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June e. 180L THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 6 7L?lQZ$Qfowmwii The Big Mail Order House THE SECOND AND LAST WEEK OF THE ANNIVERSARY SALE To aM new intret to th second and last week of this very inter ffic- eret, we will GIVE A CASH REBATE OF 25C to every cuttcmerparchajin goods to the amount of $5.00 or more PROVIDING THIS COUPON" IS PRESENTED to the salesperson with whom fettlement is rude. The price quotations will be of the same remarkably small order that prerailed during the first week and this rebate represents an addi tional reduction. You Ganno! Obtain Itie Rebate Without This Coupon This Coupon is Good for a 25c Cash Rebate .. When presented to the salesperson after you have made a purchase amounting to $5.00 or. more. - : : . :. ; Cut this out, bring it with you or send it with your mail order and it will be worth 25c to you. NO REBATE GIVEN WITHOUT THIS COUPON Nebraska Independent June 6, 1 901.. . . . . H. Herpolsheimer Co, THIS OFFER GOES INTO EFFECT ON MONDAY JUNE 10 This file was created for the purpose of celebrating the first anniversary of our incorporation as a co-operative stock company and making it worth your while to participate in the jubilee. Offering you values of a rare sort right when you can use the goods to the best advantage. Here are wm of the a. . . - . ' Domestics Dark &z4 niium print, per yard Irril. V.gtx and radian, worth 9 arl I V. in os lot. lr yard , ZlAzrii sntaili. 3.H tew disns and eolcriz.x.. I Doaetie Drt-, main Sr-r . per yard Cm our. T! inthea M. beautiful line cf .ir.i. ortn &c. sale price, per Tird i?:inef la? dusters, it's tale. each... ... 5c 94'c 5Mc 23o Linens 4"-:E.r& hit - f1ss Mull, fine and trr-r. jr yard 12Mc All our I!"c and 2Sc linen tuck towels. hrznt 1. colored borders, large size, each 13c Pure lib'Q table dintik. bleached. 72 inch wide, oar fl.wO grade, jr yd 69c Iiacted ar.i half bleached napkin. ZZxZZ-ln. mtA ZkxH-in . -worth $3.25 to f t (- a doz . In one lot for this fa'.e. jr !oza $2 85 Full fix bed spread, hemmed, ready for ue. each 47c Hen's Furnishings A kt of ten's fee silk ties In te"k ard rluu houe. a great variety of tjls !n the tprizz and summer JTi. our rerular 2C.C lines, choice rf the lot. this sale, each 15c A l''t of cfn'i fancy thlrte, assorted ttj. broken Use of six s. attached or detached collars. liht or dark, worth up to Tic. choice cf the lot. this . each 39c A Sot cf bo?s' faery wol sweater, as sorted size, worth f and 11.25, -sale i r;--. ach -89c Summer Outer Garments. Anniversary Sale. Lawn and Percale Wrappers, and two piece percale suits, broken lots, and lines of sizes in one Immense lot. worth up to $2.50, choice, this sale, each 350 brilllantine. serge, novelty mixture and camel's hair dress skirts, nicely lined, well made, were $5.00, entire lot on one table, choice, each Balance of the $12.00 golf skirts, dur ing: this sale, each 25 golf skirts, former price $5.00, this sale, each 75 Taffeta Silk Waists in black and colors. $6.00 and $6.50 goods, 25 dif ferent styles, assorted sizes, this sale j 25 colored satin waists, different styles, assorted sizes, ruffle at hand, were $5, sale price, each 200 white and colored waists in broken sizes, assorted styles, for this sale, at a discount from the original price of 25 cloth and taffeta skirts, during this sale at a discount from the original price of , 40 suits ranging in price, $12.00 to $45.00; grey, brown, tan and blue, for this sale at a discount from the orig inal price of . 97c .... 32 75 .-.$6 00 . . . $3 97 $4 85 2 97 50 50 50 Black Silks Anniversary Sale Good quality black gros grain silk, 19 Inches wide, makes a good strong lining for grenadine, sale price, per yard 55c Black satin duchesse, 23 inches wide, soft, finish, actual value 90c, sale price, per yard 69c Black silk grenadine, 46 inches wide, reliable quality, in pretty stripes, actual value $1.25, sale price, per , , yard --95c Plain iron frame grenadine, 46 inches wide, wears like iron, actual value $1.75, sale price, per yard........ $1 10 Dress Goods. Anniversary Sale Heavy quality all wool black cheviot, 38 inches wide; all wool black jac quards, new and neat designs, actual value 50c, sale price, per yard Fine quality all wool black nuns' veil ing, 38 inches wide, especially desir able for summer wear, sale price, per yard 48-inch black cheviot, a good heavy quality especially adapted for skirts, unequalled for hard wear, sale price, per yard Elegant quality all wool poplin, 48 in. wide, in a rich finish, actual value $1.25, sale price, per yard 35c 45c ... 75c 90c Shoe Department A lot of children's fine kid shoes in red and black, hand-turned and machine sewed, sizes 5 to 8, worth up, to $1.00, sale price, a pair. J . 65c A lot of misses' and children's "kid shoes, black and tan, lace and but ton, good styles, good wearers, sizes ' 94 to 2, worth up to $1.50, sale price, a pair 97c A lot of women's .fine Oxfords, slippers, , . etc., black and tan, hand turhsand ' machine sewed, sizes 3 to 7, worth $2.00, sale price, a pair. .. . ;.. . $1 47 GET A SPECIAL CIRCULAR IT TELLS ALL ABOUT IT. Lincoln mc.rrrt:t seak The Nebraska In iepenr:t had two cr three, f xi article last week, but contained n editorial that greatly dis4 fruited xnAtij reader. Its petition that candidate for supreme jude are to be njA6ured ty thesr contribution to the fund to pay the debts of the Edmisten (oraniiiu w& outrageous to say the l-ktt. We should ri up the heft qual- l..ed and most admirable man we can find for thifc h'.jch once, regardiess of hth-r h- think money will be wise ly ij-iiir-d by our Mate committee ar.i mhether he contributes or refuses to contribute to any certain fund in the hand cf any certain parties. If it ita be proven that an cScial ii will ir.f to rF-reiTe, without rendering help to the party anywhere, that ia a differ ent setter, tut no candidate should be blacklisted Wuw he refuses to give or any tjcial jarpo or subscribe fi.r asy particular paper. Hamilton County Hrg!ster. Brother Durr occaIor.a!!y states a truth when he !s attempting to create a false irrprtiflon. There is cot a part-tie of dout? that the editorial in j jti-sn did "d:rut a number of Independent reader but the dia-r-ted or.$ were not those of the rank and le iho hare been fighting the tattl cf rforrs for years without hepe of reard other than what might r re as th re i!t of good government. ?he cr'r "dug-uf ted" one are those ho have t-t-n f h'.rkSn?. There was no u t;?ntJ03 in the editorial that candl ciiei -ere to i "measured by their ecr.tr!t.t!'in ta the fund to pay the l.ts ct .he Cdtclstea committee." Bat thrre iii trtiastlon. ar. 1 The Inde-;- r 1 :.t he.-e reiterates it. that this pa yr dc not j'jrpoe to gie aid to and h-!p l 'n! -r the political aspirations cf r.fc who. t'eing able, have aided the its- cf r' fwi m in no more substantial thto to talk iearaeiJy about what cu?.-t to be rone. This does not nee etari!y tnenn that the tuffi'r of dol lars contrlhstetf shall be used as a &t.-U ttuj-e ten dollars glirea by ,-, p,s ma- t-e rau- L larger, viewed f i th the tanr Ict cf his ability to cntjtnV-te. than a hundred given by aiidhrr. What The I: dependent meant then, snd cici juv, i; that the acts cA th aspirant shall be consistent with his prof-siot.s. ftne words butter no pcrscips neither do they alone fight joiaiaU tattle; and the man who, I arte f means, electa to do all his j,litical f.f h:in with his jawbone. kSle cthera furnish the sinews cf war. will receive no encouragement from The Independent. This may be "out raxeccj to a man of Burr's peculiar id :i til mske-cp but thousands of i t el-beaded people will agree that it is jut. -V A to the Register insinuation that no cssdldate should be blacklisted eeaue be refuse to giv for any s pe rl a I purpose or subscribe for any par ticular i-aper." The Independent might with propriety Ignore it. Yet it might not be amiss to say that since our de feat last fall only a few papers have stood with The Independent and con tinued the fight, week in and week out. regardless of the temporary set-back. Cnly a few papers have been sufficient ly interested to care whether "the e'etts of the Edmisten committee" were ever paid. Some, and among them the Register, have adroitly attempted to hinder the work of the ways and nicans committee by suggesting thai Edmisten squandered the campaign funds and needlessly contracted the debt. Even admitting this to be true, Edmisten was the party chairman, placed there by a majority of the Btate committee, and as such was the ac knowledged and accredited agent of the party to conduct the campaign accord ing to bis best judgment; and his acts, in his capacity as chairman, are the acts of the party; the debts he con tracted are the debts of the party. Hav ing expressed confidence in his ability to conduct the campaign, by electing him chairman, It is now too late to play the baby act and try to shirk re sponsibility by repudiating the debts he contracted as chairman. If it be true that Edmisten was injudicious in his expenditures and needlessly con tracted the debts. It does noi alter the party's duty to pay the debts never theless, because the party vouched for his good judgment and atlllty by elect ing him chairman: '"If the Register's contention be true regarding the ex penditures, then it was a mistake of the paTty to place Edmisten in the po sition; but mistakes of judgment are never grounds for repudiating a debti The Independent has never black listed any person because he Is not a subscriber. In fact, the editorial man agement has no knowledge of what names may be upon the subscription books. We have done something in the way of extending our list by contribut ing to the campaign fund half . the amount received on new subscriptions. But no person is obliged to take either The Independent or the Register, or to contribute "any sum whatever; toward fighting the party's battles; ... .- A CI BAN IRELAND " With a lying press constantly de ceiving the people it is impossible for a republican government long to exist. It will end. If kept up, either , in . an archy or despotism. The people have been lied 'to so-, much about the Cuban situation that no one knows, what to believe. The republican editor has an easy time, for according to the rules of his profession he need hot trouble himself about facts. His whole work consists in writing an editorial praising what the administration does. The news that was published con cerning Cuba for days continually re iterated the statement that the Piatt amendment would be unanimously ac cepted. Then paine the news that it was unanimously rejected. Supposing that that was true, an article was writ ten and put in type for last week's In dependent based upon that statement. Before the paper went to press, other telegrams contradicting it were printed and the article was killed. Then the news came that the amendment had been amended by inserting what Mc Kinley and Secretary Root had told the commission when in this country concerning the true interpretation of the' act of congress, and that even in that shape, it. only passed by the vote of the presiding officer, the vote of the convention being 14 for and 14 against it. Now it is asserted that the admin istration has Informed the convention that such an adoption of the amend ment will not do at all that the Cu bans must take the whole thing as pre pared for them or McKinley will nev er withdraw the United States troops. The Cubans,' once' acknowledged by us to be Independent, are given to under stand that our will is really their only law. They are not even allowed to con sult, and consider to any purpose. Con gress is their master and Its word con cerning them is final. There is no sort of doubt that Mc Kinley will proceed to create an Am erican Ireland down there just as fast as he possibly can. When Senator Hale announced , in the . senate two years ago that McKinley never intend ed to leave Cuba, he was only giving information concerning a course of ac tion then resolved upon. BOER VICTORIKS . ' The operations of the Boer. forces during .the last week .have been a greater .astonishment jto the world than anything that has preceded in this famous contest for liberty. "The dis patches have been very meagerr-all of them from British' sources but enough has been told to astonish the world. It has generally been believed that the Boers were in terrible straits, hav ing but few men left and what they had were insufficiently armed as their sources of obtaining ammunition had been cut off. Now all of a sudden they fight three heavy battles in one week and several . hundred British soldiers and officerg jare - killed, captured, or wounded. The extent of the operations is what is most amazing. j One battle was fought near the Rand gold mines; another in the southwest part of the Orange Free State and still another far down in Cape Colony. Lord Kiteh ener reports heavy losses in all of these battles, but claims that the Boers "Suffered heavily." This sudden beginning of the war over again with all the force and vim with which it first started has dumb founded all England. The expenses of the British government are said to be $8,000,000 a week and the drain of men and money is getting almost unbear able. There is talk of a dissolution of parliament and another appeal to the people in the fall, as there is said to be serious dissentions in the cabinet. There will never come from the su preme court a decision in favbr of re form until the reformers get control of the government. No such thing has ever happened in all history. The railroad magnates got together in New York last week and divided up the railroads of the United States just as Caesar, Pompey and 'Croesus used to get together when they formed that other "community of Interests" and di vided up the wealth of the Roman em pire. On with the dance. It does not seem probable that the Herron style of. wedding will become popular in the United States and its dependencies, but no one can tell .what will happen after taking, a glance at the flops that the supreme court has been engaged in. It may next decide that marriage is outside of thVcTfcsti tution. In reply to the Bee's criticism of The Independent's article on office-holding, it may be said that some of the populists resemble in their actions Henry Ward Beecher's phrase In de scribing the Methodist doctrine of fall ing from grace. He said: "The Metho dists believe in falling.from grace and they practice what they preach." Rosewater thinks that our foreign trade has nothing to do with the price of hogs and cattle at home. The main part of our exports are farm products If none of them were sold abroad and all had to find a market at home, what does Mr. Rosewater think the price of hogs and cattle would be then? These republican editors - have some very queer ideas. , . " It must be apparent to every honest man that if the framers of the const! tution intended that congress should have power to exclusively legislate for the territories, unrestricted by consti tutional limitations, that it would not have confined the power . to exercise "exclusive legislation" to "ten miles square' and "to forts, magazines, ar senals, dock yards and other needful j buildings" as they did In section 43, ar- I tide II. i When the first news of the supreme j court decision came to the effect that Porto Rico was not a foreign country and that its inhabitants were protected by the constitution, there was a smile on every man's face, for even the mul let head has some lingering love for the doctrine that all men are equal be fore the law, but when the second de cision came, there was no rejoicing. The whole community, was dumb with amazement. ' The average republican, especially those who live In the cities, so love their party that they will live in solid blocks where the little flats are so small that three persons fill a room, never have a chance to place their feet on God's green earth, and carefully save up what little money they get and turn it over to the gas trust, the ice trust and meat trust. They are very conscientious about this. They turn j t all over and never keep a cent. Rosewater says that "the decisions of the supreme court have complicated the situation and increased its difficul ties. It is possible that it may yet be found necessary to call an extra ses sion of congress to deal with the prob lem." He might truthfully have added that these decisions have thrown our whole system' of government into con fusion. No nation can be a republic and an empire at one and the same time. The constitution, according to Jus tice Brown, extends to tthe territories as far as the protection kof life, liberty and property is concerned, but not as to taxation". If congress concludes to tax the people to an unlimited extent, what becomes of life, liberty and prop erty? How can taxation be eliminated from the protection of life, liberty and property? Are not the two inseparable? Did not Justice Brown make an un limited ass of himself in employing such language? A sixteen-months-old girl baby, ar rayed in robes of ermine, and with a coronet perched on her infantile head, will occupy a seat in the house of lords and will represent the Barony of Clif ton at the-coronation of King Edward and his Queen. The legal fictions created by our supreme court are driv ing Americans toward just such ab surdities as that It will not take long to bring them about at the rate we have been travelling the last four years. The question has been asked: "What connection has the war department with the asphalttrust?" It was an nounced that the expelled West Point cadets were Immediately employed by the asphalt trust to go to Venezuela to take service in its army now guarding the asphalt lakes and that Secretary Root gave his permission. It is well known that the trust has a squadron of the United States navy in its em ployment, under the command of the trust's attorney, and perhaps it has a pull on the war department also. From the hoarse bellowing that the republican spell-binders did during the campaign, one would have thought as soon as they heard that McKinley had hauled down the' flag in China that each one of them would have buckled on his sword, mounted his horse and started for McKinley's scalp. But In stead of that a change has come over the spirit of their dreams and they greet the hauling down of the flag with rejoicings. ' Was there ever a bigger lot of fools on earth than the shouting rabble who re-echoed the Mark Hanna campaign cries? All the editors of the great republi can papers believe in : ghosts. There is no use for them to try to deny it any longer. They have declared over and over and in the most solemn man ner that Bryan , was dead and hurried the dirt had been piled up over his body and his monument had been put up. But every one of them last week was sending telegrams to him asking for an expression of his opinion on the supreme court "decision. They must have believed that his ghost was wan dering around Lincoln and could be reached by the Western Union Tele graph system. Puritanical Bostonians have degen erated so far as to become receivers of stolen goods, and even to make a pub lic display of them. A Boston paper says: "A Boston firm recently placedj on exhibition in the art museum many rare things which had been looted in China, Among them were some very rare jades in the form of vases, tea .pots, etc. One small teapot, not over four Inches either way, was valued at $1,000, and many vases were valued at over $1,000 each. It makes no differ ence what Dr. Ament or Sir Claude MacDonald may say, the loot is here and in every large city of Europe, Am erica and Asia." It seems that there are four and a half traitors and little Americans who are members of the supreme court of .the. United States. Four who are out and out traitors and one who is a half traitor. That comes about by the universal declaration qt, all the im perialistic papers in the country. They one and all, each and severally, de clared that Chief s Justice Puller and Associate Justices Harlan, Brewer and Peckham had decided against the "gov ernment," and that Justice Brown de cided for the "government" in one case and against It in another. If these men are engaged in a plot to overthrow the government then they are traitors. All the Imperialistic editors look upon Mc Kinley as. the "government" and a de cision against the policy that he ha;i inaugurated is treason: The board of naval officers that run things in that department are trying to create an impression that there ia great danger of a war with Germany and therefore there must be an enorm ous increase in our navy; It is said that congress will be asked to make by far the' largest appropriation ever made for, that department. The Ger mans of the United States nearly all voted , the republican ticket becauso they thought that they' wanted the gold standard. Instead of that, they got a flood of silver and bank money. Will they continue to vote the republican ticket after they find out that the re publican party is fomenting a war with the fatherland? The New York Sun Says: "Silver ia out of th6 way." We suppose it re fers to the rapidity with which diver bullion is being transferred from the treasury to the mints to be coined into silver dollars and Is being got out of the way in the treasury vaults. Mc Kinley is getting it out of the way faster than it was ever got out before. Besides that he is issuing more paper money and coining more gold than was ever coined before, all of which has a tendency to warm the cockles of the heart of every long-whiskered pop in the state of Nebraska. Go it, McKin ley. The more money you issue tne higher will be the price of corn, hogs and cattle. The greatest beggars and the biggest thieves on earth are the rich. Phil anthropic men established several schools In England for the poor. The rich have stolen every one of them. A Boston man established Wellesley col lege for poor girls. The rich have cap tured it and it is now a school for the daughters of the rich. Savings banks were instituted for the savings of the poor. ... The rich, have taken them over for a place of deposit for their millions. At every session of congress the mil lionaires appear by scores, begging for appropriations to be taken out of the taxes, gathered for the greater part from the poor. So The Independent says that the rich are the worst thieves and most persistent beggars on the face of the earth. The National City bank of New York cleared enough in three days on Wall street during the late excitement, and by methods so foul that highway rob bery or piracy on the high seas would be commendable in comparison to them, to pay republican national cam paign expenses", for' four; years. The populist gets some satisfaction in con templating the big hauL Every dollar of it came out of the pockets of the gold standard, sound money mullet heads. As long as they will collect, their campaign funds that way no pop ulist will object. When they do it by excessive railroad fares and . charges on goods sold made possible by the tariff, the populist kicks. When they collect It out of their own dupes, that is another question. 4 TO THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES, DR. S. B. HARTMAN. In view of the great multitude of women suffering from some kind of female disease, and yet unable to find any cure, Dr. Hartman, the renowned gynaecologist, has announced his wil lingness to direct the treatment of as many cases as may make application to him during the summer months with out charge. .- The treatment will be conducted by correspondence. The doctor will pre scribe all medicines, applications, hy gienic and dietary regulations neces sary to complete a cure. The medicines prescribed can be obtained at all drug stores. This offer will hold good only during the summer months. Any wo man can become a regular patient by sending a written statement of her age, condition of life, history and symptoms of her derangements. All cases of female diseases, including menstrualirregularities.displacements, ulcerations, inflammations, discharges, irritation of the ovaries, tumors and dropsy of the abdomenrshould apply at once and become registered as regular patients. All correspondence will be held strictly confidential. No testimo nials of cures will be given to the public except by the express wish of the patient.' "' i As is well known, Dr. Hartman is the President cf the Hartman Sanitarium, an institution which has a department devoted exclusively to the treatment of female diseases. He is thus brought to see thousands of such cases every year, the most of whom return to their homes to be treated by correspondence. The principal remedy he relies upon in such cases is Peruna, which every woman should have, who has any affection of this kind. Those wishing to become patients should address Dr. S. B. Hart man, Columbus Ohio. y No one knows better than Dr. Hart man how much the women suffer with diseases peculiar to their sex. No one knows better than he does how many of them suffer with such diseases. Pa tiently, hopefully, wearily, and often silently, they eke out a miserable exist nee year after year. A woman confined to the house sev eral years with a chronic female de rangement had finally given up all hope of being cured. She had . tried physician after physician, and remedy after remedy, without any permanent improvement. Her treatment had cost her husband, who was a poor man, hundreds of dollars. They had been obliged to deny themselves many com forts of life In order to get money enough to pay the physicians. Picking np the paper one day she hap pened to read an item which contained the news that Dr. Hartman would treat such cases free of charge by letter. She Immediately wrote the doctor, describ ing her case, and giving him all her symptoms. She soon received a letter telling her exactly what to do and what medicines and appliances to get. She began the treatment (theprincipal rem edy being Peruna) at once, and in -a few weeks was well and strong again and able to do her own work. ; Another woman' who used Peruna without becoming one of Dr. Hartman's regular patients had the following ex perience. Miss Ida Green writes from Baldwinville, Ga.: Peruna is wonder ful and good, and a certain enre for fe male weakness. I have been ill and have been taking doctor's medicine for several years, and found that none did me any good. "Every day It was a worry. I waa always sick. I had come to the conclusion to give up, and not use any more medicine. I was sick Indeed for the past two years. Just before I began to take Peruna I was very weak, . besides I was bilious and constipated. WI had pains in my back and side and falling of the womb, with bearing down pains. "One day while reading my news paper, I came across an ad., read of the book for women entitled, "Health and Beauty," and sent for it. Then I began to use the medicine. After using several bottles I am now thoroughly cured." Bend for free book, entitled, "Health and Beauty." Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.