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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

stitrtlons or clothing bureaus for aid.
Mrs. Ryan calls that person her friend
who tells her of such people in need.
There Is a score of families, rem.
nants Of broken-down aristocracy
whose sole support lies in the fine
needlework which Mrs. Ryan gives to
women otherwise untitled for the bur.
den of self-suppot.
Over In the south corner of the sit
ting-room there is a big chest with
many drawers, each carrying some alb
breviated label. In this chest are kept
exquisite alter linens, the making of
which has been the liberal support of
families in need. AS fast as these
supplies are accumulated they are
sent out to poor missions or heavily
mortgaged parishes where the people
are unable to contribute such things.
There is another chest full of baby
things, and, dearest of all to the heart
Of Mrs. Ryan, well-filled medicine
chest.
II don't believe you look WELL" said
Mrs. Ryan to little needlewoman re-
turning a package Of fine linen one
day. How do you feel? Do you ever
cough?" And in the end the woman
went away with three bottles of hypo-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.

The trade of Chilli is almost entire
ly in the hands of Europeans.
France imported 100000 worth of
apples from Canada last summer and
fall.
In 1904 Denmark sent to England
over $4,000 tons of butter, valued at
s45, 900. OOO
1t is thtimated that 100000 tons of
steel rails for 1907 delivery are under
negotiation, and that fully half that
tonnage has already been placed.
1t is said that the hides Of American
live cattle sent to England to be killed
and eaten are by Encouragement all
sent back across the Atlantic, there to
be tanned, and, mayhap, reshipped to
England as leather or in boots and
shoes.
Shipments of anthracite coal during
May amounted to 3,254,32 tons, against
6,005,15S tons in May last year. For
the year, to date, the shipments aggre-
gate 19,709,7S3 tons, contrasted with
24,S72,954 tons in the corresponding
period last year.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
SPENDS A MILLION DOLLARS YEARLY ON
HER VARIOUS CHARITABLE SCHEMES.
Wife of Wall Street Baron, She Lives Plainly,
Builds Churches, Helps Hospitals, and Spends
All Her Spare Moments Making Baby Clothes
for the Poor-Gives Without Ostentation and TO
All Who Are Worthy and Unfortunate.

Day in and day out she sits and
knits and knits and knits, with q
steadfastness of purpose that ruled
the fingers Of Nine. Jacobin. But the
stitches she takes are not the record
of evil destinies. They mean succor
for the sick and heavy-laden, work
for idle hands, bread for the hungry,
enlightenment for the untutored.
Gentle, sympathetic, intensely pious.
home-lover and home-maker, is
this woman-this mother in the old
fashioned meaning of the word, the
wife of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
The characteristics Of Thomas Ryan,
money-making prince and Wall street
baron, In way also rule in the life
Of Mrs. Ryan, builder of churches
hospitals and schools, and the little
known but enthusiastic cooperator in
every move making for the bctterment
Of the human kind. 1t has been said
Of her husband that he has had fin
ger in every big financial pie in the
last decade. She has had hand in
nearly every philanthropical work in
New York, Virginia, the District of
Columbia and the southwest in that
time. She is now giving away more
than $1,0O0,OO0 year.
This woman, of whom the world
knows practically nothing, has built
more churches, hospitals and schools
and endowed more places for the wor-
ship Of God than perhaps any other
living person She gave 100000
last year alone to the churches and
schools Of Virginia, her native state.
Publicity is Mrs Ryans bette noir.
To give without ostentation is the only
way to give, according to her belief.
There is no difference between Mrs.
Ryan Of 80 years ago and the Mrs.
Ryan Of to-day. It was of no moment
to the public then what she did or did
not do. She cannot understand why
1t should be interested now. She
counts herself as doing no more than
the wife of poor man who gives Of
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

place OF honor there, and on the walls
are few good engravings. This hall
Is like those found in all the fine
old southern mansions. On the first
floor are the library, drawing-room
and smoking hall.
But it Is up wide staircase to the
second floor that one must go to find
q room about 20 feet square, furnished
with chintz-covered chairs, hung with
pictures, such as have long since been
consigned to the fashionable and
wealthy to dusty attic corners, and
strewn with sewing tables chests, a
tea table and a music box. Everything
is old-fashioned, with one exception,
and that is an up-to-date desk, with a
telephone attachment, which stands
unobtrusively in a corner. This is the
room, with its windows filed with
red geraniums the year round, where
Mrs. Ryan plans her good works,
which the wealth of her husband exc
cutes.
There is never an idle moment when
Mrs. Ryan Is in that sitting-room of
hers. No visitor is so important, no
conversation so interesting, as to alb
sorb her entire attention. She has
sympathy for the comfort and in
terests of the friends who go to her
there, but always begins the visit
with:
"You won't mind my going on with
my knitting, will you?"
Not very long ago, when Cardinal
Gibbons called upon Mrs. Ryan, his
eminence was shown to the sitting-room
where Mrs. Ryan was busy, between
telephone calls, knitting a babys pink
and white sack. After formal salu-
tation to the churchman, her fine
white fingers began to ply the yarn
in the weave again,
"You will pardon my doing this,
your eminence," smiled Mrs. Ryan,
"but If l worked only when alone some
babies wouldn't be as warm as like
them to be-"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

An abundance of work and fam
inc of workmen represent condition
that is constantly growing more COM
mon in America. The greatest trouble
is the dearth of farm hands, as shown
by the report of the states free public
employment Office in this city. Men
absolutely refuse to leave the cities for
the fields. But the problem is not
confined to the country. In the cities
there is work a-plenty and dearth
of workmen. Apparently with each
succeeding year common labor grows
less attractive. Yet there is not q
notable increase in the number OF
Migrants and able-bodied paupers.
The riddle probably has its solution
in the fact that prosperity and thrift
have depleted the ranks of common
laborers, leading them to seek better
things in life.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
CLEVER DOCTOR.
Cured a 90 Years. Trouble Without
Any Medicine.

A wise Indiana physician cured 20
years stomach disease without any
medicine as his patient tells:
Il had stomach trouble for 20 years,
tried allopathic medicines, patent
medicines and all the simple remedies
suggested by my friends, but grew
worse all the time.
Finally a doctor who is the most
prominent physician in this part Of
the state told me medicine would do
me no good, only irritating my stom-
ach and making it worse-that l must
look to diet and quit drinking coffee.
II cried out in alarm, Quit drink
ing coffee!' why, What will l drink?
"'Try Postum said the doctor, 4
drink it and you will like it when it
is made according to directions, with
cream, for it is delicious and has none
of the bad effects coffee has
''Well, that was two years ago, and
am still drinking Postum. My stom-
ach Is right again and l know doctor
hit the nail on the head when he de.
cided coffee was the cause OF all my
trouble. l only wish l had quit it
years ago and drank Postum in it's
place" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Never too late to mend. Ten days
trial OF Postum in place of coffee
works wonders. There's a reason.
Look in pkgs, for the famous lit.
tie book. The Road to MELVILLE"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

phosphites, which would have cost her
as many dollars.
Mrs Ryans life has not been with
out cloud and bitter grief Death and
long illness have weighed heavily on
the mother-heart, and that great flood
of sympathy given her by nature is
ever wide to a fellow sufferer. Long
and intimate acquaintance with illness
has given her practical knowledge,
and she knows more about medicine
than many a man with license. Two
of her boys have been stricken down
with lung trouble, and the great white
plague holds greater terrors for her
than any other physical affection. She
has given of her financial and personal
aid toward the cure of those afflicted
with this disease.
II am more afraid Of a sneeze than
of sprain, and cough than broken
bone" she said one day. ooh, / just
can't talk about it. 1t breaks my heart
to think of the flower of the manhood
and young motherhood of our country
being cut down by this terrible curse.
When I think of other mothers who
have seen their young sons lie down
had begun, victims Of this disease,
long to do something, anything, to help
| find cure for 1t al"
A tear dropped on the ivory knit
ting needles and the usually placid
| features of the kindly face set in an
| EXPRESSION of suffering
A ring of the telephone bell and the
knitting was put aside.
"Oh, is that you, Mary? Now, don't
assume that coldly polite manner and
say nice things about appreciation and
all that business. It's purely a bust
ness deal. You are not fit to work,
and you know you are not. Suppose
you die, who'll take care of the
mother?
ooh. oh, oh, that cough Now, look
here, little friend OF mine, you do as
I ask, or you will make me very, very
unhappy. What good would any
money Of mine do me II l thought
people l am interested in and like
would die rather than let me help
them? Now, look here, you go up into
the mountains until you get we'll and
strong again. and then you can come
back and pay me back, If you want to,
some day. Let me look out for things
for awhile
Lose your position? Good thing
I'll get you q better one. Now, am
busy knitting, You tell your chief to-
night you won't be there for q couple
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
Preserving Scenery"

Not long ago a man of national I'm
portance characterized an attempt to
beautify the city of Washington as
spending money for scenery" The
phrase may be taken as sheer, as 1t
was intended to be taken, or with APP
prevail, as expressing a truth and a
wise policy. Spending money for
scenery, remarks Youths Companion,
is one of the most hopeful signs Of a
yeawakening to natural possibilities.
1t is not confined to any one region.
San Francisco is already talking about
the Burnham plans for identifying the
city, which have long been in abey-
ance. The rebuilding Of the Gateway
of the west now affords an opportunity
to put them in practice. Niagara falls,
the White mountains, the Appalachi-
ans and the Palisades are eastern
scenery, but they are also national
possessions, and 1t Is with sort OF
wonder that commercial interests have
discovered how strong the feeling Is
against destroying them or encroach-
ing seriously upon them. The old state
house in Boston and Independence hall
in Philadelphia are more local ex-
amples of the same quality Of public
interest which lies in sentiment They
are SCENERY of sort which appeals
to a pride as stubborn as the power
of money. and more creditablo. The
man who cares for his fathers grave
and preserves the old family home is
paying money for scenery" too, but
more persons understand that kind of
sentiment The other kind-the larger,
more communal and fraternal kind
Is just as surely coming into its own.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
BROKEN BOW,
Plea for Wild Flowers.

This is the season OF the year when
jewellers in cities and towns may be
seen returning after holiday excur
sions, loaded down with flowers,
leaves and branches of trees, torn on
from their stems by people who wish
to carry away with them the beauti-
ful things that nature so lavishly
spreads abroad in the spring. To ad-
mire and to desire to possess these
beautiful things is natural, yet to tear
them down and carry them away
shows a deplorable lack of thought
The least informed person, IL willing
to pause and think for a moment, says
Forest and Stream, knows very well
that few hours after the twig has
been parted from its branch or the
Hover from its stem, twig and flower
alike must lose all resemblance to the
beautiful growing thing that inspired
the wish for possession, and Is no
longer worth having. Thus, for the
qualification of passing impulse, one
has destroyed beautiful object that
but for this hasty act might have
given pleasure to other people for
days or weeks. 1t is not uncommon
to see people coming from the coun-
try laden with branches of dogwood
for example, four feet long; lilacs are
torn down and defaced, and punches
of more ephemeral flowers like vio-
lets, buttercups and others are wilt
ing in every hand. If people would
recognize how fleeting is the gratiti,
cation derived from this destruction
of the flowers, and how selfish II Ia.
they probably would not be guilty OF
1t. A well-regulated person does not
even IL the opportunity occurs-de-
stroy shrubbery in the public parks
for the purpose of carrying away with
him the flowers or branches. In
towns and cities such an act 10 com
monty regarded as an offense, and
anyone found guilty of it Is likely to
be punished, by a fine or otherwise.
Yet, the principle is the same, wheth-
er the destruction is wrought in town
or in country; but in the country the
owner does not attempt to protect his
shrubbery or his wild flowers. unless
they are close to his house.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

and whose baby are you working
so hard to clothe?" asked the card
inal.
"oh, poor dear little girl who will
appreciate it," and then the subject
was changed, but not the thoughts of
Mrs. Ryan.
A few friends who have been in the
sitting-room many times can tell of
dozens Of packages of baby clothes
made by the nimble fingers of the
rich Mrs. Ryan. And besides, she
keeps a corps of sewers making chill.
dren's garments, which are delivered
to her residence and by her given in
person to that most unfortunate of all
the classes, the proud poor, who will
not ask at the doors of charitable in
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

a slim purse to others. She gives
from richer purse, that's all.
Old-fashioned as Mrs. Ryan is, she
Is woman combining all the business
qualities and foresight demanded by
the times. She is a woman of affairs,
yet her home life comes first
A glimpse into the favorite residence
of Mrs Ryan-the old Minturn house,
on the northwest corner OF Fifth ave-
nue. and Twelfth streets a mental
bath after the glitter and glare and
garnishness one usually meets in the
homes Of the rich, declares a writer
in the New York Times. You enter
through a hgh-ceilinged hall, draped
with soft garnet hangings. A paint
ing OF the master of the house has a
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

One divorce TO every six marriages
is Names record, and the ministers OF
that state have lately promulgated s
set of rules for the signature of clergy.
men and have appointed an interde.
nominational committee to push the
crusade against divorce. The rules
pledge the signer not to marry parties
who are strangers TO him, to refuse to
remarry any divorced person within a
year after the granting of the decree
and to reruse to remerry any except
the innocent party to divorce, and
then oRly under certain stipulations.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
BRIGHT BITS BY THE WITS.

Will e. Must hold a mortgage on
success.
The busybody butts in without any
IFS or butts.
Charity begins at home, but II it
is the real brand it soon outgrows its
native place.
1t is hard to work much confidence
IN a man who wears ring on his
middle finger.
A mans knowledge cannot be
judged by the fool things he says
when in love.
The golden calf will always be wor-
SHIPPED, though it wear the tail of q
monkey or the ears of an ass.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
Safe Deposit,

OF Marshal Field III. an amusing
story was recently told at Lakewood.
The boy, according to the story, ap.
preached an old lady in a Lakewood
hotel and said to her:
Can you crack nuts?"
mo, my Jar, can't" the old lady
eplied. Il lost all my teeth years
ago."
Then" said the little boy, extend
ing two hands full of walnuts, please
hold these while l go and get some
more."-Denver Times.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

suffering was from renal collie. After
began using Doans Kidney Pills I
passed gravel stone as big as bean.
Since then have never had an attack
of gravel, and have picked up to my
former health and weight. am we'll
man, and give Doans Kidney Pills
credit for it."
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

BY following the directions, which
are plainly printed on each package of
Defiance Starch, Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de-
sired, with either gloss or domestic
finish. Try it, 16 OF. for 10c, sold by
all good grocers.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

Religion is used as cloak in some
families, and you may have noticed
that there is generally a coat of dust
on the family Bible in such homes.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12


fered a long, long
time with my back,
a n d felt draggy
and listless and
all the time. | lost
from my usual
weight, 225, to 10.
Urinary passages
were too frequent
and l had to get
up often at night.
l had headaches
and dizzy spells
also, but my worst
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

The man who would bring up his
children in the way they should go
will succeed better If he goes that way
himself.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, One or The
Most PhiIan+hropic, as She Is One OF
The Most Wealthy, New York Women
Who Devote Their Dives TO DoinS Good
TO Others.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

Lewis Single Binder cigar-richest, mos,
satisfying smoke on the market. Your
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12

A woman's idea Of stingy man Is
one who never pa"s her compliments
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
TORTURED WITH GRAVEL.
Since Using Doan's Kidney Pills,
Not q Stone Has Formed.

Capt. S. L. Crute, Adjt. Watts Camp,
u. G. ", Roanoke, Va, says: II suf-
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-05
A NEW YEARS NECESSITY.

 Is good teeth, and one that can not be neglected, as your good health and happiness depends on them. A visit to Dr. DoWell will convince you that his meth ods are not only painless, but thoroughly scientific and dura- ble. His crown and bridge work is guaranteed.
 DR. HARRY E. DOWELL, OFFICE OVER CHAS. MEYER AND
 JOYCE's DRUG STORE.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-05
EFFECTS OF SPRING FEVER
When the Outer World Is Allowed Once More to Enter the
 Schoolroon1.

But, one day in school. the heat that yesterday was nice and oozy becomes too dry and baking for endurance. says McClure's Magazine. The young ones come In from recess red, not with the brilliant glow of winter, but 6 sort of scalded red. They tuke their heads forward to escape their collars moist embrace; they reach their hands back of them to pull their clinging underwear away. They fan themselves with joggerfes, and puff out: 'Phew!" and look pleadingly at the shut win dows. One boy, bolder than his fel- lows, moans with . suffering lament: Miss Daniels, cain't we have tho windows open7 It's awful hot!" Frightful dangers turk in draughts. Fresh air will kill folks. So. not until the afternoon Is the prayer answered. Then the outer world, 30 long exclud- ed, enters once more the schoolroom life. The mellifuous growing of dis tant roosters, the rhythmetic creaking of thirsty pump, the rumble of a loaded wagon, the clinkinG of ham, mers at the blacksmith shop, the whistle of No. away below town. all blend together in the soft spring air into one lulling harmony.
 Winters alert activity is gone. Who cares for grades and standings now? The girls-that always are so smart -gape lazily, stare at vacancy wish ng-they don't know what they wish, out if he had a lot of money, why. then they could help the poor, and all like that, and have a new dress every day.
 James Sackett-his real naHe is Jim Bag, but teacher calls him James Sackett-has his face set toward: "A farmer sold 16 2-3 bushels wis>dt for 667s cents per bushel; 19 2-9 bushels oats for," etc.. etc., but his soul is far away in Cummins' woods, where there IS q robbers cave that he and Chuck Higgins and Bunt Rodgers and Turk ey-egg Mclaughlin are going to dig Saturday afternoons when the chores are done. They are going to- Here Miss Daniels should slip up behind him and snap his ear, but she, too, is far away in spirit. Her beau is com- ing after supper to take her buggy riding. She wonders. She won ders. -. Will she have to teach again next fall? She wonders.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-05
RAVACES OF THE SOUVENIR
What Was Once 8 Harmless Fad Has Become Almost Univar-
 sal Mania.

The vogue of the illustrated souvenir of literary peril. What was once q harmless fad confined to more or less ec- centric visitors In out -the-way places has become all but universal mania. says the New York Post The Boston post office reports handling 25,000 of these yellow imps in single day. The 3o-called comic valentine once tainted the postman's bag. It's influence, how ever, lasted but for day, while the sou. venir postal card ceaseth not day nor night to cry for destroyer.
 From the point of view of growing popularity these postal cards but evi. dence anew the danger with which modern mechanism is continually en- composing the other handicraft arts, The printed book has driven out illus trated missal. "The quartersawed oak'' of Kalamazoo has displaced Chippen. dale and Sheraton. And at last the illus trated postal, with cheap ready-made sentiment and chromo Autograph threatens the letter of friendship, travel and description. The residuary field of the epistolary art was long supposed to be safe from the inroads of the printing press. Political intelligence such as fills Horace Walpole's six stout vol lmes of private letters has for over Q century been disseminated in the news papers Scientific news has long since found similar media of publicity. But the intimate unbosoming of friend to friend at distance has held at bayy all the devices of modern machinery unti' the advent of this substitute for real letter.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-05
Bit of Westmoreland.

The Westmoreland hills are the re- mains of an infinitely older world giants decayed, but of great race and ancestry; they have the finish, the delicate or noble loveliness-one might almost say the manner-that comes of long and gentle companionship with those chief forces that make for nat ural beauty-with air ana water, with temperate suns and too abundant rains. Beside them the Alps are in- human; the Apennines, mere forest grown heaps-mountains in the mak- ing; while all that Scotland gains from .ne easy enveloping glory of it's heath CT, Westmoreland, which is almost heatherless, must owe to an infinitude of fine strokes, tints, curves and group ,ngs, to touches of magic and to lines of grace, yet never losing the wild energy of precipice and rock that be- longs of right to mountain world.- Century.