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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-22

Therefore, when your kidneys are weak
or out of order, you can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
If you are sick or feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are we'll they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys:
The mild and the extraordinary effect of
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, and is sold
on its merits by all
druggists in ffty-cent z:::: s -
and one-dollar size
bottles. You may eszssls1. M@
have sample bottle Home Of swampRoos.
by mail free, also pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DR.. Ki1mer & Co., Bing-
hamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the adj
iress, Binghamton, N. v, OH every bottle.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-22

traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood
that &c their xUork
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-22

God gave me something very sweet
to be mine own this day,
A precious opportunity a word for
Christ to say
A soul that my desire might reach,
a work to do for Him;
And now I thank Him for this grace,
ere yet the light grows dim.
M. e. Sangster.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
Personal VOTES.

A correspondent writes that when a
Chinaman has his pigtail locked he gives
a grand dinner. It's a sort OF barber
queue.
The New York burglars who swiped S1O,-
COO worth of jewelry, but left the wedding
rings, displayed a depth OF sentiment truly
touching.
Missouri's girl blacksmith, who is sail
to swing a lOO-pound hammer, has just
been married. Proper consideration for the
groom would have led the correspondent
to knock a cipher off the weight Of that
hammer.
Prof, Frederick Starr of the University
OF Chicago told a class in archaeology sew
eral days ago that base ball was not a
modern game. He said that the mound
builders were the original bah players. and
that he had discovered their diamonds
and found a ball used by them. He said
he had been able TO trace their ball fields
in Illinois. Wisconsin,, Indiana and Ohio.
Broughton Brandenburg, the writer
charged with larceny in connection with
the disputed Cleveland interview, is up
against a lot Of trouble. Hts bondsmen
under the Cleveland charge have given
him up, and he has been ordered to pay
his wife S12 a week pending a decision on
his application for divorce. A lenient New
York magistrate, however. gave him a
chance to earn the money.
DR.. Charles L. shadwell OF Oriel college,
oxford university, England, was introduced
to President Roosevelt at the White House
The other afternoon by the British ambas-
sador to the United States. James Bryce.
DR.. Shadweli discussed with President
Roosevelt the Romanes lecture which the
president is to deliver at oxford in May,
1910, on his way back to the United States
from his African hunting expedition. DIT.
shsdwell is regarded as one of Rngland's
foremost educators.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
Simple Prescription Given and Full
Directions to Prepare Mixture

That the readers Of this paper appreciate
advice when given in good faith is plainly
demonstrated by the fact that one well
known local pharmacy supplied the in
gradients for the vegetable prescription"
many times within the last two weeks.
The announcement Of this simple, harm
less mixture has certainly accomplished
much in reducing the great many cases Of
kidney complaint and here. re-
lievIng pain and misery. especially among
the older population, who are always suf-
fering more or less with bladder and
urinary troubles. backache and particu-
larry rheumatism.
Another we'll known druggist asks us to
continue the announcement OF the pre-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
SURGICAL POSSIBILITIES.
what ScAlpeI Artist Can DO with the
Human Body.

New York Tribune.
Wonderful things are being achieved by
modern surgery, and the way mans inter-
nal machinery can be removed While he
waits, polished UP with ~sandpaper and put
back with a few drops OF oil where the
friction comes cannot fail to impress the
layman with the fact that, while he is fear
fully and wonderfully made at the start.
he is still more SO by the time he has lived
his life and the surgeons have finished
adding to and taking from.
Frequent dispatches have appeared in
the papers relative to the manner in which
reformations have been accomplished by
surgical operations. A drunken thief, we
are told, by a simple twist OF the surgeons
wrist is transformed into a model man,
who may, presumably, sit on a jury and
help send to prison some other unfortunate
who lacks the facilities for reforming along
modern lines. The stupid boy in school is
made bright, and the youth who plays
hockey, instead Of being treated by the
birch bough, as would have been the case
half a century ago, is now bundled off to
che hospital and comes back with a code
Of morals which would make that of Con-
fucius look like the constitution signed by
the mebers of a Black Hand organization.
Carried to it's logical conclusion, this
new development of surgery possesses
still more wonderful possibilities. When
we find an individual whose management
of a financial institution is such as to
give rise to the impression that he con-
siders himself amenable only to higher
laws than those which his fellow men
have placed on the statute books, we
have only to take a hammer and chisel
and chop off that portion of his brain
which is the cause of his moral obliquity.
If the Management Of a corporation in
sists on getting more than its share of
the business of the country, while ii may
have no soul, 1t will be possible to gather
together its collective craniums and ex-
press them to the office of the expert,
where the necessary convolutions-or
rayher the unnecessary ones-may be
rubbe out OF filed with paraffine. When
a man is found to possess that sort of
disposition which leads him to ask his
wife, when she suggests the necessity Of
money, what she did with the quarter he
gave her last month, a telephone call to
headquarters will be promptly followed
by the patients metamorphos is into a
kind and indulgent husband.
These considerations are sufficient to
make clear the advantages of the new
science over the old. But this is not all.
In years to come 1t may be possible, when
the members of a party find some indi-
viduaI possessed of q determination to
run for office at the head Of the ticket
every four years, to call in the family
surgeon to take out a few cogwheels and
change the gearing TO make him a call
less Cincinnatus.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
NEBRASKY.
script.

Oh, Their amt no place like Nebrasky
Fer golden autumn days:
The air Jest melts into yer brain
An sets yer thought ablaze;
The rollin' landscape bathed in light
Beneath that vast blue dome
Jest makes you thank yer lucky stars
Nebrasky is yer nome.
Their amt no place like Nebrasky
On q crisp, cold winter morn,
When the chick-a-dee treasures us
That the woods are not forlorn;
When the sun from the mists OF the river
Emerges a ball of flame NH,
Nebrasky is its name.
Their amt no place like Nebrasky
Fer seductive days of spring,
When the meaderlarks are bubblin'
Too sweet fer anything;
When the seed is sown in the furrow,
When the saplings chant In the breeze
I'm so thankful / live in Nebrasky
I git Timber In my knees.
Their amt no place like Nebrasky
When the sun gifts spankin' hot;
When the clay banks blossom with roses
The place is one big beauty spot;
When the vines climb high on the trellit
And the birds fit hither and yon,
oh, of all earth's fairest places
Nebrasky's the fairest one.
No. Their amt no place like Nobrasky
To fill yer heart with cheer
When the sun hangs low DER the orchards
In the falltime OF the year;
When thet frosty mornin's nip yer cheeks
An accelerate yer, gait,
Thank yer stars yer in Nebrasky,
Wher' ev'rything's first-rate.
Omaha. -BAYOLL NE TRELE.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
4 THEORY IN PRACTICE.

Whenever the question was pro-
pounded why lawyers of first magni-
tude declined, as a rule, to enter judi
cial service in Nebraska we we're told
that II was because the salaries paid
were altogether inadequate.
On the surface this answer seemed
quite plausible. Our judges all re-
ceived the same compensation whether
sitting on the district bench or on the
supreme bench. and this compensation
at the rate of $2,500 a year was no
more than an ordinarily industrious
lawyer of fair ability could reasonably
expect to earn in private practice.
Considering the circumstances, u
people have, perhaps, been fortunate
in securing as high grade a legal tai
ent on the bench as they have had dur
ing recent years.
Proceeding on the theory that mad
equate compensation explained the re-
luctance of experienced lawyers in
good standing to take judicial posi-
lions, the people of Nebraska have just
adopted an amendment to the constitu-
ton increasing judicial salaries. The
salary of a district Judge has been in
creased from $500 a year to $4,000
a year, being a raise of 20 per cent.
The salary of supreme judges has been
increased from $4,000 a year to $4,000
a year, being almost double. The
terms of judicial office remain the
same-at four years for district judges
and six years for supreme Judges
considerably longer than the usual
official tenure in this state.
1t remains to be seen whether the
theory that better salaries will give us
better judges will work out in practice.
The bigger salary will certainly be
stronger temptation to the little law
yers who could not possibly hope to
build up a practice reaching those fig
ures. But will they attract the bigger
lawyers sufficiently to make them will
ing to serve the public? In a word,
we are about to have an object lesson
on whether it is the money in the ju-
dicial Office alone that makes it a prize
worth seeking.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
PRIMARY ELECTION PLEDGES.

aa EAhAAAAhA EAEkAAD1 LaAAHAns
The report from Oregon that hfty-
one republican members of the legis-
lature are going before their constitu-
ents with petitions asking to be re-
lieved from the primary pledge to sup
port former Governor Chamberlain, a
democrat for the United States senate,
raises a pretty question Of party
ethics. This question is peculiarly in
teresting in view OF the recent en-
phatic endorsement of Mr.. Taft and
the republican party by the Ore
gon voters and in view Of the fur
Their decision of the supreme court of
North Dakota that such primary
pledges are not legally binding upon
the members of the legislature.
No one will question the correctness
of the North Dakota decision that the
only force that will impel the members
Of the state legislature to obey the vote
of the state primaries or keep their
promise to do so is the moral force
behind It.
The basis of the North Dakota and
Oregon cases are not similar. In North
Dakota the contest for the senatorship
is between two members of the major
ity party. In hat case it would ap-
pear that in addition to the moral force
there is a political force. which, while
It may not be recognized by the courts,
is certain to be recognized by the
voters and will surely result disas-
trously to party members who refuse
to recognize the mandate coming from
the primary.
In oregon the candidates for the
legislature on all the tickets signed an
agreement to support for United States
senator the candidate who received the
highest primary vote. An overwhelm-
ing majority Of republicans were
chosen to the legislature while a
healthy majority of the voters of the
state favored Chamberlain, the demo-
cratic governor, for United States SEN
ator. The primary election and the
election of state officers were held in
september. In the November contest
the republican national ticket carried
by upwards Of $4,000.
This leaves the voters Of Oregon in
the paradoxical position of endorsing
the Roosevelt policies and voting for
Mr.. Taft for president and at the same
time p~ledging a republican legislature
to send to the United States senate g
democrat sure to work with his party
in opposing the republican policies
The republicans. fortunately, have 6
strong working majority in botf
branches of congress, but it is con
ceivable that the Oregon plan might
in the case Of a close margin in The
senate, force democratic Legislation
where the people Of the nation haC
voted for republican policies.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
How Colds Are Contracted and
Proper Treatment.

An acute catarrh, that is a cold, is always
the result of undue exposure TO low temper
atures. The rapid cooling Of the surface,
when not balanced by proper reaction, pro-
duces congestion and inflammation Of the
nasal and bronchial membranes. Obviously
such an ailment is not communicable, in the
ordinary sense from one individual to an
other. As the slightest "cold" predisposes
the individual to attacks of the most severe
and dangerous catarrhal affections, the ne
cessity for itsquick cure need not be enforced.
These facts emphasize the necessity of extra
precautionary measures against the ordinary
cold. Everyone cannot change his climate
at will, but may make the most Of what he
has at home, viz, take ChamberlAin's Cough
Remedy as soon as the first indication of che
cold appears. 1t not only cures q cold quickly
but counterActs any tendency Of the cold to
result in pneumOnia. This fact has been
fully proven during the epidemics Of colds
and grip Of the past few years No case of
sithsr Of these diseases having resulted in
pneumonia when this remedy was used has
ever been reported to the manufacturers, and
thousands Of bottles Of it are sold every day,
which shows c~onclusively that it is not only
the best and quickest cure for colds but a
certain preventive Of that dangerous disease.
pneumonia.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
TARIFF REVISERS AT WORK.

While there will probably be no eff
fort to enact any tariff legislation at
the coming session of the outgoing
congress, the republican leaders have
acted wisely in making plans for hear
ings and for compiling data that will
be Of value to the new congress, which
is to be called to grapple with the
question in special session soon after
March 4, 1909. Tariff legislation in
evitably has a retarding influence upon
business. Manufacturers and import
ers naturally withhold orders and
limit production in their lines until
the schedules have been readlusted
and the changes determined upon have
beer made. For this reason it is par
ticularly desirable that the session to
be devoted to the revision of the tariff
shall be no longer than necessary.
Mr.. Taft and the congress elected
with him are pledged to prompt action
looking to a real revision of the tariff.
Mr.. Taft was the first of the %republi-
Cdn lCduSl . alO LLldhO ~ II NlolOh
program an issue in the campaign.
President Roosevelt according to
Washington advices, will not urge o n
gress to revise the tariff at the APP
preaching regular session of congress,
feeling that Mr.. Taft should take full
responsibility and credit for that work.
The ways and means committee,
now taking testimony on the tariff
problem, has already prepared a digest
of all court decisions interpreting the
tariff laws since 1893 and also a COM
parative statement showing the i'm
ports of each article affected by the
tariff from 1894 to the present time.
Data is also being collected on the cost
of manufacture, both at home and
abroad. In the meantime. a subcom-
mittee of the senate committee on
finance is in session at Washington
conducting a tariff inquiry along GER
tain lines, preparatory to cooperating
with the ways and mean committee
when the Sixty-irst congress takes up
the work of revision.
1t is probable hat the extra session
to be called by Mr.. Taft will convene
late in March. The special session at
which the Dlngley law was passed met
on March Is and the bill vas passed
July "a, the work of preparation and
discussion of the measure occupying
more than four months. 1t ought to
be possible to revise that law in sixty
days. With much of the preliminary
work out of the way, there should be
little delay in effecting a satisfactory
adjustment of the schedules in re-
Spouse to the country's demands.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
HUNDREDS OF ELDERLY FOLKS ARE
GETTING RID OF KIDNEY TROUBLE

scription. 1t is doing so much real good
here, he continues, that 1t would be a
crime not to do so. 1t can rot be repeated
too often. and further states many cases
Of remarkable cures wrought.
The following is the prescription. OF sim
pie ingredients, making a harmless, mex
pensive compound, which any person can
prepare by shaking well In a bottle: Fluid
Extract Dandelion. one-half ounce; Com
pound Kargon, one ounce; Compound
Syrup SarsapariIla, three ounces. Any
first-class drug store will sell this small
amount of each ingredient, and the dose
for adults is one teaspooEful to be taken
after each meal and again at bedtime.
There is enough here to last for one week.
If taken according to directions. Good re-
suits will be apparent from the first few
doses.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
BIgotry in Politics.
Chicago News.

President Roosevelt has rendered a serv-
ice to the nation by his letter condemnlng
efforts to thrust bigotry into politics.
People of all nationalities and OF all re-
ligious beliefs which in themselves are
moral are welcome in the United States.
Here in this land of religious liberty and
OF separation of church and state all are
opposed to dwell together in harmony.
When the voters are choosing candidates
for office the test should be efficiency. not
religious belief.
Blgotry is slavery. American institutions
are based on liberty.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY.

" @
Eastern democrats, particularly
those who lent protesting support to
the party's candidates in the campaign
Just closed, are already discussing the
future of the organization, some of
them even questioning whether the
party will survive. The New York
World, which reluctantly supported
Mr.. Bryan in the closing weeks of the
campaign, not that it loved Bryan, but
because it hated Roosevelt, declares
that 1t has no illusions about the de-
fects of the democratic party as now
organized, but hopes for life and re-
%juvenation because there is nothing to
take its place, should 1t pass away as
did the whig party, when it vas sue
ceeded by the republican party. THE
leaders of the new organization" says
the World, would not be Lincolns and
Stewards and Greeleys, but would be
Hearsts and Debses and Watsons," and
it adds ~dolefully, "if the democratic
party dies, the Jefferson theory of gov
eminent dies with It,"
Mr.. Hearst, a former shining light
in the party councils. is disposed to
preach the funeral Discuss
ing the election result, Mr.. Hearst
says:
The (democratic) party is paralyzed. 1t
negatives itself. Its usefulness stops-like
an engine on centers. 1t hasn't enough
strength left to make itself a party of re-
spectacle opposition. The only solution is
to adjourn 1t sine die.
During the progress of the cam
paign, Chairman Norman e. Mack of
the democratic national committee pre-
in 1908 would never again put an
other candidate in the field. His pre-
diction was, of course, as wide as some
he made on results, but IL shows his
appreciation of the sentiment prevail
ing, in his own party that reorganiza-
ton or dissolution is inevitable. DEM
ocrats everywhere are realizing that
there is need of a strong opposition
party and that the present democratic
party does not supply the need.
The birth of the republican party,
half a century ago, supplied what was
then most needed, an opposition party.
In the fourteen presidential elections
since then the democrats have elected
three presidents, James Buchanan and
Grover Cleveland twice. The republi-
can popular majority in 1896 was 6O1,-
S54. In 1900 it was 2,545,515 and
not far from 1,15O,OOO in this years
battle. A fairly even division of the
people into two great opposing parties
is supposed to work for good govern
ment. A strong opposition is the surest
check against bad government by the
party in power.
The first essential to the proposed
democratic reorganization is leader
ship. The events of three campaigns
has demonstrated that the reoTganiza-
tion can not be effected under the
leadership Of Mr.. Bryan. The east
will not have him and the south does
not want him. however loyal support
he may ind among the democrats and
populists OF the west. The line has APP
parently been drawn and the distinc-
ton made between democracy and
Organism and they appear to be en-.
tirely different things. The old-line
democrats. conservative and thor
oughly devoted to the principles OF
representative government, will have
to assert themselves if they succeed in
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

returns are not yet In, either. In the
case Of Douglas county 1t should be
understood that nearly one-eighth Of
the votes of the entire state are polled
here and must be verified by a canvass
ing board consisting of three men.
One ward in Omaha polls as many
votes as most Of the counties out in
the state. The law for the collection
and compilation of election returns
needs revising, but the reason for 1t is
not to be found in Douglas county any
more than in any other county.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

Governor Magoon has issued a
proclamation to the people of Cuba
admonishing all officials to observe the
strictest impartiality between contend
ing parties and candidates in order to
insure orderly and honest conduct of
the coming election. Governor Ma
COON must have been reading some of
the resolutions passed by the Omaha
police board on the eve of each recur-
ring election.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13
Political Retaliation.

Springfield (Mass,) Republican.
The liquor interests helped defeat Gov
Sheldon of Nebraska, and now he is
retaliating with a call Of the present legis-
lature into extra session to pass a statewide
prohibitory law which may be suspended
by any county on a three-fifths vote. What
this legislature may do in the matter, how
ever, the next legislature can undo.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

According to the local democratic
organ, a Hastings paper makes sen
s~ational charges" that two employees of
the State Insane Asylum were let out
because they voted the democratic
ticket. That ought TO cinch their re-
instatement and retention with the
forthcoming democratic regime. but
perhaps it is only a deep laid plot to
keep two pretended republicans on the
payroll.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

The Charleston News and Courier
hazards the prediction that "Mr. Bryan
will begin to advocate the government
ownership of railways and try to lead
the democratic party to favor 1t before
1912" 1t does not cost anything to
make predictions.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

Mr.. Roosevelt is going hunting in
Africa. 1t would make big business
for the Geographic cable companies If
Mr.. Bryan could be induced to go
hunting in Asia, Tom Watson in India
and Mr.. Hearst in South America.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

Tim" Woodruff of New York wants
to go to the United States senate, hav-
ing grown weary of being lieutenant
governor and being mentioned" for
the vice presidential nomination every
four years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

THE democrats of the state says
the indianapolis News, could hardly
do a more graceful thing than 30 make
Mr.. Kern their candidate for senator.
He conducted himself throughout the
campaign with great dignity and dis
tinction." Mr.. Kern bore the loss Of
his railroad pass and the jibes at his
paint brush whiskers with great dig
nifty and distinction"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

Bulgaria's legislative body is called
the Sobranje. Nebraska has Just
elected a legislative body that will
probably be called worse names than
that before IL ends its career.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-13

Onward and upward ever" is said
to be President Roosevelt's motto.
That explains why he is going to be-
come an editor as soon as he gets out
of the White House.