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THE REPENTENT MAGDALEN.
A few months ago Annie Wilson,
formerly mistress of a bawdy house in
Omaha, offered to the city her mag
nificent residence property in the
"Burnt District" for a hospital. Im
mediately the holier-than-thous of
Omaha raised a storm of protest. Bat
the city accepted the gift. Last week
Annie Wilson died, and her will dis
closes that she has left to various
charitable institutions upwards of
$230,000. And without exception the
managers of these charitable institu
tions announce that the bequests will
be accepted gladly.
And why nott Have we not ac
cepted temples from Rockefeller and
libraries from Carnegie? This news
paper holds that money secured by
pandering to vice and lust is just as
clean as money obtained by bribing
legislatures and corrupting courts.
We hold that a hospital endowed with
money secured as Annie Wilson se
cured hers is just as serviceable " as
one endowed with money wrung from
the public "by the purchased power to
tax.
If we remember our Bible aright,
Jesus of Nazareth did not thrust Mary
Magdalene aside when she kneeled at
his feet to annoint them with oil, yet
there were some in Omaha and else
where doubtless who were so much
better than Jesus that they shuddered
to even think of accepting the gift of
the Omaha Magdalene. We opine that
the sick and the maimed whose suf
fering hours will be shortened by rea
son of Annie Wilson's generosity and
repent ence will, at the final judgment,
be mighty good witnesses for the de
fense when Annie Wilson's case comes
up for triaL
A FAITHFUL SERVANT.
When William McLaughlin was
elected county treasurer upon his
splendid -record' in that office a few
years before, he appointed William Mc
Cormick to be his deputy. Later, by
reason of ill health, Mr. McLaughlin
was forced to leave the affairs of the
office almost wholly in Mr. MeCor
mick's hands. How well Mr. McCor
mick has fulfilled that trust is a mat
ter of record. And upon that record
Mr, McCormick is asking the voters
to elect him to the office of county
treasurer, which office he has filled to
all intents and purposes for the past
year. By promoting him the voters
The Man Who Judges
That's the man we want to interest the man who
selects with care and taste, and then considers price
and quality. Further, after considering price and quality,
considers timeliness. That's a big thing with us. We
not only sell the output of the best clothing manufacturers
but we adhere to the policy of giving our patrons the ben
efit of the "bargain prices now." In other words, we be
gin on prices where others end up after the season is over
and the selections picked out.
You can get the goods now at the bargain price and
you wear them while they are in season. Think that over.
At from $10 to $30 we give you exceptional suit and
overcoat bargains bargains for the men of taste and
judgment. Buying for three big stores we are able to
secure inside prices all of which are passed on to our
patrons.
Everything that men wear we sell and sell right.
And we make an especial feature our lines of union-made
goods. We can outfit the union man from hat to shoes
and all between in articles bearing the label.
Speaking of winter underwear notice our complete
line. Especial attention called to our line of Munsing
underwear mostly union suits. Prices from $1 to $4.50.
Nothing better mighty few so good, and none so good at
the price.
You c.--i't get better value
for the money than the
Clothcraft Blue Serge
Special No. 4 130 aX $13.50.
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SPEIER & SIMON
On The
Corner
Tenth and Streets
WE SAVE YOU MONEY
of Lancaster county will be showing
appreciation of faithful and efficient
service in the most important office
in the county. There is not a single
blemish upon the McCormick record.
Ilis ability and his integrity are be
yond question. He is a young man
ambitious to render faithful service.
He has earned an election at the hands
of the people.
UNION ENDORSES HYERS.
Haveloek, Neb., Nov. 1. To the Ed
itor of Will Maupin's Weekly, Lin
coln,.. Neb. : Gentlemen We, the un
dersigned committee of the Haveloek
Machinists lodge 564, desire to en
dorse, regardless of party lines, the
candidacy of Gus Hyers, one of our
own members, for sheriff of Lancaster
county. Mr. Hyers has lived in Have
loek eighteen years and is one of the
active members of our order. We
have confidence in him as a true and
faithful member of the union and rec
ommend that organized labor honor
him with their support. He has done
all in bis power to assist the laboring
class in Haveloek and has always
worked with the state federation of
labor in forwarding the interests of
the laboring people. (Signed.)
FRANK J. BOEIIME.
J. F. STASTNEY.
E. E. ANDERSON.
RAYMOND J. ABBOTT.
One of the democratic candidates
for office of district judge of Lancas
ter county is Raymond J. Abbott of
Lincoln, who is a member of the well
known law firm of Price & Abbott.
Mr. Abbott was born and raised in
Saline county, and with his brother
Lysle J. Abbott of Omaha, read law
in the office of his father, Judge Ab
bott of Crete. That this was splendid
training will be recognized by all who
remember Judge Abbott as one of the
strongest men ever practicing law in
Nebraska. Shortly after being ad
mitted to the bar Mr. Abbott came to
Lincoln and entered upon the prac
tice of his profession, in which he has
been signally successful. He has been
connected with some of the most im
portant cases ever tried in Lancaster
county, and the records will show that
he has measured up to every oppor
tunity. Mr. Abbott is not a candidate from
choice. It was only after earnest so-
On The
Square
licitation that he consented to become
a candidate, and those who solicited
him were not all of his party faith.
Men of all partisan affiliations asked
' him to become a candidate because
they knew him to be thoroughly ca
pable, thoroughly trustworthy, ' and a
man who, would give to the faithful
discharge - of duty every energy and
every ability that he possesses. Those
who know Mr. Abbott best are his
staunehest supporters, and this of
itself is ample evidence of his fitness
for the important office of judge of
the district court.
FRED'K SHEPHERD.
There is not a member of the Lan
caster county bar who stands higher
than Fred k Shepherd, one of the
democratic candidates for judge of the
district court. Mr. Shepherd has been
reared among the people of Lancaster
county. Quiet, unassuming, but dili
gent and earnest, he has made a repu
tation as a lawyer that is second to
that of no other lawyer in this section
of the country. He is a student who
loves the work in which he is engaged,
and who perseveres to the limit. He
possesses that judicial temperament
which enables him to measure men
and things without haste and without
bias. His standing as a man and as
a citizen is equal to his standing as a
member of the bar. He knows men
because he has studied men, and he
would see to it, if elected to the bench,
that all men received equal and exact
justice at his hands.
On more than one occasion Mr.
Shepherd has been asked to become a
candidate for the bench, but until
this fall he has steadfastly refused.
This year he yielded to the demand,
though with reluctance, and accepted
the nomination. Having accepted he
has entered upon the campaign with
the same energy that characterizes
him in any case which he accepts. As
a judge of the district court Fred'k
Shepherd would be an honor to his
profession, to the beneh and to the
people.
Fifty-two consecutive weekly doses
of Will Maupin's Weekly is guaran
teed to cure the worst case of "blue
devils," "srrouch" or "mullygrubs"
ever known. Price for the full course
of treatment $1.
USED TO BE.
I love to dream of the dear old days,
Of the old time friends and the old
times ways;
Of the old home scenes and the old
home ties,
Of the joys of youth and its Bright
blue skies,
So oft I sit in the gray twilight
And dream the dreams of the old
days bright
And. dreaming roam in my fancy free
Through the good old days of Used
to Be.
Down the village street on my way
to school,
Or through the woods to the swim
ming pool;
Or o'er the hills where the nut-filled
trees
Their welcomes sent on the autumn
breeze ;
Or further still, on the winter's night,
With rocker skates with their runners
bright,
And ever on in my fancy see
All the good old days of Used to Be.
And a maiden sweet as a dewy rose
Adown the lane with the dreamer
goes;
Once more the tale that is never old.
And ever new, is again retold;
And the sweet vows made in the clear
moonlight
While the future holds forth a promise
bright.
From the good old days of Used to Be.
Ah, the visions sweet as they come
But the dreamer wakes from the pleas
ant dream
To find at hand are the joys supreme.
For his eyes behold all the sweet3 of
life
In home and children and loving
wife;
Tn quiet rest when the day is done
And the joy of home is a goal well
won;
When children climb on my waiting
knee
Joys greater than those of the Used
to Be!
Will M. Maupin, in The Commoner.
FACTS ABOUT NEBRASKA.
Labor Commissioner Guye has just
issued a bulletin, "Facts About Ne
braska," that is full of mighty inter
esting reading. We quote the follow
ing: "Nebraska has 6,14-4 miles of main
line railroads within its border, com
prising seven trunk lines.
"Nebraska has the largest horse
and feed market in the world.
"Nebraska has the second largest
"Nebraska has the third largest live
stock market and packing eenter in
the world.
"Nebraska has the largest cream
ery and is the greatest dairy produc
ing state per capita in the world.
"Nebraska produces one-thirteenth
of all the corn, one-fourteenth, of all
the wheat, one-fifteenth of the oats,
one-fourteenth of the hogs, and one
eighteenth of all the cattle of the en
tire United States.
"Nebraska is the third largest pro
ducer of sugar beets and the first in
poultry and eggs.
"Nebraska's averaged sized farm is
298 acres and yet the most successful
farmers in America are located in Ne
braska and the size of their farms are
forty forty and twenty acres respec
tively. "Farm Bulletin 325, by J. A. War
ren, United States department of agri
culture, says Mr. C. E. Beadle oper
ates a forty-acre farm in Saunders
county, Nebraska, off of which his
sales were in one year $1,942.50 with
an expense of $436.50, leaving him a
net income of $1,506.45 or $37.66 per
acre, this being his average yearly in
come. "The forty-acre farm of H. F. War
ren, in Adams county, shows similar
results, while the twenty-acre farm of
Arnold Martin, a Swiss farmer, lo
cated in Pawnee coounty, shows even
greater results."
Nebraska needs interurban railroads.
But Nebraska will not get them until
she abandons the suicidal policy of
enacting laws to prevent capital from
investing in such enterprises.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
Nebraska has more things to be'
proud of than any other state. She
ought to be making every one of them
known to all the world. Nebraska is
remiss in her duty to herself when she
fails to advertise her resources and pos
sibilities to the remotest corners of the
earth. Nebraska has some mighty hig
things, thank you.
She has the largest creamery plant
in the world.
Her largest eity, Omaha, is the great
est butter market in the world.
She has the third largest paekmg
center in the world.
She has the second largest smelter in
the world.
She is the third largest corn pro
ducer. oiie js uie uura largest aairymgw
state, and promises to be the larsrest
inside of ten years.
Her annual egg output is worth more
than the gold output of any state or
territory.
Her annual butter, egg and poultry
output is worth more than the gold and
silver output of any two states or ter
ritories. Her annual output of corn and wheat
is worth more than the nation's am-Tial
output of crude petroleum.
Her annual output of grains and
grasses is worth more than the coal
output of Pennsylvania.
Her annual corn output is worth
more than the nation's aim-nl output
of copper.
If one year's product of her farms
were loaded in standard freightjeajei
and the ears made into one train, the
train would reaeh from St Petersburg,
Russia, to a point in the PaeiSe ocean
nearly a thousand miles due west of
San Francisco, crossing the Baltic sea,
the English ehanneL England, Ireland,
the A tl an tie" ocean and the United
States.
She has nearly a million acres in al
falfa, and the acreage is increasing at
the rate of 10 per cent a year.
She has more than eight million dol
lars worth of interest bearing securities
in her permanent school fund, and
school property, including school 1xd,
worth $40,000,000.
She has 49,000,000 acres, three
fourths of it fertile and less than two
fifths of it under cultivation.
She has a climate unsurpassed, soil
more fertile than that of the valley of
the Nile.
She offers more opportunities to th
honest and industrious home-makes
than any other state or territory and
she isn't doing a blessed thing to make
the fact known.
WE DON'T BELIEVE IT.
Senator Bailey of Texas mumbled
in the supreme court the other day
and was sharply requested to "speak
right up." Texas never dreamed that
it would see the day when anything
like that would happen to Ba3ey
Des Moines Register and Leader.
FISH AND FLESH.
The western man who takes a little
firewood or grazes his cattle on the
publie domain is sent to the peniten
tiary, while the Wall street gamblers
and trust magnates who steal millions
are permitted to go free. That is the
kind of justice meted out by the courts
that Taft says are the things that he
loves. How long will the peoples'
stand for that kind of justieef W
need the reeall. Tekamah Herald. .
Mnnmr o x n r. wxxixixus.
Bill Maupin, a full-fledged citizen
and voter of Lincoln, Nebraska, and
also an ex-o freeholder, has stated that
his preference for the Democratic non
ination for president is Champ Clark,
of Missouri.
Say, Champ, old man, you're nomi
nated. Eastern, Pa. JournaL
When we become state sn peri n tMid
ent of publie instruction one of "our
first acts will be to compel the teach
ing of Nebraska children just how
great a state they live in.
With your feet in a pair of Nebras
ka made shoes and your brain work
ing under a Nebraska made hat, yot
may go far and fare well.
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