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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Lay dead.

the deep shadows on the side farthest
from the mountains he had watched
so intently before he began his jour
ney and darted suddenly under the
overhanging ledge, where the water
had worn away the softer rock, and
hid again in hollow as before.
Then followed hours of strange
toll. At times the man lay fiat on
the hot plain and dragged himself
along, taking minutes to move his
own length, so that any one watching
would have needed keen and steady
eye to be certain that he moved at
all. Then, in a friendly gully, he
moved faster, with the crouching
posture of the morning, and even
once, where the great boulders stood
like the ruins of an ancient city, he
almost ran through the black shad-
ows of what seemed once to have
been a street, only throwing himself
down to crawl where an open place.
like a cross street, let in the unwel-
come sunlight.
The perspiration had ceased to
flow, for every drop of moisture was
burned from his body. The CRIME
stood on his face in dry patches; his
eyes were red and bloodshot; his
tongue hung from his mouth, and
even the hot stones had ceased to
burn his flesh, so hot had it become
in his fierce struggle under that W.
tempered sun.
In the early afternoon, he stopped
to rest in the shaded hollow of a
boulder, and suddenly, as he looked
to the ground, his face blanched I'M
der it's coating of CRIME. A broken
sage bush told where a foot had
passed! This man had reached a
point where signs of humanity were
more terrible than the death that
surrounded him on every hand! He
looked again, and the pallor became
moro terrible, with the set terror of
despair. He recognized the spot
where he had rested in the morning
and from which he had crawled to
the first gully! 1t was his foot that
had broken the sage bush, and all
these hours of superhuman toll had
availed only to bring him back to
his starting point! Then he rose
erect, no longer creeping, no longer
skulking, but upright as God meant
man to walk, and took the direction
in which lay the mist that was a
mountain.
Hours passed again! The sun had
almost touched the top of the noun
tains, which now rose huge and dark
before the man who dragged on and
on, over the dead plain, with purple
face and swollen hands and feet.
filed with but one thought, conscious
of but one wish, to reach the shelter
of the mountains. and there to find
water, and, drinking, perchance to
die.
Long shadows ran out to meet
him. cooler air from the mountain
heights touched his brow. In a gul.
ly, high up among the ragged pines.
he caught sheen of light, where the
last sun rays struck falling stream.
Suddenly, from behind a great boul.
der, h2rscnar barred the way, the
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Has Learned Much Of Africa.

A recent statement in the Scientific
American says that M, Chevalier, the
noted French explorer, has just re-
turned from a prolonged trip through
Central Africa, where he secured a
valuable collection of interesting doc.
uments and photographs of the coun.
try and it's people. A monograph
which he took with him was the me-
dunn for obtaining records of the
languages of the various natives IN
the regions which he explored. In a
course of lectures which M. Cheva
lier is TO deliver he intends to repre-
duce these records.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Drove Away Hungry Lynx.

AS Roland Scrfbner of Stafford, VT.
was out fishing the other day in a
stream within sight of the house, he
happened to glance behind him and
saw lynx coming toward him from
the woods, growing and snarling, his
mouth open. The boy waited until
the animal got within a few feet of
him, and as 1t crouched to spring.
dealt it several blows with his fish
ing rod, whereupon the lynx turned
and ran back into the woods.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11

A land so desolate that magma
ton might not picture it; the surface
alternating in gray and red, where
the disintegrated line and sandstone
lay side by side without mingling; a
soil too coarse for vegetation, hard
with the baking of a burning sun.
and worn into ridges, where the
spring torrents from the melting
snow of the mountains had eaten
away the softer earth. In scattered
clumps, gray sage-seeming in its
lifeless dryness rather part OF the
dead soil than living growth from
it. Here and there cleaned white in
the sunshine masses of bleached
bones of cattle-perhaps of men
who had wandered there and died.
The vast plain that stretched, dead
waste, to the mountains which hung
like banks of mists on the edge of the
horizon, was broken by hideous
masses of red sandstone, gigantic.
water-worn into curious shapes by
the foods of aged untold. Here, one
stood isolated, in the form Of a
crouching animal ready to spring;
there, they lay along the plain, as if
huge lizards had been suddenly
turned to stone. Again, one lowered
like a pillar, carved with strange de-
vices of a forgotten people, and yon-
der, in masses and groups and rows.
they seemed the ruins of some vast
city, whose streets and squares must
have echoed to busy feet hundreds
thousands of years ago. Not tree
in the vast plain, but over all sky
without cloud, and a sun, not yet
at the meridian, that burned with
more than tropic heat.
Suddenly, in the very center of this
horror of desolation, appeared a man.
He was crouching in the water-worn
hollow of one of the biggest rocks.
covering in its blacklist shadow and
gazing off across the wide plain to
the dim mist that told where the
mountains lay. There was a bag
gard, hunted look in his face, and
when in the deep stiffness, unbroken
by the hum of locust or the buzz
of a beetle, a bit of sandstone
dropped from the great boulders, he
shivered as with fear and drew deep
err into the shadow of the followed
rock.
After some minutes, he seemed to
gather courage and suddenly dropped
from his rock-shelter, fiat upon the
ground, still, however, within the
shadows of the great boulder. Then
he raised his head and again gazcd
away toward the mountain 1t was
as if he felt that the mountain had
eyes and was watching the great
plain, on which anything that moved
would be seen through the clear air
and known by its power of life to
De strange to that dead world
After time he was crawling like
a lizard, out of the shadows, across
a stretch of hot sunlight, in among
the scant sage misunderstanding as
II he would be part of the gray and
red earth, if only he could burrow
into it and escape sight. Even when
he reached the sage bushes he did
not rise, but instead, crept on and
on, until he came to one of those
hideous water-worn gullies, into
which he rolled without raising his
body from the ground.
There he lay for a time, as if ex-
pecting that the dead plain would
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
HAS DONE VERY WELL
IS NOT THIS TRUE OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY?
Has the Democratic Parry Ever Done
as Well7 Never in Al Its History.
Can II DO as Weil7 There Is No
Reason to Believe II Gan or viii.

An admirable beginning of the cam
paign which is to terminate in the
election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks
was made at the great ratification
meeting held under the auspices of
the Republican CLUB of the City of
New York in the large hall of the
Cooper Union on the evening of June
30. Am0ng the speakers was Hon,
John M. Thurston, former United
States senator from Nebraska. The
Republican club did well to bring
from his retirement this famous
orator and stalwart champion Of
sound Republicanism. Mr.. Thurston
never fails to say something worth
hearing and worth remembering, but
he has seldom struck finer vein Of
useful thought than when he took
for his principal theme the PROPOSE
ton that
"The Republican party has done
tolerably WE'LL"
With master strokes he rapidly
sketched the splendid achievements
~ WYNN yNoio Vi lhS patty Va piOS
ress and prosperity. Especially i'm
pressive was his statement Of what
the Republican party has done toward
enhancing the moral and material
welfare of the people Of the United
States. Said Mr.. Thurston:
"As we look over the history OF
the last several years, the fruitful his
tory of Republican administration, 1t
seems to me that the American peo-
pie must say that the Republican
party has done tolerably well. We
find that our farmers and our planters
have raised crops such as they never
had before. They have fed our own
)eople-they have fed the millions
If the outside world. Home con-
sumption and the ability to buy and
foreign demand have given them the
best prices they ever received. We
look abroad throughout the land and
we find that in these seven years our
manufactures have increased to a
wonderful degree. We find that our
people are busy--that they are at
work; that there is no idleness, and
general prosperity abides in the land.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
pisproved Old Superstition.

The performance of a Canaan, N.
H., hen which Matched thirteen chick
ems from a setting of thirteen eggs
recently may be considered remark
able considering the fact that she
was set upon this unlucky number of
eggs on Friday, May 10, with one or
two other unfavorable conditions pre-
vailing.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
The Land of Long Ago.

The Land of Long Ago,
Where happy hours sleep.
Where languid rivers glide,
With stately flow and deep;
Where fadeless roses blow,
And Love sits azure-eyed.
There comes no frost nor snow,
But balmy breezes sweep
Ger gardens fair and wide,
And slow the waters creep
Through blossoms bending low
Above the charmed tide.
How sweet to rise and go
From ways where mortals weep,
From love so long denied,
To dreams that roses heap
Where crystal waters flow,
And golden days abide.
r.. G. Coventry in English Countr!
Life.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
The Tariff and 1904.

Some of the Democratic leaders
say they will attempt to make the
tariff the leading issue in 1904. 1t is
safe to say that the Republicans will
be glad to assist them in this endeav-
or If there is anything that the Re-
publicans would be grateful to the
Democrats for in 1904, 1t is for bring
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Black Snakes Guard Southern Homes

1t is true that the rattle snake and
the black snake are mortal enemies.
and the black snake is the victor in
their battles, breaking the neck of his
adversary before the rattler has time
to strike. The black snakes of this
country are as harmless as frogs. On
many OF the large plantations in the
south they are tanned and kept as a
protection from their enemy, as the
warm climate prevents keeping the
houses closed SO as to keep them out.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Proud of Bio Duck Farm.

A flock of snow white Pekin ducks
numbering 10000 and requiring a car
load of food every week, is the "show"
to which the villagers of Riverton, Va,
take strangers. The duck Farm is
said to be the largest I'll the United
States.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Monster Geranlum.

j. d. Fraser of Merrimack, N, H..
has something of a monstrosity in the
geranium line. The plant consists of
a single stock which measures in
height fully 81R feet under the rule.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11

give some token that his caution had
been in vah.- Streams of perspira-
ton rolled down his face and mixed
with the white dust that was rising
constantly from the dead soil, work
ing into the pores of his skin and
Sarching his mouth and throat as he
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
PADucAH WAS DISAPPOINTED.

Because of illness and for other
reasons some of the principal play.
ers OF the Cairo high school basket
ball team could not go TO Paducah
Saturday to play the. team of that
city and the Kentucky lassies were
very much disappointed according to
he Paducah Democrat, which
says:
"A basketball game between the Pa.
iueah and Cairo high school teams
vas scheduled for this afternoon at
the Y. NJ c A. gymnasium, but on &C
count of the failure of the Cairo team
to come up, was not played. The
members of the high school team
were at the depot this morning to
meet the Cairo party. which should
have numbered about ten, but not
one OF them showed up. 1t is presum-
ed that the inclement weather caused
he failure of the Egyptian team to
0ut in attendance and 1t was a great
disappointment to the local team"
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
Dec. s. 1904


Married, in Mound City, Ill.,, on Sun
lay afternoon. Dec. 4, 1904, at s
o'clock, Mr.. Clyde E. Richter of
Greenwood. Ind, to Miss Ruby /.
Hawley of Mound City. Rev. A. ]. Lit
tie of the NJ. E. church officia.ed. The
ceremony was pronounced at the
pleasant home of the parents of the
bride, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hawley on
East Poplar street. On account of
he Ill health of a brother to The
ride, MIR. Cole Hawley. the attend
nee was quite limited. being com
posel only Of the very near relatives
OF the twain. The bride is the second
laughter of Mr.. Hawley. She has i'm.
,roved her ample opportunities for
acquiring a good education-holding
diploma from Lowell high school
md other appreciable accomplish
nents. aud in form and feature is one
of Mound City's most handsome
young ladies. She has been an orna-
ment to the best class of society here
and in disposition is of sunny-natur.
ed and amiable turn. The groom is a
young man OF the bes. standing at
home: is Industrious and of correct
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
PURSE SNATGHERS
BUSY LAST NIGHT
ONE WAS CAPTURED AND Es
CAPPED BY KNOCKING NIGHT
CLERK MCCARTHY DOWN.
WAS REcAPTuREo.

Last night about $50 O'Clock.
Misses Susie Hines. Effie Hargrove
and another young lady We're ROBBIE l
by couple of negroes at the corner
OF Eighth and Railroad streets.
The young ladies We're on their way
to the Cairo Candy factory to see
some girl friends who are employed
there and were working after supper
They had all put their purses in a
ehatelaine bag carried by Miss Hines
and as they started to cross Railroad
street on the north side they were
confronted by two negroes one of
whom snatched the caatelaine bag
and ran north on Railroad street fol-
lowed by his confederate. =.
Officer Cowell who is on the down
town beat, was notified of the rob
berry and started in search of the
thieves. He visited VIII Walkers
saloon, corner Of Fourteenth AMI
Ohio streets and while he was there
a negro walked in and started out at
the back door. The officer nabbed
him and took him TO police headquar-
ters where. he searched him and
found two small purses, one in the
negro's pocket and one in his sock
The officer was not quite sure he
had the right party. so he left the
negro in charge of Night Clerk Nc
Carthy while he went to the candy
factory to get the young ladies' to
identify him.
While the officer was gone there
were "big doings" at police headquar-
ters and when the officer returned
with the ladies to identify the negro
that individual was gone Night
Clerk Mccarthy explained that the
negro attempted to escape and after a
lively sot-to in which the night clerk
was thrown to the floor. the darky es.
capped.
OFFICER Cowell started out again and
a few hours later was running buns
out of the mems waiting room at Cen
tral Union station when he found his
man the second time He escorted
the negro to the police station AMI
searched him. finding s5.95 in one
shoe. After some sweating the prls-
oner admitted his guilt and said he
spent s4G5 for a railroad ticket 10
St. Loris and had dropped the ticket
in front OF the Farmers Hotel while
on the way to the police station. or
fcer Cowell found the ticket and got
the money for IL. The negro also told
the officer where he had left the
chatelaine bag and he found it behind
box car on Railroad street between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets. He
claimed $40 was the share Of the
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06

ing arrested by private detectives at
Blue Fields. w Va. DR.. Franz Papp.
a native of Budapest. Hungary, is now
in custody Of immigration officials on
Ellis Island. According TO consular
representatives OF Austro-Hungarian
government Papp is wanted in Buda-
pest on an alleged charge OF having
stolen $4,000 worth of jewels. Papp
win be examined by special board
of inquiry to determine whether he is
subjec. to deportation.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS

habits, and has prospects for bright
and successful future. The couple
made brief trip but after Wednes-
day. the 7th inst. will be at home TO
friends they will reside with the
brides parents throughout the pres
ent winter.
Joseph Gaunt a big merchant bank.
er and well-to-do citizen generally,
has offered bonus of $500 to anyone
who will erect and operate hotel
in Grand Chain, his home town. OF
course, i will be understood that the
hosiery must be of proportions ade-
auate to the needs of the town and
in other respects commensurate with
the size and Importance of that frisky
and thrifty community.
Editor C. N. Walls of the Mounda
Leader was at the county capital to.
day
Rev. FIR. p. Engle has been in st
Louis for a week past to have his
eyes treated, which unfortunately are
seriously affected.
The city council will hold lis reg
ular monthly meeting Tuesday night.
1t will be busy session.
John H. Lane, a prominent Mound
City merchant. was at the county
seat today.
Mrs. Robert Tillman of Tnnnell Hill
has been visiting her brother, l.. d
Fern of Rodman's pharmacy
l. A. Humber of Cairo occupied the
tesk in the Congregational church
Sunday evening.
Dan Hogan, jr., made flying trip
to Pulaski this afternoon.
The town of Pulaski through ia
village board is preparing to have its
municipal laws printed in book form.
the same having been lately revised
The board of county commissioners
aeld a session today % formally in.
tall the newly elected county offic
ars and approve the bond ana install
IN authority the newly appointed over
seer Of the county poor farm, Fritz
w. Swigert
Mrs. Thomas Williams hasa been
making an extended visi. with rela
Ives IN East ST, Louis, BelleVllle and
Freeburg.
Miss Brenna Lutz. lately enjoyed a
rip of attraction viewing at St Louis.
Julge Butler vas up from Cairo to
lay to hear motion for a new +ria
n The Hlcks-Illlnols Central case.
The result Of the hearing has not yet
been learned.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06

The Ben Hur lodge met in Odd Eel
lows hall last evening. Besides the
routine lodge work the members
were gratified to hear good of the
order" talk by Rev. Robert Sickles, a
bright and eloquent tribesman of
Cairo.
DR.. James Wilton has built a good
box house Immediately south of the
Third-ward pumping station.
The final report of A. II. Bell, chief
engineer for the Cache River Drain
age commission, was filed with the
board at its meeting on Friday, Bird
inst. 1t contains important intelli-
gence and figures. reeting that the
cost of dredging and draining Cache
river-as contemplated-will be
s380,930; that the work will reclaim
$4,000 acres of bottom lands of the
most fertile character; that 1t will
vastly benefit the people residing ned'
the basin of the stream, in point of
health and safety from overflow. and
that the project is feasible and quite
practicable. The work of surveying
was begun Sept 2Gth, 1908, and com
pleted Nov. Goth, 1904. The cost OF
surveying, including maps, profiles
and reports, was $S,400. The general
assembly had appropriated the sun
of $4,000 to cover the cost Of the EN-
terprise and thre is $1,000, therefore
left in the custody of the commission
It is now OF paramount concern [,
the inhabitants of this entire section
that the general assembly that is to
be organized next month may be viii
ing to appropriate the sum mentione6
in the engineers report for the con.
summation of the drainage and dredg
ing undertaking. 1t is commonly IN
derstood that concerted pull in that
direction will be made by the people
who are either directly or remotely to
ye benefited by, the important under
taking ~ -
The annual bazaar and chicken pie
supper to be. afforded by the ladies
If the Congregational church is an
nounced to occur ON the 18th inst at
Fireman's hall
The following named members Of
the Odd Fellows lodge of this city
went TO Cairo on last Wednesday
evening and met with Stafford lodge
)f that city; f. p. Easterday, w. T
Jaccard, Lisle Murphy. Geo. Parker.
Adrian Snyder, Norman Harris. Nor
gan Brown, A. A. Austin, A. II. Rol
yer and $, S. Fix.
A petition to Governor Yates pray
ing for the communication of the sen
tence Of Eli Bugg from the death pen.
atty TO Imprisonment for life is in
circulation. 1t is generally opined In
his community that the verdict OF
the circuit court jury will not be dis
turbed by the executive
Rev. Marshall Culp, father of Mrs.
Albert Williamson and Mrs. Ed Mill
er, of this city, was recently married
to Miss May Hunsaker both of
Thebes. The groom resided at villa
Ridge for years and is quite we'll
known in Mound City.
The wedding of Mr.. Clyde Richie
with Miss Ruby Hawley occurred Sun.
day evening at the home of the par
ants Of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Hawley, on East Poplar street. The
was confined to the imme-
date relatives OF the contracting
couple.
Misses Tatum and Ethel Dougherty
lately spent few days In st. Louis
viewing the attractions.
]. w. Rhine and wife of Charles
on, Mo, have been mingling with
friends in Mound City the past two or
three days.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06

driven by Iouble-cylinder gasoline
engine Weighing sixty-eight pounds,
and 1t Is capable of developing fifteen
horse power. Attached TO the en-.
gine are two fans with a surface of
eight square feet.
These fans are screw shaped and
no. only do they propel the vesse,
but the current they generate acts on
the rudder and steers the ship.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
COBDEN.
Dec. 5, 1eo4.

6SSs " iSVTs
Misses Mary Caivell and Bessie
Judy returned from St. Louis last Fri
day.
Mr.. Charlie indy Of Denver. Colo,
Is here for a short visit with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w Judy.
George EIDE Jr.. who has suffered
with a severe case of diph;heria. was
much improved Monday.
Misses Anna and Lucy Gun with
their brother, George. left Sunday foi
Mobile, Ala, to join their father, who
has been there several days making
arrangements for their trip to Cuba
Together they will sail for Santiago
about the tenth. From Santiago they
will go by land to Puerto Principe,
where they expect to make their fu
ture home.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
WANTS coHsErs pRoHlsIreD.
Prussian Woman's Society Appeals to
The Minister Of Education.

Berlin, Dec. 5.--A remarkable peti.
tion was presented to the Prussian
minister Of education by a womanss
society.
It calls on the minister to prohibit
the wearing Of corsets in girls schools
a. ininieal 70 health.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
JACOB BAUR, 913 COMMERCIAL A

money he received. The young ladies
say the amount lost was between $25
and $50.
The negro gave his name as G.
Scott and his home as Nashville,
Tenn He said his partner had left
Cairo Immediately after the robbery.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
NEW AlRsHlP's FLIGHT.
Heaten's cirear-shaped Balloon Test
ed With Success in California.

Alameda, Cal, Dec. 5.--George Hea.
tens air-ship California Messenger, :"
has taken its first fight and behaved
in a satisfactory manner.
The airship is rs feet long, "a feet
in diameter when fully expanded and
is shaped like a cigar. The vessel is
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06

so-called diamond ink for writing
on glass is a compound Of fluorlc acid
and barium- The latter has no e
feet. il being simply a white powder
TO give body 10 the acid. The INK
can be used with rubber hand STAMP
and il should be allowed te remain
fifteen minutes. when the bafsum ~ifl
brush OF, leaving TIE design o. he
glass.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-06
BRICK MEN ORGANIZE.
sy the Associated Press.

os the Associated Press.
Cincinnati, Dec. 5.-Seventy-fve
manufacturers of brick, sand and
lime, representing twenty states. to-
day organized a national organization
Of manufacturers of sand and lime
products. w. K. Swuiers of Syracuse,
was elected president; VIM. King OF
Cedar Rapids. treasurer.