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have a clean record in his county and dis
trict. He means TO make an active can
vass for the nomination. He is in the
real estate and farm land business and is
said to have an extensive knowledge of the
land business over Nebraska
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TO your local ticket agent or write J. A.
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$500 Omaha 10 Chicago and Return,
Via

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Tickets on sale August H. - and 10.
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Tickets and information at City Ticket
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Automobile Rental Co. Office Niles q
Moser, Sixteenth and Farnam. Tel. Doug
las-1995.
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lincoln Man Killed Mt Crawford,
CRAWFORD, Neb., Aug. 7.-(Special Tel
egram)-Bert Taylor, a carpenter from
Lincoln, was killed by lightning here about
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
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Codgiil. Holdrege Harry s. DUNCAN. Hast
ings; c. J. Bowiby. Crete; Dan T. Stephens
Fremont; J. NJ. Leyda, Plattsmouth: W.
H. Kelligher. Auburn: Tom r. Parmelc.
Plsttsmouth: George G. Gillian, Lexington.
W. b. Eastman. Broken Bow; w. II. Tay-
lor. Exeter: W. II. Green, Creighton; Ste
phen l. Geisthart. Lincoln; Matt Miller,
David City
Epworth Assembly DOinEs.
The Epworth assembly had another rainy
day, and many were kept away from the
grounds tonight At the day session Miss
Mary c. Brehm delivered a temperance
lecture before the womens Christian Tenn
perance union section and Miss Nellie
Snider talked on missionary work in Mex
leo. John Y. wooley talked on Christian
citizenship tonight
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FORECAST OF THE WEATHER
Fair and Warmer In Nebraska and
South Dakota TOdRy-FRir
TOmOrroM.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Forecast Of
the weather for Wednesday and Thursday:
For Nebraska, South Dakota and Kan
sas-Fair and warmer Wednesday; fair
Thursday.
For Iowa and Missouri-Local rains
Wednesday; fair and warmer Thursday.
For Colorado, Wyoming and Montana
Fair Wednesday, with cooler in north por-
tion Thursday, fair and cooler.
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Reports from stations Mt 7 p. VI.

IT, Indicates trace OF precipitation.
l.. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster
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Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March /.
and comparison with the last two years:
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sterling silyer-FrenIer. 18th and Dodge.
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Local Record.

OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU,
OMAHA, Aug. 7.-Official record of tenn
perature and precipitation compared with
the corresponding day OF the last three
years: 1906. 1905 1904 1903
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Governor Mickey has returned from
Geneva Beach, wis, where he addressed
the National Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION. His son. Benjamin Mickey, will
remain at the summer resort for several
days. The governor reports an immense
crowd and a good time.
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Box Butte-The week was hot and dry,
except for a few local showers.
Brown-Splendid rains occurred in all
parts of the county during the week.
Cherry-The week was warm, with heavy
showers the last of the week.
Rock-The week was warm, with several
good showers.
Sheridan-A heavy general rain occurred
Friday. ,,
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nonsense published by the sporting pa
pers.
Were I to find myself on a race
course in Novel-land 1 should not trou-
BILE about the unessential; ] should go
UP to the BOokie who looked as if he
had the most money, and should say
to him, Don't shout so loud; you are
making yourself hoarse. Just listen
to me. Who's the hero of this novel
Oh that's he, is it? The heavy-looking
man on the little brown horse that
keeps coughing and is suffering appar-
entity from bone SPAWN. Well, what
are the odds against his-winning by
ten lengths "A thousand to one
Very well! Have you got a bag2=
Good. Here's twenty-seven pounds in
gold and eighteen shillingS in silver.
Coat and waistcoat, say another ten
shillings. Shirt and trousers-it's all
right I've got my pyJamas on under
neath-say seven and six BOots-we
won't quarrel-make il five bob.
That's tWenty-nine pounds and six
pence, isn't it2 In addition here's a
mortgage on the family estate, which
I've had made out in blank, an l. o.
u. for fourteen pounds which has been
owing TO me now for some time, and
this bundle of securities which. strictly
speaking, belong to my Aunt Jane.
You keep that little lot till after the
race. and we will call it, in round fig
ures, five hundred pounds" That sim
gle afternoon would thus bring me in
five hundred thousand pounds-pro-
vided the Bookie did not blow his
brains out. Backers in Novel-land do
not seem to me to know their way
about. If the hero of the popular novel
swims at all, it is not like an ordinary
human being that he does it. You
never meet him in a swimming bath;
he never pays nine pence, like the rest
Of US, for a machine. He goes out at
uncanny hours, generally accompanied
by lady friend to whom the while he
talks poetry and cracks Jokes Some
of US, when we try to talk in the sea,
fill ourselves full with salt water.
This chap lies on his back and carols,
and the wild waves seeing him go
round the other way. At billiards he
can give the average sharper forty in a
hundred. He does not really want to
play; he does it to teach these bad men
a lesson. He has not handled cue for
years. He picked UP the game when a
young man in Australia, and it seems
to have fingered with him. He does not
have to get up early and worry dumb
bells in his nightshirt; he just lies on
a soft in an elegant attitude and mus
Gle comes to him. If his horse declines
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him for it all the more. He is the sort
OF man that can't do wrong. A fort
night before the examination he ties a
wet towel round his head. That is all
we hear about it. It seems to be the
towel that does it. Maybe, If the towel
is not quite up to its work. he will
help things on by drinking gallons of
strong tea. The tea and the towel COM
bined are irresistible: the result is al
ways the Senior Wranglership. I used
to believe in that wet towel and that
strong tea. Lord! the things I used to
believe when 1 was young. They
would make an Encyclopedia of Use
less knowledge.
I wonder if the author of the popular
novel has ever tried work with a wet
towel round his or her head. I have.
It is difficult enough to move a yard
balancing a dry towel A heather
Turk may have it in his blood to do so;
the ordinary Christian has not got the
trick of it. To carry about wet towel
round ones head needs d trained aero
bat. Every few minutes the wretched
thing works loose. IN darkness and in
misery, you struggle to get your head
out of a clammy towel that elings to
you almost with passion. Brain power
is wasted inventing names for that
tow el-names expressive of your feel
ings with regard to it. Further time IS
taken up before the glass, fixing the
books in the wrong temper: the water
trickles down your nose. runs in little
rfvulets down YOUR back. Until you.
have finally flung the towel out Of the
window and rubbed yourself dry, work
is impossible. The strong tea always
gave me indigestion, and made me
sleepy. Until I had got over the eff
fects of the tea, attempts at study were
useless. But the thing that still irri-
tates me most against the hero of the
popular novel is the ease with which
he learns a modern foreign language
Were he a German waiter, a Swiss
barber, or a Polish photographer, 1
would not envy him: these sort of PEG
pie do not have to learn a language.
Ny Idea is that they boil down a die
tiOnary and take two tablespoonfuls
each night before going to bed. By the
time the bottle is finished they have
the language we'll into their system
But he is not He is just an ordinary
Anglo Saxon, and 1 don't believe in
him. l walk about for years, with die
tionarfes in my pocket. Weird-looking
ladies and gentlemen gesticulate and
rave at me for months I hide myself
in lonely places, repeating idioms to
myself out loud, in the hope that by
this means they will come readily to
me if ever want them, which I never
do. After all this, I don't seem to know
very much. This irritating ass, who
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have ever taught me is not to leave my
brandy flask about. I don't believe in
these heroes and herOines that cannot
keep quiet in a foreign language they
taught themselves in an old-world Ii
brary. My fixed idea is that they mud
die along like the rest of US, surprised
that so few people. understand them,
and begging every one they meet not
to talk so quickly.
These brilliant conversations with
foreign philosophers! These passion
ate interviews with foreign countesses;
they fancy they have had them. I
crossed once with an English lady from
Boulogne to FOlkestone. At Folke-
stone a little French girl-anxious
about her train-asked US a simple
question. My companion replied to it
with an ease that astonished herself.
The little French girl vanished; my
companion sighed. TITS so odd" said
my companion, but I seem to know
quite a lot of French the moment get
back to England.
JEROME K. JEROME.
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ern their ways by larger thoughts
Old-Chrtstian or observation-disclosures
But the aim which justifies and re-
quires a course of discipline, shaping
body and mind, is uncommon. We
have sports enough, yet hardly any
training for public service, among our
lads. Books and newspapers, written
by women for women, tell a curious
tale of trivialty, self-indulgence. show
and seeming laWlessnesS, untutOred
spirits. Much we may find that is
graceful, more that is futile.
Steady View of Life.
The want of a steady and Ineligible
view of life is what strikes me Have
these crowds any plan at all that in
cludes an eternal meaning? What is
it that would satisfy them2 Poor
Marie Antoinettei She acted her little
play in white muslin and straw hat;
petted her tiny cows, laughed with her
ladies, and in the distance were already
gathering those clouds that brought
thunder. VIII nothing like this ever
happen again?
Life is made simple by knowing that
the means are not the end, and what
the end is. But to preach is not to
train. Our public schools, universities,
rness-rooms. clubs. all exact such high
entrance fees or have so luxurious a
standard. that to rebel is out Of the
question, and to reform would mean
throwing down the barriers of that So
cial freenasonry by which England,
for one country, is governed. Young
men cannot afford to be poor. Young
women will not marry except on the
understanding that they are to spend
lavishly what their husbands earn.
These late symptoms do not astonish
readers of history; they belong to an
age when the nation must be converted
If it can find a religion to believe in, or
flare up and flare out like Rome under
Nero, set on fire by its own eXtrava-
gance. There are forces in Christian
itv. in patriotism, in noble art, in hon
est business, in manly and womanly ed
ucation in the possibility of universal
military training, not yet exhausted
VIII they be used before it is too late
Who shall say2 At all events, these
yearnings after the humiliation of the
riotous living are signs that dry rot has
eaten deep into a people. And when
Rousseau had painted his idylls the
Revolution was at the doors. That Is
the fact; we may construe 1t as We
please
It appears to me that a potent prin-
ciple should be to have the courage Of
ones opinions. and to carry out whai
ones own good taste and conscience
suggests, instead of striving to initiate
others whose lives may be surrounded
by such different circumstances. anc
/ whose censure and criticisms are no
worth attending to.
/ If this present senseless love Of iTni
| tatIon. found in all classes of society
were that of something higher, 1
might be well; but It shows neithei
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Lost NfadoIlna Recovered.

Rome. Jan. fla Short time ago no
little excitement was caused at Flor
ence by the announeement that the
Afemmi, had been stolen from the
church of Santa Maria del Servi. The
picture has JUST been recovered in a
singular manner. At Siena there is a
deaf and dumb typographical institu-
ton, and the Madonna was found in
the entrance hall. but was not recOg-
nized as the missing picture until ex-
perts examined it. The picture is now
in the Fine Arts institute, and viii re-
man there until the authorities have
decided upon its future place of secur-
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has never left his native suburb, sud
denly makes up his mind to travel on
the continent. I find him in the next
chapter engaged in complicated psy-
Geological argument with French or
Germant savarfts. 1t appears-the
author had forgot to mention it before
that one summer a French, or Ger
man. or Italian refugee as the case
may happen to be, came to live in the
hero's street; thus it is that the hero
is able to talk fiuently in the natiVely
language of that unhappy refugee.
I remember a melodrama visiting
country town where [ was staying. The
heroine and the child were sleeping
peacefully in the customary attic. For
some reason not quite clear to me the
villain had set fire to the house. He
had been complaining through the
three preceding acts of the heroine s
GOODNESS: maybe it was with some idea
of warning her. Eseane by way Of the
staircase was impossible. Each time
the poor girl opened the door a fame
came in and nearly burned her hair
off. It seemed to have been waiting for
her. Thank Godi" said the lady has
thy, wrapping the child in a sheet,
that I was brought up a wire walker =
Without d moments hesitation she
opened the attic window, and took the
nearest telegraph wire to the opposite
side of the street. In the same way,
apparently, the hero of the popular
novel finding himself stranded in a for
eign land. suddenly recollects that once
upon a time he met a refugee, and at
once begins to talk. I have met refu-
gees myself: the only thing that they
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to jump a hedge, he slips down off the
animals back and throws the poor
thing over; it saves argument. II he
gets cross and puts his shoulder to the
going to be work next morning for
the carpenter. May be, he is a party
belonging to the middle ages.
Then, when he reluctantly cha1-
lenges the crack fencer of Europe to
a duel. our instinct is to call out and
warn his opponent, You silly foo"
one feels one wants to say, why, it is
the hero of the novel. You take
friends advice while you are still alive
and get out of it anyway-a
Apologize-hire a horse and cart, do
something. You're not going to fight
duel, you're going to commit sui
cidei" If the hero is a. modern young
man and has not got u father-Or has
only something not worth calling
father, then he comes across a library
-anybOdy's library does for him.
He passes Sir Walter Scott and the
Arabian Nights. and makes a Decline
for Plato: 1t seems to be an instinct
with him. By help of a dictionary, he
worries it out in the original Greek
This gives him a passion for Greek.
When he has romped through the
Greek classes, he plays about among
the Latins. He spends most of his
spare time in that library and forgets
to go home to tea.
That is the sort of boy he is. How
used to hate him. If he has proper
sort of father then he goes to college.
He does not work; there is no need for
him to work; everything seems to come
to him! That was another grievance
of mine against him. 1 always had to
work a good deal, and very little came
of it. He fools around doing things
that other men would be sent down
for; but in his case the professors love
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@HT would be much easier to COM
mend simplicity of living as
against the so-called lives of lux
ury and license INDUCED in by so
ciety, did we not remember
certain -AlDhius in the "Epodes'
of Horace, who makes pretty
rural sketch that turns out to
be satire on himself. Alphius
was a money lender. luxurating
in his wealth at Rome and Baiae,
fond of the dafndest cheer. such as Lu-
crime oysters and wines from the Terra
di LavorO, to say nothing OF African
rarities or the Ionian moor fowl He
lived a life not in any way simple; and,
as money can purchase love, he had
that, too But some little diSappoint-
ment in these matters leads him to sigh
for a cottage and a stream in the Sa-
bine cOuntry-the docks, the vines, the
olives, the wild-boar hunt, the quiet
evening meal. In short, he dreams as
pleasant a pastoral as Theocritus could
have drawn. calls in his cash at next
settling day. and-puts it out when the
Kalends come round again. How are
we tosbelieve in AlphiUs?
My own impression is that those IN
sophisticated cattle which the city man
heard lowing as he lay on the thick
tufted grass were lent to Marie An
tOinette for her Little Trianon. Al
ways when great social changes are
coming up the sky this note OF sim
plicity. return to the Golden Age pro
test against ver-refinement, is sound
ed. The queen plays with her maids at
being a shepherdess; people that have
all things deny themselves something
on the chance of getting a new thrill;
but what is the fame except a delicate
foppery and make-believe? 90 maison
d 'Arfstippe. jardin dEpicure!" ex-
claims Voltaire, as if he would have de-
lighted to feed on crusts, or set up
his tent inside a hawthorn ledge But
he kept a firm grasp on his sixteen
thousand per year. entertained princes
at Ferney, and was only a finished ac-
tor. There is no simplicity possible for
men and women of the world except
on the old hateful Christian plan of
giving up what they have got, one good
time. This they win never do till they
learn a fresh table of values-till the
cry of the starving musings their music
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good taste nor Intelligence, and the aim
is generally to be smart the thing
or up to date"
Among the working class it Is very
obvious, for their aspirations are to a.
life for which they are often most un-
suited; hence good honest service is
summed for the commonest shop life
in order that they may attain that vul-
gar so-calied freedom that they are in
capab bic OF using to the best advantage
or they strike to take some lazy ap-
pointment that gives them ample OPP
portunities for gossip. which IS the
bane of country as well as town life.
Faults OF Education.
The present system Of education does
little to inspire them with higher Ideals.
or fit them for a more practical life.
The middle classes err IN the same
desire for this imitation. In entertain
ment no less than in dress 1t seems to
occupy most of their thoughts, and
am sure is largely the reason for the
abandonment Of those smaller social
gatherings of some fifteen years ago,
so popular among young people
But this is a biase age, for most OF
the young people have seen and done
so much when children that there Is lit
tie simplicity left to them; for It IS con-
sidered bourgeois" to display any real
show of enjoyment or real feeling OF
sympathy Again, the great desire for
popularity, which reigns in all classes,
is another deterrent to q simple hfei
for to gain it nowadays is to fairly
echo the thoughts, sayings and doiugs
of Others who. to them, appear in a
more influential sphere. without daring
to use their own intelligence and Sc
instead of simplicity, we have absolute
stupidity.
The responsibility Of a recognized
teacher is obvious. He can lead by the
mere plausibiIity of his rhetoric either
in the right or the wrong way. If a
man really sees the truth. he sees 1t
outside himself The sum OF Cariyle's
activities was an elephantine effort to
articulate half truths. His mentality
revealed nothing new in the way OF
truth He dealt in records, not in
human flesh. PHILOSOPHERS have never
produced a workable scheme Of life.
subsistence but as q deduction from
logic. Luxury exists after all the cen
turtles Of experience, and philosophy, in
spite Of the lives wasted IN PROFOUND
ing It. Is nowhere The one thing TO be
regretted throughout is the amount OF
latent possibility for good that has
been destroyed by artificial codes OF
social morality. There is a higher des-
tiny in kingship than in the obligations
Of Office.
Christianity fourishes. but IS not
practfced. The opportunities for kind
acts offered to US are not recognized as
the highest gifts OF Heaven, but are put
aside, and charities with proper bal
ance sheets are arranged instead
whereby citizen duties, including ad-
vertising, are orrectly-honorably bly,.
they discharged. Who or what -
at fault in the present age? It cannos
be human nature
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Postape sfanlp NoveIfy.

Rome, Jan. PA new series of pos
tage stamps is about to be issued. The
stamps are of an original character,
and have been designed by the artist
Mirhotti. Acting on the principle that
the portrait of King Victor Emmanuel
is sufficiently known to all his subjects,
it has been decided to replace the
royal lineaments by historical pictures.
On the new stamps there will be pic
lures of the Coliseum, one of the prin-
cipal units of the fleet, a representa-
ton of wireless telegraphy and We
SI1NiU~
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worry dunbbeiis In ms nlgllI shirt
AS for her clothes, they make me
tired She don't possess Trock lnaI
does not fit her to perfecuoni she
doesn't have to think about Jhem- on
would imagine she went into the gar
den and picked them off tree. she
lust slips fl on and comes down, ana
then my starst All the other women IN
the room may just as well go 10 Deu
and get a good nights rest Tor all tle
chance they've got 1t lsn tha[ she l-i ;
beautiful. From what they tell you
about her, you might fancy her freak
Looks don't appear to matter to her;
she gets there anyhow i tell you she
just makes me boil
Allowing for the difference between
the masculine and the feminine out
look. this is precisely how used to
feel when reading of the hero. He was
not always GOOD; sometimes ne MT the
villain harder than he had intended
and then ne was s0rry-When it was too
late-blamed himself severely and
subscribed towards the wreath. Like
the rest of us, he made mistakes; Occa-
si0nauy married the wrong girl. But
how well he did everything docs still
for the matter of that, believe take
it that he condescends to play cricket!
He never stores less than a hundred
does not know how to score less than
hundred, wonders how it could be
done. suppOsing. for example YOU had
an appointment and wanted to catch
an early train. I used to play cricket
myself, but I could always stop at ten
or twenty. There have been times when
] have stopped at even less 1t is the
same with everything he puts his hand
to. Either he does not care for boating
at all. or as a matter of course, he
pulls stroke in the university boat race;
and then takes the train on to Henley
and wins the Diamond Souls so easily
that it hardly seems worth while for
the other fellow to have started.
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and every sweet morsel they put to
their lips tastes of the blood on which
they feed at this hour with an easy
conscience.
That we are like a crew cast away
upon raft, doomed to eat one another,
so long as the present scheme of money
making has force of law. is the simple
truth. But it is a truth hidden from
the eyes of most. Rich living is the
other side of social misery, or vice
versa. On both hands it is the same
idea. Get, spend, enjoy" There is
our creed. In every rank few gov