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STATE CAPITAL
Legislative and Otherwise
The passage of tho antl paBs bill by
the senate lias caused somo talk
among the house members about the
disposition of tho measure when ic
reaches the house The senate evi
dently intends that the house shall
pass the senate bill Members of the
house have few objections to this but
they will make a strenuous endeavor
- to amend the bill before they will pas3
It For instance tho provision that
bona fide employes may use passes s
not satisfactory Some prominent
house members wish to insert the
the amendment whose time is
f clpally employed by their duties with
tho railroads - They think this pro
vision will exclude the surgeons and
attorneys who are not specifically
mentioned in the senate bill but
whom the house greatly desires to see
prohibited from using transportation
The fear has been expressed that the
railroads will make some small mone
tary arrangements with this class of
persons that will still permit them to
use transportation unless the bill Is
made more stringent
The senate spent nearly an entire
4 vlay considering the pure food bill S
JP No G4 by McKesson of Lancaster
The result was that the bill was rec
ommended for passage as first ap
proved by the committee of the whole
3Vith the exception of section 9 whica
was stricken out and a new one in
serted in jts place giving immunity
to druggists from prosecution if they
can establish a guaranty signed by a
wholesaler or manufacturer from
whom goods are purchased that the
same - is not adulterated or mis
branded The liquor dealers and man
ufacturers who sell goods containing
alcohol or containing certain poison
ous or harmful drugs did not get off
1 They must give full weight and mea
sure and if the goods sold contain any
-of the drugs named in section S the
packages or bottles must contain the
names of such drugs False or mis
leading statements on brands ars
- made unlawful
The state senate retraced its trail
at the request of the governor by re--considering
the ote whereby the anti
lobby bill H R 18 was indefinitely
postponed The bill was returned
from the house before the reconsider
ation was taken and after some dis
cussion it was committed to the judi
ciary committee for amendments
King of Polk desired it to be advanced
to third reading without delay but
McKesson of Lancaster asked that it
be sent back to a committee for
amendment so that he could vote for
it This action annuled the amend
ments that had been proposed by the
committee of the whole and also an
nuls the recommendation of the com
mittee of the whole that the bill be
indefinitely postponed
Governor Sheldon has signed the
employers liability bill The bill as
amended by the senate judiciary com
mittee was passed by tne house with
out amendment It repeals what is
known as the fellow servant law of
thiB state and permits juries to decide
as to the comparative negligence in
case of accidents which result in in
juries to employes It applies only to
railroad men engaged in the operation
of trains It provides that the con
tracts issued by the Burlington relief
department may still remain in force
but that such contracts shall not be
a bar to suits in court lor damages
and that the amount that may be paid
to an injured employe on such a con
tract may be deducted from the judg
ment rendered by the court
One of the important amendments
to the 1 mill levy bill for the state
university was that providing a revolv
ing fund of 5000 to be used for the
purpose of buying text uooks for the
students at wholesale prices and sell
ing them to the students at this price
Many students have bees trying to
get the regents to do this ror a num
ber of years as the cost of books in
Lincoln was so high it made it hard
for working boys to get through school
atall The new arrangement will save
students much money
President Saunder3 of the senate
won a battle and obtained the rever
sal of the report cf the committee on
poldiers homes which recommended
that Bis bill S F 439 be indefinitely
postponed He explained that the bill
not only permits the governor to ap
point the commandant of the soldiers
home but gives him power to appoint
the employes The commandant must
be an ex soldier AJdrlch of Butler
vored the committee report on the
ground that the senate had passed one
of his own bills
After a determined fight in the
house the bill which provides for go
ing back to the old precinct systeu
of assessorship was recommended by
the committee of the whole for pas
page The bill was introduced by
Johnson of Saline and abolishes
county assessors in counties of less
than 20000 population In every
cnunty whether there Is a county as
sessor or not it provides for the elec
tion of precinct assessors instead of
for their appointment by the county
-assessor as at present The effort to
strike out section 8 was defeated
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The final futilo attack on terminal
InxatloTi In the senate wa3 made on
the 15th and resulting in a double
yictory for the bill which was passed
by a vote of 23 to G Sibley of Lincoln
county led in the fight against tho
bill as he did when it was up for
consideration in committee of the
whole but after he had been defeated
ho voted for the bill explaining he did
so because of an amendment he un
dorstood would be made in the house
The bill will be sent to the house
so that it may be read tho flrst time
Monday and may be considered in con
nection with the Clarke bin whichl
is a duplicate of it The failure of
the railroads to carry the senate was
a disappointment as it had been open
ly boasted that a majority of the sen
ators had promised to vote ror Sibleys
motion to recommit the bill to the
committee on revenue When tho roll
was called on this proposition it stood
11 to 18 and victory for the bill was
assured The measure was at once
placed upon its passage and went
through as before indicated
H R No 132 permitting the official
ballot at elections to be printed in two
or more columns instead of in a sin
gle column was Indefinitely postpoued
after a thorough debate It was urged
that the bill would give country prin
ters a chance to print tho ballot In i
stead of giving the metropolitan print
ing offices a monopoly on the shoe
string type of ballot Aldrich one
who opposed the bill said the conven
ience of the printer was not the sole
question Ho said the people had be
come used to the present form of bal
lot and a change should not be made
unless its advocates were able to show
that an improvement would be the re
sult Sackett who moved to indefin
itely postpone the bill believed that
many voters would stop after voting
the first column of the proposed ballot
and would neglect to vote the second
column
A quietus was put on the Sunday
base ball agitation In the legislature
when Aldrichs bill S F 230 was in
definitely postponed without so much
as a discussion of its merits in com
mittee of the whole A week or two
ago the house killed its Sunday base
ball bill and the action of the senate
ends both the bills which were Intro-
duced to enable the playing of the na
tional game in Lincoln on the flrst day
of the week without the aid or consent
of anyone The senate bill had been
changed by amendment but was still
acceptable to the fans who were be
hind the movement The summary ac
tion headed off what promissd to be a
lively debale on the merits of the
bill
Without a single dissenting vote the
railway commission bill passed the
house Ten members being absent
the vote stood 90 to 0 on the bill As
the vote was being taken the an
nouncement was made by fusion mem
bers in the form of an explanation of
their votes that they believed the leg
islature should enact a set of com
modity maximum freight rate laws
for the purpose of bringing Nebraska
rates down to the same basis as those
charged shippers in the neighboring
states
The senate decleared itself in fa
vor of the enactment of a child labor
law by recommending Clarkes bill
H R No 9 for passage At first
some of the farmers opposed the bill
for fear it would interfere with chil
dren doing chores about the farm
Amendments to exclude agricultural
pursuits with the exception of beet
growing removed all objections how
ever and brought about a favorable
report on the measure
The inability of the supreme court
as now organized with only three
members to care for the big volume
of legal business in the state has re
ceived attention at the hands of the
senate That body has passed Senator
Kings bill calling for seven supreme
judges at a salary of 4500 a yeai
and also increasing the salary of the
district judges from 2500 to 3000 a
year
Chairman Burns of Lancaster of the
insurance committee reported three
bills to the senate with the recom
mendation that they be indefinitely
postponed All three reports were
overriden by the senate and the bills
were placed on general file after con
siderable discussion
After several lengthy hearings on
the jail feeding proposition as it ex
ists in Douglas county the committee
on fees and salaries of the house has
decided to recommend a bill which
will allow the county board of Doug
las county to let the contract for feed
ing the prisoners in the county jail to
the best bidder
State Superintendent McBrien and
the various educational interests of
the state have begun a hard fight
against the house roll that is intended
to make the free text book law of the
state optional instead of mandatory
Gibsons bill to prohibit brewers
and distillers from having any interest
in saloon or saloon licenses received
favorable action in the senate com
mittee of the whole The bill pre
vents manufacturers from having any
interest direct or indirect in any sa
loon or saloon license or from own
ing or leasing property for saloon pur
poses Thomas of Douglas tried to
have the latter provision stricken out
but his amendment was voted down
Gibson declared thirty six of tho
eighty six saloons in South Omaha
were owned by a brewing company
HOME VS THE CITY
THAT 18 WHAT THE HOME TRADE
PROBLEM AMOUNTS TO
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON
If You Are Sending Your Dollars to
the Mail Order Houses You Are
Battling Against the
Home Town
Copyrighted by Alfred C Clark
A far seeing provident business
man will not pursue a policy which
is subversive of his best interests
He will not destroy his own house
neither will he jeopardize his busi
ness He will observe the golden
-rule not only in theory but in prac
tice and its practical observation was
never mora needed than at the pres
ent time Men dream about the
Golden Age and yet ofttimes pur
sue a policy which renders the dawn
of that age an impossibility
Within the horizon of every coun
try resident there exists an evil which
is yearly assuming greater propor
tions We refer to the mall order
business which last year amounted
in money sent to Chicago alone to
200000000 Two hundred million
dollars diverted from its legitimate
channel Two hundred million dol
lars sent out to enrich those who
were not needy while those at home
sorely in need of support were passed
by coldly the local trade was Im
poverished just to that extent This
golden trade reviving stream should
have remained within its own chan
nel thus enriching its own soil and
causing desert places to bloom and
blossom
Many unemployed would have been
engaged at living wages households
In a certain rural community this
official order and warning was issued j
Unless bad roads are fixed there
will be no rural delivery at all It is
Impossible to put road3 in repair with 1
out money This lack of means can
not be traced to poor crops for the
harvest Just gathered in has been
superabundant Men cannot support
and build up business concerns in dis
tant cities without sacrificing the
local good Is it fair to establish the
city by depriving the country of its
just support
Many hold forth the idea that tho
country is the feeder of tho city
This is only partially true That doc
trine has been preached till the text
is threadbare It would be much
wiser for men to get a new text and
talk and work tho country up then
allow tho city Including its mail or
der Octopus to work its own prob
lems awhile This instead of being
selfishness would bo the finest order
of common sense A more marked
feeling of brotherhood interest is
saidly needed in the country on this
particular point
The rural population- complain of
lack of facilities and conveniences in
order to obviate this let 200000000
this coming year be disbursed among
country merchants among the hum
bler storekeepers then observo what
will follow The improvements would
be marked Social conditions would
be greatly ameliorated A new order
would maintain in the home and over
the broad acres of the farm and best
of all the social spirit of brotherhood
would be felt as never before
Listen to these thoughtful words
from Gov Folk of Missouri We
are proud of our splendid cities and
we want to Increase in wealth and
population and we also want our
country towns to grow We wish the
city merchants to build up but also
desire the country merchants to pros
per I do NOT BELIEVE in the mail
jJY5yM W gy
The batteries of the catalogue houses are carrying destruction to the
smaller cities and towns Are you helping in this work of hurling destruc
tion at the local schools churches and industries Are you assisting In the
distribution of mail order literature and sending ammunition in the way of
home dollars with which they will continue the campaign
would have been cheered and hearts
warmed but no it went to swell the
dividends of surf eited boastful city
concerns
The live and let live doctrines was
overlooked Its old fashioned waole
someness was utterly disregarded
The country merchant would have
been engaged in his daily struggle
instead of battling at long odds
against ostracism adversity big bills
and meager receipts
Think of 200000000 ye who cause
the catalogue houses to flourish as the
cedars of Lebanon and the green bay
tree remember that their prosperity
is at the expense of your brother the
local merchant and local progress
Then ask this pertinent question Can
we afford to play the game longer
can we longer stultify local interests
This great evil affects every farm
er teacher and work hand every
home every school every church in
every country community It also
touches the interests of the physician
preacher and pedagogue It really
robs the country merchant before his
eyes in a heartless way He sees the
freight yard crowded with consign
ments to individuals from great cata
logue houses and sadly does he look
at his country store with its stock
accumulating for want of trade and
thus decreasing in value every day
Sadly too does he look at the refuge
of bankruptcy hourly being hastened
because his townsmen prefer the cata
logue house with its ubiquitous cir
culars Those train loads of goods
were bought with money that should
have found itsway into the honest
hand of your local merchant who has
the good of your locality at heart and
who Is expected to contribute liberally
and continuously to very moral and
benevolent institution in your midst
Then likewise remember this that of
all the millions thus sent to swell the
coffers of houses in great cities not
one cent will ever return to bless your
community to clothe the naked to
feed the hungry or to educate the
ignorant
This is certainly a misguided Ill
advised policy if self preservation is
the flrst law of nature the fact just
stated should cause lovers of this
country to think Continue this policy
and what follows The value of real
estate decreases local improvements
cease material progress stops the
whole country suffers
The money of a community repre
sents in a business sense just so much
possibility and every honest occupa
tion Is injured in proportion as that
Is withheld or sent elsewhere
order citizen If a place is good
enough for a man to live In and to
make his money in it is good enough
for a man to SPEND HIS MONEY
in Patronize your own town papers
build them up and they will build
your town up in increased trade and
greater opportunities
These are the words of wisdom and
foresight from a prudent patriotic
man As it is to day these words are
expressive of the opposite of what
should be in many a country district
The mail order citizen may think he
is gaining the truth is he is sawing
off the limb upon which he sits Dis
aster only can follow The mail or
der citizen makes his money locally
and scatters it abroad in a field where
it is not needed this is unfair to both
the town and to its merchants This
shortsighted citizen complains of the
size and character of his town paper
at the same time he pursues a policy
which tends to destroy both Then
publishers ought to be careful how
they exploit and give publicity to the
mail order houses even if they are
paid well for the space it reacts dis
astrously on the towns best pros
pects
Let men stand by the local mer
chant let them protect his interests
for they thus further their own The
town that made the man should be
made by the man This is fair to all
Let men ponder well this truth that
we are all interdependent that the
vein of brotherhood underlies the en
tire social and commercial fabric
That together we stand or fall that
the good of the country demands loy
alty and practical cooperation
ARTHUR M FROWDEN
Fortunate Men of Prominence
Admirers of great rich or famous
people often bestow their wealth upon
the objects of their regard The Ger
man emperor heads the list of lucky
ones so favored His receipts in
money and real estate during the last
ten years would it is said make a
millionaire envious Following prece
dent a Hamburg merchant prince left
more than 1000000 to the emperors
chancellor whom Kaiser William im
mediately created Prince Buelow
William Jennings Bryan recently
came by wealth in the same way In
England Lord Allerton has received
100000 from an admirer of his public
career and Dr Jameson inherits a sum
one fifth larger under the will of Mr
Beit Queen Victoria was very for
tunate in her admirers of whom the
wealthiest was Nield who bequeathed
to her the sum of 1250000
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES1
GATHERED FROM EXCHANGES
AND PRESS DISPATCHES
Miscellaneous Items of Interest Bear
ing Upon Many Subjects of
General Concern
Tho Journal Is a now paper atllem
Ingford
York Elks will build a home to cost
25000
7hreo buildings were destroyed by
fire at Graf
A very successful farmers instituto
was held at Gordon
Work has been begun on the Y M
C A building at Fremont
Union Pacific taxes paid In Butler
county amount to 2428903
A gray wolf weighing about forty
pounds was killed near Beatrice
Modern Womon of North Bend will
probably build for their own use
The Ben Hur lodge at David City in
itiated 100 members in a single night
F W Valleraux of Omaha succeeds
C M Gearez as Missouri Pacific agont
at Union
The smallpox situation at Alliance
has improved and no new cases are
looked for
The Burlingtou is protecting its
track at Schuyler by placing rock in
tho Platte river
Yankton and Southern railroad sur
veyors have been operating In the vi
cinity of Schuyler
The Union Pacific and B M roads
are calling off contracts since passagd
of the two cent law
Thirty students were suspended
from the Grand Island Business col
lege for taking part in a public dance
The Standard Bridge company of
Omaha was the successful bidder for
the bridge contract for Cuming
county
Frank Taylor of Burt county a
young men 17 years old was arrested
ard fined 50 for shooting into a
school house
George H Davis of Blue Spriugs is
just finishing thp erection of the larg
est stQpe crushing plant in tho state
at a cost of over 10000
One of the worst prairie fires to oc
cur in the section around Sutherland
for years destroyed thousands of acres
of valuable range for the ranchmen
and homesteaders
A party of Union Pacific surveyors
have established an office at North
Bend and are laying out plans for the
new double track to be laid between
Valley and Kearney
While returning to his home in a
buggy A T Hill a well known resi
dent of Lyous was held up on the
road three miles north of Lyons He
lost 15 and his watch
The tHjDmingford Creamery com
pany has ceased to do business a
final dividend to the stockholders hav
ing been declared and the affairs of
the corporation wound up
Charles Peek aged 18 pleaded
guilty to assaulting Mrs W J De
venney and Mrs Grover Deveuney at
Tecumseh He implicated Clifford
Chadwick who will be arrested
The Union Pacific followed the lead
of the Burlington and paid into the
Howard county treasury delinquent
taxes for which judgment had been
rendered in the United States supreme
court in the amount of 1695790
Mr Durdin city marshal of Blue
Hill has received a letter from Coun
cil Bluffs warning him to be on the
loookout for a gang of lightning rod
grafters who were supposed to be
working in that part of the state
James Taylor of Diller was killed at
Guthrie Okla where he had taken a
car of goods for his father He stuck
his head from the car door as a
switch engine ran past and the door
was forced against his neck breaking
James M Cook a former prominent
lumber merchant of Julian who was
arrested and heavily fined several
months ago for selling liquor without
a license was again arrested and has
been sent to Lincoln as a dipsoma
niac
The Methodists of Plainview have
det April 28 as the day for dedicating
their new church The pastor Rev J
P Yost has been to Kansas City for
the purpose of securing Bishop Wil
son for this occasion The bishop has
consented to be present
The Elkhorn river by its recent ca
pers Abandoned its usual bed east of
Fremont and is now cutting through
a farm owned by Peter Ryan Mr
Ryan will lose twenty acres of val
uable land by the change in the
couise of the stream
Directors of the Farmers independ
ent Elevator company of York coun
ty have decided to sell the elevator
building and business It is under-
stood they have about 9500 invested
In property The elevator has not
been a paying investment
Parties near Brownville made a big
catch of fish in the Missouri river
One thousand pounds of Dig catfish
were shipped to a butcher in Tecum
seh The fish weighed from five to
forty pounds most of them being
above the fifteen pound mark
Two-cent-a-mile rate the state re
quirement is all that the Northeast
ern Nebraska Teachers association
will be given by railroads for its Fre
mont meeting April 3 5 Senator La
Follette will speak
Charles Kruger while operating a
corn sheller on the farm of Frank
Laudenheim five miles northeast of
Amherst got his coat caught in the
tumbling rod of tne machine and be
fore it could be stopped or assistance
given Kruger he was whirled around
the rod till rendered unconscious dy
ing soon after the accident
LUMBAGO 1
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Penetrates to the Spot
Ritfht on the dot
Price 23c and 50c
OSOSSOSOSeOSSQOSOQOa
Purely Experimental
Why In the world did you order a
Welsh rabbit In this French place
they asked her Of course the cheese
is about the same as you get every
where but how can you tell what a
French Welsh rabbit will do to you
afterward
Im not afraid she informed them
placidly I Just want to see what
sort of ragtime nightmare French it
will speak
Tin Used in United States
Tho total consumption of tin in the
United States for 190C was 42800
tons with 2182 tons in Btock at the
close of the year The shipments
from Bolivia show an increase of
3000 tons from Cornwall an increase
of from 700 to 1000 tons and from
Australia an increase of 1000 tons
making the total European and Amer
ican supply for the year about 93550
tons
SCIATIC TORTURE
A Locomotive Engineer Tells How
He Was Cured by Dr Williams
Pink Pill
Pain that seems almost unbearable
is a characteristic of sciatic rheuma
tism In some cases the pajn ia
knife like sharp or shooting in oth
ers it is dull and aching Sciatic
is stubborn in resisting treatment and
the patient frequently suffers for
years This was the case with Mr
Herbert E Spaulding a locomotivo
engineer on the Cincinnati New Or
leans Texas Pacific Railway whose
home is at Longview Texas
While running an engine some
years ago he says I fell off and
hurt my knee and spine and I have
always considered this to he the cause
of my illness The sciatica took hold
of me from my heel to the back of
my head The pain was the worsJ
I ever suffered in my life and my leg
and back were twisted out of shape
I was under a physicians care for
several months and for six months
could not get out of bed I also went
to Hot Springs but came back in a
worse condition than when I went
It was when I was down In bed
that I heard of the case of a Mr
Allison a much older man than my
self who had been cured of sciatica
by Dr Williams Pink Pills I began
taking the pills and soon was able to
get out of bed When I bad taken
six boxes I was able to work about
the house and yard I kept right
on with the pills until I was cured
and I have never had any return of
the trouble I have been running an
engine ever since
Dr Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists or sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price 50 cents per box six
boxes for 250 by the Dr Williams
Medicine Co Schenectady N Y
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Positively cured by
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Tney also rettere Dis
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Drowslnes3 Bad Tasto
In the Hoatn Coated
Tongue Pain In tie Side
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FARMS THAT GROW
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Sixty three Pounds to
the Bushel Are situ
ated in the Canadian
West where Home
steads of 100 acres can
be obtained free by
every settler willing
and able to complv
with the Homestead
Regulations Durine
the present year a large portion of
New Wheat Browing Territory
HAS BEEN MADE ACCESSIBLE TO MAR
KETS BY THE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
that has been pushed forward so vigorously by
the three great railway companies
Forliterature and particulars address SUPER
INTENDENT OF IMMIGRATION Ottawa
Canada or the following authorized Canadian
Government Agent
W V BENNETT 801 New York Life BniHin
Omaha Nebraska
Mention this paper
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