The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 06, 1910, Image 8
V I, i E ii i i ri Pioneer Crude Oil Burner Company Incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma. Capital Stock 830,000.00 Come to our office in the tent east of the Thurston hotel, and let us demonstrate to you what a money-saving and heat-producing burner we have. Read What Mrs. J. H. Honsh lias to say about the Brrner after 3 days9 use "I never used or saw a better or more even fire. I have baked and ironed with my stove since using the burner, and it gave entire satisfaction in every par ticular. The burner is so easily handled that you have no trouble whatever in controlling the fire. It is much cheaper and so mech cleaner that there is no comparison whatever with coal. A number of my neighbors have been in to see how the Burner worked in my stove and each one of them was very highly pleased with what they saw. Mrs. J. F. Housh." .V3fJ-r:t--:3 THE NELL BUNNELL COMPANY Music Hath Charms and Some Musicians Are Charming Three superlatively handsome and cultured artists who are coming for CHAUTAUQUA Couldn't Hear Them. Tve been worried about 1113- bcarlug for some time." said a local bauker. who tells the story 011 himself, "aud finally tbe fear of gettiug deaf became a sort of obsession to me, and 1 de cided to go over to New York to con sult a specialist. I got over there aud went to see the doctor, and he looked so grave 1 was more scared than ever, aud 1 was feeling pretty blue as 1 walked down Fifth avenue with a friend. "Suddenly I saw two 'special trol leys' coming down a cross street filled with children waving flags aud appar ently having an awfully good time, but I couldn't hear a sound. In an in stant, without stopping to realize that I could bear all the other noises of the tratlic and my friend's voice. 1 turned around and seized him by the arm and shouted: "'Heavens. Jo, I'm deaf! I can't bear those children at all "Neither ran I,' said my friend, with a roar of laughter. 'They're mutes. "Philadelphia Times. The Rod and the Child. I do not believe in the government of tbe lash. If any one of you ever ex pects to whip your children again I waut you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act. with your face red with vulgar anger and the face of the little child, with eyes swimming in tears and tbe little chiu dimpled with fear, like a piece of water struck by a sudden cold wind. Have the picture taken. If that little child should die I cannot think of a sweeter way to spend an autumn aft ernoon than to go out to the cemetery when the maples are clad in tender gold aud little scarlet runners are com ing, like poems of regret, from the sad heart of the earth and sit down upon the grave aud look at that photograph and think of the flesh, now dust, that you beat. 1 tell you it is wrong; it Is no way to raise children. Make your home happy. Be houest with them. Divide fairly with them in everythiug. Robert G. lngcrsoll. Realism. "When I was in London." said Miss Warner to the little group of friends rouud the dinner table who were lis tening to her account of some amus ing experiences she had abroad last summer, "I tried to be as British as I could, but I was constantly getting mixed in my English phrases. "You know one of the underground railroads in Loudon is always spoken of as the Uu'penuy tube.' so one day when 1 wished to be transported in a hurry from one side of the city to the other I astonished a big. pleasant faced bobby by asking where was the near est station of the 'twopenny tub.' ' Every oue at tbe table laughed ex cept the young Scotch guest He lean ed across the board and said, very se riously, "Ye kuow ye caau get a bawth In Lunnon for tu'pence." Helped Out the Gunner. Gadebuscb. in the grand ducby of Mecklenburg-Schweriu. in celebration of the birth of a grand ducal heir de cided to fire the regulation salute of 101 guns. An ancieut cannon was hauled out for the purpose, and the firing began. Unfortunately the pow der ran short after the ninety-third shot and there was no means of ob taining any more in the towu. The burgomaster was In despair, especially as ninety-three shots indicated that the grand ducal baby was a girl. At this moment the municipal bandmaster came forward with a luminous pro posal, which was eagerly accepted. He dispatched bis big drum major to the market place, where he struck eight powerful strokes on his instru ment to make up the 101 shots, and thus the situation was saved. London Standard. Firmness of Purpose. Firmness of purpose Is one of the most necessary sinews of character I and one of tbe best Instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. "--? ??. - BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBUBpBBBKSBBBBBBSBJSBBBBBBBBBBk VlBkBSvVHPSBBVSBBBBBBBBBBBBBJL! BSSSSaSsY"aiKSSSSSSSSBT BBBBBBBBBBBBTlBSBBBBK4JraiSBBpT BSBBBBSBSBBSSSJSBM Only Waited His Consent. He was well dressed and breezy, and when he entered the private office of the great tea merchant he looked ca pable of doing anything from selling books to writing up insurance. "I have come, sir," he announced without hesitation, "to get your con sent" "Consent for what?" demanded the old man without looking up. "Well er you see. your daughter" "Oh. 1 understand now. So you like my daughter, eh?" "I think she is the finest young wo man I have met in many moons. As I was saying, if you'll give your con sent she will have the handsomest" "Come, come! Don't get vain and say she'll have tbe finest husband if she accepts you." "I'm married, sir. I'm trying to tell you that If you give your consent she'll have the handsomest auto runabout in town. She's dead stuck on It, and If you'll consent and put up $1,000 cash we will" But tbe great tea merchant bad col lapsed. Chicago News. A Selfish Proposition. A frnnf laninn roctilAtit- ir ETnmr , , BwUwu.uu. .v..v.-u. .... uu. .,.., made frequent complaints to the mas ters of the great school there of his garden being stripped of its fruit, even before it became ripe, but to uo pur pose. Tired of applying to the masters for redress, be at length appealed to the boys, and. sending for one to his house, he said: "Now. my good fellow. I'll make this agreement with you and your companions. Let the fruit re main on the trees till it becomes ripe, aud I promise to give you half." Tbe boy coolly replied. "I can say nothing to the proposition, sir. myself, but will make it known to tbe rest of tbe boys aud inform you of their de cision tomorrow." Next day came and brought with it this reply: "The gentlemen of Harrow cannot agree to receive so unequal a share, since Mr. is an individual and we are many." London Sketch. Our Elastic Globe. Nothing seems more rigid thau the crust of the earth, but scientific men tell us that it bends aud buckles ap preciably under tbe pull of the heaven ly bodies. Careful observation has also shown that the shores on opposite sides of a tidal basin approach each other at high tide. The weight of water in the Irish sea, for instauce. is so much greater at that time that the bed sinks a trifle and consequently pulls the Irish and English coasts nearer together. The buildings of LI' crpool and Dublin may be fancied as bowing to each other across the chan nel, the dellectiou from perpendicular being about oue inch for every six teen miles. It has been showu. too. that ordinary valleys widen under the heat of the sun and contract again at night. We live not on a rigid but an elastic globe. In a Maori Wooing House. Among the Maoris sometimes in tbe whare matoro (tbe wooing house), a building in which tbe young of both sexes assembled for play, songs, dauces. etc.. there would be at stated times a meeting. When the fires burn ed low a girl would staud up in the dark and say: "I love So-and-so. 1 want him for my husband." If be coughed (sign of assent) or said "Yes" It was well; if only dead silence, she covered her head with her robe and was ashamed. This was not often, as she generally had managed to ascer tain either by her own inquiry or by sending a girl friend if tbe proposal was acceptable. On tbe other band, sometimes a mother would attend and say. "1 want So-aud-so for my sou." If not acceptable there was generally mocking, and she was told to let tbe young people have their house (tbe wooing house) to themselves. Pepys and the Comet. On Dec. 21. 1004. Pepys, the diarist, records. "My Lord Sandwich this day writes me word that be batb seen at Portsmouth the comet and says it is the most extraordinary thing he ever saw." Again, three days later, he writes. "Having sat up all uight till past 2 o'clock this morning, our porter, being appoiuted. comes and tells us that the bellman tells him that the star is seen upou Tower hill, so 1 aud my boy to Tower hill, it being a most fine bright moonshine night and a great frost, but uo comet to be seen." Later the same day. however, Pepys did see the comet, "which now. wheth er worn away or no. 1 kuow not. ap pears not with a tail, but only is larger and duller than any other star." Westminster Gazette. Mercury's Accident. "What's th matter with vour office boy?" "He hurt himself while running when I sent him on an errand tbe ether day." "Come off: You don't mean to say" "I do Hi? never did tbe errand, but be fouud out whv a horse had fallen down in the street." Cleveland Leader. Saving the Oil. "In Cairo." said a journalist, MI heard a queer yarn about the fella bin. The fellabin are tbe native ru ralists. They are very poor. Well, when the British built the Egyptian state railway tlie officials were as tounded at tbe eaormous quantities of train oil- that disappeared. They knew that all this oil couldn't be used for lubricating purposes, so they made an Investigation aud found that It bad become the staple food of the poor fellabin. Tbe railroad detectives re ported that tbe fellabin all over Egypt were using the Egyptian state railway's train oil as their chief sup port. They buttered their bread with train oil. They fried their fish In train oil. They made a kind of suet pudding with train oil as a base. They drank train oil heated as n flesh producer or builder up. So tbe railway officials mixed castor oil with the stuff, and tbe fellabin after a year's torturing and vaiu effort to acclimate their sys tems to tbe mixture decided to give train oil up." The Giant Bible. There is in tbe Boy a I library at Stockholm among other curiosities a manuscript work known as the giant Bible on account of its extraordinary dimensions. It measures 90 centime ters in length and Is SO centimeters in breadth-tbat is. about 35 by 19 Inches. It requires three men to lift it. There are 309 pages, but seven have been lost The parchment of which tbe book Is composed required tbe skins of 1G0 asses. There are two columns on each page, and the book contains tbe Old and New Testaments, with extracts from Josephus. The initial letters are illuminated. The binding is of oak, four and one-half centimeters in thickness. The book narrowly escaped destruction in the fire in tbe royal palace of Stockholm in 1G97. It was saved, but somewhat damaged, by being thrown out of a window. London Globe. The English Manor House Bathroom. A writer in tbe American Magazine gives the following directions by which a visitor may always find tbe house hold bathroom in an old English man or house: "The household bathroom may be reached by descending tbe narrow stone steps from tbe second floor back of the north battlement Follow the fall In a southeasterly direction until you come to the armor gallery, then tuni sharply to the left and follow tbe corridor to the top. Open the door at the end of this long hall and take a half flight of stone steps (Oliver Crom well once kissed a serving maid in this dark passage) on the right and pass into the open hall at the end. You will easily discover tbe bathroom, because it is tbe fourth door from the mullion window, a beautiful piece of glass of Charles U.'s time." Didn't Like Course Dinners. A colored vomati. native of south, had been working for a tbe flat dwelling family of moderate meaus in tbe east end. but resigned recently to accept a place bringing higher wages with a wealthy family who live iu a large house ou Euclid heights and have their dinuer served in courses every night just as if there was com pany. This colored womau bad been brought up to put everything on tbe table at once, with the exception pos sibly of the dessert, and did uot take kindly to the course system. A few days ago her former mistress met her on the street and inquired how she liked her new place. "Oh. not ve'y well." she replied. "I don't like this hyah way of su'vln' things in cou'ses. The's too much sbiftin o the dishes fo' tbe fewness o the vittles." Clevelaud Plain Dealer. The Scotsman's English. A true specimen of the highland man's difficulties with the Euglish lan guage: Farmer (who bad instructed bis Gaelk shepherd to look for a number of sheep that had wandered from tbe fold) Well. Donald, have you found them? "Aye. mister." "Where did you get them?" "Well, got two by itself, one to gether and three among one of Mc Phearson's." London News. Growing Bananas. Bananas are. as a rule, planted out systematically iu rows, tbe "suckers" being placed at an average of ten feet apart. Tbe bauana plant bears only one bunch at a time, but it is a quick grower, yielding its fruit in twelve to fourteen mouths. When the plant Is about six months old a second "suck er" or shoot is allowed to spring from the root, a third after tbe ninth month, and so on. so that after the first year there is a continuous crop being reaped Outdone. "He doted ou Alice aud would have married her but for her mother." "Ah! Her mother" "Yes: her mother was still more at tractive." Missed Fire. Putton-Ayres I am caviare to the general, you kuow. Miss Innocent Oh. are you really? My brother is in the military too. Boston Trauscrint ELIJAH P. BROWN 24 The "Rams Horn Man" will lecture at CHAUTAUQUA 39SlSJBB5BKjinBVvi jllinlv S'KLl 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. CHAUTAUQUA ATTRACTION 6 Weiss Egery Company Big Clocks. The big clock of the Metropolitan tower at Madison square, New York. Is by long odds tbe costliest and most elaborate public timepiece ever con structed and is tbe only great clock iu tbe world operated wholly by electric ity without the touch of human hands. Some of Its other wonders are its size, being the largest four dial tower clock and the third largest clock of any size in the world, aud its altitude, which Is the highest of any clock iu the world. It has also the biggest and heaviest striking bell. Tbe other three largest clocks are tbe one face dial of the Colgate fac tory in Jersey City, which is forty feet across, tbe next iu size of mammoth public chronometers being the dial at St Bombort's. in the old city of Ma lines, in Belgium, which is tliirty-uiuc feet across. St. Peter's of Zurich, Switzerland, has a dial face twenty nine feet, aud then in order comes the Metropolitan tower clock, which is twenty-six feet six inches in diameter. The Origin of the "Marseillaise." In tbe reign of terror uuder Freron and Barras. when hundreds of vic tims were carved by the guillotine and the people rose against the aristocra cy, was born the hymn of France, composed by Itouget de I'lsle. He was an officer of engineers aud at a banquet was asked to compose a war song. He wrote it iu bis room that night before going to bed. aud tbe next morning bis hostess, tbe wife of the mayor of Strassburg. tried It on a piano, aud iu the afternoon the orches tra of the theater played It In the square of Strassburg. where it created much excitement aud gathered many volunteers. Itouget called it a song for tbe Army of tbe Rhine, but subse quently it was sung by a regiment of volunteers, mostly assassins, who marched out of Marseilles to Paris, where it was appropriated by the cap ital and called the "Hytnne des Marsel lais." But.Joseph Itouget. the author, died in poverty. Desbler Welch In Harper's Magazine. Cheerful. Old Nurse (to newly married couple after viewing the wedding presents Well, my dears, you ought to be very 'appy. There ain't a thing amougst 'em as a pawnbroker wouldn't be pleased to 'andle. London Puucb. A Kicker. "Got a new baby at your bou?-?. bare jou? Boy or girl?' "Girl, but she's nu nnarchLsr. She hasn't done a thing but bowl indignant protests against existing conditions since she came." Chicago Tribune. Tbe understanding Is always the dupe of the heart La Rochefoucauld. LOVELAND Hear this orator-philosopher on "Fol 19 lies cf Fogyism" at CHAUTAUQUA "" The Change of a Letter. At the period when British Columbia was threatening to withdraw from the Dominion of Cauada because the Car narvon settlement had beeu ignored by the Mackenzie administration the late Lord Dufferin took part iu a pub lic function iu Quebec. While the pro cessiou was moving through the prin cipal streets a gentleman, breathless with excitement, hurried up to bis ex cellency's carriage to say a "rebel" arch had been placed across the road so as to identify the viceroy with the approval of the disloyal inscription thereon. "Can you tell me what words there are on the arch?" quietly asked Dufferin. "Oh. yes." replied his in formant; "they are 'Carnarvon Terms or Separation.' " "Send the committee to me," commanded his excellency. "Now. gentlemen." said he. with a smile, to the committee. "I'll go under your beautiful arch on one condition. 1 won't ask you to do much, and 1 beg but a trilling favor. I merely ask that you alter one letter iu your motto. Turn the S into an ft make it "Car narvon Terms or Reparation' and 1 will gladly pass under it." Tbe com mittee yielded, and eventually Dufferin contrived to smooth ovpr the difficul ties and to reconcile tbe malcontents. Odd Street Names. Iu Clerkeuwell. England, there is a street called Pickled Egg walk. It takes its name from Pickled Egg tav ,ern. which formerly stood there aud made a specialty of serviug pickled eggs. An interesting London thorough fare is Hanging Sword alley, which Is mentioned iu Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." London has also Pickleber ring street. Iu Leicester is a street called tbe Holy Bones and another called Callows Tree Gate. Hull has a street with the extraordinary name tbe Iand or Green Ginger. Corydon has a street named Pump Pail, and there some years ago lived Peter Pot tle, a dealer in furniture. The most dariug of farce writers might well nave hesitated to invent a combination of name and address so improbable as that which really belonged to Peter Pottle of Pump Pail. St. James Ga zette. Squaring the Circle. Tbe origin of the problem squaring tbe circle is almost lost in the mists of antiquity, but there is a record of an attempted quadrature in Egypt 500 years before the exodus of the Jews. There is also a claim, according to Hone, that the problem was solved by a discovery of Hipproeates. the geom etrician of Chios not the physician 500 B. C. Now. the efTorts of Hippoc rates were devoted toward converting a circle into a crescent, because he bad found that the area of a figure pro duced by drawing two- perpendicular radii in a circle is exactly equal to the triangle formed by the line of junc tion. This is the famous theorem of tbe "limes of Hippocrates" and is. like glauber's salts out of tbe philosopher's stone, au example of the useful results which sometimes follow a search for the unattainable. Power of Imagination. "The imagination is wonderful," said a college professor. "1 kuow a Chi cago man who went last summer to Asbury Park. lie in a quaint way proved my point. He didn't reach As bury Park till 10 o'clock at night, and. very tired, he turned iu at once. As he settled bis head comfortably on the pillow he said to his wife: "'Listen to the thunder and hiss of the surges. Maria. 1 haven't heard that glorious sound for forty years. No more insomnia nonT "Aud. indeed, for the first time in three mouths the man slept like a log. But when be awoke in tbe morning he found that tbe uproar which had lulled him to sleep was the noise of a garage iu tbe rear of the hotel. The sea was over a mile away." Detroit Free Press. Runciman and Henley. It Is related that shortly after Runci man, the well known writer on sea farers and smugglers and poachers, had bitterly fallen out with W. E. Hen ley be 'lay dying iu London. To Hen ley In Edinburgh, lame and ill. came an indirect message that Runciman believed that if Henley would come and look on him he would get well. It was a dying man's whimsy, but Henley took the train from Edinburgh and arrived in London to find bis friend dead. Her Description. Muggins Women have such queer ways of expressing themselves! Bug gius Such as? Muggins Well, my wife was telling me about Miss Yel lowleaf and said she was a sight to behold and iu the very next breath said she wasn't lit to be seen. Phila delphia Record. A Rare Bird Indeed. "I think I shall Icaru to like that, friend of yocrs." "You were favorably impressed by him. eh?" "Yes. Indeed. He watched me play ing billiards for au hour yesterday without once suggesting bow a sbott ought to be made." Detroit Free! Press. DR. FRANK L. Staple and Fancy GROCERIES We can supply every want in this line, and ii 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 &(WwReiHuil GEO. L. M'NUTT, D. P. M. The eloquent pieacher who left his pulpit to don overalls and work in a factory to get acquainted with labor condit"-ns. Coming to 10 CHAUTAUQUA The Social Breakfast. A London newspaper wonders why we no longer invite people to break fast. The reason is to be fouud iu the Etate of mind that usually possesses tbe free aud iudeieudeut citizen at that hour iu the morning, a state of mind that makes him unbearable to himself and to every one who comes near him. Presumably It was not ever so, for invitations to breakfast were once common enough, aud uot so long ago cither. Mr. Gladstoue used to have guests to breakfast every Thurs day morning as recently as 1S8-1. and It was thought sufficient to supply tea and coffee, eggs, bread and butter and perhaps some cold meat. ISnt the really solid breakfast had come into fashion long before then, and it is said that the English learned the fash ion from the Scotch. Motley, when he was ambassador to England, found that the substantial breakfast was grievously opposed to the simpler cus toms of his own country. He says. "When I reflected that all these ieo ple would lunch at - and dine at 8 I bowed my bead in humiliation, and tbe fork dropped from my nerveless grasp." Argonaut. Tried to Fly. John Milton in "Britain to the Cou quest" says that the youth King Har old, last of tbe Saxons, strangely as piring, had made and fitted wings to his hands aud feet. With these, on the top of a tower, spread out to gather the air. he flew more than a furlong; but, the wind being too high, he came fluttering to tbe grouud. maiming all his limbs, yet so conceited was be of his art that the cause of his fall was attributed to the want of a tail, as birds have, which he forgot to make. His Recommendation. Tom Hello. Hill! 1 hear you have a position with my friends Skinner & Co.? Bill -Oh. yes; I have a position as collector there. Turn That's first rate. Wlm recommended youV Bill Ob. nobody. I told them that I once collected an account from you. and they instantly gave me the place. & - i vr .-- - cvL-'' rJHeBlBiK " .';?Srr'-laifciBflB-iEa UoEKHBllif Better Plumbing I TVTANY homes should have better bath rooms than they now have. Wc have always tried not only to do better plumbing than we ever did before, but better than any body else can do. The vol ume of work we are now doing shows how we are suc ceeding. We use only genuine HMtfweT plumbing fixtures and employ only experienced workmen. Our repair ing service is prompt and reliable. i A. DUSSEIA, & SON mr Col ; t A Beautiful Lake. Perhaps the most striking Instance to be seen iu tbe whole world of tbe wonderful apparent coloring of bodies of water l the murvelously beautiful Blue lake in Switzerland. Encom passed ou all sides by lofty inouutaius. their lower ranges luxuriuntly clothed vith verdure down to the edge of the water and ndorued with many fine for est trees, while their higher acclivities are garbed iu a mantle of eternal snow, the little lake, uestllng In Its deep hol low basin and protected from winds and storms., is quite startling in its singular and strange beauty. The water, although really pure and color less, appears to be of a most vivid aud intense sky blue. And Its transparency is so remarkable tbut a small nickel coin dropped iuto tbe water in tbe ceuter of the lake cau be seen gyrat ing downward until It reaches tbe bot tom, apparently more than a hundred feet beneath. Working Him. "I want the office, of course." said the aspiring statesman, "but not uuless 1 1 am tbe people's choice." "We can fix that, too," said his cam paign manager, "only you know it's a good deal more expensive to be the people's choice than it is to go in as the compromise candidate." Chicago Tribune. Friendship. Friendship is a vase which wbeu It is flawed by beat or violence or acci dent may as well be broken at ouce It can uever be trusted again. The more graceful and ornamental it was the more clearly do we discern the hopelessuc&s of restoring it to Its for mer state. A Continued Story. "What did your wife say when you stayed out so late last uight':" "1 don't know. She husu't finished telling It all to me yet." Detroit Free Press. Iu this wqrld It is not what we take up. but what we give up. that makes us rich. - Heerber. The Chautauqua Approaches Have Yt)U Your SEASON TICKET 13 CHAUTAUQUA Pla . NOW for that Vacation you have been promising yourcsif Tickets at Principal Business Houses TTeweX?!!7Diivi vTHIjM,l I i MtBtM A V