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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1007.
R. G. STROTHER Editor
F. K. STROTHER r.". .Manaeer
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The state meeting of the Young
Men's Christian association will be
held here on February 7, 8 and 9,
with over two hundred delegates in
attendance. And our people want to
be hospitable and entertain this con
vention properly. We want to make
a united effort to build a fine Y. M. C.
A. building at Columbus.
Down in Texas Senator Bailey did
not propose to take any chances on
re-election. Keeping in mind the old
saying that "a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush," he made sure
of his re-election and then let the in
vestigating committee investigate.
And then it is more difficult to oust a
nan from office, in the face of a re
election than to prevent his re-election.
There is no good reason why the
meetings of the board of regents of
the state university should be held in
secret The meetings of boards of
education, city councils, and all public
bodies are held open and above board,
and if our university regents are not
willing to have the public know all
that is going on, a law should be pass
ed to bring them to a proper sense of
the obligation they owe the people.
The day of star chamber sessions for
such bodies are past and the university
regents ought to be the first to re
cognize this.
The Union Pacific railroad is con
templating either enlarging our pres
ent passenger depot, or tearing it down
and erecting a new one Columbus
with all its branch roads is certainly
entitled, to a nice new commodious
passenger depot' Our Commercial
Club and city authorities should make
a united appeal t- the U. "P. officials
to put up a first class building while
they are making the change. Colum
bus surely has a great future before it.
The power canal is bound to come,
-and very soon, too, but whether it
does or not, Columbus will always be
a thriving, livelv, prosperous city, and
the Union Pacific railroad will build
up its own business when it gives us
an up to date depot, large enough to
accommodate the patrons.
The Commercial Club considered a
proposition for a chatauqua, to be held
here July 28 next. Ordinarily we
could greatly favor the holding of a
chautauqua meeting in this city. If
they are properly managed, they are a
benefit to our business men, and help
to educate and improve our whole
community, but this year conditions
are rather peculiar. Our good people
are very anxious to establish a live
and active Young Men's Christian
association at this point. To have
such an association in a suitable build
ing is quite an undertaking. It will
take work and it will take money.
Everybody will be asked to contrib
ute. It is very probable that solicit
ing of funds for a chautauqua may
interfere with our Y. M. C. A. build
ing, and we deem the latter of more
importance.
Amending the state constitution has
been up before every legislature in
recent years., Last fall the railway
commission amendment was endorsed
by the state conventions of both par
ties, and was adopted. Heretofore it
has been the custom for one party to
submit amendments, and not present
them to the state conventions for en
dorsement, with the result that they
failed of adoption. The plan proposed
in Senator Aldrich's bill of the gover
nor appointing a non-partisan commis
sion, composed of the ablest lawyers
in the state, to draft the needed amend
ments and then presenting them to
the state conventions for endorsement,
would mean that the necessary amend
ments would be adopted, and a big
saving in dollars and cents to the
state. The amending of the state con
stitution can be effected in 1008, along
the lines mapped out, and the question
settled for many years.
The committee appointed to inves
tigate the second class rates of postage,
which applies to newspapers, has sub
mitted its report, and in the main it is
Csttirdy satisfactory. The committee
tokee tke same ground as those who I
tef?2Sfrj&&cr7&i
were instrumental in having the origi
nal rate established, and seeks to cor
rect the abuses that have grown under
present conditions. The legitimate
newspapers are to enjoy the same
privileges,- but the so-called story
papers and kindred literature used
primarily for advertising purposes are
to be classed at a higher rate. One
objection to the report by the daily
press is the section that, eliminates the
magazine section, as ail the newspaper
must be printed on the Mime quality
of paper. Some of the magazines will
be compelled to curtail their adver
tising, as the commission recommends
that a periodical shall not carry more
than fifty per cent of its space as
advertising. N -
DOINGS BEYOND THE COUNTY USE
The boy stout on his father's neck
And dad he did not peep
lfccanae he lived in Fuller-ton
Where all are dead asleep.
The contract has been let to Nofrolk
parties for the erection of a $14,5X
Methodist church. The Juroiahinp will
cost about $2,500. The structure is to
be pressed brick with stoue IrimimtiuM
and will make a very nice improvement
for Albion.
On Wednesday last at the home of the
bride's parents, in St. Edward, occurred
the marriage of Miss Mary M. Sissoa to
Mr. George E. Graham of Albion. Both
bride and groom are popular young peo
ple in their neighborhood, and the bride,
Miss Sisson, will be remembured in Co
lumbus as a relative of Lester Sisson,
who lost his life in the Spanish-American
war.
Edward Vail, a well known young at
torney and a resident of Albion went to
Omaha the other day on business.
What bubiness he hud will be eeu
by the following comment by the Omaha
Bee: 'Edward Vail and wife of Albion
Nb., registered at the Iiler Grand hotel
Wednesday afternoon for a bhort stay in
Omaha and were assigned to the bridal
chamber. The young couple will return
to Albion after a1 wedding; trip. Mr.
Vail is a prominent young roan of the
Nebraska town."
Nance county which joins Platte
county on the west & about to undergo
a change of its western ioumlry line,
providing the bill in ltti favor which is
now before tbe legislative is passed.
The Fullerton News-Journal says: "Sen
ator Gould of. Greeley has prepared a
bill to change the boundary of two
counties, Merrick and Nance. The bill
does not propose the traubfe; of much
territory. There is a strip of land three
quarters of a mile wide aud nine miles
long ou the west border oT.Nance which
by mistake in old surveys or descrip
tions of the boundary line Btill remains
as a part of Merrick. As a result, a
portion of one tier or sections is in
Nance and the other portion of the
same sections in Merrick. Senator
Gould has a ranch which extends across
this narrow strip. His land is in live
counties, Merrick. Be one, Greeley,
Nance, and Howard. People living at
the north end of the narrow strip have
to go south twelve nules co vote. A
map has been prepared by Senator
Gould to ihoiv the land which he de
sire to have transferred. News Journal
The community in and around St.
Edward, in Boone county, the .citizen
have recently experienced an electrical
period which caused considerable dam
age in a financial way. It was not an
atmospheric eruption, but .a general in
vasion, to tha. locality, ol ifour three
quack doctors who claimed xo do every
thing but tell the truth. They con
vinced enough of the well to rf!o citizens
that they secured and sold noies to the
amount of 1,300 that their electrical
appliances was just the thing tu restore
youth, make hair grow on a baxd head
that never did grow a wad of hair as big
as a peanut, take crooks out of a rheu
matic limb, and even claimed to make
the blind see. They told the people
that they were suffering from ilU'thnt no
other remedy but theirs could drive out
of their system, and that only for their
strong constitution they would long ago
have been in the grave. This epeil had
a tendency to frighten the victim, and
before aware of the situation had sigt.ed
a note and the qnack was in the buggy
headed for the nearest bank to get his
money. One good reliable farmer was
touched for $300 which he pnid P. T.
Barnum told the truth when he said the
American people liked to be humbugged.
JUast Wednesday night at Albion a
number of the leading business men
met to discuss theprobilitit of securing
a cewrailroad for that place. A gentle
man by the name of" Waterman, and
promoter of tbe new proposed road was
present and before the audience un
folded bis plans and thoroughly discuss
ed what the new enterprise meant. He
explained to his hearers that the new
road is to be an independent trunk line
and is sure to be built from Omaha to
the Black Hills. The only point he
Buttered on was the trail thru Boone
county. It might run thru Albion and
up the Beaver; it might run thru Boone
and up Plum Creek or.it nught strike
8t. Edward and go np the Bc-gus. But
there seemed to be a sort of psychologi
cal feeling prevading tbe little gathering
that a certain amount of "unrighteous
mannonn might determine the route.
Just how much "nlthy loci e" it would
lane to run the thing straight thru
Albion he did
not press me to say.
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Moderate -Price
Calumef
L Baking $
Powder jf
timoOwlll bottom for
nynbtnce injurious to
But from certain winks, nods and
suggestions would infer that it would
take a clean 320.0(H) bonus before the
citizens of Albion could hear the whistle
of the engine on the new road. Yet
that amount dots not look big to the
people up there and should the road
-ver be built they will try for a piece of
it weather the enterprise does them any
good or not.
All Nebraska today is end over the
ileath of Wm. M. Robertson, of Norfolk,
wnich occurred last Tuesday week, ai
his home. He was a pioneer in our
stite, a leading jurist, helped to frame
our prt-nen:. state constitution, and wide
ly known in oth-r states as a lawyer of
more than ordinary ability. The Albii n
LXew iu speaking of hts worth as a pio
neer citizen ana a man of honor says:
"William M. Robertson is dead. He suc
cumbed at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning at
his home in Norfolk. Attorney of state
wide reputation, twice a prominent can
didaie for the republican nomination for
governor and in many other ways a dis
tinguished member of tke party, promi
nent 13 mentioned in connection with the
forthcoming appointment of a district
judge in the Ninth judicial .district, past
exalted ruler in Nojfolk lodge No. CSS,
Benevolent and Protective order of Elks,
and up to the time of his deuth president
of-the Norfolk Commercial club. W. M.
Robertson closed an active public career
at the aue of fifty eight years. For the
past couple of weeks Mr. Robertson had
been ill with an attack of scierois of tbe
liver, an ailment from whieh lie has been
a suffejer for years. Not until a few
days ago, however, did his condition be
come so serious as to alarm his family
and fronds. Late Saturday night Dr.
Somers of Omaha was called in consul
tation over the case and he confirmed
the statement of Dr. Salter that there
was practically no hope for recovery.
Mr. Robertson is survived by a wife, one
son, S. D. Robertson, and a daughter,
Mrs. Williams of New YorK. Mr. Robert
son enjoyed tbe respect and esteem of
the legal profession of the state and he
was a man with oiao friend-, not only
in Norfolk but in ail parts of Nebraska.
He was often called upon to .speak jor
various occasions. A jear ago he deliv
ered an address at Albion at the Com
mercial club banquet. Three years ago
last Jail he delivered an addrecs at the
Neligh carniv.il. He deli vei ed the funer
al oration over the' remains of the late
Otto TappeTt and on the second day of
last month he delivered the address on
the occasion of the annual memorial
services of the Elks in this city. His,
closing paragraph in that address is sig
nilicaut at this time He closed the
speech and it was his last public utter
ance with these words: Welittleknow
what the future has in 6toreforus We
can not. lift the veii and gel a glimpse of
the future, but let us press on dointr the
best we can, so far a life's duties are
concerned, with the hope that the world
will be better and not worse ou account
of our having lived in it.' Mr. Robertson
has been an active republican all his life,
and -has held a number of prominent
offices. He was a mem tier of the Ne
branka constitutional convention of 1875,
which drafted the i-rcsenl stale constitu
tion. In 1887 he was appointed by Gov
Th.iyer as commissioner to represent
Nebraska at the centennial of the adop
tion of tht constitution of the United
States held at Philadelphia, was a dele
gate to the republican national conven
tion in lSSS to 1892. He was appointed
register of the United States land office
at Ne'igh by President Harrison and
served three years, and has served one
term as mayor of Norfolk. He was a
member of the G. A. R , the R H , a
member and pist exalted ruler of the
B. P. O. E.
Farms for Sale.
Improved farms for sale, Platte and
Boone counties. First National Rank
Coal
We have the following Conls now on
hand: Rock Spring Lump and Nnt and
Slack, Colorado Lump and Nut, Kear
ney Lump, Trenton Lump, Weir Nut,
Semi Anthricite Furnace Coal, Hard
Coal both sizes, Best Pensylvania.
Nrwmax & Welch
NOTICE FOK CONSTRUCTIVE SEUVICE.
Sophie E. Farrcll. defendant, will take notice
that on the 25th flay of Jannaiy, 1007, Everett J.
Farrell, plaintiff herein. fil'-l his petition in the
district conrt of PlaMe count), Nebraska,
djnuunt said Sophie E F.invll, the object a d
praerof rid pe'ition boint; to cnn a divorce
from t-aid defendant, from the liomtaof matri
mony and to have the marriage contract decl-rfd
null and void aad of no further force and effect,
on the ground thnt said defendant willfully
deserted paid plaintiff for a period o more than
two yearn.
Yon are required to answer said petition on or
before the 18th day of starch. W07.
EvzuETT J. Fakbeix, plaictifT.
By his attorney. ('. J. Ciarlow.
Dated Jan. . 1907. jan-SCUt
NOTICE TO SON-RESIDENT.
Strans Brothers Company will take notice that
on the 3d day of January. IG07, John Ratterman.
fnty Jndas of rlatto connty. Nebraska,
issued an onto of attachment for the sn'n of
3.45 in art action pending before him, wherein
John II. Iveronbrock is plaintiff and Straus
Rrothejs Company, a corioration. is defendant
that Mid snm of S23 V. U dne and ..winMJi
plaintiff from said ilafendant on account for
shortage resnltwB from the sale at certain
vSS 0?I-aib,ini ,,,&,th dafof September;
19W, by the said John H. Kersenbrock plaintiff1
that nndr and far virtue of said attachcipnt
proceedings notice nKami hmentwas served
upon one John Lutjeioetcaen, John Lneschen
V.VJrill8'.!0?-00 rhed tlJernder:
ou will tnrther take notice that unles yon
r z&g - ASa,
Dated Jan. M, 1907? lu,me- J
The Siren
By Bmtll Txcr
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Jury returned a verdict in ac
cordance with the coroner's decision.
Deceased, they said, had clearly not
taken poison. Neither bad he died
of apoplexy. Seemingly he had been
In excellent health on the very day
of his death. In the small hours of
the morning, according to the evi
dence, his valet, who slept in a room
adjoining, had heard deceased breath
ing unusually heavily. Becoming anx
ious, he had entered his master's
room and there found the young man
pale as death and quite unconscious,
with wide-open eyes and pupils ex
traordinarily distended.
At once he had hastened in search
of a doctor, but by the time the doctor
had reached his master's room life
had been quite extinct. Deceased,
though pronounced by his friends a
man about town, had not, they said,
been addicted to violent dissipation.
Neither had he been addicted to
drugs or 'to alcohol. A rather remark
able feature in connection with -the
case was the statement that no less
than four other young men of social
standing had been found dead in their
beds under circumstances almost ex
actly similar, and that within the last
few months. As on the previous oc
casions the verdict returned this
morning was that of "Death from nat
ural causes."
"Phoebe Vincent let the paper drop
from her hands and smiled. A very
beautiful woman in the prime of her
life, and gowned to perfection, few
knew whence she came or who she
really was. Rumor had it that her
husband had died under a cloud, also
under circumstances said to have been
"mysterious." But nobody much cared,
least of all the men men of position,
all of them, and not a few of rank
who figured so largely among her vis
itors. Indeed it had come to this,
among a certain set, that not to know
Phoebe Vincent was to argue yourself
out of date.
"Poor boy," she said at last -"I al
most feel sorry at times, and yet "
She looked steadfastly for some
moments at a framed photograph on
her silver table. Then her gaze rest-
"You Lie!" She Exclaimed.
ed on several portraits, framed and
untrained, on the mantel. They were
portraits of men, most of them, the
majority portraits of men well under
40. Some were portraits of mere boys.
"Pah!" she exclaimed. "I shall do
it again. I know I shall. It gives me
pleasure, such intense pleasure. Per
haps it gratifies me even more than
it gratifies them while It lasts."
After a little while she rose and
pressed the bell.
'3 shall want the brougham to
night," she said, as the maid entered.
"Tell John I am going to the opera."
"Tristan and Isolde" was over. In
the portico of the' opera house police
men and others bellowed down the
line of carriages. Within the hall
men and women mingled, awaiting
their turn to depart.
Beside the inner entrance a tall and
remarkably good-looking youth, exqui
sitely groomed, stood wrapped in'ad
miration of an extraordinarily hand
some woman waiting alone not many
yards away. Seemingly the woman
was ignorant of his presence, of his
very existence. Tet presently she
turned her head carelessly and at
once her eyes met bis. As -they did
so she smiled at him and almost
bowed. Taken aback he instinctively
raised his hat.- A moment or two
later he stood beside her.
"I believe I 'have had the pleas
ure " he began rather awkwardly,
but the woman set him at once at his
"It is charming to meet. you," she
said, with another entrancing smile,
and extending a well-shaped hand
from beneath her handsome opera
cloak. "My brougham is so long com
ing, could you, I wonder it would be
so dear of you find out where it is?
I am quite alone."
She looked at him meaningly and
he returned the glance. Then he dis
appeared in the chattering throng.
"How very bold you must think me,"
she said, as they drove together
through the badly lighted thorough
fares. "I wonder, now; if you know
my name.
He mentioned it at once and ahe
,;ave a aeugnuuiutue lauga.
As tfcey passei swiftly down Broad
way a gloved hand presently stole
softly Into his and the fingers very
gently pressed his own. At tbe touch
Us whole soul seemed to thrill. A
imoment later he had succumbed to
'the temptation and was kissing her
passionately on the mouth.
"How wicked of you," she said
roguishly. "Really you quite hurt me.
Do you often get like this?"
"I love you dreadfully," he half
whispered, "dreadfully. I have seen
yoa so often. I have so often longed
to peakto yoa. Bat I merer cot In-
trodaced.
: "So yoa tfcoagmt to-alsjkt yoa woaM
waive the Jatroducttoa, She said
lightly. "Do yoa Uss everybody like
that yoa are imtrodaced to? Perhaps,"
she went oa presently, "I say oaly
perhaps, I have soatetlaies noticed
you before tonight.
Four months had passed. In the
boudoir of a Fifth avenue flat a young
man lay half recumbent on a settee.
Over him bent a woman. The man
looked rather wearied. His eyes
sagged slightly. And the woman
peered down-at him attentively.
. "Arthur."
"My darling?"
. "Look at me look right np into my
eyes."
Rather reluctantly he turned his
gaze up to hers.
"Arthur," she said, after a little
while, during which she had seemed
to him to peer into his very soul;
"tell me, Arthur, have you loved any
woman but me since that night since
the night we met? Tell me the trith."
"Why, of course I have not," he re
plied with emphasis, which though ex
aggerated, carried no conviction.
"You lie!" she exclaimed, her whole
attitude changing on the instant. "Ton
lie! And yet you1 swore to me' you
wouldn't you swore you would never
more love anyone hut me!"
Her eyes seemed to glitter. She
was trembling strangely. A great
wave of feeling appeared to control
her. And yet at that moment she
looked to the man more entrancing
than ever.
"Really, Phoebe, my darling," he be
gan, but she checked him.
"You should not lie to me," she said
presently, more composedly and seem
ingly half in jest. "It is dangerous to
lie to me."
He laughed at her a little as he
flung aside his cigarette and made
himself more comfortable.
"Phoebe," he said. "I love you
dreadfully, as I told you the first night
we met, and I always shall love you."
As he spoke he drew the beautiful
face down to his and kissed it.
She offered no resistance. Somehow
on this evening she appeared to him
more seductive than ever Presently
he wondered then he had not no
ticed it before her breath seemed td
fall quite heavily upon his brow. He
could not quite tell why, but as it did
'a sense of intense gratification came
over him, a feeling that was strangely
soothing. And now he felt distinctly
she was breathing purposely upon him
and allowing, perhaps also purposely,
her breath to fall across his face. It
held him spell-bound. His very will
was fast weakening. His mental
faculties were dying.
"You like that?"
The voice sounded at a distance.
He sighed heavily.
At once she bent over him still
more. Now her eyes were riveted to
his.
Then, of a sudden, all life was
blotted out from him," his heart and
brain throbbed painfully; reason and
consciousness alike had fled, leaving
him pulseless, stupefied, inert.
With a visible effort she recovered
herself and rose. Her face was
flushed. Her eyes glistened curiously.
A strange, unnatural fever made her
hot and restless. She crossed the
room and rang twice. Her own maid
answered the summons.
"Call a cab, Aphelie," she said
quickly. "He is ill."
The cab arrived soon. As Phoebe
heard it stop she turned.
"Come, Arthur," she cried rather
loudly. "You must be going now.
Come along."
He rose and looked stupidly about
him. She helped him into his coat,
then handed him his hat.
"Good night," she said, extending
her hand.
"Good night Phoebe my darling."
His speech was slow. His voice
sounded hollow. His eyes, widely dis
tended, with enormous shining pupils,
lacked all intelligence. Mechanically
he took her hand. Mechanically he
passed slowly down the flight of stairs.
Mechanically he pulled himself into
the cab and told the driver his ad
dress. "It Is extraordinary most extraordi
nary." The speaker was one of three mem
bers of the medical profession who
chanced to be seated together in the
otherwise empty smoking room of a
rather well known club.
"To what do you yourself attribute
death?" asked another member of the
group.
"I can throw as much light on the
problem as both of you can which is
none at all," he answered grimly.
"And you say this is the sixth case
of the sort that has occurred in New
York?"
"Yes, and that within a period of
ten months."
"It is most interesting."
"Most perplexing."
"As I say, it is quite as extraordi
nary a case as its predecessors. Well,"
glancing at the clock, "my time is up."
, "I must be off, too."
'"And so must L Good night to
you."
"Good nicht.'
Weaving Done by Nature.
As a weaver nature produces fine
work. Certain tree barks and leaves
furnish excellent cloth, as, for In
stance, the famous tapa cloth used in
the South Sea islands. Nature is a
glassmaker, too, according to the In
dian Review. By discharging her light
ning into beds of quartz sand she
forms exquisite little pipes of glass.
She makes valuable ropes of various
kinds in the shape of tropical vines
and creepers.
Busy Meanwhile.
"Lost your temper, eh?" said the
father, sternly. "Didn't I tell you if
any of the other boys ever said any
thing to make you angry, you should
count 50 before you replied?"
"Yes, sir," replied the husky boy.
But I didn't get time to count 50.
Before I counted 20 the other feller
felled 'Enough.' "Philadelphia Press.
Practical.
"What did she say when she heard
tie was dead In leve with herT'
"She wanted to know if he carried
any life insuranc
t ?? ,
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Fancy
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KEATING and SCHRAITS
If you are not a custo
mer at our store we ask
of you to at least call and
see our provision coun
ters. All goods fresh
delicious and quality np
better to be bad call on
us though you don't buy
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Eleventh Street. Columbus, Nebraska. -1
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IN THE RUSSIAN STYL.
Curious National Customs Observed
at a South Dakota Marriage.
- A double wedding In. the Russian
colony at Rosedale, S. D., south of
Alexandria, lasted through an entire
day and into the evening. The" names
ef the principals were Joseph-Mandel
and Katherine Hofer, and Jrichael
Waldner and Katherine Gross.
The ceremony was begun in the
morning in the little stone church, in
which the old custom of the men and
women sitting on opposite sides still
prevails. The Russian priest deliv
ered a long sermon, and at 11:20
o'clock he called the principals to the
front of the edifice, the women going
first and being followed by the young
men. The ceremony proper was spok
en in Russian, and lasted but a short
time. It was followed by a prayer
and a song and then brides and bride
grooms returned to their separate
seats.
The bridal costumes of the couples
were very simple, the maidens wear
ing flannelette gowns with a hand
kerchief tied over their heads. The
bridegrooms, however, were dressed
a little more fastidiously, in that thsy
wore regular wedding suits, chief of
which was a long coat. A peculiarity
'about the coat is that it Is worn by
every bridegroom in the settlement,
two coats being kept In the settlement
in case of a double wedding, and
whether the bridegroom be tall or
"short, large or small, the coat must
do its duty.
With the ceremony over, the guests
and the bridal couples went to the
eating house, where a big dinner com
posed of noodle soup, bread, beef,
sauerkraut, whiskey and wine was
served. The women occupied one
long table and the men another, but
the bridal couples were allowed to sit
together. With the dinner over came
the interesting part or the ceremony,
and that is the love scene which fol
lows a Russian wedding. The com
pany went to what is called the love
room In one of the houses, where be
fore the assembled crowd the brides
and bridegrooms sat with arms
around each other, billing and cooing,
oblivious to the comments and watch
ful eyes of the others. As a sort of
break in the monotony for the brides
one of the young ladies filled the
aprons of the brides with peanuts and
candy, which they munched with com
placency as the joyous festivities pro
ceeded. At nine .o'clock the love
scene broke up and the day of the
wedding came to an end.
Queer Things Made From Milk.
You could build a house of milk, if
you liked, and it would be as strong
and lasting as though made of Aber
deen granite, says M. Glen Fling in
Technical World Magazine. More
over, all the fittings could be made
of the same substance, and they
would outlive the finest ordinary ma
terial that was ever constructed.
Billiard balls, combs, fancy boxes
and many 'other things are made from
the new substance, galalith, which is
made from milk.
There is really no limit to the
articles which can be made from gal
alith. It takes dyes readily and in
ferior grades are colored. The best
remain white, however, for white gal
alith brings the highest price because
of its similarity to ivory. The first
grade of white galalith is made up in
to knife handles, and it brings al
most as high a figure as would so
much ivory.
Galalith is the best substitute for
Ivory ever discovered, for It is smooth
to the touch, retains its soft, creamy
tinting for years, is not marred by
soap and water and, unlike celluloid,
is proof against fire. It does not chip
or crack like bone, and can be cut
into the most delicate shapes, being
tough and not easily broken.
In Austria something like 100,000
quarts of skimmed milk are used daily
for the purpose of making galalith.
and the Industry is largely on the in-
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crease. TTif artrcle describes
process of making this queer
stance.
the
sab-
Didn't Come in Blue.
A woman who wanted soap of a
certain make asked for a blue cake.
"It doesn't come in blue," said the
clerk. "It is made in yellow, white
and green."
The woman seemed disappointed,
and finally bought another brand of
soap in the desired tint.
"That is a queer fad," said the
clerk, when she had gone out. "Many
women are carrying the color scheme
to such extremes nowadays that they
use soap that matches the furnishings
of the room. In order to meet this det
mand manufacturers are turning out
soaps that almost every known tint.
The color they are most deficient in
is blue."
The Divine Collapsed.
A certain eminent preacher in a lit
tle Now England town was asked by
one of his flock who was more noted
for his wit than his religious tenden
cies, if he had heard the latest defini
tion of Intemperance and Eternity.
He replied that he had not. and re
ceived the following definition: '
"That intemierancc was a wile of
the devil, and eternity was a devil of
a while!"
The divine collapsed.
Kaiser's Appointment Startles.
Emperor William has startled Ger
many by appointing Bruno Paul, the
caricaturist of Simplicissimus to be
director of the Berlin Industrial Art
school. Ilerr Paul's appointment is a
triumph for secessionist art and may
signify the death blow to many old
fashioned ideas.
Odd Thng m Animals.
Unlike most animals, horses have
no eyebrows and hares are minus eye
lids. Consequently the eyes of the
latter can not be shut and a thin
membraneous substance covers them
when asleep. The eye of the owl is
also peculiar, seeing that it is im
movably fix?d in its socket and can
not stir in any direction. To compen
sate for this seeming disadvantage
it can turn its head almost completely
around without moving its body.
If you were to keep a frog's mouth
open many minutes it would soon die,
as, owing to its peculiar construction,
it can breathe only with the mouth
closed. On the other hand, fishes are
compelled to keep opening and closing
their mouths in order to give their
respiration organs full play.
A curious fact about the eel Is that
it has less life in its head than in its
tail, consequently, when killing an eel
the fisherman smashes Its tail; it also
has two hearts. Snakes usually have
their teeth in the bead, but one varie
ty in Africa, whose principal food is
eggs, is provided with a substitute
for them in its stomach.
Wrong.
This story is told of a college pro
pessor who was noted for his concen
tration of mind.
The professor was returning home
one night from a scientific meeting,
still pondering over-the subject. He
had reached his room in safety, when
be heard a noise which semed to come
from under the bed.
"Is some one there?" he asked.
"Xo, professor," answered the In
truder, who knew the professor's pe
culiarities. "That's strange. I was positive
some one was under my bed," com
mented the learned man. Judge. .'
The Woman's Way.
"Many a married man who might
make a fortune is handicapped be
cause his wife demands too much
af his attention.
"That's right Just as soon as for
tune begins to flirt with him klm wife,
gets Jealoaa. ;
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