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There -will be "something doing"in the way of public improvements in Columbus after the meeting of the business men next Thursday night. "The Telegram prefers to believe that f resident Roosevelt is an honest Man." The president would have to go into "dry.dock" if the Telegram "believed" otherwise. In the days of our youth we attend ed a school where the teacher used to asked at the close of each session something like this:" WiU every pupil who has not whispered or communi cated in any way, shape .or manner hold up their hand?" Those who did so would receive a card of merit. At 'first most of the pupils were honest in their answers, out later some com menced to stretch the truth, and it was not Ions until that school had as shameless a lot of liars as ever gather ed under one roof. Some years ago our lawmakers in all their wisdom passed a law the object of which was to pre vent dishonesty and corruption in po litics and the use of liquor and cigars in campaigns. At first, like in the case of the school children, the po liticians were honest in their answers, which were made under oath; later they became more careless and this year in Colfax some lying was done that ought to make the men who did it blush every time they think'of the renorts of campaign expenses they wore to and filed. This law is help ing us to graduate a choice lot of liars. The remedy repeal the law, or prose cate the men who violate it and later commit perjury. An openly-violated law is always a detriment to public morals, and results in breeding con tempt for all law. Olarkson Herald. CHARITY. PROGRESS. The spirit of progress is in the air in Oolambms. And the people are breathing it. A canning factory; a paper mill ; an electric power plant ; a high school gymrium and public library ; a gas plant ; a sale pavilion these are a few of the things in sne Columbus atmosphere, not to men tion that greatest of all, the power i Some of them, it is true, will remain in the air, for aosae time. But the significant fact is that the people are thinking of these things. Ana what people want, they will have, sooner or later. The Journal does not presume to know which of these many enterprises will or should or can be pushed to completion first. Th hih school gymnasium seems to be an assured thing, and the Journ al believes it will be the vary be in vestment the parents of Oolmmbus could possibly make for their children. Those interested in the canning factory are working cautiously but in dustriously and with detemisasion, and the result of their efforts seems as certain as the results of the efforts of those behind the gymnasium prop osition. These enterprises both will take care of themselves. They are in good hands. The question of a sale pavilion, however, deserves more serious attention than has yet been given it. Columbus is as favorably situated, geographically, as any city in the state for large stock sales, and exhibitions. It is the center of the state. au roads radiate from it in all directions, making the distribution of stock and the attendance of buyers easy. Co lumbus is already popular as a sale town, as witnessed by the fact that uni onH lffrO&th of Glarks and The most amusing after-election joke of the campaign has been launched hv two newspapers, the Columbus Journal and the Geneva Signal, each having statod that it is easyjto see that the railroads tried to defeat Mickey. The joke will be better .understood when the fact is known that the ed itor of the Signal has been totally blind for ten years. Brotherly char ity forbids mention of the infirmity which led the Journal to make such a break. Telegram. If the Journal's infirmity is such that mention of it would be more uncharitable and more unkind than poking fun at the physical affliction of a professional brother, then we are truly grateful for this forbearance. The editor of the Geneva Signal is probably reminded often enough of the fact that he is blind, without being told that it makes him an object of amusement. Moreover, he is one of the brightest newspaper men in the state. STILL KICKING. The Journal has been looking, lo these many months for its contem poraries thoso who announced to the business men of Columbus that the Daily Journal would be an imposition span them to announce monthly pnb lications, to replace their weekly pub lications. The burden woold ba lighter, don't you know, on the business men. And you know, our scrupulous comtempor aries lie awake nights, figuring out how to lighten the burden of our business men. And when it comes to the honest tax-payers, they are said to dream of how, as public ser vants they should not accept more of the people's money for printing than they do of a private citizen's. Bat it's all a dream. Meanwhile the Journal lives on and will con tinue to live, not by political graft, but by preaching the doctrino of pro tea and enterprise in our city and by striving to give value for value to its pttrons, responding to the needs of a growing city for quicker adver tising, and improving as fast as its increasing patronage will warrant. THE MAIL MAX. Rural route patrons should not for feet carriers are human and merit some consideration from they serve. It is geting cold and the mail carrier must wear gloves while out delivering the mail, but when he Fullerton will return here next month with another big Poland China sale. And the excellent Poultry exhibition last week, with its large out-of-town attendance, speaks most eloquently for Columbus as an exhibition city, and for the enterprise and ability of her stock men and poultry men. But with all these favorable condi tions. Columbus is badly handicapped by the lack of a sale pavilion or a building suitable for these sales and exhibitions. Last week, we blush for Columbus to have to say it, the management ox the Ponltrv show oould not beg or hire a building in Columbus large enough, to show their excellent entries to ad vantage. So long as all the buildings are owned by private citizens, and the citizens do not appreciate the immeas urable benefit that comes to the com munity through encouragement of the stock and poultry industries, the de lopmentof these industries will be retarded. There is just one logical solution of the difficulty and that is for those interested in these industries to or ganize a stock company, and erect their own buildings. Enough would be saved in rent to pay for them in a few years. Besides, many more sales and ex hibitions could be.attracted to Colum bus, advertising our city, and stimu lating the grnateet industry of our county. Why can it not be done? brother's essays, it deals With condi tions which "the Journal has never found to exist in Oolumbs. The editor of the Telegram before writing his first essay must have been tarnndriown several times by some genial merchants whose advertising patronage he solicited and then re tnrr.nd to his office for the purpose of giving that merchant something free that he refused to pay f cr and give it in the form of a roast, roust. h .Tnnrnal has never run across a merchant in Columbus who has demanded "trade" advertising like those described by our brother and has never met with the difficulty experienced by him in dealing with Columbus merchants on "business rineinleF:" and while we are much younger in journalism than our esteem ed brother, we humbly bee to offer a few general observations which if followed by our brother in his future dissertations we believe woma strengthen him with these few "out law merchants" who dare to resist the hypnotic "spiels" of the adver tising solicitor. First. Always bob up smiling. Second. If yon are sore let the other fellow write your dissertation. Third. If you find a merchant who dares to advertise with the other fellow and refuses you his patronage, grit your teeth, smile and tell him that is his business." If you dream that he demanded "trade" of your contemporaries for his business don't publish that dream for dreams are seldom true. Fourth. If you feel like "eating up" a merchant for the way he turns you down, invite him out in the back alley, "eat "him up" just as any other ordinary citizen would do and after you then have eaten him and while vou are experiencing those pleasant sensations of a good digestion, go to your sanctum to write him up. Filth. Always call a spade a spade. If you have a measly contemporary who trades ten dollars worth of adver tisinrfora worthless "hound pup," speak his name right out. And if he trades ten dollars worth of advertis ing for a fifty dollar bird pup, don't mention his name, for the trade is to his credit, and the mention of his name might hurt your business. We have a few more observations appropriate to this subject, but we reserve them for a future article. Meanwhile we shall await with in terest tho second dissertation on "bus iness principles." PREPARE YOURSELF. Agricultural education is a work vitally related to the prosperity of Nebraska. Anything which will cause our farmers to become acquaint ed with the best methods of selecting seed for the various crops with those practices in planting and cultivation which have been found best adapted to the conditions in our state is cer tainly to be sought after bv our young farmers. If all parsons' engaged in feeding cattle were to become familiar with the principles of feeding, the appli cation of which made the production of Challenger and Challenger II pos sible, our live-stock industry would find its wealth double in a few years. Should a scientific knowledge of soil composition, soil structure and soil treatment become the universal pos session of Nebraska farmers, the pro ductiveness of our farms would in crease from year to year. The only way to bring these things to pass is for our farmers to insist on as careful training for their sons as is insisted on for those who are to be ministers, doctors and lawyers. The University of Nebraska is offer ing instruction which, if taken ad vantage of will cause Nebraska to take a place of the first order in the pro duction of grain and live stock. We are glad to see this work being done. It only remains for our farmers to avail themselves of the advantages offered. Ex. thocelwhom aasaBaaSaaasssass comes to mail box and finds a letter without a postage stamp on it, but a couplu of pennies way down in the bottom of the box, then he must take off his gloves and get down in the bottom of the box and fish out the pennies and then is the time when his hands will get chilled and cold. A rural carrier is no more obliged to do such business than is a post master, and his patrons should not forget that fact. Patrons should buy postage stamps and attach them to their own letters; they should not ex pect the carrier to do it. Attention has been called to this matter before, but the carriers say people do not seem disposed to do them this kindness and it may be accessary for them to insist uponpa trons stamping their'own letters by refusing to do it for them. It would be an easy saatter for peo ple to buy postage stamps from the carrier or at the postoffioe in large quantities and put the postage on the latter at their own home in a nice warm room, and then deposit same in the mail box. Schuyler County Her-nld.-(DJs paper.) SCIENTIFIC FARMING. The young man who seeks to be come a doctor or a lawyer finds it necessary to take several years of thorough preparatory training in a good college or university. The time is past, when it is thought sufficient that the young man's father be a doc tor or a lawyer, to entitle him to the sheep-skin. In fact, the law in most ntrAB rMiniras that training on grounds of public poilcy. With the farmers it is, or has been, different. Until the last few years, it has been easy to buy fertile farms for a small sum of money, and the rapid settlement and development of farm ing country and the introduction of the modern conveniences of commun ity life have enhanced the value of those farms to such an extent that the farmer who owned his land oould not help making money, regardless of his methods of farming. The young farmer did not have to pay interest on a large investment if he bought a farm, a few bushels of grain per acre, more or less, or a few pounds per head on the steer or the hog, cut a little figure. The science of soil culture, or of breeding, in grain or stock, therefore, was given little, if any, at tention. Things are different now. The young farmer must make profits on a large investment in high priced land. Com petition is growing keener, and prices higher, year by year. The farmer who prospers under the new ooaditiens is the man who can get the greatest pro duct from an acre of land, or a bushel of grain. While the experience of the farmer on his own farm, combined with the reading of excellent farm and stock journals, is much in this direction, it does not take the place of scientific college training any more than the reading of law journals takes the place of a law course for the young lawyer. And the young man of the future who wishes to suoceed in farming or stock raising, will find himself handicapped if he fails to take a course in a good agricultural school. The university of Nebraska, which every taxpayer in the state helps to support, is conducting one of the best agricultural schools in the country. It is conducted expressly for the bene fit of the farmer's sons. A special winter course is conducted for the benefit of the boys whose servioes on the farm can not be spared all the year. This course gives practioal lessons by experts on stock judging and soil culture and seed grains. Platte county farmers should a hundred boys to this school every winter. They pay for it, and then permit their sons to spend their win ter months doing chores and loafing about the saloons and pool rooms. Farmers, have you given serious thought to this subject? BECALM. The editor of the Telegram has commenced a series of learned disser tations on the subject of running a Mwspapsr on "business principles" in his columns of "Truth and Other Things." It is a very pretty little essay and the Journal endorses the most of it, although, like most of our A POPULIST OPINION. There is nothing wonderfully great about the president's message but it will produce a very favorable im pression. It was written to be read by the people as well as congressmen. It has the merit of originality and freedom from class prejudice. It says nothing offensive against the trusts, hat fthnws that in the issue between the trusts and the people, the sympa thies of the president are with the people. He was not elected by the support of any particular class, and therefore is under no special obliga tion to any class. He was supported by the great corporations, but he was also supported by the classes in conflict with the corporations, and for this good reason has a friendly feeling toward all classes. The president says as much against the trust and in favor of the anti-trust element as the people rould reasonably want him to say. It is enough if they have his good will and confidence that he will do his best for the establishment of equal rights to all. No president ever had a better opportunity to accomplish great and lasting good for the country than has President Roosevelt.- If he has the will to do great service for the common people he certainly has the necessary support and backing to ac complish what he undertakes. His message shows a respect for radical principles of reform far in advance of anything ever said by McKinley or by republican leaders of the past. The populist agitation for reform has not been in vain, and there is much in the president's message indicating that he is not blind or indifferent about the reforms advocated by the populist. There are good reasons for the belief that populist principles are on the way to victory and that they are working their way into the control of che country faster by the course which events have taken than they would if Bryan had been elected in 1896 and 1900. Cedar Bapids Outlook, (pop). THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. There is nothing startling about it. It is what the country expected. Mr. Pulitzer and Mr. Watterson must feel a great measure of relief to find that the president makes no demand upon congress for a crown ana sceptre, advocates no compulsory military ser vice, insults no friendly nation.orders no political proscriptions, creates no titles cf nobility.confiscates no private property, beheads no democrats, burns no southern people at the stake, and doesn't even repudiate the poor old constitution. We surely got off mighty lucky. Having dealt so exhaustively with political issues before the election, the president makes no prominent mention of them in the message. It is largely a domestic paper.and might well be mistaken for a collection of short essays on good government and the needs of our times, by Theodore Roosevelt, private citizen. One thing for which the average reader may;be thankful is that it contains no volum inous and incomprehensible tables of statistics upon fiscal matters. That is another point that was settled in the late pleasantness. For the modest dealer in merchan dise there is a world of oomfort in the sentence," Rebates must be stopped." when that remark is made by Theodore Roosevelt. A square deal, no less and no more. If the small dealer pays a certain rate of freight, the large mer chant must pay the same ana he shall not get it back by a secret rebate. The president emphatically approves labor unions and emphatically disapproves lawless acta by labor unions or any body else. He is of the opinion that we cannot have too much immigration of the right kind or too little of the wrong kind. He announces the same policy toward the regulation of cor porations as has been pursued in his first term. He covers the field of domestic problems in a temperate, equivocal way and in good literary style, expressed in the English of the people. FREIGHT RATES. One of the most emphatic recom mendations in President Roosevelt's message was that urging Congress to olothe the Interstate Commerce Com mission with power to enforce their own findings. "Rebates must cease," is the language the President uses to convey his meaning and there is cer tainly no ambiguity in that language. President Roosevelt took exactly the position his friends expected him to take on this all-important question and Congress will hardly dare; in the race of his overwhelming re-election, to ignore his recommendation. The transportation question is the biggest question of the day. It should not be made a party question. Like the question of taxation it goes to the pocketbook of every man, wo man or child who bnys or sells any thing. The railroads have been well called the "arteries of commerce." Through them flows the industrial life-blood of the nation. If the arter ies themsevles absorb all the nourish ment from the blood as it passes through them the growth of the body is impaired. The function of the railroads should not be forgotten. Thoy constitute the public's carrying agency and as such should be absolutely subservient to the public interest. But like any other servant they should be well fed and properly treat ed, to get the best service from them. Many years ago our courts deter mined the right of the people, through their legislatures, to regulate trans portation rates. But they also have held that Mich regulation must stop short of confiscation. In recognition of these principles the Interstate commerce commission was constituted in 1SS7 to regulate the rates of interstate commerce. Sim ilar boards have been constituted by many state legislatures to regulate lo cal rates. Both tho Iuterestate com merce commission and the state board of trapportation have been handicapped in the past, however, by the weakness or lack of the proper machinery to en force their rules and findings. When thev have found that a certain rate was too high,, or that discrimination or rebates existed, that finding had to receive the sanction of the court before it could be binding on the rail road company charged with the vidla- tion. The railroad could go rignt on violating the law, pending the years of litigation. For yBrs. the reports of th5 Interstate commerce commis sion have called attention to this de fect in the law and Lave asked for power to enforco their own finding!, placing the burden on the railroads to prove the finding unjust, and forc ing the railroads to-be governed by that finding, pending the litigation. But the railroad influences in con gress have op to this time caused the commission's recommendation to pass unheeded. President Roosevelt has had the cour age to "take the bull by the horns." It remains to be seen whether congress will dare ignore his recommendation, backed as it is by publio sentiment. The public will control the trans portation Question. The present plan, amended by the president's suggestion, will be fair to the railroads and just to the public. It is the only available, conservative remedy. If the railroads succeed, by a short sighted policy, in defeating its plan, they will run up against a wave of "government own ership" sentiment some of these days that will not only sweep them off their feet, but will work injury to the public. lios is preserved and that they shall be given every opportunity and ad vantage to build themselves up and advance in the scale of civilisation. Yet at the same time it is essential that the United States in its essential part as a protector of ail the indepen dent countries of this hemisphere should insist that those countries shall do their duty as nations and per form their proper obligations with re spect to the other oountries of the world. It is a perfectly legitimate de mand on the part of the United States, when assuming as it does a protector ate over the southern republics against European aggression, that they should conform to all the principles of inter national law and obey the principles that are reoognized as binding upon civilized nations. That is all that President Roosevelt suggests In his reference to this matter and it is abso lutely fair and proper. The idea that there is any " big stick" in his propo sition is utterly absurd and unwar ranted. It does not in tho least imply any hostility to the southern republics. On the contrary it should be regarded by them as a renewed assurance on the part of the United States of friend ship and support so long as they give proper recognition to their inter national obligations. This is all that the United States can ask of them and its position in this respect is ab solutely legitimate. President Roose velt has not gone in this respect a single step beyond what a majority of the intelligent judgement of the country believes to be right. Omaha Bee. CUT C COLUMBINES. fT POESGfTS 6andu Factory. Buy your candies at wholesale prices and save the middle man's profit yourself. Please remember that I will guarantee my goods to be as Pure and Wholesome as any goods ever shipped to town. I use no poisonous color as you may get in candy shipped in and what may have stood around for months. We make our goods fresh every day as sold. Best Peanut . 121-2cperlb Honey Pop Corn 121-2eperlb CandyBeads . . leperyd $3 will go as far as $5 will ..go in any other store. If we had had any idea that old man Carnegie was that easy, we might have floated a little paper ourseif. You don't have to say "limb " It is all right to soealZof legs and no particular disgrace to have them. MOMBrt. ' The employers nf labor are of two classes: the men who are good fellows to work for, and the men who make money. REMEMBER THE PLACE , ..POESCH'S CANDY FACTORY.. PRICES ON ALL CANDIES IN PLAIN SIGHT. COME AND & SEE THEM IN OUK wiwuuws. Cor Olive mmd 13th St rBuUUUUHiiUiK TH1 Yesterday's Daily SmmmmL Of course we would not question the sincerity of Brother Howard's re gard for the genus mother-in-law, tint it was oertainlv thoughtless of him to refer to her with the pronoun "which." If that herd of dogs don't shift the scene of their courtship gambols to some other locality than our front yard, we shall very iiueiy start a amau can ning factory quself, without waiting for outside capital. When you meet a prosperous looking gentleman on the street who speaks to you very pleasantly, and yon can't remember where you have seen him before, yet his face is strangely fam iliarit's a bartender. Just think what a mangy, blear eyed, hysterical bunoh of live-stock a farmer would have who would cross breed his stock the way they have been doing the European royalty for the last century or two. How many premiums would he get at a stock show? One chief point of difference be tween the sexes is that women would rather stay up all night scrubbing floors and ironing in order that they may have a bamboo chair in the east room, while the men folks would rather have a soap box to recline upon and nire a nigger to uo tee scruDDing. Yon oome across a community of scrubby little houses, and find therein one big, fine, prosperous looking house. You wonder who is the owner. Just look around for an individual with a hang-dog look, little fishv eyes add Poland China jaws, who seldom smiles and whose wife is afraid to speak to him. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICS. There is no matter concerning the people of the United States of greater interest than their relations to the southern republics of this hemisphere. We are as a people identified with the independent countries of this hemis phere more closely than with any other portion of the globe and our po litical interests especially are more bound up with them than with any to her part of the world. This was very definitely proclaimed when the Monroe doctrine was declared more than thirty eight years ago and the relation is still recognized. It is pro? claimed in the last message of the president of the United States and in terms that ought to be absolutely re assuring to every one of the South American republics. The statement of the president that ought to be reassuring is that this country has no land-hunger, that there is no desire on the part of the United States to absorb territory of any other country south of it. That represents the universal American sentiment. We want no part of the countries south of us. We seek no lands of the independent republics that belong to this hemisphere. On the oontrary the purpose of the United States is to see that the independence of those repub- Tf th Atchison Globe Siahta is to be believed, the meanest and most tyrannical man to work for in the citv of Philadelphia is that dear Mr. Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, confidential adviser of young tbings, judge advocate general of lin gerie, chief purveyor of refined senti ment, arch-deacon of the diocese of Slopoversky, etc, etc. We have no knowledge in the premises, but we don't doubt it. The man who is most maudlin in his publio expressions is generally the meanest man on earth privately. If it be true that the sev eral hundred young ladies who are employed on the Ladies Home Journal would enjoy the operation of taking one whack at Professor Bok with a hickory barrel stave, we hope and trust they may get the opportunity, jointly and severally. ATCHKOsTGLOlE IIGHTS If a doctor can't cure himself what must he thick his patients are think in e? A woman can always put her hand somewhere about her clothing and pull out a pin. The average woman thinks she is braver than her husband because she is the first to hear a noise in the night. It is usually found when a man shaves off his moustache that his wife always protested against his doing it. The tougher a young man is the more he tries to make people think that he has been deeply wronged in some love affair. A boy is old enough to be weloome in the neighbor girl's parlor long be fore his sister thinks he is old enough to sit in the parlor at home. Had tte old fashioned children act ed like the present generation there would have been no children : their parents would have beaten them to death. A woman never quite recovers from her indignation at those other women who embroidered cushions, eta for her husband years before she ever saw him. This is the season when a girl will decide to give pa a pair of socks and will spend days and nights embroider ing some senseless silk thing for a young man to keep his handkerchiefs in. After a mother has worried over her boy all his life to make him a Meth odist he falls in love with a girl be longing to some other church and for gets everything his mother told him to fellow her. Cheap Bates to Colorado. To accommodate delegates to the an Dual conventions of National Live Stock and Wool Growers Associations in Denver, the Union Paciflo has put in effect u round trip rate of one fare plus $2.00 to Denver, Colorado Springs, or Pueblo. Tickets on sale January 7, 8 and 9, with final return lisait January 31st, 1905. Inquire of any Union Pacific agent or W.H.BBHUM, G. Becber went to Silver Creek on business tcday. A. Oelhrich was a passenger to Olarks this morning. H. Hughes, Carl Kramer and Fred Hoare are in Lincoln today. W. S. Jay was in tov n last evenine, going to Lincoln this morning. E. S. Newlon was in Omaha, going dowayesterday and returning home today. Do not fail to see oar 8-foot galvan ized steel mill for S32.0U. A. DnsseU k Son. tf GOLD DUST flour, made by the Co lumbus ROLLER mills has no equal for staying qualities. Frank Baker returned home Satur day from Friend and will visit with relatives here about one week. CASH PAID for feathers from Geese and Ducks. Old feathre. half price. JOHN SCHMOCKER. 3wdw Mrs. W. H. Benham and Mrs.L. H. North will entertain the Evening card club Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Benhas:. LOST. Last Saturday, gold locket and chatelaine with "Eva" engraved on back of locket. Finder please leave at this office, and receive a reward. H. E. Baboock left yesterday morn ing for Omaha and expected to leave there some time today for New York. He is not certain how long business wilt detain him in the eastern city. Henry Robinson and his nephew. George Robinson of Genoa were in town Saturday on their way to San Faacisco where they will remain dur- in the winter. Henry Robinson is a son-in-law of Mrs. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Swartsley re turned yesterday from Olive, Boone county where they visited since Sat urday with Mr. and Mm, Walter Butler. Mr. 8wartriey was well pleased with that country and says the crops are as good there as they are here. A team belonging to the Soottft Staab livery barn became frightened at the train as it approached the B.& M. depot last evening, and ran away. They were stopped by running into a wagon at the Brunken livery barn, and no damage was done to either team or wagons. FAIR. The young people of the Methodist church will give a fair, Friday afternoon and evening of this week in the building recently occupi ed by the Swart dry good store on thirteenth street. Home cooking, nsndies. fancv work, articles for Christmas, aprons etc. .will be for sale. Peter Matsoa. who has for several months been engaged in the Kersen- brook&Burke meat market, is moving his family this week to Greely, Ne braska where he has purchased a meat narket. Mr. Matsoa is an expert in his line of business, the haadlinr of meats, and will no doubt make a financial success in the thriving town of Greely. John Vizaard, tthe Union Pacific dstMtive. passed through Columbus u. fa Omaha with the station agent for the company at Lexington, ft win hs remembered that some time ago the depot was burglarised and the thief could not be. found. The u. r. detective now places the guilt upon the agent, and was on his way to Ornate to bring him before officials. ART DEPARTMENT. The art de partmeatof the Woman's dab will tRtardav afternoon at 3 o'clock with Kiss Marion Smith, when a good attendance is desired, as there will M important business so transact. The program will be a study of 8aanlsh artists, as follows: Queatin Matsys, Mrs. McAllister, Peter Paul Rubens, Miss Bena .Turner; Mealing, Miss Alice Lath. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dec received a letter from their daughter,Mrs.H.A. Hansen, yesterday. The letter was written from Golf, California, a small town twenty-four mUes from Search light. Mrs. Hansen wrote the letter, sitting on the front porch. Search light, where Dr. and Mrs. Hansen expect to spend the winter, is reached by stage from Golf over a mountain road. Many of their Columbia friends would like to take this ride with them. The musical department of the Wo man's club will meet Tuesday of next week instead of this week, with Mrs. A. Heists. The charity committee of the woman's dub will be asked to meet with them, to make arrange ments distributing articles to people in need of clothing or food. Each de partment of the woman's club will remember the poor of the city in this manner. The charity committee is composed of the following ladies: First ward, Miss Clara Jacobean; Sec ond ward Mrs.A.Ueiatz, Third ward. Mrs. S. A. Briadley. James Donlaa, who answers to the le of "Happy Jim" and "Honest Jim,"savs he is 42 years old. although he looks sixty. He also says that his home is in Hamilton county. 12 miles from Hastings. He admitted in police oourt Monday that he had been pick ing, corn in Wayne and Stanton coun ties. He came to Columbus Thursday with S43 and admits that he had a pretty good run for his money. Officer Schack found him Saturday night talking to some snow birds and took him into custody. He plead guilty to "plain drunk" and had money enough to pay a fine of one dollar and costs. He also admitted that he guessed he never wonld get old enough to learn. For Sale. Cylinder corn shelter is gaod repair. Complete with exten sion feed. Wrin & Sons. 1 1th St., Colamlms, Neb. Boosters for Sale. Twenty Thoroughbred, Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Roosters for sale. John Marolf, Leigh, Nebr., Route 1. BEST MEDICINE WOMEN OTTAWA Cylinder Corn Shelter Can do more and better work than any other sheller sold. Our wagons will not scatter your grain whileon the road to market or overtax your horses with needless heavy draught. Buggies aid Carriages OP THE LATEST AND DEST MAKES. All Kind of FARM IMPLEMENTS. Come and look our stock over before buying : : : : If you are nervous and tired out continually you could have no dearer waning of the approach of serious female trouble. Do not wait until you suffer uu bearable paia before you seek treat meat. You need Wine of Cardui now just as much as if the trouble were more developed and the tor turing pains or aisoraerea men struation, bearing down pains, knmrrhnM. ttarkarliA and npd ache were driving you to the un failing relief that Wine of Cardui has brought hundreds of thousands nf vnn snd mil hrinv toil. Wine of Cardui will drive out all trace of weakness and banian wmn anella hMjlarhit aad hade ache and prevent the symptoms HUB 4IUWII UBTVMqMaBJ UMS VWB- geroos troubles that will he hard check. 8ecnmail.00bottleof Wise of Cardui today. If your dealer does not keep it, send the vnnnov ii Am Tad tea' Aiivianrr Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tean., and the medicine will be seat you. WME& GARDttU narBlacksmith work and Horse Shoeing done 011 short notice. LOUIS SCHREIBER. THE FIRE IS NEVER OUT IN A COLE'S ORIGINAL HOT BLAST STOVE The comfort of getting up in the morning and dressing in a warm room is one of the agreeable features in the possession of a Cole's original Hot Blast stove. The fire is never out in this remarkable stove from the time it is set up in the fall until taken down in spring, and the rooms can be kept warm all night and for two or three hours in the morning with the fuel put in the stove the night before. Just think what this means for the promotion of health. Sickness usually starts from a cold con tracted in an unevenly heated house. Where the home can be evenly heated day and night colds are only a memory, and much sickness is thus prevented. Health, comfort, con venience and economy all go with the purchase of a Cole's Original Hot Blast. Investigate to-day. AT GRAYS D. 8T1HES. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Olive 8C. fourth door north of First NationsBank. roLUMnrjH. nkmiahka. 6. J. OrtRLOW Office oer Colnmbas State Bank Lawyer Columbus, Nub. for The Journal... Subscribe ONE FARE Plus $2.00 .COLORADO. AND RETURN Otuer, Coliraii Springs aii Pueblo. Tickets on sale January 7, 8 and 1) with final return limit January 31, 19U5. Be sure your ticket reads via Union Pacific The Popular Boute to Colorado. Shortest line. Fastest Time W. II. BENHAM, Agent. '.-II Lv.-" -r ;'"-. 1 "arxmi 1