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January 17, 1901 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 3 SENATOR TOM PATTERSON II Was 1 Chi by ! u- tar Cave- Cmimrmdm Vpmm IM first 1 asssu ruot irilattjr ar in sr-at ron tr to the r-pb!iri kinl. Wlifa a republican 2rltur hat a f-i,ator to !- t th-r- U i.!ayii a jrr-at row ?orae-trt"- UtiEg fcr ki, but fus'.oniiU j.ave lirs rsadU fhort rk of tt3t 5d jtors to attending to the inter--' f tt M-tr. The situation in N hraska. r. ! Colorado exMnpIIfie the . :?-r"'- Ht -i tee two. An As-4'"iatf-d pr- dit'inaict from IVnrr of tis Hth lct. tll bow the fui-ion Ki-lilatur wrtfW the Equatorial con-T'--t rtjt tber. It a a follows: "TL joist t3v.ru of the futlon rnn ,rs of ih- lsUItur tonight derided ti t'jpjort too'Zi l Patterson of l-tsr for t.s.t4 Stat f-ator to irf4 KdwaxtJ O. Wolcou. Tb?r ,rv r lr. ly fosirnU t.s in lh -j!.tur 5ifijK draorrt. popul- in and jT H'Mins and of itrt-.t y- v-r w't So th caucus. :' tit'-ros r.t-M ! revest y-foiv .frrj on if- I' '.Hot. Ti. : t:;r f'rprsjwd ! 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Urn of oti.aL r.J tit d in iadlins It Jz.TTr.fis of tLi tate out of many tLou vAid d4!ar. sat or St-ufr. of Cum tiz courty, u largely r-f ponidble for thi rask t' which tL Hepublican m ntio&s uc--!y a a sample chip cf ti.- rt r prt)tniv.-d by th repub ,k:sj. lJH;r Republican. A BANKER'S PARADISE ikt iiUbt th t aa ku!M Hit ii- 11 -thfj Tat tb Ai! couth tfce currency art cf March It ha t-a Hi ;-r:4t:i.n l-& than a -ar. riftre tL-.n new balks have tskea o-it national bank hatters and -.s -,:,tu:t--i !ir bus-iii -k under the terms: : rTJ!ed ;n 'bat a t. The national -r.k fif'. Uh!!03 UH J!;- ( . f ;i rr- ;!t .f tL- Xj4 !i . Tb- -j.f"t r.-ir.:l-r ..f hankir..: iut! ' - .'!fTi -:.1 rit kiad that hav, -t far !.'k'n vantage of ta tur--le a t 41! rep--ji-'jtir.S capital rj.-v.r.? of J.i o.;7 o...t AioH t Cf-li. ird of te- backs hav b-n orcatri ' ur.' r tfc- re'ilr m-nis of 1 j'-rar::; h re!-itir:r to banks with if iSJ l l--s th its $' p. There wtc 2- of ti :.r.ks itb an a?recate : :ta' ot f7.".:7.". Althoi'h there r tut r.? bnr.k orsranized wit a '-ar-itsl r-jf fV1''"" .-T over, they ftir iirht tbe amount of capi tal inol.' f!2 4i. Many of the bar.ks whica t-X'k oj charters undr t" s-v natfoua! liankinr iiw were ftrni'-d t-ok !y to ret the l-:i-2t of the Nervous Exhaustion -Two rrs. ih.i tjaiaff I w la rairabl condition an the result r rit- 1 m -':ifi-t-fy rua iowit. pa.e nl lo.lnir fleh. and so wrTvaa tit I -04;4 tisi i.-poret3 strt rt-.u It wit dreadful to go to bed si aijfUt s.i wora out trJ o wke fr tmiri wita nervous ness. If I did svep it u up ta tb taornin tired a when I went to bed. jtr td Uoitad mm crt too. l-,tti with pain und dizziness. IT I kAtim-i over at snr tl:r I ouii tt m dizir 1 mtilrt hurrt' v . or kei M 1:, n fu.ttr o. 1 Mac troubled !:. trroaHi w tt rrkir troabUs. If 1 teeru a little ext lted kit --- "-ail ( s-j t ft.;:i fardljr t oid nyihin tn tbein. 1 employed 'r u-"-n. tiit .. o-i cf litem did la? any permanent Rood. I u 1. of eosin(.rMiu(i'r. WUitmi' Iit.s IV. In for Pale People, but had -& say cf tbe-a t!.t Mr. !Uert Van Knrtn. of Jordan, recom n;3dd tLe-n to m so -onrlr. from Lis own ei per lence with tbera, that I s-j 4m ti 1 !.'' tfcs ."n! o..t w. a-d ti p I bezsn lo feel that they were Wir m f-fi. 1 Wptoti tkins thm scerdinit lo directions and ot from t-ri lis c.ijr real. prfiwal txtnrnx. I hav had from any remedr. It did rM J -:J to r a tacf:: Hwpmid to -e refreshed hv It. 1 afa a Arm i-r to lr. Williams' Pn Tiii t r ai Teopie and 1 do. and ehsll, 1 thm to n. t friend. 1 (t-cerally keeps box In tie house to take la 1 tt 1 a uum run Cos n ." t ft ?3 If M for Pale People AfssMS bsts l , as. . y am inducements held out by the currency act. Others were old state, city 3nd private fcMnks which merged their bus iness under the new charter. There is till pending In the treasury depart ment a number of applications for chart.!- that has not been acted on, n1 Comptroller Dawes is confident that iiie total will be considerably in rremwd in a few weeks.' The estab lishment of so many new national bnks has had the desired result ol greatly Increasing the-amount of na tional bank circulation- Since the en actment of the currency law the in r rete in this respect has be?n, as be fore stated, almost f KtQ.OOO.OOO. Prior to March 14. 1900, the total national bank circulation w?.s 5254.402.730. and on thf 10th Inst, it amounted to $341, 12737. The jrrerter part of this gain is represented by the additional 10 per cert of circulation taken out by the old banks, and the balance Is made up by money put out by the rectntly or saaized binks. Previous to the pass as? of the act of March 14 there were !n operation in the country Rome 13. ! Incorporated banks, banking in stitutions and private tanks, of which 3.17 were national; 5.722 state banks and mm compinie: 701 savings banks without cppital stock, and nbout 3G0 private banks f.r.d bank ers. Comptroller Dawes says that af er eliminating the mutaal savings banks and (rust companies, the prin cii tl business of thete clashes of in ftitution being: of a rharactr 'ticoni-pHtibU- witb that cf ccmmercial banks, there an- ft il remaining over 7.C00 banks tjf discount jnd deposit, in-objriin-j private bankine: concerns inis: t convert o rwanize s -.itioiil lnk-4 upon complying with the f iti'torv ifKj'iirenjents. i the brrkrrs iret ?n average inter hI on the $341.137.937 that they have t that will le a tax upon the piJ of $I7.0?0fC -a year to get Into em uT.it ion l-es'deii tho 1 per cent that in pri,l on the lml upon which the -jrcu!itk.n is issued. The Indepen dent nsVs ever j- man who reads the aiv of3ci.il- Azures to sit down and ronf-i-tlv himself how he likes that Kind cf "financial Ins. How do you likf u- rny te bankers $17,000,000 a vear for fumishinr the people money wih whieh to do business, when the eovernment could furnish the money t .-online a cent? englisFdecadence ' It U the t flri t .f l"alr Tli-iri-i tr Pollti- , , i ml t futtiny ikI tfKi M u li 'oiiht- atiui. TL Nt w York pa pert- are devoting , much cpace to the discussion of the de. au' ao of lintjlish power and her l.-.f of prestige as the leader of the ' comn etcial nations. The woeful waiJs j ! of the English press ever trade pros- j j pe.'ts and deep sloorn caused by the j , -ueiionr of Do wet and Botha who won t ! te whipp-o. give.s countenance to the dismal predictions made on this side j of the watc r. . j In the opinion of lb Independent most of England's woes come from two ! causes. The late severe attacks of jingoism and the false political econ j orny that has been taught, not by the i English economists, but by those in irae anu niaauiaciuncg. xuvttv iuea thoroughly impregnated the whole 'of the working classes with the pernic ious doctrine of "over-production." That hc-s been the nare of England. Everybody was afraid of producing too much and "over stocking the mar ket." If that were done, universal ruin would be the result That idea also gave encouragement to the jingo par ty who said that they must go into the conquering business to get "new market-." The English working man, thor oughly embueJ with this idea of pro ducing too much, strove to put in his time m such a manner as to produce as little as possible. New inventions thrt had a tendency to increase pro dectioa were looked upon as the work of the devil No working man would ever mike an effort to improve the machine he handled because he had bn taught that that would result in his injury. In America this was all different. Tie dea of every working man was to invent scheues that would increase production. Iut a girl in an office to addressing envelopes In America and she would immediately legin to in vent ways in which the work could be do the quickest and the best. These ideas of improvement, doing work in the quickest and best way possible. t.nntwiutwith Indication ut tin tttno 6 ink Fills bQlklattSrsatsabst.orsU hot for f2.Ba.snit msr ua urn. vtiuasMa MCttcixic LMMNr, pervaded every rank of working peo ple in the United States from the su perintendent of a railroad to the office boy who swept out a room. The boy would no sooner get to work than be would begin to contrive ways in which the work could be done the easiest and quickest. Now all this was the very opposite of the English working man. He would begin to study out a plan that would result in taking two to do the work instead of one, and if he suc ceeded, he thought he had done a ser vice to his fellows as well as to him self. He always stood in danger of producing so much that he would be thrown out of work. He never stopped to consider that the danger was not in producing too much wealth, but that the whole evil lay in such unequal dis tribution of the wealth that was pro duced. Acting on this false political economy he has become so degenerate as a workman that an American will on the average produce twice as much as the Englishman, two and a half times as much as the German and more than three times as much as the average member of the Latin races. The Consequence is that America can undersell the manufacturers of those, countries while her .working men live better, are more intelligent and get nearly double the wages paid to the European workmen. The populists have laughed this theory of over-pro- ; duction cleor out of this state, it is not heard any more, although at one time it was the chief reliance of the republican spjll-binders. None but the mullet heads believe in it now. The English journals express fear that in industry, commerce, diplom acy and war the United Kingdom is being distanced or beaten by other na tions, and, in brief, that England is no longer at the head of the international procession. Old notions, old ideas and old models have been clung to with a persistency that is truly English in its tenacity. Conservatism has re sulted in partial national paralysis. Because a thing was English, and had been successful in the eighteenth cen tury, it was retained, and all other plans were wrong. The English soldier is as brave as he was in the days of Wellington and Wa terloo, but he is still charging in the open on breastworks defended by mod ern guns, and that means defeat and slaughter. Take the matter of build ing yachts. When the America out sailed a fleet of British boats so far that, as the queen's footman reported, "there was no second." did English yacht builders adopt the America's lines in the construction of future craft? Not at all. They have contin ued to send tubs over here year after year, only to be beaten again and again. Englishmen are probably not inferior as sailors to what they were in Nelson's time, but they could not, with antiquated models. succeed against the finer ones of this country. A century ago England stood at the head of the nations. Self-satisfied, self complacent, controlled by a powerful spirit of conservatism and wrapped in pride, she has simply not progressed, and at the beginning of the twentieth century the London press awakes to the fact that England is not what it once was. That is true, and the posi tion thus lost is being assumed by the United States. England needs to be modernized, but the penalty for' her past conservatism will be a loss of na tional prestige that will take all of the newly stirred spirit to recover. An Exceptional Offer "The Commoner" one year, and The Independent three months, only $1.00. Send in your order today and begin with the first issue of Mr. Bryan's pa per. Address all orders to the Inde pendent Pub. Co., Lincoln, Neb. SOMETHING WRONG I'nis-ersal Prosperity Seems to Have Alto tther Too Many Exception to Prove the Kule. We have now another illustration of the fact that the general public will accept almost anything, however con trary to fact cr ridiculous it may be. if the daily press will only unite in the declaration and persistently repeat it from day to clay. Everyone joins these days in asserting that we now have a reign of unprecedented pros perity. We hear it on the streets, we see it in the papers, it is announced from the pulpits and wherever one goes this assertion continues to be made. The Independent is beginning to doubt the universality of this pros perity. There are many things that causes it to have doubts on the sub ject. , Every year there are thousands of letters received by The Independent from farmers very many thousands. Most of these men in writing to renew their subscription make some remark about the paper, the crops or the con ditions surrounding them. Never, since 1893, has The Independent re ceived so many letters complaining of hard times among the farmers as it has received in the last three months. When thousands of farmers scattered over these western states, without knowledge of or communication with each other, write that it is with diffi culty that they can get one dollar to pay for their subscription, and many others ask for time to make their payment. The Independent is forced to the conclusion that there are too many exceptions to this rule to allow the statement that this is an era of "uni versal prosperity" to stand unchal lenged. Besides this evidence, the pleas for help come from too many quarters with the sad statement that it must be given immediately or the people will die of starvation to let the statement stand. Here are two that are taken from one daily paper: "Farmers in McHenry county, North Dakota, are starving, according to the Rev. John H. Mead of Fargo, who is in Tacoma. He says: 'It is the intention of .the Red Cross society to ask help from other northwestern states, for it will be necessary to keep about 150 families until their crops give an indi cation of a good yield next summer. At present they cannot get credit at the stores.' " "Rev. Alfred Lazenby yesterday spoke on 'Female Industry and the Consumers' League.' He said: " 'There are thousands of women in Chicago working from early in the morning until late at night for barely enough to keep life in their bodies. They toil in almost uninhabitable quarters, by poor light, and subsist upon the poorest of food. There are years of misery behind thfem and years of misery before them. ; " 'The consumers '. league reports that there are 13.000 men, 11,000 wom en, 1,000 girls and 500 boys working on garments in, Chicago. There are no real sweatshops here, but the 'workers are forced ' to liye . in f earf ul. places on account of the- small wages they re ceive. ' v A consumptive-looking woman and a young girl were found recently in a - dirty, badly lighted . room work ing upon overalls! Inquiry developed the fact' that the two together could not make over 35 cents a day. The case is' one of many.' " , . Will Print Bryan's Paper : Mr. Bryan has given the contract for publishing his new paper, "The Commoner," to the Western Newspa per Union of this city. There' was considerable friendly rivalry among all the printing institutions with suf ficient capacity. to do the .work as to which would be the favored party. At all times Mr.: Bryan stated' that it was not a matter of the lowest bid that would secure the work, but rather a matter of satisfactory equipment and conveniences for putting-out the pa per in the most satisfactory manner. The first issue will appear on Wed nesday, the 23d inst. Mr. Bryan will feed the first copy into the press and ex-Land Commissioner V. Wolfe! "Uncle Jake," will turn the press for its printing. Those who wish to get a copy of the first issue should take ad vantage of the special offer announced on the first page of this paper. Presidential Indecency The Chicago Record in commenting on the appointment of two sons of su preme court judges to offices that would be abolished if that court de cided against the president's imperial policy says: "The appointments men tioned show an astonishing indelicacy on the part of the administration an indelicacy which is all the more- de plorable when it is considered that the administration cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance of the, situation. When Mr. McKinley selected Mr. Har lan and Lieutenant McKenna for lu crative positions in our island posses sions he must have been perfectly well aware that he was giving out sub stantial favors to the sons of justices before whom questions involving those island possessions must come. It. is in no sense a reflection upon those jus tices to say that they have thus been placed involuntarily in the attitude of being put under obligations. The fact that they will try to ignore these ob ligations makes no difference. ' They have been jplaced deliberately in a po sition in which men of less integrity might be influenced to favor the ad ministration, while men of integrity, but of less breadth of view might lo influenced to oppose the administra tion's side for the sake of appearances. "President ' McKinley 's' proneness to offend in this way stamps him -as a man of wretched taste, when the best is said of him. These shameless ap pointments, made while the fate of, Porto Rico is in the "balance, Imply incredible dullness on the part of the chief executive or.a degree of cynicism that properly calls for & stern reproof from the people." The Committee's Report One of the substantial institutions of this city and state is the Nebraska Mercantile Mutual Ins. Co. - It has over seven thousand policies in force, and nearly six million dolars insurance. Its annual meeting was held in the company's offices on the 10th at which time all the old officers and directors were re-elected. Their annual state ment is now in process of completion and will be filed with the insurance de partment before the close .of the month. Before the annual meeting the mem bers had a committee appointed to ex amine the business of the company, and the following is their report: "To the Members of the Nebraska Mercantile Mutual Ins. Co. Your au diting committee report as follows: We met at the office of the company on. Tuesday, January 8, 1901, and on that day and the day following we checked up and verified the journal and secretary's receipt book, showing moneys turned over to the treasurer, the treasurer's cash book, the treas urer's bank book, the treasurer's checks and check book, the treasurer's disbursement ledger and all vouchers on file, and have checked them each against the other. We have also audited, checked up and verified all accounts entering into the annual reports of the president and treasurer, and ' have checked up the various statements and verified in de tail the various items appearing on the various statements of those officers and have found everything correct. Dated at Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9. 1901. Respectfully submitted. GEO. L. .LOOMiS, R. M. TAGGART, JAS. H. CASEBEER. v Auditing Committee. A special report was made- by the city manager ; for Lincoln. This de partment issued during 1900 1,006 pol icies covering $733,976. More than one-half of this is dwelling house in surance, the very best grade of in surance. ' The company starts out under the most favorable conditions for the coming year. SCIENTIFIC FARMING Conservation of Moisture by Surface Cul ture Han Given Astonishing: Re-., suits Every where. Prof. F. H. King of the Wisconsin experiment station, a leading author ity pn' soil physics, has demonstrated that "the quantity of water required to produce two -tons of clover -hay is 8.85 acre inches; 70 bushels of oats de mand 10.98 inches: 60 bushels of, bar ley. 10.7 inches: 70 bushels of corn, 11.75 inches, and ,400-bushels of pota toes, 8.27 inches. These amounts as sume that, no water is lost by drain age, and that loss from soil by evapor ation is as small as it can well 'be made." : . , Recorded observations show that the average rainfall of the west, central and western portion of Nebraska rang es from 20 inches to 18 inches annual ly in the extreme western -borders, an amount of moisture which, if it could be carefully conserved, is sufficient to secure much better results in general farming than .have so far been ob tained. At intervals in this region are to be found farmers who are applying, scientific : principles and careful work to the question of how to conserve enough of this annual rainfall to se cure forage "and grain crops sufficient for wintering live stock, also gardens and orchards for family use. The problem which . presents itself is - ho' to conserve the moisture, left in the soil, by the frosts of winter; how to keep the soil in such condition that the occasional rains or heavy showers shall soak quickly into the soil to such a depth as not to be speedily lost. At this elevation the bright sun and rapidly moving winds quickly evap orate soil moisture left on or within a few. inches of the surface. The second part of the problem, then, is to keep soil and surface in such condition that dashing rains shall be quickly con ducted deeply into the soil and away from rapid loss by surface evaporation. To the unthinking reader it may seem that a dry and dusty soil would absorb a, larger amount of a five-inch rain in less time than a soil already moist. Observation and experience, however, demonstrate that this is not correct. Water passes in the form of films from soil particle to . particle, and when soil is already moist this passage of water by gravity is much more rapid and it sinks away to a much greater depth than when falling upon a soil parched and dry. It is evident that the ideal condition is to retain at all times in the soil enough soil moisture for the use of the crop and also enough so that the water from the occasional violent storm shall be quickly received instead of running away from rolling surface and shall be conducted as rap idly as possible into the deeper soil or subsoil, available for later use by capillary circulation. In early spring there is usually ai large amount of moisture in the -;oil remaining from the frost period. This is rapidly evaporated from a crusted surface. To retain the largest possible amount of this winter soil moisture double discing is useful. This leaves a -loose surface which quickly stops loss of moisture, saving the larger por tion until needed for plant use. Care ful soil tests made from time to time show that evaporation from fields ly ing ' as the winter leaves them aver ages something like an inch in ten days, showing that it is quite possible to lose before the first of Maj' as much as three inches of the soil water in the fields, and that this three inches conserved in any form might be the necessary amount to carry the crop through the trying period of late July . and August. Numerous illustrations demonstrate that ground double disced late in March or, early April retains moisture enough so that when it comes time to list in May the disced field turns 'over "nicely, lies evenly, and has moisture enough to sprout and bring the corn forward promptly. Contigu- j ous fields allowed to lie without disc- ing ' during our occasional dry windy springs become so dry before corn planting time that there is not always enough moisture left to germinate th corn. . ... After planting it " has been found useful to cultivate the surface with shallow working machinery in such form as. to leave a dust mulch 24 to 3 inches in depth.. It is quite important that the tools used in the cultivation of " corn crops shall, be three inches, lest they should disturb the feeding roots of . the. crop. As an illustration of the ability to conserve moisture working along lines indicated by 'this principle, Mr. H. W. Campbell in Brown county. South Da kota, in the extremely trying year of 1S94 raised over 4,000 bushels of pota toes from 32 acres, and this in a dis trict where there was an extreme crop failure. In, the year 1900 there has been a serious failure in the corn crop hi Kearney county, Nebraska. Mr. W. H. Calkinsf near Kenesaw, disced SO acres of ground late in the fall. This discing was repeated from the 15th to 20th of April with the result of con serving the winter moisture to the ex tent that his field was in most excel lent condition for plowing and plant ing, and the raising of a half crop of corn in a county where many of the farmers are compelled to buy corn fcr feed. Mr. WTilliain McCallum on the St. Francis table in the' extreme north west county in Kansas planted an orchard in the spring of 1896. His thought in the growing of an orchard was to attempt to grow nothing but trees on the ground, by careful sur face culture to conserve the major portion of the rainfall end to store this in the soil and subsoil until it should be needed by the trees when they attained a larger size. The soil augur showed in four years that he has stored up soil moisture to the dept of 15 feet, when on the nearby prairie tests fchow that the annual railfall has not soakea down into the ground to a greater depth than 2 feet, and sub ject to such rapid evaporation as to leave the prairies dry and parched each season As might have been ex pected in this fertile soil with ample moisture he lias secured a vigorous growth in his orchard, and early bear ing varieties have already commenced fruiting. This gentleman by the ap plication of these principles succeeds in growing fair crops of corn, grabi and potatoes. At the Pomroy experiment station at Hill City. Kas., ground prepared for winter wheat by prior cultivation that should conserve moisture and seeded in September shows 3 to 3 feet of soil moisture, and the wheat shows an excellent color and is in vigorous con dition, . presaging a promising crop. Neighboring fields have only 8 to 1 inches of soil moisture, this being the amount they have been enabled to save from a heavy rain which came in September. This September rain having been followed by a dry fall there is a vtry marxed difference in the condition of the fields of wheat handled under the -ordinary and this improved process. Two hundred and thirty-five mile? northwest of Lincoln, one mile from the southeast corner of Cherry county on the North Loup table is located one of the state experiment stations m care of Mr. T. C. Jackson. Here from 80 to 100 varieties of fruit have been planted and are being cultivated ana tested with a view to ascertaining whether it is practicable to grow orch ards and small fruits successfully in MOm CELEBRITIES Declare Peruna to Be The Greatest Ca tarrh Remedy of The Age. COLDS COUGHS GRIPPE CROUP S0RE- HOARSE! THROATj NESS r.Hinn justicr CHAMBERS, OF SAMOA,. fj Says: "I can recommend Peruna as one of the very best remedies for catarrh. I recommend Peruna to all sufferers..". 4 this locality. This gentleman has also planted 35 acres of commercial orch ard, some 2,000 apple trees, 1,500 peach trees. 600 pear, 400 plum. 400 cherry and plantations of small fruits. About half of this, commercial orchard was planted in the spring of 1897, the re mainder in succeeding years. This is in a neighborhood where general grain farming is regarded extremely hazard ous. It is on the edge of a cattle coun try where no attempt- is made to do more than to grow enough fodder to assist in wintering the large herds of cattle grazing on the summer ranges. Mr. Jackson has froni" the first been a close student of the scientific prin ciples underlying conservation of moisture and has been diligent in their application. In planting he. has set the trees and plants from 8 to 10 inches deeper than is customary in the southeastern coun ties of the state. This to brace them against the violent winds prevailing in that district. He has guarded against the undue loss of moisture by such frequent surface cultivation as has served to conserve the greater por tion of the small annual rainfall re ceived, with the result that this mois ture is year after year soaking more deeply into the subsoil, year by year his trees are increasing in vigor of growth, and apparently are at no time "lacking a sufficient amount of soil moisture to secure a vigorous growth. As an illustration of the. amount of moisture secured, retained and utilized second size two year cherry trees planted in the spring of '97, in July of 1900. had attained a 12-foot spread of branches and the trunks a circum ference of 12 inches, measuring 13 inches at the end of the season. Both plum and cherry trees had made a vigorous growth and were in fairly full bearing of all the fruit that trees of that size should carry. The fruit was also of specially large size and excellent quality. An occasional ap ple tree planted in 1S97 commenced bearing in 1900. peach trees planted in '9S. though slightly damaged, by the phenomenal winter of '98-9, were not destroyed. Damaged tops were cut back and trees have since made a vig orous, healthy growth and promise fruit during the year 1901. A plat of strawberries 50x260 feet has yielded 1.100, quarts. This with only the nat ural rainfall and with skilful culture. E. F. STEPHENS. Crete, Neb. Implement Dealers j The dealers in farm implements are i the queerest lot of chaps who ever held conventions ana had Dig dinners. They got together down in Omaha and Council Bluffs last week and actually passed, without a' dissenting vote, the following resolutions: "Whereas, The late advance, in all classes of agricultural implements, farm machinery, etc., is apparently chargeable to the producers of build .00 mmrn i : . mmm ArPm -i;,f taalae Imparted French Tws Toae Jaeaard Ureas frtultlnr, s nnw rSi&P,r4M1901 re rich mercerised fabric, regular S4.00 Talus. Our Tort-lit f barer !(( ,,'.y'SLJI JrJf I 192 1,1.... t hiM. ffnnH. . fr a rrt ww. a.. ,),. l,o m ... . THESE GOODS rifrht truia the taghion suiiaDieior dresses teea lor eervlce, Tril I be shown by all reocu dress goous. by express U O. 1).. tohjoet (s exaatlaatloa. You can examine the foods aft tout exnreas office, and if found perfectly satisfactory, exactly as represented, such a dress pattern as you could not buy from your store keeper at home at less than Si. 00, a class of goods that is seldom found in country stores at any price, pronounced br everyone the greatest ralne evershownin your section, then pay the express agent OUR SPECIAL OFFER PRICE $ 1 .93 and express charges. (The express charges will average 5 to 6 cents). These goods vary f rom 38 to (3 inches in width. If more than 7 yards ere wanted, 29 CENTS PER YARD EXTRA. ftllR CDEfIM CI Oft DBIPE tsr a fall drM psttera ef ? rarda is based on the sctual cost of the en WWII OrbUIMli QliSO rlllWb tire lot to us at a forcedcash sale under the hammer.ocean freight to New York, rail freight to Chicago, and but our one small percentage of proQt added. We could sell the entire lot to sny wholesale dry goods house in Chicago today at a big profit, but we want te rive our euatooaers the benett ef this enrehase, give you for 81.98 such a drees pattern as you could not buy elsewhere at less than (4.00. WliKER TODAY. IK'T DELAT. Won't wait te write tor samples. These goods will go quickly, and when they are gone there will be no more. IM1EIISTAM), yea take no risk. If they don't suit you whea examined at the express office, don't take them and don't pay a cent, bat order at enee. If you will state your ags and complexion, and allow us to select the colorintr, we will rive yea tke baadsamest aad most breaailna tklnc wa kr. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO. Hon. M. C. Butler, cx Governor of South Caro lina, in a letter from Washlns ton, D. C, says: "I 'can recom mend Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble, I have been using your medicine for a short period and I feel very much re lieved. It is indeed a wonderful medicine, and besides, a great tonic," U. S. Senator Stephen RJ Alallory, Pensacola, Fla., says: I have used your excellent rear edy, Peruna, and can recommend it both as a tonic and a safe ca tarrh remedy.' Hon. William Young blood, Auditor for the Interior, writes from Washington, D. C, ta Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O,, a follows: Vve often heard of your great medicine and have persuad ed my wife, who has been much of a sufferer from catarrh, to try Peruna, and after using one bottlo she has wonderfully improved.' It' has proved alt you have claimed for it." A Hon. Rufus B. Merchant Superintendent and Dis bursing Officer, U.S. Post office, Washington, D. C, says: take pleasure in commending your tonic, having taken a bottlo of Peruna with very beneficial re suits. It is recommended to m o as a very excellent catarrh cure. ing materials, who . have organized themselves into trusts, and have suc ceeded in thoroughly crushing out competition, and by limiting produc tion are now enabled to force buyeiB to pay exorbitant prices, which is tak ing millions of . dollars annually be yond a legitimate profit from our customers; "Therefore, We demand in the nair.e, of the agricultural classes that con gress enact such laws as will effect ually control all trusts and combina tions to the extent of preventing fur ther extortion by taking unreasonable profits from purchasers and users of manufactured articles controlled by said trusts." Just think of that! Why don't theue fellows "resolute" the way they have voted for the last ten years? Do they really think that a resolution passed at one of their annual roundups more effectual than their votes? Any body of 4ealers can pass resolutions, but it takes "men" to cast votes where they will do some good in the direction of suppressing trusts. Patronize our advertisers. Independent Democrats Instead of throwing any light on tlio political situation, the Jeffersonian banquet resolved itself Into a mero "function" the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. True, some of . the speakers paid their respects to the Dickinson and Cleveland school of alleged democrats and prated of a united democracy, but those 'gentlemen might just as well make up their minds that the thou sands of voters who followed . Brya u will never again follow hfm or any other candidate In company with the gang cf traitors that deserted the peo ple's cause, giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Principles may live for ever, but the eastern frauds that pro fessed principles without having any can never have the support of western men who trusted them twice and were sold out both times. There can never be a reunited democracy until such cattle are driven out of the party into the plutocracy, where they belong. Labor Bulletin. IT WILL PAY YOU to send for our big cats. 1ok giving wholesaleprices on vehicles,! mplementa.etO This K'lamuteed buggy PRICE only 3-.3a. nee our other ada la this papar. "Th hotiM thX MTM you mowy." WESTERN MERCANTILE CO. Dept. 5 Umha,Beb. Dr. J. 31. MCLEOD, 1300 O Street, Lincoln, Nebr. ( General Surgery Specialist and diseases ( of Women First class hospital facilities. DRESS GOODS OFFER. I dim) fraBth annufaetarrr, fmh frttat th frcarh Ioobi ( alxrat ope-kalr tkc cost tomato. HAVE JUST BEEN LANDED ?tfm.!l center of France, aud weofler them in full dreas pattrraa 01 t yars sat si.BS.or in any quantity at 2 S cents per yard, &o percent less than dealers can buy in hundred piece lots. TltEfeB iOOISAIE COOD WEIGHT, lor young or old, and lor all seasons; Ormly word, araai orrn with a handsome rained crepon e fleet, such fabrics sa fashionable city stores the coming season at fancy price. COLORINGS. tT. ean furaUh them goda la all Ike rrrj lateat ahadea aad taaibfais liona. Ifcry inriade alaioat eiery akade aad eomblnatloa ts become all rovpleiloaa aaa at-. flllR Nfl MflUEY nCCCD Cnt this sd. out snd send to tis, glre ua an WUIl HU lYlUif C I UrrLrii ldeaot coloring or combination ot colors wanted, and we will send vou a blur full dress nattern of 7yardsof this Ana. ne wstvla