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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
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8Oe Little 0lu6.


Ethel" said Lionel Btrtram Jones
% be dropped his slice Of bread in the
plate with noise that set the canary
IN the gilt cage overhead chipping mer-
Iiy-"Rthel. have something to Say
TO you"
They had been married only four
weeks. and the time had not arrived
when che did all the saying.
DO yo0 remember the day on which
I proposed to you?
Yes" she replied. n viii never tor
ct T."
DO you remember" be went on -
b abstractedly drilled Q h0ie In the
loaf With the point Of . earring knife.
how when ! rang the bell you came
10 the door With your nngess sticky
With dough and said you thought e
Was yuur little bgseher Who Wentsd %
ct in1'
yea"
"Oh. Ethel: How could you1 How
could your
Bow could I what!' she responded
- guilty look crept into ter face.
How eould ydu make me The victim
q such q sWiudle?'
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05

Only very kw daysa4tsr adjourn
ment Of The convention Of the Amesi
ca Dankss1 Asseiaaiss, u Chisaees
whieh - ops.ly declaipa hostility
toward such . system ofpostal savings
hanks q nearly I'll other great com
tries but ours have employed for yean.
. disaseaf ovestsok . Chioaeo: cigar
maker which lillnmibatsa ut very
spbject-postal hanks.
Louis 6tien had painfully saved IN.
Y proprietonhip. the goal Of years If
hope asd. straggls, wss ae hand; be
bad enough capital, $3.50, to buy .
littls cigar factory Of his own. Dur
ing Ill those years Of incessant labor
and self denial he had not intrusted
hs aavinss 70 any hank. At 6rst he
had been unwilling 70 fase hank tslless
behind their oounten If brnpzs and
marble, to make . deposit Of merely
81 or IS or go. Then - his little
hoard grew, his caution, instsad Of
pride. prompted him 10 avoid hanks,
for there were failures and Losses and
Tragedies He kept biz savi.p PIN
ned inside bis sock, and - the roll Of
greenbeoks grew larger he sscsstly ~
joiced.
On the great day, soon altar IL
bankers dispersed to their homes, the
little cigar factory Was Ill but bought.
He had the price pinned in his sock,
the deal was agreed upon, and he set
out. exulting, to pay over the money.
to become . posseasor; no longer; - be
always had been, enc Who worked for
others profit. He turned over in his
mind the rearranging be would order,
the changes in his little fctory-bia!
He was in ecstaey. and trod the rough
pavement buoyantly. But disaster
dogged bic hurrying steps. Through
hole in his cock biz savings Autterrd
out-one ten dollar bill,: and then
others, and the rest Of his cherished
roll. He was almost pennileas when
he entered the cigar factory which 20
nearly had been biz. Tragedy it was
to Stiers.
And the poor cigar maker, who
again Is grimly working At his bench,
l. but one Of Thousands. Denied the
security of Uncle Sans guaranty, the
one banker of whom he. in his timidity
and his pride, would avail himself,
stien boarded his savings. The sum
Of the hoardings like his in the United
States, President TAFT has said, from
government data. il not Len than 600
mllll00 00lJot0.
The same dangers beset the savings
that make up the whole 600 million
dollars - periled the $3.50 Of Louis
Stiess.
The losses Of boarded money each
year run into millions. This does not
put . stop to boarding, however, nor
will it; the reasons which prompted
Stiers remain. What u needed?
When the United States Congress
created . postal bank system for the
Philippine Islands it was done as .
measure of thrift and Q stimulus TO ha.
bits Of providence and savings." That
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05

mediately called for their war horses.
Mounting them, they rode away to war
with the result that they had the doc
tors license revoked for prescribing
whisky. he fought it in the courts,
and the circuit court yesterday put
him on years probation. He can
practice, but If at the end of the year
it Is found that he has prescribed
whisky in . single instance, he cannot
practice in that county any more
Atchison Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05

One of the men In q large poeeosy
took two OF THREE days holiday nov
and again. and when be came back. %
being asked what Was wrong. be said
be had been away burying his SEaDd-
mother.
He did this two OF three times. and
then Ae tAo0ebt be had better chan0e
his excuse. - On being asked the next
time. be replied:
Wen. my brothec. the sailor, u q
home just now. and be b % used 70
the sound Of the waves that ] had TO
lash pallfals q Watne % tie window
oil night before be euold deep. and
then bad - deep 1nring the day.
Iondoo llon
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
REFoRMERS.

Noat refosmess have infinite conf
depcs IN cseeds, reaolutioos and lava
They think If the common people =
raw naterial ont Il which they pro
pose to construct institutions and gov.
ernnents, like nechanical eontrivan
ces, where each person viii stand for .
coz rope, Wheel. pully or,bolt, and The
refosmen viii Be the managsss and
directon. They forget that these cog
and wheels have opinionsof their own;
that they fall out with other oogs
and refuse to turn with other wheels;
that the pully's and ropes have ideas
peculiar to themselves and delight in
mutiny and revolution. These reform
ers have theories that can only be
realized when other people have none.
Some time it will be found that peo-
pie can be changed only BY changing
their surroundings. It Is alleged that
It least IS per cent Of the criminals
transported from England to Austria
liz and other penal colonies, became
good and useful citizens in . new
world. Free from former associates
and associations, from the necessities
of . hard, cruel and competitive civil
ization, they became, for the most part,
honest people. This immense fact
throws more light upon social ques-
tions than al the theories Of the world.
All people are not able to support
themselves. They lack intelligence,
industry, cunning lin short, capacity.
They are continually falling BY the
way. In the midst Of plenty they are
hungry. Larceny is born Of want and
opportunity. In passion's storm, the
will is wrecked upon the reefs and
rocks of crime.
The complex, tangled web Of
thought and dream Of perception and
memory, ofimagination and judgment,
of wish aid will, and want-the woven
wonder Of . life-has never yet been
raveled back to simple threads. Shall
We not become charitable and just
when We know that every act il but
conditions fruit; that nature with her
countless hands scatters the seeds If
tears and crime-of every virtue and
Of every joy; that oil the base and vile
are victims Of the blind, and that the
good and great have, in the lottery of
life, by chance or fate, drawn heart
and brain.-R"bert G. Ingersoll.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
CQlof3 m Poorly.

A. to color. Grant Allen maintained
in an ESSAY on the Color Sense" that
only eight colors are recognized by the
popular mlnd-black. white, red. blue,
green, yellow, gray and brown. Edu-
Gated people speak Of scarlet, crimson.
lilac and purple only under exception
al circumstances. In a prosaic hour
Grant Allen went through Poems and
Ballads" on the quest for color and
found that Swinburne used the word
red ISL times, rosy and crimson once
each and sanguine, ruddy and scarlet
twice each Gold IS mentioned thir-
teen times. Blue reaches twenty-five.
And the prosaic conclusion Is ito
adopt the statistical form, we might
Say, n We chose to reckon the unreck-
enable. that red Is 800 per cent more
poet1cal than blue"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
WORLDS GREATEST HARVEST.

WORLDS GREATEST HARVEST.
The Liverpool estimate of Broom
hall On the whole worlds wheat crop
of 1909, perhaps the most important
of the annual European calculations,
ie at hand. It shows the present year
to have established an absolute high
record in wheat output The $685..
968, 900 bushels named q the worlds
total, compared with 3, (),2S0.o00 in
1908 an increase of 9 Ia per cent.
Compared with the 1926. 768, O0O
bushels Of 1906. the previous record,
the increase is 3 So per cent; compar.
ed with the year of scarcity, 1907, it
is Is per cent. -.
Two continents exceed al preced.
ing records with their wheat produc.
tion-America and Europe. Ameri
ca, North and South, gains n, 7l2,000
bushels over last year, which was the
previous record. Europe's total runs
Isl, $4,000 bushels beyond 1908, and
surpasses the previous high record,
that of 1906, by 2l,160,O0O. Every
important wheat growing country Of
the world shows increase over the pre-.
vious year except Austria Hungary,
Germany and Spain. Russia's har'
vest runs sc, 100000 bushels beyond
its previous high record. Canada
shows up 24.0oo,O 900 bushels above it.
best previous yield. The English
harvest is the largest since 1899, and
with that exception the largest since
1892, though it is highly interesting to
observe that its $4,000, 900 bushel
yield of 1909, while making these en-
couraging comparisons, is still less
than half the 40 OOO. 900 bushel har-
vest of 1855, which has never since
since been equaled.-New York Eve.
ming Post.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
Her ateono Faith.

"Oh, Tom." exclaimed the fair
young maid AZ their auto dew along.
''therS'a 4 church just ahead thereg'
But" replied the clipping lover, I'VE
cant be married there
"Well, but We might stop there and
Pray that we may not be overtakeo."-
Duclo RemuS' Ma9aziue.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
WHY NOT SOMETHING WORTH
WHIEe

The government has had just prov.
ocation for investigating the thieving
methods Of the sugar trust; it has had
perhaps less justification. but still
sufficient, for proving the Standard
Oil octopus. It has taken hand in
railroad rate regulation, and in add
ton attempted a number of investiga
tons that, when everything is said and
done, means comparatively little to
the vast majority Of the American
people who are supposed to be the
government, but who in reality are
the governed.
1t seems to us that our law makers
could pro6tahly devote . little time to
good advantage by doing little quiet
investigating as tn Why putting leather
on the free list has increased its value
more than rs per cent; why, with 4
corn crop the largest in the history Of
the country, corn brings Is cents q
busbel and over; why one man can
fool the people on the question Of
wheat; Why, when a condition border
ing on a panic existed and labor was
not over half employed. all food stuff
advanced; Why one man or set of men
can own and control the actual neces-
sites of life, and q number of other
equally alarming conditions that affect
every man, woman and child in the
country.
The eighty and more millions Of
people that compose our government
pay lees for oil than they ever did.
They do not pay an unreasonable
price for sugar. 50 that, when Rookie
Teller has been put in Jail and the
sugar trust officials to breaking rock
on the highways, the people will pay
as much As they do at present for oil
and sugar.
But if the powers that control the
food products of the country, the actual
necessities of life, are exposed Is they
should be, and their methods exposed
and the further pursuit of them made
impossible, there will be an opportu'
nifty for agriculture to become prac-
tically profitable, as it is said to be
theoretically, and the great army Of
consumers will be able to buy food
products that they must have, and
which they now rate as luxuries and
have to do without.
This condition is growing serious.
A little later on it will be dangerous.
We respectfully call the attention Of
congress and the president to the
packers trust, which includes practi.
cally the control of the entire food
product of the country.-Chattanoog
Tradesmau.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
THE AMAZING COOK CASE.


It would be wrong to assume as the
friends of Commander Peary are do.
ing, that the case has been definitely
closed and that Cook must stand
branded Is the greatest impostor Of all
history. Many things remain to be
cleared up. Ifword should now come
that he had killed himself, no one
would longer question the fact of i'm
posture, but there would be much to
be explained. If, for example, he is a
shameless impostor, Why did he pre-.
sent % mesger . case, when q very
full and plausible one could have east
~ been trumped up? IT, as 80 often
has been urged against him, observa'
tional data could be manufactured by
almost anyonefrom the almanacs su!i'
cient to confuse if not deceive the
scientists. Why was this not done,
Would IN impostor, having gone 60
far, have failed to make such a provi-
sionf
Again Commander Peary's pettish'
nes had left open a still surer wa, Of
escape for the deliberate impostor,
he need not have sent any report to
the University of Copenhagen at this
time. He need only have stsrted the
impossibility of submitting his original
records since for the most part they
were among bis effects intrusted to
Whitney and kicked off the steamer
Roosevelt by Peary. 1t would be ne
oessary to wait until next summer be-
fore these effects could he recovered
and then his case would be made up
and submitted along with the scienti
6c instruments used on the journey
And by next summer the impostol
would be better prepared to "fake" q
case. Furthermore, Peary now says
he had complete and accurate infor'
nation" of the fals;ty of Cooks claims
before leaving the far north. If thai
is 90, Why his spitefal action in having
Cooks effects excluded from his steam
err Why did he not welcome Their
carriage southwark as being calculat
cd to give the impostor more rope tt
hang himself
These and other troublesome ques
tions are suggested. And finally
there remains to be explained the mos
remarkable and troublesome fact of al
to which We have before called atten.
ton. Many physical conditions oh
taining 1t the pole were unknown and
had been the subject of much diverg
ent conjecture among scientists. Al
impostor might have guessed on all O
them and guessed right once or twice
Bot BY Ill the laws of chance no i'm
postor could have guessed them al
right, and this Is what Cook did
measured by Peary's account. This
fiet alone Is sufficient to keep the cast
open until further developments il
satisfictory explanation ofthese stran
90 features have appeared.-Spring
Geld Republican.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-01-05
Postal Savings Banks
and The People


u Just what the system has been to the
millions struggling to get ahead in
spite sf-pisifal wages, heavy taxation
and other Obstacles that confront men
and woman in Canada, Europe, Aus.
tralia, India, South Africa and Japan.
It has been . spur to providence, .
csutch to lean upon and . shield Of
safety. The deposits show that; 60 do
the enormous annual increase Of de.
posits and the total number Of deposit
orr. The figures are staggering, and
show what has been and is being done
abroad, and what with certainty can
b done in the United States.
In 1907 the postal deposits in Aus.
tria totaled s44,434,42l, there being
over 2 million depositors. which shows
that the average deposit is about s2l.-
SO. Belgium created a postal bank
system in 1859, and as q reward that
country has over 1872 million dollars
on deposit, the average account being
@64.41. Then there are Finland,
France. Hungary, Italy, the Neither
lands, Russia, Sweden and the United
Kingdom, in Europe, all Of which,
through . postal savings system, en-
able timid depositors to intrust their
savings At the postoffice to the safe
keepingof their government. Canada
created the system in 1868, and the
deposits now exceed so million dol
lars, the average accounts being $2S4,
which is q fair index of the average
account to be expected in the United
States, and goes to show that it is the
mite of man like Louis Stitrs which
is left on deposit in the postal savings
system.
Mt less than 8 million dollars in one
year has been sent from the United
States in money orders, much IF it for
deposit and safekeeping in postal sys-
TENS. Most of these money orders are
bought in the states of Arkansas,
Colorado, Missouri. Montana, Nebras-
b, Nevada, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon,
Texas and Washington.
The geographical origin of this mo-
ney, which is cent to Europe for the
security Of the postal banks there,
shows how crying q need there is for
an auxiliary banking system which
will put to use the forty thousand mo-
ney order postofices scattered t"rou-
ghout the country. Make the post
offices of that class repositories and We
have added forty thousand magnets for
the spare change of the nation; have
provided the ranchman, remote from
. bank, with q convenient depository;
have removed the temptation of the
miner and backwoodsman to squander
his wages As he gets them; have put
under the nose of everybody a most
convenient and secure place for start
ing a savings account. 1t is very OBJ.
vious from experience abroad, and the
size of the sum withheld from banks
here, that what is needed is the crea.
ton ola postal savings bank system.-
George H. Currier, Chairman Postal
Savings Bank League in the World
Today.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-21
WOMEN WINNING THEIR WAY
One Given the Floor In the Methods
Conference and Ten Placed
the Board

Asheville, n. c., May 20.-Yesterday
for the first time in the history of the
general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South a woman was
allowed to speak on the floor, this
privilege being granted by unanimous
consent to Miss Belle Bennett, secre-
tary Of the Woman's Home Mission So
ciety, for the purpose of championing 6
the right of women to sit in councils
Of the church and have equal rights
with the laity.
Miss Bennett made a forcible argu-
ment In behalf of the rights of her sex,
but without avail. for the conference,
after hearing speeches from both sides
adopted the majority report of the
comittee on revisals, which was ad-
verse to the desires of the women. In
view of this action the next act of the
conference in placing ten women on
the missionary board was regarded as
decidedly singular.
Without exception the women who
have led the fight express themselves
as delighted with the progress made In
creating sentiment in their favor and
they confidently believe the next quad
rennial conference will grant their
wishes and adopt the measure. Never
before in the history of Methodisn
have women received so much consid-
Grafton at a general conference
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-21
COLUMBUS PEOPLE MADE
READY FOR THE COMET

Columbus, Ga. May 19.-Columbus
people awaited the coming of the comet
in varying degrees of preparedness.
At one prominent Columbus home.
where the assertions of the scientists
that the gases composing the comets
tail were not dangerous, were not re-
ceived with full confidence, the family
shat themselves in a room, carefully
closed all doors and windows and past
ed paper over the keyholes and other
places where the gas might enter.
At country home in Muscogee
county two ladies prepared their
shrouds, attired themselves in their
death h-clothes and sat down quietly in
their rockers to await the inevitable
end of all earthly things as calmly as
could be reasonably expected.
One man armed himself with gall
lon of whisky and requested that his
friends let him down to the bottom of
a dry well. forty feet deep. By the
time the comet made it's pop call he
was gloriously Indifferent to the fate
OF himself, the earth or the universe.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-21
MOSQUITOES

All authorities say without the mo-
squito there would be no malaria. Ma
laria in it's many forms is the enemy
of the tropic countries.
The mosquito must have water to
breed in. Keep your cisterns and rain
barrels well screened. See that there
is no stagnant water on your prem
ises, and if your neighbOr will do the
same, you will have few or no mos
quitOes.
A spoonful of water in an old can or
bottle is enough to hatch millions of
mosquitoes. Water standing in drains,
cutters, flower pots and in the rainy
season in piles of leaves or moss will
serve as breeding places. Pour a little
kerosene oil every week in places that
cannot be handled otherwise. The mo-
squito pest can be reduced Is per cent.
il there is united effort against it. Re-
port any mosquito breeding places to
the sanitary man.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-21
CLEAN UP

The city council has put on an extra
man and has ordered a special mo-
squito and fly campaign. Any failure
to comply with these health laws. af-
ter due warning, will be reported by
the sanitary committee of the city
council and subject to fine by the board
Of health.
While you are cleaning for health
clean also for appearance, and let us
have a real city beautiful and sani-
tary.
This statement is made by the Wom-
ans Club, approved by the city coun-
ell, with which it Is cooperating.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-21
HELP TO PRESERVE
THE PUBLIC HEALTH
Some Facts Concerning Files and
Mosquitoes
FLIES

The common housefy breeds in
manure. decaying vegetables, dead an
imals and all kinds of filth. He is
Matched when the weather becomes
warn from eggs laid in the fall and as
soon as he comes out of his she'll he is
full grown and starts out to make his
living, well equipped with all manner
Of horrid germs fastened to his spongy
feet. He comes into your home and
wipes them on your food. The fly can
discern the odor Of filth for miles, and
IL your home is clean he avoids it. The
perfume of flowers or any pleasant
smell drives him away.
Flies Spread TubercuIOsis, Typhoid
Fever, Dysentery
and other intestinal diseases. The in
tentinal diseases formerly supposed to
be due to eating spring vegetables are
in most cases caused by the swarms of
flies that hatch in the spring.
Clean up your premises inside and
out Screen your houses if possible
and insist that every one you buy food
from does the same.
Report any fly breeding places in the
neighbOrhood to the sanitary inspec-
tor. Look after the garbage cans.
Sprinkle often with lime or kerosene.
Remove all manure from stables
every three or four days. Spread in
the sun to dry or keep in tight pit.
Sprinkle with lime or kerosene. Keep
flies away from kitchen, dining room
and especially the sick. they will
spread the disease.
A cheap fly poison and not danger
Gus to human life is dram Of BIZ
chromate of potash dissolved in two
ounces of water. Add a little sugar
and place in shallow dishes about the
kitchen and also in the stable.