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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

between the cost Of raising. atsening
and marketing the steer and the sell
ing price Of the steer to such . small
scale that it cannot be made smaller
without seriously menacine the source
Of the packers supplies. 1t is a re-
markable fact that the profits Of cattle
raising are smaller now than when
retail prices for meats were much
lower. And the reason Is that the
packers have absorbed the profits Of
both the cattle business and the meat
business to such an extent that the
margins are often close on the range
and in the retail shop, even while the
prices to consnmels are so high that
the consumption Of meat is rapidly
declining.
Take the duty Off hides and make
the packers sell their hides At prices
necessary 20 compete with imported
skins. That done, there is no reason
Why the tanner should be protected,
for he can make leather cheaper than
it can be imported. And the duty off
leather, take it off shoes also, for the
American manufacturer, with his i'm
proved machinery and superior work
manship, and his large and available
supply of leather, can compete without
protection with foreign manufacturers.
Net result: Cheaper shoes for the
people, a slight reduction in the abnor.
NAL profits Of the packers.-Kansas
City Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
FREE HIDES. CHEAP SHOES.

FREE HIDES, CHEAP SHOES.
It is announced with seeming auth.
ority that the House Ways and Means
committee has taken the duty off hides
and made substantial cuts in the tariffs
on leather and shoes. This is we'll 30
far - it goes, but when the bill reach.
Is the conference committee, hides,
leather and shoes should ell be put on
the free List. And, inasmuch - the
tanners and shoe manufacturers-at
least some of the representative opera
tors in these industries-have time and
again declared that they could easily
get along without protection if they
could get free hides, there ought to be
no formidable obstruction to placing
these three articles on the free list,
provided hides are finally put there.
The real bene6ciaries- practically
the only bene6ciaries-of the duty on
hides are the packers. The packers
have made good many stockmen be-
lieve that free hides would reduce the
market price Of beef cattle. IF it
would have such . result the reduction
would Be wholly arbitrary. The cat-
lenen know that the packers have
already reduced the margin Of profit
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Will Reform The Turks.

Princess Fatima ell Inclined, wife of
q Turkish prince, is busy in forming
q league of Turkish women, the mem
bers of which are to pledge them
selves not to marry men who take
more than one wife. She was SNUG
gled out of the harem several years
ago, went to Berlin and studied the
woman question. She was cast of by
her husband and father and had q
hard time to support herself, but
when she was nearly starved to death
the revolution broke out and she was
allowed to return to her own country
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Statesman's Complaint.

England's house of commons wants
ventilation. Plenty of air is pumped
into the chamber, and it comes
through the gratings on the floor. but
it comes from a spot just over the
bank of the Thames river, with it's
ill-favored barges. And the other even
ing a member met a colleague with
his handkerchief to his nose. you
never know what will pass inside" he
spluttered, but you always know
what's passing outside"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Patriot.

Patriot.
That Kentuckians have q very high
regard for their native state is illus
trated by this anecdote told by one
of them:
Once q Kentuckian died. So a near
relative went to the local tombstone
artist to arrange about an inscription
on the deceased's tombstone.
After due cogitation the near relative
said:
Carve on It: He's gone to a better
place.
I'LL carve he's gone to heaven II
you want me to-" remarked the tomb
stone artist, but, as for that other in
scription-there's no better place than
Kentucky"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
SNEAKED BACK TO OMAHA.

The day the vote on county option
wac taken in the senate, Elmer
Thomas, of Omaha, member of the
state Anti.Saloon League, was pres
emit It will be remembered. that last
fall, prior to election, Mr.. Thomas and
several other prominent members of
the Anti-Saloon League, entered into
. conspiracy with Jim Dahlman to
throw the votes of prohibitionists to
Shallenberger in order to defeat Shell
don. The deal was successful, and
thousands of prohibitionists in York,
Boone, Lancaster, Polk and other
counties went to the polls and voted q
Thomas dictated. The presence of
Thomas in Lincoln, gave Senator
Meyers Of Rock county, who voted in
favor Of county option, IN opportunity
to express his opinion Of the Omaha
"reformer" and other members Of the
League who worked with him to
defeat Sheldon. The attack Of the
senator from Rock WAS unexpected
and created . sensation. Thomas
sneaked out Of the senate chsmber and
hurried to the depot and boarded the
first train leaving for Omaha
It i alleged that Thomas received
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
How Lapo Collects Reindeer.

In April, the Lapp lets his reindeer
loose to wander as they please, and
when the mosquitoes begin to abound
(about midsummer collects his herd
simply by catching one deer, fitting 1t
with a bell and trusting to instinct
(which leads the animals to gather
into herds for protection against the
mOsQuitOes) to do the rest In a cool
summer, when mosquitoes are few.
this instinct does not come into play,
and it is almost impossible to bring
the reindeer together.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
MISTAKEN ZEAL.

The Carnegie foundation, whose
bene6cent help Mr.. Bryan and the
democratic members of the Nebraska
legislature are not in favor Of accept
ing for this state, was originally organ
lied for the purpose of granting pen
sions to aged college and university
professors, but it is gradually extend
ing its jurisdiction and broadening its
usefulness. William E. Curtis, we'll
known Washington correspondent tells
how each successive report of the
board of trustees shows the results Of
its endeavors to improve the standard
of educational institutions in this
country.
The report of DR.. Henry s. Pritchett,
the president, and his associate trus-
tees for the year 1908 shows that much
work of importance was accomplished
during the year and that much more
was undertaken. They have entered
q field of investigation and endeavor
which has required attention and
which offers an opportunity for great
good.
In order to enjoy the benefits of the
pension system which Mr.. Carnegie
has endowed it is necessary for an ed
ucational institution to maintain
certain standard of instruction and
scholarship. This has been q sufi-
cient inducement for several colleges
already to advance their courses Of
study, and others are preparing to
do go.
DR.. Pritchett and his associates are
now using their influence to secure
uniform requirements for admission to
college and graduation, an advance in
the standards of professional schools,
and q more generous support for insti-
buttons of higher education, They are
also encouraging colleges and univer.
stiles to adopt and maintain retired
lists for professors, and are agitating
q general system of insurance for the
teachers of the public schools.
These are large tasks and there was
no one to undertake them until the
trustees of the Carnegie foundation
discovered the vital importance Of
such reforms to our system Of public
education.
These are the tasks for which Ne
braska shows no appreciation. And
the strange thing about it is that not
single sound argument against the
acceptance of the money has been I'D.
vanced. This state probably will be
shut out merely because of the mis-
taken zeal of . certain eminent gen.
tleman whose word his political home
folks blindly follow.-Lincoln Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
A CASE OF TAINTED MONEY.

A CASE OF TAINTED MONEY.
The announcement that Josie Mans
field, seventy years old, is living in
poverty near Watertown, South Da-
kota, recalls tragedy almost forgot
ten BY the present generation. Forty
years ago, Josie Mansfield, then an
actress, was alluded to rs the hand
soonest woman in America. The
prominence of Josie Mansfield Is an
adventures commenced from the Oath
day Of September, 1869, known in the
history Of Wall street as "Black Fri
day" At that time there was in the
banks of New York City $15,OO0,0O0
in gold coin, which had market
value of $3.50. Jim Fisk and Jay
Gould formed . "corner" to advance
the price Of gold and succeeded in
running it to SLIGO, when Boutwell,,
secretary Of the treasury, ordered the
sale Of several million of dollars of
gold in the sub-treasury and broke the
corner" Gold dropped twenty per
cent in five minutes, but Fisk and
Gould managed to carry off eleven
millions Of dollars by fraudulent
manipulations. Soon after this, Fisk
formed the. acquaintance of Josie
Aans6eld, and with the money made
On Black Friday gave her q brown
sto1e front ON Fifth Avenue, pur.
cha6ed her diamonds and supported
R in luxury. Fiski iberality in
other directions was equally as lavish.
When the Chicago fire occurred and
IN appeal to the country for aid was
made, Fisk sent an express train load
Cd with provisions to the homeless and
Starving. In the fall of 1871, Edward
Stokes, . prominent society man Of
New York and . former admirer of
Josie Mansfield. shot Fisk dead in q
New York hotel. Stokes, after three
hiab, WAS sentenced to . term of three
yean in Sing Sing. He died . few
ysau ago. And now the woman, who
bseame the beneficiary of the proceeds
of FhkS gambling speculatons in
Wall Street, and who was in meas
ars respectable for Fisk's death and
8eoks5 prison sentence, Is dying in
poverty-alons, ffiendless and almost
loegotten. The case Of josie Mansfield
w. ono where tainted" money did
astnally prove curse.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Bound to BE a Success.

SMILEY see the women of Su-
burbia have adopted sure method Of
securing a circulating library.
Banks-How is that?
Smiley-Why, they've made rule
that every time q woman says mean
thing about any Of her neighbors she
has to contribute a cent to the library
fund.-Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
DEMOCRATIC INSURGENTS.


There are democratic insurgents in
the legislature. The men who are
in favor of accepting the Carnegie
pension fund are 90 designated BY the
followers of Mr.. Bryan. Here isN list
Of the house insurgents who refuse to
be dictated to BY MI. Bryan and voted
to accept the fand: Bowman, Bushee,
Boyd, Carr, Chab, CLARK, Cooperider,
Dolegal, Evans, Groves, Harrington,
Hojodsky, Humphrey, Kotouc,
Kraus, Scheele, Taylor and Thomas.
All the republicans. with the exception
Of one, voted to accept the fund.
Although the proposition to accept
the fund was defeated, the vote was
close.
The action of the house cannot be
regarded q . victory for Mr.. Bryan,
in view of the fact that eighteen dem.
ocrats who have followed the political
fortunes of the Peerless Boss for many
years turned him down last Friday
and voted in direct opposition to his
stomach growing pleadings. The one
time idol of the democratic party has
divided house on his hands, and
almost every school boy has heard
what Abraham Lincoln said of .
divided house.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
All Explosive.

There's paint shop around the
corner on First avenue that's just as
full as can be Of all sorts of explo
sives," said the east side woman.
''Naphtha, kerosene, turpentine. and
do you know what else they've got
there? A cross-eyed girl clerk. It's
tempting Protidence."-New York
Press.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
A Witty Revivalist.

A revivalist In Carterville enlivens
his addresses with such anecdotes as
this: AN old woman shouted in the
revival. Her husband said: 4 felt like
going through the floor She replied:
And felt like going through the
roof Each was attracted home.
Kansas City Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Oh, Quit.

On, QUIZ.
Here is the way to quit smoking
recommended by . man who failed
to make 1t work.: Instead of quitting
of short, quit gradually. Don't smoke
in the morning until you can't stand 1t
any longer. Then smoke cigar, and
then quit again until you are compelled
to smoke or 60 crazy. By degrees.
you will learn to do without smoking.
-Atchison Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
THE COMING CONTEST.

THE COMING CONTEST.
The campaign of 1910 in Nebraska
Is sure to center on the question of
county option. The close vote on the
question in the senate taken the other
day, indicates that county option is
not strictly . partisan question. One
of the leaders of the option idea in the
senate frankly admitted that the only
object in making the question IN issue
was to take . step forward in the
direction of absolute prohibition. The
senator who made the admission is one
of the leaders of the republican party
in northeast Nebraska and claims to
represent the sentiment of his party
throughout the state. If the republi.
cans of Nebraska are really in favor
of prohibition, Why try and deceive
the people by raising the cry of coun-
ty option. If the next republican
state convention declares for county
option, the question then becomes .
partisan issue. The history of the
prohibition movement in northern
states has always been detrimental to
republican success, and resulted in .
victory for democrats, while prohibi-
tionists who affiliate with the demo-
cratic party are sincere in the stand
they take, yet when it comes to voting
for candidates invariably they stand
for their party nominees, while repub-
icans, who are opposed to prohibition,
vote for democrats in preference to the
nominees Of their own party when
prohibition Is IN issue. Prohibition
split the republican party in Kansas,
Iowa, North and South Dakota, and
it vas not until the party abandoned
the prohibition issue that it was allow
ed to return to power. IF the option
isb in the republican party insist on
making prohibition an issue in Ne
braska, and force the party to endorse
their views, it would mean the election
Of . democrat to succeed Senator
Burkett, and the election of demo
cratic governor and other state officers
In 1910.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

FOR REVISION OF THE TARIFF.
For the first time in many years the
public is taking lively interes: in the
tariff question. Politicians and manu-
facturers have had more or less to say
about it, but the mass of the people
have been Indifferent. They paid
little attention while the Mckinley
tariff act was being considered. They
did not ask for it, and for one reason
and another they repudiated it after it
was passed. At the time Of the enact
ment of the Wilson and the Dingley
laws the people were thinking Of silver
far more than they were of the tariff.
Nov the one has passed out of mind
and the other has come to the front.
There is : genuine popular demand for
tariff legislation. A newspaper which
recently tried to find what legislation
its subscribers wished to get from the
Sixty.irst Congress ascertained that
what they chiefly wanted was tariff
revision.
Another interesting feature of the
situation is that 80 many manufac-
turers are asking for low duties or no
duties on many articles. They are
largely the manufacturers who want
cheaper raw materials, 80 that they
may hold or enlarge their trade in
foreign markets, while the ordinary
consumer has . general impression
that he has to pay more for some arti.
Giles than he should because of excess
i've tariff duties. These manufacturers
see clearly how the export trade Of the
country in manufactures is hampered
and choked by certain duties. They
are valuable auxiliaries in the popular
campaign for tariff revision-a revi-
sion of the downward, not of the up.
ward kind.
This popular sentiment, which
knows no party, which prevails among
republicans Is we'll as among demo-
Gratis, is something which congress
cannot trifle with. It is something
which the old stagers Of the ways and
means committee, who cannot have
forgotten the disastrous political con-
sequences of the enactment of an I'M
popular tariff law, cannot safely ignore.
The bill to be submitted BY them to
the house this month will be scanned
more carefully by greater number Of
people than any previous tariff bill.
The country looks for the tariff bill
drawn in good faith" President Taft
mentioned in his inaugural address.
An attempt at sham revision would be
followed by stormy protests. The
people of small means and they are
the majority-ask for . revision that
viii lower the cost of living by reduc-
ing the ability of monopolies to put up
njnea-Chica0o Trihnne
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

To keep the water fresh and sweet
In vases Of cut flowers. add to 1t .
even in the case of such things a.
wallflOwers
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

Man 10 Not Made for Himself Only.
No man is made only for himself
and his own private affairs. but to
serve. profit and benefit others-Ben-
jamin COlman.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

1t is said that every third Minnesota
girl is breadwinner It Is hoped
that the other two girls are bread.
makers Minnesota certainly has the
Plain Dealer.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

No Chance for Argument.
No man dares dispute that mar
ried woman is a slave His wife won't
let him.-Brooklyn Standard Union.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

Work Of Jungle Monarch In india.
Ayear's death rate from tigers In In
dia numbers 69S human beings and
nearly -, 900 head Of cattle.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Jimmy Knew when to start.

Jimmy Knew When 70 Start.
my son Jimmy came home from
school yesterday crying as II his heart
would break For heavens sake. stop
Il, SOM I commanded. Did You yell
that way al the way down the street?
N.no,' be sobbed. Z started when got
q II front Aooc.: :-Cleveland Leader.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

lena Life - coeoanut Palm.
The Brazilian cocoanut palm lives
hem 80 to Soo yoar2
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
African ~6uttee Tree"

The butter tree" grows In Central
Africa. From the kernel Of its nut
is obtained nice. rich butter, which
may be kept year or more.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

Before All Things, Humility.
Humility is the A, B, c OF spiritual
iife.-St. Vincent.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
More Than Fiourative.

"Alas," sighed Weary Wiggles, gaz-
ing dejectedly upon his torn and tat
tered trousers. I'm afraid these here
pants is on their last legs!"-Lippin-
COTS.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

Popular Names In Britain.
In England and Wales. out Of every
1OO,0 900 girls and boys, $3.50 are called
Mary and $3.50 William.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

Immense Mexican Haciendas.
Some of the haciendas in the Next.
can state of Durango contain a million
or more acres.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Make u Effective.

Markham: We have committed the
golden rule to memory; now let us
commit 1t to life.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17
Pavemental.

Few of us are interested in those
famous pavements made of good inten
lions, as We don't expect to go there,
anyhow.-Chicago News.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-03-17

pay for his dirty work in the cam
paies, but his friend, Dahlman denies
the charge
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-10
YOUNG LADY IS
BADLY HURT

Miss Sylvia Chandler an employe Of
the Walla Walla laundry was severely
injured this morning when she fell
from the porch Of the laundry building
Cured about 9 o'clock this morning,
The injured girl was at once taken
where her father and physician were
summoned. DR.. w. F. Russell who
bones had been broken. she was never
theless severely injured.
O'Clock the employees of the laundry
are given a few minutes to rest. when
they. are served with hot coffee Miss
Chandler and her chum Miss Lulu
Johnson went out on the top Of the
front porch to drink their coffee While
the two girls were sitting on the railing
Miss Chandler accidentally lost her
balance and fell to the ground below
a fall of about 90 feet, striking on
the small of the back. Assistance was
immediately rendered her and every
thing done that could be done for her
comfort
Miss Chandler is the daughter of p
Il. Balzore a blacksmith. located on
the corner of Seventh and Main streets.
home
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-10
Highway Over Snoqualmie Pass.

ELLENSBURG, Sept. 10.-The coun-
ty commissioners this morning author
lied the engineer to secure a right
Of-way for the Teanaway-T Thorp bridge
road. This highway will follow the
line of the old middle KittitaS irrigat-
ing ditch and when completed will
be connected with the state road be-
tween Seattle and Spokane now build
ing over Snoqualmie pass. The COM
will not order the county to
build the road, but will turn the right
of-way over to the state as the coun-
tvs share of the state road through
the county.
Twenty thousand dollars was spent
in grading the ditch and the commits
sioners say that with an expenditure
of $4,000. nine miles of the best ,aG
in the state may be built over SnO-
qualmie pass.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-10
CHANGE MADE
IN BIG PRIZE

Changes in the prize to be award
big parade to be given as the opening
event of the Wala Walla County fair,
nounced by the fair management, the
prize to consist Of cash, rather than
$50 silver cup. The money is to be
divided. $40 for first prize SIS for Sc
cond: $40 for third. and S. for fourth
prize. The division of the purse will
enable several auto owners of the city
to receive a portion. and the young
people who will doubtless do the work
~ill receive fecompense for the time
and trouble The parade will be
through the business streets and
thence to the fair grounds. where, as
they pass the grand stand( the judg-
es will make the decision
In the six-day bucking contest for
the championship of Washington, Ore
gon and. Idaho. a 800 saddle is TO be
awarded as first prize; $35 cash for
second and $15 cash for third Great
interest is being taken in this event,
expert riders from all sections OF the
three states having entered. The re-
Law race which will continue through
the six days is also attracting Wlde-
spread attention. the purse for TINS
being $1,000 Several strings OF ex-
cellent animals have already been en-
tered and much amusement. enter
tainment. as well. as excitement, is
promised.