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rvasRfvur&orxaKi -' : ftr- :--v . - x. I I i I V il I I ' 1 r X Reo Touring Car $1,000 y Get-there-and-back-ability a That's the first thing to look for there's no fun in mortoring without it and it means more than merely getting-there-and-back.' ' It means a well-designed, well-built, smooth-running engine, that uses its power to send the car ahead, and not to wear itself out with internal friction and knocking. This means economy, not only of gasoline but of repairs. x And it meons full use of your car every day in the year: The Rep is all of these, and a lot more thatswe have n't room to tell, about. . , -Just make up your mind today to look , into the car, which was so well planned at the start five years ago that it hasn't been necessary to make any essential change in its' mechanical design in all that time. Columbus Automobile Co PULPIT SERMONS ON WOMEN. Few.Thinge8aid by Ancient and Mod ern Divines on Momentous 8ubject Why Xve was made .from the rib of. Adam has been explained by a witty sage of old. If she had been created from his mouth, she would have talked too much; If from his feet, she would have gone about too much; if from his ears, she would have listened too readily; but she was msAe from a rib, which is near the heart, to show that she must always be dear to man. An BagUsh preacher in the seven teenth century spoke in similar fash ion when he said,2 with the text, "To be or not to be," that woman should be like and unlike three things. She - should be like a snail, always keep within her own house;'' but not like a snail, to' carry all she had on her back. She should) be like an echo, to speak when she was spoken to; but mot, like an echo, always to have the last word. She should be like a town clock, always keep time arid, regular-, lty; but' not,' like a town clock, to speak so loud that all the town might hear her. - ' A preacner in the reign . of Charles II. was to receive "10 if in hte sermon at the funeral of Madam Creswell he said nothing but well of her. She was rather a bad character and herself had dictated the clause in her will. So, after a general address on mortality, he thus concluded: "By the will of a deceased sister it is ex pected that I should mention her and say nothing but well of her; therefore is this: She was born well, she lived well and -she died well; for she was born with the name Creswell, she lived in Clerkenwell and she died in Bridewell." The Sunday Magazine. LIGHT ON MEDICAL QUESTION Scientific Analysis of the Ability,' of Individuals to Weep Tears . of Blood." The belief that certain Individuals are able to weep tears of blood" is. of such antiquity that the German equivalent for "bitter tears" is, "blut Ige thranan," "bloody tears" t There seems, however, no authentic instance of blood being actually secreted by the lachrymal gland. Micas has published a very inter esting article on' real and false tears of blood. It Is a clinical study on conjunctival hemorrhage. Some years ago the author was consulted about a boy aged 12 years who, from ' the slightest cause, such as laughing, or sometimes apparently for no cause whatever, wept tears of blood an oc currence often repeated several times a day. The lad was pale and ener vated from constant hemorrhage. The source of the bleeding was the tarsal conjunctiva, which was covered with fine papillae, and light cauter ization with the galvano-cautery re sulted in a cure. This case led the author to study the literature of the subject. He found that In none, of the cases cited -It certain that the blood did not le front -the conjunctiva or from the lachrymal passages. He feels that it is unwise to deny the possi bility of sanguineous secretion from the gland, but that examples in which other sources cannot be shown to be present mast be exceedingly rare. German Publishing Centers. The chief publishing centers of Ger many are Berlin, Lelpsic, Vienna, 8tuttgart, Munich, in the order here led. French At Fend of Bread. More bread is eaten In France per sanita than' in any other European country except Belgium. Usually. Teacher "What is a Laplander?" Young Miss "An awkward man in a crowded street -car." Make the old Floors New By havinr them dressed with our new floor drawing, machine It doip the workand werJpMBe the prices . . F. KNLEI Contractor aad Builder - MmLWLMn ti-'' SfcepUtbaadAdMsl THE UNITED STATES IN 2009. Student's. Idea of the "Changes That Time and Thought Are to Bring About. What will be the destiny of the Uni ted States? The answer to this can be supplied immediately by a comparison with the Roman empire. The establishment of Constantinople as the capital of the east, and the eastern empire's separ ation from Home, are paralleled in the story of the American revolution. We may look, then, for a progressive decline in the strength of England, in inverse ' ratio to our own increas ing power; Australia, already Ameri can in her political organization, will gravitate, with Canada, into the union; finally the English-speaking peoples will be reunited under American aus pices. That is as far as we can look forward legitimately. '"America will be absorbed in the so lution of her social problems. Democ racy, which has never really existed, will be coming into its own; and with its 'advent will disappear the comedy -of representative government which, tried out through several centuries in the classical' world, and found want ing; -is destined to receive Its' coup de grace upon American soil. The battle of socialism will be upon us, to be solved, probably, after some considerable bloodshed, by a sudden illumination of common sense. The loose, haphazard productive methods of to-day, and our costly and faulty manner of distribution, will have to be organized to prevent their complete breaking down. The solution of this tremendous problem, which will be precipitated by the sudden failure of foreign markets" when manufacturing and prohibitory tariffs are universal in all countries, will occupy our attention for at least a century to come. By the year 2009, therefore, no radi cal changes will have occurred upon the map of the new world. Henry Paradyne, in Harper's Weekly. TRUE TO HIS HIGH CALLING. Act of Gifted Physician Reads Well in These Days of Struggle for Filthy Lucre. Many anecdotes are told of the kindness, as well as skill, of the late Dr. W. T. Bull, whose loss is not only regretted by New York's "'400," who knew his ministrations there and at Newport, but by the poor as well. An acquaintance tells this' true story as typical of the man: "Shortly before he was stricken with his fatal illness a young East Side physician called at his office and said that he was attend ing a poor girl over in his neighbor hood who would surelydle unless op erated on. The family, was too poor to pay and the doctor did not feel that he was equal to the operation. Would Dr. Bull give him a little ad vice as to how to .proceed? " 'Well, I .guess, we had better go and take a look at the patient,',-said Dr. Bull, putting on his coat -v j. "They found the patient in an.East Side tenement, and in less 'time than it takes to tell it Dr. Bull had the room cleared and began the operation. When .he was leaving the! father of the girl met him in the hall and forced a quarter into; his hand.' Dr.' Bull thanked him and went off feeling as happy happier than -if he had re ceived a 11,000 fee. The girl got weiL" - v Honesty.' "Tour honor,? exclaimed the lawyer for the defense "we retained that wit ness and here he is shamelessly testl fying for the state." "You wUl explain," remarked the court severely. "le regarded the money paid by the defense as an option only," said the witness. "The other side made a bit ter mid, and the option expired." "Well, we'll get our money back, that's all." rejoined the7 lawyer, hotly. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Chief Industry ef France. -Flour making In France is the most Important Industry in the country in' amount of capital Invested and value of annual output. . An Important Point, Most of the enemies we make whol ly overlook the fact that they assisted In the nuking. Pigeons Sacred to Russians. , Russians do not eat pigeon because the-Scriptura dove is. a holy bird" . WILL WELCOME MOVEMENT. Male Sex Can- Be Counied n to In dorse Abolition of. Washing ' and Scrubbing. Mrs. Tillingnast of Titusville pro pounded this conundrum to the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women at h recent meeting: "What effect, think you, will sn end less round of cleaning aad scrubbing, washing and ironing have upon a-ha-ican soul? How far .toward the Ideal In moral and spiritual development will such a, soul-be able to advance?" The effect of these things .upon a human soul, if it be the soul of a manV Jf. altogether detrimental. If a man ernes .home during the progress of spring cleaning and finds ils books all dusted and misplaced in the bookcase; Ms slippers hid carefully away where lie cannot find them, the book he was reading concealed behind a row ol jolumes.on the upper shelf., his papers 'all gone, buckets of suds here and there for him tp fall into when he trips over the broom handles that have been so placed as to entrap him. pieces .of soap cunningly, disposed on the floor so that he will place his foot upon them and slip, he will be apt to say things which will damage his soul and shock his family. It is not .hard to ansWer this conundrum pro posed by Mrs. Tillingnast of Titus ville. The effect upon the human soul of' cleaning and scrubbing is ruinous And when .the man with the soul gets up in the early morning and disposes his bare foot upon the carpet tack, so placed with x the business end pointing to heaven that he will be sure to step upon it, the ruin of that soul Is accom plished. There is not a man within the tfour seas who will not arise promptly and with zeal to second the motion of Mrs. Tillinghast of Titus ville to abolish scrubbing and clean PANAMA GOOD OBJECT LESSON All Nations Will Profit by the Sani tary Standard Set by Great Undertaking. The building of the Panama canal and the sanitary record of the Jap anese in their war with Russia are the two great object lessons of recent years, demonstrating that men can neither work nor fight to the best a3 vantage unless protected from Infec tious and preventable diseases! The civilized nation which will here after put an army in the field or un dertake a great engineering problem without first preparing the way by adequate sanitary engineering and equipment will be regarded by the .other nations, says the Medical News as quite as foolish as a government which would build a vast fleet of mod ern warships and then arm them with muzzle-loading ordnance of 100 years ago. An epidemic of typhoid fever in a military camp should be considered a greater disgrace to an army than a de feat in battle since defeat may come in spite of the greatest exertions and the highest wisdom, while typhoid and yellow fever would be the result of ignorance or disregard of well known Jaws of prevention. All nations will' profit .by the sanitary lesson pf the Panama canal. The scourge of yellow fever against which the French struggled in vain, has not been there since May, 1906. although it exists at several points to the north and south of-the canal zone. Bubonic plague has not appeared since August, 1905, but that disease also has broken out not far away. No case ol smallpox has been reported during the year. Freckled on One Side. For years this particular young wom an had been troubled every spring by having her face decorated by a coat of "perfectly awful" freckles just as soon as the sun began to put on its customary vernal power. She made up her mind recently to beat Old Sol by staying indoors, and arranged to do a lot of family sewing, not so much as a Lenten penance as to overcome the desire to sally forth into the street's. So for the entire six days she remained. alone at home in her apartment while her mother was away, siting at the window, always with one side of her head to the sunlight. When her mother returned the first thing the old lady did was to exclaim: "Why Ellen!" The daughter sighed. "Yes, mother," she said. "Old Sol got In his fine work as far as he could. One side of my face is a mass of freckles." Baldwin Apple Honored. A chance seedling that grew up on a farm' near Lowell. Mass., about 1740 became the first Baldwin apple tree, but It was not until 1784 that Col. Baldwin became interested In the ap ple, developed it and gave it his name. The original tree lived till after 1817, and the place where it grew. Is now marked by a monument. The Baldwin Is the onlv apple thus honored. : Spoiled Her Sleep Word. A little girl of four years was heard repeatedly murmuring a long wonL Her father, thinking to please her. J told her the meaning of it She burst Into tears. At last, with her mother's assistance, the father learned the meaning of her grief. "It was my word that I put myself to sleep with, and now you've spoilt it" Ml. Loane la "An Englishman's Castle." Characteristics of Servians.' Servians in their good nature and love of-humor are said to remind trav elers of the Irish peasantry. They are hospitable to strangers; .their patriot fam Is vehement, almost quixotic, and they take great interest in politics. Many of the domestics in the towns and cities come from abroad, as the Servian girl is too independent for domestic service. ; Intellect Rules' by Superetitleit. A man more absolutely governed by' pure reason than LordMacaulay could not well be found, but in his diary he refers to an after-dinner talk1 about the feeling which Johnson had of thinking one's self bound to touch a particular rail or post and to tread in the middle of, a paving stone, and he adds: "I certainly have this very gangly.,- : COMING TO OOLUMU VBR The; eauaeat physician on eareuie dissates will visit our city hmdj Jmm 1. 1909 And will lie at tbe-Thufstoa hotel until S p. m , one day ONLY. Dr. PotUrf president of the staff of the Boston Electro Medical Institute; is nuking a tour of' tae state. He will mveeoesaltatioa, examination and ml) the medicines necessary to com plete a cure PRICE. All parties Ukisj advantage of this offer are requested to state to their friends Ike result of the treatment. Oarss DEAFNESS by an entirely sew process. Treats all oarable cases of estarrh, throat aad lung diseases, eye and ear, stomach, liver and kidneys, gravel, rheumatism, paralysis, neuralgia, nerv ous and heart disease, epilepsy, Brigbt's disease and disease of the bladder, blood and skin diseases and big neck aid stammering cured. Piles and. rupture cured without de tention from business.- Asthma, cured in a short time. K If you are improving: under your fam ily physician do not take up our valua ble time. The rich and the poor are treated alike. Idlers and curiosity seek ser will please stay away. Our time is valuable. Remember, NOT A PENNY will be charged for the. medicine required to make a cure of all those taking treat ment this trip ' Office hour 9 a.m. Positively married ladies must be ac companied by their husbands. Remem ber the date, Thursday, June 10, at the Thurston Hotel, Columbus, Neb. 00 WELL WITH THEIR FARMS Canadian Indians in 'the Province of Saskatchewan Both Industrious and Prosperous. The Indians of the great Canadian -prairie -province of Saskatchewan are disproving the theory that an Indian won't work unless he has to. They are becoming industrious and pros perous. There are nearly 8,000 Indians in the province and last year they had about 9,000 acres under crops. They raised 150,572 bushels of grain and roots and 36,0000 .tons of hay, worth $136,023. The department of Indian affairs reports that the Indians are turning more and more to -the soil for a liv ing. The agent of the Assiniboine agency, which may be regarded as typical, writes: "I was greatly pleased to find that the area under crop was almost double what it was the year before. The band had about 600 acres of wheat and 200 acres of oats. The Indians of 'this agency are beginning to farm on a large scale, and if they continue to do as well as they have in the last two years there will ;be .some good-, sized farmers' among them. One man ; had 155 acres in crop and another 125 acres and several had' 70 acres each. There was a decided improvement in the way the land had been farmed." SWELLING "THE DIDNT CLUB" Hendrik Hudson Is Added to the Ranks -and Awful Possibility Suggests Itself. The overlong procession of .great men who didn't do the thing that made them famous has a new recruit On the heels of Paul Revere, lately un horsed, comes trotting along old' ifen irik Hudson, who, it now appears, did not discover the Hudson river at all. Just 'who did do it is not known, but who didn't do it is fixed beyond all question forever, and that man is Hen drik Hudson. On the; whole, however, we think that Hudson's name is likely to 'stay out There are so many mil lions of people who have discovered the river since it first became known that there is a certain distinction in not having done it, and from this we may as well let the sturdy old English man with the Dutch name profit We shall look with interest for the next member of "The Didn't club." Perad venture it will be Mr. Carnegie, and they'll be telling us he never discov ered America! Harper's Weekly. Theater Folk Are Superstitious. Theatrical people are proverbially superstitious. I know of one great actress who never goes on the stage without first crossing herself to insure good luck. Some of our greatest start would perhaps retire from the stage II they should lose the horseshoe which Is nailed to the lid' of one of their trunks, and could not get another. Mrs. Leslie Carter always raps three time? on the wings before walking on th stage, and she thinks this precaution will banish all evil influences. When Mary Anderson was on the stage she never dared to peep through the cur tain while the house was filling. Man theatrical people constantly carrj around with them for luck "the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit killed by the light of the moon." Bargains Is Bargains. The lady shopper gazed dubiously a the 75-cent article. "I don't thin it's worth more that 50 cents," she objected. "Marked down' from 77," observec the salesgirl. "Ill buy It" said the lady shoppei Instantly. Legends e Wallenstein. It was reported that he had ordered an oflcer to be put to death for ap peering at his levee with the clank of spurs, and that he had hung a valet de chambre for presuming to wake him without orders. It was said that his palace was built on the ruins of s hundred houses, that his stables were of, the most sumptuous description that each horse hada rack and man ger of polished steel, and that the stalls were'dlvided- by intercolumna stalls were divided by intercolumnia Davenport Adams. TOUCHED HEART OF MARSHAL Yerk Server ef dtvlstlen by Tragedy ef Which He Was Chief. Thirty little cnOirem sat on cheap ocden benches, hi the second-story at 11 Suffolk street tae other Any. Every one of them was ragged. Most looked as though they had not had sanngh to sat Bat they were bright-eyed aad alert and not for a mo assat did their attention stray from the white bearded old rabbi who' was tsscalagf them Jewish prayers, al though the smeary-little pictures on the walls and the, myriad of noises of the roarlag East side street must have been a constant temptation. And then the door opened and City Marshal Laz arus stepped la, dispossess warrant la haad, .says the Nsw York- correspond eat sit, the CisHssati Times-Star. The struggling little congregation of the synagogue hadn't been able to pay tke rent Their few pennies were needed to keep their own root trees and give their little ones a meager fare. The old teacher stood slleat with bowed, head, as the poor furnishings were ripped from the place and stacked In the street below. Tears trickled down his beard. The children carried the tid ings through the squalid neighborhood and, in a moment the street was choked with shrieking, gesticulating, weeping men and women. They begged the marshal's men for mer cy. As each bit of the poor furnish ings appeared they redoubled their outcries. The rabbi, no longer erect and venerable, bat a poor, old, grief stricken man, his eyes red with tears, his hands shaking, moved among them, trying to repress their emotion. Msrshsl Lazarus was moved by the agony of this, perhaps the most poverty-stricken congregation in all .New York. He went to tke old rabbi and handed him a little money. "That's to keep you going for a few days," he said kiadly. The old nun accepted It "But It Is for my people," he said proudly. "My self, I can starve. But who will watch my little children here?" WRONG SYSTEM IN PORTUGAL Land Cut Up Into .Portions on Which f Comfortable Living Cannot Be Made. The Portuguese are an extremely conservative people. Every man fol lows rigidly the methods employed by his father and forefathers. In very many parts of the country the old wooden plows are still used. .When a man dies instead of one of the heirs taking the whole property and paying the remaining heirs for their., parts the whole property is di vided Into as many parts as there are. heirs. More than this, each sep arate part of the property is thus di vided. Thus if a property consisted of ten acres of pasture land, 80 of vineyard aad tea of grata land, and there were ten heirs, each heir would receive one acre each of grain aad pasture land and. eight acres of vineyard. This process has been going on for a very long time, so that now in the most fer tile part of Portugal the land Is di vided into incredibly small portions. The immediate result of this, accord ing to the United States consular re ports, is that the product of the land is barely suslclent at best to sustain its owners. South of the river Tasus. on the other hand there are enormous tracts of excellent land lying unused, but it has been found impossible to Induce the farmers of the north to move into this region aad take up large holdings. Fsr Ness Bleed. For obstinate and persistent nose bleeding either put an ice pack or a cloth wrung out of ice water' at the back of the neck just at the base of the brain, or drop cold water from a sponge held well above the head so that It will strike the crown of the head with considerable forcer The head should be kept well ele vated; even In cases of extreme weak ness do not allow the patient to He down, and small wads of absorbent cotton wet with a weak solution of carbolic add should be used to plug the nostrils.. If the arms are held above the head five or ten minutes the bleeding. If not severe, will usually stop. His Business Ability, la the Adlrondacks lives a man too lazy to work, but evidently of great business ability. One winter, when he was sKting around smoking, his family came so near starving that some of his neighbors, who could 111 afford to help him, took up -a collec tion and bought for the suffering fam' ily a barrel of lour, a barrel of pork and a load of wood. They were not considerate enough to cut the wood, but the business man knew how to manage. He hired some of his neigh bors, who had not contributed to his donation, to cut the wood, and paid them with half the pork and half the flour. Lippufcott's. Shingles frem a Tree 1,100 Years Old. A lumber company at Buckley, Wash., recently sent out a number of souvenir shingles that were cut from a tree 1,100 years old. The tree from which the shingles were cut had 3S0 rings, which fact denotes that it was 350 years old when it felL The stump of a tree which grew over It has 750 riags, pad as this could act have started to grow until some time after the first fell, It is practically certain that the original tree was thriving In A. D. 800, which was 700 years before the discovery of America. Popular .Mechanics. Essentials. "Yon have an original Idea for, a novel?" "Yes," answered the publisher. "Do you mind telling the plotr "Ob, the plot's no secret But I'm not going to give away the title or the cover design." tree Has Many Qualltless. While the seeds of the dorows, aa East African leguminous tree, are ex-. teasively assd fsr food, the pods sad leaves form aa excelleat cement when mixed with crashed stone. CLOCK MADE MUCH TROUBLE. Alarm. Has) Bee Set s De Ha Duty at a Certain Hour, But Jim DMn Knew It, One of the elevator men la a big office bunding np towa found that there was something the matter with his alarm clack, says the New York Times. Knowing that one 6f his col leagues was a good deal of a me chantcian, he decided to save the price, of having his deck fxed by get ting Joe to Ix It for him. Joe-agreed wltlr great enthusiasm; took: the deck home and tinkered with it sad when the two weat "off. the Job" at six o'clock one afternoon last week, Joe tamed the, clock over to Jim with the assurance that It was Axed. So It was; and Joe had set the alarm for :45. bat Jim didn't know that aad Joe forgot to tell him. Joe aad Jim were traveling toward the far ead of Brooklyn on an elevated train at S:45 that night and were Just passing Greenwood cemetery when the alarm went off. Everybody in the car gave either a yell or a jump. Joe turned to Jim with a took of surprise. ''What are you making all that noise for?" he yelled, in a voice that domi nated even the uproar of the alarm. Red in the face, perspiring, glaring- eyed, Jim was trying to suppress the deafening clamor. The guard was el bowing his way through the crowd to find out if somebody had set off a dy namite bomb. A pretty girl la the next seat had bounced up and was trying to climb the roof, and a stolid German had promptly sat down in it There were all the symptoms either of a panic or a circus. As for Jim. he wrestled vainly with the clanging thing, and turned off everything in his excitement but the right stop. Meanwhile Joe, the au thor of his confusion, was looking at hlm with an air of mild Inquiry. "Doing it on a bet Jim?" he asked, kindly. - With an oath, Jim arose and hurled the thing through the window. It lighted in Greenwood, still going off. and a. policeman, at whose feet it landed, gave a shriek and leaped six feet. Then he arrested it as a dyna mite bomb, and the train moved on. Repeating a Newspaper. Dr.Macklln used to tell a story of man proud of his great mental reten- tiveness. He offered to give any proof of it desired, and was asked to read a newspaper and then to repeat every word of it from memory. The host held the paper while the man repeated it verbatim and every word in its prop er place. The surprise of the host, however, was even greater and his skepticism taxed beyond bounds when the visitor, to show how easy the feat had been, of fered to repeat the words backward. "This is impossible." "Not at all. If you will listen, I will do it." And he did it Beginning at the end of the last word of the last column, he went to the beginning of the first word of the first column without an error. Dr. Macklin fails to give this prodigy's name. Sunday Magazine. A Wall Street Confession. The broker runs the most profitable end of the game. Perhaps you have never realized that most New York stock exchange houses 'with any sort of clientele maintain their offices on what they make on interest charges, which every monthly statement shows, and which not one of a hundred spec ulators can verify. The commission and interest charges that go to the brokerage firm make the percentage an almost impossible one to overcome. This percentage is far bigger than In roulette. Do you think you can win in the long run playing roulette? It you think you can, then go ahead and speculate. If in doubt, then let vat tell you that in almost three years I had over 200 accounts, and not onlj have I never seen anybody make an; money to keep, but I have seen man a fortune wiped out Everybody's. How Teacher Got Even. A New York teacher took occasion recently at a public meeting to criti else the good taste of women teach ers who sit and laugh and otherwise amuse themselves while they are present for the supposed reason ol improving their minds by listening tc the speakers. The teachers were nat urally indignant and declare the teacher took this .method of getting even with them because some of then; tittered when she stumbled as she walked across the stage, the men re straining all impulse to laugh. A Too Hilarious Fireside. "Bliggins children are wonderfully clever." "Yes," ansWered Miss Cayenne. "He says they are always singing or re citing or saying something clever." "His home must be very happy." "Perhaps. Only it must be a little too much like a perpetual musica comedy." Central Meat Market THIRTEENTH STREET OPPOSITE THnv PARK Now Open and Beady to take care of all customers . . . BOTH . . . TELEPHONES M. C. HOSE HOSE HOSE We carry a complete, stock of all kinds of Rub ber Garden Hose, ranging in price from 9 cents to 20 cents per foot Do not fail to examine our Magic Endless Hose, we will cut this hose any length up to 500 feet in one piece, without coup lings or splices. Jast the thing, if your present hose is not long enough th reach where required. 80 get a piese of "Magic" the desired length. No extra ehsrge for catting or coup lings. We also have a complete liae of Lawn Spriaklere, Hose, Nozzles, etc Try a suction of our one-half in. Hose -more quality for less money. A. Dussell & Son Eleventh Street HOUSES UNDER THE GROUND. Dwellers in the Desert Make Prac tical Use of Walls Erected by the Ancient Romans. Concerning the mysterious under ground dwellings in the desert back of Tripoli Hanus Vischer writes in the Geographical Journal: "On the northern edge of the mountains the little land of Ghariau . "Vith its vil lages and gardens, stsds like an Island among the general destruction. To this day the old Roman terraces have withstood the keen wind from the sea and the winter rains and give one an idea of the country's former prosperity. The village of Gharlan lies among ancient olive groves and large fruit gardens, built on the old terraces. Ruined' castles look down from -every little hill, old Roman or earlier towers. The present inhab itants live in underground houses, hewn out of the solid rocks, the ancient dwellings probably of some prehistoric race. "A curious maze of earth mounds, which rose on either side of the road, showed the position of the village. From one of these mounds, the rub bish taken out of the ground when the house was built, I looked down into a square courtyard about thirty feet below the ground, with walls hewn perpendicularly out of the red rock Around the walls several doors and narrow slit windows showed the dif ferent' rooms. The master of the house then led us to a door which Was built above the ground, like the entrance to some' cellar, and down a narrow passage or tunnel to the court yard below. The first apartment we came to held donkeys and some goats and was used as a stable. "The living rooms were all white washed and. like the courtyard, ex ceedingly clean. It looked most pic turesque the little house with the. whitewashed arches leading into the rooms, the red sides of the rock cov ered partly by a fresh green creeper; and over it all the square of dark-blue sky. The inhabitants praise their houses, for they are cool in summei and warm in winter, when the cold northeast wind blows, but they knew nothing of the original builders." Thinking One's Self Old. If at 30 you expect to be an old man or woman at 35 you will be one, because the mind makes the material correspondence of whatever it sets it self permanently upon. Health Rec ord. A Financier. Customer Please, mister. I can't remember what ma sent me for, but. you can give me two cents' worth of peppermint candy, 'cause she said I could keep the change. Century. A Toast To Eve. who, recognizing the val ue of a higher education, secured it for herself and her descendants, while Adam thought only of tickling his palate. Life. Gentility. Burleigh: Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. No Cheap Grades. There are no varying degrees sincerity.- of 33 CASSIN ft l ? . X V fc-"' 7 'WV?:. i V,W.- ,-.'Zi&453$ Jri.-. is5&. SA rV :JL")frr&. t " -"l3- 1 -tS'j'M i-25. 3i--JSC!'.WiC-r,-X,,M j. ?- agaSfty