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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Youths Ambition,

During last seasons road tour Of
"The Little Princess" Mile James
became greatly interested in one of
the players in her support. He was a
young fellow engaged to impersonate
one of the Lascar servants. He was
good looking, earnest and reliable,
but most mysterious in his habits.
His principal assistance to the COM
pany was in making the transforma
ton scene in the second act. He had
no lines to speak, but it is SO impor-
tant that the scene should be changed
quickly and properly that application
was made by the managers to dra-
matte school for a young man who
would be reliable as the Lascar, and
who could understudy some of the
other parts.
He was never seen in the daytime
except when the company was travel
ing. At night, except for the few min
utes he was on the stage, he stayed
in his dressing-room reading. All eff
forts to make him sociable were re-
buffed until Miss James got his con
iidence. She found that he had made
up his mind to be a physician and
was studying to that end. In the day
light hours he makes cigars in his
rooms, which he disposed of for a
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

The cost of transportation from
Manitoba to Liverpool is so much
greater than that of -four from the
Western American states to the same
point that there is no profit in export.
ing 1t. That is why Canadians are
asking for reciprocity 1t is not 70
benefit American millers by any
means, but to aid Canadian farmers.
Millors want Canadian grain because
they can buy it cheaper than Ameri-
can, not because 1t will keep up
prices or lessen competition. If the
farmers in Manitoba could sell their
wheat in American markets, have 1t
ground in American mills and eX-
ported to Liverpool with American
flour, then it would surely compete
with our wheat or flour in that mar
ket, add to the supply and tend direct
ly to lower prices. So long as the
cost of transportation is as great as
at present it cannot be sold below
American grain, and so does not af
feet its value abroad. IL is the sur
plus of Russia, India and Argentina
that furnishes the strongest compe-
tition. That is why a duty on Mani
toba wheat aids materially in keep
ing up tho price of American wheat.
There is another point of view to
this question. The Canadian North
west is an immense territory, in
which wheat could be grown to sup
ply the worlds requirements were 1t
under cultivation. AS yet this vast
territory is wilderness with only n
few towns and settlements. Land is
very cheap. because its products can
not be gotten to market at profit
The nearest market at present is
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

just enough surprise in the tone to do
justice to the situation. He was pleas
ant though not cordial exactly, and
certainly not frightened
You lie still and shut your head
said the burglar
Don't be- alarmed" said Wilkinson,
coolly, IL have not the remotest in
tention of preCipitatng any unpleas-
antness. ! Just want to tell you
"Are YOU goin' to shut up?" demand
ed the burglar.
please don't allow Yourself to get
nervous" said Wilkinson land take
that light out of my eyes il you don t
mind You want what valuables there
are in the house. Of course. shall
surrender them, and of course later ON
! shall do what can to recover them
The consequences may be disagree.
able to you. for"
III you don't cheese it, said the
burglar. "Ill---'
Let me finish, said Wilkinson. ITO
begin with, here's my watch under the
pillow. 1t is not valuable, but prize
il never"
AS he spoke he raised himself in bed
and thrust his hand under the pillow
As he did SO he experienced a violent
shock and a million stars and comets
danced before his eyes. When he re.
covered he continued;
Il prize it, nevertheless, for its as.
sociations. And if you care to allow
me to retain il i"
There. there" said the burglar in
sweet, gentle voice. You mustn't
talk yet. The doctor said you were to
keep quiet. Let me put this on your
head"
Wilkinson opened his eyes in sur.
prise and saw that the burglar was
attired in nurses costume. He
looked around and perceived that he
was in hospital ward.
Now Wilkinson has theory that the
police department needs overhauling.
Chicago News.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
An Object Lesson,

If Brother Chamberlain wants an
object lesson showing what protection
can do he will find it in the official
statistics of the United States. We
are not only manufacturing a great
deal more than ever before, but we
are exporting vast quantities. The re.
port for October proves that last
month we sold abroad goods valued
at $l60,0O0000. The October total has
been exceeded but once before, and
the aggregate for the year promises
to beat the record. Yet there was a
time when we manufactured practical.
ly nothing and when our only exports
were agricultural products. Protec.
ton built up our industries and gave
us the chance to compete in the mar
kets of the world. The stupendous
figures relating to our domestic and
foreign commerce tell the story, and a
better argument could not be present
ed by any champion of protection
Troy Times.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

Wilkinson had what he called his
little theories" on various subjects.
Being a citizen of Chicago. he natural
ly had his attention called to the burg
lar and hold-up man question and he
had his little theory concerning that.
He took the position that Mrs. Wilk-
inson's system of household defense,
consisting of tea-tray and flat-iron man
traps and other ingenious devices, was
science, setting at defiance locks and
bars of all kinds. locks and bars were
supertiuous to great degree. His
idea was to trust to luck and to avoid
exciting nervous burglar, if one
should stray into the premises. the
danger of personal violence being in
his opinion largely due to the absurd
condition of panic to which house
holders are subject under such circum-
stances.
few weeks ago Wilkinson was
afforded the opportunity to apply his
little theory. Mrs. Wilkinson and the
baby went away to a fresh.air and
in charge of the house. Before she
left Mrs. Wilkinson cautioned him par
ticularly about locking up at night
and he smiled easily and said it would
be all right
He did lock the house before he
started to town in the morning, but at
right he did not even latch the screen.
Then, very properly, it happened that
one night he was awakened by the
cracking of board in his room to see
dark figure standing by his bedside
For a moment his blood ran cold
and his heart thumped with such vio-
lence that it seemed that its beating
must be perfectly audible to the burg
lar as well as to himself Then with
an effort he stihed the unworthy emo
ton that possessed him. And it was
with quite firm voice that he spoke.
Good evening" he said.
1t was beautifully done. There was
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
fund which he hopes will enable him
to enter Yale Medical college next
fall
Cause of the Trouble.

We are indebted to the press bu-
reau of the Savage forces for this
suggestion of cause for the recent in
ternational complications. Possibly
one of Henry WIS young men is re-
sponsibe for the Panama. Colombian
Tall-Type press imbroglo. Runs the
squib:
It is surely more than a mere CO.
inCidence-more than what has been
called Savage luck just as the
new Blossom-Robyn comic opera,
The Yankee Consul" has been
launched with marked success the
government should send a fleet of
warships to Puerto Plata in Santo
Domingo, where the scenes of the
opera are located. Puerta Plata hadn't
been heard of in years until The
Yankee Consul" was produced by
Henry W. Savage But here is where
the startling coincidence comes in.
1t was no sooner announced that
George AIDE and Gustav Luders had
about completed The Shotgun" a
comic opera with scenes located in
Corea, Tor Mr., Savage than Russia
and Japan rushed their finest war
ships to Corea and began to wrangle
for its possession.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

Liverpool, and the distance Is so great
so limited that settlers prefer the
Northwestern States in which 70 grow
grain and build a home. Now with
the American markets free to the
farmers of Manitoba these wild lands
would soon be settled up, and their
productive capacity enormously in
creased. The result would be the
same to the wheat growers of the Mid
die West and Western States as was
their settlement to the wheat grow
ers of the Eastern States. They
would surely be driven out of the bust
ness or else compelled to sell below
present prices. New cheap lands will
always affect grain growing in older
countries in the same manner. Mani
toba would, with free American mar
kets, drive the farmers of Minnesota,
the Dakotas and other spring wheat
ytates, out of the business of wheat
rowing, or compel them to produce it
at a price which would leave them
little profit.
Even as the matter stands now the
cheap lands of the Canadian North
west are attracting American farm
ers, who sell out on this side of the
line and cross over to secure cheaper
land and lighter taxation, with the
hope that when reciprocity comes
they will have the same markets to
sell in as if they had remained in
the United States. Take the follow
ing extracts from the Toronto Mail
and Empire as to emigration to the
Canadian Northwest and the question
of reciprocity takes on an entirely
different phase:
Three years ago the immigrants OF
all nationalities coming to the coun-
try aggregated less than $4,000. Now
that the Northwest has been revealed
as the cheapest land in the world the
farmers of Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas are selling their
holdings and treking north across the
boundary to buy in the Saskatchewan
Valley land at old song prices superior
to that they have left in the United
States. They come north with CAPT
tai and experience With the Brit
ish they form the backbone Of the
West"
Remove the barrier between the two
countries by opening our markets to
Canadian farmers, and we shall see
American farmers by hundreds Of
thousands selling out and moving into
canada Without those markets, and
The supply of grain becoming larger
each year and prices getting lower so
as to afford shippers a chance to do
business at a profit the Inducements
for American farmers TO become Can
ldian settlers will soon disappear,
Reciprocity simply means the building
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Plan Bio War Gam G

Within $50 miles of New York city
early next summer, says a Washing
ton dispatch in the New York Trib-
une, there will be held the greatest
exhibition of mimic warfare ever at
tempted on this side of the Atlantic.
Gen. Corbin, commanding the depart
ment of the East, with the approval
of the war department, is making
plans to mobilize $4,000 troops, includ
ing all the regulars east of the Mis-
sissippi and the militia of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsyl-
yania and perhaps other states, to
take part in a land campaign similar
to the annual maneuvers of Germany
and France
The plans involve the establishment
of great military encampments for
ty or fifty miles apart, and hostile
campaign between the two bases, sim
ulating all the conditions of an actual
state of hostilities. Negotiations are
now in progress with several railway
lines to arrange their schedules for
the period of operations, so that the
opposing forces may seize sufficient
rolling stock and assume control of
the right of way for military purposes
without too serious inconvenience of
regular traffic, and property owners
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

performances as Ruth in The Worst
Woman in London"
Edmond Rostand has almost COM
pleted play for Coquelin which is
promised at the Gaiety in Paris about
Feb. /. Title ard nature of play are
secrets.
William Owen has fully recovered
from his recent illness and has re-
Joined his company. During his alb
sence his understudy, Harry l.. Hays,
has been filling his place.
Mary Anderson (MrS. de navarro
appeared in London Dec. 80, and gave
an entertainment for the 1000 chill
dren of the WhitechaDel district. Miss
Anderson sang.
Viola Allen is delighted with the
new play that Marion Crawford has
about finished for her. 1t is, Mr..
Crawford says, a play of modern
times. The heroine is a Glory Quail
part.
william Collier and Messrs. Weber
& Fields have parted company. The
comedian has not been the success
that his managers expected he would
be, owing, mainly to dramatic veh-
icles not adapted to his peculiar style
Mr. Forbes Robertson will, on his
return from America, produce a new
play by Miss Margare: Young, en-
titled THE Edge of the Storm" Miss
Young is one of the writer's for the
stage who have had some practical ex-
pcrience of acting.
Jean Sibelius, the most noted
among the composers of Finland. is
about to finish a violin concerto.
which he intends to dedicate 10 Willy
Burmester who will, of course, be the
first to play the novelty in Scandi-
nayia, as well as all over Germany In
the course of the present season.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

in the districts to be occupied or traV-
ersed by the combatants are being
warned what to expect and what com
pensation the war department will al
low them for the Inconvenience they
may suffer All the branches of the
army will be represented in the ma
neuvcrS. but the navy will not take
part, the force a1oat having purely
naval problems to work out next sum-
mer.
1t is probable that the usual army
problems at Forts Riley and Thomas
next summer will be much Curtailed
in order that the war department may
concentrate it's resources to make the
New York campaign more memorable.
Gen. COrbin, who saw Secretary
Root about the program, says he
cannot yet disclose the exact loca-
ton of the maneuvers, but it will be
close enough to New York to enable
more people to witness them than
have seen any operations heretofore
undertaken in this country. He says
there will be a much greater force
engaged than at any time since the
civil war, and that the campaign will
be valuable object lesson to Eastern
people. He hopes to make a more
definite announcement regarding his
plans in a short time.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
What We Owe to Protection.

This country can never sufficiently
honor the memory of the men who
from the first insisted that bonus
must bS raised to make us a manu-
featuring as we'll as farming people.
We have received the bonus back
many times in The cheapened cost OF
everything We buy because of Ameri.
can competition, while, instead of
occupying the position Of feeder and
tender for Europe that Golden had as.
signed to us, we have become the
great commercial center of the world
ourselves, and are able to look on
with complacent selfsatisfaction
while CObden's successors confess 10
our sagacity, concede our primacy and
commit themselves to our policy
Des Moines Register and Leader
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
French rutor,s Odd Cad"

Clyde Fitch, the playwright, collects
in scrapbooks specimens of the errors
foreigners making in dealing with
strange tongues. One of My. Fitch's
scrapbooks is devoted to Frencn-Eng-
lish-the sort of English that French
men sometimes use. An addition was
made to this volume the other day. 1t
was French tutors advertisement
clipped from a London newspaper, and
it ran:
"A young Paris man shall desire to
show his tongue to classes of English
gentlemen. Address, etc.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

to recall the history of the times
when protection starved the poor and
the country was brought to the brink
of revolution"
The fact that man was wrong in
1885 does not necessitate that he
should be wrong in 1904. The world
has moved nightly in those nineteen
years. Events have abundantly proved
that the Chamberlain of 1885 was mis-
taken and that the Chamberlain of
to-day is right. Several millions of
thinking people have completely
changed their views regarding free
trade and protection in the past two
decades.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Wrong Then, RIGHT Now.

Sir William Vernon Harcourt fiat
ters himself unduly in imagining he
has done a great thing in digging up
an anti-protectionis speech delivered
by Joseph Chamberlain nearly nine
teen years ago. 1t appears that in
1885, in the coruse of speech deliv-
cred in Birmingham, Mr.. Chamberlain
said:
ut is improbable the working
classes of this country will ever again
submit to the sufferings and misery
inflicted by the corn laws. If this is
the policy of the Tories we have only
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

and enriching of a foreign land at the
expense of our own.
AS to the Minneapolis millers, there
is no doubt of their business enter.
prise and ability 10 care for their own
interests. With a free market for
their products of SO,O0O,OO0 OF people
assured them, they can afford to ex-
plot foreign markets for their sur
plus. BY a strong combination they
are in a position to control the mill.
ing business in the United States
through cutting down the cost of pro-
duction and lessening the number OF
employees necessary to conduct the
business. Then their screenings and
by.products-bran and middlings-
are sold to American feeders dairy
men and farmers at the utmost prices
at which these people will consent to
purchase. The profits on these by
products, which are generally sold be-
You'd their value, enable these millers
to undersell foreigners in their own
markets If there is no tariff to pre-
vent them. 1t is the farmers who raise
wheat and buy back the byproducts
at high prices that enable them to
do this, While the milling syndicate
is entitled to the admiration Of our
correspondent for their business en-.
terprise and shrewdness, he need not
waste any sympathy on them because
of their supposed difficulties under
present conditions. They are gener
ally miNiOnaireS and the money they
have made has come out of the pro
Queer and Michigan
Farmer,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Greenroom Gossip.

Mr. II. V. Esmond is said to be en-
gagged upon five,act tragedy.
Augustus Thomas is writing a new
play, and Frank Worthing is to ere
ate the principal part.
Grandma" is said to be the title Of
the play chosen for Mrs. G. H. Gil
bert's farewell tour next season
Madame Patti will clear nearly half
a million dollars on her tour-enough
to keep her to an evergreen old age.
Nora Dunblane has won praise from
the press in the large cities for her
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

water near the middle. Here at this
terminus some Jews are located. The
whole concern is, in fact, in the hands
of Jews, who, at a low rate, buy
wheat and barley from the Arabs, to
b. delivered on the seashore From
there it is shipped to the Jericho side.
and carried on dOnReys to Jerusalem.
where it finds a ready sale at a good
price. When adverse winds blow,
the little craft is in danger of being
swamped, for the so-called Dead sea
becomes a living mass Of waves, The
writer recently spent four nights such
as never will be forgotten on these
waters, and the smartness of the old
man at the helm and his boy with the
sails saved us from being wrecked
again and again. A charge of one
mejedie (S2 cents) a trip is made for
each passenger, and for such a unique
voyage it is not eXorbitant. There is
some talk about a small steam tug
being put on the sea, but the authori-
ties are 10th to grant permission. 1t
will be great boon when, if ever, it
does arrive, as it will bring the east
and west sides of Jordan nearer to
one another for communication and
trading purposes.-London Graphic.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
HELPED TO A DECISION.
How Railroad Commissioner Fixed
Value of Insult"

Senator Bailey of Texas IS respons.-
bic for this story which is going the
rounds Of the railroad Offices down
town.
Not very long ago an oX.memboY
of the Texas railroad commission was
visited by a representative of a GER
tain railroad corporation which want
ed the support of the commissioner IN
the matter of certain franchises anl
land grants then in courts
And | shall be glad 90 let you have
say, l 1000 shares OF stock, if all soea
we'll" said the visitor in conclusion.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

The commissioner was indignant.
That, sub, >" said he, lis an insult, 1t
is an insult, sub, that you shall pay
dearly for want you to understand,
sub that | am not to be bought You
shall pay for that word, subj"
How much?" said the visitor
coolly.
The commissioner paused, The
question took him unawarcs. Then 2
smile came over his face, and he an
swered, We'll sub, | can't say just
exactly how much; but if you tell me
what the stock is worth sub, it might
help me to find OUT"
And history says the franchises are
aow 20. Knew York Times.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Career Of Miss Marie cahlII.

Miss Marie Cahill, the saving grace
of Nancy Brown was born ia
Brooklyn, n. Y. SN@rtly after her
baby carriage days she went on the
stage in a little Brooklyn theater
where Harley Merry, a scenic artist,
was conducting a stock company. Her
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Fact.

A free trader cares nothing for
wage-earners. Paste this in your LaE
Davenport Qa,) Republican.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
WOULD WORK HARM.
EFFECT OF CANADIAN REClPRoc.
lTY UPON OUR AGRICULTURE.

With Free Access to This Market the
Competition of Cheaper Wheat
Grown in the Northwest Would
Drive American Farmers Out Of
Business.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21

first appearance as member of Mer.
rvs company was in a small SOU
brette role in Kathleen Mavourneen.
The title role was played by Miss
Nellie Lingard, grandniece of the his
torian and essayist. Miss Cahill and
Miss Lingard became fast friends
then, and the latter is now a play
reader foG Daniel V. Arthur Miss Ca
hills manager
Charles Hoyt's "a Tin Soldier was
the first musical play in which Miss
Cahill took part. She played the
role of Patsy. In this piece her work
consisted mostly of dancing. She
gradually climbed to pre-eminence,
and to-day is the foremost woman ex-
ponent Of the broad yet thoroughly
legitimate school of low comedy
founded by Miss May Irwin. Miss Ca
hill is, artistically speaking, own sis
ter to n. c. Goodwin, their methods
often being startingly similar.