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-"v,. ? --.-.'vVvj5 --k , V-Ji-J --,!""- P-rT iS-vVt -' tw W T" "" i l ,. " . V ' ' "V I '& V .'4 I 1 a X V HENRY RAGATZ & CO. d4RAmrS4LE THE SIGN which good housekeepers watch for U u:. It is to the effect that prices for FINE CROCKERY are down away down. Our annual stock taking is at hand. We want to reduce our holding as much as possible. So we throw prof its to the winds to induce you to huy liberally. There are some tremendous bargains for early shoppers. HENRY RAGATZ & CO. THIRTEENTH ST, COLUMBUS, NEB. NEIGHBORHOOD HEIS KOTES. BKE.I.WOOD From tlie (!azrtte: Revival meetings arc now being held in the M. E. church, conducted by Kev. .innecker. As vet the at tendance is small. Iast week Louis Kosch purchased 400 acres of hind near Pleasanton, in Iiuflalo county, paying for the same S17,000. Mrs. Harvry Lillie came up from Lincoln last Friday eveniug accom panied 1)3' her father, and is visiting; with relatives and friends around Bell wood this week. Mrs. J. W. Orisiuger slipped and fell one day last week, breaking a bone in one of her arms. Dr. Hansen is now taking care of the wouuded mem ber and she is getting along as well as can be expeeted. Sherman . Butler of Octavia, cane up Monday and bought the Charles Meacham farm from H. Earl, com monly known as the Supancheck farm. Charles Meacham came up from Gar rison Tuesday and signed up the nec essary papers and took in the cash, The price was 810,400 for the 160 acres. Homer was hardly able to. sit up, but succeeded in closing the deal. Grandma Warren slipped and fell upon the ice last Sunday while feeding her chickens. In the fall she broke one of her lower limbs near the hip, and as she is about 80 years of age it is feated it will take her a long time 1 to recover from the effects of the fall Dr. Hansen is attending her. The Highlanders tendered Mr. and jj Mrs. Charley Grisinger a farewell re-1 ception in Highlander hall Wednesday evening. oiiiier was scrviii uuu. a dancing was indulged in until a late hour. All present spent the evening; very pleasantly. Mr. and Mrs. Gri singer are making preparations to leave for California, and will take with them the best wishes of their many friends in this community. , A dispatch from David City to the jl Omaha News says that a greater part of the $8,000 iusurauce money due on 3 the life of Mrs. Li 1 lie's husoand is the subject of suits now (tending in the courts. Only a tart of the fraternal insurance money has ever been paid. The tribe of Ben-Hur paid the sum of $750 to her little girt Edna, hut con tested the roniainde of the policy. There was due from the Modem Wood men the sum of $3,000, Wt that society contested payment and the ease is still in the district court The A. O. U. V. paid $2,000 to the account of the little girl, Mrs. Lillie waiving all claim to the money. .(From cm lsrntr. I Charlie Taylor of the Indian school ONCKSIEirs ENGLISH ftMmmrus BRAND l feyor Drank -tsbs 2o ttibbsa. TUCBM ShSmV I rl tamz Safest. AT. DnMgMsncrywMii CaxTcO.FHILa-.C'A.i DIAMOND jUk in i lias been strutting around town this week occasioned by the fact that the storks left all pound girl baby at his home the last of the week. Its all right, Charlie, you have reason for feeling gocd. Gus Johnson packed his grip on Friday last and boarded the steam cars for California. -We have been expecting it for some time as wc knew he couldn't stand it much longer. Genoa will soon be without a milk man as Robt. Anderson will sell his entire herd of milch cows next week. If some one does not start up in the business everybody will be compelled to buy a cow or forage on their neigh bors. Frauk Osborne aud wifewere' ex pected home Monday night and about twenty young men and several of the old ones took possession of their home and waited for them until midnight. But they were badly fooled. The bride and groom left the train at Mon roe, drove up to Will Pugsley's where they remained over night. James Branner, the half breed In dian, who furnished some of the pupils at the Indian school a lot of whiskey last-week, was bound over to district court under $800 bonds, How long will it take people to find out that it is dangerous business to sell whiskey to the Indian pupils? Jonathan Graham, father of Mrs. Steven Brooks of this city, died Sun day morning last while sitting in his chair at the home of a daughter living near Silver Creek. The deceased was 74 years old. In the loss of her par ent Mrs. Brooks has the sympathy of the entire community. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindbluin, aged 72 years, died very suddenly at her home in this city on Sunday morning last. Mrs. Lindblum bad leeii enjoying her usual health up until the day before when she had an attack of neuralgia and a physician was called. Alout H o'clock the next morning she was ap parently better and was resting easy and her son laid down upon a lounge. A short time after he discovered that she was dead, her death being caused by the neuralgia going to her heart. The funeral was held Tuesday at he Swedish church. The deceased leaves three grown children to mourn her death, who, have the sympathy of all in their affliction. Mrs. F. H. Young, who was taken sick two weeks ago from an attack of gall stones, has been critically ill the past week from an attack of appendi citis which followed the other trouble. It was thought on Tuesday that an operation would be necessary and Dr. Evans was called from Columbus to consult with Dr. Davis who has charge of the case, but after a careful exami nation it was decided that the critical period was pttssed ami at this writing the patient is improving. UXDSAT. item The Port. We are glad to see 31. J. Ramackerc on our streets again after a few weeks illness. . Henry Schaecher went to Columbus last Monday to take his nlace as a member of the county board. John Purtzer says its another boy which the Stork left at zheir home last Monday. All are rebooted doing well. Elon Swanson was over from Genoa Sunday. He is well pleased with his position and will move his family to that place in the near future. O. W. Olson of Newman Grove, who formerly resided southwest of uu two miles, died last Friday and wu& buried Sunday at the Swedish ceme tery, 9 miles southwest of town. Mrs. Chas. Kopietz ami daughter Agues returned from Omaha Saturday night The former was there having a fractured limb which was not heal ing, attended to. She is somewhat better, but as yet has to use crutches. HUMPHHEY From tho Democrat. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Nick Doh mau of the St. Bernard neighborhood, on Thursday, Dec. 27, 1906, a daugh ter. Miss Emma Batliner and Michael Zucrline will be united in marriage on Wednesday, Jan. 16. Cards are out for a wedding dance in Gilsdorf s hall in the evening. Mrs. Fred Lachnit had the misfor tune to sli and sprain her ankle last Sunday while going to church. The injury is vcrj' painful and it will be some time before she can get around as usual. At the regular meeting of the Hum phrey volunteer fire department Tues day evening the old officers were re elected. They are L. D. Diers, presi dent; Robert Lewis, chief; John Weber, treasurer, and Robert Moack ler, secretary. With other depart ment business which was transacted it was decided to purchase another hose cart. The department has sever al feet of hose more than will go on the hose cart now in use. Arthur Graham fell thirty feet at the new elevator north of town Mon day afternoon and the wonder is he received only slight bruises from which he has experienced no bad effects. Arthur was working in the top of the elevator when a board which he was standing on broke letting him down thirty feet He was immediately brought to town for medical aid and it was found that no bones were broken" and that he was not otherwise serious ly injured. It seems almost miracu lous that he was not instantly killed saying nothing about broken bones. The feat could not be accomplished once in a thousand times with the same result, and we wager that Arthur does uot care to try it again. Mathias German and Mis Anna Braun were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at St Mary's church at 9 o'elock on Wednesday morning of this week. .Misses Ida Fehringer and Katie Braun were the bridesmaids ami Leo German and Louie Braun acted as best men. During the afternoon aud evening a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents at which a large number of friends and neighbors were present to help cele brate the happy event The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Braun. She has lived in Platte county all her life and she counts her friends by her acquaintances and they are many. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank German, and he is classed among the best of the young genera tion of this community. PLATTE CKNTKK From The Signal. Tom Hoare went to Silver Creek Sunday to assame his duties as mana ger of the Omaha Elcrator Company's business at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Shea of Colum bus spent Tuesday with the former's sister, Mrs. C. 31. Gruenther, return ing home the same day. Our blacksmiths are working over time these days trying to shoe all the horses which these rough roads make necessary when they are used. Mrs. George Scheidel, jr., who re cently underwent an operation at St. Mary's hospital returned home Sun day evening, much improved in health. Simon Jossi was awarded first prize for white coon at the farmers' institute iu Columbus last Wednesday. The prize corn was raised on the S. H. Hoesly farm by Mr. Jossi,. this farm being located one mile and a half southeast of Platte Center. H. X. Zingg commenced to fill his ice house, yesterday morniug, cutting the ice from Shell creek above the mill dam. The ice is from ten to eleven inches thick and of a very good quality. They put in about one hun dred loads yesterday, buMhe weather has moderated so much that it looks as though they would have sloppy work today. JIM'S PLACE I carry the beet of everything in my line. The drinking pub iio is invited to come in andsM for thMnsolvas. JflS. NEVELS.Fraritar Of Tvalfta Street Pfcoae No. lit A. M. POST ATTORNEY AT LAW Columbus, - - Nebraska. C. N. McELFRESII ATTORNEY AT JLAW Zinnecker Bld'g Columbus, - - Nebraska.. FIRE INSURANCE. Fall Amoant May Not Be Paid Eve Wbrn Loss In Complete. In a fire insurance policy the sum In sured merely, marks the maximum lia bility accepted by the insurance com pany and determines the premium to be paid. It is not in any way admitted by the insurance oflice as a measure of the value of the property insured. If I have a life policy for 5,000, says a writer in the Nineteenth Cen tury, my heirs can, on proof of my death and their title, receive at least 5,000, possibly more if there are bo nuses. If I hare a ship 'and I insure her with murine insurance companies for f5,000, I can recover the full fo.000 at once should niy ship be totally lost. But if I insure my house against fire for 5,000 I cannot recover 5,000 unless I can prove the house to be worth fully that sum. All that I am entitled to demand is the actual value of my house immediately before it was burned, and I must give every assist ance to the insurance company in or der that the actual value may be justly determined. By statute the insurance company has the power to reinstate that house, as far as the sum insured will go, in stead of paying me anything. In prac tice, compensation is usually agreed and paid in cash without recourse on either side to the right of reinstate ment, but in no case am I entitled to more than the actual value or my bouse as it existed just before the fire. PATENTS ON INVENTIONS. Mast Be In the Karnes of the Aetaal Iaveators. The law provides for the granting of patents only to the actual inventor of the patented invention, and a patent granted in the name of any one else is invalid. For this reason it is essen tial that the application for patent be made iu the name of the one whom the law regards as the inventor. In some factories it is the custom to pat ent every invention in the name of the president of the company. This frequently happens because the com pany has been built up on inventions made by the president or other officer, and as a matter of pride the president wishes to see all patents issued in his name. This is a daugerous thing to do iu the case of inventions which were con ceived by the employee independently of the officer, such as inventions wholly worked out by employee without sug gestion or assistance from the officer, for if iu a suit brought under such patent it were shown that while the patent was granted in the name of the officer the invention was actually made by an employee the patent would be declared invalid, aud usually a suit would uot have reached such a stage until it was too late to go back and patent the invention in the name of the real inventor. Edwin J. Prindlo iu Engineering Magazine. The IIuKuenolM. Here are two essays on the Hugue nots by Chicago public school pupils: "The Hugonots are people in France that are followers of Victor Hugo. Their leader is a man named Jean Val jean that was a thief, but got con verted and turned out well. The Hugo nots are very good people. A lady named Evangeline wrote a long' poem about them, but it don't rhyme." "The Huguenots is the name of a big thing like a steam roller that the mo gul used iu India to run over people. It sqcoshed them to death and was very terrible. It had eyes painted on it like a dragon and snorted steam when it was running. They are no huguenots enny more." Joha Bright and Lord Maaaers. In one of his speeches in the house of j commons jchn Bright quoted in a spirit of bauter and ridicule the well known toes written by Lord John Manners iu his callow youth: Let wealth acd commerce, laws and learn ing die. But leave us still our old nobility. Lord John, who was present, imme diately got up and pulverized the great tribune by retorting, "I would rather be the foolish young man who wrote those lines than the malignant old man who quoted them." Mosart. Mozart lived thirty-seveu years. His first mass was composed when he was less than ten years of age, and the enormous quantity of his compositions was the work of the succeeding twenty-seven years. Mozart wrote forty one symphonies, fifteen masses, over thirty operas and, dramatic composi tions, forty-one sonatas, together with an immense number of vocal and con certed pieces in almost every line of the art DaMeas. Stippler Did Miss Kutts admire your paintings? Dobber I don't know. Stippler What did she say about them? Dobber That she could feel that I put a great deal of myself inte my work. Stippler Well, that's praise. Dobber Is It? The picture I showei her was "Calves In a Meadow." j Why He Wanted aa Aatearaah. A young man once wrote to William Dean Howells for bis autographT The novelist replied in a typewritten line: "Have you bought my last book?" The young man answered: . "I bave not. I want to sell your auto graph in order to get money enough to buy- it LOVE CHARMS. t the e)eer Saaeratltlaaa That Ure la Slelljr. N The love charms of 'Sicily are many and curious. One, very popular ami considered very powerful, is to put Into an eggshell a few drops, of the blood of the longing lover. The shell Is exposed to the sun for three days and to the dew for three nights. It Is then placed on hot ashes until calcined, when the whole Is reduced to a fine powder and administered secretly in a cup of coffee or a glass of wine to the object of affection. Another charm is for the witch to. undress at midnight and tie her clothes up in a bundle which she places on her head. Then, kneeling in the cen ter of her room, she pronounces an in cantation, at the end of which she shakes her head. If the bundle falls hi front of her, it is a good sigu; should it fall behind her. the charm will not avail. Yet another is worked in the follow ing manner: Pieces of green, red and white ribbon are purchased iu three different shops, the name of the per sons to be charmed being- repeated mentally each time. The shopkeeper must be paid with the left hand, the ribbon being received in the right. When all the pieces are bought they are taken to a witch, who sets out to find the person to be charmed. On finding him or her the witch mutters to herself. "Wtth these ribbons I bind you to such a one." Then she returns the ribbons to the purchaser, who ties them beneath his or her left knee and wears them at church. Macmil lan's. DIED A BEGGAR. The Pathetle Career off Joha Stow, the English Antiquary. John Stow, the- celebrated English antiquary, was a remarkable man. He, was born of poor parents about 1525 and brought up to the tailor's trade. For forty years his life was passed among needles and thread, but in the few leisure hours which his trade al lowed him be had always been a fond reader of legends, chronicles, histories and all that told of the tunes that were past. By such reading he grew to be so attached to old memoirs that when about forty years of age he threw down bis needle, devoted him self to collecting them and followed his new profession with the faith and enthusiasm of an apostle. Short of means, he made long journeys afoot to bunt over and ransack colleges and monasteries, and, no matter bow worn and torn might be the rags of old pa pers which he found, be kept all, re viewing, connecting, copying, compar ing, annotating, with truly wonderful ability and good sense. Arrived at fourscore years and no longer capable of earning a livelihood, he applied to the king, and James I., consenting to his petition, granted to the man who had saved treasures of memoirs for English history the favor of wearing a beggar's garb and asking alms at church doors. In this abject state, forgotten and despised, he died two years later. From the Boaatlfal East. A small proportion of the flora is in digenous. The majority came from the east, like all the great ideas on which our culture is founded, and were developed and improved on this classic soil. Italy received the lemon and the orange from the Semites, who in their turn had obtained them from India. The olive, the fig. the vine and the palm were grown by the Semites long before their cultivation penetrat ed to the west The laurel and myr tle, indeed, are indigenous in Italy, but their use for ceremonial purposes came across the Mediterranean from the east. The home of the cypress is not in Italy, but in the Greek archipelago, northern Persia, Cilicia and Lebanon. From Strasburger's "Riviera. The Saddle. Early Greeks and Romans rode horses bareback. They regarded it as effeminate to ride in a saddle. The modern saddle, with pommel, crupper and stirrups, was unknown to the an cients. Nero gave out fancy coverings to bis cavalry, and the bareback riders of the German forests used to laugh at them. Saddles with trees came into use in the fourth century, stirrups three centuries later. Staaalaa- Slttla. David Slowpay I shall bring yon back those dark trousers to be reseat ed, Mr. Snip. You know I sit a good deal. Mr. Snip (tailor) All right, and if you'll bring the bill I sent you six months ago I will be pleased to re ceiptvthat also. You know I've stood a good deal. London Tit-Bits. Properly Situated. They may say what they like against him," said the convicted one's defender, "but his heart is in the right place." "Yes." assented the other, "and so is the rest of him for a few years." Practical. "What did she say when she beard he was dead in love with her?" "She wanted to know if he carried ny life Insurance.' New York Times. Science aad Morality. The true student of the professional or technical school becomes -heir to a comprehensive and clear understand ing of his duties and responsibilities in bis relations to bis fellow men and to the community. Those duties and re sponsibilities present themselves to his trained mind in their real proportion. He is ueitber nondeveloped nor malde veioped in'his judgment of affairs. His university training, especially In the technical school, has taught him accu racy and penetration in the analysis of any proposition confronting him and that truth and knowledge must be sought with the directness of a plumb Una Science yields nothing but con fusion to the shifty, devious and dis honest inquirer. The fundamentals of morality are the very stepping stones to technical success or professional at tainmentScientific American. Advertise in tke Journal for quick MMlto. BaaaaaaaW aaaaaaaaaaaaaV aaaaaaaaM aaaaaKaaaaaw Baaaaa BaaaaaaaW BbIH..HbbI'bbbbbbbA bH VLbbbV GAJ3XX STORE GROCERY Department These prices good up to and including Jan. 1st. Fancy apples guaranteed sound and in good "conditon per barrel . . $2.75. Per bnshel . . . . 1.00 Walter Baker's Chocolate per cake . 15c 7 pounds Golden nugget beans for . . 25c 3 cans choice sweet corn for . 25c 3 lb pkg Loose Wiles family soda crackers for 21c Navel Oranges per dozen . . . . 15c Large lemonade tumblers (pure mustard) 10c Large pkg Anchor matches . . . 15c 2 cans choice Reindeer salmon for . 25c 2 cans choice eastern pears 25C 2 pound pkg Puritian pancake flour . . 8c 5 pound jar Monarch apple butter pure and ' better than you can make yourself, per jar 40c 4 pounds Santa Clara prunes for . . 25c Pint bottle Snyder's catsup . . . 21c 1-2 pound Baker's Justice brand cocoa . 20c lO per cent off on all Hard Coal Base Burners.. During the month of January. This will save you at least 20 rather than wait until next season as all stoves have made another advance of . 10 GRAY'S A Paxxled Aataer. When Alphonse Dnudet brought out "Sappho" au American publishing bouse that issued religious books, uot knowing its character, offered M. Dau det a large sum for advance sheets of the work. He accepted the offer, and the advance sheets were sent. When the publishers received them they de cided that they could not issue the book, and they cabled to the author. 'Sappho' will not do." This dispatch puzzled Daudet He consulted witli numbers of friends, and this was the conclusion at which tbey eventually arrived: "Sappho" in French is spelled with one "p" "Sapho," after the Greek fashion. In English It is spelled with two. An unusually acute friend point ed this out to Daudet. which much re lieved the novelist, and he cabled back to the publishers. "Spell it with two p's." It is needless to state that the publishers were more astonished at Daudet's reply than he had been at their cable dispatch. Her Head Wu Hot. Lady Dorothy Xevill in her remi niscences tells this story of the two Misses Walpole. her cousins: "On one occasion, when both of the two were well over ninety. Miss Fanny, the younger, who bad that day been rather ill. only joined her sister in the sitting room just before dinner. On her ar rival downstairs the latter (Miss Char lotte by name) remarked: 'Fanny. I am going to be ill too. I feel so hot about the head. It must be ajopIexy.' 'Nothing of the sort! exclaimed Miss Fanny, making a dash at her sister's bead. 'Your cap's on fire, and I'm go ing to put it out.' And so the brave old thing did." The First Daaeers. People have danced for thousands of years and will probably continue to do so for ages to come. This custom is of aucieut origin. The first people to dance were the Curctes, who adopt ed dancing as a mark of rejoicing iu 1513 B. C. In early times the Greeks combined dancing with the drama, and in 22 B. C. pantomimic dances were Introduced ou the Itoman stage. At the discovery of America the American Indians were holding their religious, martial and social dances. T. G. WALKER LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER NEWMAN GROVE, NEB.x I give special at entfon to all kinds of Auction Sales. Have made sales in eight different states. I am also booked for some of the best thorobred sales to be held in the United States this season. Am thoroughly posted on Pedigrees and the value of live stock and farm property. All kinds of thoroughbred cattle bought and sold on com mission, I also solicit orders for stockers and1 feeders. Can give best of reference as to my work. Terms and dates can be had at my of fice, first door north of the Frst National bank. I have the Monroe and long distance Bell phones. SACRED THREADS. The Cords Wsra ay the Three Caste of the Hindoos. . . The sacretl thread of the Brahmans Is well known. It is a caste distinction assumed at an early age and never parted with. It must be made by a Brali man and should consist of three strands, each of a different color, for-tj--eisht yard in length, doubled and twisted together twice, the ends tied In knots. It must be worn next the skin, over the left shoulder, hanging down to the thigh on the right side. -The 'three castes of the Hindoos are distinguished Ity the material of these threads cotton for the Brahmans. hemp for the warriors and wool for the artisans. The Parsees also wear the sacred thread, and !xys of seven or nine are invested with it. the threads used being made always of fibers of the sum tree. Monier Williams . de scribes the sacred girdle of the Par sees as made of seventy-two woolen threads, forming a flat band, which is twined three times-around the body and tied in two peculiar knots, the se cret of which is known only to the Parsees. The use of "medicine cords" is com mon among North American Indians. Mr. Bourke describes those worn by the Apaches.- These consist of one, two. three and four strands, to which are attached shells, feathers, beads; rock crystal, sacred green atones and other articles, doubtless employed sym bolically. Chambers Journal. Dally Datlea. The best part of one's life is the per formance of one's daily duties. All higher motives, ideas, conceptions and sentiments in a man's life are of little value if they do .not strengthen him for the better discbarge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordi nary affairs of life. Woman's Marked Dewa Ace. Howell You bave a sister older than yourself. I believe? Powell She was born first, but she isn't older. New York Press. A liar is sooner caught than a crip le. Spanish proverb. JT ",- .-.' t, J'-iU 'Jr HKJ'Jii . Zhl-i'iZi-'-'Z? &$:. - y r Zt rt. V,"ffC -