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talhs like Aiofui and bully, frvor
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an the Urtorj of an the werJd Is fake I
mi perhaps known to few people. That;
American hlatocy particnlarjy abonnie
In errors, blunders and
falsities Is known to even a
nnmher. Walpole, wishinc to amnse
his father after an anasnanr wssrt
sorae day, proposed .reading; to hint
from a book of hlstorj. MAnythlnf bnt
historj," said the eld, nun, "for hlstorj
most be false."
When it is considered that historians
In every period of the world hate been
narrowed and biased by personal opln
lon and surrounding circumstances the
wisdom of this remark Is perceived,
The worst part of it all Is that when
ence a .mistake has been.made It has
rarely been rectified, each sacceeding
historian being content to accept as
facts the work of those who went be
fore him. The ultimate result of this
was that the mistakes were believed
by those who read them, and events in
history that never happened' or were
false were accepted by the world and
ever after known as the markers of
Important epochs.
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KFKREE8' SALE
Noticw is hereby givni that, porewuit tn aa
KebndateiMdeaBdamtered.of reoocd.oa
thelSUicbgrof NoTember,18S,iaaonteia aait
The death of Samuel Spencer of
tbeSoathera railway again brings be
Mte the public the posibilities open to
the AnMriean youth. Here was a
ease of aa obscure clerk rising to a
which placed him at the
of some of the largest railway
in the south. And he reach
ed the goal by hard work and strict
to busiaess, President Spen-
i recognised as one of the lead
ing railroad men of this day, and he
was also one of the staunch supporters
of President Roosevelt in his fight for
railroad regulation, bele - his
course wonld go a long way toward
many of the difficult tran-
.probli
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John Sharp Williams, democratic
leader on the floor of the house of
representatives, calls this an era of
"fictitious prosperity," but we in Ne
hisska know that never as a people
have we been as prosperous as we are
now. Uuring democrauc rule we
always figured that when crops were
goods prices would be poor, but with
proper republican regulation of the
tariff lawt, prices on farm products of
every kind have never been more
aelismctory than now. Our Nebraska
humors never accumulated as much
wealth aa they do now. Skilled labor
paid as well, bricklayers,
, plasterers, all earn higher
Our merchants are doing an
, and we think fig
ure en better profits. The only class
of people not benefitted by the
present em of prosperity are the men
and women working for a fiixfd sal
ary. Of course it is easier to get po-
Aiany railroad companies
; the salaries or their em-
nleyes. living expenses are higher,
ami k is right the should. Coogress
at this coming election should raise
tM wages of such employes as postal
clerks, rural carriers,
oatmasters, department
aad others. The present
of wans was established
our government
, set aa example in dealing fairly
mi employes.
Generally speaking the train serv
ieaia aad oat of Omaha is excellent.
The daylight arrangements could
hardly he better than they are, but an
imafwfsaMBiianbemadehi theserv
is at night. One of the things es
pecially Beaded is trains that will al
low people from the interior of the
to spend the evening in Omaha
to their homes after the
The Burlington now has
such a train aad people can spend the
evening in Omaha attending the thea
ter, or otherwise, and reach home as
fsr as Iincbln in good season. The
Faafic has a train which
i of its parsons in the south,
ami then people appreciate the con-
reward the company by
a sew years ago
the Union Pacific had a similar train
whieh was vary popular, but it was
the eastern eon-
of the Union Pacific were
he tram schedule was ar
ranged to auk the coaveauace ofthe
For several months there
clamor for a restoration of
It weald be of immense
to people as far west as Grand
The
die the Ui
amibyeaei
fe s thing,' hut as yet no steps
sen taken to le satahlish the
aa the Union Pacific just it
-he aa af the meat
eeuld
ton, which occurred April W, 1775, Is
known ss the' first battle between the
colonists and the British. But this
was not so, for the records of Orange
county, N. GL, show that on the road
from Hmsboro to Salisbury on May
1 1771, an engagement between a
squad of British troops and a body of
colonists took place, In which thirty
six men were killed and several wound
ed. The trouble was caused by the re
sentment of the colonists over the Ille
gal taxes Imposed by the British clerk
of the county court
Historians persist In saying and peo
ple persist In believing that the breast
works thrown up by General Jackson
at New Orleans were made of -cotton
baleSjCovered with earth. Asa matter
of fact, there was not a pound of cot
ton on the ground, and tins fact has
been verified by Major Chotard, Gener
al Jackson's assistant adjutant gener
al, who was himself a. participant In
the battle.
A wen known engraving that nearly
always appears In modern school histo
ries Is that of General Corn wallis hand
ing his sword to General Washington
at the surrender of Yorktown, and this
la spite of the fact that to spare Com
wallls the humiliation. General 0Hara
gave his sword to General Lincoln In
token of surrender.
Possibly in the course of time the
battle of Bunker Hill will be rightly
called the battle of Breed's Hill, and,
to return to ancient history, the mar
velous chronicles of Herodotus will be
discredited. It Is told in history that
Hannibal cut bis way across the Atos
with iron, fire and vinegar, but the
question still remains as to bow he ap
plied the vinegar. The conflicting ac
counts of the' life of Napoleon go to n
lustrate the discrepancies of many his
torical writers.
An have heard the words, MAU is lost
but honor," attributed to King Francis
L In a letter, to a woman, yet when this
letter was referred to for the phrase It
was not to be found there.
And, again, when Louis XVL laid his
head beneath toe guillotine his confess
or. Abbe Edgeworth, . dismissed him
from the world, so history tells, with
the beautiful viaticum, "Son of St
Louis, ascend to heaven." Yet in reali
ty he said nothing of the sort
The brave defiance, "The guard dies,
but never surrenders," attributed to
Cambronne when at Waterloo the Im
perial guard were ordered to throw
down their arms, has been shown 'to
have, been the fanciful creation of
some historian's mind, and the saying,
"Providence favors the stronger side,"
or, as it has been corrupted, "God is on
the side with the heaviest artillery,"
which has been attributed to Napoleon,
really originated with writers of an
tiquity. Cicero alludes to it as an "old
proverb."
It would take volumes to contain all
the blunders. smalL laimrand Indif
ferent; that historians have made, and
the lamentable part of It Is that the
old blunders are constantly being
made over again, so that with the
errors that are bound to occur In the
history of the present and the mis
takes that our forefathers made and
which we are stfll maHn history in
time win become Uttie more than a.
long though extremely mterestmg
work of fiction. Sunday rgtM1
tt icta pradiM wherein George Btompek to
gbiatiff aad JonpkiBe BH pek. aad Woba
Bceapek, her htttwnd. Helen Steapek. Balbiaa
ow" a mhwim wempec a auaor. ant
onwHiia,wenaaeniBeatecenwui putlUoa
will on Tbanday. the 27th day of Deoeaaber 1SML
at the l roat door of Uw mart bobm ia the city of
uMamou, ta aatdriane oooaty, at the boor of 2
o'clock :P.M.. offer for aala at pablieaaedea to
iae aicaeat Udder, the followinc described real
property awaaMii ia ine county or. rout aad
ktateof Nebraska, to-wit: Lot Three (S) eoa
tsiniacaaeres ia Section Tea (M) Township
Sixteen (MBaniie One (1) West, of taelth P
jbu: un iw ooMBeaec uoarter IB. K.
w. M) ot
BoathwestQaarter (8.
ij-are ia) Towaahti
of the
Mof SsetiOB Twen-
Ire fS Tdwnafain H.m i tn Ibu. 1W
(2) West, of the Sth Rrianinal MmmtASmm mitmmtmA
ia Platte County, Nebraska. Terms of sale,
cashtehand. Chmotiah M. OauaataMU
Dated, NoreaUieraa, IMS. Referee.
We are prepared to
all kinds of real
at the Uweet
Beoher, Hoc
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SUCCESSFUL
Buyor and Seller
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LIVE STOCK
Your Business Solicited
Market Reports furnished
on application.
Cattle SaJesataa hb. Bum.
HoKBabaaua Wrxx J. Kioxly.
Sheep SalesBsaa-J. & Cobbst.
JIM'S PLACE
I carry the beet of everything
in my line. The drinking pub
lie ia invited to oome in and set
for
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Or oatAWA
EYE SPECIALIST
EXPERT OPTICIAN
BcfltEfiinnei Oatiei Oflieai
! The West
in the front rooms over Pollock
ft Co.'s Drag Store. Wfll be in
Cjimmius itfices Sunday, on
day, Tuesday and Wedoesday of
each week. Spectacles and eye
glasses scientificaDy fitted and
repaired. Eye Gksees adjusted
toanynqse.
CONSULTATION FBEE
Ptnesalve olsanses wounds, ihihss
ly aatissptee, nneqaaled for crached
hands. Good for outs. Sold by Mtn
Oentury Drnff Store, Platte
Hen.
HI. NEVEU.rVwarletar
616 Twelfth 8treet
No. 116
What WTe Owe
Professor Darwin said that If It had
not been for Insects we should never
have had any more imposing or attrac
tive flowers than those of the elm, the
hop and the nettle. Lord Avebury
compares the work of the Insect to
that of the florist He considers that
just as the florist has by selection pro
duced the elegant blossoms of the gar
den, so the Insects by selecting the
largest and brightest blossoms for fer
tilization have produced the. gay flow
ers of the field. Professor Plateau of
Ghent has carried eat a aeries of re
markable experiments on the ways of
Insects visiting flowers. He considers
that they are guided by scent rather
than by color, and in this contention
he to at variance with certain British
naturausts. Whatever may be the at
tractions In flowers to Insffli yet
It appears undefined It Is certain that
the latter visit freely all
sung bo distinction between
huge, bright colored ones and the less
eesamfcaous blooms like those ec
currant, the lime, the
n-ttio and the wfflaw.
Winter
Wearing Apparel
At HARTS you will
find all the newest sty
les in Mens'and Boy's
Suits and Overcoats
fresh from the fingers
of the best tailors in
America; Investigate, it
will be profitable for
you before you spend
your money elsewhere
HART'S
13th Street, Columbus.
Tie Sim!? of nfeUetae.
The study of medicine Is the stndj
of man and of his relations to bis en
vironment. It Is the broadest and
most useful of all the professions. A
skillful physician can find opportunity
for the employment of his highest skill
In a hovel as well as In a palace. He
Is alike welcomed by the king and by
the peasant. The exactions of the phy
sician's calling are more severe than
those of any otter profession. He
must' be content to hold all his personal
plans for pleasure, profit or recreation
subject to the exigencies of many oth
er lives as well as of his own, so that
his life must be less regular than that
of other men. He belongs to the social
fire department. He must often Im
peril his health, even his life, to save
the health and lives of others. He
must be content with a short life. But
all these disadvantages are Induce
ments to the men who desires to live
up to the highest and noblest ideals.
From "Starting In Life,", by X. C.
Fowler, Jr.
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powder? It
explosive which has
the old style black powder.
even as shulrUHj has superseded gas,
aad which is used not only In the field
for eptilani, latfisss, bat Is used ex
clusively for the shoulder arms of the
army and the navy as weQ aa for the
machine gnus, the rapid are guns and
the huge rifles en the decks of oar bat
tleships and within the works of oat
fortiarations. Practically it to notUng
be .a mixture elf gun cotton and alcohol
and ether, or acetone, or else acetone,
with gun cotton and nItaroglycerinTthe
two strongest explosives known and,
blended Into a new compound which is
at least double aa strong as the com
mon black powder, explodes without
giving off smoke, and, once finished,
not merely loses the dangerous char
acteristics of its dreaded Ingredients,
but 'to so safe that you might give a
hatful of the powder to a baby to play
with. He might pound It with a ham
mer to his heart's content, or you your
'self' might place it on an anvil and
bring n forty pound sledge down on It
'It would merely squash like so much
soap or putty. So commission proof is
this powder that you might drop a
house on a heap of fifty tons of It and
It would not explode. So proof Is It
against explosion by fire that- yea
might place a stick of cannon powder
on a saucer in your bedroom, light M
with a match and go to bed by a flick
ering, sizzling light as if given off by
burning fat In short, you simply can
not explode this powder unless you go
to the trouble of confining It, and even
then yon can explode it only by using
a fulminate of, mercury detonator.
The quickest way to picture smoke
leas powder Is to dismiss all ideas of
the ordinary black gunpowder so fa
miliar to every one. The" color of the
modern powder to not black at all. but
has the shade of dark amber. In the
sense of a powder being finely divided
solid, smokeless powder Is no powder
at all. It .consists of a waxlike com
position, the stoe of the "grains" vary
ing according to the calibers of the
guns for which they are designed. For
nee in revolvers, rifles and sporting
guns the grains resemble the tiny per
forated glass beads, of the sort used
In old time needlework. For the ma
chine guns, the rapid fire guns, the
heavy rifles of battleships and forts the
grains are cylindrical in shape, vary
ing In size from a third of an inch to
three-fourths of an Inch in length to
three-fourths of an inch In diameter
and about two Inches In length, each
grain, In order to Increase the area ex
posed to Ignition, being perforated
equldistantly and longitudinally with
from one to six holes, big as knitting
needles, depending upon the size of the
grain. A. W. Bolker in Appleton's.
Men's Winter Cans
M
We are now, showing a large assort
ment of Men's Winter Caps with
inside bandsin both cloth
and fur lined
Prices from
SLOO
to
$1-25
and $L50
gaaaaamaas-a-w
A complete new line of Gloves and
Mittens in both dress and working.
Ladies' Kid
Gloves
The Simmons
Gloves
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The Finest Baalish Ote.
Among the. many fine odes In the
English language Macaulay has. char
acterized Dryden's "Alexander's Feast"
as the noblest; and Dr. Richard Gar
nett agreed with him in thinking It the
nnest ode we have. The fuU title Is
"Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of
Muslc-an Ode For St Cecilia's Day."
Spenser's "EpltbsJsmlum," Mllton'i
"Ode oh the Nativity," Keats' odes "To
a Nightingale'' and "On a Grecian Urn"
and Shelley's "To a Skylark'' are all
notable Instances of this class of poem,
and to these must be added, though
their form to Irregular, Wordsworth's
magnificent "Intimations of Immor
tality" and .Tennyson's "Ode on tbs
Death of the Duke of Wellington."
Advertise in
results.
the Journal for quick
at..
He sat sunning himself at the door of
his curio shop. A crumpled evening pa
per lay on his knee, and he peered
fiercely at It through thick horn spec
tacles of a kind usually seen in pic
tures of village pedagogues. A thin
young man with a flushed face sham
bled across the street and stood before
him. "Could yer giv" ssid the thin
young man. Down fell the paper, and
the old fellow began to lecture the ap
pealing young man. "You've come to
the wrong shop," he said. "Why, you
ougbter give me summat. Instead of me
you. 'Ere I sits all day, and sometimes
I don't take a copper before I put the
shutters up. But it's alios the same la
this world 'im as 'as a shillln' gets It
taken from 'lm, and 'e who 'as a sev
ering gets another soverlng gen 'Im. I
'aven't lived seventy yesr for nothin'."
"Yes, but" "Ob, I know! Why,
there's dozens along 'ere every day
more than customers, you bet!" "You
won't let me get a word" Tve told
yer my opinion. Go to the c'.-.ureh
army.. II tnere's anything In yer they'll
do summat for you. Or try the un
employed camp. They seem to do fair
ly wen there. Why, Pm forty years
older than you, and I don't find things
easy out 'er pocket often on my job.
Tea," waving the paper, "whoTl do owt
for me? I know yeve only a copper
left 'erd It before. I 'ad to borrow an
'alfpenay for this paper." Here be
paused for breath. "I were goto,"
said the young man, "to arst yer for a
Ught"-Manchester Guardian.
Prices $1, $1.25, $1.50
Silk liaed Suede Gloves ia Black and Color fgl
Also a complete line of Ladies' and
Misses' Golf gloves and mittens.
N- H. GALLEY, 3
a DRY GOOPa, CLOTHING. HATS, CAPS.
SHOES, LADIES' CLOAKS AND CARPETS
Z 505 Eleventh Street, Columbus, Neb. :
Fine CalHenrii Wins & Braadies
For the Holiday Trade.
I have just received a car load of ine California Wines and
Brudies, consisting ofthe well known brands: Angelica. Ports,
Sherry, Tokay, Reisliag and Zinfandel Also choice California
Grape Brandy The best know brand of Kentucky Whiskey.
We guarantee all onr goods to be absolutely pure.
Wm. BUCHER. Eleventh. St.
IH'-uKK,
When Too are Going to Erect a Monument
or Marker at the Grave of Tour Lost Ones
RettOMfeer That Tlit
Granite
American
ft Marble
Works
Of GeiMlMs, Nebraska '
WiU do Your Work Satisfactorily. We will
Not Be Undersold by Anyone. Give us a
Call Before Racing Tour Order. No Order
too Large or too Small for us to Handle.
E. BERGMAN, Proprietor
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your liver is inactive an you feel dull,
your eyei are heavy aad alight -exertion
shansts von. Orino Jjaxafave Fruit
gyrap stimulates the liver and. bowels
aariatakasyoa reel bright aad'active.
Oriaoliazative Fruit Syrup does not
or jrips sad is auW and
tie take. Ormo is mere
tree than puis or ordinary
snhetitutas.
fur stoves at Rotate.
Dtalaasatle SUrace.
When Franklin arrived In France he
was somewhat astonished at the lux
ury, noise and bustle of the court of
Versailles. The courtiers, who are by
nature effervescent and volatile, made
much ado over him. He was himself
Inclined to be taciturn. Vergennes,
the French minister of foreign affairs,
also was of a reserved, circumspect,
uncommunicative nature.
The Introducer, having presented
Franklin, withdrew." The two states
men, left alone, bowed to each other.
Vergennes, with a gesture. Invited
Franklin to be seated and then walt-
.ed. Franklin, However, said not a
word. Possibly he wished to put his
companion's gravity to the test the
French had always been pictured to
him as so loquacious.
The French minister felt that he was
on ue verge of overstepping' the rules
of courtesy and hospitality. He there
fore took out his snuffbox and Invited
Franklin to take a pinch of snuff.
Franklin complied, reflected an In
stant and took his snuff In silence.
Vergennes, on his part, did the same,
and then the compliment was return
ed.. After a brief flash of silence
Franklin rose; so did Vergennes.
whereupon, after a farewell obeisance,
they parted. This was the entire sum
and substance of their flrst Interview,
which happily was to be 'followed by
ethers of n more fruitful character
Addresses of Frederic K. Coudert.
Holiday Groceries
AT
KEATING and SOMAN'S
As the Holidays are drawing near
one naturally looks about for the
best to be had for that season of
the year. At our store you will
not be disappointed as we are pre
pared to give the very best and
purest goods that money can buy.
A FEW REMINDER
nhaejo At $fonrwYn'ai nnflBaA rm.-. - .
For Tour Money.
Cereal Blend.
Rsintri Sos
J? Special Blend.
GAL NELSON
Plasterer
AND
Gontrtttor
Columbne - NebcMka.
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per pound 20c
per pound: 25c
per pound 30c f
per pound 35c ?
per pound 35c
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