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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1901)
' * \ * * * f * , , * " * , , * / * < ' . , < J < > 'frV , ' ' , v ' , | . ITS jii - -i-ll 'Cbe Conservative * 17 I I : WEARE COMMISSION CO. GRAINS , PROVISIONS , STOCKS AND BONDS. OLD COLONY BUILDING , CHICAGO , HARDING & HOCHSTETLER , REAL ESTATE LOANS AND INSURANCE . , , 08 NEBRASKA CITY NEB , Sleeplessness is a terrible affliction. The most common cause of it is some form of indigestion. Ripans Tabules positively cure indigestion. They do not act like opiates , producing an unnatural , immediate effect , but gradually exert an influence over the nervous system , which results in ready sleep , sound and refreshing. "I am glad to give my testimonial in regard to the great worth of Ripans Tabules , " writes a middle-aged lady , living in Philadelphia , Pa. "I slowly recovered from a severe illness and was getting along very well , only I could not sleep , which kept me from gaining strength. A friend advised me to take Ripans Tabules which acted like a charm , giving me refreshing slumber and also renewing my strength. I was also troubled with dyspepsia , and found to my great surprise that as my strength returned I was cured of this disease also. " YV/ANTED. A case of bad health that R-I-P-A-N-S will not benefit. They banish W pain and prolong life. One gives relief. Note the word R-I-P-A-N-S on the package and accept no substitute. R-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for 5 cents ; may be had at any drug store. Ten samples and one thousand testimonials will be mailed to any ad dress for 5 cents , forwarded to the Ripans Chemical Co. , 10 Spruce St. , New York. s v | H. W. JOHNS' M/ / It I Asbestos RoofingsM PURE ASBESTOS , NO COAL TAR , WATER AND ACID PROOF , REQUIRE NO COATING , M/ ONE QUALITY. MANY STYLES , LOW PRICES , Application Simple & Inexpensive , Asbestos Roofings are Fully Guaranteed , vy si/ V H. W. JOHNS1 M'FG CO. , NEW YORK , CHICAGO , PHILADELPHIA , BOSTON , M/ MAKERS OF y ASBESTOS MATERIALS , LIQUID PAINTS AND STAINS , PIPE AND BOILER COVERINGS , ELECTRICAL MATERIALS , M/ AN ENEMY WITHIN THE GATES. On Monday ox-Congressman W. A. Rodenberg , of Illinois , was appointed civil service commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mark S. Brewer. This announcement appeared among many other appointments made by the president on that day. "Without further explanation , comment or citation of Mr. Rodenberg's record as to the civil service reform , his appointment to a place in the commission might appear to bo a matter of commonplace significance. When it is learned from record evidence that Rodenborg is more than unfriendly to the civil service reform , and has endeavored to make the commission in effective by voting in congress against appropriations for the salaries and traveling expenses of the commissioners , the remarkable character of Rodenberg's appointment is revealed. On February 17 , 1900 , Rodenberg voted in the house , of representatives for an amendment to the legislative , judicial and executive appropriation bill , which , if adopted , would have been equivalent to the abolition of the commission. The amendment proposed to strike out the appropriations for the salaries of the commissioners and their office staff , as well as the appropriation for traveling expenses incurred in the work of the commission. Rodenberg's acceptance of a salary , which he thinks ought to be abolished , and his appointment to an office whose operations he wanted to stop by withholding the "supplies , " con stitute as grotesquely absurd an inci dent as anything that can bo recalled in American political life. It moves the New York World to say : "President McKinley has apparently given civil service reform another back ward turn. He has appointed to the vacant commissionership ox-Congress man Rodeuberg , of Illinois , one of the politicians loft 'out of a job' by the people , and who , as ho couldn't be 'taken care of as he desired to bo , with an appointment as one of the St. Louis World's Fair Commissioners , was given 'something almost as good' in the civil service lino. "Mr. Rodenberg's peculiar fitness for this place and his sympathy with reform are indicated by the vote that he cast in the house a year ago with seventy-six other members to strike out the appro priation for the support of the commis sion in which he now finds a refuge with a salary. ' 'Poor old civil service reform is having a hard time ! " In setting the reform on foot , Mr. Mc- Kinley's presidential predecessors wore careful to select for the commission persons who were not virulently hostile to a non-partisan civil service. Had the commission been composed wholly of Rodenbergs the civil service reform would have died at its birth ; and sure death awaits it if the commission is to be conducted and controlled by the
