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Mmannmij I t ' 1 1 ft Columbus Journal By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Co. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. General News Judge John I. Redick, a prominent lawyer of Omaha, died last week. Chicago authorities want $70,000,000 with which to take over the street railways. At Vossevangen J. W. C. Steen former Norwegian premier, died Sun day of heart disease. Maxim Garky, the author will shortly start for America. He is at present in Switzerland. Senator Tillman of South Carolina Is engaged in writing "A Defense of the Senate" for publication. Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell will assume the duties of chief ol staff of the army on April 9. Congressman P. P. Campbell of Kan sas is regarded as one of the best dressed men in Washington. William H. MacDonald, the famous tenor, and one of the founders of the well known Bostonians. is dead. Fire almost destroyed the National Sweeper Works at Marion, Ind. Loss about $100,000; insurance. $50,000. A post-mortem on the remains of the political bank at Allegheny, Pa., shows about 30 cents on the dollar in sight. Licensiado Cleto Gonzales Viquez. formerly minister of finance, was elected nresident of the republic of Costa Rica. Twenty-three out of forty-two New rYork state senators have put them selves on record as wanting to ride on free railroad passes. One hundred and eighteen military prisoners, mostly deserters, the worst men in the army, left New York Mon day for the new prison at Fort Leaven worth. The revolutionists at Warsaw have xmounced their intention to declare a general strike in order to prevent the Russian government from contracting a nw loan. The elections in the Moscow dis trict outside of the city resulted in a complete victory for the constitutional democrats, who polled twice as isany votes as their opponents. Baron Hosen, the Russian ambassa dor at Washington, has received a message from St Petersburg announc ing that rumors of probable anti Jewish uprisings are unfounded. Senator Foraker reported from the senate committee on military affairs a bill providing for a cable from Key West to Panama, via Guantanamo. as advocated by the secretary of war. The state department has no dis position to make any issue with the Australian government over the status of Mr. Storer. Mr. Francis, the new ambassador, will sail on tbe 1'1'nd inst. ' John Alexander Dowie. who is in Mexico City, says that he has secured 'an option to purchase 2,000,000 acres :of land in northern Mexico, upon which he intends to locate his new Zlon City. The private bank of Teis Smith &Co., Pekin, Tazewell county. 111., failed to open for business the other day, having assigned to U. J. Albertsen as trus tee. Liabilities, $400,000; assets, $250, '000, partly worthless. Father Capon, in a letter to the pro i curator, says he is only living in St. 'Petersburg by tolerance and demands to be put on trial in order to defend 'his uonor and legalize his status, or, if guilty, be condemned. . The plant of the Falls River and Ma chine company of Cuyahoga Falls, O., was almost totally destroyed by fire, throwing 200 people out of employ ment Loss estimated at $100,000, nearly covered by insurance. Governor Folk, who arrived in Des Moines, la., to be present at the Jeffer son day banquet, dictated an interview for publication in which he declared that every state In the union should enact anti-pass and state wide primary laws. At St Petersburg Father Gapon, In .a letter to the procurator, says he is only living In St Petersburg by toler ance and demands to be put on trial in order to defend his honor and le galize his status, or if guilty, to be condemned. It is announced, officially, that J. D. Farrell has been appointed to repre sent the Interests of the Union Pacific organization in the development of the .lines of the Washington Northern Railway Company, incorporated for .the purpose of constructing a railroad .between the Columbia river and Puget Scund points. ' Mr. Mann (111.), in sppporting the 'personal liability bill, said that 981 railroad employes were killed and 13, 30 were injured last year. The rail way employes were in favor of the bill, !he said, and the best way to protect the public is to make the railroads pay for the sleepy engineer who has worked twenty hours and wherefrom .accidents arise. The gunboat Pinzon is cruising off Barcelona in order to prevent arms and ammunition reaching the Carlists. Brigadier General Francis Harring ton of the United States marine corps, died while on a visit to his son-in-law. Captain Hall, at the Algiers naval sta tion at New Orleans Sunday. The painters and paperhangers of Denver to the number of 30 voted to strike for an increase of wages. The revolutionists at Warsaw have announced their intention to declare a general strike in order to prevent the government from contracting a new loan. Jasper H. Lawman, an American por trait painter of some note, died at his home in Pittsburg. Pa. The Russian consul at Sieston. Per sia, reports .that owing to the riots there quarantine regulations are no longer enforced and that the plague is increasing and spreading northward. The Lake Shore's total amount charged to income during the period for new construction and new equip ment was $7,103,793. This is nearly double the amount of the 8 per cent dividend on the stock or almost equal to the interest on the funded debt and .the 8 per cent dividend added together. y4,mmhhkhkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ,-. Has Studied Easter Customs Miss Helen Mathews Laidlaw of St. Louis has seen Easter day celebrated in more different countries, perhaps, than any person on earth. In eighteen countries she has spent Easter, nine teen if England and Scotland be con sidered different countries. To reassure those who may get an incorrect idea in regard to Miss Laid law's age it should be stated that she is but 31 years old, for she began her life of travel with her father, a writer and student since he retired from the ministry, before she was 12 years of age. and since then has visited prac tically every country on the earth. Her Easter experiences, written at her father's request, to be read before a church organization, furnish a valu able addition to the history of that strange, part pagan, part Christian, part Jewish holiday. What Easter means to Christians everybody understands, but that the tribes of the earth, many of whom know little of Christianity, and more that oppose Christian teachings, cele brate the day is not so well known. The early Celts, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Turks, the early Aryans. :elebrated the day, and It received its lame from Eostre, goddess of the !lawn, the celebration being in honor f the dawning of spring. The Aryan celebrated by singing, lancing and feasting, while the Se mite observed the day with ritual, grayer and fasting, and from these the ,'ews drew their feast of unleavened T read and the sacrifice of the Paschal limb, forgetting the origin of the cus tom in the story of the Passover. The Christians saw a new meaning in the Sacrifice when Christ was represented is the Paschal lamb. This synopsis of the origin of the faster celebration precedes Miss I-aidlaw's story of her own experi ences. "The Easter of 18SC." say's Miss Laidlaw, "was my first away from home, and I was that year in Seville Perhaps the Easter customs in the world are so strange a mixture of the barbaric and the Christian as in ipain, and the center of the celebra tion is Seville. The pomp and pa- The LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLLaQLaLaH 3 9 HaaKwHaBBBBBBBBBBBB 'iHflk .9U vUiCHa8888888888K i Cr iaaafliaaHKSKXalvflKHQraSB '" jBGlaaaaaaalHk', l vam7lraf&& -ilalaialaH llBlBBBBBBBBlHHraHBE9X9&3llBRKa " - 'MIBMk wLlUm&&'&-J?3MZKKM m 8? KPitsStfKKllSSSBfiSiikSpKS'fS a j " . Sb. HjPk x jbkjc r?'5xQf'vSt 'BalEaaaaBaal P m KmrnTwmfBLmnfTitBtS ifMHawBaaffaaBnifcaT''' C?fv JE 2t v '"' ? &QBUiKe .-C Hlaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaal Z Jb uMBiHP'iJIiBalKiaaaaaaHsfiBiaaBn ? 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"One beautiful feature of the Span ish Easter is the choirs of children In the processions. In the procession of 'Our, Lady of the Angels' a hundred little girls in white, with white feath ers in their beautiful black hair, par aded, singing. They were the 'angels.' although they looked for all the world like our American Indian children. "The next Easter I spent in Mexico City again among the Spanish and I saw a repetition of most of the Se ville pageantry over again. The ped dlers sold small effigies of Judas in the streets, and they were hanged everywhere. There was one Judas, twenty feet tall, hanging from a rope in the center of a business street, and I was afraid it was an advertisement. "In Mexico the women do penance and the men, too. They kneel for hours in the streets or creep on their knees for blocks, scourging them selves. I saw one comely girl, dress ed in coarse clothes, with a crown of thorns pressed upon her brow, kneel ing in the street, surrounded by a respectful crowd. Two men held her hands as she walked on her knees strangers to her they were and I learned later that her father was a wealthy man. "The next Easter was in a glorious land Austrian Tyrol. We were at Swartzenberg, only a few miles from Lake Constance and above the valley of the Rhine. The Easter ceremonies are entirely religious, and every form of worship known to the church is observed. Later in the day, while the bells rang wildly throughout the beautiful valley the famous Tyrolese First Easter Dawn of the World I singers came forth and wandered in bands from hamlet to hamlet in the valley, singing their famous carols until the mountains and glaciers echoed with the Easter hymns. At each house the singers call the people to the door, and -eggs, colored and marked with mottoes, are passed out to them, and wine and cake served, while the people of the house carol with the singers. Everywhere the people wear flowers, covering them selves with them. "Rome, of course, is the center of the Easter celebration, and the cere monies are more gorgeous even than at Jerusalem where it was my luck to be last year. I witnessed one celebra tion at Rome, when the blessed Pope Leo led at mass in St. Peter's. The day opened with a salute of cannon from St'Angelo at 7 o'clock, and im mediately the throng moved toward St. Peter's. "It was the most Impressive sight in the Christian world. The pope, seated in his sedia gestatoria. in vest- ments blazing with gold and the triple crown upon his brow, was borne into St. Peter's. Great fans of ostrich feathers waved beside him and over him a canopy, richly embroidered in gold. The brilliant assemblage bowed during the stately mass, while the immense choir filled the cathedral with inspiring music. Later the pope was borne in his chair of state to the balcony, and, rising, blessed the im mense crowds, gave benediction, and indulgences. "In 1891 I was in Germany, and joined in the quaint games at Ham burg. The gifts of eggs, which the white hare is supposed to have brought during the night, begin early. At dawn the bells, which have been silent during passion week, break forth and ring wildly all day. The peasants say that the bells have gone to Rome during passion week and re turned with a message from the pope for Easter. The gayly hued eggs are given everywhere, and none is refus ed. Every one must wear something new on Easter day for good luck, sig nifying that the beginning of Easter will roesn many new things during the year." THE MODERN .BLACKSMITHS 1n country towns I m p or t a n t posi tions are allotted nowadays. Since the times of which early poets wrote the business of the horseshoer has broadened out to such an extent that he is recog nized as running a shop second in importance to no other in town. In thousands of instances the blacksmith wields an influence in the town council; 'frequently he is the mayor. It is a common thing to find him an alderman, and in some in stances at least, the residence of a riiiiiirirM IF HISTORIC GLOIiy OF STAIfi Marked though it has been by faults largely those of the ages, the geo graphical history of Spain is glorious to the highest degree, whether meas ured by its material or moral results, says the National Geographic Maga zine. With the discoveries of Colum bus and the world circumnavigation of Magellan, modern geography was born. Indefatigable in purpose, unsur passed in bravery, unyielding in reli gion, but differential to racial preju dices, gracious in manner and courte ous in speech, Spanish explorers made an indelible impress from one end of the earth to the other. In the Antilles or South America, in Mexico or the Philippines, they thoroughly implant ed their customs and ideals,their ad ministration and religion, their laws and language. The Spanish civil law, whose first Mexican code antedated by half a century any English settle ment in the United States, is to-day, in pure or modified form, second as to area and population only to English law, while the melodious language of Spain is the daily speech of nearly triple its home population. In the ag gregate the Spanish explorer, by ex rfvMwv FICHTIfiC OTIXM Iff VEKIft Pekin, the capital of China, is fight ing the "opium-shop evil." Efforts are being made to reduce the number of dens and to restrict the smoking of the drug and to curtail the loafing and vice that accompany opium smok ing by compelling each shop to take out a license and to pay a tax accord ing to the lumber of "lamps" in each shop. The shops are divided into four classes and the fees are graded ac cordingly from $1 a month to twenty cents for each lamp, payable on the 10 th of everj- month. The recent 'proclamation of the Pekin sanitary department reads as follows: "Opium smoking is extremely harmful to the (health and the shops where opium is smoked are the retreats of loafers. Such places should really be alto gether prohibited, so that the people might enjoy more prosperity, and dens of thieves would thus be done away with. But as opium smoking has become such a habit it cannot be got !rid of entirely and at once. The evil .can only be removed gradually. "There are in the outer city of Pe kin many opium shops, and it is evi ,N'',w''''''''wv',wvw HA 2) TO 'BE The driver of the Oaktown stage was a person of much amiability and m. large fund of anecdote, but his memory was by no means of the best .The inhabitants of his native town :made many excuses for him, but sura ,ner visitors found bis failing a par ticularly trying one. "That man should be complained of land should lose his position as ex : press agent and mail carrier!" said one exasperated man who had been obliged to remain in Oaktown over : another night, owing to Ranny Feet's ! forgetting to call for him. : "Well, now, I guess you didn't im press it on Ranny that he was to take ye," said an Oaktown man, moved to mild remonstrance. "Impress it on him!" echoed the summer visitor. "I wrote my name on his order book in the postoffice. TRAVEL 'By It was in 1658 that the first regular stage coach began running between the two capitals, London and Edin burgh. It ran once a fortnight and the fare was 4, which would be a good deal more than $20 to-day. The time taken to the journey is not accurately known, but between York and London it was four days. This lavish system of communication was not, however, kept up, as in 17G3 the coach ran be tween London and Edinburgh once a month only, taking a fortnight, if the weather was favorable, to the journey. In 1754 a heroic effort was made to improve the London and Edinburgh coach. The Edinburgh Courant for that year contained the following ad vertisement: "The Edinburgh stage coach, for the j better accommodation of passengers, THE OJE fiEE Acadia College. Wolfville, X. S., had as its president for many years a very able New England divine, the Rev. A. W. Sawyer who was not given to much smiling or joking. On occasion, however, he, knew how to press wit and even sarcasm into his service with great effect, and he was very popular with hia students. When the large female seminary building erected near the college was nearing completion, the financial com mittee, of which Dr. Sawyer was a member. If not chairman, was t-uargea in stentorian tones by a minister, fluent in speech, but without college .training, with being guilty of deeds of darkness that needed to be uncovered. BLACKSMITH village blacksmith in a prosperous town is as fine as that of the banker. In a great many instances he has a good store of books; there are fine pictures on his walls. The earnings from his trade are invested in shops that are equipped with every modern appliance and in many other ways his general prosperity is made plain to the world. Men in the country now are more particular about baving fine horses on their farms and naturally more careful about the way they are shod. There has been almost as much im provement in fitting a shoe on the foot of a horse as there has been in the work of a dentist in repairing the human teeth. And all this change despite the in vasion of the equine field by the auto mobile! mrjjyjmkfjrurkJruruffjf tending the sway of law over and In stilling Christianity into the hearts of the natives of new lands, has exerted a more potent influence than has any other nationality. Of all explorations none appeared at the time richer than those of Portu gal, from Prince Henry, the navigator, to Diaz and Vasco de Gama; yet they were morally perverted. The coasts of Africa were circumnavigated and exploited and the trade of India made attainable by sea. Pope Alexander VI., by the famous demarkation bull of May 4, 1493, confirmed the posses sion of the eastern half of the newly discovered world to Portugal, which at once rose to commercial suprema cy and the height of its material glory. But traffic was the sole aim, and the African slave trade a most es sential factor in its profits. During four centuries Portugal was distinctly foremost in this human traffic, which by its horrors and immoralities has not alone outraged the spirit of Chris tianity, but has also, particularly in America, produced conditions vexa tious and portentious to an alarming degree. dent that the smokers are increasing every day, which is very bad. The department has taken into considera tion the matter and arrangements have been made for those who will abandon the habit. In addition, the opium shops opened in the outer city, of Pekin have been divided into four classes and are to be taxed after cer tain regulations. They are to regis ter themselves according to their classes and the number of lamps for the payment of taxes so that inspec tion can easily be effected. "Shop owners are hereby informed of the regulations and that they are to come to this department for regis tration beginning from the 30th day 1st moon 31st year of Kuang Hsu. If any one dares to make a false declara tion as to his class or the number of lamps, opens shops without license or refuses payment of the tax, if discov ered, the building used for smoking opium will be confiscated and the owners strictly fined as a warning to these private dealers in opium shops. All must respect this order and not disobey." IMT'RESSE'D I should like to know what more I could have clone." "Well, now, it's like this," said the farmer, with a half-apologetic air. "Sometimes there's a number of ord ers on that book, and Ranny might happen to forget orVi of 'em, so what folks most generally do is fust to write their names in the book, and then speak to Ranny about it when he's up on the trip before the one they want to go on. And then they ask Lemu'l. the postmaster to kind of re mind Rannj- when he stops for the mail. And then we always deem it wise to be all ready to start in time enough so's we can walk down to the cross-roads and head Ranny off. just for fear it might slip his mind, allow ing time to go back for a trunk in case there's one to be lugged." Youth's Companion. STAGE COACH will be altered to a genteel two end glass coach, being on steel springs, ex ceeding light and easy, to go in ten days in summer and twelve in winter, to set ou the first Tuesday in March and continue it from Hosea Eastgate's the Coach and Horses, in Dean street, Soho, London, and from John Somer ville's, in the Canongate, Edinburgh, etc. Passengers to pay as usual. Per formed, if God permits, by your dutiful servant, Hosea Eastgate." In the days of stage coaches people sometimes clubbed together and hired post chaise for their journey as be ing quicker and less expensive, and Scottish newspapers occasionally con tained advertisements to the effect that a person about to proceed to Lon don would be glad to hear of a fellow "adventurer" or two bent on the same journey to share the expense. - DFJJL THIfiG This charge of misappropriation of funds was made at the Baptist con vention for the maritime provinces, held at Truro, X. S. The speaker re sumed his seat, and for a little there was a painful silence. Then the com paratively slender form of Dr. Saw yer was seen to rise and move slowly and quietly out to the front of the platform. The dry old doctor brought down the house by looking up over his glasses and quietly remarking: "The good brother thinks 'there are some awful works of darkness that need to be uncovered. About the only thing I know of that needs to be un covered is a gold mine." A LIVING DEATH. 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She says that it is one of the little things which are worth looking into. The Mahommedan Koran. It is claimed by Mohammedans that their prophet Mohammed was an in spired man, as he asserted that the Koran the Mohammedan Bible was revealed to him by the Angel Gabriel during a period of twenty-three years. SAVED BABY LYON'S LIFE. Awful sight From That Dreadful Com plaint. Infantile Eczema Mother Praises Cuticura Remedies. "Our baby had that dreadful com plaint. Infantile Eczema, which afflict ed him for several months, commen cing at the top of his head, and at last covering his whole body. His suffer ings were untold and constant misery, in fact, there was nothing we would not have done to have given him re lief. We finally procured a full set of the Cuticura Remedies, and in about three or four days he began to show a brighter spirit and really laughed, for the first time in a year. In about ninety days he was fully recovered. Praise for the Cuticura Remedies has always been our greatest pleasure, and there is nothing too good that we could say in their favor, for they cer tainly saved our baby's life, for he was the most awful sight that I ever beneld, prior to the treatment of the Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Maebelle Lyon, 1S2G Appleton Ave., Parsons, Kan., July 18. 1905." Newspapers for Travelers. The Japanese railways have intro duced newspaper reading cars on some of the passenger trains. Tall piles of newspapers are kept at the service of travelers so that they may read as tney ride. Birds as Weathercocks. All birds when perched on trees or bushes serve as weathercocks, as they Invariably roost with their heads to the wind. Happiness in the Hollows. Dar never wuz no lowgrounds er sor row but a sunbeam found its way ter 'um en set some bird a-singin'. At lanta Constitution. Tbe Best Guaranty of Merit 13 Open Publicity. 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