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The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
REVEALS MAJESTY OF NATURE
Grandeur in the Thunderstorm as It
Is Seen by the Owelier in
the Country.

The thunderstorm now has its dag.
1t rumbles across the sunny face Of
the midsummer heavens. Sometimes
it lowers the temperature and fills
the air with freshness. Almost !nvar:-
ably it pricks the nerves of your lit
tie sister and maiden aunt. 1t Spiin-
tiers the city flag pole, it demOlishes
the village steeple, it burns the farm
er's barn. But all this does not pre-
vent the thunderstorm from being the
most awe-inspiring phenomenon which
nature ordinarily shows to man. The
city dweller, scurrying impotently
through canyons of masonry, does nos
have more than hint of the true
grandeur. One should be upon hill
top or on a broad lake to realize the
OmnipOtence of the storm. The air is
sultry. Great white ''thunder-heads'
pinnacle the heaven. Dark clouds bulk
upon the horizon. These are laced
with lightning. The dwarfs can be
heard at their bowling on distant
mountain peaks. The sun is overcast.
The storm rushes onward. A glover
ing copper tinge marks it's center. A
hush brOOds over the lakes unrippled
waters. Suddenly comes blast of
wind as if from the putting cheeks of
a giant Then like marching white
waterfall rain. 1t pelts upon the
lake until the drops seem TO rebound.
The thunder has ceased its rumblinS.
Now it comes with the lightning in a
treble rip like the tearing of sail.
Thus the storm mounts to its cres-
cendO, Oeeadies, wanes, dwindles and
fades-eamping away across the coun-
try-sid0. The sun creeps out. The
heavens shine with fresher blue. The
universe is purified. If all this be not
majesty, there is none in nature.-COl-
lier's.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
STORY FAILED TO MAKE HIT
Old Mans Lame "Yarn" Greeted with
Laughter Instead of Admiration
He Expected.

"That was a lame and impotent con-
clusion," said Senator Aldrich of an
opponents tariff speech. 1T failed of
effect like old Elisha Grey's adven-
ture story.
AT package party one winter
night in the village the guests re-
called one another with weird and
frightening adventures that had be-
fallen them in lonely churchyards.
They told of meetings with highway
men in deserted lanes, encounters in
lonely houses with desperate bur-
glars, and so forth.
'vain old Elisha Grey, after an hour
or SO Of this, got jealous of the in
terest and awe that the adventure
stories of the men about him stirred
up. So. interrupting burglar yarn
quite rudely, he piped in his high
Quaver:
81 amt never been molested, but
wunst, ladies an gents. l was hurry
in to hum from the gin'ral store at
the time. It was late at night-clOse
on ten, l guess-an' jest as l was
passin' the doctor's-it was dark an
lonesome, tell ye-why, a soft-spoken
young Teller steps up an asts me fur a
match. So up with my fist an land
ed him a good 'un on the jaw, an
liked out O. that just as fast as my
legs 'ud carry me-
"Old Elisha, looking around for a
display of shuddering admiration, was
very much disguised, indeed, to find
the end Of his story greeted with q
roar of laughter"
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

John Evans left here Wednesday for
Denver, where he expects to take claim
If suited with that country.
Clyde Bruce left Tuesday for Oska-
lo0ss, Iowa. where he goes to attend
the Central holiness University.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Fred Truelove of Hart
ford Kan, returned to their home We'd
nesdsy after q visit with relatives here.
Anna Smith is putting up fine resi-
dence. Her brother George is doing the
work with the help of Will and Bert.
Chss. Potter bought the farm that he
is living on, known as the old Lutte Je-
we'll farm. This is good place and has
some fine meadow on il.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Talbitzer and Mrs.
A. NJ. Work left here Mondcy. Mrs.
Talbitzsr going to Valley to visit her
daughter Mrs. Sax Percy and Mrs.
Work and Mr.. Talbitzer went to Omaha
to attend Presbyterary. Rev. Wedge left
the same day for Lincoln to attend the
Presbyterary at that place.
Mrs. Ruth Kenyon, rurrl carrier No. 2
from Monroe, leaves Saturday for Roch-
ester, N. Y. where she will attend the
national convention of rural letters,
which is held in that city next week.
Mrs. Kenyon has attended all the nation
al conventions of the association since its
organization, this being the seventh
meeting.
Two of our farmers were discussing
the winter wheat question the other day
and one of them stated that this crop
could be raised on the same land year
after year, provided the blowing WAS
done at the proper time in the fall. He
said that turning under the heavy grow
tn of green weeds along in the latter part
of August was beneficial to the lands
as good fertilizer and his experience in
doing this was that the land produced a
better crop of winter wheat each year
and he had used this method for quite a
lumber Of years.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
OsCEOL.A.
OSCl
from the Record.

from the Record.
The county commissioners were in
session Tuesday at which time the bids
of various bridge builders were op med
and it was found that the Nebraska Con-
struction Oompsny's bid made by their
representative, Glen Smith was the low
est and the contract was awarded to
them. One would have supposed from
the number OF bridge representatives
that crowded into town that day, that
there was some real composition for
work, but such was not the case. The
Duncan bridge simply fell in the terri
tory presided over by Mr.. Smith in the
bridge building business and the result
is that Mr.. Smith gets the work. The
cost Of this bridge will be about the
Sll.0O0 and of that sum. the people over
on the Island have raised about $1,000.
They have done exceedingly we'll and are
certainly entitled to bridge.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
TOLD BY THE FAKlR
DIRE POVERTY COMPELLED HIM
TO BECOME A PROPHET.
Now He Laughs at the GuiIibility %
the Dupes on Whom He Fat.
tened as Teller Of For.
tunes.

never guessed that l was a seer
until the spur of poverty drove me
into prophecy. Then | happened to
light upon the advertisement of a
wholesale dealer in prophesying ma
chimes at an address in Brooklyn
of all places!-and he sold me an
outfit for a low price. Advice he gave
free.
Look wise." he said. Hand 'em a
line of hot talk full O. big words
They'll fall easy"
The machine has been seen by mil.
lions of Americans and trusted implic-
lily by hundreds of thousands. 1t is
to be found at nearly every seaside
and mountain resort in the country
What met the eye of the victim was
a swarthy, hollow. bodyless head of
papier-mache, mounted on a tall tube
that sprang from a PEDESTAL. The
head was wrapped in q turban and the
dreamy eyes peered afar into the flu
ture over a scrubby plantation of
black Oriental beard. That head was
my familiar, and I was Abdul Azis
Khan. Had /, too, been of swathy
and Oriental appearance, that fact
might have been some palliati0n of
the folly Of the gables, who hocked
around the cheat. But, far from sug
costing the mysterious east, I am a
blonde, blue-eyed. thin, nervous Amer
lean, impossible to be mistaken for q
oitS1on ~ onv 1onN ooOt ~ Nono Tod
The stupidity. of the dupes was gross
and objectionable.
Madam and I collected the nickels
and distributed the blank sheets Of
paper among the dupes, asking each
jolterhead whether he or she preferred
an answer in English, French, Ger.
man, Spanish or Italian, and giving
each one a sheet bearing the prophecy
already written in the language chos
en-. Ny loyal partner never permit
ted herself the luxury of a smile at
the gross credulity all around Us
Each dupe wrote his initials with
lead pencil on a proper blank sheet
of paper handed to him and when 50
or 40 sheets had been collected I put
them in q solid block in the metal
box and numbled tumble of polysyl
tables at the crowd while the invisible
words were stewing into visibility.
This done, I tapped the box with
the wand most majestically. opened
it to the accompaniment of an mean
tation and distributed the sheets each
to its rightful victim. Shall l ever
forget those scenes. always alike, the
quick gasps of surprise, the CLEAN Of
staring eyes, the Fastening of to a
remote corner, there to read in OBJ
scruity the oracular hOdgepodge l had
cooked for them. Sometimes l could
have sworn that l heard the PAPER
mache laughing. Poor old Alb! He
did the work and got none Of the
nickels.-Harper's Weekly.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

raised tho quarantine and viii begin
school Monday.
JohaL. Petesoen b anothse individual
who IL undergoing rspairs - the result
Of IN accident received Tuesday. While
working around The gefrioseator ono Of
the hinges Of tho door broke. or WAS
broken, letting the door tall on his hssd,
cutting cash that required . large
piece Of court plaster to close it up.
The school board met last Monday evs-
ming and considered the bids for the erec-
ton of . new school house. There we're
three bids in amounts - follows: $l4,-
1880, SIS, 1850 and 81, $4,000. With
only about S12y 600 for building and the
only thing the board could do was to re-
ject al bids and resdvertise. Blu. there
is no prospect for having Q baildine such
a. the plans and specifications call for
and such O. the citiseus OF the district
want and expect to have, built by any
contractor for the amount the district
has available for building fund. The
board has spent much time in trying to
devise plans for such . building
as would supply the needs Of the
district for q time, but after leaving
out the heating plant they are still over
$1,000 short. 1t would be folly to re-
duce the size OF the building or use cheap
material for then after the structure was
completed we would be in but little bet
ter condition than We are today. The
only way We zee to do in this case is to
do a. an individual would who had plan
ned for just the kind Of q building he
wanted and needed and found that the
cost was going to exceed his first esti-
mate-raise sufficient amount of money
to complete the work in . satisfactory
manner.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
PLATTE CENTER

From the sigma.
Miss Thresa Coffee started last Sun
day for a visit to the Seattle exposition.
She will return by the way OF Canada.
Fred Ripp, of Cornlea, spent Tuesday
afternoon here. He tells US that he has
disposed of his restaurant and is running
a dray.
Mrs. Tom Daily and Mrs. william
Daily came down from their home at
Burton, Boyd county, several days ago
for visit with their cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Lohoff, returning to their
home Thursday.
VIM. Schelp received a visit last week
from his brother-in-law. VIM. Smith,
and his nephew, John Smith, and wife,
from Montgomery county, Illinois. They
departed for home Monday.
Dan Maher, a former Platte Center
boy. but for the past few years resident
of Corrol. Wayne county, is candidate
for sheriff of that county, on the demo-
cratic ticket.
Joe Frevert has been greatly delayed
by continued wet weather with his work
in laying the extensions to the water
main. However, unless something I'M
foreseen happens he will complete the
Job this week.
Ed. Insienski came down Norfolk
Tuesday and returned Wednesday morn
ing. The ball team with which he is
playing has won all but two of the last
fourteen games they had played. They
have games listed for the balance of the
month.
Miss Margaret Evans, who manipulst-
ed the silent messengers Of thought"
and did other necessary work on The
Signal while the regular incumbent was
away for four weeks for the benefit OF
his delicate complexion, returned to her
home at Missouri Valley. Iowa, Satur-
day. the "other fellow" having followed
wagon track in Thursday evening.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
GENOA.
From the Times.

From the Times.
During the past few days two deaths
have occurred in Fullerton from spinal
meningitis. As a precautionary mes-
sure, to prevent the disease from spread
ing. the board of health has closed the
public schools for one week. Spinal
meningitis has also appeared in Prairie
Greek township. A case is reported in
the Adams family and their home is un-
der quarantine.
VIM. Pollard has purchased of A.
Bratt a quarter section adjoining his
farm northeast of Genoa in Platte county
Ten thousand dollars was the price
paid.
Mrs Mort Irish. who was summoned
to Boulder. Col, last week on account
Of the dangerous illness of her mother,
writes that since her arrival there her
father, d. Fish, has been taken sick and
is in critical condition. Mr.. and MIS-.
Fish were formerly residents of Genoa,
bu: left here three years ago to make
their home with daughter in Boulder.
Since the death of Peter Storm last
April, G.. A. Mollin has been making ar
effort to secure pension for the widow
but the pension department was very
exacting and demanded proof of the
death of the first Mrs. Storm before con-
sidering the application of the second
wife. Mr.. Storm came west thirty-ninc
years ago and settled in Columbus. He
was widower at the time. He said
little of his past, and when Mr.. Mollin
undertook to obtain information as to
his former place Of residence in Wiscon-
sin he was unable. until recently, to OBJ
tain single clue. He finally wrote to
the postmaster Of q Wisconsin town
where it was stated Mr. Storm had
once made his home. The postmaster
turned the letter over to an aged priest,
who wrote Mr.. Mollin that Mr.. Storm
had been q resident of bis town, but
that after the war the family moved to
another town in the same state. where
Mn. Storm died in 1868, and that one
Of the sons was working for brewery
firm in Milwaukee. Mr.. Mollin soon got
in touch with the brewery firm and To-
Gated the son, and proof Of the death of
Mr.. Storms first wife will soon be filed
with the pension department.. and the
second wife will doubtless be placed on
the pension rolls. 1t appears from
letters received from the daughter of
the 4ilWakee son that Mr.. Storm had
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
HUMPHREY.

From the Democrat
Art Wolfe brought his family up from
Columbus Friday and they expected to
move into the Frank Maier cottage as
soon as it is fixed up.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pfeifer went down
to Columbus Monday to see Mn. r.
dinner who is recovering from an opera
tian at St. Msry,s hospital.
Barney Pelle of this place has been
appointed by Gov. Shalledberger as one
of the delegates to represent Platte coun-
ty. at the National Dry Farming con-
gres. 20 be held at Raleigh, N. c., on
November 4.
A recent ruling of the post Office de-
partment at Washington will be of in
terest to patrons OF rural routes. Fol-
lowing is the ruling: Carriers are not
required to deliver mail at residences
where vicious dogs are permitted to run
at large. Persons keeping such dogs
must call at the post Office for their
mail.
Matt Ramaekers, Henry Schscher and
Mike Ducey of Lindsay were in town
Saturday on their way to Columbus to
attend to business. Mr.. Ramaekers has
recently returned from Milwaukee where
he took treatment for rheumatism for
several weeks with the result he is en-
tirely free of the disease, and the chances
are that it will not return, at least Mr..
Ramaekers is in hopes it will not.
If you are kicker and see the shad-
ows of failure in everything that 10 pro-
posed to help the town. for heavens sake
go into some secluded canyon and kick
your shadow on the clay bank, and give
the men who are working to build up
the town q chance One long-fsced,
hollow-eyed, whining, carping. chronic
kicker can do more to keep away business
and capital from q town than all the
drouths, short crops, chinch bugs, cy-
clones and billiards combined.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
SERVING His Sentence.

II amt seen de boss man for de
longest. Whar you reckon he gone
ter?" 81 thought you knowed whar
he gone. He went roun' de country
talkin' an talkin' ever day an Sun
day, an de fus thing he knowed dey
give him so days in de legislator an
he won't be back 'twel he -sarves his
time Out"-Atlanta Constitution.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
SILVER CREEK,

From the Sand
Mrs. Harriet Hobart and daughter Ivy
Mrs. Geo. Merrill and Ed Ruhner, &C.
by the lstter's mother and
sister, visited Columbus Sunday last.
August A. Csrmen of Polk county and
Mollie A. kretzbmer of Pleasanton Were
married at Columbus Wednesday last.
1t was q surprise to the boys around
here. Marion Rowley says that Gus
came to him to have his gun fixed few
bays ago, but he thought that Gus was
going hunting after different kind of
game than q wife.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
Praises American Woman.

Alfred East says that American
women, like American machines, need
but little man power. The American
woman, he says. is the most chum-
mable woman in the world, therefore
she is the most charming. Our excel
lent educational system, he thinks, is
responsible for the fact that American
women are such good fellows"
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
BELLwOOD.

From the Gazette.
Mrs. W. d. Fink, wife of the Union
Pacific agent at Princeton, died Sunday
morning last after an illness of fifteen
years. She was sixty-one years old and
had large acquaintance in this vicinity
She is survived by husband and six
children. The funeral was held from
the Congregational church Tuesday
afternoon. Rev. Mr.. Brooks of Madison
Neb.. took charge of the services. Mrs.
Clarence Smith, is a daughter of said
deceased and was at her bedside at time
of death.
Mr.. ans Mrs. Herman Greening and
four small children, left Columbus Mon
day by covered wagon for Oklahoma,
where they were going to capture some
government land. They reached Bell
wood about dark and pitched their tent
for the night under the trees near Jim
Roberts ranch. During the night, or
about 1 a. m. next morning. Mrs.
Greecing became very Ill with pneumon-
ia DR.. Smith was summoned. when he
had his patient taken to the Bellwood
House. All day Tuesday ami Wednes-
day she lay in a critical condition, but
the doctor remained by her bedside al
most increasingly until Thursday morn
ing, when q change for the better came
and now hope Of her recovery is much
brighter. A nurse from David City also
waited on her, assisted by Mrs. Green.
ing's mother. Mrs. Luken of Fremont.
Her husband now says he will return to
Columbus as soon is his wife is able,
where he has lived for seven years.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
From the Leader.

From the Leader.
A series of protractsd meetings will
be held at the Truman school house east
of Genoa beginning next Sunday morning
at 1890. Meetings will be held every
evening thereafter for an indifinite time.
Services will be conducted by the Rev.
J. L. Headbloom OF Stromsber.
Fred Larson and Miss Pauline Kshl.
berg of the Looking Glass valley took
in the state fair last week. Preparatory
to the trip they first interviewed Judge
Ratterman at Columbus from whose
office they issued prepared to meander
down LIES highway together hand in
hand, and the Leader joins their many
friends in extending congratulations
and best wishes that their pathway may
be strewn with roses, with no clouds to
darken the sunlight Of their happiness.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

Infatuated sportsman (showing bull
let-punctured hat)-You manslaugh
tering young imbecile! Do you ses
what you've done?
my dear chap. it's my hat you've
been sporting all day, and IL I don't
mind I don't see why you should
Life.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

not been in communication with his
children for many years. The grand
daughter wanted to know al The intof-
nation she could obtain about her
grand fsther-his age. how much b
weighed, how he looked. and asked that
q photograph, il one vas in existence, be
sent to her address. The second wife
had . tin-type Of Nh. Storm taken in
1861 in his soldier uniform and holding
an American flag in his hand. The
picture has been sent to the grand
daughter.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
Evidently Some Time Had ELAPSED

Evidently Some Time Had Elapsed.
There is in London school for
mothers. One poor woman was dis
solved in tears when he baby was un.
dressed at the hospital and its wasted
limbs revealed. She ingeniously ex-
planned her grief by saying that 1t
was a beautiful child last time It was
addressed"
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
MONROE.
From the Republican.

From the Republican.
Mrs. Frank Van Allen il in the hospi-
tai at Omaha, taking treatment for
dropsy, and her friends fear that her all
ment is incurable.
Frank Lamb captured two runaway
Indians Monday, and took them to
Monroe and received ton dollars for hin
trouble.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
The Flea.

Oh, there's nothing quite 90 madden.
ing a. pesky, crawling flea, when the
little cuss is biting in q spot you can
not see! Nothing which drives man
or woman to the point where they
will swear. like this hopping. frisky
critter. when he's out upon . tear!-
Los Angeles Express.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

Where the Work Came In.
Mrs. Bacon-"I understand your
husband Is at work on q new poem!'
Mrs. Egbert-"He II. He's trying to
get some magazine to accept it."
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

Deception.
Il Is vain to find fault with those
arts of deceiving wherein men find
pleasure to be deceived.-JohnL Locke
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
SHELBY.

Shelby has been very fortunate during
the epidemic OF spinal meningitis, hav-
ing had but one light case, which has
recovered. The board OF health has
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
No Chance.

Il think it's wrong for 4 married
man to gamble"
Its worse than wrong. It's idiotic.
His wife gives him ITS II he loses and
snnascates the proceeds II he WinS.s
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
Her Company.

Don't judge woman by the COM
illustrated Bits.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

"Originality is fine thing" says the
Philosopher of Folly. 'even if you
have to steal It,"
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22

All Matter Of Comparison.
In blind mans land a one-eyed man
is q celebrity.-Baltimore Sun.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
WEST EOCND.
EAST BOUND.
BRANCHES.
NORFOLK.
Daily except Sunday

NOTE:
Nos. I, 2, and are extra fare trains.
Nos. 4. 5, Is and IA are local passeneseD.
Nos. 50 and 50 are local freiGhts.
Noe. and l6 are mail trains only.
No. IA due in Omaha AS p. m.
No. 9 due in Omaha SO p. N.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-22
WHY NOT TRY
THE PACIFIC HOTEL
COLUMBUS, NE8.

The big brick hotel one and one
half blocks south Of west depot cross
ing. % rooms at 25c; % rooms at SIC;
meals, 25c.
HARRY MUSSElMAn, ProDioto
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-08-05
Contra Ia esclaYitud

Ell arzobispo de C%antorbery, despues
oe celebrar una conferencia con los je-
fes de todos los INK de la Iglesia an
.glicana, ha publicado una energica pro-
Tesla contra Ell actual estado de cosas sn
ell Congo, calificando ell sistema de es-
clavitud, ~tirania, crueldad y violencia.
Los signatarios de esa protesta dicen
que la situaci0n es ra,isima y atcrtA
a la reputation y a la dignidad de In
glaterra ante las demas naciones, porque
la Gran Bretana es la responsible de ha-
Der accedido a la adquisici6n de terrific
rios ior Relgica.
Ahaden que ha llegado la bora de que
Inglaterra intervenga, o 8 sin ell apo
70 de los Estados Unidos y de las demas
naciones interesadas, en- poner fin a tan
terrible sistema de esclavitud.