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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1908)
90OSOSCCXKO0OSOSOSOOeO000OSO00000-00 I ' 9 3 1 1 I HENRY RFEIF DEALER IIN $ 31-4 South 11th I Bell Phone 477 Auto Phone 3377 MICHAEL BAUER Men's and Boys' Shoes REPAIRING A SPECIALTY 6 "A $ Auto Phone F1000 114 So. 9th St., Lincoln, Neb. 0600000000e3QOffiOOe TRY THE Extra Fina Cigar It is Now Sold at Almost Every Stand Always a Fine Blue Label Smoke Vede- By I 128 So. 1 1th P. J. WOHLENBERG 8 TZ VilLLKK nKllN. 301 South 11th street STAPLE AND FANCY The Crop Reports Important Factor in Commercial World By CHARLES C. CLARK. Associate Statistician. U. S. Department of Agriculture I GROCERIES Bell Phone 949 Auto Phone 3949 6 0COC&IK-0$0&000&00QG3 1PAUL DYBBROl I Fresh. Salt and t Smoked Meats Home Made Sausage, fish and Oysters, Game in Season Phones: Bell 949; Auto 3958 301 So. 11th si 8 osKW-oc-ooKoe o e ?sooooeoeoo-v I McNAIR & HAHN 1 X m-? 3 Jrs?jFJ?r est 0 v 6 8 s 1 livery appointment, first-class and all leading brands of Union Made Cigars in stock. Ery us for a box for your Christmas Gift. We can suit you in Brand, Stock and Price. T IS universally conceded that farming agriculture is the basic industry upon which all other industries greatly depend. The measure of the country's crops is to a large extent the measure of the country's prosperity, and the purchasing power of the people is increased or diminished as the crops are boun tiful or meager. Therefore the commercial interests of the country arc vitally affected by the quantity and quality of the crops; and it becomes a matter of vast importance to them to know "in advance" what the crop prospects are during the growing season and what the output is at harvest. " With such information carefully and scientifically gathered and compiled, and honestly disseminated, so that it can be depended upon as being as reliable as an' forecast or estimate can possibly be, and relied up on as emanating from an impartial and -disinterested source, the mer chants and manufacturers of the country can certainly act with a degree of prudence and intelligence not possible were the information lacking. If reports show, during the growing season, that the condition of wheat is such as to indicate a full crop on a large area, the merchants of the wheat-producing sections of the country know that they can give liberal orders for goods to be handled by them several weeks or months later; the manufacturers, located far from the wheat fields, know where there will he a large demand for such of their products as are used by all dependent upon the wheat industry ; the railroad companies know they will have heavy freights to transport; and so the advance knowledge regarding the probable future outcome of the crop serves as a guide to every branch of commerce and trade connected with the wheat-growing areas of the country. The same is true as to the other crops corn, cotton-, oats, r3re, tobacco, etc. If, on the other hand, the condition of growing crops is unfavorable, reliable information to that effect is equally, in fact more, important to trade and commerce than when the promise is good. It was to remedy the evils and to subserve and protect the interests of all, as above noted, that congress provided for issuing monthly crop re ports, and the crop-reporting service of the department of agriculture aims to supply the public at large with impartial, unbiased information regard ing crop areas, conditions, and yields which, it must be apparent, is highly essential and beneficial not only to farmers, but also, equally, to our com mercial interests of everv kind and class. Writing from Real By JAMES B. CONNOLLY. Author of "Out o! Gloucester." The BB Cigar Store 1025 P STREET BOLES & BOYD, Proprietors. An Excludive Smokers' Retreat where the finest brands of Cigars, Tobaccos as well as Smokers' articles are to be found. NEW MANAGEMENT. UNION MADE OIOARS HERE. Ball Telephone 256 Automatic Phone I256 I SOL KSENSKY Importer and Dealer in Wines and Liquors ...BOTTLE TRADE FOR CHRISTMAS A SPECIALTY... Real German Beer and Ale on Draught 227 NORTH 10TH ST. LINCOLN ill J I m. l. Mcpherson j Choice IVinos and Liquors 1 I DICK BROS.' BEER 1 Don't Go Any Further for Bottled Goods $ for the Holidays I 847 O St. Auto 3372 1 4 Aren't we all trying to paint life as we find it, without caring overmuch where we find it, provided it is interesting to us and not too sordid for decent men's enjoyment? Preferably do we not take our stories from real life, thereby saving-ourselves just so much work? sCg I And never a story worth while that did I.:U1I1U JXUIIL Jill., Wlllll 1, tli-lVA till, tta much in thp spirit as in the bod', as much in the aspirations as in the accomplish ments ; but this does not mean that we try to tell a story as we hear it does any imaginative person ever? but you hear a story and it suggests to you a treatment by which it may be made to serve a purpose. When you get through with it it may differ as much from the original tale the plant does from the seed, but in that original tale was the germinu! idea, and isn't that about all that anybody with a moderately varied experience in life needs? Yoa are given the skeleton; it is for you to add flesh and blood and breathe the spirit into it; and will not the likeness to a real human being which that figure displays be about in proportion to our knowledge of human nature and whatever little gift we may have for inducing others to see tilings as do we ourselves? As to the plot need that matter much ? And if it does, they, lie all about us life is full of plots not always equal to the demands of melodrama, per haps, but sufficient to the largest requirement. Take any group of people, of varying. standards of conduct, and set them striving for some one thing, and do we not immediately get a struggle of some kind and doesn't every struggle develop its own plot? For my self, I think a plot should be kept very much under, as it is in actual life, where there are very few villains and very few sublime heroes, and where a man's course is a hundred times more likely to be guided by im pulse than by intellectually guided action. Death State Murder By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. The death penalty is one of those ter ribly inhuman acts against which I find my self unable to protest with sufficient strength, or with sufficiently far-reaching influence. I can quite understand that in a moment of irritation, of anger, of ven geance, or of forgetfulness of one's human character, one may kill another, either in defense of those dear to one or in one's own defense. A man may, iiinder the influence of patriotic intoxication, even participate in the common murder of war. That men in the full possession of their human faculties, however, in cold blood, admit the necessity of murdering a fellow-creature or force other men to commit an act so contrary to human nature that I have never imderstood, even in 1866, when, as a soldier, my life was the narrow one of the egotist. The catechisms tell us that it is not a crime to kill a person, when the depriving of such a person of his life is an act of the state or an act of justice. In legal and scientific works all the arts of sophistry are resorted to, in order to prove that killing, in the interests of the state, is a necessary process in the advance of civiliza tion. Haeckel, for. example, declares that the death penalty is not only a just chastisement for criminals, but a benefit for the better part of the human race. . . . It is my opinion that the mechanism of the state, inconceivable without murder, ia incompatible vith Christianity. I L .MAJESTIC Advanced Vaudeville Operater in Connection With the Orpheum Circuit. Week of December 21st Bowers, Walters and Crooker The Three Rubes. Rinaldo The Wondering Violinist. Herbert Brenon and Helen Downing Assisted by Raymond Clure in "THE INTRUDERS" Eva Mudge 'THE MILITARY MAID-'' Mazuz and Mazette Acrobatic Comedy. Three Alarcons Mexican Musicians and Vocalists. McGreevy and Brown The Burnt Cork Favorites. VIASCOPE Majestic Orchestra Matinees Tves., Thurs. and Sat. AT 2.13 W. m. PRICES, 15c AND 25c. Every Night: 8:15, BaL 15c and 25c. Entire Lower Floor 50c. 3 JQ Jfm Jf J .If. Jfm Jf- f tJf Oft Jfm Jf Jf iff Jf ff) r.. Morru if hrktiriAC I VI vl I J JiU IOMIIUO Why Not Make it A Merry Christmas i u : i- nuL.u-4.0 jr. oy rmving a rew iK.circsiiiiicin.ar JNO. H. ROSENSTOCK "p Wholesale Liquors, Imported and Domestic Wines and Brandies. Distributer of - J Lemp's St. Louis Lager Beer No Dinner Complete Unless a Bottle of Wine P or a Cold Bottle of Falstaff -:: ! Telephone Bell 298, Auto 2298 1026 N Street Lincoln, Neb. ' ; I H. W. MATHEWS .... ' Bell 60 843 O STREET Auto 4860 I Fine Line of Bottled Goods for the Holidays I Wholesale Dealer in Pabst Milwaukee Beer I Jobber of Fine Whiskies Family Trade Solicited. Prompt and Courteous Treatment. The Little Gold Dust J. M. HALL, Proprietor 12,5 Nottti Eleventh Street LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.