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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
RADICAL CURE FOR LOCKJAW.
Severe Nature of the Remedy Calcu-
lated to Inspire Fear.

Severe Nature of the Remedy Ca1cu-
lated to Inspire Fear.
A large number of deaths from
tetanus that have recently come to
light invests with great interest any
report Of a cure of the much-dreaded
disease. The severity and radical ma
ture of the remedy, however, are well
calculated to inspire almost as much
fear as the original attack of the NAL
ady. Unlike other kindred infectious
ailments, there Is usually no calcula-
ton for results until the poison has
done it's work by attacking the brain
and nervous centers and producing
the fatal spasms. Hence the only
hope rests in the injection of the
tetanus anti-toxin directly into the
brain substance The operation is a
severe and dangerous one, but is the
only means at hand that appears to be
founded on the rational scientific basis
of directly neutralizing the poison.
The successful case reported from San
Francisco is one in point in which 1t
was necessary to bore into the skull
of the victim for the purpose of intro
duclng the neutralizlng agent. No
more forcible argument in favor of
prevention of lockjaw could be urged
than that afforded by the necessity of
the situation.
Although of late large majority Of
the cases of tentanus have been charg-
ed to the toy pistol and poisoned cart
ridge, it Is we'll to bear in mind that
the real cause is the accidental pres
ence of the bacillus on dlrt-soiled
hands, and that the microbe, being
naturally developed in damp and fer
tilted earth, can thus be easily driven
into wounds by an explosion. Rusty
garden implements, nails and the like
are also frequent causes of infection,
especially when they produce punctur-
ed LESSONS. When such conditions are
present obviously the only course to
pursue Is to endeavor to anticipate
lockjaw by Immediately cleansing the
wound and by injecting the anti-toxin
locally, knowing full well that with
such an opportunity lost the last, most
desperate remedy is all that is left.
In connection with such facts, too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
avoidance of all wounds from solled
or rusty Instruments.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22

result is of strong When class distinctions
gentry gain culture without losing strength
the highest type of manhood 1t seen in the
pre-Augustan age Of Rome, in the chvary Of medieval
Western Europe, In the planters of our own Southern
States in the first half Of the nineteenth century The de
veopment of the highest type of manhood involves the con-
demnaon OF the majority rude and laborious fe But
such be propagated from generation to generation
only long they remain in their rural environment
In the cities degeneration occurs Here and there vigor
transmitted through several generations Of city bred
men, least in individuals who maintain the family
and standing. The tendency to degeneration and
the yields the tendency The result is in the
slums and the potters field The who dominate
the ces-at least In America-are country bred.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22

tirely protected against all wind, no
matter from what quarter of the COM
pass it may chance to blow, while hot
natural baths at varying temperatures
are always available. The very
ground, too, is kept at constantly
equable heat by the latent volcanic
fires within. And, lastly, food of all
kinds is plentiful and varied, and in
cludes such curious and unusual deli
cacies as. sea elephants fins and tails,
crayfish and other succulent "Kerg-
uelen cabbage" No wonder that many
of those who have been cured have
preferred settling on the island to re-
turning to their homes.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
A Subterfuge.

Don't you know that it is wrong to
gambler
"Yassir," said Pickaninny Jim as he
shook the dice. II knows it's wrong
to gamble, but dishere isn't gamblin';
dishere is a guessin' contest. "-Wash-
ington Star.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
The Handicap of Lack of Education.

gnaazhauza ANY of wonderful natural endowments
| Ia an \ are dWarfed and hampered in their life work
IWW because of their lack of education. How often
do bright minds in responsible positions
E(STTYTl3 serving boards Of directors trustees OF
S9Sxy great business houses banking institutions
who control the affairs Of great railroads
and manufactures, who have good judgment and great
natural ability, but who stuned and cramped by
their lack of early development that life does not yield then
onetenth of what it might had their intellectual and
thetc possibilities been unfolded in youth In social life
public Platforms in debate in the higher fields Of the
worlds work. enjoyment and progress they constantly
baed embarrassed and handicapped by the limitations
ignorance
Again, thousands of young and young women are
working to-day in inferior positions because Of their lack
Of mental culture Conscious of dormant powers which
they cannot get control Of many of them fret and chafe
under the restraint imposed upon them by their gnor
They in the position of the Chinese and other
nonprogressve peoples, who have great mineral agrcu
tural and other natural which, however do
yield them hundredth Of their value because they
not know how to utilize them. In the very midst of poen
tia wealth and vast possibilities these people live pow
ery and degradation, just uneducated woman
who has developed his her mental wealth, is
doomed to perpetual ignorance and its consequences
Success.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Influence of Land.

s-~.S@ HE which control the ebb and flow of
4 humanity between city and country among
the most subtle and obscure of social phe-
nomena. The characteristic of the people all
HgNH countries Is vigor. 1t is due to the
SSsaD dance of land for all the people, and the
and between land and The life coun-
tries rude but the nourshment is abundant pure
air sends pure blood coursng through the veins The
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Accounting for the Trouble.

She-The way to a mans heart is
through his stomach.
He-Possibly that's why so many
poor devils have dyspepsia--Raltimore
American.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Future of the Automobile.

ONE people have regarded these machines
~ likely to become formidable competitors of the
>cA street and the steam railroad regards both
49, passenger and freight transportation and there
3EJSH have appeared magazine articles to this effect,
sE9A whose writer's should know better AS is point
ed out in the current number of the Engineer
ing magazine, four five times much would be
required to given weight over the best macadam
steel rails and power is the great cost Of
transportation. Hence it be that the automobile
the public roadway will be able to compete
with the railroad either in tonnage movement speed
Accordingly the automobile must remain vehicle for
transportation in competition with the horse
where railway is unavailable nconveniently nacces
sbe The only way bring it into direct competition with
the railway to put upon rails itself and in that
be said have lost It's character and become
railway for private public In this aspect the
question Of the automobile and its future into that
Of the railway whether moving high rails
broad fiat rails laid in the common public highway,
a private way Considered In this character the auto
vehicle mechanically propelled by its own power
doubt has great future just the electric street has
Springfield Republican.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Misarp!ied Charity.

HE question arises from time time whether
u u after all, much of the charity which stands
/ ready and willing to aid almost whatsoever
AZ shall ask is not doing deadly work for the peo-
(yNpNSA pie. 1t this thought which impelled
gSG15 lyle to say that among the most futile of the
of men the professional philanthropy
The great of the cities of to-day is the congestion
of population in the and squald districts and this
and increasing rush from the country city
only and of crime and suffering,
but OF economic waste of the most dangerous costly
kind While the farmers of the West plead for help
fields, the cities filed with the wrechedly poor
who will not leave the city, where they subsis largely
charity. 1t is not alone in the West in harvest time
that labor Is needed in the country the demand for labor
good wages from every farming district every
State in the Union all the and of the
problems confronting the farmer is the scarcity
The rush to the cities continues nevertheless the
and idle find the of the basic
nomic laws reversed by those who actually seeking
ways of helping those to live who deliberately will not
work.-Phadelphia Ledger
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22

II our neighbors had as few faults
as ourselves, what a pleasant old
world this would be to live In!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Many Suicides Due to ignorance.

- HH suicide statistics from Yale College
and the increasing tendency to selfdesruction
1 which marks the hot reminders that
= large number of suicides really preventa-
7IItNNA be and only due to lack Of physiological
l1SSHl education. If college lecturers hygiene
and teachers Of physiology would take pains to
widely impress simple lesson large and definite class
suicides would be and the general average Of
happiness would be distinctly augmented This lesson Is
despair Is temporary state, and in many cases is
entirely due to physical bodily The best remedy
for 1.-The blues" is liver pill That gloomy hopeless out
look in which drives many to suicide due not to
themselves but to bodily conditions which set
called despair" in the mind. Any respondent
persons whose troubles really trivial may this
by looking backward for day week to the last day
which he abundanty happy. He will find in many
that events and conditions have not altered in the
least that the existing gloom therefore, from some
within himself and he may to believe that hope
the hopeless be purchased drug store. Love
particularly among those young people who have been
ecutng themselves Teckessly of late Is to the phys
can merely definite state of bodily congestion, whose
natural mental result Is melancholy and which easily
be aevated IL not cured by simple treatment And if any
lover pair of lovers who thinking of death will
suit intelligent DOCTOR they will their lives at thu
expense of very moderate fee.-New York American.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22
Pnmping a Ships Cargo.

The "grasshoppeT' or derrick ele
vator now in use by the London Grain
Elevator Company at the London
docks has been specially designed for
transshipping the corn from the holds
of the largest types of American liners
engaged in the grain trade into light
era for conveyance to other coasting
vessels or warehouses. It's spout In
which travels an endless belt covered
with buckets, will draw 100 tons of
corn an hour from the hold of vessel.
When ready for action 1t suggests the
great stomach pump that 1t Is
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-22

An old bachelor says that marriage
dowry is a lump of sugar intended to
nullity the bitterness Of the dose.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20
GIVE THE YOUNGSTERS A CHANCE.

In many circles the action of the city
council in forbidding the usual street noise
on the I27th national birthday has aroused
considerable comment both pro and con,
but the majority seems to favor the small
boy and his patriotism.
While recognizing the goodly motives
that prompted the board in its action, still
it must be conceded that practically the
same ends could have been gained had
the order not been made so sweeping,
and only the truly harmful explosives
been forbidden, dynamite booms, cast-iron
canons, lead-pipe denominations being rec
ognized a menace to life and limb and not
necessarily essential as an adjunct to the
screaming of the eagle.
But to deprive the small boy of his penny
peppers is taking away a recognized divine
right of the youngster and in a measure
subdues an inborn patriotism that is domi-
nant in every Yankee, and for a hundred
and twenty-seven years has been fostered
and tenderlly nurtured.
For those of mature years it is behtting
" ODSSI VIC luS udy S1delOly1 Oii~ ,
self to yanking few tail feathers from the
proud bird of liberty, but who of us fails to
remember with tingling veins, when as
child we welcomed the dawn of the Fourth
with impromtu salutes, and the lesson was
lost on none. Then why deprive our
children from the pleasure we once enjoyed?
Let the youngster have a whirl, restrict
ing them to the old fashioned celebration
before the advent of the modern dangerous
appliances. A little noise does no harm,
and out from the smoke and fire will come
the small boy blackened and burnt perhaps,
but with zeal and patriotism that will per
petuate the union of states as no other
method can.
Let the order against noise be modified
and give the youngsters show.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20
BE A LITTLE CAUTIOUS.

1t is surprising what recklessness many
people nowadays show in the risk they run
to gain riches without work An enor1
nous amount of money being put into the
hands of unreliable people without other i'm!
itation on its use than to speculate with if
on the various city exchanges, for the own
ers account. Those who do this know lit
orally nothing about the agents they EN-,
ploy except from circulars received claim
ing to have particular knowledge about
special securities which are to advance rap
idly. With that kind of chaff alleged
that is thrown away in such cases is OF
course not money of the rich-though fres
quently it comes from men and women who
are by no means poor-but money thar
has cost years of economy to accumulate,
This numerous class of spectators has be-
come almost crazed from reading the glow,
ing accounts given by the daily press Oh
wealth gained in day, as it were, by a
lucky venture at stock gambling. Such
cases have, it is true, been an incident of
the tlIleS- possibly OILY because progress,
was rapid and constant. During the same
period there were unnumbered ones who.
lost largely about whom no record is made.
for no one is interested in other people s
failures and the sufferers never boast of
them. Even very many of the fortunate.
cas-, as they called themselves, who Sc.
cured large gains in that way in the early.
part of the present cycle of prosperity i.
dropped later all they had gained before
National Banker
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20
KNOCK KNOCKING.

We are informed by DR.. J. NJ. Shal1er .
of the Matte and Burns Moore companies
that he was recently prevented from maxi.
ing a very important mining deal in this
camp by the pessimistic remarks of two oft
our citizens regarding the Idaho Springss
district mines as a whole. The doctor nat !.
urally feels indignant and we cannot blames
him. Even were it true that the district
had no producing mines, not to say divi-E
dend payers, it would still be bad policy to-
condemn it as long as parties were honestly
and in good faith endeavoring to develop
it. ,
The main reason for the doctors dis-J
pleasure arises from the knowledge that theb
Idaho Springs camp not only has goodk
mines today, but that the record of formerJ
years is excellent, comparing favorablyt
with the great majority of we'll known
camps development considered. AnotherI
reason is, that no person living off the comb
munity, whether through capital, brain or
Drawn invested, does either himself or the
community justice by knocking"
Capital is coy at the best, and a chance
word or look may divert millions into other5
and probably no better fields.
The best plan is to be optimistic. En5
courage those who are trying to do some
thing. Throw envy and discouragement5
to the winds. 1t is the man who tries who5
reaps the golden harvest
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20

The contract let this week by the Big
Five people, the re-starting of the Sun and
Moon, Gum Tree, Shafter and other prop
critics mean an increased activity right away,
and there are other and newer enterprises
in view. These will give employment to
many men and relieve whatever stringency
there may be caused by the labor difficult
ties. The faith shown by the operators of
these and other mines in the district will
be infectious, and naturally lead to still
other properties starting up. But the fu-
ture does not depend upon mining alone.
From a resort standpoint, there is
much to be expected. Persistent agitation
is bound to lead to the erection of one or
more big hotels here in the not distant
future, to accommodate the thousands of
additional tourists guaranteed by the rail-
roads. Persistent and able effort directed
the attention of Colorado to the fact that
gold was first discovered in paying quanti
ties on Jackson bar, and a beautiful park
and monument is assured upon that site.
Persistent and united effort will make
greater Idaho Springs, for two reasons:
We have the required resources to insure
permanency, and we have the people who
show their faith by always and eternally
hustling.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20
WANT THE NEW RAILROAD.

President Birkins of the chamber of COM
merce appointed the following committee to
draft resolutions regarding the proposed
new railway from Yankee Hill: S. A.
Noyes, John G. Roberts and E. M. Mos
script The resolutions follow:
WHEREAS, Mr.. R. A. Hall, representing
the Denver, Yankee Hill & Western Rail
way, has submitted to the citizens of Idaho
Springs, in mass meeting assembled prop
osition to build a line of railroad from
Peck's gulch to the city of Idaho Springs
in connection with the line of said company
already projected to Yankee Hill and also
the one to connect with the Moffatt line at
Mammoth gulch, and
WHEREAS, A realization of the good ac-
complished by railroads as promoters of the
general welfare of every community the
fact that they open territory to develop
ment and progress, the fact that they create
healthy competitor and in other ways con-
tribute to the prosperity of every section
and believing that the opening of this vast
mineral territory will conduce to the mill
ing interests of Idaho Springs as we'll as to
the mining, commercial and every business
interest leads us to encourage the con-
struction and operation of said proposed
line of road to Idaho Springs. Therefore
be it
RESOLVED, That this committee in ex-
pressing the unanimous sentiment of the
mass meeting desires to offer to said COM
pany every encouragement for the building
of the line of railroad; that it believes the
individual citizens of the city will lend sub
stantial aid and assistance to such an enter
prise as that, speaking without municipal
authority, it believes that the city of Idaho
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20

will take years to re-establish, and the west
will be the sufferer. And it is not the cap
italst that is drawn into the fakirs net, but,
as a rule, the salaried man or woman who
cannot afford to risk a pittance in mining
stock gambling, as they are not financially
able to make necessary investigation as to
the prospects of their investments but are
governed solely by alluriug circulars and
nicely worded prospectus. The capitalist
is able to thoroughly investigate small
investor is not.
There are plenty of reliable mining prop
ositions in the west that will render good
returns on investments or at any rate, the
investor takes equal chance with men who
are putting their money into the enter
prise, and the only way Our eastern breth-
rem can hope for protection against the
mining fakir is to personally thoroughly in
vestigate the proposition before blowing in
their hard earned coin. The genuine from
the spurious is readily discovered here in
the west, and at small expense the eastern
investor can soon determine in which min
ing enterprise he can get run for his
money.
Don't play the wheel of fortune blind,
but come west and see for yourself, and
then if you get bit don't ask that laws be
enacted to protect you from yourself.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20
EASTERN CAPITAL IN THE WEST.

The legislature of the state of Connecti-
cut has before it bill having for its OBJ
ject the protection of its citizens from the
"get-rich-quick' mining schemes of the
west, as it has come to such a pass that
Connecticut soil has proved fertile ground
for the western mining fakir. The bill em-
bodies regulations concerning transactions
in outside securities so severe that it will
be we'll nigh impossible for bogus concerns
to do business in the state. Every COM
pany doing business is obliged to give the
utmost publicity of its affairs; the financial
condition, the location of such property, its
assessed valuation, the amount of work al
ready completed and so on-all these facts
must be sworn to before the secretary of
the state before permission to transact busi-
ness is given. A license to do business
must be taken out, and heavy fines are the
punishment of any infringement of the law.
This attitude of our eastern friends was
brought about owing to the flooding of the
east with attractive advertisements alluring
circulars, etc., telling of the easy acquire
ment of wealth by small investments in
western mines, an epidemic for investment
having swept over the eastern states. The
bait thrown out by the fakir proved of such
an alluring nature that the cork was pulled
clear under in so many instances that the
cry went up to the law makers, ''protect us
from ourselves" it being admitted that the
small investor, without the means to make
personal investigation, was unable to dis
tinguish the genuine from the spurious.
They evidently do need protection, but it
is question as to whether or not laws can
be enacted that will reverse the biblical
quotation, "a fool and his money is soon
parted" Unreliable mining propositions
have done vastly more harm to the west
than to the east, for they have a tendency
to discourage eastern money coming west to
develop good mines in which the element of
chance is practically eliminated, and the
time has come when legitimate western
companies have hard work i'll interesting
New England capital to help develop its
resources. 1t is loss of confidence which
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-20

The beneficial and far reaching effects
that would follow the building of the Den
yer, Yankee Hill & Western railroad to
this city are patent to every one, more es-
pecially so if the line be made broad guage
as is projected. A glance at the map of the
line shows a wide scope of practically I'M
developed territory that would naturally
come to this place, taking advantage of
the milling facilities that we have. The
territory referred to, while undeveloped,
has been thoroughly prospected, and the
ground fairly teens with wealth awaiting
development. In building to Idaho Springs
the original line from Central City through
Nevadaville and Russell gulch to Glacier
City would not be changed, but an addi-
tional line would be built from what is to
be known as Peck Junction to the head of
Woodpecker, thence to Fall river, then to
the water grade of Clear creek, and into
this city. From Idaho Springs to the
junction point on the new Moffat line at
Mammoth is twenty-five miles, With the
ample water facilities that we have here
the mills enjoy far greater advantages than
at other points, and can so increase their
capacity as to handle all the ore offered.
And that the volume will increase with the