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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
If YOU'VE MONEY TO SPEND.
How Rich Men Occupy Their Wealth
and Leisure.

How Rich Men Occupy Their Wealth
and Leisure.
Mr. Norris tells us that Jadwin,
young, enormously rich and married
TO a woman that he loved, cried out
in despair: "What am | to do? |
don't believe in lounging around clubs,
or playing with race horses, or muir
derlng game birds. l can't sit down
and twiddle my thumbs. What are we
fellows who have made our money to
dor
SO finding nothing in our American
life he turned in to make more money.
1t Is an unpleasant fact that most
Of the sons Of American rich men eth
er squander their fortunes on yachts,
race horses, gambling, or more dan
gerous kinds of fun, or go to work like
Jadwin to make more millions.
Is there really no employment In life
open to Americans besids the making
of money or the wasting of it2
In England such young man would
probably go into Parliament and give
his help to the party that he favored.
When his father died he would settle
on the family estate, would look after
the tenants, become country magis-
trate, marry and bring up his son to
take his place, some day, in his turn.
Or he would make a hobby of art,
Of literature, Of archaeology, of char
ity, of hunting big game or climbing
high mountains.
Toynbee Hall, one of the most effect
I've agents in the uplifting of the poor
Of London, was started by half
dozen young Oxford men, the sons of
peers and eminent commoners. They
gave not only their income but their
lives to work In it.
Another young fellow, the heir Of q
great but impoverished English family,
discovered an ancient Phoenician vii.
lage under marsh near Glastonbury
and devoted his life to unearthing it.
Being poor he dug with his own hands
for years beside the day laborers.
No one was surprised at these INNS
choice Of career; no one laughed at it.
Here we should have asked contemp.
tuously, How can that sort of thing
be made to pay?" We should have ac.
counted them fools.
One of the Vanderbilts showed some
originality In his method Of disposing
of his millions. He bought a vast tract
IN North Carolina, built a palace on
mountain top, planted forestry and
botanical gardens, established cattle
farms, stables of the best stock, pigger.
les, diaries, memories and vegetable and
fruit gardens. He became the director
Of a great estate and of tenantry, for
whom he built churches, schools and
hospitals.
But the chief praise which he re.
ceives throughout the country is-"It
pays we'll 1t brings him in 10 per
cent"
A significant hint was given to us by
the Moravians of a generation ago. 1t
was then customary among that earn.
est and sincere people for man tc
work hard up to his siXtieth year, and
20 live plainly, saving every dollar.
Then he gave up work, devoting the
rest Of his life to books, music or char.
ity His income perhaps might be
counted only by hundreds, but he had
the great riches Of few years Of time
which he could use as he chose. 1--WE
10 not come into the world said one OF
these brethren, "to earn the means of
living: but TO justify our right to be
alive."-Saturday Evening Post.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
Perfumed Iinir-

Delicately scented hair is one Of
the latest Of feminine fads. 1t or
iginated on the stage, but it is be-
coming a common practice with all
women who wish to make themselves
attractive. A small atomizer is filled
with powerful perfume and for this
the carnation odors are usually en-
ployed, and the hair is lightly sprayed
with the strong essence. This is done
just before the hair is dressed for
evening, and the scent clings to it
all the next twenty-four hours
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
Nebraska Notes

Miss Amy r. Krajicck and Cortie
V. Cook were married at Arlington.
Norfolk has been selected as the
next meeting place of the state fire
mems tournament, which will be
held ON July /, 2, and 3.
Warder Bcemer Of the state peni-
Tertiary has rendered the position Of
guard to b. L. Fletcher of Tccumseh.
Mr.. Fletcher has accepted.
1t is reported that the Burlington
Intends to build new depot at Beat
rice this spring. Burlington officials
refuse to talk on the subject.
Gotlicb Jacobs of Arlington, the
young farmer taken to the Fremont
hospital four weeks ago to be operat-
ed upon for appendicitis, died.
The Broken Bow Business college
which was organized two years ago
by G. w. Rousch, has passed into the
hands of corporation composed of
the business men of Broken Bow and
vicinity.
During the month OF February
twelve farm mortgages amounting to
$50, $50 were filed with the county
clerk of johnson county, while TWEEN
ty-four similar mortgages amounting
to SAL ,424. 80 were released
= The report that the Burlington
will build an extension to Sioux City
by way of Fremont is supported by
the fact that a party Of ten surveyors
are working along the line which it
Is said the new road will take.
1t is current rumor that State
Superintendent Fowler will be an APP
plicant for the position Of superin-
tendent Of the Lincoln schools The
position pays 81, 500, which is $500
more than the state position pays.
Chadron academy, the western Ne
braska Congregational institution Of
Chadron, with an enrolment of $50
students has been closed on account
Of an epidemic Of measles among the
students. Five cases are reported at
the ladies' dornitory.
Charles NJ Warren, an old resident
of Gage county, died at his home in
Barnetson Of Bright's disease. The
deceased was at one time agent for
the Union Pacific at Fairbury, but at
the time Of his death was engaged
In the banking and mercantile bust
ness.
After couple Of weeks were spent
In dynamiting the ice and dragging
the waters Of the Ncmaha for the
body Of Jesse Roate, who was sup
posed to have been drowned near The
home Of his sister at Humboldt, news
comes that the man has been seen in
the eastern part Of that county.
From what can be learned he placed
his cap near the edge of the ice and
then disappeared, for the purpose, so
he stated, of finding out whether
the folks would look for him.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
,klM Science
IN EAA Sz AND
: = Invention

A curious theory Is being investigated
by the Paris Academy Of Sciences.
Human stature is supposed to be con
trollcd by the gland in the throat under
the larynX, and artificial stimulation Of
this gland is Gained to cause any child
TO grow to maximum height
In the pr cess Of Prof IIofra,h Nose.
lig modification Of the bones of the leg
Is cured by removing the diseased part
and replacing 1t with n filling of iodo-
FORM sesamOel and spcrmaceti. Roent-
gen-ray pictures Of cured legs were late
ly shown to the Vienna Medical So
ciety.
Roller bearings for marine engines,
DR.. p. NJ. Taskcr suggests, should in
crease the revolutions from seven to
ten per cent or more. Ball bearings,
while even further lesscning friction
have disadvantages for heavy work,
and are not to be considered for any
but the smallest engines of launches.
The remarkable resources of Alaska
give so much promise Of rapid develop
ment that popular interest in our far
northern territory Is continually grow
ing. In order to assist in forming
clear conception of the vast extent of
Alaska A. II. Brooks Of the United
States Geographical Survey has pre-
pared map in which Alaska is rep
resented superposed upon the United
States, with its northern edge lying
upon Lake Superior, and along the bor-
der between Minnesota and Canada.
In this position Alaska covers, in whole
or in part, % States and Territories.
The area of Alaska is almost one-fifth
as much as that of all the rest of the
United States.
Individual struggle for existence is
not the leading factor of evolution in
Prince Krapotkin's view. His new
work seeks to show that mutual aid
has played far more important part,
and points out that most animal species
live in societies, uniting in defence
against all unfavorable natural condi-
tions. The most numerous, prosperous
and progressive animal species are
found to be those in which the indi-
vldual struggle is most reduced and
mutual aid most developed. Human
pr gress in arts and intelligence has
depended on mutual aid, and the peri
DDS when this influence has been most
active have been those of advancement
In science and industry.
A naturalist at Hanover, Cape Col
ony, describes many remarkable small
animals which abound there. Among
them is a gecko, called by the Dutch
farmers "getje," whose large tail comes
off with slight touch, and remains
jumping about on the ground, attract
ing attention Of an enemy, while the
animal itself sinks away, and event
uall grows new tail. Among the sol
ifugae is most extraordinary animal
resembling a spider, sometimes nearly
three inches long, and of which Cron-
wright Schreiner says that he knows
mo creature which for it's size is so
terribly armed" Its disproportiOn.
ately large head is made up mainly of
a double pair of nippers of great pow
er The 'jacht splnnekop," as the
Dutch call the animal hunts for its
living and is fierce fighter. Some
times 1t will kill scorpion. There are
many trap-door spiders that display
great ingenuity, and several poisonous
species of dreadful appearance.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
Earned His Christmas Box.

1t was Christmas morning, and al
Jones stood smoking on the doorstep a
seedy-looking individual, wearing a
ragged suit and red nose, came up
the garden path and addressed him
thus:
merry Christmas, guv'nor."
Same to you, my good man." saio
Jones. What can | do for your"
well guy'nor I've called fer me
Christmas box"
"Hum! l don't seem to know you.
Are you the dustman?"
"No, guv'nor I'm the chap who were
playin' the cornet larst Christmas, an
yer told me to take my hook"
"Oh you played the cornet, did your"
said Jones in a threatening manner.
And why should | give you Christ.
mas box, eh?'
"Becos | amt playin' 1t this year,
guv'norw
The" Jones paid up.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
PHoTOGRAPHING THE SHOWS.
Vicissitudes of the Photographer in
the North Woods in Winter.

Vicissitudes of the Photographer in
the North Woods in Winter.
The camera is nowadays an almost
essential adjunct to the campers out
fit, even If he goes on a roughing trip
to the north woods in winter, where
the thermometer may be 20 below
zero. Above all things, keep 1t and
the plates Tor films well away from
the fire, as the slightest warmth will
cause moisture to condense on the
lens, both inside and out, and on the
working parts of the shutter; more
over, the same thing may happen to
the plates or films, and this moisture
will freeze as soon as the object is re,
moved from the influence Of the fire.
If glass plates are used, do not dust
them with brush when filling the
holders; electricity is generated in the
dry air by tho friction, and this will
cause all neighboring particles of dust
to be drawn to the film. So it is bet
ter either to leave the plates undusted
or to gently land dryly) blow the sur
face. Keep the plates in water
proof bag, and let this be buried in
the snow. In using a tripod land its
use Is strongly recommended), the
length Of the ordinary legs will be
found quite insufficient in the deep
snow. An extension leg two feet long
will prove of the utmost value, says
Country Life in America, or better
still, have small light disks, four OF
five inches in diameter, which screw
on the ends of the legs. These will
act as snow shoes and prevent the tri
pod from sinking too deeply.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
49, ' ' Y ' ' Y ~ ' ~ ' ' ' '
KANSAS NOTES
H}tAhaSa{SHitith{,(tHfASf,tAithfsa

The new government building for
Emporia is a.comin' right along.
The superintendent Of construction
has been appointed.
The IIoxic Sentinel says that when
a farmer near there was asked which
one Of his boys was sick, he replied:
Il don know. It's one along about
the middle. / haven't checked 'em
up lately"
General Funston has been nine
times wounded in battle. If he keeps
on catching lead in time the little
man will be able to pull down the
scales to quite respectable and i'm
posing figure.
The Lawrence World seems to be
quite indignant over what 1t calls
the unfair ruling at the Atchison
contest. The other Lawrence papers
do not appear TO be worrying much
over 1T.
If lola wants to make Chanute
hopping mad she might hint that
Chanutc's opposition to the electric
railway is because Of the fear that
her people might go TO lola to do
their trading
The Swedish Mission conference has
raised SI5. 900 Of the S75 600 necessary
to establish the new mission college
at Mcpherson. 1t is believed that
the balance will he made up the com
ing summer and fall.
college spirit" resulted in aBaker
man getting a cut on his head with
rock while passing Through Law
renee the other day, on the way to
Atchison college spirit" is re-
sponsible for wonderful lot of fool
cry.
Quite bit of kicking is being done
against the legislative prayer prac-
tice. Have the chaplains anything
to say? Marsh Murdoch says that
once when he expressed his senti-
ments against legislative prayers, as
a state senator, he was looked upon
as a heather
A Dickinson county woman has
brought suit for divorce against her
husband. The couple live on a fine
farm which is the Wifc'S property. .
The story goes that she gave MIN $500
recently and sent him to town to buy
horses. lie filled up in Abilene, went
to Junction City in order to get bet
ter facilities for big toot, and blew
in every cent of the money. DO you
blame the wife for inStituting divorce
proceedings
The following blast from the Beloit
Call ought to hold the curly-haired
professor for a while: Professor A.
II. Franzmathes, the curly-headed
music and dancing professor who used
to hold forth in Beloit, now In Kan
sas City, favors us with one of his
latest songs. We think it is very
pretty, but would appreciate more a
remittance Of SIG. 25 which he shows
no disposition to pay, and which ac-
count has been standing on our books
against him for long time"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
U S S. Baltimore Fireproof.


The announcement that the cruiser
Baltimore Is to be made as absolutely
fireproof as human ingenuity can an.
tlcipate must cause feeling of pride
in the city for which the war ship is
named. All of the furniture on board
will be made of thin steel, so welded
that the seams will not show. Writing
desks, chiffoniers, chairs and beds will
contribute to the comfort of the Off
GERS on board, and yet will be of ma.
terial not easily destroyed by fire. This
innovation, of course, will be costly,
involving about 100000 but if it be
only an experiment it will be source
of qualification to know that the Balti-
more will stand unique as the only
man-of-war in the world thus far so
equipped. The wisdom of reducing
the amount of intiammable material on
war ships was demonstrated at the
battle of Santiago, when shell ex.
ploded in the wardroom of the Brook
Ign. To the fact that the small amount
of woodwork there had been fireproof.
ed seems to have been due the cruisers
escape from flames below. While fire
proohng was the best treatment for
wood formerly found to be accessible,
present naval development Is along the
theory that the only real safeguard Is
the abandonment of woodwork alto.
gether.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

An electrician in Vienna has in
vented an electrical machine for ex-
tracing teeth.
1t is popularity Of the horse to
arise on its forelegs first, while the
COW first arises on its hindlegs.
The mild weather in Chicago in
duced many of the residents to re-
move their storm windows, under
the impression that spring had come.
Then the early porch-climbers began
sh citing up, and reaped harvest of
family jewels.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
Too Timorous Adorer.

sir she exclaimed haughtily. "You
Kissed me. Never dare to look at my
ace again"
Meekly he turned and left the house,
Pm glad l didn't marry that fool"
she gasped between sobs.-New York
Sun.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

The soil of Cuba is extremely fruit
full. Cabbages there are so large that
heads weighing twenty pounds each
are common. All vegetables do well.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

Never in the history of medicine has
the demand for one particular remedy
for female diseases equalled that at
tanned by Lydia Il. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and never
during the lifetime of this wonderful
medicine has the demand for it been
SO great as it is to-day.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and throughout the length and breadth
of this great continent come the glad
tidings of woman's sufferings relieved
by it, and thousands upon thousands
of letters are pouring in from grateful
women saying that it will and posi-
lively does cure the worst forms Of
female complaints.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all wo-
men who are puzzled about
their health to write her at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Such cOrre-
spondence is seen by women only,
and no charge is made.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19
ELy's LIQUID CREAM BALM 1.

prepared for sufferers from nasal catarrh
who are used to an atomzer in spraying
the diseased membranes. All the healing
and soothing properties of Cream Balm
are retained in the new preparation. Ii
does not dry up the secretiors. Price, in
Guiding spraying tube, 20 cts. At drug
gists' or Ely Bros, 90 Warren street,
New York. mail it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

RadiShes may be eaten from four
teen to eighteen days after sowing,
lettuce in five weeks after sowing,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

Mrs winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
Days pain cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-19

The man who is on your bond
watches you almost as closely as you
are watched by your VITA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04
BY JOHN MARTHoL.

standing of economic questions than half the gentlemen who are sent to Washing ton to legislate for the country and who 1 would consider 1t an affront if they were referred to in any other terms than that of statesman.
 Dancing, in the opinion of teachers of the art, is going to the depths of degra- dation in the metropolis, and perhaps elsewhere, and must be revived in all its old-time classic grace and beauty. The ''two-step," or rather the attractive mu- sic to which it is set. is, it appears, mak- ing all the trouble. driving out the digni- l fled and rythmic movements of the waltz and the schottische of former and bet ter generation This is the latest brand 1 of reform and the dancing professors mean to push 1t. Some of them talk of a national convention to arouse public att | tention to the importance of the regenera- tion. Americans, they declare. were at one time the best dancers in the world, but they are rapidly becoming the very worst, that is the most ungraceful. Why don't they write to MT. Roosevelt about it? He Is the man to settle it if anyone can do 1t.
 A score of electrical experts and en- gineers are engaged in a curious hunt in the Borough of Brooklyn, which has led many persons, ignorant of what they are about, to believe that a lot of luna tics have escaped from some asylum. In one case sober citizen hunted up a policeman and notified him that he could lind man evidently out of his mind at certain point and should rush him to the station house, as measure of pre- caution. The supposed man was simply endeavoring to catch tramp current of electricity that had managed to get off the elevated railroad tracks, and was run hing around loose, trying to find a way back to where it belonged. These currents generally strikes it seems for the under ground gas, water and other pipes, which they corrode and otherwise Ginjure In very little while. There are, it is thought, thousands of them at large. It is said that in some way they all find their way back to the power house, but their track is marked by destruction.
 
 During the past week. a number of men, women and children sufficient to make the population of a good-szed city have been pouring into the metropolis from Europe, the seashore and the mountains. As high as 30,O00 pieces of baggage have been handled in twenty-four hours at the Central station of the Vanderbilt lines alone, and distributed all over Manhattan Island and the outlying boroughs that make up Greater New York. The thing Is almost a miracle of distribution, not possible perhaps in any other part of the world.
 Miss Henrietta Crosman has been de- lighting her audiences by her classic im- personation of "Rosalnd," the equal of which has rarely been seen on the Ameri- can stage. As to the theaters generally the bills they offer are with a few ex- captions. inartstic, coarse and vulgar. The fact is the public taste Is vitiated, the managers guaging everything by the receipts Something that will draw is what they want and all they appear to care about. Augustin Daly has left no successor.
 Irish athletes at series of revived na-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04
DIVE TRANSFORMED.
House of All Nations" Now House
 of Shelter for Girls.

From the New York Times.
 The Sisters of the Transfiguration, a third order of the Sisters of St Francis, known as lay order in the Roman Cath olc church, who devote themselves to Christian work among the working girls of the city, have moved from their home 1J9 and III West Thirty-second street. They found their previous home too small to accommodate the women they cared for, and learning that the property to which they have moved could be had for almost a nominal rental, they gladly rent ed 1t for term of years.
 The present home of the order Is the property of "Al. Adams, the Policy King" who Is serving a term at Sing Sing for violation of the anti-poicy law. It was notorious in the days before the Pork hurst crusade as the House of All Ma tions" The activity of the police made 1t impossible to continue the establish- ment, and the building has been unoccu- pied for some years.
 The Sisters entered into possession of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04
Limitations of the Balloon.

From the New York World
 The feat of the Count de la Vaulx and the Count d'Outremont in crossing the English channel for the first time in balloon does not at first glance seem remarkable. The distance tray eled from Paris to Hull was but 360 miles; the open channel crossing on a direct line between those points, is but sixty miles In period only about thrice as long a balloon has travelled from Paris into Russia, a distance oi over 1700 miles.
 But continental winds are quite diff ferent from those which play about great islands and open water. Often as the channel crossing has been at tempted it has always been prevented by baffling and contrary winds. Twice also has the Count de la Vaulk at tempted the crossing of the Mediter- ranean from Marseilles to Algeria, ac- companied by French warships, but though the distance required was but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04

their new home on the first of the month, making no changes in the place, which is a block deep, other than to store in the cellar furniture not needed, so that the big rooms might be filled with cots for the women under the care of the order. What was known as "The Hall of Mir TOTS" has been changed into a chapel, the mirrors with their elaborate floral decor ations remaining as they were. With the exception of the removal of the elaborate furniture in the Turkish, Egyptian, Red, Blue, White and Gold rooms, together with the others in the styles of the pe- riods of the reign of French KingS and the Empire, the rooms are the same as they were when the shelter was known as the House of All Nations" The place is filled with the wards of the Sisters, who kneeling at their devotions in the Hall of Mirrors" seem, through the many re- factions, like a multitude at worship.