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For most men the problem suggested by this illustration is more
perplexing than any task which confronts them during the year.
But the man who seeks our aid can say
Be-gone to gift problems.
For uthe lady oi your choice," or for her mother for your own
mother or sister-no matter what their age, vou will find Jiere ' countless
gifty things of special attractiveness to the feminine heart and eye, and
remember this ...-
Wt Dm'! Tax Ytur Punt It Bratify Yaiir Taste
Appropriate Gifts for "Her" Suggestions
Ladies' It Button Length 4&Q fQ
Cape Gloves ipfU S
Hi qa
27x54 Axminster Rug tJJ.n. v-r
36x63 Axminster Rug.... tfO.O
One lot of Japanese Drawn Work and ! garter 98C
Pieces, Dresser Scarfs, worth up to $2.ft, wmie tney iw ai
ie-4 Plaid Wool Blanket, extra heavy, blue, gray, k
tan plaids at
$3.75
Table Linen Set Cloth and Napkins
to match
$5.00, $7. 50, $9.00, $10.00
36 inch Black Taffeta Silk, guaranteed
price
79c, 98c, $1.19, $1.35, $1.75, $2.
Silk Lined Kid Gloves at Sla50
Plaid Black Silk Hose at SliOO
Good and durable CA t ?(
umbrellas for LadieseSlaOU ll fiOU
CHRISTMAS DINNER SET SALE
BEST VALUES FOR THE LEAST MONEY
42 piece Breakfast set in white and gold, Johnson Jfe 7.5
Bros. Semi-Porcelain, Special Price tfJea
7t piece set, white and gold nn rt o John- fe Q J
son Bros, semi-porcelain, looks hke Haviland, at ip S J
104 Piece Dinner piece set of Johnson Bros., Jttl A. 0
beautiful pattern of English dinner ware, at JTeJV
14 piece elite white and gold, regular Havi- m m ff
land pattern in Johnson Bros. English $15. JJ
dinner ware at ; -. .-
1M piece dinner set of VersaiUes White China Jfc 1 A 5
Ransom Pattern, Special Price pva
IN piece dinner set of Haviland & Co. dec- $ OO
orated china, an exceptionally big value.. tpr.Je WW
IN pc dinner set, Versailles china dinner $) OO
ware For-get-me-not pattern, Special value tymt J WW
IN piece dinner set. Austrian China,
you cannot tell in from Haviland
paiiem, apcvuu r iw .
$27.50
Odd Pieces of Haviland & Co's. goods in teas, nut
bowls, marlmade jars, jugs, tea plates, bread and
butters, cream and sugars.
Electric Library Lamp with pretty shades,
5.00. 46.60. 7.50. 410.00
In fact, you can find
a very large assort
ment of practical
Christmas Presents,
in our China department.
$1.25 Housekeeper's Crochet Qfir
Bedspreads at 70V
6 pair Never-darn Hose, for
Ladies, boys and child- a,9
ren, guaranteed for e months for 9
Alligator Hand Bags in a beautiful line
of patterns, price
43.75. 45.00, 46.50, 47.50
410.00
Fancy Hat Pin Holders and Fancy Pin
Cushions
Beautiful Silks for Waists,
50C. 75C. 41.00
Silk Petticoats in Black and Colore at l
$5, $7, $10, $12.50
ChUsa8; 98c to $1.98
Hanpiamfd.$2.50, $3.00, $3.50
Cut Glass Berry Bowls worth
$2.98
COUPONS taken as cash in the China
department during the month of December
WAS NOT THANKFUL
lHUll.4.
Otto Bolt returned last week from his
trip to Denver,
M. Campbell and family were Colum
bas visitors Tuesday.
James Lambertus of Monroe is visit
img with relatives on route No. 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Will are the proud
parents of a baby boy, born on Friday.
James Moore went to Gushing, Neb.,
last Saturday, where he will visit for ten
days with his aunt, Mrs. Ed. Stickley.
Elaever brothers sister Gue6ie and
cousin Henry of OIkahoma, and Miss
Emma Brnnken were guests at the home
of H. G. Person of Columbus Sunday.
lap tilt Church
Sudsy school 10 a. m., preaching 11
a. wl, Junior 3 p. m.. B.T. P. U. 7 p. m.
preaching 7:45 p. m.; prayer meeting
Thursday 7:45. Subject Sunday morn
ing, 'The Birth of Christ" Subject
SuBday evening, "The Significance of
the Hour."
Bar. B. W. Beinhart, Pastor.
Advertised Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed mail
matter remaining in the poet office at
Columbus, Nebraska, fortneperioa ena
ing December 16, 1908:
Letters-Cullie Culberteon (Pulver
Saloon Bldg), R W Bayley, Miss I B
Devore, Mrs A Goodale, Prof John N
McNeil, Miss Beitha Richards, Wescott,
Gibbons & Bragg.
Cards-R VT Bayley, William Finnen,
Clarence Kautz, Miss Lawaeko Kobbey,
Mrs J Lenand, Miss Lillian Russell,
William Schriver 4.
Parties calling for any of the above
will please say advertised.
Oabi. Kbamkb,P. M.
FIND UNKNOWN MEXICAN TOWNS
Card of Thanks.
We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the kind friends snd neigh
bors, who so willingly assisted us in
many ways during the illness and death
of our beloved son and brother.
MBS. JOS. BOROWIAK AXD FAMILY.
For Sale.
One yearling Polled Shorthorn bull
and two Polled Shorthorn bull calves.
Will be large enough for service next
summer. Albert Stengkr.
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A CHristmas Special
IH HI STRAND is one of the handsomest box overcoats
we have ever seen.
Expert tailors have put into this coat such graceful lines, such a
high quality of material and workmanship, that is among the best of
MODERN CLOTHES . '
There are certain distinctive features about this coat too. The
cwff is unusual and adds just the right touch of personality to the
Areaaarkabry fine coat at remarkably moderate prices: $lt to $3t.
GREISEN BROS.
Commission Discovers Places Which
Had No Official Existence.
The geographical commission ap
pointed seven years ago to map the
towns of Mexico has reported the dis
covery of 7,679 towns which were not
officially known to exist and were sub
ject to no federal control. While some
of these places range from 5,000 to 15.
000 population, most of them are pre
sumably small villages.
A Mexican bill village, few of
whose people can read or write, might
easily exist for years happily uncon
scious that It was living under any
government at all. A mule path over
a pass connects the village sufficiently
with the outside world. The sun shines,
the crops grow, wants are few, the old
Indian tribal customs furnish all the
needed law, and having no history, the
land is happy.
There are disadvantages in being
named, catalogued and put on the
map. These 7,679 idyllic towns will
now be invaded by drummers, phono
graphs, fancy waist-coats, automobiles,
lawyers, corn doctors, book agents,
Salome dancers, penny arcades, hand
books on etiquette and politics, and
there will be no place left where the
simple life may be led. These geog
raphers have much to answer for.
WOMAN CHAMPION BEAR HUNTER
A Story of Adventure from the Mon
tana Mountains.
Flathead county contains the dis
tinction of having one of the champion
feminine bear hunters of the west,
according to the Kalispell Bee.
While watching for deer In a
meadow on her homestead, 20 miles
northwest of Kalispell, Frances Jur-gens-KIeinschmldt
was surprised by a
brown bear which appeared in the
brush at the edge of the meadow.
She immediately laid the bear low
with a shot through the body.
A moment later two other bears ap
peared, one of which the lady succeed
ed in wounding, but having taken only
six cartridges with her, was obliged
to return to her house for ammuni
tion. Retrunlng to the scene of action, ac
companied by Miss Haze Whiteside,
the first bear wounded was found in
the heavy undergrowth and at once
showed fight, but was killed by a shot
which broke its neck. The ladies
then took the trail of the other wound
ed animal, but were unable to over
take it, though the trail was well
marked with blood. They then re
turned and skinned the dead bear,
which weighed about 200 pounds.
Needn't Close Doora,
According to a decision by the
state's attorney and the counsel to the
police board of Baltimore the hotel
keepers of that city, under the liquor
law passed by the last legislature
will have little use for the keys to
their barrooms. They can sell liquor
at almost any time.
The Better Groceries -The
Better Business
THAT'S WHY WE KEEP THE BEST
BRUNKEN & HANEY
Xmas Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits,
Candy, Nuts, Xmas Trees
Explanations in Order.
William Kost, an Inspector In the
office of the city engineer, is usually
thoughtful and careful and he really
wouldn't have embarrassed one of the
young women at the city hall the oth
er day if he could have helped it He
had given her some cigarette papers
to clean her ring and when she was
through with them he told her to keep
them. She put them in her desk and
was duly grateful. It was a week later
and the office was full of men when
he looked through his pockets for a
paper. He had none. He looked
through his desk and there was none
there. A bright idea struck him.
"Miss ," he said, "will you
please give me a cigarette paper?"
The men, most of them strangers,
looked at her in astonishment
"Yes," said she, "but really it's up
to you to explain."
He did. Indianapolis Star.
Probably Out.
Caller "Is your boss in?" Office Boy
"I don't know. He went out to tho
club last night and he's been back to
get more money twice to-day." Bos
ton Globe.
Not on the Map.
' There once lived a wealthy, but un
educated, man who owned many sail
ing vessels, and followed their course
over the seas by the aid of an enor
mous atlas.
, "I've just had a letter," he said to a
neighbor, "from one of my captains,
and he tells me that he's been in a
fearful storm, and didn't know but the
vessel would go to pieces. Bat I'll
read you what puzzles me. He says:
The waves rose like mountains, while
the vivid lightning broke the pitchy
gloom. We were driven before the
wind, and put Into great jeopardy.'
"What I want to know is," said the
shipowner, as he folded the sheet,
"where Is Great Jeopardy? I know
It's somewhere in the Mediterranean,
but I can't find it on this map anywhere!"
Noting an Exception.
Mayme I hate these affectionate
girls.
Lucie Why, I always thought you
??ere one of them.
Mayme Well, anyway, I don't want
Jane Jones to kiss me after she's been
eating onions.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.
To Monti Poller, noo-reaideiit:
Too are hereby aotifed that on the 15th day of
iMcemur, laui. Jeanie rouer aied a petmoa
acaiiMt roa in the District Court of Platte
eonatj. Nebraska, the object aad prayer of
which m to obtain a divorce fzom job on the
crooBde of yoor betas of iBaaoKieat ability to
Brorida aairahla intnninm for hen ham
crpady. wantonly aad cruelly refoaed and ne
MMed ao to do, aad that yon hare become an
habiteal drunkard.
. Ton an iqniradte answer aaid petition on or
before Monday. theSth day of Janaary, 1MB.
Jamns Fuixsa. HaiatiC, .
PROF. GERANO
Clairvoyant, Palmist and Magnetic Healer
Do not be discouraged because others have failed to
help you. If you are in trouble. If you are unhappy.
If you have met with losses. If you are unlucky. If you
wish to control the one you love. If business worries
you. If you wish the absent one to return. Possibly
there is some one you love that is addicted to the drink
habit Do not be discouraged, but come to Professor
Gerano. He can cure them. . He has cured thousands and
brought sunshine into many homes when before all was
gloom. Also permanently reunites the separated.
Plath Hotel, Ind. Phone 1661
Readings, SOc. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
MR. COOLEY FAILED TO APPRE
CIATE WIFE'S EFFORTS.
Of Course She Meant It for the Beat,
ut Her Llefe Lord Thought
the Remedy Worse Than
the Disc;
My neighbor Cooley suffered a good
deal last winter from rheumatism in
his breast, aad his wife was badly
frightened about it for fear it should
end In consumption. Cooley could not
be Induced to try any remedy for the
trouble, and Mrs. Cooley was nearly
worried to death about it. At last she
determined to try strategy. She made
a dry mustard plaster aad one night
while he was asleep she sewed It upon
the inside of his undershirt, so that It
would Just corer the rheumatic place.
Cooley dressed mlmeelf im the morn
ing, wholly unsuspicious of the pres
ence of the plaster, and went down
stairs. At the breakfast table, while
he was talking to his wife, he sud
denly stopped, looked cross-eyed, and
a spasm of paia passed oyer his face.
Then he took up the thread of the coa
veraatioa again aad went on. He was
In the midst of an explanation of the
political situation, when all at once
he ceased again, grew red in the face
and exclaimed:
"I wonder what in the No, it
can't be anything wrong."
Mrs. Cooley asked what was the
matter, aad Cooley said:
"O, it's that infernal old rheuma
tism again; come back awfuL But I
never felt it exactly the same way be
fore. Kinder stings me."
Mrs. Cooley said she was sorry.
Then Mr. Cooley began again, and
was just showing her how the ravages
of the grasshoppers in the west, and
tbe potato-bug in the east, would af
fect the election by making the people
discontented, and so likely to strike
at the party in power, when he sud
denly dropped the subject, and, jump
ing up. said:
"Thunder and lightning! what's
that? Ouch! O. Moses! I feel's if I
had a shovelful of hot coals inside my
undershirt." ,
"Must be that rheumatism, getting
worse," said Mrs. Cooley sympatheti
cally. "O, gracious, no! It's something
worse than rheumatism. Feels like
burning into my skin. Ouch! Ow-wow-wow!
It's awful! I can't stand
it another minute. I believe it's chol
era, or something, and I'm going to
die!"
"Do try to be calm, Mr. Cooley."
"Calm! How can a man be calm
with a volcano boiling over under his
shirt. Go 'way from here. Get out of
the way, quick, while I go upstairs and
undress. Murder-r-r-r-, but it hurts!
Let me get out, quick!"
Then he rushed up to the bedroom
and stripped off bis clothes. His chest
was the color of a boiled lobster; but
he couldn't for the life of him tell
what was the matter. Then -his eye
rested upon something white on his
shirt. He picked up the garment and
examined it. Ten minutes later he
came slowly downstairs with a dry
mustard plaster in his hand, while
thunder clothed his brow.
Going up to Mrs. Cooley, he shook
the plaster under her nose, and said
in a suppressed voice:
"Did you put that thing la my
clothes?"
"I did It for the best, John," she
said. I thought"
"Oh, never mind what you thought.
You've taken the bark clean off of my
bosom, so I'm as raw aa a sirloin
steak, and I'll probably never be well
again as long as I live. That lets you
out. You play no more tricks like that
on me. Now, mind me."
Then he slammed the 'door and went
out. Mrs. Cooley doesn't know to this
day exactly what effect the grasshop
pers are going to have on the election.
N.'W. Weekly.
TIM HAD WMUtMt NO CHAfttt
On Thing the RetunUng Traveler
Teefc Note Of.
The Her. Simon Turple'waa aa i "
qaent speaker, but he seemed to aava
a list of sermons which, whea he oaoa
began, he went right throagh to the
end. and then started at the arat ser
mon again, and so on.
A young man la the coagregatloa
was about to leave for South Africa."
but the Sunday before he departed aa
attended the church service.
la .the course of his lecture the mla-ister-
usedxaa illustratloa la which
were the words: "A maa caa easily
purchase two sparrows for threw
pence."
The young man, after being abeeat
for about three years, returned, aad
again on the Irst opportunity attend
ed divine service. Strange to say, he
heard the same narrative by the same
minister, the phrase striking alas most
being about the "two sparrows for
three pence."
At the close of the service the atla
Ister. in his courtesy, came and shook,
hands with the youth, aad. welcoming
him back to his home, asked him if
he noticed any changes about the
place.
The young man, evidently quite un
concerned, replied: "Aye. maa. there's
two or three changes; but there's yla
thing I can see, the price o' sparrows
is aye at the same auld flgger."
TAUGHT LESSON IN COURTESY.
One English Audience That Waa Pe
tite te an American.
That gifted public maa. A. Toxia
Worm, made the preposterous claim
in London last winter, that he would
see to it that there was ao "booing"
of the actors at the opening perform
ances by E. H. Sothern.
This popular English diversion con
sists of bellowing through the hands,
and no first night is supposed to be
complete without these vocal iaterraa
tions. On the night of Mr. Sothern's Irst
performance, some 45 evil-looking
men, bearing blackjacks la their
sleeves were distributed throughout
the gallery and pit.
There was no Interruption from the
audience that night, but only the occa
sional dull thud of blackjacks upon
knuckles. Every hand that was
raised, as a preliminary to the "boo
ing" process, received a quick blow.
Mr. Worm says that he never saw
so many limp hands and so many be
wildered faces assembled la any one
place as he saw that Irst Bight
among the crowd that left the the
ater. At the close of the week that digni
fied Journal, the Times, commented
gravely upon the growing courtesy of
English audiences toward American
actors, and witnessed the case of six
productions by Mr. Sothern without a
single "boo." Success.
Music and Electricity.
The telharmonium of Dr. Cahlll pro
duces music from electricity without
the aid of any musical instruments,
while, on the other hand, the ap
paratus of Dr. M. Dupont, a French
electrician, converts music Into elec
tric currents. To a phonograph Dr.
Dupont fits a microphone in circuit
with the primary of an Induction coll
without its interrupter. Tbe musical
scale or a piece of music Is recorded
in the phonograph, and on reproduc
tion this transforms the microphone
current into an alternating current
with periods changing to correspond
to the vibrations of the musical notes.
The alternating current gives the
physiological effect of hearing music.
Practice will probably enable a person
to recognize the musical pieces by the
currents, and deaf mutes may be given
a means of hearing, while it Is expect
ed that the varying action on the mind
of exciting and calming pieces may
prove of value In treating nervosa patients.
II
YOU'LL make no overcoat
mistakes in this store; and
overcoat mistakes are not un
common. Many a man gets
what looks good when he buys
it; seems like money's-worth;
and proves to be part cotton,
cheap, unreliable.
Hart, Schaffher & Marx
use only all-wool fabrics; and we sell these
fine goods because they're absolutely depen
dable. It's our way of insuring your sat
isfaction in clothes.
We have a fine range ol new models in
these superior garments; long of medium,
box back or form fitting; button high under
the chin; raincoats and auto coats; button
through or fly iront. The smartest lot of
overcoats you ever saw.
Tou ought to see them; well sell you
one if you do. Overcoats $18 to $50.
This store is the home of
Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
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