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G A Rubs. Cards M W McQuigg, Dennis Sulli Tan, Alvin Warner Parties calling for any of the above will please Bay advertised Carl Kramer, P. M. Congregational Church. Sunday school 9:45 Morning worship 11 Y. P. S. C E.... ...... ........ 6:30 p. m Evening worship 7:30 p. in. Subject for morning sermon: Person al Element in Religion. Evening theme The Galilean-The Citizen We invite you to these services. William L. Dibble, Pastor. Half a Century of Oil. Fifty years ago, toward the end of August, 1859, Edwin L. Drake sank the first petroleum well at a point on Oil creek near where Titusville, Pa., now flourishes. This was the begin ning of the Industry which has reached such stupendous proportions. Steps have just been taken by the cit izens of Titusville to celebrate the semi-centennial of an event the impor tance of which Is not second to any in tne economic nisiory oi tne united States. Fifty years of petroleum have wrought revolution, first in artificial Illumination throughout a large part of the civilized world, while in the enormous growth of the automobile Industry another direct result of Drake's drilling la observable. Oil fuel for ships, locomotives and sta tionary engines is still in its infancy. So far as by-products of petroleum are concerned, they are as varied and as valuable as the by-products of coal tar. "Ait Neither Teacher Nor Preacher." Art Is not a sermon, and the artist It not a preacher. Art accomplishes by Indirection. The beautiful refines. The perfect in art suggests the per fect In conduct The harmony in mu sic teaches without Intention, the les son of proportion in life. The bird in his song has no moral purpose, and yet the influence is humanizing. The beautiful in nature acts through ap preciation and sympathy. It does not browbeat, neither' does it humiliate. it la beautiful without regard to you, toaes would be unbearable if hi their red and perfumed hearts were mot toes to the effect that bears eat bad boys and that honesty is the best pol Icy. IngersolL Favors Fads in School. A woman teacher says that there is more time for the so-called "fads'" in the schools than there used to be, and they make for culture and higher Ideals in the education of the child. The everlasting drill in arithmetic that used to be necessary to make boya goou accountants is no longer re quired, adding machines doing all such laborious work for the merchant The time for drilling is now given over to training in language. Drawing and manual work, it has been found, make boya neater and more careful in other work. The atudy of color in the pub lic schools, although it may have not developed a single painter, has never theless improved the public taste in dress, in furnishings " and in civic adornment Shuineboard at the Resort Gunner Isn't it monotonous at these summer hotels? Gayer Not at all. You should see our exciting games of shuffleboard. Gamner Shuffleboard? Why, ther stay that on ships. Gnyer I know, and they play it at our summer hotel. If you don't shuffle pretty liTely you don't get any board atalL . THE JUDGE AND THE DOCTOR Man of Medicine, After Jurist's Ex planation, Concluded to Let His Grievance Pass., The physician was a witness in a damage case, and his answers to ques tions had been marked by more length than lucidity. The lawyer who was examining him several times cau tioned him to confine his replies to subjects involved in the questions, but this warning had little effect. Finally the judge lost patience and told him to make an effort to shorten his an swers and to quit talking when he got through. This had some effect temporarily, but a few minutes later the physician began a long and rambling answer which had only a vague and remote bearing upon what had been asked him. "Look here," said the now irate judge, "you are wasting the time of the court, the attorneys, the witnesses and everybody else here, and delaying the trial of the case. Now, if you don't confine yourself to plain answers here after I shall send you to jail for con tempt of court!" That had its effect, and the testi mony of the witness was concluded in a reasonable time after that. The next day the judge and the physician met upon the street. They are acquaintances, and stopped and shook hands. "Say, Judge," inquired the doctor, "would it be contempt of court, now that 3ou are no longer on the bench, to say that you acted like a damned fool at the trial yesterday, and would you send me to jail?" "Oh, no," replied his honor, easilj'. "I'd go to jail; you'd go to the hospi tal." The physician didn't say what he had intended to say. CLEVER WORK OF DETECTIVES Parisian Peace Guardians Employ Ef fective Disguise in Effort to Make Arrest. Two ragged-looking street singers appeared in front of a cafe in one of the popular quarters of Paris. One of them sang a pathetic street ballad, and the other accompanied him on the guitar. Coppers fell here and there from the windows, and some midinettes listened with pleasure to the music. Suddenly the singer broke off his song, the accompanist dropped his guitar, and both seized by the collar a man who was coming out of the cafe, snatched an envelope with 700 francs and a lot of slips of paper out of his hand, and told him that he was their prisoner. The two musi cians were simply two clever detec tives sent by M. Hamard to secure the arrest of a clandestine bookmaker, who was taking bets on the races, an occupation forbidden by the law. The bookmaker struggled hard to get loose from their grip, and he, in turn, threatened to have the men arrested as highway robbers. The amusing thing is that a policeman who had ob served the scene rushed to his assist ance, and although the detectives showed their papers, he had his doubts, and marched them off to the police station, together with their pris oner. Here things were at last cleared up, and the detectives were complimented for their clever strat agem. - Von Buelow as a Toy. Among the thousands of ingenious toys with which the German market is flooded at Christmas time there is one hardy annual, the Stehaufaennchen, or tumbler, a little figure with leaden base, which, stand it how you will, in variably regains its original position. A year or so ago a toy merchant, who must have possessed a keen political flair, conceived the genial idea of im parting to the little tumbler the linea ments of Prince Buelow. The toy sold by the hundred thousand and the in ventor must have made his fortune. Public opinion immediately caught the subtle allusion to the chancellor's as tounding success in bobbing up ser snely out of the tightest corners, and the sobriquet of Stehaufmaennchen stuck. Just Waiting. Every good-looking young woman Intends to go on the stage jome time if it becomes necessary for her to do so. Embracing the Subject "Do you think that young fellow who is visiting our Nell is trying to persuade her to marry him?" "Well, from a glimpse I had of them last evening as I passed the "parlor, I rather think he is bringing some pres sure to bear on the subject" "THE PRIZE WINNERS." 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 THE PIG AND THE POLITICIAN Philadelphia Man Tells Remarkable Story of Queer Attachment Formed. Joseph M. Donahue, a downtown resident who is known in political cir cles, is a traveling salesman for a firm interested in church fixtures. He tells i good one on himself that happened up at Shenandoah a few days ago. "As I came into town," said Dona hue, "I noticed in the distance a large black and white pig. It seemed to' be watching me continually for a half niile before I got into the station. "When the train stopped the pig was opposite the station looking up in my face. I alighted and started through the town, the pig following me every step. "I went into a drug store to buy a soda. The pig stayed outside, and when I came out to continue my jour ney the )fg was ready and followed. 1 I was soon nt the church door and waited the arrival of the sexton. When iie came 1 walked in the open door and the pig made an attempt to go, too. but was scon chased by the gruff orders and a kick from the janitor. "When I came out I noticed the pig wending its way toward the sta tion, a quarter of a mile ahead of me, seemingly downhearted because it had not been able to follow me to the church." Philadelphia Times. GRAND MEW WORLD NATIONS Marvelous Development of the Two Americas Foreshadowed in the Present Day. Chile has an industrial awakening which is marvelous. The work on the first steel plant south of Mexico is progressing so rapidly that it will be veady for operation in October, 1910. It will cost $2,000,000 in United States gold and will have a daily output of .200 tons. The consular reports sent to the government at Washington are filled with instructive comments and facts and figures about the activities of dif ferent nations. Japan's alertness is well known. Besides improving her rivers and harbors she is organizing new steamship lines to various South American ports. But of all the intrepid hustlers Can ada is the silent, yet most conspicu ous. When one tries to imagine the great empire which will one day take the place of the modest lady of the snows, all Old World grandeurs seem to pale. When one further lets his imagination roam from Hudson bay to the Straits of Magellan and takes in the coming wonders of New World nations, he is staggered by the vision of Canadian, United States, Mexican, Central America, Brazilian, Argen tine and Chilian developments. Eu rope, Asia and Australia vanish like the mists of a dream or remain ven erable shrines from which the wor shipers have departed. A Social Mistake. "Bliggins seems unpopular in his neighborhood." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "He was so anxious to make people like him that they con cluded he couldn't amount to much and was trying to butt in." Form Your Own Character. A sunshine character is a gift of temperament. At the same time a sour person may become sweet by looking on the bright side and de termining to be kind. Not Particular. Franco-Celt .Waiter (to rural cus tomer in restaurant) Shall Oi sarve yez any ontraze? Rural Customer Yes. If ye like kin bring the hull snack in on trays. Boston Courier. A Leading Question. An old Scotswoman was advised by her minister to take snuff to keep herself awake during the sermon. She answered briskly: "Why dinna ye put the snuff in the sermon, mon?" Where It Goes. "That man made an immense for tune out of a simple little invention." "Indeed! What did he invent?" Tn vent? Nothing, you dub! He was the promoter!" Uncle Ezra Says: "When you wanter go back to your ol' home town it's a good deal better to be met with a brass band than with a piece uv manila rope." Daily Thought. A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. Goethe. HOT WATER HEATING Ft? tilt Fam ! N All the comforts of town life can now be had on the farm. Heat the house with hot water, and get the maximum amount of comfort at a minimum . cost The day of'the base burner in the country home is rapid ly passing. WHY NOT HAVE THE BEST The time to install a heating plant is from now on. Once installed, they last a life time. Come in and let us tell you about it, or drop us a card stating what you want. I. DUSSELL t SOI Plumbing and Hot Water Heating COLUMBUS, NEB. RADICAL AND EFFECTIVE CURE Insurance Man Firmly Convinced One Practical Joker Has Seen the Error of His Ways. "Ob, yes, I had a good time camp ing out this summer," said the insur ance man, "and just before coming home I found a hero. There were a hundred campers of us where I went, and among them were several love sick young men. It got to be a fad for one of them to take a canoe and paddle away and upset it and play that he was drowned. Then the rest of us had to turn out and hunt for him. After this game had been played three or four times I got tired of it I was routed out one morning at daylight to help search for a dude, who wanted to perish for the love of a red-haired girl in camp. His canoe had drifted ashore bottom up. While some went to dragging the lake, I took a walk in the woods along the shore, and in the course of half an hour I found my man. He wasn't drowned. He wasn't even wet He was smoking a cigarette and feeling a hero." "And what happened?" was asked as the narrator paused. "I effected a cure. It will be years and years before that young man plays the hero again. It may, in fact, be never more. I took him by the collar and jered him to his feet and rammed the cigarette down his throat, and then I cracked his heels in the air and toyed with him. When tired of this I got down and drew him over my knee and spanked him 20 min utes straight He struggled and yelled, of course, but it was no use. When I had finished him he sneaked up to camp and packed up and disap peared. From thence until I left canoes kept right side up, and not a young man was missing on the lake or a young woman lost in the woods to cause the rest of us to miss our regular meals." STRUCK HIS FINAL BALANCE Old Bookkeeper Ended Life's Work in Company with the Beloved Ledgers. In silence he walked up and down the main office where the click, click of the typewriters almost made him dizzy; but every head bobbed up from its work as he passed with a pleasant smile or friendly nod. He must now take leave of the be loved volumes over which he had pored days, months, years yea, more than the quarter of a century; they were his comrades, his Inspiration, his soul. Inanimate things occasion ally become a sort of major part of a human being until It seems almost brutal to eliminate one from the oth er. He was of the past but the vol umes must be handed down- to the present the future. Silently he ca ressed the huge worn covers; with unshed tears, he pored over the fig ures as if they were human and knew of his grief. He leaned forward and laid his tired head, with Its thin gray locks, on one of the open books and, with one emaciated, bloodless hand clasped the cover of another. He closed his eyes wearily and heaved a sigh like the soft sough of the wind through some deserted garden. The noise In the main office had ceased; the typewriter girls had gone one by one; the men had taken their 'departure. The man who swept and dusted and saw to turning out the lights was making a hasty tour .of the different offices and openea tne 'door of the aged accountant's room. It was nothing unusual' to see him at his desk at this late hour. "Hello there, Uncle! Still at work?" The white head never moved from the table. There was an ominous si lence. Awe-struck, the attendant moved closer to the desk and gently shook his shoulder. The old man was cold and rigid. He had balanced all earthly accounts. The Bookkeeper. Palace Mieat Market CARL FALK, Proprietor Solicits a share of your patronage Thirteenth Street I CITY RUNS A PUBLIC BAKERY udaptst to Have Plant Capable of Producing 50,000 Pounds of Bread Daily. The city of Budapest in order to furnish good bread to the public at a cheap price has decided to establish a municipal bakery capable of produc ing 50.000 pounds of bread daily. This will be a public enterprise and is meant by competition to compel the general production of bread equally good and equally cheap prices being based upon the actual price of wheat and flour as that furnished by the municipality. This bakery will be a model one. Modern machinery will be used and all immediate contact by the workmen with the bread will be avoided. Be sides this the burgomaster says, the bakery by the wholesale purchase of flour and other articles of production will tend to reduce the price. The expense of building this munic ipal bakery will be 125,000, not in eluding the value of the site. The rooms for preparing the dough, the baking rooms and the bread maga zines are all spacious and well lighted. Near by are two groups of buildings, one containing the engine house, ths electrical plant and places for storing and preparing potatoes, the Hun garian public being fond of bread made of wheat mixed with potatoes, and the other consisting of stables and coach houses. The bread will be sold partly In spe cial shops belonging to the municipal ity and partly by private provision merchants at a price fixed by the municipality. HUMAN BODY AS TELEPHONE German Scientist Sees Great Possibili ties in Experiments He Has Been Conducting. The human telephone is at once the newest and the oldest form of tele phony. Some years ago it was shown that it was possible to charge the hu man body with tremendously high alternating currents of electricity. And it is well known that the body has been used as an electric battery for many experiments. It is now suggested by one Or. Die der of Steglits that by charging the body with these rapidly alternating impulses the drum of the ear can be made to respond to their action and vibrate so as to hear the current. The ear would then become a kind of tele phone disk and would be aware of changes in the intensity of the cur rent. It is necessary simply to press against the ear the outer metallic coating of a Leyden jar whose inner coating is connected with one pole of an induction coll and to grasp the op posite pole with one hand. Rieder thinks it is not impossible to perfect this arrangement so that it will transmit speech telephonlcally. It is thought that deaf people might be sensitive to the device. As Dr. Rieder finds that there is a feeling of oppression in the ear for several hours after such experiments, the au ditive organs must be acted upon in quite a different way from that of an ordinary telephone. The Winnebago and His Beans. Congresman J. P. Latta of Nebraska demands that the Winnebago Indians of his state be given back the privi lege of chewing mescal beans which the government ruthlessly deprived (hem of some years ago. The mescal bean grows down on the Mexican border, and the Indian ex perts say that its narcotic quality makes it as dangerous to the noble red men as whisky, chloral, morphine or any other drug. The noble red men, however, indig nantly deny the allegation, and declare that it is a part of the Winnebago re ligion to chew those beans and thus hold direct communication with the Great Spirit Congressman Latta, occupying a mid dle ground upon the question, argues that they are not so bad, and that the Winnebago Indians were just as well behaved when they- had the habit as they are now, when a paternal govern ment forbids it Let the Child Sleep. It is a bad thing for an adult to lose sleep, but it is worse for a child. To cut short the time the immature brain needs for rest and repair is to stunt the growth irreparably. There fore, says Sir James Crichton Brown, the English physician, parents should set their faces firmly against home studying. When books are taken home the studying Is, as a rule, done at night, and the brain work at night is almost sure to poison the child's sleep, robbing it of the repairing pow er sleep ought to have. "The present increase In nervous and mental dis eases noted by recent observers is largely due," says Sir James, "to In sufficient sleep. ... It would be wiser to let the children learn less if thereby a. better brain power is in sured for the future." His Faith in Elephants. Years ago there appeared an amus ing picture in a certain journal. It represented two small boys standing before a circus poster of an enormous elephant whirling about on the tip of his tail upon the base of a tiny, up turned wine glass. One of the boys, a little "doubting Thomas," asks breathlessly of the other: 'Do you be lieve that?" His companion replies with simple, solid conviction: "I Idon't believe there ain't nothink that !an elephant can't do." Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. in American Magazine. Particularly Scandal. There are people who believe every thing they hear, and a lot they don't Exchange. Justice Not a Common Virtue. Of all human excellences, justice Is the most uncommon. Plutarch. Rather Mixed. "That acrobat's stunt is a good one, isn't It?" "Yes; he always gets a hand on his feat" - Fall Millinery Opening Friday and Saturday, Sept 24 and 25 Will be the dates for our formal showing of fall and winter styles. In addition to our trimmed hats we are presenting this season a very attractive showing of pattern hats, in cluding the Gage. We invite the attention of the laeies of Columbus and vicinity. Mrs. Anna Nugent Phone Black 120 13th Street, Columbus, Neb. BILLIARD PLAYING WON BRIDE Unusual Stakes on Games Decided !r. Italian Club, in City of Philadelphia. Men have often played billiards, but not for love. It has taken William Caruso, a prosperous young barber of the Colonnade hotel, to demonstrate the fact that Cupid lurks in the cor2 ners of the green table, with a smile and an arrow for the victor of the game of chance. Four years ago Caruso met, in the Mazzina Garibaldi club, John Cirlno, the best billiard player in the club. Caruso, undaunted by the other's repu tation, challenged him to a billiard duel, with the privilege, if he won, of asking in marriage the hand of a cer tain lissom beauty, Filomena Cirlno, the then champion's sister. All was arranged, the match came off, Caruso won, and Cirlno Introduced the victor to his sister. Every week the billiard matches would be the talk of the club when it became known what were the stakes. And every week Caruso beat his op ponent, fortified by the thought of the smiles that awaited him after the battle. Convinced at last that the young barber was a worthy man in every respect, Cirlno gave his consent to the nuptials. Philadelphia Evening Bul letin. Try the Hunger Cure. A German woman who has suf fered for years with neuralgia and headache believes she has been cured by fasting. "Food is the root of all evil," she declares, "not money. Eat ing and unhappiness are closely inter woven". Hunger cures for certain classes of nervous and internal disor ders are already being regarded fa vorably by some medical authorities. Dreams, says one expert, are the re sult of a condition of the stomach, and thousands of people are plagued with disagreeable dreams, which ex haust and destroy nerve centers. Fast ing seems a rational cure for such disorders, and there is reason to sup pose that it will in future form a very material part of the treatment of pa tients by nerve specialists. Corn Growing in Treetop. Oconee has one of the seven won ders of the world. It is a stalk of corn said to be about fifty feet high, growing in the top of a tree. This is not made up, and we can cite you to the person who told us. It is sup posed the seed of this corn was car ried up in the tree 'by some bird, and that it took root and grew. The tree is about forty-five feet high and the stalk of the corn is about four or five feet high. The tree is on a place near Seneca. Farm and Factory. An Unhappy Recollection. Mrs. Kragg I see they have just celebrated the centenary of Mendels sohn. Mr. Kragg I've always felt a preju dice against that fellow. Mrs. Kragg Why? Mr. Kragg Every time I hear his confounded wedding march I think of our wedding! No Excuse for Conceit. However much a man has done to be proud of, it isn't enough to war rant a swelled head. The Overland Automobile HAS 4 Clylinders 30 H. P. Shaft Drive 34 inch wheels 110 inch wheel base Remy Magneto Planetary or Selective Transmission From $1,250 to 92,250 REO'S $500 AND $1,000 Golumbus Automobile 60. TWO IDEAS ABOUT BUSINESS One Without Imagination, and the, Other with It and the Differ ence Therein. It must be remembered always that it is not the price of an article which is important, but the reason for the price. The bankrupt stock, the fire sale. the manufacturer's remnants, the an nual clearance, the removal sale, the dissolution-of-partncrsbip sale what are these, and many more, but argu ments for the price? And note this one point that without the argument the price is powerless. Reduce your fur-lined overcoats from $100 to $60. and liberal discount attracts little at tention. Why? Because there is no reasonable explanation for the reduc tion. Why should you present over coats to the public? Hut announce that, owing to an expiration of your lease, and the imperative command that you vacate your present store within two weeks, you will reduce the price of your fur-lined overcoats from $100 to $80, and you may sell easily all you have to oifer. Instinctively. the public sees the whole picture the proprietor's anxiety, the inevitable re moval, the lessening days, the final sacrifice, and the store full of eager buyers quick to seize such an oppor tunity. This is only half the reduction previously considered; but one is busi ness without imagination, and the oth er is business with it. Atlantic Monthly. Borglum's Group of North America. Gutzon Borglum's group of North America, for the bureau of the Ameri can republics at Washington, has been cast in plaster, and promises to be a grand artistic monument. The figure of the youth representing "Progress" is particularly strong, and we imagine there is a certain hidden meaning in the expression of the nervous figure that will give rise to some discussion when the group is placed. Mr. Borg lum, who started for a vacation in the Gunnison country of Colorado, will re turn in August and the marble group will be cut in the rough at Washing ton. Then it will be placed in position at the building of the American repub lics, and the sculptor will finish it in situ. There will be no leaving of work to mechanics. The group will repre sent the full expression of a man full of original ideas, who takes his art in tensely seriously. Well-Pressed Cat. A chair had been placed by the counter in the drug store where the stamps were sold. It seemed very convenient. The woman sat down She got up as quickly and gave vent to. a little scream, for the cushion o' dark brown had squirmed. "It's a cat!" she cried, for after the momentary squirming the cushion had curled Itself up again and gone back to sleep. "Yes," said the boy, quietly, "but it doesn't matter. She's used to it Everybody that comes in to buy s stamp sits down on her." Misunderstood. Mrs. Hoyle One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of 1& dependence. Mrs. Doyle Whose divorce decree did he sign?