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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-26
Nebraska Notes.

1
! Quarrymcn have found what Is be-
ieved to be very rich deposit OF
e d in a stone quarry, few miles
Outh Of Barneston, in Gage county.
The ore exists in abundant quantities
Ill over Gage county.
Charles l.. Sharp Of Papillion, who
mas been serving sentence in tho
penitentiary for robbing Rock Is
and car, has been paroled by Cover
nor Mickey. Sharps daughter wrote
4 letter to Governor Savage before
the expiration of his term, asking the
pardon of her father. 1t was refused.
The seventeenth annual session OF
The North Nebraksa Teachers asso-
,iation will be held at Columbusv
commencing Wednesday, April 1, and
continuing throuhout the week.
Boards of education are requested to
so arrange the spring vacations that
teachers may be able TO attend
A. ID. Beemer, recently appointed
warden of the state penitentiary, has
AIKEN charge of that institution. He
will make no change among the en-
ployees at this time. 1t will be the
duty of the new warden to take
charge of the hanging of Gottleib
| Neigentiend, who was convicted OF
numbering his wife and mother-in-
law.
The father and sister Of Anna
Bardin have joined Fay Smith, her
sweetheart, in searching for her.
Beardn has had the police assisting
In the search for his daughter, but
no trace of her has been found since
she left the Boyd hotel at Lincoln
with j. b. CODY, with whom she
eloped.
Mrs. Stratton, wife of Thomas III.
Stratton, manager of the Aetna In
Surance company's offices at Lincoln,
while on her way to the theater
suffered an attack of apoplexy. Throw
Ing up her hands she screamed and
Tell to the sidewalk. She was carried
Into house near by and died In q,
few minutes
The Rev. Il. f.. Wilson, pastor Oh
the Methodist Episcopal church OF
Oakland, will leave shortly for Porto
Rico, where he will be a missionary
under the Methodist Episcopal Miss
lonary board Of New York City. Mr..
Wilson was missionary in South
America prior to location at Oakland.
His successor will be selected by Ill
der Jennings of Omaha.
Samuel Nichols, an aged citizen Of
Keneasw, has been advised by letter
from Anrdew Carnegie, that he is ia
be pensioned at $43 monthly. In ths
letter was pay for the entire year Oh
1902. Mr.. Nichols, who is now II
years of age, came to this country
from Yorkshire, England, on the same
day that Carnegie did. They met in
New York and in search Of employ
ment went to Pittsburg, where Car
negie took to the steel mills and
Nichols to the coal mines. Nichols
came west thirty years ago and took
up a homestead in Adams county.
Mr.. Nichols is going east on visit.
S.. II. Hoffert, prominent citizen
of Steele City, has mysterioulsy dis
appeared. A short time ago Hoffert
traded his stock of general merchan-
disc for an Antelope county farm,
and said he was going to move there.
He came to Fairbury early this month,
in company with citizen Of Steele
City. He intended to retrun that
night, but has not been seen since,
He is widower, and leaves daugh-
ter Of II and two younger boys almost
destitute.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-26
destitute.

How an abscess in the falio.'
plan Tubes of Mrs. Hollingcr
was removed without q surgical
operation.
81 had an abscess In my side i1,
the fallopian tube (the fallopiaA
tube is connection of tho ovarissl
l suffered untold misery and wAA
so weak / could scarcely get around.
The sharp burning pains low down
in my side were terrible. My physi.
clan said there was no help for me
unless l would go to the hospital
and be operated on. l thought
before that l would try Lydia n
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
which, fortunately, l did, and it has
made me a stout healthy woman.
My advice to all women who suffer
with any kind of female trouble In
to commence taking Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
ut once."-- Mrs. IRA s. HoLLNaER,
Stilvideo, Ohio $4,000 forfeit v ',iOiHA u
above letter PToUinO VsHuinsnsss cannot b PTodOsA
1t would seem by this state
ment that women would save
time and much sickness II they
would get Lydia Il. Plnkham'a
Vegetable Compound at once,
and also write to Mrs. PtnkhAm
Mt Lynn, Mass, for special ad.
vice. 1t is free and always helps
No other person can give such
helpful advice as Mrs. PinkhRns
to N"H.., --'N ARE Si"h
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

The onion is vegetable Of great an
Sfquity, being found among the earliest
of cultivated species. A kind Of onion
grown in Egypt 1000 years and more
ago was considered SO excellent that II
received divine honOrs, beinS worship
ed as god. This was considered a
good joke by the Romans Of those days.
who. as well as the Greeks, were Hc-
uuainted with several varieties OF on
ions. II is likely that tie plant first
grew in Persia or AfShaDlstan. Carrie
has been raised in China for thousands
OF years, and the ancient Egyptians
made great use of II. No picture OF 1t
has ever been found on the monuments
but this may be because the plant was
considered unclean by the priests.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
The Fountain OF Youth.

Like pretty much everything else.
this matter of having children has two
sides to IT, AS great many children
are failures and ns children are the
Joint product OF heredity and environ
ment, both elements preponderantly
under parental control. It would seem
more sensible to say that there were
too many people undertaking parental
responsibility instead of too few. And.
further. parenthoOd has many cares
and sorrows and exasperations. Still,
when all Is said, how many persons
who have found themselves childless
at forty-fve have been able honestly
to congratulate themselves?
Children have Use as an assurance
against destitutiOn and loneliness In
old age. They are satisfactory to the
vanity for family immortality. But
more than these and all other adyan-
tages IL the advantage Of prolongin8
ones life. Growing children will keep
any proper man or woman young Ia
spirit and in mind, will retard the de-
velopment OF that sour yet complacent
cynicism which curses old age both for
oneself and for those about one.
The man or the wOman-again. tho
right sort OF man or wOman-whO has
children drinks every day deep draft
at the fountain Of eternal yOuth.-Sat-
urday Evening Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

The following characterization OF the
Arab penchant for not telling the truth
is from a paper by Or. G. Saint-Panl
on the Tunisians: Arab lying Is ex-
asperating. 1t is absurd and victorious.
1t triumphs easily over the critical
sense and the habit OF scientific rea-
soning. IL IS sometimes childish. Your
native servants will never be taken
unawares. You forbid one of them To
smoke in your dining room ana you
SURPRISE him there with cigarette IN
his mouth. You were smoking NO.
4 saw YOU impossible You had
cigarette In your mouth; you are ND
ing IL in your hand; there II is" Then
God put 1t in my hand The native
denies always. Taken red handed he
denies. Beneath blows he denies.
Pain IS sometimes pOwerless TO make
him confess. even mt the point OF death.
This obstinacy is due In part to the
high idea he has OF his dignity. Ills
pride forbids him n confession, be-
cause the avOwal OF his lying Is In
flnitely humillating I'm his eyes. The
fear Of losing face IS all powerful in
him. To recognize n fault Is more
shameful than TO have committed 1t.
Hence the peculiar Obstinacy of the
native in denying. even when II would
be TO his interest 10 confess, mn OBJ
stinacy not manifested in other ways
Journal of American Folk Lore.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
A Ffsbmongering RailrOnd.

While looking through pile OF old
papers correspondent came across the
following article IN New York paper
Of the date Of Feb 6. 1859. under the
caption Of "The Smelt Railroad"
1T is we'll known that the Ports
mouth railroad has 10 turn everything
10 account to pay running expenses.
and many are the Jokes they perpetrate
upon the conductors in reference to
their shifts 10 get living. 1t IS said
that one of them last year was accus-
toned u bring fish from Portsmouth
and peddle them out on the way TO
Concord
zone day he brought along smelts.
dealing out 10 customers at every sta
ton. TIL he got TO SuncoOk. where he
blew his horIt and III old woman came
out and wanted six. Just a pattern-all
I've got left you're In the nick OF
time said he, and he began 10 count
them and found only five. 'How's this
should have six And he began 10
count his fingers and reckon over how
he had disposed Of the four dozen he
had started with. After awhile: 1
have II, Hold on little while and III
he back said he, and he ran the train
back seven miles TO place where he
had let woman have one more than
she had paid for, got It, came back TO
Suncook and let the old woman have
the six she wanted. and then the 'smelt'
train went 10 Concord. d."-Manchester
N. H. Union.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Canine Intelligence.

A native Of Peru has vouched FOR
the following: a native pointed out
one day n huge white dog that lay be
fore his wattled house. He declared
that his dog had intelligence OF an al
most human order He said that once.
when II had broken bone in It's foot,
he had taken II 10 surgeon and the
surgeon had set the fracture and re-
lieved IL of its pain. Some months art
erward, I'm the middle OF the night. the
surgeon was awakened by a great
scratching at his door and by thump-
ing as OF some heavy body. He slipped
on a dressing gown and went down. 20
find the white dog in his garden with
O brown dog beside II that held one
leg of the ground. The surgeons de
duction was that the white dog had
brought It's companion there for troat-
ment. Accordingly he dressed the leg
OF the injured animal. and thereupon
the two dogs licked his hands with an
air OF gratitude and departed slowly
into the night side 10y side.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Unirs UpOn Horses Lips.

The fine hairs about the mouth OF the
horse are organs OF touch Of extreme
delicacy. They serve, to a certain eX-
tent. tho same purpose as our finger
ends. the whiskers OF the cat or the
trunk Of the elephant. Sensitiyeness
is due to specially developed endinss
OF nerves in the skin, which are con-
tinuaily sending messages to the brain.
The lip hairs OF the horse first receive
the stimulus. which is communicated
TO the end organs and so passes on 10
the brain. They come into play when
the horse samples new article OF food.
He first smells II and, having so far
satisfied himself. touches 1t delica;ely
with those sensitive hairs. The upper
lip moves softly IN quick sympathy
and confirms the opinion suggested By
tie hairs. The tongue judges finally
as 20 the fitness Of the food.
When the horse wishes To drink, these
hairs assure him that the water is free
from foreign matter on the surface, for
he drinks from the surface only. They
detect the smallest particle Of dirt and
guide him 10 the purest place.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Sentinel and HussaB.

Two Well known military terms
sentinel" and "hussar," afford capital
instances OF the remarkable manner In
which a nation does its word twisting
AT first sight there seems little connec-
ton between the Latin word sentina,
signifying the hold OF ship, and a
soldier keeping watch over his sleeping
comrades. The connecting link Is af-
forded by the word sentinator, the
Roman who pumped the hold Of Ce-
sars galleys free Of bilge water. Upon
his constant vigilance depended the
lives Of the entire ships company.
Similarly the word ''hussar' Is mere
" a Hungarian term signifying "twen-
tieth" II arose in this manner: When
Matthias Corvinus became king OF
Hungary In 1853 he was extremely
afraid of foreign invasion. He conse-
quently raised an army by the simple
eXpedient OF communicating every
twentieth individual in the land; hence
the hussar
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
The Efr.t American BfbIe-

In 1868 the first Bible printed In
America was published in Cambridge.
II was unlawful to print an English
version OF the Scriptures. that right be
ing a monopoly enjoyed by privilege
and patent In England. The one print
ed In Massachusetts was Eliots fa-
nous Indian Bible" and, although
1.5OO copies were struck off, they are
quite rare and sealed books" asthe
tongue In which they are written Is lit
orally dead language" the tribe and
all who had q knowledge OF the dia-
lect being long extinct.
Eliot's work Is unique, being at once
a monument TO his piety, perseverance
and learning. Its literary successor
was Newman's Concordance OF the
Scriptures" This was compiled by the
light of pine knots In Il log cabin in
one OF the frontier settlements of Mas
sachusetts. II was the first OF Its kind
and for more than century was al
mitted 10 be the most perfect. holding
It's place in public esteem until super
seded by Crudens. which II suggested.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Rufus Choate and Justice shaw.

Rufus ChOate was sitting next 10
Judge Hoar I'm the bar when Chief Jus
tice Shaw was presiding and the SUI
folk docket was being called. Tie
chief justice said something which led
Mr.. Choate 10 make 4 half humorous
and half displcased remark about
Shaw's roughncss OF look and manner.
to which Judge IIoar replied. After
all. feel reverence for the old chief
Justice" ~ reverence for him. my
dear fellowT said Choate. 80 do !.
| bow down To him as the wild lndinn
does before his wooden idol ] know
he's ugly. but bow to a superior IN
telligence." George l.. Iloar In Serb.
ner's Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Wint Is GOHsipf

TFe-o has been complaint from the
beginning OF history thai women are
curious" What Is curiosity? II Is
the uneasy appetite OF an Ill fed mind.
People fully educated and fully en-
ployed are not curious. Civilized wom-
an has Inherited the mental growth OF
man AMI then has had To coniine that
enlarged capacity 10 precisely the same
Held OF activity which was sufficient
for a slunw. Women have been ac-
cusod for centuries OF tendency TO
''gossip." What j. gossip Ii IS small
talk about other people. The tendency
To this vice is d reaction from the per-
sistcut presence OF oul own affairs
Success
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

-Aii right" says the rich father, ,aft-
or the count has stated his terms. I'll
let Sadie marry you and agree to'turn
over to you s!.OO0,OO0. Now, lets get
fixed up properly. Suppose we. say
$1,000 down and the balance atiS2 a
weekT'
Here Sadie bursts into tears and
leaves the room.
"Now, ma" says the rich father 10
his wife. what on earth's the matter
with that girl?"
Well | don't blame her ri all, pa.
II seems as II you never could keep
from betraying the fact that we are Of
plebeian origin
what have | done now tasks pa.
"Why, you talk a. If you were buy
ing the count from an insiallment
house"-Judge.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

James MacNeill Whistler once owed
female model s. for sittings. She was
n Philistine of the Philistines, who
knew nothing of her patrons fame and
was In no way impressed with his
work. One day she told another artist
that she had been sitting TO a little
Frenchmnn called Whistler. who jump
ed about his studio and was always
complaining that people were swim
ding him and that he was making
very little money. The artist suggested
that If she could get any piece of paint
ing out OF Nhistlers studio he would
give her so for IT, Although skep-
teal. the model decided to tell her 'lit-
tie Frenchman" OF this too generous
offer and selected one OF the biggest
and finest works I'm the studio. What
did ne say asked the artist who had
made the offer when the model ap-
pearcd In state OF great excitement
and looking almost as If she had come
second best out Of a scrimmage. "He
said: Fifty dollars, Good heavens.
Fifty dollars" And he got so mad
well. that's how | came in here like
this"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Duchesse de Derry nj Dieppe.

Dieppe boasts of being the most an
cient of all the ''bains de mer." Henri
III. repaired thither I'm 1878 ito bathe
I'm the sea In order To cure certain all
ments from which he suffered"
For a long tinis the Dieppe baths
were reported 70 be efiicaciOus In cases
OF hydrophobia. When Henry Tvs
little dog. FaDOr. hal been bitten by
big dog, supposed to he mad. it was
dispatched TO Dieppe in charge of a
groom OF the chamber. pour etre
mouille dams In mer," and Nine. de
Sevigne relates that some ladies of the
court who had been bitten by mad
dog went there IN 1911.
II was, however. the Duchesse de
Berry who popularlzed Dieppe. She
went there regularly from 1894 to lS3O
and once took part in a really remark
able ceremony of Inauguration on the
beach. While cannon thundercd and
bells pealed and bands played she pub
licly' entered the water, led by the
hand by the "royal medical inspector
Of the baths" who was attired In even
ing dress with kid gloves. One would
give a great deal for snap shot OF
that performance.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

Writing in the Empire Review on the
locust in South Africa, s. B. Kitchen
says. LOcusts are very tiny creatures
nj most two or three inches long, yet
giant jawed and shelled in grim
brown mail 20 hard that a. they strike
il causes a sharp smart They travel
In such numbers that IL takes them
four or five days to pass over. The
scouts alone, lowering in patches like
red dust clouds, are numerous enough
to destroy the vegetation OF district
while the main body, high up In the air,
n host of little black specks. stretches
out into an interminable screen be-
tween heaven and earth. The flaming
OF their wings brings fresh coolness
over the hot earth even In the depth
OF summer. There seems TO be a fresh
breath OF ozone as OF the sea.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
The RPl Sen.

Here Is an interesting theory: What
made the Red sea rcdi The blood or
locusts. Read few lines from EX-
odus. And the locusts went up over
all the land Of Egypt and rested In all
the coasts ~ Egypt; very grievous
were they. Before them there were no
such locusts rs they. neither after
them shall be such. For they covered
the face of the whole earth, so that the
land was darkeued And the Lord
turned a mighty strong west wind,
which took the iocuSts and cast them
into the Red sea. There remained not
one locust i'm all the coasts Of Egypt
The Rcd sea today IS no more red than
any other sea. Its reddening was tenn
porary New York Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

This is the advice Of an old swimmer
TO those who cannot swim. ANY hn-
man being who VIII have the presence
OF mind TO clasp the hands behind lbs
back and turn the face toward the
zenith may float nj ease and In perfect
safety in tolerably still water. When
YOU first find yourself IN deep water
you have only 10 consider yourself IN
empty pitcher. Let your mouth and
nose. and not the top of your heavy
head, be the highest part Of you and
you are safe But thrust up one OF
your bony hands and down YOU 20
turning up the handle tips over the
pitcher" There are reason and logo
in this.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

In ffty-four years OF his life-he was
born in 1Si9-W. T.. Henley never
knew what days perfect health
meant When little more than boy
he was attacked 10y disease which
necessitated the amputatlon OF one
foot. He was told later by the doctors
that the sacrifice Of the other leg was
necessary were Dee 10 live. The fame
OF Or. Lister had reached Henley.
and, pcnniless ana almost friendless,
he determined to try Edinburgh in
Urinary. Ththe. he travelled third
class IN physical suffering such as few
have known, and when he reached the
infrmary his whole possessions
amounted 20 a few shillIngs. His con-
fidence I'm Lister was justified and his
leg was saved. He was and remained
a cripple. but neither hopeless nor
helpless His astounding nimbleness
under these conditions suggested TO
Robert Louis Stevenson the physical
sketch OF John Silver.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Minfake. Mistakeu.

The use Of these words seems to be
so anomalous as 10 need some inquiry
and explanation.
may be mistaken, for | continually
make mistakes. But when shown TO
have been mistaken | own myself In
error. Yet, If | am mistaken. II Is not
the error Of him who mistakes met
But 1t may be that | am right and
that he is mistaken. though / suppose
that | ought TO take him Alright and
not mistake him. Nevertheless | often
have to say in argument: You were
Quite right. | was mistaken"
In word, though he who mistakes
must be In error, our common use or
language considers him who Is mis-
taken 10 be so.-Notes and Queries.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

The oldest system by which men
have told the time of day is sundials.
There are sundials still in existence
since long before the Christian era. In
fact they have been found in Egypt
dating before the pharaohs. The In
dians and wild nations told the time
by the position of the shadows OF
trees or mountains. The Chinese have
carried the art of sundials TO perfec-
ton and even today use pocket sun
,dIals instead Of watches. One Chinese
matchmaker has arranged his front
porch in such way the shadow of the
posts tells the time by which to regu-
late the watches-Ada Paterson in Iil
grim.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
Enough.

A New York man says that one of TIE
most pathetic remarks he ever heard
was made by youngster who belong
ed on New York's east side. The little
fellow was taken to Coney Island on
an outing conducted by charitable
organization. He went down on the
beach and stood for several minutes
watching the waves rolling IN. AZ far
as he could see there was nothing but
water, and the expanse OF waves and
whitecaps fascinated him. leaving Il
deep sigh, the little fellow remarked.
well, this Is the first time | ever saw
enough of anything"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25
The Dnmmnrns of Africn.

In Cations Tropical South Africa"
II is stated that the Dammaras use no
term beyond three and that when they
wish 10 express four they take 10 their
fingers. Beyond five they cannot count
at all 1t IS seldom. however that they
lose in bargain through their inability
TO count. When bartering. each sheep
or OK or whatever they may be SELL
ing must be paid for separately II
this rate Of exchange were at the rate
OF two sticks of tobacco for one sheep
II would greatly puzzle a Dammara 10
accept four sticks for two sheep. Cal
ton says that he several times paid
them in that way and that the Dam
mara forthwith set aside two sticks for
one of the sheep. and even when be
found that he had two sticks left for
the other sheep he still had his doubts
as to the genuineness of the transac-
ton and was not satisfied until two
sticks were put into his hand and one
sheep driven away and then another
two sticks given TO him for the other
sheep.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1903-09-25

Besides his many other claims 70 dis
tlnction the GOOD red grouse has one
which is often forgotten. lie Is the one
vertebrate creature peculiar 10 the
British isles. III the rest OF our fauna
is duplicated elsewhere, and even his
cousin. the black cock. has foreign re-
lations, but the true grouse exists no.
where in the world except within tie
United Kingdom. and considering what
a noble game bird he is, how hardy and
plucky and how magnificent in his
flight. the fact is really something TO be
proud of-London Globe.