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About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1909)
&A JJi i I ,- II 1 I t If i -I ra n r !1 n I f ' , i ' ,tt 4i S t I T tf llt.l m Mm A J! I ri f Route No. 4. A. L. Bray is moving on the farm va cated by Abegglen Bros. Peter Hageman was putting np iee last Friday and Saturday. Ernest lossi was transacting business in Columbus last Saturday. W. F. Dodds made a business trip to David City the first of the week. Joseph Hoerle and wife left for a two weeks' visit with relatives at Chambers, Neb. The quarantine for scarlet fever was raised from the home of Adolph Liebig last Friday. Miss Gusta Kleuver returned last Saturday from an extended visit with her sister at Glenville, Neb. Ohas. Kola and wife went to Shelby last Saturday, where they will visit a few days at the home of George Bora , Smith Hilliard left last Wednes day for a three weeks' visit with her daughter. Mrs. Jacob Hoerle, at Clear water, Neb. Bert Fish will have a public sale and flitpn of his farm machinery and stock and quit farming. He has purchased the retail oil wagon and will move to Columbus and take charge of it Febru ary L . Adolph Lauden Klos entertained last Wednesday evening in honor of Ludwig Ebner, who is visiting his brothers. Games and social entertainment was the order of the evening and a good time is reported. The Abegglen Bros., who have been living on C. H. Sheldon's place, having disposed of their farm machinery and took, loaded a car Tuesday evening and left for Kearney, near which place they hare purchased a farm. District No. 4 and Vicinity. G. Zimmer was in Columbus Monday. John lossi shelled corn for John Boh rich last Monday. Wa. Gossman was at Platte Center X, on business last Saturday. Christ lossi is getting ready to move on the farm he bought last fall. Connor Brothers attended the show at Platte Center last Friday night. Ed Higgins is building an addition to the barn on the farm he bought last falL Simon lossi visited his sister, Mrs. Wax Newman, east of Columbus Satur day and Sunday. Quite a number of teams from this neighborhood were helping to fill the Zings ioe house last week. Alfred Ioasi and Albert Heasler of Columbus visited with the lossi Brothers from Friday until Sunday. The Frank Kamm sale last Thursday was not very well attended on account of the weather, but the cattle brought a vary good price. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Donoghue were pleasantly surprised last Saturday night by a number of their neighbors. The evening was spent in dancing ana at 1 1;90 a lunch -was served. At a late hoar the young people departed for their homes, all having enjoyed a good time. Advertised Letters. Following is a list of unclaimed mail matter remaining in the post office at Columbus, Nebraska, for the period end ing January 20, 1909: Letters W J Anderson, A J Coulter, M T Jaquith. Joseph O'Neill, Alphonse Shupbach, Christ Sakellazopoulos. Card Lydia Bechlund, Miss May I Highkicker, Frank Hall, Miss Eva Hen nesy, Joe O'Neill, Fred Wales (2). Parties calling for any of the above will please say advertised. Oab& Kramer, P. M. FOE SALE-A BARGAIN. 160 acre farm, located 12 Miles soutk of Columbns, 5 reom house, barn for 10 head kfjrses, granary, corn crib and chicken liouse. This farm will be offered for $40 per acre for a short time. Elliott, Speiee & Co. mkm m 4k OLIVER CROMWELL Presented by Bliss S. Ethel Brown of Washington, D. C, and 1M of the best local talent of Columbus. ' The most magnificently costumed production ever seen on a local stage. i-i 4. fc fi A tf ft I M Itrlli Iptra Imm jMtiq- A- 22 jBBBBBBflsBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl JBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsW w m m m The Will and Its Application. An Individual's win is like a big piece of strong machinery; the intel lect must direct its workings. The biggest muttonhead on earth can have a strong 'will; the real strength is in knowing how to use it. All of life's experience goes to teach us thafvery few arguments, quarrels or distressing situations are worth a fight. Instead of following an impulse to gain re venge, it is always more satisfactory and decent to back up and forget Controlled by Combine. There is a trust in fuller's earth with the final process known only to one or two persons, whose lips are rigidly sealed. The deposits of fuller's earth exist chiefly at Bath and Not tinghamshire, England, and at Maxton, 4n Scotland, in addition to deposits in the London district The industry is practically controlled by a combine which strictly preserves the methods of preparation of the earth. " j.itatf Army Dogs. The German army dogs are so trained that when they find a dead body they set up a prolonged howling. If no one comes they take the dead man's cap or some small article, and with this in their teeth go on a hunt for their trainer, whom they lead to the spot If the man is wounded he gives his cap to the dog and the same object is accomplished. Animal World, London. The Woman Who Works. The woman who works is inevitably a woman who is broad in her views. Her opinions are not riveted to any one spot Her viewpoint is movable. Her experience in the business mart gives her sympathy for other woman workers. She has learned to accept every friend, new and old, at an hon est valuation. She learns to enjoy the society of people who have made some thing out of life. Exchange. Youthful Chivalry. The five-year-old son of the Rev. Stephen S. Wise was driving up Fifth avenue. New York, recently with his mother. As they approached the en trance to Central park she called his attention to Saint Gauden's famous work, the equestrian statue of Gen Sherman led by Victory- "But, mam ma," he queried, "why does not the gentleman get off his horse and let the lady rider Lithographic Stone Quarry. Stones which are used by the lithog raphers all over the world in making colored pictures are -found in a little district not more than four or five miles long by two or three broad near Nuremberg, in Germany. Quarrying has gone on there for more than a century. What He Wanted. Little Wallace, dining with his grandparents, repeatedly called for rice. His grandmother said: "Patience, Wallace; do have patience." To which the little fellow quickly replied: "1 don't want some patience, gwamnia, I want some wice." Cause for Anger. Because a neighbor lured away his excellent cook a Jersey man is build ing a spite fence between his house and that of his fortunate rival. Prob ably he doesn't want to see how happy the other fellow Is. Possibilities of a Moment We "cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the out lash of a murderous thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. George Eliot A Family Failing. The star pupil arose at the school entertainment to declaim his piece. "Lend me your ears!" he bawled. "Ha," sneered the mother of the oppo sition, but defeated, pupil, "that's Sarah Jane Doran's boy. He wouldn't be his mother's son if he didn't want to borrow something." Tit-Bits. Cure for Love's Wounds. Vanity is the collodion of love's wounds. Unless the cut be very deep let a little of the gelatine of self-esteem be smeared over the injured sur face and allowed to harden, and in a few days there is not even a scar to tell the tale of a blighted heart COAL. We have all the leading grades of soft- coal. Also Penna. hard coal and Semianthracite furnace ooaL Newman & Welch. kwktm Given under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Congregational church Admission. 25c and 3tc t'ekart open Monday moral at Pollock's Here's an opportunity to get a Smart Sack Suit or Winter Overcoat way below actual value Our January Clearance is inaugurated with the greatest offering of Sack Suits and Overcoats ever seen in this city. If you need a suit or overcoat, or can anticipate your needs for next year, don't miss this sale. All the correct stylos, all worthy fabrics (guaranteed) and all sizes are here. And keep in mind please, the fact that FINER SUITS AND OVERCOATS ARE NOT MADE even to special measure at double our regular prices. Now to get them at these closely cut prices means a saving to you worth grasping. $10.50 Takes any Sack Suit that was $12.00 and $15.00 $11.75 Takes any Sack Suit that was $15.00 and $18.00 $13.75 Takes any Sack Suit that was $20.00 and $22.50 $18.75 Takes any Sack Suit that was $25.00 and $27.50 $7.50 Takes any Overcoat that was $10.00 and $12.50 . $10.50 Takes any Overcoat that was $13.00 and $15.00 $13.75 Takes any Overcoat that was $18.00 and $20.00 $18.75 Takes any Overcoat that was $22.50 and $25.00 $22.75 Takes any Overcoat that was $27.00 and $30.00 If you want a perfect-fitting, superbly finished, service giving garment, you can safely choose any one of this collection GREISEN BROS. NOT ALWAYS EASY TO SMILE. Did You Ever Practice Cheerfulness In Narrowing Circumstances? It is comparatively easy to be pleas ant and cheerful when our biead-and-butter problem is solved, when we are strong and healthy, when we have har monious, comfortable homes and money in the bank; but the test of character comes when there is a fam ily to support, when a wife and little ones are looking to us for bread an1 clothing, and the wolf is pretty near the door; when we are struggling against poor health, a discordant home, a dishonest partner. It is a very difficult thing to be cheerful and hopeful when a man is out of a job, with no money In the bank, and an invalid wife and children depending upon him. It is comparatively easy to be optim istic when the granary is full, when there are no clouds on the horizon, but a very difficult thing to be hopeful and cheerful when the capital is small and business poor. It is hard to be optim istic when notes and bills are coming due and there is no money to pay for goods which lie unsold on the shelves. It is easy to smile when we are well and everything is coming our way, but when everything goes wrong with us, when undergoing misfortunes or hard ships, when those near to us are sick and in distress, when poverty pinches, when the flour is getting low in the barrel, and hungry children look long ingly into one's face, then it is not so easy to smile, to give the cordial hand shake, to be serene, balanced and poised. But this is just the time that real character, that fine training, will stand one in good stead. Orison Swett Harden, In Success Magazine. Champion Carrier Pigeons. B. A. Fogg of Hunts Mills, Garland, is the possessor of some rare carrier pigeons. He has one pair of which the father and mother have a record of flying from Minneapolis, Minn., to Bos ton in 50 hours. For the last thousand miles of their flight they flew against a northeast storm, arriving with ice and snow frozen to their plumage.' This pair had never flown west of Buf falo before. They partook of no food on their trip. Mr. Fogg also has a pair of-English carriers, the father and mother having a record of flying over 5,000 miles. These birds are the same breed as those that flew from the bal loon of Andre, the Norwegian explorer, who perished in his attempt to reach the north pole. He has also 12 homers that he has been flying from points In, Maine. One pair has a record of flying from the Bangor fair grounds to Garland, 25 miles, in 28 minutes, and from Skowhegan, 50 miles, in 60 minutes. Kennebec Journal. Gesturing Over the Wire. "It was the constant gesturing of that fellow at the other end of 'the wire that made it so infernally hard to catch what he said," growled the man who had been wrestling with the tele phone. i'How In the world could you tell he was making gestures?" asked the in credulous listener. "By the jerky way the words came over the wire. Many people get so excited when telephoning that they gesture as frantically as If they were talking to a man face to face. Their bouncing around and sawing the air breaks the voice and the sentences come over the wire in fragments. I have talked with so many people who, I learned later, were dancing a jig at the other end of the wire that I al ways can tell when that gesticulating is going on." Course of Justice In the Punjab. In his report on the administration of the police of the Punjab in 1907 the lieutenant governor states that the more serious the crime the greater the chance of escape. from law.. Con victions were obtained lm only 41 pef cent, ot the murder cases, they were obtained in 64 per cent, of the attempts to murder and in 74 per cent, of the cases of culpable homi cide. The district magistrate at Jul lundur states that it is getting harder every year to obtain a conviction in the sesisons court, the plea of enmity raised against the prosecution being generally held to suffice to throw doubt on the statements of their wit nesses. Calcutta Statesman. Not Very Useful. A man who stuttered badly went to a specialist and after ten difficult les sons learned to say quite distinctly: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." His friends congratulated him upon this splendid achievement. "Yes," said the man doubtfully, "but it's s-s-such a d-d-deucedly d-d-difficult rem-mark to w-w-work into an ordi nary c-c-convers-s-sa-tion, y' know." Everybody's Magazine. Would Not Grasp It Readily. "Mr. Plume," said the German friend, into whose section the under taker had lately moved his business, "do you think you will grasp the Ger man language readily?" "Hardly," responded the jovial un dertaker, slapping his friend on the back. "You see, your language is not a dead one!" Bohemian Magazine. In the Shop. The lady had looked at about twenty trunks without finding one to her sat isfaction. At length the salesman sug gested that if she could give him an idea of what she had in mind he might be able to suit her. "I want," said the lady, impressive ly, "a smaller trunk than this, but one that olds 'nor'" Careers for Young Men. In a wider sense than ever the world ! Itn.. 11 !.... 41.A r.,v AnnAAtMll.i ilea an uuuic iuc juuug caicuiaiij the young who possess ability for them to choose. Many possible careers lie open to a man where only one pre sented itself 50 years ago. Able men find many other openings, each and all more financially remunerative. The church has ceased to be one of the three professions to which a young man's eyes were inevitably turned. The Sunday Strand. To Protect the Food. It is not foreign meat alone that re quires to be looked to. Our own home supplies call for more rigorous inspec tion, and to this end we must have public slaughter houses, where all meat can be inspected, and possibly a central clearing house, where the in spection would be a realiity and not merely a name. Sanitary Record. Forced to Consume Bakers' Bread. In Dundee, as in other manufactur ing towns in Scotland, bread is sel dom made in the homes of wage earners. They economize rigorously in other ways, but pay the bakers a profit on their big four-pound loaves. There are no facilities in many of the one-room and two-room houses of the poorer workingmen to make bread. Much Timber Goes to Waste. A writer in the London Times esti mates the yearly destruction of tim ber by rotting for lack of use, in the great forest of Uganda, in the region near the source of the Nile, at not less than one billion cubic feet. Home Cure for Eczema. Take pure pine tar and rub sore places. Apply at night, letting It re--main on until morning. This is a sure cure and the only thing that will help the hands. Good. Egotism. We draw the foam from the great river of humanity with our quills and imagine to ourselves that we have caught ioatlng Islands at least Goethe. EXPERIENCE TAUGHT HIM PITY. Wealthy Man, Forced to Go Hungry, Now Feels for Unfortunates. "I've been in a good many tight places," said the New York broker, but only once in a position which caused me to cinch up my belt, as the Indian does when his stomach begins to clamor for food. "My wife and I recently took a trip up into Canada and out west, return ing by way of Buffalo. , When we reached that historic city I found my self suddenly and unexpectedly broke, owing to a combination of circum stances which it is not necessary to relate. Of course we had our tickets home and I was anxious to get back at once. I had a few cents in change, so we took coffee and rolls before boarding the train, to avoid a dollar breakfast on the car. This sus tained us satisfactorily and we re garded the matter as a good joke, which would furnish us a laugh all the way home. We took our seats in the car with just ten cents in my pocket as an available asset. When I am at home and busy my income is anywhere from nothing a day to a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we are rather good livers. As the day wore on, our habits began to assert themselves, especially when other people began eating. We thought about broiled quails, French arti chokes, mushrooms au beurre noir, as paragus salad, and other little lunch eon items of which we are fond. Noth ing doing. y "'Would it be possible to get any thing for ten cents at a station?' asked my wife. 'I know there are people who spend only a few cents a day for their food. What are the necessaries of life, anyway?' "I decided to investigate, so at Al bany I got off the train and made for the poorest looking lunch stand 1 could see. I wanted the largest quan tity for the least money a luncheon for two people. Meat, fruit, butter, eggs or coffee was out of the ques tion. I confided in the proprietor After considering deeply,, he dragged forth from under the counter a basket of antique and decrepit soda biscuits and sold me six of them for a nickel These, he assured me, would be fill ing. He supplemented them with two apples for the other nickel. "Since that experience I have been contributing rather freely to all the societies that make a specialty of feeding people." Foreigners in American Colleges. It Is estimated that more than twelve hundred young men and wom en from foreign countries are this year studying in American colleges and universities. This is more by some hundreds than ever before and has been generally commented on, particularly In the east, as indicating the widening influence of American teaching. It is not chiefly scholastic teaching, however, that these welcome visitors from the countries of the world will absorb and take back with them to their distant homes. However assidu ously they keep to their text books and however much they may try not to Imbibe the ideals of government, of liberty, of conscience and of conduct, they are bound to be influenced by them. Returning to their homes after completing their courses of study, they will become traveling advertise ments of what America has to offer to the people of the earth. They will, whether they intend to or not, be the means of spreading Americanism over the earth. The colleges of the United States are doing missionary work of lasting value in encouraging and wel coming this foreign patronage. When the Almanac Originated. The origin of the word almanac is derived from the Arabic words aland manah to count and thus aptly ap plies to the measurement of time. Al manacs In ancient days were em ployed by the Alexandrian Greeks but BBBBBBBBBBBBrA. BBBBBHBBBBBE B BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBS SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbI Lbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb) LbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbY bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbm B bbbbbbbbbbbH bbbbbbbbbbbbV .bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbH vC sbbbbbbbbbbbbbY bbbbbbbbbM .sbbbbbbbbbbt bbbbbbbbbbT 9B sLF " WviiiT?9 mmJkW IE it is uncertain when they were actual ly introduced into Europe. In 1150 A. D. Solomon Jarchus pub- j lished an almanac, but the first printed one was brought out in Vienna in 1457 by the great astronomer Purbach. The most celebrated almanac maker was the dabbler in magic, Nostradamus, and since this time almanacs with pre dictions have been in vogue, and their weather lore and pictorial prophecies have invariably appealed to a large number of people who are apt to put unswerving belief in the cryptic re marks of Zadski and Old Moore. Getting Even with Susie. "You'll be six years old to-morrow, Richard," said mother, "and I wish to give you a nice birthday treat. Tell me what you would like above every thing else." "Well, ma." said Richard thought fully, "just buy me two pounds of that 80-cent candy an' invite that Susie Engel in to watch me eat it." Envy. "Julius Caesar's literary attain ments were truly wonderful," said the student. "Oh, I don't know," answered the discontented youth with inky fingers. "Anybody could get his stuff pub lished with a pull like Julius Caesar's." The Tally. "What are these notches in your gun?" asked the flirt, who was visit irig the ranch. "They repiesent men," replied Cac tus Sim, "who thought they wuz smarter than I wuz." "A good idea! I'll have to notch my arasol handle." Louisville Courier Journal. Law. Of law there can be no less acknowl edged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feel ing her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condi tion soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy. Richard Hooker. Things Have Changed. No longer do a ring, a thimble, and a piece of money answer for a fortune telling cake for girls. No, indeed! The day is long past when marriage, spinsterhood and rich inheritance were the only careers open to the sex. A twentieth-century cake must have a tiny glass bottle standing for either a doctor or a trained nurse, a little china doll meaning a teacher, and as many other symbols as the ingenuity of the hostess may devise. New York's consumption or lea. New Yorkers drink tea as well as other things, and it is estimated that one pound of the herb is consumed by each inhabitant yearly. Spend Much on Patent Medicines. A New York Broadway druggist estimates that the people of the city spend $3,980,000 each year for patent medicines. Strong Test of Friendship. Good friends can walk together, talk together, read together and work to gether, but you must be more than good friends to do nothing together. Daily Thought. We alone can keep the true record of our thoughts and are exclusively responsible for their character. Imperfect Man. Richter: Man's great fault Is that he has so many small ones. German Proverb. Good counsel la better than a tfcoa s Maine Sexton for Sixty-Six Years. After 66 consecutive, years' service Obed W. Russell has resigned as sex ton of the Union church in the town of Phillips, and he is probably the dean of Maine sextons. And for all these services he has never accepted a cent in payment. All the old Phillips families of his time have been greeted by the sound of the bell rung by Mr. Russell's steady hand, and when the last scene of all came it was Mr. Russell who sounded the knell. In those days there was a custom to signalize the departure of each member of tha church by tolling the bell at intervals of about 30 seconds to the number of the departed's years, and on many occasions Mr. Russell has been called from his warm bed to climb the steeple in all sorts of weather. Pure Iron at Last. Chemically pure Iron has never been obtained until very recently; it has been found almost impossible to re move the last traces of impurities, es pecially of sulphur. But a German chemist. Dr. H. Kreusler. has finally, by a long series of Ingenious pro cesses, partly chemical and partly electrical, succeeded in isolating the pure metal, the properties of which he reports to differ greatly from those of the impure iron that we know. Iron prepared by Kreusler's process resem bles platinum. Slaughter of Vermont Deer. While the open season for deer In Vermont, which closed recently, is only one week, it is estimated by cor respondents of Boston papers that two thousand animals fell victims to hunters' guns. The average total of deer killed in past years, since the open week was established, is 700. Under the Vermont law hunters are allowed to shoot only one deer each. By Being Fired. "Ruggles, how did you catch that cold?" "Well. I'll tell you, Ramage. I lost my job the other day. It was the first time such a thing had ever happened to me, and I got kind o reckless, you know, and exposed myself, and and" "I see. You caught it on the first bounce." To Cure Love Madness. Dr. Berillon of Paris sas that love Is simply a "fixed affective idea," and the symptoms are an increased sen sitiveness of the left side, hand, wrist and left temple. To cure it all one has to do is to set up a counter Irrita tion, give the boy or girl physical ex ercises that will bring into play the muscles of the right side, and, behold, the madness is cured. Decided. Gabby caller came into our office to-day and asked us whether we called our job a profession or a business. We answered right away, wfthout stopping to think that it was a pro fession while we were writing the dope, but a business such a business when we were trying to sell it. This is an epigram. We made it. Cleve land Leader. Luck and the Gambler. Luck is another name for -superstition. The whole betting mania Is based on pure superstitious belief In a blind chance that will somehow torn and help a fellow out Borne time. And that's why the innocent victims keep coming in a never-ending stream, beg ging to be shorn. And verily, they are not disappointed. Conscientious, Indeed! "I notice that a leading actress telephoned that her automobile was broken down and she couldn't attend a meeting of her creditors." "Wasn't that sweet of her! Going to all that trouble for a lot of fussy old) creditors.- ejsr'r -r i