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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-27
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7 he knew how frightened Arbutus Ann
would be, but when he was half way
to the house there was a tremendous
stroke of lightning that almost blind.
ed him. At that he sprinted harder
than ever, although the rain was
pouring down SO that he could not see
! a yard in front of his nose. He ran
swiftly, but in a few minutes he be.
gan to get scared, for he had not
reached the house, and he let out a
few more laps of speed. And still he
did not reach the house. Then he
was certainly frightened.
A very simple thing had happened.
The lightning had hit the chimney
and had knocked of brick, and the
brick had fallen on the crank handle
and had given it turn, which cranked
up the engine, and the lightning had
at the same instant buried itself in
the storage battery, filling it with
electricity, SO that it began to spark
regularly and explode the gasoline in
the cylinders, and the house had
moved away from where it had been.
The house had an excellent engine,
and it was geared high. 1t was
geared to run about so miles an hour
on the first speed.
AS soon as Pilgath realized this he
doubled his speed, for he was afraid
the house might meet with an acct
dent. He felt perfectly secure as to
the wheels, for it is harder to pune
ture millstones than rubber tires, but
he had an inkling that frame house
travelling at 50 miles an hour should
have some one at the steering wheel.
AS soon as the rain slackened bit
he took a look around, and he saw the
house, about IL miles out of the prai.
RE. revolving in circles. and he start
ed for it with his tongue hanging out,
but just before he reached 1t the house
took a new tack and started south
by west at SO miles an hour, and in
two minutes 1t was out of sight over
Reynolds hill. Pilgath said he never
was so proud of anything in his life
as the way that autohouse took that
hill on first speed. When he got to
the top of the hill he could only see
a cloud of dust in the southwest.
about So miles away. He said that
cloud of dust assured him that the
storm had been merely local.
Pilgath wants to announce that IL
anyone finds a house running around
loose, with a wife under the bed in
the first bedroom at the top of the
stairs, to the left as you go up. that
wife is his. He says any doubt on
the subject may be removed by max
ing a sound like thunder. Hammer
ing on a tin waiter will do. If, at the
sound, the wife backs SO far under the
bed that she can only be reached with
a broom, there need be no doubt that
her name is Arbutus Ann Gubb. The
finder will please feed her until called
for
Copyright. 1909. by W. G. Chapman)
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TRADE WINDS IN TWO OCEANS
Peculiar Action Of Air Currents Most
Noted in the Atlantic
and Pacific.

Constant winds are usually called
trade winds. When the surface heat
q is. roughly speaking. a whole zone.
a I'm the case Of the tropics. sur
face wind will set In toward the heat
ed tropical zone from both sides. and.
uniting. will ascend. and then separat-
;hg win f1ow as upper currents in op-
1csite directions. Hence a surface
knrent will flow from the higher lati-
hide toward the equator, and an up
Dse current toward the poles. II. then.
ths earth were at rest. q north wind
Would prevail In the northern half OF
~ globe. and q south wind in the
uthefn half But these directions are
6odifed by the rotation OF the earth
N its axis from west to east. In vir.
- Of this rotation objects on the
an1this surface at the equator are car
Ssod round from the east ut the rate
- n miles q minute. But as we re-
es6e from the equator. this velocity Is
iesntinually diminished: at latitude 60
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ton. The body was removed from the base of
the oak about IS years ago. 1t never should have
been removed.
1t is said that Washington selected the place
where his body now lies and left instructions
that one day the change of sepucher should be
made. The oak which guarded the first grave
must have been standing for three centuries
The view from the place is inspiring enough to
eEkindle the eyes of dead man. The view from
the new tomb is fine in its way. but it is moth
ing to the grand sweep of river, hilltops and for
ests which moves before the eye from the place
where Washington slept for 30 years.
Hundreds of visitors go to Mount Vernon
daily. They peer into the tomb and then
straiShtway go to the house. There is an inter-
est. Of course, which must attach to any of the
belongings of Washington. but it seems to be
legitimate matter of regret that of the thousands
who go to Mount Vernon the interest in the mir
ror which Washington used when he shaved and
in the spoon with which he ate his porridge, if
he ate porridge is far greater than in the forest
trees under which he walked and in the garden
whose hedges of formal cut were planted with
his own hand.
Indoors at Mount Vernon everything is dead;
outdoors everything is alive. The forest and
garden are instinct with Washington: the con-
tents of the house are as dust.
There IS real interest however, in the
library of the old home. In the main the books
are simply copies of those which were the
shelves in Washingt0n's time. The originals, as
l understand 1t, are in several libraries of the
country. There are two originals, however,
which are open at the title page, that il the
light be good. one may read Washingtons name
written In his own hand and the title of the book
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Fine Brazilian ORANGES.

Travellers and connoisseurs who
have tasted all the fruits of the world
are of one voice and rapt opinion in
pronouncing the oranges of Bahia.
Brazil. the sovereign lord and king of
all fruits. The dreamed-of apples of
Hesperides no more touch the realiza-
ton and surprise these oranges bring
than a crow touches a channel-cross.
ing flying machine. The Bahian
Grange is not only a gastronomic sur
prise, but a startling awakening of
the mind to something new and
strange. Like the first touch of loves
young dream, one cannot all at once
realize that life and the world could
contain anything SO deliciously sweet
and perfect.-New York Press.
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cHlcAeo's ME.s LIBRARIAN
Henry e. IegIer Of milwaukee A.
sumes New Position 1t Salary
Of 5000 Annually.

Chicago.-Freer use of books and
better facilities for getting them are
two of the reforms which book lovers
may expect to follow shortly upon the
advent of Henry e. Legler, who has en-
tered upon his new duties as public
librarian Of Chicago. The former
Wisconsin newspaperman. who is the
administrative head of Chicago's pub
lie library, lost no time in going to
work to earn the $4,000 salary the
board voted him. Arriving in Chi
cago on an early morning train from
his home in Milwaukee, Librarian Leg.
Ter hurried at once to the beautiful
building on Michigan avenue which is
to be his workshop and began at once
to knuckle down to his task.
The new librarian consented to out.
line his plans only after expressly
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degrees 1t is only eight and half
miles per minute. or half Of the veioc
ity at the equator. and at the poles
it is nothing. A wind. therefore. blow
ing along the earth's surface to the
equator is continually arriving at
places which have a greater velocity
than itself. Hence the wind will tag
behind. that is. will come up against
places toward which It blows-i. e..
will become an east wind. Since.
then. the wind north of the equator
is under the influence of two forces
one drawing 1t west-it will, by the
law Of composition Of forces, flow in
an intermediate direction, that is.
from northeast to northwest. All oh.
servations confirm this reasoning
From the great services that these
winds render to navigation they have
been called the trade winds. II is only
in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans that
the trade winds have their full scope
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As Soon as the Rain siackened a Bit
He Took Look Around, and He
Saw the House, About Twelve
Miles Out on the Prairie, Revoiv.
ing in Circles.
Shen moving time came. The crank,
to crank up the engine. stuck out at
enc side of the porch, and was soon
covered with Virginia creepers, so the
house looked like an everyday house.
No one would have thought it was an
autOhouse.
The last person in the world to
think 1t would have been Pilgath's Sec
Ond WIFE Her name was Arbutus Ann.
and she was timid little thing, and
craWled under the bed every time it
Numbered. She was so afraid of thun-
der that she crawled under the bed
every time wagon rumbled across
the Two Mile bridge, and when traf.
tict was heavy. at fair time, she staid
under the bed permanently. and Pill.
gath had to bring her meals to her OF
. tray.
Last Wednesday at four o'clock a
terrific thunder storm struck Betz-
vile, and Arbutus Ann went under the
bed Pilgath was in the barn. but he
started for tie house on a run. for
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-27

Notes from the Eastwood Bugie.
Our school teacher is just cuttin' q
wisdom tooth. BY jung! nobody is
more entitled to one than she is.
Hold Peters's youngest swallered the
coal-stove shaker the other day, and
Hold says he ought to grow up to be
quite an athlete. as he has so much
iron in his system.
A mail sack which was throwed of
from No. 6 the other night knocked
down Amariah Tilson's barber pole,
three blocks up the street, and upset
Grandma Whipple, who was on her
way home from the SEWN circle.
Grandma says free mail delivery is a
good thing, but there is such a thing
as gettin' too free with it.-Judge.
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addition of the dogs to the force and
it is noticeable fact that since the
two dogs, Mick Carter" and Jesse
James" have been on the force tina,
hold-up men and burglars have not
been SO busy. The dogs are trained
to follow a trail over any kind of a
road, whether it be an oiled thorough
fare or a common country road
H. G. Strumpfer of Hammond. Ind.
is the owner of Mick and Jesse.
He says they will rid Oak Park ol
crooks. Old policemen, however, are
skeptical.
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Among the citizens Of Betzville Pill
gath Gubbs stands out pre-eminently
for thoughtfulness. and It is largely
because he once had grandfather
That grandfather of his is why Pill
gatL is SO far-seeing. In every action
nf Pilgath's life he remembered his
grandfather, and many of US would
be better of if we did the same.
The reason Pilgath dug his well
right alongside of his barn was be.
cause he remembered that once his
grandfather had fallen on the barn
and had broken his arm, and Pilgath
figured that if he should happen to
laN off his barn he might break his
arm, too, but that If he had good,
deep well alongside his barn and fell
OF the barn into the well instead of
onto the hard ground. the water would
break the fall. 1t was 30 feet from the
top of the barn to the ground, and
the well Pilgath dug was 40 feet deep,
and SO, one day. when Pilgath did fall
down 80 feet into the water. and was
50 nearly drowned that it took five
hours and three quarts OF whisky to
bring him to. He saw Immediately
that il he fell of the barn into the wa
ter a few more times he would be
totally drowned to death, SO he fixed
that by pumping all the water out of
the we'll and plugging UP the spring in
the bottom. After that there was no
danger of his being drowned. but the
next time he fell OF the barn he fell
clear to the bottom of the well, 20
feet, and broke two arms and col
lar bone. Pilgath was very thought
full, foresighted man.
When Pilgath got married and start
ed to build house he remembered
that his grandfather had once built
= house. and then had sold the lot the
house was on and had moved his
house onto another lot, and that NOV
ing the house was lot of work. So
Pilgath. being thoughtful, foresight
ed man. decided he would have no
trouble of that kind. and that he
would build his house SO that if he
ever wanted to move 1t he could move
it without any trouble at ALL The only
way he could think of to do this was
TO have the house mounted on wheels,
and have good, strong automobile
engine built under the front porch,
with a tank of gasoline in the attic
over the girls room. He saved quite
u sum on the wheels by using eight
old millstoues that he had inherited
from his grandmother on his fathers
side, and he got fine old storage
battery at less than cost from Aunt
Rhinocolura Belts. who had used it
for her rheumatism. There wasn't
any electricity in the battery, but
Pilgath figured he could get it filled
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try his theories on himself. After
practicing his preaching for some
time he announced in public on yari.
GUS occasions he mad met with re.
markable results in his own case, and
detailed the improvement in his con-
dition occasioned by his following a
vegetable diet.
He followed up his studies along
the line of dietetics, with the result
that he finally advocated a strictly
vegetable diet as a cure for all the
diseases which human flesh is heir to.
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two or three newspaper men. The scientists are
in the great majority.
1t costs a pretty penny to Join the Metropolitan
club and to pay the dues and to live the life of
the organization. The initiation fee at the Cosmos
club is rather small, and the dues are light but
there are scores of members Of the Metropolitan
club. "the club of the nobs." who willingly would
pay twice or thrice the Metropolitan's initiation
fee and the MetropOlitans dues If the expenditure
could gain them admission to the club where the
"cranks" foregather.
Every Monday night is called social night" at
the Cosmos club. OF course the clubhouse is open
at all times. but on Monday evening the members
make special effort to be present and there is
always large gathering in the great sweeping
rooms of the house where lived Dolly Madi-
son.
They don't intrude shop" upon YOU in the
Cosmos club. The members are genial body of
men and they have many guests from all parts of
the world. They find out what the guest likes to
talk about and then some one who knows the sub
ject is promptly introduced to him. There are few
world subjects upon which you cannot get an
expert opinion in the Cosmos club.
The members, of course, have their hobbies
and they ride them. In one corner of a room there
will be an astronomical group. and there will be
another corner with fish group and another cor
ner with a bird group and another corner with it
may be- a mushroom group 1t isn't all science
however, IN the Cosmos club. The members play
billiards and pool and bridge and they have fine
time of it generally and at no great expense for
1t is one OF the hard facts of earth that men de-
voted to science have little money. Learning
doesn't bring high pay in the market
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ole VI WHICH, OUT WIN unerl1ng inaccuracv she
made answers. This was travelled American
GIRL There is fairly well-grounded belief that
she met and captivated her German husband
whlie she was doing Europe in an automobile or
was rhapsodizing on the Rhine
Some day. perhaps-vedy likely, in fact-she
Will 60 back to her husbands land and will
listen to his telling of his American trip and in
the enthusiasm of the nature which he made
manifest on the Potomac he will tell the "his
toric truths" concerning George Washington
which he learned from his American wife.
1t may be that some of the Germans who
know something of the life of the American gen.
eral who was the friend and fellow soldier of
Steuben will come to think, as some Americans
have come to think before this. that little
American history might be included in the course
OF study OF the average American girl and that
not dollar should be spent on her passage
money to Europe until she knows without STOP
ping TO think whether it was George Washington
or Abraham Lincoln who crossed the Delaware
and whc something later forced the surrender
Of CORVALLIS at Yorktown. This may seem to
be a matter that is beside the mark but while
the listener had none too thorough a knowledge
of American history, there were some things
said on the boatsplying down the Potomac that
if they had been said by an eghth-grade school
boy ought to have brought him f1ogging.
Mount Vernon has been written about by
pretty nearly everybody who has the place.
1t hasn't fallen to the lot of everybody to it
In the fall. 1t is nee place. fitting resting
ground for the first American.
It seldom falls to mans lot to see such he
roic trees. There is a giant oak which stands
sentinel over the first burial place Of Washing
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could be prevented and totally cured
if the man who wanted alcoholic
drink would confine himself to a
purely vegetable diet
He argued in public and private
that by following up his course of
treatment and using only vegetables
in the diets, drunkards could shake
off the clutch of alcohol and become
proof against the habitual craving
for strong drink.
Graham was himself in delicate
health at the time he discovered his
vegetable theory. so he started in to
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lNvENTER OF GRAHAM BREAD

Sylvester Graham. a native of Suf-
field. Conn, was the, man who in
vented the bread, audit has borne his
name ever since.
Graham was the pioneer crank" on
the food question. and he popularized
his theories throughout the country.
While lecturing under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania Temperance So
ciety in that state, about 1880. he con-
ceived the idea that intemperance
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Whistling is q fixed habit In man.
but 1t can be overcome. The man on
the tugboat is only an overgrown viii
low-whistle boy. The boy is spanked
into a knowledge that there is a sea
son and time when whistling may
be. INDUCED without rousing the ire
and edging the nerves of the neighbor
hood. There is q certain legal spank
ing which may fit the seat of the pres
ent noisemakers.-Chica Post.
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Sylvester Graham the First to Popu
larize Article Of Diet That
Bears His Name.

The housewives of America make
many loaves of graham bread during
the year. but few of them know the
history Of this article of food. nor
have they ever taken the trouble to
learn why and how it came to be first
prepared.
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Easy.
George Washington never told q
lie."
Jaw, that was easy; there WASN'T
no ball games them days."
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Rapid Teleoraphy.

In recent trials of the Pollak- Virae
high-speed telegraph between Berlin
and Konigsberg. distance Of 430
miles. $500 distinctly recorded words
were transmitted In i've minutea
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word Sentimental" The
wonder was, and the poor
light was responsible for it's remain
ing a wonder, if the father of his
country had not in his quiet hours
been reading "A Sentimental Jour
ney." If the gentle Martha had
peeped into the pages and had re-
proved George because of what she
saw there one can imagine his ready
answer that the book was written by
holy priest of her own chosen
church.
The man with the megaphOne on
the Washington "rubberneck" wag-
Ons tells his audience of passengers
as they roll by the Metropolitan club
house: This is the club of the nobs."
In another minute, as the big sight
seeing bus passes another clubhouse
the megaphOne man says: "And this
is the club of the cranks."
1.-THE club of the cranks," as this in
formation bowler calls it, is the Cos
mos club. and most interesting or
ganizatiOn it is. Its membership is COM
posed of scientists, some physicians
and clergymen. q few lawyers and
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ASHINGTON.-In the novel
of "Ivanhoe." Isaac the
Jew tells the knight that
he knows 1t is the custom
Of the Christians to put on
pilgrims garb and to walk
barefooted for miles to
worship dead mems bones.
There is something of q
sheer In Isaac's tone and
1vanh0e rebukes him with
a trulv heroic "Rlasnhom.
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| er, cease!" J don't know how many
thousands Of Americans 60 yearly to
Mount Vernon to pay a visit to the re-
pository of dead mans bones. but
the number is something enormous.
II George Washington never had
lived at Mount Vernon, never had WIS.,
tied there. never had died there, and
had been buried in the antipodes there
would be excuse enough for the visits
to the place of seventy times seven
the number of the pilgrims who go
yearly down the Potomac to stand on
the towering hill and to look Off down
the valley
1t is with an utter shame that it
is confessed that after four years
residence in Washington one man
American born and with some Turk
ing pride of patriotism in his make
up never until recently went to the
place where the father of his coun-
try and the exponent of the American
school teachers ideal of truth lies
buried.
Mount Vernon is the ultimate OBJ
ject of the voyage down the Potomac.
There are other objects every paddle
wheel stroke of the way, for the hills
on either side are hills of rare beauty
crowned with trees that saw the rev.
olution and that in the fall are wear.
ing the raiment which belongs to the
kings of the forest.
On the boat going down there was
young German gentleman, who had
married an American wife. He was
much more interested in the beauty
OF the Potomac's banks and in the
history Of the country beyond the
banks and in the life history of
George Washington than was she.
The German asked his American wife
II George Washington was born at
Mount Vernon. She answered that
he was; which he wasn't, not by
many miles. He asked her manv
other questions. to each and every
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When q man is sick he expects the
rest of the family to drop everything
and listen to his creams.
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DOGS ON POLICE FORCE
Oak Park, chieago's Fashionable Sub
urb' Is Guarded by Two Canine
Thief Catchers.

Chicag0.-Oak Park, the fashionable
western suburb at Chicago. is guarded
by dog police. Daring robberies in
the village are responsible for the
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OF Course Not.

The end-seat hog is back again.
He gets the choicest seat:
cow. sausage made of end-seat hogs,
Would not be fit to eat.
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The Founder,

Some authorities say the founder
heat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-03-18

At Westtown, Chester County, Pa,
the Friends big school celebrated its
one hundredth anniversary recently
They have at the scnool a kind OF
diary, or log, which has been kept up
continuously for 100 years, and In
which the state Of the weather every
day during all that time has been noted
down. The log was consulted for an
auspicious date IL the matter of wealth
er for the anniversary, and it showed
that every June 10 has been clear since
the beginning Of the schools career
Then some said: Since it hasn't
ra.ned for 100 years on June 10 we had
better avoid that date, for it will be
sure to rain then this year" But 9TH
era said that reason and philosophy in
dicated June 10 to be day devoted.
from some unknown atmospheric caus.
es, 10 sunshine ana blue skies. The lat
teI set OF people carried the day. and
the school celebrated its anniversary
on June 10. But it rained 50 hard thar
the guests had to sit around III tents.