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March 23, 1901 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. EX-PRIME MINISTER OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Commends Perunato His Friends as a Positive Catarrh Remedy. nc, ! Caw Xrea, ExPrime Minister of Hairill. Tfcw Hoa. Olo Caar Moreno, x-Prim Mini tr of Hawaii, and projector of the TracPale eabl, 17. la a diatinsuiahed atatesman, and the test known Italian la ih oaarry. In a letter from Washington, D.C., to the Parana Mad leia Co., & aaya : can com mead your zrtat national catarrh cure, Peruna, to tax friends throughout the country as a safe, reliable medicine. 1 know cf no other tonic that will build a person up as well as Peruna. It Is a positive cure for the universal disease, catarrh, and those who will try this remarkable medicine will find a sure cure. Very respectfully, Celso Cazsar Moreno, IHQEFENDEHT CAM? FIRE Wlr wa m lXtuawrat tad tagfct tW tfc Htc j tm the frln- cJ?W mt A trafcan. Urn ml. Kcrt Pillow. Tco.. Jaa. . lhCi. i'.r Mart La: We are quite com fortably quartered fcr and 1 often sit :tb ray e&tsradea around a rampflre eoat rics of our prewnt comforts and ja-t fcardt!r&. While we are thus actuated, ttoaunda of our fellow-sol- 41 rt x auJTerlts. Tt satiifaetion i cf a rorcfortatie home often brightens oar ftasr:tatioQ. Sometimes I think of cotLt& tut roTit. the beautiful resery of the western prairies and the tall moactiits excite my rambling pirn. Voir kind letters contained much gtod a J vice. Tt fcoi lier thinks tat Intie cf death or judgment, ilia eoinrad oar fall upon hi right and left, but tstiil he aland under the rtarry birr.er r.i cn'y thought la, "My rcurtry calls me to defend those !eatitifai atars atd f-'-i-. an proud ly ouid I di rather thin disgraceful ly fortike tb-m." I La s--n our vratrrc hero- fall, ar.d I Url.tte death &s met w.?L a amii; tLf y ai-jarwl to cite life s-o fre-iy. I hare often thought I would a -x3 fall on the battle ?.! J a to di a catural d-ath. OL. rru-S ar! th- tbou&a&d of brave zt.'-ti the 4 hit j : from t-arth to the ;!? rra. joa brave men of ! Africa. )( i have paid yo.:r last debt 1 to jour co-.Etry's rjtUM-. Your devoted I trcther. At'STIN J. LA KIN. Co. 1.1, i 111. Car. Is tl- lattery at Memphis. Tenc, csxbt ""vert-4 v:th the vapors of the j f.l-t'j Co:t. pi. he sleeps i:h fail-a comrade, th- arthiy tler-p of a iojal :i2r. Aulln J. Ll:n cf Co. 11. 2nd III. Cav. Little te-d of the ruards oa the picket line of etertuy aiL;t.g as their fpints ad i n.z.'" fur t imtttt'-. "Whsit ded hist th.i j.t before thee?" My trcii r W. M. LA KIN. Fort PiSiow, Tai . Ic. 13. A I h j EOthig cf iteret to write i ill hjtre to r-ve you another sketch cf trout f nia-ie a f-w days ago. It bi I . r. ra.!LiLc for -vec or eight iy lu '.'c.ti, ar.J &j we never tv Mttrr lack than ia the raia or at t.:ht. ct.tlud-i to try the depth -f iu- .v-i atd the nioij-turr of the faliits f!n fur S ur t j njUes from tir-.p. WV tan-d early in. the morn iz.K. i' I r! &t a gait, rsooa fcur-'i us tts.ty-eiht mil-s from the f. rt i'.u -.zr the little city of Rip . eight 'A us being throw n out as ads ar.ee tuard nearly one mile ahead t,f the ecmpABy. e pie.l the rebel j : k. t ia the uburb of the town. Ti.- y ;f nittd n to advance within o:,e tutid red yards of them before they e the alarm. Th y leveled their j-ia ai.d tappI then, but cot a r-a Sred. thy wheld their tort'-s and .ei their spurs. Fii of us harrtd ift r Item iiito the c:ty. The hr.'.e tews w&s at diat.tr. They had a f-w cor. rjpts la the court house tnnZrr r--iX'l. They i the guards) p- i their old CiUflnrts at us. Our ca.rii:.r laiied Vj fire. sj e threw fbxa ail dr. w rr revolvers and gave the furd a few w hit!ia bails near their teis. Thy threw up their "J :a'i I.cKyk and thouted. "We'uriS urretdr to yoa'ajs all." 1 had just p3d tre court L. whr-n 1 saw tte of them cuaklng tracks a ffcw roU riit.t- I balt-d hiia, but he wouldn't hai. I fi' d three loads from ray re- oivrr, leveled la his direction. The oal one struck his hor- in the teck, the talrd cut so close to his own pale that he decided to retrace his itep siid surrender. Sla of us routed Wi cf the rebels, capturing over twen ty of th a. and ra&ay cf them left us their tors. A few were released, as they proved to be conscripts; foarteen went crth to the military prison. The rtb were Zttlcg s our company came in on the jump. We gave pur suit, but could not overtake them, as they had scattered through the woods in all directions, and I doubt if they have got together yet. There was a major among them; we captured all of his papers and pay-rolls. I have seen a great deal of fighting in battle and skirmishing, but this I cannot call a fight, as they did not stop to look back or offer the least resistance after we got them started. Conscripts will not fight, neither will their officers. You may think me boastine in earing that Co. D. 2nd 111. Cav. can pick fifty men i in its ranks that can whip 400 con script rebels in a fair fight. They fear the Kansas Jayhawkers and 2nd 111. Cav. I am glad that I belong to this noble regiment. I do not boast of my own bravery, but of that of my comrades. AUSTIN J. LAKIN. Headquarters Co. B, 2nd 111. Cav., in Camp Near Memphis. Tenn,, July 12, 1S63- Mrs. Martha Chamberlain. My Dear Sister: On the evening of July 6 we received the news confirming the capture of Vlcksburg. This glorious report caused some excitement among our boys. We illuminated our camp with lights, build bonfires, shot squibs, etc. A lot of U3 were busy preparing squibs, when our little stock of pow der took fire and scattered us. Some three or four of us were badly burnt. The flash threw the blaze into my face, which made it one solid blister, but is about well now. The other boys that were burnt went to the hospital, but I thought myself just as well off in camp. We have black cooks now. Tommy is our faithful, good-hearted cook. He has been with us six months and we expect to keep him till the war ends. You may think the war about over, but I think it will last one year yet. People who never served in the army are too apt to think that the downfall of a city or the capture cf a few thousand prisoners will crush the rebellion. It Is badly crippled. The Mississippi will soon be open to the gulf, then our beautiful flag will sweep down the length of the mighty stream unharmed. The rebels may tear up our railroads and Interfere with our communication by land, but we can hold the river in spite of all they can do. I think we could not ask for finer prospecU of putting down the rebel lion than we have at present, but it will take time to accomplish the work. I understand that our army took 32,- t men at Vlcksburg, many horses and over 200 cannon and more than 100.000 stand of small arms. What a victory that was! AUSTIN J. LAKIN. Co. B. 2nd 111. Cav. I am a democrat by name, but by the principles of Abraham Lincoln. A. J. l: Pittsburg Landing. Tenn., April 28, lsC2 I yet have a place among the liv ing. While others around me fall I am spared. Since I last saw you I have witnessed the battle field at Ft. Don aldson and the battle at this place, here many of my acquaintances fell; some of them that were with me in the three months service. Many a brave man fell here, leaving wife and children to mourn the loss of husband and father. Thousands of promising young men went down, pierced to the heart with the rude rifle ball, others with their heads shot off by the can non, some literally torn to pieces with cannon ball and shell. There are dif ferent reports of the killed and wound 1. but from what I have seen and heard our loss is from 10,000 to 12.000 killed and wounded, and 3.000 or 4.000 taken prisoners. The secesh lost more than we did, at least there were more of their dead left on the field. We did not get as many prisoners as they did. Some say they lost 20,000. I am sat isfied they got the worst of it, if they did make the attack. A great many of our boys are sick. The smallpox has broken out in our camp; one of the boys ia our com Charles B. Royer, 909 W, Washington treet, Morristown, Pa., writes : "My oldest daughter Malin da Royer ,1a cured of deafness by Peruna. When ahe began to take Peruna we had to go up close toiler and talk rery loud to make her hear. "After taking one-half dozen 'tottles of Peruna he can hear you in any part of the room, one can hear an ordinarr con versation." Thousands of people have ca tarrh who would be surprised to know It, because It has been called some other name than catarrh. The fact Is, catarrh Is catarrh wherever located; and another fact which Is of equally great Im portance, that Peruna cures ca tarrh wherever located. Catarrh Is an American disease. Fully one-half of the people are afflicted more or less with it In some form. Previous to the dis covery of Peruna, catarrh was considered well nigh Incurable. Since the Introduction of Peruna to the medical profession thou, sands of cases are cured annually. Mr. W.M.Holland, of Hartwell, Ga.. proprietor of the Hartwell Tin Works, writes of Peruna as follows : I am more than pleased with the benefits derived from Peruna- The winterof 1899 my weight was 15(pounds. I used several bottles during the winter and now weigh 211. "I have recommended it to all my friends both as a tonic and catarrh cure. If I had been Jucky enough to have seen it several years ago Peruna would have saved me much inconvenience. I can never be too thankful to you for the benefits received from your valuable remedy. My mother has also been won derfully benefited by your valuable remedy." Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0., for free catarrh book. pany has It. Martha, I never regretted that I en listed in the war. I am happy to think that I am able to take part in so glor ious a work, to risk my life under the same beautiful stars and stripes that our fathers fought under in the great revolution. I love people who love our government and our beautiful flag. We expect to move soon to Savannah and storm the enemy's works there. We heard today that our troops are in pos session of New Orleans; hardly be lieve it, but hope it is so. AUSTIN J. LAKIN. Co. B., 2nd 111. Cav. Copied by W. M. Lakin, his brother. HUNTING FOR LOOT Congressman by thn Score arc Hiking for Cuba and tho Philippine to What They can Steal. Washington, D. C, March 22. 1901. There has been a great exodus of con gressmen to Cuba since congress ad journed. Apparently they are going down to look over the land and see what they will have for themselves and their friends. Some of them who have returned do not hesitate to say that in their opin ion Cuba will never be able to govern Itself. That is their way of putting it, but what they really mean is that the ad ministration will never permit Cuba to be independent. The tourist congressmen assure us that the Cuban constitutional conven tion is made up of the riff-raff of the island and that the respectable property-holding classes are not repre sented. The property holding classes are mostly Spaniards still loyal to their native country and only in Cuba to make money so it is difficult to see how they could take part in a constitutional convention of the Cuban people. Some republican congressmen are coming back boasting that they went with General Wood to the Cuban dele gates and told them they had better accept the Piatt amendment or the ad ministration would call an extra ses sion of congress and then the Cubans would see what awful things would happen to them for their insubordina tion. What a nice spectacle it is for our republican congressmen to go down to Cuba as lackeys of the administration and bulldoze this poor people who have patiently suffered outrage and plunder under our military rule and still hoped that we would redeem our solemn pledge of giving them inde pendence. One congressman, who seems very ignorant of Cuban history, says: "I certainly do not look for any trouble in the island. I think the Cu bans too cowardly to fight." He forgets the heroic struggle of starving Cubans against Spanish op pression and let him not be too sure that this people will not fight again for liberty if they find this country acting the role of the tyrannical despot. Quite a number of congressmen are going to the Philippines during the recess. Congressman Hull, chairman of the house committee on military af fairs is going there this summer. Af ter doing yeoman service in getting the army bill passed, he is now going to look after his own interests. He is connected with the Philippine Lumber company and while no one but the favored promoters know exactly what that is, there need be no doubt but that the rich timber lands of the Philippines are to be exploited for the benefit of the administration favorites. Right In line with this is the an nouncement from the Taft commission that the civil government will be put into operation about July 1, of course i 1 Malinda Royer. it Is carefully explained that although the insurrection is really over yet we will need about 100,000 soldiers to do "police duty." . That means that the soldiers will protect the speculators and carpet-bag gers while they despoil the helpless na tives. Those who are foolish enough to accept the promises of the admin istration will be the first victims of the carnival of loot and plunder which is about to begin. The only Filipinos who will be safe will be those who take to the hills and keep out of reach of the nice benev olent Americans who are going to show them what a poor and common and clumsy thing was the Spanish op pressor with his mediaeval methods of doing things. . Yes, indeed, imperialism, up-to-date with all modern Improvements, is to be applied in the Philippines at once. Somehow or other the able-bodied, patriotic men of the country do not ap preciate the privilege of enlisting as soldiers to do police duty and protect the despoilers of the Filipinos. Tak ing the total enlistments all over the country, they fall below 800 a week. Yet here is a country with a popula tion of seventy-five millions. If it were, a war of freedom or a call for an army to help the oppressed fight ing for freedom there would be twenty thousand enlistments a week. But . the men of the country have some manhood and independence left, even if they did vote for the adminis tration which is now applying imper ialism and militarism. It is going to be mighty hard to recruit the army of he rnilippines. .... During the campaign It was the cus tom of republican orators to profess great sympathy for the Boers when ever popular sympathy made such a course advisable. Now that the campaign is over the state department issues a most re markable document defining the status of the Transvaal with the United States. It says, in effect, that the consuls her' 'ter sent from this country to the Transvaal will be credited to whatever authority "happens for the moment to be in de facto possession of the place to which the consul is credited. Which means that they will be accredited to Great Britain because that nation holds military possession of all large towns. If this custom had been adopted when our own country was fighting England, say in the war of 1812, we would have been completely cut off from outside help and sympathy. It seems as though the administra tion might have the decency to keep its hands off South Africa if it could not see the propriety of a warm ex pression of sympathy such as this struggling people richly deserve from us. Educate Yonr Bowels With Cas carets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. POPULISM IN CANADA The People Frightened at American Rail road Combinations, Propose to Take the Canadian Roads Before they are Gobbled by Morgan. How suddenly , new conditions may advance a question like government ownership of railways from the stage of academic discussion to that of a blazing practical issue, has just now been illustrated in the neighboring country of Canada. Our people on this side of the line, by the way, make a mistake in failing to observe more constantly and closely the trends of Canadian policy and the very intelligent and vigorous discus sion of public affairs that goes on in the Dominion parliament at Ottawa, and also in the provincial parliaments, and the Canadian press. The whole Dominion has been thrown into a great discussion by the recent railway consolidations in the United States. The foremost part in this has been taken by the Hon. William Findlay Maclean, editor and proprietor of the Toronto World, for some ten years past a member of the Dominion par liament. Mr. Maclean declares that the railway movement under the lead ership of men like Messrs. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill, Mr. Harriman, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. George Gould, and others in the United States, will not be content to unify transportation interests on the southern side of an artificial political line across the con tinent, but will naturally enough seeK to assimilate the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk systems of Canada with the other factors of a traffic system to which these Canadian lines naturally belong. Elaborate and protracted de bates have been going on in the parlia ment at Ottawa, and the newspapers from one end of Canada to the other have taken up the theme. It should be borne in mind that Canada already has a government railroad, the Inter colonial system of about 1,700 miles the total railway mileage of the Do minion about 17,000. There is a pend ing proposal favored by the prime min ister, Sir Wilfred Laurier, and the government of the day, to build an ad ditional national railway from To ronto to a point on the Georgian bay. The object of this line is to provide an outlet by way of the all-Canadian St. Lawrence route for the largest possi ble amount of the vast business that is developing on the Great Lakes. This proposition Mr. Maclean strongly fav ors; but he deems it wholly insufficient for the protection of Canadian inter ests. He advocates the complete and immediate absorption of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, and r.ll other Canadian roads by the government for public ownership and operation. Mr. Maclean in making his proposals., dis claimed any Intention to attack or em barrass the government; yet in some quarters it was thought that present political influences were perilously friendly toward the projects of the railway magnates of the United Stat es. From "The Progress of the World," In the American Monthly Re view of Reviews for April. CANDY CATHARTIC. Genuine stamped CCC Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to fell "lomethinj just as good. is.tatr "'"' lir.lH"ylsii imuiiii. THE GREAT TRUSTS Let the Nation Make tise of These Tremen dous Organizations for the Benefit of All the People. The legitimate object of all Indus trial enterprise is the production and distribution of economic goods; are the evils of the trust then the evils of production or of distribution or of both? It has been wisely said and often quoted that "He who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor." If this Is true of grass or other farm prod ucts, is it not equally true of manu factured products? Sugar, oil, barbed wire, wire nails, steei rails, etc.? To obtain the greatest amount of utility for the least amount of human effort, is and ever has been the pur pose and end of all industrial progress, since the advent of man upon the plan et, and to this end are all his improve ments and inventions. He has invented the mowing and reaping machine that he may harvest a greater number of blades of grass or shieves of wheat for a lesser amount of human effort than by the more pri mitive methods. He has invented the cotton gin, the spinning ginny and the power loom that he may produce a greater amount of the fabrics of com merce for a lesser amount of the la bor than by the hand process. He has invented the locomotive, the steam ship and the electric telegraph for the purpose of transmitting intelligence and the product of his labor with greater facility and at greater economy than by the old methods. Last, but not least, he has Invented the "trust" that he may eliminate many of the costs of production and distributoin, that by superior combinations of capi tal he may be enabled to extend the market for his wares to the remotest markets of the world and finally that he may minimize the hazard of his business by minimizing the ruinous war of competition for "self -preservation is the first law of nature." It is by reason of such improvements that what was once regarded the lux uries of the rich have become the nec essities of the poor (a greater economy of production), a good, not an evil. But say some, "The trust has thrown men out of employment;" so has the mower and reaper, the sewing ma chine, the cotton gin, the spinning jenny, and the power loom. The loco motive has displaced the stage coach, the freighter with his mules and oxen. The steamship has displaced the sail ing vessel; all such changes are frought with such evils, yet the gen eral effect has been for the good of mankind; constant improvement means constant readjustment. The physical sciences have out-marched the social sciences and statecraft. Our industrial system is the result of the toil, the genius of thousands of generations of men, from the time that our savage ancestor crawled out of his hole in the side hill with some new device by which he expected to cap ture some reptile for his dinner to the incorporation of the billion dollar steel "trust," the problem has been, how to obtain a greater amount of good things for a lesser amount of human effort. To attempt to return to more primitive and more expensive methods, is to take a backward step towards barbarism. If the evils of the trust system are not those of production and the rem edy for such evils be not to return to a more expensive method of produc tion, then what are the evils of the system and what are the remedies? The trust may be said to be a good thing for those that enjoy its benefits; if all could enjoy its benefits it would "be a good thing for all, goes without saying, but how can such a condition be brought about? The city of Hastings (In which I live) has an electric light "trust," but as all the stock in the said trust is owned by the city and therefore every man, woman and child is in a sense a proprietor, we feel no baa effects of such a ."trust." If the government owned all the rail roads the people would feel no oppres sion by the transportation trust. Gov ernment and municipal ownership of all natural monopolies would greatly mitigate the trust evil. Men harness Niagara and make it do the work of thousands of horses and millions of men, but should they attempt to disregard the law of grav ity and try to force the current up stream, they would find such labor and expense to no purpose except to teach them of their own folly. The forces of society are quite as ir resistable they cannot be defied or defeated, yet they may be directed or controlled by intelligence and perse verance to the good of all. To combat inevitable law Is to lose time and waste energy. If the law can say how much a man may receive for the use of his money when he loans it to another, why can not the law say how much a man may realize on his investment if he puts his money into trust stocks, and require that all over that amount shall be paid into the public treasury? A law fixing the amount of dividends that a trust might pay on its stock and providing that all surplus be paid into the public treasury, and fixing the minimum and maximum wages of the employes of the trust from the presi dent down to the commonest laborer, and making the watering of stocks a felony would greatly mitigate the evils of the trust. Such a law would not interfere with the economy of production in the least, but would extend the benefits of su perior organization to all of the peo ple by the conserving of progress and justice at the same time. The advantages of great capital and superior -organization are as potent in industrial matters as in military mat ters in carrying on a campaign; and an attempt to force by legislative en actment, a return to more primitive. more expensive and less effective methods will but delay the final solu tion of this great economic question; but such a policy Is not likely to be adopted in this country, for the politi cal party that seeks to re-establish the primitive for the modern, the more ex pensive for the more economical, dis organization for. organization, will stand small chance of legislating at all on the question and would but legis late to its own destruction were it per mitted to do so. The true friends of the people in this controversy are those who admit the advantages of the. present. Industrial conditions as regards the economy of production and are prepared, to extend those advantages to all the people in stead of allowing them to be monop olized by a few of the people. The man or the political party with a false philosophy upon social ques tions, is more dangerous to the pub lic than the man or political party with no philosophy at all who just lets matters drift. I think that it behooves the populist party to get right and stay right upon this question; that party is right and has been right from the first upon the question of natural monopolies (pub lic ownership) and it has only to ex tend its philosophy to those monop olies that have not heretofore - been regarded as "natural monopolies" de manding government control to the ex tent at least that the surplus over a fair return on an honest Investment (after paying fair salaries to the em ployes) shall be paid Into the . public treasury; such measures would solve the trust and the labor question at one and the "same time. ; C. W. STEWART. . Hastings, Neb.--,..- , THE RAIIROAD FIGHT The eause af the Prolonged Contest lathe Nebraska legislature ne linger a Secret The following very significant edi torial appeared the other day in the Chicago Times-Herald: "E. H. Harriman's name will shortly be enrolled among the directors of the Burlington system. This is cot be cause he has procured control of the property. It has been officially and au thoritatively stated that neither he nor J. J. Hill has secured control. So far as Mr. Hill is concerned he has not bought into the property at all, not withstanding all the reports to the contrary that have been placed in cir culation. Mr. Harriman has, however. He has been so heavy a purchaser that thoe v.quainted with all the facts de clare that"did 5 ' -v.f,,on. trol he could easily obti-.f As things stand today he holds enough stock to entitle him to a voice in the management of the property and to wield a very potent influence in the direction of Its affairs. This influence has already been exerted to the extent of having the plans adopted for the extension of the system very seriously modified. It will not be extended to Salt Lake City or the Pacific coast. Mr. Harriman has succeeded in pre venting that move being consummated. Any move in that direction now would send him into the market immediately as a further purchaser of the stock. The Burlington will not be consoli dated with any other system. There is not the slightest probability of It becoming' either the eastern end of he Great Northern or the western end of the Pennsylvania. It will continue to pursue its independent way as it has done in the past. There are not likely to be any further changes in the ex ecutive, or official staff of the road, and so far as the public is concerned the relations it has sustained' to its patrons will remain as they have been. Not the slightest change in them will be noticeable." As usual the dallies are a week or two behind The Independent in their news. Some time ago The Independent laid before its readers all the facts in the case, and told just why it was so necessary for the B. & M. to have a United States senator. That corpora tion has been exceedingly lucky. It elected a senator, but he died before he took his seat and it had to make a long and costly campaign to get an other. The shutting off cf the B. & M. from a Pacific coast connection is about the only accurate statement In the above article. It will stay shut off unless it gets a senator. Harriman does not come anywhere near having a controlling amount of stock in the B. & M. The present managers have that stock safely in their own control and Harriman nor no other syndicate will get it unless the road falls In getting a senator. The fight in the Nebraska legislature Is simply a corporation fight. The people have no interest in volved. The majority is simply the agent of different railroad corpora tions. As far as any national or state policies are concerned, they are not involved in this contest. A Hit For a Miss Our Misses Hats are making quit a bit. We have some ready trimmed for ladies going to school, and some shapes for trimming. They are really as nice as could be obtained. , . THE LADIES APPRECIATE THEM Mrs. We E Gosper 1201 O Street SULPHO-SALIHE BATH - wtsDRS. M. H. AND J, 0 EVERETT. MANAGING PHYSICIANS A NEW CURE FOR IKP'DBLA Diseases, Rheumatism, Etc Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder cauwe Bright s disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, paia in back, bladder disorders.dinicnit or too frequent passing water, Dropsy, etc. For these diseases a positive specific cure if found in a new boisa ical discovery, the wonderful Kara-Kara Shrub called by botanists, the "piper methrsticuin," from the Ganges River, East India. It has the extraordinary record of 1,200 hospital cares in 80 days. It acts directly on the kidneys, and cores by draining ont of the blood the poison, ons Unq Acid, Lithates, etc., which cause the disease. Rer. JohnH. Watson, testifies ia the New York World, that it has saved him from the edge of the grave when dying of Vidney disea ie and terrible suffering when passing water, Mr. Calvin O. Bliss, North Brookfleld, Mass., testi fies to hie euro of long standing Rheumatism. Mr. Jos. Whitten, of Wolfoboro, N. H., at the ae of eighty-five, writes of his eure of Dropuy and swelling: of the feet, Kidney disorder and Urinary difficulty. Many ladies, including Mrs. C. a Fowler, Lock town, N. J., and Mrs. Sarah Tharp, Montclair, Ind., also testify to its wonderful curative power in kidney and allied disorders peculiar to womanhood. 'That you may judge of the value of this Great Discovery for yourself, we , will send you one Large Case by mall Free, only asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a Sure Specifle and cannot fail. 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'..:.lV. 6Jic Syrup of Figs..... ......... ,.7tv.3lic Pinkham's Compound -Wc Carter's Liver Pills i ' , Pyramid Pile Cure 3Sc Castor Machine Oil, per gal.,,,....50c Royal Machine Oil, per gal........ 50c Ex-Ex Cylinder. , ,7Iic 10c gallon less in 5 gallon lots. QIlrTiQ CUT RATE tvIVJVJO, Druggist. " Funke Opera House. lth and O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. I SOuf Jn - eaMfar JwskkMMrtu 1 t tmt iiumt n t , mI.. a Ourjncubatomi iumitt.r l i ylaMryeanoaMr.Saa4 txuanva lit u4 ulit haw ralaa Maltrv seeoeato ffcllya rUaa tm n4 teoaaatkaxMa. Dw Meiess lacabater Ce Beg SS. DsMelses.Uu J. W- Mitchell Co. 1338 O STREET. Wall Paper cow Write for prices. & Painting ; Good patterns here to choose from LIFE SIZE DOLL rCnCC "Baby's clothes will rtikC now fit Dollle."' Girls can set this baaotlful Ufa Stae Doll absolutely Kre for elllna-oiUr (oar boxes of oar Great Gold AHftui ache Tablet at aft oente a box. Witte today and we will send the tablet by mall postpaid; when Bold send oa 'She money ($1.00) and -we will eend jw this Life SUe Doll which ! tH feet high and can wear baby' clothe. lol lie has an Indestructible Head,Goltea Hair. Ronr Cheeks. Browa Eye. Ida Colored Body, a Gold Plated Bea-ity Pin, Red Btockinn. Black Shoe, will stand alone. This doll Is an exact re production of the finest hand painted French Doll, and will live in a chi td's memory long after childhood days bare passed. Address, NATIONAL MEDICINE CO.. Doll Dept. 396 piw Haven, Co an. EP WORTH LEAGUERS! Send me your name and address and I will mall you about April 1 a beau tifully illustrated folder giving full In formation about the special rates and train service to California via the Bur lington Route, at the time of the Ep worth League meeting at San Fran cisco in July. The folder will enlighten you on ev ery point in connection with the trip to San Francisco cost of tickets; tow to make the trip most cheaply and comfortably; what there is to see on the way, and why your tickets should read via the Burlington Route. The round trip rate open to every one from Omaha to kSan Francisco via. the Burlington Route is $45. Tick ets are good by way of Denver and Salt Lake City. J. Francis, General Passenger Agent, Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb. HOUSE & SANITARIUM All forma of hatha-Turkish, Rnsaiao, Bo aaaa. JCleotrlo with apaolai attention to taa application of natural aait watsr baths, aararal iiaaea atroarar thaa aea water, Rheumatism, fekin. Blood, Catarrh, Stomach. Karrona, and Heart diseases; L.iyer and Kidney trou'ileij diseasea of women aad chronic ailments treated ancceasfully. A aeparata department, t.ttei with a thorourhir aseptic ward and opera tin rooma, offer special inducements to sur(rloal cases, aad all diaaasaa peealiar to women. DDE New Departure Round Incubator. Heats up through the center; uses less oil than any other machine made; per fect ventilation; equal heat; absolute ly automatic. CATALOGUE FREE. Trester Supply Co., Str 103 S. Ilth St Lincoln, Neb.