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 <Jo not believe Plso’s Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F
Boveb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,190a
Consistency, thou are a jewel, but
women seem to prefer other articles
of personal adornment.
A retired bunco man says that love
is not the only thing that needs the
services of an oculist.
A Japanese Worth $100,000,000.
Baron Euchi Shibusawa, who is re
garded as the richest man in Japan,
is in San Francisco on a tour of the
United States and Europe. While in
this country the baron will make a
study of steel plates and shipyards
Baron Shibusawa is 63 years old. His
wealth is estimated at $100,000,000.
YOU CAN DO IT TOO 1
Over 2,000,000 people are how buy- I
ing goods from us at ■wholesale I
| prices—saving 15 to 40 percent on every- ■
thing they use. You can do it too. ■
Why not ask us to send you our 1,000- ■
I page catalogue?—it tells the story. Send I
15 cents for it today. (|
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The house that tells the truth. M
TWO IMMENSE PIANO STOCKS^
Bought for Spot Cash.
Never in our business experience
have we been able to offer such 1
bargains in Pianos as now. Lack |
of floor space necessitates the
slaughtering of prices on at least
100 pianos. \
Brand new Pianos from $118.00 up
to the price of the celebrated ;
Steinway. tVe sell new pianos on !
$5 Month:y payments. Call or
write at once for catalog, prices,etc. j
SCIIM0EIER r, MUELLER,
Manufactuiers. Wholesale and Re
tail Plano Dealers.
ALABASTINE
FOR YOUR
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Cleanly and Sanitary
Durable end Artistic
Safeguards Health
The delicate tints are made with
special reference to the protection
of pupils’ eyes. Beware of paper
and germ-absorbing and disease
breeding Kalsomines.
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r MARRIAGE IN JAPAN |J
♦ Lore and Romance Hare Little to Do With the ♦
♦♦ Making ol the Nuptial Contract +>
♦♦. .♦♦
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.
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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 % « :<insiii>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
