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THOUGHT FOli TODAY
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a, apu'i aat uz.til !'." : est r.'.s a e er
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br; mo;-" ;aac tlian that:
i.ralt::;- d,t ; not huanad, and
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ITU YLiAU I.N ADVANCES
HOW CONGRESS WORKS.
Some farmers at a local hotel were
t.iscus.-mg tne ciuaioriness oi
(guess a liil cue of them asked: "Why
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! in the name of common sense do they
not pa.-s the needed legislation and
p h mo?" Another asked: "What do
they do all day in the house and sen
ate every day ?" A glance at the Con
gressional Record will show how they
. -pcrd their time. At the opening of
the senate the chaplain offers a pray
er. Then Mr. Smoot, senator from
Utrh. says: "I suggest the absence of
a tp-orum." That-is the opening re
mat k almost every day. The vice
pr.-ider.i orders the calling of the
; roll and when that is over and the
sc-nuto: s explain the absence of some
i
i of their fiiends. he says: "Fifty-three
s.'v:itc:-s to: whatever the numbei
may be) have answered the roll call
; r-.ii a quorum is present. The secre-
la y will lead the journal of the pro-
cceoio;. .- v i ii'.e 'i veveui.j; M-stiuii.
But th-- - crvtaty was never known
:i lead th.e journal, lie reads u sen-
'. - or two at? th.cn a mat ion is
a iv and car: ;" ! to dispense with
j ti;:-1 waste of time.
Tia :i a large number of petition.'
r e prc-ented and referred to appro
priate committees r.over to be heard
of avails, except a few that are or
.!ed printed in the Record or in
pamphlet form. A lot of local bill..
i wr.;.j!i no eojections are maue are
p:a-S"d. After that mat y resolutions
u o f'fered, which often is simniv a
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clier-.' ror announcing a speech. .A
j !.;".- :,'.iml'vr of bills arc UMadSy in-
i:-i"! :ce I at thi time ar.d amendmeiits
1 -sed t bills pending in th.e com
mittees. That sort of thinc jroes on.
for about two houi-s and. the "mornin.u:
j ..a-incs- wiiicii in-e.i;i.-. ;i t noon, come;
i ta an i iri. There is ahvaws a lare
j
Jamooit or pr.ntin of documents or-
deied duri.'iv that mornin.v hour, and
sonu time bills (,f imjortance a!'C
passed by common consent dtuintr that
t'ar.e. but never one to which any sen
ator objacts.
The routine in the house is some
what -imilar and that is all the iren
e;al j.uidic sees. Rut the real work
is n-.it dune on the fioor of the house
ami senate. It is in the committee
w'.eie members toij day after day and
aften iicarly all nivht Ion perfect in.1?
tne legislation and listenny to repre
ser.tations made by different interests
Woji.i-IIerald.
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Tv-'enty-tw) decrees below zero. Is
.-ome winter, thank vou.
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'-r,t- s 'd fellows never would be able
o rccoirnize tl.emselves as fools if
-" . 'i- in c Jtin III loe'.
t a .- . i 1 .. r.. 1 1 : i
may !e a trentleman, or she may have
7:'o a . i;i ner o'.vn name-.
I ; h' avy coating of ice on the
!'.!:;.; fields whieli snir.i' thr.n.rfit
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Tin re ate plenty of "leaks" ail over
'! e,,ant i y, vdy tliey have not been
ante e'liou-rh to find out where they
are. Scveial could possibly be found
in Omaha.
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1 a reformer were only half as
i;eo J :i - (,,. would have you believe
he as he would be wearing wings. Rut
I he mo-L of them, when they get to
themselves, take a good loud laugh at
how they fooled the people in their
work.
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Why not get our people interested
in putting up a papar mill in Platts
raoa'.h. Jt would be a big thing for
the old town. One that would also
manufacture -draw board. We have
the straw; we have the water, and all
tl.- t i -: needed is the inclination of our
people to assist in such an enterprise.
How do you like it, so far. The
weather, we mean?
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The man who is not occasionally ex
ercised, is generally a dead one.
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Better have it now than in the
spring time. So come on with it.
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This cold wave makes a fellow think
of what has become of his last win
ter's overcoat.
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Model husbands, says a lady at out
elbow, are those who haven't been
married very long.
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A man is not necessarily innocent
until proven guilty, just because the
court takes that view of it.
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Pneumonia to some extent still pre
vails in this city, but there seems t
be but very little diphtheria.
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The election of state and county
superintendents shoukl be non-parti
san, but can it he that way :
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Those who trust implicitly in Provi
dence should remember that Provi
dence will not do all the hustling.
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When a man goes to the devil, he
generally takes a woman along with
lim. That's what some people say.
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"The women's new hats have searee-
y anything on them," says a fashion
editor. Evidently he overlooked tho
price mark.
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Paste the man one who hails you on
the street with "How do vou like this
cold weather?" It isn't supposed that
anybody likes it.
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There will be no shortage of dia
monds this year, probably because the
ultimate consumers of diamonds are
not enormous.
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Anyway, the man with a cheap car
doesn't tempi the friends who ride
with him to act as though the car be-
onged to them.
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When the honorable judge tuled that
golf is recreation, ar.d rot amusement.
ic must have known something of the
price cf golf balls.
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If some of those handsome gent
mil wealthy maids who advertise for
mates are all they claim to be, why-
do they have to advertise?
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There is much talk about a six-
man jury. Well, what s the matter
vith that idea. The smaller the jury
the better the chance for an innocent
person to escape conviction.
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Representative Norton has got a
il! before the legislature to reduce
the legislature to one body of sixty
members. That bill will stand about
as much show of passing as a snow
ball in hades from melting.
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Wi ll, Mr. Groundhog e'ould not help
but see his shadow vesterdav. Rut vt
can content ourselves anyhow. c
will have to take the weather just as
it comes, so what's the use of wor
rying.
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The people might expect fewer and
jetter laws if it were not for too much
laying of politics in the legislature.
Jut that has been the great evil ever
since Nebraska became a state, and
we suppose it is too late to stop it
now.
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From present indications there will
be a movement started before the ad
journment of the present legislature
for the removal of the capital to .some
point near the center of the state. If
the capital is to remain at Lincolm
the best plan it to have the legislature
make an appropriation of $3,000,000
for aiew building at Lincoln, and put
a stop to the matter of removal.
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We must give Mr. Hughes, the late
republican candidate, credit as a man
of sound judgment. He is standing
by President WTIson, on the present
situation with Germany, as every
American ought to. There is no poli
tics in dealing with the critical sit
uation, and should not be. The time
is here when there should be Ma union
of hearts and union of hands," with
all Americans.
A HALF-BONE-DRY MEASURE.
In many if not most respects the
bill prepared by the special legislative
committee oh prohibition seems excel
lently adapted to the purpose. In
some important particulars, however
it is open to legitimate criticism.
On the question whether the state-
should be made "bone dry' the com
mittee plainly has lacked the courage
of its convictions, or else it has wob
bled from side to side without acquir
ing any convictions. The result is an
illogical compromise, arrived at by at
tempting to combine conflicting prin
ciples and policies.
Either the legislature should strive
in good faith, to make good on the
dry" promise to the people last fall
not to let prohibition interfere with
their personal habits or it shou'd
frankly repudiate it. A "half-bone-
dry" measure is an absurdity. Better
chop off the elog's tail neatly and com
pletely at once than do it I y inches.
The committee bill permits importa
tion of intoxicants for personal use. as
a recognition of personal rights and a
concession to personal habits. This i-
in conformity with the theory and
pledges on which the campaign for
the prohibition amendment was based.
Quite properly, in doing this, the com
mittee places it limit on the quantity
that any person may import in any
one month, and requires that a public
lecord be made of it. Without such
imitation and requirement bootleg
ging would receive such an impetus
that not all the myrmidons of the law
combined could hope to overtake and
suppress it.
"But the limitation is such that it is
aimed at more than bootlegging. It
is aimed as a blow at the very per
sonal habits which are apparently re
ferred to. The limitation is, for any
(.nc family, o,ne quart of whisky, or
t ao quarts of wine, or two elozen pint.
cf beer, per month. It is made an of
f3r.se to get, or to have in one's pos
session, more than one kind. If a man
has whisky or wine in his home he
may not order beer so long as a dro
of the whisky or wine remains. Then
are many families that habitually use
two kinds, or various kind-, of intoxi
cants. They mut stop it. No more
brandy sauce for the pudding, no more
wine sauce, no more frozen cix-mx.
if there is a pint of beer in the house.
There are a plenty of families in which
are several beer drinkers. Whether
one or a half-dozen in the family, ,the
limit is twenty-four pints per month.
When such short rations are provided
what mockery to insist that other
sumptuary inhibition .against hospi
tality to the stranger, or friend, or
encle or brother-in-law temporarily
within the gates!
Now it would be perfectly logical
and consistent to say there shall be
no intoxicants of any kind admitted
into or consumed in any home. It
would be logical to say that only
enough "for medical purposes" shall
be permitted. But here it is attempt
ed to say that intoxicants shall be per
mitted as a beverage, that "personal
liberty" is to be recognized, and then
an arbitrary and unreasonable limita
tion is imposed that does violence to
the very principle which the permis
sion is designed to establish.
If "personal liberty" and "the hai
its of the people" are to be recognized
at all in Nebraska of the new dispen
sation they should be recognized sub
stantially and fairly. To chop them in
half is both ludicrous and crudely un
reasonable. Better "bone dry" at once,
bravely and candidly, and be done with
it. World-Herald.
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The exponents of the "twilight
sleep'' system of treatment are miss
ing a good bet when they do not ex
tend the field of its usefulness further.
The system is the result of much study
and experiment, designed to furnish
the motherhood boon that has been
sought through the ages. Why not go
further and administer the treatment
to the great army of disgruntled poli
ticians and office seekers? . !
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Why is jt the thieves steal mm ,
Ford cars than thsy do any others?
Are they easier to get away with, or
is it because they are swifter in elud
ing pursuit?
LOSSES.
Of the live principal nations en
gaged in the European war, Great
Britain has suffered the emallest num.
her of casualties. It has frequently
been said, by way of commenting on
Biitish inaction, that England was
ready to keep on fighting till the last
Frenchman was killed.
All of this really goes to show the
colossal nature of the conflict. British
participation has not in " fact been
slight, even in the land lighting, and
measured by any standard set pre
vious to this war, the British losses
are .staggering.
Yesterday's dispatches convey the
information that since tb.2 opening of
the battle of the J'omme, last July,
(n e at Biitain has last ,'-7 1 men in
killed and wounded.
The eni.ire losses of the noi th in the
civil war, in killed am! wounded.
mounted to about o.aU.OOo men. and
those of the south to about 170.0OO.
Since la.t july. therefore, (5; eat
Biitain has lost more men in killed
md wounded than both sides lost from
the same causes in tne four years of
our eavu war.
The British losses in killed and
wo untied since August, are m
excess td 1 .'Joo.Ooo. Tha' is 450. oao
more men than the confederacy put
into th.e field in the civil war.
If the whole force i.ii-ed i.v the
north in four yea's.
nhorinv, ox
en
ue of i e-ea'.i.-tnier.' a, slightly
ve L'.noioOn men, was t - ha placed
at one time int.
the EuroH'-a'u war, it
could hold just about the front which
(heat Biitain i- holding in Fran-.-c.
and in four months its hisses would be
t'pa-d to the losses susiaiaed in four
years of the civil war.
(ieneral Sarrail, at Sah-aiki has an
army large--- than the cor, fe.h i aey put
int the lie'd at av.y ore tin:-.-, aad
within r.o.oui) of lOiMinO of the total
number of confederates who fought in
the entire civil war. But what nature
do-s Sarrail cut in Europe?
liumania's casualties in battle ait,
greater than those of the southern con
federacy. Serbian casualties are greater than
great battles of the civil war.
Ilussia has lost over tw ice as many
men as paitieipated in the civil war.
liussia has captured more soldiers
sii ce last June than surrendered in
the last year of the civil war. includ
ing all confederates who laid down
their arms at and after Appomattox.
The only branch of horror in which
the civil war can claim any superiority
is in the losses incurred through dis
east. Disease claimed fully 50.00::
li as, w hich may be more than the to
tal deaths from such cau-e among the
soldiers of, rhirope in this conflict.
Yet this is not at all ceitain. The
typhus epidemic which swept Serbia
carried off about 200,0(1(1 people, many
of whom must have been soldiers. San
itary and medical conditions m the
Russian army cannot be considered
good. Pneumonia and dysentary are
potent enemies of all men in the
trenches, even if typhoid fever is not..
The nation includes casual lie.-; from
sickness in its reports of losses, so it
is impossible to find a basis for com
parison. But at one lime, when a re
port of British losses wa.s being read
in the house of commons, a member
asked what the losses from sickness
amounted to. ami was told tht-t at that
time 100,000 soldiers on the (Jailipoli
peninsula were incapacitated. Some
of these men must have died.
When the war is over, and the pow
ers of Europe no longer have any ob
ject in minimizing their losses, it may
easily be found that in spite of the
wonders of medical science, sickness
has claimed men by the hundreds o
thousands.
In all other respects, at any rate
this war completely destroys tiie
value of previous standards of meas
urement. The civil war would be but
a skirmish in it. The Crimean war
would not measure up to the minoi
campaigns fought in the Balkans. Our
Spanish-American war could be dis
counted in one day on a five-miL
front.
We think of this as a war without
a naval battle of any magnitude, yet
the losses in warships are greater
than the total tonnage of the navies
of either Japan or France. The ships
which have gone down could have
whipped all the navu-s of the woih
j m-eeii iai ago. in s .uo.nes t.eaue..
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COMPARATIVE PRICES.
The bentht of quoting comparative
prices in advertising or on placard.; in
stores has long agitated th' minds o.;
progressive retail merchants.
.Many of the best stores in the coun
try contended that compaiative prices
are expected by the public, and an
necessary for cniighte-nir.g buyers as
to the real or alleged vaiues being of
fered them.
On the other hand, there is a grow
ing family of merchants in differed
cities who have come to the conch;.
sion that compaiative prices are poo;
business both for them and their pa
iioa and who hea. e therefore entire!;,
tliminated from their ads the u.-uad
-L'.fs- now sl.X.V and merely give a
de-vipt ion of the article with th',
I resent price, vvheiher it was eve:
i-ieher or not .
"i he latest addition to this family is
Bu.-ges --"a.-h company, Omaha. Fol-'.ow-ng
the plan of Ma'-shall Fiehk,
and Carson Pirie Sct.it of Chicago, ami
aua.it six other huge firms in middh.
v. esie: n oitie-, B.ira-s'--Xa-h have an
i:oa;avii that hereaf i e.- they would ei
tireiy eliminate all comparative prices
": om their advertisements in the store
or ia Wsuaners.
Th"y ay however good the mer
; ::a: -t.-' intentions are to tell the abso
lute truth. .vcr-.ca!aas department
h't-aas and hone.-t erroi-s ru e responsi
ble for misleading comparative prices;
and thai to their mind the only v .r.
?u be iu.ie of not misrepresenting
pi ices to the patrons of th.e stoic b
o intircay eliminate all comparisons.
The WovU-ilerald as an advocate of
honest advertising will watch with
k; interest the working of this new
j palicy in Omaha
Whether- Omaha people, who hav
: een tiroaa!.. up on comparative
p'K-e-, will respond a readily to th
advertisement that doesn't tell just
a av m tic n they are .going to save on
each item they buy, must have been
q .c.-;on , vital nnpoi -.ance in ine
('.le a iiinaliort of .iris policy.
It takes courage to break away iron
'. he beaten path thai has proved suc
cessful in getting business, but the
in oi tiui;. c.oes ii ut cause ll ocneve.-
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- to ie tne r:gnt inmg to no. is en-
tit led to commendation.
Comparative prices in advertising
pave been much abused. Manv honest
;i:ms use them and do it as Irani
mately and squarely a.-
human!,
yos.-ibie, out some firms unfortunate! v
ride a willing horse to death, with t:
const'. luence that the public is in. dim
to be skeptical of a!! price comp.i:
: ens. Worl.l-lbuald.
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Th.e temperature goes up.
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"Bono-dry," and be done with ;:
The weather newt r gets too cold tV
a bill collector.
When the knockers arc bu-- , :!
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do not spare even their bo. I fi icr.
Th.e future looks - ci t hmg bat
erood. Th.e situation i alarming. ai;o
broods no good to America.
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The jig is up. and we will h.ive ' tc
fish or cut bait." We are rood holier,
and we never did like fo cut bait.
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From here it looks as if this "leak"
investigation is just one of thevc
things that simply has to happen.
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A break with (dormany no doubt
thaws nearer, if something does not
accur in the next few days to re
tard it.
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They are .supplying soldiers who lose
their sight with rubber eyes. A wick
ed one asks: "Will it eliminate rub-
her in.
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It is really more assuring to the
American people, that Americans are
for America, when such republicans as
Charles E. Hughes, tax-President Taft
and Elihu Boot declare their undivided
siippoir of President Wilson in the
present cirsis.
"WHOM THE GODS ABANDON.
In these days of hiph papr cva-t-and
keen competition it is no business
of ours, of course, to advertise a con
temporary; but we pause to advise all
strong men and fair women who are
in doubt about the republican outlook
to consult an editorial in yesterday's
(.lobe-Democrat. It shows exactly
how much can be seen from the "reg
uiar" republican watch tower. It be
gins as follows:
"The best thine; the republican na
tional committee can do is to preserve
a discreet silence and maintain a
harmless inactivity. The campaign is
over and the debts are paid. There i
no pationage to distribute' and it i
to early to begin considering the call
of the next national convention. The
congressional campaign of 101s. will
be conducted by the emu rcssiona ,
committee. It is to be hoped the re
publicans of the house and senate will
be in such accord on all questions that
that campaign can be waged in a uni
to.m manner, at least to an extent
that wili permit the preparation f a
campaign text book that can lie gen
erally used."
In nil the literature of pa; ho-, we
remember nothing more poignant than
this.
Tlie vision of the future which it
voice- reminds us of a hoard anacdote
of two men who arrived late at The inn
of ancier.t type and were assigned to
a room with but one window, which
opened into a provi-ion closet. In the
cotuse of the ldght on..- man aske-u
his fellow to look out of the window
and t.d! him the state of weather. !!
threw up the sash ami declared that
it was "dark as Egypt and sm-l!ed
like cheese." The republican case
ment, ju-t r.f '.v. affords a like prospect
with a like- savor.
It reminds us a! o of a hue fiem
Geo ge Mt i editii's great po.-m on
Fianje in !s70:
"Whom the ju-i go. Is a t an 1 on have
no light."
Thr.i touch about the camra'.an boo';
stirs emotions that he to dee
lor
tears. St. Louis Jicpublic.
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The bti! nir.t: love letter si! ways be
t ontes a high power ep: .-ive uia. ii
it fa-ils into the wrong hand-1.
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The man who t tes a gtia ar.d u --.--it
on the sli-j'-.test pr... oca' ion, is a
criminal with whom the ceuit- cannot
.leal too severer.,
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Ingenicus farmers make their auto
mobiles do all kinds of wo-k on th-fa'-m.
thus lightering the burdens of
tlte hired man.
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Mode: ate wva'.hcr is predicted for
ta.
;c: three or four days. But pro
a's avo even the weather,
v. to c images.
: Viv.criran citi. cn. irrespective
a:' p.
r-cs:
a iir.cnf . is standing by
-en in ins tforts to pro
- of America.
.
.-is ir.ii.'.e iccenily in th
'ai' of i epri sentativ es to
the adbyist. Yes. tire
w;'.h both feet.
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Point the Work.
.; -.oc. Noel, Mo., writes.
A. Vhomas llog Powder
' or.
t- ti.Mno the vK down in tins part
,;.
of tin' we; Id. It proved to be what .
wo needed to prevent and cure hog
cholera ami expel worms."
II. M. Socnnichsen.
Puis & Ganscmcr.
Stop! Look! Listen!
You may need an Auctioneer
if so
s still in the ring You will fin,!
on the Murray Exchange.
Reverse Al! Gails!
SatisfactionCuarantccd
Rates Reasonable
Address
ssnoulb, Nebraska.
Hcute No. 1
