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MICHAEL BAUER
Men's and Boys' Shoes
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Auto Phone F1000 114 So. 9th St., Lincoln, Neb.
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Extra Fina Cigar
It is Now Sold at Almost Every Stand
Always a Fine Blue Label Smoke
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STAPLE AND FANCY
The Crop
Reports
Important Factor
in Commercial
World
By CHARLES C. CLARK.
Associate Statistician. U. S. Department of Agriculture
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1PAUL DYBBROl
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Home Made Sausage, fish and Oysters, Game in Season
Phones: Bell 949; Auto 3958 301 So. 11th
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Why Not Make it A Merry Christmas
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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
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Telephone Bell 298, Auto 2298
1026 N Street Lincoln, Neb.
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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.
