THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
January 17, 1901,
Hopkins of Illinois Had a
Bad Fall.
SUFFERED FEOII BIG HEAD.
He Was Gluxa When the House
Cot Through With Him.
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Over Ctr Caira Psalfe :
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BtgtUr Kllkeaay la Waaa
maker A. Cmmpmr Ckarea Wit a !
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fSfMUI VtiLiaftoa Letter. J j
Ttrr U an eld Scriptural faying j
wbee fu?r tL Hon. A. J- Hopkins of j
ICi&eit now unVrttanl more clearly !
tLaa L? tJU -rerl lay ao. "Let
Li 13 that takfth tff Li armor boast '
rather thzu him th.nl puttetb -it on;"
also anctfcr txt, -Let t!m tbat stsnd
tb take !-! It be falb-tb." I lop
Lin triualiy i a very rlrr man: :
lut. Lk a ;rrat matij itber Itpoi.lic
ta tiatczLtei L- ft-tl Lis tats and is
rraiiy puffr-d up lj tLf r"ult tf the ,
recriit etartkro; c-oawitwatly wba be j
cade LU b in fa tor of Lis rai
lortk cn nt t-ill L took no pa'.n either
to mske frin4 for hlm-!f or for bis ;
bill, bat ajjard really to t w king ;
trtcbl. If tLat r-ai!y na hi object, !
attain-! It end no uptake. Nut
c&Iy -s hi bill d-featel by a very
lrp cajritj. but L him If wa
kaotUed !a a very rub manner in tbe
Crhatr.
Mr. ffalaerlaad'a hi at Mr. tlopklaa. ;
In exptslalajr why Kana and Ne- ;
t rat La acii Kt a iuiijb-r of congress '
ua!T bis bill. Ifopkln said:
eseuE- v. Wt tta lirf .'.. !ics ki::t.$ ib the
Ul 4 iurM UrX Lii hr-3 r-utard (of
tea Imc fr n;a f.u. iu! tat l n
;dvil an lm k. ct k-tr tbrrv Hate !ra .
jrta S mt4 4mmt eijum fa Ttit j'.tt. irtant, '
a It m ta jrt are. t a Usnrd la tfcx ,
r ( tk at torts ti rtublj. j
Roar ta it ta tfc c4 Nsr! ttratlA. i
IricC i6fffcj t tet. t a rt-if.j. iv-t fix-m j
Uu HiJ Ik rms&r tin, tmt fr'.u Krttaita
a4 r,ojni-w la ttt rttf. TX cjAdttooa
tta Mt(ut4 lfc raftyy oJ tec rntTsrir
cl Eacia ar -ru ta mux r ia th
ataxt M 5raO. j
Mr. Sctbrian'l tf Nebraska, who not '
only bka lit William J. Bryan, bci
prka a rood d-ai itke Lira, in answe;-
is.z liokitss a far a Nebraska Is con- (
Cfrnrtl. JrliT-rtJ tLia abut at point !
Ll&nk rac;e: I
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a4 I tati x4 wtj Lti! -i n i.a t-a ac4 on j
tkia 1 arnjfbl m tt. --r-T-i.r tbe '
feticsr4'a t; ts Li )M ioi a .
EftW. I tkt lo K &ir,;aiii? 71i4t ar-
f-ua.-t i"J I jaA a rt.;rt a t!Ut Urjaa
Uaa ana k rir&iji a tjrrt:tatie. I it
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TbI irs r-cir-l T.-ih dt-l:sbt by
T-ry ia tL b'UM wltb th excep
tion vf Mr. lloj.Linjr, for t- i-a lt-put ,
liratia w h Muy m-cv- kaovr tbat
tbe mafi why tbe- i-ptiiatk a of Kan-
and Nebraska ln r aed m little
wa b--aueof -ven-druu.: Li between i
ate! 1K7. Jiutaeriand really ,
claimed or iki-Incatt-d tbat the census 1
ia Nebraska was ti-4 fairly taken.
II re are hi words and figures ca tbat
I-olct: i
Sear 1 rt t t tbe fprtt.cm cf popula-
tUca. Anroev.tg l r-fcji retjfta. we taU in
a tv -" l.-.'19. atod in tioo. aceor J- ;
stg t li m-rtm, we t4 a fi-uXnioa cf '
lmJLS. a bet iiKre 4 Lrt tn I
U yve asaetiaa t thr wte during tie Un
rars ta tW mu 4 X4r, elavtn ;
tJvat ka at mui irXM sn--r la tie
yw Xr thtm we t-n yrx sa. xt the
test $&4rstia! elrtwa f-4Iowitg rwus c-f
JOj we t.J t-Mi.ZM. At tbe tit (rrpadential
aWctaasw s lawa. w swiHl rtJti vte. aa ia-
la t aei id utr ia ltut jers A II,-
Ia jC fjrd Ti:.53 c.r. sa iccTnw in
AJt years or ti f-i:eir ittio.
Sa eigfct yaes we tae ga.aoi sl.rtl iut Xui
ftt, arfr,cg t tj rftu t-t !:,. tae entire
gia ia f-la.t-a as -A .'. while ta eigct
J cars wr g.R4 t t the
p&VA. Oct m th '. 1 Nsek mrt act
atta&H i. tut J t.4 I ewb-mt t
the a44 rjcgnwtit 4 l.r r.itxlr 1 nwa tfct
t ae aa a tsTr 4 a: U w.Qmj vtes
ia tea ae are ,t-iri ut atauscsrg ttat
Ura tas Urt svra iTfrr tacvaM ta tiK pop
tuattna. Tie gJra wtU t tr vi -f NrtaLa
at-4 awM-rts ta: fir; iM it, or4 ttat slate,
if 1 k4 a oa aiu!-sf - ia W-ite
acsd ttm !at aa rt:.rwt:. I '.I i rail that
. t-ea 4 In mriu-lf eitirr t.ra la the kia-
The rrubabllitlea la the caiw? are
tbat tbe census wa cot fairly taken
In XIna ami Nebraska, and tbat it
was taken onfairly for the very pur
pose ot making such declarations as
Hopkins t&ade. Oa of tbe Texas
! legation told me tbe other day tbat
tbo who knew tbe mwt about It
maintain that there are at leatt C00,
CJ iitre pexpl in Texas than are
bown t-y tbe census, and I bare no
C&uht tbe fame i true of MUeourL
Seed af Marat Dislafeetaala.
Not4y appointed me either fp! ritual
tst legal adtler to the Kilkenny cat
Iiepcblicac of Pencry'vanla who are
tow Cliicg tbe circumambient at
topbtTe with far, bit of cutk-ie and
ear splitting caterwauling. Nevertbe
r a a aort of arak-c curia? I cannot
pelt tbe tem;taticn to advie them
te read tbe psalms cf lavid. especially
tbe cae leginnirr. -Behold, bow good
and bow pleasant it Is for brethren to
Jwell logHber la unity." I take it
tbat Brother Wanamaker, who is su
tjTintea lent f tbe largest Sunday
acbool on earth, knows where to find
tbat Krriptsre. lam cot k cfrtain as
ta Brother Matthew Stanley Quay, bet
t L tiotria't know 1 can call on
Brotber Joseph Crocker Sibley, who
la & famoua Bcrlptorian.' The bjcarre
capera cut by the PernxsylvanianB are
liable, Indeed quite likely, to scandalize
ana demoralize our Illustrious and puis
sant fellow citizen, the sultan of Sulu,
and hia numerous array of wives, and
to cause the Digger Indians to go on
the warpath.
What is 'most needed at Harrisburg
la a bountiful supply of moral disin
fectant, such as quicklime. The way
the Itepubllcan newspapers talk Is
tluply astounding. The, Philadelphia
Inquirer (Quay), In speaking of the
figbt on Quay, says:
at acts fatnr ity. when tKa controversy it
trUi. it may tcom the province ot The In
qcirvr t9 relate the history of th f ght that has
t-a Biade upon Quay. That history is a romance
of pwUtka, a aerie ot crimes against public de
ceacy. Now. that U rather tough on the su
perintendent of the largest Sunday
school on earth, for let it be remember
ed that Urother Wanaraaker is the
bead and front, the heart and soul, the
great gyastacutls of the anti-Quayites,
and If they are guilty of a series of
crimes against public decency Brother
John Is the chief cf sinners. There la
no escaping that logic, dead sure pop.
Harpoon Ins Qaar't Enemies.
After tbat scathing exordium The
Inquirer throw the harpoon into the
enemies of Quay in this savage fash
Ion: la tbe inorrentji were active in an effort
tc name a roremor ard to beat Senator Quay.
loturfTt agents brought into the state in 18l5
methods m corrupt and to debauching that they
vere aimpljr appalling, and yet from that time
ut.li! tbe present these crimea have only grown in
intensity. It ha been the plan of anti-Quay
agists not only to dece;ve the jublic, but to buy
Delegates to convention and to buy members of
the legislature with cat.h. Nevw was corruption
gttater than at the present mocaent. Men pledg
ei to Quay Lae been ffered fia.000, S15.000 and
2VA earh I retk avray from him, and all this
has bexra done under the hypocritical guise of "re
form. Now, I submit to a candid world
tbat that is a sad business for apostles
of purity and sweetness to be engaged
in. and it is a well known fact that all
Republican are ex officio such apos
tles, for have they not themselves time
and time again admitted the soft im
peachment? Aye, more have they not
announced It from the house tops to
all the world? Their logic stated in
syllogistic form runs thus: "The earth
Wlongs to the saints. We are the
saints: therefore tbe earth belongs to
us." Now. to have one faction of the
Mints charging the other faction with
all tbe crimes in the calendar is cal
culated to produce a ruction In saint
tlom. Worse and More of It.
Yet there i more and worse to fol
low, for The Inquirer vehemently ex
claims: 5r rr fcas there been such treachery against an
individual candidate er against a state, for the
Quay traitors are traitors against the Republican
ftrty of Pennsylvania. For be it remembered
that Quay has not been a candidate by his own
selection. He ia the candidate of the Republican
It Is of course a self evident proposi
tion that a man lioesn't want a thing
which he strives for with might and
main for over-two years. To hear
Tbe Inquirer tellht, Matthew Stanley
will have to be lassoed like a wild
Texas steer and dragged to Washing
ton and held down in his curule chair
while tbe oath is administered to him
that is. always provided he secures
tbe senatorial election for which "he
has not been a candidate by his own
selection." But if a puiin. unsophisti
cated Iemocrat from out of the west
may Ik." permitted to propound a ques
tion. I would like to ask, strictly for
information, how Wanamaker & Co.
committed treachery to the state by
fighting Quay? That pompous and
inflated old historic ard royal fraud,
Louis XIV. In Lis vast and amazing
egoism, exclaimed: "Ietat! C'est moi!"
("I am the state!) And for believin?
and acting upon that stupid and stu
pendous lie his grandson, Louis XVI,
otherwise known as Louis the Lock
smith, lost both his throne and his
wooden head. Suppose John Wana
maker and his insurgents have been
treacherous to the Republican party,
: bow does tbat make ttem treacherous
; to the state? Millions of patriotic
i citizens of this great republic believe
i tbat Wanamaker et al. could render
j Pennsylvania no more valuable service
than by killing the Republican party
; In Pennsylvania dead as a smelt.
The Inquirer does not propose tbat
; its readers shall be in doubt as to some
; of tbe personages at whom It hurls its
, darts, as tbe following shows:
Weie it possible to overthrow him what would
rult The dotr.irsa-ion of the state by a repu
diated political highraytnan of Philadelphia, Da
' id Martin, and by a political slave driver and
; cotitrartor of Pittsburg. William Klinn.
' That's specinc enough, heaven knows.
Hemp at Ilarrlibarg.
Rut It no reader jump erroneously
I end prematurely to the conclusion that
Tbe Inquirer and other Quay wboopers
j up have It all their own way when it
I comes to writing and publishing words
i which blister and burn. There are
j others e. g.f the Philadelphia North
j American, Republican reform organ.
In one Issue in great big, black bead-
lines it says: "Arthur McEwen sug
j gests that the use of hemp at Harris
: burg, while it would be & crime and not
j to be considered, would be less dAnger
; ous to civilization than the bribery of
1 legislators." There you are! That's
f about as If Victoria, iueen-of Great
1 Britain and Ireland and empress of
f India, should say to Lord Kitchener,
j "Don't butcher any Boers, but if you
! do, I'll make you a duke!" But who is
I .inuur jicr.wvQ; ne s one 01 ine
most brilliant newspaper menln Amer
ican not an Irresponsible nondescript
or bravo who does his stunt for-mere
pay, and here Is some of what he
writes from Harrisburg to the Phila
delphia North American, of which he Is
editor and of which John Wanamaker
la proprietor:
Whea the news spread the ether night that the
Be. O. R. Washburn, elected to the state senate
as a Uetaorrat, Populist, Prohibition! and re
former in genera, ad gone over to Quay, the re
snark that be ought to be taken out and hangpd
to a laupirftst as made frequently, ud tea aex
shocked by the suggestion except gentlemen who
profit by conduct like Washburn's. But no ont
seriously proposed putting him to death. In soma
ways we are a surprisingly law abiding people. .
Law abiding, indeed! Mr. McEwen,
you knew when you wrote that para
graph that you were inciting people at
Harrisburg to lynch Washburn, and
you depended on the seductiveness of
your style to accomplish your purpose
but the Republicans of Pennsylvania
are even a meaner spirited set than
you thought; so Washburn still breathes
the free air of heaven, and, while it
vvill take a good deal of the space of
this letter, I propose to quote from Mr.
McEwen a marvelous picture of the
degeneraey of Republican Pennsylva
nia. It Is worthy of a place in every
scrapbook In the land. As an argu
ment by Indirection I have never seen
Its equal anywhere.
Remedy For Bribery.
Nobody questioned that Washburn had beea
bribed. The man who should have expressed doubt
on tbat point would have been laughed at or
fallen under suspicion of being a Quay worker,
with a turn for ostentatious hypocrisy. How much
Washburn got for ratting to the side which he
fought at the last session wss debated with inter
est. Ten thousand dollars seemed to be generally
considered his price.
Of course I do not know that Washburn waa
bribed. I do not know that he has slept since
coming to Harrisburg. I do not know that Mr.
Quay has taken a drink since the new century
was ushered in, or during theiineteenth century,
for that matter. I never saw Mr. Quay take a
drink, or Mr. Andrews bribe anybody, or Mr.
Salter stuff a ballot box, or Mr. Ashbridge pocket
a rake off from a Mack-McNichol contract, but I
do know that judges and juries every day bans
men for murder on no stronger circumstantial
evidence of guilt than exists in the case ot Wash
burn, and Washburn is in the sune boat exactly
as are the other pledge breakers, who, since com
ing to Harrisburg, the air of which is laden with
the 6tench of corruption, have gone over to Quay
and on whom honest men turn scornful backs.
Assuming that Washburn was bribed, assuming
that this parson who before his election to the leg
islature had a salary of $600 a year could not resist
the dazzling price of $10,000 for his virtue, his
eelf respect, his standing among men, who gave
him the money? It is asserted that during the
past two years Mr. Quay's efforts to regain his
seat in the senate have cost about three-quarters
of a million. Cost whom? Not Mr. Quay cer
tainly. Behind the Quay machine is another ma
chine of privilege seeking and privilege enjoying
wealth the Standard Oil company, the railroad
companies, the sugar trust, the brewers, the oleo
txust. This other machine has use for the Quay
machine at Harrisburg and for Mr. Quay in the
United States senate. It is not necessary to in
quire further where the money came from to
bribe Washburn, if he was bribed.
It might easily happen that the election of a
senator would depend upon one vote, as the or
ganization of the state senate did upon Wash
burn's. The people would be expected to ac
quiesce in such an election, though tbey knew it
to have been procured by a bribe. None would
be more insistent upon the people's submission
than the men who gave the bribe, the opulent
and eminently respectable men of the corpora
tions. They and ail their organs would demand
submission in the name of respect for the law,
which had been grossly violated by them when,
they bought the deciding vote, and none would
l more startled and horrified than they by the
hanging of Washburn.
Yet the hanging of Washburn, though a crime,
would be one infinitely less dangerous to civiliza
tion, to American institutions, than the crime ot
bribing Washburn.
The hanging ot Washburn would be in open de
fiance ot the law, necessarily so, since a man can
hardly be lynched in privacy, whereas a senator
ship can be purchased at Harrisburg without any
body knowing it who has an interest in exposing
the legal proofs of the crime. Bribery, the crime
most deadly in its effects upon government, can
be and habitually practiced with impunity, and
the men who furnish the money to buy legislators
retain their sense of respectability unimpaired
and fancy that by deploring what they call the
necessity for their turpitude and despising the
needy wretches who sell themselves they make
moral atonement.
We are governed here by the criminal rich and
the criminal poor, and bosses like Andrews are
the bridges over which the two psss to meet and
do business. Out ot respect for the forms cf law
the rest of us are required to yield obedience to
purchased results embodied in elections to the
stnate and in legislation which affects our lives,
our liberties and our property.
So at the opening cf the new century
we have this strange condition of af
fairs: Governor McSweeney of South
Carolina proudly boasting that there
has not been a lynching in that good j
old Democratic state during the past
year, and Mr. Arthur McEwen, the
brilliant editor aforesaid, openly advo
cating a wholesale lynching in "the
overwhelmingly Republican state of
Pennsylvania, for Parson Washburn
was not the only Reppblican statesman
whom he put in the pillory. And yet
the Republicans boast that they con
stitute the party of purity and sweet
ness. Why do not such men as Mr.
McEwen and John Wanamaker come
out boldly and openly and join the
Democratic party? It is the only sen
Bible thing for them to do the only
practicable plan for cleansing the po
litical Augean stables at Harrisburg.
Senator Dubois.
Democrats, Populists and Free Silver
ites everywhere will extend hearty
congratulations to Hon. Fred T. Dubois
of Idaho on his election to the senate
for the full term of six years. Also a
great many people who are not Demo
crats, Populists or Free Silverites will
congratulate him, for the average
American citizen admires courage, ei
ther moral or physical, and values hon
esty of purpose. Nobody personally
acquainted with him rejoices at the
political downfall of Senator Shoup.
for he is one of the most amiable of
mortals, but Dubois deliberately took
his political life in his hands when in
the senate before he parted company
with the Republicans as a matter of
conscience, and as a consequence has
been In retirement for four years. Now
he returns to the senate as the cham
pion of the sa me principles for the ad
vocation of which he was rusticated by
his constituents. He is young, strong,
capable, handsome and ambitious.
That he has a great career ahead of
him nobody will question. He will be
one of the leading senators for the next
six years.
An Allegory.
Now, Science by dint of laborious
tabulation of statistics had discovered
that a black man is no more likely to
steal chickens than is a man of any
other color.
"That makes a monkey of me!" ex-
claimed Pictorial Humor and was
henceforth gloomier tha u ever. Detroit
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ETIOLOGY OF DEGENERATION
The Highest Scientific Authority Takes
the Same Position That Populists
Have Always Maintained.
The fads in science promulgated by
the professors of millionaire endowed
universities have never been accepted
by populists. None of them have been
received with more contempt than
some of the modern doctrines con
cerning heredity and degeneracy. Pop
ulists have always maintained that the
vileness and corruption found in the
densely populated section of cities and
in manufacturing districts, was the re
sult of the environment and abject
poverty of the inhabitants and not
from the inherited tendencies of the
men and women who have grown up
in such surroundings. They have said
that this vice and crime was produced
by the concentration of wealth in the
hands of the few and the extreme pov
erty of the many. That just and equal
laws would remedy these evils they
have steadfastly maintained. They
have arrived at these conclusions in
the same way that all scientific truth
is discovered. They have seen chil
dren taken from these slums, brought
into the country, placed in a new en
vironment and grow up to be upright,
moral citizens, too often to believe in
the doctrines promulgated from some
of the plutocratic universities. The
following article clipped from the New
York Medical Record a journal of the
very highest class takes the same
view that has always been advocated
in these columns. It is not so techni
cal, but that the average intelligent
farmer will understand it if be gives
it a careful reading:
Prevailing currents of thought ap
pear to be ; healthfully pervaded by
sound .biological doctrine, and we are
coming to have - clearer conceptions
with regard to the respective influ
ences of heredity and environment.
Life is no longer viewed with super
stitious awe, but as a manifestation de
serving of the most intelligent and lib
eral study. Much has seen written in
recent years concerning degeneration,
sometimes upon insufficient grounds
and at other times without a proper
judicial regard for all of the facts; and
the significance of the term has been
largely lost by reason of its adoption
into popular parlance.
As the result of a study of the stig
mata of this condition, as observed :n
soldiers in the course of his duties as
an army surgeon, Charles E. Wood
ruff (American Journal of Insanity,
vol. lvii.. No. 2, p. 203) defines a de
generate as an abnormal individual
whose variations or stigmata are de
velopmental and due to an unstable
nervous system. Such variations, it is
thought, may be dependent also upon
disease resulting from instability of
the nervous system, such as rachitis
and infantile paralysis. Inasmuch as
this instability may be of widely vary
ing degree, it is at times difficult to
make a distinction between the de
generate and the normal. Here it is
that education and environment enter
and help to decide the result.
Unfortunately, degeneration may
give rise to anomalies identical with
those resulting from involution, or the
retrogression of parts once useful, but
no longer so. The one process is un
wholesome and leads to extinction,
and its variations depart widely from
the parental form; while the other
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process is wholesome and favors sur
vival, and Its variations do not depart
widely from the parental form. Thus,
civilization is responsible for the wide
diversity in normal variation, and the
result has been a minute subdivision
of labor, so that an Individual may
throughout his whole life be engaged
in one narrow pursuit, densely ignor
ant of all subjects outside this spe
cialty. -
The body and the brain of a race re
act to its environment, increasing
amid adverse surroundings, and vice
versa. Civilization is a product of
the intellect, but it can add nothing to
brain-growth. In savage life the ten
dency is toward uniformity, by reason
of sameness of pursuit; while in civ
ilized life variation is the rule, for
the opposite reason. Such normal
variation, which may, however, be
identical with that resulting from de
generation, is to be identified by ita
resemblance to similar variation in
the parent, while the reverse is ' true
of unstable or degenerate develop
ment. It has been shown that acquired
modifications due to use, disuse, or
general environment are not transmis
sible from parent to offspring; so that
nervous instability must be looked up
on, not so much as a matter of in
heritance, but rather as a result of in
terference with nutrition, poisoning by
toxins or alcohol, or of mechanical ac
cidents to the ovum an acquired
characteristic in the strict scientific
sense. There is thus ground for sus
picion that degeneration is not heredi
tary, but that the ova always tend to
revert to the normal if permitted so to
do; so that if the degenerate were
placed under favorable environment
there might be hope of regeneration.
Unfortunately, however, tbe opposite
conditions commonly prevail, and pur
ification takes place by elimination.
The importance of these modern doc
trines resides in their application to
the care and raising of the childrcu
of degenerates, from which such ad
mirable practical results have already
been obtained. Degeneration may
possibly be due to vicious causes act
ing injuriously upon the ovum before
or after fertilization, and diverting it
during development from tbe normal
groove into which it is naturally di
rected by the hereditary impulses ac
cumulated by natural selection from
millions "of previous generations.
If degeneration were hereditary
there would be an end to hope of re
generation, but genealogical studies
demonstrate the reverse. Aristocratic
and degraded families generally be
come extinct or revert to the average
within a few generations unless kept
alive by intermarriage with new nor
mal blood. The children of degen
erates are degenerate from environ
mental and not from developmental
causes, and the remedy consists in the
removal or avoidance of the deleter
ious influences. The increasing recog
nition and application of this prin
ciple augur well for the future of the
race.
A certain degree of nervous instabil
ity must be looked upon as a normal
variation resulting from tho greater
development of the nervous system
that is an expression of our higher civ
ilization, and the transmissibility of
this condition must be admitted. The
average man is not. degenerate, and
the species is carried on and modified
by individuals varying least from the
average, while those at either extreme
die out or tend to return to the normal
or average.
THE NEW ELIXIR
It is Discovered to be Chloride of Sodium
Which in Plain English is
Common Salt.
There has been a good deal of ex
citement in the medical profession on
account of some discoveries made by
two professors in the Chicago univer
sity concerning the effect of hypo
dermic injections of chloride of sod
ium. It is said to be the thing that
makes the heart beat and in fact all
there was in the celebrated Brown
Sequard prescription that was of any
value. Nebraska has furnished a dis
tinguished patient upon which it has
been tried with beneficial effect in the
person of Congressman Neville who
has been at death's door in Washing
ton. The newspaper account of the
treatment given Mr. Neville is as fol
lows: It is expected that a permanent cure
through the salt treatment will be ef
fected in the case of Representative
Neville of Nebraska, who has been
critically ill here for about a week
with pneumonia, attended with hemor
rhages. Up to last Saturday Repre
sentative Neville's life was despaired
of by his friends. On that day his
phj-sician, J. W. Bayne, began the
saline treatment, and there has been
a marked improvement ever since. On
Saturday the patient lost four quarts
of blood. Dr. Bayne promptly applied
the salt solution and his patient ral
lied. There is every reason to believ-3
that Mr. Neville will recover rapidly.
Discussing the case the physician said:
"The saline treatment is very sim
ple. You make a mild solution of pure
salt water and inject into one of the
minor arteries. In Representative Ne
ville's case I expect great practical re
sults." Should the salt treatment effect a
cure in Mr. Neville's case it will add
strong proof to the theory that salt is
the elixir of life, as claimed for it. It
was lately announced by competent
authorities who had made a study of
the virtues of salt that it would in
many cases perform the functions of
blood in the human body, and that it
was a most efficient remedy where the
blood was lost or impoverished. The
saline treatment has been used by
physicians for years, but it was only
lately that by experiment tne immense
scope of its power was discovered. It
was doubtful if any other than the salt
treatment would have cured Mr. Ne
ville. His life was despaired of until
the favorable effect of the salt injec
tion became apparent.
It has been suggested that the ap
pointment of two sons of supreme
court justices to lucrative positions In
our "new possessions" was done with
an idea to the decisions that that
court would be called upon to make in
regard to the new-found Imperial pol
icy which McKinley has thrust upon
the country. If the supreme court
pronounces that - policy unconstitu
tional, two of their sons will lose very
lucrative positions.
DR. McGRErJ
Office open continuously from 8 a.m.
to 9 p.m. Sundays from 8 m m. to
5 p. in. .
CHARGES LOW.
. (Dr. MeOrtw at Age 6t.)
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL.
SPECIALIST
In tha treatment of all forms of DIS
EASES AND DISORDERS OF MEN
ON I-Y. 96 Tears' znerience. 15 veari
In Omaha,
VARICOCELE AND HYDROCELE.
A PERMANENT CURE GUARANTEED
IN LESS XU AN lO DAYS without. cutting,
pain ar loss of time. The QUICKEST and
MOST NAT U It A L, CURE that has yet been
discovered. CHARGES LOW.
CVpUIl 10 In all stages and conditions
0 I rniLIO cured, and every trace of tha
disease is thoroughly eliminated from the
blood.
No "BREAKING OUT" on the skin or
face or any external appearances of tha
disease whatever. A treatment that is
more successful and far more satisfactory
than the "Hot Springs" treatment and at
less than HALF THE COST. A cure that
Is guaranteed to be permanent for life.
ACArUCCC of young and middle-aged
IT L A Ml LOO men. LOSS OF MAN
HOOD, Night Losses, Nervous Debility.
Loss of Brain and Nerve Power. '
Forgetfulness, Bashfulness, Stricture Gonor
rhoea, Gleet.
OVER 20,000 CASES CURED.
RECTAL DISEASES ment tor diseases of
the rectum has cured where all others had
'ai.'ed. Fissure, Ulcers, Piles, and all chronic
diseases of the rectum. Immediate relief and
a permanent cure is made without cutting or
pain. The cure is quick and complete.
CURES GUARANTEED.
CHARGES Lmil-
Consultation free. Treatment by mall
Medicines sent everywhere frte from
graze or breakage, ready for use.
Office hours; 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. Sundnys.
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. P. O. Box 766. Office
over 215 South 14th St., between Farnam
and Douglas Sts.. OMAHA, NEB.
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THE EXCELSOR PENDULUM ' WASHER
Patented September 21, lt97.
This machine has an Improved Pendulum
Attachment, which reduces labor SO per cent,
being without a doubt tbe greatest improve
ment on washing machines within the last thir
ty years, making this ,
Tha Lightest Kooning and Most Easy
Working: Washer Ever Placed on the Mar
ket. The dasher shaft and hoops are galvanized so
as to prevent rusting. Is operated by swinging
the pendulum. Requires no more exertion than
to rock the cradle. Any Woman Can Operate
it. To once try this machine is to use it always.
It closes tight, preventing the escape of
steam and retaining the heat. Satis- (PC fin
faction guaranteed. Price, vwiUU
FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION
138-130-132 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
Mention The Independent.
RHEUMATISM 2
CURE D, W ILL NOT
COME RACK AGAIN
We have a remedy that cures rheumatism to
stay cured. Thousands of testimonials. The
last product of science. No free samples. $1 a
bottle, six bottles for.$.T. Five bottles guaran
teed to cure oneof the worst cases, to stay cured
EUREKA RHEUMATIC RE3IEDY CO.,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
YOU CAN COUNT Y,teftSi7su.h.BllBH INCUBATOR
IT'S MADE RIGHT, WORKS RIGHT, 15 SIMPLE, SURE and SUC
CESSFUL, Write to us today for Catalogue.
BURR INCUBATOR CO., OMAHA, NEBRASKA
a I inirOl miClin TURKISH T. & P. PILLS brings monthly menstrua' &
X. I fllllrV rnlrilll. ... tion sure to the day never disappoints you. fl per box- X
LHUILO I III1-I1U I 2 boxes will help any case, lly mall, plain wrapper. X
2 Sold by B.O. Kostka, Lincon.Neb. DAMN'S Pharmacy, ls05 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. X
C''1
Riggs' Pharmacy
Oilers its patrons the following: advant
ages: FIRST By far the largest drug stock in Lincoln
to select from.
SECOND Clean fresh goods of undoubted gen
uiness, as we buy direct from the manufac
turer THIRD An adequate force of graduate pre-
scriptionists. ,
FOURTH The lowest cut cash prices.
SOME NEW
Regular Our Cut
Price. Price.
$100 Coke's Dandruff cure $0 75
25 Hire's Root Beer 19
25 Vermont Root Beer (the
(original) 10
25Allcock's Porous Plasters.. 15
25 Allen's Foot Ease 13
100 Beef, Iron and Wine 79
1 00 Bromo Seltzer r . . . 75
2 00 Chichester Pennyroyal Pills 1 75
100 Booth's Hyomei 79
25 Carter's Liver Pills 15
lOODix Tonic Tablets... 79
EODix Tonic Tablets.... . . 29
150 Fellow's Hypophosphites. . . 120
150Vin Marian!.. 115
50 Hosford's Acid Phosphate.. 39
25 Humphrey's Specific (all
kinds 19
75 Hall's Catarrh Cure (Toledo) 59
15 H & H Soap. 10
1 00 Hostetter's Bitters 79
100 Kilmer's Swamp Root 69
75 M. & L. Florida Water - 60
25 Packer's Tar Soap,..,...... 19
1 00 Ozomulsion ................ 7s
1 00 Pe-ru-na. . .... 69
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Funke Opera House, 12th and
Earnings of Railroads.
The gross earnings of 143 represent
ative railroads for the first nine monthi
of this year amount to the sum ol
$883,991,000. This is $80,000,000 mor
than the same roads earned for th
corresponding time in 1899.
Feed Cooker
GUARANTEED IN EVERYTHING
- IT WILL cook a barrel of feed
in twenty minutes whole grain in
40 minutes. IT WILL heat water
for butchering, thaw ice ont of tank
and warm the water. ITS USE will
keep the brood sows in good condi
tion, keep shoats thrifty and makes
hoc aaheavvat7 to 10 months as
thev usually get in 10 to 12 months. ITS USE is
profitable-it pays for itself in a fewtfOO fin
months. Special price to introduce . . V U i U U
Write for foil particulars.
FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION
128-130-132 N. 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
Mention The Independent.
FARMER'S FRIEND SWEEP FEED MILL
Grinds ear corn, shelled corn, oats, And all
kiudsof small grain. Steel ballbearings. Has
improved double cob or ear crusher, and im
proved grinding rings making it superior to
any other mado. Adjustable force feed grind
ing, to any degree of fineness. A fast and rapid
grinder. Light running, substantial, durable,
and large capacity. Largest and best sweep
mill made. No clogging. . Burrs 30 inches in
diameter. Burrs self-sharpening. Weight of
mill ,ri5U pounds.
. . II I ..I
In this mill we oiler to the farmers and stock
feeders of the country the only sweep mill that
will handle ear corn and all kinds of small
grain equally well.
Write for full particulars.
PRICE ONLY $23.75.
FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION
138-130-133 N. 13th St.. Lincoln, Nebr.
Mention The Independent.
TEEL RANGES
AT HALF PRICE.
The Queen" only 17.60.
Other ranges, stoveti, furniture,
etc, (anally low from "1 ha Houm that
&tm Too Money." Don 't tall to nt on
big vsuUnfr. ETorythteg for th bona and
farm, fi WS oaroth.r adala Lhk pnr.
WESTERIt MERCANTILE CO.,
TREES and PLANTS
We have a full
line of NuasERY
Stock for the
west. Large supply of SMALL FRUITS.
Two Million Strawberry Plants 50 Best Sorts.
Also Raspberry and Blackberry Plants at whole
sale prices. Catalogue FREE.
NORTH BEND NURSERIES,
NORTH BEND, DODGE COUNTY, NEBR.
Whiten the Teeth and
Sweeten the Breath
Try a Tooth Wash made by a
Lincoln Dentist. Ask for a
Sample Bottle.
Dr. F D. Sherwin,
Dentist.
Offlce hour 9 to 18 A 1 to 5. Second Floor
ltarr Ulook, Corner room.
LINCOLN - - NERBASKA
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
The partnership heretofore existing Itetween
Dr. H. Al. Casebeer and F. W. Jewell, under the
firm name of The Western Optical & Electrical
Co., is this day dissolved.
F. W. Jewell withdraws from the business,
which will be continued by Dr. Casebeer under
the former firm name.
bignedj f. W. Jewhll.
Lincoln, Nebraska, January 5, 1901.
CASH CUTS
Regular ! Our Cut
Price. Price.
$100 Port, Sherry or Claret, ....$0 49
i uun.au ae yuinme.,
1 00 Orange Blossom. .
79
79
79
25
S3
sr
19
13
79
79
79
59
59
79
13
05
75
75
79
69
39
39
69
1 00 Maltine Preparations.
10 Boxes Moth Balls..
50Radway's Relief.. ..........
50 Pozonni's Powder. .
25 Pear's Glycerine Soap.;....
20 Pear's Unscented Soap
1 00 Seven-Sisters Hair Grower,
1 00 Steam's Wine Cod Liver Oil
1 00 Madame Yale's Goods
75 Zozodont.
75 Jewesbury & Brown Tooth
Paste ,
1 00 Wyeth's Beef, Iron and Wine
25 Tetlow's Swan Down
10 Bottle Vaseline
100 Family Syringe
1 00 Fountain Syringe .......... .
1 00 Palne's Celery Compound..,
100 Hood's Sarsaparilla......,.,
50 Kilmer's Swamp Root......
: 58 Scott's Emulsion
100" Wine of Cardui
Cut Rate
Pharmacy.
O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska
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