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CHANGE IN ADDKESS When ordering n
- chance in the !xldre-,Fnl-crilt'rs should be sure
to jjiio their old aswull as their new address.
It is'up to eonio sentimentalist to
write a play, call it "Cassie the For
ger," and get Cassie Ohadwick to
play tho star role, pro vied her attor
neys keep her out of the pen.
Tokio had sent ont a report that a
United States anny cflicer has been
assigned to go to Pork Arhtnr and
watch her fail. It may be so. And
yet, nobody bat General Stoessel and
his men know ;just how near the
fall is.
The small farm solves many prob
lems. It Rives a man good neigh
bors and better social and church priv
legos, it secures better schools, rids
one of the faired heln nuisance, com
pels more intensive systems of agri
cultural and a more intelligent rota
tion of crops, brings better highways
and compels the .keeping of only the
best grades of domestic animals. Most
men have too much laud for their good
and for the good of tho country at
large. Albion News.
The last hoiie of tho railroads for
farther rubbing it in" on tho people
of Nebraska went glimmering when
the democratic ticket was defeated in
tho Lite election. When they saw that
their friends wero defeated they did
tho next best thins and appealed to
tho courts. Tho republican party has
done its best to right tho wrongs in
railroad taxation, and now if the law
and tho courts don't back 'em np,
then there is something wrong with
tho law end tho courts. Lindsay
Opinion.
Edgar Howard of the Columbus
Telegram and Editor Abbott of the
Columbus Journal spent the day yes
erdav with the seed special and stopped
in Lincoln on thcir way home. Mr.
Howard was also accompanied by his
son who is a bigger man than no is.
The two editors; attracted attention
owing to the fact that thoy spoke to
each other and treated each other
with xespcct.yet they live in tho same
town, Jioth were enthusiastic over
tho project planned and exosuted for
tho purpose of interesting farmers in
growing better grade of corn and in
adding to their knowledge of seed
corn. Thoy believo tho railroads have
done well in assisting a project that
will benefit tho whole people. Mr.
Howard became so interested in the
matter that he was induced to deliver
a speech at one of tho stations where
tho epccinl train stopped. Mr. Abbott
6toodbyand prompted him." State
Journal."
And why should not two editors
living in the samo town speak to
and treat each other with respect?
There would be just as good reason
for two farmers to refuse to speak
to each other because one lists his corn
while the other insists on planting his.
We havo a verbatim report of broth
er Howard's speech, made at York
yesterday, from tho rear platform of
tho "seed-corn special." We are sav
ing it to print during the next cam
paign alongside one of his "corpor
ation buster" editorials. It is suffi
cient at this time to remark that it
was a very graceful, well worded,
two-minute speech, beginning with,
"Farmers, on behalf of tho Burling
ton road, which has done more ,
I welcome you," and closing with,
"Whenever you-want any information
that will help yon on the farm, just
writo us (meaning tho Burlington
railroad) at Chicago office." Ono in
cident will servo to illustrate the in
spiring effect of brother Howard's
efforts on his audience. An old gray
haired farmer, encouraged by the
appealing tenaeraess of the peroration,
made bold to shout, "How about the
Hessian fly. that is cur main trouble
now:" Quick came tho reply from
brother Howard. " I haven't time to
tell you now. Just write to our Chic
ago" office and we will tell yon all
about it. "When wo all retired to the
special car, brother Howard declared,
"I could have told that old gentle
man all about the Hessians but I didn't
knuw what he meant by 'Hessian fly'."
THE CABIXET.
Speculation as to the cabinet and
other high offices continues, but one
fact has come out clearly, viz: that
the president desires a free hand in
arrangine tho personnel of his admin
istration. It has been given ont
authentically that the president ex
pects tn receive tho resignations, of all
. the cabinet and chief diplomatic offi
cials in good time before March 4
True, such resignations should be
tendered as a matter of course bnt it
is known that some of the' incumbents
who have served one or two full terms
ore pleasantly pulling every wire to
retain them under the new adminis
tration. President Roosevlt has faithfully
carried out every obligation, real or
self-imposed that came to him under
te circumstances in which he succeed
ed.to the presidency. He is now about
to make the office in his own right.
He has been directly commissioned by
. tho people. He undoubtedly feels
: free and he has a right to feel free to
'-constitute and equip his administra
tion with a view to his own distinc
tive purposes, policies and convictions
pf duty. Lincoln Star.
FORWARD STEP.
The greatest agencies for good gen
erally do their work with the least
blare of trumpets. Since tha beginn
ing of civilization, the greatest factor
in the advancement of the race has
been, and continues to be, education.
It makes little splurge or splutter,
and the men and women who are en
gaged in it are often greatly under
valued and always shamefully under
paid, but day after day the good work
goes on and day by day mankind rises
further above the level of the brute
existence which is his natural heri
tage. The rank of a community in the
order of civilization can be most sure
ly determined by the efficiency and
progressiveness of its school system.
And one thing of which Columbus
has a right to be proud is its public
schools. It is a mattter for devout
thanksgiving that here membership in
tho school board is not a political office
and the men who compose the school
board are not men who are for sale
to school sunnlv houses, text book
publishers or other grafters. They
are business and professional men,
substantial and intelligent, who pav
taxes and 6end children to school. The
superintendent of our public school is
a man who is recognized in the edu
cational councils uf the state as one of
the foremost educators of Nebraska in
scholarship, progressiveness, indepen
dence, and ability for organization
and management. By the state uni
versity authorities our high school
is rated among the very best.
Physical cnlture is a part of the
required course in every up-to-date
school and college of tho country.
Columbus has a good high school
building with never a suspicion of a
a gymnasinm in connection with it.
Within the last two weeks Superin
tendent Kern has personally secured
from twenty-five representative citi
zens of Columbus subscriptions aggre
gating 500 which amount he will
tender to the board of education at
its next meeting, to be nsed toward
the building and equipping of a gym
nasium for the high school. The
completed building will cost probably
12,500 to 13,000, and in voting the
necessary funds for its construction
the school board will be carryng ont
a plan which has been emphatically
endorsed in advance by twenty-five
of the best citizens of Columbus.
It haopens that there is in Nebraska
a state law against selling or giving
liquor or tobacco to any boy under
eighteen years of age, or permitting
him to enter a saloon, pool room or
billiard hall. It happens further that
this law is a dead letter in the muni
cipalitv of Columbus, a good number
of our boys spending most of their
spare timo in such places. In pro
viding a gymnasinm. Superintendent
Kern and Principal Britell are con
fident that they are offering to the
high school boys an attraction which
will work to their betterment physi
cally, morally and financially. Every
man and woman in Columbus agrees
with them, unless it might be the
proprietors of those places which will
lose some juvenile patronage.
Tho benefits of this project will ex
tend to the entire community. The
credit for its conception is due to the
'superintendent of our schools ; and for
its execution the credit belongs to the
Superintendent and Principal Britell
of the high school, assisted by their
'loyal teachers.
BY THEIR FRUIT YE SHALL
KNOW THEM.
" We still contend that the revenue
law was the child of the railroad at
torneys. And now comes the Omaha
Bee, of December 1. and lends good
support to the attitude of the Tele
gram. 4 The only inference to be drawn is
that the railroads were, instrumental
in procuring the enactment of a new
revenue law for Nebraska in the ex
pectation that they would be enabled
to shirk their taxes still further and
unload still more of their burdens
upon the shoulders of other taxpayers
and having failed in thiB, they now
wish to upset a law of their own mak
ing.' Omaha Bee.
Of course it is not the province of
The Telegram to decide whether the
Columbus Journal or the Omaha Bee
is the best authority on the question
of the railroad hand in politics. We
suggest that our republican friends
get together and sing a common song
about this famous revenue law. The
present discord is painful. "Tele
gram. In a word, the editor of the Tele
gram believes that the new revenue
law is a railroad law, first, because
he thinks the railroads favored its
passage in order to diminish their
burden of taxation; and, secondly, bo
cause the Omaha Bee thinks they fa
vored its passage in order to diminish
their bnrden of taxation. The ques
tion as to who favored the passage of
the law has never been at issne. The
essential question is, how does the
law effect the pocket-book of the tax
payer? Tho Journal argued through
nut the campaign that the law hit the
pocket-book of the railroads harder
than it did the pocket book of the rest
of the taxpayers. The Telegram in
sisted, in the face of sworn statistics
to the contrary, that the railroads'
taxes were increased less than the
taxes of other property owners. The
Bee and the Journal are in perfect
harmony on this point, as shown in
the Bee's article quoted in the Tele
gram. Referring to the attempt of
the railroads to still further escape
their burden of taxation, the Bee says
"having failed in this, they now at
tempt to upset the law of their own
making". The Telegram bv assuming
the truth of the Bee's article, admits
that the railroads hare "failed", un
der the new law, to diminish their
burden of taxation, and this is the
issue of the argument carried on be
tween the Journal and the Telgeram,
throughout the campaign. ' By their
fruits ye shall know them," applies
to laws as well as to person. The tax
payers of Nebraska will not judge the
new revenue law by what the Tele
gram thinks the railroads thought it
would do for them, but by what it
actually did to them. We once knew a
young married man who insisted on
having his mother-in-law come to live
in his home, because he believed her
to be an angeL Within three months
she had broken up his "happy home."
The broken home convinced the people
of that community that the young
man was mistaken in this belief. Had
our brother of the Telegram been
rucning a newspaper in that commun
ity he would have written an editorial
in defense of tho muther-in-law, and
he wonld have introduced as testi
mony, the young man's "before tak
ing" belief in the angelic qualities of
his mother-in-law. to break down the
"broken home" evidence.
TRUE ECONOMY.
"Economy" and "short term" are
expressions that face the members
elect of the Nebraska legislature on
every hand. And they are not out of
place, provided they are construed
to maan the curtailment of unnecess
ary expenses end tho shortest term
compatible wilh the demands of the
state's business.
The legislature should be applauded
for cutting off every unnecessary po
litical clerkship bnt it should not hes
itate to appropriate every cent nec
essary for the proper maintenance of
our state university and other 6tate
institutions. The legislature will be
asked this winter to make an appro
priation for a fire-proof building for
the State Historical Society. It would
not be "economy" in the truest sense
of the word, for the legislature to
turn down this appropriation. Every
citizsn in Nebraska is interested in
the safe keeping of the old records and
relics that tell the story of pioneer
life in Nebraska. The old letters and
the Indian bows and arrows, without
which the history of Nebraska would
lose its tragic interest, are the prop
erty of every taxpayer in Nebraska.
They should bo gaarded with tho
same care that tho son guards thn
sword or gnu carried by his father
through the civil war. And they can
not be so guarded, without a fire-proof
building. Rooms in tho basement of
the University Library nt Lincoln,
are packed with tho valnablo histor
ical matter of the State Historical
Society. In a moment, lost by fire,
no amount of money could replace it.
The sentiment of the people of Ne
braska, especially that of tho old sett
lers, will not therefore endorse the
legislature in the exercise of tho hied
of "economy" that will longer expose
to danger their priceless biMorical
heritage
THE HOME MEliCHAXT.
The Journal has rejMatcdly called
tho attention of its reader to J he ad
vantages of patronizing the home
merchant instead of the mail older
houses. We havo not urged that poliuv
from a sentimental standpoini, bat
from a cold business standpoint. We
have urged that bettor price and
better qualities urn offered by tho
home merchant, and have invited
comparison of priced given in thn nds
of tho home merchant in the local
newspaper, with prices given in tho
artiBtic cntnloguo of tho mail order
hoube. to prove onr assertion. Wo
have never urged a buyer to patronize
tho home merchant to bo patriotic,
but because it is to his interest to do
it.
The same principles that apply to
the buyer, apply to the merchant in
the matter of advertising in his home
paper. The merchant should not
be asked by a newspaper to carry ad
vertising out of charity or patriotic
motives. If the local paper is not the
cheapest and the best business ally
he had to help him in 'his struggle
against the mail order honse and in
his local business competition he
should cnt out his patronage. If it is
not to his interest to have a good
newspaper in circulation in his terri
torv. one that is eagerly read by its
patrons, and that will give his offers
the widest possible publicity, he
should cut off his advertising support
so that the publisher cannot afford to
publish a good newspaper. A nows
paper is necessarily what the home
merchants make it. If they do not
need it in their business they should
simply cut it out.
Tho Journal will never ask for a
penny 's worth of advertising on any
other basis.
BUY AT HOME.
An article that will apjiear in the
Omaha Trade Exhibit of Dec. 24, ex
poses th9 catalogue houses in a man
ner that should turn the trade of every
person who reads it to the home mer
chant. The article says in substance that
the catalogue houses which secure
their trade on the representation that
they save the consumer the middle
man's profit by buying in large quan
tities direct from the manufacturer,
really have to buy in most cases from
the wholesale dealer at the same prices
paid by the home retail merchant.
The closing paragraph of the article
which is very much to the point, is
quoted in full:
"The true catalogue house, which
carries no stock but which, neverthe
less, does an enormous business, must
needs buy all its goods from the whole
salers and therefore it pays the same
prices as the retailer who liveo in
your town hits to pay. There are many
of these concerns which are spending
millions annually in advertising a bus
iness that people patronize. In buy
ing goods from them yon are not only
paying the price which you would
have to pay your local dealer, but you
are also paying enough additional to
maintain the advertising expenses of
the concern which amounts to over
10 per cent of tne total sales, as has
been shown in a previous article. "
COMPETENT.
The Interstate commerce commission
in 1903 heard 81 cases formally and 462
informally. They hired hundreds of
assistants, their total expenses a
mounting to more than half a million
dollars. Most of the cases were de
cided within three weeks after com
plaints were made. - Most of this mon
ey was good as wasted for the simple
reason that the law does not give the
commissioners' findings the weight of
judicial decrees. The opinion of many
people that the Interstate Commerce
commission is not large enough to con
duct the business thrust upon them,
does not seem warranted by the facts.
Lithia water was the strongest they
served on the "seed corn; special.
But the "most unkindest cnt of all,'
I
they pat us off at York,
COLUMBINES.
Wo can stand the music of the so
called popular songs if they would
only cut out the words.
""J" 2' -fr
Old Missouri certainly has enough
on her conscience without trying to
steal a chunk of Nebraska.
We are glad to hear that (General
Kuroki was saved. He is the only
Jap yet reported who didn't come
down from that hill on the install
ment plan.
We don't believe in the shooting of
bank cashiers that is, not all of
them but we do like to see a fellow
staud up and take his medicine smil
ingly when he gets caugnt.
s e c-
Colonel Dowie dog up a million
dollars in a year's time, just as he
said he wonld. If it is true that the
religion of a church is in inverse ratio
to its opulence. Brother, Dowie most
be considerable of a fraud.
It is an open question whether pub
lic immorality would be most advanced
bv reading the daily press details of
the Smoot case, the Cnadwick case or
one of the murder case. Failing a
decision of this question, the intelli
gent public will read all of them.
We Have no objection to suicide,
on occasion. In many cases it is justi
fied, in fact is a distinct contribution
to the public good. But what makes
us weary is these people who are al
ways tlueateniug to shuffle off, gen
erally to frigateu a woman, tu.il then
don't do it.
In answer to a fair correspondent,
as thyy ny in tho nmgazineN, we
won lit my that the nmin reason flint
we dnu't nipear in society in poverty,
uml the secondary reason is that tbis
pei'ies of colon I water which they
ladle oul ti vou under thn name, of
punch ( pn bablv bit ansa it is not
punch) !- t o strong for us.
When you lind a quiet, harmless dog
on 1 he. sidewalk end step on his lull
and kick him off the walk and cuss
him for having a tail to be htoniieo
(Mi. and ho veils and looks sorrowfnl
nd (l(inl.s)cin a hole, you say ho is
n cood l"tr. Bat if he turns nrnuiiii.
as any self respecting dog ought to
do, and bites a chunk out of vou, vou
would M-.y he is a mean dog and ought
to be shot.
2 H "I
Soma of the literary hiir-sphtters
nro kicking rocause Koosovelt prom
ised the people a ''tqunre deal" in
stead of tnrinir a more dignified ix
pressiou Uf course G rover would
have said "iquilable !i-pnmntion."
Ah Tliac.Unra? said, there in good slang
an 1 bad nluntr. mh! there are a whole
heap of p"oplo in this coatitrv who
cin't tell Tetldv anything about Eng
lish composition.
Communtins npau the rj:eut spasm
of virtim which struck tho municipal
ity of Omaha, the editor of the Butler
Comity Press opines that when a citi
z n can't spit tobacco j'nice on his na
tive streets, tins world is getting too
good for anything bnt dudes and mil
lmerv a.vertifements aud the stuff is
all off with us old-tinier. And, in
truth, if people wouldn't expectorate
anything worse thnn good clean tobacco
juice on tho sidewalks, tho world
might srill be not altogether without
hope. That isn't what givos lo!::
consumption or deprives them of an
appetite.
s ,-
Editor Sprecher of the Shcylei Free
Lance, having been sued for criminal
libel by the brother of one of his en
teem ii contemporaries, is moved to
remark that he is now confirmed in
his former suspicion that the gentle
man iu questicn "is one of the same
brand of d d fools that his brother
is." This, of course, is not very ex
plicit and might be taken for n com
plimeut. The unkindness of it lies
in the fact that Col. Sprecher doeE
not even concede to Mb victim any
degree of eminence in his own family.
Be first in yonr class, whether lowly
or great
That was old J. Caesar's rule.
If I can't be the biggest damfool
in the state
I'd rather not bo a damfcol.
There are many forms of woe
For us mortals here below ;
Many things that make a Chris
tian want to fight.
But the man whose road is roughest
And whose lot is snre the toughest
Is the guy who kicks the covers
off at night.
He may tie 'em to tho bed.
He may weight 'em down with' lead,
Pile 'em on until he scarce can
draw his breath ;
But the whole dodgasted stack
Just rears up and flies the track.
And at 2 a. m. he wakes up froze
to death.
Wretched man who single goeth
Through this life.and never knoweth
Of the joys of wedded life un
happy wight !
If he bad a wifey then
She might pnt 'em on again
When be kicks the blasted covers
off at night. .
It is very natural and very excusable
for a teacher or a parent to become so
exasperated by the cumulative cussed
noss of a cantankerous kid (note the
alliteration) that finally bv sheer force
of irritation he is driven to take a
swat or two at the said kid, merely
as a vent to his own deep and long
pent emotions. Then, if he is a man
entitled to hold his head np among
men, bo will make the following con
fession, at least to himself: "I realize
that I descend to the brute level in
employing my superior physical
strength to inflict suffering upon a
weaker member of the human race.
I did this because I was for the mo
ment hot uuder the collar, not as a
vindication of the great primal law
of Justice, not for the moral improve
ment of the victim, not as an example
to others, not because a polygamous
old monarch of a savage ago 16 report
ed to have said that to sparo the rod
i? to spoil tne child." We cun under
stand how such a thing might happen,
but whnt passes our cDmprehension is
how any man can deliberately and
in cold blood pound some poor
little sinner who comes to the scratch
with the fight all ont of him. with
terror and pleading in his little eyes
and fear and trembling in his little
bones, his little mind struggling with
the proposition that for spiritual and
mental guidance he must look to
the same source as he looks for
physical brutality how any man
among men can be a brute under such
circumstances is too deep for us.
Concerning calf stories, we wish to
submit the following testimony
which we will vouch for with our
life, our liberty and our sacred honor:
A Bohnnk farmer living near Bohunk
ville had a hundred-dollar gold piece
which for safe keeping he concealed
inside a four pound plug of Battle
Axe. One morning, after feeding the
shoats he discovered to his intense,
unspeakable horror that he had lost
the plug and with it the gold. He
was thunder-struck. He trembled
violently. The sound of his Knees
smiting together was heard eight
miles A posse of citizens was organ
ized. The search lasted a week. At
last suspicion fastened upon one of his
hogs which had always hitherto borne
a good reputation. And investigation
proved that the awful suspicion was
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rTWLrr7rWr'rirlfl.7f'iiif-'
well fomnded. The farmer hod dropped I ro to their respective homes and cot
the plug while ministering to the j some tnrkev and stnllinR. They otter
wants of the swine on that latefnl ed to mnko up for this host day Iv
morning, and the hog. being an in-' teaching some Satnrdnv. And tL
veterate chewer, had been unable to ' board in its virtuous might; rose as
resist the temptation. When con-' one man and paid, "It is not go ncm
fronted br the deputy batcher nnd innted in the bond. Hack to th Irt
cbarged with the crime, he confpsped. bors which we pav jon for ! Home
And indeed he was caught with the I tins aro not for coismon school temrli
goods. His breath Fmelled distinctly era.' This (as Macanley might jay)
of tobacco and closer investigation; not becanso the granting of tho re
revealed that he had a half-pound of quest wonld work any detriment to
it in his face at that moment. Ho had i tiio hools. but because it would give
chewed the rest and had spat $2 hills ' pleasure to the teachers If anv man
all over the half-acre lot. Heine a dares us rn do it, v.e will Fpeak tne
member of the City Improvement so- name of this town. Bat it is not the
ciety. he had refrained from oxpec- only one. Let a fly light on the man
ftnratinff on tha sidewalks Ho had ' with his six little feet nnd ho w.ll
preserved tho tags and had them neatly
tacked en one ear.
When apprehend -
nlv regret is that
ed he said: "My onlv regret is that
I was unable to accumulate enough tuL's taally buried an-l morally uiniunu
to get a premium, as 1 hnd hoped to fid. The doctrine that tho man who
get a Christmas present for my wite. blievH in thn immortality of thn
At least I natter mvself that my work -oul is thereby t'e'iarred from the
wns not quite SO con r-e cs tha tllorts plnvinc of euchre. t'i:ir t!r irirl vhi
cl that Polander calf up bv Tarnov. anew to n d.inre i u -p.'ial o:it-.
who tried to rhew smoking tobacco, that ho who tuke.- a il.i-u '-i g.:
These female crooks make me tired. I liquor wirhont any "yarbs" m it is
I have but one favor to ak and that a drunkard and a seoundrel these are
is that this unfortunato episode be1 ideas that belong to tho middle ages.
kept from the Columbus correspond-' bnt they are not linuted to tho middle
ent of the Omaha Beo. Otherwise I ages by a jncrfal. Of coarse, if the
feel that I am a ruined hog. " 'ranis bear pictures of Whittier and
E. P. Boo iusteail of spades.diamor.rts.
u anv
wl.n
LT
.or hA
says, "I am right and everybot
id wrong." is a savage, whether he
speaks of politics, temperance, relit;
ThAtnnat huftntifnl m-MrIa in v
man's nreed is tolerance. He who'form of amusement.
i. or anything elfe. Pnritanisn. has ' Mr the pastor o. tho church of St.
en the mock of intelligence and I Jerusalem ns having cured him temp
a practice of Ignorance for center- 'omrilv.of a dreadful thirst.then it be
ion,
been
n A TtTSl i av CMnnAnMn
ies. and the' end is not yet. There is comes a medicinal beverage end carries
a county seat town in a county ad- no reproach. Good Lord sen.I us eln
joining Platte, where a theater is cation, send it quick and send it in
looked upon as a workshop of theDalk- , .
devil, a dance as the summit ; of iru-i ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS,
morality, and a card game at the verv . A ,, ..
refinement of rrimn. NertlecB ml Donf allow ten cents worth of
say. the man who enters a saloon in business to start yonr ratt.e.
that town is thenceforth as ono de- Jump a man berore he has had break
parted. And yet these people speak fast if yon want a Gghr.
? S5SiB5LwSn?0fire WK?r Cluh?' ' When a preacher calls on a man. it
eat cooked food, have public schools. . . it .. . T -
and presumably read newspapers and i iS n 6,n that the man ls Pre"-V "c1
books. Speaking of their schools re- What has become of the old-fashion-minds
us that the teachera in this ea town that acknowledged a bello?
2SSWi2,,lKS5l0SS 8?: I We wish we were five and tho long-
Thanksgiving holiday might be ex
ssmiu Mou muuuA uuoiu luat luu
tended over the Friday following
Thanksgiving day. so that they might
STORY
0 GIVEN A
Seven nnd ur.e-Uiml ni'hivpa. ivnrv!;-.-n nollnlir, ! fllior-.v nh:trn:. iiv..rstr:i:n? ln . -on fr.uno. thr-o nniwins, rop?atin: action. in- II
ireo pednlp, foldm-; f.i!l-board, full panel swin desk, continuous nirkl hinges on Tall-bo ir.l and lid. i:iuUl-ea-ed liummor rail, nickol-ylated M
, nickel-plated nwial snard with rr:ulii:itinir tW.-iIr ml timet frnumtlW fii:inns!t(i vri;t--!ari!:. Ilei-'lit. ! fe.t, S inches; width . feet .j 9
i, 1 feet J inchej. Cae, Hungarian walnut, cross-banded, entered ard highly polished, 9
send us on subscription we will credit on-
cr this is a piano of standard make that, is ..M for fciOO bv- R. W. SaW mid I'uaranteed bv him as well a-- the company. Young
town in Platte county should have a contestant and the country should be represented. One stands a good a show as another.
will be absolutely fair, the votes boin.r uhwctl in a closed bo v. to ho oncnod onlv at the close of the contest in the presence of the
., , a L 7 ... -j .-
OXE
Namo
Address
In the Journal's
step on at least fenr jnst such places-
'cnnimunit ies that are
thriving, bnfc socially t
comnjcreiallv i
thriving, bnfc socially tieati, mteiiec-
. etc.. tnen UIO Kaiau towiium ..
I"' : t , ,, ir .,,
form or amusement. And if the
liquor is bad wniskey with a little
' snakeroot in it and a patent medicine
label on the outside, and is endorsed
ing of onr heart could go in a stock
ing. If yoa aro as mean as we are youl
'XSmCSSSBL
& CLARK
vote (o the youni? hi ly th:' you :i
ni-iv d
VOTE FOtt
S."1)0 Tiano Contest.
will bo awful triad whe:. th Leit. r
girls aro married olT.
Do you know anyone you conbl visit
ns long as two weeks without the
edge of ycur welcome g- ttintr a little
frayed ?
After a man gets so r.etl to Jhe
arrangement of tho furniture that he
can find his way aftr r daik, it is time
to move it.
When a woman is a bril :ind doesn't
know hor hnr.ban.l very v.vll. ?he ex
aggerates his illness, hut after awhile
he has to die to prove it.
!; is understood in A!'son that
all noblemen walk en thir .:eels. :;
iKibron i" Ginzbor doe-. That's u
way they have to shoving their ram:.
After paople pr.ss hfrr. a:.! !v-r.i:'
;ervu'i. tin o:i!y tliiair .' r-.T-rw
mi .i In'-iv is -v. : le- i- f : .-o i"
ii.iim-', whi.-:l s ai.il l.o:r.'.
If ycur Santa Clans has 1 r.d a hard
time setting his money torerL r dnr
im: his life, he shows a rtrrided oppo
sition to buying things :'.at r.ro fool
ish. Whenever a man sayn ho can take
guests ihibiu v. u
"
tyms hw womai
will !a pleased,
guests homo with him vithaut noti-
ru foils nu,i that they
the s!n:!o
s p.vssei
aronud. '
When children get ol.! encuch to j
nrav for their Christmas presents)
oven their mother thinks the Lord bad !
everything to do with it when their
father over hears them and grants their
prayer.
Cheap Kates to rolorado.
To accommodate delegates to the
annual conventions of National Live
Stock and Wool Growers Associations in
Denver, tho Union Pacific ban pnt in
effect a round trip rate of one faro plus
$2.00 to Denver, Colorado Spring?, or
Pueblo. Tickets on sale January 7, y
and 9, with final return limit January
.'list, IDOo. Inquire of any Union Pacific
agent or V.. II. Bcniiaji.
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Tin: COLUMBUS JOURNAL
THE OTTAWA
yiinder Corn Slirikr
Can do more and better work
than any other shelter sold.
Our uairons will not scatter
your grain whileon the road to
market or overtax your horses
v.ith needlrss heavy draught.
Buggies and Carriages
Ol- TIIK I.VTKSTAM) V.VJSr MAKKS.
All Kimlh of
I'AIiM IMPLEMENTS.
r .t- :in.l wk nur elort.
ovr before buying : : : :
?j ISlncksmith work nnd
ilorsf SJioriiii; done on short
::ol:rr.
LOUIS SCHREIBER.
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ATTORHBT AT LAW.
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Offlcd, Ollr.y Ht., f..nrth itixir north of First-
Nrtioni.IHnk.
rOLUMRrJS. NKRIIAKKA.
6. J. GftRLOW
Lawyer
OtKco oor
('(IiimhiiH Stnto Ifonk
Calumbiw, Neb:
fl. M. POST
Attorney : at : Law
GolumfeMs. Neb.
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