Y
ITEBHASKA 17TDEPEITDEITT
April 19, 1900
Cllimn BACK SOMERSAULT
FROM PLAIN DUTY
'.tils eovQtrjr taader peculiar circuni
vtazm. It- eo-t tb United State
,13J3,GQ3 to disarm .the insurgents in
Cuba and to bey their gun. It did
-sot eciet us a dcLar to dina any
ars j ia Porta Else; for titer was none
f lha nativt cor were we called upon
ta pay dotir for say arms what
w. The peopSe c,f that Uland wel
cod the jUameto army as those who
went tWre tbena welcomed the Span
1'A disQcwrers. with re.Kicir-g and with
very expectation and hope. From the
'jesast f the landing of our army,
toencing with Gsml Miles proc
lamation, down through all the cfScial
declarations cpon the eubject they
Lave ben pvossisd the right and im
tsvtixiem oc American citizeof, and our
plain doty ha been declared to be to
give thmm free commercial intercourse
with h United States, with no wall
f ewtuess. dstie intervesieg.
Tb bill which pad the Senate a few
day ago ia repecV to the government of
Hawaii Lspoaed do tariff a a tie between
that imkzA whk-h we erected. Into a
government end the tTcited State. It,
tots, in a aeatitrcj-iral iand; it has the
Muase rsxe A agrvcuJtunsJ production
a Prvto fikx. If there i as j reason
whatever to ispc a tariaf opoa the
prod acta ei Porto Riot, there waa the
aEse reacm for tssposcf a tariff upon
the ffrwfart c 1 1 await. Wherein lie
the ii fervor? Wherein, on principle
both of thee beirj ooti jirf ums
iti the United States, call them
what yoa will is the situation a to
""Itoiiico diferext freea that of Ila-
wa:i?
AVhy, lr. Pm-idect, this whole pro-1
$t used cooef tiw c4 ts;joicir tariff
duties the d?rsde&ey f Porto;
Rico elf -ftierate objection wherever j
it is considered, a&d they also spring
from tj fmtX cf ccctssporary history-
I h'"v'i ia try hand the eonreotion
entered into between the United State
asd Great Iirrtais far reciprocity be
t wren the British Wet India Islands,
i in Essnber. and the United State
2 t4nds Ificz lZi the same ea with Porto
liio. ttiM&z the same products, and
harinir in a great degree tie um char
arter A inhabitant. In thi treaty, ar-ti-le
after article in a long schedule, in
schedule af Vtr schedule as to the several
trealies. is j-ut upon the free lift, so
that the Ersikh subjects of Jamaica,
the Irbadoes, and the other islands
n teport Into th United States the
very article cpon which the United
States proposes to lery its duty in the
Interchange of coaieseree between this
cotintry and our own people in Porto
Ilico.
Mr. Gallinger. The treaty has not
leen ratified. -
Mr. Uaris. My friend, the senator
from yrm Hampshire, retnarks thst the
treaty has not bn ratifed. I did not
my that it had beyac bat I miht feel
inclined to ask. Is it proposed to reject
these treatiea in order to Justify the in
fliction of this tax upon Porto Rico? It
' was the view of thoe intrusted primar
ily with the duty of negotiating treaties
not too afr that it w& fair negotiation
and etuij? tted stateecsanship to pat
tsacy articles of produce of the British
West India coksnies cpon the fre lit,
and ia direct and abaolnte coctradiction
' ct those views it is the view cf those
who are advocating this particular
House hill that a course of conduct as
to Porto Eko directly the contrary shall
be taken.
Mr. Pre idee t, there have" been all
mort of argusaects to aostara this bill.
At first it was charity. That argument
has been taken awsy by thepasaT,
since this measure pa wed the IXcmse. of
the bill appropriating t2&&J0QQt the ae-r-smalatiorai
of existing conditions tip to
January 1. ta the use and benefit of the
i&Und of Porto Rico, and of subsequent
aoru ovulations whi the law remains in
f ome. - - -
It has been said that this nay be a
precedent as to the Philippines,, and
that we must now inSict injustice upon
the inhabitant of Porto liico becauee,
foraooth, at eosse time, perhaps years
, hence or perhaps sooner, when rebellion
is crashed in those islands and the au
thority of the United State is estab
lished, there may be some diScult
qoerUoes of that kind in dealing with
the Philippine, Mr. President, suffle
lect unto the day is the evil and also
the good thereof. I would not wreak or
work an injustice upon Porto Bioo by
any mxh oontinrect remainder of ap
preheeti as to the Philippines,
It is said that American labor and
Avrican industry need protection by
this leaitioasgainst Porto Riex It is
too small to conaider. But, Mr. Preei-
detrt, if it is needed, what protection to
Atncrn labor or Amerxraa industry is
" 15 per cent of the Dingky rates .upon
ercy theory en whida on any protective
tariil was ever framed? When the
qoestioa of the Philippine coses to be
onssdred. I so not care by what party
' is power, the interests of American la
bor will be protected so far as any ap
dreheseisa can be entertained fxora
thai source.
TURNER OF THE WORLD.
TO 15 PER CENT. .
- -New York Joura-L
Mr. President, how inconsistent this
whole subject matter seems when we
consider it in detail I understand,
and I think I am reliably informed,
that the provisions of the coasting laws
of the United States are extended to
Porto liico, so that all commerce be
tween this country and that depend
ency must be done in vessels enrolled,
licensed for the coasting trade, and
owned in the United States. " While
we compel products from here carried
there and products from there brought
here in such ships of the United States
to submit to this proposed tariff impo
sition, we still retain and claim the ad
vantage, and we will not yield it up,
that our coast marine shall have the
exclusive privilege of carrying taxed
articles from a dependency of this coun
try to the states, from cs to our chil
dren and from our children to us.
Mr. President I think I could be as
na as anybody against a sudden, con
vulsive, transitory public opinion, but
wheij the opinion of the public, whose
servants we are, is heard,- threugh ev
ery organ of expression, week after
week, and swelling in intensity, vol
ume, and indignation, and speaks with
intelligence to us, it will be well for us
to hear it, for it will make itself heard.
It is said that this subject is not un
derstood. Mr. President, it is well un
derstood. It is in vain that any nan
can claim he need cot lay the flatter
ing unction to his soul that the editors
of the great journals throughout the
land do not understand the subject just
as well as we. It is futile to pretend
that the mass of the people through
out the country do not understand a
subject so simple as this. They un
derstand cerfectiV well the difference
between building up a wall, which
bars commercial intercourse between
this country and one of its dependen
cies, and a system of taxation such as
1 fci-all propose, which, with no differ
ence except in degree, imposes on
I'orto litco the same system or the
same principle that is imposed in the
Uniten fcstau-s.
Mr. President. In my opinion there
is one thing which has contributed and
will contribute more than anything
else to the strength and earnestness of
these admonitions mat we have been
receiving from & people who do under
stand this subject and understand it
welL There are two subjects of scien
tific taxation oat of which all civilized
nations the United States included
derive the most of their revenue to-day.
Those articles are distilled spirits and
tobacco. In the House bill there Is not
the Imposition of a tithe of a mill
upon either If those articles while they
remain In Porto Rico. Tobacco and
rum. the greatest and most fruitful
subject of taxation, while they remain
In Porto Rico are absolutely untaxed.
The subjects of taxation which bear
fjue heaviest burdens of our United
States, state, and municipal govern
ments there, of all the places In our
dominion, go absolutely scot-free of
any taxation whatever. What Is the
exchange for It? Fifteen per cent
taxation on everything else that goes
to Porto Rico from the United States
or comes to the United States from
Porto Rico.
It is so simple and easy to reverse
that entire policy and way of doing
things and make rum and tobacco in
Porto Rico bear the weight of taxation,
as they do here and elsewhere through
out the driilzed world, and make com
munication between Porto Rico and the
United States as to all goods exported
or Imported free, as It Is between the
United States and Alaska It Is so
easy to do It, it would relieve the situa
tion so completely in every way, that
I am surprised and shall be surprised
If the suggestion does not commend
itself to the calm and deliberate re
flection of everybody.
Mr. President, what will the good
people of this country say and what
1I0ELS
tf res SSvsn't s rcnlsr. besJtby nxyremmt ef tbs
SWT dr. roa rs tcfctor wlU b. K,s9 joot
tHwi tuxrn. and bm U. Force, In tbb.pof
vtoiet pferle or pin mmob.I dartrvroM. Tb
taooiMM. Miel. mott perl e wr I keeping
Mm ciMr aad cisaa U to t
PI , Pilbl. FttBt.T?06.roOwvV
f teia, Wttkci. or Gripe, toe. 15c, gks Writs
for frMail, MS booklet uahftaJtfc. IMmu
'- j.ciinii.s y,s it, an
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
BESTHRTHE
rS CANDY
l I VijJttv' Cathartic
are they saying, and what have they
a rignt to say, , concerning the bill of
the House as It la presented in the
body of this hill for the civil govern
ment of Porto Rico As to Porto Rico,
they say free rum: but tax the flour
out of which 1b made the bread that
people eat we condemn It. They say
free rum; hut taxing their clothing
we condemn it. They say free rum;
but tax their boots and shoes we con
demn it. They say free rum; but tax
the medicines which minister to the
sick we condemn it. When you con
sider, drawing the contrast between
these systems sharply, as I do, that
one ia a system bitterly contested in
this particular Instance and upon
grounds on which all parties profess to
have the greatest confidence, and the
other Is established upon a principle
at least which no one seems inclined
to dispute; that one subject is a diffi
cult method of taxation and the other
the simplest known of all civilised
fiscal processes; that the moral sense
of the American, people will be satis
fied by placing the traffic on rum upon
the same ground in Porto Rico as in
the United ' States, and that it will
not be satisfied if it is not so. done;
that th yield of revenue from the tax
ation of rum alone upon the rates of
our Internal revenue .taxation, that
Island producing 1,500,000 .gallons a
year, would be over a million five hun
dred thousand dollars annually, while
no living man can tell how much or
how little this tariff imposition will
yield; when it Is a matter of more
doubt whether the Imposition upon
goods going from the United States
is not an export duty, and therefore
forbidden by the constitution; when
with those contrasts it would seem per
fectly certain that the American peo
ple would approve the Internal revenue
system Instead of the other, It does
seem tc me, Mr. President, that as a
matter of considerate judgment they
will not and we ought not to hesitate
a moment which way to act.
Mr. President, I have said about all
I waat to say on this bill. It has been
imperfectly said, inadequately said,
but it has been said .with the most
thorough and unalterable conviction
that what I have said is right, abso
lutely right, right not In a party sense,
but politically, morally, and economi
cally right. In my judgment, the only
course that can be logically or wisely
pursued under present conditions is
to abandon this pernicious mockery of
a tariff between Porto Rico and the
United States and return to the path
of plain duty and pursue It to its log
ical end beneficial consequences.
THE GOLDEN CALF
He Turns out to be not a Full Sized God
After oil He Gets Worn
and. Won't Pass.
Editor Independent: I heard a
freight agent today say that he would
not take any more gold coin in payment
of freight because the railroad company
would not accept it of him at its face
value. He had sent in gold to head
quarters and had about one-half of it
returned to him on account of light
weight and he had received orders not
to accept gold unless it was of very re
cent date and not worn.' The agent
says he will vota for iJryan and free sil
ver if the only legal tender money we
have is not good at its face value. A
business man, to whom the freight agent
made the above declaration, said that
he would have to accept gold as it was
legal tender, he would pay his freight in
gold if he could get the gold and see
whether he would not have to take it.
The agent said he would hold the
freight until he got his pay in money
that the railroad company would re
ceive. I. helped them out by explaining
that gold being the only legal tender, it
would have to be accepted it tendered in
exactly the right amount with proof
that it was genuine gold coin of the
United States and full weight.
Well, says the business man, "if I've
got to carry a set of scales and weigh
every coin I take or pay out, I want
bank notes or paper currency.
I explained that bank notes were not
legal tender and no one had to take
tnem. Alien ne said ne wanted legal
tender greenbacks, in fact money, which,
when tendered will have to go at its
face value.
Now, I am in doubt as to whether af
ter all, the blow and bluster and legisla
tion we have had in the last few years
on the subject of sound money, there is
aay money that is really a legal tender
for debts except the greenback or the
much despised silver dollar at their face
value. W ill you kindly explain in your
paper for the benefit of my friends and
others, who do not know that the golden
calf is not a full sized god if he has rus
tled around enough to lose the least
bit of hair and even Uncle Samuel's
brand under present laws, won't make
him a full-sized redeemer.
Yours for information,
JACK NEWTON.
Foster, Neb.
ROSEWATER'S METHOD
Will Furnish Transportation to all Dele
gations Willing; to Support Him
In his efforts to secure the elec
tion from the republicans to be dele
gate to the national convention, Mr.
Rosewater has proposed to furnish
"editorial transportation" to all dele
gates that will eupport him. In a let
ter given out he says:
Omaha, April 13, 1900. .
Mr. .
, Neb.
Doar Sir: Will you kindly sound
the leading republicans of
and incidentally of your county regard
ing tbelr disposition to . support , me
for member of the national committee
in competition with Mr. R. B. Schnei
der of Fremont I have the backing of
the solid Douglas county delegation
and p:actlcally of this district and feel
sure that with my experience I could
render the party much more efficient
service than my opponent If you can
conveniently do so I should also like
t3 have you get on the state delegation
and will forward you editorial trans
portation If you should be elected.
Very truly yours,
I E. ROSEWATER.
This shows how persistently the
office seeks the man in the republican
party.
PLAn:::::3 .the nsirr
On Who has Faw;hs la th Kanaka Sine
tbs Days of the P ter Cooper Cam-
pal g-n Mas; as gnartlos
Editor Independents-Having noticed
in several of your late issues in reference
to the coming fall" campaign, its impor
tance and how it should .be conducted,
if you will not consider me a trespasser
I will venture a few suggestions.
Having been in the reform work since
1874, two years before the Peter Cooper
campaign, and having tad many an ob
ject lesson growing out of bad manage
ment or lack of any management what
ever by local committees, and realising j
the importance of the results to be ac
complished at our coming election, we j
say, let there be no mistakes.
It is a recognized fact that the com
ing campaign, if successful to the re
form forces will be, or ought to be begun
early. The securing to the reform forces
a good working majority in the next leg-
islature is of vital importance. The
election of two United States senators
and the redistricting of the state and
other .vital measures demand absolute
harmony in all the , reform forces, not
only in selecting proper and efficient
candidates to nil the state offices, but
state senators and members of the lower
house. -
I say for one, let no person's ambition
be so strong for office, either congres
sional, state or legislative as to endanger
success. At each and every convention
from state to precinct there should be
the best material selected for committee
men; men who will pledge themselves to
be up and doing. For one we favor a
thorough school house campaign in every
legislative district where there is any
doubt, or where considered doubtful.
Change local speakers. Let those who
live, we will say, in a certain countybe
taken into other counties. By thus doing,
the old adage, "familiarity breeds con
tempt," or a prophet hath honor save
in his own country," wiH lose its sting.
I think it will be conceded after a care
ful study of the situation, that it is the
voters of the rural districts who should
be reached, and you can reach them in
no better way than at their own homes,
their own district school house. Farm
ers as a rule, are and will be too busy to
travel 15 or 20 miles even to listen to the
most noted speakers. Three good, lively
speakers in a county could be changing
them around, pass over each county two
or three times and hold meetings in each
school house as many times. Then near
the close of the campaign hold a couple
of large meetings near the centre of each
county and have for the occasion your
most noted speakers to entertain the
people and wind up the program with a
grand picnic - - ' -
By thus doing you will get, not only
the voters on a move, but all mentality
will be boiling. Let me say to all those
who fully grasp the situation that con
fronts the reform forces in our state this
coming election, every effort possible
should be made. For one, Mr. Editor, I
am in favor of making these broad prai
ries ring witn tacts ana ngures. men
for once let us have a campaign such as
characterized the times of yore i. e. Peter
Cooper s campaign of lSTb.
Permit me to reproduce a little past
history in order to show what is possible
under conditions far more favorable to
day tnan at taat period, it was in
Branch county Michigan in the year of
15 id. Cold water,' a city of 7,000 was its
county capitoL The county comprised
16 towns, having two legislative and one
sanatoria! district. The population was
about 78,000. Its politics was democrat
and republican. The republican majority
in the county was near 750 or 800. There
were several, at least five, quite good
sized villages within the county limits.
Well do I remember a meeting of only
tnree persons one Saturday in October,
ISio. After a consultation it was agreed
to divide the county as per legislative
district. One of the three was to take
the western district, one of the other
two were to take the eastern district.
The other one was to arrange for - the
meetings and see that no mistakes oc
curred. That winter being 1S75, a good
start was made. We sent three good
and true men who participated in nomi
nating one of the grandest philanthro-
phists Peter Cooper, for their national
standard bearear. xne delegation re
turned from the convention and opened
up the tight, and in less than two years
the politics of the county had been so
changed that the reform element elected
23 supervisors out of 24. . I only mention
this to show the possibility of what can
be accomplished in this state this com
ing fall with proper organization.
Let's hear from some other of the old
guard:. Please consider me in the grand
tight for tne betterment of numamty.
E. B. Gkkkx,
Tilden,Neb. '
Magnetic Healing Pays
The Kimmel Institute of Magnetic
Healing at 318 So. 12th St, is having well
merited success. Diseases of eyes, ears,
bronchial tabes, heart, lungs, liver,
stomach, kidneys, bladder, uretha,
spinal and nervous troubles, yield read
ily to tne treatment: while the Uoctors
reputation as a teacher and the hearty
indorsements of his instructions, with
his offer to start all his graduates in a
lucrative business, is bringing new stu
dents every Monday. Teaching and
healing by mail a speciality. Call or
address J.W. Kimmrl,
Lincoln, Nebr.
313 South 12th St. 1516 O St
. Wants Ho Adjournment
Lincoln, Neb., April 14, 1900.
To the Editor of the Nebraska Inde-
; pendent
Dear Sir: If you will grant me
space In -your valuable paper I will
'give my views on the solution of cor
recting the error that was made by
calling the conventions of the three
reform parties on different dates. As
I am an alternate to the peoples inde
pendent party national convention, I
anticipate attending the Sioux Falls
convention,' and as above stated, I be
lieve a mistake was made as those con
ventions should have been' called to
meet on -the same day, then all could
have participated in nominating one
and the same ticket as did the reform
ers that were ' opposed to slavery In
securing the nomination of Lincoln.
But inasmuch as this .was not done, I
am In favor of doing the next best
thing .and I disagree with my friend,
Mr. Geo. Abbott as to the method of
correcting the error.
In the first place, I believe it win
oe impossible to adjourn the populist
convention which meets on May Sth
to reconvene on July 4th, and if, by a
small majority we could adjourn the
convention as above stated, I do not
believe it advisable, as the Mark Mc-
Kinley agents are hard at work and the
better this matter is managed, the less
Influence these agents will have to
mislead those that would otherwise
vote the ticket that will be nominated
by the new democracy, free silver re
publicans and populists, and I believe
that the populists will, in order that
we may not have another Sewall or
Sibley, be satisfied with the privilege
of naming the candidate for vice-pres
ident and as the populist party is com
posed of Jefferson democrats and Lin
coln republicans, advocating the same
principles and believing that if "they,
(Jefferson and Lincoln) were living
they would stand where they always
stood for liberty and independence, for
all men everywhere and would support
Bryan and Caldwell, as Judge Caldwell
is an appointee of Lincoln. I would
like to see the Mark Hanna republi
cans get any nearer as to what posi
tion Lincoln would take on the gold
standard, expansion, conquest and
nilitarlsm. We are satisfied as to
where he would stand on these ques
tions by the positions taken by Jr.dge
Caldwell and as such, I am in favor
of the convention meeting at Sioux
Falls on May Sth, and there nominate
Judge Caldwell for vice-president ap
point the new national committee as
a conference committee to confer with
the other two conventions and em
power them to fill vacancies on our
ticket and In so doing, we will not
assume to dictate to the other two
conventions as to the entire ticket they
shall nominate. I believe with such a
manifestation of our sincerity in this
great struggle against the bulwark" of
plutrocracy, that we may help save this
republic from being converted Into an
empire. I say, that I believe the other
two conventions would nominate Judge
Caldwell and then it would be no
trouble to place their nominee, Mr.
Bryan upon the head of our ticket and
with such a ticket in the field, we can
put up a fight for liberty and inde
pendence that could only be equalled
by our brother republican Boers, of
South Africa. . . . ,
Tours for Bryan and Judge Caldwell
J. M. WHITAKER.
THE ANCIENT TRUSTS
How the Independent Farmers of Old En
gland Were Bobbed by Methods Slmi
, lar to Those of Modern Plutocracy
The following extracts are from
Mark Twain's book: "A Yankee at
King Arthur's Court" Read it over
and see how similar many of those
conditions are to the manner that the
people or this country are robbed.
Now, It is done through tariffs and
great combinations of wealth. And
while you read It dont forget the fate
of the Porto Rlcana.
"Seven-tenths of the population of
the country were small "independent
farmers, artisans, v etc, which Is to
say, they were the' nation, the actual
nation; they were about all of It that
was usefuh' or worth4 saving or really
respect-worthy; and to subtract taem
would have been to subtract the nation
and leave behind some dregs, some re
fuse, in the shape of a king, nobility.
and gentry, idle unproductive, ac
quainted mainly with the arts of wast
ing and destroying, and of no sort of
use or value in any rationally con
structed world. And yet by Ingenious
contrivance, this gilded minority. In
stead of being in the tail of the pro
cession where It belonged was march
ing head up and banners flying, at the
other end of It; had elected Itself to be
the nation, and these innumerable
clams had permitted It so long that
they had come to accept it as a truth;
and not only that but to believe It
right and as it should be. The priests
had told their fathers and themselves
that this ironical state of things was
ordained of God; and so, not reflecting
upon how unlike God it would be to
amuse himself with sarcasms, and es
pecially such poor transparent ones as
this, they had dropped the matter there
and become respectfully" quiet The
talk of these meek people sounded
strange enough to me. They were not
slaves, not chattels. By a sarcasm of
law and phrase they were free men.
They were free men, but they could
not-leave the estates of their lord or
their bishop without his permission;
they could not prepare their own bread,
but must have their corn ground and
their bread baked at his mill and his
bakery, and pay roundly for the same;
they could not sell a piece of their own
property without paying him a hand
some percentage of the" proceeds; nor
buy a piece of somebody else's with
out remembering him In cash for the
privilege; " they had to harvest his
grain for him gratis, and be ready to
come at a moment's notice, leaving
their own crop to destruction by the
threatened storm; they had to let him
plant fruit trees in their fields, and
then keep their indignation to them
selves when his heedless fruit gather
era -trampled the grain around the
trts; they had to smother their anger
when his hunting parties galloped
through the fields laying waste the re
sult of their patient toll; they were
not allowed to keep doves themselves.
and when the swarms from my lord's
dove cote settled on their crops they
must not lose their temper and kill
a bird, fer awful would the penalty
be; when the harvest was at last gath
ered, then came the procession of rob
bers to levy their blackmail upon It;
first the church carted off Its fat tenth
then the king's commissioner took his
twentieth, then my lord's people made
a mighty inroad upon the remainder;
after which, the skinned freeman had
liberty to bestow, the remnant in his
barn, in case it was worth the trouble;
there were taxes, and taxes, and taxes,
and more taxes, and taxes again, and
yet other taxes upon this free and in
dependent pauper, but none upon his
lord the barron or the bishop, none
upon the 'wasteful nobility or the all
devouring church; If the barron would
sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit
up all night after his day's work and
whip the ponds to keep the frogs
quiet; if the free mans daughter but
no, that last infamy of monarchlsl
government Is unprintable; and finally,
if the freeman grown -desperate with
his tortures,' found his life unendur
able under such conditions, and sacrI-1
ficed it and fled to death for mercy and
refuge, the gentle church condemned
him to eternal fire,' the gentle law
(Catalogues...
Free. "
Our new Spring catalogue of 68 pages is now ready for distribution.
It is the most complete Catalogue of Housefurnishing" goods pub
lished in Nebraska. - - - -
; We have 3o,ooo to give awayUr3
It illustrates Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, QueemwareJSJtoves,
Refrigerators, and Hardware. We issue special catalogue on Refrig
erators, Carpenters Tools, Builders' Hardware, Baby Carriages "and
Office Desks. .',."
r? We want your mail orders '
IPs
m
and will promise you they will receive prompt and careful attention
On all orders amounting to C5.00 or over we prepay freight 100-miles
and beyond 100 miles allow the freight for the first 100 miles. Send
us a trial order. ' ' "-".;-..Yvr
RPDGE & GUENZEL GO -
(Successors to Rudee & Morris Co.)
Mention the Independent
uiot
I FOR I
HlWLliU
I' '
Ours are from Muscatine, Iowa, tnd ar0" grown
for seed only. -They yield more plants and the
plants more potatoes than any. other kind.
Yellow Jersey. . . .$3 per bbl, $1.25 per bushel.
Yellow Nauesomond at same price."
-SEND FOR CATALOGUE-
GR1SWOLD SEED CO.,
10th and N St. P. o. Box A is:3. Lincoln, Neb.
burled him at midnight at the cross
roads with a stake through his back,
and hir, master the barron or the
bishop 'confiscated all his property and
turned his widow and orphans out of
doors. Why, it was like reading about
France and the French before the
ever-memorable and blessed revolution,
which swept a thousand years of such
villainy away in one swift tidal-wave
of blood one; a settlement of that
hoary debt in .the proportion of half
a drop of blood for each hogshead of it
that had been pressed by slow tortures
out of that people in the weary stretch
of ten centuries of wrang and shame
and misery the like of which was not
to be mated but In hell. There , were
two "Reigns of Terror," If we would
but remember It and consider it; the
one wrought murder in hot passion, the
other in heartless cold blood; the one
lasted mere months, the ether had
lasted a thousand -ears; the one in
flicted death upon ten thousand persons,-the
other upon a hundred' mil
lions; but our shudders are all for the
"horrors" of the minor terror, the mo
mentary terror, so to speak;- whereas,
what is the horror of swift death by
the axe, compared with life-long death
from hunger, cold, Insult, cruelty, and
heart break? What Is swift death by
lightning compered with death by slow
fire at the stake? A city cemetery
could contain the coffins filled by that
brief terror which we have all been so
diligently taught to shiver at and
mourn over; but all France could
hardly contain the coffins filled by that
older and real terror1 that unspeak
ably bitter and awful terror which
none of us have been taught to see In
its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Tbs Mutual Life
The annual statements of this great
company are. always interesting docu
ments. Tke fifty-sixth annual report
of the Mutual ZATz'z condition, on the
31st -of last December, shows that In
189S the old Mutual had a prosperous
year, Increasing its assets to the sum
of 1277.517,325. nearly twenty million
more than its largest competitor; its
surplus to 344.4S8.684, a gain of IS,
950,490, which exceeds any company, as
does also the amount of surplus made;
its income to 55,006.629t Its Insurance
and annuities In force to $971,71197.
exceeding all other companies In "pald
for business (Insurance merely writ
ten being discarded as misleading),
while its payment to policyholders
within the year reached the enormous
figure of $24,751,659, making the total
amount since organization nearly five
hundred million dollars, or nearly the
combined amount paid by Its two largest-competitors.
- -v
Messrs. Fleming Bros., are managers
for. the Mutual ife for Iowa and Ne
braska, with headquarters In Des
Moines,' and branch offices in Omaha
and Dubuque. Under their manage
ment the " company's business . has
shown greater Increase In Insurance in
force and premiums collected than any
other company represented . In - this
field, since this general agency was or
ganized, January 1, 1893.-1118 safe to
predict that with the new cash' sur
render policies Its progress in 189 9
will discount all previous records, for
these liberal ' policies are attracting
to It the best class of life Insurance
Solicitors. ' ?
'.:V.r-?Sto: Was Too Fat :
Ada St Clair, the actress played lead
ing lady parts from 1890 to 1896, when
Lincoln, Nebraska.
h
B
she became so stout that she had to leave
the stage.
She tried many medical remedies and
nostrums without avail. The more anti
fat remedies she swallowed the f atte?
she became, and in July, 1 1896, she
weighed 206 pounds; -
One day she found a perfect cure, and
in two months thereafter she appeared
in a high-class young girl part, weighing
just 123 pounds, and the reduction in
flesh was without the least injury to her
health or purse.
What she did, how . she did it and
what she used, and how the same treat
ment has cured many men and women
since, Mrs. Lafarge will tell you, confi
dentially, in a letter, for the small fee of
one dollar. There is no other charge
hereafter. You can buy what she pre
scribes from your own druggist The
cure depends more on whaj you do and
howyoulo it No violent exercise, no
starvation diet, or anything of that sort.
You can follow instructions unknown to
your friends, and during a month you
will get rid of from one to two pounds of
useless fat every day. If you think such
a result worth One Dollar to you, send
that amount (in a 81 bill or stumps.)
.- Address Mrs. Louise Lafarge, Station
E, Duffy Building, Nf-r York. If you
find this treatment not based on com
mon sense, and find it doesn't work she
will send you your fl back. If you ques
tion the value of this treatment, ask any
proprietor of a first-class . newspaper.
They all know Mrs. Lafarge and what
she has done. .
W. U. Bayard . . . . .
Second-Hand Store
We have bargains for you
most every day, in furniture,
iron bedsteads, stoves, ranges
gasoline stoves, window shades,
carpets, queensware?glassware,
tinware and graniteiron ware.
1325 0 Street, Lincoln, Neb.
Little Oval PhotosT;
25c pe: dozen.
Cabinets $2.00
Per dozen.
v; 1214
0 Street
J. IV. Mil
Are prepared to fill all orders
. . , in papering, .painting, ' Ting
ing, Frescoing, Picture Fram
ing, and Room Moulding.
lei; 237. V vm&OSt.
LINCOLN NEB.
r nn nra trt
jr -jr V vr
loos
PREWITT
I
t
V
A
1