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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
The Devil Of the Desert.

It IS not generally known how q devil
rides a camel. but Mr.. Hans vicher ac-
quired the Information and imparts It
In his volume. Through the Sahara
One night camel suddenly ran amuck.
Other camels followed suit and a gen.
eral panic ensued. The frightened
yells Of my escort told me that shool.
q wicked demon Of the desert, had
seized the camel. was told how these
evil spirits sometimes took q fancy to
mount q camel; the camel would then
look to see who was digging 1t In the
ribs, and, perceiving no one. fear would
grip its heart. for then It knew that
the devil was on its back"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
HE World.

Pretty Girl ito Charles. her betroth-
d)-Charley. how far IS II around tho
world? Isn't It 24.O00'-
Charles Quitting both arms around
her)-That's all q mistake. love. It II
only about twenty-four incheA"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
Not q Coed Son.

Necessity turned sharply to inven-
ton.
III I'm your mother" she said. ITS
your duty to support me In comfort"
But invention. a. we all know. usual
" lodges his duty.-Chicago Tribune.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
Gallant.

Nell have to read q paper on
Ideal Woman" at the next meeting Of
our ladies' club. Jack-Well. all you
need to do r. to stand up and let them
look at you.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
A LEGAL View,

The Bible says that no man can
serve two masters"
Yes. That's probably the first law
against bigamy ever put down.
Cleveland Leader.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
a Queer Creature.

Queer that while the male seal IS a
bull and the female COW their young
ster Is not called calf. but pup.
Why seal fisheries" too. when the
seal IS not a fish?
And why should the seals breeding
place he styled a rookery?
1t looks rs II this strange creature Is
only a fish in common parlance while
at sea. On land Tor iceD he is classed
popularity with animals or birds.-Ex-
change.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26


The sense of humor Is the Saving
sense" principally because It saves us
from ourselves. The person who can
not laugh at himself now and then Is
to be pitied. Moreover. the person
who cannot taks good naturedly the
occasional bantering Of others is in
the same class Of disagreeables. A
well directed shaft Of raillery will
often find the vulnerable point In our
armor Of self complacency and show
10 where our self satisfaction IS all
wrong. True humor. however. must
spring as much from the heart as from
the head. Its essence must be truth
and friendliness. not contempt. There
never was a good joke yet that told
lie or besmirched a reputation. Humor
which carries with It a sting to wound
the sensitfveness or delicacy Of one
who does not deserve to suffer is not
true humor.-San Francisco Chronicle
She Couldn't Fool Him.
you have a splendid figure" said
the tailor. 81 shall have no trouble in
giving you an excellent it,"
Feeling fairly well satisfied. the man
went to shoe store.
'Your feet are splendidly shaped and
rather small for a man of your size.
too" said the clerk. these shoes are
just what you ought to have"
He took them and bought q hat at
the hatter's, where he was told that he
had such q finely shaped head and
such splendid features that the hat
which he tried on first was just what
he needed to make him look his best.
Then he passed into q large depart
ment store and. finding the glove coun.
ter. sat down where a pretty young
woman was waiting to serve him.
"Just place your elbow on the coun-
ter, please" she said. what q finely
shaped hand you have! Let me-
"WaitT' he commanded. by George,
you can't put that over on me! I used
to be the catcher ON q baseball team"
Buffalo News.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-10-26
ADAMS PEAK.
4 Shrine Sacred to Three cenhietina
Religious Ssets.

a Shrine Sacred to Three Conflicting
Religious Ssets.
Throughout Asia holy places" are
almost rs numerous rs leaves on q
tree. but In Ceylon Is mountain which
enjoys the unique distinction Of being
q very holy place to the devotees of
three absolutely distinct and conflict
Ing religious sects. This IS Adams
Peak. or Samantha.
According to the Mohammedan be-
lief. Adam. after the fall. was taken
by m angel to the top Of Samantha.
and 4 panorama Of all the Ills that
through sin should afilict mankind was
spread out before him. His foot left
an impression on the solid rock. and
his tears formed the lake from which
pilgrims still drink. The Buddhists
contend that 1t was not Adam. but
Buddha himself that made the foot
print in the rock. that being the last
spot where he touched the earth be-
fore ascending to heaven. while the
Brahmins have still another legend.
All. however. Brahmins. Mohamme-
dams and Chinese. agree that Samantha
is a very holy place. and to perform a
pilgrimage to the spot Is to the Budd-
hist what a visit to Mecca IS to q Mo-
hammedan. In mixed crowds the wor-
shippers come. each plying the igno-
rance Of the other. who Is SO far from
the true way"
It requires no little faith and some
Imagination to trace In the depression
in the rock the likeness Of a human
footprint. It IS 81 feet long by ~
feet wide. on the top Of huge bowl
der. The natives. however. insist that
It is the footprint Of ADVANCEMENT
Campbell Hall In Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

Discreet talk being discussions of
Hallet's comet, the hookworm and
the age of Ann.
Within another week or two we
shall know whether Uncle Joe Cannon
is speaker of the United States or
merely of the House of Representa-
tives.
The Sugar Trusts scales are begin
ming to fall from the country's eyes.
"Does man know when he's dead
is the question of an exchange that
thrives on such problems. Ask Speak
er Cannon.
In his first message to congress in
regular session PRESIDENT Taft has
pointed the way to the achievement
of an amount Of work that will suffice
to keep the national legislature busy.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
SHOULD BE DEFEATED.

Every man and woman in this
country should enter protest against
an appropriation by congress for tie
benefit of the George Washington Uni
versity, privavts Institution at
Washington, D. O., bill fur which
purpose has been introduced and an
influential lobby working for it pass
age. We have plenty of institutions
in this country supported by private
donations or church contribution which
are doing satisfactory work in educa-
ting the soung men and women of the
land and nearly every state has an
institution of learning supported by
the taxpayers. And then it is neithe
just nor right to single out one insti-
tuition 1T Washington, and tn. princl-
pie is most decidedly wrong. to give
federal money when there are three
other schools in that city more de-
serving of aid, the Catholic University
of America, the Georgetown Uniyer-
sity, under the patronage of the Jesuit
order, and the American University.
under the patronage of the Methodist
church, ali OF which are just rs de-
serving as the George Washington
University if not more so Bills have
been introduced in both senate and
house. Senate No. $50, March 25, 1909,
and ID. R. No. II, 343, December 6.
1909, and the plea advanced by the
friends of the bill is to provide for
the needs of education in agriculture
and the mechanic arts In the District
of Columbia The bill should be de-
feated, for 1T Is doubtless a plan to
open the treasury for private instltu-
tions not needed or they would not be
seeking aid from the genera. govern
ment.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

Springfield, Mass. 1t weighs %
pounds, 10 pounds in the stock, and
/ poDnos in the barrel, and he who
uses 1t generally rides OH horseb ok :,
and carries about 300 pounds of am
munit on.
The makers of it tell tue buyers
that in killing men it make one man
ne equivalent of twenty men or forty
men armed with ordinary rifles.
We are prog ressing. We are getting
closer to that end for which God
created mankind. That is clear. else
we would nut be able to invent such
8 formidable gun, gun so destructive
to human life.
Of course, it is barely possible,
that wars will NOT be any mure num-
erous IN the future than in the past
What is the use of creating an army
that eats up appropriations at the rate
of a hundred million year if halt
a dozen men can crouch behind fence
on the roadside and wipe it out in a
few minutes?
What a wonderful civilization we
have reached, or are approaching.
What high state of enlightenment
when we can make one man, as a
man killer, equal to forty other men
armed with any other kind OF shooting
material.
And the millennium is not yet.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

IT is TIME 10 THINK AND ACl.
The efforts OF few fools to fool
the people, is exceedingly amusing.
The New York Journal of Commerce
in an effort to prove that the cost of
living has not advanced says:
Take out butter, eggs, cheese,
poultry and meats and the cost of
what goes on the table is really less
than 2 year ago. When you come
to analyze all this talk Of high prices
of living you cannot fail to find that
people now are calling for higher
grade of goods, and are using more
of the luxuries than they did fye or
ten years age.
: After taking out the articles speci-
fed, only flour, potatoes and prunes
are left, each of which are higher
than year ago and a prominent
state paper commenting OF the
article in the Journal Of Commerce
is confident that the cost Of living
would be greatly reduced if the p1or
would be willing to live on scrap
meat, liver and soup bones.
Here is a comparative list compiled
among some of the most extensive
dealers in meats in Chicago. who deal
directly with the retail trade showing
the increase in the price of various
kinds of meats ten years ago and now
Ten Present
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
'l.50 Per Year Strictly In Advance
Sample Copy Free. Advertising Rates ar
Furnished on Application.
WdtertOWn Wis. Friday. Jan.
ONE REASON WHY.

The following from the Milwaukee
News, ought to open the eyes of the
farmers. not only on the milk quee-
tion. but the butter question as well,
and they should demand COMPRESSION
nj Investigation to show up the men
who are pretending to be their friends
and at the same time skinning them
and becoming immensely rich at their
expense:
Expert Marvin Scudder. who has
been investigating the affairs of the
milk trust In New York, furnishes an
interesting contribution to the cost
of living controversy Mr.. Scudder s
contribution is not difficult to under
stand and there is nothing theoretical
about it. And the consumer will
accept it as indicating the real answer
to the question of why it costs more
to live now than it did few years
ago.
In his researches Mr.. Scudder found
sccordlng to his report, that the
Borden Milk company, which controls
% per cent of the milk business of
New York, is capitalized at $40, 000.-
QUO, of which only S., 900, 600 is repre-
sented BY tangible assets, the re-
mainder being good will, trade marks
and other intangible belongings. On
this grestly inflated capital the COM
pany paid dividends of per cent on
common stock. In ten years it
accumulated a surplus of over S..
600. 600. Other milk concerns in New
York. associated with the combine.
disclosed q similar state of affairs. one
Brooklyn concern earning 26 per cent
year on its capitalization The Bor-
den company's profits for the first
rine months of 1909, on fluid milk
and cream alone, were over 81, QUO. :
600.
Notwithstanding these enormous
profits. the milk trust, declaring that
it was losing money by selling milk
p cents u quart, had announced, an
increase of l cent quart.
It does not require an expert
statistican to see the answer suggest
ed by Mr.. Scudder's report. Just SO
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

the advice Of so call scientists, like
Asa. they will 81 ep with their fathers.
We fear, thai Area Bishop Ire
lanj of Minnesota is making a great
mistake in defending that monster of
iniguity, the late King Leopold of Bel
gum. who WAS devoid of humane
sensib lities and stranger to those
qualities of heart and mind which in
fiuence and govern men IN their cor
duct towards the unprotected and their
own families The life of Leopold
was blot upon the civilization Of
the age and ois race to the church
to which he belonged. and the less
said about him the better to conceal
the past.
In many of the rural districts it is
becoming impossIble to secure appoin-
tees for the positions as postmasters,
the people declining to 90 to the IN
necessary expense of civil service ex-
animation. which ls a monumental
civil service hunbng, as impractical
as it is foolish, the idea of theoretical
instead Of practical craftsmanship
and contrary to the spirit of our re-
publican form IF government; as is
the primary election law, enacted for
dsmagogues and mIllionaires.
So are you, Colonel. Milwaukee
Journal. Good shot Lutte. But we
are republican having opinions and
not afraid to express them. We can
see good and evil in political parties
and are not so biguted that We cannot
commend the good and denounce the
wrong.
1t is our candid opinion, that the
president is making a great mistake
by blscklis ting the insurgents so far
as fecersl patronage is concerned. and
it az result in the nation as it has
in this state in rendering Those who
insugu atad it Unpopular with large
majority of the artg voters. For
several years. no republican in this
state could Expect recognition if be
entertained opinions contrary to those
of the boss, and it made no difference
how eCod 2 republican be had been or
how much he had done for his party.
Republicans can differ On the minor
question and yet b loyal TO the party
Oh all vital issu 2. and the man or
men no ostrsci IS man because he
refuses to accept heir dictum in all
matters of political character is
committing political blunder and
making friends for the man blacklist
ed.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
THOUGHTS ~ THE WAY

According to report sent out from
Washington, d c.. it costs ea"h per-
son in the United States the sum of
only S1.65 year to go to bed early
and sleep sweetly with a sense of
security porn Of the subconcious know
leuge that if his home starts to b1rn
an army of fire ladies will hustle
arc und and put out the fire.
The national income tax which ent
into effect on the LIST inst it is esti-
maten Will produce an annual revenue
for the governmen t of Over twenty fiv e
millions of dollars The law evies
a TAX of per cent on the NET income
of all corporations, joint stock com
panies. associations and insurarc c.
companies with net income exec
ing $4,000 annually. A law should
now be eHacted making it criminal
offense punished by imprisonu ent for
any official of any corporation, joint
stock company association OF insuranc
company to advance rates so as to
force the public to pay its income tax.
Fool scientists now advise people to
drink lots of water with their meals.
ONLY short time ago, scientists were
telling US not TO drink any water with
our meals. 1t is an awful thing to
know just q little and endeaver TO
make it much by advis ng peoI lie, who
if they exercise their own JUDI ment
will need no aavice, and if they take
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

EThere is talk of asking Cannon
to resign as speaker. notes the
Toledo Blade. So soft and low, how
ever, that you cannut hear it at all
in Washington.
The sugar trust officials say they
do not fear an investigation by con
gress, )" says the st. Paul Pioneer
Pr IS. Which is not very compli-
mentary TO congress, either.
1.-THE people are growing more
honest" AYERS Collector Loeb. The
Houston Post prefers the word ''hun-
ester.
It is suggested in the home circles
Of Senator Aldrich, that be follow
the example of KING Gustave and dis
guise himself as an ultimate con-
sumner" to see how it seems.
And SO the alleged plot to kidnap
Mr.. Rockefeller was all false alarm.
And Mr.. Rockefeller did not even
need the adv ertising.
Minister to be- Calhoun, Of Chicago,
has met his first crisis and has emerg-
ed victorious. When seen by re-
porter at Chicago, he "declined posi-
lively to discuss China or any phase
of his mission to the Orient.
A bank president and lumberman
uf Washington, wants to succeed Piles
in the senate. His name is McCor
mick, and we suspect that he is one
of those patriots who want to revise
the tariff that way again. Too much
Cannon and AIdrich' is "plenty"
already.
The present is not the first time
an attempt has been made to force
the newspaper press to make good the
loss incurred by operating the postal
service, but President Taft's message
appears to be the first that has gone
into figures to load the entire burden
upon the newspaper mail.
Mr.. Roosevelt recently killed a
topi and a jigow. All the African
animals saem determined to get their
names in the papers, before the thing
is over.
A Georgia man petitions for divorce
on the ground that mis- wife hvDnotizes
him. Of course, however, he did not
object to that in the ante-nuptial
DAYS.
He is an optimist indeed, however,
who imsgines our American heiresses
will eventually gets the debts Of
Europe's nobility paid in full.
Symptoms of 5ucking have already
been aroused by Bryan's plan to hitch
the democratic donkey TO the water
wagon.
Department officials in Washington
are permitted to talk, if thew talk dis
creetly." says the Rochester Herald.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

that the pendulum will swing too far
in ths other direction and disorder
confusion and chaos reign
Less selfshness and more justice
is absolutely imperative to meet the
conditions now confronting us. and
the statesman who. losing sight of
self in his fight for the impoverished
and suffering masses will be rewar :
ed by a grateful people.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

Vegetables sre higher; every staple
article of food is higher. More vege-
tables and fruits are being grown than
ten wears ago-lnore so than would be
commensurate with increase in pupula~
ton.
Government statistics show that
the increase in living has advanced
IS per cent and wages only about
per cent, so that the only way for a
laborIng man to save anything is to
starve himself and family. That there
must be change is obvious to every
thinking man and the only fear is.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
ONE MAN AS TWENTY.

There has been q new invention re-
Gently, and it is call d the Bennett
Mercie gun, and it is designed for
killing, just as all guns are designed.
Strange as it may seem, the thing
that it Is to kill are not bear and
deer, and ground hog, girattes, wild
beasts, OR hIppos, but men.
This gun is designed especially and
is recommended to the trade very
strongly, because Of its man killing
peculiarities.
1t is being made down at
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

long as it il possible for combinations
of capital to secure control of the
supply Of living necessities, just so
long will greed and avarice cause
those in control to force the prices
upward. Fine spun theories are all
very we'll in their wav; scientific
deductions concerning supply and de
mand make Interesting reading; ab-
stract calculation, discussions of the
tariff and other things may be inter
esting, but the concrete illustration
furnished by Mr.. Scudder Eliminates
the subject with great light
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07
CLEANED AND GARNERED
KINDLY DEEDS.

KINDLY DEEDS.
For he who showers kindly deeds,
SOws not alone on earthly sod;
But scatters with immortal seed,
The unseen harvest field of God.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

Stoves and ranges at bargain prices
for January at The Central Trading
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-07

but SCatterS with immortal seed,
The unseen harvest field of God.
CARRY SUNSHINE.
Garry sunshine with you;
Skies are often gray;
Then how one small sunbeam
Brightens full day!
Sunshine shared with others
Gives a warmer glow;
You'll find those who need it
Everywhere you go.
HARD LUCK.
They stood beneath the mistletoe
He knew not what 10 do,
For he was only five feet tall
And she was six feet two.
FOR 1910.
The same old resolutions
You made last year will do,
Because, you know,
You used them so
They're quite as good as new,
o.
UP TO DATE.
Little drops Of scandal,
Little grains of rot,
Make a famous novel
Out of what is not.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-04
MEAT TRUST PROBE
IS SINKING DEEPER
Government Believed to Have Found
Valuable Witness at Chi
cago in Pensioned
Official

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-Ralph Crews and
Arthur Colby, general counsel and as
sistant treasurer of the National Pack
ing company, were the principal VIII
nesses before the federal grand jury
in its investigation of the So-called
"beef trust today.
Mr. Crews carried number of books
and papers into the jury room and in
a few minutes he came out with them.
That the government has found q
valuable and we'll informed witness IN
the person of a former trusted official
of a large packing company was the
report about the Federal building.
This man is said to be on a pension
at present but has consented to tell
the Jury all he knows in return for
immunity. Two more employees Oh
Swift & Co. were subpoenaed today.
= Meat was still on the rise in New
York markets today. Retailers in many
sections of the city, especially in the
poorer quarters, reported falling Off
of from one-third to one-half in sales.
The Investigation at Boston into the
high prices of meat has been begun by
District Attorney Joseph Pelletier OF
Suffolk county and, if sufficient evil
dence is obtained it is said action will
be taken against certain packers.
A circular issued by a packing firm
at Boston last week, instructing its
agents to "get every cent possible"
for meats, the pledging of a two weeks
abstention from meat by the members
of the mo meat clubs and other de-
velopments are believed to have in
fluenced the district attorney to make
an investigation.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-04
SEVENTY-FiVE DEAD
BY Mine EXPLOSION
LIST OF FATALITIES IN MEXICO
INCREASED
Others in Hospital Expected to Die.
Disasters Numerous In Goa
huiIa-48o Killed in Pre-
vous Explosion

LAREDO, Tex, Feb. 3.-SeVenty-nVe
nersons lost their lives as result or
the mine explosion at Las Esperanzas
Yesterday. There may be one or two
deaths among those now in the nos
pital. .,-
The Las Esperanzas district furnish
es a. large proportion of the coal used
bv the Mexican international railroad
and supplies many industrial plants.
MANY mine disasters have occurred
in the district, the latest prior to yes
terdays catastrophe happening two
wears ago in the Barroteran field That
explosion resulted in the loss OF 4So
lives.
The natives are superstitious and
dislike to work where death previously
has reaped a large harvest. TO over
come a shortage in labor large num-
bers of Japanese miners have been
imported.
Local authorities have made a thor
ough investigation and have reported
to the governor of the state. The In
quiry is said to have demonstrated
that the explosion was caused by the
ignition of gas from spark from a
miners cigarette.
Every effort has been put forth by
the company to aid INDECENT members
of families of those killed.