The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, October 05, 1910, Image 8
;? CHILDREN'S DAY AT GRAY'S To please the little folks we give away Rree several hundred Doll's Silk Plaited Shirts, made by the manufacturers of Munsing Underwear. . And to please the grown up folks we will make Special Prices on everything in our store intended especially for the children. We want every little girl in Columbus to come here between 9 and 1 1 o'clock Saturday morning with her mother and bring her doll and get a silk plaited shirt, and we want all the grown up folks to know that we are headquarters for all kinds of Children's supplies at prices that defy competition. SPECIAL OPENING SALE OF UNDERWEAR We have the largest and best assorted stock of low, medium and high-priced Underwear ever displayed in the city, and intend to make prices that will sell the goods early in the season. If you want warm com fortable satisfactory underwear that is reasonable in price it will pay you to investigate our stock. We have all kinds and can please the most fastidious and at prices that will suit every pocket book. Buy early while our assortment of sizes is complete. Sale Commences Saturday Morning I n lii i ; i-c ! 1 t 1 11. I I : !? Ei i r II i Childrens' Cloaks Childrens' cloaks made of Kersey cloth. Beavers and Pebble Cheviot, handsomely made and finished, sizes 9 to 12, in colors, castor red, brown and blue, prices range from S2.W to $8.59. Childrens' Dresses Made of flannels, flannelettes, ginghams and fancy plaid serges and galates. Nicely tiimmcd with ribbons and braids, sizes 2 to 6 years. AH different styles from $1.9 to$3.Meach. m III jV Jwv I III (WSMA III MjB!gi III Its" la III 'I 'iVTl III vMHr M A PIGS SQUEAL It Played a Momentous Part In Ameri can History. The war between this country and England in 1S12 was caused by one vote. and. stranger still, the small mar gin came from a pig getting its bead stuck in a rail fence. It was a Rhode Island fence at that, but built much like a Virginia worm fence. They were having an election of members of the legislature in Rhode Island. One Federalist put oh going to the election and left himself just time enough to get there before the polls closed. Just as he got on his horse and started for town be heard a pig squeal, lie looked around and saw that, the pig had its "head jammed into that old rail fence, and anybody who knows anything about bogs knows that the bogs would hare eaten that pig up if it hadn't been rescued. The farmer stopped long enough to liberate the pig. and when be got to the polls they were closed. De was too late. The result was that a Democratic member of the legislature was elected from that district by one rote, and he would not have been elected if that Federal bad got there on time. In the legislature a Democratic United States senator was elected by one vote, and that Democratic legislator who bad been elected by one vote voted for him. In the United States senate they voted for the war of JS12 by one vote, and that Rhode Island Democratic senator who had been elected because that pig was caught in the fence voted for the war of 1812. Popular Maga zine. To Tame Him. "So you're going to introduce base ball among the prisoners? 1 don't ap prove. What will become of disci pline?" "If a man gets too obstreperous" re plied the warden confidently, "we'll make him umpire." Philadelphia Ledger. Br4e fee, Kiaoii! & Co. Cletati, CVEN the most critical college man cannot but like our two button models. They have an elegance of tailoring and smartness of style which will force the attention of anyone having any ideas about clever style. GREISEN BROS. COLUMBUS, NEB. I Y3Rf ip53 Misses and Children's Hats Children's trimmed felt hats, all colors, at $1.9. Childrens stitched felt hats, 75c to $1.99. Children's red cloth caps, 39c and 4c9. Misses and children's school felt hats, special, at 59c each. Children's trimmed felt hats, at 98c. Come early If you want your little girl to have a doll's silk shirt, and be sure and have her bring her doll with her. We exnect to see more little girls and more pritty dolls in our Store Saturday morning than anyone in the town ever saw before. N. B. Should any of the shirts be left over from the morn ing distribution, they will be given in the afternoon. CHICKEN RACES. The Ridiculous 'Hen Derby" Insti tuted by Sir John Astley. It is said that the crowning triumph of Sir John Astley, that inventor of absurd contests, whose forte it was to arrange races between animals which nature apparently had made most un suitable for the purpose, was the in stitution of the only races that ever took place between chickens. The story is that the idea came to Sir John during a visit to n friend who kept a large number of hens. lie no ticed how rapidly the chickens used to scurry to their mother when food was thrown to her. This furnished the in genious Sir John with a clever notion, and at mess, be then being quartered at Windsor, be accordingly unfolded to his brother oflicers his plans for a great chicken race. He bought from a farmer a hen and a brood of chickens. Each officer was to choose a chicken and mark It with a ribbon, so that he could easily recog nize it. The chickens were to be placed about fifty yards away from their mother, and whichever of them readied her first in answer to her cackle when food was thrown to her was to be ad judged the winner. And so this ridiculous "hen, Derby" came off in the barracks at Windsor and was witnessed by nearly the whole brigade of guards, who traveled down from London especially to sec it. The race was such a success that it was arranged to repeat it the follow ing week. It might possibly have be come a regular institution and a rac ing stable of chickens might have been added to the attractions at Windsor had not Sir John's chicken won on each occasion with such case as to cause suspicion in the minds of his competitors. Indeed, it was found. It is said, that in loth races Sir John had selected a sturdy young cockerel who was much too speedy for his sisters. When victory was a certainty for one particular competitor the contest, of course, lost interest, and so the chicken races at Windsor came to a sudden end. New York Herald. TURNER'S AMBITION. The Great Painter Achieved It by Years of Self Sacrifice. Turner could not bear to sell a fa vorite painting. He was always mel ancholy after such a transaction. "I lost one of my children this week," he would sadly exclaim. At a meeting at Somerset House it was decided to pur chase his two great pictures, the "Rise" and the "Pall of Carthage," for the National gallery. A Mr. Griffiths was commissioned to offer 5.000 for them. "A noble ofTer." said the paint er, "a noble offer: but. no. I cannot part with them. Impossible." Mr. Griffiths, greatly disappointed, took his leave. Turner ran after him. "Tell those gentlemen." he said, "that the nation will most likely have the pic tures after all." Long before this Turner had matured a purpose which continued to be his dominant idea while life lasted. Tins was to be queath to ids country a Turner gal lery of pictures and to amass 100.000 to build and endow an. asylum for de cayed artists. It was for this great object that lie denied himself all pleas ures that cost money, all luxuries. His resolve, once made, could not be shak en. On one occasion he was offered 100,000 for the art treasures locked up in the "den." "Give me the key of the house. Mr. Turner." said a Liv erpool merchant, "and here is the money." "No. thank you." replied Turner. "I have refused a better of fer." And that was true. By his will he bequeathed 140,000 to found an asylum for poor artiste born in Eng land and a magnificent art collection to his country. This latter bequest was, however, coupled with the con dition that bis "Rise and Fall of Carthage" should be hung In- the Na tional gallery between Claude's "Sea port" and "Mill." London Graphic. Better Dad 'Than Editors. Judge How do you earn your liv ing? Prisoner By writing; your hon or. Judge And what do you -write for? Would yon minditellluir us? .Pris onerNot at all. 1 write for money romjboma Judge's Library. Children's Hose Boys' extra heavy ribbed cotton Hose 15c per pair, 2 prs ior 25c Children's all wool ribbed Hose, all sizes per pair 25c Misses' black and white fancy hose, new de signs, at 35c to 50c per pair THE OPIUM HABIT. ts Effects as Described by Bill Nye In His Memoirs. I have always had a horror of opi ates of all kinds. They are so seductive and so still in their operations. They steal through the blood like a wolf on the trail and they seize on the heart with their white fangs till it is still forever. Up the Laramie there is a cluster of ranches at the base of the Medicine Bow. near the north end of Sheep mountain. Well, a young man whom we will call Curtis lived at one of these ranches years ago, and, though a quiet, mlnd-your-own-buslness fel low who had absolutely no enemies among his companions, be had the misfortune to incur the wrath of a tramp sheepherder, who waylaid Cur tis one afternoon and shot him dead as he sat in his buggy. Curtis wasn't nrtned. A rancher came into town and tele graphed to Curtis' father, and then half a dozen citizens went out to helpl capture the herder, who had fled to the foothills. They didn't get back till toward day break, but they brought the herder with them. I saw him in the gray of the morning, lying in a coarse gray blanket on the floor of the engine house. He was dead. I asked, as a reporter, how he came to his death and they told me, I "opium." The murderer had taken poison when he found that escape was Impossible. I was present at the inquest so that I could report the case. There was very little testimony, but all the evl-, dence seemed to point to the fact that life was extinct, and a verdict of death by his own hand was rendered. It was the first opium work I had ever seen, and It aroused my curiosity. Death by opium, it seems, leaves a dark ring around the neck. I did not know this before. People who die by opium also tie their hands together before they die. Tills is one of the eccentricities of opium poisoning that ! I have never seen laid down in the books. I bequeath it to medical science. Whenever I run up against a new scientific discovery I just hand it right over to the public without cost. Ever since the above incident I have been very apprehensive about people who seem to be likely to form the opium habit. t Is one of the most deadly narcotics, especially in a new country. Caught a Tartar. Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, who is a bachelor and has never been ensnared by the wiles of women, tells a story of a young lady and a judge of his acquaintance. The former was a witness In the tatter's court The pros ecuting attorney had repeatedly put to her questions which she persistently evaded under the plea that she did not comprehend his meaning, whereupon his honor undertook to bring out the proper responses. Leaning over, he said In a kindly and fatherly manner: "Young woman, why Is it that you insist In refusing to understand the questions of counsel? You are a per son of charm, grace, beauty and more than average intelligence and' "Thank you, your honor," Interrupt ed the young woman, "if it were not for the fnct. judge, that I am under oath I would return the compliment." National Monthly. The "Sting" of Death. The sting of death physically is noth ing; a man who has lost consciousness in the water, a man who has been un der an anaesthetic, a man stunned in an accident these have been in effect dead, and yet they know nothing of death. In speaking of it the most glaring contradictions pass quite nat- urally for axioms. It is the "gentle hand." but it is also the "grisly ter ror." It is "beautiful" and "wonder ful," but it Is also "terrible." London Spectator. Entirely Different. "It's nil very well before a girl's married for her to get a flower in her hair." remarked the observer of events and things, "but it's an entirely differ ent matter If. after she's married, she gets her hair in flour." Columbus' Greatest Store NORTH Theatre SATURDAY NIGHT We give away a suit case, now on display in A. M. Gray's window. WEDNESDAY October 12, we give away a Carving Set, now on dis play at Boyd & Ragatz's Change of program Tues day, Thursday and Satur day. Don't forget the Matinee, Saturday at 2:30 THE PONY EXPRESS. Fearless Riders and the Dangers and Haidehips They Faced. Perhaps toe most picturesque figure on the old trail was the pony express rider. The overland stage proved too slow for mail and express in Its flight from the Missouri and the Pacific True, it had cut down the months of the old ox team to twenty-five days, and still there was a clamor that the east and west be brought closer to gether, and It was done. The iony cut the time to ten days. Those who were personally acquaint ed with the famous pony express of those days could never forget the "In trepid rider who braved all peril, for getful of self, intent only on the speedy delivery of his precious mo chila to the next hardy horseman, nard and fast he rode over mountain and plain, across scorching desert and ley snow, through sunshine and rain, 'past friend, away from foe, to the final achievement the safe delivery of his charge. Forty fearless horsemen In saddle riding west, as many more riding east and this novel hut useful enterprise was In motion. For two years the pony express carried messages of busi ness and love across 2.000 miles of western mountains and plains, over a country peopled with a hostile race, destitute of cultivation or develop ment, through a region wild, desolate and little known. It was in 1JW) that the pony express was established. The route, briefly stated, was .due west from St. Joseph to Fort Kearney, up the Platte to Julesburg. thence, by Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger. to Salt Lake City, thence to Camp Floyd. Ruby valley, the Humboldt, Carson City, Placer vllle and Foisom, to Sacramento and San Francisco by boat The intention of the pony express was to carry letters only and not more than ten pounds at a trip. It was de cided that the safest and easiest mode of carrying the mail was to make four pockets, one In each corner of the mo chila. a covering made of heavy leath er for the saddles and generally used by the expert Mexican and Spanish riders. The mocblla was transferred from pony to pony and went through from St. Joseph to San Francisco, the pockets containing the mail being lock ed -and opened only at military posts en route and at Salt Lake City. These precious letters were wrapped in oiled silk to protect them, but even this pre caution sometimes failed. Rivers bad to be crossed; horse and rider swam together. W. C Jenkins In National Magazine. Conscience. In the commission of evil another is but one witness against thee: thou art a thousand against thyself. Another thou mayest avoid thyself thou canst not. Quarles. It la better to suffer wrong than to do It. and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Johnson. THE MANTILLA. A Spanish Woman Answers the Ques tion, -Why Do You Wear Itr The writer once asked of a well known lady of the Spanish aristocracy who was seated In the box of the pres ident of a corrida iu Madrid. -Why do you wear a mantilla ? and the fair duchess replied: "Because we all wear a mantilla at a bullfight or at any truly Spanish function. It Is the prop er thing to do. and we do It." A ilttlc later as 1 strolled among a group of aficionados I ventured to ask a woman of the people over whose head and shoulders was also thrown a mantilla why all Spanish women, to whatever class tbey belonged, wore this national headgear. If it may be called thus. This woman was sitting In the open air. and I was thinking that a large straw hat would have protected her better from the burning rays of the sun and been quite as picturesque. She replied in that droning, warm tone so typical of the Spanish: "Well, I hap pened to have often thought of this. j and I think the reason why we all wear the mantilla is because we Spanish- women are most careful about our hair. We think the chief charms of a woman are her eyes and her hair. And. as you may see. we all have splendid, thick, lustrous hair, and we are supposed to have, many of us. fas cinating eyes. Now. why should we hide our elaborately arranged hair un der a hat and conceal our eyes In the shade cast by the brim of a bat? No doubt this woman was right. Pa risian elegance to the Spanish women of the upper classes may have its at tractions, but they, as their less fortu nate compatriots, all agree that beau tiful hair and expressive eyes are more Important. And both of these may be cultivated. London Mail. THE FIRST WINDMILLS. Could Work Only When the Wind Blew From a Certain Point. Windmills are said to have been In troduced into England by the Knights of St. John, who observed them In use among the Saracens In the Crusades, but how long they had been In ex istence before this It is not possible to ascertain. A water mill was built In Bohemia In the year 718. for an old chronicler mentions It. going on to say that "before that time all the mills in Bohemia were windmills set upon the summit of bills." For hundreds of years windmills were among the most Important ad juncts of industry, yet tbey hardly changed from the rude aud primitive design of earliest days. They were fixed iu one iwsitlon. and so could only be worked when the wind blew from a certain quarter, while the four sails boasted no slats or checking apparatus of any kind, which must have been most inconvenient at times. The first idea of armuglng a mill so that It could he wnrk-d "whene'er the wind did blow" was that of tethering an ordinary mill in the middle of a pond by means of ropes. When the wind shifted the ropes were loosed and the mill dragged around until the sails were caught by the wind, and It was then again tethered as before. Later ou a great Hle. which was worked on the principle of a turntable, was affixed to the mill. Not until 1500 did Holland, the land of windmills. Introduce a movable dome carrying the sail axle. The dome ran on rollers and was shifted around by means of the pole mentioned above. These an cient mills were often of massive build, being made of brick or stone, and later entirely of wood. London Globe. The Helmet That Fell. Roquelaure. the deformed Jester of Louis XIV.. contrived to get out of many a scrape by his ready wit. One day he went to the king to ask his par don for having struck off the helmet of one of his sentinels who had failed to give him the military salute. Louis, who knew bis man. wondered that Roquelaure should crave bis pardon for so venial an offense and said to him, "This Is a serious matter. Roque laure, but I will pardon you this time. It afterward turned out that the sol dier's bead was In the helmet and fell with It to the ground. Argonaut Childrens' Underwear ; Childrens' fleece-lined Munsing combination suits, in nice shades of gray and ami, all sizes, at 50c. Ladies' Vests and Pants Fine ribbed vests and pants, 50c to 75c each. Ladies' natural wool Munsing vests and pants, all sizes, from $1.00 to $1.50 each. Ladies' Combination Suits Ladies' wool ribbed Munsing combination suits, $2.00 and $2.25 each. Ladies' fine all wool ribbed combination suits, at $3.00 each. Munsing heavy fleeced Egyptian cotton Union suits, half open or buttoned across the chest, at $1.00. Munsing fine natural wool plated Union suits, half open or all open front, also buttoned across the chest, $2.00 quality at $1.50. Grew Tee Tall. "I recall a case of genuine bone headedness. mixed with enthusiasm, that cost a- great many people a bunch of money." said an oil operator. "It was during the time when a big strike meant a drop in the price of oil. The foreman of a drill crew had been in structed by the employers to use a code In the event of oil being found. If It was a big flow he was to wire. 'Pine trees grow tail.' If. on the other hand, the flow was small, 'Pine trees grow small was to be the code mes sage. The drill struck a gusher, and the following message was sent by the Ivory topped individual: 'Pine trees grow tall as hell, and she is flowing all over the derrick!' Of course there were a number of men about the ex change who could understand teleg raphy, and the consequence was that the price of oil dropped about $2 a barrel In a few minutes." Louisville Times. Intoxicated by Tebacee. Giving evidence against a man on a charge of disorderly conduct at Bow street police court, a constable said that the accused behaved la a very violent and disorderly manner In Lei cester square on Tuesday evening. He quarreled with a cabman, and eventu ally the witness took him Into cus tody, believing him to be drunk. At the lwlice station the prisoner denied that he had been drinking, and the doctor who examined him reported that be had chewed tobacco to such an extent that it had had the same effect upon him as alcohol. Pall Mall Ca zctte. Very Thorough. New York's collector of customs was talking about smuggling. "Smuggling must cease." be said. "We'll make it cease, if we have to be as strict and thorough as the French customs officer. This strict officer, standing on the pier, frowned on a tourist with a swollen cheek. "What have you got there?" he said, pointing to the swelling. " An abscess, sir,' was the reply. " 'Well. said the officer Impatiently, 'open it. please.'" Washington Star. There is Like the Now then, since the climate is Good, soil productive, crops remunerative, rainfall abundant, water pure and land values certain to raise, why not buy now.? You have thought many times that you would go out and buy as soon as you could get away, but you have put it off time and again until you have practi cally forgotten about it. Did you ever stop to think thai the sua who ACTS QUICKLY gets his profit from fellows who WAIT A WHILE? We have made scores of sales to men this year whom we asked last year to come out and buv for far less money. We will make scores of sales this com ing year to men who would come bow and buy for far less money than they will pay when they do come, simply because NOW is the Time to BUY. KARR SL NEWLON Exclusive Columbus agents for the choice districts of Cheyenne county farm lands. Excursions every week. Fare refunded to buyers. Thurston Hotel Building, Columbus, Neb. Sy&BSSSS l&2aBBBassi tiaeeeeeee The First Universities. To fix pnt-isely the date of the rise of the 11 rM uulverslties Is Impossible for the reasou that tbey were not founded, but grew. Tbey were started by a few able men who bad something they wished to teach and yoaths wished to learn. Gradually the free, voluntary renter of learning became the organized affair we know as the anlverslty. Among the earliest of these centers of learning were Saler no. Naples and Bologna. Italy being the first laud to experience the literary revival. We may say that Salerno university was fairly established by the year 10UO. the University of Bo logna by 1100 and the University of Naples by the year 1200. The Uni versity of Paris, which owes its ex istence to the genlas of Abelard. was founded about the same time. New York American. Hiaeecratie Fa The hippocratlc face Is a condition f the human face produced by death, long illness, excessive hunger and the like. The nose is pinched, the temples hollow, the eyes sunken, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead dry. the complexion livid and the lips relaxed with cold. This appearance is so named from having beea accurately described by Hippocrates, the father of medicine. New York American. One Thing Uaerahan. Standing over the shattered remains of their last Dresden cktaa statuette, the exasperated mistress said to the awkward servant: "Is there anything you haven't broken since you have been with me?' "Yes. mum." replied the servant. "I have yet to break me record for de structlveness." Baltimore American." A Cattish Suffeetieit. Ethel My poor head aches fright fully. Claire Why don't you take your hair off and rest it my dear? Llpplncott's. "The poorest way to face life is to face it jctth a sneer." Theodore Roose velt. no Time Present Li - le SM"- s3m"" &. , Ar,m