Burn Crude Oil Let us show you why and how Saves one-half of the fuel hill and does away with all labor and dirt coal coal causes. PIONEER CRUDE OIL BURNER GO. East of Thurston Hotel A. G. BURNS Special Agents C. E. VAN ORMAN 7 ANNONETTE TUCKER The Brilliant Cellist With EGERY MUSICIANS AX CHAUTAUQUA Figures of Speech. A well known veiitrilomiNr who had consented t give a performance in aid of charity heard that certain members of his prospect he audience were de termined to watch the movements of bis mouth with the closest scrutiny with a view of confounding him. The iiigbt came, the attendants carried in three dummies on chairs, and the artist made his appearance. His perform ance was unusually successful, the muscles of his face giving no evidence of his art. The changes of voice were marvelous, and the astonished crowd at the close of the exhibition gave him a rousing cheer. Again and again they called him back, and he express ed his pleasure by innumerable bows. At last the heerim; ceased, and he was permitted t retire. Scarcely had h6 done so when the three "lay" tig ures ot up from their hairs and walk ed off the stage. The ventriloquist had employed tluee friends to impersonate his usual inc. Ir.iuii-al ligures. Salad of the Shoes. Freshmen have troubles the world over. The "consents." as they are called at the famous Ecole I'oly tech nique in Paris, arc subjected to an amusing initiation culled Hie salad of shoes. The freshmen report some days before the upper class men so that they can receive their uniforms and become familiar with the routine of the school The lirst morning after their tormentors return the freshmen are aroused by a demand that ihe throw their shoes out of the windows itjto the court aid The shoes are guthered into a heap. aud. kneeling in a big circle around this, the fie-di men are obliged to go through some ridiculous utmuastic movements :it the command of their superiors. When the study bell rings they have but a minute to appear in the class rooms. aud it is a stienuoiis minute arr.iiud i that pile of shoes. I Staple and Fancy GROCERIES We can supply every want in this line, and if it something new on the market, you will find it here. IN CANNED GOODS We have the best the market affords which includes the leading brands. Fruits and Vegetables If they are to be had in the city you can get them at the (9(wum(W Tennyson Disturbed. I fliit storr is told ill Kobcrt II. Sher- ard's liuol: "My Friends the French:" "A granddaughter of Wordsworth, being full of admiration for the young poet who was to succeed her grand father in laureate honors, was once taken to see Mr. Tennyson by Mrs. Taylor, the wife of another poet or some distinction. Tennyson received them ery badly, showing great irri tation at being disturbed, and when Mrs. Taylor rallied him on his manner he said: 'Madam. 1 am a poor man and as I can't afford to buy the Times I hire it from the stationer's. He charges me a penny for It. which enti ties me to keep it for au hour. Why will people always select just that hour to come and call upon me";' After which he thing out of the room, leav ing Mrs. Tennyson to apologize for his bruscpierie." Currency In China. Writing from the interior of China, a traveler says: "Currency is primitive to a degree. Lump silver only is used and copper 'cash. Coined money is not current. Even in Ilonan city, which is distant only two days by rail from I'ekiu. lump silver, the same cum- i brous currency that lias been used for centuries, is still employed. It is cut into small pieces by hammer and chis el. Every towu and village has Its own weights and scales, aud there is no pretense at uniformity." The Man and the Parrot. Exasperated Purchaser Didn't yon guarantee that this parrot would re peat every word he heard? 15ird Dealer Certaluly I did. "Dut lie doesn't repeat a single word." "Hi' repeats every word he hears, but he never hears any. He is as deaf as a post." Well Satisfied. "Old i ; abber ought to be satisfied witli the money he has." "He is satislied so much so that he wants a lot more of exactly the same k!nd."-I.ondon Tit-Hits. PREMIER MUSICAL ORGANIZATION Brought from Hungary 1893 16 Schildkret's Royal Hungarians They will delight music lovers at CHAUTAUQUA The Generous Arab. "One day when in our wandering! we happened to camp near some roll Ing country the sheik and I rode off in search of gazelles." says a traveler in Arabia. "We found a large herd, and, being mounted on good horses, we managed to ride them down, throwing ourselves off our horses for the shot, then galloping on again. We killed sis gazelles in about au hour and rode back to camp with enough meat for a big feast. It is the custom that who ever kills game should provide a feast for all bis frieuds. On the occasion of these feasts i uotlced thai there was always u crowd of hangers-on waiting at the end for a scrap of food, half starved looking boys ami ragged men. These were orphans whose parents had been killed or men whose herds had beeu 'lifted by other Arabs, and as n result they were destitute, for the law of the Hedouin is 'survival of the fittest in its strictest sense. Hut the sheik supplied food liberally, and I noticed that he always looked after the poor and fed the hungry." A Life Saving Order. Many years ago the American war ship Delaware came near foundering off the coast of Sardinia while luUlug. through a heavy squall during a morn ing watch. The -"unauthorized lettiug go of the fore sheet" alone saved the ship from going down with 1.100 souls on board. The first lieutenant, after ward Commodore Thomas V. Wyman. with difficult climbing succeeded in reaching the quarterdeck, where, snatching the trumpet from the officer in charge, his first order, given in a voice heard distinctly fore aud aft. was. "Keep clear or the paint work!" This command to hundreds of human beings packed in the lee scuppers like sardines in a box instantly restored them to order aud prevented a panic, they naturally feeling that if at such a time, with a line of battle ship on her beam ends, clean paint work was of paramount iniortance their condition could not lie a serious one. The Baby Stare. Have you ever sat opposite in bus or train to a baby. say. from one to two years old? If you have you have been compelled to notice it. Aud un less you are a misanthropical person I guess you have caught yourself feel ing uncomfortable under its wide eyed scrutiny of you. I think there Is uotu Ing more disconcerting than to be re jected by a baby after full aud open cross examination. Itabics aud very young children have no humbug about them. I lielieve they see more than grownups. 1 believe they read our diameters down to the very ground. While the young mother is interested to find that her baby is being admired that baby is reckoning up both the mother aud the admirer, aud when the Jerky turn of the head comes the mau that has music in his soul feels small. London Senilis. When Dreams Came True. An English magazine records two dream stories. In one a lady, having lost an iinMrlant key while walking in a wood near tier house in Ireland, dreamed that she saw it lying at the root or a certain tree. Next day she found it then. She supposed her eye must have seen it after it dropped, though her conscious mind had not in stantly noted it. .lust the same was the theory of a barrister who went out late at night to xst his letters and uion undressing missed a check for a large amount re ceived durum the day. He dreamed he saw it curled round an area railing uot tar tioin his door, woke up. dressed, went out and found it exactly as he had dreamed. The mind regis ters at times what it does not instantly report. Something Wrong. Au Australian auctioneer who was reputed to have more education than professional ability was endeavoring to sell some cattle to au audience ot farm hands, "t'ciitleuicii." lie began. "I have a particularly like lot ot heifers and bullocks, and I may say that the heifers predominate." He was interrupted by a very agri cultural voice from the crowd. "I thort there was something wrong with em." it said, "or you wouldn't have to sell Viii." A Timely Trip. Little Brother (who lias just been given some randy If 1 were you 1 shouldn't lake sister yachtiug this afternoon. Ardent Suitor Why do you say that. Tommy V "Well. I heard her tell mother this morning that she feared she'd have to throw you over. Lippincott's. Finding Him Out. Indiguant Constituent This is the fourth time I have called to see the senator by appointment and fouud him out every time. Private Secretary (of emiuent statesman) Oh. well. I would pot make a fuss about that. Accord ing to what the palters say. everybody Is finding him out. Chicago Tribune. Own Up. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which Is but saying, in other words, that be Is wiser today tliau he was yesterday. Pone. FOUR TUNEFUL BROTHERS They sing, play trumpets 'and read entertainingly WEATHERWAX MALE QUARTET There is harmony of blood in this family of brothers You may hear them at CHAUTAUQUA beev-eeeeE9BBBBBb7bbbbbbcBBb1 Cgittcic lp CLOTHES' k.G It is just simply out of the question for a young fellow to find such clothes as those known as "Col lege Chap" unless he comes to us. The shoulders, thegrace ful waist, the delightful lapels, all proclaim them the clothes "de luxe" for men who know cleverness when they see it. Are you one of these men? We want to know you. GREISEN BROS. Columbus, Neb. THE BIG CHAUTAUQUA Strong lectures on live topics. Entertainers the very best ever. First-class music, in varieties to suit every taste. Indian school new features. GET A SEASON TICKET EARLY. 21 The Cleveland Ladies' Orchestra A Superb Musical Attraction Hit Him Coming and Gtfing. Au attorney went to a livery stable and hired a team for two or three hours aud at the end of that time, in a state of nhentmiiidedness, left the team at another 1 1 very stable, where it remained eight days. At stable Xo. 1 there was uo worry about the team. They Knew the attorney was perfectly good for the pay. They knew that If he kept the team a month the bill would he paid promptly ou presenta tion. .They presumed that he knew what he was about aud concluded it was his business aud not theirs. At stable Xo. 1! there was equal freedom from anxiety. The attorney came there, left the team and went away, saying nothing. They put the horse into a stall and 'chalked it down" ou the ollice slate, knowing him to be a business man who paid cash. Discov ery came at last, and the lawyer was presented with two bills, oue for eight days' hire and the other for eight days' keep. He paid both bills promptly, but it cured him of being absentmind ed for nearly a whole mouth. The Coffee Cup In Persia. The expression "to give a cup of coffee" has in Persia a somewhat omi nous significance. This is due to the fact that the coffee cup is one recog nized medium for conveying poisou. Some years ago the governor of Aspa dana. having long lieen at daggers drawn with the chief of a powerful mountain tribe, determined in this way to put an end to all trouble. He professed to entertain a great degree of friendship and esteem for the chief tain and invited him to visit him at his palace. The chief unsuspiciously came, accompanied by his two young sons. For a week they were royally enter tained. Hut at last one morning when the chief came into his host's presence he was coldly received, and an attend ant soon stepped forward with a single cup of coffee in his band, which he of fered to the guest. The latter could not fail to understand that he was doomed. Preferring, however, steel to poison, he declined the cup and was thereupon, at a signal from his host, stabbed to death. Wonder of Blood Transfusion. There is nothing more dramatic in surgery than a transfusion of blood to see the iatient take on the rosy hue of health, waken out or his lethargy, show an immediate live interest In his surroundings and actually recover un der the eye of the oierator. In adults we must not permit the amount trans fused to e.mal the normal for fear of suddenly overtaxing the heart, but in the case of young children who have had severe hemorrhages there may be complete recovery without a period of convalescence. Nso that at the termina tion of the operation the patient la well. Century. 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It presents a sort of shell-like surface with au indescribable blush. This blush is so cleverly counterfeited in was imitations that even those who -re accustomed to handling pearls day after day are likely to be deceived In one of the large Xew York jew elry houses last winter a customer purchased a hand painted miniature set in a frame of imitation pearls. Ou examination it was found that sev eral of the pearls had been slightly defaced, and the whole lliiim was sent to the manufacturing rooms for re pairs. Uy chance it came under the eye of one of the pearl stringers, who instantly detected four genuine pearls in the circle of imitation ones about the picture. The frame had passed through a dozen expert hands with out any one's noticing the presence of real pearls. Xo one could account for their Immiiu there. If they had not been detected the purchaser of the frame would have had a bargain, for the four ueuuiiie pearls were worth many tiuie more than the picture and the rest nt" its setting. Xew York Tribune. Spirit of Young America. A teacher in a Philadelphia public school narrated the following account of how au aspiring younu Italian citi zen was beginning to show the effects of an American environment. The story, which was told at a teachers as sociation meeting, runs something like this: Tony had been away from school about a week, and when he showed up one morning the teacher asked him where he had been. "I mil away." said Tony. "Kan away! What did you do that for?" askinl the teacher. "My father was going to lick nie. so 1 thought IM run away." wax the re ply. The teacher by further questioning brought out the fact that Tony for some trilling dereliction had beeu threatened with a Inviting aud had stayed away from home the best part of a wtsk. "Itut your father has the right to whip you." said the teacher. "Yes, he may." added Tony, "but I was bom in this country, and I don't waut no foreigners to lick me." Pitts burg Chroniele-Tclegra ph. Costa Rican Volcanoes. Costa Itica has been subject to earth quakes for many years. Part of the republic is exceedingly mountainous, aud in this part of the country there, are more than a score of volcanoes, some of them dead, but a few that break out periodically. There are three or four that have been active for more than a century. Some of these are near Sail Jose, the capital. Costa Iticans have always believed that earthquakes, which the country has ex perienced ever since it was first set tied by Spanish adventurers, wero caused) by the volcanoes. There Is good grouud for this belief, because it has been noticed that earthquakes of more or less intensity followed the ac tivity of these volcanoes. If the vol canic eruptions were violent the mirth quakes were correspondingly severe. "Washington Post. A Witty Retort. A good story is told of two great Irishmen, the late Archbishop Piuukct and Father Healy, the well known parish priest of Hray. .Making their way together to Hray railroad station oue morning, the priest urged that they should hurry, but the prelate's appeal to his watch convinced him that they had ample time. They ar rived to see the train for Dublin dis appearing. The archbishop's apolo gies were lavish. He pleaded that lie bad always had unbounded faith in bis watch. ".My dear Lord Pluiiket," was Father Healy's rejoinder, "faith won't do without the good works." Blackwood's Magazine. Alkarazza. Alkarazza is the name given to ves sels cf very porous earthenware which when filled with water are always moist outside and owing to the evapo ration of the water on their surface al ways keep their contents cool. Alka razza can be made from any good pot ter's clay by mixing with it 10 per cent of its weight, dry. of very fine sawdust and then working it. Ou burning the savdut is destroyed and the clay thereby left porous. Started In Business. "Father thinks I ouirht to go in for business a bit." remarked the gilded youth. "Made a start yet';" "Oh. yaas. I've ordered three busi ness suits and had tue name put up at a commercial club." Louisville Cou-rier-Jourual. Her Instructions. Conductor Ticket, please. Passen er Certainly, sir. Here is the key of my trunk, which is in the baggage car. In the pocket of my second best dres3 is my mileage book. Harper's Bazar. 28 $1,000 CELEBRATION COLUMBUS JULY Special Features Sunrise Salute and Parade Address by Prominent Nebraskan Races and Games Ball Game Nebraska State League Columbus vs Kearney Automobile Parade Fireworks Display Band Concerts, day and evening. Moving Picture show all day Merry-go-Rounds and numerous other attractions Rest Rooms for Everything comprising a genuine old fashioned, up-to-date and rip-roaring cele bration will be on tap in Columbus. Committee Ml KJSJi BOYS AND GIRLS If you havo a Season Ticket you may join the Indian Band at CHAUTAUQUA Yellow Fever. "Every one knows that when a m:u: has once had yellow fever aud recov ers he never contracts tin disease again, no matter how much he exposes himself to infection. said Dr. Fred S. WillLuus of Havana. "This ability to resist the minute organisms which cause the malady Is called iiumiiuily. and in tropical countries where yellow jack U always present It is turned to prolit iu various ways. "Thus during the Spanish-American war regiments of immiines were en listed in the south for service in the fever ridden country about Santiago. Again, during au epidemic in New Or leans many persons purposely exposed themscUes to infection because the disease prevailed in a very mild form, and they concluded that If they were Infected they would quickly recover and would be immune during severe epidemics in the future." Washington Herald. .LIIIBBVi VI f -p :av V$Bjpr Better Plumbing TVTANY homes should have better bath rooms ' than they now have. We have always 1 tried not only to do better plumbing than we ever did before, but better than any body else can do. The urne of work we are now doing shows how we are succeeding. We use only genuine plumbing fixtures and employ only experienced workmen. Our repair int service is prompt and reliable. hi VI' 'I A. DU&SEJLL & SON Columbus, Nebraska ivlspy IN 4 i Ladies and Children Dr. Johnson's Church. St. Clement Danes has never forgot ten the fact that Johnson worshiped within Its walls The pew iu which he sat ,'it is in the north gallery, close to the pulplti is marked by a brass plate which was erected by the parish loners iu 1ST.1. In December. 18S4. thu centenary of Dr Johnson's death was observed bv a memorial service, wheu r a special address was delivered by the Itev. Dr. Lindsay, at that time rector of St. Clement Danes. Johnson's pew was on that occasion draped iu violet. Johnson was always constant in bis attendance at church on Good Friday and Easter day. On April 1). 1773. he went with lloswell. "His behavior." writes lloswell. -was. as I had Imagin ed to myself, solemuly devout. 1 shall never forget the tremulous earnestness with which he pronounced the awful petition iu the litany. "In the hour of death aud in the day of judgment, good Lord, deliver us!' " Loudon News. A NOVEL ATTRACTION s 9 ( SMITH DAMRON i The Potter Craftsman in His Illustrated Lecture THE POTTER AND THE CLAY CHAUTAUQUA vol- -' !PiSljM03IHI ''ssAsSfcrki'Vl 1 V-srssSrWs 1 MkffpsBMSpPv u ft i aUJisHreJ t r I B2Ss