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PUltsmouth No. 85 Nebraska No. 85
Don't forget the meeting of the
Commercial Cull) Tuesday night at
Coates' hall. Mr. John Steinhart of
Nebraska City will address the club.
An interesting meeting is assured.
The report of Secretary Ccllariusof
the United States League of Building
Associations shows that these associa
tions now care for about $728,000,000
f the people's savings. The members
of these associations are largely wage
earners. In the aggregate, they have
accumlated a vast sum, which has been
mainly loaned to members for the pur
pose of securing their own homes.
PUBLICITY WEAPON OF PRESI
DENT ROOSEVELT.
The president has always been reidy
to give congress information on public
affairs, and there is no reason either
practical or theoretical for trying to
force nn issue upon the extent of the
right of congress of information. Mr.
Roosevelt's chief instrument as a pub
lie man is that of publicity carried to a
point beyond that reached by any of his
predecessors. Congress has never been
hampered in its legitimate work by
failure to obtain any information pos
seted by President Roosevelt. Mis
openness has been his chief protection
in all his controversies. It would he
sy to name some of Mr. Roosevelt's
most conspicuous detractors in public
life whom it could not so truthfully be
sal that openness has characterized
their careers. It is charitable to them
not to pursue this line of comment any
farther.
Mr. Tillman docsen't like Mr. Roose
velt's publicity weapon. Publicity has
U'en a wonderful instrument in bring
ing about the retirement of a number
of senators. Publicity caused Senator
Foraker and Gov. Haskell much grief
in the the recent presidential campaign.
WHO ARE GREAT MEN? jof life and her own powerful lever in!
It is not always in the ranks of that: society, She forgets, too, I
class, by common usage known as j that, to protect that purity and main- j
"great men," that truo greatness is to' tain her moral elevation, a certain'
be found. seclusion is needful; which seclusion is i
Yet. ?o firn.ly has custom rootul the ' highly favorable to the domestic duties
idea in our minds, that we ever look , w"ich nature assigns her as her own."j
towards to the conspicuous, the exalt-' That all women do not take the same j
eJ, the powerful, fur attributes we are , sta"1 "suffragist" on this question,:
u.- ed to esteem great and noble; look-' we rc appending an article from the J
ing, at the same time, as it were, over IK'n ' Matu-' Howe, in the Atchison j
the heads of those in whose unpretend-, Cllobc, a3 it express our view of the ,
ing career we may discover more thai que.-tion exactly. She fays:
ennobles and sanctifies humanity. j Women in America rant and rave,
For one poet who looks to the tim- and haunt the lecture platform, clamor
plest forms of nature for a simile or a ! ing for women's rights, and for equality
thought, there arc a hundred who soar' with men. It sounds like a copy book
upwards to the firmament, and seek j motto to !ay that men in America have
them in the stars. For one who ap- made us more than their equals, but
peals to the gentle virtues, to the 1 isn't it so? What woman, if she really
thousand resources which lie as thick i thought much about it, would want
as the flowers in springtime around his ! men to treat them only as equils? Take
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feet, for the happines he seeks after,
there are a hundred who struggle and
Lattle for it in the strong regions of
passion, or pursue it with restless ea
gerness through the thorny paths of
ambition.
What is there of greatness in the hu
man character that dwells not in the
faithful fulfillment of the divine law;
and in the accomplishment of that high
purpose for which humanity is endowed
with attributes second only to Him from
whom they eminate; and in the imper
sonation in action, as well as in the
profession of a universal Charity ?
Who is truly great, if he who is vic
tor in the contact with the evil of his
own nature be not so? Though his
name is never uttered beyond the cir
cles of those who love his virtues, and
throw a friendly veil over his faults?
Who can lay a higher claim to the
title, "great man," than he who in his
humble sphere, struggling from the
cradle to the grave with adversity and
sorrow, is still merciful and consoling
to those more sorely stiicken than him
self? The world is full of great men.though
we know them not.
THE GAS QUESTION.
The decision and the testimony taken
'during the long continuance of the case
will have a decided bearing uKn at
tempts at regulation of price in other
cities. The fact that gas of high
candle power can be sold for 80 cents
at a profit of nearly 6 per cent in New
York on both physical value and over
57,000,000 of early franchise values
should be placed alongside of the fact
that Chicago has been selling a similar
'quality of gas for two years for 85 and
Itoston a gas of somewhat lower candle
power for 80 cents. Lynn, and Wor
cester, Mass., are selling for 85 cents,
ami several other Massachusetts cities,
such as Cambridge, Fall River, Law
rence, Lowell, and New Iiedford, for
' 3D cents. The largest Ohio and Michigan
cities, and Milwaukee, where coal and
-oil are cheaper, have been selling for
sven loss than HO cents! In almost all
of those cases the low prices have been
voluntary or from a fear that an in
vestigation would lead the public to (Ic
eland as low o lower figures. The
dence in the New fork gas case
rlearly showed that it is impossible to
decide an off-hand what a reasonable
yrice would be in cities varying in size,
density of population and ttitualion with
reference to coal and oil fields.
There can be no god reason why
this city should not have a cheaper
r- Why should the private consumer
charged $2.19? The gas furnished
im this city is made by the cheapest
known process. It will he remembered
that at the time the gas company was
.siting permission to take up the pav
ing n Main and Sixth streets, it was
argued and promised that by installing
the new gas system cheaper gas could
he furnished. It can be, but it has not
keen. It is about time to furnish
cheaper gas. We shaN have more to
aj on the question.
DIGNITY OFTRADE.
Men must eat, they must be clothed,
they must be housed. It is quite as
necessary that you should eat good food
as that you should read good books,
listen to good music, hear good ser
mons, and look upon beautiful pictures.
That is sacred which serves. There
are no menial tasks. "He that is
greatest among you shall be your ser
vant." The physical reacts on the
spiritual and the spiritual on the physi
cal, and, rightly understood, they are
one and the same thing. We live in a
world of spirit and our bodies are the
physical manifestation of a spiritual
thing. We change men by changing
their environment. Commerce changes
environment and gives us a better
society. To supply water, better sani
tary appliances, better heating ap
paratus, better food served in a more
dainty way these are tasks worthy of
the highest intelligence and devotion
that can be brought to hear upon them.
We have ceased to separate the secular
from the sacred. The way to help
yourself is to help humanity. The way
to cheat humanity is to cheat yourself.
We benefit ourselves only as we benefit
each other. -Filbert Hubbard.
A TEMPEST iN A TEAPOT.
Our esteemed contemporary, "the
obscure sheet" up the street is just
now securing considerable notoriety as
being the mouthpiece of the "suffra
gist" who is engaged in the detectable
task of "making over" the editor of
the Kkws-hkuai.o. In common with a
few others of her class, "sutrragisf
seems to mistake personalties Tor argu
ment. We were defeated by a "boy" but
the feat was not accomplished by send"
ing "Tidd" whisky out into the county,
and anyhow the fact is not an argument
the recent wreck of the "Republic"
for an instance. Probably the first
thought of almost every man on that
ship-certainly the first thought of
every one of the officers was to save
the women first. Although relief came
to them, and there was no greater dan
ger, if there had been but a half dozen
boats, and no relief ship in sight, the
women would have been put into the
lifeboats, and the men gone down with
the sinking ship, and nobody in America
would have once thought that they did
anything out of the ordinary. Now, to
a woman, isn't that spirit the most
beautiful thing in the world, and
shouldn't we work with all our , might
to keep that spirit alive, ur.d stop
worrying about the right to vote? For
that matter, we could vote if we
wanted to. If even a third of the
women in America wanted to vote, the
men would let us. The only reason
that every state does not have woman's
suffrage is because not one woman in
ten wants to vote.
I think the most wonderful thing in
the world is what a man will do fcr a
woman with the exception, perhaps,
of what a woman will do for a man
and, if we in America, wanted to vote,
we could voto very easily. Part of the
American code is that a man must die
to save any woman if she is in dan
ger. Perhaps even the men do not
realize that, but nearly all of them live
up to it. It was just an average crowd
on the Republic, and yet there was only
one man in the whole ship who tried to
enter the first boats. Take a more
common example than even that of the
wreck. If I go down town in any city
in America, I know all the time, with
out thinking about it, that if any man
should insult me, I could cry out, and a
dozen men-perfect strangers-would
knock that man down and take care of
me. Every woman in America knows
the same thing, and yet some of us
spend our time wailing about the way
men treat the women, and about their
"rights."
Personally I think women ought to
keep quiet, and blot the word equality
out of their vocabulary. Some day the
men MAY get tired, and really treat
us as absolute equals. And then wouli
not we be a sorry bunch? Neirly
every man instinctively reveres women
as a whole, isn't that a inillinon times
better than just being their equals?
The very sinu men sin make them think
more of the good women they know and
love. Men really think women are
better than they arc, 1 think. AH the
tenderest ideals and memories of the
average man are about some woman.
And I think that the spirit in which
mea regard us is the most beautiful
thing in the world, and that we should
all of us work our hardest to keep it
alive by-why by just trying to live up
to the ideals that American men have
set for their women.
NEW GING
HAMS
The report is current that a new
tar has appeared in Plattsmouth's
poetic firmament. The name of limner
for or acrainst the uroDOsition of woman's
suffrage. Our first editorial on this! ha" Mt been nnounced nor have an
quettion was along the line of a full
of his songs been given to the public,
but we have been assured by one on the
inside that for soul-stirring sentiment
and elegance of diction Ella Wheeler
Wilcox makes a noise that sounds like
thirty cents. We hope at an early date
te secure something for publication.
page article in the February number of
the Ladies' Heme Journal, and it did
not strike us as being of a character to
provoke th "tempest in the teaptt"
which has resulted
With the historian and great law
writer, Jamrs Schouler, we may say.
the woman suffragist "rarely compre-l What la America Worth?
hends the violence of man's unbridled ! The statisticians of the United States
appetite, or perceives clearly that, af- j Census and many others have made ap
ter all, in the moral purity and sweet- lmisals of the national weallh.and their
ness of her own sex, such as excites statements thereof are the exhibits of
man's devotion, and makes home at- M!,C9t8 which would be U9ed in al
tractive, is the fundamental safeguard ' ance-shcet prepared for a business
Our summer goods are now coming in and we
are busy marking them, getting them ready as
fast as we can. This week we wish to call your
attention to our Ginghams, as this year we are
in a position to offer to you Everett's Classics
Dress Ginghamsfor
8 1-2 cents per Yard
Seersuckers and Chambrays at 7c per yard.
Get an idea from a glance at our window.
Ready-to-wear Shirt Waists, Suits and Wrap
pers. We have a complete line of these in stock
high quality and perfect fit.
Watch this space for further announce
ments about our New Goods.
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I E. G. BOVEY & SON
rvirrir4rir
6,831,244,570
house. These appraisals frr the year
1001 are the last complete compilation.
FORMS OK WEALTH. 1904.
Real property and im
provement taxed $.,510,217,.'i64
Real property and im
provements exempt..
Railroads and their
equipment
Street railways
Telegraph systems
Telephone systems
Pullman and private
cars
Shipping and canals ...
Privately owned water
works
Privately owned central
electric light and pow
er stations
Live stock
Farm implements and
machinery
Agricultural products. ..
Manufacturing machin
ery, tools and implements
11,214,752,000
2,21D,0,(K)0
227,400,000
585.R1O.O0O
12:1,000,000
846,4,804
275,000,000
562,851,105
4,073, 7D1.7S6
811,989,863
1,899,379,652
Business Men
Eat here to their own great sat
isfaction and profit. Our lunch
from 11:30 to 1:30 meets most
wants of the man who looks for
easily and quickly digested food
tastily prepared and at a price
not prohibitive to one of ordinary
means. Plenty of variety. Glad
to see you any cay.
DR. A. P. BARNES
V. S.
3,297,754. ISO
7,409,291,668
495,513,685 1
408,066,7871
Manufactured products.
Imported merchandise..
Mining products
Gold and silver coin and
bullion 1,998,603,303
Clothing and personal
adornment 2,5(10,000,000
Furniture, carriages
and kindred property. 5,750,000,000
Total $l0V0l21 L917
Similiar estimates have been prepared
for each census year since 1850.
In 1850 the national wealth was esti
mated as $7,135,780,228; in I860, as$16,
159, 616,068; in 1870 (estimate made on
a currency basis of the time when re
duced to a gold basis), $24,054,000,000;
in 1880 (on the same basis), $43, 642,000,
000; in 1S90. $65,037,901,197; in 1900,
$88,517,306,776; and in 1X4, as shown
in the table given above, $107,104,211,
917. These annual additions to our
national wealth reflect three very im
portant factors; (1) The creation of J
new forms of wealth as the result of ;
human labor; (2) the appreciation in j
value of all property as the result of j
the world-wide influence of the increas-1
ed and increasing supply of gold and 1
silver which began to be felt immedi-1
ately after the discovery of gold in
Australia and California just prior to
1850; and (3) the appreciation of prop
erty in cities and towns due to the t
growth of population.
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For Hot Fires Gel Egenber
ger's Coal!
Sure satisfaction every time you light a fire if on
top of the kindling is ebony fuel from our yards.
It's heat and light giving and slate-free when it
leaves the mines, screened and cleaned again here
and served to you full weight and with celerity of
delivery. Order any way that suits you. Both
telephones.
J. V. ECENBERGER
REMEMBER THE
GREAT CLEARING SALE
now going on at our store. Below we quote many
lavinp; prices for the buyer. Buy now and be wise
Radiant home, former price $45 now $31 qq
Sapphire Hrd Coal Stove, formey price $42.50, now.... 30 00
German heater, soft or hard coal, former price $29.00. . .J19 60
Splendid Oak, nicely trimmed, former price $14.50 9 60
Gem Star Light VYood Stove former price $15.00 10 25
Round Oak, former price $19.00, now '. 13 50
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