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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
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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.
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of the best local talent of Columbus. '
The most magnificently costumed production ever seen on a
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.-
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