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Admission on Opening Might 3c. Make Your Own Change.
A FEW TESTIMONIALS FROM THE PEOPLE OF NORFOLK:
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Mrs. H. G. Asher, visited her sister, Mrs. George Madsen, on South
Fourth street, relieved of tape worm 70 feet long, head and all.
Louis Melcher, living between Stanton and Norfolk was relieved of
a tape worm 116 feet long.
All these parties will testify if desired.
It required just one hour und twenty-five minutes to relieve Mr. Nitz
of this tape worm of long standing.
About the same timo was required to relieve Mrs. Asher.
Anybody desiring greater proof of these facts may call on any of the
above named persons who have been relieved as if my magic.
Anybody is apt to have a tape worm.
It comes originally from a germ.
You might get the germ through meat or some other food.
That the Quaker Doctors were so successful in so short a time in this
instance, shows what they can de.
Two more people in Norfolk have found relief in this wonderful
treatment of the great Quaker Doctors, and attest to the quick and ef
fective results of these remarkable men. They are:
Gustavo Nitz, well known WUcxsmith; relieved of tape worm 93 feet,
4 inches long, head and all, was al ve and moving when it was bottled
and seen by forty or fifty people in Norfolk-
A mammoth tape worm head and all was removed with an hour
and a half from the stomach ot Jim Unsay , a person well known about
town, as the result of treatment given him bo the famous Quaker Doc
tors, now here.
The tape worm was fifty-six feet in length. The head being re
moved, Mr. Linsay will have no more trouble from this source.
The tape worm saps all the nutritious poition of all food taken into
the stomach.
' The person suffering from an affliction gets no benefit from any food
eaton. The worm takes all the real food.
Such persons live entirely on heart action.
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The Quakers believe in the same God as the Hebrews, the same
Savior a the Christians, only the way of worship differs. When they
go to the meeting house they bow their heads in silent worship making
no complaint, removing not their hats to king or ruler, ' thee" or "thou"
to friend or foe. They are a God loving and a God fearing people, be
lieving in giving their hearts to God and their hands to labor, that the
origin of all sin is a lie; if there were no lies there would be no sin. Their
communion being "yea, yea, and nay, nay," from more than this there
cometh evil.
The Quakers are a long lived people. It is no uncommon thing to
find men and women in Quaker communicaties in full possession of all
their faculties at the age of ninety to a hundred years. Brother Amos
Ridenfork, who has charge of the botanical gardens of the Quakers, is
ninety-two years old. He attends to the propagation of the roots, herbs,
and medical plants in their gardens. The business of raising medical
plants was started by the Quakers in 1825, and you cannot go into any
drug store in the world but what you will find the Quaker medicine.
Quaker extracts and granules used by physicians are made by Quakers.
The Quakers do not use mercury or poison that wreck the body and mind,
but treat you with nature's own remedies, roots, barks and gums which
God gave to mankind.
We are told in the Holy Writ that the blood is the life of the flesh
thereof. Without good blood you cannot have good health.
High-Class Vaudeville!
These queer people called Quakers, or the silent worshipers of the
Almighty God, have from century to century, retained their religious
reputation free from all blemishes by their daily practice of honesty, in
tegrity and social purity.
History teaches us that in the oiden times these good people were
terribly persecuted for their religious belief, but through all the puuish
ment bestowed upon them they proved to be the happiest and most con
tented class of people on God's footstool, charit3', peace, abstinence,
good will and brotherly love are the foundation stones of their faith,
their motto being: "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men."
The Shakers are an off branch of Quakers. They do not believe in
marriage, nor are they given in marriage. The Quakers believe in unity
and holy marriage The Shakers pay their taxes, but do not vote, and
hold their property in common.
The Quakers are an agricultural sort of people They own large
farms, divided into settlements or communities. There are different
branches of Quakers, viz: The Hickaites, the Wilbentes and the Ortho
dox. Some of the brightest history making men of the wo Id were born
and raised Quakers. Among them whom could, me mentioned are Charles
Lamb, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Penn, James Witcomb Riley,
E'.ias Howe, Samuel J. Tilden, Joseph Cannon and John Cokely Lettson,
the president of the first medical society held in the world at London in
1773.
Office Hours: 10 a, m. to 12 in and 2 to 5 p. m,
The - Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'OBtoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
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From the Milwaukee Journal. '
It is an old saying that there are two sides to every ques
tion, and, unlike many old sayings, this particular one is true.
Thus there are two sides to the miestion of revision of the tar
ilT. Congress, evidently sees the one side, the need for revenue,
and the need or seeming need of the manufacturers for pro
tection. A poor woman of Milwaukee sees the other side, the
need of those who have little to keep soul and hody together
on that which they have. In an earnest and pitiful letter to
the Journal this woman Rays:
My husband gets .f 1 1 per week for eleven and n
half hours' work, where others get $18 for the same
work. Now say rent is $1.'?, coal $H, food $20 an month,
and poor food at that. Count in that with five or six in
the family, and where do the doctor, medicine, shoes,
clothes, insurance on life, water, gas meter, milkman,
N furniture man, paper man, car fare, tickets, hats, in
surance on furniture, school hooks and the ,ord knows
what else, come from. As for a piece of candy or cake,
or a pie or the theater, when you pay your honest debts
what can you do with $44 a month?
The words of this woman may he somewhat ungrnnunatical
hut do they not carry a great truth f Where, indeed, do eight
hungry mouths, eight human bodies, find sustenance and cloth
ing on $11 a week? Where do they get the rent, the fuel, the
medicine the bare necessities of life? The tariff doesn't help
them, does it? Let us see.
the present tariff on hides and soles causes the people of this
country to pay $:'0,000,000 a year more for shoes than is neces
sary. If hides be admitted free which seems a bit doubtful
shoos may become some cheaper. However there will prob
ably be the high rate duty on shoes.
The poor, when not too poor, build homes. lut every
stick that goes into a home is heavily taxed for the benefit of
the lumber interests, and the new tariff bill promises little re
lief, as its reductions will, from present indications, be almost
entirely on rough and unsawed lumber used by manufacturers.
The labor bureau at Washington estimated in 1903 that if a
person built a house in that year he would have 1o pay 41 .4 per
cent more for his material than in 181)7. Furniture, a little of
which the poor must have, carries a duty of 35 per cent both un
der the Dingley law and the proposed bill.
The poor eat, but they pay a duty on everything that goes
into their mouths. Sugar for example, is taxed nearly 2 cents
a pound, and the proposed reduction is su minute that it will
res ii it in no benefit to the consumer. Dread stuffs are taxed,
wh:.t paying a duty of ' cent a poiv.'d, and wheat flour oneof
2" cent a bushel, etc. Meats are taxed and likewise fish, fruits
jmuI heaven knows what not. in the words of Franklin Pierce,
author of the "Tariff and the Trust.-:"
hvt-ry article of clothing on your body from the boots upon
your feet to the hat upon your head, with one single exception,
osts liorn 50 to l."0 per cent nor? than it would withovt the
tr.riff. The trusts sits by your fire and your table, taxes every
p'ece of glass, cutlery and pott m v in your house, makes you
p:iv tribute on every piece of wool, cotton and furniture in
our home and robs you steadily day in nnd day out by its
excessive prices. Ken row in ten thousand villages and
cities all over this land your wives are in the market with your
v iii.es in their hands buying a few comforts in the hape of
cotton or woolen goods, sugar, soap, dress goods, carpets,
ki.w W4ui oiu ry, lutlery or furniture, ami paying theerefor
tro:c. Ml to 200 per cent over the value of the imported article
without duties, about every penny of which goes into the treason-
of the trusts."
Mr. Aid rich's defense of his tariff bill seems to rest
mainly on those schedules that have undergone no increase of
rates. lie enters to his credit all of the Dingley rates he has
left untouched. When we consider his lust for protection, and
also his power to gratify that lust, we must concede that Mr.
Aldrich has some reason to marvel at his own moderation.
But how much less smrg must be the satisfaction of
President Taft. He, at all events, is pledged to a revision that
shall be materially downward. Also we have long been al
lowed to believe, no contradiction of the widespread report
having come from the white house, that he had entrusted his
pawn ticket to Mr. Aldrich, confident in Mr. Aldrich s as
surance that the pledge which so much added to his election
will be amply redeemed.
Can a tariff bill to which even its author gives onlv negative
praise be regarded as a redemption? The people without re
spect of party, are apt to say no, with such chorused empha
sis that it will be heard over in Africa.
Even thus early in his administration Mr. Taft seems to
have reached a period that calls for heroic action. If he has no
tariff alliance with Mr. Aldrich a word now would be fitly
spoken. If he has, a sunderance seems necessary to keep his
reputation unscathed.
The poor wear clothes. The duty on wool is It cents a
pound, while wools and worsteds, blankets and clothing made
from wool carries duties ranging from IIU.DT per cent on the
cheap worsteds to !4.."2 per cent on the better qualities. Cot
ton which we have supported as an infant industry since lSll!,
carried in 1005 an, average ad valorem rate of 4'.). 40 per cent.
The term cotton includes all manufacturers of cotton, and thus
all cotton goods purchased by the poor.
The poor wear shoes. In women's ordinary shoes there
has been an increase of about 23 per cent over the average
price in the years from lS'.M) to 1S!H, and a corresponding in
crease in all kinds of boots and shoes. This despite in all the
improvements in methods and machinery, which have made
shoes cheaper instead of dearer. W. L. Douglass, ex governor
of Massasuchsetts, and n large shoe manufacturer, declares that
This is the problem which faces the poor woman with her
six children and her 11 a week to keep them, her husband and
herself together. It is not a (Miestion of infant industry with
her, or revenue, or difference between cost of production here
and abroad. It is a question of life existence. The tariff has
driven prices beyond the reach of her purse, and it has not,
seemingly, been (if much service to her husband's labor. She
feels that she must have relief or perish.
This woman is not one of a hundred; not even one of a
thousand. She is one of a vast multidude all over the country
to whom high prices have brought privation. She is one of that
great throng which is striving to live on an income of less than
.H) a year. Congress has paid little attention to her demands,
being too much concerned with the maintenance of government
and business "prosHrity."I'ut are her views, even though un
economic from the business standpoint, entitled to no consid
eration. Must she and thousands like her suffer, merely that
a few manufacturing industries may prosper and wax fatf
Isn't her side of the question the other side as important to
the welfare of the United States as that of the excessive pro
tected interests?
Losing the Saengerfest.
Omaha loosses the big musical festival that was to have been
held here next year by the Northwestern Saengerfest associa
tion, and which' was expected to bring 1)0,000 or 40,000 visitors
from all over the northwest to this city. In reaching the de
cision to abandon the enterprise the committee, it is stated,
was influenced principally by the passage of the 8 o'clock
closing law.
This announcement will come as a disappointment to many
others besides those chiefly concerned. It would have meant
a good deal to Omaha to have been privileged to entertain
such an army of prosperous visitors as this event would have
brought within our gates. And to have these tens of thousands
of people come in person and see our state and its resources
and inducements would have been of no little benefit to Ne
braska, not only in the way of advertising, but in attracting
n highly desirable addition to our citizenship. No foreiirn born
people make better citizens than do the dormant. They are
industrious, thrifty, orderly, intelligent and conservatively
progressive In whatever community they are found they are
of great assistance in its sound and permanent upbuilding.
A (icrmnn musical jubilee is a festivaloccasion. It is a
reunion devoted not a'one to music, but to good fellowship and
innocent amusement in accordance with the habits and cus
toms of generations of (iermans. And, though there are few
nations in which tl iere is so little drinking to excess as in (Jer
many, from of old the Herman has enjoyed his mug of beer
drunk preferably in the evening with his family in the open
air of parks or gardens. He can see no wrong in it. and is
inclined to look on its arbitrary inhibition as an insult to his
intelligence and self-control and an invasion of Ids person -il
rights. .
It would be a serious mistake, doubtless, to interpret the
abandonment of the Omaha saengerfest as springing from nnv
spirit of resentment or desire to "punish" the city. It means
simply that changed conditions have put such obstacles in the
way of the social and numerical success of an immense un
dertaking that it was deemed wise to drop it. World Herald
