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Bargain Clearing Sale
We have
78 BOYS' OVERCOATS
on hand which we want to dispose of now, and
not wait until the end of the season.
These Overcoats are good goods and well
made, and run in sizes from age 7 to 20.
They are marked to sell from $3.50 to $10,
and are well worth the money.
We make a Uniform gf J J?
Bargain Price of..p m J J
For Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 21 and 22 Only
405 Eleventh St.
Route No.
1.
George Hentjgler was transacting
Henggler
business in Colunilms last Saturday.
Road Overseer Ed Butler is doing
some good work where it is needed on
Route 1.
Henry Luschen has made a very good
swinging gate, using only u few poles
and some wire.
Farmers on the route are finishing
their corn husking daring the favorable
weather, and they all expect to be finish
ed by Thanksgiving.
Advertised Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed mail
matter remaining in the post ofliee at
Columbus, Nebraska, for the period end
ing November 10, 1910:
Letters Nellie Andeison, P. O.
Parkley, August Plaat. Mrs. George
Oolear, C. B. Clark, Harry L. Daw,
George Halm, Fred Hogge, Frank Elliott
Ralph Fuller, Jim Uuyes (:!), Win Knot,
E. A. Keep, Robt. O. Liaton. .. A. Mc
Oarler (2). Miss Fred Staub. Win. Schlot
shaver, Joe Wisnent.
Cards T. A.Adamson.HurryL. Daw,
Mies Francis Gains. J . A. McCarter, (4.)
Parties calling for any of the above,
will please say, "advertised."
Caul Kramer, P. M.
Route No. 4.
Albert Hessler is husking corn for
Donoghues.
Winter wheat on the route is making
One pasture.
Jake Maurer's corn yielded fifty five
bushels per acre
Last Friday night Ed Meyberger lost
one of his best horses.
Iossi and Carrig have lost several
head of cattel from black leg.
Wm. Gossman's new house is nearly
completed, and it makes a nice home.
Miss Nellie Bray left last Friday for
Lincoln and Syracuse where she will
visit a month or six weeks.
Farmers are busy hubkiag corn these
nice days. Diinoghuu Bros, have six
teams in the field every day.
Foreman RNhing is pushing work on
the Jewell-Oarrig drainage ditch but will
not be able to get it completed before
spring.
The Misses Clara Riten and Louise
VanLoup of Cedar Rapids were visiting
ut the home of Mrs. John Liebig from
Tuesday until Friday of last week.
Eroest Knuimer, who has been thresh
ing with Henry Riens, is now husking
corn for Iossi Bros. His record is from
90 to 115 bushels per day, the best in this
locality.
A Pearl In the Trough.
"How are you today? Feeling well?"
"Do you really care a rap?"
"Not a rap. I merely asked out of
politeness that I see was quite wast
ed." Pittsburg Post.
HORSE AND MULE
I will sell at public auction at the
Clother Barn
in COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
Saturday, Nov. 26, 1910
fjafcJMEEZLIZI l? i r- - . .
50 HORSES AND MULES 50
Consisting of
5 Span of Good Mules
5 Span of Good Mares
14 Two year old colts weighing from 1,100 to 1,300 lbs
each now
3 Span of Yearling Colts that weigh from 900 to 1,000
lbs now
3 Span of 2 year old colts that will make good drivers
4 Good Single Drivers
Come and see them sell. Sale commences at 1 p.m
! months' time will be given on bankable notes at 8 per cent
W. I. SLAIN
Avctiemeer
FRISCHHOLZ BROS.
Shrinkage In Glaciers.
Scientists aver that, save over a
email area, the glaciers of the world
are retreating to the mountains. The
glacier on Mount Sarmiento, In South
America, which descended to the sea
when Darwin found it in 1830, is now
separated from the shore by a vigorous
growth of timber. The Jacobshaven
glacier. In Greenland, has retreated
four miles since 1SG0, and the East
glacier, in Spltzbcrgen, Is more than a
mile away from its old terminal mo
raine. In Scandinavia the snow line
Is farther up the mountains, and the
glaciers have wltlldrawn 3,000 feet
from the lowlands in a century. The
Arapahoe glacier. In the Rocky moun
tains, with characteristic American en
terprise, has been melting at n rapid
rate for several years. In the eastern
Alps and one or two other small dis
tricts the glaciers are growing. In
view of these facts we should not be
too skeptical when old men assure us
that winters nowadays are not to be
compared with the winters of their
boyhood. Dundee Advertiser.
Not Made Up.
Pushing her way through the crowd
on the ferryboat to the decrepit rig.
the middle aged woman sized up the
emaciated animal from every point of
view, and then, turning to the owner,
who had clambered out of the wagon
and propped himself against the en
gine room, said, "You ought to be
ashamed of yourself for driving a poor
horse like that; it should be at home
and in the stable." "What Is the mat
ter with her. lady?" was the easy re
sponse of the owner, who didn't seem
a whole lot perturbed. "What Is the
matter with her?" demanded the S. P.
C. A. lady with increasing warmth of
toue. "Can't you see how skinny she
is? She looks starved." The boss is
all right, lady," calmly rejoined the
expressman, as a sweet smile floated
through his scant crop of whiskers.
"You sec, she got up so late this morn
in' that she didn't hev time to put on
her rats, pads an' extenders, or she
would hev been as purry an' plump as
ther next one." Argonaut
Rooks and Cholera.
The present day security of this
country against all danger of a chol
era epidemic is matter for thankful
ness not only in human circles, but in
the rookeries too. When the cholera
slew nearly tiO.000 people in the insan
itary United Kingdom of 1S31-2 the
rooks appear to have suffered with
them. This was stated, at any rate,
to have occurred on the estate of the
Marquis of Sligo. which boasted one
of the largest rookeries In the west of
Ireland. On the first or second day of
the epidemic's appearance an observer
noted that all the rooks had vanished.
During the three weeks through which
it raged there was no sign of them
about their home, but the revenue po
lice found immense numbers of them
dead on the shore, ten miles away.
When the epidemic abated the rooks
returned, but some were too weak to
reach their nests, and five-sixths of
them had gone. London Chronicle.
THOS BRANIGAN
GROTESQUE NAMES.
Burdens That Innocent English Chit
dren Had to Bear.
Iu England, as in other countries,
thousands of people go through life
cherishing a grudge against their par
ents for giving them absurd or incon
gruous names. It was most natural
that a demure and pretty girl in a
north suburb should feel resentful
when she bad to answer to the name
of Busybody, given in honor of the
winner of a race fifteen years before.
Among the names registered at Som
erset House are Airs and Graces and
Nun Nicer, which were innocently
borne by two little girls who found
them most embarrassing in after years.
The appalling name of Wellington
Wolseley Roberts was borne by a
young man who, in disposition and ap
pearance, was anything but militant,
and as little likely to win fame on
the battlefield as his predecessors Ar
thur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo
Cox and Napoleon the Great Eagar.
However, even these names, inap
propriate as they may be, are to be
preferred to Roger the Ass, Anna (sic)
Domini Davies and Boadlcea Basher.
To parents of large families the ad
vent of another child is not always
welcome, but it is scarcely kind to
make the unexpected child bear a tok
en of disapproval. It must be rather
terrible to go through life, for exam
ple, as Not Wanted James, What An
other, Only Fancy William Brown, or
even as Last of 'Em Harper, or Still
Another Hewitt And yet these are
all names which the foolish caprice
of British parents has Imposed on in
nocent children. Chicago Record-Herald.
OLD TIME GIRDLES.
They
Were Indispensable Articles
of
Wear In the Middle Ages.
In the middle ages at 'the girdle were
hung the thousand and one odds and
ends needed and utilized in everyday
affairs. The scrivener had his inkhorn
and pen attached to it the scholar his
book or books, the monk his crucifix
and rosary, the innkeeper bis tallies
and everybody his knife. So many
and so various were the articles at
tached to it that the flippant began to
poke fun. In an old play there is men
tion of a merchant who had hanging
at his girdle a pouch, a spectacle case,
a "punniard," a pen and inkhorn and
a "handkercher," with many other
trinkets besides, of which a merry
companion said. "It was like a hab
erdasher's shop of small wares." In
another early play a lady says to her
maid: "Give me my girdle and see
that all the furniture be at it Look
that pinchers, the penknife, the knife
to close letters with, the bodkin, the
ear picker and the scale be in the
case." Girdles were in some respects
like the chatelaines of more modern
times, but they differed therefrom in
being more useful, more comprehen
sive in regard both to sex and to ar
ticles worn, and when completely fin
ished more costly. It is partly for this
reason that we find girdles bequeathed
as precious heirlooms and as valuable
presents to keep the giver's memory
green after death. They were not in
frequently of great intrinsic value.
The Price of a Life.
According to Anglo-Saxon law, ev
ery man's life, including that of the
king, was valued at a fixed price, and
any one who took it could commute the
offense by a money payment upon a
fixed scale. The life of a peasant was
reckoned to be worth 200 shillings,
that of a man of noble birth 1,200 shil
lings, and the killing of a king involved
the regicide in a payment of 7,200 shil
lings. It has been pointed out that the
heir to the throne could thus get rid of
the existing occupant by murdering
bim and thereafter handing over the
fine, according to the scale, to the ex
chequer, when his offense would be
purged and his money would come
back to himself, for in those days the
sovereign received all fines as personal
perquisites. There Is very little doubt
that these rough means were practi
cally applied in the case of some rulers
of England in the preconquest period.
London Telegraph.
Baboons and Water.
In Captain Drayson's "Sporting
Scenes Among the Kaffirs" we find the
following: "Well," said Kemp, "when
I go into a country where there is not
much water I always take my ba
boon." "You don't drink him, do you?"
"No, but I make him show me water."
"How do you do that?" "In this way:
When water gets scarce I give the
Bavian none. If he does not seem
thirsty I rub a little salt on his tongue.
I then take him out with a long string
or chain. At first it was difficult to
make him understand what was want
ed, for be always wished to go back
to the wagons. Now, however, he is
well trained. When I get him out
some distance I let him go. He runs
along a bit, scratches himself, shows
his teeth, at me, takes a smell up wind,
looks all round, picks up a bit of grass,
smells or eats it. stands up for another
sniff, canters on, and so on. Wherever
the nearest water Is there he is sure to
Stevenson Obliged.
Robert Louis Stevenson once sent
the following quaint letter to an auto
graph hunter:
Tou have sent me a slip to write on.
You have sent me an addressed envelope.
Tou have sent it me stamped. Many have
done as much before. You liavc spelled
my name aright, and some have done
that. In one point you stand alone; you
have sent me the stamps for my postof
flce, not the stamps for yours. What is
asked with so much consideration I take
a pleasure to grant. Here, since you
valuo it and have been at the pains to
earn it by such unusuaIiattentions here
Is the signature.
ROBERT IX)UIS STEVENSON.
Calculating.
"Why doesn't Mrs. Flimglt stop
quarreling with her husband and.get a
divorce?"
"She realizes how much more of his
Income he would have left after pay
ing alimony than she now allows him
for car fare and lunches." Washing
ton Star.
Kindness.
Life is short, and we havemever too
much time for gladdening Che hearts
of those who are traveling the same
dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to
love: make haste. to be kind! Amlel.
resitf e, KlacelJ Ce. ClttfctsV
VEN 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.
A Jobs en the King.
Sir Ernest Cassel was persona grata
with King Edward VII. As a matter
of fact there was a curious and strik
ing resemblance between the back
view of the late king and that of Sir
Ernest It was so pronounced that the
great financier was known among his
friends as ''Windsor Castle."
There is a good story and a true one
told in connection with this. It hap
pened at a garden party at Windsor
castle. A well known peer of the realm
was strolling about when, as be
thought, he spotted Sir Ernest sitting
In a chair. Going toward him on tip
toe, he gave him a resounding smack
on the shoulder.
"Hello, okl Windsor Castle!" he cried.
"How are you?"
The occupant of the chair, startled,
turned around. It was King Edward,
who, unaware of Sir Ernest's nick
name, was for a time exceedingly
vexed at this undue liberty. However,
when the circumstances were ex
plained to him he enjoyed the joke
hugely. London M. A. P.
The Bull Snake.
The bull snake, a species of pine
snake. Inhabits the shady pine woods
along the Atlantic coast from New Jer
sey to Florida, but other species are
found almost everywhere except in
New England. The bull snake Is quite
harmless, but is a powerful constrict
or. It lays eggs and feeds upon birds,
rodents and eggs. It swallows an egg
whole, and after the egg has passed
a few inches down the throat where
it forms a large swelling the serpent
lifts its head, elevates Its back and
exerts a downward pressure until the
shell breaks. Owing to a curious con
striction of its epiglottis its hiss is so
loud and so well sustained as to re
semble the sound of redhot iron being
plunged In water. The maximum
length of these snakes Is seven and a
half feet Their color is white, with
the exception of the head and back,
the former being spotted black and the
latter brown. Wide World Magazine.
Beggars and Bandages.
It was a case in which first aid to
the Injured was imperative, but no
one present knew how to extend the
aid. Presently a bandaged beggar
who had bees sitting on the curb cast
off his protease of helplessness. Out
of linen strips provided by the wo
men in the crowd be fashioned band
ages and applied them skillfully.
"Where did you acquire all that skill
in nursing?" a bystander asked.
"It is one of the first things the men
of our profession learn," was the can
did response. "Half our success de
pends upon arrangement of bandages
that makes us look as if we bad been
half killed. No doctor can be depend
ed on to fix us up. so we have to do
our own bandaging. Every successful
man in the business practices on him
self and the other fellows until be can
turn out a first class job." New York
Sun.
Jehnny Heche's Tewer.
Standing on the banks of the river
Awberg, between Mallow and Ferxnoy,
County Cork, Ireland, is a remarkable
edifice known as "Johnny Roche's Tow
er." The whole tower was built by
the labor of one man, who subsequent
ly resided in it This individual, who
received no education whatever, also
erected a mill, constructing the water
wheel after a special design of his own.
Long before the Introduction of the
bicycle he went about the country in
a wheeled vehicle ef his own construc
tion, propelled by Spot power. His last
feat was to build his tomb in the mid
dle of the river bed. John Roche died,
but was not interred in the strange
burying place which be selected for
himself, his less original relatives
deeming such a mode of sepulture un
christian. London Strand Magazine.
NMdi Prodding.
"It is a great mistake, Mabel, to
trifle with the affections of a man who
loves you by encouraging some one
else."
"Well, he's a little slow, auntie. I
think be needs a pacemaker."
PRIMITIVE PHYSIC.
Jehn Wesley as a Physician and Seme
ef Hie Remedies.
It is not generally known that John
Wesley in one of his brief Intervals of
leisure published a sort of medical
vade mecuni called not inappropriately
"Prlroitve Physic." It was first pub
lished in 1747. and it ran into at least
twenty-four editions. The author was
greatly surprised: there was so swift
and large a demand for it. In the
biter editions he was able to add the
word "Tried" to certain remedies the
virtues of which he bad meanwhile
found opportunities of testing. After
five years' careful trial and notwith
standing the objections of the learned
he recommends for the ague "to go
into the cold bath just before the cold
fit," but omits to say bow to time the
coming of the fit To prevent apoplexy
use the cold bath and drink only wa
ter. If this proves useless and a fit
should declare Itself you have only to
"put a "handful of salt with a pint of
cold water and If possible pour It
down the throat of the patient" To
cure asthma "take a pint of cold wa
ter every morning, washing the head
therein Immediately after." Wesley
gives four ways of curing old age
"take tar water morning and evening"
or "a decoction of nettles" or "be elec
trified dally" or "chew cinnamon dally
and swallow your saliva." The two
great panaceas in the Wesleyan doc
trine are the use of cold water and the
use of electricity, and at the end of
the book are columns of every sort of
disease which may be overcome by
these simple expedients. St James'
Gazette.
WANTED A JOB.
Therefore He Did Hie Best to Please
the Manager.
A certain playwright relates how a
manager was much annoyed by the
persistent applications for a "job"
made by a peculiarly seedy Individual.
Time and again the manager had re
ferred this person to his stage man
ager. "See Blank," he would say, in
terrupting the man's attempts to set
forth his qualifications.
At last the applicant did succeed In
gaining audience of Blank, the stage
manager, who was in the theater for
the time "sizing up" candidates for the
chorus.
There were, of course, a number
ahead of him, but this fact did not
prevent the seedy man from interrupt
ing the stage manager between songs
with requests for a job.
Exasperated, the stage manager at
length turned to the pianist and or
dered him to play an accompaniment
for the stranger. With considerable
hesitation the seedy person raised
what voice he had in song. The result
was bad as bad could be.
The manager suddenly commanded
him to desist
"What do you mean by this tomfool
ery?" he demanded, disgusted. "You
certainly have confounded impudence
to ask me for a job!"
"Look here!" said the stranger, an
gry in turn. "I don't claim to be able
to sing. In fact, I don't want to sing,
rm a stage carpenter. I only sang to
please you because you Insisted on
It!" Pearson's Weekly.
His Favorite Opiate.
Ushers in theaters handle some pe
culiar people during a season, but the
experience of the employee of a Chest
nut street playhouse was a puzzle for
some time. A well dressed, middle
aged man would secure an end seat in
the front row almost every evening.
He would tell the usher if he fell
asleep he was not to be disturbed un
til after the show. No sooner would
the orchestra play the overture than
the ushers would notice that the man
was asleep. At the close of the night's
entertainment some one would 'rouse
the sleeper and he would leave with a
polite acknowledgment. One night he
explained his strange behavior:
"I suffer from insomnia," he said.
"The only relief I get Is when I sit
close to the drummer in an orchestra.
There is something in the rhythmic
beating of the drum that soothes me
to sleep." Philadelphia Times.
Found a Place.
The billposter had one poster left
and no conspicuous place to put It
He stood on the corner and wondered
what he should do with it Presently
an Italian woman carrying a big load
of wood on her head passed by.
"Better than a Broadway electric
tower for my business," said he.
Paste brush and paste were requisi
tioned, the poster was clapped on the
perambulating wood pile, and for fif
teen minutes the ever curious Broad
way crowd stopped, turned and even
followed to learn something about the
commodity that was advertised in that
novel manner. New York Sun.
Wanted to Know.
"Have you ever read any of my hus
band's poetry?"
"Yes, I have had that er yes,
ma'am."
"What do you think of It?"
"Madam, are you looking for a com
pliment for your husband's verses or
for sympathy for yourself 5" Houston
Post
Different Now.
"Before we were married,'' sighed
the fond wife, "you used to call me
up by long distance telephone just, as
you used to say, to hear my voice."
"Well," retorted the rebellious hus
band, "nowadays you won't let me get
far enough from you to use the long
distance." London Telegraph.
Patience, persistence and power to
do are only acquired by work Hol
land. Ca relet.
She My little brother shot off his
gun this morning, and the bullet went
through my hair. He How careless
of you to leave It lying around. Ex
change. A Previous Question.
She Papa asked what your inten
tions were last evening, George. ' He
Didn't say anything about his own.
did he? Boston Transcript
If yon get angry with a man or wo
taan make up your mind what you are
going to say and then don't say it
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HLF.
uiocsnos stnd Shplo Dry Goods
Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets
Our goods are of the best
quality, second to none, and
will be sold only for cash.
Notice our prices in Groceries and
see what a dollar will buy.
18 pounds of Sugar for... $1,00
48 lb Sack Peter SchmitfsAJ M
Best Flour $1.35
20 lbs Navy Beans 1,00
5 lbs of First Class Coffee S1.00
12 Cans of Sweet Corn $1.00
12 Cans Peas $1.00
28 bars of Lenox Soap $1.00
100 lbs of Cabbage II.Z3
1 25c pkg of Star Naptha washing 0fu
powder UC
5 lbs good rice 25C
3 pks Egg-o-see Corn Flakes 25C
Cranberries, extra fine, per quart 10c
Dill Pickles, per gal 45c
Sour Pickles, per gal 35c
Sweet Pickles, per doz 10c
DRY GOODS
Come in and examine our stock of Dry
Goods. It is now complete and well selected
UNDERWEAR
We have it for ladies, children and men
in single garments or union suits.
CALICOS
American prints of all descriptions, first Cn
class goods will be sold at, per yard. Ul
OUTING FLANNELS
Now is the season, they will be sold at
200 yards at 5c .
Fancy Outing, worth 15c 10c
Dress Outing worth 15c 12 l-2c
A good line of Cotton and Woolen Blan
kets from 48c to $3 SO.
Men's dress and working shins, wont
ing pants, overalls and sweaters, also boys!
knee pants.
A fine selection of Sofa Pillows and Jap
anese drawn work.
Have curtain and roller shades will be
sold at reduced prices.
In Hosiery we have the Armor Plate,
the best made. Try a pair.
Genius and Mediocrity.
Coraeille did uot speak correctly the
language of which he was such a mas
ter. Descartes was silent in mixed
society. Themlstocles, when asked to
play on a lute. said. "I cannot fiddle,
but I can make a little village into a
great city." Addison was unable to
converse in company. Virgil was heavy
colloquially. La Fontaine was coarse
and stupid when surrounded by men.
The Couiitess of Pembroke had been
often heard to say of Chaucer that hi?
silence was more agreeable to her
than his conversation. Socrates, cele
brated for his written orations, was so
timid that he never ventured t speak
in public. Dryden said that he was
unfit for company- Hence it has lnvu
remarked. "Mediocrity can tall:. Ii u
for genius to observe."
V AwA JL
POESCH'S
10c Candy Counter
Nothing Over 10o per Pound.
Post Cards, le each; 10c per- dozen
BREMER
Bad Arguments.
The best way of answering a bad
argument Is uot to stop it. but let it
go on its course until it overleaps the
bouudarhs of common sense. Sydney
Smith.
Information.
Customer Have you the papers for
a week back? Newsboy Fer a weak
back? Ycr don't want papers; yer
wants a porous plaster. Exchange.
Decide but Once.
Whea you decide more than once not
to do a thin;; It Is a sure sign that you
will do It sooner or ater. Atchison
Globe.
You sever lift up a life without be
ing yourself lifted ap. Emerson.
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