June 13, 19QJ.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT;
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flOO oil
Will be the talk of the town. Our methods of advertising
what we have and only advertising facts, has brought our
name before the public in a manner appreciated by every
one. When we advertise to do a thing we do it in an honest
legitimate way. No advance in our prices. We propose to
give you during this sale a choice of the
Most Fashionable Men's, Boys' and Children's Wearing Apparel
ever offered to a living soil. At this time of year never
was a stock so perfect, so complete, as the one now put on
1 the Great Reduction of 20 Per Gent Discount
And by this we mean every suit in our immense establishment, including the
nattiest, neatest effects in Worsteds, Cheviots, Vicunas and Serges, will be in
cluded and 20 per cent taken from our regular retail price. No fictitious adver
tising is done by us. WE ONLY ADVERTISE WHAT WE HAVE. We also
have a number of odds and ends in Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits that we
Will Reduce for This Sale 33 Per Cent
Wo have in this line of Boys' and Children's clothes, a line that
regularly sold $3.00 to $6.00, ages 3 to 7 years. They are a suit of
which any child would be proud. During this Midsummer sale
you can take your choice lor
i; : Don't Get the Stores Mixed but Remember the Place
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wing Clotlhiini
11151117 O Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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AN OPEN LETTER
0r Crra4al Addr wUrj of
fttata Mara. 1 ftUsby. Kilrod
IMitur Independent: Hon. George
V.. MrU. Secretary cf Stale. Lincoln.
Ntb. D-ar George: Colonel or Doc
tor Dlxty. whichever may be bis prop
er title, whose epic on the "boar black
pS n4 the potted cow called Speck
lire when you and I are forgotten,
is the man who diM-OTered the open
letter habit, and for a number of years
he has been its most devoted slave,
la many waya it i more to be feared
than the drink habit, the tobacco habit,
r the habit of taking opium, chloral,
norphic. and other drugs; yet. with
al, it i s of the best wars to "get
action" ca what one wants to say. But
1 dlgre.
You have the distinction of being
the Cnt Nebraska newspaper man ever
elected to & salaried state offlce In this
bailiwick. I chortle with the other
newspaper boys over this recognition
cf the fraternity, notwithstanding your
brand cf politics is about as bad as
could possibly be If we except the
Clemdeaverites. Coming, as you do.
from the State of Richardson, the
home of Sam Lichty and Sam Mower
ni John Cornell and Jlmmie Whit
taker, yotj doubtless have a tolerably
f lr Idea of the value of real estate and
personal property in that ceck-of-the-wooda.
I am told that you were county
rlerk cf Richardson from IU to 192
and county treasurer from 152 to 1836.
and that thereafter you blossomed out
ai the mayor of Kalis City, after
which you mounted the editorial tri
pod (is that the technical expression?)
of the Falls City Journal and began to
throw srhrapnel. case, chain, and other
kinds of hot shot into the camp of the
allied forces of reform, who were then
holding the kopje from which you had
"retreated in good order." as the war
correspondents put it. (En passant.
my metaphors may be slightly mixed;
tut bear with me: I t hall make things
plain enough later on.)
something over a year ago you were
Vperched cpoa the tripod, hereinbefore
mentioned as aforesaid (as the lawyer
chaps would tay. and your fellow
citizen. John F. Cornell, was drawing
$2,-09 per year from the state for per
forming the duties of auditor of pub
lic accounts la a more eSclent manner
than they were ever performed before
or since. John was and is a pop. He
was ose of tie three members of the
state board of equalization that places
a valuation upon the property of rail
roads, teicrr&rfcs. etc.. for the purpose
cr taxation. Uu were running a re
puhlicaa i apr and !o'.n? vour level
best to create the iniprs:on that this
pop board of evja!!?stion was not do-
ia; its ncty. I car. not Ham you for
that, because you r 3 1 probably In
mind then that you z H sacrifice
your t?-!r-- in o: t in V Cornell's
jtor?. i'or fear tlst
frr?n your smui
r-ort:. ro. permit mc
"Tie pjt:ft state board cf asscs
raect reems to be so completely under
the eoatro! of the corporations that it
U afraid to say it soul If its own. The
t-ard has been importuned by leading
, jrfjpuJjsu over tie uie to taaka the
j nir have
- thirteen
o quote what
railroad assessment so that the rail
roads would pay their just proportion
of taxes, but It stubbornly refused to
do it and made the valuation $2,000,000
ess than It was when it went into of
fice. The valuation as returned in
1S93 by a republican board was $28,-
000.000; the valuation in this year.
900. is $26,000,000. Its policy or re
form seems to have struck the wrong
crowd and the farmers or the state
are the fellows who are the subjects of
reformation. Taxpayers, how do you
like this? Is this In line with its oft-
repeated promises, that if elected it
would bring about reforms that would
surprise the natives? Any political
party that proclaims aloud from the
house-tops Its honesty of purpose will
bear watching. 'By their works shall
they be known. "
This struck Eddie and Vickie Rose-
water as one of the cutest things that
ever came down the pike, and their
knight of the scissors and paste-pot
caused It to be reproduced in the Oma
ha Bee of May 21, 1900, under the
catchy head. "Reform" in the Back
ward Motion." along with numerous
ether wails from republican papers.
A short time thereafter you were ac
cidentally nominated for the high of
fice which. I am glad to say, you are
now filling In a satisfactory manner,
so far as I have been able to learn.
And. pardon the digression, I desire to
congratulate you upon your course in
asking legal advice before appropriat
ing those marks and brands fees. Of
course, you might have consulted any
one of hundreds of better qualified law
yers In Nebraska than the one you did
consult; but that is not wholly your
fault; you consulted the proper au
thority; and the republican party and
the voters of Nebraska are to blame
because such authority is not better
equipped for properly discharging its
duties.
A year has tolled around (do years
really roll?) and you are now a brother
Mete officer with a new state board of
equalization. The populists, Poynter,
Cornell and Meserve, have been suc
ceeded by the republicans. Savage,
Weston and Stuefer. You have ceased
squatting upon that three-legged con
cern In the Falls City Journal office
and now occupy the same leather
curhicned rm chair in which Porter
t f Merrick used to sit whea he had no
butchering or Ashing to do.
A year has rolled around, and the
new republican board of eaualization
knocked off about $44,000 of the valua
tion placed on the same railroad prop
erty that the populist board a year be
fore had "stubbornly refused" to assess
so that it would pay its "just propor
tion of taxes." according to your tell
Come a little nearer, for f want to
whisper in your ear: Isn't it a fact
that last year you were howling mere
ly for political effect? If not. then
you must entertain the r.amc opinion
of Savage, Weston and btuefer that
you did of Poynter, Cornell and Me
serve. The trio first mentioned must
also "seem to be completely under the
control of the corporations' and
"afraid to say that their souU are
their own." Eh?
And. by the way, bavs- yon noticed
that the May. 1S01, school apportion
rneni is jou.vjj smaller than it was a
y--r ago under a populist ndm'iistra-
lUon? Have you noticed Low he per
EJaiient educational tunas are creep
ing up toward the half milMon mark of
die money? Havn you noticed that
the insurance fees have fallen off
greatly since Weston became auditor?
Have you noticed that Follmer has
fallen by the wayside and can't keep
up the pace set by "Uncle Jake?" No
doubt you have noticed all these things
and so have the people out over the
state. I don't want to seem importun
ate but I would like to know what
you really think about that li01 rail
road assessment.
ADAM P. JPUlIST.
An Excellent Record
During the last four or five years
there have been a large number of mu
tual hail insurance companies organ
ized for the purpose of insuring the
owners of growing grain against loss
by damage from hail. The principle is
as sound as that upon which any other
class of insurance is based. If insur
ance against loss by fire is a good thing
then Insurance against loss by hail
should be a better thing, for the
chances of ' loss from hail is many
times greater than the chances of loss
by fire. The fact that there have been
fraudulent hail companies organized
some of which have not paid their
losses, does not alter the soundness of
the principle of hail Insurance when
a proper company is selected. There
have been fraudulent fire insurance
companies, but there are many that
are not.
Of all the mutual hail insurance
companies doing business in this state
there is but one that The Independent
feels safe in . indorsing as deserving
of the patronage of its readers. The
United Mutual Hail Insurance com
pany, w. c. Fleury, president, and
John F. Zimmer, secretary, is con
ducted by honest men. It has paid all
its losses in the past and has on its
books at this time a greater volume
and better class of business than ever
before. It has a deserved reputation
for honesty and fair dealing.
The official records of losses paid by
all hail insurance companies doing
business in this state in 1899 and 1900
show that the United Mutual Hail In
surance Co. paid $105,053.42 for losses
which is $40,346.95 more than was paid
in the same length of time by all other
hail insurance companies combined.
It has carried upon its books nearly
$4,000,000 of Insurance and can be de
pended upon to fulfill its promises and
contracts. Remember the name, the
United Mutual Hail Insurance Co., of
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Washington in history. He also had
as a particular mission the arousing
of interest, . especially in our leading
universities, in the approaching mil
lennial celebration of that great foun
der of English laws and letters, King
Alfred.
He arrived on February 14, and af
ter a day or two in New York, pro
ceeded to Chicago, where his address
on George, Washington was received
with very high praise. It Is to be pub
lished by the Union League. Mr. Har
rison's name was associated by one of
the speakers, on that occasion, with
those of Queen Victoria and John
Bright, as one of the three people in
England who had been most influen
tial, in the time of our civil war, in
preventing conflict between England
and the United States, and in uphold
ing the cause of the north.
Mr. Harrison took occasion while in
Chicago to lecture before the Univer
sity of Chlcagol and also addressed the
Positivist Society. He -was especially
interested in Hull House as a stand
point from which to study the indus
trial and social oonditions-of the peo
pie of the most typical of great Am
erican cities.
From Chicago, he went directly to
Boston, and lectured before Harvard
university on the writings of King Al
fred. This very attractive address has
now been published in pamphlet form
by the Macmillan company. "I call to
mind," said Mr. Harrison, "that this
year is the millenary, or thousandth
anniversary, of the death, in 901, of
Alfred the West Saxon king, who is
undoubtedly the founder of a regular
prose literature, as of so many other
English institutions and ways. . .
He and his people were just as much
your ancestors as they were mine; for
all we can say is that the 130,000,000
who speak our Anglo-Saxon tongue
have all a fairly equal claim to look
on him as the heroic leader of our re
mote forefathers."
From Boston, Mr. Harrison made
haste to visit Washington in time to
be present at the second inauguration
of President McKlnley, and he was the
guest in Washington of Senator Elk
ins. He was on the. platform in the
senate chamber on occasion of the In
augural ceremonies, and wes enter
tained constantly during his Wash
ington visit by senators and high of
ficials, and met nearly all the impor
tant public men at the . capital. He
Frederic Harrison in America.
It is probably true that the visit of
no Englishman, since Matthew Arnold
came to this country eighteen or twen
ty years ago, has excited greater inter
est among the intellectual people of
the United States than the recent one
of Mr. Frederic Harrison. He did not
come here to be lionized, to gain mon
ey, or to investigate us for the purpose
of writing a volume of Impressions.
He had two or three specific objects,
and these were duly accomplished be
fore his return. He had been invited
by the Union League club of Chicago
to address the club, February 22, on
the character and place of George
was particularly interested in coming
to know well Vice President Roose
velt. Mr. Harrison Is the author of a
very valuable monograph on the char
acter and career of Oliver Cromwell,
and naturally had read Mr. Roosevelt's
more recent study of the great protec
tor.' After leaving Washington, Mr. Har
rison was the guest of the Johns Hop
kins university, where he delivered an
historical lecture on Alfred the Great
to a general Baltimore audience, and
spoke particularly upon the works of
Alfred to the university students of
English literature. Thereafter he spoke
in succession at Princeton, Yale and
Columbia universities, and made an
address before the Nineteenth Century
club in' New York on the men and the
characteristics of the last half of the
nineteenth century. He made a sec
ond brief visit to Boston just before
sailing, and took passage to England
on April 3. -
Mr. Harrison deservedly holds a
great place among the real students
and- men of letters of Great Britain.
Yet he has not confined himself to the
pursuits of learning and literature
alone, but has all his life been earnest
and active in the practical promotion
of his political, social and ethical opin
ions, with a view to the advancement
of his generation.
He was born in London on October
18, 1831, and is therefore in his sev
entieth year. He was educated at
King's college, London, and Wadham
college, Oxford, where he took his M.
A. degree and became a fellow and
tutor. Subsequently he became a bar
rister of Lincoln's Inn. in 1858.
His Interest in labor problems was.
early shown, and he was a member of
the royal commission on trades unions
that began its investigations in 1867
and reported two years later. He was
secretary of the royal commission for
digesting the laws during the follow
ing two years, and for twelve years,
from 1877 to 1889, he was professor of
jurisprudence and International law to
the Inns of Court.
When the London county council
was created for the government of the
great metropolis, Mr. Harrison was
honored by being made one of the first
aldermen; and from 1889 to 1892 he
rendered conspicuous services in that
important body..
For twenty-one years he has been
president of the London positivist
committee. Those who would like to
know what Mr. Harrison's religious
views are, and what he means by
"positivism," should be referred to his
valuable article entitled "Positivism:
Its Position, Aims and Ideals," In the
March number of the North American
Review, a summary of which we pub
lished in the April number of the Re
view of Reviews.
As the troubles between- England
and the Boer republics were coming to
a crisis, Mr. Harrison, with Mr. John
Morley and several others, was one of
the most outspoken and convincing
antagonists of the policy of Mr. Cham
berlain and the present conservative
government. It is hardly necessary to
say that he has always been an ad
vanced liberal in his political affilia
tions. His contributions to general litera
ture, to history, to philosophy, to po
litical and economic science, and to
the methods of education and culture,
have been so numerous that we will
not try to present any bibliographical
data. Review of Reviews.
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Flag and Constitution Divorced.
The decision of the supreme court
declaring that congress has certain
powers no one has heretofore dreamed
of its possessing, and that the consti
tution Is weak and Ineffective .where it
was believed to be strong, clears the
way for entering on the main question,
which, after all, resolves itself into the
power and duty of establishing a per
manent colonial system as to our for
eign acquisitions. The removal of the
constitutional objection does not make
it incumbent on the United States to
acquire, establish and maintain col
onies in distant parts of the globe,
nor under the guarantees of the na
tional constitution, which hold good
in the states, but subject to such leg
islation inside and outside the const!
tution as congress may impose. With
out this power it has been held the ad
ministration and its party would
speedily drop the Philippines. If we
can govern them outside the constitu
tion and in disregard of its rights and
guarantees, we want them. Jf they
were to come under the constitution,
let them go. We want none of them.
In this particular case the court was
divided five to four In dissent, and the
dissenting judges were the chief jus
tice and Justices Harlan, Brewer and
Peckham. Judge Harlan, a veteran re
publican, the oldest member of the
court, appointed in 1877, declared the
principles announced by the majority
would "result in a radical and mis
chievous change in our system of gov
ernment," and that we "will pass from
the era of constitutional liberty, guard
ed and protected. by a written constitu
tion, into an era of legislative absolut
ism in respect to many rights that are
dear to all peoples who love freedom."
This is strong language, but it is true.
A great danger has been introduced in
our system of government. We may
weather the coming storms, but on the
other hand they may be disastrous and
perilous. Pittsburg Post.
SHIP DIRECT
There is no way to get full value for your wool
except by shipping direct to : market. The fewer
hands your wool passes through before reachi oar
,the manufacturer, the more profit there is for you.
WE DISTRIBUTE DIRECT TO THE MANUFACTURER.
WE GUARANTEE FUIX MARKET PRICE, FULL WEIGHT ft PROMPT RETUR N
for all wool received, with no useless or extra expense to the shipper.. You run no
risk in shipping to us, as we have been established here for 27 years and are reliable
and responsible. Writers for price of wool and prospect. Wool sacks furnished
free. In addition to wool we receive and cell everything which comes from th
farm. Write us for prices of anything you may have to sell. s
SUMMERS, BROWN &. CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Reference, tbii Paper. 1S8 S. Water St. CH ICAGO.,
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Near Chico, Butte Co., California,
Are now offered for sale in lots of from 5 to 40 acres. This is the most
fertile body of land ever placed on the market, and is located in the finest
fruit section in the state. It is a living testimonial of the varied fruit and
cereal productions that can be grown in the state.
s Read What Can be Grown on this Land without Irrigation I
FOR DESCRIPTIVE TREATISE, TERMS, ETC., ADDRESS
B. CUSSICK, Agt., Chico, Butte, Co., California.
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LINCOLN SANITARIUM
A Thoroughly
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Sulpho-Saline
Bath House
Sanitarium
14th and M Streets
LINCOLN, NEB. 1. " I Establishment
All forms of baths: Turkish, Russian, Roman and Electric, with special attention to the
application of Natural 8alt Water Baths, for the treatment of all acute and chronic non-con-tageous
curable diseases. Rheumatism, Skin, Blood and Nervous Diseases, Lirer and KiiUey
Trouble, and all forms of Stomach Trouble are treated successf nil j. atarrah of the Stomach and
Bowels, Heart Disease, acute and chronic, are all greatly benefitted and many permanently
cured by taking the Natural Salt Water Baths (Schott Method as first given at Nauhetm,
Germany. A separate department, fitted with a thoroughly aseptic surgical ward and operating
rooms, offer special inducements to surgical caes and all diseases peculiar to women, lie
Sanitarium is thoroughly equipped for treating all diseases by modern successful methods. IB is
managed by physicians well trained and of extended experience, specialists in their several
departments. Trained nurses, skillful and courteous attendents. Prices reasonable. Address
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MANUFACTURES
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Best on Earth, Endorsed by- Insurance Companies
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$2 single box.
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for $20. Full 12 box treatment never fails. Pimples, skin eruptions
vanish as if by magic. Remember money returned if not satisfactory.
By mail, plain wrappers. Habn's Pharmacy, 1805 Farnam St. .Omaha, Neb.
B. O. KOSTKA, LINCOLN, NEBR.
FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATION,
126-128-130 North 13th St.,
' . Lincoln, Neb.
(Five stories and basement.)
1Mb ,
WHERE YOU CAN GO SUMMER
VIA THE BURLINGTON
WHERE. WHAT. DATE SALE.
Cincinnati Christian Endv. July 4 to 6
Detroit N.E. A. July 5 to 7
San Francisco.Epworth League July 6 to 13
Milwaukee Elks July 20 to 22
Chicago B. Y. P. U. July 23 to 25
Lsuisville Knights Templar, Aug. 24 to 29
Beatrice - Chatauqua June 20 to July 4
RATE.
$22.50
23 05
2.107
18.40
16.4(1
22.55
1.20
LIMIT.
July 14
July 15
Aug. 81
July 27
July 30
Sept. 2
Jnly 5
EXT. LIM.
Aug. ai
Sept. 1
Aug. 10
Aug. 81 "
Sept. 16
City Ticket Of flee Burlington Depot
Corner 10th and O Sts. 7th St., Bet. P and Q.
Telephone 335. Telephone 35.
Sheriff's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that by yirtue of an
Order of Sale issued by the clerk of the district
court of the third judicial district of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an action
wherein Charles w. Oakes is plaintiff, and Belle
Foxwarthy et. al., defendants, I will, at 2
o'clock p. m., on the 18th day of June, A. D
1901. at the east door of the court house, in the
city of Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction the following de
scribed lands and tenements, to-wit : Lot forty,
seven (47), of irregular tracts in the northwest
quarter of section twenty-five (25), town ten
(10), north of range six (6 east of the sixth P.
M in Lancaster county, Nebraska.
Given under my hand this 9th day of Hay, A.
D., 1901. Z. S. Branson, 8heriff.
The Farmers Supply Association in
the conduct of their large mail order
business and retail, trade occupy more
floor space than. any other mercantile
institution in this city. The store is
located opposite the Oliver theatre,
128-130-132 North 13th street, five stor
ies and a basement. Their immense
stock of goods make3 one of the finest
displays for the inspection of visitors
to be found in the city. If you have
never seen the stock do not fail to do
so the first time you are in Lincoln.
Visitors are always welcome.
PAINTS
At Wholesale Prices
$1.75 Per Gallon
Best Quality
Any Color
THE FARMERS SUPPtT ASSOCIATION
128-130-133 North 13th St., Llnbola. eb.
Mention The Independent.
This Baggy Costs Only $34.75.
See Page 60 of Catalogue.
Has fine leather quarter top,
steel sockets, panel spring backs,
all Hickory wheels, guaranteed,
extra fine finish, standard quality
and reliable in every respect.
Dealers chares $60. Why pay the
extra $257
We can save you from $10 to $25 on a vehicle and the same per cent on everything you
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HIGH GRADE SPRING WAGON.
(Catalogue Page 93, No. 1S.)
Note the extra strong 4 ply spring In front;
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backs; strong hardwood body 7 ft. long, B3 in.
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