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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
GREAT BRITAIN LOSING TRADE.
Competing Nations Win in Struggle
for Worlds Markets.

In 1904 the exports of Great Brit
ain, aggregated, in round numbers
$1,5O3, 555,000, of which $559,6S5 900
worth went to its colonies. The i'm
ports in the same year were valued
at $2,755, 100000. of which 5000, $780, 900
worth came from its colonial possess
ions. British exports to foreign count
ries show decline whereas those to
its colonies have considerably increas-
ed. Were it not for the latter favor
ing circumstances, Great Britain's in
dustrial condition would be bad. AS
it is, active competitors like Germany,
Belgium, Italy, Japan and the United
States are encroaching more and
more on British trade in international
markets where no preferential duties
on imported goods from Great Britain
exist.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
A Romance Of the xixth Century.

Mr.. Richard Watson elders "a Ro-
nance OF the Nineteenth Century"
which will be n feature of the October
Century, grew out of an inquiry, Il IL
said. as to the direct references by
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Brown
ing to each other in their poetry, with
view to grouping such poems as
might appropriately be classed with
the "Sonnets From the Portuguese"
Mr.. Glider concluded that, on Mrs.
Browning's part would naturally APP
pear in this connection, with the Portu-
guese Sonnets, the six lyrics, Life and
Love-" "A Denial" Proof and Dis
proof" Question and Answer" I'm
clusion" and 'Insunlciency," and on
Mrs. Browning's zone Word More"
'Prospice" and the passage beginning.
o Lyric Love" from THE Ring and
the Book"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12

For many years there has been q
never-ending, never conceding, never
triumphing war between the world of
fashion and the world of
serious thought From the days when
the stoics of ancient Rome strove to
awaken the dissipated set of their" day
to the grim realities of life and of phil.
osophy down to the present busy era,
in which the preachers in the pulpit
try to arouse responsibility in the use
of the enormous wealth of to-day and
humane societies endeavor to protect
the innocent wild things from the on
slaught of eternally barbarc fashion
there has existed this pitched battle
of one-half of the world against the
other half.
Bishop Henry c. Potter wrote:
There is an element of savagery in
the use of birds for personal decora,
ton which is in grotesque contrast
with our boasts of civilization; but
even the savage stops short, as rule,
with the feathers. 1t is only Christian
people who think it worth while to
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Effects of DESTROYING Game.

One of the penalties for the wanton
destruction of birds is paid in the
frequent terrible visitations by insect
pests which devour the various crops
in the field. They cost the people
not only of this country, but of all
the other nations which are depend.
ent on our crops, millions in loss.
Many states have made laws for the
preservation of the game animals,
birds and fishes, but these laws have
no effect on the classes for which
they are really meant, and little on
the majority of the people. Those
who have tho new-fangled destruct.
i've guns want to use them and they
will find living targets, and in too
many cases they may be human
marks for their shot.-New Orleans
Picayune.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
VARIATION OF OLD CON GAME,
Spanish Swindie Makes Its Appear.
ance in New Dress.

The Spanish con men are at it
again, though this time they have a
variation. Arthur c. Jacobson, lum.
Der dealer of 81 Bridge street, Brook.
Ign, has been asked by mail to be.
come the guardian and protector OF
the daughter of "Octavio Figueroa,"
now serving a sentence of eighteen
years in Spanish prison. Accord.
ing to the writer of the letter his wife
was a Miss Jacobson, relative of the
lumber merchant. The writer ad.
mits that he was secretary to Marti.
nez Campos in Cuba and says that he
escaped to London with G29,000,
which he deposited in bank. All Mr..
Jacobson of Brooklyn will have to do
is to consent to become the guardian
of the fifteen-year-old girl, Julia, and
send to Spain money sufficient for her
transportation to America. Singular
as it may seem, he won't send a cent.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Greeley PecuIiarities.

William Barnes, ST., of Albany was
a very old and intimate friend of Ho-
race Greeley.
"Mr. Greeley" said he the other
day, "was peculiar in every relation
of life except when he had a pen in
his hand and reform to write about.
Then his head was level.
His wife was just as peculiar as
he was. They had one son, Pickey,
who died young. Mrs. Greeley never
permitted the boy to eat flesh or to
know that animals were killed for
food
Mrs. Greeley was as earnest a re.
former as Mr.. Greeley, and as indiffer
ent as he to the conventionalities of
life Mr.. Greeley took me up to the
house once TO dinner, and noticed
the -four barrel standing in the front
hall. There was trail of flour from
the place where 1t stood out into the
kitchen. thought. perhaps it had Just
come in and they had not had time to
move It, But, happening to pass it,
saw that it was nearly empty. The
delivery man had set it down in the
hall, and it had never occurred to
either of them TO move j. into the
kitchen"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
TRAFFIC OFFICIALS PACKING COMPANIES
ACKNOWLEDGE GUILT

Complying with the first portion OF
the agreement between the United
States authorities and representatives
of the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
company, four traffic officials of that
company pleaded guilty, Sept. 81, in
the United states district court at Chi
cago to the charge of conspiracy to
solicit and receive railroad rebates in
violation of the federal statutes as de-
tailed in the Indictment
Judge J. Otis Humphrey of Spring
field, before whom the pleas of guilty
were entered in person by Samuel
We'll of New York, c. Il. Todd of Kan
sas City, Vance ID. Skipworth of New
York and Beth S. Cusey of Chicago,
sentenced the four men to total cash
fine of $4,000 and costs, without any
Imprisonment. The fine was promptly
paid by check signed by Max Sulz-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
What's In Mcclure's,

The October McClure's is devoted Pc
euliarly to American life and activities.
Not story in It, nor a special article,
but concerns the real and immediate
things that move this country at large
Pastor Charles Wagner, the French
tlergyman-author Of THE Simple Life"
writes OF his visit at the White
House, and with simple directness tells
Of the children and the household lifo
Of the president as he saw them. He
writes an interesting and important es-
Innate of President Roosevelt as a man.
What Kansas Did to Standard OIL"
concludes Miss Tarbelrs story of the oil
war in Kansas, and tells excltingly of
how the Kansans rushed in and won.
Pioneer Transportation in America"
Is the truthful romance of trafic, an
Accordingly interesting story fun OF
curious information. In this first pa
per Charles +. Lummis, foremost au-
thority on the subject, carries trafio
through Americas heroic age up to the
beginnings of the great days on the
plains.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
A Piece of Impiety.

A clergyman was condemning a
man who had refused to subscribe to
a worthy charity.
"I'll tell you something about that
man." he said, (which | had prom
Used myself never to reveal 1t was as
nasty a piece of irreverence, guess,
as history records.
This fellow once was impious
enough to get rid of an unwelcome
guest by using prayer as a-ah-a
bouncer.
The guest, it seems, had over
stayed his time-had been invited for
week, remained a fortnight, and
showed a disposition to continue on
a month. 1t was aggravating, | admit,
But to bounce him with a prayer!
Well!
THAT, though, is what the man did.
At the end of the second week he
concluded the usual morning exhorta-
ton with this sentence:
"'And, Lord, bless, we beseech
Thee. Brother Jonathan Sharp, who
leaves by the o'clock train this af'
ternoon."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
MANY AMERICANS LIVE ABROAD.
More Than 100000 at All Times Re-
siding In European Cities.

siding in European Cities.
Year by year the number of Ameri-
cans residing in the chief European
cities has been increasing. Two years
ago an estimate of the number of
Americans living in London was made
and the number was shown to be
$4,000, with 10000 in Paris.
There are according to the last esti-
mates $4,000 Americans residing in
London permanently, 10000 in Paris,
5000 each in Rome and Berlin, $500
in Munich, 1900 in Florence and 1000
in Venice.
There are at all times between 1907
900 and 10000 Americans resident in
European cities, apart from the num-
Der of Americans who make sum-
mer trip to Europe and come under
the designation of either transients or
travellers. Most European countries
do not include in the census of inhab-
itants taken unnaturalized foreigners,
and for that reason the figures of the
number of Americans are not always
easy to get. Ten per cent of the popu-
lation of Paris, exclusive of transients,
is made up of foreigners-250 900 for
eigners constantly in Paris, of whom
10000 are Americans.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
NAVAL LOSSES DURING PEACE.
Accidents Have Cost Far More Lives
Than Has Warfare.

The modern navies of this country
Great Britain and Japan are alike at
least in one respect-that the accid-
ents of peace have cost them rather
more in men and ships than the in
cidents of war. The loss with nearly
800 men of Admiral Togo's flagship,
the powerful battle-ship Miskasa, that
bore the brunt of the fighting in the
late war, is one of the most appalling
calamities that has overtaken any
navy in time Of peace. In destruction
Of life it ranks with the loss of the
British turret ship Captain in the
Bay of Biscay in the early days Of the
ironclad and the sinking of the Vic.
toria by the Camperdown few years
ago. The United States navy has in
it's annals Of peace the blowing up of
the Maine and the loss of two ships of
Admiral Franklin's squadron in the
Samoan hurricane of the late sos.
Each of the disasters enumerated cost
the nation concerned more lives than
any naval battle it has engaged in
since steam supplanted sails.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Debts Did Not Worry Him.

Charles Mathews, the great English
comedian, one day previous to the pc
riod of his publicity proclaimed dire
bankruptcy, invited a friend to dine
with him. The walnuts were washed
down by some rare sherry. That's
delicious wine" his friend ex-
claimed; at must have cost you a
lot of money 1T didn't cost me
anything that | know Of" the actor
answered with a shrug you had it
given to you, them" the friend sug-
gested. ooh. no." answered Mathews,
81 bought it from Ellis, in Bond
street" "But he will charge you
something for IT," the friend ex-
claimed In establishment. 81 believe
he does write something down in a
book" Charles retorted gravely; "let's
have another glass, my boy"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
SAMUEL WE'LL.
ARMY WIFE UNDER MICROSCOPE.
Her Daily Life Subjected to Con-
slant Scrutiny.

The life of an army wife is hard.
She lives under a microscope. She is
subjected to a constant scrutiny, even
more minute than that which the aver
age decent woman in a small town re.
ceives-which can be compared only
to that brought to bear on the min
ister's wife in such town. Further
more, the army wife, if she venture
to be indiscreet, is likely to find the
microscope under which she lives in
stantly enlarged into telescope
through which the whole nation is
looking at her. Her husbands posi-
ton makes their domestic troubles
likely to be forced into national prom
inence, when they are, in fact, no
worse than are occurring in every
block in civil life. Under these cir
cumstances it is wonder not that
so many, but so few, scandals affect
ing army wives get into the newspa-
pers. The fact that they do not-that
the percentage of domestic scandals
in the army attracting public atten-
ton is mailer than in civil life-is the
strongest possible testimony to the
propriety and discretion of the army
post woman.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
MONEY IN TWINKLE GROUNDS"
English People Fond of Toothsome
Shell Delcacy

"These CLAIMS of yours-the cherry
stones especially-are all right" said
an English tourist, "but l miss my
wrinkles"
Wrinkles? What are they?"
Little shellfsh. The finest, sweet
est morsel that the sea gives up.
What beer is to German, pie to a
Yankee, long pig to a cannibal, all
that and more wrinkles are to a Bri-
ton. Good? Well!
The trade in wrinkles is big.
"The British Wrinkle grounds, or
winkleries, are on the east coast, on
the mud flats. There the little win
kles feed by millions on the sea grass,
and there between the tides the win
kler pick them up. A winkler aver
ages $40 a week for three hours Of
work a day.
MANY winklers lose their lives, for
the mud flats are treacherous. Walk
ing on them you wear splashers--
things like snowshoes-but your
splashers won't save you if you step
into patch of the green death
"The green death is a quicksand on
the marsh. A man will sink ten feet
in it in half an hour. Before you can
dig him out the tide rolls up, the
greasy water a-rattle with big crabs,
and before the ebb sets in the poor
chaps bones are picked clean.
you can pick 1900 wrinkles an hour
on a good foreshore.
"To own Wrinkle foreshore, or win.
klery, is to be rich in perpetuity.
Many of these foreshores have been
yielding for hundred years and their
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
PRESERVE THE INDIAN NAMES
Washington Star Considers Them APP
propriate Applications.

The suggestion has been made that
when Indian territory shall become
state or part of a state the new state
shall be called Sequoyah, in memory
of the half-breed Cherokee who in
vented the syllable alphabet of the
Cherokee language and who performed
other noteworthy services for his peo-
pie. Whether the suggestion is good
or bad Is not now to be determined,
but certain it is that conspicuous
argument against the adoption Of the
name is unsound. 1t is argued that
1T is an Indian name and hard to pro-
nounce. Mercy! A citizen of the
United States to urge this as reason
against a geographical name in the
United States. If there is anything in
the power of precedent or the force of
example this is not an objection to
but an argument for the name Sc
quoyah. For nearly 100 years we have
been saying Massachusetts,, Connect
cut and Delaware and for a long time
have been pronouncing Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri,
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, etc.
Washington Star.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
WASTE LAND MADE PRODUCTIVE
Country Watered by the Tigris Begin.
ming to Bloom.

A correspondent writing to the
Chemnitz Germany Tageblatt from
Bagdad states many modern improve.
ments are being made. The Vilajet
Mossul, on the middle Tigris, is ex.
tremely rich in all agricultural prod.
ucts, and during the last ten years
much has been done to introduce ra-
tional methods of farming. The Bed.
ouins are becoming less nomadic in
their habits and are leaving the neigh.
boring steppes to become permanently
domiciled upon the land, which is be.
ing irrigated and reclaimed from the
state of waste which has character
lied it for centuries. The projected
Bagdad railway, a German enterprise,
will pass directly through this coun.
try and bring it within easy reach of
the commercial world. Two new
steamers, built in England, are now
plying the Tigris. They are owned
by native company and are fitted up
with all modern appliances, such as
electric light, etc.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12

berger, the Chicago vice president OF
the company.
The pleas of guilty, while expected,
have caused a sensation in legal and
railroad circles. They were followed
by the announcement that the govern
ment will now proceed against the
Grand Trunk, Great Western, the Le-
high Valley, the Michigan Central,
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
the Boston and Maine and the Mobile
and Ohio railroads, which are named
in the indictment as the roads from
which the four traffic officials of the
Schwarzschild e Sulzberger people So
licited and received rebates.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
KEPT THE STUDENTS GUESSING.
Few Minutes of Discomfort for Gradu.
atinu Class,


The class which was recently gradu-
ated from the University of Bellevue
Hospital Medical college was an un-
usually unruly one. When the stud
ents were particularly obstreperous
DR.. Joseph ID. Bryant would be called
upon by the faculty to give the young
men calling down.
Just before the examinations began
DR.. Bryant called a meeting of the
men who hoped to graduate. and when
they had assembled he took a slip Of
paper from his pocket and impressive
ly announced;
"In the course of the session had
frequently cause to warn you that
your conduct, or rather misconduct,
during the term would be taken into
consideration when examination time
came, and your record during the year
would determine whether you would
be permitted to try for graduation. To
prove that the threat was no idle
one | shall now read off the names
of the students who are entitled to
take the examination this year"
Then DR.. Bryant deliberately unfold
ed the piece of paper he held in his
hand and carefully adjusting his eye
glasses proceeded to read the names
on the list, while the students sat still
for the first time in their college
career and cursed the day that they
were born and sweat blood" as one
of them later expressed it, while they
waited to learn If their names had
been kept from the list.
All things come to an end, and final
ly the doctor finished reading, and
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Bank Customers Photoqrauhed.

One of the most ingenious methods
In the world for photographing per-
sons and keeping them in ignorance
of the fact is that of the Bank of
France. The bank has hidden
studio in gallery behind the cash.
ier's desk, so that at signal from
one OF the bank employees any sus-
pected customer will instantly have
his picture taken without his own
knowledge.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Heiuht Of French Soldiers,

Since the law of 1901 there has been
no limit of height for French soldier;
dwarf or giant, all must serve. Be
fore that time the limit was only FIVE
feet one inch. Yet the average height
was not yet run down to that of Ma
poleon's "grande armee" in its last
years and not long ago 1t was above
that of the German army measured as
a whole.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
sWere Once PenlnsuIas.

Biologists incline to the opinion that
Ruegen only but the Isle of Wight
and Great Britain were once peninsu-
las and became separated from the
mainland before the time when the
island Of Ceylon enacted declara.
ton of independence from Hindostan.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
XandanIa In Palace.

The famous tapestries of the Pal
ace Of Fontainebleau have been cut
and slashed until they are almost in
shreds, and the sculptures and carved
wood mantelpieces have been Clipped
in scores of places. The damage
aside from that to the tapestries, is
estimated at $S5 900.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
"Paddy's Hurricane. "

A "Paddy's hurricane" is when
there is little or no wind, when the
penants hangs down alongside the
mast, hence, it is said, when the
wind is up and down the mast It Ia
q "Paddy's hurricane"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
How to Avoid Washing Quilts.

A good device to save washing COM
forters and quilts is to haste across
the top end facing, a quarter of a
yard wide or more, of cheesecloth or
other material. The facing may be
taken off and washed frequently. This
also keeps the bedding from wearing
out
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Flow OF German Rivers.

With one exception the waters of
German rivers run into the North Sea,
the Baltic and the Black Sea. That
one exception is brook which starts
in Germany beyond Alsace and grad
ually reaches the Rhine by way Of the
Saone, and thus at last empties into
the Mediterranean, in the gulf of
LYONS
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Arsenic Mine.

From small beginning two years
ago an arsenic mine near Elbe, Pierce
county, Washington, has been devel-
oped until IL is now producing twenty.
five tons each twenty-four hours. It is
the only mine In the country in
which the arsenic is taken direct from
the ore.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Gem Of Phillips Brooks.

These are truths; we are all of us
Gods children; every soul is made for
purity, and has no right to sin; no
soul can do its duty anywhere with
out thrill of richer life running
through all the world. Phillips
Brooks
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
Wore His LAWYERS Boots.

While defending a case in court at
Carlow, Ireland, an attorney was sur
prised and grieved to see on the feet
of his client a pair of boots that had
been stolen from him some time be-
fore.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
evmnastlcs Benefit Youno Men.

Gymnastic exercises are held re-
sponsible for the fact that within lac
last sixty years the percentage of
young men unfit for military service
has fallen from SO per cent to per
cent
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12

Some people would worry them.
selves to death II they didn't have
trouble to think about.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12

for the pickers can't keep up with the
busy little creatures propagation.
"Winkle foreshores are guarded and
tended with great care, | know of
several that yield their owners $685.
900 a year apiece"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12
INTERIOR OF SUBMARINE BOAT

when he replaced the list in his pocket
the name of every man in the class
had been called.-New York Times.