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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Well, It is exasperating, to say the


Downfall Of Cashier.
The cashier came at last, wearing
the patent feathers, the gloves, the
silk hat, tie, and few other Of the
evidences of a night in the company
of dressy friends. He bowed to the
head of the Armour business, who
had been filling in the time looking
through an Office ledger.
1t was a nice morning, according to
the Armour weather report, apropos
of the cashiers silence.
The cashier admitted that in his
chiefs meteorological observation the
chief had beaten the weather bureau
by ten degrees.
Mr.. Armour had been waiting for
some time, he said
The cashier hadn't a doubt of 1t.
The ease, and composure, and pains
taking care with which the cashier
laid aside overcoat, hat and gloves
we're a little irritating at best Just
when the cashier was removing his
gloves, careful of the wrinkles, the
head of Armour's brought hand
down upon the open ledger.
"Mr. Jones. that's a - bad ex-
ample of bookkeeping, If l know any
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Push All the Time.

II it pays to push when business Is
good, 1t pays to push when business is
bad.
II 1t pays to push when business is
bad, It pays to push when business Is
good.
II 1t pays to push at all, it pays to
push all the time.
Therefore, don't let 1t die.
When everything is coming your
way, push to make it come the faster.
When everything is going the other
way, push to make it come bach to
you.
Push all the time and you'll feel
the better for It, and make more
money.
It takes hard thinking and hard
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Success.

The secret Of most successes lies in
the man rather than in the method.
Making people want the goods Is,
after all, about as near the secret of
it as there comes to being any secret.
Make the public want what you have
to sell and the sale Is half made.
Epitaph of failure: HE worked
overtime lodging work"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Be Business Throuohout.

A joke is joke, but business is no
joke, and 1t is mighty hard to make
the two mix.
A man once said: ut pays to adver-
tise most businesses, but mine is diff
ferent." The sheriff sold him out, and
now he works for his successor, who
does advertise.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Let IL Be Known.

You may know that you have the
best assorted stock in town, but the
public will not know 1t unless you tell
them about it; they are not clairvoy-
ants. First use the newspapers liber-
ally, then circulars, personal letters,
talk to them when you can catch them
in your store, at their homes-any-
where. The first and last thing to
bear in mind about advertising is that
1t Is as wide as human nature in its
appeal
Advertising is the mighty engine OF
success, and without it the business
world would be minus its dynamo Of
energy.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

overalls counts for just as much and
screams just as hard as the bird on
the dollar turned over by the man
who belongs to the upper tens" Be-
sides, If the man in the overalls wants
credit until Saturday night or until
the first of the month, you'll stand to
win to get the cash from him when
he says he'll pay you. Don't give him
the marble heart. You want his
trade. He needs dry goods and gro
ceries, and he will spend his money
with you if you treat him right.
Business Sickness a Common Com
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

work to increase business in the face
of strong competition. But the busi-
ness is there, and somebody will get II
you or your neighbor, or perhaps
your competitor in the next town.
Which shall 1t be?
Help your employees increase your
business.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Master of Details.

One may find stories among former
Armour employees, told not with a
view to contrast with this testimony
but with due recognition of the mans
capacity and mastery of the routine
of a great business, which are in con-
flict.
One of these men for years had
been a travelling auditor of the bust
nesses of the Armour branch houses,
scattered over one of the great sec
tons OF the west. In this organiza-
ton of the Armour business each
branch house has its own manager.
Each OF ten or IL houses comes I'M
der the supervision Of superintend-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
plant.

Stuck in rut, are you? Same old
rut, boss doesn't appreciate your eff
forts. Interest in your business wear
ing thin at the edges? Eth? Thought
SO! Well, what are you waiting for?
You know nothing really comes to
the fellow who waits, except the
push" Some people never get
there" unless they're pushed.
If you're sick of your job you're do
ing yourself and your boss a bad turn
by hanging on. Start looking around
for another job-that'll keep your
mind liquid. Wonderful what a pick
me-up job-hunting is to some people.
II you get turned down" two or three
times you'll begin to think what small
potatoes you really are after all, and
that's good tonic for business sickness
the first sign of recovery, in fact.
Your present job will, maybe, &C
quire a fresh interest to you, and
you'll come at it again like two.year-
old.
If you were born with a square chin
and the normal amount of gray mat
ter you'll probably want to get ahead
of the procession. There is only one
sure way, and that is know how" A
fellow with know how" never loses
interest in his job. He wouldn't get
the know how" II he did.
It's marvellous how interesting busi-
ness is when you get the proper spirit.
Some men obtain more genuine pleas
ure from business than they do from
play. If you want to enjoy business
study it-soak yourself in it. and ina
CINE it's play.
You won't have to imagine long, and
when you've got the spirit Of the game
you couldn't be kept out of 1t with a
pickax.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Fashion Is Ever chanqlna.

Mrs. Shopper-Is that hat that was
$35 this morning the same price still?
Enthusiastically Why not?
Mrs. Shopper-Well, it's not such q
new style as II was then.-Judga
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

ent, and about the same number is In
the territory of travelling auditor.
The poultry business of Armour G.
Co. is not one of the money making
ventures of the company. Armour,
in his touring of the country in which
his plants are located, always las an
eye to the records of this poultry
business. Occasionally the manager
of particular plant overstocks in
poultry. He may buy 10000 pounds
of fowls when the market proves to
justify only 5000 pounds. There is
consequent loss of two to five cents
pound on the stock
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
OOSaI5LE MHZr

thing about what set of books
should be-"
"Mr. Armour" and the cashier
shook the desk with the force of his
clinched fist, that's - - -
creditable ledger, and I know what
I'm talking about"
But knowing or not knowing the
Boston branch had a new cashier
within week or two. Which was no
surprise to the cashier, either.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

so, Armour considered this a detail
mere something which had been
delegated to Mr.. Armstrong of the
concern.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
MANAGER "Called Down."

Manager "CaIled Down."
The house may be 500 or 1000
miles out of Chicago. The manager,
counting upon the distance from the
home office and the possibility Of the
head Of great concern scarcely
knowing of the poultry department Of
that particular branch, receives the
personal call of the corporations
head in sublime optimism.
Brusque but pleasant interchange
of conventional greetings lead up to
the business talk. The weather may
be touched upon. The health of the
manager may be inquired after. No
words are wasted, however. Sudden
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Enemies are Many.


j. Ogden Armour is A years old.
He has made enemies-bitter ones
in his time; men who have fought
him at 1.-The game" and nursed defeat
in vengeance. They have fought him
fairly and unfairly.
They have called him the head and
shoulders Of the beef trust" he
is credited-or discredited-as the
leather trust" he owns $4,000 shares
in one great railroad in the central
west, huge blocks of stock in other
lines reaching to the Atlantic and to
the Pacific; owner of lines of huge
elevators that have strangled compe.
tition; owner of street railway stocks;
arbiter in the destinies of almost
countless aggregations of capital; de-
PENDANT of the privately owned refrig-
orator lines, and pleading innocence
in the matter of huge rebates that
have been in violation of federal laws
Only few years ago he was sick
man, Frustrated by the publicity which
came of his aggressiveness in the
game"
But he is millionaire many times
He has power, which is compensation
in the game" Who would not have
it If he could? He gets up at six
o'clock in the morning and goes to
work at seven. He has few friends
that are intimates in the sense that
men have friends, tried and true. He
has one child, who sees less of him,
perhaps, than most children see of
their fathers who are day laborers.
Yet this is success, Who disputes
it?
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

Chicago.-By virtue of his millions,
his diversified financial and CONNER
olal interests, his methods, and his
means to business ends, j. Ogden Ar
mour is one of the accredited great
captains of industry of Chicago.
But when you seek to discover of
his friends the social side of the man,
they are not certain even Of its exist
ence.
Ask Mr.. Armour himself and he re-
CARDS the subject as not at all worthy
of discussion in business hours.
And j. Odgen Armour has more
business hours in the course of the
calendar year than has any other mil
lionaire in the western metropolis.
He eats his luncheon in his private
Office in the general Offices In La
Sale street: sends out for 1t some
where and satifies his hunger with
the least possible loss of time. When
the days work is done he starts home
in his automobile, just within the
speed limits of the ordinances, for a
seven o'clock dinner.
Responsible for days work as the
head of Armour d Co., with its pay
roll of 10000 men, looking to his own
private interests In half q dozen lines
of investment, meeting in one way or
another the multitudinous calls that
come from q great world to the desk
of the millionaire
Home and "The Came"
Homeland "the game" of business,
measured by tens of thousands of
miles and tens of millions of money
would you ask more of flesh and
blood? "The game" Is at once the
mans diversion and his toll; home is
the atmosphere and the physical en-
bodiment of his recuperative necessi-
ties. For him there can be no social
world, writes Hollis w. Field, in the
Chicago Tribune.
Home? Why, j. Ogden Armour is
spending a million dollars on sum-
mer home to the west of Lake Forest,
its basement walls measuring 1870 by
500 feet! There are 800 acres in the
estate, costing 5000 to $500 an acre,
and for months a construction gang
that would affect the pay rolls Of a
great railroad has been at work dig
cling. ditching and leveling for the
landscape gardener
Lakes will be formed where only
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
Direct In Questioning.

No one in the employ of Armour &
Co. ever has accused the head of the
present business of being unapproach-
able. Approaching him, no employe
knowing him has expected a warm,
smiling greeting None ever expects
to escape the battery of keen ques-
tionings, one question hot after the
other, straight to the point, and
stripped of superfuous wording.
Not that all such talk of the head
of the Armours is inquisitorial. 1t
would be hard to count the number of
managers, superintendent and travel
ing auditors who in years past have
come to the general Office in Chicago,
to meet the chief in smiling mood,
who have been complimented in words
regarding their work, and who at the
end of the interview have been pre-
sented with an order for gold watch
and suit of clothes. These are con-
venient, convertible orders, too. If the
man doesn't need a watch, the order
will be cashed at the cashiers win
dow at $50; or if he has clothes suffi-
cient, the cashier redeems the clothes
order at the same figure.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27

swamps existed before. Five lines of
railway, one of which Mr.. Armour is
heavily interested in, will be shut off
by great embankment rs feet in
height and half mile in length. A
driveway ten miles in length will en-
compass the estate. The chief ma
terial In construction of the house
will be marble.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-27
His Best Beloved.

Some one may find food for thought
on comDensations in the fact that Mr..
Armour's family consists of only wife
and daughter
All the world has heard of this little
daughter, now IL years old-the little
Lolita Armour, weighing three pounds
at her embarrassing of the incu-
bat~!. with the little life hanging by
a thread-fnally the active child with
the handicap of dislocated hip, to
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
Our Very Topsy Turvy
Judicial Procedure.
. ANDREW j. rIIRscHL. sociolosist.

ny ANDREW socioosst
trouble with Judicial system that inverted like
house standing its roof The work which the most
Important which requires the greatest learning which, like
foundation should be broad deep and solid and bear the
weight supersructue the end Of litigation IN
STEAD OF At THE BEGINNING The difficult and most
propositions instead Of being solved at the
thus fixing and for all the condition Of affairs
allegiance be after AND EX
PENSIVE trials involving attendance Of and the
writing Of thousands Of pages Of testimony records and peadng
making burden al and still greater burden
the taxpayers ss# s.
The present Of litigation thus is heard
the first requiring perhaps weeks months Judgment
and the appellate legal proposition has
been enormously BY THE.TAL COURT So the
reversed After again tried and appealed to tho
appellate where again be found and
back again and goes again the appellate court
which, Of the whereupon the
party takes the the court which then
hold that there has been IN BOTH OF THE LOWER
COURTS and back the beginning trial
needed and everything grind slowly through
Often and At times years pass before the litigation
|snds es#
There criminal dependent upon what the
fesona calls Of law il which questions do
clearly At TIE BEGINNING Of the case and such
questions should be solved in advance Of the trial
THIS WOULD De THE FOUNDATIONS or THE SUBSEQUENT
TRIAL AND WOULD REMAIN uNsHAKEN so THAT PROF.
ABiLtTY-lNDEED. WE MAY SAY iNvARAsLY-THE RESULT
WOULD FIND THE APPROVAL OF THE REVIEWING COURTS.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
NO MORE $l.25 GOVERNMENT Land

1na recent decision by the Honor
anls Secretary Of the Interior tnot
yes published Ia land once decis-
ions) it Is held that lands offered for
Ssala as isolated OF disconnected
tracts fractions Of section around
which all public land has been filed
ON under the public land laws can
net hereafter be sold Tor less than
$3.50 per acre. within the Northern
Pacific railroad limits (douhle min
imam land). Heretofore the mini
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
EXPLOSIVE MAIL
STRANGE PACKAGE EXPLODED IN
ST. LOUIS PosToFFicEcLosE
CALI FOR CLERK

st. Louis, April LA mail package.
apparently containing dynamite ex-.
ploded while it was being stamped in
st. Louis postoffce today. The ex-
plosion blew away portion Of a.
finger and thumb Of John g. Bayer. a
clerk, who was stamping packages.
The explosion destroyed all trace OF
contents and all OF the address ex-
cepting words Independence, Nc"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12

mum price has been construed to be
$1.25 per acre although It has al
ways been an open question with nc
oficial Of authoritative decision. AZ
g rule these isolated tracts have been
sold at auction at q much higher
price than $3.50 but In some cases,
through combination Of buyers 81
otherwise, the price has been kept
down to the minimum Of s1.25. How.
ever. homesteaders and spectators
and land hunters viii be glad to pay
$3.50 an acre and over.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
alter siiiisaa

liking for polar xpioration and made
an eminently successful trip to the
Arctic regions. He returned to Franz
Josef Land in 1898 and remained there
nearly q year, bringing back much
netW information as to this then al.
most unknown polar territory. Mr..
Wellman was president 81 the Nation.
al Capital Press Club. His home il
In Washington, where he has repre-.
scented q number Of the most i'm
portant newspapers III the country.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
Samuel D. McEnery

Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery,
of Louisiana, was born at Monroe, La,
on May %. 1887, and studied at the
United States Naval Academy and the
University of Virginia. Senator Nc
Emery also graduated at law at
Poughkeepsie university, New York
state. When the civil war broke out
he entered the Confederate army,
where he made splendid record He
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12

Senator Ramsett Of Barnes county
Is giving some Of his political ma.
ligners some decidedly hot replies:
Ramsett has the reputation OF being
the only man who ever forced
Ananias Packard to tell the trath.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
JERSEY | E SOLONS
THE LEGISLATURE WILL TAKE.
AREcEss UNTIL JUNE
18TH
A.sociated Press 70 Bismarck Tribune

Associated Press TO Bismarck Tribune
Trenton. n. y, April 1.-THE New
Jersey legislature viii take recess
tomorrow. Il win reconvene on June
IS. for the consideration OF measures
which may be vetoed by the governor
during the recess, The senate passed
q concurrent resolution providing for
biennial instead OF annual sessions.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12

ss5 PLAIN LINENS
SO inch Linen Lawn. .
Csc. quality for Soc $1.O0quality for SOC
75c quality for 6Oc $l.15 quality for 9Oc
Pillow Case Linen
AZ inch, 75c quality now 20. &. ]. 6Oc
45 inch, 75c quality now SIS. 60c
Art Linen, Round Thread, So inch
SOC quality for 4Oc Csc quality for Soc
75c quality for 6Oc
Art Linen, Round Thread, IS inch
75c quality for 6Oc Csc quality for 75c
85c quality for Csc 81 90 quality for Soc
Fronting Linen, SO inch
38c quality for 3Oc 60c quality for Bc
soc quality for 4Oc 75c quality for 6Oc
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12

entered politics while practicing law
after the war, and was elected heuten-
ant governor of his state in 1879 and
served as governor from 1884 until
1888. Senator McEnery was all as
sociate justice of the supreme court
Of Louisiana from 1883 until 1879,
when he was elected to the United
States senate. His home is in New
Orleans.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-12
Coin Of the Realm IS Moral.


~ERE rs NO SUCH THING AS TAINTED MONEY.
What \ It that tainm money anyways 4 know what
people sy shout it They that the wrong conduct
Of holder ATTACHES TO THE MONEY and that the
money y thereafter na1t for Human conduct acquiring
money attach mix ia the coin lessen weaken the
pay upon the bank There always tho question
bF OWNERSHIP The man who gives MUST OWN II. Bnt
there thing tainted msnay Good MORAL MONEY
That Is full and live eo good
ANYWHERE ii any mans hand
srRuTH SHADOW tTsGLKs
Rooney CANNOT sxcoMk sMpRE0kArED Nv THE pEsDs or
PASSING
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-22
ITINERARY OF CRUISE.
Ship And Monitors to Garry MidshIpmea.

The following is the itinerary for
the u. :. cruiser Olympia and the
monitors Arkansas, Florida and Ne
vada, which viii carry the midship-
men on their summer cruise:
June :, midshipmen embark S, sail
from Annapolis 8 a. m. ; arrive Hamp-
ton Roads midshipmen visit the
shipyard at Newport News; 10, leave
Ham utOn Roads. proceed on a cruise !;
IS. arrive of New York, anchor in
North River; %, leave the North River
for New London, Conn. 28, 10 Au-
gust 20, cruise in the neighborhood
IF New London; August 20, leave
New London for Hampton Roads; %,
arrive Hampton Roads; 20, leave
Hampton Roads and arrive at the
mouth Of the Potomac River same
dav: 81, arrive at Annapolis and mid
shipmen will disembark.
While in the vicinity of New Lon
don the ships viii visit in rotation
torpedo station at Newport, X. I.
During week ending August 81 the
first class will visit tho proving
ground at Indian Head and gun fac
Tory, Washington.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-22
WAKEFIELD FOR PRESIDENT.
Mar,Iand's Governor Now Being Talked of
at Home.

Governor Warfeld, of Maryland,
who has been prominently mentioned
as a Democratic candidate for vice
president, is declared by leading
Maryland Democrats TO be looming up
for the presidential nomination. For
mer Governor Brown, who is in close
touch with leading New York Demo-
Gratis, is authority for the statement
that there is a growing sentiment
for Warfield in New York state.
AS Governor of Maryland, Mr..
WarfieId has had placed in his hands
great power-a power unequaled by
that of any other governor in the
union. The governor of Maryland
could, if be desired TO do so, success
fully build up political organization
and following that would be inyin-
chile, because the police department,
the liquor traffic, the election machin-
cry and the criminal classes could all
be subordinated to his purposes and
the purposes of his party through APP
pointments. Governor Warfield, how
ever, has declared that he has no such
ambition, and his appointments which
have lifted these elements out Of poll
itics stand as monuments to his de-
sire to give Maryland only the best
administration within his power
AS governor of Maryland and pres
ident of the two companies, Mr.. War
field has acquired an acquaintance
that is-not equaled by any man in
Maryland. That acquaintance en-
braces the most prominent business
men of the country as well as the
most influential party leaders. He
is recognized as a governor and bus
mess man who does things. What
ever may be the feeling within the
of the Democratic party
in Maryland, there is no doubt that
the party will be unit in furthering
any ambition which Mr.. Warfeld
may entertain toward the presidential
next year. If he wants a
to the next national con-
vention favorable to his plans he will
be permitted to name such delega-
tion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-22
Compliments Local Painters

The May edition of 1.-THE Carter
Times,' magazine in the interest of
Carter White Lead, published once
in while at Chicago, ILL.,, gives a
page illustration and write1p TO the
local firm of r. l.. Strange q Sons.
The illustration consists of cut from
a photograph of the Maryland State
capitol building, and also of the
dome with the scaffolding .on which
ara Messrs. James F. and John r.
Strange and two other painters EN-
ployed by them.
There is also a good cut of Messrs.
James F.. and John Il. Strange and
the story says the capitol building
looks well in its nice fresh coat of
Carter white lead paint applied by the
firm of X. L. Strange & Sons. 1t fur
ther says the local firm has built up a
remarkably high class trade in An
napois by the use of good material and
excellent workmanship. They appre-
ciate the good reputation they have
won by earnest, conscientious work.
The article aud illustrations are high
ly complimentary to the we'll known
local firm,