GREATLY REDUCED RATES Via WABASH RAILROAD. $13.50 to St. Louis and return. On sale June 16th, 17tn, 21st and 22nd. $20.50 to Portland, Maine, and re turn. from Chicago. On sale July 5th to 9th.. $18.90, Providence, R. I., and return, from Chicago. On sale July 7th, 8th and 9th. Special rates to all summer resorts on sale daily. Stopovers allowed on all tickets at Niagara Falls. Ask your nearest ticket agent to route you via the Wabasli R. R. For rates, lake trips and all information, call at Wa bash New City Office. 1601 Farnam St., or address Harry E. Moores, Gen 1 eral Agent, Passenger Department, Omaha, Neb. Flattery consists of having your se cret opinion of yourself expressed in the language of others. SSO A WEEK AND EXPENSES to men with rig to introduce our Poultry goods, bend sip. Juvelle Mlg. Co.,Dept. D, Parsons,Kaa. A properly adjusted tongue runs slower than the mind. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. It is better to be slandered by some than to be praised by others. Stops the Cough anti Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Ignorance may be bliss, but knowl edge leaves no room for doubt. SALESMEN WANTED. We have a number of agencies in Nebraska and Iowa where we can use good men, over 30, selling our Stand ard Stock Food to farmers. They must have teams, give full time to the business, be in high standing, with good business ability and some knowledge of live stock. We furnish wagons and offer exceptional induce ments to permanent salesmen. Bond required. Send for application blank. The F. E. Sanborn Company, Omaha, Neb. When a man acts like a mule the latter is justified in giving him a kick. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. You can get almost any man’s atten tion by saying you dislike to encroach Dn his valuable time. It is usually tomorrow that all re markable things are expected to hap pen. I ♦♦. .♦♦ Japan has some marriage customs that are at variance with our West ern ideas on the question. In the first place, love doesn’t enter into the con tract at all. The primary- purpose in a Japanese girl’s marriage is to get her placed where she will be well connected and cared for. No mother in all Japan would for a moment be so foolish as to think of giving her daughter in mar riage to a young man who had no home ready for her reception. He must have the necessary means to care for his wife and he must be able to show a creditable family tree. Without these essentials he might love the girl to desperation and she might regard him with equal ardor, but he would never get her. The Japanese maiden in any event does not choose her own husband. It would no more occur to her to do such an audacious thing than to have cho sen the name given her at birth. An interested iriend of the family, known as a “go-between,” attends to this mat ter. -TTTTTTTTTTTTTT ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ When a girl reaches a marriageable age this “go-between” casts about for a husband for her. When he finds a young man who meets all of the re quirements of the family and fortune he arranges for a meeting with the girl and her mother. Another way is to arrange for a meeting at the house of a friend. Of course, the matchmaker will pretend that it is quite by accident, althougn all of the party understand perfectly that it is by design. The girl is very shy and hides her face behind her fan as she bows low many times. Then she retires, blush ing and nervous, behind her mother. The young man at this meeting looks her over and decides whether he will wed her. If he agrees, the negotia tions are carried to a finish. He pays for the trousseau and the bride's father provides the entire furnishings for the house which the newly married pair will occupy. It’s a clear waste of time to go out looking for insults. $ Finds Valuable Bible $ & Volume Will Establish Claims of Heirs to ^ ^ Estate of Many Millions ^ Unearthed among rubbish in the loft of an old barn in Huron county, Ohio, where it had been hidden from view for many years, an ancient Bi ble bids fair to establish the claims of many heirs to an estate of many millions. According to the statement of M. J. Dunham of Middletown, N. Y., who has just returned from a two months’ trip through the west and nortiwest, in an effort to locate the descendants of Absolam Case, the vast estate of the late Leonard Case of Cleveland, Ohio, will eventually enrich hundreds of his descendants, owing to the dis covery of the old Bible. Leonard Case, Sr., died in Cleve land in 1864, leaving one heir to his millions, a son, Leonard Case, Jr. The latter, a bachelor, died in 1880, leav ing no will, but property in the heart of Cleveland valued at $8,000,000 to be divided among the 190 descendants of hiB father’s brothers and sisters, covering five generations. Two years ago Mr. Dunham, who is a descendant of Absolam Case and a half brother of Leonard Case, Sr., quietly began the work of tracing and locating the heirs. The estate con sists chiefly of real estate in the bus iness center of Cleveland, taking in the First National bank, the gas light plant, the offices and yards of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Co., ihe Case School of Applied Science and narrowly skips the residence of John D. Rockefeller. It includes some fifteen or twenty of the largest man ufacturing establishments in the city. Ever since the death of Leonard Case, Jr., the estate has been the theme of legal investigations, but no satisfactory results could be obtained because of the fact that the old fam ily Bible, containing certain records, could not be found. As it contained the names of all the Cases its dis covery was decidedly essential to the location of the heirs. In the old barn loft Sarah Sears kading, in Huron county, Ohio, it was luckily discovered, and according to Mr. Dunham, it is the key to the es tablishment of the heirs’ claims. ^Mystery of Pompeii 2? 3* Max Nordau Unable to Understand What rk Became of the Inhabitants Max Nordeau raises a question con cerning Pompeii which is of double interest now in view of the disasters of St. Martinique and St. Vincent. He writes as follows to the Neue Freie Presse (Vienna); “One thing has al ways been a puzzle to me. Here was a flourishing city of about 30,000 in habitants, most of whom evidently were well-to-do. A few hundreds, at most, lost their lives in the destruc tion of the city; the rest escaped. The eruption of Vesuvius continued only a few days, after which the dis trict returned to its usual placid con dition. In many places the deposit of ashes and lava was only a yard thick, and it was not more than three yards thick at any point yet exca vated. “How did it happen that these thirty thousand homeless persons showed no desire to return to their beautiful houses, so well built that FISH FORM ACQUAINTANCES. Peculiarities of Social Life in the Tanks of an Aquarium. It is a more or les3 familiar fact that fish of a kind flock together. Fishes know their own kind and seek their company, says the New York Sun. Put a number of each of two or three kinds ot Ashes in an aquarium tank and the fishes of each kind will recognize one another perfectly; and the fishes of the several kinds bunch together and travel around together. Apparently fishes may also know one another individually. - It not infrequently happens that among fishes of the same kind in a tank one will harry and drive about the rest, or perhaps select one fish as the object of its attacks, or it might be that in the case of two fishes of the same kind in one tank one would bully and persistently harry the other, as though besides having a nagging nature it had against the other fish a personal animosity. In such a case as that last describ ed, it is sometimes necessary to take the harried fish out of the tank to save its life. If another fish of the same kind is then put in the tank in the place of the one taken out, the scrapper and nagger lets it alone. He may not ignore it altogether, but he doesn’t harry it as he did the other. But take the second fish out after awhile and put back the first one and the scrappy fish goes to hustling it right away; to all appearances the fighter recognizes the other, individu ally. It may seem strange, but such is the fact, as observed at the New York aquarium. they are standing to this day, aad which could have been restored, at the time with very little labor? Why did they not make the slightest at tempt to regain their valuable prop erty in land and buildings, furniture, bronze, marble, gold, silver and jew els? Did the men of that time have so little love of home that they could leave it without a backward glanco at the first unpleasantness? Were the Pompeiians so rich that the loss of their perfectly appointed homes appeared trivial to them, so that they preferred settling elsewhere to restor ing their city? Or did superstition prevent the attempt? This indifferent renunciation of their patrimony by a whole cityful is to me an insoluble enigma which forces itself the more strongly upon my attention now as I walk along the finely paved streets between houses which need only new roofs to make them again habitable.” BEAUTY OF COLLEGE SPIRIT. Makes Educational Institutions a Power in the Community. Among the stories told by Dean Briggs at the dinner of the Exeter Academy alumni the other evening was one intended to show how the spirit of the academy survives in its pupils long after they have passed from their alma mater. “He was then,” said the dean, “a Harvard senior, but was on what proved to be his death bed. “The people at the hospital had nev er seen any one bear as much paiD with such fortitude as he did. Through it all, as was said by a medical visitor from the university, he was such a gentleman. Just before his death one of the attendants asked him if he felt some local pain. “ ‘I did not,’ he said, 'until you gave me that medicine.’ Then instantly he thought of the other man and said, ‘I beg your pardon. The medicine may have had nothing to do with It. “Now, nobody in that hospital who saw that boy die witnessed the scent without a stronger faith than they had before in the school whose name he bore. When men from a college 01 school show such a spirit as that 11 means that they are capable of in tense loyalty to their friends. And it is that loyalty, attainable neithei by money nor by age, which makes a school or college a power in the com munity, and is as the breath of life to it.”—Boston Herald. Throughout the world blind men outnumber blind women two to one. The pouch of a pelican is large enough to contain seven quarts ol water. Duke Is Dead. Colonel Cody’s celebrated horse, Duke, was kicked on the knee by a four-dollar “plug" while the show was in Harrisburg, and veterinarians agreeing that the wound would nev er heal, the colonel very sadly gave orders that his favorite be shot. Thus ends the career of a horse better known to the young people—and old ones as well—of America than all others put together. Duke and “Buf falo Bill” seemed to be in perfect harmony. The rider's costume and the horse's coat were of nearly one color—nature’s concealing color, an autumn tan. Children noticed the> absence of Duke from the show last week, and inquired after him. Col onel Cody now has but one horse, the brown fellow, Prince, that he bought in Kansas last year. Prince is a beautiful equine specimen, but not a Duke nor a Dad. Black, as Clerical Garb. Not until Martin Luther's time did black become the distinguishing hue of clerical garb. When Luther laid aside his monk’s clothes the elector of Saxony sent him a piece of black cloth, and Luther had a suit made of it according to the prevailing cut of the time. It was long after before the cut of a clergyman's coat became different from that of the laity. Th© Secret of Health lo Old Aff©. Shepherd, 111., June 23d.—Sarah E. Rowe of this place is now 72 years of age and just, at the present time is en joying much better health than she has for over 20 years. Her explana tion of this Is as follows: “For many years past I have been troubled constantly with severe Kid ney Trouble, my urine would scald and burn when passing, and I was very miserable. “I am 72 years of age and never ex pected to get anything to cure me, but I heard of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and thought it would do me no harm to try them. “I am very glad I did so, for they cured me of the Kidney Disease and stopped all the scalding sensations when passing the urine. “I feel better now than I have for twenty years.” The watched pot never boils and the unwatched pot boils over, so what Is the cook to do? ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it Is better and 1 oz. more of It for same money. No man thinks he is as stupid as he looks. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Rod Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. Dealers say that as soon an a custo mer tries Defiance Starch it is im possible to sell them any .ther cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. A bird In the hand is worth two in the cornfield—if the birds are crows. RKI> CROSS KALI. III.ITK Should l>e in every home. Ask your grocer for it. J.argo 2 02. package only 5 cents. Where there is much smoke there is usually a little tobr co. A Place to Spend the Summer. On the lines of the Milwaukee Rail way in Wisconsin, Minnesota auid Iowa are some of tne mo„t beautiful places in the world to spend a summer vaca tion, camping out or at the elegant summer hotels. Boating. fishing, beautiful lakes and streams and cool weather. Okoboji is the nearest of these re sorts. but all are easily reached from Omaha, and the round trip rates this summer are lower than ever before. Full information on application. F. A. NASH. Gen’l Western Agent. C. M. & St. I’. Ry., 1504 Farnam St., Omaha. Even the troubles of a pretty woman are interesting only the first time they aro told. IROK1NO A SHIRT WAIST. Not Infrequently a young woman finds It necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundrymun or the home ser vant cannot do it. Hence these direc tions for ironing the waist: To iron summer sUrt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid away two or three hours. When lroutng have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the iron ing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and abso lutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by the neckband and the cuffs. When wrinkles appear ap ply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plaits In the front lroa them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness. After the shirt waist is ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it is folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Faint heart ne'er won a fat Jack pot. CITC permanently cured. No fits or nervousness aftor II B M first day’s use or Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Hostor. er. Bend for FREE 4*2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Du. It. H Kline, Ltd., D31 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Pa. Only a mighty mean man will send his wife downstairs to request a burg lar to make less noise. nail’s Catarrh Core Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. Lots of people seem to be proud of the fact that they have nothing to be proud of. ■WriEN YOU 1!U¥ STARCH buy Defiance and Ret the best, 16 01 for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Don’t believe all you hear; you are fortunate if you can believe all you say. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For cblldreu teething, soften* the gums, reduces In flammation, Allays pain, cure* wind colic. 2flc a bottle. If from what he thinks he knows a man would subtract what others think he knows, the remainder might equal the sum of his knowledge. A CENTURY" «i'uro Heatlnrh % « :ntion, ChlM* anti F**Y*r, and nil Btfe i«*u* t'oiuplaiut*. 4il DrugfUlii. Prle® ’Jo a Hot. ttRlOiirS INDIAN VEGETABLE PILL CO. New York* 9 Every 1 housewife' gloats; I over finely starched K ■ finen and,white goods.' ft| ft Conceit is justifiable,1 I ft after using Defiance fl Starch. It gives a; fl ft stiff, glossy white*' B ft ness to the clothes fl f§ land does not rot1 ji| U 'them. It is abso- fl Oft futely pure. It Is Bu /■ the most economical! IV I I because it goes ll If larthest, does more, II w end costs less than If bthers. To be had of all JL u grocers at 16 oz. 1 ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY Of THE RAILROADS Of NEBRASKA. ________________ • ACTION Of BOARD Of EQUALIZATION. For years rast it has been quite generally contended "That the railroads should be required to bear their Just share of taxation." Nebraska haB had a succession of reform administrations, who used this argument as one of the essential planks of the platform on whicb they were elected. The result has been a succession of changes in the political complexion of what is known as the Board of Equalization, composed of the governor, treasurer and the auditor of state. During these suc cessive canvasses, the railroads have not presented their side to the people, but in each case have waited until the parties whom the people should select were elected to office, and then presented the question of railroad taxation to them when they acted as officers of this Board of Equalization. ThuB it comes that dur ing the past ten years, there have been republican, democratic and populist governors and members of this board in succession. These men elected to office have been representative citizens and men of integrity and honor, who have taken an oath to do what they con sidered right in the interests of the people, and in sub scribing to thi3 oath, they at the same time swear to do their duty in accordance with the law. The following table will show the relative assessment of each administration for the past twelve years, show ing the amount assessed againBt lands, lots, personal property and all property in the state during the va rious administrations: RAILROAD & GOVERNOR. PARTY. YEAR. LANDS. LOTS. PERS. PROP. TELEGRAPH ALL PR0P' Thayer ~ - Rep. 1889 $74,215,749 $38,415,666 $40,275,671 $29,856,452 $182,763,538 Boyd Dein. 1891 76,885,405 40,248,504 36,369,138 29,635,189 183,138,236 Crounse Rep. 1893 87,351,164 40,721,844 37,799,243 28,860,873 194,733,124 Crounse Rep. 1894 84,047,616 39,012,165 32,451,023 28,206,692 193,717,498 Holcomb Pop. 1895 82,648,108 36,349,975 26,778,502 25,691,622 171,468,207 Holcomb Pop. 1896 81,459,367 34,835,019 25,101,676 25.682,208 167,078,270 Holcomb Pop. 1897 79,394,608 33.574.365 26,402,610 25,822,153 165,193,736 Holcomb Pop. 1898 78,518,838 33,049,882 29,852,205 26.389,840 167,810,765 Poynter Pop. 18914 77,890,017 32,752,423 32,116,855 26,346,610 169,105,905 Pointer Pop. 1900 78,044,155 33,148,405 34,112,738 26,442,295 171,747.593 Savage _ Rep._ 1901 79,675,195 34,488,950 _ 33-473.559_ 26,801,391_174,439,095 From this statement it will be seen that the railroad and telegraph property had a valuation in 1901, 10 2-10 per cent less than it was in 1899, and that lots are also assessed for 10 3-10 per cent less, while the value of per sonal property has decreased 17 per cent in that same time. The only property that appears to show any in crease what ever is the item of lands, which shows an increase of 7 3-10 per cent. However, we give here a statement of the increase in quantities assessed in the following items reported in 1899 and 1901, which should be considered along with these apparent increases and decreases in assessment. Per cent Assessed in 1889. Assessed in 1901. Increase. 10.674,180 acres Improved 17,364,770 acres Improved 62.7 13.537,727 acres unimproved 14.860,843 acres unimproved 9.5 1,624.327 cattle 2,313,918 cattle 42. 179,269 sheep 410.623 sheep 130 1,328,962 hogs 1,460,777 hogs 10 5.032 miles railroad 5.702 miles railroad 13 Now, how are all these decreases and variations in assessment brought about? In 1893 and 1394, the as sessors through the various counties so materially re duced the assessment of lands, lots and personal prop erty that the railroad valuations given by the Board of Equalization in prior years was away above that figure which would obtain an equality In taxation with other property. Owing to the popular cry of increased assessment of railroad corporations, the Board of Equalization was deterred from materially reducing the same in 1894. and in that year the railroads paid practically twenty-five per cent more tax than they in Justice should have done. No one accused Governor Holcomb of being any more friendly to the railroad corporations than the law would require him to be, but in 1895, the presentation was made to the board in such a manner that a ma terial reduction was made in the assessment of the railroads in Nebraska. That board acted in this matter under their oath, which obliged them to equalize the assessed value of the railroads and make that assess ment conform to valuations placed on other property. The assessment made at that time was only fair to the companies and put them back near to where they should have been placed. However, the local assessors continued to reduce the valuation on lands, lots and personal property, until 1898, the railroads were again paying twenty-five per cent more tax than they under the constitution and law should be required to do. Since 1898, the local assessors have increased the val uation a little, but as is shown in bulletin No. 3, the railroads were assessed $1.169 per mile more value than they should have been in 1900, and are still paying more than their fair portion of taxes. During the years of hard times in Nebraska, the rail roads accepted this injustice and paid the taxes charged, hoping by the assistance thus rendered the poorer coun ties of the state, to tide over the unfortunate condition of affairs, end in many instances they paid the tax charged while their stockholders got nothing. Several members of the Board of Equalization that have been elected in the last ten years were honestly impressed with the belief that railroad corporations were not paying their just portion of tax, but when the facts have been laid before them, they in each instance, irrespective of party, respected their oath and went no further in taxing the railroads than they could go and still believe that they were giving that equality in tax ation guaranteed under our constitution. Some corporation may not be pay jg their share of taxes, but an investigation will show that they are not railroad corporation