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will choose them for exactly the same reason. These suits sell at this
store all the year around at the same prices. Come and look at them. All
the new fall styles are in stock. Prices range from
$7.50 to $18 for Suits and O'coats
104-106 North 10th St.
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to Follow
First When Traveling between Omaha and Chicago, use. The Overland
Limited leaving at 8:35 p. m. from Union Station.
Second. If you cannot use The Overland Limited, use The Eastern Ex
press leavins at 5:45 p, m.
Third. If you ennnot use eitner 01
leaving a t 7 : 55 a. m.
In tliesvj three trains the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway
offers an excellence in service between Omaha and Chicago not obtain
able elsewhere. All trains arrive in Union Station in the heart of Chicago.
All trains are protected by block signals and run over a smooth track all
the way.
Low Rates to Many pastern Points
F. A. NASH,
General Western Agent.
YELLOWSTONE PARK
drand tourist resort of the people and one
of the most beautiful parts of
the American continent
VERY LOW ROUND TRIP RATES TO YELLOWSTONE PARK
. have been put in effect this summer
bv the
UNION
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mation in regard to rates, route, etc.,
inquire of
E. B. SLOSSON,
x stands for so much that
is dear to the heart of
the staunch
Union Man
that it is little wonder
he insists on seeing this
label in a suit of clothes
before he buys. ''Wear
Well Clothes" are so thor
oughly well made that
they sell strictly on their
own merits. We chose
"Wear-Well Clothes" not
merely because they have
the Union label, but be
cause we could not find as
good garments anywhere
for the money. And you
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A SHOOTING IN CEDARVALE.
In a Quarrel About a Liquor License a
Physician Was Killed.
Dr. E. M. Donelson, a prominent phy
sician of Cedarvale, was shot and
killed by Frank Pattison, a son of G.
W. Pattison, d: druggist. . Pattison was
hurried out of town and taken to the
county jail at Sedan.
The trouble grew out of the hearing
of a liquor case at Sedan. Pattison
applied for a renewal of his permit to
sell liquor and was defeated in his ap
plication by the testimony of Dr. Don
elson. All the parties returned home
to Cedarvale. Frank Pattison met
Donelson on the street and a quarrel
ensued. Pattison drew a revolver and
shot Dr. Donelson through the temple.
Dr. Donelson was 60 years old. He
leaves a family. Pattison is 26 years
old.
A Friend of Lincoln's Dead.
E. S. Wills, 73 years- old, died at
Atchison. He was superintendent of
the Atchison Water company for more
than twenty years, the first railroad
ticket agent at this point, ex-general
freight and passenger agent for the
Central Branch, one of the flr3t civil
engineers for the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, and a friend of President
Lincoln, when both lived in Spring
field. 111.
Chancellor Strong Back in Lawrence,
Chancellor Strong of the University
of Kansas and Mrs. Strong have re
turned from Colorado, where they
spent the summer. Dr. Strong has
completely recovered from his recent
attack of typhoid fever and will as
sume his duties immediatel
A Pardon for a Dying Kansan.
William Dean, convicted of burglary
in Wilson county, Kansas, in 1905, was
pardoned from the penitentiary by
Governor Hoch. Dean is now suffering
a severe attack of tuberculosis and
has not long to live. The prison phy
sician urged that the pardon be grant
ed.
Prof. L. I. Blake, professor of elec
trical engineering at the University of
Kansas, who has been managing the
submarine signal station at Boston,
sent in his resignation of his position
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result in opening those islands to the
light of the gospel. I submit in all
good faUh that if we shall , condone
opening ' the way with musket and
sword for the light of the gospel, we
shaH also condone the use of the cob-
tlcstcne and . the loaded gaspipe in
opening the way fcr the light of trades
unionism. For my part I am opposed
to both. If I were asked to diagram
any essential point -of difference be-tv.-een
the trades union and the church
I would say that one teaches the doc
trine of every-day reward, while the
other inclines to the future reward.
In other wtords, the church may be
charged with teaching that God does
business on a credit basis; that it
teaches that God promises a great re
ward sometime in the dim and distant
future if we do the right thing during
the present. I do not believe that God
does business that way. He does busi
ness on a cash basis. Let me illustrate
my point by a little story. My father
is a minister of the gospel. During
his long service in the ministry in
Illinois he became the friend of a man
named Tom Snell. Snell was a rich
man, and he had paid a large percent
age of the first cost of every church in
our county. He was liberal to a fault;
the poor never appealed to him in
vain. Yet he was what some church
members would call a Godless man
because he drank heavily, swore like a
pirate and was accounted one of the
best gamblers in the country. One day
Snell met my father and' said:
"Parson, you preachers are making
a great mistake by teaching that God's
rewards are in the hereafter. It isn't
so, and I can prove it."
"Go ahead, Tom," said my father.
"Well, I own two ICO-acre farms in
McLean county, one in the north end
and one in the south end. They are
exactly alike in soil, in improvements
and in general appearance. I can sell
the north end farm for a hundred dol
lars an acre any day in the year. I
can't get an offer of $75 an acre for
the south end farm.' Do you know
why there is this difference?
'"I do not," replied my father.
"Well, I'll tell you. Those people in
the north end of the county have sung
and prayed that farm up to a hundred
dollars an acre, while the people in
the south end of the county have fid
dled and danced the property in their
section down to sixty or seventy dol
lars an. acre."
Trades unions teach that trades
unionism brings its present reward in
the shape of better industrial condi
tions, better, wages, shorter hours of
work, more enlightened citizenship,
happier children, happier homes and
better fellowship. Without trades
unionism the industrial condition of
the workers would be even worse than
the spiritual condition of those who
have never had the joy of hearing the
gospel of the Nazarene.
If the church and the trades union
were to join hands and work in har
money, each helping the other, the
progress of mankind toward the ideal
life would be a thousand times more
rapid than it is. I know of no forces
working for more beneficent ends. I
know of no greater forces in the work
of uplifting humanity.
What is a doer of the work? ' James
says that "Pure religion and undenled
before God and the Father is this, to
visit the fatherless and the widows in
their affliction, "and to keep himself
unspotted from the world." I believe
from the bottom of my heart that the
trades unions of today are doing more
in proportion to numbers to further
the work of helping the fatherless and
the widows, to visit the sick and af
flicted, to help the poor and needy,
than are the churches. -And I do not
believe that keeping oneself unspotted
from the world means that one is to
wrap his religion about him like a
clcak and seek the seclusion of some
retreat afar from the haunts of men,
there to live a hermit. The Christian's
place today is in the marts of trade,
in the great centers of manufacture,
in the counting room, there to teach
by the force of his every-day example
the joys and the pleasures of the Chris
tian life. The trades unionist's place
is in the great industrial world, there
to teach by the force of his every-day
example the benefits of co-operation,
of mutual helpfulness, of that love
which reaches down and lifts up to a
higher level of usefulness and citizen
ship. In these great works may not
,me trades union and' the church join
hands?
The church carries hope and cheer
to those who sit in darkness. It sheds
the light of regeneration upon the
sould of men. It lifts up those who
sit in darkness, and it comforts the
widows and the orphans. That such
a forie should have survived so long
and accomplished so much for better
ment of mankind is proof sufficient of
its divine origin. But logic is logic,
my friends. The church has not been
alone in this sort of work. In seven
teen centuries the church did not wipe
c'it as many evils that oppressed the
laborers of earth as the trades unions
have in the last one hundred years.
Your missionaries carry the light of
tho gospel into dark lands. Our trades
union missionaries carry it into the
ncisome sweatshop. They take the
little children from the stunting and
demoralizing mills and mines and give
them sunshine and playtime and
schooltime. They give the husband
into the bosom of his family at least
a portion of that family's waking
hours. They give the wife and mother
to the home by enforcing conditions
that make it possible for the husband
and father to earn enough to support
his family instead of calling upon the
partner of his bosom to become a
breadwinner. Our trades unions have
builded for better citizenship by en
forcing conditions that made it pos
sible for hundreds of thousands of
children to acquire an education in
stead of toiling in the mills and mines.
Are these not great and good works,
vorthy of being placed alongside the
works of the church? As trades union
ists we are striving to create condi
tions that will make it possible for our
children to enjoy better conditions
than their parents enjoyed. And I de
clare here and now that child labor
is the greatest curse of this country,
and I call upon you as Christians, as
church members, to join hands with
we of the trades unions in an effort that
will effectually wipe it out. The worst
murderer is he who -kills the innocence
of childhood, and deprives the child of
the playtime and the advantages of
youth.
' In the very shadow of the richest
churches in, New York, Chicago, Bos
ton, Philadelphia and other great
cities, there exists more of human
woe and misery than could be de
scribed by tongue or pen, and men re
sponsible for these conditions sit in
their comfortable pews and take upon
their lips the words uttered by the
workingman of Nazareth. Into the
contribution plates are dropped the
golden coins wirung from the tears and
sweat and blood of childhood and
womanhood and manhood offerings to
the Man whose every utterance wa3
an indictment of the industrial condi
tions eforced by these rich men and
women. With here and there a nota
ble exception, the pulpit is silent on
these things, or if it does speak at
all of these things it speaks in glit
tering generalities, instead of pointing
the finger at the guilty ones, saying,
"Thou art the man, and thou, and
thou!" In view of these admitted
facts, can you blame the workingman
for the prevalent belief that the church
ia not doing its duty? , Into these foul
tenements the settlement workers are
crowding, but wherever the settlement
worker goes he or she finds that the
union agent has been before them
ministering to the sick, helping the
afflicted, clothing the naked, feeding
the hungry and burying the dead. The
first glimmer of hope entering into
these dark places was brought by the
unions. I shudder to think of the
sights I have seen in the East Side
districts of New York sights I could
not begin, to describe if I would
sights that could not be more than
hinted at in the presence of refined
women and men. Poverty, filth, dis
ease, crime the fruits of a perverted
industrialism wlhose only god is gold.
Sixty thousand tenement rooms in
New York City alone which have only
one opening, the door, and these sixty
thousand rooms sheltering 300,000 peo
ple, an average of five to the room, and
these rooms at once sitting room, work
room, dining room and bedroom.
Against these conditions unfonism is
fighting a slow, unequal but at the
same time a successful warfare. Will
not the church help' us? In God's
name I ask you to help us put these
helpless and hopeless thousands into a
fit physical condition to listen to the
words of the gospel. I have an abid
ing faith in the final victory, both for
the church and the union. The closer
the two get together, and the quicker,
the sooner . will all the wrongs be
righted.
The unions are not perfect, for per
fection can not be achieved by man,
But if at the end of nineteen cen
turies the church still makes mistakes.
we are profiting by our mistakes, just
as the church has profited.
I believe in my union because I be
lieve in God. I believe true unionism
is God's work. My faith in God has
never faltered, and I believe that in
His own good time God will bring to
both organizations the final victory.
Prof. Blake- of K. U. Resigns.
Every joint or saloon in Dickinson
county, Kansas, was raided by the
county officers. Twenty-five joint
keepers were arrested, each charged
on several counts with violating the
state prohibition law.
Four Fell Through a Kansas Bridge.
Matthew Wagner, his wife and two
children, while driving across a bridge
near Leavenworth, were precipitated
a distance of sixteen feet
VETERAN IN REMINISCENT MOOD
TELLS GOOD STORY.
Owes His Life to Gentle Hearted
Southern Lady Who Used Heroic
Methods to Cure Him
of Pneumonia.
"I've been in tight places in battle,"
6aid the G. A. R. man in reminiscent
mood, "and generally acquitted myself
honorably. But once I was yes, a
hero!
"Several youngsters of us, wild with
enthusiasm, had gone into the army
from college. Such ? trifle as consult
ing our families couldn't stop us. After
some rough experiences in camp, there
was a skirmish In which several were
wounded. These and others of us, sick
from exposure, were deposited in an
improvised hospital in a small village.
"Medical supplies were few, there
was only one doctor, and some officers'
wives, left at the place, did what they
could in nursing.- The dangerously
wounded got the attention, the rest of
us fared anyhow. The doctor had
given me about two- minutes and
rushed away, muttering something
about pneumonia.
"As I lay on my hard couch, forgot
ten, despairing, my thoughts were not
according to romantic ideals 'sol
dierly.' I had enlisted without con
stilting mother! Boy as I was, my
fear of death was not so much the fear
of actual dying as it was that of the
naughty child come to grief in his
naughtiness and now about to be found
out.
"A slip of a girl who I learned later
was a colonel's wife was giving me a
drink of water when the doctor dashed
by. 'My dear child,' he expostulated,
'you shouldn't be here what will the
colonel say? T don't care,' she retort
ed, spiritedly. T've got to help these
poo' sick boys you can go' along, doc
tan, an' the colonel, too!' ,
"So here was another young thing,
out of place, threatened with rightful
authority! I opened my heart to her
I .was going to have pneumonia, no
one was doing anything for me, and it
I died, what would my mother say!
" 'Poo' boy,' she cooed. T reckon
the doctah hasn't a minute foh yoh.
But I'll cure yoh. If you'll jus, do what
I say.' .
TI1 An rtl...r T MnVW
ised, and off she went, all important
with her charge, returning presently
with something in a cloth.
" 'Yoh mus' keep it on two houahs,'
he said, Impressively. 'It'll hu't awful
but yoh promised.' .
"She shed tears of pity, as with the
help of an old negro, she wrapped me,
front and back, in a mustard plaster
me ii Ke oi wnicn never was. jroo
boy, I jus' feel how It ' hu'ts, but re
membah how mad youah mothah
"Did I keep it on I did, for. two
'houahs,' manfully remembering moth
er and hearing my little nurse's 'You
promised!'
"And," concluded the veteran,- "I'd
give a great deal to see my nurse
again. She not only saved my life, but,
made me a hero for once perforce!1
Besides, I've always wanted to find out
If the colonel was as mild with her as
mother was with me when she found
me."
New American Industry.
The infant industry of raw silk pro
duction gives promise of developing
Into sturdy and vigorous manhood,
even though protective duties and the
aid of state or national bounties be
denied it. The father of the present!
movement to establish serf-culture as
a permanent and profitable branch of
A mar1nn inriiiatnr In Tallin RnrHa Ma.
gid, a German by birth, an Italian by
descent and an American by choice
and adoption. At Tallulah Falls, Ga.,
he owns 3,500 acres of land, on which
he has planted more than 200,000 mul
berry trees, which are now irom tnref
to five years old, and which are de
signed for the feeding of millions of
silk worms. The land will be subdi
vided into many small farms and,
leased or sold to persons willing, to
engage in silk culture. Mr. Magtdl
has proven that Bilk can be produced
as cheaply In America has In any oth
er country and that the $100,000,000:
or more expended annually for foreign'
silks might just as well be kept at
home for the benefit ot American
farmers, workmen and manufacturers.
Technical World.
Why He Married Her.
A country justice ot the peace,
when upward of 70 years of age, mar
ried a girl about 19, and being well
aware that he was likely to be rallied
on the subject, he resolved to be pre
pared. Accordingly, when any of his
intimate friends called upon him, af
ter the first salutation) were passed,
toe was sure to begin the conversation
by saying he believed he could tell
them news: "Why," said he, "I have
married my tailor's daughter." If
asked why, the old gentleman replied u
i"Why, the father suited me so well
for 40 years past that I thought the
daughter might suit me for 40 years
to come."
American Civility Criticised.
Owen Owen, a dry goods man, who
is in a large way of business In Liver
pool, tells in the Draper's Record of
what he saw on a recent visit to the
United States. He speaks with wonder
'of the many attractions and conveni
ences American dry goods - men fur
nish for their customers, but remarks:
"One hardly ever hears the phrase
'Thank you' in an American shop.
Without being actually rude, the as
sistants seem to lack some of the pofc.
ish which is expected from them in
this Qoutnry." , .