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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-14

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more admirers than brunettes?" She
Il don't know. You might ask Miss
Turner. She has had experiences in
both capacities. New Yorker
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-14
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this purpose cannot be said to be uni
versal. The priesthood of the Buddhist
religion in Ceylon is last resort for
henpecked husbands, because the don
ming of the yellow robe dissolves the
marriage tie. This arrangement is con-
venient for the reason that the Wearer
may at any moment throw off his robe
and return to the station of an ordinary
mortal, beginning life anew with an
| other wife. The well patronized di-
| vorce courts of America could hardly
hold out against competition like this.
| Steamboat Jewels for Tourists.
| There are many contrasting types in
| the streets of Colombo. The Moor
men have pale brown compilations and
generally wear black boards. Their
speciality is vending precious stones.
Aside from real gems they usually have
a choice assortment of sham jewels
which they palm off on tourists. The
cheating has become so notorious in
this trade that the bogus goods are
listed under the term of 'steamboat
Jewels given because the dealers are
wont to refer to the easily defrauded
tourists as ''them damn fool steamboat
gentlemen
These dusky traders have all the oily
ways and craft of the East They will
swear by the beard of the prophet that
five pounds is the least a stone can be
sold for, then close the bargain at five
shillings if they can do no better. One
of them will cheat you numerically in
trade, yet hand over the purchase
with seeming reluctance, ruefully ana
reproachfully assuring you that it is
such close buyers as yourself who make
it difficult for him to pay his rent and
supply the modest needs of his family !
However, your vanity will suffer quite
a shrinkage when you see him driving
with splendid turnout and learn that !
he is a man of great wealth.
One of the strange sights in the har-
Dor of Colombo is the native boat
called the catamaran. At first sight it
does not seem to be a craft one would
care to voyage in, but when closely OBJ
served recommends itself by it's good
behavior. 1t is long, narrow canoe
made from following a log, and is so
narrow that two passengers cannot sit
abreast. These odd dugouts ride high
in the water, and as the long oars ply
back and forth the effect produced is
not unlike a huge spider crawling over
the waves. Each boat has outriggers,
and although ungainly in appearance,
is well-balanced and safe.
The Veddahs Never Laugh.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-14
The Veddahs Never Laugh.

The jungles of Ceylon are frequented
by tribe of nomad hunters known as
Veddahs. Although these people live
entirely by the bow and the snare,
they take game in plenty and preserve
their surplus by packing it in wild
money and storing it in hollow trees.
Most OF them avoid intercourse with
their CIVILIZED neighbors but are not
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-14

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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
THE POINT OF THE PRovERB

An old proverb advises the shoe
maker to stick to his last. 1t means
that man always succeeds best at
the business he knows. To the farmer,
It means, stick to your plow; to the
blacksmith, stick to your forge; to
the painter, stick to your brush.
When we make experiments out of our
line they are likely to prove eIpen'
sive failures.
1t is amusing, however, to remark
how every one of us secretly thinks
he could do some other fellows work
better than the other fellow himself.
The painter imagines he can make
paint better than the paint manufac-
turer; the farmer thinks he can do
a Job of painting better, or at least
cheaper than the painter, and SO on.
A farm hand in one of Octave
Thanet's stories tells the Walking
Delegate of the Painters Union, ANY
body can slather paint" and the old
line painter tells the paint salesman,
None of your ready made mixtures
for me; I reckon l ought to know
how to mix paint"
The farm hand is wrong and the
painter is wrong: Shoemaker, stick
to your last" The fancy farmer"
can farm, of course, but 1t Is an ex'
pensive amusement. If 1t strikes him
as pleasant to grow Strawberries at
fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs
that cost him FIVE dollars dozen, 1t
is form of amusement, to be sure,
II he can afford II, but It's not farm
ing. II the farmer likes to slosh
around with paint brush and can af-
ford the time and the expense of hav-
ing a practical painter do the job
right pretty soon afterward, it's
harmless form of amusement. II the
painters customers can afford to
stand for paint that comes off In half
the time 1t should, they have a perfect
right to indulge his harmless vanity
about his skill in paint making. But
in none of these cases does the shoe
maker stick to his last.
There Is Just one class OF men In
the world that knows how to make
paint properly and have the facilities
for doing 1t right; and that Is the
paint manufacturers-the makers OF
the standard brands of ready-prepared
paints. The painter mtres paints;
the paint manufacturer grinds them
together. In good ready-prepared
paint every particle Of one kind OF
pigment is forced to join hands with
a particle of another kind and every
bit of solid matter Is forced, as 1t
were, to open its mouth and drink In
its share Of linseed oil. That is the
only way good paint can be made, and
If the painter knew how to do 1t he
has nothing at hand to do 1t with. A
paint pot and a paddle are poor
substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills
and roller-mills.
The man who owns building and
neglects to paint 1t as often as 1t
needs paint is only degree more
short-sighted than the one who tries
to do his own painting or allows the
painter to mix his paint for him.
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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
CURIOUS HABITS OF FOXES
Do Not Modest Birds or Animals of
Their Immediate Neigh
borhood.

The animals on which the fox usu'
ally preys are often left untouched
round his own home; and it Is even
asserted that nothing is killed on the
side of the hill In which that home Is
made, says Native Notes.
In a small patch OF nettles within
a few feet of the mouth Of the foxes
earth a partridge placed her nest and
brought off her brood. Round this net
tie bed the cubs were constantly to
be seen, and in II they played hide
and seek In another case the en-
trance to an earth was surrounded
by five or six rabbit holes, the enants
of which were unmolested by their
next-door neighbors.
In a third a litter of cubs was placed
in a large pit surrounded by fencing,
from which there was no escape, and
in which there were a number of rab-
bits. None of these was attacked by
the cubs, though they would seize a
dead rabbit in full sight of the per-
son who had shot and thrown 1t to
them.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
Are You Tired, Nervous
and SleepIess?

Nervousness and sleepl sssness are US
nally due to the fact that the nerves are
not fed on properly nourishing blood;
they are STARVED nerves Dr. Pierces
Golden Medical DisGnFery makes pure
rich blood, and thereby the nerves are
properly nourished and all the organs Of
the body are run as smoothly as machin-
cry which runs IN oil In this way you
feel clean, strong and strenuous-you are
toned up and invigorated, and you are
good for whole lot Of physical or mental
work. Best Of all, the strength and in
crease In vitality and health are lasting
The trouble with most tonics and med
cines which have q large, booming sale
for short time, Is that they are largely
composed of alcohol holding the drugs in
solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red
blood corpuscles, and in the long run
greatly Injuries the system. One may feel
exhilarated and better for the time being,
yet in the end weakened and with vitality
decreased. DR.. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery, contains no alcohol. Every
bottle OF 1t bears upon its wrapper The
Badge Of Honesty, in full list OF all its
several ingredients. For the druggist &c
offer you something he claims is "just as
good" Is to insult your intelligence.
Every ingredient entering into tho
world-famed Golden Medical Discovery"
ment Of the leading medical authorities
OF all the several schools Of practice. No
other medicine sold through druggists for
like purposes has any SUCH endorsement
The "Golden Medical Discovery" not
only produces all the good effects to be
obtained from the use of Golden Seal
root, in all stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, as in dyspepsia, billiousness, con.
stipation, liberation of stomach and
bowels and kindred ailments, but the
Golden Seal root used in its compound
ing is greatly enhanced in its curative &C.
tion by other Ingredients such as Stone
root, Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot, Man
drake root and chemically pure triple
refined glycerine.
THE Common Sense Medical Adviser
Is sent free in paper covers on receipt OF
II one-cent stamps TO pay the cost OF mail
Ing only. For 81 stamps the cloth-bound
| Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation, biliousness and headache.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
Carrying Out the Law.


One hundred and thirty years ego
Burke pointed out that the American
people were smatterers in law-that in
no other country in the world was the
law so general a study. To-day, for
good end for Ill, Americans without
legal training have great confidence in
their ability to decide legal questions.
Their confidence has been largely JUS
titled. There are many true stories OF
country justices who, by combining
their good sense with knowledge or
ignorance of law, we're able to render
Just and reasonable decisions. On the
other hand, says Youths Companion
many Americans show too easy as
surance in deciding whether judge
has given a good legal decision or
whether a prosecuting officer Is remlss
in not prosecuting everyone whom the
public pronounces a rascal. Courts
and district attorneys get an abund-
ance of instruction from the newspa-
pers and the public which the law
would not allow them to follow. IN
the same way the people at home told
the generals in the civil war to cap
ture Richmond or capture Washington
Immediately, while the generals them
selves were busy with problems OF
which their civilian friends never
dreamed. Because the public officers
do not fling into jail everyone who has
offended against moral law, 1t does pot
follow that the officers are not dong
their duty, or that justice is fettered
by illegal technicalities." In the long
run, the processes of court justice are
parallel to the processes OF the best
moral justice. The records Of American
court proceedings form q history OF
Intelligent Interpretation Of the law.
Only by faith in the courts can legis-
latures determine how to make stat
utes effectiveSand harmonious with ex-
listing laws, and through the courts a
law-abiding people finds surest protec-
ton against those who break the laws
that men have made.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
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By ERNEST p. BICKNELL,
Superintendent Chicago Bureau of Charities.

applied 1905 deserted by the husband
wife Another society found that during the period
OF the families asking help had been deserted Reports of other
charities show similar facts 1t should be said that the OF the
family the usual oenderhat rarely guilty Of this
natural crime
Much attention has been devoted study of the
and the deerers be
admitted that results have thrown little light subject
subtle complex varied yield their readily
investigation One will go away from home in good faith
search OF employment intending Send for his family later
money support Hard luck attends him. drifts
place place gradually becomes aenated and finally
with his wife Another will leave home in anger
which the deciding quarrel usually the elimination of long
OF bitter wrang in which the blame often be shared by
the wife
of deserters composed husbands who
leave before the birth OF baby The members
usually after charity has the wife safely through the
paid all the accompanying expenses There
repeatedly been guilty this of deseron They know that
knowledge Unpleasant home conditions such oveny
housekeeping complaining and naggng wives and wives indifferent
husbands wishes play their part in the total Of
OF desertion.
picking troublesome About the family has adjusted
self conditions caused by his absence and throws
plans confusion The charitable society which helped
point when esupport and normal life ahead
programme destroyed and much of its work nulfed Then
when famys affairs again desperate plight the husband
his departure the charitable compelled
the whole dscouragng disastrous round repeated
European countries have laws against deseron which
appear worthy trial the United States Under their opera
ton deserving husband conviction sentenced prison hard
labor The municipality allows daily wage his work.
paying it to him his family 1t said that when
finds that he the support of his family he
prefers labor outside rather than inside the prison walls To
sure would be supplemented by
other which would without we partcpa-
ton But the problem huge and ded and shall doubt
less wait long for its solution
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
oIRoENTI THE BEAUTIFUL.
No Place of Ruins in the Whole
World More Beautiful
Than This.

Writes William Sharpe in THE Gar
den of the Sum-" in Century: Every
one has heard of Girgenti, as Of SYRIA
cuse, before coming to Sicily. The
most beautiful city of antiquity has
left an enduring name, and If the Cir
genti OF to-day be far from the Agri-
gentum of Roman splendor, and still
further from the Acragas of Green
beauty and magnificence, it is still
noBly worth seeing. Even the least
responsive imagination can hardly fail
to apprehend some idea of what this
town must have been Of old, when
Acragas, with its vast extent and over
100000 inhabitants, looked out across
the dark-blue waters of the Greek sea,
or Mare Africano, from a lordly will
derness of supreb temples and magnifi-
cent buildings of all kinds. To-day it
is worth pilgrimage from the ends
of the earth. There is perhaps no
place Of ruin in the whole world more
beautiful than this. To see it, as the
present writer last saw it, in a gold
en- sunset glow, with the great temples
cleaning like yellow ivory, and the
town itself Of a dusky gold, and the
sea beyond, and uplands and noun
tains behind, irridated with a serene
glory of light, is to see what will be for
life an unforgettable impression, an
ever deeply moving remembrance.
To localize the three loveliest views
in Sicily (and l fancy that most trav.
elerS would agree with mel I should
specify that from the terrace of the
Hotel Timeo at Taormina, that from
the monastery-hostelry of Madonna
del Tindaro over Tyndaris and the
Aeolian isles, and that from the ter
race of the Hotel Belvidere on the
south wall of Girgenti, looking out or
the lovely temples, the beautiful up
lands and slopes, and the blue sea
washing Porto Empedocle below.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
HONESTY OF THE CHINESE
That They Possess This Trait Trav-
eler in Their Country Gives
Evidence.

The route lay directly through the
heart of the "Hung-hutze" country,
which was at that time in a state of
disorder. AS l had no passport to
travel in that locality, writes T. F.
Willard, in the Far New East, l was
forced to conceal myself in one Of
those instruments of torture known as
a Picking cart, my luggage occupying
another. The arrangements were
made by a Christian friend Of mine IL
Mukden, who committed me to the
care of an old carter, with instructions
for him to get me across the borier.
We left Mukden just before the dawn
one morning, and travelled for two
days, finally arriving safely in neutral
territory. Two nights l slept in viii
lagos infested by "Hung-hutZes." It
would have been a simple matter for
them to have made away with me and
seized my effects, and my carriers could
have easily betrayed me without tear
of detection. But such was my conf
dence in the integrity of the Chinese
that l did not feel the slightest un-
easiness, although l was entirely I'M
armed. During the entire trip l was
compelled to trust absolutely to the
old carter, not being able to hold any
communication with him, as he did net
understand word of English or any
other foreign language, and I cannot
speak Chinese He showed great clev-
erness in getting me across the Lac
river, past the Cossack border guards,
without being detected; and when we
arrived at Sin min-tin he seemed even
more pleased than myself, and refused
to accept any remuneration in excess
Of the sum agreed upon.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
HE WENT ON CRUTCHES
All Medicines Failed Until Or. VIII
llams' Pink Pills Cured He
rheumatism.

"Some years ago." says Mr.. w. II.
Clark, printer, living at 612 Buchanan
street, Topeka, Kans., 81 had a bad at
tack of rheumatism and could not seem
to get over it. All sorts of medicines
failed to do me any good and my trouble
kept getting worse. My feet were so
swollen that could not wear shoes and
l had to 90 on crutches. The pain was
terrible.
Zone day l was setting the type of an
article for the paper telling what DR..
Williams Pink Pills had done for a man
afflicted as was and was SO impressed
with it that / determined to give the
medicine trial. For year my rheu-
matism had been growing worse, but
after taking DIR. Williams Pink Pills
began to improve. The pain and SWELL
ing all disappeared and 1 can truthfully
say that haven t felt better in the past
twenty years than / do right now. /
could name, off hand, half-dozen peo-
pie who have used DIR. Williams Pink
Pills at my suggestion and Who have re-
ceived good results from them"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are guaran-
teed to be safe and harmless to the most
delicate constitution. They contain no
morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor any
thing to cause drug habit. They do mob
act on the bowels but they actually make
new blood and strengthen the nerves.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tism because they make rich, red blood
and no man or woman can have healthy
blood and rheumatism at the same time.
They have also cured mary cases Of
anemia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial pa
ralysis, locomotor ataxia and other dis
eases that have not yielded to ordinary
treatment.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills or they will be sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt of price, 80 cents per
box, six boxes for SO. so, by the DIR. Will
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31


The treatment needed to rid any
community Of Judge Lynch is so sim
pie that there is no excuse for not
applying it, says the New York Sun.
1t consists not only of the prompt and
vigorous use of the long-established
weapons with which the state has
armed its representatives for the pro.
lection Of its citizens. Where a mob
Is able for any considerable length OF
time to defy the law it will be found
that the enforcers of the law are In
competent, cowardly or corrupt. The
responsibility for these conditions
rests on the citizens themselves, who
get the kind Of government they are
willing to tolerate and who by insist.
ing on good administration by decen;.
capable men can always make impos
sible such disgraceful incidents as the
Springfield outbreak.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
Use for Korean Walls.

The wall which runs round Seoul
serves no useful purpose whatever; in
fact, by restricting traffic between the
city and suburbs to few narrow
gates, it is a great nui=ance. There
are enough stones in the wall to re-
construct the greater part of the
drainage in the city, and with little
leveling the banks upon which the
wall is built would make admirable
building sites, and the money obtained
from them would go a long way to-
wards the cost of city improvements
Seoul Daily News,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
BREAD DYSPEPSIA.
The Digesting Element Left Out

The Digesting Element Left Out.
Bread dyspepsia is common. 1t af-
fects the bowels because white bread is
nearly all starch, and starch is digested
In the intestines, not in the stomach
proper.
Up under the shell of the wheat berry
nature has provided a curious deposit
which is turned into diastase when it Is
subjected to the saliva and to the PAN
create juices in the human intestines.
This diastase is absolutely necessary
to digest starch and turn it into grape
sugar, which is the next form; but that
part Of the wheat berry makes dark
flour, and the modern miller cannot
readily sell dark flour, so natures val
liable digester is thrown out and the
human system must handle the starch
as best it can, without the help that ma
ture intended.
Small wonder that appendicitis, perl
tonitis, constipation and all sorts or
trouble exist when we go so contrary
to natures law. The food experts that
perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing
these facts, made use in their expert
ments of the entire wheat and barley,
including all the parts, and subjected
them to moisture and long continued
warmth, which allows time and tho
proper conditions for developing the
diastase, outside of the human body.
In this way the starchy part is trans
formed into grape-sugar in perfect
" natural manner, without the use OF
chemicals or any outside ingredients.
The little sparkling crystals of grape
sugar can be seen on the pieces or
| Grape-Nuts. This food therefore Is
naturally pre-digested and its use in
place of bread will quickly correct the
troubles that have been brought about
by the too free use of starch in the
food, and that is very common in the
human race to-day.
The eeffct of eating Grape-Nuts ten
days or two weeks and the discontin-
uance of ordinary white bread is very
marked, The user will gain rapidly in
strength and physical and mental
health
There's a reason"