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. IT imams to look like Taft's
pleasant auiile is almost as potent
as Roosevelt's bigstick. .
PROSPKCTS for a postal savings
bank law begins to look hopeful.
The president is strenuously in *
sisting on its passage.
POGONIP is the name of a new
.diseased that has appeared in
Pittsburgh We knew there was
something the matter with Pitts-
burg , but we never believed it was
as bad as that. The Fricks ,
4nd other steel kinga have an
excuse and will have no trouble in
proving an alibi.
A MAN named Smith commenc
ed work at Venice , Illinois , the
other day , first work he had done
in fifty two years , and was
promptly killed by the machinery
he was attempting to run. Had
this man continued to live like
the lilies of the fields he might
be alive today to grumble at the
weather and cuss the tariff.
IT is reported that the price of
shoes will be advanced from ten
to twelve per cent. When it is
known that under the present
tariff law hides are on the free
list and the tariff on shoes is
more than twenty-five per cent
lower than under the old schedule
it will be hard for the people to
believe that the increase in price
is justifiable.
THK Lincoln Evening Star , D.
E. Thompson's paper , which sup
ported the democratic ticket last
i fall , has a coupon which it de
sires republicans to sign , approv
ing its course , and the informa
tion will be treated as "confi
dential. " We don't know of any
republican who desires to get on
confidential terms with the
Lincoln Daily Star.
FRANK HARRISON , the man
who discovered South America a
few years ago , and who is now
publishing the State Capital at
Lincoln , is one of the Burkett
insurgents. He is also the man
who attempted to get an anti
Taft delegation to the national
republican convention. If you
investigate you will find a purely
personal reason for the attitude
of every man who is insurging
against Sen. Burkett. Insurging
sounds better than personal opo-
sition , hence they so-style them
selves.
IN THK list of Lincoltites who
are insurging against Sen. Bur
kett , the Sen. declares , there arc
welve men who have been be-
ueiging him for appointment to
office for the last ten years. The
/act that D. E. Thompson , owner
of the Star and former B. & M
political boss , is a politica
.qn-jmy of Senator Burkett , is
sufficient reason for the Star's
attitude in the matter. But the
republican party repudiated
Thotrpson and others of his ilk
several years ago , and it is no
in a frame of mind to take politi
cal directions from his lieuten
ants. The Star aided the demo
crats in carrying the state fo
Bryan in 1908 and tried to elec
the democratic candidates fo
supreme judges last fall unde
the guise of securing a non-parti
< an judiciary.
THK boycott against the cost ,
we mean the price , of meat is
growing. If the United States
court docs not come to the aid of
he beef trustfl and enjoin the
jcople from refraining irom cat *
ng tneat , there's a chance that
the beef magnates will have to
mil in their horns , as it were ,
and lower the price to a reason
able figure. Grufct is the injunc-
ion and the trusts are its bene
ficiaries.
Iv THK editor of the Lincoln
Star and his man Whcdou will
ake the trouble to glance over
he telegraph columns of the Ne
braska dailies they will learn
hat the rank and file of ihc re
publican party have taken up the
fight of Sen. Buskett and pro
pose to sec that the democratic
> arty aided by disgruntled poli-
icians , disappointed office-seek
ers and near-republican papers
will not have such an easy
ime in defeating the senator for
another term.
A RUMOR comes from Oklahoma
hat a special session of the leg-
slature of that state will be call
ed before the end of January to
consider the amendment to the
state bank guaranty law in or
der to give the guaranty plan a
new lease of life and strengthen
he democratic party for the
next campaign. The present
Oklahoma law has not satisfac-
orily met the first test and the
guaranty system that it provides
can not possibly stand the strain
of another failure no matter how
small it may be. Governor
lafkell hangs on , and hopes
with the help of Governor Stubbs
of Kansas and Governor Shal-
enberger of Nebraska to devise
a guaranty scheme that will fool
the public for another two years
even if it can not be made to work
successfully. Kearney Hub-
ON July , 1909 , the republican
state convention of which the
Ion. Charles O. Whedon was
chairman , passed the following
resolution :
"We aoorove. commend and
unqualifiedly endorse the stand
taken by President Taft in the
matter of tariff revision. We
are counting on him to see to it
that the party's platform promise
of revision is redeemed by the
enactment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people , and we would
approve his veto on any bill that
does not corform to his construc
tion ot the platform pledge ,
which he has said means revision
downward within the limitations
sf the protection principle. We
look to our senators and repre
sentatives in congress to'sustain
the president in the position , and
we commend them for their
efforts in support of the party's
pledges and the president's poli
cies. "
These resolutions were sent
to our republican delagation at
Washington. Can republicans
of Nebraska question the votes of
its representatives under such
direct instructions from their
party ?
An Opinion From Wall Street
The editor of a leading Wall
Street Journal declares ; "What
America needs more than rail
way extension and Western irri
gation and a low tariff and a
bigger wheat crop , a merchant
marine and a new uavy is a re
vival of piety , the kind mother
and father used to have piety
that counted it good business to
stop for daily prayers before
breakfast right in the midst of
harvest ; that quit work a half
hour earlier Thursday night seas
as to get the chores done and go
to prayer meeting , That's what
we need now to clean this coun
ty of the filth of graft and of
greed , of worship of fine horses
and big lands and high office
and grand social functions , What
is this that we are worshipping
but a vain reputation of what
decayed nations fell down and
worshipped just before their
light went out ? Head the his
tory of Rome in decay , and you'll
find luxury there that could lay
a big dollar over our little dough
nut that looks so large to ua ,
Great wealth never made a na
tions substantial or honorable.
There in nothing on earth that in
so dangerous for a man or a na
tion to handle as quick , easy big
money. It takes greater and
firmer heroism to dare to be poor
in America than to charge an
earthworks in Manchuria. "
A Little Lay Sermon *
'The last words of a noted euf-
fragctc and philanthropist who
: iasscd away a few days ago in ,
Troy , N. Y , , were pinned on the
wall of her room. They were
these : "This is the end friend-
cssness , dissolution and death.
Let no one play the game of
philanthropy who desires peace
and a peaceful end. "
Not in any spirit of criticism
may one condemn even such a
view of human helpfulness , which
is the true philanthropy. The
most charitable view to take of
these words in this individual
case is that the unfortunate
woman who died friendless , after
a.longlife devoted to kindly deeds
and the cause in which she so de
voutly believed , suffered in her
last moments from an aberration
which clouded her intellect and
cast a more than usually sombre
line over the bitterness of a
situation not unreasonably re
sented under the circumstances.
Normally there is a closeness of
correspondence between the end
uf a life devoted to good deeds
and the life itself. People often
repent a misspent life , but rarely
a life filled with service to hu
manity. When they do the
latter , it is not natural regret ,
but should be looked upon as an
abnormal emotion uf the rightly
constituted mind.
Yet despite these extenuating
circumstances there is in a great
many people more or less of the
spirit manifested by this dying
unfortunate. It is healthy and
human nature to desire appre
ciation of efforts to help other
people. If everyone was so con
stituted that he never felt the
sting of a rebuff , never regarded
indifference with resentment and
was never chilled by lack of
sympathy , the world would con
tain so many perfect human
beings and so many philanthro
pists that there would be few
people to reform and few to help.
Human nature must be permitted
more or less lutilude even in the
doings of good deeds , and it must
be admitted that a great many
m re such deeds would be dote
if those who are the bene
ficiaries of the general tun of
philanthropic effort showed
greater appreciation of those
same .efforts. Here again , how
ever , human nature in one phase
of its expression runs counter to
human nature in another. For
people as a general thing do not
relish being made beneficiaries.
Gratitude is one of the elemental
virtues and qualities of our
natures , but it is a string that
very quickly gives out a discord
if swept too heavily and too
often. The average man would
really prefer to give than to receive
ceiveHe does not like the idea
of being obligated to his fellows.
This sentiment is born of the
primeval pride which went on
the supposition that every man
was the best and strongest man ,
the most skillful hunter , bravest
warrior. There could be only
one best in each little circle and
thus the fittest survived the in
evitable quarrels. The individ
ual fights with club and stone
became the tribal conflicts , and
these the broils of nations. No
body was willing : to concede that
he was inferior , no nation would
admit it was not the greatest.
The spirit survives in the asser
tion.of independence that revolts
at charity in one aspect of its
manifestation and in another
inspires the ceaseless struggle
for material prosperity which
will place thu victor above the
station of the more fortunate.
Charity implies superiority of
a kind that is particua'lly galling
to the * minds of most people.
Men and women starve to death
Furniture , Carpets , Rugs.
Hardware , Stoves , Tinware.
Silverware , Cutlery , China
Largest Assortment and Lowest Prices
on every hand rather than make
their condition known.
It is not such a far cry from
these primitive instincts to their
expression by a twentieth century
philonthropist who bewails with
her dying breath the lack of
appreciation on the part of the
world. But philanthropy is not
a "game1' and the true philan
thropist never plays it. If he
does , he does not deserve the
peace which comes only with
doing good for good's sake ,
right for right's sake , charity
from love of humanity. That is
what "philanthrophy" means
love of man. It does not mean a
game that is played , though
many there be that "play" it.
And this comes to the other side
of the question. If lack of appre
ciation is due to a fundamental
instinct on the one hand , it is
equally true that there are lots
of "philanthropists" who engage !
press agents to keep their right
hands and the world at large
duly and fully informed of all
the doings of their left hands.
Those are the ones who "play
the game of philanthropy , " but
in comparison with all the huui-
anity-helpors in the world they
are few indeed. Those who are
inspired by the true spirit of love
for their fellow man do not ex
press that love with any hope of
reward , save the approval of
their own consciences. Their
ears do not listen for the hand-
clapping of the multitude *
Though their death bed be for
saken , yet are they surrounded
by very clouds of friends and
there is no abandonment for
them. A new beatitude could be
written to bless the true lovers of
their follow men , for they shall
be never alone , neither friendless
nor forsaken. Kansas City
Journal.
FREE DELIVERY
I have put on a free Delivery
Wagon and will save you
money on all kinds of Feed ,
Flout , Baled Hay , Etc. All
goods guaranteed. Let me
convince you.
W. H , O'RORKE '
First Door North ol Bonder's Drug Store
TAX NOTICl' .
Certificate No. AI89H.
To Julius Wlcuham. You an- hereby
notllled that on April llth. IWW , c. M Kelly
purchashed at public sale for taxes for tile
years 1H1M and UH ) | to 1900 Inclusive , and have
paid all subsequent taxes on real estate
described as lollows : A parcel In the
northwest corner iilocw 5 , Ucyner's addition
to liroken HOW. Nebraska , commenclnc lee
feet south of northwest cornersouth M feet ,
east 112 feet , north M feet , west 1U feet.
That said land was assessed In the name
of Julius Wlcuham. and that alter the expir
ation of three mouths from the third pub
lication ol tills notice tax deed will bo applied
for.
Dated January a. .9,0. ,
M. KKMY.
NOTICK OK I'KTITION
r.slatoof Frank H. King , deceased In the
County Court of Cunter County. Nebraska.
The State qt Nebraska to all persons In
teresled In said estate , take notice , that a
petition lias been lIed ) tor the appointment
Li Mlllan King as administratrix of said
estate , which ha been set for hearing here
in , on February lith.jeio , at 10 o'clock a. m.
Dated January 11 , 1910.
H C. H. HOLCOUB
3j 34 County Judge.
ALFALFA LANDS
We make a SPECIALTY of ALFALFA LANDS. Here
are two propositions worthy of your consideration :
280 acres located in Clear Creek Valley northeast of Brok
en Bow. 225 acres in cultivation , balance pasture and hay
land. Frame house , stable and granary , well , miJJ and tank.
240 acres in Rose Valley adjoining Clear Creek northeast
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of Broken Bow. 100 acres'in cultivation , 60 acres in pasture
balance farm and hay land. Frame house , stable and gran
ary , well mill and tank. Telephone and , rural mail. Good
schools.
These two farms are fine , good soil , and as fine alfalfa
land as there is in the state. Price and terms on application.
I also have 560 acres adjoining the latter tract , one
quarter improved at $15.00 to $25.00 per acre , Can sell you
any part ot these lands.
WILLIS OADWELL
DR. GEO. F. BARTHOLOA10W
Physician , Surgeon
and Occulist
Prides AS reasonable as are consis
tent with good work. Phone fil.
Office at Hospital. , '
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Send Your Abstract Orders to
J. & Leonard , Bonded Abstractor
Office in Security State Bank Building
G. L. Turner Lfor. Co.
Lumber , Posts , Shingles
General Building Supplies
Phone 79
Custer County
Land Man
If you have a snap in a
larin , or ranch for sale list
with me. If you want to
buy a snap in a farm or
ranch , come and see me.
Phones , office -12 , resi
dence 129.
CI1AS. W. BOWMAN
BROKEN Bow , NRB.
NOTICK TO CONTHACTOUS.
Sealed bids will be received on or before
7 p. m. February 7th. 1010 , by I , . II. Jewell ,
Secretary , for llie erection ot a HlKh School
liutldlnK for school District of Uroken itow
Busier county. Nebraska , In accordance
with plans and s > peqltlcallons npw on llie
with the Secretary and also on tile with the
irchlteci , joln ) I tenser , omaha , Nebraska.
Kacli bid lo lie accompanied by a certlud | |
cjieck | n amount Five Hundrc4 Dollars , as a
guaraitietof good ialth. The rlgnt Is re
served labeled any and all bids.
. . I , . II. Jewell , Secretary ,
31'j uroken How , Nebraska ,
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