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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
ConaMERCIALIZING THE FLY

OON1MENOlALIZl i he til.
There passed. through New York
recently en- route from the West Indies
to Germany thirty.eight large bags Of
dried flies. The Germans will feed
them to their chickens.
At Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently, they
had . fly tournament. For . week
there was . contest to see who could
kill the most flies.
Put these two events together, the
sport at Tulsa aud the profit of the
West Indian fly catchers and of the
German chickens. The conclusion is
unmistakable that the fly problem is
solved. Our American hen may be
too proud . bird to eat flies, but the
German market remains. Combine
sport with profit, even though q small
profit, and but one result can ensue.
Two generations agoour plains were
black with buffalo. Mans love of
sport combined with the price Of buf.
falo robes provided that today We
should be guarding . few dozen buffalo
with guns to prevent their extinction.
So it has been with ginseng, the prairie
chicken, the passenger pigeon, and the
fish of our streams. So it will be with
the fly.
Where flies formerly hunted US, We
will now hunt flies. Avaunt dull care
and sedentary pains while We don our
hunting coats and of to track the timid
wild fly. Let US hasten, ere legisla-
lures forbid pot hunting with these
big traps that try to catch all the HES
out Of doors, or order the game war
dens to arrest all sportsmen with more
than 500 flies in their game bags.
Let the market for flies once estab-
lish itself, and the sport Of fly hunting
be popular IS it deserves. and We shall
be having fly commissioners to plant
flies ~ the fish commissioner plants
fish. Then flies will be 30 timid they
will no more bite us than . rabbit.
Let our local health officer turn from
posting "swat the fly" circulars to
promoting the trapping and marketing
of flies.-Lincoln Journal.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
CUAlAlINS' INSULT.


And will Mr.. Cummins make him
self president or will be give the job
to LaFCllette Of Wisconsin!
The platform ofthe Iowa republican
convention was ~ much . joke in one
way IS Was the Nebraska republican
platform. The Iowa resolutions en-
phatically attacked the movement to
read the insurgent senator's from that
state out Of the republican party, but
before the resolutions were even read
Senator Cummins put forth bis utmost
effort to hurl himself out of the party,
without aid or consent Of an. holy else
on earth. He deliberately jumped
himself overheard. Notwithstanding
the fact that the platform framed by
his followers Was to denounce all those
who would for . moment think of
helping to throw him over.
In insulting President TAFT, Senator
Cummins insulted the republican
party. PRECEDENT Taft vas elected -
the head Of this government and as
the head of the party. He was en-.
dorsed by bis predecessor. Theodore
Roosevelt, - the most capable man in
the country for the presidency. In the
one short year of his term, in spite Of
such great obstacles - were thrown in
his way BY party quarrels kicked up
by Senator Cummins and his kind,
President TAFT succeeded in accom-.
plishing more big things by way Of
constructive legislation than ever be.
fore have been accomplished in SO
short time by any president In one
year he practically redeemed every
national republican platform pledge.
And be did it in spite Of, instead Of by
the cooperation of those selfseeking
insurgents whose efforts are apparently
directed toward the formation of . new
party that will give them the ring
Leadership than they are fighting for.
The Iowa platform denounces the
tariff Law, in spite of the fact that the
tariff Law did bring the promised revi-
sion on . very great many necessities
of life. and in spite of the fact that .
tariff board il provided for to 60 about
the business of further revision in q
scientific way.
Mr.. Cummins has been knitting the
administration and the republican
party at every opportunity. And yet
he pretends to be . republican.
AsColonel Lacey If Iowa says. it is
important that Iowa 60 republican,
but it is vastly more important that
the republican party shall 60 republi-
can.-Norfolk News.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
IN DAYS OF OLD.

"The other day." says . writer in
the August American Magazine, II
talked politics in . country store with
. vigorous, profane, down.east in
Maine democrat. He belonged to
that stern and rock.bound race, one of
whose members when asked if he was
. democrat replied solemnly: Boy, 1
Was . democrat in Indianny when they
hunted 'em With dogs' It i hard for
% in this generation to realize the
hardsbips encountered BY democrats in
strong republican, abolition communi.
ties during and after the war. The
tide Of romance va against them, the
heart Of youth against them. Religion,
the facts and finally the
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
a aalsta,se somsSsnsee.

us It true. Miss Gertie." he said.
that there are just two things q wo-
man will Jump at-a conclusion and q
mouse?'
NO." she answered: there IS q
third. Mr.. Philip"
After thinking the matter over q
few moments he tremblingiy made her
an offer. but she didn't jump at II.
He was not the right man.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
THE CANAL TODAY.

When Theodore Roosevelt, as pres.
ident, made his visit to the canal, one
of the decorations to rejoice his heart
and reveal the spirit of the men on the
job, was a crudely painted banner,
flying from a giant 100 ton steam
shovel in the Culebra cut, inscribed:
I'VE will do our best to help you
build the canal"
And such is the spirit today under
the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel
George w. Cocktails. First and last,
l have known intimately a goodly
number of big construction camps, but
never have l witnessed esprit de corps
such as beheld on my recent visit to
the isthmus; that, indeed, and cleanh-
ness were the two things most to i'm.
press men. Every man on the canal
seems to regard the job as his own;
and that it could not go on without
him; that the success of the prodigious
undertaking depends on him. l was
surprised as we'll by the individual
manifest pride in what already has
been accomplished as by a general
ambition to make the dirt fly" SO to
say. Everywhere, on all sections of
the work, l found this spirit in evil
dence.
The shovel gangs vie with one an.
other as to which shall head the list
(for moving the most cubic yards in
the Canal Record"-an extremely
informing and entertaining weekly
which our old editorial friend, Joseph
Bucklin Bishop, includes among his
multitudinous labOrs as secretary to
the commission. Steam shovel and
concrete mixing-lsying records are
made one week only to be surpassed in
the week following. Canal records
have become, in fact, worlds records.
For example, one day last February,
1869 cubic yards Of concrete were
mixed and set in a single day-beat.
ing the worlds record Of 100 yards
very likely the canal hustlers have put
up new figures since my visit.-Casper
Whitney in Golfers.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
TRADE AND ExTRAvAGANCE.

NhDC AND EsA INV AOANAC..
The theory that the high cost ofliv.
ing is largely to our extravagance
seems to be borne out, in part At least,
by the trade balance figures for the
fiscal year ending June 30. We were
extravagant enough, in fact, to inn.
port 81 $50 ,S54,854 worth of CON-
modities, or more than we had ever
bought from foreign countries before.
Besides this, our extraysgance also re.
suited in our making the prices Of our
domestic products 60 high that the to-
tai value of our exports were only
s1,744,966, 2OS, giving US . favorable
balance of trade" of S187 Ill ,349,
which is the smallest we have ever
had. Indeed, for FIVE months of the
year the balance of trade Was against
US, and possibly the balance for the
whole year would have been against
US if there had not been . recession in
prices.
When We compare this lowest bal.
ance of trade of S7.!11 ,349 with the
record figures for the year ending
June 30, 1908, which was $685., 49,
554, this statement becomes more i'm
pressive; especially when it is recalled
that three-quarters of that year Vas
under the panic influences of the fall
of 1907, and the prices which gave
this total were comparatively low.
Even comparison with the ten.year
average, which is s49s, 1893. 1925. shows
that we have permitted ourselves to
fall far short of our possibilities rs .
producing nation.
Now, if We are 10 retain our PROF.
perity As . country We must restrain
our extravagance as . people. In
other words, We must get our prices
back to q point where We shall not be
the best nation to sell to and the poo'-
est to buy from in the world. The
policy of recent years. for the most
part, has been the maintenance of
prices at any cost-and We are begin
ming to realize that the cost has been
80 dear. For instance whenever de-
mand has failed to keep up with sup
ply there has been curtaiIment of sup.
ply in order to maintain the price in.
stead of reduction of price in
order to maintain the demand. One
result of this has been that more and
more people have been doing without
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
A BIG LOSS ON EGGS.

A BIG LOSS ON EGGS.
Nebrasks u getting . good deal OF
unfavorable advertisement in the east
in connection with the sale Of bad
eggs sent from that state to the eastern
market.
A week ago the eastern papers pub
lished accounts of Q number of arrests
made in connection with the ale of .
carload of bad eggs shipped from Ne
braaka to Philadelphia. Now comes
another story that in Pittsburg the
federal food inspectors are seizing lar
&c quantities of bad eggs from Nebr-
aska, some of them labeled Canned
fancy mixed and frozen, guaranteed
pure q fresh"
United States District Attorney
Jordan of Pittsburg. gives out that
10000 pounds ofthese bad frozen eggs
from Nebraska have been shipped in
to Pittsburg recently. The Nebraska
packer, so the inspectors say, Gambling
his eggs, breaks the bad ones into cans
and jars, seals them up, freezes them
into a solid mass, brands them % above
and ships them to the eastern markets
where they are sold and used in the
restaurants for cooking purposes and
served as scrambled eggs"
There is q food law in Nebraska in.
tended to keep bad eggs out of the
market. This law Was enforced under
Governor Sheldon's administration
through vigorous prosecution that
stopped the bad eggs business for
awhile. But since the food law Is neg.
lected under the Shallenberger ad.
ministration, the bad egg, along with
a good many other bad practices. has
gone hack into business again. Ne
braska produced last year 100. OOO. OOO
dozen of eggs. These eggs. grading
low in the eastern market on account
of their uncertainty as to quality, sold
at an average of 5 cents a dozen less
than the market price for good eggs.
This mixing of bad eggs with good is .
fraud that ought not to be tolerated
in any state, especially where there are
food laws, food commissioners and
food inspectors who are paid by the
public to attend to just such things u
this bad egg nuisance.
When a food commissioner adver'
tises by his inactivity that he has nc
respect for the law and no interest in
its enforcement. instantly thousand
little money making tricks get into
activity. These all cost the honest
man money. A few energetic prose-
cutions in each county in the state
every year would keep the law adver'
tised and in effect. The producers
cannot afford to have their product.
unfavorably advertised and cold in
the eastern market on account of law
lessness that the food law Is intended
to restrain.
The Nebraska egg crop last year il
reported to have been worth Sic, 600.
600. 1t would have been worth
S5,OOO,OOO more than that if the Law
had been enforced and the output kept
up to the proper standard-Souix City
Tribune.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
SOURCE OF TYPHOID.

A mystery in the spread OF typhoid
fever which had puzzled Rochester,
N. Y, physicians for some time was
solved recently. 1t Vas found that
sevenl persons had been taken down
mysteriously with the disease and its
source could not be traced. The cases,
while rather numerous, were scattered
about the city. There seemed to be
no foci from which the thing had
spread. Water, milk, flies, and all
the other common media for the trans
hitting of the disease were eliminated
BY the medical men, and the source
still remained hidden.
By . comparison Of notes, it was
found that in each case the patient
had visited . waterfall in the neigh
borhood of Rochester q short time be-
fore contracting the disease. With
this ~ . clue, the physicians proceed.
ed to the waterfall and collected sam
pies of the water from the spray. 1t
was found to be infected strongly with
typhoid germs. The physicians con.
cluded that their patients had inhaled
the spray upon their sight seeing visits
and had in that way contracted the
disease. The stream had been prac.
tically an open sewer, or at any rate
was strongly polluted by Rochester
sewage.
1t is another Instance of the insidi-
Gus manner in which infectious dis.
eases spread. When the high dam is
completed in the Mississippi, st. Paul
and the southern portion Of Mime
apolis will have somewhat similar
problems to face. The lake which
will be formed, it is practically agreed
by engineers and eanitarians, will be
strongly polluted by Minneapolis sew
age. Some Of St. Paul's sewage will
also enter. While the flow over the
dam may not throw spray upon q
great many persons. S" as To infect
them, the polluted lake will remain
menace to health, unless Minneapolis
sewage and a portion Of the sewage 81
St. Paul is treated and made innocu.
Gus This is one Of the problems
which must be worked out in connec'
ton with the high dam, and, in the
light of Rochester's experience with
sources of typhoid infection. it is q
problem of large importance.-St
Paul Dispatch.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
REACTION vs.. PROGRESS.

kEAC lON vs.. fNO&1NESS.
The reEublican senator or represen'
tative who voted against the Payne
bill voted for reaction far more com
prehensive than the reaction involved
in Senator Foraker's vote against thu
Roosevelt bill.
A vote against the Payne bill was &
vote against redemption of the repub'
lican pledge to revise the tariff At {
special session to be called Immediately
after the Inauguration of the new
president.
A vote against the Payne bill was &
vote in favor of the Dingley duties
and against the 600 or more reduc.
tons in duty On articles comprised in
tho new scheduled.
A vote against the Payne bill was q
vote against the progressive maximum
and minimum system whose adoption
by other countries made it imperative
that our tariff system, in order to be
practical, must be brought to the
same basis.
A vote against the Payne bill was q
vote against Philippine free trade, long
urged rs . measure of justice to our
Filipino wards as we'll as . means Of
promoting American trade with the
islands.
A vote against the Payne bill Was .
vote against the corporation tax,which
has this year brought the treasury
81 900, 900 of new revenue, and which
Offers the first practical step along the
line of federal regulation of corpo-
ratious.
Finally, . vote against the Payne
bill Was . vote against nucleus of q
tariff commission, since expanded into
. workable machine for ascertaining
cost Of production At home and abroad
and furnishing . more scientific basis
for future tariff revision.
Suppose the politics Of the situation
had induced al the so-called progress
ives to support the Payne bill, while .
few wicked old standpatters had
opposed it. What howl Of indigna.
ton would have gone up from the
progressive camp over these reaction
sry votee!
The alleged progressive Who voted
against the Payne bill stulti6ed him.
self The party escaped qualification
only because there were not enough
alleged progressives to defeat the most
progressive tariff bill ever passed
Sioux City Journal.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-08-17
MORE CHEER FOR DEMOCRATS

MORE CHEER FOR DEMOCRATS.
1t is much to be feared that the
views of the Nebraska democrats on
county option have less interest for the
rest Of the country than their view of
Mr.. Bryan. With all the expert
menting we are having with the liquor
problem, all over the country, it does
not seem transcendently important
that any particular state should be
trying any particular one of them.
That the Nebraskans simply will not
have the county option arrangement is
nevertheless interesting; for it may
indicate trend of opinion in that part
of the country to the effect that it is
best to have prohibition only ir those
communities which want it, and in
which, therefore, it is likely to he
reasonably we'll enforced-or, in other
words, that the only desirable kind Of
prohibition is the kind that will really
prohibit.
But that Mr.. Bryan fully committed
himself to county option. and under.
took to commit his party to it, and
that the party repudiated both the
policy and Mr.. Bryan's leadership
Enthusiastically, overwhelmingly, and
with quite as much emphasis of rejec-
ton on the man As on the policy-this
was something that the whole country
sat up to take notice Of: We have no
desire at present to say unpleasant
things about Mr.. Bryan. Our i'm
pulse is never to hit anybody who is
down, whether temporarily or perman-
emily. But from the beginning of the
movement to revitalize and regenerate
the democratic party it has been clear
that Mr.. Bryan's influence and his
ambition, taken with his past record
and his habitual fiightiness, constituted
the chief obstacle. As he showed no
disposition toward Cancellation and
compromise with democrats of q differ.
ent way of thinking, but kept an auto
cratic, rule or ruin attitude, it became
clear also that the only effective way
to deal with him would be to break
his power and destroy his prestige.
This the democrats of his own state
have taken . long step toward accom-.
plishing.-Harper's Weekly.
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O.u i:sr S.sS.

"Wcre always careful about these
Onti.,InIls diseases. snid Mrs. lap
sling. when Johnny had got we'll Of
the measles We h'usht some sulphur
candles and Disconnected the house
from top to bottom Chicago Tribune.
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so -. refer servants who speak
English IA perfectly"
Yes" replied the housewife. If
don't understand what they say I am
not Obliged to dismiss them SO fire.
0uently"-
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Two Men.
A feeble man can see the farms that
are fenced and titled. the houses that
are built. The strong man sees the
possible houses and farms. His eye
makes estates a. fast a. the sun breeds
cl0uds.-EmefSon.
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Suspicion.

Suspicion.
Once give your mind to suspicion
and there Is sure to be food enough for
II. In the stillest night the air is filled
with sounds for the wakeful ear that
is resolved to listen.
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Hioh Ctan.

Ceacher-What class OF birds does
the hawk belong to. Tommy? Tommy
Birds Of prey. Teacher-Now, John
ny. to what class does the quail be-
long: Johnny-Birds on toast.-Chica-
60 News
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-05-07
STATE OF LOUISIANA
23rd Judicial District Court-Par.
ish of St. Mary.
H. T. Gotham & Co., Ltd, vs.
Sam Lampo. No. 1852.

Under by aud virtue of writ of fieri
facias issued out Of the Honorable 23rd
Judicial District Court, in and for the
Parish of st. Mary, and to me directed,
in the above numbered and entitled
suit, have seized, and will offer for
sale, for cash, to the last and highest
bidder, at the principal trout door of
the Court House in the Town of Frank
lin, Parish of st. Mary, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, THE nth DAY OF
MAY, A. D., 1910,
between the hours of III O'Clock a, H..
and o'clock p. M, the following mem
toned and described property. to-wit:
All of the stock in trade, goods, wares
and merchandise and store fixtures
situated in the building on the corner of
First and Circuit Streets OF the Town of
Patterson, operated and run by Sam
Lampo as grocery store, fruit stand
and oyster shop.
A complete inventory of all of said
goods, wares, merchandise, and store
fixtures Is on file in the Sheriff's Office.
and subject to the inspection of the
public. Also one horse and one wagon
w. T. PETERMAN, Sheriff.
Sheriff Office, Parish of st Mary. La.
April 18th, 1910.
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RESOLUTION.

BE it resolved, That Article one of the
Charter OF the Houssiere- Latreille Oil
Company, passed upon the fifth day Of
May, 1898, be amended are re-enacted, SO
that said Charter so amended and re-en-
acted shall read AS follows, to-wIt: "rhis
Corporation assumes the name and title OF
the Observation-Disclosures Oil Co.; its
dOmicile shall be in the town OF Jennings.
Parish of CaIcasleu. state of Louisiana,
and 1t shall enjoy and have succession in
It's Corporate name 1Lr the period of nine>
ty>nlne years from date hereof.
"All citation and legal process shall be
served on the President aud In his absence
on the Vlce>Pl esldent, and in the absence
Of both upon the secretary Treasurer"