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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
True Missionary Shirt.

Speaking at q recent meeting of the
Colonial and Continental Church soci-
ETY., in London. the bishop Of North
Queensland said: Il spoke At Oxford
the other day, and asked for men to
help me in our great work. Eight of
the finest young graduates volunteered
to 60 back to the bush with me.
Then I searched for a leader. and
turned to Ireland, the home Of mis-
sionaries. I sent a telegram to Rev.
Z. H. Crozier. vicar of St. Georges,
Dublin. asking him If he would give up
his rich living, worth $500 a year net,
and come and be the leader of my
band Of recruits In the bush 1T ESQ a
year. The answer l received was:
Yes, the Lord being my help"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
SMILE AND BE GLAD
MUCH VIRTUE IS THERE IN THE
PLEASANT GRIN.
Too Many Of Us Cultivate Our Critical
Side Until Il Takes the Test Out
Of Everything-Try to
Enjoy Life.

II you want to get the worth Of the
bargain in life cultivate gladness. The
one who mopes doesn't enjoy herself
and surely no one enjoys her.
Anyone can be glad when things 60
her way; to be glad when the maid
breaks your best dinner set. and the
frOck on which you've broken yourself
turns out q fright shows q disposition
that can be counted ON to oil LIES
wheels.
There's q lot of gladness going. but
many Of US are blind to 1t. What we
want is to take life like q healthy child
and find enjoyment In simple things.
We can cultivate our critical side until
1t takes the zest from everything.
What II We haven't an overlooking
pocketbook, need we hang down the
corners Of our mouth when there is
health and the outdoors and love to
make for gladness?
Does it come easier to look on the
black side? Has the pose Of misfortune
become your natural state? Forget 1t
and take to grinning.
At first that grin may be as strained,
but most of your friends will think 1t
more lovely than your usual hangdog
expression. The brand improves with
practice.
Forced cheerfulness is not pleasing,
but 1t is better than chronic depres-
sion. Keep pumping out that oil of
gladness and by and by the dumps
will be fabricated.
Gladness isn't an effort to be glad;
it is just being glad. You cannot wor-
~ yourself into it; neither does it
come by simulation; it does come
from taking life easy and enjoying
things whether they were meant to be
enjoyed or not.
You sad one, try for a day to hunt
causes for gladness. Instead of sum-
ming up your woes and mourning over
the total, get in a receptive mood for
joys. You'll be surprised at the end of
the day to find how many have been
the occasions for smiling.
Does your head ache? Sample the
laugh cure. Are the children obstrep-
erous? Don't nope over your sorry lot.
but charm them with a smile. Does
the future seem a cOalblack wall? See
what kind Of wedge a day of cheer
full can make.
Gladness never comes with time to
think about your troubles. so get busy.
The full life is rarely the somber life.
Get grateful for your mercies; you
may think it takes a m1gnifying glass
to find them, but the eye is sharpened
by the looking.
II you have no other cause for glad
ness. II your friends are not what they
should be, il fortune frowns and things
generally seem rank" just be glad
you are alive!-St Louis GlObe-Dem0-
crat.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
THE PRESIDENTS ROUNDUP.

THE PRESIDENTS ROUNDUP.
In . splendid and admirable way
President Roosevelt is rounding up, 80
far Is possible, the primary policies Of
his administration. He has set in mo.
ton great things that are still
progressive, some of which will con.
tinue to progress, it ia hoped, through
out the life of the nation. And now
that he is about to retire from the
Presidency he is doing his utmost to
give these movements as much new i'm
petus as his influence can furnish.
The President has just submitted to
Congress . new and special report on
the Panama canal, together with .
message setting forth the present Sta.
tus of that great project. He has re-
ceived and transmitted the report of
his Farm Life commission, together
with one of the most important mes.
sages he has ever written. The first
meeting and report Of his National
Conservation commission will soon be
followed by the report ofthe Continen'
tai commission, composed of delegates
from Mexico, and Canada and the
United States. And to complete the
scope of his conservation purposes he
will call an international commission
to be held at The Hague, the informal
approval of which call he has already
received from the principal powers.
Each nation owes it to itself and
to civilization to safeguard its natural
resourceA Therefore, each nation, be-
cause of its obligations to civilization
and humanity in general, should be
ready to cooperate with other nations
in such international policies as may
be helpful to all without being injuri-
GUS to any. In such q meeting the
nations may learn much from one an
other. The United States will be an
especial beneficiary, tor it may learn
much more than it can hope to teach.
It is the richest and the most wasteful
of nations. 1t has much to learn from
those people who have had to conserve
their natural wealth.
Incidentally, though scarcely less
potentially, the good of the world
would be promoted by such confer
ence through the mere fact of meet
ing, comforting and cooperating; for
whatever brings nations into common
undertakings makes for international
tolerance, peace and security.-Kan-
sas City Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION,

Notice il hereby given that E. H. Chambers,
H. F j. HockeIberger and ". E. Harvey have
associated themselves together for the purpose
Of forming and becoming corporation under
the laws Of the state of Nebraska.
First Tho name of this corporation shall be
The Home Builders Company.
Second.-The principal place OF transacting
it, business shall be Columbus. Nebraska.
Third.-The nature Of tho business to be trans
acted By this corporation shall be TO buy. sell.
exchange, hold, plat, subdivide. improve, mort
gaze or lease real estate and to take hold. ssll,
assign, transfer or pledge any mortgage. contract
or other property acquired in the course Of
said business.
Fourth. The authorised capital stock Of said
Dollars, Forty Thousand Dollars of which must
be subscribed and paid mp before commencing
business. .
Fifth.IThe existence of this corporation shall
commencs on the oath day Of November, 1903.
and continue for period OF Ninety Nine years.
6ixth.lThe highest amount OF Indebtedness to
which this corporation shall subject itself shall
not exceed tWo-thirds Of it, paid mp capital
stock.
Seventh. This corporation shall be managed
b. board Of directors of not less than three nor
moro than five and the olicsas shall be Preai-
dent, Vice President, . Secretary and Treas
uree. The secretary and treasurer may b one
and The sane pe9e01.
b. +. ]. HOCKKNDKDGI1. Secretary.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24

For Whist endi So that I might see
its depths. I am . diver and I bring
back the pearl. Truth I speak, be-
cause I know. You shall hear me,
my Lords. I have felt. I have seen.
Believe me, most fortunate gentlemen,
suffering is not q mere word. Pow
erty-I grew up in it; Winter-I have
shivered in it; Famine-I have tasted
it; Contempt have endured it; the
Plague have had it; Shame
have drunk it. Ihesitated before per-
hitting myself to be led to this place.
But it seemed to me that the hidden
hand Of God urged me this way, and I
obeyed. I felt that it was necessary
for me to come among you. Why?
On account of my rags of yesterday.
It was in order to speak to the over
fed, that God had made me mingle
with the famished. o, have pity! O!
that fatal world to which you think
you belong, you do not know it; being
80 high, you are out of it. I will tell
you what it is. l have experience,
indeed. I have come from beneath
the pressure. I can tell you what
you weigh"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
OUR WEAKNESS AT SEA.

Frederick Palmer, who has been
with the big battleship feet during its
journey around the world, makes q
startling assertion in the last number
of Golfers. As the feet nears home,
he asserts that throughout the voyage
around the globe not as many
merchant vessels flying the American
flag have been seen by those on board
the fighting ships as there are vessels
in the feet. As the latter is made up
of sixteen big ships and a few smaller
ones, the seriousness of Mr.. Palmer's
declaration is very evident
It means that foreign ships have
supplied our feet with coal and that
vessels flying all flags except our own
have keep the American officers and
sailors supplied with the things that
they had to have from day to day.
"What is your navy for? asked a
man in a South American city after he
had marveled at the splendor and
equipment of our battleships, and
then, gazing over the broad bay, had
noticed the absence of merchant YES
seb carrying the emblem of the United
States.
And of what value, indeed, is the
big navy that We are building unless
We have with it those messengers of
peace and plenty that carry between
our ports and the ports Of the world
thenatural products and manufactures
Of many nations! Lincoln Star.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Have Use for Old PiIinq.

There has been secured by q New
York state pulp company an option on
100000 cords Of sunken pine piling
now lying submerged in the Rideau
river and lakes back of Kingston.
Ontario. Canada. The piling was sunk
about 80 years ago when the Rideau
river was q center Of commercial activ-
ity. The piling will be converted by
a chemical process into the finest
grades of stationery.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24

Where the Glove Tree Thrives.
There is no place in the world where
the Glove tree thrives as well as In the
islands of Zanzibar and Pemba- 1t is
the principal product Of the islands,
and, together with copra and the ivory
brought from the mainland, cloves
form the principal item Of export.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Charm Of the Atonizer.

MY aunt has the prettiest cat" said
the girl who had just come in. but it
was delicate. She used my cousin
Philips atOmizer on its throat The
cat had asthma. Finally she gave
1t away. The grocer took it miles in
the country. but it came back in a
ing to be let in. Philip said it came
back because it missed his atomizer."
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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
SENATOR BURKETT ON POS
TAI SAVINGS.

Commenting editorially on Senator
Burkett's speech on postal savings, the
Lincoln News says:
Senator Burkett's recent speech on
behalf of the postal savings bank bill
disclosed that he has a few colleagues
who need watching. When the sena.
tor first became a member of the upper
house he seemed, as was natural, to be
somewhat in awe of the men with
great names against whom he rubbed,
but closer acquaintance has opened
his eyes to the fact that there is good
deal of masquerading at Washington.
Here are some pointed quotations
from the senator's speech:
"In my opinion, Mr.. President, We
ought to enact this legislation without
much of delay. We ought not to
juggle with the confidence of the
American people, SO recently and 50
universally reposed in US as a party.
We ought not by procrastination, to
exasperate the American people with
the idea already too prevalent, let me
say, that there are influences more
potent and more controlling in legisla-
ton than the interests of the great
mass of the people.
"Whatever may be senators ideas
rs to the effect of this legislation upon
those within their own small circle of
friends, no senator can be blind to the
efficacy of it and the desirability of it
TO the untold thousands of Americans
without the domain of legislative in
fuence other than the ballot Of Amer
lean citizenship.
at took fifteen years of patient and
persistent endeavor to make some men
believe that it would neither wreck the
republic nor ruin the railroads for
Uncle Sam to take hand in the leg
itimate control of our great transpor-
tation companies; and yet one objec-
ton after another has melted away,
until today everybody wonders who it
was that objected. Within a week We
have seen in the public press the
address of one of the great railway
magnates of the country compliment
ing the congress upon the legislation
that it has enacted.
Il have seen congress, or part of
it, apprehensive before, and that is
Why have called attention to the
meatinspection law and the rate bill
in this connection. I have spoken as
have for the consolation of those
really honest but timid souls who
would rather offend the interests of all
the people and the common sense of
all the world than to offend their own
theoretical and shelf:worn interpreta.
ton of governmental function"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
a Man'S Birthday.

We do not know whence a man
comes nor whittier he goes; yet we
choose his birth or death day to cele.
brate his recurring century. We
should choose his day of achieve
ment.-London Saturday Review.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
A lono-Felt Want.

This. ladies, is the non-burslar-
hiding bed, the steel sides of which
preclude the possibility of there being
q man under the bed, yet can be un-
locked and collapsed for the purpose
Of sweeping, etc. 1t is especially in
en.-Kansas City Times.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Cows Happy End.

George. the four-year-old grandson
of an extremely pious and devout
grandfather, came rushing into the
house q few days ago in . state Of
wild excitement. Grandpa! Grandpa!"
he called. "Mr. Barton's COW is dead!
God called her home!"
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24

THE VOICE FROM THE DEPTHS.
In Victor Hugo's novel, "The Man
Who Laughs" Gwynplaine, stroll
ing mountebank, who had known all
his life only starvation and misery,
was suddenly discovered to be Baron
Clancharlie. He had been stolen in
his infancy, and the discovery of his
rank and his entrance into his estate
was the matter of q day. One day he
played to q mob in a booth, the next
he delivered a speech, as an hereditary
ruler in the House Of Lords. This
address, which is notable even for the
great Victor Hugo, is, in part, given
herewith:
my Lords, you are loftily placed.
1t is we'll. We must believe that God
has His reasons for this. You have
power, opulence, joy, the sun always
motionless at your zenith, unbounded
authority, undivided enjoyment, an
immense oblivion of all others. But
there is something beneath you. Above
you, too, perhaps. My Lords, I come
to cell you news. The human race
exists.
Il am he who comes from thedepths.
My Lords, you are great and rich.
That is perilous. You take advantage
of darkness. But take care, there is a
great power, dawn. Daybreak cannot
be conquered. It will come. It is
coming. The Irresistible ray of day.
light is within it. And who will him
der that sling from hurting the sun
into the skys The sun is Mans Right.
You-you are Privilege. You may
we'll be afraid. The real master of the
house is going to knock at the door.
Who is the father of Privilege?
Chance. And who is his son? Abuse.
Neither Chance nor Abuse are firm or
enduring. Both of them have an evil
morrow. I come to warn you. I
come to denounce your own happiness
to you. It is made of the misery of
others. You have all, and this all is
composed of the nothing of the others.
My Lords, I am the hopeless advocate,
and I plead . lost cause. God him.
self will gain this cause. I am moth
ing but q voice. The human race is q
mouth, and I am its cry. You shall
hear me. I come to open before you,
Peers of England, the great assizes of
the people; that sovereign, who is the
victim; that convict, who is the Judge.
I bend beneath the weight of what I
have to say. Where shall 1 beginf I
do not know. I have gathered my
enormous, scattered brief in the vast
diffusion of suffering. What am I to
do with it now? It overwhelms me
and l cast it pell NELL before you.
Did l foresee thisf No. You are
astonished, 80 am I. Yesterday vas
a mountebank, today 1 am q lord.
Mysterious play. Of whom? Of the
Unknown. Let Us all tremble. NY
Lords, al the azure is on your side.
Of all the immense universe you sec
only the holiday; learn that there are
shadows. I Was cast into the abyss.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Had True SAVIOR Of the Sea.

Had True SAVIOR Of the Sea.
At . service Of thanksgiving for the
harvest Of the sea at Port Isaac
church. Cornwall. the walls from end
to end were draped with fishing nets.
While lobster pots and packing bar
relD occupied the window spaces.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
0ailv 1houoht.

Whatever our place allotted to us by
Providence that for us is the post of
honor and duty God estimates US not by
the position we are in, but by the
way In which We fill it-Tryon Ed
wards.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Only Needed a Start.

One night little Margaret, on kneel-
ing by her mamma to say her prayers.
finished: Now l lay me-" and for
got. Mamma" she said. you just
start me and then / can go .a-whiz-
ZinS"-DelineatOr.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Not a Bark.

Then you don't have any dog-watch
on this craft?" inquired the anxious
passenger, according to q writer in
Life. mo. This is a catbOat."
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
virain Land In Cuba.

Virgin Land In Cuba.
In the mountain regions In Cuba
there are many ridges and valleys Of
extremely fertile land, nearly all un-
touched. and existing practically as
they did before the time Of the Span
iards.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
South Africans Fond of Oatn

South Africans are distinctly an oat-
mealeatins people, over 100000 worth
of this American breakfast food be-
ing imported annually into South Az
RIGA.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24
Marks End of HONEYMOON.

The honeymoon Is mostly over
when the couple quit buying their
meals in hotels and the bride tries
to provide them at home-New York
Press.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-24

bulk of the work he did himself. He
was not Ashamed Of rough work on:the
farm, and, in fact, he liked it. Grant
turned farmer after he left the army,
not because he couldn't do anything
else, but because he wanted to be .
farmer. That he later left the farm
and became . store-keeper was not due
to any vacillation of character, but to
i'll health, and q clear-sighted endeavor
to better his finances.
There was . good deal of woodland
on the Grants farm when they settled
on it and this he cleared away, corded
and sold in st. Louis to the wood
yards.
At this point I must say q word con.
corning the general belief in the
Grants object poverty at this time.
The Grants were not poor. They
were not rich, but they were in com.
Portable circumstance. with plenty to
eat and plenty to wear and no depend
ence upon their relatives or any others.
There is the famous story of Captain
Grant living in such poverty that he
had to haul his poor little faggots of
wood through the city with an OK
team and blow on his ungloved fin
gers to keep them from freezing. Mr..
Winston Churchill, the novelist, has
done Captain Grant the honor of de-
picting him as q sort of run.down-at-
the-heels countryman of the ne'er.do-
we'll and ill.luck class, as one whose
wood peddling was barely able to keep
his meager clothes upon his meager
body. 1t is very interesting picture
but it is not true. He never peddled
wood about the streets.
The truth is that he and his negroes
cut the wood and he often sent one of
them to the city with load to sell to
the families of a Mr.. Blow and Mr..
Bernard. Mr.. Bernard was the broth
er of my brother Johns wife. During
the Christmas holidays one winter the
negro who generally drove the team
for Captain Grant was i'll and there
was no one to send in his place. The
Captains St. Louis friends sent him
word that they were out Of wood, and,
accordingly, he hiscbed up his team Of
white horses to his big wagon, loaded
on the wood, and hauled it to the city
himself He probably hauled several
loads in this way. I do not know how
many. Any other man with the same
temper Of spirit and the same lack Of
false pride would have done the same.
On one of these trips, as the captain
was driving along seated on his load of
wood, he suddenly came face to face
with General Harvey and his staff:
The general, resplendent in q new
uniform and gold trimmings, eyed the
figure Of the farmer on the wagon
with astonishment. Then he drew in
his horse, Grant stopped his team, and
the pair smiled into each others eyes.
"Why, Grant, what in blazes are
you doing?" exclaimed Harvey.
The captain, sitting comfortably
atop his load of wood with his az and
his whipstock at his side, shifted one
muddy boot across the other and
drawled:
"Well, general, I am hauling wood. :"
The thing was so obvious and Grant
so naive that General Harvey and his
staff reared with laughter. They
shook his hand and joked with him
and finally carried him off to dine
with them at the Planters hotel. That
is the true story of Captain Rundown
at-the-heels Grant peddling wood for a
pittance in the streets.-Emma Dent
Casey in the February Circle.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-09-25

Does Bryan w!sh to have the dis
tinguished honor Of representing Tex
as In the United States Senate? Hai
he bought his little farm in the south
western portion Of the State that b,
may become identified with the inter
ests Of the State and establish hi
residence here? What will his mex
move be? These are the questions tina
aie agitating some OF the high-up pol
lticians In Texas and accounts for tn
unusual activity called forth by tn
Bryan structures upon Bailey's tarif
record.
Bryan Is credited with considers
bic political foresight and that he 1
seemingly entering his wedss arount
the space occapied by Joe Bailey ha
caused more ctnsternation than an:
Political event for many years past
The promptness OF the Bailey repl.
and the almost petite language IL
which II II coucheid leads one 10 be
lieve that the Junior Senator from
Texas realizes that he has a foe o.
calibre 10 deal with and that nothinf
but high-clas con, orsation goes. Not
one threat was uttered In that Dallas
Auditorium Saturday speech which IL
mother remarkable feat for the Jun
or Senator.
Bryan Is big foe; a mighty antago
list One who Is a veteran OF man,
national campaigns; Is said to be as
wise as a rerpent and rs gentle as 9
love. and Il woull seem that Bailey
had annexed the gentle as a dove end
4 the game at the start. n the bis
light comes off. as many believe II
viii. Texas will have another attrac
ion that viii hold In center stage with
III the limelights working.
What scrap: what a combat:
what struggle; what a mighty up
heaval Of public questions and a rend
Ing OF planks and platforms; a Il.
lantic battle that would cause the m
ton to hold It's breath.
But wouldn't politics-loving Texas
lave one long grand barbecue while
Z was on. Hurry. gents. get busy:
we're all waiting.-san Antonio Light.