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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

WILD MAN OF BORNEO.
How Barnum Got the Idea of One OF
His Famous Freaks.


Joaquin Miller, the California poet
and naturalist. was an intimate friend
of F. T. Barnum. They met abroad
many years ago and kept in touch un-
til the great Snowman died. Many
are the stories which the old poet likeJ
TO tell of his friend, "the great Ameri.
can humbug," and one of them is tho
true story of the greatest humbug
which Barnum ever perpetrated-th ]
Wild Man Of Boreno.
ut came about through Mr.. Bar
NUNS love for temperance and his
great kindness of heart" said the poet,
in telling the story to a New York
Tribune writer. IAN old sailor who
had been everywhere and seen every;
thing came to Barnum one afternoon
in Bridgeport, Conn, and asked him
to buy some things which he had cary
ed from wood on his last voyage across
the Pacific. He was ragged, hairy,
hungry and altogether q terrible spec.
linen.
Where have you been?" asked the
Snowman.
Been to Borneo, answered the old
sailor.
well, you look 1t! Come in ant
sit down. We are just going to have
supper.
"rhe sailor did come in, and after
the meal begged Barnum to lock hin
up In a cage, cage with iron bars
that he might refrain from drinking
Thus was the WILD Man of Borneo
conceived, and every one who ATTENDED
a Barnum show remembers what NJ
object Of interest he was to the small
| bows "
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23
FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR.
Steps Taken by that Nation TO linz
prove This Island Colony.

prove This ls'and colony.
Our consul at Tamatave, Madagas-
car, has recently made report on
what the French are doing to improve
the condition of this great island col
ony Of theirs. The interest which we
have In Madagascar has undergone a
material change since it came into the
possession of the French. a few years
ago we exported, particularly from
New England, a quantity of our man
ufactured products to that far-away
market, having annual sales which in
volume sometimes amounted to be-
tween 100000 and 100000 year.
But since the French came into con
troll they have insisted that the natives
on the island should get their supplies
In France, with the result that our eX-
ports to Madagascar in the year 1899
footed up to only $12, OH. in 1900 TO
SOS, 406 and in 1901 to Sl6,202. The
French, by their special tariffs. make
II necessary for the natives to buy
what they want from the outer world
from French merchants and manufac'
turers, and our experience in this re
spect is all the argument that is need
ed to show why it is that we prefer
the open-door method of the English
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

America will have nothing but kind
memories for Max O'Rell paul
Blouet), who died in Paris recently.
We laughed with this genial humor-
LIST when he satirlzed John Bull and
His Island" and we were not offend
ed when he turned to jonathan and
His Continent" He was an observer
without guile. He saw what was TO
him the funny side of things, and in
this he appealed to the American peo-
pie more, perhaps, than any other for
eign writer.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23
Alexander selkirk.

Alexander Selkirk, who rs supposed
to have been the original Robinson
Crusoe, has many living descendants,
and one of them, Andrew Alexander
Selkirk, who is now Man of Kent
writes to the British papers that his
father owns the house In a niche OF
which stands the statue Of Crusoe. In
1t the hero of Defoes story and Cow
pers poem once lived.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

DR. Barton made one of the most i'm
portant discoveries of the century
when he told the Congregationalists
the other day that football is
means of grace" He has observed that
the organization Of football team
has drawn many boys to Sabbath
school, thus supplandng in its bene-
ficient influence the Christmas tree and
the annual Sundayschool picnic. For
these functions are good for one Sab
bath only, while the football allure
ment holds for long and blessed sea.
son. A New York minister secured
a large attendance at Sunday school by
getting up boxing exhibitions and am.
ateur prize fights, but the football idea
while more perilous, appeals to high,
en- public sentiment. If a soul can
be saved by kicking its way ln,O the
paths of grace, who 80 narrow and
blgoted as to protest? If boys scram
BILE, one over another, In their anxiety
to get into the rGsh line Of salvation
who shall restrain them? All hail foot
ball, the new means OF grace.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Music hath charms to soften
rock" as the saying goes. 1t can do
more, for it was discovered In the
Brooklyn maynard not long ago that
it can move coal At any rate, the
men put more coal on board ship in a
given time when the band played live
ly music than when it did not play
Mt all
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

While we are commenting on the
fact that employers and employees are
becoming strongly organized let us
not forget that the hapless consumer
is still struggling to be heard as
mass of divided units.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Don't envy the rich man, says Phil
osopher Roosevelt. We don't We'd
much rather he ourself than any rich
man I'm the world. But we certainly
would like to show the rich man how
to get run for his money.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

A man found n pocketbook and re-
turned 1t to the owner, who accused
him of taking 500 out OF 1t. This In
cident teaches that virtue Is It's own
reward
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Because n native interpreter got mix
ed in his TRANSACTIONS a Belgian officer
in the Kongo Free State shot him and
then to keep his hand in slaughtered
eighty other natives. Belgium is max
ing the name "Kongo Free State" one
of the greatest paradoXes in Christen-
dom
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

BETTER hurry up with that Temple of
Peace, and In letting the contracts ar
range for strong iron cage to keep
the Russian bear in.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Boys who begin at the foot and work
their way to the head are not Pc
culiar to the United States. william
Crooks, NJ. p" is the present title of
a man who began his career in an
English workhouse, that Is, poorhouse.
Necessity drove him there, but at the
first opportunity he got his discharge.
and began to deliver milk on regular
route. What time he could get he gave
to learning the trade of a cooper, and to
school. Work and study together made
him in time member Of the London
City Council, chairman of the board
of guardians of the very workhouse OF
which he was once an inmate, and
now q member of Parliament for the
division OF Woolwich.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Mr.. Carnegles plan is to make every
workman a capitalist. Then, of course
there would he a library in every
house.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

A Philadelphia genius claims to have
perfected n noiseless typewriter. We
fail to see the advantage OF such a
machine If woman is employed to
operate 1t
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23
Canrht in Street Grates.

A few weeks ago in Leeds, England,
a certain type of street crate had
finally to be condemned and discarded
solely because so many women wear
ing high-heeled boots were caught as
in trap and had either to leave one
heel or the whole boot before they
could get away. Near one cab rank in
Briggate no fewer than four ladies
were held by the heels in one week,
as a corporation official explained to
the town council.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Pawnbrokcrs are planning TO estab'
lish branch Offices at the race tracks.
This is bringing cause and effect close
together
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Quarantine regulations, approved 10y
Secretary Shaw recently, provide that
no foreignborn mosquitoes shall be ad-
United to the United States. This is
a novel and universally acceptable
law restricting immigration. All ships
coming from yellowfever ports must
be 30 thoroughly fumlgated as to kill
every mosquito, and if there are any
passengers on board suffering from
yellow or malarial fever, they must be
covered with netting so that no mos
qultoes may have access to them. The
regulations restricting the immigration
of mosquitoes could be supplemented
by equally stringent rules for the de-
struction of the native product.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

college spirit of commendable
kind seems to have been shown In Il
small Eastern city. A capitalist erect
ed, near the college campus. n hand
some dormitory, intended exclusively
for rich students who could afford to
pay for luxuries and attendance. But
the collegians Who patronized the place
lost prestige and 1t soon became evil
dent that the capitalist had made a
bad Investment. Social eXclusiveness
and vulgar display belong in Vanity
Fair, not in a democracy Of learning.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

Attention was called In these
columns some days ago, ~0ys the
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23
Custer County Republican

.. M. AMsBERRY, EDITOR & fUBtIsHED
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23

BLESSED are the joy-makers.-Willis
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28

servers usually provided on ship
board all the time, but here is an ap-
paratus which will answer the same
purpose, and yet without discomfort
when constantly worn. The spiral
form which the tube is given enables
the wearer to suspend it around his
body by means of the supporting
jacket, beneath the outer clothing, and
it takes but a short time to. initiate the
reservoir through the mouthpiece,
which is provided with valve to
check the outward flow of the air. The
spiral coils lie fiat when Debated, and
are scarcely perceptible to the wearer,
who, even if the device rendered him
slightly uncomfortable, would have the
feeling of safety to couDterbalance the
annoyance.-St./ Louis Globe-Demo-
Crnt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
PROGRESS IN FLORIDA.
Laws Passed by Legislature Devote
inE Large Sums to the Build
ing of Roads.

In no state of the union is there
greater enthusiasm among the people
for building good roads than in Florida,
and in no state has more good legisla-
tion favorable to road improvement been
enacted during the past year. The leg
islature which recently adjourned en-
acted several general road laws. Their
general purport can be gathered from
the following brief statement by Senator
A. S. Mann, who is state organizer for the
Florida Good Roads association:
"The general public at first glance will
not be preparedeto grasp the Importance
of the present good roads laws. The act
giving the internal improvement fund
to good roads alone in its entirety in
lands and money bequeaths to the cause
not less than ten or fifteen million of dol
lars. In Florida, where material is
abundant and cheap with little or no
expensive cuts or fills to make and sand
as a foundation insuring perfect drain
age or readbed, an immense amount of
work can be done on this fund alone;
but couple with this the convict money,
one-half Of which goes into the general
revenue fund of each county, and may be
used on roads If the county commission
ers so wish, and the levy of a three-mill
tax on all values for same purpose, and
all will see that the power to make good
roads has been given without stint"
Another act of the highest Importance
sets aside for purposes of road improve
ment the Indian war claims, the payment
Nf oh hoc hN-
gress From this alone the state will
realize over half million dollars.
1t is an interesting fact that the aver
age swamp land fund and the Indian
war claims fund both come to the state
from the national government; and now
| that the legislature has decided to use
them for road building they are virtually
national aid to road improvement. The
swamp lands were granted TO the state
by congress about the middle of the last
century. A large part of the lands have
since been sold or donated to promote
railroads and other internal improve
ments, but there are still many millions
of acres of valuable land from which an
immense fund can be derived, all OF
which is to be used for road building
The roads are not to be built by the state
but by the counties, each of which will
draw from these funds in proportion to
the total assessed value of it's property
This is not all the road legislation the
good roads advocates of Florida want
A large and enthusiastic state good roads
convention was held at Gainesville in
July. Resolutions were adopted de-
manding the employment of convicts In
road building; urging Joint action Of
counties in building through lines Of
roads across the state in all directions;
pledging support to candidates for of
flee who will work for good roads; de
claring for cooperation with the Ma
t4onal Good Roads association in tn,
work of organization; and demandin,
that the national government aid til,
states in the great work of building goot
roads throughout the country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
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NEW LAMP FOR MINERS.
IL Ia Provided with n Gas Detecting
Attachment, Placed just Above
the FLAME,

One of the most practical inventions
of the last century was the miners
lamp, with its sheet of gauze sur
rounding the flame, enabling the miner
to work in coal mines where gas was
liable to be found without danger of
causing an explosion with his light.
Que objection to such lamp is that
the gas might increase in volume in
the chamber so gradually that the min
er would not be aware of its presence,
continuing to work with the assurance
that there was no danger of an eXplo-
sion and not detecting anything wrong
in the atmosphere. AS an improve
ment over the lamp a Pennsylvania in
ventor has suspended above the flame
a series of wires, which become heated
and grow red in proportion to their
distance from the blaze, and also in
ratio to the quantity of gas mixed
with the atmosphere The operation
of the device is apparent The sensi-
tive wires are adjusted on the harp TO
positions determined by experiment, in
which they represent percentages of
gas present by becoming reddened with
the heat of the Game. The user of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
CALVES FOR MARKET.
and You VIII Get n Fair Price
for Your Veal.

Calves from three to six weeks old,
and weighing about 100 pounds, or say
from so TO 120 pounds, are the most
desirable weights for shipment. The
head should be cut out, so as to leave
the hide of the head on the skin. The
legs should be cut OF at the knee joint.
The entrails should be all removed, eX-
cepting the kidneys, the liver, lights and
heart should be taken out. Cut the car
cass open from the neck through the
entire length-from head TO tail. If
this is done they are not so apt to sour
and spoil during hot weather Many
fine carcass has spoiled in hot weather
because of its not being cut Open Don't
wash the carcass out with water, but
wipe out with a dry CLOTH Don't ship
until the animal heat is entirely out of
the body, and never tie the carcass up
in a bag, as this keeps the air from cir
culating and makes the meat more liza
BILE to become tainted. Mark for ship
ment by fastening a shipping tag to the
hind leg. Calves under so pounds
should not be shipped, and are liable to
be condemned by the health officers as
being unfit for food. Merchants, too,
are liable to be fined If found selling
! these "slunks" for violation of the law.
Very heavy calves, such as have been
Fed on buttermilk, never sell we'll in our
market-they are neither veal nor beei
Chicago Trade Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28

In the curious light cure of Dr.. W. j.
Morton, violet light is produced in the
body itself A quinine solution of the
strength of one grain to eight ounces,
shows beautiful violet fuorescence un-
der the X-rays, and as 20-grain dose
of quinine would probably cause the ten
pounds of blood in the body to become
a solution of similar strength, it is as
sumed that the blood would light up in
a like way. The quinine, in dose of
five to twenty grains, is administered
at, hour before the X-ray treatment.
The violet radiations are credited with
curative properties, and DR.. Morton
thinks that in cancer, which he has
treated more than year, he has OBJ
tained results that could not be reached
by the X-rays alone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28

FARM DAIRY CHEESE PRESS.
cent. OF all the cheese made in the
United States.
1t is the purpose of farmers bulle-
tin No. 166, Cheese Making on the
Farm" to furnish for the farm house
hold a brief description of the most
approved methods used in the manu-
facture of several varieties of cheese.
Details of management, which are
briefly and plainly described, include
aeration and cooling, coloring, the use
Of rennet, curdling, cutting, cooking,
molding, pressing, dressing, sailing
and curing. The operation of press
ing is explained as follows: The press
may be a simple lever and weight, de-
scribed as follows: The lever should
be about II feet long. A broken
wagon tongue answers the purpose
very well. Set strong box on which
the mold may be placed, about three
feet from a wall, post or tree. On the
latter nail a slat and under it put one
end of the lever. Put a circular
board about six inches in diameter
upon the mold, and on this rest the
| stick or lever. A pail containing a
few cobblestones will answer for the
weight. Do not apply full pressure
at first, but let the weight hang about
halfway between the mold and the
outer end of the stick. Let the
cheese remain a few hours in the
press, then take out and dress.
The ordinary process by which our
American cheese is made in factories
is not applicable to the farm dairy,
| because it takes too much time and
is so complicated that it requires
! years of practice to become familiar
with the varying conditions in which
milk comes to the vat The various
changes that take place in milk, and
which are troublesome in making
cheese, nearly all develop in the
nights milk, kept over until the fol-
| lowing morning. So, if milk is made
into cheese Immediately after it is
drawn, no difficulty need be expert
enced. By employing simple and
short method of manufacture, anyone
at all accustomed to handing milk
can, with the appliances found in any
well-regulated farmhouse, make uni
formly a good cheese.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28

Although renovated butter is an i'm
movement over its ancestors, the
thought of eating the rancid putrid
grease which has only been well laun-
dered, is not pleasant one. Removing
the smell and taste from stock" which
is found in most country groceries, in a
barrel in the rear, puts premium upon
bad farm butter. In one respect, it
seems to be good thing, as ii affords
an outlet for the rank, cheesy, mottled,
greasy stuff sent to town by the care
less, ignorant and uncleanly farmer.
But that very farmer is the main loser.
He cannot get enough for his poor prod
uct to pay him for producing it, 1t costs
as much to feed cows and make bad but
ter as it does to feed cows and make
good utter.--Rural World,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28

A common method of extracting per-
fumes from flowers is enfleurage, which
consists in placing the blossoms in con-
tact with purified lard for few days.
When saturated with the perfume, the
lard itself may be used, or the essential
oil may be extracted under strong alco-
hol. The process being tedious, many
attempts-mostly unsatisfactory-hav
been made to obtain the essential oil di-
rect from the flowers by means of light
petroleum. A curious recent discovery
is that perfume-naking still goes on in
the flowers during enfleurage and DR..
Albert Hesse reports that ton of tube
rose blossoms only yielded &C grams
of oil by petroleum extraction, but gave
up sol grams to the embedding fat in
enfleurage and yielded rs grams more
when the faded blossoms were distilled.
The flowers appear to have contained
more perfume after exhaustion by en-
fleurage than when first gathered
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
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FARM DAIRY CHEESE.
Department of Agriculture Is Trying
to Develop Its Manufacture
on Larger Scale

There is popular impression that
the manufacture of cheese in this
country has been so completely trans
ferred to the factory system during
the last half century, as practically to
abolish cheese-making on dairy farms
But the agricultural returns of the
twelfth United States census show
that in the year 1899 there were still
1850 farms upon which dairy cheese
was made. The quantity produced on
these farms during that year was &c.
372, $50 pounus, an average of 1,O45
pounds per farm. This product con-
stituted almost five and one-half per
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
NEW LIFE PRESERvER.
II IL So Light and Compact Tint Con-
slant wenr Occasions No
Discomfort.

The steamship companies which did
not provide life preservers in number
equaling or exceeding its passenger
carrying capacity would be summarily
dealt with by the government, and yet
every one knows that when the time
arrives for their use the passengers
and crew may be too much excited to
profit by the provision thus made for
their safety. The passenger crossing
the ocean would certainly feel no
small degree of added security were he
provided with the apparatus shown in
the illustration. No one would think
of wearing one of the bulky life pre-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
M. X. & II. Ry. Annual Seaside
Excursion.

An excursion to Galveston at this season
at small cost. There is nothing so good for
tired bodies and weary minds as ocean
breezes, and trip of this kind at this time
will prove both health and pleasure trip.
Tickets will be sold at rates less than one
fare on August 30th, with final limit leaving
Galveston on all regular trains up to and
including September 18TH 1903. Special
chair cars and tourist sleepers. A buffet
meal service will be furnished at reasonable
prices. Berths in tourist sleeper are $500,
one berth being good for two persons. All
applications for berth reservations should
be made to Mr.. f. B. Drew, General Ticket
Agent NJ. X. & t. Ry., Parsons, Kas. Ask
''Katy's" Agent for particulars.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-28
CIenn MiIking Ia Imrortant,

Pains should be taken to extract The
last drop, if possible, at every milk
ing Not only should this be done be-
cause the milk last drawn is the richest,
but that COWS may be made to main
tain their flow much longer when pains
are taken at each milking. This is a
matter of great Importance to the dairy
man, as it determines the profit or loss
of his business, A poor man cannot af-
ford to keep poor COW.