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Have yon heard the small sweet
German echo of the Columbus Tele
gram? Silence is golden when you are
common burglar in somebody's
bomdoir or one of the Platte county
grafters.
If everybody could just be sure that
he would be exempt from prosecution
for his violations of the law, that
would mean anarchy. If only cer
tain individuals are to be so exempt,
it is nevertheless anarchy to just that
extent. In Platte county, therefore,
we have only partial anarchy.
The illustrated edtion of the Weekly
Journal is being received by Platte
oomnty people in exceedingly compli
mentary manner. Our office has been
fairlv raided by people who wanted
extra copies to se nd to friends. Thev
are called for in 'lots of from one to
twenty-five. Wrat we have left will
be sold to the first comers at five cents
each.
A member of the Minnesota legis
lature is reported to have returned all
his railroad pisses to tho railroad
officials who gave. This is a very
praiseworthy ast on tha part of a
pnblic servant who has to deal with
the railroads in a restraining or at
least a regulating way. But he seems
to think he has done such a great
thing that he writes to the newspapers
and pats himself lovinglv on the back
for being such a self-sacrificing patriot.
That a man should refuse a bribe and
expect a crown of glory for so doing
is a sermon in itself on our political
conditions.
One of the bills before Congress for
increasing the salaries of public officers
is that of Senator Gallinger. intro
duced last March, and is now in the
haads of the Judiciary Committee of
the Senate. It provides 75,000 a year
for the President, 15,000 for the Vice
president and cabinet officers 12,000
for the speaker and $8000 for senators
aad representatives. This last item
eeems about right, ltwould make
the pay of members of Congress about
equal in purchasing power to what
their present pay was ten years ago.
It is not really an increase so mnch as
an equalization, for 18000 will not buy
today as much of what a congressman's
family needs in Washington as 5000
at the time that rate of payment was
established. As for the president's
alary, that might be $100,000 without
being at all excessive, and tho speaker
could probably nse $15,000, and cer
tainly earn it. But better provision
should also be made for the federal
judges and ambassadors. Wo nope the
present congress will take the time
aad find the courage to attend to this
important matter of salaries. It is
aot for the public interest to neglect
even though economies are now desired.
T
SMASHED.
NEUTRALITY
Chinese territory is no longer neu
tral ground. Secretary Hay6 request
that the area of the war be circum
scribed has been rejected. The last
note addressed by the Russian govern
ment to onr State Department declares
that Russia will reserve to herself
hereafter, entire liberty of action with
reference to Chinese territory. Simui
taaeous with the sending of this note
a body of Cossacks was despatched
throuch neutral Chinese territory,
respected by the Japanese, and was
able, by this breach of neutrality to
get in Marshal Oyama's rear. The
Japanese will be forced, in order to
protect their left flank, to occupy neu
tral Chinese territory. Thus, tempor
arily at least, the influence of the
United States in the Eastern war is
suspended. Nevertheless, in the final
wiad-up. John Hay will be on the
ground aad his voice will probably bo
above all others.
ARGUMENT.
Q. Yoa are the Biene?
A. Tee.
Q.-The Columbus Journal has asked
yoa to answer two qaestions that can
be answered by "yes" or 4no" (l)Are
the supervisors paying more than the
law allows for the printing of their
proceedings? (2) Have two of the sup
ervisors drawn more than the law
allows for services?
A. Well?
Q. Have yoa answered either ques
tion? A. I say that the Journal editor is
fresh". He is not "dry behind the
ears" yet.
Q. Bat the answer to these ques
tions goes to the pocket books of the
taxpayers and they are expecting yoa
to answer?
A. The Journal editor thinks he's a
shining light, and he hates
Bat that doesn't answer the
?
I tell yon that the Journal editor
hang himself if yon give him
will
:h rope aad
0-
Bat the tax-payers don't care
rhe
he hangs himself or bangs a
half
of yoa grafters here in
Plal
Hang np, brother, if
t talk to the point.
THE HIGHEST COURT.
The Smoot case once more serves
to fill ap the columns of the sensation-loving
press, and the American
house of lorde is devoting its great
enegries to a consideration of the good
old question of religious freedom. If
the senate could only come to a real
ization of the undoubted fact that the
question is one of social morality
and has no more to do with religion
than with politics, they might very
soon get at the merits of the case and
save the public a great amount of
needless suffering.
In a country of liberty such as the
United States, a system of absolute
license in the matter of morality can
best be originated and maintained
under a the cloak of a form of relig
ion than. In the first place, our con
stitution guarantees perfect freedom
in religous belief and virtually in re
ligious practice.
And the Mormon system of feer love
very wisely chooses to hide behind a
bulwark of so-called religion.
Probably there is not a man in the
United States who cares anything at
all about Mr. Smoot's belief in tbe
divinity of Joseph Smith. People
have held much more unreasonable
beliefs and have 6till been good citi
zens. The real question.as the senate
and everybody else knows, is some
what as follows : A man who is a
high dignitary in the sect of Mormons
wants to be admitted to the United
States senate. These Mormons are
members of a hierarchy, ostensibly
based on religious belief, which in
dulges in numerous practices that are
opposed to tbe spirit of enlightened
civilization. Tee people of the United
States realize that one man could not
work any injury to the country, bat
these Mormons have defied law and
order for so long that we demand the
satibfaction of seeing them uncere
moniously snubbed. We care not
whether it be done strictly to the
ietter of the law or not. As Shylock
says.'it is our humor, and public sen
timent is tbe paramount force in this
country. The Mormons said. It is
our religion. They meant of course.
It is our pleasure. Therefore, in the
eternal justice of things, the people
of America have said in the case of
Apostle Smoot. It is our pleasure
that he be shut out from the temple.
The senate may nse its own methods
to find technical language and law
points which the newspapers and the
congressional record will duly pub
lish as the ground upon which Apostle
Smoot was found ineligible to mem
bership in the senate of the United
States. That is what our legislative
bodies are for to pat into obscure and
technical language the plain-spoken
words of the vox populi.
TWO PICTURES OF CLEVELAND.
Professors, like doctors, may dis
agree. There has been an interest
ing disparity of opinion betwoen Pro
fessor Harry Thurston f Peck, of Co
lumbia, and Professor Henry Loomis
Nelson, of Williams. rofessor Peck
is publishing serially in the bookman,
of which he is the editor, a work
dealing with recent American history,
entitled "Twenty Years of the Repub
lic" In the current issue he reached
Urover Cleveland. Speaking of him
as he was when he first appeared as a
presidential possibility, Professor Peck
said he represented a combination of
business man and unimportant pro
fessional person, blunt, hard-headed,
bruBqne. and unimaginative, with
a readiness to take a hand in whatever
was going on. His education was of
the simplest; his interest in life al
most entirely local. His ideal of re
creation did not go beyond the com
fort of the back room of a respectable
beer-garden. At the opening of tbe
convention at Saratoga which nomin
ated him for Goovernor he took charge
of his own canvass in person, sitting
in his shirt sleeves in a 6mall bed
room of his hotel, with a rub of crack
ed ice and innumerable bottles beside
him, receiving visits from country
delegates, and with a sort of a profess
ional joviality bidding for the favor
of the practical politicians.
So. Professor Peck. It is a cheerful,
albeit thirsty, picture he draws of a
6trong man entrenched. We part with
it with some reluctance, but Professor
Nelson says not a word of it is true.
Writing at some length and with suit
able fervor to the Evening Post, Pro
fessor Nelson chides Professor Peck for
accenting vulgar untruth about Mr.
Cleveland without investigation. He
points ont that Mr. Cleveland, before
he became Governor, was a sufficiently
impcrtant lawyer to be offered the
place of counsel to theNew York Cent
ral railroad. He declares he was easily
the first citizen of Buffalo that he had
been chosen Mayor.againsfc his wishes,
because the citizens of Buffalo hadto
have him; that his ideal of recreation
did far exceeded the comfort of the
back room of a good beer-garden
(through that is an ideal that has
been fondlr regarded by great and
good men); and as foi the tub of
bottles and the sbirt-sleeves on conven
tion eve at Saratoga, Professor Nelson
says the convention was at Syracuse,
not Saratoga, that Mr. Cleveland stay
ed away until urgently summoned to
meet Daniel Manning, who said he
wouldn't vote for a man he hadn't
seen, that he came to Syracuse in the
evening, saw few jnen while here,
and went back next day. Thus aus
terely cutting ont the conviviality
from Professor Peck's historical tale,
Professor Nelson leaves it, with regret
that so misleading a conception of the
early Cleveland should have survived.
Harpers Weekly.
EDUCATION.
The congressional debate on tbe
proposition to increase tbe salaries of
school teachers in the city of Wash
ington might well be applied to every
other community in the country. As
the witty and sensible Champ Clark
of Missoari said in the debate in 'con
gress, "We pay the Washington police
more to crack the skulls of our citi
zens than we pay onr teachers to put
something into those skulls." And
this is true of the . country at large.
More money is expended annually in
the United States for police than for
pablic instrnction. ,
If prevention is really better than cure,
ia the ratio of sixteen to one, then why
don't we at least try the expedient of
patting some seas3 into the heads of
oar fatare citizens now in taw hope
that there may be less room in those
heads for deviltry which will have to
be knocked out later with billies?
As to the merits of the argument,
there can be no shadow of question.
Generally speaking, while all ignoraat
people are not criminal, all criminals
are ignorant ; and it is a very simple
induction that purely intellectual edu
cation would lessen crime in whole
sale measure. But public school edu
cation at its beBt is far more than
mere intellectual training and "book
learning." The public school teach
ers who are really entitled to the
name are not only instructors but ped
agogues in tbe literal sense, directors
and guiders of tbe children in their
charge, mentally, physically and mor
ally. By the efforts of a real teacher
many a little chap with the seeds of
good in him has been saved from the
influence of ignorant, vicious parents
and evil environment.
The number of these real teachers is
painfully few. The average school
ma'am is tbe daughter of one of the
members of the school board, who
finds that the pay of the district
teacher comes in very handy during
the time that she is developing her
matrimonial prospects. Her chief
interest in her disciples is to get
them, with as little trouble as possi
ble, through the twenty tlavs before
pay--lav
There is only one remedy. Make
the salary of a teacher sufficient to
attract men and women of character
and intelligence. It is an old theme,
and nobody yet seems to have paid
mnch attention to it with the excep
tion cf 6cbocl men. But all social
progress is slow. Some day perhaps
the offices of county school superin
tendent and city school trustee will
be taken out of the (-lough of petty
politics, and county school govern
ment will be more centralized and
will ba supervised by men whose bus
iness is education instead of a board
composed of tbe three most iguoraut
men in the district. And when this
millennial condition comes to pps
we mav begin to look toward the dis
appearance of crime.
RAILROAD LEGISLA TIOX.
The beginning of the so-called anti
railroad legislation is reported today
from the Nebraska legislature. A bill
nas been introduced which requires
in the first, place that all freight tnest
be moved by the railroad company at
an average speed of ten miles an hour
from the time of its receipt until des
tination is reached. This is calcula
ted to correct the practice on the part
of the railroads of holding small ship
ments until other's are received suffi
cient to make a carload.
The bill provides secondly that the
railroad must furnish a shipper with
an empty car within 24 hours after
request is made for same, and failing
to fnrnish the car the railroad is re
quired to pay the shipper an in
demnity or "demurrage" charge of
one dollar for every 24 hours demy.
If this provision should go into effect,
the railroads would get a dose of
their own medicine in the matter of
demurrage charges. There seems in
deed to be no good reason why a rule
Bhould not work both ways. If the
shipper who receives a car must un
load it within twenty-four hours or
pay a dollar a day for the detention
of the car. then the railroad, being
a common carrier, sbonld not be
allowed to make the shipper await the
pleasure or convenience of the road
when he has goods that he wants to
ehip.
The principal benefit of the first
provision of the proposed law wonld
be to tbe small freight payer who
ships in less than carload lots and is
compelled to wait for the transporta
tion of his goods nntil other ship
ments are received going in the same
direction. .Tho latter provision, re
lating to demurrage, would of course
affect only tbe large wholesale shippers
who send out their goods in carload
lots. Of course the bill is very far
from being a law yet. but to the or
dinary observer it would seem to be
no more than justice.
THE RAILROADS FIGHT.
Daniel Davenport, a promient Con
necticut lawyer has been retained by
the holders of railroad securities, to
represent them in the prospective rate
legislation of the present Congress.
Mr. Davenport has already brought
some very interesting figures to the
attention of the promoters of the new
legislation.
He correctly assumes that all federal
control of rates will be in the direc
tion of lower rates, and then proceeds
to give figures to show why rates
should not be reduced. He says that
the railroads last year carried more
than 209,000,000 passengers one hun
dred miles for two dollars a head.
The total amount received for this
service he places at $421,000, 000, which
was less by $80,000,000 than tho road
expended on the single item of
maintena nee of way and equipment.
The disbursement for this purpose
alone, he says, absorbed all .their
gross passenger, mail and express rev
enues. Speaking of freight rates he
states that the railroads carried 1,732.
000.000. tnns of freight a distance of
100 miles for 70 and 3-10 cents per ton.
The return to railroad stockholders
on an investment which be places at
110.000,000,000. is said to have been
only 4 and 31- ICO per cent.
Upon this showing Mr. Danvenport
declared that a reduction of only one
tenth cent per ton of freight per mile
would wipe out all the dividends of the
stockholders, while the reduction of
another mill and a half would elimin
ate all the interest due to bond hold
ers, thus utterly destroying the value
of the property. Mr. Danvenport's
argument would be much more con
vincing to the American people if be
wonld squeeze the water out of the
railroad stocks before estimating the
"returns on investment.' If a Co
lumbus drayman were permitted to
figure in his team and wagon at $000,
it would be easy for him to prodace
figures to prove that "dray rates"
should be advanced. The main signi
ficance of Mr. Davenport's figures is
that the railroads are determined to
fight President Roosevelt's "railroad
program" to a finish and that the
present Congress will do mighty well
if it is able to ride over the railroad
obstructions to remedial legislation,
within tbe few days it has left at
its disposal
THE DIFFERENCE.
Q. Which is worse, a thier or a
grafter?
A. Neither; both get away with the
goods.
Q. What is the difference between
them?
A. The thief gets away with the
goods on his own responsibility. The
grafter on tbe other fellow's responsi
bility. The difference is one of cour
age merely.
THE AMERICAN HUSTLER.
The American miller is a" hustler."
According to an extract from a Can
adian trade Juurnal reprinted in a
recent number of tbe Daily Consular
Reports, the American Miller is reap
ing a harvest in Canada from oatmeal.
The extract in question follows:
"Several car loads of United States
oatmeal have lately been dumped on
the Canadian market. Unfortunately
for the Canadian miller this can not
under present conditions be prevented,
and has to be met by a reduction in
the prices of tbe domestic product, lu
tho United States therf has been a
bumper cat crop, while in Canada the
crop nas been quite btnall, so the
American miller has been able to send
his catmeal into the Canadian market
and, after paying the dntv of 4 cents
is able to undersell the Canadian arti
cle by 25 cents a barrel. Tue market
at prefceni is unsettled in consequence.
COLUMBINES.
if I were of tbe proper age
And didn't sing so all-fired badski,
I think I'd go upon the stage
And sing a few with Madame Gadski.
Long Lave 1 warbled privately,
Full many neighbors driven madtki ;
But name nor fame hath come to me.
While folks just throw their coin at
Gadski.
No longer wonld I weep or pine.
No longer wonld my days be Eadski,
If I but owned a silver mine
Or had a wife like Madame Gadski.
She's just what I've bern looking for,
And I would be allmighty gladski
To know if she's a wdiow, or
If somewhere there's a Mr. Gadski.
I think I'll send a telegram
(Like Pat collect) and ask berfadski
If to tbe arms of Abraham
Hath flown the soul of Col. Gadski.
I ca-e not who might wear the pants.
Just so your Uncle Feller hadski
One really good old-fast ioned chance
At nandling of tho coin, by Gadki.
Yesterday's Daily JearnaL
Miss Lillie Keating wax a Lincoln
visitor Saturday.
Misses Daisy and Laura Cash have
both been ill with grip.
Drink German -American coffee, the
world's best at GRAY'S.
Mrs. F. W. Farrand was in Lincoln
last week, returning Saturday.
Mrs. W. S. Jay came up from Lin
coln Thursday, returning on Saturday.
F. J. Millar of the gas plant com
pany left Saturday for his home in
Chicago.
Mrs. A. B. Tomson returned yester
day from visiting with the Tomson
Comedy company.
Miss Agnes Aabel of Omaha visited
her cousins, the Misses Rasmussen,
returning home Monday. J
Miss Ethel Galley returned home
yesterday from Lincoln where she at
tended the Gadski concert.
Harvey Slater of Ottawa, Illinois,
arrived here today on a brief visit to
his uncle. Dr. W. H. Slater, and fam
ily. D. V. Blatter, cashier of the Albion
National bank, is in the city today
on his way to Greeley Center on a
bnsiness trip.
SURPRISE Carl Becker was sur
prised by several ut his young friends
coming to take possession of bis home
last night, the occasion being his
birthday anniversary.
The four-months old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Laughlin has been
seriously ill.and last night little hope
was held for its recovery. It is some
what better this morning.
H. S. Elliott returned this morning
from Leadville. Col., where he went
to visit his siBter, Mrs. Andrews.
Mrs. Andrews, who recently lost her
hnsband, has decided to dispose of her
business interests in Leadville and
move to Denver to make her home.
Among the notable attractions un
derlined at the North Opera house is
Tom Arthur's excellent production of
"A Study in Scarlet"'. This is a dra
matization of the book of the same
Sir A. Conan Doyle, the first of the
great stories of Sherlock Holmes, which
have made him famous throughout
the world as an author and writer.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L Mnrdock were
called last evening to Wakefield Ne
braska by the serious illness of Mr.
Murdock's mother, Mrs. J. S. Mnr
dock, who has been visiting friends
there. Mrs. Mnrdock is subject to
attacks of heart trouble and she has
suffered two severe spells this week.
Her physicians requested her son to
come immediately.
OLAS3 IN THEORY Miss Ethel
Galley has organized a class in the
theory of music which will meet every
Monday afternoon at the high school
building. The class is started par
ticularly for the benefit of seme of
the teachers who wished to learn the
first principles of music. Miss Galley
wishes to announce that the class will
not be confined to the teachers, and
any who wish to join should at once,
as there will be bnt one term of ten
lessons given at this time.
The big musical comedy" Maloney's
Wedding Day" is the most talked of
attraction in the west this season.
Embracing as it does everything that
is attractive in the way of fine scenery,
exquisite costumes funny comedians,
innumerable specialties, good music
and above all pretty girls. Sheeley
and Youngs the veteran and well
known managers of this particular
class of entertainment have spared
neither time nor expense in making
this the acme of musical comedy.
"Maloney's Wedding Day" to which
cordial invitations is extended to all
will happen one night only at the
North Opera nonce on Thursday Feb. 2.
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ing the most votes from Journal subscribers before noon, FEBRUARY 15th, 1905. This
Piano is standard, it is not the cheapest, but one of the best grades made by Story & Clark.
It is the most expensive and best Piano ever given away by a Nebraska newspaper. You
have to see the instrument to appreciate it.
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une oi our merchants is selling Leer
ai iruiu o iu iu touu a jjuuuu.
At the regular meeting of the county
commissiocers held
Inst week, bids
for the repairing
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Shell Creek were cpened and awarded
to Hy Wellman for $175. Upon mo
tion of com. Early, the clerk was in
structed to advertise for bids to bniid
a bridge across Looking Glass ere ex
in roc. 5, T. 17, R. '' west. The
following bills were allowed : Wilson
Keeley, desk for probate oflice, $o.2rt;
John Browner, judge of election
$2.00; L N. Taylor Fix mouths t-alary
as probate judge, $37.50; O. B. Still
man medicines $30.15; W. Gerhelai
balance on acconnt Shell creek brieves
S202.20.
Married, Jnly 14, by ELlor II. J.
Hudson, at the residence of 11 Well
man, Robert Uhlig to Miss Josephine
Lockner, both of Butler county.
On Jnly 19, uucurrel the marriage
of Dr. Edward Hohen and Miss Jennie
Agnes Brandt, both of this countr.
Elder H. J. Hudson performed the
ceremony at the home of the bride
groom.
An Odd Fellows lodge is about to
be organized at Madison.
The Columbus post otlice is open on
Sundays from S to 10 a. m. anil from
4 to f p. m. Eastern mails clofo at
9:40 a. m. Western mails closo at
:20 d. m. Mail lea ves Colnmbcs for
Madison and Norfolk each Tccdav
6 a. m, for Monroe and Uenon. Muu
dyp, Wednesdays and Fridays 10 a m.
for Pepperville, Snvanah nm' As-a-land.
Wednesdays and Fridays 7 a m.
East Bound Wsst Hound.
Daily Express 10:05 a. rn. 1.2s ;. m.
Mixed Train 2:30 a. in. 4:55 p.m
Freight 11 :50 a. m. 2:10 a. m.
Colony Accom. 9:10 a. m 12:30 v in.
Genoa.
(From me tieaurr. 1
The Indian appropriation bill before
congress carries two items for tbe
Genoa Indian school for new build
ings. $0,000 for a new Ebon building
and 2,500 for an oflice building.
J. W. Flake, who has beenclerk at
the Indian ecuooIs for several years
post.deDarts the last of the week for
Washington, D. C, where he has been
appointed to a position in the Indian
office. Mr. Plake has made many
friends during his residence in Genoa
all of whom regret to see him depart.
Dr. Lowe, former pastor of tne Con
gregational church of this city, now
pastor of the 2nd Congregational
church at Lawrence. Kansas, spent
the Sabbath in Genoa. He came to
Nebraska to fill some lecture course
date.
Dr. Lowe preached at the Congress
ional church Sunday evening to a
large congregation.
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Having fiohl his farm and decided
to discontinue farming the undersigned
E i vill offer at pnblic auction at his
I place of rlnce, three and a half
miles due east of Platte Center, and
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teven miles north and two west of
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Eight head of horses. Consisting of
four Geldings, all heavy weight draft
horses one mare, a good single driver
and threo ponies which will drive
single or double.
Fourteen head of cattle. Consisting
eight milch cows, two fresh in Feb
ruary, one in March. One heifer will
become fresh in April. One steer, two
years old. Four yearlings, one steer
and threo heifers.
Ono hundred and fifteen head of
hogs. Consisting of 20 well bred
broGd sows, to farrow about tbe first
1 of Mav, and i 5 shouts.
Farm machinery. All the machin-
cry is about as good as new. every
I article having been purchased since
I the barn fire in 1!K)1. Here is the list :
f Que Dcering seven-foot binder. One
Ideal Giant five-foot mower, One Rock
Island corn planter can be set at any
gauge, One four section Pekin steel
level harrow, Ono Casday sulky plow
with two shears, Two New Departure
tongucless cultivators. One sixteen
inch Grand Detour gang plow, One
end gate seeder. One one-horse culti
vator for orchard use. One heavy
Hodges Lessie ten-foot hay rake. One
improved feed grinder So. 1, two
lumber wagons One new wagon box,
Two hay rakes, Ono Brigton Furrey, I
double seat cut under. Two top bnc-1
gies. Two Fofs noavy doubltj work
harness with ty uetn, One set double
buegv harneFs " with fly nets. One
rubber single harness. Many tools and
other articles too numerous to men
tion including 500 pounds of extracted
boney, and 50 single comb White
Leghorn cockerels for breeding pur
poses. A free Inncu at noon.
Terms of 6ale: Ten months time
will be given on all sums ovarflO;
sums of $10 and under cafh. All notes
must be bankable, drawing 7 per cent
interest from date of sale. No goods
to ba taken awav until settlement is
made with the clerk.
BRUCE WEBB. Auctioneer.
DANIEL SCHRAM, clerk.
J. F. SIEMS.
Birds-Eye View of the Colum
bia Kiver
An attractive topographical map, in
colors, giving a comprehensive idea of the
country on and tributary to the Colum
bia River. This map is in folder form,
on tbe reverse side contains an interest
ing description of tbe Columbia River
route. Copies sent free by E. L. LO
MAX. G. P. 4 T. A., U. P. R. R. CO,
Omaha, Nebr., on receipt of four cents
postage.
& CLARK
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We have an endless assort
ment of strictly up-to-date
Clothing. They are sold
right. Don't
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well. Good fit guaranteed.
GREISEN
..11th Street..
COLUMBUS,
WRIN & SONS.
llth Street
GROCERS.
Sole Agents in Columbus For
Chase & Sanborn's
Fine COFFEES.
Acknowledged to be the
best on the markets. Noth
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cup of the delicious
iSeal Brand Coffee. Try it,
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