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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-03-01
LINCOLN SECONDS WIN.

The Lincoln second basketball
team won from the Queen Anne
seconds las, night by a score OF 80
to 20 Here IL the lineup.
Queen Anne IInroln
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-03-01

dontally the alderman be packs IN
the other. u u wasn't for the towel
bound tightly over hts shoulders
more adipose would be apparent
Mccoy went three rounds with Jack
o'Brien. and did so well be decided
90 re-enter the ring TO pay for the
eats. tie kicks 10 some night In
the near future az o'Brien's club
with some more or less healthy
heavYwelghi
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
BLACK CATS III BIG DEMAND
Fur 10 Used in Making Ladies' Cioaks,
Hats, Muffs, Capes and
Other Articles.

The market value of black cats is
'ising rapidly. owing to the fact that
heir fur is greatly in demand for
The making of ladies' cloaks, hats,
NUTS. cares and other articles Of
dress. In the London fur market at.
:ractive prices are being paid for
black cat skins: in fact. the price is so
very attractive that organized gangs
Of cat thieves are going from town
70 town on the south coast of England
In search of dusky felines.
Within the past week or two the
Lost" columns of newspapers in
New York and elsewhere have record
ed the disappearance Of some fine
black cats. family pets, for the re-
turn of which large rewards and no
questions asked" were offered. OF
course there may be no connection
between the increasing value of black
rats and the disappearance Of family
pets. but the owners Of black cats
may be acting wisely in keeping an
eye on "TOpsy" or Smut until the
market price for black cat fur touches
rock bottom.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
EVEN THE GERMANS.

On the evening before the last solar
eclipse in Germany the colonel Of a
regiment sent for The sergeants and
said: There will be no eclipse of the
sun tomorrow. The regiments will
meet ON the parade ground in undress.
I will come and explain the eclipse
before drill. If the day is cloudy, the
men will meet in the drill shed, as
usual" Thereupon the sergeants
drew up the following order of the
day: Tomorrow morning, by order
of the colonel, there will be an eclipse
of the sun. The regiment will assem-.
bic ON the parade ground, where the
colonel will come and superintend the
eclipse in person. If the sky is
cloudy, the eclipse will take place in
the drill she'd" From the Christian
Register.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
A Oionifled Function.

George AIDE was out walking with q
guide in Kioto. japan. when he oh.
served a great procession approach.
ing. and he paused while It passed.
The people wore gay apparel. and
carried banners with Japanese inscrip.
lions. Their faces were grave. They
were mournfully chanting to the &C
compartment Of tomtoms. cymbals
and drums. It was a long procession.
Ade took of his hat with due respect
to the unknown dead. Finally he
turned to his guide and asked:
"Buddha?"
The guide shook his head.
"Shinto?" inquired Ade.
Again the guide shook his head.
WAS not that funeral process
sion?" asked Ade.
NO" said the guide. That's the
way of advertising 1t is tooth powder
for sale."-The Sunday Magazine.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19

What prospect is there that Re-
publican administration will, Oh the
eve Of a national campaign, agree to a
trade deal which admits free every
important manufacture from Canada
with no corresponding concession to
American manufactures and that too,
in the face of the probability that IN
der the favored nation clause the free
admission would extend to all other
manufacturing nations?
And what prospect is there that a
great body of PrOtectionists in a Re
publican Senate will sit quietly by
while this free admission of Canadian,
if not world, manufactures is being
added to the Canadian deal without
having some amendments of their own
calculated to fully counlerbalance the
situation? Des Moines Register and
Leader.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
LATEST MODEL W0RKAB0UT
Farmer Creates Some Excitement by
Appearing on Streets With Rig
Of Own invention.

Walter Lanfair, a farmer living on
Dewey street, latham. created some
excitement by riding through the town
In "workabout" of his own invention.
It consisted of q body placed on four
rubber tired wheels with a single seat
on which he rode This rig was pro-
PEELED by the occupant working his
arms back and forth after the manner
Of a person on a hand car. and that
was the only apparent source Of pow
er in the movement Of the work
about" There was a sort of gear
arrangement under the body of the rig.
but just to what extent It operated
was not visible to the onlooker. Mr..
Lanfair coasted down hills and seemed
to experience no difficulty in climbing
others. SO that the machine worked to
both ways. At all events
he was the envy Of a small army OF
school children who ran after him and
his "workabout" until he disappeared
over the hill.-Springfield Republican.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
Vacations for Cattle.

In western Australia one farmer
NAV he heard to inquire Of another
whether he has as yet sent his cattle
on their vacation. and what Is meant
ia inst what is asked Those farmers
who live anywhere near the coast
and in Australia near" might mean
a distance that would startle dwellers
In other lands-send their cattle for
a month or six weeks holiday at the
seashore each summer. The change
OF air and food is said to be extreme
" beneficial. The grass on the coast
is impregnated with salt and has the
effect Of a tonic on the animals
Harper's Weekly.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
WHEN UNCLE SAM BUYS
CLOTH.

The men of the United States army
come nearer knowing to a certainty
what they are buying in the way Of
cloth than do any other consumers in
the country, says Mary Heaton Worse
in success Magazine. When the gov.
eminent gives out a dollar
contract, it sees to it that it gets ma.
terial according 70 specification. The
specific contracts for various sorts of
cloth are elaborate aud go into the
technical side of the matter; the num-
Der of threads to be used to the yard,
the kink of wool to be used in the
manufacture-for the United States
soldier has to be we'll dressed in clothes
that will stand the strain of weather
and of work. On Governors island,
New York city, there is a testing la
boratory for cloth. a specification of
the weight per linear yard of each
kind Ofcloth is mentioned; each bolt
Of goods is weighed, and if it falls
short of the proper weight it Is thrown
out. Next the question of wear and
tear is considered and again the
specification is stated that each special
kind of cloth will stand a strain of so
many pounds to the inch work way
and so many pounds to the inch filling
way. So after weighing. thu next test
is to cut a sample and try in a ma.
chine the strength of the cloth. Ifit
won't stand this test the cloth is thrown
out.
After the cloth has been pronounced
perfect for weight and strength, the
dye tests are made; it must stand two
acid tests for perspiration and the
material must stand boiling for ten
minutes in q certain soap solution,
showing that it will stand washing
with strong alkalies; and finally comes
the weather test, the material being
exposed thirty days on the roof with
out changing color appreciably. IfI
The cloth has passed its examinations |
successfully, each yar,l Of each piece |
IF cloth is inspected. being run over
for the purpose, while in
'pectors watch for any imperfections
n the weave. An eighth O: a yard
or each imperfection is charged to the
So when the cloth il finally sent to
he contractor 10 be made into uni
orms, it is known to be Of really good
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
CUMNiINS AS A GUTTER.

Senator Cummins, in . speech al
Des Moines, has declared his aversion
to reciprocity with Cansds, has criti'
cised the pending agreement and has
censured the President for making it.
The chief reason for his objections
is that under the most favored nation
clause in all our commercial treaties
We might have to reduce Tariff rates
on their products as well as Canada's!
That is the Cummins reason as given
by Cummins.
If the result were to be what Mr..
Cummins says it would be, Mr.. Cum.
minis ought to be the last to object.
He ought to welcome it with glad
smiles and open arms. And If he
were a sincere man he would prepare
even now to do 50.
For years Senator Cummins has
been roaring against the Tariff rates
as "too high" For years he has been
screaming from Chautauqua platforms
against the Regular Republicans as
men of sin because they had not re-
duced the cost of living.
Well, here's the thing to do. Here's
a proposal really to reduce the cost Of
living. And if it should extend its
operations from Canadian to other
products, then the Tariff is SO much
more reduced and with it the cost of
living according to Cummins.
This ought to he just what Senator
Cummins wants. 1t is what be has
said for years he wanted. But does
he hail it with joy, receive it with
thanksgiving and hasten to do his part
to enact it into law?
He does not! He backs away from
it. He deprecates it. He circles
around as if he were looking for a
chance to give it fatal blow. He
gives it a kick whenever he thinks no
one is looking! The minute Tariff re-
duction is offered him, he ceases to
whoop for il.
Senator Cummins' conduct is, Of
course, characteristic Of the hypocrisy
and moral cowardice of the typical
Insurgent, who is always roaring for
anything that he thinks may get him
a job, but is always against it when it
comes, if it threatens his job.-Chica-
60 Inter. Ocean.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
altferlv Oisappojnted,

Here's a story in the weeks annals
of Maine merchants. this time from
Portland. A Portland tradesman was
visited by a friend from the country
and among attempts to entertain took
the visitor to the theater. When the
lights were low the merchant quietly
drew forth a pair Of opera glasses
and handed them to his guest. A con-
tented "Ah" slipped from the man
from, the country and then his arms
in the air were family discernible.
whats the trouble?" asked the host.
The answer came in a distressingly
plain whisper Of disappointment: oh.
nothing, only the things empty.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19

Congressman Lindberg once more
comes into prominence before his con-
stituency ofthe sixth district by tax
ing a decided stand against the Cana
dian reciprocity bill. He declares
himself very emphatically in the
speech he made recently in the House
regarding the terms Of the proposed
Tariff revision. He decries the dis
tinction that this bill makes between
pig and pork, wheat and flour, lumber
in the rough and articles manufactur-
ed from lumber, and many other arti-
cles of like nature in which there is
. gross discrimination in favor of
everything that is controlled by a
trust.-Menahgs MINI. Herald.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
TOO MUCH LAW.

In lawsuit just ended the argu-
ment of one attorney contained Ca, 900
words and consumed 53 IL hours in
delivery.
There will be admiration in legal
circles over this brilliant effort, yet a
layman is likely to take another view
oft. In all litigation one party is
right and the other wrong. Why
should it be necessary to have so
many laws on the statute books that
the rights Of case cannot be de-
termined without the loss of SO much
valuable time?
Many of our present laws are not
accommodating either plaintiffs or de-
PENDANTS, for under them there are
long and expensive delays and in the
end justice may be blinded. Before
the long delayed trials witnesses may
have disappeared, and worse still per-
jured, testimony may have been man.
ufactured.
What is desirable is more Justice
and fewer laws. Lawmakers and
members of bar associations who will
cooperate to remedy the present evil
condition surrounding legal proceed
iDgs will deserve and receive the graf
itude of the public.-Boston Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19

Gould was doing and undertook to
buy all the stock that he sold. They
did and cornered him in Western
Union, but he wriggled out and en-
gagged one Of the bear conspirators to
help him buy control Of the stock at
terward. At another time Work was
one of q committee Of men called in by
Jay Gould to see the contents Of his
strong box and satisfy themselves
that he was solvent, though allegs.
tions to the contrary were being open
" made.-New York Post.
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ALL HONOR TO THE HORSE

ALL HUNK IL HE hOkSE.
When Bill and Mary, the William
Allen White youngsters, began to
grow upit was decided that the family
needed horse. "No Nancy Hanks
that can do mile in 2:O4 is wanted"
Mr.. Whites advertisement read. "All
that is necessary is that the animal
have leg on each Gifts four corners,
and that it be SO gentle that the chill.
dren can play teeter totter over it
when it is not pulling the buggy"
"O!d Tom" qualified, and since the
Whites have owned him, the original
fireless. cooker horse" as Mr.. White
called him, has becomc one of the
landmarks of the town.
The assessor came around and
among the items Of personal property
Mr.. White declared was zone horse,
value one hundred dollars" The as.
SCISSOR looked astnnished. "YOu don't
mean to tell me-" he said, that you
are putting in the old nag you drive
town at one hundred DOLLAR!
Let's make it fifteen; even then I'll
feel the county is skinning you"
"What," MIR. White returned, em.
phatically, assess that versatile horse
1t fifteen dollars? I'd he ashamed to
look him in the face. Success Maya
zine.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
NOT A PLEASING PROSPECT.

NOT A PLEASING PROSPECT.
The Free!Trade newspapers of the
country are in high glce over the pro-
spect of an all summer campaign Of
Tariff ripping in the special congress
sional session which the Insurgent
Democratic alliance has forced upon
the country.
The New York Evening Post, which
has about as much respect for Tariff
schedule as thirsty Sioux Indian has
for a glass of mineral water, is busily
engaged in codding the Democratic
congressional leaders and making
suggestions for a working program"
Says the Evening Post:
This should have Is its first item the
speedy enactment of the trade agree.
ment with Canada. For this purpose
the extra session is called by the
president, and the Democrats Of the
House should pass the bill at As early
a date as possible and send it to the
Senate without amendment or rider"
of any kind. To amend it is, of course,
to defeat it; while to fasten some
other measure or measures to it to
cover up the naked issue. The De-
mOcrats should make haste to accept
the Canadian offer intact, first, because
public sentiment demands il; second,
because they are committed to it, and.
third, because it is the shrewdest thing
they can do politically. They saw
last month how like q sword thrust in
to the vitals of the Protectionist party
is this arrangement with Canada for
free trade. What could be sOunder
party policy than for the Democrats to
drive it home? Certainly it will not
be the Democratic party that will
suffer in the eyes Of the country if
President Taft has to depend upon his
political opponents for securing legis-
lation which the Republicans are too
split up and too tied up to give him.
Then after "clear and prompt action"
on the Canadian reciprocity issue the
New York paper, while not disposed
to the wiping of all Tariff schedules
out of existence-right now-never-
theless feels that the "wOolen schedule"
and the cotton schedule" and the
schedules relating to the necessities
of life" might we'll receive the con-
sideratiOn of the statesmen who are to
assemble in early April.
On with the dance. The Chautau.
qua platform has been laundering for
just such an upheaval as is here con-
for several long and bolster
Gus years. Perhaps there are a good
many people who imagine this will be
just the thing for the business interests
of the country. We are not sure but
that baptism of this kind of fire
would cure the present generation o;
voters Of some of the things which
seem to all it. There is at least some
satisfaction in the present status of
affairs in seeing the New York Even.
ing Post in such an amiable and
hopeful frame Of mind.-Des Moines
Capital.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
NOTICE To CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received b. the Eecre-
tary If the Board Of Education Of the city Of
Columbus. Nebraska, on or before $50 p. m.
April ~ 1911. for the repair and alteration Of
the Columbus High school building.
Proposals to be considered must b. accom-
panied by certified check equal to three per
cent Of the bid.
Plans and specifications for said work may be
seen at the office Of Wurleman & Grabe, Archi-
tects Columbus, Nebraska.
The Board reserves tho right To reject any and
all bids. Dn. =. II. NAgnAHN.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
Relics % Other Dawn

Miss De PeysteT. a wealthy New!
York woman who died recently, left
all her property to the New York HIS.
torfcal society. Some Of the articles.
enumerated IN her will have bean in
her family for 200 years. There win
probably be a room set aside IN the
society for the portraits and other
beautiful possessions.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
How Pennsylvania Boy Caught Can.

It isn't safe for the carp in the West
Branch to take a nap. Clarence Shat
fer, q ten-yearold boy Of Muncy Dam.
caught a 20-pound German carp ~
Gently by a unique method.
Clarence said that he was Walking
along the shore when he happened to
see the big fish sitting near the bank
asleep" He waded out to the flsh and
putting both areis around II threw Il
10 the bank. he says. and 1t never
woke up until 1t hit" After II did
wake up" though, he had q tussle.
but finally got it back in the field and
then took It home-Pennsylvania Rec
ord.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
Lace From st. Helena.

1t is pleasant to read that the work
of the St. Helena government lace
school has met with the approval of
her majesty the queen. Since the
withdrawal of the garrison a few
wears back the historic little island
has passed through period Of severe
depression. The lace school was start.
ed with a view to improving things.
It will be a godsend to tho island II
its lace becomes fashionable in Lon
don--LOndon Globe.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
HOW THE DUTCH GRASP
AFRICA.

What | saw year ago in East
Africa was illuminating. In British
East Africa the men who discovered
the country, who annexed it, who
started to settle it, who are governing
it, who have made it what it is, are
the English. But the men who are
breeding its future citizens and mas.
tiers are the Dutch! The Englishmen
there are fine fellows; they are doing
excellent general work; like and adj.
mire them. But as settlers they are
hopelessly behind the Boer farmers
whom I met, because they have very
small families, and most of them do
not look on the country as their per.
manent home. OF ten settlers of each
nationality the ten Englishmen will
be the leading men in the present life
ofthe colony; but most of them are
looking forward to going ''home," as
they call it, to England; only three or
four of them will be married, and those
will among them have only five or six
children. The ten Beers think of
Africa Is their home; each is married.
and almost every one has good sized,
probably . large, family; and, unless
conditions change, the future is theirs,
10 fsr % the white race in that part
IF Africa is concerned.-Theodore
Roosevelt in the Outlook. ]
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
MEN FOR HOUSEWORK.

A significant sign of the times is the
increasing employment Of men and
boys for domestic duties which were
formerly considered to be entirely wo-
mems work. Lately it has been grow.
ing more and more apparent that a
large number of women will not quail
ify for or accept domestic employment.
Women seem to want to get away from
household duties and fight side by side
by men, and simultaneously with their
revolt from what VIC must call do
mesticity comes movement on the
part of the other sex to qualify them.
selves for the work from which women
are now turning aside. 1t is now
possible to get all spring cleaning
done by men, and, low he it spoken,
the work is more thoroughly perform
ell than it has been done by female
assisted by the garrulous,
greedy, and none too energetic female
household srudge. Furthermore, lads
are now being trained, and with con-
spicuous success, to do daily work at
houses. They arc found especially
useful by dwelIers in flats, and both as
cooks and as ''housemaids," boys who
have been properly trained do their
work far more thoroughly than their
York Weekly.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-04-19
Father Of His Country Had the Grip.

Father Of His Country Had the Grip.
As the Father of His Country had
the grip 1t il not surprising that It
should run through all the family. Oh.
yes. George had 1t. Witness tho pro-
ceedings of the Lexington Historical
society. Vol. I. page so: And how
thereby no incurred a most vile
grippe. which his loyal subjects there
upon took to themselves. being only
too happy, so they declare. to share
even the infloowenza with the noble
washineton."-Bo Boston Transcript.
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material. Each spool of thread, each
button, each lining, each filing used
in the clothes of soldiers has its own
special test.
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manners are refined. Drinking for
one thing has gone out of form; then
every large and prosperous stock ex-
change house had its own little bar,
where men could help themselves.
Men came to Wall Street not SD much
to speculate intelligently As to gam.
bic. Whereas, now they talk ofsuch
sterile things rs barometric conditions,
the balance Of the trade, the gold out.
put of the world and earning power
ofcapital, as if prices might be thought
to 90 up and down for such reasons,
they talked then of the desperate
games men played in the stock mar
ket to make it 60 up and down. Was
the commodore digging pit for Drew
and Gould and would they fall into it,
or were Gould and Drew lying in am.
bush to surprise the commodore? 1t
was not 50 easy then for men to con.
ceal their acts, SO it WAS the more ne.
oessary that they should disguise their
motives.
When Jay Gould determined to buy
control Of the Western Union Tele-
graph he began with bear campaign.
Frank Work was the broker for a
crowd consisting of Cammack, Woeris-
hotter and others, Who found out what