?:V. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.. March u 18975 ROOK ISLAND: Stock Cutters, Disc Harrows, . Lever Harrows, Listers, Plows, And a full line of Agricultural Buggies, THE LOWEST P0SSD3LE PRICE the Best Is the Cheapest. We Have the Best. Lincoln Transfer Try The Lincoln CoalCo.'s Q npAffjlfflfl)BEST,CHEAPEST.HOTEST U jMlUAiiju 11206 0 Street. Phone 440 BUY FRESH Grans, Field, Qarden, Tree and Flower Seeds, all especially grown and saW LzB 19 US' sHa selected for Western will and climate. Alfalfa, Kaftl rcorn "JTTT other forape plant for dry climate a specialty. OurolegantllWcata- KANSAS J F. Barteldes K Co. lugue la ready will be mailed ra on application. SKunroa om now. SEED HOUSE I LAWRENCE, KANSAS. UE HAVE NO AGENTS but have sold direct to the consumer for 24 years, at wholexale prices, Havlug tiieui uie dealers' nia. Miip any jor exttiuiiiuuoii ue ftre stile. Every thing warranted. 1(10 styles of Cur- R , W. I rlnees. wi Htv leg of 1 newt. Top lIuuK'eHax low at $-'15. 1'Iiaetons as low No.SW. Snrn; Hrn PrtMliS.ofc Ai iikkI m kIU for l.'a.DU. ELKHART CAHRIAM5 AND IIABltESS MFO. SPECIAL OFFER for 20c we will send, post paid, 1 pkg of cabbage, 1 pkg of to matoe, 1 pkg of beet, 1 pkg of lettuce, 1 pkg of onion. Any person sending 20c for the abo?e collection and giving the names of three or more of their friends who purchase seeds will receive tree 1 pkg Japanese climbing cucumber and one pkg w-eed. Cameron's Seed Co., Beaver City Net. .HARDY'S COLUMN. Continued from 4th page. But the regiment to which Joe and Jim belonged was retained for guard and they did not get their discharge until July. It was a gala day in the old neighbor hood when the boys returned. Nothing was too good for them. Even Sue's father seemed proud of Capt. Jim. After a few days Jim pushed on up to his father's. He found the new home blessed with comfort and all were happy. Early in September the boys proceeded to carry out their long cherished plan, that of visiting the Blue river valley. They took rail to St. Joe, Mo., theuce a boat to Nebraska City and the sixty nnes still intervening were measured on loo t with knapsacks filled with rations and blankets attached. The country more than met their ex pectations. Homesteads were selected side by side and the home trip taken. The winter was spent tending saw mill, fixing for a new borne and enjoying so ciety. There was not that need for Joe to work for his - father had a thousand dollars laid by for him as soon as he was ready to start. The first thing Jim did waB to make two large chests, one for tools and the other for bedding and house trinkets. Saw, plane, hammer, chisel and other carpenter's tools, with fork, hoe, ax, grass scythe and grain cradle taken apart, togetler with other useful farm implements, all chinked with garden seeds was the result. Sue attended to filling the, other chest. Every old neighbor was anxious to furnish something for oue of the chests. To be Continued. A newspaper m a family is a necessity. It is an educator. Secure two or three (rood ones by availing yourself of the opportunity afforded by our subscrip tion proposition as explained on page 5. COMMITTEE EXPENSES,' The House Refuses to Pay Members for Time Engaged in Committee Work, An interesting discussion came up in the house Wednesday afternoon when Hon. Geo. L. Rouse, of Hall county pre sented a bill for four days time at $5.00 per day for time spent in visiting state institutions as a member of the junket ing committee. This bill was presented to get an expression from' the house as to paying claims of this kind. The other ' members of the committee had similar bills prepared which they expected to present if the House (J aim was allowed. Some discussion occured and those op posed to the allowance of the claim in sisted that members who remained in Lincoln during the several days of ad journment and labored on committees were as mucn enuuea w pay iur iime as were those who spent the same time in visiting state institutions. They were willing to allow a claim for cash actually and necessarily expended on that trip aad no more. On a roll call the vote stood 56 against allowing the claim for time 26 in its favor. It is easier to save a dollar than to grow ten bushels of corn. Read our sub Bcription proposition on page 5, and save your expense for newspapers. Cascareta stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels; never sicken,weaken or gripe lOo Ripans Tabuies cure bad breath. BROWN: other Implements, Wagons, Etc., at Go. Cor. I Oth & Q Sts. Lincoln. Neb. KANSAS S7?imS -an 1.1 n 1 1 1 1 m pro- wnere 1 nr- lUiull wagons, eta rHna No. . Surrey rriMwun curium, ismi, inn for large, free Catalogue, shade, apron and feuden, V. A good u milt tor fuo. CO., W. a PKATT, Bee'y, ELKHART, IND. . The planter's success depends most upon Good and FRESH SEEDS. Having established seed gardens in Furnas county, Nebraska, in 1803, we are now ready to furnish seeds direct to the farmers. Our seeds, being HOME GROWN, are fresh and reliable. Insurance Department. Conducted by J. T. II. Swlgart. Correspondence solicited. The article on page 6 entitled Mutual Insurance was handed to me some time ago but we hesitated to insert it but as the officers of that company have un justly attacked me I will put in print the communication showing some of the seemingly unanswerable discrepancies. I am prompted to do this because some of the members of that company are anxious to know what is wrong. AGENTS. We want agents to write insurance for hail, fire or cyclone, on farm or in town. A town mutual will be organized to in sure city or village resident property. THE NEBRASKA SAVINGS BANK. The Receiver Will Soon Declare and Pay a Five percent Dividend. The receiver for the defunct Savings bank of Omaha, Mr. W. K. Pot ter, has made sufficient collections to enable him to declare 5 per cent divi dend for depositors and claimants. He publishes a statement showing the as sets of the bank to be $279,468 and the liabilities $ 153,863, and adds that in all probability the depositors and claim ants will be paid in full. The dividend to be declared will be available in about three weeks. ' Why not secure several good papers for your family to read? Kxamine our subscription proposition on page 5. MCKINLEY'S CABINET. The Following Is the Make up of Presi dent McKinley's Cabinet. Secretary of state John Sherman, of Ohio. Secretary of the treasury Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois. Secretary of war Russel A. Alger, of Michigan. Secretary of the navy John D. Long, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the interior Cornelius N, Bliss, of New York. Secretary of agriculture James M. Wilson, of Iowa. ' Postmaster-General James A. Gary, of Maryland. Attorney-general Joseph McKenna, of California. It is generally conceded that in the se lection of his cabinet the president has been consistent and selected those who represent the principles defended and advocated by the victorious party in the last campaign. I he most striking illus trations are in the selection of John Sherman and Lyrqan J. Gage both rep resentatives of the gold standard and the present national banking system. A rain storm in tne Colorado desert Is a stranger thing than many of the furious tales which for ages gave Hero ilotua a "unique reputation among his torians for mendacity. During a rain storm in tho Colorado desert not a sin gle, drop of water touches the earth, the, rain can be seen falling from the llouda high above the desert, but when the water reaches the strata of hot, dry lir beneath the clouds it is entirely absorbed before falling half the dis Janoe to the ground. i. Fill IMS WATSON The Late Candidate for Vice-President Oives His Views Concern ing McKinley's Cabinet. EIGHT PROBLEMS TO SOLVE. May Satisfy the Protected Classes, But Will Alienate the Un protected Masses. From the New York World, March 7. Thomson, Ga., March 7, 1897. There is no suggestion of mugwumpery about this new administration. It is stalwart to the core. McKinley has not obtained his election as a republican with the purpose of an tagonizing republican policies. He is not posing as the big chief, who is bigger and better than all the other chiefs, and whois, therefore, above all party shack els. He is a republican of the strictest sect, and he brings all the weight of a lofty character, superior intellect and aimable disposition to the maintenance of his party's creed. The cabinet he has chosen is as decid edly positive in its muke-up as the presi dent himself. No democratic Greshara holds a place in it. No Palmerites se cures recognition. The cabinet is rightly republican and those who compose it are all men of strength, capacity and partisan natures. Group the whole official presidential family together and you get an impres sion of a most decided character. A Cabinet of the "Prlvlledged." These men do not represent the com mons. There is no hint of th "third estate" whatsoever. In McKinley's cab inet the privileged orders are represented as they have never been before in any American administration. With John Sherman as centerpiece, the grouping harmonizes perfectly with the political size, shape and color of that eminent spokesman of priviledged com binations of wealth. The country at large knows Mr. Sherman well, and the public opinion concerning him has chrys tallized. " He commenced his public career with out money. He has befen continuously in politics; he has drawn the small sal ary of congressman and of secretary of the treasury; out of this he has had to support his family, and today he is a millionaire. , This fortune was made honestly, no doubt, just as Cleveland's was made, but the world believes that Sherman made his fortune as (Cleveland did) by using the advantages his position gave him. Sherman's Use of Opportunity. As secretary of the treasury he had larger opportunities than any other sec retary ever had. There were greater sums of public money to be bandied. There were millions upon millions to be handed over to favorite banks to be used, without interest, at a time when the banks found no difficulty in safely lending it at large profits. There were huge bond deals to be ma nipulated. Hundreds of millions of the national debt to be refunded and heavy commissions were paid, amounting to millions. In these transactions Mr. Sherman found himself breathing the opulent atmosphere of the Beimonts, the Morgans and the Rothschilds. Immense fortunes were made by pri vate persons in these colossal trans actions, and when they were ended Mr. Sherman was a rich mau. The coinci dence is worth attention. Not only is Mr. Sherman held by the public generally to be the very embodi ment of the poor politician who gets rich by doing what the corporations want done, but he is also regarded as the especial representative of the deadly policy of contracting the currency. He is held responsible for the destruction of the paper money which the people be lieve was so beneficial to the country. He is held responsible more than any living man, for the legislation which dis turbed the harmonious relations be tween silver and gold, made trouble be tween two allies and fettered silver with unfriendly legislation in the interest of ile is also regarded as the especial sponsor and champion of the national banking system, which system is detest ed by those who understand it and who do not belong to the class which fattens upon it. To the masses of the people, therefore, the selection ot John Sherman as premier of the administration is a significant and ominous fact and Mr. McKinley has made his impression in delible by grouping around Mr. Sher man other political mognates ot like faith and order. Mr. Gage stands for antagonism to the greenbacks, friendship to the na tional banks and hostility to the in crease of the currency by silver coinage or otherwise. He represents the kind of bimetallism which all the metropolitan bankers want the unaniinous-European-agreement sort which everybody knows we cannot get. Mr. 15liss goes into the presidential family redolent of the New York cham ber of commerce and the peculiar notions and patriotism and government which emanate from that unselfish region, col ored in his views by bis local environ ment, as most of us are. Mr. Bliss will appear to the country at large as an ideal representative of the V all street interests. Having been treas urer of the McKinley campaign fund, he. of all men knows which corporations con tributed, and what those corporation were promised m the way of legislation lrienaiy to corporate wishes. His going into the cabinet wiil appear to mean that the McKinley adrainistra tion intends to keep faith with tho said contributors to its expenses. Mr. Bliss is a millionaire banker just as Mr. Sher man was and Mr. Gage is. Gen. Alger is also a millionaire, and his views harmonize vitn Sherman s. Then comes Cary, another millionaire, then Long, of Massachusetts, attorney for trusts and corporations. Then there is McKenna, of California, one ofLeland Stanford's confidential men, known on the Pacific slope as a corporation law yer and corporation judge. These are the strong men of the cabi net; ana oi tne commissioner of Agri culture, Mr. Wilson, it is safe to say that he is in line with the others. It is a dis tinctly corporation cabinet a cabinet whose mem hers are identified in vrinci pk, tu purse and in purpose with the privileged classes. They not only favor corporations and trusts and combina tions of capital, but they are a part of the system. They are cogs in the wheel. Cabinet as a Whole. McKinley's cabinet, therefore, is made up of those who feast on class legislation; those who claim that the laws should be framed in their special interest; those who preach the gospel of legal aud polit ical equality, but whose practice tends to concentrate all wealth, and privilege and all power into the bands of a few, thus revolutionizing our republic inoan aris tocracy baed upon wealth alone. hven Mr. Cleveland allowed representa tion to the people in the selection of bis cabinet. Gresham may not have been an appropriate choice, but ho was hon est and poor and had proved to the cor porations ,tbat he was incorruptible. lie was, therefore, a man of the people. lloke smith was no tool of tfie banks. the railroads or the trusts. He was a man of the people honest, fearless, open to the appeal of popular wants and in terests. If Herbert was especially identified with corporation interests, no one knew it then; indeed, it cannot be even now said that he did not go into the cabinet honestly intending to act for the best in terests of the people at large. Here then, were three men of Cleve land's cabinet who seemed to be inde pendent of the corporation entangle ments and who might reasonably be ex pected . to guard the welfare of the masses. The peculiar distinction of the McKin ley cabinet is that nobody need nourish any hallucinations concerning it. There is absolutely no room left for guessing. lhe cabinet is a corporation cabinet, and nobody can doubt it. If the trusts which put up the money to elect McKinley had been asked to se lect their own preferences for the cabinet, they could not have chosen a lot of men more eminently aualined to give them satisfaction. McKinley's. Problems. , The problems which confront Mr. Mc Kinley are these, mainly: , iirst How to run the tariff rates up lgh enough to satisfy the manufacturers who paid for his election without arous ing the discontent of the consumers, who will be compelled to pay higher prices for manufactured goods. isecond How to continue to spend more money than the revenues amount to without having to issue bonds, and without letting the people know that taxes are increased. Third Ho w to give the national bank ers a new system still better than the present one, so that they shall have the sole prerogative ot issuing paper money without letting the impression go out that this is done to enrich those who run national bauks at the expense of those who do not run them. Fourth How to fasten the gold stand ard permanently upon the country and yet keep the supporters of bimetallism in a state of happy expectation. In this delicate experiment he will be materially aided by a claim and conscientious study of the manner in which the demo crats have managed it in the south. t if th How to be blind to the remorse less march of the trusts and monopolists and stock exchange gamblers, and yet create the impression upon the laborer farmer, retail dealer and general con sumer that the administration is the relentless foe of all illegal combinations of capital and stands ready at all hours to rush to the rescue of aiu unfortunate citizen who may have discovered that a monopoly or trust is picking his pocket. This task is not so difficult as it looks because Cleveland has shown how to do :. Mr. McKinley will have to content imself, with being a tame copyist oi Cleveland's method. The Cuban Question. Sixth How to let Spain have all the license she wants in Cuba, aud yet keep up the pretense of being shocked by the avage atrocities she has committed, is now committing and will continue to eommit upon innocent men, virtuous women aud helpless children. Here again Mr. McKinley's task will be re duced to the mere imitation of Cleve land's example. . . Seventh How to settle the Pacific railroad question without collecting the money or seizing the roads or dissatis fying the country with an unreasonable extension. To euforce payment of the debt would distress many eminent thieves who have not yet satisfied their appetite for plun der; to seize the roads would be giving too much countenance to populist doc trines; to unduly postpone the day ot payment might offend more voters than the republicans can afford to lose. In his dilemma Mr. McKinley will per haps, cut the knot by following the judi cious course now on trial. Collection of the debt will be talked of but no collec tion will be made; seizure of the roads will be discussed, but no seizure attempt ed; postponement of the day of pay ment will be debated, but no definite postponement voted. By tins indicious manner of procedure the eminent plunderers keep the proper- tv and are satisfied, while the people are kept in the hope that something Will be done and are likewise satisfied. Eighth How to increase the taxes on the food, clothing, tools, furniture, and other necessaries of life and yet keep the income tax question from bobbing up again. To tax the many poor to enrich the protected few and yet exempt the protected few from the income tax is a policy which may cause trouble if not very tenderly handled. To this Populist unrepentent and un-reconstructed-rthe foregoing appear to be the problems confronting Mr. McKin ley. That he will deal with them adroit ly, intelligently and courageously is not to be doubted. That he can solve them to the satisfaction of a majority of his fellow citizens is most uncertain. In legislating to satisfy the protected classes will run the risk of alienating the unprotected masses. Thomas E. Watson. Do not fail to examine carefully our subscription proposition on page 5. Winger's Steel WIND MILL Mechanically eoastroecsd and simple. Awarded World's Fair Di ploma end Medal. Galvanised Steal Tanks, Regulator and Grind, en. M. WIMfiUU. enweoa lemee, uuosfo, mz3 UsK Monday,Tues.&Wedns.,Mar.l5,l6,l7. The cloak and suit department will on above dates display the new line of ladies' ready-to-wear suits for spring and summer wear. A special line of suits has been 'ordered for this occasion in which there are NO TWO ALIKE so that no one ean have a suit just like yours. This line will be placed on sale during these three days at a discount of 'A3 per cent or off the regular selling price. Prices range from $10.00 to $30.00. Thus you can secure a $10.00 suit for $6.67, a . $12.00 suit for $8.00, a $15.00 suit for $10.00 etc., etc. ' . ' The Big Store here presents to you an opportunity of securing the very latest productions at an immense discount. This will be the time for you to secure your Easter suit. If you cannot attend the opening, write for full particulars. M&ik&iPiint Vfe y Block. able e eds. Our seeds are well recommended by those who have tried them. We are headquarters for Alfalfa, Seed Corn, Fancy Seed Oats, Spring Wheat and Forage Plant seeds which are adapted for dry climate. When in the market write us for special prices. Our vegetable and flower seed cannot be excelled. Send for our Sweet Pea collection; twelve new named varieties for 25 cents, post paid. Our 1897 Seed Catalogue will be mailed free of charge one application. The Nebraska Seed Go. 52VS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CAS. Acetylene and Carbides From a Cora- mercial Point of Tieir An interesting; paper upon the ""Car bides and Acetylene Commercially Con sidered" was read recently at the Franklin Institute by Dr. J. J Suckert, assisted by Thomas L. Wilson, who gave some interesting experiments with calcium carbide and showed the Illuminating value of liquified acety lene as produced from it. The whole constituted a thorough exposition of the recent discovery which has at tracted very wide attention. During the course of his paper Dr. SuckerJ, after giving a description of the dis covery, said: "It has been demonstrat ed that one electrical horse power will prodube thirty pounds of calcide car bide in twenty-four hours, or at a cost of $5 per ton, and acetylene produced from this will yield a gas that can be sold at a profit at a price which, based on equal candle power, will place or dinary illuminating gas, such as is now furnished by tbe city at 6 cents pes thousand. It would take 12,500 cubic feet of Philadelphia gas to give the same illumination as 1,000 feet of acety lene gas. Taking Philadelphia gas at its present price the consumer would pay $12.50 for the same illumination as it is possible to produce in acetylene gas for about 25 cents. Acetylene can be supplied to customers in liquid form. One steel tube 5 feet long by 4 inches in diameter will hold 69 pounds of acetylene, which will produce 1,000 cubic feet of gas, or a candle power equal to 12,500 cubic feet of Philadelphia gas, and will supply a house of SVom ten to thirteen rooms for about three months." D-iring the reading of the paper the process of combining in an electrical fu-nace such common ma terials as lime and carbon and the liquefaction of the product was fully Illustrated by Mr. Wilson, who then applied a light to the burner attached to a tank of the gas, showing &t white, steady flame almost as bright as an arc light Philadelphia Times. Alfalfa Houoy. Prof. J. L. Budd has been taking a trip through the Southwest. Speaking of the desert regions of New Mexico and Arizona, he says, in the Iowa State Register: The yankee is usually not slow in discovering money making pos sibilities. In riding over these plains it seems strange to find squatters on a patch of desert soil dotted over with sage brush, mesquite, and tree caexus with hundreds of stands of bees around the adobe cabin. If we call, we usually find an Iowa. Illinois, Kansas, or Da kota boy is proprietor of rue tsee Ranch.". The practical idea is wh without thPSB nioneer money makers the alfalfa would waste its "fragrance on the desert air. As a honey plant It has no superior, yet we are told that many of the desert plants give good vielda of nectar, which improves thf quality for market of tne auaua noney. We yesterday came across an iowa young man who came here for his health who is really making money on his little desert pre-emption out of his extracted honey crop and his refined beeswax. In the latter line his yankee shrewdness enables him not only to re fine his own product, but that of bee ranchers over a wide area. Already the honey and beeswax of these arid valleys reaches many of the cities and villages of the prairie Btates. Rlpans Tabules cure dyspepsia. OF OUR Ladies Suit Dep't. Before placing your order for Vegetables, Flower and Field Seeds please send us our liBt and we will give you our special quotations. Don't risk the loss of time, labor and ground by planting seeds of un known quality. The market is full of cheap, unreli THE WORLD OF ENDEAVOR, Great Britain now has more than four thousand Christian Endeavor so jieties. The Protestant Episcopal churches In Providene, R. I., have Christian En deavor societies. Three members of a St. Louis Chris dan Endeavor society are on the way to Africa as missionaries. One psalm a month Is committed to memory and used in their meetings by the Endeavorers of a Beverly, Mass., society. ' Following their custom, the Endeav jrers of Louisville sent twelve hundred letters tq, the inmates of the state pen itentiary atChristmas time. A Christian Endeavor society, hold ing weekly meetings at the noon hour, has bean organized among the young people In a Pittsburg office. A vile theatrical exhibition in Wor cester, Mass., was recently closed as a result of good-citizenship work inau gurated by the Endeavorers. The first Society of Christian En deavor among the Japanese in the United States was organized a few weeks ago at Santa Cruz, Cal. A blind man is led to church every Sunday by the missionary committee of a St. Thomas, Ont., Christian En leavor society. A practical endeavor. Londoners drink 1,400 tons of liquid mud a year, according to recent ex pert testimony before the county coun cil. TRAPPED AND FOUGHT A BEAR. Mountaineer's Desperate Struggle With an Infuriated Beast. A mountaineer named Jere Sands had a teiTible conflict with a bear ins Greasy Cove, near Johnson City, Tenn., recently. The animal had been entrapped during the night, and when S.ands came upon the soene he went directly, up to the bear before making an effort to shoot it. He was standing a few feet away when the infuriated, beast made a lunge, broke its fetters and was upon him in an in stant Before the surprised hunter could get his gun in position the bear seized his left arm in its crushing jaws, the weapon dropped from the hand of the mangled limb and a bat tle of death began. In a moment the mountaineer was in the iread embrace of his an- sagonisu iney tell to the ground in the struggle which ensued, and rolling over and over they went down the mountain side thirty yards and dropped off a ledge of rocks twelve feet sheer fall. The bear happened to fall underneath and during the momentary shock which followed the half dead man managed to draw from his belt his hunting knife, which fortunately had remained undisturbed, and plunged it with all his strength into the animal's neck, severing the jugular vein. This ended the battle. The bear soon re leased his hold and was dead, but his slayer was too badly hurt to leave tho scene of the struggle. His continuer" f absence caused his friends to go I search of him. They found the vie-' tor covered with blood and pillowed upon his shaggy victim nursing his mangled arm. The bear was one of Lvraest ever killed in thai raaioa.