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January 17, 1001.
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Current Comment
Tfc eye of tte world are still di
Tnti toward So4th Africa where tb
altcaUoa rroa more dramatic every
iay. History falls to fsrcUh a paral
lel to thm Boer laraiion of Cap Col
oay. A whole month ha elapsed tince
the doughty burthen croye4 thi
Oracft rirer and still they go rr.irr:i
tzg on and Kngllih government seems
enable to cfffT any riouf rwHtanc.
Tie ocly thing known with tolerable
certainty 1 that they are pTOgrr-asin.?
fcoathward. over aparrely inhal-
lt-d tracta, where they ecaje obser
atlon. Othr large bodies are tra
verwicg the very heart of ths color y.
The only logical explanation seiaa to
b tbe largely accepted idea that .h
inraxlon fcm part of a great, organ
ized ache ire of the Napoleon of th
war, Getiral IWet. to atrik terror lu
the Erltith colony, which, unquestion
ably, is nearly Onaded of troop, and
trust to the chapter of accidents l
arbieve auch -3tc-- as will enab! the
lkrs to a! meat dictate the. terms of
4 r.e Britiih ciarsblp Is u mvt
as rer. bu or-e cannot fall to re.ni .
lifts tbe Ilns of the little new that
H allowM to cs-e dif quoting hints
tbst tbe Uritifch army Is waiting away
witn alarming rapidity. The very lor.g
Hat of hliUd nd wounded constantly
arrlnrc gire importance to the
h!r.t. Diseaae la alho making terri
ble r.rwr in the British rank. Th-i
trotpi in the sdrance are lecomin?
dltconteste.!, aru2 the British public
i Wonitr very akrptical of the abil
ity or the power cf the Joe Chamber
lain prisB rt to ever iecare ric
t&ry. They irgia cow to turn to C
scholars zzi thinkers who from t.e.
f rt orpo-sed tfee Cnamberlaln policy
and whom a few months tir.ee tfcey
tried to mob whenever they appeared
n psbUc. Many of the jingo pap?.
hew cr. continue to express the e
frminauon to suhiue the Hr at
any cost, but there is core o? tbe m
tb3tiasm d 'j.iayd a year ajro. Tl.
rsct fc?n&j thing Is that rer iitm;
ha fallen tc the lowest ebb known in
th lart quarter century.
The p-sralysls cf Kitchener's vn-t
and SM-att-red army is apparently f m
piete and ta gloomy contrast to th
iscetant. unchecked actirity of tbi
Boers. Soldiers letters hora hat
ba stepped and cScers letters are
tlforoualy cenorM. owing to tbe lad
lmpretaiojj crested ty their spiritless,
depreaaed tenor. The whole stpect of
the war has changed. The organize -tlca
of a daring and far-reaching
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j-trategy by the Beers ba3 ccfmpelled
th? British to abandon temporarily the
offensive and to concentrate entirely?
for purpoe of defense. They are
quitting all the outlying garrisons and
massing their troops in the military
centres along the line of communi
cation upon which depends tbe life of
Lord Kitchener's army.
The condition of affairs in the Phil
ippines Is unknown to all but a select
few. The McKinley censorship is no
less ?ercre than that of the British and
only such news is given out as will
h?ve a tenienry to aid the passage of
the bill creating an army of 100,000
men and aid tbe administration in its
policy of Imperialism Two lems
have been given to tbe public. Sixteen
prominent Filipinos have been exiled,
fottrt'en others are to he shot, be
ides a large number 'vho have been
sentenced to Imprisonment for life
ftnd shorter terms. That seems to be
the amount of benevolent ass'milation
tbit has ben accomplished during the
last week.
Tlio prevalence of this sort of assim
ilation was discussed by Professor
Norton of Harvard the other day and
its degenerating effects pointed out.
The present rtty standards he de
nounced as "brutal." It is a matter
of regret, he said, "that our stand
ards are lower than they were fifty
years ago. When I remember how
many young men took no active an in
terest in the rebellion, Onering them
selves freely. I cannct but contrast
them with the great disappointment of
th present time Governor Roose
velt. In them was found no boyish
ness, no boastful ncsp. none of the
'rough-rider spirit. They were young
patriots ready to give themselves for
their country. They were not brufal.
Our standards have been lowered."
In China all is confusion. The joint
note of the powers has been signed by
the ofTWrs of the Chinese government,
but wat thru amounts to is unknown.
Many of tbe eastern papers are now
expressing the same opinion about this
"irrevocable" note that The Indepen
dent published when it was first an
nounced. China will sign of course,
but wljh mental reservations and no
thought of abiding by its provisions
longer than It is possible to invent
some way to abrogate or annul them.
No government on pirth has a moral
right to demand such concessions as
were written in those demands.
A missionary in a -peech In New
York stated that the chief cause of
hatred of foreigners arose from what
is called the opium war. All decent
Chinamen look upon opium as the
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greatest curse that ever befel the na
tion and they lay the blame for the
destruction that it causes upon the
"foreign devils " They all know that
the import of opium was forbidden by
their emperor and that England waged
a fierce and cruel war upon the Chi
nese until the emperor was forced to
withdraw the decree. It is said that
about $400,000,000 worth of opium is
annually consumed in China. This
terrible financial drain on so poor a
people is the cause of China's extreme
poverty. Not only do the better part
of the Chinese curse the day that
opium was forced upon them, but tha
sufferers from it also learn to hate a
foreigrer with a. hatred that has no
parallel elsewhere in the world. All
this opium is shipped into China from
India. The English owners of the pop
py fields roll in wealth, call them
selves Christians and patronize the
churches, while the victims of ttvdr
business die by the million after suf
fering the most horrible tortures ever
inflicted upon the human body.
Carpenter, in one of his recent let
ters from China, describes some of the
effects of opium upon the Chinese. He
says: "The craze for the drug Is be
yond description. I am told that Chi
nese mothers often sell their little girls
to buy opium. Fathers sell their sons
and husbands their wives. Dr. Beebe,
who is in charge of the big hospital
at Nanking, said that he had a neigh
bor who was an opium smoker. He
spent all of his money in gratifying
the taste, and when that was gone sold
his three children, one after the other,
and finally his wife, to satisfy his
opium hunger.
"I sit and watch the Chinese devils
at their hellish work and as I do so
seems to me that I can see the pictures
of the ruins which it is to create as it
is scattered throughout, the Chinese
empire. I can see dens in which scores
of haggard-eyed, yellow-faced mortals
are lying and smoking away the wages
which should go to the support of their
families. There are women as well as
men, and children as- well as grown
ups. Here is a mother with her baby
at her feet lying before the opium
lamp. The pipe has fallen from her
mouth and the little one is playing
with It, sucking it. I can see the op
ium parlors of the rich and the hlls
of vice which I have seen at Shanghai
a score of pictures."
Is It any wonder that the Chinese
hate foreigners, when they view the
miseries that foreigners have brought
upon them for the sake of gold? Is it
a wonder that they are hard to con
vince that there can be anything good
in a Christian civilization that has
wrought such misery and woe in their
midst? The government that d?d this
awful wickedness now demands that
the sovereignty ot China shall be
turned over to it and other nations
professing the same creed. If China
fails to keep such a contract one that
she was compelled to make by su
perior force where is the moralist
who can blame her? Meantime about
six thousand of our troops are in
China. If they stay until these nego
tiations are all completed, they will
never see the. green fields of America
again. They will die in China of old
age.
The supreme court handed down a
decision in the Neely extradition case
last Monday. Neely is the man sent
down to Cuba by McKinley as a post
office official and who stole thousands
of dollars from the Cuban postal funds.
He was, arrested In this country and
has fought extradition. By this ds
cision he must go hack to Cuba and
stand trial there. The political bearing
of the case is small. It, however, set
tles one question. The court holds in
effect that the declaration of congress
regarding Cuba at the outbreak of the
war with Spain is binding upon this
country; that when it declared tha
purpose of the war was to make Cuba
free and independent that declaration
was binding upon the United States
and that Cuba was in law and in fact
a foreign country; any authority
which the United States possesses In
Cuba is incident to the military occu
pation and for the furthering of the
purposeH set forth in the declaration
of congress.
In cor.gress the house has been con
sidering the river and robber bill. The
Independent gives it that name as be
ing more descriptive of Its contents
than river and harbor bill. It is the
most unjust thing of the kind ever in
troduced into congress. The $60,000,
000 which it proposes to appropriate
is almost wholly devided up among
the districts of the members of that
committee. In one instance, $30,000
is appropriated for an insignificant
harbor on the Atlantic coast while
only thit amount is appropriated for
all the harbors up around the north
ern coast of the Pacific, from which
there stil hundreds of ships to China,
to all the orient, to South America
and to Alaska.
In the senate the army bill has been
under discussion and on two or three
occasions there has been some hot
words. Senator Teller has been tak
ing an active part in the discussion.
The other day he gave the president
a sharp rebuksfor placing Eagan on
the retired list, which Senator Teller
said was to reward him for making a
disgraceful attack on General Miles.
There has been no advancement made
with tho army bill not a single
amendment having been voted upon so
far. Tie fight is made against that
provision that gives the president the
authority to double the standing army
whenever he sees fit.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Senator Poultry Amalgamation
Exchange of Prisoners Signs of the
Times Trusts Sectional Interest.
If Thompson and Rose water are
elected senators It is quite certain the
republicans cannot carry the state in
two years, and if Rosewater is not
elected, at all, it is equally sure that
he will turn in with the Bryan party
and help whip the republicans. So we
say let the lightning strike where it
is a mind to.
The winter poultry show of this
state shows better than any previous
show. After all the show is not the
end of the contest; it is what breed of
fowls are the most profitable. We
have tried white and black, buff and
State of Ohio, City of Toledo
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Lucas County.
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F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in
the city of Toledo, county and state
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of ca
tarrh that cannot be- cured by the use
of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
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Hall3 Family Pills are the best.
brown, big and little and for profit, in
a city pen, the buff leghorns take the
cake. - They lay better in the winter,
just as well in the summer, and they
make good frys two . weeks earlier
than any other breed. At six weeks
of age they are leaved out smooth and8
look more eatable than other varieties
at eight weeks. ;
When a colored man marries a whit2
woman, the man must be lynched, but
when a white man marries a colored
woman, , then the woman must be
lynched. This is the white man's
consistency and justice. General Eus
tis, once the owner, ot the Arlington
plantation, father-in-law of General
Robert E. 1-ee, publicly boasted that
he was father of four hundred of his
slaves. At that time white men did
not object to amalgamation of the
races.
There is one thing about the South
African war that surprises us. It is
that the English should take the same
inhuman course with the Boers that
the Spanish did with the Cubans. They
are doing everything mean except that
they have not shut the women and
children up in a wire-fence prison. The
English have fifteen or twenty thou
sand prisoners, some of them sent
away to barren islands, and will not
exchange with the Boers. If I were
a leader among the Boers there would
not be any English prisoners to lib
erate at the close of the war. I would
send them to the nearest island where
there is no return. ,
If we rightly read the signs of the
times, farmers are paying off their
old debts and as a rule are more shy
about contracting new ones. If we
wanted to buy a -home or a farm we
would only buy what we could pay for.
Buving property at the present prices
and paying half down, means the half
unpaid will take the whole back, in
side of four years, for if the green
backs are retired and no more silvor
is coined or if the legal tencTer power
of silver is limited to ten dollars, as
it is In England, property of all kinds
has got to drop, or, in other words,
gold has got to go up. The moneyed
men of the east, who know what this
administration has planned, prefer
loaning their money onr.English gov
ernment security at a low rate of in
terest rather than invest in any prop
erty or business on tms lae. Hereto
fore millions of English capital has
been sent over here for investment In
many lines of business and many
kinds of property. The republicans
have adopted Bryan's plan of coining
silver for the one purpose of re-electing
McKinley. They will not coin a
hundred millions of full legal tender
silver dollars the next four years.
They may establish a mint in Manila
and coin ' silver dollars that will be
legal tender there, but they will not
be legal tender on this side. Mexican
dollars go just as well , there as Am
erican. Mexico, though she has trip
pled her coining cannot coin fast
enough for half the world. One-half
of the world today is on a silver stand
ard. There is not, half enough gold
to supply the world with money
enough to do the business.
We have no fears of the salt trust
or the meat trust. Some, of the edi
tors are laughing in their sleeves, that
the salt trust is pinching the Armour
meat trust. Just so they laughed when
they thought the Leiter wheat corner
had trapped Armour, but when he
commenced to deliver wheat from
Minnesota, Ohio and Missouri the
laugh was changed. Just so now j salt
is being brought over as ballast " and
the Armour brothers are getting their
salt far below the trust price. The salt
ledge in Kansas extends over several
counties. Anywhere, by a stream of
water, ""Armour could establish salt
works for five or ten thousand dollars
that would turn out a carload or two
of salt daily. The way they do it,
is to bore a six inch hole down nearly
through the ledge, then put down a
six-inch pipe and tamp it as tight a3
possible just above the salt, then put
down a three-inch pipe inside the
large one, quite to the bottom of the
ledge. Then they turn into the large
pipe fresh -water which dissolves the
salt and becomes as strong as brine
can .be made and rises nearly to the
surface in the small tube. The pump
Is applied to the small tube and boil
ing salt can be commenced at once.
Back in western New York there
were more than a score of holes al
ready bored down to the salt that could
have been bought, two years ago, for
about the price of a woodchuck hol.
For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup has been used by
mothers for their children while teeth
ing. Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of Cut
ting Teeth? If so send at once and
get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup" for Children Teething. Its
value is incalculable. It will relieve
the poor little sufferer immediately.
Depend upon.it, mothers, there is no
mistake about it. It cures diarrhoea,
regulates the stomach and bowels,
cures wind colic, softens the gums, re
duces inflammation, and gives tono
and energy to the whole system. "Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for chil
dren teething is pleasant to the taste
and is the prescription of one of the
oldest and best female physicians and
nurses In the United States, and is for
sale by all druggists throughout the
world. Price, 25 cents a bottle. Be
sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup."
So there is no danger of any lengthy
salt trust. Of course they will now
want the tariff raised on salt. The
production of salt cannot be monop
olized. The meat trust is no more
dangerous. Anybody can go out and
buy beef of the farmers just as cheap
ly as Armour can, then slaughter it
himself and put it on the market. Tho
only advantage the trust has, is they
can slaughter fifty head for twenty
dollars, while it would cost two dollars
to slaughter one. We have no fears
of the salt, meat and ice trusts. It is
the special laws giving trusts the ad
vantage over the individual that we
fear.
There is a east and west today, just
as distinct as there ever was a north
and a south. There are many meas
ures and laws that are for the interest
of the east and at the same time a de
triment to the west. There is not an
article that, is produced in Nebraska,
either animal, vegetable or mineral,
that we get one cent more for on ac
count of the high protective tariff. On
the contrary, almost every article we
buy of New England or the middle
states we have to pay more for on ac
count of the tariff. Then the west is
a debtor people while the east is a
creditor people. .Raising the money
standard increases the value of the
eastern holdings and lessens the value
of labor and property in the west. A
big river and harbor appropriation
furnishes the east with more oppor
tunity to steal while the west is not
in reach. The nine millions a year as
ship subsidies will nearly all go to
the eastern ship owners. No wonder
the eastern politicians are anxious to
reorganize the democratic party back
ward on the old Cleveland line. They
want both the large parties on their
side just as the old whig and democrat
parties were both on the side of tha
south. The east wants it so fixed that
it will be no concern with them which
party carries tbe election. The slave
owner got what he wanted whether
whigs or democrats carried the elec
tion, but when Lincoln was elected
they were up a stump. Just so it
would have been with the east had
Bryan been elected.
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COINAGE OF SILVER
The Official Report of the Director of the
Mint la At Last Sent to Congress.
The daily papers printed an item
of news last week with which the
readers of The Independent have been
familiar for several weeks. It be
came a matter of necessity for them to
print it as the Associated press re
ported the submission of the report of
the director of the mint and a synop
sis of it was received by the tele
graph editors some time during The
night of January 11. Not an editor
so far as noticed has written a word of
comment or in the slightest way drawn
attention to the coinage of the great
est amount of silver ever coined in
one year since the foundation of the
government with the exception of one
single year. While that is a fact
that even the gold bug editors have
not the cheek longer to deny, still they
continue their sneers about the idiocy
of wanting to coin silver.
The telegraph ecutors of the great
dailies, mindful of their general in
structions, made no display heads over
this report and the "make-up" with
the same fear before him, put the re
port in the most inconspicuous posi
tion in the paper. The following is
the summary that was sent from
Washington:
'"Mr. George E. Roberts, director of
the mint, in his annual reports shows
that the coinage of. the past year was
in excess of that executed in any prev
ious year in the history of the service,
aggregating. $141,351,960, as compared
with $136,855,676 in the last fiscal
year. The value of the gold coinage
was slightly below that of the previous
year, being $107,937,110, as compared
with $108,177,180. The coinage of sil
ver dollars was $18,244,984, as com
pared with $18,254,709 in the previous
year. The chief increase was in the
output of the subsidiary and minor
coins, which surpassed all records,
and, it is stated, may doubtless be at
tributed to the extraordinary activity
of retail trade throughout the country.
The coinage of subsidiary silver
amounted to 57,114,270 pieces of value
of $12,876,849, and of minor coins to
the extraordinary total of 101,301,753
pieces of the value of $2243,017.
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CUBA'S CONSTITUTION
It Follow Generally. the Lines of Govern
ment Found tn our National and
State Constitutions.
Dewey said that the Filipinos were
better cable of self-government than
the Cubans. While - we have been
fighting the Filipinos the Cubans have
been permitted to go forward in the
organization of a government for
themselves and notwithstanding they
were pronounced b.y so high author
ity as Dewey less capable than the
Filipinos they have about perfected a
constitution which is favorably com
mented upon by all who have seen it.
It follows the general . lines of the
American system and appears, from
the telegraphic abstract, to be simple
and conservative in character. iThe
legislative, executive and judicial func
tions are distinct. The congress con
sists of a senate, of four senators frora
each department elected by the muni
cipal councils for a term of .six years,
and a chamber of representatives, one
for every 30,000 inhabitants, elected
biennially by popular vote. The mem
bers of either house must be Cubans. .
The president is elected for a term
of six years and is not eligible for im
mediate re-election. He must be a
Cuban by birth or naturalization, and
in the latter case must have served
Cuba in ten years of war. This pro
vision, of course, is to leave Gomez
It's Not
with us now. It's a strong desire to make
stocks as low as possible before they're invoiced,
to give the new spring lines as much room as
they require. That's why such price reductions
prevail throughout the house now.
Special Dress Goods Offerings
Our entire line of half wool
checks, plaids and novelty
dress goods which have sold
from 23c to 30c; on sale I (J
here, now, per yard. 1 . .
Heavy quality checked nov
elties and all wool shud
da cloths, 33 inches wide worth
40 and 50c, on sale now, Q C a
per yard . . . . . . Q j
Bright colorings in heavy
quality, plaids jnd checks, and
novelties suitable for school
wear actual values 50c, Q Q n
on sale now, per yd. . . J Ju
An immense assortment of
Jamestown novelties in choice
color combinations, stylish pat
terns, superior quality, un
equalled for hard wear, C Q k
choice per yard ....... J L U
We're sole Lincoln agents
for Butterick Patterns and
Publications.
YTJNKA Black Silks are
absolutely guaranteed. Sold
only at this 6tore.
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ine Big man
eligible. Tbe powers of the president
are . generally parallel with those of
the president of the United States.
The constitution defines also the pow
ers and duties of the department as
semblies : and governors, and of the
municipal councils and mayors as well.
The departments correspond in a
general way, as regards the subjects
of administration, to the states of the
union, but the necessity of providing
the forms of local government under a
fundamental law makes this constitu
tional scheme appear rather elaborate.
Its many details it is not possible for
outsiders to criticise. The party dif
ferences in Cuba have more to do
with details than with general prin
ciples, and there are provisions relat
ing to citizenship and suffrage, quali
fications for office,' the obligation of
debts, etc., that cannot be accurately
appreciated here, but are likely to be
real points of contention at Havana.
The gratifying feature of the whole
business is that the Cubans seem to
be working out their own plan of gov
ernment without interference from the
United States, and in conformity with
the natural development of their local
institutions under American examples
and Influence. There thus appears no
reason why the convention may not
perfect a constitution that will be en
tirely Cuban and at the same time pre
serve that accord with American ideas
that is essential to mutual understand
ing and Intercourse.
PAYING THE PENALTY
The Scenes of Suffering, Starvation and
Death In tha Street of London are
Horrible Beyond Description.
The London papers and cablegrams
sent by correspondents of American
newspapers shows that the poverty,
suffering and death In London are al
most equal to the misery of the fa
mine in India. A civilization or a gov
ernment which produces such results
should be driven from the face of the
earth. Six hundred million dollars
have been spent in South Africa try
ing to destroy two little independent'.
governments, while not only the buh
jects of the queen wero left to starvi
in India, but thousands die of col l
and hunger within the shadow
Westminster Abbey. One of the corre
spondents cables, to his paper the; fol
lowing account of one day's experi
ence: . '. '' ' . N 4
Ragged, hungry and homeless 'peo
ple huddle out of the storm torjght
wherever London charity kefpf an
"open door." Their number fy- Jthin
the metropolitan area probably Teaches
40,000. The winter came upon them
suddenly this morning with enow,
mists and penetrating winds.! It7 drove
them from their accustomed haunts in
covered courts, beneath railway arches
and in stairways to the casual ward
workhouse, Baradoes homes, the sal
vation army shelters and "the church
of England's friendly inn's.
So great is the rush of Of. unhoused
masses to escape the clri'.that the
city's emergency quarters5 have proved
inadequate and thousancn 'were turned
uesfion of
Profit
Special Offerings
WEARING
APPAREL.
The entire line of taffeta,
silk, and French flannel waists,
ruffled effect at hand, were $5
and $0, on sale now,
S3.75
each . ... ...... . .
All the furs are offered now
for their wholesale price, aud
in many cases less.
Fleece lined wrappers, ex
tra full sweep skirts, Q 7 n
each ..... ........ J
. Dressing sacques worth
$1.47 to $1.75, on sale
now, each.
97c
All the suits, including Et
on, blouse, tight-fitting jackets
and flounce skirts are offered
now for about the cost of the
raw material.
All w6men's and misses'
tight-fitting jackets at less than
HALF PRICE. V
Children's jackets, sizes 4,
6, 8 and 10 years, worth$ 2.75
and $3.75, on 6ale
SI. 39
now, each. . ... . . . .
.Nebraska.
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back into the streets before 8 o'clock
this morning,, while the vast bulk ot
London's population still slept. The
salvation army is feeding more thanK
7,000 outcasts in hastily improvised. ""
soup-kitchens. ;. " s; v-i
Col. Randolph J. Sturgiss, governor;
of the city colony, $ad:
"A weather crisis London such,
as this requires quick work in order to
avert wholesale mortality among tha
poor. Ill-nourished children and half
starved, aged persons cannot live In
the streets when fre ezing weather ov
ertakes them. Since dawn today, we
have taxed bur energies and our ac-:
commodations to the utmost to cope
with the awful problem of feeding
and housing the pitiful multitude that
has come clamoring about our doors.
We have fed mBy thousands during
the day, sheltering in our o'wn build
ings some 8,0). Tonight countless
other agencies are working with equal
energies alonx'the same lines."
Combination Offer No. 77
The Independent 1 year, Farm and
Home 1 yenr, Good Housekeeping 1
year, Home- made Contrivances, all for
only $1.50. Address, Independent Pub.
Co., Lincoln', Neb.
j-Lookat The Fads
A carpenter working for $2.50 per
day in i.896 should get $4.43 now to
keep tp -with the demands of the su
gar trujt.
A eetlon hand working for $1.25 a
day In 1896 should get $2.12 today to
keep up with the price of beans.
Street car drivers working for $1.50
per ay in 1896 should get $2.70 per1
day ; now to keep up with the advance
in salt pork.
A steer weighing 1,000 pounds would
boy- nearly four times as much barb,
wive in 1896 as In 1900.
"Ak hog weighing 200 pounds would
buy 150 pounds more nails in 1896
than It would now.
I A Studebaker wagon could be bought
fpT 71 bushels of wheat ln-1896; in 1900
a wagon could not be bought for less
han 103 bushels of wheat.
A bushel of wheat would buy three
times more twine in 1896 than it would
buy in 1900. See United States treas
ury bulletin.)
A dozen chickens would buy twenty
gallons of oil in 1896; in 1900 only
13 gallons.
Thirty-four pounds of wheat would
buy as much tinware in 1896 as a
bushel would today.
It would require the labor of 1,000,- -000
section men for 80 days every year
to support the present policy of the .
administration in the Philippines.
A bushel of wheat buys 119 pounds
less of salt than it would In 1896.
A bale of cotton would buy two
fifths more feet of lumber in 1896, than
it would buy in 1899.
It would take three dozen of eggs to
buy as much wooden ware this year
as two dozen would buy in 1896. Ne
braska City News.
To Cor Cold In on Day, t
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab--lets.
All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig
nature is on each. box. 25c.
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