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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

the moral and intellectual culture of their children. Parents, of course. re- tort by blaming teachers all along the line; but as they do not appear to count for much in most modern set schemes of education, maybe their strictures need not be considered The striking feature of the sequence is that each grade, from she ending to the be- ginning of chool life. inclines to charge on the next previous a good share Of its own ill-success- A freshman class is discovered to be weak in spelling, uncertain in history. vague in litera- ture. and forthwith the high school is indicted for inefficiency: the high school boy begins with haziness about the past and with apprehension about the future, and the grammar school is scored for inability. Persons who have no children to go through the machine may look on in mild wonder: but per- sons who have children are not blame able for being scared. Can it be that they are faulty for not bringing into the world babies already fitted to en- ter the high school or the grammar school? Or, for that matter, why not have the youngsters born all ready for the sophomore year? Life is short; the time schedules of education are long. The world cannot stop for kindergar- tens and primaries and secondaries, much less for putting time into them. Training. culture, development-oh. yes. certainly, they answered. well for the days of the stage coach; to-day. we must get there. and get there quick, and, moreover, in our grab for an edu- cation, we must pick up and carry along more baggage than ever. So, at every point, one result is that the teacher is saying that the guide next preceding neither packed the baggage well nor packed the whole of it.-Har- per's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
4 GROWING BARN.

Oklahoma is a great place for grow ing things. They raise barns in other parts of the Union, but, so far as we know, Oklahoma is the only place where they grow barns. It is related that an Oklahoma farmer a few years ago built small barn, and in its con- struction used green willow posts at the corners and along the sides. For some time nothing unusual was noticed, but after year he saw that where he had laid the floor near the ground it was three feet above the soil. He discover ed that the willow posts instead of be- ing dead were alive, had taken root and were growing. In their upward move ment they had carried the barn along. Last spring the barn was on stilts nine feet high, and he put in new floor and surrounded the posts with siding, there by making two-story affair. There is now a space of seven inches between the new floor and the ground, and the owner expects to have three-story ! barn in the course of time.
 Those who don't believe this yarn can see the barn if they will go to Oklaho- ma. Doubtless the barn n-growing in- dustry will make rapid progress in Oklahoma, and it may spread to other places where the soil Is fertile and the I imagination lively.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
ARE OUR SCHOOLS INADEQUATE?
The Quarrel of the Different Grades
 With Each Otther.

The Quarrel of the Different Grades
 With Each Otther.
 Various college residents and profess sors have at various times informed the people, and especially ambitious parents, of the inadequacy of the pre- paratory schools, and especially the public high schools, for the task of preparing boys and girls to enter cal lege. So much has been said of the weakness of these schools in this re- gard that in some imperfectly informed quarters the suspicion has been exci- ted that they are failures in every re- spect, and scarcely worth their main tenance. It is interesting, and may be profitable, therefore, to note an exam pie of disposition to pass the blame farther down the line to the schools be- low the high school. In a New Eng land city, where money is expended lavishly upon the whole public school system, and where presumably cor respondingly high condition of efficien- cy has been reached, attention has been recently directed to suggestive result of an examination of the pupils who enteretd the high school in September last. Not one of them reached an av- craze of ninety per cent, while most were considerably lower, and a sur- prisingy large number far below Six members of the class were sent back to the grammar grades as being entirely unfit for the high school, and twenty or thereabouts were suspended because they stood below fifty per cent, with the warning that they must exhibit ad- equate reason for reinstatement before they can return. Requirements are not very strict, either, only seventy per cent. being exacted to insure advance ment When an explanation of this poor showing is sought, superintendent and principal talk for the public about radical changes in methods making difficulties for new pupils but depart ment teacher to whose care these pu- pills are committed, says bluntly, Not one of them comes up to the high school from the grammar school ready to do the work" and inquiry among high school teachers discloses such a judgment to be prevalent.
 Ine COlleSe pfeSlueIltS charge tHe high schools with unsatisfactory prep aration; and high school teachers say the grammar school graduates are not fitted to do the high school work; the grammar school teachers are critical of the primary school products; more than half the primary teachers pick flaws in kindergarten methods and re- suits; and kindergartners invariably sigh over the incapacity of parents for
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
SUDDEN.

The visitor--How is the baby? Trained nurse-First rate. He is get ting so now I can occasionally leave him with his nlother.-Harper's Bazaar
 Whats the latest thing out in \ shoes?" asked one woman of another at the club
 My husband,' was the prompt reply. Chicago Record Herald.
 "If Jack Nospud should ask you to marry him." simpered Maudie, calling up blush, what would you do?"
 What have always done," said Ma bel. Send him to you."-Chicago Tri- | bune.
 You say his honesty surprised you?" Yes" answered Senator Sorghum, when overbid the opposition for his vote he went to the trouble of giving the other fellow his money back. Wash | ington Star.
 You don't mean to tell me he's pu- gilist?"
 Not at all I said he was a light weight boxer'" 'Well?"
 Well, he's 8 packer of strawberries !" Philadelphia Press. Aunt Grace-I suppose, Jimmy, you've quite made up your mind what you are going to be when you are a man?
 Jimmy-Yes, Auntie Grace. When I'm man I'll be either (with great deter mination) a lion tanner or tram con- | ductori-Puneh
 Madam" said the conductor to the plain and somewhat elderly woman standing up in the street car, "why don't you ask one of these men to give you his seat?''
 Because" she answered, grimly sar- castle, "I haven't the face to do it. ''- 1 Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each h. sertion. Five Cents a Word for full week lseyen timesl.
 Display advertisements. per Inch, one in, serrion, S1.20: each subsequent insertion, @O cents; one week, S3.20; one month, $10; one year. $40.
 Culinary Notices. In prose or verse, 10 cents zs. line. Notices of Births, Marrl" ages, 1e6 Fps. and Funeral. 50 cents each. Local Aa.stes, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly sgyertisers are limited to theie own Immediate business ta'l matter to be unOojetcionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
HEAVENLY HARMONY.

Democratic harmony increases. By and by it will be so thick that it can be cut with 0 knife, and the indica- tions are that there will be knives used to cut it with. It has just been made tolerably clear that the Bryanites can't be forced or persuaded to support Cleveland and now the question is, what will the Clevelandites do If their man is not nominated? They are not quite as definite yet in their announce ments as the Bryanites are, but they are making progress. For instance, the Brooklyn Eagle thus deposes: If Bryan be again nominated, or if any man who has fervently supported Bryan be nominated he will have to be examined very carefully before the Cleveland people can support him. And any platform which revives bimetal- lism, nullification, free riot, mob law and the administration of an emetic to hell, with the e1ected resultant as concrete Democracy, will be over whelmingly opposed and defeated no matter who be nominated. That which organized Democracy in national af- fairs signified in 1896 and in 1900 must be abandoned by Democracy, or De- mocracy will be beaten again, no mat ter who the nominee may be. It need not be jumped on, it need not be de- nounced. But it must not be revived or reiterated or apologized for, or in any way revitalized. A re-Cleveland- ized Democracy must be the result of the next Democratic national conven- ton, no matter who the nominee may be, and the platform must express that fact, which the candidates for president and vice president must also adequately impersonate
 This is strong language, and there is probably stronger language strug- gling for utterance. It will doubtless get itself uttered as time goes on and the harmony thickens.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

The German settlers in Argentina and Brazil are forming mutual protection societies which, they say, are strictly non-political and intended simply to act as shield against the ignorance and rapacity of local authorities. They in- vite the Swiss and Scandinavian set tiers to join.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
THE CATHODE RAY LIKE A MAUI
 SER BULLET.

THE CATHODE RAY LIKE A MAUI
 SER BULLET.
 The nature of the Becquerel rays themselves is matter of deep interest to physicists, and brief description is necessary. Their most remarkable property is that they are deviated out of the straight lines in which they travel by magnet, and this behavior is like that of the cathode ray which Sir William Crookes obtained from his vacuum tubes nearly thirty years ago. That is, the rays consist. according to the now accepted explanation, of swarms of minute particles of matter travelling in straight lines from their source with velocity approaching that of light, and each particle carries
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

Mir. c. Oliver Iselin spoke well when he said, in answer to an inquiry re- garding the speed of his new sloop Re liance: 'tNo one can tell anything about the relative speed of the cup yachts un- til they meet. All the boats sail very fast alone. We have not been able to compare her with the others. and until we do so 1t is like trying to tell at sight the difference between a horse that is in the 2:o5 class and one that is in the 2:10 class"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

Iceland isn't going to be out of the world any longer. Its parliament has voted an annual payment of ten thou sand dollars for twenty years toward the establishment of wireless communi- cation between the island and the north of Scotland.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

Some say there is no such thing as f1ydrophobia but owing to the increase of madness among dogs in Vienna and south Austria all exhibitions of dogs and cats are prohibited.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

The new woman seems to be holding her own. At the field day exercises at yassar the other day the exercises in- cluded throwing the baseball, standing broad jump, putting the eight-pound shot, fence vault, 22O-yard run, 120-yard hurdles, throwing the hammer and the 1O0-yard dash.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

There is some money left in spite of the talk that it has all been soaked up." The application for the Trans vaal loan of s175,O00.0oo included 145 of $5,o0Oooo each. There were nine appli- cations for amounts exceeding s, ,OO0,O ,OO0 but not exceeding s5O,OOO,OOO, five for more than s25,Ooo,OoO each, but not ex- ceedingS $50, 100000, five for amounts be- yond $5o,oOO, ,O0O, but not exceeding $1OO,- 0o0,0O0; and four applications for amounts between $1OO,OOO,OOO and $780, 100000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

"Race suicide" doesn't seem to be @ menace in Germany. A German news paper has been gathering statistics of births in Berlin. and it shows that one mother aged forty-five has presented the world with twenty-eight children; another, aged forty-one, reports twenty three children: three others, aged re- spectively forty, forty-three and forty six, report twenty-one' each; 246 Berlin women are credited with from thirteen to twenty children each. and 16e with an even dozen. One of the youngest mothers, a girl of sixteen, had already given birth to two children, while, at the other extreme, two women of over fifty have been visited by the stork for the first time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

Things grow fast in some parts of this country. The president of the Bankers Association of Indian Terri tory in public address recently said: "The Indian Territory has more na- tional banks than Missouri, twice as many as Arizona and New Mexico con- bined, more than New Hampshire, Yer mont, Rhode Island, Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Colorado, California and oth- CT States. There has never been na- tional bank failure in the territory. The banks are all prosperous and new banks are being started almost daily (espe- cially in Muskogee), the number in the territory having trebled in the past few years"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

A curious action for compensation, in
 which, for the first time, the telephone appears as the medium of islander, has just been tried at Milan. The parties were a. Signor Venturini chemist, and Signor Guanbarotto. barrister, who had acted as counsel for the former, and, as his fee had not been paid, con- tinually called up by telephone his for ner client at his place of business to de- mand payment, in language declared to be abusive. When Signor venturini happened to be absent, other persons frequently had to listen to the barris- ter's angry language. The court con- demned the unwary lawyer in damages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
Split Straws.

This particular braid has long held conspicuous place in the favor of good dressers, and probably no other straw hat approaches universal popularity as closely as this one. They are light, at. tractive and serviceable. We have them in all proportions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21

These hats are very flexible and readily comfort to the shape of the head. They are a boon to men with sensitive scalps, combining lightness with eonvervatism in style and insuring perfect comfort to the wearer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-21
The Fashionable Panama

One of the most popular hraids of this season now much in vogue with smart dressers. Extremely lightweight, very portions they are adaptable to nearly every one. The low price is another very attractive feature.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16


The REPUBLICAN has succeeded sin
getting a special clubbing price FROM the
publishers of the Nebraska Farmer one
of the best they have ever made, and
during the past two months good many
have taken advantage OF this offer and
are we'll pleased with it, We have had
the time extended tor this offer believing
that many more would like TO take adj.
vantage of il before il is withdrawn. For
I.3S We can send YOU the Nebraska
Farmer and REPUBLICAN both for one
full year, and worth $500. The Ne
braska Farmer is the leading general
farm and live stock journal of the west,
II prints from u to 10 pages each week,
is we'll known aud well liked, having
been established since 1869. Its pub
fishers are practical and experienced
men, who are now and have been for
thirty years extensively engaged in farm
ing and stock raising in Nebraska and
conditions applicable to the west. It is
journal for the farmers by farmers.
No other farm paper can fill its place or
be 80 helpful to the farmers OF the west.
II is contributed to by all the leading
agricultural writer's and experiments OF
the west and at our special club price
should be taken by everyone. A5tt
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16
School Notes Room No. 4 aud s.

This room has been outlining
the Civil War. The pupils have
taken great interest in making
these outline maps. Mate Moore
of the eighth grade received the
honor of the best work and Lyle
Young, second. The following
poem on the Holiday was written
by Tom Stuckey of the 9TH grade:
You know scho, books often ures get awful
ly torn,
And the lessons that's In them will get awful.
old,
There's something In study that's kinda forlorD,
To cit and study aud study, I'LL your poor br ain
grows cold,
md the teacher shes sharp and IA quick "a a cat
And when the fellere throw paper vRts at one
another
She spy ZEN md then something will go rat
a.tat.tat
And ther them sly girls will wink at each other
so on blight spring day when the gay latks
wee iuginL.
And "poorn Q GLARS were study-en hard
In came H. = of, pcard AZ " he was spriugng,
He looked spry ami jolly sno not very 'tlr d.
So all we scholsrs we kopted awfully stin.
Acorse We were waiting to hear what he'd say
AS we " attic looked longingly at the or, en-
h u,
And We all wished he'd give us Holiday
And as sure as we wished it, W. surely receivedir
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16
IA pI.tO q.

News are somewhat scarce this week.
Mrs. Waddington is improving some
what
c. D. Day had some shredding done
last Saturday.
Grandma Hill has been on the sick list
for several days.
Mr.. Hunt and Achsah visited tn,
dentist at Merna, Saturday.
Mrs. Beals and Frank spent Sunday a
Will Kellenbarger's in Keota.
J. NJ. Fodge and Frank Butler brought
out four horse load of "compo-board'
for the church, Tuesday.
Little Franklin Hunt celebrated hi.
fifth birthday, Saturday, April II, by
entertaining several of his little friend.
during the afternoon.
Ben Browning, Rolla and George Cor
don, Eli Fenner, Ed. Fodge and A. D
Hunt have been at work on the church
during the past week.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16

Mary Diwnin closed six months tern
Of school at Custer last Friday.
c. G. Empfeld is putting in a cattle
lip, this means death to Texas itch ant
insects.
G. w. Headley passed Ryno this morn
ing enroute to his brother H. L. nea,
Lomnx.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Z. Comfy were al
Galloway yesterday bringing home pro
visions and groceries.
Are you cultivating your corn to re
tain the moisture or will you let the vino
blow it away and then complain of cror
failure.
We have had full moon, eclipse ant
Easter with cooler weather and shower
of rain on Monday morning, an abun
dance of eggs, we are surely a favored
people.
Messers. Shuman, Griffith and Coope
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16

F. D, Mills has painted his house and
dubbed his place, White Lodge"
Reuben Johnson, full of years, and
having lived life worthy of emulation
was laid to rest in the Westerville Gene
terry last Sunday.
Elder Mathews and wife of Merna,
were in Westerville Sunday last making
sick call on Grandma Clark, who has
been lying at deaths door for some weeks
past.
Hon. A. II. Copsey is also home and
every body seems to be we'll satisfied with
his record in Lincoln the past winter.
Lon says that the Lobby is a holy terror
that he never drempt of.
Hon. S, l.. Cannon, having completed
his work at Lincoln, is home once more
on his farm Sam is chuck full of good
stories, anecdotes and reininisc ences of
the Nebraska Legislature, including, the
third house and ever thing connecte
Herewith,
Or. Macarthur is building still another
addition to his Westerville property.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16

For the good old Prof gave us Holiday,
He said he bought It would make US sad for we
didn't dislike our chool work bit,
/ suppose we disple ased him for We clspped and
clapped I'LL he just went away.
And then we "gay" scholars and he teacher
decided,
We'd take a strole ore the green hills,
And away like the rabbits we merrilv gu dcd
We heard the cows IN oOiug aud the noise Of the
rils.
We war ted to study nature part OF the time.
And not them old school books day after day,
So up them steep hill sides like fqulrrels we did
climb,
AS we watched the white cloudlets float, far
away.
We Slid down the big banks and hallowed and
ran
We sped through the valley aud jumped the
deep ditto
And wher we got home we wore faces OF tan
And we'd torn our clothes so there was left
hardly stch.
We were all sleepy and worn out and "tir'd"
And our hands and cloths were GOV red with
dirt
The tax IN our shoes were sticking us hard
And our arms and our legs were beginning to
hurt
Oh Cheerful school davs long may thy be.
IT, Holiday came always they'd shu'e lose
So let us then be content while we're free"
And jees were shure school days will do US
no harm.
TO my reacher, Made Kay-
YonTs truly
Tom STUCKEY.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16

The Doctors premises show such a new.
ness and neutrality-suspicious. they
quite shame the surrounding edifces
Westerville village must wake up or il
will no longer be known as the Sleeping
Beauty"
County politics are beginning to sim.
mer and we hear the following prospec.
tive candidates mentioned: For District
Clerk-Geo. b. MAR, Tom Wright
County judge. A. Armour, F. d.
Mills. Sheriff.. o. Taylor, John Scott
Superintendent of Schools-Prof.g Zahn
Prof. Scott.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16
NOTICE OF PRoBArE OF WILL,

The state of HcbrR ka uster County, ss
To all tie Devise and Lpgatee-, aud all per.
sOns Interested Ia the Estate of John chardsou
Decets ed
Whereas, NJ Il Foster Of said COUNTY, ha,
hlcd in nv office an in stru nent puTpOitiug 10 be
the last win and Te-tam, NJ Of JohI Richarded.
deceased, late of said County and prtito tC
have the same admitted TO pro later, " hiCh VI
relates to both real and personal estate wharr
upOn have appointed the Fad day Of My 1903
at 10 o'cl OK T. forenoon AT m oflics in ga
ounty, as the time aud place you and all COZ
cerned may appear and contest the prob &c o
ht same. In leztimo = hereof / have her
mt ser my hand a d snxal my otlicih sea
his sih dii Of April. 1908 j. A ARBoUp,
13-l5-26 lsEALl County Judg
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16
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Will Keel was Broken Bow visitor
last Wednesday.
Grandma Karsis is very sick with the
lagrippe We hope she will soon re.
cover.
Sallie Christman closed three months
term of fchool at New Helena school
house last Friday.
Guy Robinson has purchased a new
top-buggy Now he wants some one to
ride in it with him.
Mrs William Edmunds returned from
Mason City last Sunday. She was visit
ing at the home of Edwin Burrows also
at b. L. Nicholas of Pilot
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-16
United statee Lnnd Onlca,

Broken Bow, Nebraska, April 10 1908.
Notice IL H. reb kiven rat Walter n Jordan,
as heir and TO- heirs OF Marcia Jordan. deceas.
ed, uster Park, II, has filed notice Of inten ton
to make fnal proof before Register and Reca vet
at his Oh' @ In BrOk ~ Row, Nebraska, on the 23rd
day # Nay, 1903, on tin Der culture application
NO. 1857, for nw4 nw44 of section II IN township
Ia N, ruuge 10 est 9th p. NJ. He names as wit.
Amos N. Westbrook Of Broken Bow, Neb Leroy
Westbrook OF Round Valley, Neb. Frank Il
KNIGHT of SOmertord, Neb.
Testimony II claimant to b taken before the
clerl Of the Court nj Joliet. win count III.
a 49,; JAMES WHITEHEAD, Register.