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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10
LINCOLN SUPREME.
If Ambassador Bryce, speaking ,

If Ambassador Bryce, speaking at
Chautauqua, said that Abraham Lin
coin was the greatest man of all time
it is an estimate of considerable i'm.
pOrtance coming from Briton, a his
tOrian, q dweller in academic halls As
we'll As a practical man Of affairs. II
means that he passes by British rulers
like Alfred the Great and Cromwell,
conquerers like Napoleon and Caesar,
sages like Plato and Kant, poets like
Shakespeare and Goethe, orators like
Dem 1sthenes and Burke, and places
the chaplet on the brow Of one who
ruled by the consent and with the
backing Of the people. who never en-
tered academic halls, whose philosophy
Of life was wholly practical and in
formal, whose few attempts at verse
were sentimental, and whose eloquence
was unstudied and without the slight
est trace of afiectatiOn and learning.
Yet who, by his fusion ofgoodness, sa.
gacity, patience. power and faith in
man and God, won the love of men;
and by his simple, natural yet moral
ly vibrant English style won immortal
ity As orator and writer Of state pa
pers.-Brooklyn Herald.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10
Fifty Men and One Elephant.

Interesting tests were recently made
in i...ninu To- d..irrmine the respective
pulling power Of horses. men and ele-
phanrs. Two horses weighing 1.GOO
pounds each. together pulled $3.50
pounds. or $50 pounds more than their
combined weight. One elephant.
pounds each together pulled $3.50
pounds. or 3:2,:jO pounds less than It's
weight. Fifty men. asgreGating 1900
pounds tn weight. pulled $3.50 pounds.
or Just Us much as the single elephant.
but. like the horses. they pulled more
than their own weight. One hundred
men pulled l2.OOO pOunds--St. Louis
Republic.
More Appropriate.
Il teach my parrot only short
words"
do you? Now. ] should think that
parrots were better adapted 70 learn
ing polysyllables."
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10

two hours against . demonstration in.
side and outside the hall to break up
the meeting called in the interests Of
Palmer and Buckner, the sound money
candidates of the national democrats
and he had his say vociferously.
Eggs were thrown at the secretary Of
the treasury by hoodiums hired for
the purpose. The police, evidently
in sympathy with them, were numer.
Gus in the hall, but made no arrests.
The police did, however, surround Mr..
Carlisle at the conclusion Of the dis
graceful Lis"de and protect him from
mob violence until he could reach his
home. At that meeting in C"vingt"n
Mr.. Carlisle dealt with the financial
question that was convulsing the na-
ton with the perspiculty, soun.lness
and vigor for which he was distingui-
shed, but passion ruled the hour. He
talked to the ignorant, the crazed and
the hypuotized. They regarded him
only rs . traitor and "tOOl Of the
money power" The free coinage Of
silver without waiting for the aid or
consent Of any other nation" was not
a question Of power or Of national in
dependence, told his baiters, but it was
a question Of national prosperity and
national honor. So the people decid.
ell when election day came.
Mr.. Carlisle went out of political
life with the passing Of the second
Cleveland administration. He was
one Of the leaders of q forlOrn hope SO
far as the fortunes Of the national
democracy were concerned, but his
vindicatiOn was sure; indeed he did
not have long t. wait for it. For him
there was never more hope Of political
preferment from his own party, and he
was too good a democrat of the old
school to accept Office from the repub-
llcan party. He registered his protest
Of principle and passed from the scene.
For q number oi' years Mr.. Bryan's
influence was SO potent in Kentucky
that it may be doubted whether John
G. Carlisle. ex.speaker of the house Of
representatives. ex-United States sena-
tor aud ex-secretary Of the treasury.
one Of the ablest men in the demo-
cratic party, could have been elected
to any Office in the gift Of the people.
But Mr.. Carlisle lived long enough
to see Mr.. Bryan discredited even in
bis intimate political household by
those who used to follow him fatuously.
Mr.. Carlisle survived to witness the
return of sanity to the councils Of the
democratic party and to behold the
prospects of union in its ranks with
the purpose to name . conservative
candidate for president without wait
ing for the aid or consent of Mr.. Bryan.
New York Sun.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10
The Orkney ISLANDS.

The member fromlthe Orkneys" is
the only man in the british house Of
commons who can say he sits for 200
islands. Only sixty of'the islands are
inhabited, but the constituency en-
braces more than G0OO people.
The Orkneys were once given by
Norway to England as security for a
queens dover and never redeemed. In
the islands the\voters must go to the
polls by. boats. innd in some cases the
distance}to be tpaveledtis eiRht,miles.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10

G. E. Adams is the logical candidate
for United States senator OF Nebraska.
His sgressivenees, his wide experience,
his opposition to graft, greed and dis
honesty, easily places him in the fore
most ranks OF clean politics and square
deal. He believes that the conscience
Of the country should be represented in
the government OF the country. lie
never side-steps. Vote for him at the
primary, August 10th.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-10
NEBRASKA REGULAR. BUT

NEBRASK REGULAR, BUT
The Nebraska regulars, as repre-.
sented by Senator Brown, were in
complete control of the state cOnven-
ton rs opposed to the insurgents rep
resented by Representative Norris. In
this connection the term regular
includes both so called stand patters
and moderate "progreSsives. The
regulars elected the permanent chair
man and controlled the committee on
resolutions. In the regular resolutions
reported and adopted the administra.
ton of President Taft was given UNI
qualified and enthusiastic Endorsement.
The Legislative achievements of the
late session of congress, under the
leadership Of President Taft, were
cordially approved in detail. The
merits of the tariff law were recited
specifically and iEdorsed. If the rec
ord had been closed there, insurgency
would not have a leg to stand on in
Nebraska.
Having won their straight victory,
however, the regulars allowed Repre-
sentative Norris, insursent, by a
smooth stroke of strategy, to introduce
q large bumblebee in the ointment.
After the resolutions had been adopted,
while delegates were fastening to the
cool outdoors and belated beds, i'm the
belief that the fight was over, Repre-
sentative Norris from the floor intro
duced a resolution condemning Can
nonis'n" and declaring sympathy with
the insurgent movement in and out of
congress. In the confusion the resolu-
ton was put and declared carried by
a viva voce vote. There were calls
for roll CALL" but there was no roll
call. Evidently Chairman Brown was
not unwilling that the resolution
should 60 through, giving his fighting
colleague in the lower house something
t. crow over.
If the Norris resolution can he con-
sidered part of the regular platform it
cancels to a large extent the unquali-
fed Endorsement of the administration
and the previous approval of the tariff
law. Outright insurgency is fighting
the administration and fig hitting the
tariff law. 1t is illogical to indorse in
the same breath the tariff law and
those who voted against it. As none
of the Nebraska delegation voted
against the Payne law o. other party
measures it is possible the Nebraska
definition of insurgency may be held
different from the common one. How
ever that may he. the Norris resolution
is wholly out Of harmony with the let
ter and spirit of the other resolutions
affecting national affairs. AS an annex
to the regular platform it is an anon.
aly. In view of the regular control of
the convention, and the evident salts
faction of the delegates with the reso-
buttons reported by the committee, it
probably would be fair to describe the
Norris resolution as Joker" irregu-
larly adopted without comprehension
on the part of the delegates of the
mischief it contained.-sioux City
Journal.
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For Congress.

For Congress.
solicit the republicans OF the Third
congressional district to vote for my
nomination ut the primaries August IL.
LAWSON q BRIAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
KANSAS COMMENT
is IT WORTH WHILE?

Men soar to dizzy heights in craft of
graceful lines but indefinite strength.
They fly either to renown or death.
Usually 1t is the latter. If death does
not come on the first trip 1T comes
later. So far it has been inevitable
and men have been working on airships
and flying machines for centuries. Are
men becoming more crazy or only more
original? Even if the ideal flying ma
chlne should be constructed in the flu
ture, what good could result?
Aunatics say that the machines are
even now SO near perfection that they
VIII reVolutionize the methods of war
rare. An airship to be successful de-
built that it can be controlled. Are
thev? For answer glance over the
newspapers of the last two years. Is
there living man who can drop an
object the size of a bomb from an alti-
tude of 5000 feet on to some specific
object, even if he is standing perfectly
stationary?
If there are such men they could
make hit in vaudeville. What about
men flying high enough over the heads
of their fellow men so that they will
not be destroyed themselves but will
be able to destroy those below?
If flying machine could become
, stationary at some specified point over
fort and not too high in the air a
| bomb might be dropped to sufficient
advantage on that fort. The moment
that flying machine became station
airy, even If such a thing was possible,
the new Krupp gun would wreck it
before the men in the air knew where
they were. If the flying machine stay
ed out of sight the men manning it
would be too far away and couldn't
tell fort from a canal if they saw
one.
Officials of the postoff1ce department
| at Washington admit that a flying ma
chine is impractical for carrying mail.
Even the Wrights are willing to ad-
init that it will be many years before
| an aeroplane carrying more than four
persons can be built successfully. The
best machine the Wrights have built,
which only seat two men at the out
side, have caused sufficient deaths the
last year to fill several metropolitan
morgues. Flying is not general. If
| 1t was there wouldn't be room in the
newspapers to mention all the deaths.
Is flying worth the while ?-Hutchin-
| son Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
Ron WeeviI blessed.

The progressive and aggressive boil
weevil has cut $35,o0O00 from the value
of Louisiana's cotton crop, the output
falling from S50,000000 TO $4,000 900. But
the state will not lose.
simultaneously, and through neces-
sity, agricultural enterprise, encouraged
by government experts and enlarged
reclamation of marsh lands, has in
creaSedLouiSlana'S annual revenue from
corn production to nearly $65,000000 in
1910 from $4,000, 900 or $5,000,0 900 a few
years ago, yet the corn industry of the
Pelican state is still in its infancy.
Thus the farmers of Louisiana, who
two years ago looked upon the inva-
sion of the boil weevil as a curse, now
regard the little pest as a boon.
Several years ago Louisiana farmers
marketed 1,100,000 bales of cotton in
single season. The average yield per
acre was less than half a bale, but on
the best lands a bale to an acre was
obtained. In those days 8 cents for
middling was looked upon as a good
price, and $45 per bale, or $3.50 per
acre, was not to be despised. In 1909
Louisiana produced only 2S0,000 bales.
Today the farmers on the reclaimed
lands of south Louisiana are getting
100 bushels of corn per acre, which, at
per acre, or nearly three times as much
as the Louisiana cotton farmer got in
the palmiest days of cotton production
and on the best short staple land. Corn
farmers on the hill lands are not get
ting anything like 100 bushels to the
acre, but their yield per acre is in
creasing rapidly as result of the ed
ucationaI work carried on at Baton
Rouge by v. L. Roy, the United States
government corn expert, who is teach
ing the old-time farmer how to grow
corn by the new method.
In 1908, and in all previous years
Louisiana farmers, particularly the cot
ton growers, bought most of the corn
needed to feed their stock from the corn
growers of Indiana, Illinois, and other
states. Last year, for the first time in
it's history, Louisiana became an ex-
porter of corn. This year Louisiana
farmers will sell many million bushels
of corn, and next year the excess of
production over consumption in Louis
ians may amount to as much as 1O0, 000,-
900 bushels-New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
QUAKER MEDFTATToNs.

From the Philadelphia Record
Ambition is the sworn foe of con-
tentment.
The man who has the wool pulled
over his eyes is generally fieeced.
No, Maude, dear; the actresses who
are featured haven't always the larg-
est feet.
It's all right to be your own best
friend if you are satisfied to have few
others.
No man is such a dub that he can't
console himself with the thought that
he has his double.
Hoax-'What is your idea of the
personification Of a dead beltt?" Joax
IA dishonest undertaken
Every man has his field of useful
ness, but the trouble is he can't build
a fence high enough to keep others
out.
"Start out with high ambitions
says the Manayunk Philosopher. eff
you are a pickle you must expect to be
Jared
Nell-'I just heard Mrs. Talkalot
drop few remarks about you" Belle
Then I suppose my reputation is
broken
Blobbs-''Why are policemen called
coppers ?" Slobbs-"Well, 1 don't i'm
agine it's because they are like bad.
pennies that always turn up
"The successful man doesn't always
have bouquets thrown at him. re-
marked the Wise Guy. mo, very Of
ten the road to success is full of mud"
added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
FROM O7EER PENS
POWER OF VIBRATION.

The old statement of the textbooks
that ga good fiddler could fiddle a
bridge down. has not wandered from
the field of speculation until of late
years; and even then its justification in
a practical sense has been purely COM
parative The scientific study of
molecular construction, as applied to
steel, has only been taken up in re-
cent years, and among the valuable re-
suits which have come from this in
vestigation is the fact that continuous
Earring, not necessarily heavy, of a fine
steel rod will in time render it as brit
tie as a glass splinter. Axles of car
trucks no doubt deteriorate in this
self-same manner. and in this way
cause many accidents. Cases are on
record where the effect of music with
in the walls of a structure has been to
weaken the walls in time and the well
known practical break step employed
by military bodies in crossing bridges
is another example of the destructive
effect of steady efforts. That body
of men stepping regularly could cause
serious strains among the supporting
members of a bridge is an incontro-
vertibIe fact recognized everywhere;
and while the power of a fiddler to f1d-
die down house may not be so quick
in its results or so well proved as to
it's truth, it is something that is not
to be lightly ed.-Manchester
Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atehison Globe.1

TFrom the Atehison G1obe.l
We still contend that a circus is a
lot more fun than an election.
Roosevelts own town went against
him. That's just like a mans own
town.
At dinner party it is always ex-
pected that the guests talk about liter
allure.
Nearly every wife likes to say her
husband is of an insanely jealous dis
position.
Men make as many sacrifices as
women, but you wouldn't think so TIC
hear the women talk.
Without wishing to appear finicky
We contend that no newly married
man should chew tobacco.
Why is it that bride never looks
good in her wedding dress? And why
is it that wedding cake Is never good
A man who keeps on dancing after
he reaches the age of twenty-five, is
very apt to be a Society Knockabout
all his life.
When you stay up election night
about all you get is the returns; the
open heart of the politician closes with
the polls.
When a woman tells her husband
she wants something for the home
she usually means she wants some
! thing for herself
Aside from the policemen and the
reporters on a morning paper, no one
has a very good excuse for being a
| man about town"
Whenever man marries woman
and treats her meanly in later years
the neighbors all say, He was just
wild about her before they were mar
ried."
| Sooner or later every noisy man in
\ a boarding house gets his, and what is
true in the boarding house is true in
| all public places. The place for CO.
| medians is on the stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
THE RED CROSS SEALS.

Judging from reports at hand. the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis estimates,
in a bulletin issued recently, that by
December 1, not less sthan 10000
Red Cross Seals will have been dis
tributed to selling agents in forty diff
ferent states of the country.
Forty million seals have already
been printed and another large edi-
ton is being prepared. Agents. orders
to date aggregate all of that amount
and a considerable number have not
yet stated how many seals they can
use. Taking into consideration this
latter class and the agents who will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12

and just to watch her eyes grow
round and big, he called on all the
arts of his imagination and added
| many awesome touches of his own,
known to man or beast, and added
thrilling tales of wild enchantment
| At last, realizing that the sun was
slipping down behind the trees and
| the shadows growing long across the
grass, he rose hastily. apoligizing for
/ his thoughtleSSneSs.
At that moment the woman he had
| met on the road turned in at the gate
and came slowly up the path. She was
less frumpy seen at close range, Phil
| lip decided. He swung down the steps
to meet her.
Miss Darton,'' he exclaimed, 'I am
dreadfully sorrow to have missed a
chat with you. I've been waiting an
you know. My father
-"Oh, yes, indeed" she responded
| cordially, your father wrote me
about you. And I'm sorry, too, but
I'm glad you found Elsie. Your father
was anxious that you two young
people should meet. He thought it
| might make it pleasanter for both of
you"
"why-er-yes, of course" he
stammered. out of his perplexity
Miss barton looked at him In as
| constituent.
Hasn't Elsie been good to your"
| she asked, smiling somewhat anx-
| iously. ''She can be very provoking
| and willful, I know. I haven't chaper-
oned her around Europe for three
years without realizing that"
| He stared bewilderingly.
"Elsie-then she-pardon me. I
thought you were Miss Darton," he
| stammered, an awful conviction surg
| ing through him. -.
1T am" she laughed; ''our names
are the same. We are cousins, you
4 know. Now what'-a light was be-
| ginning to break in her eyes-"what
has that young mink been UP top
| Notwithstanding at ALL" Phillip
assured her hastily. He glanced back
indignantly at the porch. 1t was
empty. With a somewhat abrupt
leavetaking he strobe out of the gate
chine. Shy, indeed! Timid little,
futtering thing! His tales of the
| glowing East! A hot wave rushed
over him from head to foot. What
| must she think of him %
| He leaped into his car and whizzed
off down the road, with reckless
and evergrowing violence of speed.
Suddenly a memory, like a flash
i of white light, illumined the dark de-
preston of his mind. His expression
changed. He brought his car to an
abrupt halt.
"By Jove! Eight O'Clock this even
ing. She promised!"
| Selling the wheel once more he pro-
ceeded onward at staid and decor
Gus pace.
at won't smash myself up-quite-
yet" he acknowledgement 1910
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12
JAYHAWKER JOTS

TIL Neodesha Register reports a
mOnOlogue man on the kerosene circuit
as saying: II came here on the Cen
trail Branch. It's a funny line. Santa
Claus gave them their engines"
According to the Pratt Union, there
is a young couple in that town who
have been tagging along for so many
months that her mother demands that
he show whether he is q standpatter or
a progressive.
An after Halloween reflection from
the Chapman Gazette: sweet Octo-
Der has gone-together with several
other things you left LAYING around
loose Monday evening"" Principally
hens, it is fair to conclude.
A Neodesha man says the squirrels
are forsaking the timbers and taking
to the prairies, which, he argues.
means a hard winter. More likely,
thinks the Neodesha Register. it means
that the woods are full Of hunters.
AS a starter for his batch of items in
last weeks paper. the New Hope cor
respondent Of the fConcordia Press
presents this conundrum: I'm what
old goose?" The answer Is: They
are often picked by women and some
say they make a good roast.
Presumably VIII Scott of Fairview
has had considerable trouble in re-
building his barn. The Fairview cor
respondent OF the RrdIC Union WTll6s
in a recent batch of items: There was
a mistake in the dimensions of VIII
SCOTS barn last week. 1t should have
read 28x32."
Under the guidance of Professor c.
J. Dillon, the head of the new school
of Journalism which has been estab-
Iished at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college, the weekly paper hereto
fore issued in pamphlet form by that
institution and under the name of the
Industrialist, has been renamed the
Kansas Industrialist, and is now issued
in the form of a four page newspaper,
with pages about tWo-thirds the size OF
the ordinary newspaper pages. In its
new form the Kansas Industrialist Is
certainly a model of journalistic effort.
It's typographical appearance is superb
In its columns are displayed to excel
lent advantage the important and in
teresting news that develops at the
Agricultural college, including, OF
course. understandable briefs and arti-
cIes on the Investigations and re-
searches of the professors at the col
lege in agricultural matters, which are
SO interesting and valuable to the
farmers of Kansas. The Industrialist
has always been a most valuable pub
LEGATION. It's up-to-date successor, the
Kansas Industrialist, promises to be
mr. ca