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most famous chemical houses in the
United States. a house doing millions on
millions Of dollars a year. is largely re-
sPonsible to the keen, strong workings
of womans mind.
She was not a young woman, either,
when her father made her a partner in
his business. From that day she took
hold Of that branch of the business per-
tanning to agencies and pushed her
branch so rapidly that the business,
already great, took its place at the very
top. Then her father died and into the
little hands of this great woman fell the
entire management of the business. She
WIS head and foot of it, There was not
department into which she failed TO
pat al Of her energy and force at the
time The treasury. the manufacturing
the agencies, the purchasing depart
neni, the sales department. the pub
hcity department-aIl In turn were taken
ny. She became master of each. There
was not a detail that escaped her a,iel,
glance. not d charge that she didn't
understand at a glance. The business
was hers, and she became as familiar
apartments of her own house. TO-DAY.
she is pointed to as one of the greatest
financiers of this country.
Another woman with husband and
son developed from a weak little erea-
ture into one of the -reatest and most
successful brokers of ali Manhattan.
When she bought or sold stock. news of
the transaction flashed along the wires
TO every financial center. She is living
today-suceessf shrewd. Jealous and
parsimonious
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ISIS PARKER had TO deny her
NV self necessities now. because
VI she had INDUCED in wasteful
l...---..- In tha haNs before she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-02-11
Landscape Gardening.

Landscape gardening seems an odd
business for woman perhaps because
1t seems 50 large-and TO require such
strength And yet. a woman hot over
thirty-four is in complete charge Of the
landscape gardening for a great railroad
Railroad advertising is another unique
field for woman. Yet in Chicago there
lives woman who earns from s.. D0o- TO
$4,000 d year making odd devices Tor
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Big Enterprises Managed by Women.
One is Wholesale Chemist Another Broker

~ ERHAPS one of the most peculiar
- businesses into which woman
could venture is that of whole
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Quaint and Pretty
Ideas in New
Valentines

7 ALENTINEs are being displayed
I everywhere in hundreds of
forms. from the pretty little
"a rs{s v,-lFof, hear ahs,sr4{-,-
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the Curtains
and Wall Paper


EY , HEN your curtains seem out
W. Of harmony. somehow. with
" v wall paper and furniture the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-02-11

7 ELS are troublesome things TO
adjust these DAYS. For To he
v absolutely right. according toi
Dame Fashion. the top Of your
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lsT + only had some parIor tricks"
sighed girl It's a positive
age for doing things. and il i
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general in Pskov has resulted from the
fact that famine is well-nigh chronic
there; but by practice from time imme-
mortal the peasants have become accus-
toned to Initiate the habit of the bear
and the marmot in winter, until now the
custom is regarded by them as one of
the normal conditions of human exist
ence They have a name for this winter
sleep. 1t is called 'lotska."
In the brief autumn the housewives of
Pskov prepare a sufficient quantity of
hard. black bread to last until spring.
When winter sets in in earnest the family
lie down around the stove and go to
sleep. Once in the twenty-four hours
every one wakes up, to nibble at piece
of the black bread, which is washed
down with a drink of water. Then all go
TO sleep again. The members of the FAM
ily take watch and watch about to keep
the fire going.
This pseudo collaboration lasts until
spring, or upward of six months. when
the peasants take up their humble tasks
again and are busy until the succeeding
winter. when silence reigns over the
frozen land once more.
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Texan Annexation

In the first place, to understand the
chief cause of this geographical expan-
sion, you must enter the United States
Senate at Washington and stand for a
little while there amid the slavery agita
lions of the antebellum time of the early
fortes. The north was arraying its con-
gressional forces on the one hand, and
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Human Hibernation.

From the New York Times.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch, published in
the Times of the 18TH instant, announces
that in several of the provinces of Rus
STA the peasants, as a result of the fam
inc, have taken to their beds lying mo-
tionless for days at a time in order to
weaken the pangs of hunger
This exigency may be akin to the
pseudo Conformation habitually practiced
by Russian peasants in the northern
provinces, notably in the PslSov district.
If such Is the case, the hardships en-
dured by the peasants this winter may
not be as great as the casual reader
might be led to believe.
True, the pseudo-hbernation which Is
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Southern California. There the Januarys
and Febrparies are not any more won
derful than the Julys and Augusts There
the inhabitants must sleep under heavy
blankets all the year round Marvellous,
wonderful, indescribable are the atmos-
pheric conditions of the great southwest
of our republic
And what health resort we have Our
leading men of the west have for the most
part been the great leaders of the east
From overwork in their eastern homes
they have broken down physically, and
nave had to seek a warmer climate. or
they have gone to Southern California or
the great southwest because there is
sickness in their family. Rather than be
separated from their loved ones, they have
gone to the southwest to renew their life's
struggles near to the Pacific coast The
result is that some of the ablest ministers
and lawyers and physicians and engineers
and educators and financiers and men of
all departments of life have settled in the
great southwest The successful man of
New York will not change his home to
become the successful man of Chicago
nor will the successful man of Chicago
move to st. Louis To start life over again.
Why? Like the banyan tree, he has be-
come anchored with thousand roots The
human tree cannot, without much ripping
and tearing and breaking, be torn away
from its home bed, but when consump-
tion taps a mans lungs or asthma chokes
his breathing, or his beloved wife or son
or daughter is afflicted, and the call comes
to the invalid Come to California come
to New Mexico. come to Arizona or Tex
as the physician will lock his office,
and the minister leave his eastern pulpit,
and the merchant close up his ledger and
start out to find a new home in the great
southwest. And it is through this means
that some of the ablest men of our re-
public have gone south and west to build
up our American industries there NV
brother, cannot you thank God for the
development of our great southwest.
which came to us in the remarkable way
it did?
Whitman's Sacrifice.
But | cannot close this THANKSGIVING
talk without referring in just a few words
to- the tragic story and life of one man
who saved for our Union Oregon and
Washington, the great states of the north
west. Never was there a more tragic
story than his biography. He saved these
states not with battle and with strife of
soldiers uniform he saved them by the
endurance of suffering and Islander and
misrepresentation and with DEATH If YOU
want to read the story of a life which
will make your eyes fill with tears, then
read the life of Marcus Whitman and
how he saved Oregon and Washington for
the Union.
Thus. my friends, in this historical re-
Prospect on this Sabbath preceding our
national Thanksgiving day. we find that
no man has ever been able to accomplish
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much good for his native land except
through great personal sacrifice. Are you
and | willing to lay down our lives for
our country? Are we ready to sacrihce
ourselves for this our native land, with
its territories stretching from sea to sea?
VIII you not be willing to fight for its
rights and to help its helpless and to be
true to its people?
Copyrighted, 1906, by Louis Klopsch)
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
GYPSY MOTHER HAS EVIL EYE.
Six of Her Children Died on Their
Seventh Birthday.

Geneva-A strange story is told of
an elderly gypsy woman who is at
present travelling with tribe of Bohe
mians in the canton of Berne.
The woman has had six children,
four boys and two girls, all of whom
have died on reaching the age Of seven
the last dying few days ago.
Three of the children died on their
seventh birthday and the others a day
or two after. 1t is stated that all the
children fell ill as every birthday ap-
preached, but the mother took no no
tice of their illnesses until the critical
seventh year was reached, when she
nursed them devotedly.
The women of her tribe shun her,
believing that she possesses the "eW1
eye" and is responsible for the death
of her children, but the unfortunate
womans husband is devoted to her.
After the death Of her sixth child the
tribe became so hostlie that her hus.
band has decided to take his wife away
and will shortly return to Bohemia
The children died from no particular
disease and seemed simply to have
wasted away. The doctors who signed
the death certificates never traced the
cause of decease.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
RAISES GREAT PRUNE CROP.
One California County Could Supply
the Whole United States.

San Francisco.-Prior to 1886 the
prunes consumed in this country came
almost entirely from France and the
Danubian provinces. The consump.
ton was small and the fruit was con.
sidered delicacy.
Now more than 100,000,000 pounds
of dried prunes are eaten yearly in
the United States In the year above
mentioned American prunes first ap-
peared on the market and each sue
ceeding year the supply has increased,
until the importation Of foreign prunes
has been reduced to small proportions.
Most of the enormous supply that finds
it's way to boarding house tables Is
grown In California. The large out.
put of the prune orchards there may
be judged from the fact that In Santa
Clara county there are 100000 trees
growing on $4,000 acres, 100 trees to
the acre.
The quantity Of prunes cured there
this year will meet the requirements
of home consumption for the entire
country. But there is a large export
trade to take care of and this absorbs
the surplus.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
A COOPERATIVE CITY
LOUISIANA TOWN WELL RUN FOR
GAIN OF PEOPLE.
Not Only Public Utilities, but Amuse.
nnents of Monroe, Are Controlled
Good Profit Realized
on the Work.

Monroe, La.-Monroe is looking for
new fields to conquer-will some one
please come forward with a sugges.
ton? For municipal ownership OF
street railways, and of many other
activities as we'll, has proven success
full in this city of 5000 residents. The
cooperative idea in municipal affairs
prevails to an almost utopian degree.
Light, power, transportation, educa.
ton, medical attention, sewerage,
household supplies, and even amuse-
ment are furnished by the municipal.
ity. What will be next?
The citizens of Monroe enter a thea.
ter directed by the mayor and his as
sistants; witness ball game in park
owned by the city; ride ON trolley cars
whose crews are paid by the people;
take electric light and power from
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13

plants wrested from private monop-
oily; cross the Ouachita river on a mu.
nicipal bridge without paying toll; pur-
chase household supplies In city mar
ket house: are taken to a municipal
hospital when they get hurt, and when
they die are given final attention by a
municipal undertaken.
All this has been accomplished since
the election of Mayor A. A. Forsythe
six years ago. He has succeeded him
self year after year, standing for mu.
nicipal ownership to the limit, having
behind him city council which be-
Iieves In the theory as devoutly as
himself
The municipal electric railway was
built without the necessity of bond
issue. The people had already paid
out the tax levied to establish sewer
age, water. light and power systems, a
market house, city hall, free traffic
bridge, free wharves and warehouse,
and the city council took the liberty of
using 100000 of the reserve fund for
the purpose OF building and equipping
q street railway The line, covering
nine miles of streets, was thrown open
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
DOG MEAT is NOT so BAD.
First Choice Of the Eskimo and Of
Many Indian Tribes.

New York.-Last year over 1900
dogs were slaughtered for food in
Prussia. Probably one could eat dog
from choice any more than one could
be cannibal from choice. But many
Indian tribes have eaten dog for genor.
atoms. The Esliimos cat DOGS when
they can catch them. Arctic explorers
from all countries looking for the pole.
nave eaten dog without conjunction
and on several occasions have eaten
their comrades of human kind. DOG
meat is sweet. like mule meat. and the
best part of 1t is not next to the bone
as is the case with other meats, but
that lying next to the skin, which must
be baked to a crisp.
Ihat able general. Chief Joseph of
the Nez Perces, prefers dog to all other
meats, His second choice always was
grizzly and his third Rocky mountain
sheep. When Wattlskowkow of the
Umatillas heard of the drowning of
enormous quantities of dogs impound.
ed in New York he wept. When the
Umatillas have great feast dog is the
piece dc resistance, The Drowned skin,
with the hair on it, is served to the
acknowledgements, or chief guests, and
II you happen to be one of the muck-a.
mucks you must gnaw this bit of
skin as you would rib of beef in
camp Many palefaces have done IL
and come from the feast hiking dog.
The Caucasian's prejudice comes from
that little word pet" A dog is a pet
and practically member OF the family
can not stomach the idea of eating
pet.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
LOOT olscLosEs A ROMANCE.
Thiefs Note in Buried Silver Pitcher
Tells Of Girl In Case.

Brookdale, N. J.--Booty that was
buried in the woods near here more
than a decade ago was brought to
light the other day by two hunters.
The men were digging a hole in which
to build wood fire, when they found
silver pitcher and several silver
knives and forks. Inside the pitcher
was note, dated June 8, 1895, 3 a. M,
which read:
Jim: | leave these here in the
hope that you will find them. can.
not take them to the house, as l got
tip that | was being watched. In
fact, have been told that If went
to the place to-day l would be roped
in, so have decided to hop the early
morning freight. | don't know as yet
where / will go. 1t probably will be
to the old place-you know, where
the swag comes easy.
II will drop you a line IL think it
safe. Say, Jim, do you know that |
hate to leave the village? And its
all on account of Mabel. | never
thought I'd be so soft hearted. Just
think, IL she only knew what l am.
Tell her that was called away by a
death in the family, or something like
that. She'll never get wise
There were no initials on the pitcher
nor spoons nor anything about them to
give clew to their owners.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
BIG INCREASE IN LUMBER AND
FURNITURE EXPORTS.
Nine Months Of 1906 Reveals Increase
Of 80 Per Cent. over 1905
In Sales in Foreign
Countries.

gton.--Wood and manufac.
lures of wood arc forming constant.
~ increasing part of the exports of tho
United States. The total value of
wood and it's manufactures exported
in the nine months ending with Sep
tember 1906, exceeded by 33 per cent.
that in the corresponding period Of
last year and aggregated, for the nine
months, not less than S59,000,000. II
to this are added the shipments to the
noncontiguous territory of the United
States, not now included in the for
eign trade figures. the value of wood
and its manufactures leaving Ameri-
can ports in the nine months will ag-
gregate $61,000,000, or at the rate Of
SS1 100000 a year.
A decade ago the total value Of
wood and its manufactures exported
was practically $32,000,000. The in
crease in the year 1906 over 1905 was
81, 100000 in the shipments to for
eign territory.
Practically the whole world Is ask
ing for American wood and its prod
'Seo' Even VI iO6b anu oa"Vh diu
hewn timber" the total exports for the
fiscal year 1906 were $15,333, 1913,
against $7,333,33 in 1896, and ship
ments of the material in this crude
form went not only to all of the prin-
cipal European countries, but to most
of the countries of South and Central
Africa, Australia, the Philippine Is
lands, Japan and even Africa.
The value OF lumber sent to the
United Kingdom in 1906 was $780,
900, against less than 100000 in
1896; to Germany, nearly $2,250.000,
against $333,333 in 1896; to British
North America, a lumber-producing
country, over $2,500,000 in 1906,
against little more than 100000 in
1896; to Cuba, $2,500,000 in 1906
against less than $333,333 in 1896; to
Mexico, $2,000,000, against less than
$3.50, 900 in 1896; to Argentina, $780,
900 in 1906, against little less than
$1,OO0,00O in 1896; to British Aus
tralasia, over $1,0O0,000 in 1906.
against 100000 in 1896; to Belgium,
more than $75O,000; France, 100000;
Italy, 100000; Netherlands, $780,
600; Brazil, 100000; Chill, more than
100000, and to Central American
states, over $75O000.
The next largest item in the total of
exports of wood and It's manufactures
is that designated as furniture" of
which the value exported In 1906 was
$5,250,000 against $3,250,000 in 1896,
the increase in logs and sawed and
hewn timber" and lumber" having
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
PRIZES TO PROMOTE MATRIMoNY.
Greenvlle, N. j., Justlce-Elect Offers
Gifts 70 Induce Marriages.

Jersey City, NJ J.-Justice of tho
Peace-elect Charles Fay Of the Green.
Vile section intends to make things
hum In the marrying line. Mr.. Fay
said the other day:
Il am going to give away souvenirs
to every couple that comes to me to
get married during my term of Office,
provided, of course, both contracting
parties live In Greenvllle. But that's
not all. Now, listen! The first ten
couples who are launched out upon the
sea of matrimony by me won't have to
hand over any fee at all. They will be
married free. Isn't that fair PROPOSE
ton? But wait! have such burnA
ing desire to see Greenville men and
maidens happy that I intend giving
away tons of coal, barrels of -four, gas
ranges, dinng-room tables, brass bed.
steads. and china tea SETS as an In.
ducement to Greenville girls to marry
the boys they have known all their
lives and with whom they went to-
school, instead of some outsider.
Now, l don't intend to convey the
impression that everybody who gets
married will receive one Of these pres
ents ] have mentioned. Not at ALL
But what do mean is that every sim
gle girl has chance to get one OF
them. Each couple to wed Will re-
ceive number designating their posi-.
ton in the contest. For instance, the
fifth couple will be given the number
5; the sixth number 6. and so on.
have a book in the house in which are
recorded the lucky numbers. and be-
hind each is written the prize it takes.
III this plan fails to bring Greenville
lads and lassies closer and dearer to
each others hearts-weIf. I shall re-
sort to other methods. l think, hove
ever. 1t will have the desired effect"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
WANT AMERICAN WOOD.

been greater proportlonately than that
shown by furniture" or the So $50,
600 worth of furniture" exported in
1906 Mexico was the largest customer,
the amount exported to that country
being sS4S.279.
An examination of the export record
of wood and wood products for long
term OF years indicates that the most
rapid growth has occurred during the
last decade. As far bach as 1876 the
value Of wood and wood manufactures
exported was only $17250,000 in 1885,
$20,500,000; in 1896, $32,000,000, and
in 1906. $69,0O0,o00, exclusive OF the
shipments to noncontiguous territory,
most of which was included in the fig.
ures OF 1896, and II added to those Of
1906 would bring the total up to ST..
100000. Thus the growth from 1875
to 1886 was only about S3,000,000;
that from 1856 to 1896 about $4,000.
900 and that from 1896 TO 1906, $37,,
100000.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
CONTRACTS TO KILL COYOTES.
Expert Trapper Agrees to Rid coun.
try of Troublesome Animals.

Lander. Wyo.-M. r. Kalkbrenner,
an expert trapper, has contracted to
kill 1900 coyotes for the Sweetwater
Range company during the coming six
months. For the first 500 he will re-
ceive $3.50 each from the company
one dollar each from the state, and
probably rs cents each for the hides.
For the last 700 he will receive
$3.50 each from the company, one dol.
lar each from the state, and probably
rs cents each for the hides. II he
makes good he will clear $5,575 in the
six months. The district in which
Kalkbrenner has agreed to kill the
coyotes is 40 by 115 miles in dlmen-
sions, and is in the shape of figure
eight, with the center at Point of
Rock, a station on the Union Pacific.
Last month Kalkbrenner trapped 261
coyotes.