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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
American Jockeys Not First cIas

American Jockeys Not First Class.
Competent critics say there is not
a first-class jockey in America to-day.
Not one compares with Murphy or
Sloan as a Judge Of pace. with Nc
Laughlin in ability TO get away from
the post or with Garrison and Fitz-
patrick in a finish. Perhaps Rsdfern
and Burns more nearly approach Nc
Laughlin. 0dom comes closest to
Murphy's art and Fuller at times Is
within haillng distance Of Dare Devil
Fritz" and Snapper" Garrison. but not
one Of the lot can in justice be looked
upon a. q master.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
British Automobiles.

There are no all-British-made auto.
mobiles. The machines contain parts
from the United States or France. The
industry in England has been hamper
ed by adverse legislation 80 that tho
import business In such vehicles IN
much larger than the export.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
insist on oettlna II.

Bone grocsrs say they don't keep De.
1ancs Starch because they have a stock In
hand of 70 %. brands, which they know
cannot DO sold TO q customer who has once
LSed the 10 OF. pkg. Defiance Starch for
same money.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Tam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
ny life three years aso-Mr- THos. Ronnms.
Maple Street, Norwich. N. Y, Feb. II, iooo
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
Mora EIsxibls and LastIna,

won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better results
than possible with any other brand and
ons-third more for same money.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
| BEFORE THE
PUBLIC EYE
HE CRITICIZED THE KAISER.

Prof. Hasse offered Objections to
personal Government"
Prof. Hasse dared lese majesty at
a meeting of the Pan-German congress
at Lubbock by arralgning the kaiser
for his personal government" meth
DDS and for placing a barrier of cour.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
Whv IL Ia the Best

Is because made by an entirely different
process. Defiance Starch Is unlike any
other, better and ons-third more for 10
cents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

The man who makes hay while the
sun shines doesn't let the grass grow
under his feet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16
Alcohol Va olIIamn

An alcohol lamp gives of but half
the heat and vitiates the atmosphere
but half as much as a kerosene lamp
Of the same Illuminating power.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Some women sweeten their tea with
gossip instead Of sugar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
Tor children teething, softens the gums reduces h
hAmmaon, aliayt pain, cures wind colo. &c botA
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Floating capital is a good thing
when attached to a solid anchor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLoTHEa
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them
white as snow. All grocers. 30. package,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Some men can't air their viewI
without a lot of blow and buster.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

We never yet knew an old maid who
owned diamond or pearl sunburst.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

S = . Els.. Is:,y: 49,. 80.
& ~ z aAzE i: e q: ~; - - -.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

The guiltler a man is, the bigger the
lawyer he hires.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Lots Of people get beyond theli
Depths In the sea OF matrimony.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

The door Of adversely is always sup
piled with knocker.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

Some men are freethinkers and 9th
ers are married.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-16

tific study or sport can be landed at
any point on the upward voyage and
picked up again on the return, giving
them some weeks In one locality.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
HAS ISSUE AT LAST
DEMOCRACY LIFTED FROM THE
SLOUGH OF DESPoND.
Gen. Miles the Discoverer and "Patrl-
ot,sm" the Issue--Surely an Essen.
TALLY Democratic Ooctrine-Under
1t They Cav Claim Everything.
AT last an issue for the Democrats,

At last an issue for the Democrats!
After vainly casting about for
months, after iine.combing the recent
history of the Republican party, and
exploring the ruins of all past ma
tional works, the Democrats have
finally got an issue Gen. Nelson A.
Miles discovered it Where, when
and how are details not given. Let it
suffice that the party has an issue.
Now indeed can it have something to
talk about, an excuse for holding a
convention.
The issue is Patriotism.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles located IT, cap
'ured it. and sent it under a special
delivery stamp to Grand Rapids,
Mich. How he ever came to select
that town no one can surmise. What
with foods, darkness, wrecked homes
and deserted factories, Grand Rapids
had troubles of its own, but a round,
Fat burgher, named Doran gave shell
ter to the newborn issue and an.
uounced it to the world and democ-
racy. Patriotism is the issue. 1t is
essentially peculiarly, indivisibly and
eternally Democratic doctrine.
Sound the bugles for the past! De-
mocracy has an issue.
Gen. Miles read two Fourth of July
speeches, five schoolboy orations and
William Alden Smiths speech at the
Hagraising at Sparta Center before
h,, 4 Al.
through the medium of Grand Rapids
and Burgher Doran. The Miles Gre
dentials to Doran and &c. Raps" have
the right ring. They ought to get the
hand at every period.
Here, for instance, are magic lines:
The change from oppression to lib
erty is wrought by violence, but the
change from democracy to despotism
is quiet, insidious, subtle and fatal"
Whittier are we drifting?
The spark which fired that line was
of the same fire which stirred Will.
lam Jennings Bryan's recent prophecy
of the terrible impending conflict be.
tween capital and labor
Indeed we need patriots in this
crisis. Patriotism, logically, is the
paramount issue.
Old Rome, France and Kokomo
were searched by Gen. Miles for pow
der To shoot the patriotism rocket.
The Democratic party, it is evident,
will claim the flag, the declaration of
independence, the constitution and the
little red schoolhouse.-Chlcago Jour.
nal.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
A SUGGESTION.

The Detroit Tribune claims to have
burned much midnight oil in the proc.
css of, evolving the following brief
platform for the Democratic party in
the campaign Of 1904:
Whereas, We have hunted from
Kalamazoo to Jericho for issues dis.
tinctiye from those Of the Republican
party and failed to find any on which
all the Democrats can unite except the
tariff which is a chestnut; therefore
Il. Resolved, That we are against
the Republican party on general prin.
ciples.
"2. Damn the Republican party"
Whether or not the party will be
satisfied with the preamble and first
plank, there is no doubt that the sec.
ond plank expresses the sentiment of
all Democrats.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Canadian Reciprocity.

The movement in favor of reciproci-
ty with Canada will not down. At a
late meeting of the Boston Mer.
chants association it was resolved
that we "reafErm our belief in the
wise policy of entering into reciprocal
relations with other commercial mar
kets Of the world especially with Can
ada and Newfoundland, as increased
trade with them will add largely TO
the prosperity of New England, as
well as to that of other sections of
our country"
President Mellen of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford road lately adj
mitted that reciprocal trade relations
with Canada would increase the bust.
ness of the New England states, and
whatever Increases the business pros.
perity of those states would improve
the general business situation.
We need the lumber, iron, steel and
raw material Of Canada and the mari.
time provinces and they need the
New England markets for their manu-.
features. Boston Globe.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21

Porto Rico was piior to 1898, snd
what her representation in the Epan-
ish parliament amounted to will dis.
count MIR. Gomper's conclusion that
the United States government has
treated the island unfairly, and that
what her people chiefly need are rep.
resentation at Washington and more
complete system of home rule. These
things will come in due time; but
what Porto Rico requires more than
anything else-and it is here that we
are at fault if at all--is aid from this
country to tide over the distress
which inevitably followed the change
in her political and commercial rela-
tons. Mr.. Gomprrs has probably not
overstated the poverty and depression
now existing in the island, but the
American people, or The government
they have provided for the Porto
Ricans, cannot Justly be blamed Ior
the situation. The remedy must be
found chiefly in the enterprise and en-
ergy of the insular population, and it
may be confde ntly assumed that
whatever aid the United States can
give will be extended whenever the
way is pointed With sufficient clear
ness.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
CAST OUT THE "pEViL."
Peace Finally Secured by Wearied
Travellers in Korea.

In his new book, Korea" Mr.. An
gus Hamilton gives an interesting pic
ture of the land which is now attract.
ing the eyes of the civilized world.
Here in his account OF n night spent
in the village of Whading: 1T was
impossible to stand it was impossi.
BILE to sit; sleep was out of the ques-
ton. We shook our clothes; we
bathed and washed and powdered
Every effort was a torture, and each
prccaution increased the ironies OF
the situation. To add to the plaques
of this accursed place, we were deaf
ened by the ear.splitting incantations
of a sorcerer, who had been hired by
the proprietor of the village inn to
exercise devil that had bewitched
him. We wondered afterwards wheth-
er this accounted for the ceaseless
activity among the vermir. After a
futile attempt to come to terms with
the magician by bribery and Corrup'
ton through the medium of my in
terpreter, it was arranged that one of
the grooms should represent the evil
spirit. He passed out into the desola'
ton of the night and howled plain
lively, while we, having collected the
elders and the necromancer, solemnly
fired our revolvers into the darkness
at the departing spirit. Unfortunate
ly, we did not convince the wizard
that the devil had been expelled. 1t
was not until, losing my temper and
my reason together, | dropped his
gongs and symbals down well, de-
posting him in it after them. that we
were rid of the agonies of this addi-
tional nuisance"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21

old man became too feeble to carry
the sacks Of wheat on his back to the
shanty. All he could do was tie the
full sacks with strips of cotton, darn
holes in those that were empty and
unsafe, and mend the sifters where
the wire netting had broken.
Every week a wagon came and took
away the golden harvest, which was
sold to rich people on the highlands.
They fed it to chickens and mixed it
in bran for the cows. But I never
suspected what price it brought. nor
cared to ask. We made the balance
into bread and had enough. The old
man-no, | will call him a miser-used
to say that when the mine had cleared
up hundred times as many sacks as
his age, then he would die and should
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Railroads in the Philippines.

Secretary Taft recently gave the
house committee on insular affairs his
views as to railroad construction in
the Philippines. They have been mod
flied slightly as the result of the sec
retary's recent conference at New
York with men who probably will put
money into roads in the Philippines if
they can get sufficient guarantee.
The bill, drafted by Chairman Coop
or OF the insular committee after con
sultation with Secretary Taft and for
mer Secretary Root, authorizes the
Philippine government to issue rail
road aid bonds to certain amount or
10 give a guarantee that capital in
vested shall yield a minimum of 4
per cent per annum. The secretary
now suggests that the Philippine gov
eminent be authorized to guarantee 5
per cent interest on bonds or stocks,
the total liability not to exceed ST.
100000, but that if that offer be not
accepted the local government shall
be authorized to issue 3 per cent
bonds to an amount not exceeding
S3O,OOO,00 and build the roads itself
and operate or lease them
Apparently Secretary Taft has
learned that per cent guarantee
will not tempt American capital. 1t
would if the roads were to be con.
structed in this country, but the more
remote the place where the capitalist
invests his money and the greater his
unfamiliarity with local conditions the
larger the interest rate he insists on.
1t may be that when the Philippine
bill becomes a law that the money
market will be in such shape that a )
per cent guarantee will not be attract
i've. Hence the manifest wisdom of
the alternative proposition, which is
not in the Cooper bill, that the Phil
ippine government itself may build
the roads.
Railroads are impcratively needed.
They are the best of missionaries in
the archipelago. They will serve to
ciViliZe, pacify and enrich the people.
They will have great strategic value.
They will lessen the number of sol
diers needed. More than that, they
will cheaper greatly the cost of trans
portation from the interior to the sea
board. Extensive districts where moth
ing intended for expectation can be
raised prottably will become popu-
lous and productive.
If authority to build railroads can
not safely be intrusted to the present
Philippine government new men
should be appointed to whom It can
be intrusted. But as matter OF fact
The men now in Office can be depend
ed on to do the right thing if only
they are given a chance to do it. Con
gress should accept Secretary Taft's
revised conclusions.-Chi Trib-
une.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Mr.. Bacon and Trusts.

Trusts, most Southern statesmen
seem to believe, are to be inveighed
against in the abstract, but allowed
to shelter themselves, when brought
to court, under the accommodating
mantle of state sovereignty. Mr.. Ba.
con, therefore, would not be too rash
in prosecuting combinations in re.
on the trust issue also the Democrats
should be conservative, and endeav-
or in no way TO injure legitimate
business interests while trying to
reach unlawful enterprises"
Mr.. Bacon is for a conservative
platform because he believes in CON
servatism. Other Democrats
OF them in GeOrgia-are for con-
servative platform because it may
win, not because it is conservative.
Whether as Stalliinghorse behind
which to steal into power or as a Sc
rious recasting of Democratic theor-
les, the Bacon program lacks neither
courage nor candor. But in attempt
ing to read genuine conservatism
into Democratic beliefs and Demo
cratic practices its author merely
demonstrates his own capacity for
paradoX-his inability to measure the
forces behind Democracy or to recog.
nize the historical groundwork on
which its achievements as an Ameri.
can party rest.---New York Tribune.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
A Good Excuse.

A writer in Lippincott's Magazin"
tells the following story:
My cook, an old darby, informed
me one morning; Miss Annie, is
goin' to be married tonight. Is you
got a present for me?'
But, Maria, said, you've got a
husband alive and haven't been di-
vorced; it would be bigamy.'
Well, Miss Annie I don't care;
he's done bigotted fust."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Flowers in the Arctic.

Dr. Schel. the geologist-a member
OF the last Sverdrup Arctic expedition
recently delivered a lecture before
the Geographical Society of Christi
ania on the. vegetable life of Files
mereland, in 7Sto 70 degrees of north.
ern latitude and separated from
Greenland by Smith Sound. During
the summer tracts of the lowlands are
covered with Arctic flowers. A noun
tain slope of one of the bays was com
pletely covered with the violet-col
ored flower stalks of the species saxi.
fraga oppositifolia. In the rocks rem.
nants of plants were discovered, the
species Of which to-day are found in
much warmer climes-for instance, in
Australia.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21

! be heiress Of the marshes. | set no
store by his oft-repeated promise, for
! getting how many thousand bushels of
grain ore had gone to the make-be-
lieve assayer. Still | humored his
whim and even said | would marry
the nomad of the main line who risked
his job so many times to make us
wealthy.
Yes, my love had made his plea
plea without a plan. And that
know is for loves own sake. But
somehow | fancied he watched a little
wistfully at times the faces that sped
by at the windows of the through cX-
press. And now | am afraid it was
my anxious gaze down the track at
sunset that helped the old man to
think some day our track walker would
turn his face the other way and we
woald not see him again.
My benefactor became a watcher as
well as |. Often after days work we
have climbed up into the signal tower
by the Y and looked for the solitary
figure coming nearer and nearer on
INC uDuDlC VI dChS. iHCl We Nplllu
wave hands to him, shout goodnight
when he approached and passed, and
go home together-the old man and
happy as the wild ducks that fly
over the marsh.
He's a good boy" the old man
would say simply.
My heart leaped to thank him, but
some thing held my tongue. Perhaps
it would only have made the old man
brood more deeply over the purpose
was unconscious of.
One day as he limped over the half
frozen ground | remembered that he
said, "Ah, my child, it is a terrible
thing to be old"
shall never forget the sadness in
that voice or the look in those deep
set eyes.
One other time have seen him that
way; his eyes wide open with far
away stare, as if trying to see where
the snow flakes began their intermin-
able journey.
| am sure it was a sudden great
blow to my guardian when he heard
the track walker was discharged He
came to tell us how it happened and
to say good by, stopping first at the
grain cars ON the Y, which he had
never done before. My sweetheart is
young and brave, so he only laughed.
But | had no heart to go on with my
sitting. | accompanied him across
the marsh to talk it over with the old
man.
For the first time in winter the door
of the shanty stood wide open, creak-
ing its hinges mournfully on the sea
ward side, The old man was not
within, A half-measure of grain was
on the floor and beside it measure
half full of gold and silver coins pour
ed out of canvas sack; and scat
tered aver the carpetless planks were
few grains of sound wheat.
His foot tracks led off from the lone.
ly path into the l0neler thicket. and
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Roosevelt viii Be the Issue.

Colonel Watterson and other Demo
Gratis are saying that the Roosevelt
administration will be the issue in the
campaign of 1904. They are rignt.
The national administration of Tie
day is usually the issue in every presi-
dental canvass, This has been true
from the time of the first Adams down
to to-day, except during the disinte-
cation in the parties during Monroe's
eight years in office. National plat
forms did not begin to make their ap.
pearance until third of the nine
teenth century had expired There
was no need of any platform by a
convention in the first Adams case,
even if national conventions had been
invented in that day. The alien and
sedition laws and the other acts of
his term were the issues in the can
vass of 1900. The things which the
second Adams did, and those that his
enemies said he intended to do, were
the issues that were talked about in
the campaign of 1928, in which Jack
son was elected the first time. jack
son himself furnished many issues. So
did every other strong president
down to this hour.~-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21

Only after he had spilled handful
of good wheat over the bare plank
floor did | understand what the old
man had in mind when he would run
the grains through his fists. like sand
through an hour glass, and talk in
slow apologize monotone about the
wealth of the marshes.
hone no one will think me a sordid
person; | speak of his whim because
it explains his last wish and his last
act. He did not own a foot of the
landscape and the shanty was no more
than a squatters claim. But some
how his vague intentions had instilled
in my heart a longing, without hope
or reason, to inherit the dreary acres
of reeds, pools of salt water and piles
of swecpngs, emptied from grain cars
on the Y, and God willing, | shall live
on this forgotten estate as long as
may.
1t is now perfectly clear that my
gentle, sensitive benefactor had
thought an heiress would be happier
far from here with the love of
worthy bridegroom, who once belonged
in city. He showed this by mute
signs when he himself went out from
the rule habitation never to come
back alive.
For how many years cannot tell, |
sifted the waste of the grain cars that
came down from the mills and cleva-
tors. Tons and tons of sweepings are
run ont on this little branch of the
railroad and are unloaded by the
brakeman with huge shoves. The
railroad people call it the dump, but
my guardian told me Ions ago the
name of the station is Marsh Mine. He
it was who discovered what those
placer heaps contained. He invented
sitter and taught me how to sep
aratc the dust from the wheat.
AT first it was wild play to sec the
chaff and flour dust flying like fine
snow in the wind. ] was little girl
then. After a while came to know
it was work, but did net complain.
Other poor people found out the mine
and worked it for their daily bread
and something more besides. But
the idea of vast wealth grew upon
my aged foster father until he began
TO talk about turning the sacks of
wheat into sacks of pure gold by some
mysterious means. This he said he
could do, his thin face-pallid as the
flour dust-staring at the hour glass
he made with his bony hands
AS we sat together by the peat fire
in the shanty and waited the long win
ter evenings for word of a new siding
Vt cars would ask the old man many
silly questions, but always Wien he
did not wish to speak his mind he
was listening to the wind rushing in
from the sea over the salt marshes.
And his answer was ever the same:
"Ah. my little girl, it will be fine to-
morrow at the mine"
Afterward the track walker would
knock to tell us the cars were due to
come down by daybreak. He would
seldom enter and seldom stay lorg,
because ! think he was afraid the rail
road spies would hear he was giving
Information and have him discharged,
though he never said so.
He was fine fellow for taking the
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-21
Liqht That Will Not Fail.

They say that they've discovered
A light that will not fail.
That burns n thousand million years
And yet does not grow pale.
They tell us that this substance
Is like the dear old sun,
And we conclude ii would be nice
TO own little one.
For Their we'd take the meter
Down from the cellar wall
And turn the horrid gas man out
If ever he should call.
But when we ask the price of
This radium they've found,
They smile and answer pleasantly:
-Four million plunks a pound"
Answers.