BaSBzMWW. E'DMRK?'A'PBlMMMHKn 1-?; t . . i H lil'l - I - mm' OMfllRW ,1 l aaama.. S WBDHMDAX. JANUARY 15. HC8. ft. G. STKOTHER. F. K. SntOTHEK. . The democratic press want the re- pablicaas to select their delegates to the national convention by the state wide primary law. Their state com mittee meets this week, and it's dollars to doughnuts that they do not elect their delegates by the state primary. United States Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas went all the way to Chicago for the purpose of deliver ing an address on the "dangers that beset our republic," at a Bryan ban-J quet But alack, and alas, Mr. Davis became too full for utterance, and fell asleep and never woke up un till the banquet was all over, and now we do not know what dangers are threatening us, and Senator Jefferson Davis will have to carry this dreadful secret back to Washing ton with him. Why is it that every democratic paper in Nebraska wants the repuli cans of Nebraska to endorse LaFollette, and to oppose Taft, for their choice for president If, as our democratic friends claim, Taft is a week candidate, and LaFollette such a great man and sack a great vote getter, they surely want their peerless leader to win, and they ought to rejoice at what they call a mistake nolicv. But the truth of the matter is, our friends, the en emy, know that if Taft is the republi can standard bearer, William J. Bryan is sure of a third defeat In San Francisco, California, there thrived several places known as French restraurants, but in reality dens of infamy of the lowest character. During Mayor Schmitz's administra tion they were allowed to run, upon payment of large sums of money to the mayor, through the city attorney. The latter admitted the facts and plead guilty, and the mayor was tried and convicted and sent to the penitentiary. Now comes the supreme court of the state of California and says that neither the mayor nor the! city attorney committed any crime, according to the laws of California. What is the matter with the laws of California and what is the matter with the supreme court of California? 'Even, if technically right, these men have violated the laws of decency and honesty, and their punishment was one too severe. Such court decisions bring law into disrepute and have a tendency to bring on mob law. The last legislature of Nebraska passed a state wide primary law for eoanty and state elections, but ex empted city elections and delegates to the national and congressional con ventions. The republican state cen tral committee at its last meeting, net the time for holding the state 'con vention for March 12 at Omaha, and left it to each county central com mittee the manner in which the coun ties should choose delegates. Any eoanty desiring it can use the new primary law, but the expense of pro viding this primary election must not come oat ot the treasury of the coun ty or the state, or township, but must he met by individuals. A primary law in this county costs at least $300 Then are one hundred judges and clerks of election who must be in ses sion from 12 m. until 9 p.m., and as mack longer as it takes, them to tahaktethe results. They are entit led to two days pay. There must be a coaatable at each voting place. Not alsac tickets must be printed, but the rales and regulations governing the election mast be printed and put up. Who is to appoint the judges and clerks' of election, and whom do they report to? The law does not specify. So what would be the use of taUing this expensive and cumber- election? Our county ttee should be called to- and they should set the time far holding primaries and county con- A primary held at a con place, well advertised before aad,aad lasting two hours, can get atthe will and wish and preference of voters, and we appeal raters to tarn oat, let a few politicians or wire the primaries. falai MMrBOfltOVMt tiaatvoar BmW lMMiffi'inii?i42 SmSmLmbiI JtMlr- waaaaUarJwMaass fcgy' CUNI M ADDMBBt-Wmm atdatma a -MMmfe fllWMkMUnMVMWMWlMMBfl4lMBMlflBflUA HHn tfttttiiAfrt If the currency bill which has been reported by the senate committee he comes law, as it probably will con sidering its backing, we shall have ad ded awre to the spicy variety of car rency which pass in the payments of debts. We now have gold certificates, silver certificates, a few treasury notes, three or four hundred, millions of irraenbacks aid bank note?. Some is secured by gold, a. purely "sound" currency; some by silver, about 44 per cent "sound," some is direct, govern ment credit, the greenbacks, some in direct government credit, the bank notes, and now if the bill becomes law, a miscellaneous credit, the emergency bank note.. The bill proposed aims neither at the cause nor the cure of panics. It aims to relieve acute local money' stringencies, as when a comer is on in the stock exchange or grain market, or when money for moving crops is in exceptional demand. As a stimulant to tie over an emergency it should be ,of some use, though that value de pends on the sustaining of the six per cent tax. When the $250,000,000 of issue allowed is all out and business apparently staggering under its six per cent load, congress will hear pleas to permit the issue to stay out by low ering the tax, just as we now hear of pressure to keep the treasury from withdrawing deposits made to relieve the October stringency. That would change the emergency currency into an inflation currency, made a diet of the stimulant and merely defer the day of a sterner judgment It is a danger to guard against The reason for proposing this, an other patch on our financial system, instead of trying, more drastic meas ures may be a sufficient one. Bus iness is nervous, and sweeping meas ures, even though good, might cause hysteria. Of course when business has fully recovered there will bean equally good reason tor, inaction. Business is then good, and it would be foolish to make changes that might cause a reaction. vIt has not appeared that the passage of avdeposit guaranty law in Oklahoma disturbed business in that state. What congress cannot risk doing for us in that respect we may therefore be able to do safely for ourselves. Lincoln Journal. ABDMAICHOr The swing of population and power towards the Western half of the United States is strikingly shown in railway building of the calendar year 1907. The number of miles of track built in that year, exclusive of second track, sidings or electric lines, was 5220, and more than half were laid west of the Mississippi. In the region between the big river and the Pacific Coast: 3224 miles of track were con- in the year. Several states in the mileage of the year are snthe traos-MississiDpi bait oitne country. Louisiana Nled the states with 385 miles of new track, and Texas, South Dakota, Washington, California and Nevada stood high on the roll. The older states did very little railway building in the year, the whole of New England contributing less than thirty miles to the total, while New York built only forty miles, and Illinois but fifteen miles. And vet railway building west of the Mississippi is so recent that many persons still alive remember when it began. From the east through rail connection was established with Chi cago in 1853, and with the Mississippi at Rock Island in 1854 and at east St Louis in 1857. Through the Han nible and St Joseph railway the Missouri was touched in 1859, and at the meeting of the rails of the Union Pacific which was being built west ward and the Central Pacific which was moving eastward, the continent was spanned in 1869. Though there are five transcontinental lines of road today, none was completed until thirty nine years ago. The comparative newness of the big railways of the region west of the Mississippi is shown by the fact that the man who ran the first locomotive on the Hannibal and St Joseph line is still alive and vigorous. From 1870 until 1905, Illinois led all the states in number of miles of main track, but in that year Texas went to the front Texas in 1908 has about 1000 more miles of road than Illinois, and as Texas has several times the area of Illinois, her lead' over the neighbor to the east of the river is sure to keep on increasing-for yean to come. The geographical center of the mainland of the United States is in Kansas, while the population center is in Indiana. It is altogether possible, however, that persons are now alive who will see the population center touch or cross the big river. St Loais Globe-Democrat A TMMJLEmJCMSMQ DEOsYJOV. The decisioa of the United States suprame court ia the mployer's lia bility cases is one of the most import ant aad far reaching handed down by whnwBed that tribunal in recent yean. The! ammaram o u conn am wwm legislation congress exceeded the au thority vested jn it by the conatita- On one point the court seems to have been much divided, namely, whether the act would hold as to em ployes actually engaged in interstate commerce, even though it could not be made to apply to other employes en gaged in work entirely disconnected from interstate commerce. Five of the nine judges, however, have agreed that the act must be regarded as a whole and that it is void ia its entirety because its main purpose goes outside of the constitutional powers of con gress. Only one judge out of the nine has gone on record squarely in favor of upholding the law in its fullest scope and of recognizing authority ia con gress to legislate generally for the reg ulation of interstate commerce carrieia in all theirvarried relations to the public and to their employes. The position taken by the supreme court adverse to the employer's liabil ity act tends to check all proposals for congressional legislation under the interstate commerce clause designed to supersede state control of railroad operations within state boundaries. What gave these cases unusual signifi cance was the possibilities of extend ing federal control over all aspects of transportation that would follow judi cial recognition of the authority claim ed by congress. Many railroad officers' and some high standing attorneys piofessed to see an opportunity to read into the in terstate commerce clause of the consti tution sufficient power to give the federal government exclusive jurisdic tion over all common carriers. From this hope for a measure oT relief from divergent legislation of forty-six states through refuge in congress they are now cut off. It should, of course, be remembered that the point at issue in the em ployer's liability cases does not neces sarily go beyond the relations of the railroads to their employes, and it is possible, notwithstanding tuis decision, that authority may be found in this and other sections of the constitution to widen greatly the scope of congres sional authority over interstate trans portation companies, as compared with what has already been done by con gress in this direction. But it is more Kkely that for the present, at least, the railroad problem will have to be treat ed co-ordinately by both federal and state law-makers and uniformity of regulations secured, so far as is desired, by co-operation rather than by substi tution of congressional for state legis lation. Omaha Bee. OEM. SHEmWOODV BIL1V. T. th Or tl mt m, VU Valaatear KalL The following bill has been intro duced by Gen. I. .B. Sherwood, of Ohio, and referred to the Committee, on Invalid Pensions: "That upon the written application to the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the conditions and require ments hereinafter contained, the name of each surviving volunteer soldier in the United States volunteer army of the civil war should be entered on a roll to be known as the veteran volun teer roll: Provided, however, That each such soldier shall have served with credit as an enlisted man not less than 18 months in the field with troops in said volunteer army between April 20, 1861, and July 15, 1866. He shall have been honorably discharged from service; he shall not belong to the Regular Army, nor have belonged to such army during said service. "Said application shall be accom panied with proof of the identity of the application as the person whose name appears upon the military organiza tion to which he claimed to belong, and such application to be placed on such roll and the identification shall be sworn to in the manner and form -provided by law for other application for pensions. In the event that such applicant has been wounded in the line of hie duty and thereby disabled from serving for said term of 18 months, or was discharged for disabil ity contracted in the service upon proof of such fact, if he be otherwise qualified he shall be entitled upon such roll the same as though he had served for the full term hereinbefore provided for. Any soldier captured in battle or in the line of duty and serving in Con federate prisons shall have his time of such service counted the same as if he had served in the field. ."Sec. 2. Each of the class heraa after described, when entered upon such roll, shall be paid out of aay money ia the Treasury of the United Slates appropriated for pensions, the sum of $1 per day from and after the date of his application for the benefits conferred by this act, daring his nat ural life. Sec. 3. That each person who shall receive pay wader the provisions of this act shall hereby relinquish all right and claim to aay other -"mvmI 1 - mi awMmwMv WmWmWmB. Mamm Msaa Aw. anma mna awl awawffwrf- Lw J. . j fS3. A fflL mwTMm 1MwfH4mwvw Mm mm l mwf A MJmW ' 7 mMWMWMWMMWMWMwPBmMmMWMWMMmW mwBn WrU I . -mm aWmwl uvwmWmWi "" AwS .. .AwVwMmMwV AVMl mwH i awM 9 BmAM m mMwfl 1 VllVrnnmWwLPfiBT I W -Mwm HiTmV- mWmLmw7 .MVMTMWlmrlMwV H. Jm 4 mMwKmnw J ml Vm1c?Mmt7'1 nl W ii jtt1l mwjI ht VnWflv tfB MmnmB J mMWoWMWMWMWMWMmMmr M5mMwmMmwkw; kB VJ nf ATTj " v si CmWmV 19mw' I r .amMVot wmWmtmWmwM t ma! mwMwi MWMMmMw)4n a3k wfl Is. MnawJmL mMMwav F HSmW .AwmW mmWmWmWmWmwX J- mWmWm! 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HlaV H Ninety per cent of the diseases of mankind originate from a disordered stomach, anal wHrnm H not to keep the stomach in healthy condition is to court serious disease. mH H The ItexaU Ipepsia.Tablete are guaranteed to relieve iauaediatolya H hi ullj all tlir mnnf mnfrrnrlrnrind palnfnl fnmn nf Tljinijasia mwl IiitllgiisllmL TMsgwar- V H r" ta r't"' a"7 Imw -"y " fc-sHfinr tt nH hir sir nnt satisJrd LM s m-ana -a. -.- W . frr ,111 ! nf fciwHlHllB llltjrfi JLW I Kml MMmw wHmi lamrnmVemmaaanMad aaaanmaMicam tf dMWMamMMVv Ptte.KoMk.MMVMMW mtmimmI mWmtbT Em I ' POLLOCK & PP.. DRUOOISre. rl .IViMwIwMwmmwMWiWMwmawaaBaBaBBawmWMm from the United -States after the date of filing said application, and any pen sion payment made subsequent to the filing of such application shall be de ducted from the amount due such sol dier on the first payment or payments under this act" -. Editor National Tribune: As to the pension bill giving all veteran soldiers $1 per day that I introduced in the House of Representatives last Tuesday, let me have space for a few words. This bill is not general legislation. It modifies no existing pension law. It is only intended to benefit veterans the men who stood behind the guns. It is not based on age, because I be lieve that the man who entered at the age of 18 in 1861 is entitled to just as much patriotic consideration and com pensation as myself, who enlisted at the age of 26. This bill provides a pension of $1 per day for all soldiers who served 18 months or over. If , sooner discharged on account of wounds or disability contracted in the service, the pension will still be due; also due to all sol diers captured in battle or in line of duty and confined in prison. If this bill should become a law it will be the first pension law since the law in the exclusive interest of the veterans who fought and won the great battles of the war. The bill if enacted will not take a large amount out of the National Treasury, and it will only last a few brief years. 1 base the merits of this bill on this natriotic nronosition. The Govern ment of the United States is strong enough and rich enough to make the last days on earth of the men who loved their country' better than life in '61-'65. Concede this, and how can this best be done and with the safest economy. It is now costing the Government and State Governments, including pen sions now being paid, over $500 per year to be housed and fed and clothed in so-called Soldier's Homes. In one National Heme it is costing the Gov ernment $1,200 per year for every soldier inmate. Is it not better and cheaper to give every veteran $365 per year and allow him to enjoy real home life among kindred and friends? I have now heard already from over 300 soldiers serving in Soldiers' Homes, and everyone says the military discipline of these Homes makes life there seem like a prison. Some 150 of the veterans of the Michigan Sol diers' Home of Grand Rapids, all of whom served over two years, have sent me a petition for the $1 per day, say ing they would go home to friends of tearly manhood and be glad to escape the environssent that seems to them like a prison. Soldiers everywhere who favor., my bill would do well to write their Con gressmen; also- send petitions. Isaac R. Sherwood, 9th Ohio District, Wash ington, D. C. A Clack f Straw. A shoemaker named Wegner. living In Otrasburg, has sent to the exhibi tion of Inventions at Berlin a clock of the aranifatherahape, nearly six feet high, made entirely of straw wheels, pointers, case, aad every detail. Weg ner has taken 15 years to construct this strange piece of aMchaniam.- It keeps perfect time, but under the most' favorable drcumstaacee last longer than two years. telltode Cures Crying. The best way to care yourself of cryiag la to live alone," said the woman. 1 used to cry an awful lot when I warnuuTied, bat I JutnUy ever do now. It'a the saddest thing In the world to hear yourself crying all alone ia your fat, and what's the aae, any way. If 'thereto nobody around to aay: There! Therel' BRINGINI GEORGE TO THE Some fellows nave no idea of tb value of a girl's time that is. a girl who is somewhere between c25 an 30. They just fall into the habit ol dropping in 'to eat fudge or bits of cold chicken. It ia nice to do so. Meanwhile, Maude is wondering how much longer she must keep her hair curled and pinch her cheeks to get the proper glow. , "If he doesn't mean business," she wonders, "why doesn't he move on and let Joe Smith have a chance?" Joe isn't as good a prospect as George; still, he will do in case George 'can't be made to speak. But George continues to hold down the claim. Maude tried many ways of induc ing the backward one to toe the mark. Simple as the dear girl looked in her pretty white frock, -she was deep and knowing. Tou couldn't blame her. It was necessary to do a little pulling. George really needed a derrick to hoist him. He had been coming there off and on for several years. Maude was first in hot water, then cold. It seemed a century since the "Denver Is Far." thought had Irst come to her that aae would marry him. Maude was per fectly willing to settle dowa If George would only speak. But he wouldn't speak. Several times she got matters where where she thought the cards would be mailed to their friends the following week. Then George would get off the trolley. So everything had to be done over again. Now George was going away. The evening he came to aay good by they strolled into Jackson park. Maude gently led him to just the right seat, in the shadows, with other people not too near. Maude had made a resolution. George was ignorant of his dan ger. The lake was glistening. The moon was shining. The girl was alee. "Oh, Maude, Isn't It lovely herer he murmured. He was happy to had her hand la his. 1 wish this evening could last" Maude meant It to last until she had accomplished her object "I suppose it can't" she sighed. "No, I suppose not Shall yoa arias me when I am away?" Maude knew he was going; away. "Ton are going away?" Maude's voice trembled just enough. "I suppose you won't arise me?" questioned George. "Ton don't think that." she said, just as If she felt hurt because he had doubted her. "I wonder If yoall ever think of me.M "Every day dear." The danger sig nal was lying, but George didn't ob serve It How could' he when Maude's eyea werw shining In teara? A man adores a woman's ey In tears for alas. "Denver la a far." aae Somehow the length of the lacreaaed at the hadn't noticad It "I doa'tsappose rn ver," she continued. "They aay K Is a beautiful city, and yoa are nrilag to Mve there!" "Ok. DMTtr't an right ft wea't -fmaBBBBBamAigr jzr fa MWMMTMmMmMmMmMmMmMmmMWMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmawKav' H --wagggTr&vTTwV WmmmmmmmmWmj 1 IkwEHawSMwHraLvJ MmmWiavafmMmMmMMmMfiPMFJEfri " MHMmMmMaMUJsMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMl JmMmMffVmumaarmMwKMal 9mwEmfl MmMmMmawMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmH wk . V L HraHt Vh mmm "ftnamammMWMWMMWMWMWMwnanaaaw be Chicago to me, though, for " "Have you never dreamed of a place where you could be happy oh. so happy! Where there were views of mountains and balmy air to soothe you?" Maude was going some. "Gee. Maude, you don't mean to say Would you like to live la Den ver?" "Oh. George!" And her head trapped to his shoulder. "Perhaps you better speak to papa before you you get the ring. This will take him so by surprise. He didn't think to lose his little girl so soon." George was surprised, too. But what could he do? What could he say? Squirming would not avail him. Not that he was unhappy; oh, dear, no! Not until then had he realized how dear she was to him. As he brushed a little electric curl from her brow and whispered in her ear. he could only murmur: "How did I ever get up courage to ask such a pearl to be mine? I am so unworthy!" Chicago p-Hv News. CLEVER SCHEME THAT FAILED. Old Salesman's Advice Left Were Off Than Safer. Firm Henry Clews is telling a aew story which he says he got straight from the Canal street district saya the New York Times. A young jobbing firm, the tale telle, overbought for the fall trade. Their heaviest mistake had been in the line of overcoats, which it looked they- would have to carry over -a season. Efforts to get cash for the .stock were fruitless, ex cept at ruinous rates. At last the firm went to an old-timer in the trade for advice. "Well." said the man of ex perience, "you've got a pretty good list of customers. Just divide the coats up into lots of thirteen each. Send a batch apiece to some of your sharpest customers, 'but make out the bills for twelve. They'll be so tickled to get one coat for nothing that they'll take 'em all." The scheme i had been tried before the men met again. The old-timer waited for his praise. "Well, didn't they keep the coats?" he asked. "Yes." returned the jobber, sadly. "One each. The one that wasn't billed." STOP AND TAKE HEED of these Stirring Values in Overcoats AND be rare to act quickly if you wish to get a superbly custom-tailored Overcoatway be low actual value. In the combin ed assortment every size can be found but not every size in every style. Don't delay come just as soon as you can and take your pick. At $13.75 of any Overcoat bear ing the price of $18 or $20. At $18.75 choose from any Over coat marked $22.50 or $25.00. At $22.75 select any Overcoat you fimcy that is marked $27 or $30.00. At $27.75 take any Overcoat in stock Deanng or These are bonafidejicerediictioiML Every style of medium or extreme length in single or doable-breasted cut is in the collection. This may be your last chance for bargains like these. Don't delay coming here. GREISEN BROS 00LUMBUS, Suicides ef Aged Peeplc. The record of age for suicides seemed to be established recently in Copenhagen. Denmark. A wealthy lady of 91. liviag ia Copenhagen, com mitted suicide as the result of an un successful love affair. She fell la love with a youag man. aad in a It of des pair, because her affections were not returned, she sprang from the fourth ffoor window one morning aad waa killed. She was a widow and waa th mother of a high government oflciaL This record did not stand long, how ever. A few days later it waa learned that Josef Szazkas. aged 196. had hanged himself at Sxatoaar. on th Huagariaa frontier, because he feared that God had forgotten him, and that he was condemned to reaaaia on th earth for all eternity. Mamma Hunting Title. "I admit that I love you. Clarence." said the youag heiress, out 111 have to speak to mamma." "Eh?" said Clarence. "You mean I'll have to speak to her." "No. I will. She'll be home from Europe to-morrow, where she's been for the last three months and she may have engaged me to some nobleman while she was there." FINAL NOTICE. In the DfetrictCoait of Platte eooatj. Mwwm. mm- oww tax nuii, jrar aoo, To Joha W. resteer. U. P. Harford. John H. Green, th uknows heirs ami drriaee ef O. P. Harford. decMtted. the aakaowa hrin aad defiawof Joha H. Groom, deceaard. Netto m hereby KiTea that aaderadecreeof the District Coatt of eaid eoanty of Platte, na derad ia the state tax wait for the war W86, whereia the State of Nebraska waa blalatid aad The Several Parcels of Laad aad aD ptraoaaor eorperatioati lumB or claimiatc title to or aay iatenst. riaht or claim therein, were rtrfhnrtanta. the followiac described real estate situated ia the coaai y of Platte aa state of Nebraska, to wit: Lots use. two. six aad sevea. in block two hoadrad sad aeveaty-oae. ia the city of Cotam bas. ia said county aad state, aad deaiaaated ia said decrreas tracts aoaiber SCStt SMandaSS. were oa the Mlh day of Jaae. NSS. duly sokl at pablie Teadae by the const? trrasarer of said coaaty ia the auaaer provided by law. aad that the period of redemptioa from each sale will expire oa the Mt day of Jaae. 19. Yoa an further antiaed that the owaer of said eertiScate of tax sale. roTeriaft- said tracts, will stake ap plication to the enart for conlrmaHon oa said sale as soon as practicable after the period of redeaiDtJoa has exDireiL that the tiawtaml nbi of beamicapoB eoaaratatioawiU beeatered ia the coaSnaatioa record kept by the clerk of aaideeart oa or before the Mthday of Jaae, 1MB. Yoa will exaaiae said record to a scoria! a the tuaeef each heariacaad be praaaat if yoade. atretoaHdwobiectioBsorshowcaasewaysach sale ahoald aot be coaarawd. BAMGaora. Owaer aad holder of Tax Certiaeate. price ol $35.00 NEBRASKA l ."V r 1 IS- ,''. --: .L, JS." K- - c V Ssii n -YT""V - ?.. ,-tt -? " r-SS . " ' - ..izv-