) MONDAY, NOVEMEBER 1, 1913.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY. 4
J- Do not think it is wasted time
J- t submit yourself to any in-
iluence that will bring upon
J- ycu any noble feeling-. Raskin.
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If you still feel warlike keep on kill
ing fiies.
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Rabbits are ripe. And the man with
trim and dog1 knows it.
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i The faster a town prows, the faster
ts two-leirged wolves grow.
Unless it comes naturally to you,
simplified spelling isn't any easier.
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Occasionally a man with wheels in
his head thinks he's the whole ma
chine. :o:
It is a pity there are no submarines
ai hnd when Morgan starts to float I
his big war loans.
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The Burlington peop'e figure on the
Nebraska corn crop making a 'ery
pleasing showing.
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Dan Stephens is not going to give
up a sure thing for aa uncertainty in
ru nr. in for senator. Don't worry
about that.
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G recce and Romania will know a
good deal better what their principles
are ir. this war when they decide which
side is ri:ig to win.
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If Villa's troops cross the Texas
border to attack Carranza. forces, the
United Slates will treat them as out
laws, just as they ought to be treated.
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Svme of the western republican
paper:
ins:
that Aldrich is
ji ;. rty wrecker" and they don't want
L-m for senator. Our opinion is that
AMikh will never get to first base in
the primaries.
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Every man who took a part of that
l.aif billion dollar loan to the allies
has as much bet that the allies will
win. If they lose your money invest
ment has pone glimmering among the
tilings that were.
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A lady friend cf ours asks: "Did
you ever know a henpecked husband
to amount to anything?" No, and we
i ever knew a mar: who did amount to
rnythir.tr that would submit to being
henpecked. But there will be more of
them when we get woman's suffrage.
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Governor Morehead has almost de
tided to make a third term race. Well,
why rot? He has made a most
creditable record, and it seems that
the jt'ople are satisfied with an official
as iotig as he makes good. And most
certainly the governor has done all of
this.
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The democratic national convention
should be held at Omaha, because it
is centrally located, the citizens of all
parties are unanimous for it. Another
proposition is they have plenty of
good hotels to take care of such a body
of men as will attend. And then,
rgain. they will donate as much as
any other city to have it come.
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he last time there was a circus ia
I'lattsmouth we heard a man howl lik
a wolf because the circus, he said, took
money out of town, but here the other
day he received about sixty dollars'
worth of goods, &ii Montgomery
Ward didn't even ifc him a free
street parade. Neither did he, because
he went home the back way. He didn't
even want those merchants tr .hom
he owed an old debt to see him..
1 1 : a a
IN
ADVA.Mi:
A WARNING.
A dispatch to the New York Sun
from1 London states that the British
government intends to take immediate
steps to restrict the sudden rush of
able-bodied Britons to the colonies, to
the islands of Jersey and Gurnsey
and to Ireland in order to escape mili
tary rervice.
What can be expected of a nation
where wealth accumulates and men
decay ?
Is it any wonder that Serbia is be
ing throttled by ruthless and treacher
ous foes while the great British em
pire seems to be suffering from
paralysis? Is it any wonder that
"somebody blundered" at the Darda-
nells, sacrificing 100,000 British and
as many French lives for nothing? Is
it anj wonder that neutral nations
have been antagonized and flouted at a
crisis when their sympathy was vitally
important? Is it any wonder that the
Germans, who were supposed to have
lost all cunning in diplomacy, com
pletely outplayed the allies in the Bal
kans and actually succeeded in bring
ing Eulgars and Turks into an al
liance? Is it any wonder that Great
Britain r.ow works itself into hys
teria over Miss Caveli's execution,
while remaining blind to the fact that
the empire is tottering because its
men are not as brave as Miss Cavell? I
The world cannot agonize over a na- I
tion that will not defend itself to the
L est of its ability. For Belgium and
Seibia ar.d France and Russia the
world feels sympathy and admiration;
for Germany and Austria-Hungary
the) e is at least respect for military
ability and bravery. But Great Brit
ain is cutting anything but an admira
ble figure in tho war. Alternately
boastirg that she has raised S.000,000
men and shrinking from conscription,
talking much and letting advantages
slip through her fingers, Great Britain
has fallen far from the traditions of
her glorious past. It may be that her
government is responsible that the
people are as brave and devoted as
ever; but the decamping of able
bodied Britons to avoid military serv
ice leaves room for doubt that the
British empire is as vigorous in its
heart as in its branches. Its colonies
are strong, self-reliant, courageous
and patriptic; its women are devoted,
ratient and energetic; but among its
men is a huge proportion of "slack
ers," defectives and effeminates. The
splendid bravery and ability of the
British army officers and men in the
field are offset by the cowardice of the
great numbers that will not go to the
front and by the astounding misman
agement of the government.
Theie must be an overhauling in
Great Britain, from top to bottom.
If the empire is to survive, it must cut
away its dead wood with a quick and
sharp knife. Its defectives must make
way for its Drakes, its Marlboroughs
and its Nelsons. The empire is in a
deadly torpor. Its failure to prepare,
its inability even r.ow to realize its
danger and the blunders of its gov
ernment are all warnings to the Unit
ed States. This nation must not per
mit itself to be overcome by the evils
that now afflict Great Britain and
which, if not overcome, will work her
ruin. Washington Post.
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Those we expect to be candidates
should remember that the primaries
take place in April, nearly four
months earlier than usual.
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In praying that he may live long
enough to see a woman president of
the United States, Bishop Moore may
really be wishing for long life.
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"It is better to have loved and lost,
than never to have loved at all,"
doesn't always impress a divorced mai
is a bit of truthful philosophy.
I'KIl
Be on the lookout for the bad boy
tomorrow night. Hallowe'en, you
know.
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Under the new constitution New
York proposes to pay its governor
$20,000 a year. A poor man may af
ford to be governor of New' York.
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Since the vote was given to women
in Illinois without the consent of the
voters, they are trying to find out
whether it is constitutional or not;
but constitutions are ropes of sand
these days.
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Some democrats, it would seem, are
endeavoring to prevail upon Con
gressman Shallenberger to come out
for U. S. senator, for nothing more
than to oppose Senator Hitchcock in
the primaries. We hope "Shally" will
see the scheme of a few enemies of
Senator Hitchcock, and stay out of the
race.
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When the national democratic com
mittee meets in Washington som
time in December Omaha should hi
there with a big delegation in the in
terests of Omaha as the proper place
for the convention. Don't be back
ward, gentlemen, and be ready fo:
business when the proper time arrives.
Have democrats from all parts of the
state go with you.
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July, August and September ex
penditures of all the state depart
ments, the state institution and tho
university and normal sch'ools totaled
?8 1,700, according to a report made by
Auditor Smith. The figures have been
gathered under a changed system in
the auditor's off.ee. They have never
been available in this shape before,
lence their value to the taxpayers at
arge is greater than the tables sub
mitted at the end of either year, or
biennial periods in different shap:
than this. The Smith table shows that
the amount, 252,751, went for
salaries for everybody from the chan
cellor of the university with his $,000
a year to the lowliest night watch at
the smallest state institution.
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"VERY WELL, THANK YOU.
"Progress in trade and industry con
tinues of conspicuous proportions. In
the larger lines cumulative expansion
is the thief characteristic. Retail mer
chants show a stronger propensity to
buy ahead. The steel trade goes on
gaining ground. The long-predicted
scarcity of railway cars is an actual
fact. Labor is scarce in many lines."
With such crisp phrases a trade re
viewer of accepted authority sum
marized the condition of American
business. The generalizations are con
fined by accumulating details. For
example:
Orders for steel rails to be delivered
next year total 000,000 tons. Within
the last few days orders have been
placed for 15,000 new freight cars and
about 200 locomotives. Our export
trade is heaping the seaboard wharves
with products. The cry is for ships
almost any kind of ships.
Ground is breaking for many huge
new factories, even for the making of
alcohol, despite the growth of "dry"
territory. It is, however, for "in
dustrial," not the kind taken internal
ly; so the prohibitionists need not be
alarmed. The car surplus on October
1 all the idle cars in the land was
only 88,061, or less than half that a
year ago.
A western railroad which has
practically no "war order" traffic broke
its carloading record for the second
time in two weeks on Friday with G
136 cars in one day. Chicago whole
salers agree that business is good and
getting better, with the basis for
future trade "very sound." The de
tails arejiecessarily fragmentary. But
these straws show how the wind is
blowing. They justify the summary of
another trade observer:
"The biggest steel trade ever seen,
and growing; the biggest export trade,
and growing; the biggest crops selling
at almost highest prices; railroad
earnings getting toward maximum."
Wrhen asked, "How are you getting
along?" American Business cheerfully
answers: "Very well, thank you!"
Chicago Herald.
THE TWO GERMANIES.
There are indeed two Germanics.
This asertion, made more frequently
in the early days of the war than of
late, has been denied and resented by
the Germans, but that is because they
felt the assertion to be a hint of weak
ness in the great trial before them
and an implied criticism of the very
forces upon which their hopes of vic
tory were sustained. The praise of
old Germany by enemies of new Ger
many, the praise of South Germany
at the expense of Prussia, was sus
pected with much reason not as the
flower of sincere admiration but as the
thistle of envy and hate.
Events have proved that Germany is
unified in an imperial sense, and if
there were hopes of schism and sec
tional division to the profit of Ger
man's foes they have faded out.
There are, nevertheless, two Ger
nianies, whose opposition the war has
not obscured but emphasized. The
impassioned zeal of "patriotic warfare
has not fused them. The wonderful
synthesis which the German genius
has achieved in all else has not solved
it.
There is a pagan Germany, fiercely
bright as the naked sword, remorse
less as the processes of nature, in
human as logic. The rest of Germany
is Christian. The one is the Germany
f the Lusitania and the execution of
-Miss Cavell. The other, to take a
homely symbol, is the Germany of the
Christmas tree.
2o country has given us a more rich
and kindly heritage than Germany.
There are no people who possess a
v.i.rmer quality of human kindness or
'Glial virtues of a more wholesome
end enduring nature.
But Germany also has developed a
special caste whose code is not from
the New Testament but rather from
he Old. It is capacle of the stern
logic of Miss Caveli's execution, as it
i:; capable of pouring out its own
blood unstintingly for its duty and its
ilitary caste
ideal. The German m
lives for one high purpose to make
relentless war for the Fatherland.
In clays of deepest peace it lives and
bieathes for this end. As the fish
swims r.Tid the bird f.ics, the military
aristocracy makes war for victory
They are Spa'ratans of modern times,
and their code is as simple and in
tense, as rigid, ar.d perhaps as bare,
as that of the implacable foes of
Athens.
Before the bar of this Sparatan con
science the offense of Miss Cavell and
not the woman was tried. The judg
ment was logic, was law', was just in
the narrow sense that, pathetically
and nobly, even its victim seemed to
acknowledge. Miss Cavell had fought
the Fatherland, had broken the law.
The penalty for this offense was death.
Inexoraby she was decreed to die. The
irrelevant voice of mercy, of compas
sion for the individual, of chivalry for
the woman could not prevail against
that martial code.
The execution of the heroic nurse
was a colossal blunder, illustrating
and in a most tragic way symbolizing
the limitations of imagination of the
class to which the German system has
consigned the specialty of leading in
war. It points to a dangerous gap
in the mighty and in most respects in
spiring synthesis achieved by the Ger
man genius. Chicago Tribune.
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Time, tide and the automobile
awaits for no man in crossing the
street.
Cheer up.
thing worse
pened.
There is always some
that might have hap-
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Thomas A. Edison says machines
will decide the next war.. We were
hoping that a number of influential
men with souls would and against it.
From reports foreign countries have
taken more than $70,000,000 worth
more than ever- before of American
automobiles during the past year.
Since there is very little joy riding go
ing on in Europe it is plain that thin
increase is almost wholly for war pur
poses, and it indicates to what extent
the automobile is becoming a military
necessity.
Thanksgiving is drawing near, and
the price of turkeys is soaring higher.
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Pride of ancestcry tends to keep the
record high. That kind cf pride is not
without its uses.
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Pumpkin pie is here; also ginger
pie, with a little flour and pumpkin to
hold the ginger together.
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Keep your boy's old geography. The
maps in it will lock so queer a few
y ars after the war ends.
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Democratic candidates for congress
do not seem to be coming to the front
Very rapidly. What's the matter?
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Only five weeks tiil congress con
venes. We may then expect active
measures for the defense of our coun
try 1
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The autcmobilp has come to stay,
and the knockers had just as well
come to and shout good roads all
along the line.
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Ape-man at work in Topeka, Kan
sas. He binds girls' escorts there and
attacks the girls. Governor Capper
has offered 200.00 for his capture.
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A Lincoln judge has decided that
an autoist without a license cannot sue
for damages done to him, but can be
sued, and that makes the moral plain.
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McKelvie is working like a trooper
for the republican nomination for gov
ernor. But he is frittering away his i
time. We are willing to credit the
majority of republicans of Nebraska
with having better judgment than to
support McKelvie. We have several
on the democratic side of the house
; '"',w ,c"
to nil the oilice is lacking.
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If the last session of congress had
passed the "shipping bill" the presi-
, 1 .1 T T r-t - 11.1
cent urgcti, me u. b. nag wouiu now
' 1,0 floatin- over nuraer(,BS vessels
ia .cn witn tne surplus products or
c ur country. President l.son seems
atVil times to possess a wonderful
fund of foresight. He is so far in
avance o: tne times mat it tahc.-.
months for the common herd
catch up with him.
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the state rural credits commission
of California has issue a circular an-
nouncing that 00 per cent of the farm-
ing ventures in mat state during tne
past five years have failed. If they
n . i i . a . x l i
win come uacK to eoras.sa anu eeu
take up homesteads in the west part
of the state and get busy. Coming
back to grand old Nebraska will no
doubt change their luck.
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Lincoln Star: A rural correspond
ent wonders why boys do not take to
school teaching, saying that it is re
membered when only men were teach
ing school, while now the girls have
the lead by about sixteen to one. An
inspection of the scholarship records
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disclose a hint as to the reason. It
would show that the girls are skinning
the boys to death as students.
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Nebraska City has just opened its
new hospital. This reminds us that
Plattsmouth has been trying to have
a hospital of its own, and we can't
perceive any reason why we can't have
one. Thousands of dollars are spent
in Omaha every year that might just
as well be spent at home. Who is it
that opposes such an enterprise; and
are they financially interested in some
of the Omaha hospitals? The doctors
know that to have a hospital here it
would be less trouble to them.
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In these days of keen competition it
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COAL SHORTAGE IMPENDS.
The linancial organs are beginning
to epres:j fear of shoitaga in coal
mine laborers. In 1014 there were
employed in the mines 763,15 miners.
i
im Wclc Z'-y lorergners, tne
rc-ccrds showinsr that there were
twenty-six dilFerent nationalities en-
zed in that business. Ths war in
the Haar.. first checked the immi-
?rtion fiom which miners were ob-
-aincl and the present war has en-
tircjy suppressed it, while thousands
uf reservi?ts have been retaining to
lhe ol(i COUntrv. Coal miners must
up .,.;.. vpnipnifiP,! rntn;H;r
(:f.ni.,t t1-,, r.-m!: srinii M.h.ntc
uitions render long service impossible
and the miners leave the business as
f.,st as t;Ky can obtain more dcsirabie
wolk which is iess hazardous and bet
ter pajj
A host of mi,.e workers have come
from Itay anJ the Balkan gtates
Thousands of Italians have been re
lurnin? aml there is a prospect of a
large Greek exodus, while immigra
tion has practically ceased. In the
meantime coal consumption has ia
creased in the United States and many
new demands for coal are being re
ceived from the South American re
publics that once got their coal from
Europe.
What excites apprehension is that
coal is the very backbone of all in
dustries. If new men are to be put in
the m;Iles there must be a very great
increase in wages and that means a
rise in the price of coal which will
increase the cost of production every
where. All of which is only one of
the cfi-ect3 experienced by this neu-
Autumn Travel Features!
jq CALIFORNIA November is the last month of the San Fran-
cisco Exposition. The BurliDgton's
nection with the Rio Grande through
ed. The uual nine-months' round trip rates to California will be in ef
fect all winter.
TO THE SOUTH Winter Tourist rates to and through the
South, Gulf-resorts, Florida, Cuba, etc.,
attractive circuit route tours of the
more popular for winter visitors.
NEBRASKA-IOWA annual
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CASTOR 8 A
Signature of
tral nation on account of the Euro
pean war. It is not likely that coal
will be advanced during the coming
winter, for contracts are usually made
a year ahead, but after that, the most
serious apprehensions exist. All of
the authorities say that dangerous
posibilities lie in the future in regard
to coal. World-Herald.
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The fine fall weather still holds out.
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The boys didn't do so bad, after all.
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A little moisture right now wouldn't
hurt any.
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There is always time enough if we
begin in time.
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Beginning to get the Christmas
spirit? Good!
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Some men are heroes while others
are just zeroes.
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Perhaps you cannot be rich, but you
can Le thankful.
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If Villa gets too smart, they may
have to hang him for luck.
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Senator Hitchcock predicts the re
election of President Wilson.
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As the Mexicans have not yet got
ten on to the idea of dropping bombs
on non-combatants, they can't be call
ed exactly a civilized power.
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Some of the present office-holders at
Lincoln seem determined to have Gov
ernor Morehead try and pull them
through once more. The governor is
able to do it if anybody can.
through coast sleepei service, in con-
Scenic Colorado, will be maintain-
are now in effect. They include
South, which are steadily becoming
football struggle, Lincoln, Nov.
thege d f hgh.cIaS8 footba)J
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and Southern lines, all free on request. We are always
at your servieo iu connection with any tour vou mav
have in mind.
H. V. CLEMENT, Ticket Agent
L. VJ. WAKELY, GENERAL PASSENGER ACT.,
1C3? Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.
