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AT NORTH THEATRE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Prices, 25c,
Route No. 1.
Henry Buss shipped a carload of cat
tle to South Omaha last Thursday.
Quite a number of windmills on the
route were blown during last Thursday.
The carrier was taking a vacation
Monday and Tuesday and Substitute
Brook took his place.
' Route No. 5.
Mr, and Mrs. A. W. Hahn were at
Osceola Monday.
Thomas Bros, are putting up a new
building on their farm.
A majority of the farmers on the route
attended the wolf hunt Tuesday.
Carrier 5 found a nice beef roast in
Robert Kummer's box last Thursday.
Last Saturday Carrier 5 found a nice
assortment of meat and sausage in
Henry Houser's box, for which he ex
tends thanks.
Walker Township.
Thursday morning Fred Nordgren's
house was damaged by fire to such an
extent that his family had to seek shel
ter with their neighbors. A defective
flue seems to have been the cause of the
fire.
Roy Johnson of Inavale, Neb., a son
of 8. H. JohnBon, a former resident of
Walker township, was visiting friends
and relatives in this neighborhood last
week. He said when questioned about
Bryan's "trick mule," that his dad never
got the mule.
The worst storm since the 12th of Jan
nary, 1888, passed over here Thursday
night. There is hardly a windmill in
this neighborhood intact. We under
stand there was ordered in a few hours
Friday morning, by farmers around St.
Edward and Newman Grove, something
like sixty windmills.
Route No. 4.
Mrs. Wm. Moore is slowly improving.
P. J. Oleason will have a sale and
move to Platte Center.
Nine windmills were blown down on
Route 4 during Thursday's storm.
The Misses May and Anna Dodds re
turned from Cambridge, Neb., last Fri
day. It is reported that there will be two
waddings on the route within the next
few weeks.
Dave Putnam returned to Lincoln
Tuesday, after a ten days' visit at the
home of John Ebner.
Elmer Francis, who has been living
on the Dickinson farm on this route,
has moved to east of Columbus on
Route 1 from Richland.
Ludwig Ebner, who has been 'visiting
his brothers, John and Anton, since the
first of the year, will leave Thursday for
his home at Norwalk, la.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoerle returned
last Thursday from a two weeks' visit
atChambers and Clearwater. During
their absence Henry Seibler was looking
after the farm,
A crowd of young folks gathered at
the home of John Donoghue last Sat
urday night and enjoyed an old fash
ioned taffy pull. Lunch was served and
a good time is reported.
Wm. Plaggeman returned Monday
from a two weeks' visit at Riverdale.
While there be met a number of former
Platte county people and report them as
nicely located and well pleased.
Joseph Micek and Karolina Koza
wen married in St. Bonaventura's
church last Wednesday morning, and
after the ceremony there was a reception
for them at the home of Chas Kula.
Route No. 3.
Mrs. J. W. Albers, jr., is reported quite
- J. F. Goedeken took a load of fat
awiae to" Columbus Tuesday.
GL J. Bisson was on the Columbus
market with fat cattle Monday.
John Mindrup lost one of his valuable
horses last week, through some kind of
Antoaia Meyer of Route 1, Platte
Oeater, is assisting-Mrs. Wm. Behlen
taie
Barnard Hallbuah asd Miss Lena re
twaawkmme Monday "from a visit with
35c and 59c
relatives at Defiance, la.
Fred Buss has bought 2,000 bushels of
corn from Joseph Koprtzka, a portion of
which is being delivered this week.
The dance at the Riens farm was well
attended and the usual good time re
ported, although it was stormy that eve
ning. Geo. A. Syas, the efficient assistant at
the Lutejen farm, was renewing friend
ships at the Martin Albers homeSunday
evening.
J. P. Hagemann's sale, which was to
have been held last Friday, was post
poned until February 8 on account of
the storm.
Arnold Schmitt who is in the milling
bnsiness in Lincoln, came home Sunday
to be present -at the wedding of his sis
ter Tuesday.
Henry Goedeken, who has been spend
ing a couple of weeks visiting his par
ents, left Saturday for his home in Cam
bridge, Neb.
Wm.Behlen took advantage of the nice
price being paid for hogs and marketed
eixty head of fine porkers at the Colum
bus market Tuesday.
Wm. Albers, sr., and daughter, Miss
Anna, were visiting at the old home
farm and also at Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Lange's Monday of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lutejens were
caught in the storm Thursday, while in
Columbus. They started home, however,
but by the time they reached Fred
Wi lie's farm it was so severe that they
had to remain there until the next day.
Ferdinand Seefeld was celebrating his
fifty-fourth birthday Tuesday, ground
hog day, and remember bis many friends
by inviting them to his home Among
those remembered was the carrier of the
route, who wishes him a whole lot of just
such birthdays.
Quite a number of windmills are down
and a number put out of business by the
high wind Thursday night. A few of
the smaller buildings at the different
farms' on the route were moved and
somewhat racked, but outside of this no
damage of a serious nature is reported.
The friends of Jesse Bisson will no
doubt be surprised to learn that
he was married on January 6 to Miss
Blanche Foster of Tulsa, Okla, They
will reside at Miami, Okla., at which Mr.
Bisson is operating a Lyric theatre, and
from all indications he must be prosper
ing.
Preaching services 'were held in the
Shell Creek Baptist church every even
ing last week, the. Rev. Trowlous of
Oreston, Neb., conducting them, Sun
day morning and evening and each even
ing this week until Thursday, meetings
were held by the Rev. Henry Koch of
Kansas City, and much interest is being
manifested and the attendance was
good.
Hilda, the oldest daughter of Mr and
Mrs. Peter Schmitt, of this route, was
united in marriage to George Saalfeld
Tuesday of this week, at 10:30 a. m., the
ceremony being performed in the Ger
man Lntneran church in Columbus,
Rev. Meissler, officiating. Dinner was
served at the home of the bride, after
which the young couple left for an ex
tended visit in Kansas.
Advertised Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed mail
matter remaining in the post office at
Columbus, Nebraska, for the period end
ing February 3, 1909:
Letters Jake Albrect, Miss Pearl
Baker, Charlie Domenek, Miss Minnie
Domer, Miss Maggie Irwin, O'Neill
James Company, Miss Lola M Smith,
Miss Mary Weaver.
Cards Miss May Anderson, B W
AppeL
Parties calling for any of the above
will please say advertised.
Cabii Kkamkb, P. M.
FOR SALE.
160 acre farm, located near
Primrose, Neb., 120 acres under
plow, 12 acres alfalfa, good 4
room house, barn for six head
horses; granary, corn crib,
wind mill and sheds. The land
is first-class soil and one of the
smoothest farms in that section
of country. Price $50 per acre,
easy terms.
Elliott, Speieel Co.
Harriet McMurphy Still In Limelight.
When Harriet McMurphy butted into
the Central City merchants in execution
of her duties as pure food inspector she
had little idea she was starting a tempest
which was going to get out of the tea-pot
and spread over the whole house and
down into the basement. Yet neverthe
less she has something worth while, and
now learned lawyers are burning mid
night oil in weighing the stupendous
proposition of whether pure leaf lard put
up in hermetically sealed cans is to be
classed aB canned goods, or whether it is
just package stuff, and as such ought to
have the correct weight stamped on the
outside.
On this proposition hangs the whole
controversy, and it is because of this
that some of our best merchants, many
of them deacons in churches, and one of
them, 6. M. Scudder, formerly a county
official and an honored citizen, are ar
ranged before the bar of justice on a
criminal charge and will have to auswer
before the higher courts.
As we mentioned some time ago, M.
G. Scudder, A. Fouts, W. W. Moore, G.
O.Agnes and Chas. Huxford were hauled
into court on the charge of selling lard
as mentioned above, in unmarked sealed
cans, contrary to the form of the pure
food law. As we mentioned also at the
time, our merchants were asspotless and
free from guilt in the matter a9 little
lambs, for the reason that they were not
selling the lard on the claim that it
weighed anything, but merely by the
can, as they received it from the packing
houses. We suggested at the time that
it was a shame the state officers had not
the nerve to go after the big packers
direct, as they had the money to fight
the matter and could most likely have
any fine imposed set aside by the higher
courte.
Now the big packers have taken the
matter up themselves and are going to
make a test case on the arrests made
here. When the hearing came before
Judge Peterson on the 27th, T. J.
Mahoney of Omaha, sent out by the
Omaha packers, and A. P. Moran, sent
out by the Nebraska City packers, were
here to represent the local merchants,
and upon their advice preliminary ex
amination was waived, and the whole
bunch was bound over to the district
court under $100 bonds each. The trial
will probably occur during the term of
the district court which convenes in the
city next Monday. If things do not go
to suit the packers they will carry the
case to the supreme court, and will fight
the case to a finish there.
In the meantime our merchants are
sitting back and enjoying the experience
of being involved in a law case in which
all the expenses are paid for by someone
else. Central City Republican.
Marriage Licenses.
Joseph Micek, Columbus 28
Karolina Koza, Columbus 17
Patrick G. Ducey, Lindsay 43
Mary Sweeney, Lindsay 33
William A. Methgen. Columbus.... 22
Winnie Davis, Columbus 17
David Kopf, Darrow, Okla 46
Emma Seitz, Falls City, Neb 32
Geo. A. Saalfeld,' Columbus .' 25
Hilda O. Schmitt, Columbus 20
Frank C Seaton. Columbus 20
Ethel Babcock, Columbus 22
Samuel V. Anderson, St Edward .... 26
Selma M. Samuelson. St. Edward. . . 25
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank the many Columbus
friends for their acts of kindness and
sympathy in the loss of our beloved wife
and mother.
Chas. Sxodgrass antj Family.
We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the kind friends and neighbors
who so willing assisted us in many ways
during the death and buiial of onr be
loved wife and mother, and to express
our appreciation of the beautiful Moral
offerings.
August Dietiuchs axd family.
COAL.
We have all the leading grades of
soft coal. Also Penna. hard coal and
Semianthracite furnace coal.
Newman & Welch.
Now He Could Die Satisfied.
The dying Englishman laughed,
faintly and reservedly, as became his
race.
"What ails the man?" asked the
vicar, the heir, the younger son in the
army, the younger son in the church,
the keeper of the lodge and the stolid
barrister.
"It is the joke he heard In America
in his youth," whispered the nurse.
"He has just grasped the significance."
Who Deserves the Sympathy?
A fellow doesn't always know where
to place his sympathy. A Massachu
setts man with 50 children was ar
rested for nonsupport of recently ax
rived twins. Toledo Blade.
Europe's Record Winter.
All of the rivers of Italy were frozen
over during the winter of 1344. It was
so cold in Denmark that the wolves
could not stay there in 1403, and they
crossed to Jutland on the ice.
Uncle "Eben's Wisdom.
"Bar's lots o' ways o' benefltfn' so
ciety," said Uncle Eben. "Sometimes
you kin do mo' good to de public by
workin' ten minutes wif a snow shovel
dan by lecturin two hours an' a half!'1
Of Art.
Artists may produce excellent de
signs, but they will avail little unless
the taste of the public is sufficiently
cultivated to appreciate them. George
X
Mason.
Some Time Ago.
Miss Knox What was it you said
about Miss Gidday?
Mr. Goodley I said her age sur
prised me greatly. She doesn't look
30, does she?
Miss Knox No, not now. I suppose
she did, though, at one ' time. Stray
Stories.
ENVELOPES TO SEND ABROAD.
Made Now Lined with Thin Tissue
Paper of Any Desired Color.
"Nice sorts of envelopes they have
nowadays for foreign correspondents,"
said a girl who writes letters abroad.
"You know the envelopes, like the
letter sheets, are made of thin paper
so that they won't" weigh too much
and increase the postage.
"With an envelope of 'thin, plain
paper the writing on the letter might
show through. So they came to make
these envelopes of a paper that was
printed on the inner side with close
lines in a pretty plaid pattern that you
couldn't see through and that served,
very well, but now you can buy for
eign letter envelopes that are made
opaque with a lining of the thinnest
tissue paper of any desired color.
"Such envelopes you will find and
with lining of various colors in stock,
envelopes lined with blue or with red
or purple or tan or violet, but if you
don't find among these just what you
want they will show you a book of
tissues with samples of 50 or more col
ors or shades from which you can se
lect first just the color you do fancy
or the color you call your own and
then you have the envelopes mad to
order."
THE GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY.
Habit That Enabled Her Instantly to
Be Singled Out.
Said a visitor to a teacher in a busi
ness college:
"That girl from the country seems
to be the brightest student In the
room."
At the request of the teacher she
designated more particularly the girl
she had in mind.
"Oh, yes," said the teacher, "she
is very bright, but how did you know
she Is from the country? She doesn't
look countrified."
"Her habit of washing her hands
so often gave her away," said the vis
itor. "I have been sitting here about
two hours. In that time she has
washed her hands three times. No
city girl would have done that; she
would have sharpened pencils or
turned over the dusty books, and sim
ply have polished her hands on her
pocket handkerchief and gone on
working. The country girl would find
it impossible to work under such con
ditions. She must have clean hands.
All country people have a mania for
washing their hands. After each task
down go their hands into a basin of
water. City life cures most country
habits; frequent bathing of the hands
is the last'to go."
Able to Operate on Lungs.
A German physician, by means of a
glass cabinet with a partial vacuum,
has solved the problem of operating
on the lungs. He probably has paved
the way to successful surgery in case;
of internal cancer, and possibly of
consumption where the lung tissue is
affected. By the use of his cabinet
the patient, it is said, can breathe
easily with the chest cavity open and
without danger of collapse of the
lungs, which has been the danger
hitherto, owing to atmospheric pres
sure. After the surgeon and his as
sistants have taken their place inside
this cabinet the subject is placed up
on the operating table and his head al
lowed to project through a tight-fitting
rubber collar in the wall of the cabi
net. By means of a suction pump the
air inside is then reduced to negative
pressure.
Has Made Quartz Fusible.
It is not so long ago that the text
books on minerals used to describe
quartz as "infusible." The electric
furnace has made this an error, and
now some manufacturers of chemical
devices devote special catalogues to
apparatus made of this substance.
There are two grades on the market
the transparent kind, made from rock
crystal and looking almost precisely
like ordinary glass, and the cheaper
translucent variety, made of common
silica, and sometimes called in the
trade "electroquartz." Both kinds are
valuable in the chemical laboratory,
because vessels made of either resist
all acids but hydrofluoric, and cannot
be cracked by the change of temper
ature, however violent. Quarts is use
ful also for its insulating properties,
which are nearly perfect
A Fellow Sufferer.
In Philadelphia they tell a story of
a man whose wife had arranged an
"authors' evening," and persuaded her
reluctant husband to remain at home
and help her receive the 50 guests who
were asked to participate in this in
tellectual feast.
The first author was dull enough,
but the second was worse. More
over, the rooms were intolerably warm.
So, on pretense of letting in some cool
air, the unfortunate host escaped to
the hall, where he found a servant
comfortably asleep on the settee.
"Wake up," sternly commanded the
Philadelphlan in the man's ear. "Wake
up, I say. You must have been lis
tening at the keyhole." Harper's Mag
azine. Sherlock Holmes Again.
Somebody wondered how long a cer
tain woman who had just left the room
had been married.
"About fifteen years," said the jew
eler. "How do you know?" asked his wife.
"You never saw her until to-night."
"I can tell by the size of her wed
ding ring," the jeweler replied. "The
width of wedding rings changes about
every five years. The kind she wears
was in style 15 years ago."
WHY NOT TRY
THE PACIFIC HOTEL
COLUMBUS, NEB.
I
The big briok hotel one and one
half blocks south of west depot cross
ing. 25 rooms at 36c; 20 rooms at 50c;
meals, 25c,
' HARRY MUSSELMAN, Prajriitir
REAL ORIGIN OF "MEAL TIME."
Has Come Down to Us from the Anglo-Saxon
"Mael."
With regard to the -difficulty of de
fining a "meal" it may be observed
that, originally, a meal meant a re
past taken at a fixed time. It is the
Anglo-Saxon "mael," a mark, sign,
measure, fixed time, and so food par
taken of then, and has no connection
.with "meal" of the oatmeal kind, ex
cept by one of those verbal coinciden
ces in which language abounds. All
the other senses of "mael" but that of
a repast have vanished except in the
word "piecemeal," but German has
-still both "mal," a time (as in "ein
mal," once) and "mahl," a meal.
Of "mahl." however, tourists should
beware. There is a story of a fa
tigued English pedestrian staggering
into a German inn with a demand
for "Abendmahl." What he wante'd
was supper ("Abendessen") ; what he
got was a clergyman ready to admin
ister the holy sacrament (which
"Abendmahl" in practice -means), un
der the impression that he was dying.
"Meal time" has got into the Ger
man language of greeting. It was
the old fashion after supper In the
home to shake hands all round and
say "Gesegnete Mahlzeit" a blessing
on the meal-time. And the German
digestion is so vigorous that the stu
dents at the universities part from
each other, not with good-by or adieu,
or any such supraterrestrial allusion
but "Mahlzeit!"
SAD STORY OF A WASTED LIFE.
Man
a Lifelong Hermit Because He
Forgot to Mail Letter.
' Here's a life-story in a few lines,
told in Answers:
"Half a century ago a young Eng
lishman, while traveling, met a beau
tiful girl and promptly fell in love
with her. A few days later he re
turned home and his first act was to
write her a love letter. In it he told
her, that if she regarded his proposal
favorably he would expect a reply
by the next mail. To this letter he
received no answer, and so disappoint
ed was he that, from that time until
his death, which occurred recently, he
shut himself up in his home and lived
like a hermit. Most of his time was
spent in reading, and the day after his
funeral the heirs began to search the
books of his library, for they thought
it quite possible that the eccentric old
man might have hidden some bank
'notes in them. They found none, but
in a tattered old pamphlet they found
another kind of note the love letter
which was written 50 years ago, and
which the writer had forgotten to
mail."
Bride of the Young Officer.
Consider, my daughter, ere thou
hast said yes to the cadet of the slim
waist and haughty air. For verily I
say unto you. sad is the fate of the
bride of the regimental goat. For her
lord Is haughty no more, but even
the sergeants speak of him as a shave
tail. Thou shalt have many nuptial
gifts, yea, many of silver and glass,
so that the packing of them is a weari
ness to the flesh, and thou shalt have
no cupboards to stow them therein.
And as soon as thy curtains hang fair
at thy windows, then shalt thou be
ranked out, till no spot on the post
shall deem to be thine own. And at
last it may be that rooms in the bach
elors' building shall be assigned thy
spouse; then shall bursts of music
trouble thy dreams, and in weariness
of spirit thou shalt say: "Why did I
wed me to a shavetail? for only those
of rank have spacious dwellings. Had
I but wed the son of a banker my
wedding gifts had not been fractured
with many movings." Army and Na
vy Life.
As to Cats.
The cat is the most active of all ani
mals. As an acrobat it has no equal.
I know that every friend of the col
umn likes to read about animals;
therefore I venture once in awhile to
say something about cats and dogs.
Every now and then I receive letters
from people who Insist upon "more cat
and dog stories." Last night a fine
specimen of a man called on me.
After some refreshment, and as he
was - about to depart, I asked if he
was married. "Sure," he replied;
"many years." "Got any children?"
"No, we had two and lost both; all we
have in the house now is a cat and a
canary bird. They in a measure
keep my wife from being lonesome
when I'm down town at business."
New York Press.
Their Fallen Idol.
Two little newsboys, ragged and
soiled, recognized Napoleon Lajoie as
he stood on a downtown corner, talk
ing to an acquaintance.
"Lookee!" exclaimed the first boy
in a hoarse whisper, "there's Larry!"
"He's nothin' but a hen an' goose
farmer now," returned the other lad,
without any show or hero worship.
"But he's the greatest ball player
on earth," retorted "the young admirer
of the second baseman.
"Mebby he Is," admitted the other
one, "mebby he is in the summer time,
but " disgustedly "think of a feller
raisin' chickens all winter! Polper,
mister?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Diplomatic Clerk.
"It Is quite a coincidence," observed
the celebrated pugilist, coldly, "that
every time I apply for accommodations
at this hotel the house is full."
"It is a bit singular," agreed the
clerk, edging as far away from the
register as possible, "but we trust that
you will continue to let us have the
refusal of your patronage."
Newest Thief-Catcher.
A recently invented thief-catcher for
stores consists of a system of levers,
which will close doors from behind a
counter on pressing a pedal and at the
same time ring an alarm outside the
building.
Dearth of Great Actresses.
Although acting is essentially a fem
inine art, Englishwomen are making
far less mark in it at the present time
than in probably any other period of
our theatrical history. We have no
Mrs. Siddons. London Tatler.
CAESAR'S GHOST IN POLITICS.
Natiene Still Cling Tenaciously to Ne
tlen of Empire.
Even more tenacious has been the
hold of Caesar's ghost in politics.
There are two forms under which the
idea of world government presenta
itself: One, the dead notion of em
pire, the thing for which Caesar stood,
the very name of the man still cling
ing on in the words czar and kaiser,
and the name of his idea remaining in
the word emperor; the other, the liv
ing idea of federation. When we have
come to understand the nature of
ghost rule we wonder no longer at
some political phenomena otherwise
absolutely incomprehensible. Why, for
instance, does each nation now strive
for the chimera of military prepared
ness? Germany, England and Japan
levy an intolerable tax of money and
blood to maintain their armies; the
nations are in perpetual travail to
bring fourth battleship after battle
ship. If you go to the bottom of the
reason of all this you find no reason
at all, or a silly one. For it is mani
festly impossible for any one nation
to conquer all the others. You ask
yourself why one international fleet
and army could not be supported, to
be at the command of one interna
tional court, thus to settle all dis
putes and enforce all decisions. The
answer plainly is that this question
Is mere living, mortal common sense,
and hence a puny thing to put against
the age-old. dead ghost-principle of
empire. Atlantic Weekly.
INDICTMENT OF THE LANDLORD.
Stern Words for Those Who Surren
der Themselves to Greed.
Wherein is the difference between
a poisoned well and a poisoned air
shaft? Suppose, deliberately and
knowingly, we allow our fellow-men
to inhabit rooms, to live under con
ditions which mean a lingering death.
The thing has to be proved to us
beyond question; then the moment
that it has been proved beyond ques
tion, it becomes not simply a scien
tific question, it becomes a question
of morals, a question, ultimately, of
religion. I like that phrase in the Old
Testament where, speaking of those
who violate certain fundamental prin
ciples of health and well-being, the
statement was made that such a man
was "an abomination unto the Lord."
Now, we want that taught to the land
lord as well as to the tenant, that there
are some things which are abomina
tions unto the Lord, and there are per
sons who are abominations unto the
Lord. Rev. S. M. Crothers, Cam
bridge. The Origin of Pie.
The origin of pie, especially mince
pie, like the origin of sausage, is
shrouded in mystery, but certain-it Is
that it was known as far back as the
time of Piers the Plowman, and it may
be that in his dinner pail could have
been found the precedent which Mich
ael of Pittsburg, now of the hospital,
sought to follow. Those who are sur
prised, after being led to believe that
New England is the habitat or the ar
ticle, to learn that pie is an old Eng
lish institution, can easily accept the
further statement that "planted on
American soil it forthwith ran ram
pant and burst forth into an untold
variety of genera and species." Like
the Irish potato, which is said to have,
been originated in the new world, it
has been so ingrafted into the life of
its adopted country that it seems more
like a native than an alien.
Troublesome Small Animals.
Farmers who live near the Blue
mountains, in Lehigh county, are
greatly bothered with foxes, minks and
weasels, and the farmers who live
along the lowlands have their land
spoiled by the muskrats and the
skunks. A crusade has been declared
against these animals and the farmers
expect to exterminate them by trap
ping and shooting.
More than 1,000 pelts have been
shipped from New Tripoli during the
last week. Among the most success
ful trappers were the following: R.
Stump and C. Frey, who had 40 skunks,
36 opossums and 34 muskrats; W. Os
wald, six minks; J. Wolf, seven red
foxes. There are a score of others who
caught as high as 40 foxes, skunks,
opossums and muskrats. Punxsutaw
ney Spirit.
Gladstone's Opinion of the King.
H. W. Lucy, dean of the house of
commons reporters, who has known
every prominent politician for the last
quarter of a century, continues his rem
iniscences in the Cornhlll Magazine.
He gives the following as Mr. Glad
stone's characteristic summary of King
Edward, given apparently about 1887:
"A shrewd man, a keen observer, full
of tact, always educating himself with
out deliberately sitting down to learn
a lesson; rarely opening a book, but
keeping himself au courant with what
ever Is going on in the world, and when
the time comes for him to take his
part in public business doing it thor
oughly." The Highwayman's Prayer.
Tom L Johnson was criticising, at a
holiday banquet; a grasping corpora
tion. "They are too transparent," he said,
"in asking for the passage of this
bill. In fact, they remind me vividly
of the continental highwayman who,
laying his bludgeon and revolver be
side him, knelt down on the road in
front of a wayside shrine and prayed:
"'I do not ask thee, O Madonna,
for money only send this way an au
tomobile with full pockets.'
By the Grace of God Alone.
No Iron chain, or outward force
ef any kind, could ever compel the soul
of man to believe or to disbelieve; It is
his own indefeasible light, that judg
ment of his; he will reign and believe
there by the grace of God alone.
Thomas Carlyle.
Cultivate Ideals.
It is a cheering thing to meet young
minds inspired by ideals. It is a de
lightful pastime to give a quarter of
an hour a day to a great poet Have a
little blank book and copy a quotation
or tw whem yom meet them.
FOR PHYSICIANS AND NURSES.
New Watch That Indicates Number of
Beats of the Pulse.
A new watch has been invented for
the use of physicians and nurses in
counting the pulse. The watch indi
cates, without mental calculation, the
number of beats of the pulse in a min
ute. It operates on the principle of a
stop-watch. By pressing the push-button
a large second hand is set in mo
tion, and the counting of the pulsa
tions begins. At the twentieth pulsa
tion the motion of the hand is stopped
by another pressure of the push-button.
The dial accurately indicates the
exact number of pulsations per min
ute. A third pressure on the push-button
brings the hand back to the start
ing point. The use of this instrument
does away with the necessity of ob
serving the progress of the watch
while taking the pulse, and in addi
tion insures an absolutely correct rec
ord. The instrument is also a chrono
graphic counter, facilitating the ma
king of observations, which are auto
matically recorded in minutes, sec
onds and fifths of a second. A small
dial placed below the 12 records min
utes from 0 to 30. The large hand
records seconds and fifths of a sec
ond. Scientific American.
HERRINGS NO LONGER SMOKED.
They Are Now Painted with a Harm
less Chemical Extract.
"Extract of smoke," said the can
ner, dipping his brush into a pot of
brown fluid.
"Extract of smoke?" repeated the
dazed reporter.
"Smoke extract." said the canner.
He took up a fresh herring, painted it
with the dark mixture, and laid it on
a board beside a long, long line of
brother herrings. "Now. in the past."
he explained, "you smoked herrings
by hanging them up for days in smoke
houses wherein smoldered fires of
costly aromatic woods. That process
was slow and expensive; we have
quite improved it out or existence.
We paint our herring now with this
really quite harmless chemical extract
of smoke a coal tar product and as
soon as he is dry he is ready for the
market."
The reporter tasted one of the her
rings. "But this isn't half as good
as the smoked herring or my boy
hood," he protested.
"Not as good, perhaps," agreed the
canner, "but ever so much more profit
able." Error About Patents.
There is a very general notion that
when the United States government
gives a man a patent for an invention
by this very act the patentee is In
possession of exclusive and inalien
able rights to his invention for a
term of years. Now this is the very
thing that does not necessarily exist,
and the very thing that patentees, in
vestors and the public would like to
have established. Most patents are
exploited by others than inventors,
and the money for the purpose is
largely supplied by those with little
knowledge of the laws. It has hap
pened time and time again that the
governmental patent has proved
worthless. Iti used to be that It was
litle more than prima facie evidence to
be used in litigation. Of recent years
there has been some improvement in
the laws and practice, but at present
there is no governmental guaranty be
hind the papers issued to any inven
tor. Scots as Pilate's Body Guard.
Of Andrew Carnegie the London
Chronicle remarks: "Mr. Carnegie is
not only a millionaire of millionaries;
he is also a Scot of Scots, who. in
spite of all temptations to belong to
other nations, remains a Scotsman.
Ever since the firth century, he says.
'Scotsmen had led the world,' but he
might have gone five centuries rurther
back still and asseverated that the body
guard of Pontius Pilate was composed
of Caledonians, the Dugald Dalgettys
of their time. Such at least is the
claim put forward by the Royal Scots,
now the premier regiment of the Brit
ish line, who are alternatively known
as 'Pontius Pilate's bodyguard.'"
Justice Fuller's Idea of Interpreters.
Chief Justice Fuller has but a small
opinion of expert witnesses and en
tertains scarcely a more favorable opin
ion of interpreters. He is not at all
averse to expressing his mind on these
subjects, and on one occasion summed
up his idea of an interpreter as fol
lows: "An interpreter Is a person who
translates a language he does not un
derstand into one that he does not
speak."
Caruso, But Still !
At a performance of "Aida," Caruso,
as usual, soared Into the highest alti
tudes of song with such consummate
ease and thrilling power that he
brought down the house with the ex
ception of one critical young woman
in the family circle.
"Lou," she observed to her compan
ion, "ain't it funny that Caroozer don't
seem to gripe your noives the way
he does on the record? Queer, ain't it?"
Unusual Freedom.
"Are all married men as carefully
watched as jokesmiths say they are?'
"Certainly not. I know a married
man who is allowed two nights out
every week, just so he comes home be
fore 11 o'clock, and tells his wife ex
actly where he has been and brings
some sort of little girt, just to show
that he has been thinking about her
all the time. Birmingham Age-Herald.
Lessons from Experience.
Publfus Syrus: Learn to see la
another's calamity the ills which you
should avoid.
Double Use fer Electric Fan.
The electric fan for winter ventila
tion Is quite as important as for sum
mer cooling. Philadelphia Record.
Laughter Sometimes Out of Place.
QulntiUIan: A laugh costs too much
if It Is bought at the expense of sre
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