2 December '0, i00. Gold Weather Dry Goods. Great Bargain In Cloaks. From naEofctar wio wer orer- locked w Lave reoeoUj nutde toms Ury parch of l.di brj winter elaJt at trrj low prie. We are ell inx tjlifc winter rlk at price cot tuuail made before Jsauarj cr Febru ary. Now while ttre tpeciaJ bargain are cm oureoucter ia a good time to buy. Ccxse &tt4 for vour-If. Hticrt jackets to b'.ack and color S3, rtj. riTi, tu. iijio. ilt5. t5i. taoo, riXfl. f7JTA 17.73. Ii75 r.d 110 each. I Jot cotta in bla-k and color S3.73, 17.50, rSXO. f'J-UJ. flOjOO and fUiO each- Col a Weather Underwear. We are orJeriof apecial value ia ladie extra warm ucderwear. Ileary all cot ton et acd pact with extra hear oft fierce Jtaisj? Loc each. . Heary crajr wool and cotton mixed Tet asd pact! Sic ea-h. lltsrj trtay eu atd p3t, two third wool 7c each, Heavy gray, call 4 all wool but with a alight mixture of cotton, very aoft cih f LUO each. MILLER & PAINE 0 and 13th Sts., Lincoln, Neb. a INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU BUY. 4 t rr-B SURE HATCH inCUBATORS LI 4 a rMises erase reule rimmri t tMIMf wam Hi IMHM Ittf n Wf. MUi M III It ft !U frTXtt I t - V T -ck. 6.rUiH mm m tm Hf tm . ll'lll illnlil SURE HATCH INCUBATOR COMPANY, CLAY CENTER, NEBRASKA. News of the Week Th.it statement abows a great ehange a!cr last summer when an honorable and quirt clt!tn was rao5!4 In Pieadilly for expressing an opinion in favor of the fvers. But the brutality of th Jingo prMi Is not a whit aba:1. The London Evening Saa on Ut Friday aid. with cold bru tality: "SlOit people are jclad that the end ing ot the raispalgn Is eatruted to a man who knows no qualms asd is no respecter cf jrfoci. Itoberts. after all. is too much of a humanitarian for such work- One Kltrhner xeth to work on the Boers nothing will stop fcira. Lord Kith3rs rforJ for eold b!oode! brutality, the nhMdlrg of blood without the f!lhtet compunc tion, can hardly be equallHl la the Frrt century. To get a match for Isira we will fcuve to go back to the days fit Attlla or Genghis Kahn. His ork la Egypt waa to horrible that no correspondent dared to describe it. But then tt A rat whose carcasses he left by th thousand for the vul tures and jackals to if a ft cpon were net Christian and the world said nothing. If he trirs the same plan upon the Christian Boers and leaves a few thousand men. women and chil dren to lie on the velt with their Bi ble in their hands to be eaten by the wild beasts, somebody might say something about It. Howevet, that is dotihtful la the present state of the Cferlatian church. The protstant popes who draw the big salaries, have been In the habit cf indorsing eTery sort of war and demanding more. A Washington correspondent last week sent a special dispatch to his paper In which he said: Tt Is a singular fact that the only blood-thirsty communications receive at the White house asd the depart Q 59 ri 1 a ( U) rate titH i mi mi . . i mm . ii i ti I You ffleaf?? an i e DCarWWFSS r HtRO.HrittNC VmTmb Zmsm f'lriSfcl? i.pw;.ti i.ntnuit uii.r"nL HIDES. S. J. DOBSON & Co., Seor tv-baoes a LatfcdTPa, ' . ! ia mis, ms, tallow m wool so n iistoLx, xrru W ct jrli.L ia c-ar Ls mt tcU in. ir It fc: ieraet prie. Woompener's STORE. DRUGS,PA1HTS.01LS,GLASS A fall line of Perfume and Toilet Good. 139 Si:thiClh St.fBfSwgi3 0 &H, Lincoln, Neb. Tfcer are no fakes advertised In tlt&e coicnr.s. ft??: 1 1 if .jji i l LLm Drug Good Tilings For .. Christmas. A Big Lot Of Toys. We are selling toys rapidly and we ex pect before Christmas to make a clean aweep of the stock. As we stated last week our toy stock consists of an im mense sample line which wo bought very cheap and which we are selling rery cheap. We can please you in toys whether you want to spend one cent or many dollars. Other Things For Christmas. In every department of our store we are showing great assortment of goods suitable for Christmas gifts. We cannot enumerate all the good things, but will mention just a few: Kid tilofes. Gents Ties, Lined Gloves, Ladies Ties, Toilet Sets, Handkerchiefs. Fur Collars, , Fur Scarfs, Silk Mittens, Fancy Hose, Table linen. Napkins, Lace Curtains, Hugs, Fancy Pictures, Silver Novelties, Jewelry, Picture Frames. Etc- Etc. it. lart!alU tkl I ft (Mag Xmtttw MkMIn nut I or UmCE. WtaoB't ment of state on the Chinese question come from ministers of the gospel, especially from missionaries. Forget ting the gentler teachings of Christ, they insist upon the application of the old Mosaic law in the punishment of the Chiense an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and the utter de struction of the cities In which the wickedness has been committed. They demand the lives of the emperor 'and empress dowager, and all the members of the court and the wholesale slaugh ter of the officials o! the government. Many of them demand that Pekln shall be burned to the ground and the site sown with salt. It is the spirit of tr-ore who hewed Agag in pieces be fore the Lord. - "The files of the department of state arc b"ing rapidly filled with such com munications, and the writers often threaten the president and the secre tary of state with vengeacc? If they do not abandon their pacific policy and Join Germany in tha work of murder and destruction. The merchant class, whose communications are almost as numerous, take an opposite view of the situation, and ask for an early set tlement of the difficulty on the most practical terms. The department has recel-td a great deal of interesting and valuable advice from merchants who have lived In China and who un derstand the character of the people. A few weeks ago The Independent announced that the Filipinos had re ceived a new lot of arms. Last Sun day that fact got Into the Associated press dispatches In a garbled form. The dispatch said: "The reports of the Filipino committees at Kobe. Yo kohama. Macao. Batavia. Hong Kong and Bangkok show they are all work ing welL This is also evidenced by the fact that 10.000 rifles were smug gled Into Manila last month. The war is no nearer an end than ever. The Filipino resources are still great, as can be judged by the fact that Aguin aldo Is continuing to keep and feed 3,000 Spanish prisoners." PJgtform Scales IrarlbHtwi tmoaaaieaavatrUt. Steel baar a4 lrtoioff af rTtl tertk form lrmi Ta H thmt fi.1 Yo Mm J." aa mhm m la lt apar. VESTEtS BE'CWTUJ CO. CtfL ft Crtlu. itk. AT CUT RATE... fl 00 Hood's Sarsaparilla 75o i (A) laine's Celery Compound .... 75c 1 00 Ayers Bareaparilla 75o 1 00 Allen's Sarsaparilla .75c 1 00 Allen's Celery Compound 75c 1 00 Scott's Emulsion 75c 1 00 King's New Discovery 75o 1 00 Peruna 75c 1 00 Swamp Root 75c 1 00 S.&S. 75o 1 00 Pinkham's Vegetable Comp'd.75c 1 00 Jayne's Expectrant. 75c 1 00 Beef Iron and Wine Tonic 75c 1 00 Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 75c 1 00 Miles' Restorative Tonic 75c 1 00 Wine of Cardui.' .....75c 1 00 Slocum's Ozomulsion ..75c 1 00 Kadneld'a Female Regulator.. 75c 1 00 Snoops Restorative... ...75c 1 00 Indian Sagwa.;.... 75c 1 00 McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm 75c 1 00 Mother's Friend ;..75c 1 00 Woman' Ileal th Restorer. ...75c I 00 La-cu-pt-a 75c I 00 Hostetter's Bitters .....75c 1 00 Iren Tonic Bitters.... 75c 1 00 Electric Bitters.............. 75c Johnson Drug Store Low Prices 141 So. 9th St. Lincoln, Neb. SPRING MEDICINES Nothing has been said about these 3,000 Spanish prisoners which the Filipinos have held ver since Merritt. Dewey and Aguinaldo co-operated in taking Manila. The president has busied himself in telling the American people that the Filipino army was broken up into small bands of bandits and that "the war was over." How a lot of bandits could hold three thou sand Spanish prisoners, guard and clothe and feed them, neither Mark or Mack ever told us. There are 8,000.000 or 10,000,000 peo ple ovr there inhabiting a productive country, nine-tenths of them more loy al to Aguinaldo than the American colonists ever were to Washington," who are determined to fight to the last extremity for independence. -Their coasts are so situated that it is an im possibility to blockade them. They have agencies for the purchase of sup plies in all the principal cities of Eu rope. They have a voluntary system of taxation superior to . any ever en forced by Jaw. What is the prospect of setting up "a stable government," administered by hated foreign-conquerors over them? Every general in the islands has asked permission to come home for the benefit of his health. The climate is bad for north ern men, but those 10,000 Mauser rifles just received is likely to make a stay there still more unhealthy. 'Our gen erals there are all brave men as well as the privates under their command and if they were fighting for liberty Instead of conquest, not one of them would ask to come home. They are ju3t as sick of their job as Lord Rob erts. Like him, they are too much hu manitarians to have a stomach for their work. The best thing that Mc Klnley can do is to hire Weyler to finish up the job. A letter, evidently written by an officer of the army, recently appeared in one of the daily papers. It was dated at Manila. The writer says:' "It is as yet unsafe for an Ameri can to go anywhere outside of the places under military protection, as marauding bands of Tagalos and oth er tribes are ready to kill an American on sight. It i3 dangerous, for instance, for a person to go more than nine miles outside of this city without a military guard, and even then he runs a chance of being fired upon from am bush. This is true of many of the towns where the troops are stationed. "The work of pacification cannot, be done by the military. I have talkei with scores of army officers on this point, and they frankly admit that the pacification of the people cannot be accomplished under military rule. The soldiers, as a matter of fact, have no use for the Filipinos, and .do not hesi tate by rather harsh treatment on the part of some of them to show their dis like, while the Filipinos have no love for the soldiers." The Independent has the evidence to prove that that letter was in the hands of that editor three weeks before the election and all the while it was held, the paper declaring that "the war was over." It doubtless had numerous oth ers of .the same sort which it sup pressed while it shouted for McKin ley and imperialism. Since then a change has come over the spirit of its dreams. It is mentioned to show the venality of the great dailies. Several letters have been received asking for the official count of the presidential election. It will not be obtainable for some weeks yet. The official count of thirty states show the minor presidential candidates to have received the following vote: Woolley, prohibition, 157,090; Barker, middle-of-the-road populist, 54,813; Debs, so cial democrat, 73,407. The total vote for these three minor candidates will probably not exceed 300,000. Out of the thirty states that have made offi cial returns, there were no votes for Woolley in one state; none for Bar ker in seven states, and none for Debs in seven states. The salt trust gave a turn to the screw out on the Pacific coast the other day that made the whole pop ulation howl. The announcement wasj first made in the San Francisco Chron icle and was as follows: "The price of salt to the trade will jump from 95 cents to ?2 a bag today. The Federal Salt company has acquired control of the salt industry in Alameda county and of the entire output west of the Rocky mountains. Negotiations have been carried on quietly for several weeks. Why the people out there should howl is the mystery. They voted for the trusts and knew it when they cast their ballots. The people out there with their eyes wide open voted for ChineHe immigration and when it comes pouring in after the expiration of the Chinese exclusion act, they will, without cause, begin to howl again Let them howl. The Independent has ho sympathy to waste upon them. In all the uproar at Washington about legislation to be enacted by congress, not a mention has been made of the expiration of the exclusion act. It will expire during next summer and by fall thousands of Chinese will be pour ing into San Francisco. Then we shall have the old sand lot times again. Dennis Kearney is a good re publican now and has been for a long time. The president's message Is about seventeen columns long and it is prob able that out of the 15,000,000 voters In the Ui...ed States not to exceed a thousand will ever worry through reading the whole of it.. Life is too short to waste so much of it in read ing such a long, commonplace docu ment. The most striking feature of it is its shameless mendacity. Read the following monumental lie, put into a state paper to be handed down to com ing generations. In speaking of - the Philippines McKinley says: "Our forces have controlled the GREATER part of the islands, overcoming the or ganized forces of the Insurgents and carrying order and administrative reg ularity to ALL quarters." There Is not an Intelligent man in the United States who does not know that that The Cuban constitutional convention is fairly at work at last. Three or four schemes for government have been Submitted. One by General Ri vera, would delight the bearfof Alex ander Hamilton. It puts the power I in the hands of the rich, no one being eligible for a senatorship who has an income less than $1,500 a year. It pro vides . for an electoral college much more complicated and much farther removed from the people than onr an tiquated system. General Quaseda's plan would provide a government-of president. erate and house of repre tentatives, elected by the people, the sented. all elected by the people, the suffrage qualification , being educa tional. All plans include the demand that the president - shall be a native Cuban; with " the exception of one which provides that any one who served in the Cuban revolution army may hold the office." - The "Big Three" of the meat trust ha3 at last forced the only indepen dent packing - company Into liquida tion. Hereafter they will have things all their own way. Look out for an other rise in fresh meat and another fall in cattle and hogs. ' He is Sir George ndW; One of the first bills passed by the senate was one to authorize Hon. George D: Mei klejohn to accept a decoration of chevalier from the King of Sweden and Norway. Several other bills of the same character "were passed at the first session. We will soon have as many titles as they have over in Eu rope. Plutocracy and titles have al ways been inseparably joined. The mil lionaires will not have to send their daughters to Europe to marry titles when this session of jcongress is con cluded. - . '5 As The Independent " Informed its readers some weeks ago, as soon as the senate was called f to order. Senator Fry vacated his seat as president pro tem., went upon the floor and moved to make HannaVship subsidy bill the unfinished business of the senate un til disposed of. .That motion was car ried and the greatest raid upon the treasury ever attempted since this government was organized was started on its way to completion. In the house the first order of business is the bill to create a standing army of 100, 000. . All this is very familiar to -the readers of The Independent,5 but think of the poor mullet heads who know nothing about it and imagine that the republican party is still marching in the footsteps of Lincoln! Please have pity upon them and hand to them your Independent after you have finished reading it. The latest news from Washington Is to the effect that the Rath bone and Neely prosecutions for stealing Cuban postal funds will be "amicably ar ranged" and that Embalmed Beef Ea gan will be restored to rank and al lowed to retire. Under the law he would be raised a -rank on retirement and his half pay would nearly equal that which he. is receiving now. He don't like his present situation, al though he is getting the full pay of his rank and has nothing to do, be cause the army regulations sends him to Coventry as far- as all officers are concerned. This advertisement Is good for 50 cents on any ton of 'coal bought before December 14, 1900. Gregory, The Coal Man, 1044 O st. ' ' . CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAY RATES VIA ST. JOSEPH & GRAND ISLAND R'Y. For the mid-winter, holidays the Grand Island Route will sell on De cember 24, 25, 31 and January 1, good to return until and including January 2, round trip tickets-to all local points at low rates. SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT Th Populists Keep up Their Record and Turn Over to the Support of the Schools for the Cnrrent Year $708,191.73. The following is the official letter ot Treasurer Meserve turning over to Su perintendent Jackson the semi-annual apportionment for the common schools. There is nothing that the populists are proud erv of in their gov ernment of- the state than the dou bling of the apportionment for schools. Under the old republican regimes the teachers were often kept waiting long weeks for their pay and when they got it, it was jn warrants that were from 5 to 7 per cent discount. The term of schools in many districts were cut down and in some of the more thinly populated portibns of the state they scarcely had what could be called ' a school. But the people of this state did not like that way of managing the public schools and they voted to go back to the old republican way, when teh working politicians in the republi can party were given from a section down to forty acres of school land free, to pay them for party work. Un der careful management of Land Com missioner Wolfe the lands have 'all been made to produce funds for the schools, Treasurer Meserve has seen to it that every cent was safely han dled and Superintendent Jackson has carefully apportioned It among the districts. That kind of work was not to the liking of the imported voters or the mullet heads and they-have put a stop to it, but the fact stands that the populists doubled the amount of mon ey distributed to the common schools. The apportionment last May was $400, 321.99. This apportionment is $307, 830.54. The following Is Treasurer Meserve's official letter informing Superintendent Jackson of the amount of funds and the sources from which they were de rived. - - " Lincoln, Neb., Dec'. 4, 1900. Hon. WV R. Jackson, Superintendent Public In struction. My Dear Sir: Section 3, chapter 79, subdivision II., compiled statutes of Nebraska (1899) provides that the superintendent shall receive from the state treasurer, on or before the first Monday in December a com plete exhibit of all monies belonging to the several counties of the state. In compliance therewith the follow ing statement is respectfully sub mitted, it being a true and complete showing of all monies received from the third Monday in May to and in cluding the first Monday In December, 1900: From state school tax......$ 85,048 81 From interest on school land -sold................ 87,527 26 From interest on school land leased.......... 61,289 47 From interest on saline KE OLD OyMEISIliV Cured By After of Catarrh Peruna gMytJI Si f MRS. POLLY EYAflS, A LTFE-L03fQ OF PE-BUMTA. "My wife (Polly J, Evaas) says she feels entirely cured of systemic catarrh of twenty years' standing. She took nearly six bottles of thy excellent me cine, Peruna, as directed, and we feel very thankful to thee for thy kindness and advice. She did not ever expect to be so well as she Is now. Twelve years ago It cured her of la grippe. I want to tell thee there has been a great deal of Peruna used here last winter. Peruna does not need praising. It tells for Itself. We can and do recommend It to anyone that is afflicted with catarrh. " , As ever, thy friend, John Evans, South Wabash, Ind. The above letter written by a venerable old Quaker, Mr. John Evans, living at South Wabash, Ind. tells in his quaint language his experience with the national catarrh remedy, Peruna. , The University of Nebraska SCHOOL OF MUSIC. . . . Is the leading institution of its kind in the west. It offers complete and thor ough eourses'in all branches of Music. It has a corps of twenty instructors and a fine building for its exclusive use, and would ask you to send for catalogue. WILLARD KIMBALL, DIRECTOR. land sold.... 2,400 00 From interest on saline land leased ,..x 1,090 00 From interest on U. S. con sols 300 00 From interest on county bonds 63,425 85 From interest on school dis trict bonds 1,023 80 From interest on state war rants 5,073 53 From peddlers license 148 80 From Bee Pub. Co. (Su preme court fine) 500 00 From embalmers board fees 3 02 Total $307,830 54 I hereby certify this 4th day of De cember, 1900, that the above statement is true according to my best knowledge and belief. J. B. MESERVE, State Treasurer. LOW RATES WILL BE MADE FOR ROUND TRIP TICKETS via St. Joseph & Grand Island Rail way for Christmas and New Year holi days. $5 A MONTH. DR. iYIcCREW, SPECIALIST. Tretti aQ Forms of DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF MEN ONLY. 22Yeart Fxptrttnc. 12 Yaarti n Omaha Medicine and treat mem cant everywhere by Mil or Express, at the 6znall charce of ONLY $5 A MONTH. HOME TEK A TM fc.K T that cures and sarea Ton time and money. ELECTRICITY AND MEDICAL, treat m combined tn all cases wnere It la advis able. Varicocele, Stricture. Syphilis, tn all its stages, Lioss of Vigor and Mtallty, caused from abuses or Excesses. Weakness and Dis orders ot Kidney and Bladder. CURES GUARANTEED in an Curable cases. Charges low. Book T- ree. Consultation and Examination Fre Office bourp.8 a. m. to 6. 7 to 8 p m. Sunday 9 to 12. DR. MCCREW P. O. Box 766. Offir K. E. Corner oTlatli Mdrarnam St.., OMAHA, NED. $?bw ' iViV CALIFORNIA BROAD VESTIBULED FIRST-CLASS SLEEPERS DAILY. Between Chicago and San Francisco WITHOUT CHANGE., VIA HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS. To points in Oklahoma, Indian Ter ritory and Tekas. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y. will sell tickets to the above named points on Dec. 4th and 18th, Jan. 1st and 15th, Feb. 5th and 19th, at a rate of one fare plus $2 for the round trip. Take a trip to Oklahoma and see the new lands soon to be opened for settlement.'; For a book giving de scription of these lands and for fur ther information as to rates, tickets, etc., address, . f F. H. BARNES, C. P. A., ' Lincoln, Neb. E. W. THOMPSON, A. C. P. A., Topeka, Kas. SPECIAL COMBINATION NO. 29. The Independent, weekly.. $1 00 Farmer's Tribune, weekly....... 1 00 After Dinner Stories, monthly... 50 Good Housekeeping, monthly.... 1 00 Swine Breeder, monthly.... 50 . Total -value.... $4 00 . ALL FIVE 3 months 50c, 6 months 90c, 1 year 11.60. mm The Quaker have always been ch a acterixed by their untiring care In relieving the suffering of their own poor, and are hospitable, sweet-spirited and gentle people. . They universally wear plain, unobtrusive clothing, not o much for nniformlty, as to escape the ever-changing fashions In dress. Their honesty and veracity is well known. Hence this letter will be read with interest by all classes. Could any word be more to the point, could any evidence be more convincing, than the above persuasive, direct, sin cere letter Systemic catarrh Is a con dition in which chronic catarrh has per vaded the whole system. Catarrh first begins by localizing itself in some one or more organs of the body, but very soon it shows a tendency to spread to other organs. If it Is not checked, the whole system becomes Invaded by this Insidious disease. When catarrh has reached this stage, of course it has gone beyond the reach of all local remedies. Nothing but a systemic remedy can reach it. Peruna ia the only remedy yet devised to meet such cases. Peruna eradicates catarrh from the system. It does its work quietly, but surely. It cleanses the mucous membranes of the whole body. It produces regular functions. Peruna restores perfect health In a natural way. Anna P. Nichols, Vice Grand Baxter Rebekah Lodge, in a letter from 000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo., says t " My friends rec ommended Peruna sohighly that I pur chased a bottle to try it and have never been sorry. ' At times my system became en tirely run down, I could not sleep well and lost my appetite. Since I have used Peruna I feel like a different woman and hardly know what it is to be sick. I congratulate you on the merits of your wonderful medicine and wish you continued success. " One of Dr. llartman's free books on catarrh, sent to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus. Ohio. OPTICAL GOODS. The Western Optical and Electrical Co., located at 131 North 11th street, is compased of old citizens and thorough ly acquainted with the business, hav ing fitted eyes for twenty-five years. Certainly they ought to be competent to do good work. They are perma nently located with us and that means much to the purchaser of eye glasses and spectacles. ' T, J, Doyle, Attorney. ' 1 In the matter of the estate of I Thomas Rgau, Deceased, f Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of Edward P. Holmes, Judge of the District court of Lancaster county, Nebraska, made on the 8th day of November A. !., 1900, for the sale of the real estate hereinafter de scribed, there will be sold at public auction at the east door of the court house at Lincoln, Lancaster couuty, Nebraska, on the 20th day of December A. D.. 1H00, at two o'clock p. m. to the higbeet bidder for cash the following de scribed real estate, towit: Lots one ana two of Yates and Thompson's Subdiviion of blcck 13 in the city of Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, being No. 1240 North Hist St. ia the city of Lincoln, Said sale will remain or. on one hour. Dated this 23rd day of November A. D. 1SXJO. T. J. DOYLK, Adm'r. of estate of Thomas Egan, deceased. Fred'k Shepherd, Attorney. EXECUTRIX SALE. Take notice that pursuant to an order of sale of the District Court of Lancaster County, Ne braska, made May 7th, 1WK), in the application of Elisabeth C. Jones, executrix of ttie ontatof Maurice Edwards Jones, deceased, for license to sell real estate, the undersigned executrix will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the following real estate : Lot 6 of block 195 of Lincoln t lots 1 and 2 of block 228 of Lincoln : and lots id and 17 of block 21; and lot 21 of block 22 of West Lincoln, all of Lancaster County, Nebraska. Sale to be had at the east door of the court house of said county and state, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of December 13th, 1900. Dated August 13th, 1900. Elizabeth C. Jomes, Executrix estate M. E. Jones, Deceasod MORNING & MERGE, ATTORNEYS. IN TBB DIBTHICT COURT OF LANCAITEI COON TT, NEBRASKA. NOTICE OF SUIT. To William Boyee, non-resident, Defendent : You are hereby notified that on the 13th day of November, 1900, said plaintiff John H, Dick Bon filed a petition and commenced an action against you in the District Court of Lancaster county. Nebraska, for the purpole of foreclos ing a certain mortgage executed by you and your wife on December 20, 18U4 upon the south half of lota, of J. (1. Southwick's subdivif ion of a part of the southeast quarter of sections, township 8, range 8, in Lancaster county. Ne braska, to secure a note for$100.00of even date, with said mortgage drawing interest from date, signed by yourself and wife payable to the order of John U. Dickson upon which there is a credit of 110.00 which was made on Decem ber 1, 189H. Said mortgage was hied for record in the office of the Bigitterof Deeds of said county, June 1, 1395, and recorded in Book 05 of mortgages at page 442. - Plaintiff asks to nave said mortgage fore closed, said real estate sold to satisfy the same, and for general equitable relief in the premises. Yon are hereby notified that unless you ans wer the said petition on or before tlie24th day of December, 1WJ0, the same will be taken as true and judgement rendered accordingly. JOHN H. DICKSON. Dated November J3th. HX). By MORNING snd BEBQE, His Attorneys. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS STATE OF NEBRASKA . Lincoln, April 20. 1900 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED THAT THE Employers Liabilitiy As surance Insurance Company of London, in the King dom of England has complied with the insurance law of this state and is therefore authorized to transact the business of Employers Liability Insurance in this state for the current year nineteen hun dred. . ' . . Witness my nana ana omciai seai tneaay ana year first above written. John F. Coaaraif.. AUUlVOr UlMlb AUV W"M iuauroui; -4Jin sbalI W. B. Pure. Dsputy Insurance Commissioner, Anna P. Nlcholi.