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Loup City Northwestern GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. and Pub. LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA. Boyhood’s lessons are learned etthar at or over mother's knee. If the anecdotists keep on Tom Reed will live in history as the Joe Miller of his time. Why not inquire at the coal offices for the New York boy who disappeared with $70,000? An Ohio man has brought suit for $200 damages for a bad hair-cut. Shear barbarism, evidently. A funny Munich editor parodied the kaiser’s funeral speech on Herr Krupp. Three mouths. Curious how Dewey's fading popular ity brightened up again as soon as if looked as if we might need him. Mont Pelee is going into convulsions again, scientists declare. Here’s a booming market for infants' food. Marconi has evidently made up his mind that a press agentless inventor can’t hope to stand much of a show. Mr. Jeffries attributes his defeat ty Mr. Munroe in Butte to the altitude. Alas, prize fighting is no longer high art. The Sultan of Morocco announces that he is confident of victory. He wisely refrains, however, from saying when. The new 16-inch gun may throw a ton of steel twenty miles—but who can see a bullseye that is twenty miles away? We have horseless carriages and wireless telegraphy. Now, If some genius would only Invent noiseless streets. In spite of the general rise in prices the probabilities are that the comic valentine will be retailed at the same old figure. It’s not the woman wit.i the 19-inch waist who is the strongest advocates of woman’s rights. They naturally come her way. A Chicago lecturer advises people to yawn as much as possible. The average lecture audience does not need the advice. Russell Sage declares that he has never paid to have his shoes shined He doesn't say whose blacking and brush he borrowed. Mascagni merely Illustrates the old theory that when God bestows upon a man musical genius He withholds th« gift of business sense. “Beats all,” said the advertisement telling of a scheme to get rich, and everyone who tried the scheme wii; vow that the adverttser told the exact truth. The French tutor who asserts that he can support a German princess out of his earnings has either misjudged the princess or the salary he rs to re ceive. Dr. Lorenz is not the brother of an emperor, but his visit to this country will be remembered as of more benefil to Americans than that of Prince Henry. At Brooklyn, N. Y., there have beeD ninety-nine robberies in twenty-one days. It is evident that Brooklyn is interested in other things than babies and Sunday schools. Alfred Belt's fortune is variously estimated at from $400,000,000 to $1. 000,000,000, but as far as the apoplexy is concerned his holdings might Just as well stop at 30 cents. Writing on “Tom" Reed, Mark Twain profoundly observes that this abbreviating a man's name “is a pat ent of nobility.” Unfortunately w« can't cut “Mark” any shorter thaD it is. The Brussels girl who posed as a model for the picture of “The Vam pire” may like the portrait, but how is ahe pleased with being summed up in the poem as “a rag and a bone and a hank of hair?” Fournier has a new Automobile in which he expects to go 106 miles an hour. It is made in the shape of a cigar, and if the gentleman who ex pects to operate it is wise he will have it made bullet-proof. It is now pretty generally agreed that laziness, scientifically known as “ankylostoma,” is a disease. It is also pretty generally agreed that oil of birch, mixed with a few drops of ex tract of hustle, is good for it. A Y’ale professor claims to have dis covered that all life originated at the North Pole and that man came from the primates through Are. This, of course, happened long before the coal combinations got to doing business. A New Jersey judge having decided that a woman has a right to scold all she pleases, and the Minnesota preme court having ruled that a man has a right to beat his wife all he pleases, the ground appears to be pre pared for a resumption of hostilities all along the liae. OUR HOME MARKETS PURCHASING POWER IS THE BASIS OF ALL PROSPERITY. Money Distributed Among Work Peo ple Flows Most Quickly Into Circula tion and in Proportion as Wages Are High or Low Times Are Good or Bad. In estimating the prosperity of the country for the year just closed, which the prominent commercial agencies say was the best which the United States has ever experienced, and in forcasting the Immediate future, which they think is bright with promise, they do not fail to emphasize a point which has been made by the Press often and which we consider of great importance in taking the measure of the possi bilities of our foreign trade. It Is the result on our Imports of the tremend ous purchasing power of the American market since its restoration to health by the Dingley law. Not only have the returns of the American wage earners increased enormously, the value of the farmers' crops been doubled—to two and a half billions from the period of extreme depression In the Cleveland hard times—the sav ings banks deposits advanced to more than two and three-quarter billions from $1,747,000,000 in 1894 and all di vidends and profits been multiplied on home industry and business, but the people of the United States have made so much money at home that they have been able to buy, and are buying, from abroad as they never bought be fore. In 1896 (fiscal year), when our mar kets were more open to the world un der the Wilson law, but when we were short of money because our own In dustries had been leveled by foreign competition, our imports of merchan dise were $732,000,000. In 1900 they were $849,00,000. In 1902 they were $903,000,000. Furthermore, since the close of the last fiscal year (June 30, 1902) there have been extraordinary increases in our imports, so that the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cannot fail to show many mil lions more of gain in imports. Nor can there be any doubt that the fall in the value of our exports for 1902 was due in a large measure to the very conditions of our own prosperity. The home demand for many of our own products was so strong, with such high prices commanded for them, that in numerous instances, after the home demand was satisfied, there was noth ing left to sell abroad. Especially was this the case, owing to crop fail ures a year ago last summer, with agriculture. Exports of agriculture were ninety millions less in the fiscal year than in the previous period, a particular shrinkage occurring in corn, of which the American supply was urgently required in this country, stim ulating prices so high that they were prohibitive of export business. Yet though our exports of agricul ture fell by ninety millions there was a loss in total exports of only ten mil lions more than that. The value of our mining exports increased from $38,000,000 to $39,000,000. There was a decline in the value of exports of manufactures to $404,000,000 from $412,000,000 in 1901, and from nearly $434,000,000 in 1900. Here again, how ever, this was largely due to the fact that in some lines of manufacture, no tably steel, there was so much home business that domestic producers could not even fill their orders for Ameri can consumption, much less ship their product for sale abroad. This de mand, as the commercial agencies em phasize, still exists, and orders are booked so far ahead that the pros perity of the first half at least of this new year is a secured fact. One otner factor of prosperity to which we have given frequent refer ence is made prominent In the annual reviews of the commercial agencies. It is as to the relation of higher wages to prosperity. There is a feeling In spec ulative Wall street that the unprece dented advances in wages must check earnings and so produce business de pression or a fall in earnings. But they repeat our frequent reminder that it Is a fact that goes without saying that the money which flows most quickly into general circulation and which applies the promptest purchas ing power to the American market is the money paid to wage earners week by week and month by month, and as uniformly spent by them. With the swelling of wages of the people of the United States the purchasing power of the home market goes on increasing —and the power to take foreign goods imported as well—and Presperity in 1903 marches out with a solid front.— New York Press. NOT A FARMER IN IT. Agricultural Interests Totally Unrep resented in the Recent Reciprocity Convention. Last week a convention was held in this city to forward a scheme to se cure reciprocal trade relations be tween this country and the Canadian provinces. It was attended by a num ber of business men and manufactur ers from various parts of the coun try, and several ambitious politicians who are very anxious for advancement In public life. There were also a num 1> ,* of Canadian statesmen, generally lawyers holding public positions, nice gentlemen to meet, good talkers, and with the ability to "make the worse appear the better cause.” Of course the Americans present de manded reciprocity in the name of the pc-ople, whom they represented as cry ing for it, while a fool Congress was standing in the way. We notice that when men want anything badly them lelves they always demand it in th* name of the people. If the American people favored all the wild scheme* these wind-jammers credit them with the country would have been wrecked years ago. That it is still doing busi ness and fairly prosperous is pretty good evidence that people are not such visionaries as these gentlemen cred ited them with being. There was one peculiarity about this convention, which was claimed to rep resent the “people.” There was not an individual invited or present who represented the producing interests of the country. Not a fanner was in at tendance, and yet forty of the eighty millions of people in the country live on farms. No one spoke for them ex cept in the way of using their industry as a bait to induce the Canadians to grant concessions to manufacturers. The farmer was to be sacrificed that the manufacturer and dealer might become more prosperous. Canadian grain, dairy products, cattle, sheep, hogs, wool and fruit were to be admit ted free, and in return the Canadians would reduce their tariff on agricul tural implements and manufactured goods and the export duty on timber. It is a beautiful plan, and formulated along the lines that so many short sighted business men have always ad vocated. Their cry is, give us free raw material and we will manufactur* goods for the world. What the pro ducers of what they term "raw ma terial” are to do under such conditions they do not specify. The condition of the 40 millions of producers Is a mat ter of indifference to them. The last experience the country had with free raw material and protected goods de stroyed their home market and gave them nothing in return. Yet they have such short memories that they are anxious to try it again. Many years ago Solomon referred to a class of people who might be brayed in a mor tar and yet would not learn wisdom. We have the same kind with us to-day. They make it a point to attend all reciprocity conventions, for which their peculiar characteristics eminent ly fit them.—The Michigan Farmer. Th* Winning Hand. The Value of Production. One of the reasons why the Ameri can consumer is able to pay so much more for goods than most foreigners is because the manufacturers of the United States are not subjected to re pressive measures. They are practi cally encouraged to let production ex pand. As a consequence the resources of the country are energetically devel oped and there is a larger share for all those who assist in their production. That this is true the statistics of con supmtion abundantly attest, and, be ing true, the people have a right to ac count themselves prosperous, no mat ter how domestic prices may compare with those which obtain in other coun tries. The only persons who have anything to complain of are the foreigners who are the victims of the dumping process, and they will be fully justified in taking any steps which may put an end to the practice. That they are likely to do so is suggested by the vig orous objections to dumping which find their way into print in free trade England. ' Although the gospel of cheapness is preached by British econ omists, it is noteworthy that they ara oeginning to realize that when it ob tains at the expense of the domestic producer it is dearly paid for by all classes. Production is the mainspring oi prosperity, and anything that strikes a blow at it must prove detri mental to a country. This is a truth which sophistry cannot disguise even in Great Britain, where cheapness is extolled but where it is nevertheless clearly recognized that the cheapness which proves destructive to domestic industry is undesirable. It is only the American free trader who still suffers from the hallucination that it is wise for the consumer to seek to profit at the expense of the producer.—San Francisco Chronicle. Tariff Reform. Representative Richardson of Ten nessee, minority leader of the House of Representatives, in an interview in the Washington Star (Ind.), is quoted as saying: “You will never have tariff reform to suit the people, so long as the manufacturers virtually sits in committee and writes the schedule." We all remember a tariff reform when the importer sat in committee and wrote all of the schedules, except what the Sugar Trust wrote. This re form made the people nick and will probably keep the Democrats out of power for i; quarter of a century. No Call for Them. There aren’t any free public soup houses operating in unrentable busi ness rooms this winter and, glory be, there isn’t any call for them.—Terre Haute Tribune. Only From the Outside. “What is prosperity?” asks the Chi cago News. Prosperity is a condition which Democrats can view only from tke outside.—Oswego Times. rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL, -ESEON VII., FEB. 15; 1 CORIN THIAN8—CHRISTIAN SELF CONTROL. Golden Text—“Let Us Therefore Fol low After the Thingr. Which Make for Peace—Rom. 14:19—The Quar terly Temperance Lesson. A Perplexing Question in the Early Church.—Vs. 1-4. The Early Church at Corinth. We need to recall the fact that he gospel had been preached In Corinth or only about five years; that most of the Christians there hud - within less ime than that come out of heathenism: .hat their early training under heathen influences was still a powerful factor In their lives; and that their present sur roundings were very unfavorable. One of the perplexing questions which early confronted the Corinthian Chris tians was, whether It was right for them to partake of food which had been offered to idols. 1. Things offered unto Idols "were those portions of the animals offered In sacrifice which were not laid on the al tar, and which belonged partly to the priests, partly to those who had offered .hem. These remnants were sometimes eaten at feasts holden in the temples, or in private houses (I Cor. 10:19-33), sometimes sold in the markets, by the priests, or by the poor, or by the nig gardly ’’—Alford. Why This Question was Perplexing Be cause on the one hand some would plaus ibly argue that to do so was countenanc ing Idolatry, and upholding heathenish customs which Christ came to destroy, and would throw the young Christians in to perpetual temptation to worldly con formity. Modern Examples. There are not a few questions similar to those which per plexed the early church, which contin ually come up for settlement by the mod ern church, which must be answered ac cording to the principles laid down by Paul In this lesson. Many of them are connected with amusement or recreation. But first and foremost comes the question of total ab stinence from wine, beer, and the lighter alcoholic drinks, and the best methods of advancing temperance. The Principles Underlying the Settle ment of these Questions.—Vs 4-13. We know that an Idol Is nothing In the world. The Image Is nothing but wood or brass or stone. It has no existence as a deity. There Is only one God. There can be but one In the nature of things. The decision of the question, as far as mere knowledge could give it, is stated in v. S. “But meat commendeth us not to God.” He does not think any more of us for eating, or for refraining from eating. It is our characters, our moral condition, our love, not some formal act of eating, or fasting, for which he cares. But knowledge alone does not remove the difficulty. First. Because It is too imperfect, too limited. "And if any man think that he know eth any thing.” Think that without love he really knows anything In its com pleteness, In Its relations, without which there Is no true knowledge. "He knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.” He has mistaken a part for the whole, he has mistaken a drop of water for the ocean. He does not understand even the bearings and uses of bis little Item of knowledge about Idols. Second. Because (v. 7) "there Is not in every man that knowledge" about meat offered, to Idols. Many were very ignorant, having just escaped from idol atry. “And their conscience being weak." A weak conscience Is 11) on# which either regards as wrong what is not in fact so; or (2) one which is not clear and decided in Its judgments (Hodge): or (3) one which has not power enough to restrain a per son from doing the wrong it condemns. II. Liberty —There are three kinds of actions concerning which we must judge for ourselves and be Judged by others. (1) There are certain acts which are uni versally conceded to be right, and us coming within the Christian law of lib erty. (2) There are other acts which are as plainly prohibited. To do them is wrong and always wrong. This lesson does not concern such questions as these. (3) There is a very large number of acts which lie In the twilight region, between the day of certain right and the night of acknowledged wrong. They are not wrong in themselves, but are right or wrong according to the circumstances In which they are done. 1. It is right to claim for ourselves full liberty of conscience In such matters. 2. It Is our duty to yield to others the samo privilege we claim for ourselves. 3. The spirit of judging others is a worse fault than most of the faults con demned. It Is closely allied to self-conceit, malevolence, bigotry, and Injustice. 4. The safest way is the way of liberty of Judgment. The right is thus most easi ly enabled to prevail. B. Liberty does not prevent any one from holding decided opinions, and speak ing of them, and arguing for them. Lib erty Is not Indifference. 6. Yet liberty alone cannot settle the perplexed questions, for (v. 9) this lib erty of yours may become a stumbling block. III. Love, Supported by Knowledge and Liberty. Is the only method of solu tion. Thus, as In v. 3, love edifleth; that Is, builds up the soul Into God’s spiritual temple. There may be a misapplication of this principle. It does not mean that we should never do anything which others do not like, at which they take ofTense, or with which they find fault. Nor that In any case should we yield In a duty or a teaching, because some may stumble even over the truth. Even Christ could not so act that none took offense. Paul could not. Their histories are full of Il lustrations of this. Love and Sympathy for the Weak and Sinful. No one can do much good to oth ers unless he is in real sympathy with and really loves those he seeks to help. But it makes all the difference in the world with what In them we sympathize. If we sympathize with the sin, and de light in It. if we like to Join in It, and pacify the conscience of the sinner by approval, or smothering over the sin as a very little evil, then our sympathy is only a deadly evil. We strengthen Id Bln. and not save from it. But If we sym pathize from the consclenceness of own weakness, with the desire to overcome It, with the struggle, in spite of many failures, to gain the victory, with the hope and longing for better things, then our sympathy Is a power for good. Truth and Falsehood. Dr. Johnson, giving advice to an In timate friend, said: “Above all, ac custom your children constantly to tell the truth, without varying in any circumstance.” A lady present em phatically exclaimed: “Nay, thiB is too much; for a little variation in nar rative must happen a thousand times a day, if one Is not perpetually watch* ing.” “Well, madam,” replied the Doctor, “and you ought to be perpetut ally watching. It is more from care lessness about truth than from inten tional lying that falsehood comes.” USE A TELEGRAPH BLANK. How Bachelors May Safely Maks Promises of Marriage. Lawyer Abe Hummel is authority for the statement that If bachelors who wish to avoid breach of promise suits will use telegraph blanks In do ing their proposing they will always keep on the safe side. He bases this assertion on an incident in a West chester county breach of promise case, in which Mr. Hummel appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff’s lawyer began to read the alleged pro posal of tne defendant to the jury, as it appeared on a message blank. He began with "My dearest Louisa." Mr. Hummel interrupted. “If the court please, this document Is partly printed and partly written. By all the rules of evidence the plaintiff cannot offer parts of that Instrument. He must read it all.” The opposing lawyer protested that the printed matter had nothing to do with the case, and the fact that the proposal was written on a telegraph blank was an accident. The court ruled that everything on the blank should be read. Reluctantly the plain tiffs counsel read: “There is no liability on account of this message unless the same is re peated, and then only on condition that the claim is made within thirty days in writing." And then, after the signature, “Yours lovingly, John,” followed by “N. B— Read carefully the conditiois at the top.” It didn’t take the jury long to ren der a verdict.—New York TimeB. NOT THE FAULT OF THE FISH. Minister Saw No Reason for Declining a Gift. The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, ’the minister-author, has a country house on the Delaware, and Is very fond of the shad that run up this broad stream in the spring and early summer. The fishermen of the neighborhood are aware of Mr. Brady's weakness, and take pains to cater to it. They never fail on the first spring casting of the seine, to present one of their largest shad to the clergyman. But last spring the first cast was made on a Sunday, and the fishermen hesitated, therefore, about making Mr. Brady their usual gift. Finally, though, they decided to risk it, and one of their number called at the Brady residence with a fine shad. “Mr. Brady,” he said, “I took the lib erty of bringing you this fish.” “Thank you, Tom. Thank you,’ said the minister, and ho relieved the other of the shad. “Only I must tell you that the catcb was made on Sunday, sir." Mr. Brady frowned, he half extend ed the shad to the fisherman, then he half drew it back again. “Well, Tom,” he said at length, “I'll keep it, anyway. What happened was wrong, but surely it was not this pool fish's fault.”—Washington Star. The Dying Man’s Joke. The antiquary stood in the Union League, contemplating, his hands be hind his back, the excellent portrait of Thaddeus Stevens. "Whenever i . study this painting of my old friend,’ he said, "1 am reminded of a jest ' that Stevens made when he was dying, to two of the attendants al J the capitol at Washington. Up tc almost the last Stevens insisted or participating in the sessions of Con gress, and these two men carried him daily from his hotel in a great chair tc his desk. He was worn down to skir and bone at this time; it was cleai he was not much longer for this I earth; but his two servitors were I huge, lusty and young men. Hence 1 think that there was a good deal ol delicate humor and pathos in the re mark he made to them one day, as they were carrying him, as usual, ovei to the Capitol. ‘What will I do,’ h« said, ‘for carriers—how will I get tc my desk safely and comfortably— when you two giants are dead and gone.’ "—Philadelphia Record. The Dignified Usher. In one of the boxeB at a social af fair at the Waldorf the other evening were two or three young women rath er thinly clad. Their chaperon called to one of the ushers. “I wish you would have that wl» dow behind us closed,” she said. "Certainly, madame," he responded politely, “I will send for a man to dc it without delay.” The party waited a quarter of an hour, and then the chaperon mad« another complaint to the usher. "I will see to It at once,” he said. After ten minutes more she called him again. "I shall have to close thai window myself, unless it Is attendee to immediately,” she exclaimed. “By no means, madame,” he said with the utmost deference. "Unless the man comes very soon I will do 11 myself.” I And the condescending indivldua: was only a minor member of the great society of flunkies, at that.—New York Mail and Express. A Champion Custer. At Wichita Mrs. Pearl Williams has sued for divorce. She alleges that one day four weeks after her marriage she traded a can of cherries for some fresh fruit to a neighbor. That night when her husband came home and found that she had made this small dicker he commenced to sw’ear. Mrs. Wil llaras declares that for six straight hours he swore a blue and sulphurous stream that swelled and gained in vol ume as it flowed onward. At last she fled from the house in dismay. She stayed away, too, and brought suit for divorce. And now Judge Dale will pass upon the artistic vehemence o1 the man who could swear six straight hours after only four weeks of man riage. WOMEN SUFFER. ! Kurd to attend to daily duties with a back that aches like the toothache. A woman’s kidneys give her constant trouble. Backache is the first warning of sick kidneys, and should never be neglected. Urinary disorders an noy, embarrass and worry womankind. Dangerous dia betes, dropsy and Bright’s disease are sure to follow if the kidneys are neglected. Read how to cure the kidneys and keep them well. MrB. James Beck of 314 West Whitesboro street, Rome, N. Y., says: "I was troubled with my kidneys for eight or nine years; had much pain in my back; as lime went on 1 could hardly endure it; I could not stand except fo. a few moments at a time; 1 grew weak and exhausted; 1 could not even do light housework, let alon© washing and ironiug; I could not rtoop or bend; my head ached severely; I was in pain from my head down to my heels; centering in the kidneys it was a heavy, steady, sickening ache; I could not rest nights, and got up morn ings weak and tired. I thought I was about done for, when 1 saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised for kidney complaints, and got them at Broughton & Graves' drug store. Within a wee!;, after commencing their use I began to Improve, and from that time on rapidJy grew better. I used five boxes in all and was cured. I have recommended Doan's Kidney Pills to many others, and my case ought to convince the most skeptical sufferer to give them a fair trial." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine, which cured Mrs. James Beck, will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price, KO cents per box. The best friend that a conceited girl can have is a big brother. He wil! ?ure her by the ministration of elec tric shocks. NtopH thn Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bronio Quinine Tablets. Trice25c. A woman need not be at all clever :o win a man s love, but she must be mighty clever to keep it. WHEN VOt lC UKOCES 8AT8 he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. De fiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains IS oz to the puekaee and tells for same money as 12 oz brands Thera is nothing like leather—not even the paper imitations. Plso’e Cure for Consumption it an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Sijtuib, Ocean Orove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900. Wet boots and expected pleasures are hard to put off. You never hear any one complain about “Defiance Starch.” There is none to equal it in quality and quan tity. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it slow and save your money. Matrimony can never be wholly a success until hubby forgets mother's cooking. SHORTH AND^bWa^ PKOF. L. L. MARTIN. CKPAR BAPIDS, IOWA About the only satisfactory substi tute for wisdom is silence. Mr*. Winslow* *ootTilijf? Syrup. F»»r Children teething, softens the gums, reaCiCM tn fluimnatlon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a but tit. You can't tip a waiter enough tc ‘make him lose his balance. WABASH KAUHOAB —SELL— MOBILE and return,.A2A.S NEW ORLEANS and return, .... aa9 » Havana, ccba, ano return, - - - aiis.s The above (peelal rate, uud many other, will long ilnilt. and .top-over, on .ale F i>. ilih n UVnu lnclu.tve. All Information at Waba.li (_lij Office, 1601 Farnatn St., or adore.., HARRY E. MOORES, Gen. Agt. Pa». Dept. Omaha, Neb> A mule Imagines he has a musica. voice—and a good many people seen to be built on the same mistaken plan The average wife dislikes to asli her husband for money almost one tenth as bad as he dislikes to hav< her do it. SHOES " f ^ '**" UNION MADE W. L Douglmm mmkmm and math morm man'a Goodyaar Walt (Hand Sowad Pragma*) ahomm than any otha, manufaoturmr In tha world. $25,000 REWARD will b* paid to anyone wbo can disprove tbla statement. Because W. L. Douglas is the largest manufacturer he can buy cheaper anil produce his shoes at a lower cost than other eon-, cems, which enables him to sell shoes for 83.60 anil 83.00 equal in every A way to those sold els*^^^ where for Stand S5.1K). fjp \V. L. Douglas 83.50 JM and $3shoesare worn by thousands of menvht have been paying$4 and $5,not believing thej could get a first-class shoe for $3.50 or $3.00 lie has convinced them that the style, fit and wear of his $3.50 and $3.00 shoes is just as good. Give them atrial and save money Motlre Inrreiiie rims, Sain: Wa.ttOK.MHII.stf In Hnalneast \1»08 Sain: Sr>,lMi4,:HO.uo A (tainof ss.sno.t.tll.tlt in Fonr Yearn. W. L. DOUCLA8 $4.00 OILT EDCE LINE. Worth S6.00Compared with Other Makes. The best Imported and American leathers. Heul', Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf. Calf, Vlci Kid. Corom Colt, and National Kanqaroo. Fast Color Ei/rlets Pailtinn • Th® genuine have W. I* DOUQLAI WflUilUII . name and price stamped on bottom .VWf by mail. Stic, extra. Hint, fataloa/rrr. W 1.. ItOKil.AN. IIKVI KTU.i; llASN. W. N. U.—Omaha. No. 6—190.'