w
1
.9
Cv f "- " J-K ""J".
PLUMBING
is mure seasouablc uow than at any other time iu ibe yeai. If you have
plumlMiig thai BhcmM be done for the betterment of sauitary con
ditions, you ought to send for ub at once.
WE WON'T OVERCHARGE
but we will guarantee to do your work as well, if n6t better, than you
could have it done eleewbere.
411-413 W 13th St.
Gulumbus, Nob.
ITEMS OF
INTEREST
SCIIUYLKH.
From th'.Si:ii.
Oiiiis. II. Painter, an old resuli-nl of
I'olfiix county, living about tive miles
we.it of town committed suicide lut
Tuesday joit before noon by bunging
himself in the bay loft. lie bad b en
aiMini; strangely for a week or more hut
nolhiiig iihtrming. The daughter bad
hep: c!om watcbof liim and on Tuesday
morning he wan about the yard. going
iii'o tli barn ami not returning tbe
daughter went to investigate and found
Iter father swinging from a rafter with
a ropn around his ne.-k and dead.
hii.vkk t:i(EKK.
I'miii lit" aud.
E lwi:i It Cilmore and Myrtle M
ltaker. hotb of the Gardner neighbor
hod. were married at tbe MelbodiHt
jurMiiiMKM Sundiy evening, February til",
lV llev. CoutTcr.
Sand criticised tbe Union I'urilie lat
week for not having tires or lights m tbe
depot these eold winter mornings. Both j
with there Wednesday morning. It
Ph to advertise oiir woe..
'"mil Meeker, wlcmi theOlarkH author
ities had ai rested .some time ai;o for
having a keg of beer in lus possession,
write; Sand that tbe village council
withdrew the charges agaitiht him aud
paid the costs amounting to lo 15.
OltKMON.
Fi.nii llio MatcMiiau.
Flojd Sharrar has resigned a, mail
Cameron Koute 1, and Ed. Stennis was
appointed by Postmaster Brown, to till
the vacancy.
Thirty years ago Friday marks tbe an
niversary when Mr. aud Mrs. II S. Phil
lipn came to Nebraska and located on
the place where they yet reside.
C. G. Luedtkc aud Miss Aunu Dirks,
were united in iiiarrmgc cm Thursilay of
this week. The worthy young couple
will make their home on the croom's
farm in Sherman township. Tbe States
man joins with ibeir many friends in ex
tending hearty congratulations.
It is expected that wc will have an
other passenger train to run on the
tir.uicb between Scnbner and Onkdale,
daily, making connection with trams on
main line at each end of the branch.
The new train will be n "liver." and will
not carry iiimi! or express. Thin tram
MTviee will hegin atiout the n of this
month. Schedule time will i.e announ
ced later.
I'l.ATTK OKNTKK
Km tin the Signal.
Steve Gleasou has been conllncd to
his bouse for the past thiee weeks with
a severe attack of inflammatory rlu u
matisin. lie is Miffering a urem deal.
Miss XelliB Sullivan w-..Ld..inl '.l- formerv ,mt he is gaining strength
umbos Saturday to vi.it ..t the bwNid.il, day und m moa , a8 .,,, s
of hex nephew, .John Grady, from Coirax Ah fap M ,je Jg concprned Tev ,8
county, who is a p,tient at -"-;,,,, llolluBliycliarnl, Iui he wouIli ril.
bus hospital, having underconn an op . .(i XebrH8ka ,iny ,Uy AIiJt
er.;tion for npp-iidicitiK. .in, N E SwanBOI1 wi ,H;lVti the ,!l0 ,
Ed Maher (anight 8(1 acres nil he Mur- 'of Texas later on, the former returning
jihy partition sale about tine jeiir aco, i to Siromsburg and tbe laMur with his
p.iiu-?lu2o0 per acre. Lant Saturday ! fjiniiv will move to Denver. Their rea
hc sold this eighty to Alfred Hittner. of ; son for leaving, we understand, is that
Cornlca, for $123 00. This eighty is lo-j the climate did not agree with them.
FRISCHHOLZ BROS.
SHOES
CLOTHING
Gents' Furnishing Goods
RELIABLE GOODS AT
RIGHT PRICES.
FRISCHHOLZ BROS.
405 11th Street,
A. Dussell SL Son
ABOUT OUR NEIGH
BORS AND FRIENDS
CLIPPED FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
c ited four miles southwest of Humph
rey. This land is very cboice, but en
tirely unimproved.
Tbe surprising news reached us this
week that Mrs. W. F. Heyl died iu Chi
cago some time in January. Our source
of information could not give particulars
but the news was contlrmcd by her son
Earl, wbo lives in Omaha. Mr. Heyl
died a few months ugo in South Dakota.
Mr. aud Mrs Heyl will be remembered
a3 former Platte Center residents.
IIKIiLWOOD.
Itohi till) (i.'lZfttl'.
The Burlington will build two bteel
spans aeio-s tbe Platte river. Tbe steel
struct 'no will replace the wooden struc
ture over the main channel of the river,
and eventually the bridge will be built
with steel, which will mean uo more
wash-outs between Columbus and Uell
woml. Thursday of last week Linton Miller,
while paying with dynamite caps in tbe
Hursb school bonse northwest of Bell
wood, had the thumb of bis right hand
blown olT to the Orst joint anil also the
tip of tbe fore linger of tbe same band.
Dr. llansen dressed tbe wound. Linton
hereafter (we suppose) will give dynam
ite caps a wide birth.
1'eports from all seclfons indicate that
the man who fails to test bis seed corn
this spring is likely to pay dearly for his
neglect. Too mauy folks are restiug on
the thought that seed is good tbis year,
and there is no occasion to worry. We
do not wish to create nnneccessary
alarm, hut we most earnestly urge
every one of our readers to at once get
at the Jul) of testing aud making sure of
good ?eed.
KTKOMSIIUIMi.
Fioiii llio Headlight.
The horse buyer that was here the
tirst of the week, was assessed a line of
$.").( Kl and costs in the police court for
abusing one of our respected fanners.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. II ill, of Del Norte,
Colo., were in town Tuesday on their
way to Polk to visit their children wbo
reside near there. Mr. aud Mrs. Hill re
sided on a farm in York county between
here and York -11 years. They raised
a family of seven sons and tive daughters
who are all living. Mr. and Mrs. Hill
moved to Colorado about two years ago.
Mr. Hill expects to return in a couple of
weeks and Airs. Hill by April I.
Kinnr Swanson returned last Saturday
from Falfurrias, Texas, where he has
been since last fall. Einar has just re
covered from a six week's siege of typ
hoid fever which has taken him down
Roiiii-. Mm! he weighs n few iiounda less
Columbus.
.MONKOE.
From the llepubliran.
D.iniel Wilson attended the county
supervisors' tueetiug tbis week at Colum
bus, Frank Gil more aud family moved to
Duncan last week, where Frank has a
cream route.
Miss Sarah Seelield of Columbus ar
rived Tuesday for a visit at the O. U.
Preston home.
Mrs. It. G. Strother and daughter
Helen of Columbus were over Sunday
guests of Monroe friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mm. Lester Kelley and little
daughter, who have been visiting rela
tives at Omaha, returned home Tues
day. O. F. Ewert traded for the two story
residence property, built by E. A. Ger
rard, in tbe east part of town, and is
having it remodled and fixed up.
George Weber has been using an im
proved method for getting hay into the
barn. He backed the threshing machine
up to the barn, attached n gasoline en
gine to the blower, aud it put the bay
up into the mow in a hurry.
Chas. Kerr took as nice a bunch of
hogs to the South Omaha market Thurs
day evening as has gone from here for
eome time. Out of a bnnch of one hun
dred and sixty-live he selected sixty,
and they were ten months old and aver
aged 308 pounds.
Monday evening of this week a meet
ing of tbe Commercial club was held to
receive the reports of tbe committees
appointed at the last meeting. Both
the bridge and membership committees
submitted was satisfactory reports, and
after these were read tbe matter of re
questing the railroad company to en
large the stock yards, and establishment
of a permnnent stock market for Monroe
and also tbe road ijucBtion, especially
those leading into town was given con
sideration. The.-o uestions will be
more thoroughly discussed and some ac
tion taken at the next meeting, which
will be held in a short time.
OsCKOLA.
From the Keeonl.
Mis. E. V. Price and children return
ed to their home in York Monday after
a ten daya visit with relatives iu Colum
bus and Clear Creek.
Mrs. Ella Ualler and children leTt
Friday for her home in Blaine after a
mouths visit with her mother und other
relatives in Clear Creek and Columbus.
Ed Huhn was iu the city from Clear
Creek Monday, accompanied by his un
cle W. A. Wagner who is here on a visit
from Eastou, Pa., aud will remain until
spring.
Hoy Coffey has: old out west of Col
umbus, and is moving back to tbe old
home where he will go into partnership
with his brother Johu. They will build
them a new bouse toon . Wc ure glad
to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Coffey to this
neighborhood again.
Every year there comes n season, when
a lot of folks vamoose, and for some pe
culiar reason, there's a general breaking
loose. Everyday there's some one mov
ing, turning things in every shape, dili
gently they're improving, every prospect
of escape. Where on earth they all are
going here aud there all over town, there
will be no way of knowing, till they
ffnally settle down, loaded wagons on the
highway, comiug, going left and right
and in every street and byway, there's a
load of goods in sight. Let some fellow
take a notion, for a different dwelling
spot, and he straightway ets iu motion,
twenty moie as like a not. Even as an
active dollar, will discharge u dozen
debts, so a do.en have to "fuller," when
one chap gets up and gets. Thiuk of all
the fumes and fuses, that these moving
times insure; think of those proverbial
cusses, that tbe stove pities must endure.
While you on some goods box whittle,
carving here und there a groove, you
should sympathize a little, with the chap
who has to move.
ST. KDWAKD
From the Advauce.
N. H. Olsou and family moved but
week from Mead to the Shell Clark farm
which he has purchased. The many St.
Edward friends of this family are pleas
ed to see them return to this neighbor
hood.
Iu response to a telegram notify iug
her of the death of her brother, W. It.
Smith, Mrs. II. P. Sisson left yesterday
noon for Harvard, Neb. Mr. Smith is
well known to many St. Edward people
ao be lived iu Cedar Kapids Gve or six
years and visited St. Edward many
times when he was on the roud for a
marble works company.
Wednesday afternoon, March 1, i!ll, at
: o'clock, Miss Martha Nygren and Mr.
John E. Johnson were united in holy
wedlock The wedding took place on
tbe old homestead of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ohas. Nygren, in the pre
sence of mauy invited guests, Itev. Beck
lund of tbe Salem church officiating.
The bride was attended by her sister.
Miss Annu Nygren, and Mr. Edwin Ny
gren acted ub best man. After the cere
mony an elegant wedding supper was
served. Mr. and Mrs. John ton will go to
housekeeping on tbe Oberg farm 2 milee
north of Salem church. The bride and
groom have both been very active work
ers in the young peoples eociety of the
church and have many friends who wish
them much joy and happine6sin their
wedded life.
An Insulting Addition.
An irate citizen started for the office
of his local newspaper for the purpose
of clubbing the editor. One of hia
friends nsked him what the editor had
done to him. and be said:
"I sent him a letter signed 'Honestas
and he printed it. but added another
's.' "Minneapolis Journal.
Difficulty Is only a word indicating
the degree of strength requisite fjr ac
JomplUnlns a particular object
IN OUR NEW HOME
In the
Meridian Annex
You will find us better
equipped that ever to
attend to your wants in
Electric Lighting
and
Electric Irons
Let us wire your house
Columbus light,
Heat & Power Co.
COLUMBUS
MEAT MARKET
We invite all who desire choioe
steak, and the very best cute of
all other meats to call at our
market on Eleventh street. Wc
also handle poultry and fish and
oysters in season.
S. E. MARTY & CO,
Telephone No. 1. - Columbus. Neb.
Diamonds.
IHamomls were tirst brought to Eu
rope from the east, where the mine
of Siimbulpoor was the tirst known
Golcondn. limv in ruins, was once a
celebrated diamond mart. The mine
of Itni7.il were discovered in I72S and
for :i long time furnNIied most of the
diamond-- of commerce. In 1S07 dia
monds wer discovered in Cape Colo
ny, and in 1ST0 the wonderful finds in
the Transvaal were made which re
sulted iu the IinmiMise fortunes of the
kite Civil lihodcs and others. Most
of the diamonds of the world are now
furnished by the South African fields
New York American.
Tho Artistic I empcrament.
A famous singer was undergoing the
ministration of the ship's barber.
"I 'opes." said the barber, "that wa
shall 'ave the pjeasure of "earin you
at the concert tonight."
"Xo," explained the famous singer,
"I've had a long and exhausting sea
son in America and within a few days
I am to open iu Tmdon. I have decid
ed not to do anything on this voyage."
"It's the s:ime way with me." said
the barber uudciM.-iiidingly "When
I'm hashore I iuirr looks at a ni.or."
Success Magajnc.
orusner.
"Yes. sir." said Hie trust macnatp
proudly. "I :im thi siri-li:tif-i of my
own form lie."
"Well." rcjoiniil tin friendly rriii--"all
I've got to s:iy N ilmi it's, a linkx
thing for you there wi-iv no liuild.ui"
insitectors around when you was -kh
struclinc it." Chb-auo Xews.
1911
Indian
Motorcycles
ure nil fitted with
The Free Engine Clutch
without extra charge
Holds all World's Records
(Jet the l'.lll Catalogue
p. it. uoomvix, Agt.
tiuno;i, Neb.
DO YOU
WANT TO BUY
The hot irri;st'.t laud, witli llio lct
water riitlitf. Which has produced Iram
ix?r cro for the ist 20 ywirf. Trice
rrat-uiinhlo. Term very eauy. For n.ir
ticiilnr write Ikisc Conner, Omaha, rrh.
UNION PACIFIC
THE TABLE
WEST COCMt.
II h.T a 111
I UiSaui
llrJSmn
17 :U.C pin
13 ".:ilmi
3 t'tuCt i in
S !:!' pm
21 lhiiia m
1 tlilOam
:3 S3 pm
7 T -':35ini
rsT
No. I ....
No. J2....
No. ti .
No. It!....
No. 10 .
No IS ...
No. 2 ....
No. 22....
No. '20....
No. 2 1 ...
No. 8
ISUl'.M).
.... lill
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
i m
.1:21 a m
2: IK pra
2:lti ii in
3:0.1 1 in
5:57 i m
S:S0 j m
1:20 pra
:t.-00 p m
7:12 a m
ii:lB p m
EUANcnES.
NOIUOLK.
srALDINO & ALBION.
No. 73 mid..d 6:00 am
No. 31 pas ..il 1:30 pm
No. 32 pas ..al2J0pm
No. 60 mxd . . a 7:00 p m
No. 77 mxd. d 7:20 am
No. 211 pan . .1 7.00 p m
No. 30 pa ..a l:inpm
No. 78 rax'1. a 0:10 pm
Daily except Sunday.
not?:
Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 8 are xtra fare trains.
Nob. 4. 5, 13 and It are local iwKDRers.
Nos. .18 and 3'J art) local f reightK.
Noe. 9 and Vi are mail trains only.
No 1 1 due in Omaha 4:45 p. m.
No. 6 Una in Omaha 5:00 p. m.
C. B. t Q.
Tint Tablo
mB
No. 22, Pass, (daily ex. Sunday) leave dZ a m
No. 32, Frt. & Ac. (d'y ex. Saturday) lv.5K p m
No. 21, Pass, (daily ex. Sunday) arrive940 p m
No. 31, Frt. ft Ac, (d'y ex, Sunday) ar. 6:l5a nj
HUXrURKT.
From the Democrat
Mm. Martin Bchilz and children were
calling on friends in town, thefiratof tbe
week while on her way home from tbe
Lindsay neighborhood to Platte Center
where the family will make their borne.
Sidney Smith returned home from i
Columbus last week having gone
through an operation for appendicitis.
Also two of his children were operated
on for the same trouble.
ltainbardt Faust accompanied a car
containing his household goods aud
farm machinery to Cedar Rapid yester
day where he with his family will locate
on a farm he owns in that neighborhood.
Mrs. Faust and children left today for
their new home in the St. Bernard neigh
borhood for twenty years, and we regret
to see them leave this vicinity.
P. H. Bender of Council Bluffs, Iowa
and Dan Linahan of Omaha, were Hum
phrey visitors the first of the week.
This was not the first visit of the latter
gentleman to Humphrey. Iu 1893 Mr.
Liinahan figured in tbe famous ball
game between Platte Center and Hum
phrey which resulted so disastrously to
our neighboring town on tbe south. He
was one of tbe members of the Platte
Center nine, which was hired to skin
Humphrey, and bad tbe managers of the
Platte Center team taken the advise of
Mr. Linahan in that be placed no confi
dence in tbe colored gentleman who
threw tbe game to Humphrey, no donbt
that Jerry Carrig and a number of other
Platte Cent eritee would not have been
compelled to borrow money to get home
on.
SIIKLUY.
From the Sun.
R W. Sloan, Guy Fox and Floyd
Newcomer loaded their cars for tbe west
Tuesday, and left Wednesday for Sher
man county.
The moving season is at band and this
vicinity has beeu losing home of the
best citizens. We regret very much to
have such families as J . It. Davis, A. W.
McKillip's and ticorge Raff's leave this
community.
Nick Gondringer of St. Paul, Minn.,
returned home Wednesday after a couple
of weeks' visit here with his brother
John, who lives near the IJlue river
The brothers hud been separated for
twenty-three years and it is needless to
say that they put in good time visiting
on this occasion
On Monday, February 27, occurred tbe
marriage of Miss Margaret Jaax, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jaax to Mr. John
Hcnggeler, son of Mr. und Mrs. Joseph
Uenggeler, of Stock villi-, Nebraska, the
ceremony being ierformed by Itev.
Father Bicker at the St. Audrewn church
iu tbe Valley. After congratulations
they returned to the home of the bride,
with many relatives, where a good aud
bountiful dinner was served. They will
go to their new home on the farm of tbe
groom's father, near Stockville. The
congratulations and best wishes of all go
with the happy pair in their matrimonial
journey.
GENOA.
From tlmTiuie.
Paul Wnlter, who reeigued the posi
tion of tailor at the ludian school a year
or more ago and went to Blair and open
ed a racket store, sold out hid business
several weeks ago and has been appoint
ed to a position in the Indian school at
Stewart, Nevada. He writes to a friend
here that be and his wife are receiving a
salary of $1,500 per year.
Hello: here's a new kind of reform
stunt that tbe members of the Second
Reform church of Trenton, N. J., have
introduced for public approval. They
have asked telephone companies to in
struct their centrals not to use tbe word
"hello," as they declare it verges on pro
fanity. They want "lo" substituted.
The same set of reformers also insist
that tbe word "dam," as applied to water
should be changed.
Thirty-four years ago Voluey Wiggins
came to Genoa, and since that time be
has always considered tbis place bis
home, although he spent several years in
Washington and Oklahoma while in tbe
government service. And now, after
more than a third of a century among
ii, he has planned to leave tbis week
with his family to make his home in
Fergus county. Montana, where his son
Will has filed on a homestead.
IIOWKLLS
From tin Journal.
After enjoying a few weeks' visit with
relatives, old neighbors and friends,
Carl Muller took bis departure Tuesday
morning for his home in Maryland, near
Woodland.
A little son, aged live years, of Joseph
Mikes of Maple Creek precinct fell from
a box while at play on Tuesday and
broke his right leg just above tbe knee.
Dr. Myers reduced tbe fracture and tbe
little fellow is being cared for at the
home of bis aunt. Mis. Benes, in Stanton
county. The accident was doubly uu
fortunate as tbe child's father is moving
tbis week onto a farm in Dodge county,
near Glencoe.
The following real estate deals in the
Prahc neighborhood are reported to us
as having been made last week: Rudol
pn Lodi sold bis place of 150 acres to
Chas Hob.a of Leigh for $1J0 per acre,
and Hobza sold 10 acres of land to Jos.
B. Sobots for 9129 an acre. After dis
posing of his place Mr. Lodi bought tbe
JohnVitek farm of 120 acres forlG0
per acre, and in turn Vitek purchased a
quarter section farm of Joseph Krivoch
lavek for $130 an acre. All good prices
for land situated from nine to eleven
miles from market.
The Honsymeen.
"Mamma. Is a honeymoon a vaca
tion?' "It may le. my dear, and it may be
tho beginning of a long period of
Feryjfude." Youngstown Telegram.
An Assortment For tho
Lenten Season
Holland Herring
Salt Herring Roal and Spiced Herring
Salt Herring Mackrel
Canned Fish, Imported and Domestic
CHEESE
American Brick Swiss
Limburger Roquefort,
Sap Sogs and Vezet
Our prices are right and in addi
tion we give you a special dis
count on all cash purchases.
Brunken & Haney
THE DOCTOR'S QUESTION.
Much Sickness Due to Bowel Dis
orders. A doctor's first question when con
sulted by a patient is, "Are your bowels
regular?" He knows that 'JS per cent of
illness is attended with inactive bowels
and torbid liver, and that this condition
must be removed gently and thoroughly
before health can lie restored.
Rexall Orderlies are a positive, plea
nnt and safe remedy for constipation
hid bowel disorders in geueral. We ure
so certain of their great curative value
that we promise to return the purchas
er's money in every case when they fail
lo produce entire satisfaction.
Rexall Orderlies are eaten like candy,
they act quietly, and have a soothing,
strengthening, healing inllosjpce on the
entire intestinal tract. TBey do not
purge, gripe, cause nausea, ilatulence,
excessive loosncss, diarrhoea or other
annoying effect. They ure esiecially
good for children, weak persons or old
folks. Two size?, 25e and tOc. Sold
only at our store the Rexall store.
Pollock & Co , corner ISth and North
streets.
E Pluribus Unum.
The country Is indebted to .Tnbn Ad
ams for its national motto, with an
Englishman of note sharing in the
honor. It seems that while Adams
was minister to Knsland Sir John
Prestwick. an eminent English anti
quary, suggested to lilm a good motto
to represent the union of tin American
colonics. Adams at once was taken
with the idea, which he transmitted to
Charles Thompson, the secretary of
congress, who on June 20. 1TS2. report
ed to that body his design for :i gov
ernment seal. In this the Latin legend
"E Pluribus Unum" was to be borne
on a ribbon held in the beak of an
eagle.
Just where Sir John got the idea is
not certain, but it is a fact that the
motto was in use on the cover of the
Gentleman's Magazine, first publish
ed in 1730. and it may have struck his
fancy by its applicability to the situ
ation then obtaining in America.
New Zealand's Glaciers.
The great size of the glaciers around
Mount Cook, in New Zealand, has
been often remarked. The Tasman is
eighteen miles long, the Murchison
ten miles, the Godley eight miles, the
Mueller eight miles and the Hooker
Fcvcn miles. Most of these glaciers
have moraines of exceeding rough
ness, but the approaches to them are
not steep, as is usually the case with
European glaciers. The southern
Alpine snow line is only a little over
7.000 feet. Glacially jiolished rocks
are rare, and in many ways the moun
tains are singularly different from
those of central Europe.
$25
To California and the
Pacific Northwest
Low One Way Colonist Rates
March 10, to April 10, 1911
VIA
UNION PACIFIC
Standard Road of the Wert
ELECTRIC BLOCK SIGNALS
DUSTLESS, PERFECT TRACK
EXCELLENT DINING CARS
For literature and information relative to fares, routes, etc ,
call on or address
ELLIS G. BROWN,' Agent,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
ATHLETIC DEVOTIONS.
Gymnastic Exercises That Impresses'
the Kurdish Villagers.
Everything Is liable to be misunder
stood, even gymnastic exercises. This
truth was brought home to George II.
Ilepworth, and he tells his experience
in "Through Armenia on Horseback."
The author was stopping in a Kurdish
village, and tbe inn possessed but one
general living room.
In the morning I began my regular
gymnastics, stooping until my fingers
touched the floor, throwing my arms
nliout like the sokcs of a wheel, strik
ing out from the shoulder and going
through all the exercises, none of which
I ever omitted. I would gladly have
taken a sponge bath, but it would have
been impossible to get enough water.
A pint is enough to suffice a Turk.
Well. I got under way with my exer
cises when I saw that my audienco
was excited: conversation dropped into
a whisper, then ceased; word passed
from one to another, and one by one
the occupants of the room quietly left.
I feared that they were offended and
wanted to call them back and apolo
gize. Just then my dragoman entered.
laughing.
"What has happened?" I asked.
He laughed the harder as he replied:
"The Kurds think you are practicing
devotional religious exercises, and they
retired under the impression that you
would regard their presence as an in
trusion." His Blunt Critic
Irving llachcllcr was introduced one
day by a mutual friend to a western
mountaineer.
".Mr. llachcllcr," exclaimed the
friend to the mountaineer, "Is an au
thor of repute in the east."
"Oh, yes," drawled the mountaineer.
"I know of him. I was locked up In
my cabin here by the snow two win
ters ago, and 1 only had two books to
read the whole five months, your book,
sir," he said, turning to Mr. Bachellcr,
"and the Bible, and I read them
through several times."
"Indeed: said the author, a smile
of satisfaction wreathing his face.
"Yes, sir." continued the old moun
taineer, "and I never knew before
how interesting the Bible was." St.
Paul Dispatch.
Juries In the Old Days.
In olden times when a jury In Eng
land remained Imierv'ou to the judge's
gentle mode of itcrsunsion fine and im
prisonment were resorted to. The Jury
that acquitted Sir Nicholas Throck
morton wa condemned to eight
months' imprisonment In addition to 4
the payment of a large sum of money.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a Jury,
having reduced a prisoner's alleged
rrimc of murder to that of manslaugh
ter, was at once sent to prison and
IkmuuI over in a large sum to be of
good behavior. Penalties were like
wise in Hie ted upon the innocent wife
and children of the offending Jurvmen.