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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-17

day at the PARTING OF THE
WAYS. These two ways lead in
very divergent directions. The
choice of the people will be
fraught with momentous conse-
quences to the destiny of the coun-
try. 1t is RIGHT AND JUST
that THEY should speak, be-
cause with them rests the ultimate
decision.
CANADA HAS MADE uNEx-
AMPLED PROGRESS IN THE
GREAT WORK OF NATION BUILD
ING SINCE CONFEDERATION IN
1867. THAT WORK HAS BEEN
] CARRIED ON WITHOUT ANY SUCH
TREATY OR AGREEMENT AS IS
NOW PROPOSED.
One would have supposed that
1.-THE government might have been
content to WAIT six months
longer in order that redistribution
might have been accomplished
and that supplies necessary in the
public interest might have been OBJ
tanned. But apparently the gov
eminent placed the reciprocity
agreement ABOVE ALL CON-
ISTITUTIONAL CONSIDERA-
lTIONS.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
THE NEBRASKA CITIES.

The census report on Nsbrssks
cities Of mere than 5000 people shows
that "a interesting race is still On
among . eroup Of communities that
have been sharply contesting for third
and fourth place for more than twenty
years. Counting Omaha and South
Omaha ~ one Grand Island is now
showing q clean pair Of heels As the
third city," 1t will be observed,
however, that it is less than one thous-
and ahead of two competitors and that
several other bright and ambitious
communities are still within hailing
distance. The padding Of 1890 and
the failure to debate the figures en-.
tirely in 1900 makes it . difficult
matter to compare the growth Of the
last ten years with previous decades.
Nebraska City, which now shows .
decrease, and Lincoln, which makes .
poor showing of growth As compared
With its real advancement, are appar.
emily the chief sufferers from this old
condition. The figures for the two
census periods are n follows:
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
OsCEOLA.

From the Record.
John Jsuicek has sold his farm in
Butler county for $4,000. and bought .
farm near Monroe in Platte county for
$4,000. He will move to Columbus the
Lat Of March.
There will b preaching ct Clear Greek
again next sunday afternoon, And
every let and Bird Sunday Of each month
thereafter, it storms prevent than the
services will be held the Sunday follow
ing. Sunday school at 2 p. m, every
Sunday.
Monday afternoon while Ernest Scho!z
Vas returning homo from town With .
load Of coal, he met with an accident
near the Mickey farm one mile southeast
OF town. and at the same spot where the
family Of Joseph Scholz we're % badly
injured in runaway few years ago.
Mr.. Scholz wac driving . colt and the
animal got the blinds Of the bride down
in such way that it could go over
them aud then became unmanagsable.
1t ran the other horse Of the grade and
broke ono III the wheels Of the wagon
aid otherwise fractured it up. Mr..
Scholz escaped without injury. but his
nephew. Jos. Wolnizcsk, Who is visiting
here from Aerns, in jumping from the
wagon got . broken arm. Mr.. Scholz
held the team and they were not injured.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
ncRows HAR.
Here Are Facts. We Want You 70
Prove q Our Risk.

Here Are Facts. We Want You 70
Prove q Or Risk.
Marvellous - Il nay ssso. Rsxall IS"
Hair Tonic be- grown hair On hsads that
we're once bald. OF course, In none of
these casss were the hair roots dsad. nor
had the scalp taken on . glazed. shiny
appearance.
Rsxall 49, Hair Tonic acts scisntif-
cslly, destroying The gsrms which srs
usually, rssponsibls for badness. II
peuetratss to the roots OF the hair,
stimulating and nourishing them. II b
most pleasant toilet neoess,ty, i deli.
catsly psrfumed, and will not gum or
permanently stain the hair.
We want you to get bottle Of Rsxsll
"93" Hair Tonic and nee it - directed.
II it does not relieve scalp irritation,
remove dsndru6, prevent the hair from
falling out and promote IN increased
growth Of hair. and in every way give
entire satisfaction, simply como back
and tell us. and without question or for
mality We will hand hack to you every
penny you paid % for it. Two sizes. Soc
and Sl.OO. Sold only at our store-t6e
Rexall store. Pollock s Co., corner 18th
and North streets.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18

as . progressive, but ~ Robert Ia
Toilette, hammer snd . man hated
Of the bosses. The sane thing = very
clearly seen in the gubernatorial CON-
paign insix belt line states-Masaachu.
sets, Connecticut. New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In
every one of those states persolity,
positive, or negative, was the point OF
attack, if not of decision. Apparently
any respectable democrat could have
been elected in Massachusetts,, but in
Connecticut Judge Baldwin was chosen
on his merits a. q man and . campaig-
ner. In New Jersey, BY all accounts,
Woodrow Wilson electrified the state
with his conception of the governor rs
the spokesman of the public interests
and the leader ofhis party. In Penn
sylvania, Senator Penrose, who was
the vitual candidate for chief Of the
state through his two dummies, Tener
and Grim, triumphantly established
his own unpopularity in the state which
he controls. In Ohio the personal
quality of Harmon, greatly swelled, If
II did not contribute, bis remarkable
majority of1oo.OOo. Throughout the
country it has shown over and over
again that it is necessary to "pander to
the moral sense of the community" BY
nominating candidates who stand for
something in themselves. The aston
ishing success of the insurgents in the
west is . proof that the American peo-
pie like positive men and will vote for
them if they have the opportunity
Albert B. Hart, in the North American
Review.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
Not a Born EorQor.

The Endorsement Of checks Is a very
simple thing; but. as the following
story will show, 1t, too. has its DIM
culties:
A woman went into q bank where
she had several times presented checks
drawn to Mrs. Lucy B. Smith. This
time the check was made to the order
Of Mrs. NJ. J. Smith. NJ. J. were her
husbands initials. She explained this
to the paying teller and asked what
she should do.
'Oh, that is all right" he said. Just
indorse it rs It Is written there"
She took the check and after much
hesitation said, Il don't think l can
make an NJ like that"
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
FULLERTON.
From the Post.

r. ]. Ossna vas shot and killed by
his fourteen. yesr-old son on farm four
miles west OF Fullerton last Friday.
The two had gone into . draw to shoot
rabbits, the boy having . rifle and the
father having . hsmmerless shotgun.
Mr.. Oissns desired to use the rife % o..
changed With the boy. Later he return
ed the rife and just u the boy was
about to hand his father the shotgun, it
went of, the shot passing through Mr..
Cissna's arm and entering his left side.
Tho frightened child ran to the nearest
neiehbos for help and soon the wounded
man Was carried to the house and msdi-
cal assistance called but before the doctor
arrived the man was dead. Mr.. Cissns
and the boy we're the only persons on
the farm at the time OF the accident, as
Mn. Cissna was visiting relatives in
Council Bluffs. Ia, and the eldest SOD,
was attending the Fullerton High school.
Nm. Cissna was notified Of the accident
and will probably remain in Council
Bluffs, % the body was taken to Iowa
Monday by Sam and J. W. Cissna, bro
theirs Of the deceased, both OF whom are
residents OF Fulleston. Mr. Cissns was
forty years Of age. He Was prosperous
farmer, we'll known in this vicinity as
we'll rs in Walnut, his former home.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18

,"r-- - mu drawn ~sg.", hence the
WheelharroW.
The Chinese wheelbsrrow, which
has been 1t work, it i presumed, dur
ing thousands Of years, represents the
highest development attainable By .
one-wheel vehicle, with the single *.
oeption Of ball.bearings and grease
cups. The use Of axle grease must
certainly be known to the Chinese, but
strange to say, it is ignored. The
screech Of the wheel, like the pagoda
bells, il heard far over the celestial
landscape. On this wheelbarrow,
with it, high, razorrimmed wheel-case
like 4 boat cabin split by the center
board, loads of2OO pounds are carried
for hundreds Of miles At . speed of
three miles an hour. In the central
fiat lands that is the general form of
passenger transport for the poor. the
hire of q barrow being about 10 cents
. day. When a family moves to q
new district the women and old folks
are wheeled, one or two to q barrow,
while the men walk. carrying their
dunnage slug from two ends of q
shoulder pole. But riding on . wheel
harrow must be an excruciating ex.
perience for any one but . nerveless
and cottonwood padded Chinese wo.
man. The paving blocks have spread
or dipped. and between each-that is
to say. At every revolution-plunk goes
the iron wheel in . hole, while there
are no hock.absorbing springs or ru-
Der tires to take up thejar. No white
man could wheel freight in this man.
ner for . mile. The secret seems to be
in the shoulder strap, which is attach.
ed to the handles of the barrow and
passes over the back of the neck of the
pusher. It would almost seem n
though centuries of us have developed
in the race . special muscular resis'
lance at that particular part Of the
makeup of q Chinaman.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
A Hot Offer.

The Lincoln Daily News will be mail.
cd from now until April lst for only, Is
cents, giving you all OF the Legislative
news right straight from the capital city.
A bigger offer yet 10 q combination OF
the Lincoln Daily News. Weekly indie
pendent Farmer and Monthly Poultry
Topics, Ill three mailed 70 one or separ-
ate addresses from nov until April /.
1919, for only e 25-not much moro than
half price. A splendid big family daily
Newspaper, clean - . whistle and bright
and soappy; . sixteen-paee weekly farm
and home magazine. and . monthly
poultry paper full of practical talk about
chicken raising. Reading for oil men,
bses Of the family. and you save the
moasy BY buying Ill three Of them ct
once. Address The Daily News, Lin
coin, Nebea0kn.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
periods are ~ follows:

The most rapid growth recorded
mere is in the case of Fairbury, which
makes q gain of GO per cent Next
comes Norfolk, which is at last begin
ming to show the advantage of its
position Is "the Lincoln of the North
Platte" Kearney, it will be remem.
bered, received its solar plexus from
the boom later than any other city in
the state, consequently has fewer years
Of returning prosperity to show in
these figures. The railroad situation
has been to the advantage Of Grand
Island in the triangular contest for
first place in the central part Of the
state. Hastings and Kearney, espe-
cialIy Kearney, are now hopeful that
this advantage will soon be equalized
by the proposed Platte river main line
Of the Burlington. Each Of these
three cities is confident of gaining and
holding first place. Beatrice is in this
contest also, although competing in .
different way and in a territory more
nearly its own. That it will make
steady advances along with Fremont,
as Nebraska develops into . manufac.
turing state goes without saying. York
presents one Of the most interesting
series of figures on the list. Twenty
years ago it had only 3.4O5 people
when the third cities" were claiming
more than ten thousand. Ten years
ago it quietly moved up to 5,l32. and
now, without saying a word, it shows
6,235 people and wins seat we'll up
in the city class. York can account
for ite prosperity easily enough, but is
too we'll behaved to volunteer expla.
nations.-Lincoln Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
CHINA'S ROAD SYSTEM.

Next to house building, food and
dress, transportation is the most inn
portant industry of civilization.
China has no roads and is only now
adopting railways. Modern China
may be said to date from the Boxer
rising of ten years ago. At that time
railway development WAS just begin.
ming. The Boxers tore up the tracks
and struck . tremendous blow against
railroad construction. However, to-
day one may travel from Hankow to
Pekin, half across the empire, in q
Pullman car, in one-fifth the time it
took to make the trip ten years ago.
China has no roads for wheeled We.
bicles, except the cart tracks in the
north, which are no better than the
worst of American roads. Yet it may
he said that CHM has . greater sys-
tenn Of roads than ever was developed
on this continent. The roads, however
are only twelve inches vide. They
consist of thousands and thousands of
miles of square paving stones laid in
single tracks, in the middle Of which is
worn single rut. Along the side of
the narrow strip ofpaving meanders .
foot trail. The rut serves for wheel
barrows and the trail for donkeys,
palanquins and men. The fact that
China never has developed the four
wheeled wagon for transport is not
proof Of want Of inventiveness or ina.
bility to manufacture it, says Harper's
Weekly. There are other reasons.
The two-wheeled carts of the north are
clumsy affairs, but the wheel of the
wheelbarrow proves that the Chinese
can build good wheels. The main oh.
lection to wagons is the impossibility Of
maintaining draft animals for want of
grazing. Throughout the length and
breadth Of China, except on the remote
Monaghan steppes, one never sees .
grass field, and only along the bitches
and along the grave sown hills Is there
sparse grazing for sheep. donkeys and
buffaloes. All available tillable land
d required for the feeding ofthe dense
two-legeed population. This state Of
affairs might not have existed in the
beginning. Still, the principle Of
economy which underlis Ill Chinese
inventions would have told against the
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
THE KENTUCKY MULE.

A Washington dispatch says the
consular reports from South Africa
indicate that Kentucky mules are in
demand in that region. Recently one
hundred mules were imported from the
United States, and the lot was 90 sat
isfactory that the denizens of South
Africa are crying for more.
According to the specifications Of
the consular reperts . mule fourteen
and half hands high, of deep girth,
good bone and short legs and anywhere
between four and seven years old, is
good for something like $3.50 in South
African currency. Kentucky produ.
ces q large number of mules that
answer that description. Fog many
years she has been sending these long.
cared animals to the south and to
other parts Of the country where the
mule is regarded highly as a beast Of
burden. 1t is to he questioned, how.
ever, if South Africa will get many
kentucky mules at $3.50 per. 1t
might have been possible some years
ago, but in the vernscnlar Of the
alfalfa "mules has riz." 1t is not
uncommon nowadays for Kentucky
farmer to pay $3.50 for a good speci-
men of mulefesh or $500 for a good
span of mules.
In Danville a few days az" twenty.
four head of yearling mules were sold
for $17O q head. South Africa is not
likely to get any of these eligibles
when they advance from yearlinghood
to the four to seven year class. Least
wise, South Africa will not buy them
for $3.50 the animal. The Kentucky
mule is always in demand and KeL-
lucky can scarcely raise enough Of
them to supply the plantations Of the
south. IfSouth Africa wants the best
that is going in muledom she will
have to raise her bid-or pay the
freight, which amounts to the same
thing.-Louisville Courier Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
DIPPING INTO SPACE.

One of the greatest sources of the
fascination of the starry heavens is the
measurelessness of their abysses. The
ocean of space is SO pellucid that We
ssem to see its spangled banner, but
trigonometry is powerless to reach it.
Here and there only some projecting
reef throws . star-gemmed point with.
in touch of the astronomers sounding
line.
Such . spire, situated at . depth
hitherto unfathomed, has just caught
and arrested the spectroscopic plum.
met flung into the abyss BY the astrou.
omer, Charles Nordmann, who has
invented q new method of celestial
soundings. The giittering star.crag
that he has hit is chartered by astron.
omers under the name of Delta Librae,
and the length of the mathematical
line which now hangs between it and
the earth makes the imagination itself
gasp.
It is two quadrillion miles!
It is only step by step that one can
comprehend number like that. Two
quadrillions Of twenty dollar gold
pieces would make one hundred thous-
and necklaces each long enough to
embrace the earth and the moon in q
double loop. An express train travel.
ing one hundred miles per hour, and
never stopping, would require more
than two thousand two hundred and
eighty millions Of years to 60 two
quadrillions of miles. A projectile
flying 5000 feet per second, or in
round numbers $4,000 miles per day,
would require about one hundred and
ten millions of years to reach Delta
Librae. Light, the swiftest thing
known-the swiftest thing that can
possibly exist, if We may trust
recent calculations based IN the phe-
nomenon of radio activity-and which
can make the round of the whole earth
more than seven times in q second,
takes three hundred and fifty.fve
years to come to Us from that star.
Yet Delta Librae lies in shallow
water; it is . gem cast NJ on shoal,
and oil around it the mighty .leeps of
the ether descend to profandities I'M
thinkable. At ten times, a hundred
times, perhaps a thousand times, its
depth glitter. the star sands Of the
milky way. To our telescopes they
appear, to lie on the very bottom,
wrifted into heaps and curved by mys.
ferrous currents-but it cannot he the
real bottom even there. Beyond yawn
abysses so black with excess of depth
that the stars themselves, great suns as
they are. fade to invisibility.-Lincoln
Star
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
GALT'S GAG.

Under the bill introduced by Rep.
resentative Gait from Clay county, The
newspapers would be deprived Of the
privilege of criticizing a candidate for
president, except under certain limi,a.
lions. or the candidates or officials in
other states. Few will hesitate to say
that the proposed enactment would be
silly if it were not 80 serious in its
possible results.
In thus specifying as ridiculous this
proposed public act Of Representative
Gait of Clay, there need he no hesi'
fancy in disclosing upon what ini"r.
nation and authority the assertions
are made. They are based upon his
bill in the house, H. Il. No. 81, =
portion of which is as follows:
Section lit shall he unlawful
and ia hereby declared q INSIDE
meanor for any person or persons or
any association or combination Of
persons to publish or circulate, eth
or orally or in writing or printing.
any statement or statements in ref :
erence to the private or public acts
or conduct OF any persons holding
any public Office or OF any person
who is candidate for public Office,
unless the said statement or state
ments shall contain 40 an integral
part thereof in the same language
the authority upon which such state.
ment or statements is based.
If this law were intended only for
the protection of Nebraska crooks and
grafters, one would hardly be sur
prised at an attempt to secure its
enactment. 1t would provide occasion
for . grand barbecue Of political fine
workers.
But any attempt of those who fear
criticism in one state to protect those
similarly situated in another will
occasion resentfal opposition.-L.in.
coin Star.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
sTBOTHRR L COMPANY. Proprietor.

RkaEWAL0+T dats opposite yoar name On
yoaf papse. OF vsappsr shows 70 What dms yooR
sahsoiDe5oa = paid. Thns Jane sh0vs thaa
pagmsat - bssa received up % Jan. I. lS0,
Hsh0 % Esh. l. lSoG md % On. Whsa paymans
u nads. - da1a. vhieA snsvsn - . Fsosipt,
0lu b sAaa0sd seeoedinGly.
DlsC0NTMUANCES- Rsspoasibas slbsesib.
sEaviu ooafinns 20 rscsivs tAis 3oaEnal until tn
pahlilhsEs % notiAsd b. lsttss 70 disoootinna
UAsa III aDsaRa0os nnst b Paid. II yoa do not
viah - Jsaraal eootinasd for anothse ysar Il.
ter tAs tims paid for has expired. yoa shoald
Ueevioasly ooGify % g disontinns t.
CHANGE IN ADDRESS whsn ordering 9
shan0s In IL sddrsss. sabsoEibsess hoad b surs
% aisO eAalf old . cell % thar nsV addrsss.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18

In the County Court. Platte county, Neesaska.
In the matter Of the estato Of Hannah Davis.
deceased.
Notice il hereby given that the creditors Of the
said ,ereassd Will meet the administrat0e Of
said estate. before me. County Judge OF Platte
county. Nebraska. Ct the county coort room In
ON the 18th day Of April, 1911. and on The 18th
day Of July. 1911. q 10 O'Clock n: each day. for
the purpose Of presenfins their elaine Tor ex-
months are allowed for creditors tn present
their claims, from, January 3Sth. 1911. and one
ye~r for thu aaminiseFat0f to settle aid estate.
from Che 9th day Of llecembef, 1870. This notice
will be published in the C0lumb1s Journal four
weeks excessively prior to the 28th day Of JAN
uary. 1911
Witness my hand, and seal If sid court, this
9Th day Of December, A. d. 1910.
IsRAil JOHN RATTEH0AN,
39-l County Jud0e.
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
PERSONALITIES AND POLITE.
CAL FORCES"

A brief survey of the political con-
ditions seems to show that just now the
American people are much more at.
fected by personalities than by plat.
forms: Mr.. Cannon is an example; he
personi6es to many voters q bad and
despotic system Of party management
in congress. To be sure, the response.
BILE speakership has in it elements of
conference and party efficiency which
make it together likely that the pow
ers of the speaker will eventually be
restored BY the democrats; but Can
,nons dogmatism and arbitrary method
,of doing . right thing as well ~ =
doubtful thing are understandable BY
plenty Of people Who do not at all
coopreheod the parliamentary Law Of
Tho house of representatives,. Throu.
ebout the country, to . large degree,
IL fght in 1910 has been one of per
.ooslities. La Toilette did not carry
The Columbus journal., 1911-01-18
p,so.red For Emergency.

what makes you keep giving me
fish for dinner day after day." he in
quired. care You particularly fond OF
n"
NO" she replied Il was wholly
unselfish. read a lovely recipe about
how to remove n fishbone when It
sticks in your throat, and I wanted to
try it."-washington Star.