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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07
Fred M. Bryner, who "plugs

Fred M. Bryner, who "plugs
for Oconto", as editor of the Re-
gister, will soon have a source of
revenue with which to pay the
expenses of publishing paper,
when delinquent subscribers fail
to respond, having been recon-
mended IS postmaster at that
hustling burg, to succeed lady
who is probably 'red-headed" now
If she wasn't prior to the an
nouncement. Of course such a
procedure on the part of Bro.
Bryner is not, in high society
ethics, considered gallantry, but
he evidently believes with the
poet that calls fair in love"-and
getting to be p. m.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07

The failure of churches to pay
ministers renumerative salaries
has caused scarcity in the sup
ply. Ministers are always urged
to marry so their wives can as
sist in the work, but the small
stipend paid in many churches is
insufficient to support the couple,
The clerics are not necessarily
preaching for the money alone
there is in the job, but they are
compelled to have sufficient salary
to live with some degree of com
fort.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07

A fight is being made against
the Interstate Commerce COM
mission that it is overstepping
its powers. The contention is
made by opponents that the very
name of the commission limits its
powers of investigation and the
commission has no authority to
delve into the private business
life of heads of railway corpora
tions brought before it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07
Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our thanks
to the many friends who so kind
ly assisted during the sickness and
burial of our beloved mother.
]. ID. STEERE, F. A. WALTON,
G. H. STEERE, p. A. WALTON,
HATTIE e. SPEAKE.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07

Moth balls will soon be dis
played on the drug store counters,
and then we will know for sure
that "spring has came"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07
Hay R.lsinR and Corn Smelling.

l have purchased the o. E.
Eggleston hay baler and will dc
baleing and corn Smelling al
popular prices. Phone $50.
c. E. PRoUTY,
1916 Broken Bow, Neb.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07

Sarah Bernhart is accused by
a French publisher of taking her
memoirs. Sarah's real memoirs
will probably never be published
with her consent.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
ODD CUSTOMS.

Every house must be decked with
flowers ON New Years day in Japan.
In Buenos Ayres the police alone
have the right of whistling on the
streets. Any other person whistling Is
at once arrested.
In Ashanti many families are for
hidden the use of certain meats. In
like manner others are forbidden to
wear clothes of a certain color.
If a carriage upsets or Injuries an
other carriage in the streets of st. Pc
tersburg or If a person is knocked
down, the horses of the offending We
hicle are seized and confscated to the
use of the fire brigade.
1t is the practice of the Ashantees
and Fantees to bury one-third of the
property Of dead man, converter in
to gold dust, under his head, and ng
the grave of an enemy is considered
the proper action for warrior.
Clapping the hands in various ways
is the polite method in central Africa
of saying ALLOW me-" Il beg par
don," Permit me to pass and
Thanks" 1t is resorted to in respect.
full introduction and leave taking.
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At Sea ln . coffin.

1t was the French assassin Lupi who
escaped to sea from Cayenne In cot
I'm. He managed to get some nails,
tar and cotton, and one dark night he
got into the coffin shed. He selected a
fine, stanch and seaworthy coffin and
fastened the lid in order to turn 1t into
a deck, leaving a cockpit sufficient to
enable him to crawl in. He calked all
the Joints as well as he could, and
when this work was finished he made
a pair of paddles out of two planks.
Then he brought out his craft with
great precaution. Without much diff
Guilty he reached the waters edge. ST.
lently and slowly he proceeded In the
hope Of reaching either Venezuela or
British Guiana. $50 nautical miles dis
tant. Fortunately or unfortunately for
Lupi. the steamer Abeille, returning
from the Antilles, off Paramaribo pick
ed him up, half drowned and almost in
a fainting condition, and few hours
later he was in irons in his cell.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
An Old Viroinia Law.

A law passed by the grand assembly
held at James City, Va, in March,
1862, was designed for the purpose of
trying to prevent women from talking
to excess. The law read: Whereas
many babbling women SANDER and
scandalize their neighbors, for which
their poor husbands are often involved
In chargeable and vexatious suits and
cast in great damages, be it therefore
enacted that in actions of SANDER, oc-
casioned by the wife, after judgment
passed for the damages, the woman
shall be punished by ducking; and If
the SANDER be so enormous as to be
adjudged at greater damages than 500
pounds Of tobacco, then the woman to
suffer ducking for each 500 pounds
Of tobacco adjudged against the hus-
band, If he refuses to pay the tobacco"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
Ruasia,a Great Library

One Of the proudest monuments to
the memory Of that benevolent despot,
Peter the Great, is the imperial IL
brary of Russia, established by him in
lila. Present ranking places it third
among the worlds great libraries, pre-
ceded only by the National library at
Paris and that of the British museum
at London. 1t contains million and
half volumes and $4,000 manuscripts.
The most important accession 1t ever
received was probably at the time Of
the suppression of the Society Of Jesus
In Russia, when most of the Jesuit
collections were transferred to the i'm
perial library. Among them was the
famous collection of Count Zaluski,
consisting of 100000 volumes and To-
600 manuscripts, which had been In
stalled at the Jesuit college In Warsaw.
The most important manuscript In the
library is the "Codex Sinaiticus" Of the
Greek Bible, brought to Russia by Pro
fessor Tischendorf In 1859 from the
Convent of st. Catharine on Mount
Sinai.-New York Tribune.
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Salt and Fresh Water Lakes.

Fresh water lakes are always only
expansions of rivers, due to the par
ticular typographical confguration of
valley. They are all characterized by
the fact that the water that they re-
ceive runs out either continuously or
intermittently and that the chemical
constitution Of their water remains
constantly the same as that Of the
streams and rivers of the same region.
Salt lakes, on the other hand, are al
ways closed basins, without outlet, and
their water is removed only by surface
evaporation. These facts being well
understood, we see at once why the
former lakes contain fresh water and
the others salt water. Water is ma
lures great solvent. Hardly single
substance, simple or compound, es-
capes its dissolving action. Conse-
quently the water that flows over the
earth's surface or in its depths con-
tains constantly in solution substances
that finally accumulate in the great
common reservoir, the ocean, whose
mass, removed only by evaporation,
becomes more and more charged with
saline matter.-Parls Cosmos.
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Of hunger were astir. The suIIen ST.
lence of Jim wore on her.
why don't We say something" she
burst out, "instead O. sitting there star
ing like bump on log7"
whist, Clodah, here's some one
coming at lastP'
Through a cloud of dust appeared a
rickety little cart drawn by a gray
donkey Terry was on the front seat.
The pig rode stolidly behind. At sight
Of their plight Terry halted Olodah
hung her head and could not raise her
eyes. 1t was Jim who spoke first.
Were in a fine mess" said he. THE
wheels broke, and Clodah's hurt her
ankle"
HAS she now?' cried Terry, note
of anxiety in his voice.
"'Tis not so painful whin sit STILL"
said Clodah, "but It's like the curse of
all the crows whin try to walk"
"I'li tell We the best way out" said
Terry 9TH take Clodah with me 20
the fair, and thin I'll'Bend some one 10
help We with your jaunting car. How
will that be suiting ye7"
There seemed no other way. and Jim
muttered that 1t would suit him very
we'll
And you. Clodah?"
Tiff We viii take me-" she said
humbly.
Here's piece O. bread for We, JIM"
said Terry, land bit o. goats cheese.
Belize it will shtay your hunger till
help arrives. Don't ate it too fast" he
called back after he had helped Clodah
up on to the seat beside him-"dont
ate it too fast, for tits rich and likely
to give We the dyspepsia"
For awhile Clodah and Terry rode In
silence. Then, "Clodah, girl said
Terry tenderly, its churl / am at
I times, but I meant nothing by 1t. VIII
We forgive me for what said last
night?'
Forgive We" cried Clodah-'' forgive
vel On, Terry, I'd rather ride with you
and fifty pigs than with Jim Hagan
and a coach and fourr'
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carpeau,s unconventionaIitv.

The sculptor Carpeau was always a
bohemian and generally absentmind-
ed. Invited once to the Tuileries by
Emperor Napoleon III. and the EN-
press Eugene, he pulled out his pipe
after dinner, filed 1t and, discovering
that he had no matches, took a scrap
of paper. climbed on a chair and light.
ed the pipe from the great chandelier
above the table. "You don't mind smok-
ing, do you, ma 'amW he said to the
empress. He once accepted from a rich
patron an order to make a sculptured
group representing the Cyclops Poly
phemus crushing the youth Acis under
a rock Carpeau had no sooner ac-
cepted the commission than he regret
ted it, for the subject had no fascina
lions whatever for him. He put the
matter off again and again, but was
urgently pressed to begin 1t by his pa
iron. At last one day Carpeau took
the impatient patron to his studio and
showed him great rough block of
uniformed clay. There is your group
said the sculptor my group? WhereT'
"Why, this is the rock That's all
very well, but where is Acis?' Under
the rock-crushed quite out of sight, of
course" "But where is Polyphemus?
ooh, he? Why. do you think he would
remain anywhere about after he had
done thing like thatT' This was as
far as the classical group" ever got.
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in his grasp and fell out, and there In
the bright sunshine lay exposed Judge
Kittredge's private home bank.
''Of course, grandma, you'll do just
as you please" Kitty the Third said
after every one had gone and Billy and!
Dick had carried all the precious un-
sold things back to their places In the
house, ''but Dudley and l would love to
have you live with us in town."
Grandma Kittredge smiled happily to
herself and swayed gently back and
forth in her little low sewing rocker,
that Miss Podmore had kept her eye
on ever since the sale had begun.
well, it's real sweet of you to say;
so, dearie," she answered, land 1 know
you both mean 1t, but as long as there's
the means to keep it with-how much
did Dudley say your grandpa had put
In that drawer-twelve thousand and
some odd? Well, kind Of think that
I'll stay right here. You can come out
to visit me often, and there may be
others to consider, you know"
"Others?" said Kitty the Third in
quiringly. "Others, grandmaT
There may be Kitty the Fourth
some day, dear heart, who would love
the old place and even the furniture
some day, dearie, when you are old,
too, and / am up with grandpa on the
hill, and black walnut furniture has
come in style again.
And while she folded her arms about
the girlish figure kneeling beside her
the sweet old face was full of half
merry, quizzical tenderness as she add
ed, "Some day when mission styles
gone out of date, dearie, so Wen keep
every dear old piece that came from
Boston years ago"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30

In Laos. an undeveloped region OF
French Indo- China, there is something
out Of the way In the shape Of vii.
lage of lunatics. The most common
form of madness there is belief among
the lunatics that buffaloes are inside
them. When these madmen get toe
troublesome they are at once removed
80 the village. But previously they are
tested for madness by being bound
hand and foot and thrown into a river
If they manage to swim. that Is sign
of their being of sound mind If they
sink to the bottom, as is most often
the case, isolation in their village is
the sentence-in the event of their be-
ing rescued alive-South China Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
Too Iona MINDED.

The inhabitants of the Canary isles,
finding themselves oppressed by fam
inc, sent to the governor of Galicia one
of their head men as an ambassador.
They advised him not to lose himself
In long winded talk. He promised and
kept his word. He took with him a
large number of sacks, and, arriving
at the town where the governor was
on the circuit, he opened one Of them
before him, saying only these words;
1T is empty. Fill it."
The governor ordered this sack and
the rest to be filed with meal, but he
said to the speaker: You had no need
to tell us that the sack was empty nor
that 1t was necessary to fill 1t. We
should have readily guessed that. An
other time be briefer In your talk
Bon Vivant
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Doves and RelIoion,

zone thing l remarked and think
worthy of notice is that ever since
Noah's dove every religion seems to
consider the pigeon as a sacred bird
For example, every mosque swarms
with pigeons, and the same exists in
most italian market places. The Hin
doc pundits and the old Assyrian en-
pire also have them, while Catholics
make it the emblem OF the Holy
Ghost"
Lady Burton in her account Of the
Mohammedan mystery play of Has
san and Hossein' says:
Then comes the bier with Hossein's
corpse and his son sitting upon 1t sor-
rowing and embracing him and beau
tiful white dove in the corner whose
wings are dabbled with blood. The eff
feet upon the excited crowd is awful
Life of Sir Richard f. Burton"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
orioin Of Two Familiar Proverbs.


1t was the habit of the great Greek
painter Apelles never to let day pass,
however busy he CHANGED to be, with
out practicing his hand by tracing the
outline Of some object, custom which
has now passed into proverb-"No
day without a line" He also made it
a rule, when he had finished a canvas,
to exhibit it to the view of those who
visited his studio, while he himself,
hidden behind the picture, would listen
to their comments. 1t Is said that once
a shoemaker censured him for having
painted pair of shoes with one latchet
too few. Next day the shoemaker, re-
visiting the studio, saw that the paint
er had corrected the mistake. He then
began to criticIse the leg of the por'
trait. upon which Apelles came for.
ward and reminded him that q shoe
maker should not go beyond the shoes.
a piece of advice which has also crys-
talliZed into a proverb, Let the cob
bier stick to his last "-Pliny the Elder.
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comparatIvs color sIIndne..

If thousand men gaze at garden
of flowers, fifty of them will see the
colors falsely. If thousand women
view them, nine hundred and ninety
six or seven will perceive the hues cor
rectly. OF the six colors of the rain
bow, which, mingled in thousands of
combinations, give all the varying hues
Of sky and sea, of mountain and val
ley, some are never seen by the color
blind or are felt only as light and
shade of black and white Very few
persons are totally color blind, yellow,
blue and violet being rarely lost. To
the totally color blind all landscapes
and objects are like an engraving in
black and white.-Edward A. Ayers in
Century
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30

plllar or MS sisters porch. He had
sprung through his window to the roof
OF the porch and was not wasting
time on stairways Straight ahead Of
her he few like streak, bounded over
the first track, bent over the boy and
then something came between her and
the two dark figures-somethinR that
rumbled and Numbered away into a
horrible silence Aunt Helen did not
open her eyes. She did not dare to
When Mrs. Johnson came she found
her lying unconscious and white on the
edge of the curb
1t was Mr.. Henry who carried Aunt
Helen home to the dim sitting room.
and BERTHE limped soberly, for, like the
boy in the song. he had one shoe off
and one shoe on. Later when Aunt
Helen was quite herself Mrs. johnson
brought in what was left of the miss
ing shoe when the express had passed
over 1t, and then Aunt Helen learned
how Mr.. Henry had ripped open the
shoe, which had caught in frog on
the track, and with BERTHE In his arms
had rolled down the bank to safety.
That night after BERTHE had eaten two
sponge cakes and had been tucked into
bed Mr.. Henry, who had forgotten that
dinner engagements ever existed, sat
in his old corner in Aunt Helen's sit
ting room, and Aunt Helen sat beside
him in her little wicker rocker
Henry" she said softly, Il was
wrong, and you were right. BERTHE
needs you-and 1 need you. l have
missed YOU
He did not answer. and there was a
troubled look in his eyes. She rose
suddenly and crossed to her desk.
"See, dear, it was not because of
what happened this afternoon. / was
writing to you when he ran away, poor
lonely laddie! He knew something was
wrong"
Henry Strong read the half finished
letter and kissed her.
'And now he knows it is all right
again. Let's go upstairs and make
sure he is not having bad dreams.
Poor chap! He had a great scare"
And so BERTHE, waking from restless
slumber, saw the two faces dearest in
all the world bending over him. and,
reaching out for two protecting hands,
he fell into peaceful sleep.
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AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY co.

Leave MOoRESToWN every 10 minutes
from 5.42suntil 1912 a. M; then every 30 min
ntes until 4.12 D. M; then every 10 minutes I'M
iii 3 AZ D. M; then every 30 minutes until ll.l2
o. M; then every hour as per night car
Leave FERRY SOB, 5.s8, sos, 6.3s a. M; then
every 10 minutes until 9.38 a. M; then every ~
minutes until 1913 p. M; then every 10 minutes
until s3S %. M; then every 81 minutes until
no Os D. m; then Hos and 12OS; then every
hour as per night car schedule.
Leave MERCHANTVILLE every minutes
rom 532 a. m. until 927 a. M; then every 10
inmates until All p M; then every minutes
until S.27 p. m; then every 10 minutes until
n AZ o. M; then as per night car schedule.
Leave FERRY at SOB and OBS a. M; then
every 10 minutes until 6.5S a. M; then !, every
i minutes until 8.58 a. H.; then every 10 min
ntes until 35s p. NJ; then every minutes !, M o.
il7h8 o. M; then every 10 minutes until l2OS
midnight; then every hour as per night car
schedule.
NIGHT CAR-DAILY AND SUNDAY.
Leave Moorestown, l.02. o. 3O2, 4.02 a. m
leave Ferry, *l.0S, 2.08. 30S, 4.0S a. IN.
sI,ast trip on Saturday nigh.
Connect with Mount Holly cars at stanwIck
avenue.
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Ones Point Of View.

Al liked that play we saw last night
because it has happy ending"
"Why, man, the husband in 1t ter
rorizes his wife into trembling and
silent submission and ends by killing
his mother-in-law"
II said it had happy ending. BAL
timore American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-04-30
ousar Nsstinn PLACES

Birds seek queer places in which to
build their nests. The robin often be-
gins nesting operations In February.
Any old pot, basket or can which is
lying in corner Of garden seems to
be taken possession Of by robins. They
even build their nests in f1owerpots, on
chairs, In bags and tins, old kettles
and variety of other odd places. But
perhaps the most remarkable place of
all where robin built its nest was In
or on cows tail. The tail was hang
ing on the wall of a butchers slaugh-
ter house in England, and the robin
built coy nest among the long hair
at the end of the anpendape
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where he Worshlped.

As the new minister of the village
was on his way to evening service he
met a rising young man of the place
whom he was anxious to have become
an active member of the church.
Good evening, my young friend" he
said solemnly. do you ever attend
place of Worship"
Eyes, indeed, sir, regularly every
Sunday night" replied the young fell
low. with a smile. "I'm on my way
to see her now Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
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The Burlington and Bristol Steamboat
Ferry Company.

Schedule in effect $50 a. M, March 18th, 1907
Subject to change.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLIN GTON.
Daily-Exeept Sundays and Saturdays.
$50, 500, 900, 1000, HOO a. M, $780, 1.S0. 230
30, 4.30, $50, $50 p. N.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
ZOO, $50, $50, 1890 l.30 a. M, LOO, 200, 200,
400, 800, $50. 100 p. m.
LEAVE BRISTOL SATURDAYS.
$50, 500, $780, l000 ll.0O a. M, 1890, 1.SO, 22O'
300, $40, 4.30. $50, $50 p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON SATURDAYS
100 $50, $50, 1880, ll3O q. m, LOO. 200, 2.40
$40, AGO. 500, $50, 40 p. M.
LEAVE BRISTOL SUNDAYS.
SOO $780, 1r00 1910, ILLS a. M, Il. 3d. l.30, 2.2O
500, $40, 4.30, $50. $50 p. M
LEAVE BURLING TON SUNDAYS.
$50, $50, 1920, 1lO0 1l.30 a. M, LOO 200, 2.4O,
$40, AGO, 600, 5.5O, 100 p. M
Notes.-May 18th 1907, the 1000 O'Clock morn
ing trip from Bristol will be withdrawn and
the Boat Will leave Bristol at $40 a. m.
On Decoration Day, the trips will be same
as Saturday Time Table.
The boat for the Performances in the Audi
forum viii leave Bristol at 740 y. M, return
ing will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the performances.
No trips Will be guaranteed in foggy weather
WILLIAM E. DORON,
seey, Treas. and Genl Manager