July 28, 1900.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
H Pi V D
MEN'S AND BOYS' TROUSERS.
" aiaarM-trer w Vrk 1ty entire Ux-k of Mrn'i and
l ie Trnxtt Wag fat t SOr m
it 3Q tm & iil fcad
LOT I Counting f fine new elegant stripes and
c heck- in worsteds and cai meres, worth 83
-on -ale at.
LOT 2 Men's Hair line trijxt cairnere pants; alo
alut 500 pairs sample pants tliat retail in
regular way for $-2.70 to 83.50, on sale at. .
LOT 3 r,200 pair trou-r in fine pure worsteds, all
new, neat, up-to-date trijM?, patterns worth r ft
up to 84.50, your choice dZlQU
LOT 4-
Men's ery finest Mockrnum worsteds and Washington
milts trousers. In club checks and neat, desirable stripes,
the materials alone are worth
make mad trimmings equal to
U-cuser. en sals at
MnV 12-30 era-a ut
orj sale at
95C-SI.25
l?js and children rrah and was hab'e
vuitj aod kre pant aloio-t given
tWtT.
MAIL ORDERS FILLED
THE BIG STORE
mwm mubu wvihha,
TIIK
vr at. Joi i:.u iti4.KAc E.
Tfce eved uci f tLe
degecerates who
tfn ft r the
editorial co"unn4 of the
of. tnu ca'i-injj wprwal from
the jrf
of the w hoi-
eouttrr. The Independent
La fr joently called attention
to
vulgarity of the Journal. It
na to
I a di-rt:.ic.g to the re-jec table peo
I ! of thf ea-t a it La- 1e n repugr-ant
,
-verai
to the- citizen- of the wet. For
we-k the Journal La kept watch for
the dt-iirgui-hed cen who hare been
gue-t in our city, rr.ary of them erci-r.-er.t
in their j r;fk... of ucitLtpeach
ih. character siid f national reputa
: r., and the Deit n.orrir.: it La-i inra
rib!y sree-ted theru a ith language that
U-e r. 01 1 ues i l car filter, are ac-
locd to hear. This La- a-Unihed
the-- 'Ltl-ati; befjtd nueaure. a well
a- the re-j.--tab," p..rti'a of thi- city,
f.- st ith-'.Ar.-!.r tLat our citizen hare
l--cce i.at aecu-tomed to the
-Ct.i.jv
.ployed by the
The fact that
Mr. Bryan La Ijw-wi national charac
ter lzA i- th candidate of all the jo
.e
L ritea JstAtt who are oppos-
.e ut:
if.ui tijc.e( cl tLe rre-enl
a
dr.itrtioe. ha created a ntuation
s!.; t:
ftA.i Ciir.-d of
th
w nter
er. VjI t- i'r-h-r.i. and
ti
ev
continue
wa- oc8 tor
e.-ct?..
of ald-rs.as of the third
ra. ax.u T.r-e nie lie-e n-en 01
a:.d the
ritk'CJd repctstiou a they would of the
l-i ir. &:i ordinary city cascpaipn
where a frai-rL.-e to be irien away
or the octroi of the f.rce wa at
hake. The Itdejr.dect a-k? the new.
j ijer- f th- --t nut to jud of the
character of the citizen-hip of Li r. colli
b the e?a-i"t tf the deleters te who
write for the editorial column of the
State JourxaL The following article i 4
fr' rri the Wa-hirtos Iot, a republican
rar-r. fruci w hich it
will be
teen bow
the cetaphor cf the
State Journal in
r.en of the national
capital:
l&nx BZjCOSi!oT.S. If IOC I tXl
Sow chrhty lurid j.n picture of pol
itic circulate fronj Lincoln the- day
throwh the nsediura of the Nebraka
J. ur:.fch Like a kiceto-xpe, accx.itpa
tied with T.etrUr. word j.irtare-. are
the i itautjf at.d irrepre ible charac
ter;zatiof racxitg nutte whoae -Ld
c-a- fr-jiiectly crow the Bryan thre-h-
J H STUCKEY VIRTUAMA SWuTSVSJSS
w -w 7 trl torar impow-tx-y revolting from indiscre-
AT iSit O STUfliliT tutt or debility. nes vitality toyoun.oldand
' -' v-- , aiidd.e aced. retoraur the desire, ambitions
I Tir,n- t.-erri rt-i to furni.ll ' atjfl 'wrstK'-m of jouth and beaJlh. fitting for
1- IJOU JuepJT&l IO luriUU Uo. aiJ bappine in businets .professional,
Crt-ntti fur Picnic Sx-ill.i ! med life. fca package or 3 for $j.
J l K . naill Or I It UK -Ot Ull tyhre prepaid on receipt of price.
lr.rtt wrw.l r'itc The kiio Daco Conrasr. American Office. !
nt.. al iO-l IJOit--aie raies. j TitA liL By mill, retail, wholesale, at Bicre's ;
PHONE A1076 i Hmft, Lincoln. Neb.; H. 8. taker, Sioux
j C ity. A full line of robber coods.
-GOOD TUGS TO EAT ..CANCERS AND TUMORS..
t S Cured at Heme. The only I'aJnle i'erma-
....... . 1 ure appealing to intellitfenre. En-
fJrRPrfafJTV fllKINl HA! I 3timn domed by a tbonand phyweians. tend 6c
..LnUnMillO Ul.U.U IinLL ? jtv fr illustrated book. Reference of
. . . . . w ,j ttre: J. li. Gibhe. Battle Creek, Neb.; F. H.
oKN K I Its. 1 f J Cif ?TrbrU-e. -Nelib. Neb.: MrH. E. Babeock,
LldoLV IUW NelJn. Neb. lr. Joo. II. llnrri. 2T Kern-
' tr lane. Csnrinnati, Ohio. Mention this pa-
f pr. He' with na.
, c E Haydcn 10Z9
E Photographer 0 ST.
Ml. F. A. Carother, Our prices are right; our work the best
Phone 4T Lineolu. O street Orer Famous, Lincoln,
a n c e rs w P L 1 TH0RP &
t m ferpaic f " Ceneral Machiniita.
W od death -- Bepairinc of all kinds,
fnrirasre? DILT. O'CON'NOU curM p ' C Model-maker, etc.
career-, tastior. aci wes: do knife, C - j o
.mA vt pjute;- AddreirJL3 0 street, " ""T o c, - . r,
Urxan.Xebra!k. Seal. Kubber Stamps. Stencils. Checks. Etc
' ' 308 So. nth St., Lincoln. Neb.
Ton PAwninff HUSTliKB YOUEB HAH. !
luitl 66 nUllIllR UUl Iluitlicg young man can make $C0
WLo! mAnfacturer and reUil nd "P Permanent
dar in TetU. Awninjrs. Wagon Cov- position. Eiperienoe , unnecessary.
rr rTar. acd bc Furniture. Tect . .. . .iOM ri--i, i
atd CAMPING oLTFITS TO IUINT- Write quick for particulars. Clark &
LINCOLN, NEBR. Ox. 4th A Locust Sts., rhilade!phia, Pa.
9
Ik Hollar.
pair Men's
from 9 to 3 length In tliU al.
$1.50
SI. 25
more than our selling price.
$3.75
$7.50 to $10 made-to-order
Kr.f.p,n.,s: 8, 10 &
I5c
15c
Boys washable knee pants suits,
worth ."iJc to 1-12;), on sale at
f I2i, i5c, 75c, 00c, 35c, and. .
hold. Every line groans with a metaphor,
and sometimes these get badly mixed.
Candidates of national renown but ' of
oppo-ite politics to the Journal, are ad
dressed by their first names, and "Char
ley" Towne is referred to in One editorial
-s dcoj duck to be retained "wnen-
swallow Adlai:" as "nearly upsetting the
milk pail here in Lincoln during the
i-tres of the late three-ring convention,
and a "the nimble pea under the jug-
! pier's thimbles with which pops can be
, .. j a .-1 - 1 1 l
I yet.
; It .strikes us that it must be a trifle
I difficult for even such a versatile states
! man as candidate Towne to act in all
j the- capacities for months yet, but per
; hap- we may be able to comprehend
' the- numerous allusions crowded into a
1 few brief paragraphs. The bad boy on
' Mr. Bryan's back yard fence, however,
eets jiay with the other running
mate, well known here in Wash
, ir:frton as an amiable and withal
.a dignified gentleman. Ihis
what
the Journal says further:
The democrats got hot in fact, red
; Lot if not white hot at the way the
; ijps were rubbing it into them in re
venge for the action of the Kansas City
j convention in repudiating Towne, and
Towne, who had been kept over by
! Bryan for whatever use could be made
j of him until the Nebraska crisis was
nnr sac -!!H in tsi arvAha thn ir-ratVi
1 j of the democrats. He therefore in the
men 01 ume appeared ana wimarew
from the ticket, professing that there
wasn't another man in the country who
came so near lieing a perfect substitute
for him.-!f on that ticket as the bald-
1 headed old rooster from Springtield.
i Hon. Adlai Stevenson, democratic can
" didate for the vice-presidency, as is gen
jeral'y known outside of the Nebraska
? State Journal office, is a respected resi
1 dent of Bloomington, not of Springfield,
although we suppose he has made a
great tr.aoy journeys np to the capital
of the -ucKer state, without ever having
acquired a residence there, in recent
. year. The Po-t confesses that it never
; thought of 31r. Stevenson as the bald
beaded old rooster from Springfield or
; from anywheae else. Such statements
may tickle immensely the stalwarts in
' and about Lincoln. It occurs to us that
! Playwright Hoyt could have found some
. uiairiiu iu umi. tut un ituur,
; where rival politicians sling dead cats
and rocks at each other and where jeal-
1 ou-y and envy go to the extent of trying j
1 to poil a lunerai by painting the corpse
j black.
! The city of Lincoln should put its
; bead on ice and cool off. There are sev
! eral months of the campaign yet, and at
i thi gait the Journal will exhaust itself
i before the time comes for voting. A
i healthy local pride will permit of honest
I difTeret.ce! of political opinions and, con
I tetnjjoraneioualy, of respectful treatment
to visiting political candidates. (Grant
ing that Candidate Towne is a "decoy
duck? and "nimble pea under the jug
gler's thimble" and that Candidate Ste
venson is "a bald-headed old rooster,5
why doesn't the Journal leave it to the
refreshing exponents of the craft else
where to exploit such subjects, rather
than force itself and these exclamations
into the lime light of Lincoln's pub
licity? Washington Post.
SIXTEEN TO ONE.
J.' Sterling Morton generously sends
his paper free to a .good many populists
in Nebraska and they get a good deal of
fun from its pages. But the Independ
ent, circulating in ' every county in the
state and every state in the union, as it
does, can add to the hilarity of the
fusion forces by giving to its many
thousand readers a specimen of the
ravings of Nebraska's growler, who,
though as harmless as John Bunyan's
old giant, growls away from morning un
til night, every day of the year. In the
last issue of the Conservative the fol
lowing appeared:
" The building-up archy, in the state
of Nebraska, have never been properly
delineated, portrayed and appreciated.
The vast industrial plants, the great
powers of constructive capital, in fabu
lous amounts, which the Aliens, Bryans,
Edmistens, and Tibbleses have' caused
or created for the material development
of this commonwealth, have never been
photographed, described or eulogized.
The diabolical envy and the malignant
enmity of the plutocratic presahave ob
scured and hidden, in the blackness of
its wrath, all the contented cottages and
busy manufactories wnicn the magic
and creative hands of Bryanarchy and
Allenarchy and Tibblesarchy have so
generously and deftly founded' and built
upon these plains. Who are the build
ersof the state? The wretched gold
bug imperialists? No! no! my friends,
sixteen orations to one day's work; six
teen efforts to get an office for a con
glomerate partisan to one effort Li be
half of patriotism. Those
made Nebraska. Sixteen to
struggles j
one six-
teen speeches to one thought sixteen
fallacies to one fact built Nebraska."
Sixteen times a candidate for office in
Nebraska and never elected once is
what made a growler out of Morton.
But he should not be so disconsolate,
for Grover good, old Grover took pity
on him, and remembering Morton's six
teen vain efforts, out of the bounteous
soul bestowed one office upon Morton as
a free gift, and Morton stands today a
shining example of sixteen to one. He
I should therefore take courage and not
be so sorrowful.
The Pioneer Press heads an editorial
with these words: "How Bryan Made Us
An Empire." So we are an empire, are
we. and not a republic? That is what
we have been telling the people for the
last two years would be the end of this
business. But the Pioneer Press has
been engaged in the work of trying to
convince the people that this talk about
an empire was all bosh a bug-a-boo
and that there was nothing in it but a
mean deire to get office by talking
about an impossibility.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Failures Have Doubled Bryan the
Great Educator A Millionaire Girl
The Journal's Fear of Rebellion
Who Controls the Policy of Our
Government? Roosevelt's First
Opening.
According to Dunn's report there were
double the number of failures last year
in the United States that there were the
year before. This is one of the strongest
arguments in favor of republican pros
perity. Prosperity does not come like a
dog, by just whistling.
They say Bryan has no calling or pro
fession now, since he dropped the prac- j
tice of law. We think he has the most i
exalted calling of any man living, that :
of educating the great common people. I
He has instructed more people with his
voice than any other living man. !
V
Among the notable persons who vis
ited the twin cities last week was Miss
Helen Gould. She called for a day on
her way home from Yellowstone Park.
There were four or five other girls and a
doctor and his wife with her. They
sailed in Helen's own private car. She
is a girl rather slight in form and under
the average height. She is rather good
looking but not a beauty. She dresses
plainly and would not be picked out as a
millionaire from among the girls in Lin
coln by her dress. We are proud that
we have one American millionaire girl
whom the bankrupt small potatoes of
Europe cannot fool into matrimony by a
meaningless title.
"Bryan has ample power, if elected, to
plunge the country into anarchy in a
fortnight." Nebraska State Journal.
That means that the millionaires in
the east are going to kick over the traces
if Bryan is elected just as Jeff Davis
and the slave drivers did when. Lincoln
was elected. They did not wait to see
what Lincoln would do, but they knew
he would fill the bill as advertised be
fore election just as they know Bryan
will fill the bill. The greenbacks will be
continued in circulation and if a run on
the treasury is started again, as under
Cleveland, he will redeem in silver and
if necessary will commence a reciprocal
run on the banks by presenting their
bills for redemption. He will issue no
more bonds to please millionaires, nei
ther will he change their bonds again
and pay them a hundred million to boot.
The wishes of the common people will
be respected more, than the wishes
of the rich. If they start another
insurrection the west has the men and
the courage to serve them as the north
did the south under Lincoln.
We remember when from 1840 to 18G0
the slave driver got just what he, wanted
and from the very start . of our govern
ment he ruled the roost.' Florida must
become a part of the United States so
GOOD CROPS IN NEBRASKA
Rains Everywhere Have Removed all
Doubts and Prices Remain Good
CONDITIONS WERE NEVER BETTER
For This and Other Reasons Business Men
Everywhere are Looking - Ahead
. Eagerly for Policies Equal to
Government Kouds
B. H. Kobison, president of the Bank
ers Reserve Life Association . of Omaha,
has just returned from a western trip.
He reports that the last rains have saved
the crops, and predicts that
NEBRASKA WILL LEAD, AS CSCAL,
in the grain growing : belt. :Corn never
looked more promising, and small grain
is a fair yield. Prices will rule high
on
all Nebraska staples, and h
farmers
are on the
TOP SHEAF OF THE COSTINEXT.
Bankers and business men generally
recognize the importance of this crop
situation, which means business in every
part of the state. The national election
so frequently a stumbling block' to
business, will this year affect prices and
trade comparatively little." v
DRAITS THROUGH LOCAL BAXKS
sent to foreign life insurance companies
will have more effect, as they deplete the
stock of ready money at home. They
add to the money congestion of the east
and at the same time to - the stringency
of the money market at home. For this
reason every banker in Nebraska is en
couraging the upbuilding of our local
life insurance companies, like the
BACKERS RESERVE LIFE.
Bankers and business men generally
favor keeping money in circulation at
home. They cannot encourage the con
stant and debilitating drain which drafts
payable through their banks exhibit to
them as an ever present evil of existing
conditions. A
policy as good as a government bond
can be had from the Bankers Reserve.
which is the leading Nebraska company.
It is aggressive, progressive, successful,
up-to-date, safe and reliable. It has
more than doubled its business in the
last six months and promptly adjusts its
losses. The following is
A SAMPLE OF ITS TESTIMONIALS.
Bancroft, Neb., July 11, 1900. B. II.
Robison, President Bankers Reserve
Life Association, Omaha, Neb. Dear
Sir: We take great pleasure in acknowl
edging the receipt today, of f 1,000, in
full payment of claim under your policy
issued to the late Peter Askwig. Proofs
of loss were mailed to you on the 19th of
July, showing that the claim was paid
immediately on receipt of proofs and
remittance was made f by return mail.
Thanking you for your prompt and sat
isfactory settlement, we remain
MRS. MARY ASKWIG,
Wife and Guardian.
ELIZABETH A. ASKWIG, Daughter.
slaves could not run there and be free as
they always have been in Canada. The
vast territory of Louisi&Ba must be pur
chased for it would be needed to make
slave states. The annexation of Texas
and the Mexican war had one chief ob
ject, that of extending slavery. The
Missouri compromise, the fugitive slave
law, the Dred Scott decision, were all in
the same line. No matter which party
was in power, whig or democratic, the
slave driver got what he wanted. But at
last he struck a snag when Abe Lincoln
was elected. So it has been for the last
thirty years, the millionaire has had
what he wanted. He has had to com
promise a little with John Sherman, just
as the slave driver compromised with
Daniel Webster. The republicans gave
him what he wanted, Cleveland gave
him what he wanted and McKinley is
giving him what he wants. But there is
another snag in sight. They know they
will not get what they want under
Bryan.
We saw Roosevelt and heard him cut
the first ice in the present campaign.
We have no further fears of his turning
the world over, either with his oratory or
his arguments. The republican club of
clubs met in St. Paul, Tuesday, the 17th,
and ratified in the evening There was
just about as large a turnout as at the
Bryan ratification in Lincoln, but it must
be remembered that they have here two
cities much larger than Lincoln to draw
from and then they had all the republi
can clubs of the United States added.
Their hired yellers got up quite a noise,
and they called that enthusiasm, but
they forgot to yell the first time McKin
ley's name was mentioned. There was
one rough riders club present clad in
buckskin. The speaker nrst planted nis
feet on honesty, courage and common
sense. He next paid his compliments to
Bryan, by ridicule, for saying four years
ago that the gold standard meant ruin
to the farmers. He would find that
Bryan was right if he would enquire of
those who have lost their farms and
homes. He next ridiculed the idea of a
party resolving against trusts while one
of its members held ice trust stock. He
seemed to forget that all the trusts con
tribute to Mr. McKinley's election fund.
He next stated that Bryan was more re
sponsible for the Philippine war than
any other man, and that Aguinaldo
translated his speaehes and sent them
about among his people. Just so Wash
ington did with Mr. Pitt's speeches in
parliament. The great commoner was a
friend to liberty as "much as Bryan is.
Roosevelt sanctioned the Seminole and
Mexican wars, even though the exten
sion of slavery was the bottom motive.
Half of his speech was saloon black
guardism. Here is a sample:
"Study the Kangas City platform and
you cannot help realizing that their pol
icy is the policy -. of. infamy, that their
triumph would mean misery so wide
spread that it is almost unthinkable and
a disgrace so everlasting that a genera
tion would have to pass before it could
be wiped out. They stand for lawless
ness and disorder, for " dishonesty and
dishonor, license and disaster at home
and cowardly shrinking from duty
abroad. " -
"We know definitely what we believe,
and we say it outright. Our opponents,
who represent all the forces of discotent,
malice and envy, formed and .formless,
vague and concrete, can hardly be said
to know what they really do believe, be
cause the principles they profess, if put
forth nakedly, are so revolting that they
like at least to try to wrap the mantle
of hypocrisy about." - . .
Roosevelt's speech will not be used as
an electioneering document, nor will he
be used on the stamp very much. He
told us all the questions of '9G were yet
to be settled and that new ones had been
added. That means the money question
is not finished. The greenbacks have got
to be burned, the silver dollar melted up
or demonetized so it will no longer be le
gal tender for more than ten dollars, and
the government must keep on hand two
or three hundred millions of gold to re-1
deem bank bills when banks fail. Every
means must be made use of to" lessen the
volume of money and reduce the price
of properly.
News of the' Week
The assemblage at Grand Island, pur
porting to represent the "True Populists"
was such a bare-faced fraud from its in
ception to its close, that there is no need
of exposure. It did that itself. Free
transportation was provided for all who
would attend. Tickets were offered
freely to many persons here in Lincoln.
Some refused them, and did not go and
others went. The same word comes
from other counties in the state. "Prof."
Boyce came aboard the train at one
point with a handful of tickets and pub
licly announced that he would furnish
transportation for all who did not have
it. Many parties took advantage of
these free passes to go to Grand Island
to visit friends or do business who never
went near the assemblage at all. Care
ful counts and estimates by responsible
men place the cumber who went to
Grand Island at a little over three hun
dred, over a hundred of whom never
went to the hall where the meeting was
held, or if they stopped in for a few min
utes, took no part in the proceedings.
Many things that occurred that were
supremely ridiculous. One of them was
when Sam Lichty arose and made a
speech denouncing passes when every
man present had come to the meeting on
free transportation. Another was when
one of those present, finding that the
fact that they had all come there on free
transportation was known to everybody.
arose and said that that was true, but
the money to pay for the tickets had
been sent by the f uzzie wuzzie national
committee. This was followed by a
piteous appeal for a collection for the
said national committee because it was
poverty stricken and Joe Parker was
putting up S00.CO a day out of his own
pocket to keep headquarters open.
Then they did a very appropriate
thing. Having come to the meeting on
free transportation it required a little
more cheek than they could muster to
put a plank in their platform demand
ing the public ownership of railroads, so
they left that out Their plank on pub
lic ownership retds as follows:
We demand state or municipal owner
ship of water works, street railways, tel
ephones and electric light service at cost
to the people."
Not a word about railroads there, and
that was very appropriate under the
circumstances.
Their appeal for votes was made in the
following crazy language:
"Relying upon the honest merits of
our cause we appeal to all liberty-loving
citizens who have become dissatisfied
with the sham bogery of the old parties
to unite with us for the realization of
the golden rule in the conduct of public
affairs."
A "bogey" is supposed to be a goblin
or some sort of unhealthy creature,
frightful in appearance, but "a sham
bogey" is something that is not found
outside of the imaginings of those who
ride on free transportation and then set
themselves up for "true" populists. One
part of the "golden rule," according to
the f uzzie wuzzie idea, is to ride on free
transportation and then ftlsely accuse
other people of doing the same thing.
One thing connected with the affair
that is rather astonishing is, that after
having 6,000 from a busted committee,
one member of which had to put up
$60.00 a day out of his own pocket to
keep the doors open and offering free
transportation in almost every county of
the state, they could not induce more
people to attend. Every f uzzie wuzzie
in the state was there beside a good
many republicans and others who come
to visit or out of curiosity, and there
were less than four hundred of them all
told. Then the Mark Hanna assistants
went home and declared that they were
coins to poll 50.000 votes! There is no
"talse bogey" about that claim.
Another thing that this "unco good"
and "holier than thou" aggregation did
was to adopt the name of "populist" for
their new party. The law says: "Elec
tors may form new parties and hold their
state, district, county, precinct or mu
nicipal conventions and nominate candi
dates for office. They shall not adopt
any of the old party names, nor any part
thereof." The name "populist" is part
of, or another form of the word "peoples'
and means precisely the same thing. Be
sides that it is the common name - used
by every one to designate the peoples
party. Whether they can perpetrate
that kind of a fraud upon the unsus
pecting voter will have to be decided by
the courts. A protest has been already
filed by the authorities of the peoples
independent party against that sort of
knavery as follows:
"We have been informed that a cer
tain body of men purporting to hold a
state convention intend ' to assume as
their political designation the name of
"populist" This name is customarily
and usually applied to the peoples inde
pendent party and any use of this name
by any different party will confuse the
voters of the state and prevent a proper
expression of the will of the people at
the ballot and we therefore protest
against the use and employment of such
party name by any body of men in the
state of Nebraska and protest against
the issuance and filing of any certificate
of nomination in your omce under such
name.
"Dated this 21st day of July 1900.
J. II. Edmistex,
O. D. Wilson.
Of the state committee of the peoples
independent party of Nebraska."
Another thing that has created some
amusement is the excited talk that has
been heard on the street between some of
these political saints in regard to the
distribution of the boodle. The story
that is current is that Rosewater went
to the Mark H anna outfit and persuaded
the distributors of the assessment made
upon the trusts, banks and corporations,
that if a good round sunT could be sent
to Nebraska to aid the fuzzie wuzzies to
hold a state convention, the result would
be that the republicans could carry Ne
braska, beat Bryan and elect two gold
standard United States senators. The
money was given to Rosewater, so the
story goes, and he was to divide with
Half Fare Round Trip
Rate on all Railroads
Prnm nnintc within 900 miloc of I innnln
1 1 win pwiinu tfiiiiiii a, ww mime ui kiuwwiii f- -y - -r -w- r
VISITORS TO THE A&bJjiMJjJL Y
TO BE HELD AT
Lincoln Park, Aug. 1st to 9th
will find welcome down town headquarters at our new, fine store, the lightest and
prettiest store in the state. If one of our Fall 1900 Catalogues would interest you
and you have not received one in the past, the leaving of your name at our MAIL
ORDER DEPARTMENT will insure you a copy early upon its completion about
September 1st. Come and see us while in the city. We shall be pleased to per
sonally make your acquaintance.
Clem Deaver and some of the men in
Lincoln. The Lincoln chaps claim that
Rosey and Clem played the hog and
didn't divide fair, so there was wrath in
the Lincoln fuzzie wuzzie camp.
The cablegrams from China continue
so contradictory that nothing can be
gathered from them of value. A dis
patch was received from the American
minister. Conger, but all the' diplomats
except those connected with Washing
ton, declare that it is a forgery. The
dispatch asserted that the minister was
alive as late as July ISth, but the lega
tion was surrounded "and help was
needed immediately.
The Boers have gained two distinct
victories during the week, capturing
over a hundred prisoners, a large supply
train and again cutting Lord Robert's
line of communication in two places.
Joe Chamberlain made a speech during
the week in which 4 he declared that no
severe measures would be taken against
the Cape colony Dutch who took up
arms in defense of the two republics.
That is a complete change of tone.
Chamberlain seems to begin to realize
that he has no easy road to travel.
There are no signs of an end of the war
in the Transvaal.
The Dr. Seymour
Medico-Optical Go.
An Institution Permanently
Located in Lincoln that has
Performed some "Wonderful
Cures.
The Independent wishes to call the
attention of its readers to the fact that
Lincoln has among its business institu
tions one that has been the means of
doing more good than anything else of
the kind in the state. The Dr. Seymour
Medico-Ontical Company, located at
1219 K Street, is a permanent institution
and hundreds of the best citizens of
Lincoln can attest to the remarkable
benefits they have received. This is the
time of year when the Eyes need the
most careful attention, and how few re
alize the importance of consulting those
who have made the eye a study. Dr-
Seymour is acknowledged to be the most
thorough optician in the west, this
conceded even by his most potent and
progressive competitors. : It is not a good I
plan to let your eyes go unattended when
they become weak, or feel dull and heavy j
when reading or sluggish on awakening
in the morning. Eyes in that condi
tion need attention and if taken
time they can be restored, but
if allowed to go on the patient is in
flicting an inexcusable crime upon the
most important organ of the human sys
tem. Clear vision is the seat of all hap
piness; without it life is but a drag and
the patient becomes a "sore spot" to
members of the household, a pity to
friends and himself incapacitated for the
enjoyment of society and the perform
ance of pursuits which tend to entwine
happiness, good cheer and brightness in
the make up of our manly men and wo
manly women and our children of today.
The system introduced by Dr. Seymour
in the treating of the .bye is his own in
vention and no case has yet presented it
self that he has not benefitted or cured.
We appeal to our readers who need their
eyes treated to consult with this special
oculist for the reason that if he makes a
thorough examination and tells you he
can relieve your distress, you can rest
assured of that fact In addition to the
treatment of the Eye, Dr.' ' W.' Calvert
Cox, head of the medical staff, makes a
specialty of the Eye, Ear. Nose and
Throat, and if you are troubled in that
line a consultation will cost you nothing.
Hundreds of our citizens are living a
miserable life on account of these ail
ments, promising themselves that noth
ing of importance is the mattet, and in
fact with many but little is, yet if allow
ed to go on tne disease becomes a men
ace and finally the patient's health is
impaired and bills for patent medicines
crawl up without giving the patient any
marked relief, much less a cure. A clear
nose, keen ear and a healthy throat and
lungs are indeed blessings to mankind
without them what is life?. The time to
eradicate all ills of the Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat is when the symptoms first
appear, and it is the duty of all parents
to see to it that they as well as their
children are properly looked after in this
respect. Business and society demand
it. Those of our readers who are trou
bled with poor vision or have defective
hearing a fullness or stoppage and clog
ging up of the nostrils, a soreness of the
throat and lungs, will receive a free ex
amination and their case taken at a re
duced price for the next ten days by
calling on these truly wonderful Doctors
EP WORTH
Lincoln...
fiebraska
Branch Peoria, III.
at their permanent offices, 1219 K Street,
Liincoln. If you wish to write with ref
erence to your trouble, feel free to do sq,
and a ready answer to your wants will be
sent you. . .
McKinley Did It
Who causes all the crops to grow?
Who makes the seasons come and gol
Who shapes the current of events!
Who regulates the elements?
Who taked the placji of Providence?
McKinley.
Who makes it rain when it is dry?
Who shapes demand, alo supply?
Who caused the Indian famine, which -Raised
wheat and corn to such a pitch
It made the farmers ail (ret rich?
McKinley.
Who gives the people industry?
Who makes the world's prosperity?
Who placed the gold down in the ground?
And then got out and scratched around
Till Cripple Creek and Nome were found?
McKinley.
Who sailed into Manila bay?
Who sunk Cervera's lieet one day?
Who fought against the war ; theu came
At a late hour into the game
And took the glory for the same?
McKinley.
Who is the source of every good?
Who wants that fully understood?
If any benefit befall
Somewhere upon the mundane ball.
Who is the creature sleek and small
What has the monumental gall
To claim the credit for it all?
McKinley.
J. A. Ed'oeuton.
Hanna's Spies-
A good populist woman of Antelope
county in sending a list of subscribers
to the Independent says that the one
addressed to her brother she is . anxious
that he should get from this on. for be
declares that McKinley could not possi
bly carry on a war against the Filipinos
unless ;war, had .been declared by con
gress. This republican brother is sadly
behind the times for he evidently thinks
that McKinley would not a are to do any
thing so directly in violation of the con
stitution as to carry on a war against a
foreign people without a declaration of
war such as the constitution provides.
He has not yet learned that Mark Hanna
and McKinley simply look upon the dec
laration of independence as altogether
out of date, for he has read nothing but
republican papers. .
She further says that "G. A. Brock
way, one of those spies that you talked
of in your paper, was at our house that
same week. He was a small man, gray :
headed, with short chin whiskers a
very nervous man. He goes round sharp
ening, shears and cutting hair for his
food and lodging, aad hands out repub
lican papers. As soon as he was goae, I
told my husband he was a republican
spy. lie tola us now he was in . Ken
tucky when Goebel was shot, and in New
York state and Vermont soon after.
Later, he said, he was in South Dakota.
How can a man traveling on- foot get
around like that?"
The old Nebraska Mercantile Insur
ance Company during these times of se
vere lightning and windstorm is paying
two or three losses a day, not usually
large ones but shows how carefully and
with what promptness they are attended
to by paying; any loss rarelv eets ten
days old before the regular process of
adjustment is gone through with and it
is paid. This speaks well for the com
pany, lms paper has always advocated safe
and conservative Mutual Insurance
Companies. The Mercantile is a home
company. It spends its money in Ne
braska. It is carefully managed. Has
Seven Thousand policy holders. Saves
considerable on the cost on insurance
and i3 worthy of the united support of
our people.
A Special Excursion Train
Will leave Lincoln for Denver, Colora
do Springs and Pueblo via the the Rock
Isand Route at 8 a. m. August 2nd, ar
riving at the above' named points the
same evening, making a through day
light run. The Rock Island is the only
line on which you can go through from
Lincoln to Colorado Springs and Pueblo
without change of cars. On the above
date we will sell excursion tickets at the
following low rates: Denver and return,
$18.25 Colorado Springs and returp,
1 18.85 Pueblo and return, f 19.00 Glen
wood Springs and return, $30.25 Salt
Lake City and Ogden and return $32.00,
all good for return until Oct. 31. For
further information apply' to E. W.
Thompson, A. G. P. A., Topeka, Kan., or
F. IL Barnes, C. P. A., Lincoln, Neb. , .
Honey.
Choice extracted honey for sale. Four
or more 11 pound cans (net) 90c ts each;
60 pound cans (net) $4.20 each. This
honey is well ripened and of good qual
ity. Address F. A. Sitell, r :-
v.- Milledgeville, I1L "
Read the revised list of ' Premiums for
Everybody" on another page. The In
dependent for the campaign 15 cents,
and elegant premiums to those who send
in clubs. , ; ;