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DECEMBER 22, 1904
U6a Nebraska. Independent
attention to Ireland ana says that
that the suffering there Is caused by
fiee trade and proposes a tax on fool
stuffs a3 a remedy for famine. Ths
people of Ireland have no bread. Put
a tax on bread and then they will
have plenty.
' Emerson's first series of "Essays"
had reached a sale of 3,00,000 copies
over three years ago. No doubt it has
reached 4,000,000 by this time. Thi3 la
an interesting fact in a nation of per
haps 15,000,000 homes. . The books
having the greatest sale last year were
all of the class that are entitled to be
called "good literature." They were
such authors as Irwin, S'cott, Dickenn,
Darwin, George Eliot, Cooper, Mrs.
Jack3on, and Emerson: The booka
were all cheap, the copyright having
expired. It is evident that the sen
ility and twaddle in the daily papers
and magazines is inducing the peorI-i
to read books of . the better class.
Dennison has appealed his case t )
the supreme court of the United State.
The bail bond of this Omaha gambler
show3 that he has tremendous financial
backing in Omaha and that he will
never be transferred to the Iowa
authorities if money can prevent it.
Paul Morton instead of being the
the representative of the railroads in
the cabinet, and his mission is to
get a pooling bill through congress.
Paul will succeed for that i3 part of
the land slide.
An Era. of Prosperity
, - She appeared in the police court one
morning, accompanied by a big, well
fed, well-clothed officer of the law. Her
: wan face, scanty clothing, and shrink
ing appearance was in sharp contrast
to the self-a3surance of the policeman
f who had brought her in.
She gave her name as Mrs. Margaret
King. Her tone and her manner, of
speech betrayed the tact that she was a
lady a woman who had seen better
days.
Yes, she had seen better days; eight
years ago she was the petted daughter
of a father who had ample means. She
had been educated at one of the fash
ionable boarding schools in her city,
j she had for her companions children of
Barents as wealthy as her own. STve
i was the brightest girl of them all.
But fortune is fickle, and there are
' friends who wait upon it. When the
father died his fortune died too, then
,the daughter began the struggle for a
living, which has ended in the police
court.
One sad day her old mother was sent
to a charitable home, another day, and
it wa3 the saddest day the woman had
known, until she found her daughter's
mother there in the police court, the
little daughter was placed in a home
for children. '
The woman was sick, she was taken
to a hospital, it was found that she
was suffering from an incurable dis
ease, and she was barred from further
treatment.
Then the fight began in earnest
From her garret room she advertised
for employment as a companion or as
a reader to the sick. She .waited, no
answer came. Then she was forced
into the street to beg for work, and it
was while begging for . work that she
was arrested. She promised to desist
from "begging", and wa3 - not sent to
prison, but was placed in charge of a
probationary officer, who will see to it
that she keeps her promise. ; What wil
the woman do now? It is hard to tell
There is scarcely a session of the po
lice court in any large city, but has its
quota of vagrants. What is a vagrant?
A man or woman who, having no occu
pation and no home, loiters about the
street. And we, a -humane nation, ar
rest these .unfortunates, "put them ' in
prison, ana conaemn tnem to serve
time in the workhouse. We forget that
the "vagrancy" may be no fault of tho
Individual vagrant, but the fault of
system which deprives men of the right
to labor. We forget that this system
furnishes no place where it3 victims
may be housed and fed no place but
a prison. - It seems a little inconsistent
to make vagrants and then arrest our
own handiwork.
. -If the money which goes to suppor
jails and workhouses, were spent in
assisting men and women to preserve
their self-respect by furnishing them
honest employment, the world would
be vastly better off in point of men and
Tho LcIciza Fzrekaeo Exposition, St. Lczsio 100G.
The most wonderful the world ever saw, purchased by the Chicago House Wrecking Company. The dismantling of
this exposition is the most gigantic undertaking of modern days. Millions of dollars of material for sale by us at
prices that mean an enormous saving to purchasers. - Now is the time to pot into execution your long contemplated
improvements. Buy quick because the prices we. offer this material at will sell it as . fast as we can make delivery.
ti&s,OOQ,OGD Foot of VIeiS Seasoned Lumber.
The tiac to buy lumber is today. Prices are advancing. Within the next GO days you will see a decided increase in
the market prices on lumber. Do not wait until the prices go down. They never will. Even though you do not
happen to need any lumber today, it v.-ill pay you to purchase it cow and store it for future use. It will prove to be
abetter investment than money in the bank. Its value will double in a year's time. The finest grades of lumber
were used in the construction of this grand Exposition. The quality of the interior as well as the exterior material
could not have been better and was purchased at the time'with a view to strength, durability and finish. We are offer
ing for sale everything needed in the construction and furnishing of a building for any purpose. Studding, Joists,
planking, dressed and matched f!oor!ngr5heathing, timbers, in fact every variety of lumber for any purpose.
Setsdl Us Yczzr Lumber Bill for Our Estimate
You can save from 30 to 50 per cent if you buy at once.
This is your opportunity to build or improve your home or barn. In fact it is the chance of a life-time to cet lumber
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ueiuw rciuar prices, xi juu rc inicnuuig to oaua, dc sure ana taite advantage ot tms oner wnicn can only last lor a
limited time. -We are selling material for houses", barns, warehouses, churches, halls, elevators, tool sheds, granaries :
arid rrihs stores. soVinol rtrtn in fart anv Vinrl nf a It r- fnMnw T?o :.. U-,:iAlr,r, - j
provements, now is the time to order the needed supplies. Among the enormous bfock we haye just what you want.
tiiuuona or uouaro wortn or umsr Material for Safe.
Besides lumber, we have tor aa teat prices below the orfjrtrfal cost, all kinds of SASH, DOORS, STEEL AND FELT ROOFING, PIPE. HARD
WARE, MACHINERY, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, FURNITURE. RUBBER HOSB, ROOFING GLASS, WIRE AND FENCING., ELECTRICAL "
APPARATUS, FHNCB POSTS FIRB FIGHTING APPARATUS, STRUCTURAL IRON, PLUMBINO MATERIAL, FLAGS AND POLES, ROPE,
TOOI.S of ell inda. TURNSTILES. STATUES, RAILINO, MOULDING; IRON RODS, CONDUCTOR PIPE, EAVE TROUOHS, OFFICE
FIXTURES, OPERA CHAIRS, SETTEES, and thousands of other articles,
Aoh for Our Special World's Fair Got! Ho. 45.
. We purchased and dismantled the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893, tbo Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, 1890, the Pan American -Exposition,
Buffalo, 1901, the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. - ,
We have but little time to dismantle the St. Lou s World's .Fair with its millions of dollars of materials and furnishings used injitfl conatrac-
tion. Quick delivery to those that purchase now Address St. IiOIMS Office
Main OfTIee and Yards
35th and Iron Sts., Chicago
St. Tionis Office and Tarda)
World' Fair Grounds, St. IiOnlS
women.
The best paying investment that a
city could make would be to. take the
money, wnicn it spenas in prosecuting
its minor offenders and use It in cre
ating some honorable employment for
those who become vagrants and loit
erers from lack of opportunity to work
Save man's belief in his own man
hood! Save it at any cost! We can
not afford to kill it by the disgrace of
arrest and improsinment. s
Dead manhood always mean3 a crim
inal. Live manhood means a remain
ing sense of honor which may be kind
led into great usefulness Press-Post.
Money Without Interest
How can we set it? Read the mar
velous book, "The Disturbing Factor in
Human Affairs." Sent postpaid for 25c.
Address Richard Wolfe, publisher, Kit
tredge Bldg, Denver, Colo.
University Wins Medals
Official 'information has been re
ceived at the University, to the effect
that medals have been awarded on va
rious university exhibits at the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition as follows:
Gold medals for collectiva exhibit of
one hundred jars of threshed grakis
and seeds. Reed's Yellow Dent corn.
Collective educational exhibit.
Silver medals for collective exhibit of
photographs illustrating mineral re
sources. State museum and collective
exhibit of soils, minerals and building
materials.
A gold medal was also awarded to
Professor E. H. Barbour for collection
of cannas.
Miss Edith L. Webster also received
a gold medal for . design and Installa
tion of exhibits. ,
If you wi3h to know what the para
mount issue will be in' 1906. send to
Albert Griffin, Topeka, Kan., 25c for 1,
or $1 for 5 copies of "The Hocus Pocus
Money, Book," and read page 31. -
Large Families
Cincinnatti, O., Dec! 11. At the Vine
Street Congregational church . Sunday
evening, the pastor, Herbert S. Big
elow, discussed ; the president's recent
message to ' congress. Mr. Bigelow
praised x the message as a frank and
manly discussion of, great problems,
meriting the careful attention of every
citizen. He said in part: . . . .
"The president, it seems to us, has
the true perspective when he' declares
that the two problems of supreme con
cern are the question of family life
and . the industrial question. -
"No portion of the , message will be
read with greater interest and profit
than that dealing with the present
industrial conditions which are de
stroying the homes of the people in
the slums, sending the women an1
children out of tho home and the
school into the factories, and. raising
up a generation, 'unhealthy in body
and stunted or vicious . in mind.
"The place for the child is In school.
The place for the woman is,, in the
home. The place for he man is out
in the world, earning- the bread. If
women and children leave their nat
ural place to assist the bread-winner,
it is because the wages of the. bread
winner are not sufficient to support
the child in the school and the. woman
in the home. Therefore, industrial
conditions should be changed so that
it shall be possible for man to attend
to his duty as breadwinner and woman
to her duty as home-keeper. We are
in most hearty accord with the presi
dent when he says that 'all questions
to- tariff and finance &ink into utter
insignificance when compared with the
tremendous, the vital importance of
trying to shape conditions so that
these two duties of the man and the
woman can be fulfilled under reason
ably favorable circumstances.' ,
"The president, with justifiable
pride, calls attention to the valuable
work done by the labor and other
bureaus in disseminating information
concerning the true condition of work
ing people. One of these government
reports tells that the factory workers
of this country receive on an average
less than nine dollars a week., It
is perfectly apparent that a man
whose wage is nine dollars a week
cannot afford a family. The president
is right in insisting upon the moral
value of large families. Especially is
he right when he ' insists upon the
duty of changing social conditions so
that the wage of our workers will be
sufficient to support large families.
At present, if they have large families,
the mother has to take in washing and
the children have to leave school and
go to work when their bones are soft
and their minds are undeveloped. This
sort of thing is bound to produce, as
the president says a 'decadent race.'
"To pass restrictive factory laws
or to tear down old tenements Is like
trying-to sweep the ocean with a
broom.
Among" , the proposed : remidies en
titled to serious consideration is that
of the single tax men, who would im
prove industrial ' conditions by shift
ing the burden of taxation from the
things which men produce to the land
values which they monopolize. ,
"While - President Roosevelt in his
pubiic utterances has had nothing to
say for or against this proposal, he
aia say in,; private conversation to
Congressman - Baker last .winter: - 'You
single tax men . would s probably be
surprised to know how" far I agree
with you.' " -
DONT LOSE MONET from neglect la keeping ac
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ACCOUNT BOOK. It shows you how in biislnes form.
Firmly, nicely f ound, pocket nd flap. 3)c postpaid,
M. O. or 2c gtamps, F. . Johnson, rub., Marlon,
Iowa. Makes a splendid girt for a gentleman. .
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO.. LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MKR- ,
CHANTS. SO. OMAHA,
... NEB.. ,
. S'outh Omaha, Neb., Dec. 22.
Nine thousand cattle i3, the receipts
for. the fitst three days of this week.
There was very few fat cattle among
them. There is a little more life to
the market than at the close of last
week and prices are fully 2025 cents
higher. We quote: .
Choice steers, $5.006.25r fair to '
good, $4.00(g)4.75; cows and, heifers,
$2.503.50;;choice feeders $3.253.75;
good feeders, $3.003.40; good year
lings, $3.25(3.75; heavy stockers, $2.50
3.00; canners, $1.502.10; bulls, $2.00
3.50. vieaM $3.005.50. y "
Hog market nearly steady. Prices to
day from: $4.40 to $4.50., Receipts lib
eral. Sheep receipts are light with the
market 2040 cents lower on fat ones
than the high time 10 days ago.
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. other nations combined? Dr. La
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TRILBY had no corns. She removed
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1UOGC GUARANTEED PILE CURE,
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"Iieatment reduces 3 to 5 pounds
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