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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27
HILLSDALE ITEMS.

A small crowd gathered at the
home of Loren Casons for a party
Saturday night, a splendid time was
reported
Mr.. Dave Alspaugh and family
have move out to the farm last Fri
day.
Mrs Dave Coulter and MissEva
Yoder spent Sunday at ID. Alspaughs
Mr. VIM. Bishop spent Sunday at
Austin Loyds.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. H. McQuister and
Jake and Sena Yoder, Walter Prov
ince and Mrs. ID. j. Coulter spent
Sunday evening at VIM. Bishops
A few from this vicinity attended
church at Lillian Sunday night.
Mr.. Jake Yoder was tying bales
for w. NJ Bishop the last OF the
week.
Miss Lizzie Bishop went to Ber-
wyn last week to work.
MIR. A. j. Cason and family spent
Sunday evening at Austin Loyds.
Mr.. ID. j. Coulter is away on bus
mess at present.
A number Of people OF Brewster
were in the city Tuesday and We'd
nesday on land contest of Mr.. Kun
against Mrs. Grace Harris, postmist-
ress of Brewster
A large crowd gathered at the
school house to hear the new preach
er's sermon Sunday. We hope they
will all come back in two weeks.
Miss Neva Yoder is at home
again.
Glenn Young and Lesta and Seva
Yoder spent Sunday evening at d. j.
Coulter's.
Mr., andMrs. G. l.. Warning spent
at John Warnings.
Mr.. and Mrs ID. J. Coulter spent
Sunday at Austin Loyd's.
Mary Bishop is helping Mrs. A.
J. Broyles with her household duties
while Mr.. Broyles is absent in Kans-
as and Missouri.
Walter Province and Lizzie Bish-
op spent Sunday evening with Mrs.
ID. II. McQuisten.
Hurrah for the wedding bells will
soon be ringing.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27
Judge Kills Chickens.

County Judge Holcomb, Will
Darnell and Ed Myers went up the
linelast Saturday night in search OF
small game. They dropped off at
Dunning and struck inland several
miles. For two days the slaught-
er was fast and furious. and when
the Judge returned asst Tuesday
morning he was oaded down with
chickens, ducks and one solitary
crane. He said he felt sorry for
the crane because it looked so lone
ly among all those chickens.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27
National Live stock Com. c.
CUSTER COLLEGE NOTES.

The literary program which shoul :
have been given at the college was
postponed for one week owing to the
first number of the lecture course
coming on Monday evening.
Mr.. Hammond was absent from
college Monday morning.
The practice game of foot ball wit
the high school Tuesday afternoon
resulted in a serious accident to one
of the college half-backs. He made
a splendid tacle but somehow in the
/, mixup his nose was broken.
Prof. Mills has scheduled foot
ball gam with Mason City high
school to take place atMason City
on Saturday. The college boys are
confident of victory and will be dis
appointed if they don't come back
flying the banner of victory.
Mr.. Devalt is absent from college
this week owing to some farm work
which must be done.
Tuesday morning is current events
morning. Watch the boys study the
political page of the daily papers.
Rev. Norwood of the Baptist
church had charge of the chapel
Wednesday morning and gave very
interesting talk on the subject, "the
battles of life"
Hon. M. P. Kink aid, republican candi-
date for U, S. Congress from the Big 9th
made this office . very Dleasant call this
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27
GENERAL TEMPERANCE RALII.
Col. Metcalfe Of the Commoner and
G.. I. Roach, Speakers.

On Wednesday, Nov. End. at s II.
m. the Temperance people will hold
a rally at the Opera House.
Hon. r. l.. Metcalfe and DR.. G..
f. Roach will be the speakers.
AT p. m. there will be a confer
ence at the M. E. church. These
meetings are entirely non-partisan
and free and open to all
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27

We have good position open in
this county for man in good stand
ing to take charge of branch Oil and
Gasoline Station, to sell direct to
the farmers in barrel lots. must be
able to give cash security as we
carry car load oil each station will
pay good salary or commission to
right party, address to
Milwaukee Oil & Refining Co.
Aberdeen, So. Oak.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27

David B. Hill, EX-United States
Senator, died suddenly at his coun-
try home at Wolfert's Roost, New
York, last Thursday, October goth.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-27
j. G.. BOWEN
THE PIONEER GROCER OF CUSTER COUNTY.

New Silver King Kraut the finest that be made
from White Holland Cabbage 10 quart 35 cents
gallon.
Pancake Flour Muffns and Pancakes Pure
Sealship Oysters The rs
healthy sacks Blue Points, finest oysters grown
solid shell 60 quart
Apples, Apples ST. bushel for wine Ben Davis
All cheaper than medicine Buy literally These
delivered prices
Apple Cider have filled today, It's
healthy 35 fruit sprayed three times
Jersey pronounced by experts to
be the Celery, Jersey
berries.
Lay in winter supply of Cabbage. 1t is cheap
per pounds make kraut all solid
heads. Phone orders today.
All goods sold by us are Pure and protected
by the National and State Pure Food Laws.
PURE OLD CIDER VINEGAR
PHONES and 348
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

You possess only as much faith as pos
sesses you.
You cannot love truth and fight freedom
IN thinking.
The big fences are not always around the
best fruit trees.
1t takes more than a sunging vocabulary
to make prophet.
The whirlwind OF passion scatters many
OF the seeds Of sin.
People who borrow trouble always give
more than they get
Clearing some Of the clouds from earth
clears the vision Of heaven.
The test Of piety comes not In the pews,
but in the press OF daily life.
No one can measure the fortune OF the
man who leaves many friends.
Many would be happier if they stopped
"FletcherizinE' their medicine.
The best kind OF religious devotion Is de-
votion to some one who needs you.
It's no use talking about walking with
God II you're wabbling before men.
Ignorance gives greater freedom In
utterance than inspiration, and Is often
mistaken for It.
collapsible conscience may be more
comfortable than an ingrowing one, but
It works as much harm.-Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

According to the census showing too
many people cling to fringe Of the At
lantic shore. That's why so many lose
their grip and drop into the water
Unfortunately the motion picture people
were not on the job when young Waldorf
Astor in London denounced the Influence
OF American dollars" thus robbing the
nicklodean circuit OF side-spltter.
Indiana still holds the geographical cen
ter of population, about thirty miles west
and two miles north OF the center fixed
by the census Of 1910 The exact spot IL to
be marked with a column OF romance
topped with q poem.
The efficacy of Andrew Carnegie's peace
promotion fund might be tested at once
on the warlike breathings OF the expo
sition promoters OF San Francisco and New
Orleans Once these are disarmed the
worlds peace Is secure.
During the last snowstorm in New York
City the horse was shamefully treated by
motor truckers. While mans favorite ami
NAL floundered in the drifts, the motors
plowed through all distractions and
| reached their destination on time,
John Porteous. 81 years old who won
the prize for being the talest and skin
NEST Elk at the national convention at
Denver In 1907, is dead of tuberculosis in
Psducah, Ky. Porteous was six feet seven
inches tall. A special coffin was ordered
for him.
Col Abe SIupsky OF st. Louis occupant
Of niche No. in the New York Suns hall
Of fame" recently distinguished himself
by absorbing the contents Of twenty bot
ties OF beer a day for thirty days. The
Colonel has a mighty thirst and a carry
ing capacity 10 match.
| Mss May Kruger was the youngest dele
gate at the prison congress, which was
recently held in Washington city. Miss
Kruger was appointed by the governor OF
the state of Washington to represent that
state because she was so we'll versed in
Juvenile court work and all its attendant
branches in the state OF Washington. AS
the organizer of the State Society for the
Protection of Children and Animals. she
was also a delegate to the American In
terpational Humane conference.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
WE ARE THE PEOPLE.

Philadelphia Record; The most signifl-
cant feature Of the completed census is the
greater growth Of the states along the
salt water edges OF the country and the
comparative falling off in the central
areas
Washington Post. Meantime the east has
been gaining on the erstwhile boastful west,
and should the changed conditions long
continue. the term "eftete' will attach to
the middle west with as much significance
as It ever did to the east
Cleveland Leader: In bigness and
strenth and all hiatt doth imply the Amer
lean republic is making progress as rapidly
as It's most patriotic citizen could desire.
In that respect, at least. the reality Is
enough to crafty the most buoysnt expec-
tations
Indianapolis News; So we have our work
cut out for US. II Is not to boast OF our
bigness, but TO face seriously the practical
duty OF assimilatng the new citizens to
American ideals. For our encouragement
we can say that there were never so many
agencies at work to this end.
Boston Transcript: The census returns
afford conclusive evidence that neither the
northwest nor the region Immediately ad-
joining It is effete, II the total increase
OF our population shall be found to be be-
tween fifteen and sixteen millions, more
than third OF this growth is to be cred
tied to New York, New England, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Ohio, whose ag-
gregate gains foot up over 100000
| St. Louis Republics We have yet the
worst governed cities outside OF Spain and
| Turkey; we lack definite ideals in art and
music our arts are the luxuries OF the
rich, where they should be the free inheri-
lance Of all. The nation is without definite
spiritual leadership, or much care that Il
lacks It, It is good time for the man
who desires to wreak himself on great
tasks to be alive. We are big enough; we
must learn how to live up TO our Size
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Spread of the Bible.

The American Bible society in it's
last annual report shows that it Issued
2,S26,S31 copies Of the Bible in the
year, 1,427,247 in the United States
and 1,399,584 in other lands. That is
237, 900 volumes in excess of any pre-
ceding year. These issues were in
seventy languages and dialects, prac-
tically covering the earths surface in
nations. In China alone 532,477
copies were issued. And 1t is worth
while here to pause and reflect that
few days ago China announced that
beginning January 1, 1911, 1t would
pass from the rule OF an absolute
dynasty to that of a constitution.
One cannot doubt that the influence
of the Bible and those who have
carried it to the. far east has worked
nightly in effecting this political evo-
luton in the oldest of monarchies. Its
rays of light have proved too strong
even for this deep, thick veil of CEN
turies-old superstition and idolatry.
Christian civilization has burned it's
way through. so it has through every
barrier raised against it in the ages
gone. Vice, ignorance and prejudice
alike have felt its penetrating force
and from every onslaught It has arisen
stronger than before, reaching on into
the future with it's inspired message
Of faith and salvation.
All men have not accepted the in
spiration OF the book, but enough have
to preserve the religion 1t teaches as
the dominant influence in the world
today. II has commanded where It did
not conquer and 1t has conquered
where every other earthly instrument
tally has failed. 1t has been the pio-
neer of civilization in every land. It
has gone on advancing the outposts of
world peace and progress, leaving com
merce and art to do their work and
follow on. And now in this twentieth
century of prodigious commercialism,
with its restless ambition and eager
energy on every hand, nearly 5000, 600
copies of this book are flying to every
land to be read in every tongue, doing
more than all other powers combined
for the universally of mankind.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18

ton Of this perplexing labor problem.
II is a detail that will bear investlga-
ton. In some cases among factory
workers it takes all the tact and diplo-
macy of wise men to keep down feel
ings among the rank and file against
the foreman. There are always some
Jealous enough of the man who has
gone from the ranks to a place Of au-
tnority to nag at him and mako him
trouble. Employers who are not
closely In touch with the details Of
their business may suffer seriously
from such conditions. This is one Of
the hundreds Of little items entering
into many labor disputes which are
generally kept from the public. They
are not little, however, when measured
by their power of evil as reflected in
the consequences Of a great industrial
strike.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Our Birthday Book.
December 1s, 1910.

Ashton c. shallenberger, governor Of
Nebraska, was born December is, 1858,
az Toulon, H. He was a stock raiser
and banker in Harlan county, who had
served in congress, at the time he was
chosen chief executive. He was the
first democratic governor In Nebraska
in twenty years, and, like the only DEM
ocrat who preceded him IN office, 10 a
one-term governor, about TO retire to
make way for republican successor.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, editor OF the Out
look. IL celebrating his seventy-fifth
birthday today He was born at Rox-
bury Mass, and succeeded Henry Ward
Beecher as pastor Of the famous Ply
mouth church,
Bradley Martin, whose daughter cut
such a swath in a famous international
wedding, was born December IS, 1Sti, at
Albany. He is a millionaire and lives
In London most OF the time.
L. NJ. Whitehead, chief clerk OF the
general passenger office Of the BurlinE-
ton at Omaha, was born December IS,
1879, at Fairmont, Neb He has been
continuously with the Burlington since
iSsS.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Doesn't that Mrs Tomlinson enamel her
face7'
Il think So I notice she has to leave the
room when she wants to change her eN-
preston Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Il hear YOU were very much disappointed
In your mother-in-law.'
Completely so
In what way?'
why, she's simply observation-disclosures
American.
Sanitarium Doctor-So Mrs. Pittsfield
was here while 1 was away?
Nurseries sir. She wanted to take her
husband home, but he said he preferred
TO stay here.
Doctor-Tve suspected that case all
along; the man is not crazy at all!"-
Puck.
A man who has been sick a long time
said today: There's a whole lot In the
statement that doctors practice medicine"
-AtChison Globe
Our new neighbor must be very sus-
picious character"
why so?"
"she employs a maid who is deaf and
dumb the mean thing. Baltimore Amer
lean.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Christmas Giving.

There are two kinds Of Christmas
giving. One seeks merely to carry
cheer and comfort-the genuine
Christmas spirit--to others. That is
wholesome friendship well expressed.
The other kind is that which is done
merely to observe the custom and with
the idea Of getting something in re-
turn. That is not wholesome friend
ship, but a cheap obedience to a sordid
fashion, which violates the spirit of
Christmas. 1t has another element of
a material nature. 1t often impels a
person to do more giving than is good
for his pocketbook, and when this is
done, of course, it is at the expense of
something or somebody, for the money
that went into the disguised present
was needed for other purposes.
Genuine liberality, no more than sim
cere friendship, is a thing that ex-
presses itself in impulsive outbursts.
1t is not spasmodic Nor is Christmas
necessary to draw it out. 1t exists
the year round and manifests itself
just as readily on the Fourth of July
or the Tenth of August as on the
Twenty-fifth day of December. 1t does
not wait for the psychological moment
when conditions are propitious for a
good exhibition. That sort of giving
is worse than none at ALL There is
nothing about 1t TO suggest the
thought that the festival of Christmas
represents. In the habit of sitting
down to make out a list Of those from
whom you think you have to expect
gifts, and therefore must remember in
your presents, is a good deal of harsh
humor, but none of the silent solicit
tude of deeply-felt friendship. 1t is a
mockery of Christmas, a vulgar trav-
esty on the day.
The spirit of the Yuletide does not
depend for it's subsistence upon the
lavish display of gifts, 1t feeds Just
as heartily, indeed, more so, on the
simple, modest present that conforms
with the material ability of the giver
to give. 1t will do no harm for us to
think of these homely things now and
then
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Snap-Shotting a Nation.

Uncle Sam has suffered at times
from adverse British opinion. He is
to suffer no more. A London news
paper, evidently determined on giving
to Great Britain true picture of
America and Americans, has sent a
reporter over here to make a thirty
eight-hour tour of the United States
and write a series of articles on his
impressions. While he did not
quite cover the whole country in that
limited time, he did get a glimpse of
New York, Washington, Philadelphia
and Baltimore and, since he looked out
OF his car window all along the route,
of course he saw all there was to be
seen of the United States intervening.
He met twenty typical Americans"
he says, including the president. He
visited the Bowery and a Chinese res
taurant in New York and smoked one
of Uncle Joe" Cannon's favorite
stogies.
What more research would a man
want to enable him to publish an &C
ca. lie view of a nation Of $4,000, 900
people? How much time, pray, must
a keen-witted, quick-thinking Briton
take to get a working knowledge of a
country that comprises no more than
3 100000 square miles, more or less
thickly Inhabited? Others might re-
quire a year or more, but the Briton
is born critic. With him criticism
is an art. In the less delicate vernac-
ular of American life it is sometimes
referred to as knocking" But the
Briton does not speak our street Ian
guage. With his natural pro-Amer.
lean ideas an Engllshman ought to
write with eminent fairness all there
is to be known of life in this country
after spending as much time here az
this man did. He can get an exact i'm.
preston of the whole cosmopolitan
land by Just standing for a few min,
utes on the White House steps, putting
an "Unele Joe" cigar, or downing q
plate of chop suey in a Chinese eating
house on the Bowery.
Americans must hail with delight
and praise the remarkable enterprise
of this British newspaper. What q
/ fine Christmas dish 1t makes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Truthful Publicity.


Cardinal Gibbons declares that the way
to restore public confidence in the man
agement OF the affairs OF big corporations
Is to insist upon truthful publicity. Sound
business needs no walled-in privacy To
make it safe It needs no subsidy to make
It profitable. This is only a mere applica-
ton OF the old saying, The truth is
mighty and will prevail" Precisely what
the good cardinal advocates in the con-
duct of business Woodrow Wilson has
strongly urged in the conduct Of politics,
In this country the people are sovereigns
and the real source Of power 1t is the
contention Of Wilson that there need be
no fear OF the ultimate judgment Of the
people when they are rightly informed II
this be not true our system is failure
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Continuous COnspiFRcies.

A conspiracy is a continuing offense, &C
cording to the United States supreme court
Two men who were the agents in bring
ing the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com
pany within the power Of the Sugar trust
which kept the refinery idle for years
sought to escape punishment for their part
In a conspiracy TO restrain trade and
establish a monopoly by pleading the sta
tute OF limitations. That act would have
run against the inception Of the conspiracy
and the trial judge held that they could
not be tried. But the supreme court holds
very nationally, that the statute does moi
protect them, for they continued theil
conspiracy in restraint of trade within the
statutory period.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
Distributing the Immigrants.

The immigration commission recon-
mends that congress return TO the mat
ter of improved distribution Of aliens
1t finds that the bureau of immigra-
ton established under a law enacted
three years ago by congress has not
proved completely successful. The
bureau seems TO have confined its eff
forts to calling attention of newcomers
arriving on our shores to the need and
opportunity of settlers in the country
outside of the large cities, but, natu-
rally enough, this has not wholly filed
the bill.
Congress could do a real service by
sustaining a larger and more system
attic effort at distribution and assimi-
lation of these incoming aliens. Such
work is now being done by private in
situations with excellent results, but
of course, these private societies,
which look out more for particular
nationalities, cannot accomplish as
much as could the government If it
proceeded along broader lines. The
government should look after those
immigrants who have been in this
country for a short time, as we'll as
those just arriving. Thousands of
foreign-born people are crowded into
small quarters of population centers
who have acquired the financial ability
and would welcome the opportunity to
go inland and settle down to a more
wholesome and profitable life. But
they need to be directed and helped
because they do not know how to pro-
coed on their own initiative
The task is to get these people, or
as many of them as possible, out Of
squalid, congested centers into a
wider, fresher country, with freer
range to exercise their individuality,
where their children may come more
vitality into contact with American
born children, establish themselves as
integral parts of the community and
make them better Americans. Give
the children a chance to take the lead
and good work is done. Parents
will fall in with the friendships and
connections formed by their children.
That makes for permanency Of resi-
dence and that, in turn, draws out all
of the best there is in these new
corners. 1t gives them wider visions
Of their new surroundings, makes
them feel that they have a part in
them. In this way we will have done
our best not only for these people, but
for ourselves, also.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-18
MOTHER
Robert louis stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson.
II is not yours, o mother to complain,
Not. mother yours to weep,
Though nevermore your son again
Shall to your bosom creep,
Though nevermore again you watch your
baby sleep.
Though in the greener paths Of earth.
Mother and child. no more
We wander; and no more the birth
OF me whom once you bore,
Seems still the brave reward that once
II seemed Of yoTe;
Though as all passes. day and night
The seasons and the years,
From you, o mother this delight,
Some profit yet survives Of all your
pangs and tears.
The child the seed, the grain of corn,
The acorn on the hill
Each for some separate end Is born
In season fit, and still
Each must in strength arise TO work
the Almighty will.
So from the hearth the children flee,
BY that Almighty hand
Austerely led; so one by sea
Goes forth. and one by land;
Nor aught of all mans sons escapes from
that command.
So from the sally each obeys
The unseen Almighty nod
So till the ending all their ways
Embodied 10th have trod;
Nor knew their task at all, but were
the tools OF God
And as the fervent smith Of yore
Beat out the glowing blade.
Nor welded in the front OF war
The weapons that be made,
But In the tower at home still piled his
ringing trade.
So like a sword the son shall roam
on nobler missions sent;
And as the smith remained at homo
In peaceful turret pent.
So sits the while at home the mother
well content