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Lewis Single Binder straight 5c Many
smokers prefer them to 10c cigars Your
dealer or Lewis Factory Peoria 111
Men never fully appreciate the
fclesslngs of poverty until after they
break Into the millionaire class
Defiance Starch Is the latest inven
tion In that line and an Improvement
on all other makes It Is moio eco
nomical does better work takes less
time Get it from any grocer
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Positively cured by
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They also relieve Dis
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digestion ana Too Hearty
Eating A perfect rem
edy for Dizziness Nausea
Drowsiness Bad Tasto
In the- Mouth Coated
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REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
Tho testimony of thou
sands during the past
year is that the Canadian
Wetistho best Wet
Year by year tho agri
culturalreturns have In
creased In volume and In
value and still tho Cana
dian Government offers
lOO acres FJtEE to
every bona fldo settler
oiiie of the Advantages
The phenomenal Increase In railway mileage
main lines and branches has put almostevery por
tion of tho country within easy leach of churcnes
schools markets cheap fuel and every modern
-convenience
The NINETY MILLION BDSHEL WHEAT CROr
of this year means JCUOUOOXI to tho farmers of
Western Canada apart from the results of othe
grains and cattle
For advice and information rddrcss the SUPER
INTENDENT OF IMMIGRATION Ottawa Canada
or any authorized Government Asent
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Omaha Nebraska
The marvelous growth and the
consequent magnitude of the
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touches we are in touch everywhere
with the infinite and the infinite is
just as absolute a fact as the most
finite thing touched by the mind or the
physical being of man
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waist just as well at home as the
Steam laundry can it will have the
proper stiffness and finish there will
be less wear and tear of the goods
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron
Playing at Occultism
There is a danger to day of psychic
cal research degenerating into a fash
ionable society amusement without
practical aims and there are promi
nent members of the Society for
Psychical Research who do less than
little to discourage this tendency
Occult Review
There Is more Catarrh in this section of the country
than alt other diseases put together and urtil the last
few years was supposed to be Incurable For a great
many years doctors pronounced It a local disease and
prescribed local remedies and by constantly Tailing
to cure with local treatment pronounced it Incurable
Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment
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But Who Can Conquer Fate
The best way to defeat and con
quer danger is to march right up to it
and strike it between the eyes says
the Baltimore American The man
who is about to be run down by an
automobile should remember this
Kansas City Journal
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HOME TRADE CLUBS
They Should Be Organized
and Active in Every
Community
PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS
The Great Danger to Local Interests
That Are Found In the Mail
order Systems Educate
the Public
Copyrighted 190G by Alfred C Clark
Why should we trade at home
Why should we consider home in any
way more than any other place unless
it pays us financially First because
it is our home The pride we should
take in the prosperity of our home
town and our neighbors should be suf
ficient inducement to give them the
preference Second because beyond
all doubt or question it pays from a
money point
The greatest menace to the country
merchant to day is the mail order
business and with the decline of the
country merchant comes inevitable
loss to the citizens of both town and
country What at first was considered
a great convenience and an exhibition
of commendable enterprise has grown
to be one of the crying commercial
evils The success of the mail order
house is the result of constant ex
tensive and intelligent advertising It
is not by persistent swindling as some
tell us for no business was ever built
up in that way The home merchant
can do no better than to adopt the
same method the judicious use of
printers ink
While the merchants are the heav
iest immediate losers and could do
quaintlng the community with what
ho has to sell and with tho fact
that people could obtain at home
where they could personally examine
them and return them if defective in
any way goods at as low a price as
any catalogue house can sell them
every man and woman is to blame
who sends away for goods and every
one who fails to raise his voice In
favor of home trade The editor holds
the most responsible position and
should be the leader in this move
ment
The remedy has been outlined in a
general way We will suggest the first
steps Let merchants buy at home
they cannot consistently ask others to
trade with them when they do not
patronize their brothers in trade The
editors should patronize home and
even at considerable personal sacrifice
refuse foreign advertising for lines of
goods in competition with the homo
merchant The editor deserves more
credit than he receives Many a well-to-do
farmer or city man would think
himself perfectly justified in sending
away for all his groceries and cloth
ing if he thought he could save ten
dollars thereby ona years purchases
but most editors forfeit many times
that much every year by refusing ad
vertising from distant firms in the
same lines of business as his homo
merchants and sometimes the homo
merchant even then declines o ad
vertise
Trade-at-home clubs might be or
ganized with mottos something like
Club or I Patronize the Home Mer
chants or I Buy Nothing from Mail
Order Houses for members to dis
play The acceptance and displaying
of such a card might constitute a per
so nor member
Much of the trading away from
home is due to thoughtlessness and
ignorance of business principles
Many persons consider only the first
INH house AtiS BR
Are you operating the tread mill to pour the wealth of your community
into the bottomless hoppers of the mail order house Are you driving your
local merchants out of business If you are you are killing your town and
your own interests
much toward checking and correcting
this growing evil by liberal advertis
ing and publishing prices they should
aot be expected to do it all Every
newspaper should preach home trade
every teacher should instil it into his
pupils in the school room every min
ister should preach it from the pul
pit The debating societies and po
litical conventions should discuss it
The interests of town and country
and newspaper and church and so
ciety generally are so interwoven and
so identical that whatever injures one
will eventually injure all When the
merchants are compelled to bring on
smaller stocks and employ less help
and pay cheaper rent they are not
alone the sufferers the whole com
munity feels the loss The price of
real estate is largely dependent on its
proximity to a good town Rents are
dependent on the amount of business
The merchant can move to some other
town and establish himself again more
readily than can the professional man
and many others who have built up
business through years of acquaint
anceship and establishment of char
acter If the farmer or property own
er in town want to sell out they are
the greatest sufferers they cant
move their property to some place
where people are booming their town
and country by patronizing home
The remedy lies in education and
publicity In many places that edu
cation will come through bitter ex
perience but in other communities
where they are quicker to detect the
approaching evil and heed more read
ily the warnings of the press and
friends of home they may correct the
evil more readily
Wealth and power are corrupting
influences and the mail order houses
are probably not sending out as hon
est goods as they once did They have
learned the tricks of imitation and
substitution and how easy it is to
deceive the public But if the mail
-order man is honest and his methods
of advertising legitimate in every way
his success is of no interest to us
and will never benefit our community
in the slightest degree If crops should
fail or sickness render us short of
money we could not expect him to
trust us for a dollar we must always
look to tne home merchant for credit
n times of adversity
Who is to blame The mail order
house Not in the least We alone
are to blame The near sighted mer
chant who has lost trade by not ac
cost7 if they save 25 cents on a ten
dollar order by buying from a mail
order house they consider that clear
gain They should be shown that a
merchant and his family living in
their midst keeps up a house pays
taxes adds to the social features con
tributes generously towards public en
terprises etc If by buying at home
their town gives support to several
more local merchants creating a bet
ter home market they get back a lib
eral percentage Every man and wom
an takes more or less pride in local
affairs and is willing to contribute
something toward home improve
ments if the matter is fairly pre
sented That is why I say the rem
edy lies In education
Most mail order houses claim they
are enabled to sell cheaper than coun
try dealers because they buy in larger
quantities and get especially low
prices This is often a base mis
statement of facts let me cite an in
stance A stock man from- eastern
Washington was visiting in Kansas
City One morning walking with his
nephew who was a clerk in a lead
ing wholesale hardware house he
asked where Bland Cos store was
located Dont think I ever heard of
them replied the young man O
yes I do remember the firm they
have no store they have an office in
giving the name of the building
but I dont see how they can sell hard
ware as low as your home merchants
for while we sell them goods at less
than retail price we dont give them
as low prices as regular dealers be
cause they buy in such small quanti
ties just as they get orders The
stockman was greatly surprised he
supposed he had been dealing with
one of the largest firms in the city
The mail order business has devel
oped so slowly and works so quietly
that few persons realize the magni
tude it has assumed nor to what ex
tent it is now sapping the life blood of
many small cities and towns Even
now we hear the excuse given fop
sending away for goods that the mer
chants carry such poor stocks The
wonder is that they carry any
The Real Power
A 17-year-old boy at Worcester
Mass has a lung capacity of 300
cubic inches When he grows up and
goes to congress he will perhaps
learn that it is not the orator but the
speaker who affects the course of na
tional legislation
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A3ASAASA8A 1A4LSAS3AJWI f
OUR LINCOLN LETTER
Gossip from the State Capital Legislative and Otherwise
tvttrnrriririrtrs
At tho recent meeting of tho joint
railroad commission the bill giving
authority to the state railway commis
sion and defining the duties of the
commission was completed and
will be reported to the joint commit
tee in a day or two The section yet
to be drafted will provide that rall
orad agents must report to the com
mission tho contents of cars loaded
and the contents of cars coming into
the state must also be reported to
the commission This measure which
is considered the most important of
any of the railroad- measures was
prepared by Senator Epperson of
Clay Senator Aldrich of Butler and
Representatives Harrison of Otoe and
Walsh of Douglas The bill is titled
as follows
A bill for an act creating and defin
ing the powers duties and qualifica
tions of the state railway commission
and the secretary thereof and fixing
their compensation defining railway
companies and common carriers reg
ulating the same and providing the
method of fixing establishing and
publishing rates and charges for the
transportation of freights and cars
including joint through rates and
joint traffic arrangements over and
upon the various lines of said rail
way companies and common carriers
the method of making establishing
and enforcing the general orders of
said commission defining unjust dis
criminations to provide penalties for
the violation of the provisions of this
act and to repeal all acts or parts of
acts in conflict herewith and to de
clare that an emergency exists
The bill gives unusual powers to
the commission to control railroads
and provides for endless safeguards
to keep the roads from defeating it
Besides the usual features of such a
bill it will contain the following dis
tinctive jirovisions The commis
sion must at once prepare a complete
freight rate schedule for the entire
state Roads are to turn over all traf
fics in operation on January 1 as a
basis for the new rates by the com
mission which are to become effec
tive within thirty to sixty days If a
road objects to the rate a hearing will
be granted before the commission
from which an appeal may be taken
to the district court but the new rate
will be operative pending the appeal
To prevent the indiscriminate tying
up of the commission by injunction
the roads are compelled to file with
the district court a transcript of the
hearing held before the commission
and the court must pass upon this
transcription to see if the injunction
should be issued Every possible pro
vision is made to keep all cases in
the district instead of the federal
courts
Senator Kings decedent bill has
been recommended for passage in the
senate Some changes were made the
principal one giving to the surviving
husband or wife where there are no
children or grandchildren living one
half of the real estate instead of two
thirds as provided for in the bill ori
ginally drawn The provision that
pre nuptial contracts must convey at
least a freehold estate in the lands
of the survivor was stricken out leav
ing no limitations on the terms of the
contract
The Northwestern railroad made its
annual report to the state auditor in
compliance with the statute The
gross earnings of this road in Ne
braska during the last year was
652748075 while its net earnings
in the state amounted to 236272723
The passenger earnings in the state
amounted to 12S630163 the freight
earnings 492180205 and from other
sources the receipts were 31937707
The operating expenses and taxes in
Nebraska amounted to 416475352
The attempt to secure the passage
of the bill to regulate the practice
of Christian Science has been practi
cally abandoned There is a feeling
among members who are opposed to
the bill because of the drastic man
ner in which it deals with the Chris
tian Science belief that there should
be some regulation which will control
the spread of contagious diseases but
they hardly think it fair to go after
it in the manner attempted in the
Christian Science bill
Representative Lees proposed
amendment to the constitution in
creasing pay of legislators to 10 a
day brought out spirited discussion in
the house The majority of the com
mittee reported the bill for the gen
eral file while the minority Whitham
Line and Richardson voted to have
it Indefinitely postponed The ma
jority report carried There is doubt
however about the bill receiving final
sanction
Senator Randall of Madison is after
the four legged wolf He voted in fa
vor of retaining the present bounty
but later introduced a bill to pay the
bounty only in counties where the
people vote to pay a county bounty
His bill also reduced the bounty for
wolves of all kinds and on wild cats
to 125 each Senator Ranaall has
not matured his plans and will ask
that the bill introduced be withdrawn
and another substituted in its place
The substitute will contain many safe
guards so that it will be difficult to
draw bounties by fraudulent means
An estimate of tho coat of current
expenses of tho various atato insti
tutions has been proposed by tho
stato auditor tho total amount asked
being 1600000 The per capita coat
of tho running expenses of each in
stitution for tho bennlum is as fol
lows
Soldiers Home at Mllford 3S0GI
Soldiers Home at Grand Island 3022a
Penitentiary 34905
Asylum at Lincoln 3G714
Asylum at Norfolk 62730
Asylum at Hastings -12018
Feeble Minded Institute 28208
Girls Industrial School rTlrj
Hoys Industrial School 5383A
Homo for tins Friendless Ctfi15
Deaf and Dumb Institute 43701
Institute for the Blind 100000
Industrial Home at Mllford 7280
S P No 34 by King of Polk tr
prevent unfair discrimination by com
mercial organization or individuals
was recommended for third reading
and passage without discussion Thu
bill is somewhat similar to the pro
visions of the Junkin anti trust law
It provides that Any person firm
company association or corporation
foreign or domestic doing business
in tho stato of Nebraska and en
gaged In the -production manufac
ture or distribution of any commodity
in general use that shall intention
ally for the purpose of destroying tho
business of a competitor in any lo
cality discriminate between different
sections communities or cities of this
state by selling such commodity at
a lower rate in one section com
munity or city than is charged for
said commodity by said party in an
other section community or city
after making due allowance for the
difference if any in the grade or
quality and in the actual cost of
transportation from the point of pro
duction if a raw product or from the
point of manufacture if a manufac
tured product shall be deemed guilty
of unfair discrimination which is
hereby prohibited and declared unlaw
ful
The railroads have come forward
witii request that they be allowed to
make a showing before the legisla
ture on the numerous measures now
pending against them Following a
request by the Union Pacific and the
Northwestern the joint railroad com
mittee of the house and senate has
arranged for a public hearing for the
railroads and their attorneys They
will present their side of the case on
reciprocal demurrage on which a big
senger fare bill on the railway com
senger fare bill on the railwoy com
mission bill on the enforcement of a
maximum freight rate law and oir
every measure of the kind now pend
ing As a result railroad legislation
is practically at a standstill until after
the hearing although the committees
are still at work perfecting the bills
Senator Aldrich of Butler has not
given up his fight for constitutional
amendments because his bill provid
ing for a commission to recommend
amendments was killed in the senate
He has announced the committee on
constitutional amendments will take
up the matter of needed amendments
within a few days and will make rec
ommendations in the form of joint
resolutions for the submission of pro
posed changes to a vote at the next
election One of the first things to
be taken up will be the proposed in
crease in the number of judges of
the supreme court to five in the plac
of the present commission Several
other needed changes will also be dis
cussed
In the hearing of the county option
bill before the judiciary committee of
the house Chancellor Andrews of the
state university urged that such a law
had operated with the greatest success
in the south He said that it was only
fair to the agricultural sections that
those people be given a voice in saying
whether they wanted saloons anywhere
in the conty He told about how
posses were formed in the south to go
after breakers of the law how at first
visit the saloonkeeper got a notice at
the second tar and feathers and at the
third hung He hoped that such a
rough measure wouldnt be necessary
in Nebraska
M J Johnson of Anselmo general
chairman of the Operators associa
tion of the Burlington system con
taining 2000 in number is at the
capital He is looking after the oper
ators interest in a bill which will re
quire all operators receiving or send
ing train orders to be 19 years of
aqe Mr Johnson has been at Jeffer
son City lo and Topeka Kas
where similar bills were introduced
and a like bill will go before the leg
islature at Des Moiues la and
Springfield 111 This bill is in th
interest of safety and drawn by men
who have the actual handling of the
train business
If a bill how under consideration is
found constitutional the right of
franchise will become an expensive
one in Nebraska to the person who
does not exercise it The bill pro
vides that every voter shall be as
sessed 3 each year but that a re
ceipt shall be issued him for the
amount in the event that he votes
and if he does not the amount will be
collectable The committee in the
house which had the bill under con
sideration has recommended its pas
sage provided it Is found constitu
tional