taft ex-
pressed a delicacy in revealing the IS
sues which he and the president had
discussed. and when pressed for a
statement as to the presidents view
of the situation he would only say
that The president is not a pessi-
mist Nor am I, he added.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
OBITUARY..

DIR. William Mcknight, one of the
best known physicians of Illinois and
for 80 years a resident of Putnam
county, died at his home in Blooming.
ton, aged IS.
Maj. Gen. Richard Coulter. 81 years
old, veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, lawyer and prominent business
man. is dead at Greensrurg, Pa.
Ex-Congressman Joseph A. Scranton
died at Scranton. Pa. He had been
editor of the Scranton Republican
since 1867.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
ACTIVE CANDIDATES
TAFT AND BRYAN WILL DO
STRENUOUS WORK.
4 Big week BEFORE THEM
Both Of the Presidential Candidates
Will Make speeches In /.
Number Of States.

New York-Putting forth their
greatest efforts in the states that are
called doubtful and pivotal, now that
the presidential campaign is in the
last week but one, the various party
managers unfold multiplicity Of plans
for the week that are we'll calculated
to keep politics in the forefront Of the
news.
For Taft as well as for Bryan, the
activity is to be well night ceaseless
and for Sherman and for Kern and SO
on down the line. Coming up from
his invasion of the south the repub.
lican candidate for the presidency
will speak in New Jersey in the fore
part Of the week and then return to
his own state of Ohio for a day, there
upon making another fight to Indi-
ana, the cities of importance to be
visited In the HOosier state being
Evansville. Indianapolis and Fort
Wayne.
Bryan will have travelled in five
states before the week ends-Indi-
ana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia
and New Jersey, finishing in New
York, where he will spend the Sunday
IN rest.
HIS itinerary in Ohio was arranged
with the special aim of enabling him
to reach with his arguments practic-
ally the same people who heard Mr..
Taft in his tour there.
Treasurer Ridder of the democratic
national committee will make public
on Tuesday an additional list Of SUBJ
scriptions to the fund of the party's
campaign expenses.
The Carnegie hall meeting in New
York City on Tuesday, at which for
mer members of Cleveland's cabinets,
including Richard Olney Of Boston
and Judson Harmon Of Ohio will
speak, and the mass melting, also in
New York City on Thursday night,
of southern democrats, which is to
be addressed by Governor Swanson
of Virginia, are other democratic fix
lures for the week of national i'm
portance.
The week will be rich in speeches
by members of Mr.. Roosevelt's cab
met. Secretary of War Wright will
be heard in New York City and other
places, and Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Straus will spend the en-
tire week on the stump. visiting Cleve-
land, Chicago, St. Louis and Louis
vile.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
FOOT BALL PLAYER IS KILLED.

Will Smith Of Eagle Grove, Iowa,
Meets Death in Game.
Clarion, Ia.-What was expected to
have been the decisive foot ball game
between Eagle Grove and Clarion
Saturday afternoon resulted in
tragedy, when Will Smith, one of the
players in the Eagle Grove team. met
with an accident during the ordinary
plays of the game which resulted in
his death. Smith was the son of ex-
Senator Smith of Eagle Grove and
nephew of the present representative
of Wright county.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
1haw 0jsaopointed.

Ffshkil Landing, N. Y.-Harry K.
Thaw fully counted on being taken
from Matteawan asylum Sunday for
his appearance in bankruptcy proceed
ings at Pittsburg. but no move was
made in the case.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
State Teachers Banquet.

The committee on the union school
banquet to be held the evening of the
first day of the Nebraska Teachers
held several meetings lately in the
Offices of The Nebraska Teacher -
perfect plans and arrangements. 1t IS
proposed to make this event the great
est social and fraternal gathering in
the educational history of Nebraska.
All details will be arranged before
hand and the great task of feeding
LOO persons in single room in one
hour will be carefully planned
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
Over Fifty Burn to Death,

Detroit, Mich.-Despatches from Al.
pena, Mich. indicate that the num-
Der Of deaths in the forest fires of
Pressure Isle and Alpena county will
surely exceed fifty and may run well
ND towards 100.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
Grand Assessment Roll.

The grand assessment roll Of Ne
braska. which is now being compiled
by the secretary of the Board of Equal
ization and Assessment, shows that
personal property other than railroad
property was assessed at $S3.1S6. 740 in
1907 and in 1908 it was assessed ut
$S2. 5s3,691, a decrease of $598,O49.
Railroad and car company properly
was assessed at So. 1892 in 1907
and $53.657.152 in 1908. This is a de-
crease of $227.698 in the assessed
valuation Of personal property. The
increase is $64,31S,115.
The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21

stewardess at the Lincoln Commercial
club. were found dead in the apart
ments of the man in a business block
on North Eleventh street. Gas pour
ing from the room caused an inquiry
by occupants of the block. and when
the door was broken down the room
was so filled with gas it was impos-
sible to remain in it.
Vital statistics On file in the city
clerks Office show that during the
past three years 337 deaths have oc-
Cured in Fairbury and immediate Vi
cinity. The birth record shows the
stork has visited COS homes within the
same length of time.
Uebel Bros store at Oxford was
entered some time during the night.
Money and trading chacks to the value
of 50 or $40 was secured, and this
was all that was supposed at first to
have been taken. Later it was dis
covered that the entire line of silk
carried in stock had also been made
away with.
The Lincoln paper mill plant, To-
Gated between the city and the state
penitentiary. was totally destroyed by
fire with the stock on hand. George
E. Haskell, president of the company.
says the loss is between $4,000 and
$50. 900, with insurance of out $4,000.
The second disastrous prairie fire in
this locality this fall says a Dickens
dispatch, swept over strip two miles
miles east of here from one to three
miles wide and about five miles long,
destroying several tons of hay besides
the burning of the range. The are
was started by sparks from passing
train on the Burlington.