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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
INNS OF OLD ENGLAND.
Fruitful and Interesting Fields Of
Study for Traveller Abroad.

Those who learn history from
stones, those who travel to read the
long account of races and nations in
the time-scarred buildings OF the past,
will find in old inns one quality DOS.
sessed in the same degree by no other
remains of antiquity. They will find
broad human nature.
Cathedrals will give you the history
of the priest, castles and manors the
story OF the mobiles, and cities the
record OF the guildsman and merchant.
But 1t is at the waysido inn that all
meet together. 1t is there, at the com.
Portable hosiery. that each, for time,
throws aside his calling and jostles
with his neighbor as a wayfarer.
Inns have never been renowned for
stiff.neckedness. 1t has ever been their
pride to hold out. welcoming arms to
all who can pay their way. whatever
their character or creed, and indeed,
they must run the risk Of being cheat.
ed by those who have not groat.
They must find room for the king.
II need be, and shelter for the polite
stranger who nightly cuts purses on
the kings highway.
The runaway couple must be worth
lily refreshed, while their smoking
horses are led into the galleried court.
yard, and within an hour mine host
must screw up his face for a welcome
to those who post in hot pursuit.-In-
doors and Out
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
LAST DAYS OF GREAT POETS.
Bliss Perry Writes of the Passing Of
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

On the day when he last entered
the Atlantic office, in January, Mr..
Aldrich seemed, for the first time to
have grown old. One of his friends
spoke of it as he went out. Up till
that morning, the weight of 70 years
had scarcely seemed to touch the
erect, jaunty figure. The lines that
time had written around his clear
blue eyes and firm mouth conveyed no
hint of senility. His hair was scarce
ly gray. His voice, slightly husky
in its graver, sweeter tones, re-
tanned a delicious youthful crisp
ness as it curled and broke, wave-like,
into flashing raillery. He had just
completed his poem for the Longfel-
low centenary, his first verse after
some years of silence, and when it
was praised to his face-for who could
help praising 1.-THE blushed with
pleasure like a boy. Yet he had
passed three-score and ten, and the
shadow, invisible as yet and quite I'M
heralded, was drawing very near
Bliss Perry, in Atlantic.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
THE LIMIT OF PATIENCE.
Owner Of One Telephone In Flat
Building Protests.

"Of course" said the cheerful wom-
an, II believe in loving my neighbor
as myself, but / find it harder since
we have had a telephone put in our
fat. We live in an old-fashioned fiat
house and ours is the only telephone
on the premises / do not know how
the neighbors learned that we have
one, for am not acquainted with any
body in the building, but 1t was not
in more than a week when the woman
across the hall came over to ask IL
she could use 1t. OF course I'll pay
she said and naturally had no choice
but to let her use it. She paid five
cents, but under the rules Of the tele-
phone company private wires cost
more than that per message. How
ever, did not wish to be small, so [
let it pass. She evidently carried the
good news throughout the building,
for there has been a continuous per-
Torrance ever since. A few days ago
somebody rang me up and asked for
Mrs. Blank, who lives on the top floor
was the only person at home at the
time, so l had to climb three flights
of stairs and tell Mrs. Blank to come
down. What's that? Virtue its
own oh, yes, l know; but whose
virtue?"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
His Hlah Estimation of Steam.

Carlyle once startled the English
speaking people into recognition Of
the value of their great dramatist by
suddenly asking the British public
which 1t would rather lose, Shake
speare or India? l thought Of that
the other day, muses. the editor Of the
Gle on steam navigation. What would
the world rather lose than steam?
What? Why, almost everything; our
literature, our art, our religions. Moth
ing we have is so valuable as steam.
1t is the greatest civilizer the world
has ever possessed.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Some Famous Ounces"

Nathaniel Hawthorne was the Ounce
Of his class. Walter Scott was told by
his professor that he was a Ounce.
Both Napoleon and Wellington were
dull boys at school, and when Give
won Plassy his father said he did not
think the BOBBY had so much sense.
Chalmers, the leader of the Disrup-
ton, was expelled from his school as
an incorrigible Ounce. Chatterton was
sent home as fool, and Leigh Hunt
was considered beyond all hope. Isaac
Newton, the great oriental scholar, Sir
William Jones, and Robert Morrison,
who compiled the immortal Chinese
Bible and dictionary, were all regard
ed as extremely dull boys.-Sunday
Magazine.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
FREAK EUROPEAN PAPERS.
Plans to. Win Readers Failed to Pro
long Their Lives.

A French magazine writer who has
been looking into the subject of freak
newspapers thinks that one of the
most remarkable of these was the
Luminaria, published in Madrid. The
ink with which 1t was printed contain
ed small percentage PHOSPHORUS,
so that the letters were visible and the
paper could be read in the dark
Next after this he finds remarka-
BILE the case Of the Regal, printed with
an ink guaranteed nonpoisonous on
thin sheets of dough. After absorb
ing all the information the sheet con-
tanned one could eat it, thus deriving
body.
The publisher of a new Partisan
journal lie Bien 'Etre, promised to
all subscribers for 40 consecutive
years pension and free burial. In
spite of the inducement subscribers
month. 1t was followed shortly after
by paper called LIE Mouchoir, the
handkerchief. 1t was printed on pa
per such as the so-called Japanese
napkins are made of and might be
used in case the reader forgot or lost
his handkerchief 1t did not last long.
At two different French seacoast re-
sorts newspapers called the Courier
des Baigneurs Gathers Courier) and
La Naiade which doesn't need trans.
lation, were printed on waterproof
paper. The inducement was that the
bather could take his paper into the
sea with him and read 1t while he en-
joyed. his bath.
The climax of utility seems to be
reached in Norway, where some of
the newspapers used so tough quail
ty of paper that 1t can be cut into
strips and twisted into serviceable
rope when the news is all read.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
The CONGREGATION,

There is a tiny church near the foot
of one of the Western Grampians
which has congregation numbering.
in the best Of weather, not more than
20 people. On stormy days the num-
Der is much less, as members have to
travel considerable distances. A tour
list happened to come across this
church early one Sunday afternoon.
He listened for a bit, but heard no
sound, so went to the door of the
church and looked in. The beadle was
the only occupant. 'Is the service
over?" he asked. "Ou ay, she will pc
over" replied the old man. "Then,
where is the congregation? asked the
tourist. The beadle slowly pointed
through the open door to a man wend
ing his way down a hill and said,
That's him."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
HAS REAL GRIEVANCE.
Prlsoner Suffers Inconvenience in an
Indian Jail.

A prisoner in Rampore Boalla jail
has clear grievance against the gov
-, eminent There are certain incon-
veniences inseparable from prison life
which all reasonable criminals more
or less unwillingly accept, but the
most complaisant draw the line at be-
ing marked down and clawed by
leopardess in the seclusion Of the
prison yard. The animal seems to
have been inspired by suffragette-
like curiosity as to the inside of
prison, and having got in by the high
ly irregular method of leaping the
wall she ensconced herself among the
low brick piers on which the old bar
racks are raised from the ground In
the early afternoon she espied pris-
oner In the yard clearing up, and like
the impulsive creature she is, prompt
ly leaped upon him, striking him to
the ground and clawing his back.
Then, with the fickleness of her sex,
she suddenly changed her mind, and
In an access of shyness ran away and
hid herself among the brick pillars.
Now Col R. r. Weir, inspector general
of prisons, happened to be in the vii
lage, and to him the incident was re.
ported. Though 1t cannot be said that
the duties of an inspector general Of
prisons included the destruction of
vermin, Col, Weir did not stop to con.
slider technicalities, but borrowed a
rife After some difficulty in getting
within striking distance of the in.
truder as she lay in her fastness, he
succeeded in planting his first shot
behind her shoulder, after which
soothing remained to be done but to
drag off the carcass and record its
tape measurements as more than
seven feet.-London Daily Telegraph.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Hoist by His Own Petard.

Overshrewd lawyers often furnish
their adversaries with weapons. Did
you see this tree that has been men
toned by the roadside?" an advocate
inquired. Eyes, sir; saw it very
plainly" 1T was conspicuous, them"
The witness seemed puzzled by the
new word. He repeated his former
assertion. What is the difference"
sneered the lawyer, between plain
and conspicuous?" But he was hoist
by his own petard. The witness in
nocently answered.: 81 can see you
plainly. sir, among the other lawyers,
though you are not bit conspicuous. I"
-Tit-Bits.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Tom Reeds Birthplace.

The birthplace of the late Speaker
Reed, which is about to be torn down,
is in the heart of Portland's Italian
quarter and is now tenement, swarm
dng with sons and daughters of sunny
Italy. How much they are impressed
with the greatness Of their surround
ings was shown when a visitor, desir-
ing to get look at the celebrated
statesman's birthplace, asked a boy if
he would show him the Tom Reed
house" "Tomma Reed! TonIma
Reed! You mean Tomma Reed, da
milkaman"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
BACK TO FRANKLIN THEORY.
Modern Scientists May Be Forced to
Rehabilitate II.

More than a hundred years have
elapsed since Benjamin Franklin, EN-.
ploying phraseology now superseded,
put forth theory of matter, says q
writer in Current Literature. 1t was
pronounced "a delusion" by the physi-
cists of the ninteenth century, but the
scientists of the twentieth century, ac-
cording to Sir Oliver Lodge, may be
forced to rehablitate it as the only
means of issue from the labyrinth in
which all physical study is now involv-
ed. Stripped of technical verbiage and
electricity and matter in combination
form a neutral substance, which Is the
atom of matter as we know 1t. The
most interesting part of the problem
for ourselves, says Sir oliver, is the
explanation of matter in terms of cleo
tricity, the view that electricity, as
Franklin seems to have supposed the
fundamental substance" What we
men of to-day have been accustomed
to regard as an indivisible atom Of
tricity. All atoms-atoms of all sorts
Of "substances"-are built up Of the
same thing. In our day, to put it more
clearly, the theoretical and proximate
achievement Of what philosophers
from Franklin's day to ours have al
ways sought-a unification of matter
is Offering itself to physical inquiry.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Among the Worst City Nols.s

All American cities are afflicted
with too many noises, most of them
wholly unnecessary, and in the opin,
lon OF scientists this is the cause OF
many of the nervous disorders which
are characteristic of the nation. None,
however, is so useless and annoying
as the raucous yelling of the street
peddlers who drive their carts at a
snails pace through the residence
districts, shouting at the top Of their
voices from morning until night The
practice is offensive enough to well
persons who have enjoyed a nights
rest, but to the sick and to night
workers who are compelled to sleep In
the daytime It is an intolerable hard.
ship from which they have right to
be protected BY law.-Kansas City
Journal
-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
ItaIy's New Cereal.

Italy has produced new cereal for
break-making purposes that Is attract
ing good deal of popular attention.
A public test was made the other day
at Mesbrno of baking bread from -four
OF the new grain, which is named Olco
Cairo, and has been developed by a
priest Of the name of Candeo The
bread was pronounced to be palatable,
light, and, mixed with one-third of
wheaton -four, Is declared to make a
sustaining food at very low price. Be-
sides this, the inventor" says that its
general use would do away with the
pellagra in Italy.-London Globe.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Change Of Scene for HOLIDAY.

Too many people bear their firing
burden with them when they go away
for rest. There must be change of
thought as well as scene. For the
farmer there's nothing better than a
glimpse OF city life. But the city man
should shun the summer resort. And
that Is where he is usually found. He
has no plan about his vacation. Get
away from the crowd. Get back to
nature. Live in the open. Sleep in
the open II you can. Make friends
with the birds and trees and flowers
Rub up against rural nature and see
what enlightenment will spring from
1t. Get the views of people who look
at life clearly and frankly and at new
angles. Get sunburned, get freckled
get tired and then get rested again.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Poor Orphans.

Two of the young friends of Bishop
Wilberforce of Oxford gave the author.
tiles Of the university so much trou.
BILE that they won the nicknames Of
aophni and Phinehas. One day they
were lounging about the hall at Cud.
1ensdon palace, singing the Lutheran
refrain: THE Devil is Dead when
the bishop suddenly appeared. He
walked very gently up to them, and in
his most caressing manner, placing
one hand on each head, said in con.
solatory tone: Alas, poor orphans!"
Youths Companion.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Something Omlnous.

THAT" said Senator Hale, referring
to a political report, "is ominous. 1t is
like the ominous speech of the serv-
ant maid. She had been employed only
two days. In fact, her master and
mistress had been only two days mar
ried. And going to the locksmith, she
said: viii you please come to our
house at once, sir? When Mr.. Viewed
started out this morning he slammed
the door 30 hard he broke the lock-. I"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Prizes for Tanned Faces.

With the object Of encouraging the
pupils of the Farnham grammar school
to spend their recent holiday in the
open air as much as possible, the Rev.
s. Priestley, the head-master, offered a
prize to the boy who returned to
school with the brownest face. On the
pupils reassembling for the summer
term IL were picked out as being the
most tanned, and 1t was announced
that the judges had awarded the prize
to Foster, the captain of the school.
1t is understood that Foster declines
to divulge to the other boys the secret
Of his preparation, If any.-London
Globe.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Ruskin on Manual Labor.

We are always in these days endeav-
oring to separate intellect and manual
labor; we want one man to be always
thinking and another to be always
working, and we call one a gentleman,
and the other an operative; whereas
the workman ought often to be think.
Ing, and the thinker often to be work
Ing, and both should be gentlemen in
the best sense. AS it is, we make
both ungentle, but one envying, the
other despising his brother; and the
mass of society is made up of morbid
thinkers and miserable workers!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Women Who Should Shave.

"One thing l am proud of about New
York women" said the man who just
got home, rs that they are clean
shaver. I never saw anything like
the side-whiskers and boards on the
women in France, Italy and Switzer-
land. In Paris once l walked into a
shoe store and stood there petrified
forgetting what / went in for, the big
brunette cashier at the desk had such
4 furious mustache."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Advice as to Alaska.

There will be an element of surprise
In the advice of DR.. Henry Gannett, of
the United States geological survey:
III you are old, go to Alaska by all
means; but If you are young, wait"
MT Gannett gives this reason for his
advice: The scenery of Alaska is
much srander than anything else of
the Kind In the world, and 1t is not
wei TO dull ones capacity for enjoy.
ment by seeing the finest sights tirst."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
:
Cut-Rate Contributors,

In a certain parish of Greater New
York the rector, while admonishing
his flock on Sunday last that the col
lection basket receipts were steadily
growing less, took occasion to declare
that certain parishioners contribute
to their means, but others give in
keeping with their meanness." He
added that in measure such exhibit
lions of false pretense reminded him
of the story told Of the Pilgrim faith
ers upon their arrival at Plymouth
Rock: First they fell upon their
knees; then they fell upon the abor-
igines."'
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Long In Public Life.

Judge John V. Wright, of Tennes-
see, now an attorney in the general
land office, at Washington, who was 80
years old In June, has been connected
with public life for greater period
than any other living American. He
is still as vigorous as a man of 60 and
keeps up with the things OF to-day
without forgetting what has passed
and gone.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Assimilation.

Your country has wonderful pow.
ers of assimilation, truly" Wonder.
full! Nothing like it. Take the rawest
foreigners that come here and ! war
rant you they will have indigestion or
good start toward it in the second
generation, and in the third will be
living as far beyond their means as
many to the manor born. Yes, sir
whatever the material we work il
up"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Substltutes.

I'VE haven't any deviled crabs, SIR"
said the waiter. II can offer you some
very nice deviled eggs" "Umph! ]
presume IL you were out OF mock-tur,
tie soup you'd suggest some very nice
mock oranges?" retorted the diner.
Yes, sir" answered the waiter, calm
ly, AT least | would suggest that you
give them mock trial."-Harper's
Weekly.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20

Bobby had gone to Canada to visit
his English aunt, and was trying to
be on his best behavior all the time,
but at luncheon, when his aunt asked
him II he would like some curried
chicken, he was speechless with sur
prise. What is the matter, Bobby"
asked his aunt Don't you like cur.
ried chicken?" II don't know" an.
swered Bobby. 1--WE don't curry ours;
we pick them" -Lippincott's
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Rule Working Both Ways.

An English Judge expresses the
opinion that husbands should have
the legal right to inspect and revise
their wives visiting lists. The women
probably would be glad to acquiesce,
provided they were granted the same
privilege in respect to their hus
bands visiting nsts.-Washingto
Herald.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Kings Restricted Diet.

When King Edward VII visits
Marienbad for the cure his diet is
much restricted. For breakfast he
may partake of eggs, cold ham, rusks
and coffee. Luncheon is served about
1880, and the following diet is recon.
mended: Fresh trout. chicken, veal
and compete OF plums, while white
wine with Geisshubler water is drunk.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
At the Dinner Table.

WHO is that handsome man over
there?" THAT is Louis XIV" How
absurd! What do you mean?" We'll
his name is Louis, and he is always
invited when there happens to be Is
at table."-Translated for Tales from
Fliegende Batter.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Odlous comparlsons.

1.-THE money that built this library"
said the person who is inclined to be
fanatical, rs tainted"
MAY be SO" answered the literary
individual, but If 1t keeps all the
modern fiction on its shelves the
money couldn't be nearly as bad as
some of the books. Washington
Star.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
Disappointed,

Inquisitive-'If, as you say, you
knew this man to be a rake, why did
you invite him to your house?" Hen.
peck-"Heavens, man! never
dreamed he would elope with my
daughter; l thought he would carry
OF my wife" Ger Tales
from Le Rire.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
spt'r topntg Republican
ONE DOLLAR PR yRAR.
ADVERTISING RATES.

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each month.
Local advertising cents per line each inser.
tiou.
Cards first page 90 cents per inch per
month.
Notice OF church fairs, sociables and enter
tainments where money is charged, one.i alf
rates.
Death notices free, har,.f tnr publishing
obituary notices.
Card of Thanks. sc 81 ..
Legal notices atra provided by statutes Of
Nebraska.
Society notices aud ,,'Solutions. one-ha.; ,es
Wedding notices flee, half price for -, o
presents.
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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20

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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-04
Recalls "cardiff Giant"

Michael Foley, the man who quar-
ried the rock for the famous Cardiff
Giant which made Fort Dodge as
we'll as p. 7. Barnum famous, is dead
at the age Of eighty-two years, after a
residence III Fort Dodge of forty-three
years The Cardiff Giant" was per-
petrated upon the public about forty
years ago. Shortly prior to the "ac-
cidental finding" of the giant two New
Workers came to Fort Dodge in search
of large piece of rock of certain di-
mansions and kind They had searched
the country around and about the town
pretty thoroughly and were on the
point of leaving without having found
what they were searching for, when it
was suggested that Michael Foley
might find it for them. Foley under
took the job. When the huge rock
had been eXcavated from a large bed
of gypsum il was found to be twice
the size wanted. 1t was cut in two
and half Of it hauled to Fort Dodge
and chisciied into the famous giant.