lC--v-"-S-' '-Vsv-
ir
s
if
i S
I-'
x Si
ik m
$
K f.:
l .,
p ?
Irj 3S
ft
I'i
8
$
4.
Si
I
-s
r
i
Columbus fouruaL
Vfemr.
HD41. DECEMBER 18. 1MI.
ft. G. STROTHEJt
F. C STftOTHER, .
MMBtka LuTiiurinil ap to Jaa. I. WW.
SMS to VMh. ! Mi eBS"ee en Wham parMBt
SUMSw.
iUhM-iimiiw smif suiir " joedoaet
- - " ----- tv m-
earths -pi tar km
rjXA&asar
CMiMI m .U)DMHB1nOgrl
It is about tine to resolve upon
i good resolutions lor the coming
year.
President Roosevelt has again as
sured the American people that he
will not accept the nomination for the
presidency. People who are in the
habit of telling the truth hemselves
will believe him. Most of our demo
cratic papers will not, of course.
The city of Boston, Maes., has had
a democratic mayor for the last year.
Last week it elected a republican
mayor. Nearly every city in New
England had an election last week,
and nearly every one went republican
and this is a panicky time, too. That
doesn't look much like Bryan next
year, does it?
For July 7, at Denver, Colorado,
the democratic national convention is
called. Denver really bought the
convention and $100,000 was the price
paid. It matters not that the location
is not central for such a gathering, it
cats no figure that the hotel and hall
accomatendatioDS are poor, the poor
democratic committee wants the hun
dred thousand dollars, and we re
publicans of Nebraska do not kick.
It is a foregone conclusion anyway
that Bryan will be nominated, and the
attendance compared with the re
publican national convention at Chi
cago will be like a funeral as com
pared with a state fair.
When we examine the election re
tarns of the last presidential election
and see that Roosevelt had a popular
majority over Parker of over two and
one-half million votes, and also notice
that since that time every election hss
shown no material change in the poli
tical sentiment of this nation, we can
not doubt the result of the coming
presidential election. Every northern
state will again go republican, Ken-
tacky, Missouri and Maryland will be
in doubt, with the chances largely in
favor of the republicans, and the bal
aaco of the southern states will go de
mocratic. Another defeat for Bryan
will not hurt him in the least on the
contrary, he will be in greater demand
aa a chautauqua orator, and that
Mans gold and silver dollars in his
There is not a healthier citj; in Ne
braska or in any other state than Col
nmbas. It is true we have had more
casses of contagious diseases than us-
ami this season, but not a single fatal
ease. There has been three or four
eases of diphtheria, but all have re
covered and at preseat there is not a
ease of diphtheria in town. We have
had a few families down with scarlet
fever, but not one serious case and all
a the road to recovery. We had an
unusually large number of small pox
cases, but not one fatal case. The
umber of patients is decreasing. Our
authorities are enforcing the quaran
tine regulations and our people should
and in moat cases do assist them. The
school board is frequently having
vary school building and every room
thoroughly . fumigated. We make
tuinaw
jggtettgaa'fc
atMBMl h ' SO aBaDBamOBWfc
ICTOJfc"
W i.
Don borrow uour fun
Have your own.
r U- trr. a
, uavc victor, a
awj4 sat jIaIImm mI.
'-it."1"1 """i wee
soloists; the great bands and orchestras; the
popular ballad singers; the comic song hits
a world of melody and fun.
Well tell you all about ,the easy-payment
plan today if
For sale by
Carl
i
these statements, not tohidc aavthing,
but to assure our people and our
friends that all rumors about there be
ing so much sickness here in-Colum-bus
are untrue or exaggerated.
The Union Pacific railroad
pany is by far the largest taxpayer in
Platte county, it has by far the largest
pay roll in Columbus, as Columbus
and Piatte county are directly inter
ested in the success and prosperity of
the company. Oa the other hand,
Columbus is one of the best paying
points on the Union Pacific road.
The company has excellent paying
branches running out of here, and it
seems as though self interest if noth
ing else, would tell the maaageateat
of the road to have better accomoda
tions for their large patronage at this
place. The round house of the com
pany, for instance, is always filled with
engines, and often as high as five or
six standing outside. It takes but
little knowledge of these things to
know that engines should not be ex
posed to wind and weather, and that a
larger round house would soon pay
for itself. It is astonishing that a
company handling the thousands pas
sengers the Union Pacific does here,
should have but one small waiting
room, and attempt to crowd all the
men, women and children into it, rain
or shine, hot or .cold weather. Gener
al Manager Mohler, in his letter to
the railroad commission, says the de
pot is too small because Columbus
people make it a loaring place. Mr.
Mohler must be a total stranger to
Columbus. No sane Columbus per
son goes to the depot waiting room if
they can help it. It is always too
crowded with waiting passengers and
the atmosphere and surroundings are
anything but inviting.
MUXIOHB TO SAVE LIFE.
ItatU Vy tk Ualasi
It is often charged that human life,
in the present age, is held of little
value. Whenever there h an accident
in which lives are lost, sensationalists
generally bring forward the argument
that great employers of labor do not
exercise the right care for the protec
tion of life. The annual report of the
Union Pacific Railway, shows among
other interesting things, how great has
been the effort made during the pant
year to reduce to the minimum the
possibilities of accident and of the des
truction of human life and personal
injury incident to the operation of
railways.
During the past year about f 2,000,r
000 were expended in the installation
of safety appliances, all for the pur
pose of reducing to the lowest possible
degree the chance of accidents. That
this expenditure has not been in vain
is shown by the comparative report of
the loss of life and of personal injury
on account of accident For the year
ending June 30, 1907, the total num
ber of employes killed on the Union
Pacific System was 66, and injured
859, out of a total of 27,000 employes,
and 95 per cent of the injuries were
very slight During the year 1906,
63 employes were killed. During the
year ending June 30, 1907, there were
but three passengers killed and 166
injured. In 1906 two passengers were
killed and 135 injured. During 1907
those employed as postal clerks, ex
press messengers, eta, one was killed
and 39 injured, compared with 3 killed
and 15 injured during 1906. Other
persons who lost their lives during the
past year through railroad accidents
of the system number 35, with injuries
to 45, against 46 killed and 73 injured
a . a s mi . a s a a
in two. rne total aiuea in ait acci
dents for the year 1907 was 105. The
total injured 1104, against 114 killed
and 1983 injured in 1907.
When it was taken into considera
tion that the increased business hand
led by this company is indicated by
increases of 2.66 per cent in tons of
freight carried one mile and 12.87 per
cent in the passengers carried one
mile, 10.16 per cent in the total train
mileage and 5.71 per cent in the total
Have it at home.
n
snuui payment down avmis
-- !.-. - a
gives you me grana
il
you'll calL
Fnittli
L5T
llthStrm
Z
! i jf
The Most Dearahlo Xms Gifts
FOR MEAN; YOUNG MANgflND BOY
; something to wear. This store is literally alive with
--suggestions for making
practical, useful presents.
First there is
Clothing
s.
$10 to $30
FOR MEN AND
YOUNG MEN
'You can't give "him" any
thing that will be thought more
of than a Suit, Overcoat or Crav
enette Bain Coat; for this cloth
ing is the finest made ready-to-wear
looks precicely like cost
ly to-measure-made garment?.
Then there are
Famey Waistcoats in a
choice variety of beautiful
. silk and flannel vestings, sin
gle and double
breasted $1.50 to $5
Bath Botes Blaaket aai
1 Terry Clotb in plain and
.novel weaves of light and
dark colorings f3.50 to $10
Xmas Cravats 25c to $1.50
Silk Suspeaders in handsome
. gift boxes. 75c to $2.00
Silk Handkerchiefs in plain and
" fancy weaves 50c to $1.50
GREISEN BROS
- Columbus, Nebraska.
.1 1 i " ir - -. i ! it I, U i
car mileage, the decrease in the loss of
life is remarkable.
The principal train accidents during
the year, include a collision between a
running wild freight car and a freight
train near Cheyenne on August 20,
1906, in which one engineer was killed,
one fireman and one brakeman injured.
This accident was due to failure to
properly set the brakes in the Ghey
enne yards.
On September 4, 1906, through de
fective track near Red Buttes, Wyo
ming, a passenger train was derailed.
One trespasser beating his way over
the line was killed and another tres
passer and ten passengers injured.
On October 9, 1906, a passenger
train was derailed by broken rail near
Wamego, Kansas. One conductor and
forty-six passengers were slightly in
jured.
On October 10, 1906, freight trains
collided at Ridge, Wyoming, owing t
overlooking f train orders. Two
engineers, one fireman and one brake
man were killed and two firemen in
jured.
On December 3, 1906, one brake
man was killed in a collision between
freight trains near Point of Rocks,
Wyoming.
On January 2, 1907, at Brule, Ne
braska, two passenger trains collided,
causing the death of one passenger and
injury to seven passengers, four mail
clerks and four employes. The cause
of this accident was improper flagging
and control of trains.
On March 25, 1907, through failure
to observe signals, two freight trains
collided at Gilmore Nebraska. There
were no persons injured.
On May 15, 1907, freight trains col
lided at Red Desert, W)oniing,due to
carelessness of an engineer and causing
alight injury to oue uogioeer.
In all the above cases, employees re
sponsible for the accidents were dis
charged, after careful inquiry made
into the accidents by special boards of
inquiry, which have been provided for
daring the past year, and which con
sist of officials of the road together
wiin persons ox prominence, integrity
aad reputation who may be selected
to fill a place upon the board.
Carefully compiled statistics, the re
sult of close inquiries, during the year,
have supplied basis upon which the
management of the road are acting
with a view of reducing accidents to
the minimum. A system of tests was
established three years ago for the try
ing out of the watchfulness of employ
ees relative to the signal system.
These teste are conducted on all divi
sions. A school of instruction, or a
board of examiners passes over the
system each six months drilling both
new aad old employees in the matter
of transportation rules so that all may
think,' kaow and act uniformly in the
performance of their respective duties.
With aa educational system and with
the protective measures that are em
ployed, it is more' than likely that
during the next year, there will be a
atill farther decrease ia the number of
aeddeats, aad in the lorn of life aad
panoaal injuries on the Uaioa Pacific
J!
Kl
.tffita
aaaaA
asamv " ' amnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaBBBn
aamnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm
smunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm "
smanvsmnnv '
BSBBSBBW aBSBBSa!
mnnnnnnnr "bbbV
Linen Handkerchiefs 25c to 75c
Kid Gloves, all the latest
shades and makes...$l to $2.50
Silk Mufflers in rich colorings
and white and black..75c to $3
USED POISON OF RATTLESNAKE.
Preparation That Made War Arrows of
Cherokee Indians Deadly.
An old Cherokee Indian recently
gave away the secret how the Indians
of olden times used to poison their ar
row heads for war purposes or for
killing bears, according to the Denver
Field and Farm. They took a fresh
deer liver, fastened it to a long pole,
aad then went to certain places where
they knew they Would find rattle
snakes in abundance. About midday
the rattlers are all out of their dens,
coiled up In the cooking sun. The
bucks would poke the first rattler
they found with the liTer on the long
pole. A rattler, unlike common snakes,
always shows fight in preference to
escaping. The snake would thus re
peatedly strike at the liver with its
fangs until its poison was all used up.
whereupon It would quit striking and
try slowly to move on. The bucks
would then hunt up another rattler
and repeat the performance, keeping
up the work until the liver was well
soaked with snake poison. Then the
pole was carried home and fastened
somewhere in an upward position until
the liver became as dry as a bone.
The liver was then pounded to a fine
powder and placed in a buckskin bag,
to be used aa needed for their arrows
This powder would stick like glue to
any moistened surface and was death
to any creature which it entered on
arrows.
Troubles of an Amateur.
"I thought you bad gone to rais
ing bees," said the man from the city.
"I don't see any signs of them arouad
here." "I bad half a dozen colonies of
the finest bees I could get." answered
the suburbanite, "and a whole library
of literature on bee raising; but they
swarmed one day. and while I was
looking through my books to find out
what was the proper thing to do whec
bees swarmed the blamed things flew
away, and I've never seen 'em since."
Underwood
Standard
Typewriter
For Speed
Safety, Surety
A solid roadbed is es
sential Visibility &
Speed in the Under-'
wood (TabnUtor) type
writer are supported
by perfectly balanced
construction.
daWiWaT Tipmitar
1617 Farnam St.
Omaha
aiBBnlBBBBBBlBlBlBlBlBlBlBlBmm&SL
BsBTwaBBBBHaVBamnavmaVBiaanB
iiS
CYNTHIA'S CAREEI
By FLORINCK KMHT
That I am now engaged to Cynthia,
aarf the happiest man in the world bar
jnone I owe to a newspaper dtecaa
sion. It happened la "this wleef Wheal
I arrived aa nsnal to spend .the after
noon with Cynthia, I found her, to my
'great surprise, iaameraed larth paper.
SLe never even troubled to opei
as a rale. She waa lying In the
mock, a great bash oTerlmaoa rhod
odendrons forming aa approprlato
background to her dainty blue gown.
Per- maaaer waa distinctly distrait,
and she replied at random to all I
said.
"Paper very Interesting?" I said at
last, rather tartly. I had inquired after
the health of her aunt, and Diogenes,
the black poodle, and related my own
small stock of happenlags at the war
office.
"Er nm I beg yonr pardon. What
did you say V asked- Cyatala, looking
over the edge of the paper at me,
and blinking her forget-me-not blne
eyes absent-mindedly.
"How Is The Hague conference aw
ing? Or perhaps it's the money mark
et you're so absorbed in?" I said, dls
sembllag my feelings, not very suc
cessfully. I had looked forward to the
customary delightful afternoon with
Cynthia, and without undue vanity it
was annoying to be so overlooked.
"O, dear, no. But there's something:
really Important in the paper today,"
and she nodded gravely at me.
"Indeed! Yon surprise me." I re
plied, dryly.
"Yes. But It la puzzling. I can't
make-up my mind. What do you think
is the best career for women?"
"To sit in a hammock, wear their
prettiest blue frock and make them
selves agreeable to their friends," I
said promptly, and a special emphasis
on the last phrase. ',
"Oh! Thafs so like a man when you
ask his advice. I see now what you
are. You're just one of those men who
want women to be dolls "
"Well! Even that's a career of
sorts isn't it?" I interjected. She
Hashed scorn at me, and I immediately
regretted my flippancy. "But haa any
thing happened? I don't understand."'
I hastened to add.
"Of course not. Men never do. Men
never think that -women want a ca
reer some purpose in life as well
as themselves."
"Oh! well," I conceded, "some wo
men perhaps. But you you are
surely not thinking "
"Of a career? But I certainly am.
This discussion In the paper "
"Oh! that's it," I interposed gloom
ily,, beginning to see daylight ia the
thing.
Haa been" so' illuminating so
realizing." ' She drew a deep breath,
and looked far away over my head at
the clouds. "J never thought before of
the possibilities In life for women.
Just think what It mast be to a wo
man to be Independent To be a great
doctor a great writer or or "
She stoped, enthusiasm seemed to
choke her.
"Or what?" I aaked. rather brutal
ly. Where did Ioome in. in all thla?
Cynthia's had not been the only reve
lation. "Yes. Or what? Go on " I said.
"I I'm thinking." ahe announced.
with a little pout
"Or a great judge, or an engineer,
or a statesman? There are so many
careers open to women, aren't there?"
I added sarcastically.
She at last admitted that their num
ber waa rather' restricted at present
"But they'll open up as time goes on."
she concluded enthusiastically and
waved her hands in space, vaguely.
I permitted myself to smile In a
superior manner.
"Oh! you're too tiresome for any
thing this afternoon." she cried,
springing nimbly out of the ham
mock. "I'm sorry," I said. "How can I
make amends?"
"Go and get my sunshade out of the
hall aad tell them to bring tea out
here." I hastened to do her bidding,
and found her strolling in the shrub
bery on my return. She called me to
look at a robin's nest we had been
watching for some time.
"Yon know," I said gravely, handing
her the' parasol, "I'm not sure. Bat
I don't think that women who go In
for great careers have men to fetch
and carry for them."
"Nor She looked Incrednloua. "But
why not?"
"Well, I scarcely know. Bat perhaps
i it's because they haven't got time for
the frivolities."
"Oh! But that would be horrid."
She looked quite pained.
"What? Horrid? To be Independ
ent Why. I thought you said just
now "
"Yes, but I didn't mean that sort of
independence." She gave a little stamp
of her foot "I think men ought al
ways to do thiags for women. Don't
your She looked appealiagly at me.
4 "Certainly. "Tie the whole duty of
man." I paused, then I said, "Yon
propounded a conundrum to me just
now."
"I did. sir." She looked at
arch-
"Well! rve guessed it Cynthia."
She did not resent my use of her
Christian name that was a good sign.
I drew a little closer to her. We
were quite free from observation by
the robin's nest and stole my arm
around her waist
"If -I tell you the best career for a
woman, will yon promise to adopt It?"
"How can I promise till I know"
'It is marriage. Will you try It
with me?"
Superlatively Parliamentary. '
"There's a mottn before the abnae,"
says Mme. President hoMlag the gav
el so that her riaga came mto tao
foregroaad. "What la yourwhdi re- j
gardiag It?" "Mme. President" ho
llas the aew member, rising: wtth..a
flatter. "Mrs. JuaUa." raeomlaaa
the preaMeni 1 move that 'the' aae-
uon aa carried.
Post
For faaey Wedding Stationery,
or CalHseaide; don't fail to tie
Columbia Phonographs I
t
in
and all
late
Records
Condon & Walker
A LACE. I
HANDKERCHIEF ,
After seven days at sea we plunsed
into summer the glorious blue, g! aw
ing sKicmer.of the subtropical Vtlan
tic. Tiny white waves . iped the
sides of the bis ship all day. aad now
that evening was come, and the awn
ings rolled back for the sake of the
air. pink, purple, orange aad gold
phosphorescence, shimmered all about
us.
The evening was too fair to spend
beneath the glare of the electric lamps
in the smoking rooms, so I remained
on deck.
The deck was empty and the lights
lowered everywhere, save la the smok
ing room, which glowered like a hugh
jewel through the traaspareat night.
The band had ceased playiag. I
mused idly and started, "with eyes that
say nothing, on the gleaming' waves
of opal Are that leaped in the wake
of the ship.
Very gently I moved forward. The
whole stern of the ship was bathed ia
the whiteness of the moon and looked
as though saow had fallen on the
dack and touched the taffrall with
long lines of silver. Behind the ship
the flery seas heaved and plunged, aad
against all stood one figure.
I caught my breath as I first saw
her tall, svelte, exquisitely molded
into a high, tight-fltting bodice of a
black silk dress. Her face was to
ward the moon and the sea, but the
lovely lines of her shoulders, that
tapered to the waist and then spread
again to the rounded hips, told me
that I was looking: upon no woman of
the northern country.
The woman raised a hand aad
threw aside the wisp of gauze that
had veiled her head, and in the white
light her hair gleamed like the gold
of the sun and I knew that I looked on
a Creole girl. I forced all my will
into my ardent eyes, hoping to make
her turn, but only aa elusive perfume
floated about me and now and then
the blue smoke of a cigarette hung
about her like a misty cloud. I must
find out who this gracious being was.
this young thing that stood ia the
moonlight; with every supple muscle
throbbing rjesponsive to the movement
of the shljpi
I moved! oat of the shadow lato the
light; an absurdly small handkerchief
lay on the deck. My lips parted to
speak, bat she waa keeaer of sense
than I, for she heard me and turned
sharply around. "Oh! My handker
chief; thank yon so much." She put
out a hand as white and qink. as dim
pled and soft aa a roseleaf. and I so
contrived that, aa she took the hand
kerchief oar fingers met through the
filmy lace. "What a divine night." I
murmured, foolishly, while my eyes
devoured the oval of her face, the
tangle of her golden hair, the ripe red
Bess of her parted mouth
She drew a cigarette from a gold
case that awnng at her side.
"Let me give you a light." I cried,
and then had the esctasy for one mo
ment of seeing the smooth grain of
her skin and the long curling lashes
that veiled eyes which I guessed must
be violet by daylight, but that now
looked velvet blackness. She spoke
but little while we stood there, bat I
was content to catch the lily perfume
from her hair aad Bote the slender
liaea of the round throat. "To-morrow,"
I ventured to say, as she tossed
the burnt-out cigarette Into the waves.
"Perhaps," she answered, and with
a bow. she left me.
For four days and nights of burning
tropical splendor. I watched for her
HOLIDAY
GflOCrMES
plete; Such as Christmas Can
dies and Nuts, Fresh Fruits and
Vegetables. Absolutely the best
on the market.
Brimken & Hanev
The latest songs on
Gold Moulded
Records
256
We are aole agents in this
city for the Columbia Phon
ographs and carry a com
plete line of their goods.
,
coming as'the ship plowed" on Into the
heart of the sun and the glow of the
heat. We were aeariag the equator;
the staterooms and cabias were un
bearable. Part of the deck was ar
ranged so that passengers could sleep
in the open, but I never passed the
night there or In the forepart of the
vessel, while others sat for hoars to
catch the faint breeze made by the
ship. 1 always waited on the spot
where we had first met. and one night
I found her there.
After that night of blue and silver,
our eveaiags on deck were many, and
the evenings grew to night, and found
us standing or sittiag ia the shadows
aad looking at the rouad red moon
that shone in the blue enameled sky
like a golden guinea. We talked ia
whispers, and were too earnest ever
to laugh, and told each other much of
many things in the past and more of
one thing in the future.
Thus many sunsets passed to dawn,
when we kissed and parted maay
times, and stole quietly away to our
cabins. Even thus was our last night
on board, except that she did not stag,
but wept bitterly as I kissed her for
the last time, and said the future
might be an awakeaiag.
The next day I stood at the head of
the gangway to see her laad. The
English went off first, still too thin,
and still laughing; the massive south
ern women followed, rolling their vast
bodies and flashing their fine eyes un
der absurd hats. I had hoped that she.
my lady of the moon and of the phos
phorescent seas, would have some
message for me aa she left the ship.
But she never passed, aad all that I
learned of her was from a note found
in her cabin Inclosing thla tiny bit
of lace aad lawn, still wet with her
tears, and saying that If she landed
she would be claimed by a man she
could never love, aad there would
come aa end of our delight. The laca
aad lawn are a, little yellow, the team
are'dry. the perfume has passed, but
one corner keeps the embroidered
name, "Carita."
First Idea ef the Telegraph.
Long before Prof. S. F. B. Morse
had perfected his great laveatton the'
word "telegraph" was used for a sort
of semaphore. In the French revolu
tion a "telegraph." assisted by tele
scopes, was devised to carry news
over immense distances. Forty years
before thia time, however, there waa
published the first detailed scheme for
communication by meana of electricity.
It la outllaed ia a letter to tan Scots
magazlae. written February 1. 1753.
from Renfrew and signed "C. M." Thla
suggestion was to transmit n "charge
from the conductor of an electrical
machine at the sending station alone
aa insulated wire to the receiving ma
chine, the presence of the charge be
ing ladicated by the behavior of a
light pith ball or the passage ef a
spark." Each letter of the alphabet
was to have a separate wire, so that
aay word mlgkt he spelled
any message seat.
"Time, the Great Healer."
A doctor who had treated a patient
for a long time without giving relief
finally wrote to him that he coaM do
no more, aad that tempua edax reram
waa the only remedy. The patient im
mediately west to a drag store and ap.
plied for the remedy. The druggist
gave him a bottle of some kind of mix
ture and charged him a large sum for
it. After the pattest had taken the
compound for some time he met hln
doctor and thanked him for the won
derful prescription, which had cared
him. The druggist's trick wan dis
covered aad the patient sued him for
the money spent on the
clae.
First-data printing done at tae Jour
nal oflee
OUR Line of
good things to
eat for the Hol
idays is com
T
I
i
9
f
-
I
4
the Jonraal agar with job.
. '
-'
JU i
'" vUA5','3ft.
s At -a5.A,iJ"t
