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the proiterty under the two rates of
assessment.
The proportion of the county taxes
paid by residents of Lincoln is very
large. The proportion spent in Lin
coln is very small. The expenses of
the county are small compared to the
expenses of the city. Of late years
tho city council has made an effort to
wards economy The county admin
istration is and has been extravagant.
Next week Tin: Coukiek will print a
lis, of county expenses beside the cor
responding items of city outlay, as
only in this way can the cost of the
two formsof government be compared.
In buying a doll for a little girl
strict attention must be paid to the
age and stage of development of the
child. The younger a girl is the larger
should be the doll. Maidens of three
or four or five years want a doll, baby
size. Later they want small dolls for
whom they can make a large wardrobe
out of scraps. Later still the round
doll is discarded altogether and paper
dolls that only represent human be
ings by straining convention to its ut
most, satisfy the growing itnagina
tion. The reason for this decrease in
human likeness is the growtli of
imagination, which, as it grows, re
quires less and less to stimulate it.
After having reached a state of de
velopment whose limit in a normal
child is, perhaps, thirteen, the little
girl discards symbols altogether, but
no less does she talk and walk with
playmates and personages of her
imagination, though grown up people
wronglv believe her to be concerned
entirely with the material world.
Afterwards, sometime afterwards, she
is apt to forget the pleasures of the
imagination deposited in a locked
cheat with the dolls of her childhood,
which parties and beaux and concern
over her own appearance do not leave
her time to unlock. Butaf ter she lias
had the beautiful material things that
every girl longs for, after she begins to
be less attractive and to care less her
self for glitter and color and sweet
scents, I will not say sweet sounds, for
thev stand ever at the doors of imag
ination and swing them open to those
who will enter, the pleasures of the
spirit nre enhanced and association,
with the masters of literature and
with children and the meek of the
earth, are what she chooses when the
material will let her. So in selecting
a present for the little maid, be sure
it is not something which her sense,
of form rejects as too babyish for her.
You cannot give her this year what
you gave her last, for she has devel
oped in that time with a rapidity
adults cannot remember.
There is nothing new under the
sun, but so long as old things are new
to children thejblase, passe, grown up
people may enjoy the pleasures of dis
covery vicariously.
at the present time to divert public
opinion from Judge Hayward and to
boom IX E. Thompson of Lincoln for
the U.S. seriate. This wont do gen
tlemen. Hayward is the man. If he
should not chance to be the choice
there arc several other good men who
have claims on the party that would
not be a stench in the nostrils. Such
men arcCady, Webster. Ilainer, Lam
bertson, Field. Give it to a man who
is not objectionable t" the party.
Broken Bow Republic
11UL. IIVUMMt
No f e'.f-respecting newspaper should
endorse D. E. Thompson's candidacy
for the United States senate, for many
reasons One is that he was very
closely related to a W. Mosher, the
wrecker of the Capital National bank
and lias undoubtedly protited by that
failure. Another is his unpopularity
with the masses of his own city and
county. Further we understand that
he gave the republican state commit
tee 85,000 to gain the influence of the
committee and the men who were
elected in the doubtful districts where
the money was placed. Thus hoping
by the use of money to aid in his elec
tion to the United States senatorship.
We might name several other reasons.
It would be a sad blow to the republi
can party if D. E. Thompson is elected
as a senator from Nebraska. Sterling
Eagle.
Corporations and other less honor
able agencies have elected U. S. sena
tors from Nebraske and now the al
mighty dollar is booming one Thomp
son to fill the large space to be left
vacant by Windy Allen.
The election of D. E. Thompson as
U. S. senator from Nebraska would be
a serious mistake. Mr. Thompson may
be a very successful money maker, but
if he is a statesman the country is
densely ignorant of the fact. Thomp
son was connected with Mosher and
the Capital National and while he may
have been able to slip out and wash
his hands, the people of the state
would view his election as United
States Senator as a return to power of
the men who are directly responsible
for the defeat of the republican party
in this state. Every member of the
legislature who votes for him will be
charged with having been bought and
it will be hard to assign any other
reason for his receiving a vote. In
dianola Reporter.
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This fall we are showing- a very strong- line
of medium furniture, carpets, curtains and
draperies. Here are two of Our leaders in din
ing- room furniture.
Solid oak dining- table,
top 42 inch square, very
heavy and will last a life
time. Six foot length,
S6.50;eight foot length $8.
Solid oak dining
chair, cane seat, brace
arm. A very g-ood
thing-. We sell six of
them for $5.
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THOMPSON IN THE COUNTRY.
We want the best man possible and
"money should cut no figure in the
race. Falls City Journal.
If Mr. Thompson of Lincoln is a
really good republican he will give
evidence of it by getting off the sena
torial track immediately. This is no
time to embarrass the party with his
candidacy. St. Louis Republic.
D. E. Thompson's literary bureau is
working over-time these days, in an
attempt to boost the boom of its own
er as a sensational candidate. The
bureau has a tremendous task assign
ed to it, and the man in charge works
as if he was aware of the fact.
Seward Reporter.
There is a strong effort being made
In opposing Mr. Thompson The
Signal has no especially preferred
candidate whose cause it wishes to
champion at the expense of Mr.
Thompson It considers Judge Hay
ward the logical candidate but several
other good men have been proposed
The objection to Mr. Thompson is
that he is Mr. Thompson.
Nebraska republicans cannot afford
to go into the business of setting up
bosses, no matter what their ability
may be. It is as a boss that Mr.
Thompson is known. We did not
even know that he was a republican,
or that he claimed to be, until he de
cided to be a United States senator
five or9ix weeks ago. It is Mr. Thomp
son's boast that he never votes. He
sits in his office and gives orders and
if both sides are composed of his kind
of people it makes little difference to
him or his interests what individuals
are elected to office.
The election of Mr. Thompson would
be an indorsement of certain unsatis
factory conditions at the state capital,
at least in the minds of many people.
Mr. Thompson became a division su
perintendent of the Burlington be
cause of his ability as an organizer
and his success in getting men to do
what he wanted them to do. He
amassed money rapidly and left the
railroad service to look after personal
business in Lincoln. He was a stock
holder in the Capital National bank
but when that institution crumbled
into dust it was found that Mr.
Thompson had sold out his stock a
year or two before. Mr. Thompson
turned up later with numerous shares
of gas company and other stock that
had once been the property of Mosher
and Outcalt, the looters of the bank
named.
As president of the Lincoln Gas
company and big manipulater Mr.
Thompson has made his name odious
to the people of Lincoln. The balance
of the state hasn't known anything
about him since he went out of the
railroad business. This is a good
time to elect a senator who has never
been interested in the management
of corporations.
This is Mr. Thompson's first ap
pearance before the public, Not one
voter in a hundred in the state had
any notion what his politics was prior
to six weeks ago, if he had any out
side his personal interests. The peo
ple of the state are not acquainted
with him and most of those who do
know him fear him. There are plenty
of men in the state of good ability
whose opinions on public questions
are well known to the average voter
of the state and in whom the people
of the state have confidence. We have
never known Mr. Thompson togo into
the newspapers before, as he has gen
erally avoided newspaper publicity,
but he has now gone into them at
length. The political platform he
announces is satisfactory to republi
cans but Mr. Thompson is not the
only pebble. Many good men stand
on the same platform. The people of
the state cannot even be sure that
Mr. Thompson has not climbed on
this platform within the last few
weeks and for the present emergency.
It will be safer to elect a man people
know. Nebraska Signal.
The republican party of this state
is not in a condition to stand any out
rage upon the sentiments and con
science of the people. We are getting
back into power. Last fall we gained
a victory in securing a majority of
the legislature. The future of the re
publican party for many years depends
upon the action of that body. If it is
conservative, honest, wise and pru
dent the party will soon gain full con
trol of the state. If it makes mis
takes, and does things the people do
not want and will not endorse the
party will be weakened and it is weak
enough already. The greatest victory
was securing tho United States sena
tor. Let us make the best use of it
possible for the good of the state and
the benefit of the party. Trivate and
selfish interests must not be allowc .
to control in matters befofe the legis
lature. No sly or underhand methods
should be tolerated. We cannot af
ford it. J here is too much at stake.
The republican members of the legis
lature fully realize that the people
will watch them closely and we be
lieve are determined to do their duty
honestly and wisely. If they do the
future of the party is secure. York
Times.
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