THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT- Hay.3,-i8QO. H SHOULDER TO THE MKINI-ET TJtUSTEES- ON PARADE. New York. Events? Journal. ; EsSraska Insurance Report . Tfc Stt&l report of the insurance cams&imicmtt i bow r-ady far dtetribu tkc a&d for all the tetry lo by nr tLe revert sLow alarc gain for the Old Lie Caofttt.M. After deducting the asxxxst paid for -$- It lae a net raia of prvmiotasoirer all lo amount irjf to tTilj&iLOl and tiU to bear the OA Li&B asrect talk Ms company is pay- Z . . .ft ' J tt A. &g crov more laooej uaa recru co. uui tba abort fLrorea bow jo who is money oat. Certaini j the ore who are paying tbaa eoorrsois rmsiuBw to t-well the iaoocaa of the Old Line companies are sot besefltirg theiaseJTea any by the eeoTEsou profit tLe. coajpacie are acakicg; as their raooey. There ia, bow rrt; on fTatif ying tlicj in the report. That Is jsutcai ocxzpAnim operated at bos keepirjr eTery dollar at borne bare trade another great gnia ia the amount ci inasra&ea ia force as compared with the report of All mutual showed aawact of izssurame m foree Jantarr lit lm asao-actinjr to 3j00P,D00, while co January let 1IUJ they thow a trifle ctt taouOCOXlQO in force, This ia cer taisiy a good chowix?. The cry that forth from Old tine that Mu tual carrot paj beary losoes baa also pro en itself. The largest amount of lost paid b" any cce cocpacy in the ctate wa ptuti by a 2-1 utual only organ iied January lithl&.ocly one year old. The iarjrwwt amount paid by any Old Ltm eras pan y ti tZtZXJS. out of as Ewosae of f LltliiM, while the United Mutual Hail Lnstirasce associa tion enrax-ixed January 4. paid la9 asiounticjr to and on Arii lth paid an addiUocal cum rf 6, CT isaitirr a total of out of an in- eosae tA ttZ" wbicb bowR that a Ma tsal with an income of lea than the Irset Old lie, baa paid ilZJs32 mere Joea than the Old lines. The above jrare are absolute proof that a well rr.aryged Mctcal can pay and does pay a larger percentage of money col- Iected frota it ii.e3.bers than any Old line cospary, BatllwtnM ttCMtpM4 With IMtrr . . t Imvmm m I'trm The Unhed Mutual Hail Insurance asMXsatioa with gl.LZfjrZi at rik suf fered ioteea acaouctiB to fTG.OJf'. while the l!T,t Kama Mutual of tate with $2t,iliJi corering fire lightnicif, cydooe, windistofm and alo coverini ka to lire stock by fire, ligbtrirxr and 'cyckn-e, ufferd Iom of only $3374, beisg only one-half the km on combined iraorasce on all other kinds of farm property, with eleren titnea the atnount of mg, to xz tie re u any kina oi prop erty m famer ahould carry protection oa it ii certainly oa hi crowing crops f roas ctruetcm by bau atorcia. The Ctieajro; Bock Inland & PaciSe ia repocs;bie for the eiceptionally low rates lor ruEtsaer excurioc8 to Colorado and the Rocky Moantaina. The rate which they bare announced is oc fare p!u t2 for the roucd trip. The J lock Island U uecjesurar to maae itself felt in the beld of railroad buin in this part of Xe braMca. Mr. bebaUa ha taea an early and rery commecdable fetand in gakirg the knr rate for mtatner exeur aio&a to the xaountaina. Mr. I lame, city phMiiecger aent. i pu.bin4 the ale of ttcjeet at the urm rate at-J the pecf .le wUl cot be akrw to ahow their apprecia tion. , tf.r. won't yov bold SHOULDER. 'rT KtatA r.t Ohio. Pitv of Toledo. Luca County, S Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the sanior partner of the firm of P. J. Cheney Jb Cou, doinf: business in the Citv of Toledo, Courty aad State afcre le&id, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and eTery case of Catarrh that cannot be cared by the use of HallV Catarrh Cv re. FRANK J. CHENEY, Sworn to before me and subscribed in jay presence this Cth dav of December, A. Ii ISSa ' A. W. G LEA SON, (seal) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internslly and acts directly on the blood and niu coua surfaces of the system; Send for testimonials, free. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. tySold by all druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Magnetic Healing Pays The Kimmel Institute of Magnetic Healing at HIS So. 12th St, is having v eil merited success. Diseases of eyes, etirs, bronchia tubes, heart, lungs, liver, stomach, kidneys, bladder. uretha, spinal and nervous troubles, yield read ily to the treatment; while the Doctor's reputation aa a teacher and the hearty indorsements of his instructions, with his offer to start all hU graduates in a lucrative business, is bringing new stu dents every Monday. Teaching and healing by mail a speciality. Call or address J.W. Kimmel, Lincoln, Nebr. 318 South 12th St. 1516 O St. She Vas Too Ada St. Clair, the actress played lead ing lady parts from 18iK) to 1S96, when fche became so stout that she had to leave the -tage. - She tried many medical remedies and dc. trams without avail. The more anti- fat remedies she swallowed the fatter he became, and in July, 1896, she weighed 1XX5 pounds. " One day fche found a perfect cure, and in two months thereafter she appeared ia a bish class young girl part, weighing just 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 bow the same treat ment has cured many men and women since, Mrs. Lafarge will tell you," confi dentially, in a letter, lor 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 what you do and bow you do 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 at every day. If you think such a result worth One Dollar to you, send that amount (in a fl bill or stamps.) Address Mrs. Louise Lafarge, Station E, Duffy Building, New York. If you find this treatment not based on com mon sense, and find it doesn't work she will send you your 81 back. If you ques tion the value of this treatment, ask any proprietor of a first-class newspaper, fbey a!! know Mrs. Lafarge and what she La-s done. this baby until I come back?. . Patronize our advertisers. St. Lcuia Republic IN THE SUGAR BUSH. Bfaple Svfar Siskins Tlie Modern ' . Prcciei and Product Though tons of maple sugar are m&de, for the most part ia New York and Vermont, there are probably many people living on farms throughout the United States who have no more clear Idea of how maple sugar is made than they have of the production of electric ity, says a writer In Farm and Fire side, from whose description of the process thje following items and illus trations are reproduced : The sugar maple is so called on ac count of the sugar contained la the sap. The person with no experience can hardly tell the difference between It and water, as It is clear and spar kling and has but a faint taste of sug ar. There Is just about enough sugar to make it a little sickish. 1 In the fall the greater part of the sap goes from the trunk and branches Into the roots, where, buried deep in the THREE METHODS OF COLLECTING SAP. ground. It will not be chilled. In the spring, beginning in the latter part of February or first of March, according as the season Is forward or backward, the sap begins to ascend the body of the tree, the greater part in the outer layers of the tree. Securing this sap as It ascends and boiling It down con stitutes the work of maple sugar mak ing. The first thing is to get the sap. In the early days before the bit and brace an oblique notch was cut into the tree near the ground, and from this wound the sap would of course flow. Then un der, the lower corner of this wound a curved hole wide from one side of the tree to the other, but narrow up and down, was made with a "gouge, and Into this was driven a short wooden spout of the same shape, which caught the sap as It dropped from the cut, and thus carried it to short wooden troughs made by digging out basswood blocks. After the bit and brace came into use a hole was bored Into, the tree, and a round spout made from a piece of su mac from which the pith had been burned out was driven into the hole to convey the sap to the trough. , Next the wooden bucket came into use. By driving a nail Into the tree un der the spout the bucket could be hung anywhere on the tree. In the days of boiling in kettles color was the last thing aimed at in mak ing maple sugar, which was a dull black when llnished. Sweetness was the main consideration, and there was no incentive to keep out the dirt and cinders, for black sugar was Just as sweet, and sugar lighter than chocolate was looked upon as having been adul terated. The next improvement was the large pan placed upon an arch made of stone or brick. About the same time tin buckets came into use. A little later the metallic spout was invented. This Is now of such shape that It fills but a small portion of the hole bored In the tree, but Is held so firmly that the buck et is supported by it. It allows sap to flow from the outer layers of the tree where there is the greatest amount of sap, and that which makes the whitest sugar. A few sugar makers have their plant so arranged that the sap, or sirup, does not touch wood after the sap leaves the tree. At the present time color is an important factor in the value of maple sugar, and as wood tends to color it wooden utensils of all kinds have been discarded as far as possible. The maple sugar now made is of a light straw color. Any darker than AVERAGK lOILIKQ PLACE OF TODAY. that will not command the highest price, and if lighter adulteration with refined sugar is suspected. . The sap Is rathered In a tarik holding about three barrels placed on a low sled with wide runners. Roads are made through the sugar bush so the gathering tank can be driven near all the trees. The Other Side of Broom Corn. As the phenomenal price of. broom corn will attract many to enter into this industry, it may be well to recall some of the less roseate facts about it. For Instance, that It Is a crop requiring special knowledge and tools, is trou blesome and expensive to harvest and thrash, precarious because quickly damaged by unfavorable weather and at times very low In price. SUGAR BEET PULP. A Soaree of Profit Unrealised by Many Farnerk. There is one side , of the beet sugar Industry which Oregon authorities think Is not receiving the attention It deserves, and that Is the feeding of beet pulp to cattle and sheep. G. TV, Shaw finds no reasonable excuse, In a region where excellent alfalfa Is grown, for neglecting th altle of the Industry both for fattening stock and the manu facture of dairy products. He Is of the opinion that the fullest fruits of the Industry will never be realized till attention Is given to this phase of the subject. Nothing has been more con clusively demonstrated than that beet .pulp Is a most excellent cattle, sheep and hog food when properly balanced with nitrogenous material, as alfalfa, clover or grain. While the leaves and tops are good food, pulp is much better. Beet pulp is not a balanced ration, and the best results cannot be expect ed from feeding It alone, though It is & healthful and 'nutritious food. Its chief components are . thev carbohy drates and proteids. It is essentially a fattening food. Experience has shown that it is relished by dairy cattle and poduces an excellent Mow of milk when balanced with nitrogenous foods. The pulp is valuable not only as cattle food, but also as food for bogs and sheep. In Utah it is largely used as hog food. ,It is one of the cheapest foods that farmers can. use,, for it. can be pur chased at a very nominal figure. - Each team as it delivers its load of beets should take home a load of beet pulp.' This pulp should be placed in a silo, where it Is much more easily kept than any other silage material. It Is very heavy and sinks down to a very solid, cheesy mass. , When . properly pre served. It does .not tend to ferment and canbe kept a very long time. . . . ...... . - - v - Irrigation Experience. It has been found by nearly all ob servant irrigators of the plains that winter irrigation thoroughly done, serves very well the double process of fertilizing and moistening. One farmer states that after eight years of experi ence In irrigation he has had the best average results where he has thorough ly saturated the soil to a depth of two or three, feet during tue fall or, winter or very early spring ami has then culti vated his crops on this land without subsequent irrigation. A Kansas farm er has found that land thoroughly Ir rigated, well cultivated and afterward sown In wheat5 produced surprisingly well without any irrigation after the wheat was sowed, while similar land that had not beenWrrigated gave a very poor yield. The general experience of orcbardists favors winter irrigation. Not unlikely common practice will con sist In thoroughly wetting the soil in winter, when evaporation is at a mini mum, with ' such subsequent .irrigation as may be found" desirable to maintain the maximunx gtowthl How Canadians Sit Hem. At one of. the jCanadfan experimental farms the sitting hens receive no more attention than it is thought any careful - BOX NEST FOR A SITTING HEX. farmer would give them. The diagram shows one of the nests, which are made of straw arranged in small square box es without bottoms and with hinged door in front. Crimson Clover. This crop closely follows rye In the feeding rotation and has proved very valuable In New Jersey." It has been proved to be quite as hardy as the red clover and has yielded from 8 to 11 tons of green forage per acre, depend ing upon the method of seeding, wheth er on raw ground or as a cover crop. Experience In. the growth of this crop indicates that July is the best month for seeding, though it may be seeded as late as September and do well provided the autumn is moist and warm. The best crop results are obtained when th soil Is thoroughly prepared and tbe seed lightly covered with a harrow, or other tool which does not cover too deeply. The amount of seed may range from 10 to 15 pounds per acre. On freshly prepared soil the smaller quan 'tity frequently answers quite as well aa the larger, though when seeded in corn or other crop the larger quantity is preferable. ST FORTH Tf TftB tiVSYnt. m. rAPnltv haalt hv mABoman Ka bowel eTery day. you're 6ic. or will be. Keep your rvvav vswu, OilU w wcu. a"urw. IU HID SUIWVl violent pttysie or pill poison, is dangerous. Tbe e moot best, easiest, most perfect way of keeping tbe wwwa vtvr muu IS 0 la LP Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Kerer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c. ate Write for free sample, and booklet oo health. Address Startla InH; Vmmyamj, Cklrag, trrai, Sw lark. SSSa KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN $115 For Letter AbontKebraska. The passenger department of the B, & M. R. R. offers thirteen cash prizes aggregating $115 for letters about Ne braska; Particulars of the contest, which is open to all, can be had by ad dressing J. Francis, G. P. An Omaha. trade mm aiTmTro- the mm mm. By BARRY PAIN. I had only to send in the card accredit ing me as a representative of Black and White to be most cordially received by Mr. Clarence Freebody. Mr. Freebetly, as ia well known, is the . courteous and energetic manager of the great piano manufacturing firm of Broadard & Bechsway. "Ah, he said pleasantly, "so you have heard of our new system of silent piano tuning." , - - ' "Yes, and that the credit of the inven tion is chiefly due to yourself, Mr. Free- body." " . ;,. "Well," he said modestly, "that is per haps too much to say. I had the original idea, and I have given the best years of my life to perfecting it, but I might have had but little success if I had not had the great resources of this firm entirely at my disposal in my experiments. Of course, though the expense has been great, it was to their interest. . "How? And "what made you think of It? Pray tell me all about it." "Well, when we sell a piano in most cases we also contract for the tuning .of it, otherwise the tuning might fall into the hands of incompetent tuners, the in strument might be ruined, and the igno rant purchaser would probably think that the manufacturer was to blame." i T see. That must necessitate a very Urge staff of tuners." "It does. We have tfperfect army of them. Our figures for London and the suburbs alone would surprise you, and, in addition, we have tuners in all the capitals of the civilized world and most of the principal towns. And though we paid extravagant salaries and dealt most liberally in cases of death or accident we always had the greatest difficulty in keep ing up our numbers. The fact is that piano tuning under the old system , was dangerous work, and unless a man had a splendid physique or was about desperate he could not be induced to undertake it. People talk about lead poisoning, but if they knew the statistics of piano tuning as I know them they would see that there are occupations even more fatal than iead working. I wonder how many men we've lost in Chelsea alone! Toward the end, before my silent system was per fected, we could hardly persuade a tuner to go to a Chelsea piano." "Really?" "Yes, they're a bad lot in Chelsea' They've got the artistic temperament there and don't seem to be able to get it out. Suppose, one of our tuners had been to a piano in a third floor Chelsea fiat and he had by a bit of luck escaped rough handling' from the people in the flat it self, he had still got to get out into the street again.' And if he got out alive it was not the fault of the people in the flat above or the flats beneath.. Nobody much likes the sound of piano tuning, but it seems to drive the artistic tempera ment actually mad. They were so cun ning, too, those people. They got to know the little bags that our men carry and were on the lookout for them. Just before we started the silent system one of our men had his face cu open in Tite street by an empty meat tin thrown from a window. Of course it was unreasona ble, you know. " An artist w.ould want a piano in bis studio,' would buy one from us and arrange for us to tune it four times a year, and then ah, I remember the case of poor Jenkin son! He was a fine man, a regular giant, but foolhardy. He went out tuning in' Chelsea just when they were finishing their academy pic tures. . He was warned, but he said it would be all right. In the very first stu dio he entered there were a lot of oriental weapons hanging on the walls. The artist seemed a quiet little man and said nothing. Jenkinson had been at work a few minutes and had got his head in the piano, when he was stabbed from behind with a Damascus dagger, richly inlaid. He recovered, but his nerve's all gone. We are still making him a small allow ance." "But the police" "Well, our men didnt care to have much to do with the police. The pay was good, and if the risks had been generally known the trade of piano tuning would have been prohibited by law. Besides, these artists were often sorry afterward and did what they could to make amends. For instance, in Jenkinson's case, the art ist said he shouldn't want the dagger back again.", . , '.-.'-" ' "The amount you paid in compensation must have been considerable." "Yoa would hardly credit the figures, and they might have been higher still if the law had not decided that the manu facturer was not responsible for damage by sherry. That was a pretty case, the one that settled the point. There was evidence impossible to contradict that it was a trade custom to offer the tuner sherry. And the deleterious nature of 'suburban sherry "generally was shown conclusively. Where they broke down was in trying to establish that the drink ing of the sherry was as much a part of a man's work as the tuning of the piano. We could show that teetotal tuners re ceived no less pay than the nonabstain ing. and that practically' finished It. In deed, it is just as well, for even under the silent system the risk from sherry still continues." ' "And what are the general results of the silent system?" " "The public has gained in comfort, and the lunacy doctors are less overworked. The pay of piano tuners ia less, because the risks are less- Some of them grumble at the financial loss, though it is nothing compared to the gain in safety, and some f them, I regret to find, were actuated by motives of sheer cruelty in their tun ing and put much less care and energy into their work now that it cannot annoy anybody. In fact, one of them, in resign ing, said in so many words that be felt as if his teeth had been drawn. As for our selves, we save the vast sums we were accustomed to spend every year on com pensation, we gain on the reduction of salaries,' and we gain also by the enor mous extension of our previously large business. You see. we will only tune in struments of our own manufacture, and we exclusively employ the system of si lent tuning. ' Without the apparatus, which is our secret, it is impossible. Con sequently everybody is ordering a Broad ard & Bechsway. And while other man ufacturers are doing nothing we" here he glanced at the clock "are very busy." I took tbe hint and my departure. Black and White. ArroM the Back Yard Fenee. ' "Doesn't the shape o yer nose suit yer, Mrs. Fitzgibbons?" "What do ye mane. Mrs. Corkins?" "When ye're lookin over this way. ye're always turnin yer nose up." Chicago Tribunes U. VitoG1 0QBG8 , ' ' 4 ' V urcd by 0ro Uilliams' IPink Pills ;;:.vfor :, Palo 'People 1 r more state prize winners and Exposition winnars. "For 18 years IamS has led all horsemen with best horses, lowest prices.- Big bargains for next 30 'days. All stallions must be sold." No pets. . ! l .; ; i V IHIYIO IILbLlf CU Ol.ULU AT OMAHA EXPOSITION. IAMS' -BON TON" and "JAQUES COEUR'-bcst in TJ. S.-xrorth 500 miles trip to saa. IAMS has P0 saJeeman m country. Sat money by roing- direct to lams' barns aud buy a winner ba r,utKro -- "w 10a mors ntuioDa man an omer importers in Nebraska. Uood guarante8, and lams pays freight. Good terms to responsible parties, i Stalliona exchanrftrf. 1 ......... . 4-0 HEAD OF 1400 TO 1900 POUND CHUNKS and DRAFTERS fnp era I I? lams and Ms horses are mascots On U. P. and B. & M. Ry. . .." . . . 1 ... 5 With Compliments.. Zo tbe Readers o f BUGGIES AND IlflRHESS AT OLD PRICES It ia ton eh on the Buggy Factory, bat oaggtea naaer oar oia oaninci, ana v. - . f . . f. j M . for oar BIC FREE CATALOCUE OT FUIHA IMSO HABROn a. WAfcONs. STEEL RANGES, latlfrat. Aodreaa HAPGOOD PLOY CO., - The Oaly Flow Factory la the World SULPHQ-SALINE BATH DRS. M. H. AND J. 0 EVERETT, MANAGING PHYSICIANS 3S x. . . . m roy s Lrug IAO - " General Drug Business and Prescription Work. Paints, Oils, Glass, Ground Oil Cake, Etc Prices low as the lowest. rRoy's, 104 North (Oth S V Mrs, Minnie Fiedler, of Mb Pleasant, Iowa, says: ; - :.. v- , '; "I was afflicted for years with St. Vitus' dance. Tbe first symptoms of tbe disease began in 1889, when the nerves began twitching in my left band. I con sulted physicians of this city, but none of them ever did me a particle of good. After I bad suffered for two and one half years,' the disease .' continuing to grow worse, I ; heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, x t , - : ' ' ' It was in 1S91 that I was Induced to try them, and I was surprised at my rapid improvement. I took only two boxes, and waa entirely cured. It was hard to realize that I, who, for over two years was scarcely able to walk, and who often found it almost impossible to talk, should be restored to perfect health and 4 ia full possession of all of my-powers by' .two boxes of this wonderful remedy. " " I am happy to state that my health is still perfect and I have never had the slightest symptoms of a . return of the disease, although it ia eight years since ' t was cured. ' . v" j-vl.f'l , Dr.: Williams' Pink pflh for Pale Peopls contain, in a condensed form, all the ele ments necessary to give new lire and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They . are an unfailing specific for such dis eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,- sciatica neuralgia rneu ' matism, nervous headache; theater-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms oi weakness either in male' or femaleC - I ,v - GT, ; Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are never sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in pack aqes. - At all d rue gists, or dli-ect from the Dr. Wl. .liams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.-Y., 60 cents per box, 6 boxes $2.60. . r i. ;. ... ... , i . ... 1 ..-';,! ''- f J. IMPORTER and BREEDER PERCHEROHS, SHIRES-CLYDES : and COACHERS. IAMS' Horse Show at the Omaha Expo, had all the People Judges, Superintendents and all ON THE RUN to gee the largest exhibit of horses on the grounds. MORE BLACK STALLIONS than all ex hibitors; mord 2,000 pou rid Horses, to people who do business with him. ST. PAUL, NEBRASKA tbe Independent This 13 i'a frofnt ' VievV ' of the ' watch which we send as a premium for a club " of "J 2 - campaign subscriptions. It is a beauty a. guaran teed time-keeper. Why not get one? - For terms read the article 'Watches. For Everybody," on other page Tlebraska Independent, -if. Lincoln; flebn "their Km ta yoar gain." W ha an Optl on oa 900 wo onw inem 10 too, aa long aa mey imi, at Ola arlcea. ' . 1 . a . . , I . . ... . I . ' ISO MACHINES sad lOOW Other &WU Dos 770, ALTO!!, ILL. Direes to the Farmer, v HOUSE RND SANITARIUM AH forms of baths Turkish, Russian, Ro manx Electric with special attention to .the application of natural salt water baths, several times stronger than sea water. Rheumatism, Skin, Blood. Catarrh, Stomach. Neryous, and Heart diseases ; Liter and Kidney troubles: diseases of women and chronic ailments treated successfully. A 'separate department, fitted with a thoroughly aeptic ward and operating rooms, offer special inducements to urgical cases, and all diseases peculiar to women. oxore." NORTH - TENTH STREET II OV2v ?2v iltiv ;4 a-., . If , J