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About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1910)
--''' fr;fii Sssx&t&ssz&&S2SS rzismmmEma ffftaBBGra3g3ra i ' wt 'Ji ' i 'wr - Wliattftggpipg l v - . f m m '1 pif f .'? t 1 48 e ' ft U7 v l-WS l fc JS A' l n X '. Y i V "' - - Happy New Year We wish You a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR and will continue to serve You as well in the future as in the past CJ J. H. GALLEY 505 Eleventh St. TULIP MADNESS. Ths Craze That Raged In Holland In the Last Century. Daring the tulip craze in Holland in the lost century in one year the sales aggregated 10.000,000 florins. Holland went tulip mad. The bulbs were quot ed on the Stock Exchange. Ownership in them was divided into shares. Spec ulators sold them short. At one time more tulips were sold than existed. At Lille a brewer sold his trade and good will in exchange for a bulb, which was thereafter known as the Brewery tu lip. In Amsterdam a father gave one by way of dower with his rhild. There after the variety was known as the Marriage of My Daughter. At Rotter dam a hungry sailor, happening on a few. mistook them for onions and ate them. The repast became as famous as Cleopatra's pearls and probably ex ceeded it in cost At The Hague a ' poor fellow managed to raise a black tulip. The rumor of that vegetable marvel spread. Presently he was v te sted by a deputation from a syndk-ate. For that ewe lamb of his the deputa tion offered 1.000 florins, which he re fused. He was offered 10.000 florins. Still he refused. Cascades of " were poured before his resisting '. Finally, tormented and tempted, he j succumbed. There and then the depu- tation trampled that tulip under i!"ir " feet. Afterward it appeared that th- ' syndicate had already grown a tre-n i precisely similar and. unable to he.iri the Idea that a rival existed, had an- ' thorlzed the deputation if needful to j offer ten times the amount which it paid. j PICKED AN ODD NAME. An Author's Long Search and a Sub sequent Surprise. When Albion W. Tonuw wrote "A Fool's Errand" he uatM-d one of his 1 leading characters Ther.in l'anh e. An early copy of the book fell int th hands of the Ilev. Luther P.mlee. ::; Episcopal clergyman of Chicago, wh.i.-e father was named Thereon Pardee The name is such an unusual combina tion that in amazement the rector showed the book to his father, and they were both puzzled by the coinci dence. They decided to write Judge Tourgee and ask him what had led him to use the name. He replied, in equal amazement, that he had not supposed there was such a man living as a Tlie ron Pardee. Then be stated that he had a prolonged search for a suitable name for the character of his story one that would express,, just what he imagined this character to be. In the coarse of the hunt an old copy of the curriculum of Union college had fallen into his hands. It was dated 1S25. or something as far back, and among the names of the students was one Thereon Pardee. The judge said it had im pressed him as being one of the rich est, most solid and most satisfying names he ever had heard, so he decid ed to adopt it for bis character. The curriculum was so old that he had no hesitation in using the name, and he was astonished to learn that the right ful owner of it was living. His expla nation was accepted and the resulting acquaintance was pleasing all around. New York Press. SPEND THE WINTER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The Ideal Winter Resort You will enjoy your trip from the start if you take the Los Angeles Limited via UNION PACIFIC Standard Road of the West EXCELLENT DINING CARS ELECTRIC BLOCK SIGNALS DUSTLESS, PERFECT TRACK For literature and information relative to fare.-, routep, etc., call on or address ELLIS G. BROWN COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA MKitfSiMta I I Columbus, Neb. ARTISTS' EMBLEMS. In Whistler's Butterfly Could Be Found the Monogram J. W. The mystic emblem or device of a sort of Whistlerized butterfly was adopted in the sixties by the eccentric genius James Abbott Whistler, who changed his name later to James Mc Neill Whistler. Close study will reveal that this pe culiar scroll is really a monogram of J. W. The earliest of the etchings to hear the butterfly is "Chelsea Wharf" (1SG3), but many paintings and etch ings after that date are signed "VhN tier." Artists have sometimes signed thrlr pictures in some distinct form i:iMe::d of their names. It generally was done when the name might suggest u:e emblem or symbol. Thus Ilieronymus Ok-I; demarkei two fighting cocks on his p.-;nH: Mar otto Alberliuelli siirn.'d a cni. vr'.i't tw. interlaced rings. refrriiu to the uaccid tal dr.ties to whl.-h at one ti::se of his life he ilexoted himself: Martin Hi-ui. a wh-vl. Piler de i:na. a ii: with a diamond: Cii.vatmi lo.-sI. a bone: Del Mar.o Martinet, a hammer: Lionello Spada. a sword Somelinus caprice dictated the selec tion, as when .lacojtn de Barber: ucl the caduceiis. or Mer-ury tod: i!cinlr.k de Bles rn owl. Lucas Cran:'ch a crouned set pent. Cornelius Kng I l.rechls-en a peculiar deiee resembling a weather vane and Hans Holbein a skull. HIS GREAT IDEA. The Tin Plstsd Tomato and the Mcrzl That Coss With It. A good theory that won't work in'l half as good as a poor one that will. Twenty yea is ago a young man just out of college had a great idea, lie was going to tin plate ;omatoe. Tin re was to be no more troublesome paring and cooking and canning to preserve tomatoes throughout winters. It womd be necessary only to drop a nice ripe tomato into his tinning solution :md it would come out coated with tin and would keep for twenty years. In fact, there wasn't any reason why it should not keep forever! The young inventor figured it would cost him r0 cents a gallon to make this tiuuiug solution It surely would sell for ?2 a gallon. Every one eats tomatoes that is. near ly every one. Everybody would eat them if they could always have a nice tin plated tomato lying around. He ought to sell a million gallons a year. That would be a profit of a million and a half dol Well, no tin plated toma toes are on the market yet. and the man who invented them is still making only $15 a week. The moral of this is that whenever you hear of a great idea that is going to reform or uplift the world make sure that it is not of the tin plated tomato brand. Chicago Tribuue. A Hard Job. Husband What are you looking for. dear? Wife I was looking for the in visible hairpin 1 just dropped. Ex change. Being angry is like emptying the pepper pot into your own porridge. m ' - . - - -v KEEPING TAP ON THE CROPS Th Way th Agricultural Department Gets Its Information. The details of the comprehensive sys tem employed by the department of agriculture in gathering the crop In formation from all over the country are interesting. There are 30,000 township correspondents scattered all over the Union, whose duty it is to go carefully over the territory aud submit each month coucrete information as to the condition of all kinds of crops. In addition to this branch, 3,000 "county correspondents" send in separate re ports from those of the township men. A state agent makes a further report direct from his agents, and an organ ization in direct communication with the department, comprising seventeen traveling "Geld agents," go about tue country and make separate reports foi groups of states. Special cotton cor respondents are also employed to fur nish accurate informaUon concerning the cotton yield. Five different reports are sent to Washington each month by Ave different sets of correspondents. Thts snfeminrds the government crop 'reports for accuracy in local crop re ports and keeps the great crop account and cost estimates for the millions ol American farmers. These records art sent to the agricultural department Of ficials of the bureau of statistics and a twin! an over all the five reports from five distinct groups of correspondents, and from all the figures a crop report estimate is distributed to 70.000 post- offices throughout the country every month. NaUonal Magazine. An Account to Settle. The Lawyer Madam. I find that four husband's will leaves you nothing but what the law compelled him to leave you. The Widow (angry and for-getfub-Just wait till I see him! An Example. Knlcker They say that in 3,000 years Niagara will stop flowing. Mrs. Knlcker That makes me hope the plumber will get our leak fixed yet Harper's Bazar. I F j- - 'V " " - V -'-dr jA .r bbbbbbbbHbbbbbbbbbbPbbbbbS" ViBBBBBBBBBH ' 3!W ' HbHH -- rVBr.JBBBBBBBBBBP?i''-' J X. '.xT';V;'BBBBSBvPPvr' REV. F. R. WEDGE. Who will speak at the Men's meeting at Y. M. C. A. Building SUNDAY, January 1, at 3 p. m. The Major's Tip. When Major Banks was the best known figure around the race tracks of Cincinnati aud the middle west he was extremely generous in tipping off his friends to "sure winners." One man who enjoyed his confidence and played the horses according to the ma jor's advice lost all his ready money and finally succeeded in reducing him self to the point where be had to sell out his grocery business. One afternoon, following the placing of his last ten dollar note as the major advised, he caught Banks by "the arm and said tragically: "Major, you've made me lose my last cent. I'm a pauper, and my wife and family are practically starving. I am now about to go down to the river and drown myself. It's all over for me.' "All right." answered Banks, "but in the event you change your mind meet me here at C o'clock tomorrow after noon. I think I'll have something good for you." Exchange. Kongo Tattooing. In the Kongo colonies of Belgium both men and women are tattooed ac cording to their status in society. A woman of high caste will have a de sign not unlike a zouave jacket work ed upon her back, and it would seem that the native is as content with this mode of covering as if it were a sub stitute for clothing. By injecting the juice of certain herbs the scars left by the tattooing process retain a swollen appearance, giving the effect of bas relief work. The thorns of the acacia are generally used as a needle, while a certain black clay is used as a color ing medium. Classified. Was there ever a better example of the witty and concise form of expres sion than the answer of the grim man who. when asked abeut the character of a neighbor, sententiously replied: "Mister. I don't know very much about him. but my impression is he'd make a first class stranger." Ex change. Frigid. Nell That Miss Copleigh is an aw fully cold sort of girl. Belle Mercy, yes. Why, she's so frigid that wher ever she goes on rainy-days-it snows. Boston Transcript A Lottery Romance. A few years ago. as the date for the drawing of the annual Christmas lot tery at Madrid was approaching, a poor mechanic of Corunua was awakened three consecutive nights by the num ber 123.SGU. apparently spoken in his ear. So impressed was he by the repe tition of the incident that he wrote down the number and jocularly said to his wife, "That number will win the first prize In the great lottery." "Then why don't you buy the ticket?" his wife answered jokingly as she looked at the figures. "Why. see, if you add them together they Just come to my age. I shall be thirty-one on Christmas day." The ticket, after much trouble, was found (It had been reject ed a few minutes earlier by a wealthy citizen of Comunai and bought, and before many days had passed the me chanic and his wire were made jubi lant by the news that the ticket had won the first prize of 200.000. Lon don Globe. The Red Shirt The origin of Hie "red shirt" worn as a blouse by English women in the sixties, when Garibaldi was a popular idol throughout Great Britain is suffi ciently curious. Wheu the celebrated filibuster was warring in the South American republics he was anxious to niitnin :i distinctive and. above all. ' "-jonomical uniform for his followers. He learned that a leeal dry goods store had an immense "job lot" of these garments, worn by the "sala deros," or cattle slaughterers, of the great South American cities. The "bar Mln sale" annealed eloquently to the leader's purse, aud he led his men to victory in the butchers shirts, wlncti are now the accepted emblem of the "risorgomlento" of United Italy. Lon don Globe. Probably. Myer I wonder why Browne added Ihe "e" to his name after inheriting a fortune? Gyer-He probably tigurea rut to his own satisfaction that rich people are entitled to more ease than poor people. London Globe ODD VOLUMES. They Are Members of a Unique Dining Club In London. One of the most unique dining clubs in London is that known as the Sette of Odd Volumes, which was founded in 1S7S and meets once a month from October to June. It consists of twen-ty-ouc volumes, or members, that be ing the number of the volumes of the Yariorium Shakespeare published in 1S21. There are also twenty-one sup plementary members, who succeed to full membership as vacancies occur. The twenty-one rujes of the club in clude the following: Any Odd Volume losing his temper and failing to recover it shall be fined by the president the sum of r shillings. Discussions about anthropology, re ligion and politics shall be put down by the president. Any Odd Volume giving to another Odd Volume unasked advice shall be fined by the president. No Odd Volume shall talk unasked on any subject he understands. No Odd Volume's speech shall last longer than three minutes. If. howev er, the inspired Odd Volume has any more to say he may proceed until his voice Is drowned in the general ap plause. Volumes have to address each other as "Your Oddshlp." Argonaut. Better Dzd Than Editors. Judge How do you earn your liv ing': I'rboaer-By writing, your hon or. Judge Aud what do you write for? Would ymi mind tellhm usV Pris oner Not at all. I write tor money from home. Judge's Library. Probate If otic -3 to Creditor. In tin County ("onrt. l'latte ronnty. Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Hannah Davis, doceasod. Notice N hereby Riven that the crwlitoraoi the aiil decent-eil will meet the .-ulministrator of Mill estate, before me. t'onnty Jnilce of l'latte Cfinnty. Nebraska, at theconnty conrt noxn in eaiil county on the 2th lay f January. K1I, anil on the 2Mh day of April. l'Jll. ami on the ith day of July. Ml!, at 10 o'clock a.m.encli day. for the purpose of prwentins their claims for ex amination. aJjn-tment anil allowance. Six months aie allowed for creditor to present their claims, from January 2sth. Mil. and one ear for th adminiMratnr to fettle naid estate, from the 27lh day of December. 1910. This notice ill be published in the I'olnmbn Journal four week Miccemiively prior to the Bth day of Jan- Witness my hand, and fal of said court, this 2Tth day of December. A. D. 1910. al JOHN KATTEHMAN. KM County Judge. RIVERS OF ALASKA. Th Waterway Wndr f This Im mense Territory. Were the rivers not navigable there would be little done in the Interior of Alaska today. First used by the pros pector lu his poling boat and the trad er with his little steamer, they have become the means of opening up every camp that has been struck in the in terior of Alaska. The Yukon Is very shallow at its mouth, which is about seventy miles in width across its delta. There are places 400 miles from the month of the river where the biggest Atlantic liners could navigate with ease, for there are soundings which show a nine ty foot channel in a mile wide river. The Yukon is navigable for 2.100 miles. The Knskoquim. a sister stream, has been navigated only on the lower reaches, but with its navigable branch es is believed to have 1,000 miles of navigable water. The Tanana has been ascended for 500 miles and the Koyukuk in excess of that figure. Scores of other streams can be used by small steamers for from twenty-five to 200 miles. Altogether it Is safe to say there are 5,000 miles .of navigable streams in Alaska. The Yukon opens for navigation the latter part of May and closes the latter part of October. But with all its wealth of gold, its unheard call to toilers of the soil. Its mountains studded with gems of rich esthe lodes of veins of copper aud other materials this empire starves for the one thing that would make It thrive. Collier's. FENNEL It Is to the Italians Somewhat at Cat 9ry Is to Us. "Tisn't often that an Italian table i'hote furnishes anything, that takes me back to my graudmotber's time," said a New York man, "but that was my experience last night The first nibble of something I'd supposed was relery sent my mind wandering back fifty years to an old New England vil lage. "Fennel: I asked the Italian waiter. He nodded and smiled and gave me the Italian form of the word, which. I carefully wrote down on a scrap of paper. 1-V:i:iechi.' I suppose it showed my ignoraiu-e. but never before did I know tli:it fennel is to the Italians what celery I to us. Evidently the large bases .f the leafstalks are bleached in imil:ir fashion, and from the way ii was served 1 could see it was Intend -d ti be dipped In salt, as we eat ceicry. .My obliging waiter told me that it was delicious as a salad and when boiled aud served with cream sauce it made a popular Italian ilish. "But after all what did those culi nary detail matter: What really counted was that strange, penetrating flavor which took me back to my child hood As I thoughtfully nibbled my fennel stalks the laM fifty years seemed a blank I was a child again, picking bis clusters or yellow, aromatic fennel seeds in my grandma! her's gar den." New York Sun. The Electric Fan. Back in the early eiuh'Ie I"r. S. S Wheeler, an electrical engineer of New York. v:is experimenting with a smal electric motor. In the course of his ex perhuents the doctor conceived tin idea that steamboats might be rue with electricity If the propellers coult: be directly connected to high speet electric motors, doiim away with al the gears then In use in steam propul siou. With this idea in mind he had s small screw propeller constructed and fastened it to the armature shaft o: his small motor. To his surprise thi experiment resulted in a fine breeze ol cooling air which more than delighted the experimenter, for the day was de cidedly hot It is needless to add that the experiments with screw propeller ended right there, and the engineei took up the study of the electric fan with the result that he soon perfected the device until it was a commercial success. Twenty Volume Novels. The longest novels of today are pyg mies compared with those published In the seventeenth century. Mile, de Scudery's "Le Grand Cyrus" ran into ten volumes, its publication being spread over five years. And when it was translated, or, to quote the title page, "Englished by a Person of Hon our," it appeared in five folio volumes of some 500 pages apiece. Another novelist of the same period. La Cal prenede. was even more diffuse, one of his works. "Cleopatre." extending over twenty-three volumes. These novels found plenty of readers despite their enormous length. The Paris pub lisher of "Le Grand Cyrus" made 100,000 crowns by the first edition alone. Nearly all the works of Scu dery and Calprenede were translated into English as soon as they appeared and many of them into German as well. London Chronicle. Audubon and His Hair. Audubon, the great naturalist, early in his career wore his hair very long, lie wrote in his diary one day: "I wear my hair as long as usual. I be lieve it does as much for me as my paintings." However, in 1827 his friends succeeded In persuading him to get his hair cut according to the pre vailing fashion. On March 10 of that year he wrote In his diary: "This day my hair sacrificed and the will of God usurped by the wishes of man. As the barber clipped my locks rapidly It re minded me of the horrible times of the French revolution when the same operation was performed upon all the victims murdered by the guillotine. My heart sank low." Further to express his grief, the margin of the page on which this entry was made he painted black about three-quarters of an inch deep all around. Infantile Depravity. Elsie (aged seven) Ma. I want a penny. Mother -What for. dear? El sie I asked Bertie Jones to pretend we're getting married, and he says he won't do It unless I have a dowry! Harsh words are like hailstones In summer, which, if melted, would fer tilize the tender plant they batter down. H. F. Groceriss id Staple Dry Quods Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets Our goods are of the best quality, second to none, and will be sold only for cash. We wish you a Happy New Tear, thanking you tor the generous patronage you have accorcad us during the year. We would call your attention to this ad, and invite you to come to our store and see what a dollar would buy. A Bread Plate or Fruit Dish fee 1 All with 3 lbs ot Fine Coffee t) lUU 28 bars ot Lenox Soap $1-00 24 bars of Bob White Laundry Soap, I fill tor use in hard water wl illU 12 packakes of Corn PJakes $.1.00 14 cans R Lye $1-00 12 Cans of Sweet Corn $1-00 12 Cans Peas $1-00 1 8 pounds of Sugar for. . . . $ ,00 20 lbs. of Navy Beans $1-00 5 pkgs., regular 25c size, Oat Meal $1.00 5 lbs of First Class Coffee $1.00 Honey, per comb 15c Cranberries, extra fine, per quart. .- 12&c Dill Pickles, per gal 45c Sour Pickles, per gal 35c Sweet Pickles, per doz 10c Home made Sauerkraut, per gal c 30c Sweet Cider, per gallon 30c 50 Cigars for $1.00 Best Imported Fat Herring, per doz 50C DRY GOODS Come in and examine our stock of Dry Goods. It is now complete and well selected All Children's two-piece Underwear OtLn will be sold, at per garment Zuu Men's cotton fleeced per suit A fine selection ol anese drawn work. sold at reduced prices. In Hosiery we have the Armor Plate, the best made. Try a pair. The Silk Spun Head Scarf, something new, tor $1.00 and $1.25. Gentlemen's Ties 25c, 35c, 50c A fine line of Linen Scarfs, table linen, from $1.25 to $3.50. Stamped Pillow Tops 25c The Name Noah. Not many persons are sutliciently ac quainted with the Uihle to know that Noah was the name of a woman as well as of the patriarch. At an Inquest In England a female-witness gave her Christian name as "Noah." The con ner remarked that he had never before known a woman to hear the name, whereupon the witness, who was well posted in the origin of her singular prenomeii. said: "It is a Bible name, sir; you'll lind It in the last chapter of the hook of Num bers." Reference was duly made, and in the eleventh verse of the thirty-sixth chapter the coroner found mention made of "Mahlah. TIrzah and Hoglah and MHcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad." sr .-' - Tt- W.-9. - irrvC.": rWj - r.ii-rjiybSt;j"'aa-; Omaha Exhibits from every wetera state, niuti is grown aau now to grow it. Exhibit Irrigation and dry farming methods. Exhibits showing how to raise more corn wheat & oats alfalfa and i)nf:itr(. r'n..i n..,!. ..- - hibit aa lectures how to prevent wa. Aiuvuig pictures anu illustrated lectures v good-music and clean entertainment. Ad-- - fftltoatnn OCT A - movu wcuia, Come to the Omaha Land BREMER lined Underwear, 90c Sofa Pillows and Jap gj Gtill Wondering. The deaf man got out of the tram car on to tite other line of mils. "Loo' out' There's a car coming!" cried the omluctor. WbntV" said the deaf man. "There's a car coming." -What?" Just tht'ii Ihe car caught and kuock-t-d down the diaf man. and as he pick ed himself up he said: "I wonder what that fool kept tin; there talking ahuutr London Mail. Stuttered Out the Child's Name. Flaunery It seems his full name In DInnis K. K. K. Casey. What's all thim K's fur? FInnegan Nothhf 'Twas the fault of his godfather stut terln whin he tried to say "DInnis Ca sey. Philadelphia Ledger. . i it. 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