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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

1t is a commonly expressed opinion
that the railroad business Of the coun.
try is being overdone-that too many
lines are being built and too much
money being put into improvements
Exactly the reverse is true. Railroad.
ing in America is yet in its infancy
Vast as Is its present extent, and seem
ingly complete as is it's equipment, the
systems Of to-day will only provoke
smile from the next generation. Our
grandchildren will wonder how we ever
managed to get around and do bust
ness under our present crude transpor-
tation facilities. Not only will the
trunk lines Of the future be double
tracked separately for freight and pas
senger traffic, but they will be fed by
electric lines running in all directions
in every well-settled community. Fifty
years from now electric car tracks will
be almost as numerous as are wagon
roads to-day. The farmer of the future
will load up his car, instead of his wag
on, upon spur running to his gran.
airy, will adjust his trolley and be
whirled away to market or to the
freight depot in the twinkling of an
eye. Farm produce, coal and grocery
supplies will be delivered in your alley
from street railway spurs while yet
only servants are awake. Electricity
will transport from producer to con
sumner direct, practically without
change of cars" A nickel in the slot
and machinery will do the rest. Time,
too, will be annihilated. Already an
electric speed of one hundred and forty
miles an hour has been attained in
practical operation. A Chicago sub
urban system is even now regularly
operating under a ninety-mile schedule.
With double tracks, air lines and rock
ballasted tracks, there is practically no
limit to what may be attained through
the inventors genius and the mechan-
les skill, backed by unlimited capital
and Yankee enterprise. From coast to
coast in three days? 1t will be done.
A railroad at your very door? Aye,
all that, and more. Where there is n
mile of track to-day there will be fifty
as many years from now. The rail-
road industry overdone? Forget it
the infant has but just began to shed
its swaddling clothes.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

A man with taste for statistics be-
gan, early in November, to keep rec
ord of the corporations, employers of
labor, which because Of the coal short.
age had undertaken to furnish fuel to
their employees at cost. In three weeks,
by the help of the newspapers, he
found more than two hundred such
corporations, including several trusts,
and this was only the beginning of a
movement which, when colder weather
came, assumed widespread proportions
The willingness of these corporations
to extend such help, at the cost of con
siderable bother and expense, ought
not to be forgotten
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

What a pity it is that our learned
anthropologists never discover that a
man has criminal eyes, mouth, ears
and nose until after he has committed
a murder! o Science! how many
frauds are perpetrated in thy helpless
nameI
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Sousa gave back $1,000 to the pur-
chasers of concert tickets in order that
he might play before King Edward
and the royal family of England.
Sousa has evidently discovered that
advertising pays.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Some one wants to know more about
the life Of Abram S. Hewitt. who died
the other day. In almost every city
you can find at least one rich man
who has looked upon his wealth more
as a trust than as a personal posses
sion. Hewitt came up from the soil,
the same as nearly every famous man
this country has known. We have
poets and players, Presidents and war
riors, from the farms. The old men
of now who have risen above their fell
lows were nearly all country boys
years ago. In the peaceful atmos-
phere of a thousand villages, close to
nature, they learned how to live. They
imbibed clean morals with the air they
breathed; they inherited honesty and
rugged principles, and were taught by
fathers and mothers who believed
that after God, their first duty was
rearing their children right. Hewitt
went through all that. He was born
in log cabin, worked on n farm, got
an education, because he felt that he
must have it to succeed in life. In
college he paid his way by tutoring,
and worked so hard that he injured
his health and sight for life. Did it
pay? Depends on how you look at It,
In business he made a large amount
of money, and he used a fortune in
making it easier for other boys, who
were as poor as he had been, to gain
an education. New York never knew
a man fairer to his employees. He tried
to put himself in the other fellows
place, and judged accordingly. When
he died no one thought about his
money. There was no person to black
en- his memory; no scandal was at
tracted to his name. The world
dropped a few tears; the poor placed
flowers on his tomb, and humanity
knew that a really good man had done
his work and quietly passed on. That
is about all that Abram S. Hewitt ac-
compllshed. Has any man done more?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

The powers maintain that China will
be able to pay that indemnity in gold
by the exercise of due economy. 1t
will be observed that the justice of
the claim does not enter The sole
question is what the traffic will bear.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Mr.. Rockefeller's daily mail now
consists principally of letters advising
him how to get a new stomach. If
he undertook to read them he would
ach ache
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Col. Popes declaration that cessa-
ton of advertising was responsible for
the wreck of the bicycle trust offers a
suggestion to the associated trust bust
ers at Washington. Let them pass Il
law forbidding the octopuses to adver-
tise.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

A Chicago boy committed suicide be-
cause his father wouldn't give him
five cents. That boy should have
taken to heart the noble lesson given
out by young John ID. Rockefeller, who
says that money is not all
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

There is this to be said in favor Of
Cardinal Gibbons plea for stricter d.
vorce laws-a good many people would
not get married If they figured they
were in for life.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Mark Twain said. of the Legion of
Honor that it was a decoration which
few people now escape. The same thing
must be true of the German order
pour lie merite." The Kaiser has TAX
en- to decorating gunboats with it, thus
Indicating that it has already been
conferred upon everybody whom there
Is the slightest excuse for decorating.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

A woman, talking to women, lately
enunciated the interesting proposition:
"If you can't get your vote, you can
always get your voter, and you can in
huence him in his vote"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

To establish limit of 100000 as
the maximum amount any person may
acquire or lawfully hold we fear
would result in Uncle Russell Sage
packing his gripsack and emigrating
to some other country.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

A milk dealer has given up his bust
ness because he has become converted.
Evidently he didn't put water enough
In the milk to wash away his sins.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

to be dreaded as that more shameful
vistant dust and they would welcome
any number of ghostly presences pro-
vided the closets offered nothing in the
way of disorder to catch a phantom
eve.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

1t is not surprising that molasses
should prove to be good food for
horses. Children have thrivcd on it
for many years.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

1t now appears that William X. Van
derbilt's house, Idle Hour, is built on
sand. Why should a man with so
many rocks" make such a blunder?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Do not put your light under a bush
'el, but keep it in a can where it may
give light to all that are in the house
at SO much per.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

People who think the world is going
to the bad generally keep busy helping
1T along in that direction,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

The trunkmakers have formed a
trust, thus tightening the grip of the
l octopus
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02
A Doubtful Compliment.

He brought her present.
1t was "A dream of little teapot-fine
china with pink roses and gold bead
ing all over it.
"Oh, you dear!" she cried, holding it
up from its wrappings, Isn't it just
the prettlest thing?"
Yes" he said absently; ITS a pref
ty teapot 1t reminded me Of you when
/ bought it."
And she didn't know whether to
throw 1t at him or not.-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Major Glenn has been acquitted.
This will make it unnecessary for hira
to write or lecture about it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER-
ESTING ITEMS.

Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
the Happenings of the Day-Histori-
cal and News Notes.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

To prove it's right to statehood Okla
homa raised two crops of potatoes last
year.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Never enter a guessing contest IL
competition with a doctor.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-04-02

Those persons you would really like
to talk with are always going the 9th.
er way.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27

to do Other Than Educational
Work.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., Nov. 21.-The new
impetus given the rumors published
some time 6 as to the probability Of
President McIver's early resignation as
head of the State Normal and Indus
trial College, by the publication in "a
Charlotte PAPER that a letter had been
written to a lady teacher there from a
lady in Greensboro, conveying the intel
ligence that DR.. MsIver was going to
resign, is a source of considerable an
noyance OF his friends here and else
where who are acquainted with the eX-
act state of affairs, and must be en-
~barrassing to Dr.. McIver himself, who,
it can readily be seen, is not in a posi-
ton to comment on he situation, and
SO far as is known by his most init
mate friends, has given no information
which would justify the published
statement that he had contemplated
changing his line of work. 1t is thor
oughly known here hat DR.. McIver has
repeatedly refused flatterng induce
ments to leave the educational work
in North Carolina and the Presidency
of the State Normal and Industrial
College, for larger and more lucrative
positions. but he has never hesitated a
moment to decline all such offers. AS
the recent reports about his resignation
have assumed something of i different
phase from the original. il may be we'll
enough to state that they grow out OF
the rumOr current i month g that
President McIver may be elected gen
eral agent of the Peabody Board at its
January meeting. AS TO whether he
will be elected or not, and as to whether
he would accept the position or not if
elected, those nearest 10 him here have
no definite information. This much
can be said, however, that the reports
published that he is gong to resign on
accoun of i'll health. or to engage in
any other than educational work Is
erroneous
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
NEGROES HELD IN PEONAGE.
Twenty-SiX Indictments Against Prom
inent Georgia Citizens.

Savannah, Ga, November %
Charged with having held negroes in
a condition of servitude and peonage,
t~wenty-siX indictments have been re-
turned by a federal grand jury
against seven prominent citizens of
Southern Georgia. The names men
toned in the indictments are Ed
ward d. McCree, William McDee ana
Frank |. McRee, of Valdosta, Ga;
William F. Crawley and Thomas ].
Mcclellan, of Ware county; Clayton
&. Mcleod and Lester McWilliam-
son, of Montgomery county.
The Indictments are for various of
fences connected with alleged SELL
ing negroes into peonage and other
modes of depriving them
erty.
The persons against whom indict-
ments have been returned are promi-
nently connected, one of them, Ed
ward McCree being a member of the
State Legislature. The remaining
persons included in the indictments
have been prominently identified
with the business, and in some in
stances political interests of their
sections.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
WILL LEAVE TOMORROW.
Capt. HoIttum's Steamship About
Ready to Make Another Trip to

The British steamship ToIosa. which
reached port just a fortnight tnis after
noon, will leave tomorrow with another
cargo Of cotton for Bremen. Her de-
parture means goodbye for The present
to the Prince Of the Sea"-Captain
Charles H. Holttum-and, Of course. his
many friends will make the parting re-
luctantly.
The Tolosa, as before, will carry in
the neighborhood of 1000 bales, and
all Of this, save about 100 bales, were
aboard of her late yesterday afternoon.
II is likely that the Tolosa will yet
make another trip. the third one. here
this season.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
WORK OF THE BAPTISTS.
The ear Has Been Il Successful One.
Press Association to Meet
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial TO The Messenger.)
Raleigh. y. -. November 2l.-In an
interview with Editor Bailey. of the
Biblical Recorder, regarding the work
OF the Baptsts in North Carolina this
year. he said;
We will report 10 the convention at
Charlotte easily the best years work
from every point of view in the history
of our denomination in this State
From the financial standpoint the
amounts contributed will urpass by
far those ever before reported. 1t ap-
pears thu 81. 900 will be reported for
foreign missions, $1,000 for home mis-
sions. $25, 600 for state missions. We
are making two special efforts in the
final work of the year, one being the
raising of $25, 900 for state missions
n we expect the collections to be
taken far and wide. as this is the only
point of doubt at headquarters at pres
ent. The second special effort is the
closing of the debt of the Baptist Fee
male University, If the churches will
collect So, 800, this institution will be
reported entirely clear of debt. The
church has had a fine years growth Of
membership. the increase will approx
innate 10000"
President Warner of the State Press
Association says the attendance at the
winter meeting, to be held at Wash
ington, d. c., will be the largest ever
had. The meeting begins December 1st
President Warner will deliver his ad-
dress. H. L. c. Bryant will read a
paper on How to Secure and Retain
Subscriptions to North Carolina News
papers, J. w. Bailey, a paper on Does
it Pay to use Premiums? If so, What
Kind?" There Will also be ak on the
use OF engravings by Josephus Daniels.
Clyde r. Hoey and ]. j. Farriss
The penitentiary authorities give no
tice of the escape of W. y. McLain from
the state farm in Halifax count. He is
white was sentenced from Wake and is
in for five years for larceny.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
As TO iii ASSETS.
Receiver BeIIamy Will Likely Fur
Their Investigate the FishbIatc Re
ownership Case.

1t is very probable h tomorrow Il
hearing will take place in the receiver
ship proceedings recently instituted
against the Fishblate Clothing Compa-
ny. 1t is said that Receiver Marsden
Bellamy, Jr., will tolay issue a sum-
mons for Mr.. S. H. Fishblate to appear
before him and give testimony in refer
nee to the assets of his company.
The summons will be issued at the
instance of William j. Bellamy, ESQ.
who is counsel for j. w. England, of
New York city, the plaintiff in the re-
ceiVerShip case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
THE Border of Insanity"

The following startling editorial, IN
der the above caption, appcred in a
recent issue of the Chicago Chronicle:
In a creditab!e loyalty to the office
Of president of the United States the
constant eccentriCities of Mr.. Roosevelt
have been minimiZed or suppressed by
the conservative American press.
VERY little was said, for instance.
of his indecOrOus behavior at the dedi-
cation of the louisiana purchase expo
sitiOn buildings. AS one Of the count
less incitents forming cumulative evil
dence of his lack of mental balance the
true story should be told with moder-
alton.
when Mr.. Roosevelt reached the
speakers platform he was not content
to address the crowd in the manner
arranged by the committee ard adopted
by the other speakers. He uncOuthly
ordered the attendants to remove one
table and draw another TO the center
of the platform. With monkeyish ca
price he leaped on this and delivered
his succession of p~lattitudes with a
WildnesS which amused the thuughtless
in the thrOng and startled the thought
full. While every effort was made TO
show him Difference, he displayed boor-
ish ~selfishnesss. as it appeared, toward
the people of St. Louis and especially
toward those who were his official
entertainers.
While an official was rendering to
him the city's hospitality it is declared
that he necilessly quilted his place on
the platform and ran to Mark Hanna,
whom he discovered suddenly among
the tardy arrivals. Hanna, ii is said,
called his attention to the fact that an
official address was in progress. on
cut it out" Mr.. Roosevelt is reported
as replying. It's only rot anyway.
Hanna induced aim with seeming diff
ficulty 10 return to his place on the
platform. +,
after the ceremony was over Mr..
Roosevelt hoorishIy declared himself
hungry. The Commute explained, that
the programme being finished earlier
than was expected, the caterer had
not arrived. but would appear in a
shart time. Mr.. Roosevelt rushed out
of the pavilion frantically. as reported,
and bought up all the contents Of Il
side show doughnut and pie stand n
returned to the platform accompanied
by the colored men whom he had
bought out. With his purchased deli
caSies he appeased his famine.
whether a man actually sane Is
capable of such conduct at 4 time and
on an occasion OF the highest nation
a. and international importance Is a
question which may be left TO the in
dividual opinion"
If this is true, ii is as painful as
alarming. If not true. then the pillory
would not be punishment enough for
a wretch who would make such charges.
Raleigh Post.
Buffalo Box Factory Burned.
Buffalo. y. Y. November 23.-The
Buffalo box factory was totally de-
stroyed by fire tonight. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. The factory
covered about three and one-half
acres OF ground.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27

Scroggs. Rev. J. Re. B. Borden.
Tillett. Rev. W.. F.. D. Deco. E.
Crabtree.
Turrentine. Rev. S. B.-M. l.. Lee.
Ward. Rev Seth. d. DE-. K Borden.
Watkins, Rev. a. F.. D. D.-F. K.
Rord-O
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
Congressman Faints On the Street

Washington, November 23.-Rep-
res~entative Morgan c.. Fitzpatrick, Of
the fourth congressional district or
street today while on the way to his
hotel. He was taken to the Emer-
gency hospital. where he recovered
consciousness, but at a late hour he
was still unable to leave the hospital.
Friends of Mr.. Fitzpatrick fear that
he is suffering from heart trouble, as
this is the second attack he has had
in Washington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
Turkey for the President.

westerly. TR. l.. November %
Following the custom Of thirty years.
Horace A. Vose. of this town today
shipped to Washington as his an
nual ribute to the President a
Thanksgiving turkey.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
BEST FOR THE KIDNEYS
Irving'k Buchu Waters
HEALTHY FOR so CENTS

Kidney troubles -Caused by over-work, over-eating,
overwhelming. No part of the human body receives
more ill-treatment than the kidneys. Load after load
is imposed on the kidneys until they become clogged.
der disorders than men, but frequently attribute the
cause of kidney and bladder trouble to complaints
peculiar to their sex, while the real cause Of their
misery is some distressing kidney disease.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
DEMAND CITY
Insurgent Forces Will
ConsiderNo Peace
PROPOSALS
AN ARMISTICE

Agreed on While Enort Was
Made TO Bring About a Peaceful
Settlement-The inhabitants Are
Panic Stricken at the Idea of the
Renewal of the Bombardnent-
General Reyes Leaves for NASH
ingtOn to Confer With DR.. .Anldor
to Make Proposition for Panama
to Return to Colombia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27

Atkins. Rev. James. D. DC. Dewey.
Bays. Miss Mamie.-J VI. Stanley.
COmaun, Rev. D. H.-W. H. Higgins.
Durham. Rev. Plato.-Dr. J.. F.. Miller
Glenn. e E. C. and wife.-C. Z.
Stanley.
Law. Rev. T. H.-Geo. A. Norwood, Jr.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27

"A Domingo. Republic OF Santa
Domingo, Sunday. November 23.-Pres-
ident Wos-y-Gll. in his efforts to bring
about a peaceful arrangement with
the insurgent forces which are De-
sieging this city, today commissioned
United States Minister Powell, the Bel
gian minister, the minister Of Hayti
and the Spanish cOnsu to visit the in
surgent camp. Consequently an arms
tic was agreed Upon to expire at noon,
and the peace commission consulted
with the ~insurgent leaders. The latter
however, refused to entertain the
peace proposals and demanded the SUI
render of the city. but they prolonged
the armistIce until 6 o'clock this eve
ming, after which hour the bombarG-
ment of San Domingo Will be reSum-
ed and will be continued until the car
ital falls. The United States minis
ter's residence was deployed during
the previous bOmbardment.
The inhabitants of this city are N
a state of panic