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s The early buyer gets the choice of the Christmas selections. The “Racket” has a store full of fine things
from which to select Christmas gifts and you can get appropriate presents for all at very moderate cost. All
of the latest things in toys and trinkets to make the children happy; picture books and story books; liundmls
of dolls in all s zes; a very extensive line of plain and fancy dishes, china and Japanes ware, glassware, man- |
icure and toilet sets; purses and jewelry novelties; a handsome line of pictures and wall decorations. In
fact a complete and well assorted line of holiday goods. Everybody welcome at our store.
BIG SPECIAL |
-Day Sale!
MEN’S, BOYS & CHILDREN’S
CLOTHING
You will not have such an opportunity this |
winter to buy clothing; as offered you now. 1
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£=======3 |
Boys & Youths Suits and Overcoats goat ‘
ACTUAL COST j
HONESTY AS A POLICY.
Reflections of a Jailer Whose Wife
Took a Prisoner’s Cake.
Rather an original story conies from
the criminal prison at Warsaw. A
bookkeeper named Schneider was
awaiting his trial, being charged with
fraud. As his health was bad, his
family sent hina many little delicacies
unknown in the prison fare, delicacies
which, no doubt, the head warder
shared with him.
One day, among other things, u huge j
iced cake appeared. The warder’s
children were fond of cake, and so was J
his wife. They therefore determined ,
to keep half of it for themselves. Their
surprise was great when upon apply-!
ing a knife to the dainty it stuck Just1
below the icing and refused to go any j
farther.
“It must be baked to a cinder,” said
Mrs. Warder. But her good man, sus- j
pectlng that something worse than.
careless baking was responsible for'
the cake’s hardness, cut round the
sides and was rewarded by finding a
revolver and seven cartridges buried
in th<j paste. !
When brought up before the authori
ties Schneider confessed that he had
intended to shoot his guardians apd
escape from prison before his trial.
“After all,” said the warder pensively
when he told his story, “honesty is not
always the best policy. If my wife
had not cut into that cake I should
have been a dead man by now, for 1
sleep hard.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
CRUELTY IN PERSIA.
Queer Things About the People of That
Queer Country.
According to the authors of “Queer
Things About Persia,” cruelty Is com
mon there. The executioner cuts
throats in a public square, and the
spectacle excites little Interest. Crim
inals are sometimes crucified and
sometimes walled up alive. Women
for certain offenses are cast headlong
from a tower. The Persian Is a gen
tleman of surpassing courtesy and
politeness, but say these writers: “The
same man who drops rose petals under
your feet In order to make them avoid
the hardness of the road will not hesi
tate to make you suffer the most cruel
tortures. He delights In the murmur
of the rivulet In the moonshine, but
the sound of blood flowing from an
open wound has also for him its fas
cination. The singing of the nightin
gale fills him with rapture in the
night, but he quivers with pleasure at
the cry of pain from a victim.” Also
they affirm that lying Is an Institution
and no one condemns it. “The Persian
does not consider a He a sin. He
thinks that we have a bad opinion of
lying because we do not know how to
lie, and if he shows an unbounded
confidence in everything the Europeans
say it Is chiefly because he thinks we
are totally devoid of the gift.”
Generosity will win favor with any
one, especially when It is accompanied
by humility.—Goethe.
An Unusual Task.
"Hello, Jack, old boy, writing home
for money?”
“No.”
“What are you taking so much trou
ble over, then? You’ve been fussing
and fuming over It for the last two
hours,”
“I’m trying to write home without
asking for money.”
Then He Was Mad.
“Why don’t you give the devil his
due?” he snapped.
“I can’t, dear,” replied his wife.
“You’re In such fine health now he
may have to wait awhile.”—Atlanta
Constitution.
Remarkable.
“She’s the most remarkable elderly
woman I ever saw.”
“Doesn’t show her age?”
“Not that Doesn’t seem to regret
It”—LoulsviUe Courier-Journal.
One wise counsel Is better than the
strength of many.—Euripides.
GET YOUR
XMAS. PRESENTS
E^RGYI
On my complete line of Jewelry, Cut
Class and Silverware
333 Per Cent Discount
On some goods a larger Disconnt.
8hears, Razors and Kniues / will sell BELOW COSTS!
Railroad Fare to O’Neill Paid.—Will pay car faae for customers
from other towns who buy $10 wort li at my store; shorter distances
fare paid with smaller purchases. All (foods at a discount.
Jeweler & Optician Wm. M- LOCKARD O’Nsill, Nebraska
Township clerks will find Township Order books at this office
THE RACKET STORE
F. BOWEN, Proprietor
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HOBSON FEARS_YELLOW PERIL
Say* China Will Soon Be Divided
Among Powers of Far East.
Marshalltown, la., Nov. 6.—“The
Japanese are a real peril, the division
of the Chinese empire is imminent,
the sending of the big naval fleet to
the Pacific and Secretary Taft’s visit
to the far east are in the interest of
►he trade of the United States,” said
Congressman Richmond Peurson Hob
son, late of the United States navy,
in an interview. Congressman Hob
son was in the city for a short time
while on his way to Hampton to lec
ture.
“The Japanese peril is no joke,"
said Congressman Hobson, “and the
division of China is no further dis
tant than a few months. In fact, the
details of the division of the empire’*
territory have so far progressed that
the territory which shall go to each
of the countries interested—Japan,
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Russia and France—has been deter
mined." Japan, he said, will get the
Pacific coast provinces, including all
of the large seaports. “And," he said,
"when Japan gets possession it will
close these ports to the trade of the.
world, and especially to the trade of
the United States.” He said Japan
feared the commercial supremacy of
the Americans, and the added grip on
the Pacific trade that the opening of
the Panama waterway would give
them.
To prevent this closing of the
China ports to American trade, he de
clared, was the purpose of the fleet,
which is soon to leave the Atlantic for
the east. For this same purpose, and
for the double purpose of investiga
tion, he said, Secretary Taft had been
hurried' to the Orient.
About the only thing a man can do
without trying is to fail.—Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Ripans Tubules : for sour stomach.
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A Special Sale
FROM DEG. 6 TO 14
Boy’s wool suits, all sizes, $2.75
Boy’s underwear, size 28 to 32, \
heavy fleece lined, for 28c.
Boy’s heavy water-proof duck coat,
at 96c.
Men's duck coats, heavy and high
collar, $1.75
Children’s Bicycle hose, fleece lined
regular 26c, on sale at 16c,
j Ladies’ shoes, latest styles and all
sizes, $1.65 per pair.
Needle pins, large size 3c per paper,
small size two for 5c.
Buttons, black and white, 3 doz. 5c.
15 per cent discount on ladies' furs, §
Men’s $1.25 caps at $1 | Men’s $1 caps at 75c | Men’s 75c caps at 50c |
IT IS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO CALL'* SEE US.
Next door west of A DHOI IC LJ
Golden furniture store VWI I
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