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Congressman Norris at the iSFxler Opera House Mon
day night November 5th Hear him
NOTICE
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 2CJTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Two years ago we passed a law compelling railroads to furnish
equal facilities to every one in the way of elevator sites sidetracks
cars etc
We passed the Junken anti trust law the law to compel rail
roads to move livestock at the rate of 18 miles per hour the in
ebriate law the binding twine bill the bill to compel the railroads
to move freight more promptly and many other measures in the
interest of the people
This year we are pledged to pass a law to compel the railroads
to pay their taxes like other people a law to make freight and
passenger rates lower and to move freight more promptly
We are pledged to pass a direct primary law an anti pass law
a law empowering the new railroad commission to prevent unjust
discrimination and rebates and any other measure that is for the
best interests of the public
We will help Governor Sheldon carry out the many reforms he
is advocating
We will vote for Norris Brown for United States senator
After the session convenes write us or call on us at Lincoln and
tell us what you want Yours truly
Albert Wilsey
Compare The Records
In 1900 the Fusionists at the state house assessed the Nebraska
railroads and Pullman Car Company at 26442249
The Republicans coming into power in 1901 raised this Fusion
assessment 115000
In 1902 the Republican board made another raise of 217000
In 1903 the Republicans raised the assessment 510000 more
In 1904 they raised it 18893000 more
In 1905 they raised it 1212000 more
In 1906 they raised it 421000 making a total raise in the rail
road assessment for the six years of 80 per cent more than the
Fusion assessment of 1900
The Fusionists in four years raised the assessment of these cor
porations 964000 while the Republicans raised the assessment in
six years 21368701
The Union Pacific and Burlington refused to pay under the 1904
assessment claiming it was too high but instead of receding the
Republican board advanced the assessment still higher in 1905
Again these roads refused to pay and again the Republican board
advanced the assessment in 1906
This is the record of Republican officials as to railroad assess
ments While the railroads are resisting the payment of taxes
levied against them it is not strange that they are also resisting the
election or re election of Republican state officials responsible for
the increased assessment and the promotion to the United States
senate of the attorney general who has successfully prosecuted the
suits for enforced collection
The auditors reports show that for the four years 1 897 1 900 the
Fusionists paid to the state treasurer 19594779 fees earned by
the several departments while the Republicans for 1 901 1904
turned in the sum of 34891746 and during the last twenty two
months the fees amounted to 28209890
Compare the records
Origin ot Croqnet
The origin of croquet is certainly in
volved in mystery Some authorities
are of the opinion that It is founded on
the old game of pale maille or pell
mell from which we have the street
Pall Mall This is described by Cot
grave In his dictionary as a game
wherein a round box bowle is with a
mallet struck through a high arch of
yron and a picture of this in Strutts
Sports and Pastimes shows that
these had a strong resemblance to the
croquet Implements of today London
Academy
Labeled
In the Legard house there was a
great dinner After awhile the maid
was called and tile mistress said
Serve the dinner There is no one
else to come except a relation of little
importance
Five minutes afterward the maid an
nounced in a loud tone
The relation of little importance
Lo Scacciapensieri
Try Silence
The man who counts thirty in his
mind before he speaks soon discovers
that when he talks he says something
Try silence for a change It builds up
a wonderful reserve force In your phys
ical organization and surely overcomes
your temperamental inclinations to
babble Cairo Bulletin
Dlscouragrlnsr
She Why do you look so worried
Bertie Did papa object Bertie No
but he said Its all right Youll soon
find out s useless to kick when
Nells head Is set on anything
liCvIty and Gravity
Scott I played a funny trick on the
law of gravity this morning Mott
What was it Scott Dropped a line to
my wife up in the mountains Boston
Transcript
Giving alms never lessens the purse
Spanish Proverb
Dancing
Gracefulness Is of course the highest
object of the dance among all peoples
but their conceptions of what consti
tutes grace differ widely According
to a student of dancing who has wit
nessed tens of thousands of dances In
all parts of the world who has pene
trated to the Interior of Africa and the
desolate mountains of western China
there are three dances that to hla
way of thinking are equal In beauty
In grace and In the poetry of motion
These are the dances of the Javanese
Mohammedans especially the love
dance in which only the younger wo
men participate the tarantella of
Christian Italy and the butterfly dance
of Japan That dancing loses in poetry
in fire In meaning as civilization in
creases is the belief of this student ol
the art The modern dances of civiliz
ed nations especially as expounded on
tho stage are not only meaningless ami
lacking in the beauty of the original
dance but actually degenerate and
merely physical contortions that while
they may be rhythmic and graceful
are as insipid and as meaningless as
the waddle of a duck Chicago Trib
une
Better Thnn Sonsr
A workingman fond of his pint oi
beer on Saturday night got very mud
died sometimes Knowing Uiat his
wife on such occasions searched his
pockets he Avheu not too far gone
used to secrete his money in various
places and it often happened that the
next morning he could not remember
the hiding place lie had a canary
which used to hang in front of the
window One Sunday morning he was
sitting looking at the bird when a
neighuor looked in and inquired if he
would sell it As the bird was not
much use for singing he reached the
cage down for his neighbor to look at
whereupon his wife got very angry
and hung up the cage again
I will not have that bird sold on any
account she exclaimed I dont care
naught aboA it being a poor singer
for its laid many a sixpence and n
shilling and now its begun to lay half
crowns
Then its owner realized where some
of his hidden treasures had gone
Pearsons Weekly
Wells as Weather Prophets
A popular idea in Switzerland thai
some of the wells in that country arc
reliable weather prophets has been
proved by scientists to be well found
ed These wells by some sort of pres
sure not clearly understood have th
property of drawing in air at certain
times and of blowing out air at other
periods In order to ascertain definite
ly if there was any truth in the idea
of weather prophecy the wells were
covered and a small opening was sur
mounted with a U shaped pressure
gauge It was found that when the
barometer rises the air rushes into the
wells in a steady current and when
the barometer falls the air rushes out
The currents of air are definite and
easy to perceive even without the
gauge The general tendency of the
weather is foretold with considerable
certainty Chicago Tribune
Animals and Rain
It seems strange that no animal un
less it be the squirrel seems to build
itself a shelter with the express object
of keeping off the rain which they all
so much dislike Monkeys are miser
able in wet and could easily build shel
ters if they had the sense to do so but
even the orang outang which builds a
small platform in the trees on which
to sleep at night never seems to think
of a roof though the Dyaks say that
when there is much rain it covers it
self with the leaves of the pandanus a
large fern
nnirbrnshcA
The brush trade is full of deceptions
An experienced hand will by touch teli
if a broom or brush be all hair or a
mixture But if ever in doubt pull
out or cut off a suspicious hair and
apply a match However well doc
tored the deception will be shown at
once Hairs will burn rolling up ball
like with the well known smell of
burned hair while a vegetable substi
tute will consume leaving the charred
portion like a burned match New
York Telegram
Hall Trees
A woman was much astonished to
receive a letter from another woman
asking for a slip of her hall tree I
understand she wrote youve got a
good variety of hall trees and as weve
just finished us a new house with a
real nice hall well need a tree and
wed be ever so much obliged if youd
send us a slip uv yourn And please
will you send along with the slip di
rections tellin us whether to water it
from the top er bottom
Conundrums
Visitor to artists young wife
Whatever were you two laughing over
so just now Wife Oh it was such
fun My husband painted and I
cooked and then we both guessed
what the things were meant for
Meggendorfer Blatter
Lost Opportunities
What a pity it was that baseball
was not known In the old Roman
gladiatorial time
Why so
Because they would have so en
Joyed killing the umpire Baltimore
American
Self Respect
There is no one thing so necessary
for ones real advancement in life as a
thorough self respect You must think
well of yourself or others will not re
spect you Success Magazine
The world is like a staircase some
cro ud and others come down Italian
Proverb
Mtlffy
Hickory Trees
It Is rather a pity that our hickories
should receive highest appreciation
from us when they are yielding uii
their substance in roaring flames In our
fireplaces For nowhere In the forest
world can we find a genus of trees
that is as a whole more attractive
and valuable than the genus hlcorla
Most of tho hickories are beautiful In
summer wjien their glossy foliage is at
Its best fe autumn this foliage turns
the color of uncoined gold and when
bare of leaves there is revealed an
oaklike twist to the branches which
makes these trees most picturesque
and beautiful objects in the winter
landscape We have never made as
much commercially of the nuts as we
might well have done Our Indian
predecessors knew how to make a
most attractive beverage from them
and the early settlers pressed from
them an oil that was a luxury The
pecan Is the only hickory species that
has been developed and cultivated la
any extent and this has only recently
begun its career as a cultivated tree
Country Life In America
A Itoyal Liocknmlth
Louis XVI had a passion for the
locksmiths trade and it is said that
over his private library he had a forge
two anvils and a vast number of iron
tools together with all kinds of locks
common as well as those of a secret
and elaborate variety It was here
that the king would conceal himself
from the queen and tho court to file
and forge with the infamous Gamin
who taught him the art of lockmaking
It is said that Gamin while teaching
the king his trade took upon himself
the tone and authority of a master
and according to this same master
the king was good forbearing timid
Inquisitive and addicted to sleep Louis
had also a great passion for timepieces
and the difficulty which lie found in
adjusting his clocks and watches ih
said to have drawn from him the re
flection that it was absurd of him to
attempt to bring men to anything like
uniformity of belief in matters of faith
when he couldnt make any two of his
timepieces agree with each other
Dont Tallc Mncli to Your Horse
A horse who has always been made
to obey quickly will respond to com
mands from any one whereas tho
creature who has been petted and talk
ed to accords unless hungry scant at
tention to any one We talk to horses
altogether too much and it is a silly
and dangerous custom Whoa should
mean but one thing and slip slide or
fall should meet with instant obedi
ence Not another word should ever
be used beyond possibly the order to
stand over in the stall although even
that is best unsaid except the click
of the tongue for increased speed The
animals attention is kept if you are
silent He does not know what you
will do next and as he distrusts and
merely tolerates you even as he fears
you his anxiety is always to find out
what you wish done or what move you
will next make F M Ware in Outing
Magazine
Didnt Know the Cipher
The inability to read a cipher once
cost a notable of France his head
When the Chevalier de Eohan was In
the Bastille his friends wishing to let
him know that his accomplice had
died without confessing passed the
following cipher written on a shirt
into his dungeon Mg dulhxecclgu ghj
yxuj lm ct ulge alj The cipher was
not a difficult one being arranged by a
complete transposition of the alphabet
but De Rohan did not have the clew
and he puzzled over the meaningless
words In vain A solution of the rid
dle meant the guillotine or his free
dom but the puzzle was beyond him
and he pleaded guilty because he could
not decipher Le prisonnier est mort
il na rien dit
WISE WOMAN
See that your selections are made early so as
to j have the benefit of the first choice At no
time of the year is there so much interest shown
in dress materials than at that period preceding
the social season and never was there a more
bewildering assortment from which to select
We have any amount of beautiful silks as
well as gauzes satins velvets etc which are
very much the rage just what you would like
for evening and dressy wear And as mohairs
always have a large following we have chosen
for this season those of softer texture and dul
ler than formerly and in shadowy plaids and
checks that are very fascinating Dont fail to
see them
Plaid waists will be worn to a great extent
and every wardrobe should include at least a
few of them Our display reveals patterns of
the most exquisite hues Also silk petticoats in
black and rich shadesto match the gown or con
trast with it
Trimmings play an important part bands
edgings insertions applique and braids in many
novelties are in evidence The very dressy cos
tume is braidtrimmed as well as the simple
cloth gown You will find everything needed to
complete elegant uptodate garments
Call and inspect our fine assortment
John Grannis
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ADMISSION 25c
Luminous Paint as Night Lights
The connection between earthquakes
and luminous paint would hardly be
apparent to any one without explana
tion It nevertheless exists and the
use to which it is put invests it with
the utmost Importance just for the few
critical moments of the shock In the
Philippine Islands where earthquakes
are not uncommon small metallic
plates coated with luminous paint are
so placed about the premises that at
the first warning the Inmates are
quickly guided to the door and thus to
the street In Manila It Is laid on in
patches about the bedrooms and stair
cases serving as guides for the door
handles and the stairs night lights be
ing considered especially dangerous aa
likely to set fire to the falling houses
and thus to roast the Inmates in their
awn homes
CHILDREN 15c
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The Origin of a Word
The London Chronicle tries to traca
the origin of the word typhoon
Tai fung it is explained in some
dictionaries is Chinese for a great
wind and since the typhoon is a
phenomenon of the Chinese seas it
seems conclusive But there Is no
doubt apparently that typhoon
which Hakluyt spelled touffon and
Dampier tuffoon comes to us through
Portuguese for the Arabic Persian and
Indian tufan and It Is almost im
possible not to see in this a relation
of the ancient Greek typhos or ty
phon a whirlwind But these are
practically identical with the Greek
word for smoke or vapor from which
come our typhus and typhoid So
perhaps the Chinese part of it is only
an extraordinary linguistic coincidence
after all
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