municipalities unless In connection! slavery was a paradise compared with
tnerewith tnere is a civil service law lit.
under which all applicants for posl- Many of the black slaves lived to a
Uon, irrespective of politics, will be good old age, and they got a hearty
treated exactly aiiKe ana unaer wnicn enjoyment from lire.
just ana reasonaoie lesis wm do ap- The Infant factory slaves of South
plied to public servants to ascertain Carolina can never develop into men
their fitness to perform the work en- and women. There are no mortality
uuicu uu luc- statistics; the mill owners baffle all
The only other serious objection attempts of the outside public to get
urged in Chicago was that the munici- at the facts, but my opinion is that in
' paiity had no money. There is no many mills death sets the little pris-
lorce wnatever in tne ODjection. Tne cner free Inside of four years. Be-
operation of these utilities, either by yond that he can not hope to lie, and
puDiic or private persons, is a vam- this opinion is derived from careful ob-
able privilege. We propose to raise all servation and interviews with several
the money necessary to purchase an skilled and experienced physicians
up-to-date street car system upon cer- who practice in the ' vicinity of the
tmcar.es wnicn are special or limited mills.
promises to pay out of the income col-
V A. 1 1U. ....i. AH
KLuuumiuu.,. years and upwards are emDloved.
"Under the law of the state of Illi- They usually work from six o'clock in
nois these certificates are termed the morning until seven at night. For
street car certificates and are secured four months of the year they go to
in tnree ways: ' work before daylight and they work
. "First By the pledge of all of the rntil after dark.
income or tne municipal railway plant, At noon I saw them squat on the
tms income Demg unnmitea as to time, floor and devour their food, which con
"Second These certificates are se- sisted mostly of cornbread and baron.
cured by a mortgage which conveys These weazened pigmies munched in
all of the tangible property in the silence, and then toppled over in sleep
transportation department of the city, on the floor in all the abandon of
both real, personal and mixed, and babyhood. Very few wore shoes and
every kind of property used in the stockings; 'dozens of little girls of, say,
transportation department. seven years of age wore only one gar-
"Tmra luese ceruncaies are se- ment, a linsey-woolsey dress. When
cured oy twenty-year irancnise. nt Came time to go to work the fore-
"ims security, in my judgment, is man marched through the groups
mucn Deuer swuiuy uiau me private shaking the sleepers, shouting in their
Boys and girls from the age of six
m m m. mm
I U 1 r . R
wear yA
liho y y
isfeltool .Siloes
Made expressly for romping, tearing school
children. The sole leather used in these shoes
is the toughest in the world. Uppers made of
specially tanned calf every seam sewed to hold.,
Ask your dealer for Mayer school shoes and
look for the trade-mark stamped on the sole.
W i!m mtkt "Hooorbilt" shoct fee ma
and "Wtttem Lmij" shoes for wotaen.
Mayer Boot & Shoe Co.
Milwaukee. Wis.
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Would You Better Your Condition?
We have an article that sells itself
companies in the past have been able ears, lifting them to their feet, and in Agents make $5 per day. Others are,
a, iew instances KicKias me ueim-u,j,n ,,
Write today for full
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DC
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HORSE COLLARS
to offer, either to their stock or bond
holders. Private companies in the nnents ifitn wnkpfninpea
past have been able t sell stocks and The long afternoon had begun from Particular3. Send two two-cent stamps
Donas aggrtsauus xu vame xxf.uuu,- a quarter , to one until seven o'clock to WESTERN FLY-GUARD CO.,
vuu wnen iueir uuSiui pruyeny was they worked without respite or rest,
worth less than $27,000,000. If they Tnese toddlers, I saw, for the most
could raise four times the value of part did but one thing they watched
the tangible property upon an expiring flying spindles on a frame 20 feet
franchise, can any sensible man for a iong tied the broken threads,
moment hesitate as to what amount of They could not sit at their tasks; back
money the city of Chicago can raise and forward they paced, watching,
lyon the security hereinbefore men- with animate, dull look, the flying
uoned. . spindles. The roar of the machinery
The operation of public utilities by drowned every other sound. Back
municipalities is no untried theory. forth paced the baby toilers in
Wherever a municipality has taken j. bare feet mended the brok
over a public utility, as to this utility en threads. Two, three, or four
corruption and bribery cease. There threads would break before they could
Is no motive for the corruption of an patrol the 20 feet the threads were
alderman in case of a utility operated aiawyg breaking!
by the public The noise and the constant looking
"If good results have been secured at tne flying wheels .reduce nervous
in me cmes oi Uiurope ana Australia, gensation in a few months to the mini
why can not they be secured In the mirau The child does not think; he
cities of New York and Chicago, and ceases to suffer memory is as dead as
the other cities of America? The men nope No more does he long for the
or parties who charge the citizens of fields, the running streams, the
Chicago or of New York with being freedom 6f the woods, and the com
so inefficient, incapable or dishonest pani0nship of all the wild, free things
as to be unable to own and operate run, climb, fly, swim or burrow,
their own utilities, frame an indict- He does his work like an automa
ment against the eitizens of these com- ton. ne is a part of tne roaring ma
munities which our people wm answer chlnery; memory is seared, physical
at the polls with a verdict of Not vitality is at such low ebb that he
guilty.' - ceases to suffer. Nature puts a short
"The movement in favor of munici- limit on torture by sending insensi
pal ownership of all public utilities bmty if you suffer, thank God! it Is
has taken deep root among the intelll- a gure Sjgn you are anve
gent people of this country. It is no At a certain night school, where
passing sentiment. It Is here to stay several good .women were putting
Municipal ownership and operation of fnrth fFnra n mitimtn tha rnndi.
these utilities and governmental own- tion of thege baby slaveg one of the
ersmp oi railways, leiuyus ouu w- te h toM me that thev did not
press transportation is a practical t to teacn the children to read Hl(' Iir5JQqf
nnestinn nnon which the neonle must I i. j. .-n. . . ..I "1
- 7.. . , , mey aiiupiy put iorxa an enon io
pass within a very short time, and arouse the spirit through pictures and
the politicians and parties who ignore tc,u gtorieg In thIs gchool x gaw
this sentiment must be prepared for a the gad spectacle of half the class, of
short-lived career before the people.
VILEST STATE ON EARTH
South Carolina Works Little Children
to Death
a dozen or more, sunk Into sleep that
more resembled a stupor.- The teacher
was a fine, competent woman, but
worn out nature was too much for her
to teach, you must make your ap
peal to life.
The parents of the children sent
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lOUt PealerioSHOV7
BEFORE YOU OUV.'
lANUfACIUBEO Bf
HARPHAf.JBR05.C0.
Lincoln:Neb.
5
. The following article, written by
Elbert Hubbard, gives a true picture them there so they could be taught to
of child labor in South Carolina, read, but I was told by one who knew
Fasses and bribes has had the same that no child of, say, .seven or eight
eftect in South Carolina as elsewhere, years of age who had worked in the
except that in that state legislators mill a year could ever learn to read,
were willing for the little pieces of He Is defective from .that time on. A
.pasteboard and other considerations to year in the mills and he loses the ca-
Hiurder thousands of her little children pacity to play; and the child that can Wq il- t tkw
-willing that they should- wear out not. play can not learn. that might have belonged to a man
th?lLll" VVeS ?at Zf 6 JVe,11earn in, omenta of joy; jlay s of 60, g0 furr0Wed, tightly drawn, and
might ride in automobiles and their education; pleasurable animation is fun 0f pain it was He did not reach
wives wear silks. If there is anything necessary to growth; and when you for the money-he' did not know what
more devilish more cruel and harbor- have robbedthe child of its play-spell, lt was. x trIed to stroke his head and
ous in darkest Africa than what goes you have robbed it of its life. caress his cheek. My smile of friend
on from dayto day in South Carolina The reason that thought flags and snip meant nothing to him he shrank
and four other states that have no stupor takes possession of the child from my touch as though he expected
laws against child labor, what is it? who works at one task for 11 hours punishment. A caress was unknown
Read the following article and then a day, Is through the fact that he does to this child, sympathy had never been
"5; a noc exPress, mseir. we grow tnrougn his portion, and the love of a mother,
i Next to Massachusetts, South Caro- expression, . which is exercise, is nec- who only a short time before held him
1 ina manufactures more cotton chpth essary to life. The child in the-mill in her arms, had all been foreotten in
ranL?,rer . leiX ,n' lne never talks to any one-even if the the whir of wheels and the awful si-
rmtrt t; ZT aVrr M r rules dld not rorDm w tte roar or the lence of a din that knows no respite.
"T' w' " 4fi " J macmuery wuum maKe n zmpossiDie. There were dozens of just suchchil
t Vnar"ooa 0 - AU omeTS camea out m panto- dren in this particular mill. A physi-
v." 4iV v ""Vi,T'' "A mme, einpnasizea vy. pones, puncnes, clan who was with irie said that they
tho ortt rn tn ilia n a a noon TrirttroI tntlA I -i t i? i mt . I
SflaKf.8 in wee WOuW all be dead probably in two
10 TT wvu vam- siave iQses.au reiauonsmp witn ms years, and their places filled with oth
, m r- VM 1 iciiu n o a.uu. luo t ui iu auuut uiui.
lensiDie purpose or Deing near tne
GKORGC W. BEBGK, Attorney
IN T11E DISTRICT COURT OF LANCASTER
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
NOTICE.
Lucia A. Hal?, Amm H. Hale, Edgar E. Ifale ,
Claudia Ilale, Edith Decamp, and Stuort (i
Hal and Sim L. Hale, minors, by their next ''
trlend and mother, Lucia A. Hale,
TLAINTIFFa,
Vi.
8usanjr. Hale Searerni and William Feavernn.
ket huiband, Laura Uuel and Friend line!,
her husband. Mary Borg and Charlca hoTg..
her huaband, Union Central Life Inuranc
Company, and John Doe,
DEFENDANTS.
To Sown J. Hale 8eaerns and William Sea
verns, her husband, and Mary Bore and Charles
Borgr, her huaband:
You will take notice that on the 10th day of
March, 1905, the pluinUila above named filed
their petition in the District Court of Lancaater
County, Nebraska, against the defendants, th
object and praer of which is to partition tb
gooft l(a ) of the Nrth-west quarter (N.
VY -Lof "ctIon twenty-nine (29), township
eiht (8), ranraaeyen (7) East In Lancaster Coun
ty, Nebraska; also lota seren and eight in block
two in the Tillage of Roca, Lancaster County.
Nebraska. . f
Flain tifliallege that Lucia A.Hale is the widow
Of James B. Ilale. deceased, and that th.
other named plaintiffs are the only children of
lime nun j amen u. iiaie, aecMieu
Plaintiffs allege in their petition that dniine
the month of March. 1901. Mar 1 uai aaJX
intestate, seized of the above described real m.
tate; that said Mary J. Uale, deceased, left sur
vlvlng her six children, as follows: James B.
air, vuuwu, eusaoB. uaie seaverns.
Uura Buel, Mary Bor and Emma E. Hale
oue, and that each of said six above named
children are entitled to an undivided ne-slxtti
interest of the above described real estate that
one of said children, named James B. Hale, was
the husband of Lucia A. Hale, and father of the
other above named plaintiffs, and that Lucia A.
Hale, widow, and her children, above named,
are entitled to an undivided one-sixth Interest
in and to all of the above described real estate
that JnmesB. Hale died intestate on the 4th
day of Jannary, 1902, leaving Luela A. Hale net
nald named children as his only heirs at law
that each of said children are entitled to an orI
divided one-sixth Interest of th ah ..i
James U. Hale, their father, in and to said real
eotate, subject onlr to the lHe estate and nome
stca'i rlghis of taid Lucia A. Hale, mother of said
children, and widow of said James B. Hale, de
fiAlt.it tK.t 1.aII. .k...i.... .U V . '
.vmw.wrii wui mi cBiBiea oi jnary j, ll ale and
James B. Uale have been administered upon
and that all debts and claims against said es
tates have been Dald. and th uimni...tn.
discharged in both of said essates.
Plaintiffs farther allege In their petition that
Eliza Dunton and Emma M. Hale Kr,n hn
were each entitled to an undivided nniwi.
interest in the estate of Mary J. Hale, dece ed
have sold, assigned and transferred all of their
respective interests to Susan J. Hale Seaverns.
Plaintiffs pray for judgment confirming the
share of the parties hereto, and Jor a partition
of said real tiroDertv according to tho nH..
interest of the partien, and that plaintiffs be de-
iu uve une-siiin interest in all of the
above described real estate, or if said real estate
cannot bt divided in kind that th Tirom! cam Km
sold and the proceeds divided in the proportion
above Indicted; thatthey be allowed all expense
in connection with said partition, aud for sren
eral equitable relief.
Yon are reauired to answer M natiMin
beiore the 8thdoy of May 1906. ' " 1
Lucia A . Hale,
Amos H. Hale,
Edgar -E. Hale '
Claudle Hale,
Edith Decamp, .. .
Stuart C. Hale. t
Sims D. Hale,
Plaintiffs
By GEORGE W. BERGE, , -.. ,
Their Attorney. -.
era there were plenty more." Pneu
monia carries off most of them. Their
systems are ripe for disease, and when
It comes there Is no rebound no re
I thoueht to lift one of the littln tnll.
raw product; but the actual reason is ers to ascertain his weight. Straight
that in South Carolina there Is no law way- through his 35 nounds of skin and
r?flatlnga TYd ibv,aiV., HeafiIeu3 cu; bones there ran a tremor. of fear, and sponse. Medicine simply does not act
fx V" "if1 ne struggiea lorwara 10 ue a DroKen nature Is whipped, beaten, discour-
tgnorance, andthe result is child la- thread. I attracted his attention by aged, and the child sinks into a stupor
bor of so terrible a type that African a touch, and offered him a silver dime, and dies.
TIPPANT'5 Sore Death f
Lice (Powder) sprinkled,
in the neat, keeps your
-v fowls free from ilee. Sprinkle
f hen and the little chicks will
w i-iuuia - aaua muea usti
SnrfnklA hd tnr h
fowls. Box powder fi
tumevH una rni-ira wiat-.
We want sjrenis. .
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Xincoln.Meb
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133 So. 13th St.
Lincoln, N'bU'1