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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17

reached there would be and IN such hurry
20 in that would rush into bathing suits, line
up the end Of the dock nearest the and
the other end to who would be the first to jump
off the spring board. Many times the boys would dive
off before they reached the end We said that would
out there young at the springbo and
could not 60 off, grew tired waiting, so dove of
and the first to be given ttducking:''
A Seventh Grade, Earl Gerrish,
Whittier School 2720 Blaisdeu Ave.
A SCARCITY OF TASKS
My favorite pastime is playing baseball
Perhaps should like swimming and other things better
but I am not allowed to do them. cannot play base
would like to learn how to be good player I have
hardly any work do in the summer except moving the
lawn, sprnklng and taking of the garden These
are all easy tasks and when am thru with them I
go out for good game of baseball and exercise
B Seventh Grade, ,2s-Ralph Gunnerson,
Bryant School 334O Third Ave- s.
=. PLEASANT SUBSTITUTE
In the while am at the lake my favorite
out and I wanted to swim, but had just eaten my
breakfast told to wait for about two hours
and might go. She said should do something to
pass away the time. did not know what to do until
mama said ttWhy don't you pick berriesf' At first,
hesitated little because thought that would be
disagreeabe pastme. But after awhile decided that It
would be all right, 7 got three sunbonnets for my
cousins and myself. Then we each started off with
small pail Out in the woods found so many berries
that the two hours had passed and wished to
stay longer Instead Of being disagreeable pasme It
became a favorite after that
Fifth Grade, Dorothy Hanson,
Horace Mann School. 1920 Park Ave.
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lay down In the shade OF the big trees
and hear the birds sing. We go swim
ming and see who can dive the best OF
out rowing in the boats to pick water
lilies. Often we stop on the other side
and hunt in the woods and then go fish
ing, which liked very much. enjoy
playing games with the other boys, too.
-. Clifford johnson,
.s~@ 522 W Twenty-eighth st.
A Fifth Grade, 49,. r, s-,
Whittier School -.s~-r1
3 s-. r.
A LITTLE MAIDS GREAT JOURNEY
One bright afternoon I sat down to
read my library book when suddenly I
heard rap. ran to open the door
and fdlnd that it was our postman.
He handed me letter and said, "There
is 10 cents charges on this. ~ My
mother gave me the dime and opened
the letter with trembling hand. I
found a railroad ticket to town in
North Dakota and began to read the
letter: ..s....z .-sz-~~.sz =5-sgs. ~
Dear Florence:-Your little niece
and nephew are waiting for you at Bis
until June 10, 1905. Be sure to come.
Don't fail, as we will wait for you.
81. -. Your uncle, 49,
I I asked my father il. i could go cut
there and he said, "f you can take
good care of yourself you may" The
days went by very quickly. Saturday
came and then began to pack. sSatur-
day night could not sleep, but thought
Of what good time I was to have.
Sunday morning I was up very early
to start on my journey. I arrived at
Bismarck Monday afternoon and there
found my little friends waiting for
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17

stranger at first but after they showed me
around felt better went to the pasture with my
friends Friday and had known how pasture
looked BEFORE it seemed very strange to [ wrote
many letters home in which told Of all the fun
having. After staying there about two weeks, grew
lonesome and my mother sent letter to return to
Minneapolis. had many things to tell my friends
about Bismarck and its pastures tired of tell
ing of my favorite pastime of that summer.
A Sixth Grade, z-.--,. Florence Kapan,
Blaine School. 709 Fifth st. N.
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VERY SURE ABOUT 1T.

Rowing IS my favorite summer pastme. Summer
days long and hot but the water is the coolest
place know Of When lived at Minnehaha and
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17

had reached destination the only who
caught any fish, and got only two But as caught
them in the morning, had fish for dinner 1t the
greatest fun to cook and eat dinner outdoors but at this
place Uncle Jess the proprietor of the hotel Trout
lake, had put up cabin and had dinner in there
Daddy had his and he took my picture stood
the porch of the cabin with my two precious Gttls
fishes and my fishing togs still have the picture
memento of that expedition.
A Seventh Grade, jean Hirsch,
Whittier School Washburn Park.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17
ENOUGH WATER FOR ONCE.

The best summer pastime for is swimming I
live about a block from the creek and 60 swimming
two three times day and sometimes There is
One day we went in swimming and it looked very much
like rain, but did We stayed in the water
about five minutes and the rain began to pour down.
We jumped out and dressed quickly could, but
We were all soaked thru. When we reached home we
>ad to change all clothes and put dry
Sixth Grade Walter Anderson,
Horace Mann School. 18th Ave. and 4Sth St. s.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17
THOSE HUNGRY CHICKS.

THOSE HUNGRY CHICKS
My favorite summer pastime is to go out in the
eountryo hunt eggs and ride horseback every night
About O'Clock 60 to the pasture drive the cattle
home, and then the fun begins, riding horseback In
for feed After have fed them for awhile they grow
tame that they follow all Every time they
they in hocks if have anything for
them, but they often disappointed. There fields
of high cornstaks around there where play hdeand
seek when have nothing else to do.
B Seventh Grade Marie Erickson,
Horace Mann School 1906 Columbus Ave,
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MOTHER NATURES PETTINa.

MOTHER NATURE'S PETTING.
The thing most enjoy in summer is to take book
and pillow 60 down the lake and sit in the shade of
choke-cherry tree. There the cool breezes whstling
around my head, cooling when grow warm at some
exciting part of the story. It is this way that
most enjoy spending hours alone in the woods with
to call every five minutes and interrupt my In
teresting reading When the afternoon begins to die
into evening enjoy watching the and its bean
full reflection the lake it dies away in the dusk.
A Seventh Grade, Minnie Jaquer
Whittier School. 81 E Twenty-six St
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AND THEY '.DUCKED'' HIM. '~
My favorte summer pastime is swimming. Last
summer went in most every morning We often walked
to the lake which is little two miles. When
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17
THE WOODPuE DWEILERs.

One day few of girls decided to make play
house of the woodpile. We made it about two yards
high and about two yards wide and since
have had of the kind of playhouses. Each
girl brought her toys to play with and kept them
there until fall One day it began to rain while had
things out there and before could take them in
they spoiled Some of the girls did not like to play
house after that but it still my favorte
pastime Edna Bloomquist,
Seventh Grade, 1906 Bloomington Ave.
Horace Mann School,
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-17
ROCKED ON THE LAKE.

My favorte summer pastime is sailing rowing
yachting Of lakes How pleasant it is to lay
at anchor in cool shady of the lake and
read sleep if there water-ies lean out
and pick them. Then in the evening to go out
larger boat and hear the band play and listen to
its echo ringing in the quiet distance. shall for
get two years ago when we lived out at Minnetonka-
One quiet night agreed to take launch out in the
lake and sleep night but had hardly fallen
asleep when it began to rain and hurried back to
shore. Anna Carlson
B Seventh Grade 3045 Oakland Ave.
Horace Mann School.
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AT THE GREATEST LEISURE

q
In the summer camping is my favorte pastime.
have fun with the othSr boys fishing and rowing
the lake. I am away from the errands of my mother
and stroll in the woods to pick pretty flowers may
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
Reign of Terror Predicted for CeIes.
tiaI Empire-only One Good Army
in Country-Serious Flaws
of Soldiers.

Peking.-China is volcano. Close
observers not in Picking. because Pc
king is not the place to get the real
news concerning China, but foreign
ers long resident in the interior, in
Shantung and Chill, put the explosion
nine years hence. Educated Chinese
bring it nearer. For the present,
however, the American in China is
as secure as he would be in his home
in the United States.
1t is well understood in official and
other circles that it is useless to kill
foreigners. There is general run
ming after foreign things and foreign
ways. Men having foreign training
are in demand. The same men had
to run for their lives in Boxer" times.
At the same time there is anxiety to
shake off foreign control of every
thing-partly from a new feeling of
national pride and partly from a de-
sire to keep the good things for the
Chinese.
Misgivings for the future are based
on fear of an antidynastic rising, prob
ably on the part of the radicals. This
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
English the World Language.

The new world language, Esperanto.
seems to have already won more advo-
Gates than the older Volapuk. No
manufactured language, however,
seems to have much chance in COM
petition with English, which long ago
displaced French as the most useful
and widely spoken language and which
Is gaining faster than ever in all parts
of the world. Quite recently the Ger
man government has ordered that all
railway officials and employees must
learn to speak English. In Antwerp
also the authorities are urging all
classes to study English and are pro-
viding special facilities in the public
schools; the city has become almost
an Englsh-speaking port" In Japan
all school children are now obliged
to learn our language. A few years
hence tourists from this country will
be able to get along there as easily
as on a trip at home. With Great
Britain, India, Australia, Canada, the
United States and large sections Of
Africa using English, what hope Is
there for any other language?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
Shows Value of Liquid Fuel.

The steamship Goldmouth belong
ing to the Shell line, has just arrived
at Rotterdam, after steaming from
Singapore by the route round the
Cape of Good Hope, distance of H.
7s1 miles, in So days, without once
stopping the engines or checking the
generation of steam in the main boil
ers. This performance is believed to
be the largest nonstop run ever made
by marine machinery The vessel was
burning liquid fuel, and with so great
an economy that enough surplus Is
left to take the vessel 20 days steam.
Ing on her return passage east.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
CHINA READY FOR WAR.

would become partly anti-foreign and
in any case would mean anarchy.
There are a great many armies"
in China, but the only one that counts
is Yuan Shi Kai's northern army"
The Chinese are raising big horses
somewhere in Mongolia for the ulti-
mate use of the army, and hope to
remount their cavalry in about four
years. OF the other arms the men
are smart and the recent spring ma.
neuvers were most creditable.
There are serious flaws in the army.
The Chinese soldiers will blaze away
blank cartridges in fine style, but they
are not trained to shoot. Target prac-
tice is rare. 1t Is doubtful if the men
would follow their officers except tc
the rear, and it is doubtful if the Off.
GERS would go anywhere else.
The American boycott" never Sc
riously affected the interior. A few
items of United States imports came
into the interior in smaller quantities
pro TEN. 1t was question for the
ports, particularly those in the south.
The Shanghai riots were purely local
and magnified by Shanghai hysteria.
A serious question is the educational
one, which gives rise to the young
China" movement. This is founded
on csnceit, the basis of Chinese stu
dent character. They are about one
quarter educated and think their edu-
cation is complete.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
Uses Sea Water; Faces Fine.

Boulogne.-A woman who took two
buckets of water from the sea to
battle her child, in accordance with
the doctors orders, was astonished
to receive an official warning from the
customs officers threatening to fine
her for breach of the law. There has
been discovered an unrepealed law of
Louis XIV. forbidding the taking OF
sea water lest those taking it extract
the salt, and thus deiraud the govern.
ment Of the salt tax. The woman has
written a declaration of the purpose
for which the water was obtained in
order to secure an Official permit to
use sea water.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
DOG KEEPS SMILING NOW.
Scranton Beagle Has a Gold Tooth,
and Is Proud of 1t.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. - DR.. Fred S.
Orchard, of Scranton, has a dog with
a solid gold tooth. The dog is proud
of it. The animal is a valuable Eng
lish beagle. A few days ago, motto
ing that one of it's front teeth was
very much decayed, DR.. Birchard took
the dog to a dentist friend. The
dentist suggested that the best thing
to do was to insert a gold tooth.
I'll do it now" said the dentist,
who is a great lover of animals. The
operation took a little more than half
an hour. All that time the intelligent
animal laid back in his masters arms,
submitting with an occasional whine
of pain.
Now it sports about with its fine
gold tooth, a curiosity for all the
small boys of the community.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
PHYSICIAN SAYS
Children Thrive on Grape Nuts and
Cream.

A Mass. physician has found cure
fifteen cases-by feeding them Grape
Nuts.
Some time ago." he writes, II be-
came interested in your food, Grape
Nuts, as cure for constipation in
children. Having tried 1t in my OVID
family, have advised it in fifteen
cases in which all suffered with con.
stipation more or less severe. The re-
suit has been absolute relief in all.
II write this that other children
may be benefited"
How much better 1t is thus to bring
about a healthy action in the bowels
of growing children by natural means,
than to feed them with improper food,
requiring some kind of cathartic at
intervals to overcome constipation.
Grape-Nuts gives energy to the en-.
tire nervous system including the
nerves that cause the natural con-
traction and relaxation of the bowel
muscles, that propel the food mass
along.
1t is predigested also, and the blood
easily absorbs the food as it goes
through the body, storing up vitality
and force for the functions of all the
organs.
Children especially, should get the
right start as to habits of living.
They should grow into bright, strong,
cheerful men and women. Grape-Nuts
solve the question of the start; a
wholesome appetite will do the rest.
Children's teeth are benefited by
chewing Grape-Nuts, also. Your dent.
list will tell you that certain amount
of exercise in chewing firm food, is
necessary to grow strong, beautiful
teeth.
Teeth need exercise just the same
as muscles, If they are to grow
strong and firm as nature intended.
Grape-Nuts gives the exercise and
also gives material from which good
teeth are made,
There's a reason" Read the little
book. "The Road to Wellville," In
pkgs.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16

news such as that cried recently on
Chicago streets by a constituencies
vendor of saffron newspaper: Gear
Is Killed! st. Petersburg Blown Upi"
The car has dismissed the douma,
You recall what happened when King
Louis, influenced by the ultra con.
servatives and the reactionary men,
bers of the royal family, had dis
missed Necker and concentrated
troops in Paris. In Paris, here and
there over the country, instruction.
airy movements broke out, the country
was swept by The Great Fear" A
mob of hungry women marched to
Versailles, the royal family saved
just in time by Lafayette and the
national guard. Emigres fed from
the land, the royal family tried to
make escape, were discovered and
brought back to the capital. The idea
of monarchy became more and more
unpopular, radical views became more
radical, the mob of Paris began to be
used Us political force. The spirit
grew to frenzy, the Tuilleries were
stormed, the Swiss Guards massacred
The royal family was placed under
surveillance in the Temple. Then
the next step in the story of the i'll
fated family, the king is brought to
trial; for alleged acts of treason
against the nation sentence of death
is passed, is carried out.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16

We count things from the French
revolution, reckon from before and
after that tremendous epoch. This is
reasonable; it is superficial, however,
every time a country shows a tempest
in a teapot to draw parallels of the agi-
tation therein and the great revolu-
ton that overturned France. The
country we shall speak of, Russia, is
not to be classed with those mo-
mentarily disturbed by little ripples of
unrest; present conditions in Russia,
the sinister aspect of the people, bear
striking likeness to conditions in
France just before the storm burst
We find in France prior to the rev.
olution oppressive war taxes, profit
gate court-sharpest contrast of lux
Ury and miserable poverty-a corrupt
clergy, the nations prestige weakened
by defeat in war; and then as climax,
a weak and vacillating monarch. Rus
sia's humiliation at the hands of Japan
has shown the ignorant Russian peas
ants that their Little Father is not
the all-powerful being they had been
led to believe; in Russia to-day we
find clergy given over to luxury and
the expressing rather than uplifting
of the people; in Russo we find a
country weakened by war and fam
inc; in Russia we have vacillating
ruler afraid not to give the people a
voice, afraid to give them hearing,
and absolutism, with it's prop, the
army, falling.
In France, you remember, when the
Bourbon monarchy and the states gen
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Never Saw A Railroad

Cleveland, o. Oelrid Troy, IS
years of age, Carroll county, Virginia,
long and lean and as innocent as tall,
spent the other night at the Central
police station.
Until recent morning Oelrid had
never seen a railroad train. All of
the Is years of his life had been
spent on a farm in the back part of
Carroll county; but, after Oelrids ia
Their died and his mother became i'll,
four years ago, things began to break
bad at the farm and soon there was
a heavy mortgage in sight.
A chance seemed to offer itself in
the way of job proffered to Oelrid
by his cousin in Ohio, and it was then
that Oelrid made the long journey
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
THE KINGS ORDERS.
But They Were Not Executed Because
the Prince Held His Nerve I'm
til Crisis Was Passed.

A story is told OF one of the Moor
lsh princes of Granada, which is well
worth noting, showing as it does, the
great value of GOODNESS and self-control
In trying circumstances.
When Mahommed the sixth usurped
he throne of Granada, he set aside his
elder brother Yousuf, the rightful heir
to the throne, SO that the kingdom
might be secure to his own children.
He caused Prince Yousuf to be imprls-
oned in the castle of Shalobanya,
where he remained for the ten years
IF his brothers reign, Mahommed in
lending, when he felt his health fall
ing, to have his brother assassinated.
The unfortunate prince, though
brave and courageous to the last de-
gree, was forced to submit to his
brothers arbitrary will, knowing that
rebellion would be in vain. He was
a man of commanding presence, cour-
teous to all about him, and of so win
ming and gracious q manner that he
gained the love and fealty of his entire
household, any one of whom would
gladly have risked life in his cause
This was especially true of the alcayde
of Shalobanya, who was his devoted
friend.
Prince Yousuf passed the weary days
of his captivity the best he could, his
favorite recreations being the game
of chess, of which he was a passionate
lover; and the perusal of the exciting
literature of the day.
In the early part of the fifteenth CEN
fury, knight errantry was rife. The
young Spanish mobiles We'd with each
other in proving their prowess in
arms, melted by the reading of such
wonderful romances as Adventures OF
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16

from his home to the nearest rail.
road station, and started on his still
longer journey to his cousins home
in Ohio.
AS near as Oelrid could remember,
that cousin lived in a place called
Rich Hill, somewhere in Ohio; but
he lost the card bearing the address,
and is not now sure where his cousin
lives. The police gave Oelrid bed
at the station. Oelrid had spent his
last cent on street car fare, and was
wandering aimlessly about the streets,
his baggage under his arm, when a
kind-hearted citizens attention was
attracted to his forlorn appearance.
The man brought the boy to the sta
ton, and Oelrid was glad to stay
there all night.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
Danton, One of the Popular Leaders In
the French Revolution.

dismissed him-thereby bringing such
clamor about his head he was forced
to ask the popular minister to return
Over in Russia, vacillating Nicholas
calls Witte to his aid, then sends him
away; Prince Mirsky, who suggests
many reforms, is discredited.
A careful student of affairs says
that the immortality, wastefulness, ex-
travagance and tyranny Of the mobiles
class in France has perhaps never
been paralleled save by the Russian
aristocracy; and the ignorance of the
French peasant perhaps no more than
that of the Russian peasant to-day.
Raised from serfdom only in 1861,
making use only of crude methods Of
agriculture, heavy obligations i'm
posed upon him, the Russian peasant
lives like beast.
The splendor of Louis court was
unrivaled, for the magnificence and
idleness and gayety the poor peas
ants paid in taxes and tithes. The
Russians of to-day boast that st. Pc
tersburg possesses the most splendid
and gayest court in Europe. In con-
trast to this we have Maxim Gorky's
awful pictures of the beastly life of
the masses, we have the knouted
wretch, the massacred Jew.
Where such contrasts prevail an
archy lifts it's head, the assassin S
hand attempts justice. And the world
stands in constant expectation Of
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16
Trepoff, Most Hated Man In Russia.


eral entered upon their struggle, it
lay with the French standing army to
decide which should win the day. Per
haps 1t was an accident-who cay say
but the guards in Paris were in
famed to revolt by the killing of one
of their comrades by hired Swiss and
German soldiers in the pay of the
French monarch; when followed soon
on the revolt of the soldiers the sue
cessful assault on the Bastile, there
came in fatal succession the events
eliminating in the reign of terror.
To-day in Russia what fills the soul
of the car with alarm is the attitude
of the army. Everywhere is evil
denced revolutionary tendencies among
the soldiers, even the troops in the
capital show serious disaffection.
Early in June a number of non-com-
missioned officers and 80 troopers, of
the horse guards, also some non-com-
missioned officers of other guard reg
iments, were seized and put in prison,
their place of Imprisonment most
carefully sentineled. That members
of these suspected regiments may not
mingle freely with the people, spread
or be fired by revolutionary views, the
regiments have been shut up in bar
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-16

other members of the medical associ.
alton. 1t is explained that the per.
centage of alkali in the water is high
and when it gets into the human sys-
tenn causes a scaly formation in the
arteries. The scale becomes brittle,
breaks off and the little particles are
carried in the blood to the brain,
causing paralysis; to the liver, caus.
ing gall stones, and to the appendix.
A water commission will spend sew.
eral hundred thousand dollars, il
necessary, on a new supply. Temper.
ance advocates are aghast at the way
beer drinking has increased for "hygi.
enic" reasons.