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8 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. September e; 1900 x HARDY'S COLUMN Census Padder Roosevelt pech Mrs. Lea! Lincoln Teachers The Home for the Frindl-s Who ia My Neighbor Women Working Country Letter Carriers The State Farm The Beatrice Institute What Kxcce Ka Omaha Taffy and Bit tersweet Our roll Lie When Lin coln West to Washington The Rea son Money hi Plenty. How dare Bixby rail against repub J.cas census padders? Pat u down for a ten-cent subscrip tion if Roosevelt will come to Lin coln ac4 delirer the eame speech we Leard him deliver In St. Paul. Fwr years ago Mrs. Lease was a loud-mouthed, bravllng renegate, row he I one cf the most eloquent, persuasive, modest women on the con tifnt. Sbe is a republican now. but a pop then. We are told llanna I ays. her a thousand dollars and all tipem for the season. We notice that six or eight of the li&ccln teacher hare resigned and! i,n elsewhere to teach. A hundred r two dollars difference in salaries - wtit did It. We regret that our ar our high school salaries went up ved ail the reel went down. That we iid not like. If we had the money to j.Vk teachers we would not object to MtScg otiser cities picking our politi ?. Lincoln has the credit of turn ing out the best of teachers for the least money. We had occasion to call at the home tor the friendless last week, the first lime for over two years. We were 'leased to see the cut ward Improved tr pea ranee, the iron fence, stone walk rtd painted walla. There was an air ti improvement everywhere except In the green house, but the wen were ;vrt fitting pipes and preparing to Ira rove that. We counted twenty-three toys and eight girls on the play rooRd and more were found at work in different buildings. We did not go Ji to the nursery, so cannot give the r umber of little ones, tut remember reein at one time In the past over forty cradles In active use. Hundreds of men and women have grat reason it. biets that institution for what it d d for them la time of seed. Bli by Srs m book to the man who love his neighbor as he loves himself. Koch as o!Jer tends to throw con tempt upon the commandment. .Among the four men who came in contact with the traveller to Jericho ut one was his neighbor, though they ruay all have lived on the same block. Iz there a human being who has fall en among thjeves who can help lov lug the Samaritan as he does himself -tea though he lives in, another town. i!3 have givea their lives for others. The sentiment against white women z.z.1 girls working in the south is fast cl. an ring. A lady who visited Rich mond and other cities in the south re- ;orts that thousands of girls are work- i-g there just as they are in the north. The Idea that none but niggers should work Is fast fading. It has got to that pitch that It Is just about as disreput able for a girt to do nothing as for a l-oy. Avenues of employment are now open, about equally, for both and they tie both considered slack twisted if tl ey !o nothing. At rt it seemed foolish to start I iter carriers ot-t through the coun try where they will have to travel rriles, sometime to deliver two or three letters. As a money-making heme It is foolish, but there is noth ing like It to spread intelligence and stimulate its growth., Look at the t'fcii.e-se. Not half the people today l..ow of any trouble in Pekin. We will make an intelligent people if we io txt make money. We do not believe the ftate farm 1 woirg half the good it might. Grain, grape and vegetables should be ttd then the approved s-eed hanl-l out to farmers. The same of sheep, cattle, hogs and poultry. We visited the state poultry yard ia Minnesota the other , day and found It far behind many ; continue in power, still the populist private yards la this state. Hot house .party will live In history. The fight plants and tot Louse animal are not i that it has made for liberty and equal ttt the farmer want. The state lty la already imperisbably engraved does jiot support the common farmer", on the records of time and can never n his farm as it does the state farm be obliterated. managers. f'f supporting farming ; The men who have proved traitors Is what we want. , to iu principles will also live In his- ; tory just as Benedict Arnold so lives. The Beatric feeble-mindrd institute j It will be written of them that they is making the governor a great amount ? joined the movement, not on account of trouble. Good enough for him. af of a belief in its principles or to help ur this he win learn to appoint hon- j uplift mankind to a higher lever, but orable men to of 3 re. But this is not for office and for power, and when the Cm rood tick that has been put their desires were not gratified, they Into place of trust in this state. The j went over to the enemy, republic! had four or five just such i The glorious history of the party cms ia tl different state institutions. 1 ought to Inrpire every one of its mem- What excuse will the Omahogs make for the 'decrease la their population of forty thousand la tea years? All the ether cities outside of Nebraska have increased while we have de creased. Lincoln will go down about tea or fifteen thousand. Otter eitlee of the state will drop. They can make but one excuse the stufslng is knocked out, Omaha and Lim-oln wiii go down ia history as grfit republican frauds. It I really ate tiling to we the re-p-iKIr-acs hasi ost taffy to the mid-4-o-tbroa4t-ra amd hot bitter swetts to. the prohibitionists. It is easy to tiw motive. The recruits to the tidQke-ot-tlie-roadir8 come from the Hryan prty while the re - cruit o the prohibitionist come from the MeKiaiey party. They claim that Mi Klnkr array saloon Is one of the cst retire tern per b measure row in w and the republicans won- dr wfey Woolley doea cot stand up frr it. We left the old whig party because it -a pro-latery. We did not go t the old democratic party because that wa pro- very, too. We became & abolitionist, then a free-sailer and fr that a republican. When the re pibHraa party mM out to he million aire acd the democratic party split & the jejune question. I decided to ttasd with the common people half. When tiscola went to Washington to be Inaugurated president, he did not dare to go through slave-driving territory in the day time. So he. wended his way to New York, stopping at -several of the large cltie3 on his way. From New York he secretly, in disguise, took a night train for Wash ington. So we advise Mr. Bryaa to proceed next March, only we warn him not to travel in the day-time through the land of the millionaires. Better go by the way of St. Louis and the southern states. The reason why money is so plen ty at a low rate of interest, with good security. Is because- no one dares in vest !n any kind of property. They fear McKinley may.be counted in again and in that case the republi cans will complete their gold stand ard by knocking out silver and green backs and in that case property will slump half again. They are ready to Invest in trusts and corporations where they have a monopoly and are fenced In, by a high protective fence. No one is inclined to start a business on his own hook. The Years of Thinking The populist party has been a leader of men and the founder of new policies. ; The great leader of parties now all j acknowledge it. Bryan proclaimed it t Topeka and Towne declared it to the silver republican convention at Kansas City. It seems marvellous to back upon. Years ago the populists raised a warning voice against the spirit of militarism. Some even went so far as to discourage enlistments in the militia. The members of the par ty foresaw, years In advance of other men. that this spirit was taking pos session of the people. Now all men see it. Some glory in it and some de plore it. But few saw it then. Years ago these same men gave warning against the growth of mon opolies, now called trusts. They pointed out their evil Influences and the danger that lurked in them to our free institutions. Few saw it then. Ail men see it now. All parties vie with each other In denouncing trusts and only here and tnere do they find an open defender. While one party may expect to ride Into power by se cretly favoring monopolies, it dare not openly defend them. Years ago these same men foresaw the evil that lurked in the private own ership of railroads and telegraphs. While there is not such a concensus of opinion on these subjects as on the i others, yet more and more men are constantly announcing themselves as converts to these doctrines also. Years ago these men. also saw the evil of the prffaC& ownership of street car lines, city!! gifting and water works. Now their wisdom is every where acknowledged and cities and towns by the hundred are putting these principles Into law,! Years ago these meja also worked out a scientific theory pf jmoney. The most savage political battles of air history have been fought oyer this tjuestlon and It la ncd settled yet. It will be fought as fiereely'in the years to come as It has beed?ln?thi3 years that are past. Who were these men who elaborated these new policies, put them into con crete form and formed a party to fight for them? They were the farmers and laborers of the land. These great prin ciples did not come to them by in spiration. They were tnpught out be tween the plow handles, ty the work bench and in the solitude of the mid night hours. There were years of thinking. Whfn the history of the last quar ter of the Nineteenth century is final- l it written, the populist party and I its founders will hav a pTace of honor J in It. Your children and your grand- children will be proud to say, my j father or grandfather was one of the j founders of tue populist party, for the J principles of the populist party are certain to become the policies of this government if the republic lives. The republic cannot live unless they do become its policies. Even if the re public goes down, as Senator Hoar says It will If the men who now rule it bers with new vigor. Let us fight as we have never fought before. The English are finding "the white man's burden," which they so "jaunt ily assumed when announced in the verse of Kipling, is growing very, very heavy. Members of parliament are in the country now making speeches and while they say that they are still will ing to carry their share of it, they don t want any. more than belongs to them. With wars, either ia actual pro4ecution or threatened, in every part of the world, the English govern ing class and taxpayers are spending many sleepless nights these times. " i-uepeuuem nas baiu I a11 along was in store for, them, and j tor this kindly warning it has been j roundly abused by some of them in tni country. The Independent wishes well to the "people" of England. -It ants to see them prosperous and hap- i PT hnt lor Joe Chamberlain and his gang of jingo pirates, it has no more respect than Profe?or Bryce. and hun dreds of other scholars and thinkers of that land have. - Arthur Sewall Dead Arthur Sewall, who ran on the dem ocratic ticket with Bryan in 1896, is dead. He has been in poor health for some time, but his demise ws.s unex pected. 110 has been a man oi promi nence in the east for twenty-five years or more. - . IS THERE A GOD? Atrocities of the Tartars Never Equalled the Outrages Committed in the Philippines Thomas W. Jones, a private in troop G, Eleventh cavalry, writing from San ta Cruz, Philippine islands, tells how sixty members of his regiment were ordered out to kill or capture a fam- ous Filipino general known to be liv ing in the neighborhood. The gen eral's house was located and the Am ericans crawled through the under brush until they secured positions but a few yards distant. Then they dis covered that they had unwittingly chanced upon a weuding. There was a large crowd present to take part in the festivities. Most of them, of course, were women and children; but there were abdut seventy-five men present who were armed. The Ameri cans were, ordered to fire, a volley from ambush and then charge, which they did with terrible results. "The scene that resulted " was hor rible," writes Private Jones. "On the ground near the house lay the body of the bride, .whose brains had been blown out. The groom, who had re ceived a bullet In the stomach, was ly ing near by dying. Twelve of , the Filipinos had., been killed and about the same number wounded. . An el derly, woman was shot through the leg and a little child had her arm shot off. "But we got the old general all right, and we burned, the insurgents' quar ters before we left," ends the letter. Washington correspondent Chicago Chronicle. The atrocities of Tamerline the Tartar never exceeded in brutality the bloody deeds of President McKinley. Don Cameron's Lunch Counter, 114 to 118 So. 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. It seems that McKinley will have to be satisfied with Mark Hanna's nomi nation. While nominations by leagues and associations of various kinds have been pouring In on Bryan, not an ag gregation of any kind can be found who will so disgrace themselves as to nominate McKinley. The other day the Afro-American council met in Ind ianapolis. An American citizen of African descent, who Is an officeholder under McKinley, arose to make a speech for Mark Hanna's man, and the rest of the negroes present threw him out of the door. From the press reports it seems that a majority of those present were for Bryan. NEWS OF THE WEEK Correspondence from newspaper men on the ground in China is just begin ning to be printed in the eastern dail ies. One or two of the magazines have articles written by men well acquaint ed with the Chinese situation and from it all, some facts may be gathered upon which an opinion may bo founded. The truth seems to be that there has been great unrest in China for five or six years on account of the encroachments of foreign, powers upon Chinese terri tory. Some of the leading Manderins, being exceedingly ignorant : men and having but little or no knowledge of the outside world, joined with the rab ble for the purpose of driving all for eigners out of China. The govern ment, or what there is of government In China, was vacillating. On the other hand the men of intelligence and information with a very large propor tion of the peaceful population back of thera, were opposed to the whole movement and would have destroyed it if their advice had been taken. It seems that both Admiral Remey and General Chaffee held to this op inion. Admiral Remey refused to join with the other foreign powers in an attack on the Chinese forts at Taku and General Chaffee has from the day of the relief of the foreign legations at Pekin advised that our troops be withdrawn. It appears now that if there had been no attack on the Taku forts that the ministers might have been relieved without loss of life or property and , that the attack by the European governments lead to all the fighting that followed. That is the conclusion that this writer has come to after reading everything bearing on the subject that could be gotten hold of In both the magazines and the daily papers. For a few days it was heralded in all the dailies that the administration had made a great stroke and was lead ing the diplomacy of the world ev erything was following in the train of McKinley. But it turns out that it was not the Washington administra tion that was leading. It was simply following the plan marked out by Rus sia. Russia insisted that Pekin should be . evacuated and the reigning house of China should be allowed to come back there and set up a government again. That was in accordance with the advice given by Chaffee and which received no attention whatever until it was backed up by Russia. The great coup d'etat was not originated by Hay or McKinley, but by the Russian diplomats, ' The accounts sent by the correspon dents of the fighting in and around Tien Tsin give a detail of horrors that the world has not seen the like of in a hundred years. Men, women and children were slaughtered by the thou sands and the barbarities of the Rus sian troops, as recorded by the corre spondents, are almost beyond belief. Tien ,Tsin is a city of 400,000 people.' It lies in ruins and hundreds, of thou sands of the innocent have been slaughtered or are dying of starvation. All the soldiers turned to looting. It is said that there was enough silver captured to give each sdldier taking r pal i iu mo oooauii ui.ijr puuuua. oui- diers were seen everywhere, so these correspondents say, with bolts of the finest silks and rare merchandise of all kinds. One correspondent says that an order was issued to turn over all this loot so it could be evenly divided aiong the various'1 nationalities. The march from Tien Tsin Jo Pekin was one of terrible suffering. Every thing that could bear a burden was -I ' commandeered" as they say. Horses, cows, oxen, mules, dogs and coolies. These coolies they say were driven along the ioads with " whips, bearing their heavy '.burdens until many , of them feldead in their tracks. Cows, ox ei , everything, was loaded down with camp equipage and supplies. . Ev ery nationality was straining everv nerve to see which could get to Pekin first. The Japanese soon took the lead r.nd kept It. They were accustomed to the climate and could live on a hand ful of rice a day. The men had been trained to marching until their mus cles were like steel. The Japanese cavalry kept in vadvance all - the time, scouting on the flanks of the retreat ing Chinese. 1 The-American soldiers were so placed In the column that they had to march every day in the heat of the day while the other allies marched early In the morning and late at night. The suffering, among the Americans was terrible, very ..many falling down on the march from heat and exhaus tion.. Most of them, however, would get up at night arid crawl along after the main body." ' The American: and English troops entered Pekin - almost - together, the English -a little ahead. : To get at the gates that lead, to the place where the legations had defended themselves, the troops, officers and men had to wade a long distance .in a sewer filled with the offall and filth of the city. When, after severe fighting, they had forced their way in, they were' astonished to find Sir McDonald dressed in a tennis suit of spotless white flanell and Min ister Conger also immaculately dressed standing ready to receive them. The ladies were attired in their most beau tiful costumes r and all appeared as if they were attending a fashionable lawn party. The correspondents say that when this sight burst upon the half dead and mud-covered soldiers they stood as if petrified and gazed at it in L astonishment. - (Every v reader of The Independent can make his own com ments on this strange scene.) What McKinley is likely to do in regard to the situation in China can better be guessed from known facts than anything that is given out at the state department. The facts are, that enormous winter supplies are being rhurried, forward to China and no or ders have yet been Issued for the re turn of the troops to the coast. Long lists of dead still keep com ing from the Philippines and in South Africa the war still goes on. Lord Roberts' took the field in person, and went out 'with his whole force "and fought a battle with Botha. The re sult of it was that the Boers retreated a little further into cne mountains. The British have to still maintain an army of 200,000 men in South Africa. How much longer they will have to remain there to hold, the country down no one knows. . 7. A GOOD - BUSINESS YEAR In Spite of the Political Agitation, the Clash &of Oratory, xand s, at ir?n of-;.; : opposma Q? GOVERNMENT e, - The Bankers BeserTe Life Association -..Has Done More EBusiness Than all of Its'. Competitors. . : JJ . ' ' .... A Nebraska life insurance company properly managed is sure to win the support of loyal .Nebraskans if it can offer as good or better insurance con tracts than the old line companies, which for so many years have been making constant and debilitating drafts upon the"" BUSINESS VITALITY OF THE STATE. vThe experience of the Bankers' Re serve has . demonstrated this fact. With policies unexcelled In the world, offering all the. modern options, sur render values, extended insurance and paid-up insurance, this vigorous young company has gone out into this and adjoining states conquering Its way among the people notwithstanding the MALICIOUS ATTACKS OF ALIENS. . The people want to patronize home institutions. They have learned from investigation that every insurance ex pert who has officially examined the Bankers' Reserve has made a favor able report. These official reports have invariably been couched in words of highest praise and the personal commendations of the expert examin ers have been extremely gratifying to the management. EVERY LOSS PROMPTLY PAID. The record "of " the Bankers' Reserve in' the matter of prompt payment of approved claims, is also strongly com mended by these officials. These facts being known, the efficient corps of experienced underwriters at work in the field are writing more insurance than all .thealien companies combined, and the premium1 account of the Bank ers Reserve is rapidly growing in pro portion. ' - f MORE THAN $2,600,000- of insurance is now at risk written by the Bankers' Reserve, although but lit- ! tie more than three years , old. The larger part of this has been written the present year under the beneficient' influence of the- stipulated premium' law of Nebraska. B. H. Robison, pres ident, Omaha. Neb., invites, experi enced solicitors to see him for con tracts. ' General News Fremont is preparing for a street fair next week. The plan is to have an "inner city" complete in itself con sisting of booths for the display of ev ery business interest of that city. It will be enclosed and entirely separate from the rest of, the city. . Marc G. Perkins, manager of the American press association in Omaha, is carrying a bullet in the side of -his "head as a result of a careless boy, a rifle and a 22 cartridge. Mr. Perkins, with his 'wife and, son, were walking along Fortieth street, near Izard, when a bullet whizzed through Mrs. Perkins hair and found lodgment in the side of Mr. Perkins head, the lo cation of the bullet, being just between the temple and top of the ear. The wound was such that does not permit of the extraction of the lead, but he does not suffer from the accident aside from considerable nervousness caused by the shock. v, A slight variation of the' bullet might have resulted serious ly for both Mr. and Mrsi. Perkins. From 11:15 to 11:20 o'clock last Monday every locomotive, every piece of machinery and every employe on the . Memphis railroad system, from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., were idle. This action was taken as a mark of respect to the memory of the late President E. S. Washburn of the "Memphis" system, .who died at Rye - Beach, N. . H., last Friday. For the five minutes specified every train, car and locomotive was held at a standstill, no matter where they hap pened to be. At the end, of the five minutes traffic was resumed. The fun eral service of President Washburn was held . shortly after noon, at St. Andrew's church, Rye Beach, . N. H. The body was taken to Boston, Mass., for interment in Forest Park cemetery, where other members of the family rest. ' - i. '. ' Charles ; L. Lake of Filley reported that he had gone to the lowlands es corted -by a negro and had been re lieved of about $12 in coin while there. A -man from Ulysses who gave his name as Anderson was robbed of his return ticket and $1.55 in coin while talking to a negro woman in an alley. Marion Abbott,., living- one mile north of Havelock, wentfto a deserted house on South Ninth street to sleep with a friend he had picked up on the street. The friend told him that he might be robbed and Abbott gave him his purse containing $14 to keep until morning. The fellow made a run for the door when he got the purse and has not been seen since. Information brought by travellers returning from Central America in dicates that the United States of Co lombia, having- suppressed a recent rebellion - of unusually sanguinary character, is determined to call Vene zuela to account for permitting the rebels to organize there and cross the line into Colombia. Both countries are purchasing army supplies and war will probably result. A letter .from Taku says that the boxers are pillaging the country south west of Tien Tsin and killing the na tives . who oppose their organization. Two thousand boxers are said to have been , slaughtered by - imperial troops at a feast to .which they had been in vited ,b y Tao Tsung Chow. General Shatter reports the arrival at San Francisco of the transport Tho mas, with a number of officers wound ed at Tien Tsin, and it is also thought a number of sick and discharged sol diers... Seven, died en route from acute dysentery!. Under date of Belfast," September 1, Lord Roberts "reports: "I have today issued, under her majesty's warrant of July 4, proclamations announcing that the Transvaal will henceforth form a part of her majesty's dominions." 'Failures in1 the -United States 5 for the calendar, month ot August, as re ported .by" telegraph to "Bradstreet's, number 705," "With ' aggregated 'liabili ties "of $6,255,09?, and assets of $2, 936,047. " Farmers of Dawson county are glad to see the grasshopper pest disap pearing. A small ' boy discovered the cause of the' disappearance to be a small black Insect working under their wings. The senatorial convention of the Fifth district, which consists of Saun ders and Sarpy counties, was held at Ashland and nominated Dr. G. W. Meredith. of that place. -Brescl, the . assassin of King Hum bert, has asked, for a postponement of his trial until witnesses can arrive from the United States. - Major Leo Rassieur of St. Louis was chosen commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. and Denver will be the next encampment- city. Mr. Charles A. Schwab, president of the Carnegie Steel company, is about to found a trade school for boys near Pittsburg. The state university will open on the 18th of this month. Chancellor Andrews will be formally inaugurated on the 22d. , The fusionists held a big rally at Wahoo, Neb., the past week and were addressed by Mr. Bryan and others. Forest fires: have been doing great damage in Colorado. Great stretches of timber hare been destroyed. The census of Baltimore, as bul letined by the census bureau, is 508, 957, against 434,439 in 1890. Bloodhounds successfully tracked the "men who robbed 'the postoffice at Octavia recently. . The old settlers' .ipicnlc at Hum boldt was the . best attended of any for years. The Pythian Sisterhood at Detroit elected as president Mrs. W. A. Dill worth of Omaha." An anarchist meeting in Berlin was dispersed by the police and the speak er arrested. , Several cases of petty robbery were reported to the police during fair week. Mexico City is asking that the next pan-American congress be held there. Things Are All Right v Hon. Theodore Griess-and Hon. R. S. Oberfelder, the first, candidate for auditor, and the second candidate for presidential elector on , the fusion ticket, were in The Independent office today and reported that everything was all right out in the state. We are making gains everywhere, especially among the Germans and other foreign population. The determination that the Declaration- of Independence shall not be discarded and that this republic shall ' not be made an empire grows stronger every day. . . Fall and Winter Season, 1900-01 s SPECIAL INDUCEMENT Tnlfo:i -fw o C tictAMtaec 1 V lllflll Ul UW1 VU31U1I1&1 3. 9 . Goods Sent FREE How to save, freight and express charges. Avail your self of this Grand, Offer! We will Deliver Goods Free to Your address on the following conditions: Orders amounting to $2.00 or over, we will deliver free to any town ,within 100 miles of Lincoln. Orders amounting to $5.00 and over, we will deliver free to any towTi in the United States. . WE DO NOT PREPAY ON C. O. D. PACKAGES In all cases cash in full must accompany order and must be eithercPost Office Money order, Express Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft on some large city.' .The way to get advantage of these low prices and have 'your packages prepaid is to form clubs with your frie"nds,send your orders and money together, and get the goods in one lump. SEND FOR OUR NEW FALL CATALOGUE The flarkets CHICAGO , CASH QUOTATIONS. No. 2 red wheat... 6975 No. 3 red , wheat ,.68 74 No. 3 spring wheat ..68 (5)74 No No No 2 hard wheat ...68i469 3 hard wheat. ........ .66 68 2 cash corn. 39 No. 3 cash corn 39 No. 2 yellow corn. ....3940 No. 3 yellow corn... 39 39 No No No 2 cash oats..... 2121 2 white oats...... 2424 3 white oats.. ....2324 No. 1 flax, Septemebr.. 1 52 October .1 46 LIVE STOCK. South Omaha, Sept. 5. Receipts of live stock were as follows: ' Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Official Monday... 5,750 2,745 10,090 Official Tuesday. . : 6,179 Official Wed'sday..3,741 3 days this week. 15,670 Same last week. . 11,572 Same week before. 8,883 Same 3 w'ks ago . .7,822 Same 4 w'ks ago,. 4,131 8,690 6,134 17,569 10,376 8,156 1,425 19,671 19,352 17,348 20,112 13,102 9.700 7,274 9,066 Average prices paid for . hogs for the last several days, with compari sons: .-'-- - 1900 J899 1898 1897 3.70 3.71 3.68 3.73, 3.70 3.76 3. S3 3.79 3.81 3.91 4.02 3.97 3.91 3.99 3.99 4.07 4.07 4.04 1896 2.84 2.92 2.88 2.79 2.85 2.79 2.68 2.79 2.76 2.75 2.80 2.84 2.81 2.77 2.81 2.81 2.71 2.76 Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. 16.-; ; 4.3r 3.78 17.. ... C36 3.74 18. .4.97 4.47 3.66 19.. , 4.50 3.67 20. .5.03 3.75 21.. ... 4.42 22.. ... 4.42 3.69 23.. ..; 4.41 3.74 24.. 5. 02 4.42 3.81 25. .5.05 4.40 3.73 26.. 1.38 3.72 27..4.98 ' 3.70 28.. ... 4.40 29.. ... 4.42 3.70 30. .5.00 4.40 3.72 Aug Aug 31.. 5. 05 4.27-3.63 Sept. 1....5.044;20 3.61 3.69 3.65 3.62 Sept. 2.... 4.14 Sept. 3 5.02 Sept. 4 "4.19 Sept. 5 4.22 Indicates Sunday. Representative sales: BEEF STEERSr No. Av.-Pr. No. Av. Pr. 1 1110 $4 50 18.... 1222 $5 30 34... .1193 5 30 16.... 1202 5 40 COWS. 1..-J.1010 $2 70 BULLS. 1 1580 $2 50 1....1440 $3 00 CALVES. 1.... 170 $5 50 STAGS. 1....1350 $3 75 HOGS. Representative sales: No. Av. Pr. No. Av. Pr. 59 334 $5 02 62 280 5 05 . 72 218 5 07 63..... 258 5.07 62. ....262 5 07 69.. ...193 58 250 5 15 69..... 233 SHEEP. Quotations Choice western 5 10 5 15 grass wethers S3 40 3 60: choice grass year lings $3 40 3 60; choice ewes $3 00 3 25; fair to good ewes S2 503 00; choice spring lambs $5 005 25: fair to good spring lambs. $4 75 5 00; feeder ' wethers, S3 403 50; feeder lambs, $4 004 25. Representative sales: No. Av. Pr. 239 western wethers... 112 $3 40 100 Wyo. feeding lambs.... 59 4 30 37 Idaho lambs.. 58 4 75 Deaf and Dumb Exhibit One of the "most .interesting of all among the educational exhibits at the st&te fair was that of the school -for the deaf and " dumb. Some of the handiwork of those students were sur prisingly fine. This exhibit deserves a full description, but as that is im possible, particular mention must be made of the ornamental work in wood. An oak table, the top inlaid with a perfect map of Nebraska, each coun ty carved from woods of different col ors was a wonder to every visitor. While other articles of exquisite taste and -workmanship" attest the com petency of the teacher and the genius of the student. Mention should also be made of the exquisite taste in em broidery as shown in some of the work of the female students rivalling as it does the work of professionals in that department of civilized Industry. One of the most" Important exhibits of this greatest of Nebraska state fairs was the educational, and I feel that it did not receive the attention that it should have commanded. The writer is aware of the great labor and diffi culty involved in the preparation of a creditable show of this kind, which CAfALOniJE. No. 8 presumably prevented Omaha. Lincoln and other large cities of the state from attempting it. Four cities only were represented Nebraska City, Bea trice, Geneva and Elgin. These ex hibits were all very fine and I wish I were competent to describe them fully and fill a whole page of The in dependent. They deserve it and more. I feel Impelled, however, to mention Elgin as It is a little new town on the prairie in Antelope county, containing perhaps 500 people. There were in that exhibit some very fine specimens of map-drawing, a perfect map of Antelope county, In colors, and num erous maps In relief of the different divisions of the .world. , Thero were also many other specimens, illustrat ing the different departments of grad ed school, work that would be a credit to any metropolitan city school. A fine collection of specimens in entomology reminded me of one by a boy named Bruner in the state fair at Omaha "way back in the '70's." That boy's name is now known the world over and I wonder if this student of the Everett school will not be called to destroy the locusts for the free people of the great republic of South Africa, a few years hence. Verily, the Nebraska teacher leada the van In the higher education and advanced thought. " B. ROOSA. THE VERMONT ELECTION fit. Republican Majorities Greatly Cut Down and Democrat Double their Hep reaentatlon in the Legislature There was an election In Vermont last Tuesday for state officers and members of the legislature. The re-i publican dallies put the returns In the grave yard. It has often been said that the republicans are sure to lose the general election when Vermont does not roll up 30,000 republican ma jority and she didn't , do it by a long shot. They say the returns are not all In yet the old 8tory--but that the majority will be about '25,000 or 26,000 Besides that, the republicans have lost heavily in the membership of the leg islature. Imperialism is not popular even in the rock-ribbed republican pre cincts of old Vermont. If the repub licans lose as heavily In other states as they have in Vermont, Bryan will be elected by a big majority. In 1896 Mc'Klnley's majority in Vermont was 40,980. ; Mr. Bryan in the East Mr. Bryan's appearance in the east can hardly be referred to, at this time, as a visit to the "enemy's country." The democratic candidate for presi dent has become so well known to all of the people of the United States, by his constant travels during the last four years, that in no part of the un ion can he be looked upon as a Strang- , His career as a campaigner is cer tainly remarkable. : His continued pop ularity and his unabated power to in- -terest the people argue the possession of unusual gifts and qualities. That he has grown in favor in the east is certainly significant. It is predicted that he is more likely to gain votes in that section than to Increase or even maintain the majorities which be scored in the west in 1896. The friend ship with which Mr. Bryan is received in the east, where his ideas and doc trines were formerly regarded with particular distrust, is a striking tri bute, to his great personal influence. His ability to command -the support of a state like New York In the na tional convention, and the indorsement of such an organization as Tammany, demonstrates the wonderful hold which Mr. Bryan has on his party. All of this comes about, not so much by the force of the doctrines for which Mr. Bryan stands as by the exercise ot a singular individual power, which has been rarely equalled In the his tory of American politics. It may be expected that Mr. Bryan will command in the east the same at tention and respect which always greets him in the west. There are certain democrats in the Atlantic states who were not able to shake hands with Mr. Bryan on his financial views who will now greet him as a true prophet in his crusade against militarism and imperialism. It can hardly be said that Mr. Bry an keeps himself to the fore, for he couldn't do that unless the people wanted to ee and hear him. Kansas City Star, September 5. The New York Life Insurance com pany has paid Mrs. Ingalls, widow of the late John jringalls, $39,5S3 insur ance upon the life of her husband. I