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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1908)
\ Caught Milk Thief on Fishing Lit ) ? . After numerous bottles of mill : hm ! boon stolen from his window on the first floor of Mo. 318 East One Hun dredth street , Henry Cnntrowltz rlggod up 40 foot of line on a spool , hooked one end to a newly deposited bottle and with the spool in front of htm watched for a "bite. " When the spool moved rapidly across the floor to the window sill ho followed. And us It danced down the street pointed It out to a policeman. Harry Wolg , on the other end , was fined two dollars In the Harlem court ROMANCE OF BURIED PICTURES. Long-Hidden Works of Great Artists Strangely Brought to Light. The romantic story of the picture purchased at a London auction , which on export examination proved to bo painted over a Rembrandt worth $40.- 000 , is curiously reminiscent of the dis covery of a Corregglo under similar circumstances. A good many years ago two picture restorers , Lovora and Huntcrsporgh * bought at an art sale In Homo a number of old pictures in order to provide themselves with can vases for repainting. In the division of the spoils Huntorspergh received an indifferent picture of flowers , on which i > ho painted a study of a head. This picture ho offered to Lovora , who , oa close examination , found that the now ground scaled off and that underneath were traces .of a figure painted in a style that denoted the hand of a mas ter. Replacing the scales , and conceal ing his discovery , ho purchased the | - ' picture for llttlo more than the value of the canvas. Removing the two grounds he disclosed an exceedingly clever painting by Corregglo , which ho' t. . sold to the carl of Bristol for $7,500. Dread of Marble Portraits , "One peculiarity of human nature that I am reminded of dally , " said a sculptor , "is the disinclination of the 1 average man to look upon himself re produced in marble. The sight strikes him with positive dread. It makes him x feel as if he were looking on his own lifeless body. For that reason It Is difficult to persuade many persons worth modelling to sit for a sculptor. f - , Frequently I am asked why most of $ [ ; " my work Is modeled after dead and k > ' ' gone subjects. The answer Is that 11 v- * ; - Ing people refuse to glvo me a com- v mission. The art of the sculptor dif fers there from that of the painter. Everybody likes to bo painted. The Bight of one's face , one's figure , one's clothes in a picture evokes nothing but pleasurable emotions , if well done , but to see one's self carved out of marble produces such an overpower ing sense of death that many sensitive persons put off Immortalization at the hands of a sculptor until they are re ally dead. " Omaha Directory For Furniture and Pianos GOO-DFO'RASfy WOOD and polishes , removes stains .L _ r i _ r * . _ anu icsiuics uic nuuii. * * uu IIUL lujuic the wood in any way. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. Absolutely the best furniture polish on the market. If your dealer doesn't carry it send us his name and we will sec that you are supplied. Price 25 and 50 cents. MANUFACTURED BV Orchard Si Wilhelm OMAHA , NEBRASKA PRIVATE WIRE J , E , von Dorn Commission Go , Member Chicago Board of. Trade and Ouialni Qralu Exchange. Grain , Provisions and Stocks Bought and Sold for immediate or future delivery. GRAIN BOUGHT AND SOLD in Car Lots. Track bids made on any railroad. Consignments Solicited. 7OO-7OI-776 Brandola Bldg. , Omaha TtUptMttl Bill Dao Ul 1M3 u4 lit * , ioto , Aiiil. iiln Thnrnliln If your clonlordon't w Jf . . . rytliera.inallu 76o o ( ThulhelUtt" 4Mo a. nneW'iiKt l > o - or 4M fnrahatfpoun < 1 box and we will detlrerinemtoyouriloor II. J. H'fllllKX HI. , Hikrn , ISOJ llo rSI , , Onthi , Hrbr THE BRIGHTEST I OMAHA SPOT ON THE MAP A GOOD PLACE to iuvest your inouey where you can get Irora r 6 % to 10 % On Improved Properties Write UH How Much You Have to Invest HASTINGS and HEYDEN 17O4 Farnam St. Omaha , Nabr. Urn. lliilloy & Murh. The 3d Hour. I'arion i DENTISTS llloclc. cur. ICth land V n r n a in i tits. , OMAHA. NEII. Bent . . , _ . , . , . Doplnl otlU-e In the Middle West. I ite t npplUncoa. IJlgtltrudpDfntl try. lleusonablo prices. OMAHA TENT & AWNING GO. TentH , Awnlnpa , etc. Largest west of Chicago. Write for price. ? and estimate ? before buying. Cor. llth and Harney St * . Do You Drink Coffee Why put the cheap , rank. blttor-rlaToml cotteo la your stomach when pure GERMAN-AMERICAN COFFEE wt no morel luiUtonharlnelt. Your BToc r ull * It or can trot It CREAM WANTED 'Wo nro In n position to pajr fnncj prieos for hand aeparuU > riTt > aranlmriit4itlon In jrnur town or shlu direct to us at Ouialii. Tin FIIKXOVT ( liuanHT to. The beat HI nil Wheel Auto Runabout In the World. Hand for nUnlnu. CVntrnl Implement Co. , 1115-17 Furnaru Ktrett , Omaha , Neb. VELIE WROUGHT IRON VEHICLES ASK YOUR DEALER OR JOHN DEERE PLOW CO , - - - - -T-vr--gT The extreme of formal courtesu Is practiced bu our Japanese cousins. Hebrews in Jerusalem greet each other with a warm embrace. Greetmos of an expansive German for an embarrassed American officer. "Talk about mnsculln6 superiority , " said the globe-trotter , "you ought to'see the way women greet a man guest in Japan. There's a nice fellow In Tokyo whom I used to know. Ho was In San Francisco a few years ago , but he went back to take up his father's business. Well , I was Invited to his house in Tokyo. Say , you ought to have scon the way Mrs. Furugawa saluted me ! She was a sweet little creature , not really pretty , but gen tle and dainty and all that sort of thing. Well , sir , she went down on her knees and crossed her hands on the floor and bowed her head down to touch the matting. I felt Hko a grinning Idol. Furugawa ought to have told her not to , or else ho ought to have given her warning so I might have gene down on my own knees ; hut as it was I'd no idea what she was going to do , so there I stood Hko a wooden image of a heathen god , and she thinking all the time what beastly manners Americans have. You've no Idea what an idiot it made mo feel. What I'm used to at homo is having a sternly aggressive American woman deliberately glare at mo in a street car till I give her my seat. " "It was hard on you , " said the hostess , with a twinkle in her eye. "I remember you of old at dancing school , and how you used to hate even that mild ordeal. " "Boys always hate hewing and scraping. But girls seem to take to it like ducks to water. " "Alas , not all of us , " put In a plump and jolly young matron ; "while wo wore in London last year I was presented to Queen Alexandra. To tell the truth , I really had supposed I know how to make a ciiltnlilo onrtsnv lint mv frlnml TCllnnn li\innlnir. who gave mo various points beforehand , made mo practice over and over while she criticised. It nil seemed too absurd for anything , but really I assure you those rehearsals were all that saved me from dying of mortification on the floor of Buckingham palace. If you fancy it's easy to make a very , very low , sweeping curtsey , almost to the very floor , again and again and again , gracefully retiring' dur ing the process and not getting tripped up by the longest train you over had a chance to wear well , just try It yourself ! " "At least , you did know what was expected of you , and had tlmo to prepare for It , " said the traveler. "It's when you run up against some un expected kind of salutation that you're lost. I saw a funny sight once on the pier hero just as I was landing from ono of the Hamburg-American boats. There was a big , bearded Russian on board coming over to visit some relations or other , and when ho walked down the gang-plank there were two young people waiting for him , a pretty girl , evidently Russian , and a young fellow who wasn't Russian at all but spoke English and looked as if ho hailed from the state of Maine. Well , the ono with the beard fell upon the pretty girl as If he'd never seen anything so good before I guessed ho was Uncle Niklovltch or something of that sort. And when he had kissed Olga on both pink cheeks , didn't ho just grab , the stiff , shy Yankee fellow and kiss him , too ! Yes , sir , first on ono check and then on the other , Just as if he'd been a waiting sweetheart. That poor fellow from Aroostook county was crim son to his ears when Uncle Nlklovitch gave him a parting bear-hug and sot him free. I suppose ho'd never in all his life seen Russian men kiss each other but he'll see moro If ho marries the pretty girl as I guess he moans to. " "Hard on a Nov England man , " suggested a Photographs Cowrlght br Underwood A Undornood. listener. "Why , they're so stolid they passed a law once that a man shouldn't kiss his own wlfo on a Sunday. And ono man wlip had just got homo on Sunday from a long Journey broke Uio ordinance and was Imulod up In court for it Pact. It was a good while ago , though. " "Frenchmen kiss each other I've seen them. And Italians why you'd think to see a couple of noble Palormltans fling themselves Into each oth er's arms that you were witnessing the end of some soul-stirring drama , whereas It only means 'all right. " What In creation those mcrcitrlal pco- plo keep saved-up , to express tholr feelings in a great crisis , I simply can't imagine. " The plump matron giggled. "They say King Edward haa the true British dlsllko of sentimental poses , but when ho goes over to Germany a-couslnlng among the royalties he remembers his own Gorman ancestry and ho and the mighty Kalsor "Wllholm embrace like n couple of gushing school-girls. It must bo a sight. " ( "Speaking of kissing , didn't you suppose every body knew that a kiss on the stage of a theater is just a hollow show , as llttlo like the real thing as a painted tree ? Some friends of ours a llttlo way out of town got up a very clover play last winter and had a professional coach and all that It was for a charity hospital. Well , Mrs. Smith and her husband were both in the cast , but Mrs. Smith's best scene was with the hero , her lover. The play was a great success , but poor Mrs. Smith found n queer chill In the air when the af fair was talked ever afterwards with some of the women on the board of directors at the hos pital. It was only later still and in a roundabout way that she found , they thought her beautiful kiss was far too real to bo proper. And wasn't her husband mad when ho heard of the gossip ! Why you know the stage effect is the emptiest show. As a matter of fact all that happened when his face bent so close ever hers was her own frantic whisper , 'For heaven's sake let mo straighten your wig ; it's sliding ever ono ear. ' " "Did you ever see them rub noses In Now Zea land ? That's the limit. Of course you don't often have the chance , for It's only the aborigines the Maoris mat uo u , anu now agoou many or mem are civilized out of all their native plcturosquo- ness , just as our American Indians , etc. But out in the mountain district whore you go to BOO the geysers and hot springs there are a few that keep up a queer mixture of store clothes and primitive manners. There's a native girl there who acts as a guide through the geyser region she's really quite well educated and up-to-date , but don't you know how some coquettish French and Gor man girls deliberately keep up a foreign accent when they speak English , because they know it's rather fetching ? Well , this Maori girl will rub noses with you In the most demure fashion if you signify that you're Interested in anthropol ogy or sociology or whatever head covers the subject. " It is really curious when you coino to think of it. how many ways the human creatures have of sayIng - Ing How d'ye do. The traditional cowboy fash- The Maori creeling in Now Zealand is to rub noses toflcthor. "If n body meet a body Goinln' through the rye. If a body kiss a body , Need a body cry ? " Ion of firing a revolver Into the air outside your door would seem to city dwellers as extraordinary as the Maori nose salute. Hut as a rule wo Ameri cans have reduced the custom of salutation to Ha barest and lowest terms , cutting out pretty much ull the fanciful formalities of other lands and In deed of earlier times In our own land. Wo bolt Into Bliops , tell the clerks what wo want , with no pretense of greeting them Hko human beings , and then bolt out again in the same time-saving but mannerless style , which makes any woll-brod Frenchman wonder and think things about us. At . .least , ho wonders for a few days , then ho catches the microbe. At first , when ho enters an American elevator , ho sayMo the boy , "Good morning. Will you bo so kind as to take mo to the eleventh floor . . . Thank you. " But the next week ho knows his lesson. lie , lee , bolts In , and merely grunts , " "Lovcn. " lie is Americanized. By Miss Diana Hirschler , LL. B. Expert TraLier in Salesmanship Mr. and Mrs. Doubtful have decided to renovate their house and arc deep in the discussion of wall paper , waxed floors , now dining room table , etc. Mrs. D.'a conversa tion is full of "Lucy recom mends Blank's for so and BO. " "Mary says wo ought to bo very careful if wo patronize Clark's , because they break their promises , " "Jennlo tells mo her rug didn't wear well that she bought at The Ori ent , " etc. , etc. In the midst of it Mr. Near by comes in and catches the drift of the conversation. Ho breaks In with : "Say , Bob , If you vant wall paper I'll tell you of a cracker-jack salesman to go to. I believe ho fairly eats wall paper , he's so wide awake about it. He knows what you want bettor than you do yourself. " Mr. Nearby interests Mr. and Mrs. Doubtful so that they call for this salesman at that particular store. He Immedi ately enters into their plans with spirit and astonishes them with his extensive knowledge of patterns , their designs , their blending colors , the qualities of paper , the ef fects of light and shade and whether they would permit many pictures hung against tlinni Tn flrlrllttnn tirk lrnr % . , . . . . , . . . . uuu.i.u.1 n niiun , mo nisiory 01 wan paper and pointed out Interesting changes in styles , in celling decorations , in friezes , etc. When they left him Mrs. p. said Impulsively : "Well , that man is an artist. I feel positively rested. Ho takes a load right off your shoulders , and now , " she sighed resignedly , "I s'poso we have to go back to that stupid furniture department again. " And It truly seemed more ctupld than ever. The salesman was affable enough , but ho seemed only to follow them about , state prices and tell them what was "tho latest. " He did not know how to suggest what would harmonize with the rest of the room , nor how it might fit in any way into their particular needs. Neither did he educate them to an Intelligent appreciation of his furniture as the other sales man had done with his wall paper. The first salesman was a genuine comfort bo- caiiBu ho gave them the advice of a specialist Ho know that out of every dollar the customer paid for those goods four or five cents came to him for his service. So ho did not merely touch his cap as a lackey does In the vestibule , but he equipped himself with the knowledge of the man inside the ofllco door the man who gives advice and gets paid for it , not only in money but In appreciation , lifting the load of anxloty from these who seek .him. Don't bo a butler oven though you are a courteous flunkoy. Bo a doctor and diagnose the case. Bo a lawyer and convert your Jury. Bo an architect and con struct a helpful argument. Or bo an artist and put In strokes that toll. Introduce yourself to your own goods. Make them friends of yours not the kind that stick , but the kind that chant "parting Is Bitch awoot sorrow" and are gladly swallowed - , lowed up In wrapping 'paper and string. How the rnco of shoppers flock to such an export ! Mr. Provider Is willing to shop with his wife when they are going to deal with Mr. Expert. Miss Proudfoot un bends to Miss Bright behind the counter who shows that she knows not only color but style and the appropriateness of each to the Individuality of the wearer. _ . A > * L At.A full lillt tllO rUCO 01 Bliujniisia uiu ui iu but , mu tun worth of their money and many a tlmo they recog nize their helplessness. If they onjy know whence to turn for help ! But the Inept Bales-person at their elbow merely tells them the price which la plainly marked and looks patiently resigned or Indifferently apathetic while they flounder about and get what they don't want or what they ought not to have. Come , come , rub your eyes , and put the micro scope to your goods. It Is the way to touch the pocket-nerve of your customer. Ho wants your goods and you want his money. That Is , ho wants your goods If you can prove It to him. And you wqnt his money , not DOW , merely , but next week and next month and next year. Use your tele scope on next year and bring It close to you. If you understand what you are talking about , and if you talk about what you understand , you can eeo his money coming to you a year hence. You have surely tied a string to him. Ho Is a willing captive you have shown him how to convert his money Into goods that satisfy. 1503 , by Joseph 13. Bowles. ) TImt nn nrilclo may bo good ns rts cheap , nntl & cn lrfl aallsfoyj.Uon , la proven by the extraordinary Bale < SI Dollfmco Starch , each package con taining one-third , moro Stanch than can bo had of any other brand for the saino nionoy. Suggestlvo. Towno There was a spelling-boo down at our church the other night. The pastor gave out the words. Did you hoar abqiit It ? ' . . . . j Browne No ; ' was It Interesting ? I Tow'no HiUhor. ' Tlib ' ' firs ! thrtjo wqrds ho gave out were "Increase , " " " " " Stories. "pastor , "salary. Stray The extraordinary popularity of flno whlto goods this fluiinnor makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im portance. Defiance Starch , being /rco from all injurloiui chemicals , Is the only ono which IB safe to use on flno fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen , or makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary , with the result of perfect finish , equal to that when the Hoods were now. Do Organ's Ousted. In a llttlo church In Maryland , not far from Washington , the motive pow er for the organ comes from the strong arm of an Industrious Irishman. During a recent service there the chblr got Into trouble and , to cap the climax , during the confusion that en sued , the organ suddenly stopped. The flltuntlon was not greatly relieved - liovod wlion there cuino floating out Into the auditorium a hoarse whisper : "Sing , all yotiso ! Sing Hko the dlvll ! Do organ's busted , Illustrated Sunday Magazine. HE 18. She Is your brother Btlll the aamo lovol-hcadcd , sensible fellow ho used to bo ? lie Yen , ho is still a bachelor. Wheels. Ho was a great inventor. "Tho thing 1 am working at now , ho began , stroking his thin beard with a thinner hand , "will bo n boon to every family and will atartlo the wholeworld. . In fact , it will put the alarm clock trust out of business. The Idea Is simply specially prepared tab lets that help you get up In the morn- Ing. For Instance , if you want to arise at flvo you take live tablets ; if you want to get up at six take six tab lets ; and so on. " "Rut how will It affect the alarm clock trust ? " "Why , these tablctn will cause a ringing in the cars at exactly the hour desired " But the liltlo crowd could wait to hear no moro and hurriedly disbanded. Harper's Weekly. MARK TWAIN ON MONEY1. Humorist Points Out What He Consid ers Some Wrong Conceptions. Mark Twain said that the financial panic has caused a wrong idea of the use and value of money. "Tho spendthrift says that money , being round , was made to roll. The miser saya that , being flat , it waa made to stack up. Both are wrong. "Strangely wrong , too , In their ideas about money are the veteran Aus tralian gold diggers. Those simple old follows , though worth perhaps a half million or more , live in the sim ple dug-outs and shanties of their loae early days. "Once , lecturing , I landed at an Aus tralian port. There was no porter in night to carry my luggago. Seeing a rough-looking old follow leaning against a post with his hands In his pockets , I beckoned to him and said : " 'See hero , if you carry theao baga up to the hotel I'll glvo you half a crown. ' "Tho man scowled at mo. Ho took throe or four gold sovereigns from his pocket , throw them into the sea , Bcowlcd at mo again , and walked away without a word. " ' FIT THE GROCER Wife Made the Suggestion. A grocer has excellent opportunity to know the effects of special foods on his customers. A Cleveland grocer has a long list of customers that have been helped in health by leaving off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. Ho says , regarding his own expe rience : "Two years ago I had been drinklnc coffee , and must say that I was almost wrecked in my nerves. "Particularly in the moralng I waa so irritable and upset that I could hardly wait until the coffee -was served , and then I had no appetite for breakfast , and did not fool Hko at tending to my store duties. "Ono day my wlfo suggested that inasmuch as I was selling BO much I'ostum there must bo some merit in it and suggested that we try it. I took homo a package and she pre pared it according to directions. The result was a very happy one. My nervousness gradually disappearedand today I am all right. I would ndvlso everyone aflllctod in any way with nervousness or stomach troubles , to leave off coffee and use Postum Food Coffoo. " "There's a Reason. " Road "Tho Road to Wollvillo , " in pkgs. Ever read the above letter ? A new one appears from tlmo to time. They are genuine , true , and full of human In- tereit. . , , V. Jft