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to lboa appeal to It noa-partisan-ifelp of their audiences wsich speakers oo political tubjcta are prose to ur ter. Yet, air. acch aa appeal I cow isak. I ?o not believe the ancient ahrinea are all cctetiacted. Many n American fceart still pays Ita tows to t& spirit of rliizenihip la the repub lic while the altan of party -pale their SseSetcaJ trt." 'iliJiiota of troUrc im this nation, I better. itUl tear a fealty to their country stronger a&d more sacred than any daty they recomite to any politi cal oranlxatioa. Many of them at th last ftlection. I am convinced. vot-d for the perty in power under a raisip-prthtnsica- To aosae the clamor of party drowse! the toice of country. To others the u&Ung of party banners In the similitude cf the national en s!rn wotked a temporary confusion. Thee two classea are dargeros to the system they hare aided.,. If. they become foaiisced that they hare been deceived. If one they shall realize that the new coarse ts away from the eld landmarks of liberty, their vengeance will be both swift and sare. I cannot hop that my voice may reach any iarfte number of these men, nor that, eren of those who hear, ns.ny will be convinced throuth my Imperfect utterance. But happily mine is bat one of a multitude of Tolce raited and to be raised for Justice and national honor, for the AmerlcanUm of the fathers, and for the true and perpetual fjory of the country. They shall sins of Industry rather than waste, cf social equity rather than war. of If -government rather than arbitrary power. Oar advent In the Philippines was aa Incident in the war against Fpiln. Cuba was liberated in the Oiient trane that the subjugation of one people should be the vicarious atone ment for tre freedom cf another; still more inexplicable that the ffreat re public should proclaim the sacrifice and herself execute the bloody decree. The state of aflairs which la Ciba had aroused the tnd!rxant sympathy of fie American people was. neverthe less, according to all the testimony, much more tolerable than that which obtained ta the Pliillpplne islands. There the same d "frolic monarch had Inflicted aa evea greater oppres sion fo? mor thaa th;e hundred years. Th burdens of taxation borne by the Filipino, the extortions prac ticed upon them, the awful punish ments they aeffered. the wanton and bloody cruelty of which they were the constant victims; these thine bad scarcely been paralleled in history, and had auJSctd to stir to permanent discontent and Intermittent revolution a people of klndlr deposition and cf naturally peaceful ha Liu. Vet these experiences had net been without their discipline. A certain self-reliance was generated, and a common suffering stimulated the Utect feeling of na tionality that grew Into the hope, and finally into the determination, for in dependence. One of the numerous tasarretfoh ia which this restlessness found ex proMn.ha4 broken out in the summer cf 15.- under the leadership of Emlllo Axuisaido. It became quite formidable and was prosecuted with some success against the Spanish troops, but at the cot of terrible suffering oa the part of the native. It resulted In the peace cf Blaknabato, negotiated la December. 1S7. Upon one of the Incidents of this treaty has been founded aa ac rusatloa against Aguinaldo, so per sistent la its misrepresentation, iO gratniu3s In ita calumny, when we consider that the oScial publications of oar owa government contradict and destroy it, that I shall refer to it with more parucnlarlity than would other wie be warranted. It has been said that Aguinaldo at reptiid a bribe for peace; that he sold his country for a money consideration. During the last political campaign the sicxn? rang with this easy slander. The great administration newspapers still occasionally repeat it. I har heard It oa this floor. Astounding as it may a. evea the president of the United States has given the high sanc tion of his character and station to this charge, notwithstanding that its absolute refutation is contained among the documents accompanying one of his own messages, and by him official ly transmitted to congress. This pub lication has become famous as "Docu ment No. 2 (Senate, Wth Cong.. Sd sessj. Oa patre 421 of this volume.' la a memorandum by MaJ. Gen. F. V. Greene oa the situation ia the Phil ; pints, under date of August 20. lfcSS. Is the following language referring to the agreement of Biaknabato: la brief. It required that Aguinaldo and the other insurgent leaders should leave the country, the government agreeing to pay them J&OO.OOO In silver and promising to Introduce numerous reforms, including representation la the gpanisa cortea, freedom of pres, general amnesty for all insurgents and the expulsioa or the secularization of the monastic orders. Agalnaldo and his associates went to Hong Kong and Singapore. A portion of the moaey, 1aj,CvO. wis deposited la banks at Hong Kong, and a lawsuit sooa arore betweea Aguinaldo and one of his sub ordinate chiefs named Artacho, which la interesting beciuse of the very hon orable position taken by Aguinaldo. Artacho sued for a dlvlsioa of the money among the insurgents according to rank. Aguinaldo claimed that the money was a trust land, and was to remain on deposit until it was seen whether the Spanish would carry out their proposed reforms, end If they failed to do sc It was to be used to defray the expense of a new insurrec tion. The vait was settled out of court by paying Artacho 15.000. No steps have been taken to introduce the re forms; more than two thousand Insur gents, who have been deported to Fer nando Po and other places, are still ia confinement, end Ajruintldo is now HARDY TREES THAT BEAR AND GROW FRUIT Large and Complete line of Nursery Stock, coniUtsg of varieties ads pted to the north- ' west. Location one of the leading fruit diUicu of Nebraska. nroRPERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. We pay a!! freights to points in Nebraska and Western Iowa. We guarantee satisfaction with our customers. Catalogue mailed free upon application. Adrress all communications to MARSHALL BROS., Arlington, Neb. '; using the money to carry on the oper ations of the present insurrection. On page 328 of the same document may be found the following In a dis patch from Cavite, on May 24. 1898. by Mr. Williams, our consul at Manila, to the secretary of state: Tody I executed a power of attor ney whereby General Afruinaldo re leases to his attorneys in fact $400,000, now In the bank -itt -Hoe g Kong, no that money therefrom can pay for 3, 000 stand of arms bought there and ex pected here tomorrow. And again (see Document 62. p. 317) Consul General Wlldman, writing from Hong Kong to Assistant Secretary Moore under date of July 8, 1898, de clares that the claim that Aguinaldo and his cabinet had "sold their coun try" had been "conclusively dis proved. citing, with other proofs, the exonerating statement, in the Span ish senate, of ex-Governor General Ri vera himself, the negotiator of ihe treaty of Biakabato. Thus it la Irre futably established that Agalnaldo be trayed no cause and made no personal gala by Spanish corruption. The Insurgent leaders were deported, bu. peace did not long continue. The promised reforms failed to materialize and sporadic insurrection reappeared. Demonstrations increased in frequency and force until, at the time our fleet sought the Spanish squadron in Ma nila bay, rebellion was again formid ably afoot. In a communication to the state department dated February 22. 1898 (Document 2, p. 319), Consul Williams says: Conditions here and in Cuba are practically alike. War exists. Battles are of dally occurrence, ambulances bring in many wounded, and hospitals are full. Prisoners are brought here (Manila) and shot without trial, and Manila is under martial law. On the 19th of the following month be reports (Document 62, p. 329): Insurgents rampant; many killed, wounded and made prisoners oa both sides. . . . Labt night special squads of mounted police were scat tered at danger points to save Manila. . . . Rebellion never more threaten ing to Spain. This was the situation down, prac tically, to the time of Dewey's arrival and the memorable naval battle oo Cavite on the 1st of May. We now come, in the hasty resume of the principal facts which I think neceatary to make, to the appearance on the scene of Aguinaldo and his as sociates as active factors In the opera tions carried on by the United States. In the memorandum heretofore cited, General Green-(Document 62, p. 4?1) states that Aguinaldo met our consul general and others at Singapore April 24. 1838, and "offered to begin a new Insurrection in conjunction with th', operations of the United States navy at Manila." If appears, however, by the statement of Consul General Pratt himself (Document 341), that the Interview et-r tn him and Aguin zlit was arranged at his own Instance and that he, net Aguinaldo, made and urged the suggestion of co-operation. This fact and Its result are most im portant to remember. It shows that the United States was the moving par ty in this matter and that, we fixed and voluntarily fixed, the status of the Filipinos at the very beglnnlrg of our relations with them. That status, sir, was that of allies of the United States against the power of Spain. I am aware that the fact of an alliance is disputed, and I remember in what high quarter this denial has been made with special emphasis. And I appreciate also how important it Is to the case of those whom, for want at present of a better term? I shall call imperialists, that the American people shall believe that no alliance existed. For that reason. Mr. President, I propose to present from official sources certain facta that can leave no doubt, as I be lieve, in the mind of any candid man who shall consider them, that we were ia alliance with the Filipinos, an al liance sought by ourselves, availed of by us for our own advantage, and, finally, to our everlasting shame in the estimation of honorable men, repu diated by us when we found It no long er necessary and when lust of empire had so blunted our moral sensibilities that we cofld mount from an act of perfidy to the grand larceny of a na tion. It appears, then, that on April 2). 1S98, Consul General Pratt at Singa pore, after thus uecurlng the acquies cence of the Filipino general In nis plans, sent to Commodore Dewey at Hong Kong the following cablegram (Document 62, p 343): Aguinaldo. insurgent leader, here. Will come Hor.g Kong; arrange with commodore for general co-operation insurgents Manila if desired. Tele graph. - PRATT. Let us pause here a moment to con sider exactly what was proposed: "General co-operation." Sir, I claim some acquaintance with the resources of the English language, and I dare affirm that our mother tongue does not contain, in all its opulence of words, material wherewith better to describe an alliance de facto than the expression "general co-operation" de scribes it when referring to the hostile action of two peoples s gainst a third. To co-operate is to operate together. To co-operate generally is to operate together to the fullest extent in fur therance of the common purpose. In this case what was the common pur pose? Manifestly, the defeat of Spain. We were fighting Spain because she oppressed the people of Cuba. Aguain aldo was fighting Spain ; because she oppressed the Filipinos. Here was a proposition that we and they combine as against our common enemy. If we did so combine wj became allies. Who can dispute it? The proposition was accepted. On that very night the commodore's an swer came (Document 2, p. 342): "Tell Aguinaldo come soon as possl- ble. De wey." The arrangement was now complete, and it immediately is sued in corresponding action. Aguin aldo went April 26 by a British steamy er to Hong Kong (Document 62, p. 342). Thence, according to General Greene (ib.f p. "421), he, with seven teen other Filipino leaders, was con veyed to Cavite by the United States gunboat McCuIloch. These men went on shore and Aguinaldo began at once the reorganization of an army. : In this he was assisted by Commodore Dewey in the way of arms, .supplies and counsel.' His success was remark able. He speedily had a considerable army fairly well appointed and under excellent drill and discipline. General Whittier (Document 62, pp. 499-500), In his testimony before the peace com mission at Paris, said that Agulnaldo'3 army consisted of more than 8,000 men. Aguinaldo himself claimed in Luzon a total of 30,000 troops in August, 189$, and General Greene's opinion (Docu ment 62, p. 420) was that the insur gent forces around Manila numbered 10,000 or 15,000 men. He says that in June and July they took between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners, harassed the Span lards in the trenches and "invested Manila early In July so completely that all supplies were cut off and the in habitants, as well as the Spanish troops, were forced to live on horse and buffalo meat, and the Chinese pop ulation on cats and dogs." General Whittier (lb., p. 499) de clares that they drove the Spaniards from Cavite more than 20 miles to thU defenses of Manila, "all the success be ing on the native side," and hd- told the peace commissioners (p. 501) that these soldiers were of "very great" as sistance to us in our operations. 'Gen eral Jaudenes, who commanded the Spanish forces in Manila at the time of the surrender, states in a letter to the Madrid government that it had been the plan of the Spaniards to retreat into the interior and keep up the war fare against the Americans; and that they would have done this but for the fact that the insurgent forces hemmed them in. General Anderson, the first comman der of the land forces of the United States In the Philippines, treated Aguinaldo in a manner hot explicable, except upon the theory that he was an ally. On the 4th of July, 1898, he writes to the Filipino general, addressing him as "Don Emilio Aguinaldo, command ing Philippine forces," as follows (Document 62, p, 390) : General: I have the honor to in form you that the United States of America, whose land forces I have the honor to command in this vicinity, being at war with the Kingdom of Spain, has entire sympathy and most friendly sentiment for the native peo ple of the Philippine islands. For these reasons I desire to have the most amicable relations with you, and to have you and your people co-operate with us in military operations against the Spanish. : The relations of these two comman ders were like nothing if not like those of allies. July 6, in another com-' munication to General Aguinaldo, the American commander uses this lan guage: j. I - am solicitous.to avoid any con flict of authority which may result from having two sets of military offi cers exercising command in the same place. I am also anxious to avoid sickness by taking sanitary precau tions. Your own medical officers have been making voluntary inspections with mine and fear epidemic disease if the vicinity is not made clean. Would It not be well to have prisoners work to this end under the advice of the surgeons? Admiral Dewey's conduct toward Aguinaldo was of the same character. In his dispatch of June 28, 1898, to the secretary of the navy, he says: I have given Aguinaldo to under stand that I consider the insurgents-as friends, being opposed to a common enemy. He has gone to attend a meet ing, of Insurgent leaders for the pur pose of forming a civil government. Aguinaldo has acted independently of the squadron, but has kept me advised of his progress, which has been won derful. I have allowed (him) to pass by water recruits, arms and ammuni tion, and to take such Spanish arms and ammunition from the arsenal as he needed. Have frequently advised (him) to conduct the war humanely, which he has done invariably. It is also not denied that the flagship Olympia repeatedly dipped her colors In salute to the two or three small vessels constituting Agulnaldo's little navy and flying the flag of the Filipino republic. But perhaps the act most conclusive of all on this question of de facto alliance was the delivery on July 9, 1898, of the Spanish prisoners and property captured at Subig Bay by the gunboats Raleigh ahd Concord to the custody of Aguinaldo and the Filipinos by the express command of Admiral Dewey. I quote from the offi cial report of this expedition, made by Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan, of the Ra leigh, for a copy of which I am in debted to the secretary of the navy: We skirted the west shore of Subig Bay ; . . and were abreast of Grand Island at 8:40 a. m. (July 7). No flags of any kind in sight, but many men, soldiers and others, with out arms. We rounded the northwest end of, the island, and, still seeing no flags, fired some 6-pounder shot at spots supposed to be batteries, but got no reply unless a few Mauser shots which some of our men said they saw fall near the, ship. As no one appeared to answer us, we fired one 6-inch at one house and one 5-inch at another. These promptly brought out several white flags. Firing from the ships was "immediately stopped,' and boats sent to demand unconditional surren der. The commander asked if they were United Slates or insurgent pris oners. Lieut. Hugh Rodman told them they were United States forces. They immediately surrendered, , and began delivering arms, ammunition, etc, into the boats. Lieutenant Rodman came off and reported that they had unconditionally surrendered; that the force on the island consisted of about 600 people 50 women and children, 100 sick, and about 450 men with arms. In the meantime, as Lieutenant Rod man had signaled "surrendered" to avoid delay, other boats had been sent In to get arms. After getting the arms and ammunition, our vessels proceed ed to Subig. Learning there that the insurgent chief was at Olongapo, we proceeded t o that place, communicated with hlm,: and "becoming convinced from the talk of himself and his ad visers that tha lives of the prisoners would be unsafe if Intrusted to him, upon consultation with Commander Walker I determined to lay the matter before you again before carrying out that part cf your Instructions. The Concord was sent up for that purpose. '' On July 9,' the Concord having re turned -to Olongapo, we gave -the 1 in surgent chief '-all the captured arms and ammunition -331 Mauser "rifles, 251 Remingtons and about 100,000 or 125,000 rounds , of ammunition. We then proceeded to Grand Island and placed on board hts steamer, the Fili pinos, - all the prisoners 20 . officers, 563 men, 17 women (Manila) 18 chil dren, and 5 priests, and turned then over to him. An insurgent guard was placed on the island to look out for the provisions and any stray articles not taken by the steamer on the first' trip. Agulnaldo's agent told me the wome.i, . the children l and the sick would be kept at Olongapo arsenal and the men ps "o. ov T, - -Y , When embarking the prisoners, the general (brigade) Informed Lieuten ant Rodman that they would 'never have surrendered to the insurgents, , but would have died first, as they wers well able to resist for an Indefinite time, etc. - He persisted in making tho point that he surrendered to the Unit ed States. T'. -:; . .", : : I retained possession of Grand Isl and In the name of the United States it having been surrendered to us by. the Spaniards; and left It in charge of a guard of insurgents sent there by my own request.' To be Sure, since all these events the admiral, in a note read here in the senate, has denied explicitly that he ever treated the insurgents as allies; but I fear the honest sailor's termin ology has suffered from recent con tact with the nice discriminations of administration diplomacy, which seem to proceed on the theory that the word "ally" has no synonym, and that no degree of co-operation can create au "alliance" unless it originates In somo formal bond ! wherein it is so nomi nated. This suspicion receives prob ability from the naive qualification which the admiral affixes to his state ment. He says he never treated them as allies "except to make use of them" in conquering the Spanish! Mr.. President, the common- sense and the natural sentiment of , justice which distinguish the American people will approve the answer of Commodore Bradford to an inquiry on this precise point before the peace commission at Paris. This very competent officer, for over sixty years in the navy, rwas summoned as an expert before our commission, and,; in the course of his examination, was asked the follow ing question . by one of our commis sioners, the " able and distinguished senator (Mr. Frye) who presides over this body (Document 62, p. 488): Suppose the- United States: In the progress of that war found the leader of the present Philippine rebellion an exile from his country in Hong Kong, and sent for- him and brought him to the ; island id an- American ship, and then furnished him -- 4,000 .or 5,000 stands of arsis -and allowed him to purchase as many - more stands of arms in Hong Kong, and accepted his aid' in -conquering - Luzon, what kind of a nation in the eyes of the world would we appear to be to surrender Aguinaldo and his insurgents to Spain to be dealt with as they please? 4 To which. Commander ..Bradford ' an swered: We become responsible for "every thing he has done; he is our ally, and we are bound to protect him. - . Sir, history will demand to know, if the Filipinos were so much our allies that we were bound to protect them against the reprisals of Spain, why they were not also, in the same sacred character, equally secure against , the rapacity of their, deliverers. It is not easy, Mr. President, to fix with accuracy the time when the de sign was formed to take forcible pos session of the Philippine Islands, nor to ascertain the mind in whose "gloomy recesses" this enterprise of sacrilege and violence first gathered form and pressure. There has indeed been evidenced ; a disposition by it3 most illustrious sponsors, as if their prophetic souls already trembled at the inquisition of after ages, to im pute the dubious : responsibility to Providence itself. I know, not which to admire the more, sir, whether the modesty which j disclaims credit for the policy, or the colossal presumption which challenges and betrays the vaunted confidence of the Almighty. But this alleged partisanship of heav en in schemes not susceptible of mun dane justification is as old as human artifice and selfishness. No despotism but has urged it; no outworn tyranny that has not hidden its shriveled ugli ness behind it. - Attila called himself the "Scourge of God.'.' George III. posed as the special providence of the American colonies. For centuries the divine -right of kings barred the high way of human progress. " - . No, the excuse Is inadmissible in the white light of modern common sense. We believe men to be free moral agents. While Providence desires, the right, it is at our own peril that we must find what is the right and do it. Duty Is, of course, -a universal obliga tion. But what Is duty? This is. a matter of decision by human facul ties; and any decision is subject to re view, to investigation, perhaps to rcr versal.Y No man, no party, no nation, can escape accountability for actions by attributing their origin to any oth er source than human motives and hu man judgment. The policy of the ad ministration toward the Filipinos muUJ be Justified, If ever justined at all, in the forum of the reason and the con science of mankind. - " , So far as I know, the first sugges tion of even the possibility that this country might acquire possession of the Philippines occurs In the follow ing cablegram of Commodore Dewey to the secretary of the navy, sent from Hong Kong March 31, 1898, practically just am onth before the naval battle of Manila: : Y : ' '. There is every reason to believe that, with Manila taken, or even blockaded, the rest of the islands would fall either to the insurgents or to ourselves..- ',:.'.' ; ;Y,.'- . -". , ' . 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OFFICE OVER 215 SOUTH I4TH for by May 17 following we find It very fully developed in the mind of General Merritt, as is shown by the followiug extract from his letter of that date to the secretary of war: I consider the composition of the force outlined by the major general of the army as unsuited to the ends to be ' accomplished v and insufficient in efficiency for the expedition to the Philippines. Two regiments of reg ular infantry, two-thirds of a regi ment of regular cavalry, and two light batteries are a very small proportion of the forty-two regular regiments in the army, when the work to be done consits of conquering a territory 7, 000 miles from our base, defended by a regularly trained and acclimated army of from. 10,000 to 25,000 men, and Inhabited by 14,000,000 of people, the majority of whom will regard us with the Intense .hatred born of race and religion. ' ' n In his indorsement on this communi cation, General Miles criticises Gen eral Merrltt's estimate of the number of the Spanish troops and of the pop ulation of the islands; and he adds: "The force ordered at this time Is not expected to carry on a war to conquer an extensive territory." General Mer ritt, however, seems to have been nearer than his superior officer was to inspirational sources, land, to judge by his subsequent conduct in the Philip fines, when he came there to relieve General Anderson; never had occasion to change his mind as to character of our occupation. - A president cannot be at one and the same time a constitutional chief magistrate and an autocrat a presi dent in America, with imperial powers In the Orient. Bryce in his Holy Ro man Empire, in describing the evolu tion of imperialism at Rome, states a phenomenon universal under similar circumstances: Republican forms had never been known In the provinces at all, and the aspect which the imperial administra tion had originally assumed there soon reacted on its position at the capital. This imperialization, if I may use the word, of the Roman state began, as Mr. Bryce points out, by making use of the senate which, while in fact only registering the will of the imperator. seemed, because of the continued -ob-seryance of customary forms, to be preserving ' its ancient constitution. Gradually, however, the senate, through the use of patronage and tne corrupting influence of wealth, whose pursuit had . become the passion of the higher classes In the nation, relin quished its old authority, next lost even its prestige, and became con fessedly a mere dependent and servile agent of whatever puppet the Pretor ian guard permitted, for its own power and, enrichment, temporarily to wear the purple. Mr. President, I hope I am no mere alarmist, and I do not wish to convey the impression that in my opinion the present policy will at one fell swoop convert this republic into an empire in fact.. But I do say that the seeds of empire lurk In this policy and that time and favoring : environment will and must bring them to their flower and fruit unless we make a seasonable prevention. The methods now prac ticed in the Philippines are the meth ods of the empire. 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Each letter is made by a certain mo tion of one of nine fingers, each finger being susceptible to four motions from as many grader- of currents, supplied by storage batteries at either end of the line. Thus thirty-six separate m -tion8 are obtained, one for each letter of the alphabet, eight for the figures not already contained in the letters of the alphabet, one for the period and one for spacing. This Is according to the model ma chine built for Mr. Pearne under his direction at the Smith-Premier type writer factory, at Syracuse, to which place he went Several weeks ago. Later other models, with different key boards, will be constructed. . , ' In the test made yesterday It was Drug" Cuts NOT FOR ONE DAY ONLY, BUT V - FOR EVERY DAY. $1.00 Family Syringe........... ..503 $1.00 Fountain Syringe . . . . . . ...... 75a 75c . Hard t Rubber Atomizers. ..... 50c 25c Packer's Tar Soap 19c Vegetable Tar. (for hair) 3 cakes... 25c 25c Cuticura ., Soap . . . . . . . . . 19c $1 .00 Palne's Celery Compound .... 69c $ LOO PI o kham's , Compound ....... 69c $1.00 Hood's Sarsaparllla. . ........ 69c $1.00 Malted Milk 69c 50c Malted Milk ................... 39c $3.50 Malted Milk ... . .". . . . $3.00 2Ec Mennem's Borated Talcum.... 15c 25c Allen's Borated Talcum.. 10c $1.00 Listerine; (Lambert's).... ...79c $1.00 Port, Sherry or, Claret.. ....... 49c $1.00 Eau de Quinine......... 79c $1.00 Orange Blossom 79c $1.00 Maltine Preparations 79c 10c Boxes Moth Balls 5c 60c Radway's Relief.............. S9c 50c Pozzoni's Powder. S5c 25c Pear's Glycerine Soap.... 4.... 19c 20c Pear's Unscented Soap... .....15c $1.00 Seven Sisters' Hair Grower... 79c $1.00 Steam's Wine Cd Li rc Oil . . . 75c $1.00 Madam Yale's Goods . . .'. . . . . 79c 75c r Sozodont. .60c 75c Jewesbury "& Brown's Tooth Paste..:.. .... ,..39c $1.00 Wyeth's Beef, Iron and Wine.75c 25c Testlow's Swan Down......... 15c 10c bottle Vaseline. ; . .V. ...J..;.. . 6c 50c Kilmer's Swamp Root.... I".... 39c 60c Scott's Emul8ion..........V...39c $1.00 Wine Cardul . . ; ,. . . 69c $i.oo worth 1 " ' FOR 69 CENTS. Characteristics in Pharmacy. Char acteristics. We aim to make our Prescription Department as nearly perfect as pos sible.. It receives our personal thought and attention, and Is given the benefit of our twenty years' experience in pharmacy. The facilities for buying, compounding and dispensing the pur est and freshest as well as the newest and purest and systematical remedies flail Orders Promptly Ri slliis DISORDERS OF MEII of Lost M jnev. Stricture. " ' - . ' the Intention to use a 1,000-mile wire, but a rush of business compelled the use of the Omaha-Kansas City loop, comprising 434 miles of wire. Added to this was 120 miles of resistance, making a total of 554 miles. The test was satisfactory. A current of twenty-four volts was used at first, but was Increased to eight-five volts when messages were sent at full speed. The significance of this lies in the fact that the telegraph company , uses 170 volts on the Kansas City line alone, the test thus showing that the new apparatus can be operated with less than half the power required by the old style telegraph. , A second . long-distance test will be made In the Western Union office, and the longest available wire will be used. Prank D. Pearne, the Inventor, and W. S. Pearne, the promoter, will soon leave for Chicago," where an exhaus tive test will be made before the stock holders of the company, and later an other exhibition, will be given in New York city. ... ; Under our system of monopolies this invention and many Others of like na ture will be of no benefit to the people It will only add to the enormous In come of the telegraph monopoly. It is well known that the Western Union has bought, up and suppressed many electrical inventions. What is sin? Whatever your neigh bor does. r BUTTERMAKERS' CONVENTION. For the Buttermakers' convention to be held at St. Paul, February 19 to 22, the Northwestern Line will sell round trip tickets at a very low rate. " Ask for further information, a postal card will bring It to you. H. B. Mosher, City Ticket Agent, 117 So. 10th St., Lin coln, Neb. enables us to fulfill in a high degree the hope of medical men for better re sults in their practice. Everything pertaining to the ' department, pre scription case, - poison sales, method of checking, preserving and strength and pharmlcal apparatus Is of the best modern type. . ; QUALITY. "Not how cheap, but how good." If we had a motto it would be that, but "mottoes" are . not Intended to make us realize the importance of quality in the components of prescrip tions." For years it has-been our firm endeavor to dispense only drugs of the highest standard of efficacy, and to compound ' In " prescriptions only those ingredients that we know to be full of strength and purity.' We ex ercise much tare to purchase such prescription stock as we cannot make from perfectly reliable houses, and such names as Squibb, Merck, Parke, Davis & Co. and Wyeth re prominent ly on our shelves. ' 79c Buys $1.00 WORTH OF GOODS. The three essentials Quality, Ac curacy and -Freshness in prescription filling that are rigidly observed at RlggsV We use only the purest and freshest drugs and medicines obtain able. Purest because we buy only those we know are pure; freshest because we are continually replenishing our stock, never allowing drugs to become stale on our hands. As to prescrip tions we are wanting in nothing. Wa employ only those of long experience, whose usefulness and faithfulness is beyond the question of a doubt. Then, too, prescriptions do not leave our store until they have been rcarefully checked over the second time, thus precluding the slightest possibility of error. s We know that the results at tending the administration of medi cine will be far better if your prescrip tions are entrusted with us. All $1.00 preparations cut to 79c; 60c to 39c; 25c to 19c. ; Dinrr Q CUT RATE viUM3y Druggist. . , . Funke Opera House. 12th and O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. Attended To. . . : . Pharmacy