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No pajxr tomorrow Thanksgiv
ing. Iemcmler the date.
Now is a Rood time to lay
coal if you have the price.
in
Tin: threatened war with Japan
draws interest to our weak spot
the riiilippine Islands.
Ti'KKttv is the national lird.
lie is soaring higher right now than
the great American eagle.
Ki:mi;miii:k the Farmers' Insti
tute at riattsmouth December 7
and S. Let every farmer attend.
Don't wait until holiday week
to do your advertising if you ex
pect to get your full share of the
trade.
Tin: inter-state commerce bill
may take our passes from us, but
let us be thankful that it cannot
Assault our circus tickets.
Thanksc.ivino tomorrow. Make
the most of it. Maybe you are not
over thankful; but that doesn't
make any difference. He thankful
anyway. Invent an excuse or pre
text if you are not real sure about
it but be thankful.
Tin; wheat raisers arebcginning
to inquire where the trust protect
ing tariff helps them with'thc price
hovering around 60 cents a buslie
in the local markets, but the repub
lican stand-patters have not yet dis
covered a satisfactory answer.
Tim foot ball season just closet
shows that 14 men weie killed and
lfiO injured, as against 24 killed
and 200 injured last season. This
seems to indicate that new rules
have done some good and that de
brutalized foot ball hascome to stay
j
The capture of a "lone bandit'
.luring his robbery of a passenger
train between St. Louis and Kansas
City is a stern reminder that some
thing should be done to protect the
traveler from such depredations.
Somk of the leading churches of
the cast have wisely concluded that
it is profitable to advertise. They
have put in fine musical attractions,
and guarantee that the sermon shall
not be more than thirty minutes
duration. Hut the greatest move in
this direction has been made by a
New York church which gives a
vaudeville performance as a part of
the evening worship. It pays to
advertise.
Tin; merchants of Omaha have
commenced their advertising cam
paign in dead earnest, andlarejoffer
iug special inducements tojholliday
shoppers. They will draw trade
from all parts of the state for the
next twenty days, riattsmouth
merchants could do thejsame thing
on a smaller scale. If they expect
to get all that is coming tothem
they should advertise right now
not after the trade is supplied. C
Thk boy of today has little fear
that the field is becoming?!over
crowded in our own country. It is
just being opened. It is for the
young men who are just beginning
to think what a wonderful worl
this is, to study well the achieve
ments of the past and to see in what
manner they arc to I hi improved
Never did the world call more loud
ly, more persistently, for r young
men with force, energy and,pur
pose young men to do some
thing than today. And every year
the cry grows louder, more insist
vnt. But the times demand men o
large, liberal, energetic minds, am!
the man who insists on doing bust
ncss in the old-fashioned humdrum
way is as much behind the process
ion as the man who insists on trav
eling with on ox team instead of by
railway.
The Farmers' Institute Friday
and Saturday. Ikxeniber 7 and S.
Ucmemlcr the dates by your presence.
Nkxt come the holidays. And
the merchant who logins now to
Advertise hisChristmas bargains is
the one that will sell the goods.
TtiNksr.ivlNT. day is over, and
now conies the first of December,
when taxes become delinquent.
We always have something to U
thankful for.
A Ni:w Oki.kans dispatch an
nouncing the marriage of Ulauche
Walsh, the actress, in that city,
savs Miss Walsh was there at the
time. .Strange coincidence!
Aiit.k finding l'eary returning
rom the terrors of the polar regions
twenty pounds heavier, we wonder
if the busy explorers are not yearn
ing a little to keep us all out of the
competition.
SENATOR Tillman is merely giv
ing voice to the idea of an over
whelming majority by believing the
republican administration sincere
only when it shall have put the first
trust magnate in stripes.
Sum ii people foretell an approach
tug storm by tneir rncumausm
others by their corns, but while the
Journal editor has an abundance of
each lie can usually tell when the
storm is gathering by the advance
in coal.
Thk usual skirmish of the graf
ters lias already begun. There are
many more applicants for places at
Lincoln this winter than there are
places to fill. It is a very cold day
in August when the grafter neglects
to work his graft.
A nicw counterfeit $10 note has
been discovered. I low easy it would
be to pass one of them upon an ed
itor. A man who has not seen
bill of that denomination for a few
years would be unable to detect the
difference between the counterfeit
and the real thing.
Thk republicans are worrying
over the fact that it is one thing to
promise and another thing to "de
liver the goods." Keep your eye
on the incoming legislature. It
may be interesting for you to find
out that you have again been de
ceived. In the election of 1904 the repub-
icans carried Missouri by an aver
age majority of 16,013. At trie
election held on the 6th of No em
ber the democrats carried Missouri
by an average majority of 10,252.
f the "Mysterious Stranger" can
extract any comfort from these fig
ures he is doubly welcome to them.
Wtu-N Governor Davis, of Ar
kansas takes his seat in the United
States senate on the 4th of March
next he will find that an "old-
lshioned row" is not so much
needed in that body as is an awak
ening of the conscience of the re
publican majority to the just de
mands of popular interest in all
parts of the country.
Some people are abusing William
J. Bryan on account of his suppos
ed advocacy of government owner
ship of railroads, are taking him too
seriously. He suggests that idea as
an ultimate remedy if the railroads
will not give the people a square deal
Fresideut Roosevelt has twice ad
monished congress that unless the
railroads do give the people a square
deal government ownership wlil le
the ultimate remedy, Why abuse
one and exalt the other?
Now that the state officers who
made the blunder of neglecting to
have the constitutional amendment
published in time, have filed bills
for telegrams sent to the publishers
ordering them to get out extra edi
tions in order to get the notices
within the time, some of the pub
lishers who went to the expense of
issuing extras are preparing to
send in bills for extra services.
That is the correct sytctu. The
state is rich, and the grafter who
can get near enough should not lose
an opportunity to pinch the tax
payers. That is what the taxpay
ers are for.
Thk prediction of that republican
pop, . A. roynter, that Mie;uon
would l elected by 80,000 shows
that his judgment is alout as poor
as his work as governor was. Of
course if thjs pop ingrate had been
running instead Shallenlnrger it
might have liecn easy for Sheldon
to have rolled up over 1 00,000 ma
jority. Thkki: is not a single printer in
the Ohio state penitentiary, and as
a result the paper which has beeu
printed there for a number of years
suspended. However, there are
over twenty bankers, lawyers ga
lore, practically every other profes
sion and trade is rcprescted. The
printers are certainly a Clod-fearing,
law-abing class.
Thk allowance of the war depart
mcnt of claims for pay due members
of Col. Hryan's old Nebraska regi
ment is an act of tardy justice to a
body of gallant soldiers who were
badly treated by the studious hold
ing of them back from the firing
line during the war with Spain.
Volunteers who are not allowed to
fight ought at least to be fully paid.
Mr. Shki.don has not decided
whether he will be inaugured as
governor with a ball, or simply
sworn into office, same as Mickey
Mickey got considerable cheap no
toriety out of his refusal to permit
a dance at his inauguration, but
there are a great many republicans
who will be willing to dance upon
his retirement.
Nkxt Friday and Saturday, De
cember 7 and 8, are dates to remem
ber. The Farmers' Institute oc
curs on these dates, and an usually
large number of farmers will be in
town both days. The merchants
and business men generally should
put forth every effort to make their
visit both pleasant and profitable
By courteous treatment show that
Plattsmouth extends a cordial geet
ing and is anxious for them to come
often.
Secretary Shaw admits that
our excessively high tariff is a hind
ranee to American trade abroad
And yet every statesman will tel!
you that all of our surplus products
must be sold abroad. The farmers
contribute a larger part of our sur
plus and yet they will stand up for
a policy that deprives them of ac
cess to a market that is inviting
them, on reciprocal terms. The
armer is a victim of his own folly
in reference to the tariff.
Housekeepers, do you realize
that there are a dozen different
grades of spices and you can't tell
the difference? Do you also realize
that when you get the cheap cata-
ogue house spices you get the
cheapest, yet you pay nearly as
much for them as your home mer
chant will charge you for the best?
No greater deception is practiced
upon the people than the catalogue
houses practice in the matter of
grades. It takes an expert to de
tect grades of goods.
As A sample of the consistency of
statesmen, notice the Roosevelt ad
ministration is doing its utmost to
pass the great ship subsidy bonus,
while on the other hand the same
administration is doing its utmost
to prevent the giving of rebates
Is there, then, such great differ
ence between a rebate and a sub
sidy? Both aregivinganadvantage
to the transportation companies.
Whether the government gives it,
or the railroad company, matters
little. The small shipper and tax
payer will have it to pay, whether
it is a rebate or a shipsubsidy.
Secretary Root and Secretary Shaw
came all the way to Kansas City
a few days ago to have the Trans-
Mississippi congress endorse th
subsidy scheme, and it did so by a
close vote. "No rebates, no sub
sidy, no special favors" should le
the slogan of all commercial bodies.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
entirely repudiated the federal offi
cials that have cursed them by
electing nearly tvery democratic
candidate to the constitutional con
vention. This almost assures a
solid democratic delegation to the
next congress of two United States
senators aud Gv representatives!
Tbj Stati Official Vote.
The following are the returns of
the recent election in Nebraska, as
tabulated in the office of the secre
tary of state:
United States Senator.
Brown 98,37414,523
Thompson 82,851
Governor.
Sheldon 97.85S 12.S72
ShallenlK.rger 84,885
Lieutenant Governor.
Hopewell 97,97215,674
Green. 82.29S
Secretary of State.
Judkin 98,07216,230
Goucher 81,882
State Autfitor.
Scarle 97,81715,962
Canaday. SI, 855
State Treasurer.
Briah 97.88315.442
Babcock 82,441
State Superintendent.
McBncn 98.18817 ,036
Watson 81,152
Attorney General.
Thompson 98,40317,241
Abbott 81,162
Land Commissioner.
Katon 97,32514,920
Wolfe 82,405
Railway Commissioners.
Winnett 95,51115,600
Horst 79,911
Cowell 94,47915,803
Fitzsimmons 79,676
Williams 92,39113,74
Davis 78,647
Constitutional Amendment:
For 147,54
Against 8,852
Dangerous Precedents.
Giving President Roosevelt ful
credit for good intentions, it cannot
be denied that there is force in the
criticisms of his course uttered'by
ex-Governor Durbin, of Indiana
before a republican club of that
state recently.
The strong personality of the
president asserted itself upon many
occasions in ways that have broken
safe old precedencs and tended
strongly toward too great a concen
tration of power in the chief execu
live.
Though the president of the Uni
ted States always exerts a powerful
in the congress that is elected with
him, Mr. Roosevelt last winter went
upon dangerous ground in his in
vasion of the rights and powers o
congress, which, under the consti
tution, should be one of the
three independent and co-ordinate
branches of the government.
No one but a blind partisan o
President Roosevelt will deny that
there is grave impropriety in such
control of legislation as he exerted
over the house of representatives
through his compact with Speaker
Cannon to push administration
measures while suppressing others
which the administration deemed
embarrassing.
By the exercise tof this contro
the president did to the southwest
in the matter of statehood for the
four territories an injusticeof which
the congress, acting without re
straint, would hardly have been
guilty.
Upon his own party the president
last winter wrought injustice and
injury by joining with the speaker
to suppress the urgent demand o
western constituents for tariff revis
ion and reciprosity. The resent
ment shown in the recent elections
against members of the Ways and
Means committee is not an empty
warning that the suppression
these questions in the last session
may prove vastly more embarrass
ing to the republican party hcrea
ter than their discussion could hav
proven to the president.
In criticising the elecision of
federal judge who decided a case
contrary to the executive policy and
view of the law, President Roose
vclt may not have sinned more
grievously than did President An
drew Jackson in his outbursts
against Chief Justice John Marshal
and his selection of Attorney Gen
cral Moody for the supreme court
is nothing like so flagrant an at
tempt to "pack" the courts as that
of which President John Adams
was guilty and in the last hours of
his term.
But President Roosevelt has beeu
altogether too heady and rash for
safety in his dictation to the two
other great branches of the govern
ment. If the bad precedents he
has set are abused by his near suc
cessors he is likelv to live to realize
lat many acts of his administra
tion have Ijeen more forceful than
wise.
Still More Encouraging.
Final returns from the recent
elections indicate the general trend
against republicanism, and shows
great democratic gains. The elec
tion of all the state officers in New
York, other than governor, by small
democratic majorities in spite of the
weight and influence of the Roose
velt administratioii'Jindicates that
the great heart of the Kmpire state
still beats in unison with democracy
and that with popular candidates in
908 the electoral voteof the state
is more than likely to be in the
democratic column.
But the most wonderful change
rom abject surreuder to the trust
and corporation to the'reviving in
fluences of good government is in
New Jersey. - A tabulation of the
vote by counties shows a democratic
majority of 11,280 in the state.
The republican plurality for the as
sembly tickets last year was 57,979,
ioosevelt carried the state by 80,000
and there was 51,000 majority for
the republican governor. This is
the first democratic majority in the
state since the ring corruptionists
and grafters has infested her, and
ike New York, will be again doubt-
'ul states with the chances favor
ing democracy."
The other democratic gains are
in Rhode Island, Minnesota, North
Dakota, Missouri and Oklahoma,
which states gave democratic ma
jorities. The democratic candidate
for governor of Kansas was only
defeated by 1,500 votes, a gain of
65,000 over the vote of 1904. The
democratic gain of over fifty mem
bers of congress shows the general
trend of the country towards dem
ocratic policies and when the stand-
pat doctrine of the republican con
gress further indicates that rea!
tariff refcrtn is impossible as long
as that party controls the legisla
tive branch of the government,
there will be a still greater revolt
against high trust prices, by which
those corporations are protected by
the tariff in extorting.
All that democrats have to elo to
ensure success is to get together on
essential policies and leave any dif
ference ou minor matters to be set
tied by congress and legislatures as
they arise and perfect their organi
zation in the several states that
will see that democratic voters go
to the polls and their votes are
honestly counted.
Senator Tillman misses his
guess in predicting that pampering
of the negro by republican politi
cians in Chicago will lead to race
war in that city. Race war is not
possible anywhere in this country
But if these republican politicians
go on pampering the negro vote in
this way in order to save his vote in
the close and doubtful states they
are certain to get themselves very
much disliked by white voters.
Arizona only cast 15 per cent
of her vote for Joint statehood, so
it is quite doubtful if all the Rough
Riders followed the president's ad
vice and it is certain that the cow
boys did not like to be dictated to
from Washington. .
The youngsters are very much
more thankful than some of their
elders that Christmas comes so close
after Thanksging day.
Applies to Land Afents.
The passenger traffic manager of
the Hurllngton lias sent out notices
to the local agents to the cITect that
under the ruling of the Interstate
commerce commhslon land auent
who conduct excursions and sell lands
along" the lines of railroads, cmnot I
regarded as employes or Vc com pa
nles, and ride upon passes.
Tills will be a hard shot at I ho Ian
acents whoso business It I to locate
farmers alonu the line of the railroads
However, the coinmlsson Is the law
A transcript in the ca.no of Jo. L.
Hartshorn vsChas. II. Mclntirc.et al,
was died In the district clerk's office
today. An appeal li taken by the de
fendants from the I'.H and cost, rend
ered by Judge Archer. The action was
bnutfht to recover Judgement In the
aunt of IU for rent of a home used by
defendants.
4 Iff tarf
HE above picture of th'o "'
man and fish is the trade
mark of Scott's Emulsion,
and is the synonvm for
strength and purity. It is sold
in almost all the civilized coun
tries) of the globe.
If the cod fish became extinct
it would be a world-wide calam
ity, because the oil that comes
from its liver surpasses all other
fats in nourishing and life-giving
properties. Thirty years ago
the proprietors of Scott's Emul
sion found a way of preparing
cod liver oil so that everyone can
take it and get the full value of
the oil without the objectionable
taste. Scott's Emulsion ig the
best thing in the world for weak,
backward children, thin, delicate
people, and nil conditions of
wasting and lost strength.
Send fir fret Mamplt.
SCOTT & BOWNE, ClIEMISTS
O0-41S FP-mL STBBkT, NBW TORK
e. an.f f f.fll. M Jnifigitti.
The Smallest Constable.
Otoe county can boast, of the smallest
constable in the state. It is John
Elrod, who was elected as constable
In Otoe precinct last month. lie is
thirty years of age and has held a num
ber of offices In that precinct, being its
deputy assessor at this time. It would
be a funoy slht to see him arresting
Sheriff John Donovan, who stands six
feet and six inches in height. Thus
this county has two noted officials, one
being the smallest and the other the
tallest officer in the state. Nebraska
City News.
Then It Is Gone Forever.
Perhaps you have seen it, an old
nickel that has been colored a reddish
hue? That nickel has been in circu
lation in Louisville for more than ten
years. It is little and InslgniQcent
but it has been kept on the go contin
ually. Could It but talk what a won
derful story it could relate. One day
it buys a sack of peanuts ror a child,
then it goes to the baker for a loaf of
bread. It Is never idle. It helps buy
coal for one man and groceries for
another. From him it perhaps comes to
the Courier for advertising who pays
it to the printer for labor, who In turn
either spends It for a glass of beer or
drops it into the contribution box at
the church. And so It goes from one
to the other, but never leaves Louis
ville. One of these days some un
thoughtful person will spend this lit
tle red nickel with a traveling grocery
fakir or a patent medicine peddler and
it will go out of clrculaolon, as far as
Louisville is concerned. Surely there
is a lesson to be learned from this lit
tle coin. Louisville Courier.
Hives, eczema, Itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing. Doan's Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. Why
suffer. All druggists sell it.
It Qui
uieis
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Couah
This is one reason why Aycr's
Cherry Pectoral is so valua
ble In consumption. It Mops
the wear and tear of useless
couching. But it docs more
it controls the inflammation,
quiets the fever, soothes, heals.
Ask your doctor about this.
Tim bnit kind ol a toitlmonlil
"Sold lor OTr statr Tri."
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9 SUMPARtlM.
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rats.
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Ik fonU r all nr inliln.
ttttr recovery by kponinr? the
bowel reaular with Ar'e Pills.
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