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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT- Novemberie, 1890. 6 RIDICULOUS CLAIM. Vhmt Ketoral Laira Tan Operate WMU Traits Are In Pull Control. Most of the witness1 who bare ap peared before the industrial commis sion representing the trusts have taken the view that these combinations caD bo relied upon to conform to the uatu ral laws governing commerce and in dustry without the intervention of leg islative enactments. This was the at titude of Francis Lynde Stetson, who testified in behalf of the Federal Steel company. Federal laws, he declared, would be harmful to the public inter ests. The usual course of competition will surely regulate the prices of com modities dealt In by the trusts. It Is Burprlslng to find men of high degree f Intelligence putting forth this plea seriously. The natural laws of compe tition will assurely work out a bnlanes between supply and demand and main tain a normal range of prices, but only when unhampered by unnatural con 41tlona. A trust Is the embodiment of such conditions. It is a specific effort to crash competition. There can be no competition where the trust Is Ideally organized. . The history of these growths is that they constantly tend toward aggrandizement, ever growing larger through the absorption of small er concerns. Hew, 'then, can the "laws of competition" operate when there Is no field? If the sugar trust has secur ed control of all the raw material and f all the processes of refining, what Is to prevent the arbitrary regulation of the price of sugar by the trust? Were the trusts controlled solely by philanthropists the natural laws might VinvA a rlinnrn to work out the micr- gested results, but philanthropy and the trusts are far opart As Comp troller Dawes said the other day In Boston, it Is human nature for a man or a combination of men engaged in a great business commanding the trade to seek the largest possible prtfflts. If by adding a cent a pound to the price of sugar the trust can add, $20,000,000 a year to Its net Income, no qualms of conscience, no respect for the dear people, will Intervene to prevent. The only natural law able to operate In i. - i .1... ' i a m i bucu a cuse is umi vi uccesBiiy. j.uo people will use ouly as much as they absolutely need when the price Is high. If this is what Sir. Stetson means by his reference to the laws of nature as distinguished from the laws of man, he is scarcely aiding the cause of the trusts by his argument The people wuilil mtlfi nrof.il tn MJtnfApnii tlirtun elements by a few federal and state statutes vigorously and honestly ap plied. Washington Star. NEW JERSEY'S TRUST LAWS. Amaalng- Dlncloaarra Made Before . Intloatrlnl Commlaalon bjr Ryan. The amazing disclosures made to the Industrial commission by Dennis B, Byan of Jersey City In regard to the flagrant violations of the New Jersey corporation laws will be presented in strong form to the proper authorities f New Jersey. This course was de cided upon by the Industrial commis sion In executive session. , A completo abstract of Ryan's testi mony before the commission will be prepared by Secretary Sackett and for warded to the attorney general of New Jersey. This is as far as the com mission has power to go. Ryan has promised to prepare and forward to the commission a complete list' of the corporations for which he received a fee of $3 each to act as a "straw man" that they might get char ters In New Jersey. He reiterated to members of the commission his state ment that he had been acting as a "straw man" for Peter Whitney of 100 Broadway and E. Arden Nobblett of 1 Nassau street, New York, and for these two only. Ryan verified the list of the illegal trusts and corporations published by the New York Journal and declared that that list was not nearly as long as the facts warrant. He will go to Trenton and prepare his list from the records in the orUeo of the secretary of state there. The Industrial commis sion will embody Ryan's list of wildcat trusts In the report of bis testimony to be sent to the attorney general of New Jersey. Representative L. F. Livingston of Georgia, a member of the industrial commission, said: "If Ryan's testimony Is true, I can not understand how the New Jersey J ofllclals can fall to revoke the charters Af the queer trusts and corporations , exposed by hlra and prosecute their promoters. What congress can do about It I do not yet know, but it can at least read the full particulars of the shameful affair. , "Of counw Ryan Is not the only man who can expose the dangers to the nation and the abuses of the New Jer sey corporation laws. There must be numerous other men who have been used as Ryan ?lias Nor is It reason able to suppose that Whitney and Nob , blett are the only promoters In the coun try who are taking advantage of the New Jersey authorities. I hope the commission has just started along this line of Inquiry " 1 McKlntej-tam. ' - The word "McKlnlcylsm has come to stay. It expresses a great deal. The people will use It when they want to give rout to their hatred of un-Amer- icnnlsm. It will stand for all time In ' American politics as Worlcrlsnr stands In war. The people will call attacks upon their liberties and rights "Me Klnleylsm." and all the world will know what they mean, for "McKIn leylsm" will always convey the Idea . .... . .t ...a , 7 tiuiivnu 1UV vuliniiiu tlon" ond need a form of government that assumes r.ll sovereignty and rests upon a large military' establishment. "MrKlnlcylsm" covers the whole scheme of a government for the people by a supreme authority In Washlng- ton.-Kansas City Times. GREENBACKS THE BEST.' The Only Scientific Method of Pro viding: the Clrenlatlnir Mediant. Away back In the seventies we had the honor to support Peter Cooper on a platform tlmt we helped to write. The older we grow the more inclined we are to the opinion that greenbacklsm comes nearer being right, so far as the money question Is concerned, than gold and silver, and we are more than con vinced that within the next few years the fact will become manifest to the people. We are rapidly approaching a crisis that means much to the people of this republic. The National Bank ing association has for years been the power behind the throne, and within a very short time what remains of the $.'140,000,000 of greenbacks yet nnre tired will be burned np and. national bank notes Issued in their places upon the bonds of the country. No particu lar contraction of currency will result, but an evil greater than contraction will follow on Its heels namwly, cor poration control of money. In other words, It will be a concluding stp te perfect the money trust When a few people have it In their power ts Issue money and eontract the volume whenever such course means profit to them, the people of this na tion will get the worst of It. Money Is the Hfcblood of commerce, the life giv ing fluid of civilization, the medium of exchange and the Incentive to man to labor and acqalre. It is a necessity to our civilization. Congress has the pow er to coin money and regulate the val ue thereof. The bank combination uses it to that extent. Wheat and meat are regarded as actual necessities of life. A man can do without either and still remain healthy and happy, but a man walking our streets without a dol lar In his pockets realizes the necessity of money in this order of civilization. Speaking of this, Harvey says: "When a thing is a necessity to society, It Is a matter to be studied by all, yet it Is left to a class of people like the nation al bankers who deal In it for the profit there Is In the business. When a thing Is a necessity, there should be a nor mal quantity of It Suppose we had laws, encouraging the hoarding of wheat until society was Inconven ienced. Would you not be In favor of repealing those laws? And If there were not wheat or corn or pork enough. would you not be in favor of raising more of It, doing away with such laws as prevent the production of these necessities?" Money is a great neces sity in order to facilitate exchange and will be until the world becomes suffi ciently educated to accept labor cheeks. Yet, In face of all this, we go right along, gradually encouraging the mon ey ring In putting up Jobs to control the volume of money through bank Is sues, demonetization of silver and cur tailment of gold coinage by refusing to pass laws making it a crime to use gold for any other purpose than money. The only scientific money. In our way of thinking, Is the "greenbacks," and It Is a pity the government doesn't ex ercise its right to Issue them Instead of delegating the power of Issue to na tional bankers. George's Weekly. "Nothing- to Learn." Chairman Loud of the. house com mittee on postofflees and post roads and Superintendent Bradley of the rail way mall service have finished their European tour of Investigation Into the workings of Dostal affairs abroad. 'and apparently they have accomplish ed the feat of running the gantlet of the most advanced methods In the world without succumbing to a single new Idea. They express the opinion that we have nothing to learn from European practice In postal matters. Well, perhaps we have not. In Eu rope you can deposit nioucy at any postofilco and draw it out in nuy amounts you please at any other office In the country, wherever you happen to be. You can pay your debts and make remittances of all kinds through the postal savings banks. In some countries you can insure your life through the postofflce. You can col lect your bills threugh It. If you are a farmer's wife and make a tub of butter, the postoflice will Make your butter from your door, carry it to the city, deliver It to a merchant, collect the money for It and pay yon the cash. If you want to find out the price In advance, you can send a telegram 500 miles for half what It would cost you to send one ten miles here. The postoflice In this country will not do any of these tilings for you, but It will do more for the railroads than any European service which Is still obliged to deal with private transporta tion companies would dream of do ing. Terhaps that Is why Mr. Locd thinks we have nothiug to learn from Europe. Philadelphia North Amcrl can. ' . Farmers' Interests Endnnarered. The farmer will readily undorttand that If there Is but one person or con corn to whom he tuu sell his product. such as bis cotton, his leaf tobacco, his wheat or his corn, he M ill uot be able to realize as high a price or as much money as be could If there were 1,000 or 10,000 to bid and compete for them, and thus the trust is enabled to get Its raw material at reduced flg nres. The workman also understands that where there is but one concern In his line he must accept the wages and terms It offers him. and when for any reason he offends them he Is aware that he will be blacklisted. The work man who strikes under the trust sys tem quickly feels the power of the com bine. Then the consumer must pay the price arbitrarily fixed by the trust If he cannot get his supplies elsewhere. The price of raw material must of ne cessity be reduced under the trust sys tem. Great reductions have already taken place In the wages of some of the employees of trusts, while many thousands have been thrown out of work. W. C. Wetmore. WISE WOODPECKERS. flow They Drive Worm from the I a Ida of a Tree. : A Chicago professor who has been in the Maine woods this summer tells an interesting story of the intelligence of a family of woodpeckers which he encountered near the headwaters of the Allegash, and which were most uncommonly bright birds. As every1 one knows who has observed these birds at all, they feed on the worms which burrow into trees. Any worm witn a fair amount of activity can bore a gallery three or four feet long in a tree in a single season, so to find his prey the woodpecker has to make sev eral holes in the tree in order to get at his victim. This particular family of woodpeckers, having some difficulty la getting at the worms after they had drilled a hole into his gallery. proposed to save themselves unneces sary work. And what do you think they did? In the Allegash woods grows the "Indian poke," a plant wltk berries possessing an alkaline juice particularly disagreeable to all animal life. And so these Allegash wood peckers, having made an entrance lsto the domtitn of the borer, prooeed next to drop berries of the Indian poke into the opening. And so mack does the worm dislike the odor of the poke berries that he somes out .to get away from it, and incidentally to see who has had the impertinence to cause him so much discomfort. He never gets any further than the en trance, becaufee Mr. Woodpecker is waiting there, and that worm is gob bled up so quickly that he never knows what happened to him. This seems like a good deal of a fairy story, doesn't it? But Prof. Eastman J. Clarke sayi he saw it with his own eycB. PRESIDENT'S PERQUISITES. France Far from Liberal with Her Chief Executive. France, which assumes the respond sibllity of furnishing the president with his household needs, is not par ticularly lavish In this respect. The hlghPBt representative of the republic receives free his heat, light, kitchen utensils, linen, porcelain and glass ware and a certain sum of money to defray expenses of wear and tear. He is entitled to eight damask table cloths, one dozen each of spoons, knives and forks. For company there are added three more sets of about eighty pieces. Then there is a special service of 110 pieces. These, however. are used only on special occasions. The allowance of bed clothing would not suffice for an American housewife. He receives four towels for himself and six for his family; these are not changed more than once in eight days unless he makes special requisition for more. He is also the lucky possessor of 1.0 dozen dinner napkins and thirty dozen for tea service. His household retinue consists of 'one housekeeper, one chef, five cooks, four ushers, eight lackeys, six clerks, one overseer and one coachman. The president has to provide his own private equipages, as he is entitled only to three vehicles, one for traveling, one to receive guest3 la and one for his messengers. How to Lay Itrloka. Estimates are based by the 1,000 bricks laid in a wall. It is customary to deduct for doors, windows, arches, etc., but not for flues, ends of Joists, girders, window frames, sills or 11a toU. In a goneral way, a four and one half inch wall will require seven bricks to the square foot; fourteen for a nine-inch wall, etc. Tunnel and arch brickwork is measured by the cu bic yard. It requires thirty-eight brioks, eight and ouos.uariar by (our by two, with points one-third to one fourth Inch wide, to lay one squar yaid If !aid flat. If placed on edge, it will take seventy-three, while if oi end, 14!). Ornamental work, such as cornices and beads. Is produced by causing counts of brick to project beyond the place of the rest. Is laying walls, thn first prinoiplo to be observed. In orilor to gain the greatest resistance, is to have the bricks of successive courses overlap each other, so that the Joint botween the two is overlaid by the middle cf a brick. What U known as the old English bond and which gives the greatest strength oonslsts in arranging the brlrks In alternals courses of stretchers end hnadors, the former bein? bricks laid longitudinally with the wall and tho other transverse ly. The headers serve to bind the sev eral courses together. A tii'n t out .Mine. The Chilian roal mines, opened In 1SC5. poem to be nice places to work in. The Beam of ccsl runs from (he shore under the waters -f the Pacific ocean, and the tunnels arc so clean that yen could walk througn tr.em in a drcsa stilt without making yourself dirty. They are lighted by electricity, and you can have a ride for a mile under the ocean on an electric car at a speed of twenty miles an hour. Tho mines form quite a catacomb of well-llghteu passages under the water. The out put of coal is now 1,000 tons a day, and 750 miners are employed in them. tlelglan King; a Speculator. The king of Belgium Is a born specu lator. From his parents he inherited three-quarters of a million sterling. With this capital he began to specu late, and showed his masterly skill as a financier in his dealings in Panama canal stock. By judicious buying and selling he Is estimated to have made four millions. Then ho was seized with the Congo Free State hobby, which ob tained such a mastery over him that I his financial acumen was overpowered, I and he tank his private fortune in it. Whether It will ever return good value for the money remains to be seen. . CAILOR'S SUPERSTITION. Some of the Thing That Bring Bad Lack to a Ship. Pets are believed to bring good luck, and when. In the, recent war with Spain, a man was struck and killed by a bursting shell on the Texas, all the sailors in tho fleet said it was because the battleship was without a mascot. The cat has a bad reputation among seafaring men, most of whom believe that she brings ill-luck to a ship. It a cat falls overboard and is drowned (she Is always rescued if possible), the men will often leave at the next port, believing the ship is doomed, and I have beard men-o'-war men cite the case of the old Kearsarge as proof thereof. On her last voyage the frigate carried a cat and a monkey. A violent feud existed between them, and on their' way north, one dark aad stormy night, Jocko threw poor Tom over board, running along the rail aad chat tering like a fiend as the unfortunate pet dlsapeared In the boiling waves. The seas were running too high to ad mit of launching a boat, and puss was left to a watery grave, but not without many gloomy forebodings, which were realized boob afterwards, when the Kearsarge stranded oa the fatal reef. To fall dowa without any apparent cause is a warning of death in the im mediate future. An American cruiser was lying off Nice a few years ago, when a seaman fell prone on the deck. Upon rising, he went to his bunk, and, returning, placed a slip of paper, bear ing his mother's address in the sand of a messmate, saying he did not expect to see home again. For the nose to bleed only a few drops Is believed In the navy to foretell death in as many days or weeks as there are drops of blood. You may hear a sailor sing at sea, but he rarely whistles; whistling Is supposed to bring a hurricane, and is always hushed by the remark, "There's a hurricane sailor bers." Self-Culture. ELECTROPLATING SHIPS. Experiments with Copper on a Tag , . Prove BucteMf al. According to a report on the condition of tho bottom of the tug Assistance of the navy department, the electroplating of iron hulls with copper appears to be a success. The Assistance was electro plated with copper to a depth of one: thirty-second of an inch before it was launched in 1S95, and when it was tak en out of the water at the NorfolK navy yard a few days ago it was found that practically no electrolysis had set in and that the bottom was about clear of barnacles and other marine growths. At no time since it was launched has the Assistance been docked or cleaned. During the four years It received a number of hard knocks and was on the rocks several times. It was found necessary to patch over certain weak spots as the result of these accidents, and it was only la the vicinity of these patches that any galvanic action was found. Owing to its clean bottom, the speed of the Assistance has not di minished, while all the other tugs In use in Chesapeake bay have been taken out for scraping about bnce a month. Experience shows that three months of service in salt water reduces the speed of a vessel about 28 per cent, so the advantage of this copper electroplating is at once apparent. The cost of the plating is about 3 a square foot. The saving in docking would be enormous, as the expense of docking a vessel is between $3,000 and 14.000. Aa IoUr.ntlan Operation. A very interesting operation was performed in New York upon Kate Farley by Dr. Brewster, a dentist of Lefferts plaoe. Mrs. Farley has been at the Memorial hospital for several weeks with two compound fractures of the lower jaw. The operation con sisted of cementing the upper and low er jaws together, so that the broken bone of the lower Jaw may be held firmly in place until the fractures are healed. Until the healing has taken place the woman will not be able to open he.- mouth, so that nourishment will be given her through tubas lead ing through small apertures where several of her teeth are broken out. The primary part of the operation was si mi! - " -p process used by dentists in ma...... -w sets of teeth fcr persons who have none. Dr. Browster first made an impression of the upper and lower teeth. From these impressions he made a rubber splint which fitted the Impressions of the teeth. He then cemented this splint to tho teeth, clos ing the jaws firmly together. Setting a Good Kzainple. The Earl and Countess or Meath are setting a good example to Irish land lords and others affected by the new local government act, which has made a great change in the rural districts of Ireland. Many of tho changes may not bo very palatable to those who formerly "ruled the roost," but the In evitable has to be accopted. The earl and countess f.av an "at home" at Kl'. duddery. their County Wleklow resi dence, to which "all sorts and condi tions of men" and women. Irrespective of party or creed, received Invitations. Members of tho Dublin corporation, members of the rounty arid district councils, etc., were amongst thorp bid den to the feast. . A gathering of this sort is distinctly novel in IrWsrd. where class and mass do not commin gle freely. Window Gun rili. Windows without guards, erpcclally In nurseries or chambers or playroom: occupied by small children, arc . ourco of terrible accidents. In lart, they r Invitations to fractured skulls ana ssi l den death. All windows to w'.'.-, or', Orcn have acees.4 fhonhl b proi?o: by proper fastenjngs Inaidc e. J r. .'. Iron gvrarda oa tho o-.'.tMs, .,,. A Michigan Miracle Speech Restored alter Nearly 13 Years, J7w yptUanti Commercial, VpnlanU.Micb. Many things appear miraculous that are really the result of natural laws, the working" ' which can rie accurately predicted. 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Patronize home industry made in Nebraska, We refer you to State OfiV fere, Banks and Express Companies of Lincoln, and thousands using our Ranges. Special attention given Hotel and Restaurant Outfits. Some -3 GREAT TABLET SALE 3 FOR 2 All Tablets, Pencil or Ink,, whetheric, 2c, 3c, 5c, 10c, 15c 20c or 25c, three for the price of two. You pay for two and get three. Special Sale on Mixed Paints. Great Re duction on all lines. This Sale to Continue Thirty Days. Hub Clothing Building No. 104-106 North 10th Street EVERYWEEK0riTSiURSiAYM6P.l1. The Burlington have a Pullman Tourist Wide Vestibuled Sleeper leave Lincoln for Los Angeles without change and the price of a double berth is but $5.00. City Ticket Office Corner 10th and O Streets. Telephone 235. 3 w, AMERICAN HAN Slid tlK&rtAN, 50c Ir Xb n. c. rtKi.T, Munsr El. LIVAX, Clerk D V9 WVJ wvl O M w W W w w WW ww ww ilrt. Harriet Begole. INK Sold by all druggists, ccntt ficr box ; six boxes, $t.$o. u a. Ul & p ILLS FOR ALE EOPLE COMPANY, Seheneetady, N. Y. E 6ood to your home. BUY A jytw Lincoln Steel Range and please your dear wife and family Warranted In most perfect cooking stove made. We use the very best cold rolled patent leveled steel, and line ever Range with Asbestos and steel which makes It Im possible to set Are to your floor. They are handsome, attractive, up-to-date in pattern and design, full nickel trimmed, will burn any kind of fuel, will last a lifetime. Made on honor, sold on merit. This is why we call them the "best on earth." If your dealer does not handle them he makes a great mistake. Write to us and we will provide a way for you to bur one at a reasonable price. Druggists Cut Prices. We Cut the Cutter's Prices. OFF All $i.oo Patent Medicines 67c All 50c Patent Medicines 35c All 25c Patent Medicines 20c ROY'S DRUG STORE Burlington Depot 7th Street, Between P aad Q. Telephone 35. UC TV ISCi forelock by buying your coal NOW BEFORE THE RUSH. We sell all kind at as low price art any one. 2,000 pounds to the ton is what we give Ccflterville Block Ccal Co. 119 South Twelfth. Phone 397. Yard Phone 38a r.4. Capital fiotd CORXEB 11TH A P STS. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA S3$