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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
Advice on How to Succeed.

"T~HERE are some faint signs of waning in the cpl
demic of advice how to succeed. 1t Is futile
enough, rule, for to give advice to
other in particular when his advice has been
sought and when he knows all the main facts But what
utter waste of time for to advise infinitely
and aptltudes And upon such subject success! What
Is "successY Does anybody know? Can anybody tell?
Is 1t $1OO00000 friends family life
health? Is it to become President Senator and lose
manly selfrespect by trucking Bosses lying about
ZEAL views every important question and making ones
self voting machine to register the will of in
teres combination Of interests in control Of the
pagn committee and therefore of the party? Is it write
book catch the crowda book apologize for
to all ones acquainances? Or is it merely keep oues
6efrespect work conscenously the task in hand
and for consequences? When Shakespeare
made Wosey say, Filing away ambition" he express.
ing something than the bitterness soured and
stricken statesman. Whenever entertains ambi-
ton beyond the development of his intellect
acter doesn't himself upon steed that has never
yet been broken to bride?
What the devourers of advice on success are really
seeking is something they fnd-how to succeed
without work. At bottom all the envy well-todo in
the bosoms of the notwelltodo is based upon hatred
work The rich Is not enved for his cares for his
responsibilities the facts that to work and TO worry
without ceasng that he has thought free from
responsibility of sort absolutely ignored All the
envier thinks is THAT fellow doesn't have to work. And
1t Is impossible to convince him that he is mistaken Just
as impossible t9 conyince the average human being
that he would and could not ii TO change places
with the King Of England and Emperor of India unless
he had been bred from childhood to the dull life of royalty
1t is easy into belief In the multiplication
table and the law of grayitato9 The impossible begins
when seeks to demonstrate the propositions about life
that are plain the your face There isn't room
for doubt that the only from wrechedncss this
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
The Question Answered.

Dstill Springs, Tenn, Aug. "a
Many questions are being asked of Mr..
G. d. Holt of this place in regard to
his wonderful recovery. For over two
years he has been down with his back.
He was so very bad that he could not
even lace his shoes, and from this con-
ditlon he suddenly appeared well and
strong as ever.
1t is no wonder therefore that his
friends are asking him How did you
do it,"
He tells them all: "Dodd's Kidney
Pills did It," and adds: This remedy is
a genuine good medicine and one that
l can heartily recommend to every
body.
Everyone around here knows how
very bad l was. L was so weak in my
back that | couldn't do anything that
needed STOPPING or bending over, and
three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills
made me as you see, as we'll as ever L
was"
They certainly had a wonderful eff
feet on my cas-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
Man-Made Floods and DesoIetion.

~ EFORE 1862 there was a good boating stage OF
- water through the open in the Western riv
| ers This ranged in the Ohio and Mississippi from
~ twelve to fifteen feet Now in nearly all the rivers
there periods when the is very HIGH and other
periods when it is very low
Forty the smaller rivers and streams In Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and New York-many OF them fed by
full the banks. The who returns his old home
in these States finds these creeks and rivers almost
dry in the and raging torrents in the spring
Many of the springs famous forty years ago are no
longer in existence Streams that then gave regular
supply of to hundreds of farms in the
time simply series Of pools Even in largest
the there scarcely enough for
navigation while in the spring great floods like that
recently raging in the Missouri and it's tributaries.
There is for this change. Fifty years the
native forests in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
in their wild The trees had not been cut and the
ben cleared away. Now these forests
all Where there square miles of forest
there square miles bare of the prares
in Illinois.
Forty ago the headwaters Of all great river
systems In highlands covered by trees Gradually in
roads were upon forests and the mountains in
which found the fountains Of the Ohio River system
denuded In the mountain regions at the
the Missouri and its tributaries twohrds of the timber
has been cut In Wisconsin and Minnesota, the head
OF the Mississippi 80 cent of the trees have
been cut.
Had the forests on the mountains and foothills not
been cut been destroyed by great forest res the
would have melted quickly and the heavy rainfall
would in part have been retained in forest lands Under
present conditions however the thousands of mountain
streams with overlooking banks to the rivers and the
great river became terrific agent Of destruction Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
A purchased friend never lasts.

A purchased friend never lasts.
Yes, my son, Ell durance is a bright
virtue to conteml llte-at stance.
Friendship only exists between true:
neople.
God RENTS sirs, but not, consequen-
ces.
1t tax many men to build a ship,l
out one worm can sink it, Apply thai
Dig fact.
Have you ever noticed that pearls o.
character often form In our SOULS SIZE
pots.
A speck of gold weighing the mil
ionth part Of grain may be easily
cen by the naked eye.
a drop of castor oil in the eye to,
cemove foreign body is said to be as
efiicaciouS as flaXseed.
The Chinese have flower which
is white at night or in the shade and
becomes red in the sunlight.
| fTOSU Has NdIluuS tuclS. OuucT Lu6
same temperature eggs burst, apples
shrink and potatoes turn black.
The purchasing power of money in
the days of the Roman emperors was
about ten times what 1T is at pres
ent.
The most wonderful vegetable in
the world Is the truffle; it has
neither roots, stem, leaves, flowers
lor seeds.
The largest sum ever offered for a
diamond was 80, $50, 900 by Prince Of
| Hyderabad, India, for the I'm
perial."
A broken wooden horse, with viii h
Napoleon BOnaparte played when a
child, was recently sold for 1000
francs.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
THE FARMER is A TYRANT WHO
COULD NOT WELL BE SPARED

scratch farmer scratch ty
a.. u" ,. ...,' ... ~
land and have sole
The
bosses horses and pigs
his Russia and takes firm hand
to feuds with
conflict
good
farmers must good
fight
college educaons her and daughters
why his children don't love farm life as well as he
him neghbos
with little
things all true
families
the world couldn't him. but he
to won't him
wife has regulated until I'm pretty
Most big
tyrants sr.'-Deot Free
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
A Combination Of farmers.

~ organization called the American Society OF Equ-
ty, consisting of farmers and having Its headquar
/ ters at indianapolis has issued a bulletin to the
farmers of the West advising them that, by means
of cooperation is easily possible to make 81 bushe
the minimum price of wheat during the coming
The executive authorities of the American Society
of Equity believe that 1t is easily possible If the farmers
will exercise small degree of serestraIn to have
the price of wheat in Chicago range from 81 upward
though the advice Is given not to insist upon than
ST. for the that to hold for higher prices would
to great accumulation of the wheat supply in this
country, which would have disastrous effect when the
time to market the next harvest
An obvious difficulty in carrying out plan of this kind
the impossibty of securing concerted action among
hundreds of thousands of individuals widely separated
from each other and having little immediate inter
communication 1t also has to be borne in mind that the
have of the markets of Europe for the dis
posal of wheat Is conditional If these were
failure of the In the great grain growing countries
Of the world of wheat growers If they had
been fortunate would be in position ask almost any
price in which they fit to demand but when the
wheat crops of the great growing countries sat
isfactory in quantity sales predicated willing
to take the price that others asking for
equivalent suppies.-Boston Herald.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

\ party of friends. men whose pro-
IL amusement, went into the country
or II twenty-four hours holiday, reso-
lutely determined to free their minds
for that length of time from all Ideas
connected with their work.
There's to be no talking shop" said
the lawyer, ION penalty of exclusion
from the company" and every one
agreed with him.
The morning was spent In long
tramp along country roads; then came
hearty dinner at noon. followed by
another tramp, which was brought to
a close by heavy, shower. The COM
pany returned to the inn where they
We're to pass the night and found a
bright fire awaiting them.
Now let's have an evening of quiet
enjoyment with these books" said the
| doctor. Il see there are number here
| of which I've heard and that haven't
read What do you say?"
Again every one agreed, and pre-
sumably there was no sound in the
Dom save the crackling of the fire, the
soft rustic Of the pages of book or
magazine and an occasional contented
sigh,
Look here" said the lawyer sud
denly. whats that the doctors got
inside his book?"
Eth" said the doctor. hurriedly
thrusting a small red book and a pencil
into his pocket 'I-my mind had just
wandered to case of-well, never
mindv'
Come, now, all Of us own up what
we're really doingW said the lawyer
and it thereupon appeared that thu
schoolmaster had discovered an educa
tional report among the magazines anC
was reading 1t, and banker had beer
studying the stock exchange reports
and the clergyman had slip of pape
on which he was making notes for I
sermon.
How about you" said the doctor
turning to the legal member of tn
party. "Have you really been reading
that magazine"
II have" said the lawyer, handing
him the book. "Shake It and see
I've concealed any papers"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Once upon a time boy drlfted away
from the teachings of good mother
and got into bad company. 1t Is a
strange characteristic of the tangle
that he is not satisfied with being
tough. He wants to spread the conta-
gion, to extend his meanness to make
otser boys as bad as himself. And
he finds many converts. SO the boy
who figures in this editorial learned to
lie, to pilfer, to drink, to curse and all
these things were hailed as virtues in
the small circle in which he had been
initiated. At heart he wasn't n bad
fellow, but he was weak. Finally, he
was caught stealing, and was sent to
the penltentiary for one year. He did
a lot Of thinking. In his little stone
cell he discovered that the way of the
transgressor is always hard, and the
one mighty resolve he made was, II
will be good" He meant 1t, too. He
had foolish notion that he could walk
out of prison one day, begin at the spot
where he took, the wrong road, look
the world in the face and start anew.
When the term was ended he walked
out into Gods sunlight and went to
work. The bad thoughts were gone,
the bad living was only memory, and
he went to work almost happy He
got a job as brakeman and did his
duty as man who owed society moth
inc haUond what haI haa, M IA hahinJ
the gray walls of the great prison
Society, as a whole, never quite for
gives human being for a crime
There Is always a some one to give
the struggling man kick in the face
when he needs helping hand. The
anonymous letter writer got in his dead
ly work, You have an ex-convict In
your employ" was the burden of the
missiye, and 1t reached the mark and
lost the young brakeman his place
Men do not like to work with ex-con-
victs, II they know it: There is a
sneaking feeling that the fellow who
has been in the "pen" isn't fit to as.
soclate with free men, and nobody
cares to go into details. Yes they dis
charged the penitentlary brakeman
and IN the books of hell long fiery
| credit mark was set down to the cul
who wrote the anonymous letter. The
young man? The last heard of him
he was idle, trying to remain honest
with the road to ruin wide open ant
the narrow way to responsibility al
most barred.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Freedom, home life and content of
heart were some of the possessions
for which former member of the
Presidents cabinet declared himself
thankful, when speaking at q public
dinner recently. He had been re-
ferring to our multimillionaires, and
the blessings OF which their great
wealth almost necessarily deprlves
them, and II am glad l am not rich
man." he said. A great many thought
full people feel the same way-especial.
ly those who are able to add, II am
glad l am not poor man."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Servian government bonds, despite
the precarlous position Of rulers and
people, have been rather more steady
in the recent fluctuations OF European
public securities than those OF other
states. During the Boer war period
between 1899 and and 1902, when Brit
ish consols fell 20 points and German
imperial 3 per cents 10, the extreme
decline i'm Servan As was 8 points.
What is more striking still, their price
at the opening of June, 1903 was high
err than the highest figure reached in
the period from 1898 to 1902 inclusive.
This did not result, however, from
blind confidence in Servia's Willingness
or unwillingncss to pay. Servia is
mortgaged to the bankers as tightly
as Turkey or Greece or Portugal or
China. There sits at Belgrade II so
called autonomous administration Of
monopolles," which, without reference
to the government receives and ad-
ministers for the benefit of Servia's
creditors, O. net earnings of various
state railways, (2) liquor licenses, CD
tobacco monopolies, a. customs duties
90 salt monopoly, and 90 petroleum
monopoly. This has an interesting
sound. 1t makes one wonder what
sort Of figure trust plank" would
cut in the platform of a Servian minor
ity party.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Some curious person asked the late
Oliver Wendell Holmes about his age.
"Seventy-two years young" mot "old'D
was his reply. Some men are younger
at seventy than others are at forty or
fifty. Some men are never young.
Old age hovers over them before they
reach mature years. They are rotten
as soon as they are ripe. Some men
are never old, but carry to the latest
hours of their lives the buoyancyA the
blitheness of disposition, the faculty
for mental labor, the power of thought
and expression, the susceptibility to
higher culture which marked theil
growth from adolescence.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
Miss Solomon and Her Lover.

A woman was walking in a palm
grove when man saw her and has
tened after her. When she asked him
why he followed her, he replied:
Because | am in love with you"
"And why are you in love with me?'
she asked. MY sister who comes af-
ter me yonder is far more beautiful
than l; go and fall in love with her
instead"
The man complied and went back,
but only to look upon a woman az
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

interest in this imaginary division OF
North and South, warranted remark
ing of the line marked out by Mason
and Dixon in 1868.
Rock and earth mounds used at that
time are still in existence to demon.
strate the thoroughness of the original
survey. An erroneous impression OBJ
taias that the line is thirty feet wide
but the fact is that the line is imag
mary.
The false idea Is due to the fact thai
the original survey neceSsltated thir
ty-foot path through the wilderness
signs Of which still remain
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

When it is here remarked that the
male American is declaring symptoms
of dawning effeminacy no occasion is
offered for indignant reprobatlon The
average American has so much thor
lough masculinity that he can spare
enough to dover less vigorous peo-
pie. What is meant is that the natural
reaction to the paramountcy of the
American girl has set in. AS she
shares the pursuits, the pleasures and
the liberties of her brothers and i'm,
poses her commands upon them she
becomes more masculine, they more
feminine; her shoulders square off
theirs begin to slopa She dons the
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
The University of NOtre Dame,

NOTRE DAME, INDIANA.
FULL COURSES IN Classics, Letters, Eco.
noniics and History, Journalism, Art, Science,
Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Eiccs
trical Engineering, Architecture.
Thorough Preparatory and Commercial
Courses.
ROOMS FREE to all student who have completed
he studies required for admission into the Sopo-
more Junior or Senior Year of any OF the Collegiate
Courses.
ROOMS TO RENT, moderate charge to studentSs
over seventeen preparing for Coll ate Courses
A limited number Of Ganddatss for the EcclesiasI
ST. EDWARDS HALL, for boys under 10 years. iss
| aniqus In the completeness Of it's equipment:
The 60th Year will open September 8, 1909.
Catalogues Free. Address
REV. A. MORRlSSEY. c. S. C.. Presideef Box 20.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

society woman of Jacksonville,
Fla, daughter of Recorder OF
Deeds, West, says: Ssase,
There are but few wives and
mothers who havo not at times en-
dured agonies and such pain as only
women know Of. wish such women
knew the Value OF Lydia r. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It
is remarkable medicine, different in
action from airy other ever knew and
thoroughly ssliable
81 have seen cases where women
doctored for years without permanent
benefit who wero cured In less than
three months after taking your Vege-
table Compound, while others who
were chronic and incurable came out
cured, happy, and in perfect health
after a thorough treatment with this.
medicine. l have never used it myself
without gaining great benefit. A
appetite, and tones up the entire.
system. Your medicine has been tried
and found true, hence l fully endorse
IT, MRS K. A. ANDERSON, 225 Wash
ington ST., Jacksonville, Fla. - $4,000
forfeit II original Of above testimonial proving osnu
fnsness cansot be predsesa.
The experience and testimony
of some of the most noted women
of America go to prove, beyond
a question, that Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound will
correct all such trouble at once
by removing the cause, and re-,
storing the organs to q healthy
and normal condition
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
OLD MASON AND DIXON
LINE BEING RESURVEYED

The work of restoring and remark
Ing the Mason and Dixon line is rap.
idly nearing completion, under the SUI.
pervsion of competent engineers ap.
pointed Jointly by the States of Mary
land and Pennsylvania. In April,
1901, each State appropriated $1,000
for the purpose.
No question of territory is involved
in the reconstruction. but the historic
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

ugly as sin. He was vexed and re
turned to the first woman and said to
her:
"Why did you deceive me?"
And she made answer:
did you not also tell me an un.
truth? For If you were really in love
with me, why did you turn back to
the other woman?'-New York Sun.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
No Benefit Derived.

Bertie-Did you hear my rich old I'm,
Gle was dead?
Gussie-No, what did he leave you'll
Bertie-Nothing
Gussie-Well, what's the good OF his
being dead-La Rlre.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

sweater and the blazer and wears he's
skirts nhorter and shorter; they take
TO pink shlrtwalsts and clicked opep
work stockings, and their ever baggier
trousers. worn so long that they have
TO be turned up at the bottom, seem
fashioned on seraglio pattern.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

mo, you haven't" admitted the
doctor; but the magazine seems to
open naturally to this article, my
friend" and he soberly passed the
magazine 10 the clergyman, who read
aloud: Some Curious Cases of Cir
cumstantial Evidence in Criminal
Trials. youths Companion.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

A pastor has preached against what
he Is pleased to call 'the peekaboo
waist" The waist may be immodest,
but calling public attention to 1t comes
nearer to being immoral than the gar
ment itself. Beloved brethren, let us
think twice before speaking three
times,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

An eminent scientist connected with
the agricultural bureau states that the
worlds demand for beans has passed
the supply. The roar of apprehension
IN Boston papers sounds like yard.
fiji OF locomotives letting off steam.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

To be sure the Office should seek the
man, but any Of our statesmen would
tell you that there is no necessity of
hiding In the cellar when the office is
going by the house.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Porto Rico held flag day, at which
fifteen hundred American flags were
carried in procession. 1t seems as If
this were a loyal colony.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

1t costs some young men as high as
$4,000 each for a four years course
at Yale. But these young men would
spend the money even If they were not
at Yale.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

The women often speak Of some ons
who looked beautiful In death. Notice
that the men never use that woCd In
connection with the dead2
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

While the easy-going individual is
trying 20 figure out which Is the best
foot to put forward the strenuous man
gets there with both feet.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

A scientist assures us that the earth
is good for 100000 years yet. I'm
less, of course, Morgan and Baer
should decide to take 1t with them.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27
FDI T(DRIALSE


world is through work. plenty of hard work. and that TO
induce any to work there must be compuson COM
pulson of responsibility compulson Of necessity Yet
who believe 1t in the bottom of their hears2 Not many
Golfers Weekly.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

When King Peter arrived at Bel
grade the bands played the Servian ma
tivnal anthem. The Servian national
anthem is God Help the King"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

While n negro and a Chinaman dlvid-
ed class honors at Yale, the athletic
honors of the institution are still held
by the whites.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Good advice has monetary value.
It's the other kind that Is handed out
by those who are running a gift en-
herprise.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

The Chinese invented iirecrackers;
but the Christians figured out the au-
tomobile.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

The largest man in the world has
been discovered in Kustjak, Russia.
Good! We have several unbeaten
specimens of the smallest right here.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

What good will ii do us If they have
found the smallpox germ? We didn't
Jose him.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

Presently he may go fourhushing
down the corridors OF time as King
Peter Out.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

When told to take back seat the
average man will take affront
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

The doctors say fat babies are not
healthy. Is this to be construed as a
deadly blow to the nursing bottle?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-27

The national bad habit is not steal
Ing, drinking, gambling or loahng. but
plain, every day exaggerct'c--