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JOHN THOMAS SWAN'.
John T. Swan of Auburn. Neb., was
bora la Bareau county. Illinois. Feb
ruary 11. 'JZ. His early ducation
yrss la the district schools, graduating
at the high school of Peru In 1S73.
When 21 year of aire, he engaged In
the business of general merchandizing
Ja Harmon, III. where he continued
tmtl! when he removed to Au
burn. Nelx. and enszs-d in the busi
ngs cf hardware and furniture in
partnership with his brother. In ISM
he purchased the interests of his bro
ther, and added a small stock of gro
cerie. tooa after which he had the
misfortune to loos his entire stock
by fire, hut, Phonii-like. he builded
at once and put in a stock of hard
ware, furniture and groceries, throw
its his whole soul into the business
with renewed energy. He Is now the
owner and director cf one of the most
prosptrotss haziness concerns ia the
rtite His building occupies TO feet
frost ty M ftft deep, on the best btisl
ress street of the town, and every foot
of the space Is crowd-1 with mer
chandise to meet the demands of his
trade.
In addition to his large mercantile
Interests, he has a splendid fruit farm
of 1-0 acres near the city.
Mr. Swan was united In marriage
April 21, 1S75. to Laura, daughter of
Charles K. Shehamer. an implement
dealer of Harmon, 111. Of the four
sons born to this union, Bert, a young
man of splendid business qualifica
t'ons, has charge of the grocery de
partment, being assisted by the second
son, Renie. Lloyd, age 12, Merle, age
8. and the two daughters, Millie and
Laura, are students. Miss Millie is a
young lady highly favored by nature
with rare talent for music, being a
fplendid performer oa the piano.
iV. Swan is a memter of the Protes
tant Methodist Episcopal church and
of the A. O. U. W. Ho is populist in
politics, and served in the state legis
lature of 1S08. He has been frequently
urE"d to become a candidate for may
or of the city, but persistently declined
the honor. He is a man of fine phy
sique, who attends closely to his busi
ness and can be best described as a
hustler and ceaseless worker.
THE HESSIANS
Tfcy mr Anrtc Horn. Artn4. Oria.
t4 4 !! Trsary Tmll
f Mny
Formerly, there was a strong aver
sion to irercenarW s ia this country A
hireling was considered a low fellow
cf the baser tort. The importation of
a bSy of HesfUns ty England during !
the revolution to fight tie colonists,
trended a re-eentzaent. so titter and
dep. that It lasted through genera
tions, ivenedirt Arnold and th Hes
ia&s were rival ia American sccrn.
liat this old hatred has disappeared,
ana aithsush the Hessian is still very
much la idsc. he is now calmly
tolerated tf not admired. Tbe modern
Hesslaa does not hall from Hesse, He
Is usually a native bora American. The
present generation Is afflicted with
domestic rather than foreiga mercen
aries. The tattle betweea oppressor rnd
oppressed did not end at Yorktowa. It
Is always on. Other struggle may be
ietcruitlent, bet this goe oa forever.
We are cow In tae beat tf this irre
prefible ccr-3!tt. The contending
forces are marshalled oa either side.
Ca the oue tide i& the mighty hctt,
common pe-cpl. with throbblrg heart6,
xa oaweiidy ma?, great in numbers,
but weak la organization. Indeed tLey
almot hopelessly divided. On
t!"- other tide is the smaller but com
pact body known as the allied forces
of corporate wealth; with banners fly
ing, with orJer and discipline consum
mate, armed and equipped to replete
Ea. moving forward with steady
tread sxrder skilled commanders, a
frolid phalanx.
The earo!lmnt of this tinseled army
would he smaller were it not for the
Heiar.s. The opulent classes are not
numerous, and were it not that their
ranks are swelled by hirelings, they
woul4 not be formidable. Their best
men their most skill! strategists, are
hiied. some of them at very low wages:
the CTcmbs which fall from the rich
man's table sSce for many. Political
ly, the consideration varies from cab
inet portfolios and senatorial togas,
and ere a mere exalted statioa. dowa
to read overseer. A railroad pas, or
vea a bare hope cf one. serves to keep
many a bird fighter la line. The cost
cf maintaining the bra&s collar bri
Ka de 1 not so great as many suppose,
for It Is a peculiarity of the service
that the hope of reward is almost as
potent as reward itself In securing re
cruits. The platocratle classes are not usual
ly active fghter themselves. Many
of them aBr not made of sturdy stuff.
They ar apt to be effete. Seme of
them are weaklier and non-combatants;
btt la any event there is no use
doing what a little money will buy.,
and it 1 more satisfactory to hire sub
stitute. The crafty millionaire does
not stalk Into tbe legislature, in pro
pria pereoaa. swinging his money bags
with c'umty effrontery, or at least he
does cot asaally da eo. but he sends
his oily emissaries, or even better
still. h con trivet to have hi pliant
tools occupy a sahXient number cf the
seats. He fears tha method too flag
rant might startle dormant public
the problem of popular government
would be less complicated. But alas!
many a man of talent and attainment
Is not above a retainer. Of course the
consideration Is not always "shoved
at" a man coarsely and rudely, but it
is caused to "trickle through some
certain strainers well refined."
The relatioa of political employer
aad employee is not always the result
of a direct bargain. It often originates
In a legitimate business relation. It
may be by slow degrees, that the busi
ness agent degenerates into the politi
cal tool. He would often recoil from
such a relation at the start, but grad
ually his cast of thought, his opinions
and feelings conform to his environ
ment, until he reaches a state of abject
servility. However, the transition from
a railroad attorney at law, to a railroad
attorney at politics, seems easy enough
to most of them. A full panopied, dou
ble turretted, double chinned corpora
tion counsel is a splendid specimen of
evolutioa, and a shining example of
the moulding Influence of a fat salary.
This Inevitable corporation bias of
high salaried attorneys constitutes the
conventional "safeness" for which the
appointing power so carefully seeks, in
conferring judicial honors. It would
be extremely unsafe for the corpora
tions to have any but safe men on the
bench.
As a result of this insidious system,
much of the brains of the country is
subsidized by the corporations. The
ambitious young lawyer with an eye
to the main chance, early discovers
that professional and political promo
tion run in parallel lines, and that both
largely depend on corporation influ
ence, and so he is prone to seek cor
poration favor. Seek ye first a corpor
ation attorneyship and its emolument
and all these things shall be added un
to you. At a glance he sees that tbe
most direct route to Washington is
the railroad route. He finds that rail
road managers operate a system of re
wards and punishments as well as a
system of transportation; while the
people too often fail to distinguish be
tween friead and foe. The evil of rail
road discrimination would be dimin
ished by a little more popular discrim
ination. The ambitious politician per
ceives that the voting constituency do
not haunt legislative halls. They have
no henchmen. Tbey maintain no lob
by. They distribute no passes. They
do not elect United States senators;
they nave abdicated that function in
favor of the corporations. In fact the
surest route to political preferment
runs through corporation training
schools, the pursuit of politics being a
sort of post-graduate course. These
graduates and post-graduates com
mand the army of the employed, an
army far more terrible than the army
of the unemployed.
They become masters of the art of
political warfare, and become deeply
versed la that subtle strategy by
which public servants are seduced.
They detail the henchmen and deploy
the lobby. They direct the manouvers
and machinations by which primaries
and conventions are captured. They
determine whether the legislature shall
be taken by a sudden assault or forced
to capitulate by a protracted siege.
By means of superior transportation
facilities they can ext-cute rapid move
ments, concentrate their forces on
1 short notice, and la case of emergency
as publicists, patriots and statesmen.
They are hailed at the club, cheered at
the convention and lionized by the
press.
How often have we been treated to a
scene like this: A man of engaging
personality and charming eloquence
rises at the banquet table on the birth
day of Washington or Lincoln in his
favorite post prandial role. His life
has been a beguiling dream. He flits
between continents on ocean grey
hounds. , He revels in luxury provided
by lavish patrons. He commands at
tention. The world hangs on his well
rounded periods. He is a model of re
spectability and decorum. With un
failing tact he weaves the flowers of
rhetoric into patriotic outbursts and
soul-stirring climaxes. But who is he?
He is a child of genius, sprung from
the loins of the common people. By
right of instinct and birth he should
be one of them, his voice should be
raised in their behalf. But he is a
Hessian. His great ability, his high
character and culture only serve, to
glove the hand of organized greed. He
has devoted his life to fighting the
battles of sordid masters. In season
and out of season, he has persistently
pushed the cause of his clients for
fifty thousand a year. He has managed
a railroad from the rostrum and ren
dered his most valuable legal services
at the bar of public opinion. By a
strange but common fatality, his career
cf subserviency has been crowned by a
seat In the most exalted legislative
body in the world.
But he Is only a type. He has a large
retinue of aides and many colleagues
and subordinates. Beside the regulars,
there are numerous volunteers, who are
good fighters and able lieutenants
they belong to that class of favorites
from whom the corporations select
United States senators, when a legisla
ture is a little stubborn and will not
elect a corporation thorough bred.
These volunteers are just as zealous as
the regulars, but not quite so efficient.
They lack training.
Then there is a large contingent of
tories and secret sympathizers, who do
not dare to fight in the open, but who
offer aid and comfort and who fight un
der cover when exigency requires. They
would rather fight with the people, but
they are handicapped. They have been
the recipients of corporation favors,
and don't like to invite the charge of
ingratitude. They can't quite rise to
the sublimity of paying railroad fare.
They haven't backbone enough to be
very useful to either side, but as he
who is not for the people is against
them, they must be counted with the
Hessians.
Under these hired lea'ders, the venal
ranks are filled, and march forth under
the banners of greed, conquering and
to conquer, plundering and to plun
der. They occupy the strongholds and
the points of strategic advantage, and
are thoroughly entrenched all along
the line.
They infest the seat of government.
dominate the commercial centers, pen
etrate Into every region and are now
engaged in syndicating "our insular
possessions" and assimilating our col
onial subjects. They are amply pro
vided with the sinews of war. They
run the banks, manipulate the treas
ury, control the secretary, fix the vol
ume of the circulating medium and
gobble up most of it after it gets Into
circulation. They own the railroads
and telegraph and telephone lines and
laugh at the puny efforts of the public
to regulate them. Thus, controlling the
means of communication and inter
course, they exact such tribute as
rapacity may dictate and impose an
embargo on private enterprise.
They have subsidized the press, con
ciliated the pulpit, exploited public
opinion, prescribed social ana econ
omic theories, dictated the teachers
and the teachings of the universities,
which they have endowed with their
blood money. In short, they have made
wealth the censor of learning and
greed and guage of truth.
They have absorbed the natural re
sources of the country, seized the coal
mines, oil wells, lumber camps and
salt deposits; they have monopolized
the sugar and meat product, have con
fiscated a large portion of the farmers'
produce, and have foraged without
mercy upon the people for subsistence
and spoils.
They have throttled competition, de
stroyed rivals, robbed labor and plun
dered consumers. They have compelled
the government to grant them huge
tariff bounties, and in return have ex
acted exorbitant prices for armor plate
and other munitions, and have recent
ly still further requited their benefac
tor by forming a billion-dollar steel
trust. In fact they have cornered,
combined, consolidated and watered
until the government is overshadowed
and the people overawed.
The question arises how can the
ravages of this destructive army be
arrested? ' It must be confessed that
the outlook Is not promising. The peo
ple appear to be unconcerned, perhaps
they are stupefied by the opiate, pros
perity. The public mind is a sluggish
mind at best. Whatever may.be said
of the individual, the people in the ag
gregate are slow to anger. They are
not always plenteous in mercy when
once aroused, but they are long-suffering
and kind. They are not easily
alarmed. If the wolf is only kept from
the door, they scarcely harbor any
other ,ear. But notwithstanding all
this, a system of organized spoliation
cannot always be maintained, either
by political chicanery or more strenu
ous methods. The limits of popular
endurance will some day be reached.
The arrogance of plutocracy will event
ually over-reach itself. Preliminary to
this popular awakening, it might be
well to revive the old hatred of the
Hessians. E. A. GILBERT.
eTitlmat Into p rotes, although there
doe not en to be rWh ground for I mobilize the pass holding reserves into
thl fear of late, and he select hi active duty. They are resourceful in
mrty minions from tbnoa-arnucnt planning surprises, executing flank
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movements, ana preparing
bat aipiring class, who IcAthe guise of
public erraat plot' to thutrt the pub-;
11c wIIL
IX It wer cot for th ret W cla?
and
ambuscades for the unw
tatives of the people. The
plausible and captivating.
oil room
y represen-
re smooth,
They pose
The grand assessment roll of the
state of Nebraska has been finished.
Under the redeemer's reign the assess
ment has been increased f 2,685,000,
while that of the railroads has been
decreased $4,000. The republican pol
icy has always been, pile the taxes on
the farmers ard merchants and take
them off the railroads. That is Just
what the republican farmer likes, so
he will make no kick.
Read Lieut. Gov. Gilbert's article on
the Hessiai s. It . is true that every
active supporter of the republican par
ty Is a hireline of the corporations or
is paid in other ways for his services.
FREE TRADE WITH HAWAII
Aa Object Lcuoa Gathered From Gonra
mBt Reports -a Doctrla That It
. Would b Well to .apply Else
where Washington,. D. C, July 15. The
treasury bureau of statistics can usual
ly be relied on to furnish the country
with an object lesson against republi
can policies.
It has just issued a bulletin oa trade
with the Hawaiian islands. It is an
excellent free trade document, In 1876
the reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Hawaii practically
established free trade between the two
countries.
The commerce between the two
countries has increased in the inter
vening quarter of a century of 2,000
per cent. It has leaped from one mil
lion dollars a year each way to over
twenty million dollars a year each way.
The commerce of the islands is now
larger per capita than that of any oth
er country in the world.
If free trade wlth Hawaii, with less
than five thousand whites, and about a
quarter of a million Kanakas, Chinese
and Japanese is a good thing both
ways. It follows that free trade with
Porto Rico with a populatloa three
fourths white will be equally advan
tageous both ways. .-.-; ,
And since it is demonstrated that
the American trust manufacturers can
undersell their foreign competitors the
world over with all the disadvantages
of manufacturing under the clog of
protection, why '-not give the country
real free trade with the world? It is
a question which is going to receive
serious consideration in the near fu
WALL STREET SOCIALISTS
The great communists of Wall street
are meeting with the same trouble that
sooner or later has wrecked every so
cialistic attempt that has been made
in 4he United States. The colony is be
ginning to find that human nature is
rampant. For a while a very little
while they dwelt together in peace,
then the awful dragon "competition"
stuck up its head and "community
of interest' went skyward. .
A story Is told in the financial col
umns of the dailies like this: The
Rockefeller: City National bank saw a
chance to make a -fine sum of money
that eventually came out of the Mor
gan 'ring. Shortly after this the Mor
gan, Drexel & Co. bark made a call
loan of $20,000,000 on securities in
which the City National bank: was in
terested. The loan was called the very
next day and the man who had bor
rowed the money not being able to get
It so unexpectedly, went to the City
National and told them that $20,000,
000 of their pet securities were about
to be thrown on the market unless the
money was forthcoming immediately.
The Rockefeller crowd had to do such
hustling as tfcey, never did before to get
$20,000,000. before 3 o'clock, but they
got it. Now'vihe; City National is lay
ing low to t the same chance at
Drexel, Morgan & Co.
Some of these days one of these big
concerns will get nipped they will be
an hour too late with their cash. Ev
ery big trust magnate now has his
own bank. Rockefeller has the City
National and a string of others. Mor
gan runs his bank and a lot more and
the perpetuity of all of them depends
upon trust operations. They are all
cormorants and will gobble anything
in sight. Some day a lot of steel trust
stock or stock of some other kind will
get into some of these banks. Then
we shall have the Northern Pacific
business ovei4 again or something
worse. Any one can tell what the ef
fect on the stock market would be if
fifteen or twenty millions of stock of
any. of the big concerns were thrown
on the market to go at any price bid.
Nothing but religious fanaticism ever
held a lot of communists together for
any length of time, and Wall street
does not indulge in that.
SJince Bartley made his famous dec
laration a good many men have been
puzzling their brains trying to Im
agine what sort of a crime Bartley
would be ashamed of.
Last week a New Jersey judge is
sued an order enjoining the girls from
making faces at other girls who did
not belong to the union.
England Is advancing. The other
day parliament abolished the office of
master of the buck hounds. The office
carried with it a salary of $30,000.
"Why, Johnnie! What in the world
do you. want to be a newsboy for?"
"So's I can jump on and off the 'lectric
cars."
"Enjoy your party, Bobby?" "Yes,
ma." "Well, what girls did you dance
tfith?" "Oh, I. didn't dance. I had
three fights down stairs with Willie
Richardson and I licked him every
time." Current Literature.
To Start the Blaze;
"He's burning a good bit of money,
apparently." . .
"Mostly credit. , He used a little
money to kindle . with, that's all."
Detroit Journal. '
THE TJNldN PACIFIC
On account of the very low
rates made to Colorado points
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ADDITIONAL
ACCOMMODATIONS.
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has placed in service another
through Pullman Sleeper on
train No. 3, for Denver, leav
ing Omaha at 4:25 p. m. dally,
and continuing until Septem
ber 10th.
This service affords passen
gers the very best accommo
dations with the greatest pos
sible comfort. '
Reservations should be
made as far in advance as pos
sible. E. B. SLOSSON,
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RACE FOR BIG YACHTS
Proposition Made For Regatta
, During Olympian Games.
FIPTT-TW0 lOOTEES TO COMPETE.
Lararer Ttv Will Be Cared For Xa
Caleasfo'a Great . Avatie Carnival.
Ipeelal Cap Mar D Offered. For the
Prise Opinions of Tacntlns; Ex-
. parts. "
When the organization of the Inter
national Olympian Games association
is completed and the announcement of
the sports to be held at Chicago are out.
& special race for large yachts will be
one of the features of the rowing and
yachting regatta to be held in connec
tion with the sports. It has been prac
tically decided that a race either for 40
or 52 footers will be held here during
the international contests, says the Chi
cago News. It is probable that a spe
cial cup will be put up for this race.
Up to the present time it has been
thought that the 35 footers were the
largest available class of yachts for
races on the lakes. In an endeavor to
make the races more lasting in effect
and more exciting and International a
larger class than those which will sail
In the Canada's cup races has been pro
posed, and many of the Chicago yachts
men are already discussing the pros
pect of special races during the Olym
pian games.
Of those .who have expressed an opin
ion on the subject a majority seem to
favor the 40 footers as the largest
available class of yachts for the races.
"The yachting spirit on the lakes is
not up to the size of the 52 footers,"
said one Chicago yachtsman the other
day. "It Is a question whether the local
yachtsmen of the city and those of the
great, lakes could be 'educated up to
building and racing the large sized
boats before 1904. Personally, looking
at the sport as it exists today, I should
say that the 40 footers are of the most
available type. To be sure, we have
here the Vencedor, the Siren and the
Yannenna of the 52 foot class, but at
Detroit there Is none of the class. To
ledo and Cleveland will hardly spend
the money for them, and we would
have to go to Toronto before finding
any of the class. I doubt very much
whether we could educate the people
Into building the 52 footers In the three
years. They will come later, but at
present they are a doubtful quantity."
At the time of the discussion of the
size of" yacht for the Canada's cup It
was decided after much argument and
work that the 35 footers were the great
est possibilities at present. It was said
then that the 35 footers were cheap
enough to build, that five or more
would be built each year, and thus the
fleets would be added to. It was
thought that the 52 footers were so
large that they would be built one at a
time, and their Increase would be very
slow.
'T think It would be a good thing for
this city," said Mr. Berrlman of the
Canada's cup committee of the Chicago
Yacht club. "Some time ago when we
discussed the class of boats for the
Canada's cup we decided that the 35
foot was the most available class for an
International cup on the lakes In case
of a perpetual trophy, but for special
races I see no reason why there should
not be a series for a larger class. At
present we have the' Siren, the Vannen
na and the Vencedor in the 52 foot
class, and there are others up the lake.
"There Is one great trouble with that
class. At Detroit It is Impossible to use
them, while at Cleveland and Toledo
they will hardly spend, the money nec
essary to build such big craft. Not that
they have not got It, but that they are
not up to that class yet. Here at Chica
go we can always raise enough money
to build things of that sort as well as
up the lakes. At Toronto they have a
number of boats of the big class.
"If the race was made International,
it is certain that boats would be built
at this city to contest for the cup. It is
possible to bring the 42 footers from
the coast without much trouble, and
some could be drawn from there If the
race was agitated out there. Still, they
are rather large for the yachting spirit
as evinced on the lakes at present. It is
a question whether the taste of yachts
men of the lakes could be educated up
to that point before 1904."
Others expressed similar views but
many doubted that as large a class as
the 52 footers would be available,
"I think the 42 footers are the best,"
said Fleet Captain George Atkln of the
Chicago Yacht club. ''They make a
good cruising boat after the races are
over and do not cost as much as the 52
footers, and, finally, they do not cost as
much, to run. Yachting is an expensive
sport, and one has to be educated up to
spending all one earns on a yacht"
The ease with which a yacht may be
brought from the Atlantic coast is giv
en as showing the good prospects of
bringing some of the salt water boats
to the regatta. It Is hoped that In the
three years before the games the spirit
in all athletic and sporting lines may
be worked up locally to make a great
fight for first honors In the competi
tions. A New Folding; Chair.
A folding chair that Is at once com
pact and comfortable has been design
ed by a New Yorker and Is a welcome
addition to the list of summer furni
ture, says the Brooklyn Eagle. It Is
on the broad seated armchair order,
with seat and back of canvas webbing.
Its special advantage is that It does
not fold up at Inopportune times and
in the exasperating way characteristic
of camp and folding chairs generally,
the folding operation being accomplish
ed easily by the aid of a simple but In
genious contrivance.
INTERESTING OLD PICTURE.
One rf the etrtlUittf fiaaoflatl
hiblta a the Baffalo Tmir.
In the educational building at the
Fan-American exposition one of the
genuine curiosities ia the reproduction
of an old engraving made In, 1730 and
entitled "A Prospect of the Colloge In
Cambridf e in V New England." Thli
picture shows the Harvard quadrangle
as It then existed, bounded by Har
vard, Btoughton and Massachusetts
halls, with an antique four horse coach
in the foreground and a suggestion of
open country beyond the three rather
bare looking building. It is the first
Harvard ball which Is hown in thl
engraving, built in 1762 to succeed the
"old college," then a ruin on account of
its poor construction. This original
Harvard, .T which vras burned in ; 1704
and replaced by the present venerable
building two years later, stood just to
the left of the main entrance of the
yard. In 1700 a new "college," as the
early, buildings were called, was given
by; Lieutenant Governor William Btough
ton and. received his name. .This first
Stoughton ball stood at right angle to
Harvard, facing the entrance. It. was
torn down In .1780. being In a ruinous
Ktate, and a new site was selected for
the present Stoughton, which was built
In 1805 at a cost of about $24,000, the
greatest part of the money being secur
ed by a public lottery authorized by the
state. The last of the three buildings'
forming the third side of the little
quadrangle,, was Massachusetts hall,
which still stands as the oldest build
ing In the yard. Completed in 1720, it
was already an old building when Gen
eral Washington's soldiers-used it for
barracks during the siege of Boston,
but its outside appearance " remains
practically unchanged to this. day. In
the beginning It was intended as a
dormitory, but.it now contains only
lecture rooms. , , .
The burning sbf the first Harvard hall
resulted in the loss of the college libra
ry and apparatus, but since the leglsla
ture was holding Its session there at the
time, the province appropriated, the
money necessary to replace the build
ing, while private generosity was so
stirred that a new library and new ap-j
paratus were soon provided to take. the
place of the old. " ,
Again, after the occupation of the
buildings by the Continental troops the
general court saw to it that the college
did not suffer for its generosity, and a
bill for repairs amounting to nearly"
50, a considerable sum in those days,
was promptly paid.
It is luterestinj to note that. In con
nection with this early picture of the
college yard and Its three modest build
ings there may be also seen at the Buf
falo exposition photographs of many
millions of dollars' worth of Harvard
buildings devoted to educational uses,
Including not only the 23 in the yard It
self, but many others In Cambridge, In
Boston and. even as far away as Are
quipa, Peru, where the observatory has
established Its permanent southern ste
tlon. i r
PH. llARTLlAirS ADVICE
Is Sought by Female Suffer
! ers From Ocean
to Ocean.
Mre.F. W. Goulder,1306 Fourth ave
Hue, Bock Island,
pry $
Illinole,
"I
writ) j
wa af
flicted for
five -or. lix
) years with
catarrh al
t difficult io
a ad w a
g rowing
worse all the
time. I be
gs.n taking
your Peruna
with a
marked Im
provement from the
first. Inde
pendent of
curing that,
the Peruna
has greatly
improved
my general
"Every
bottle of Te
r n n a 1
worth It
weight in
gold; espec
ially to m,
for I owe my present good health to it."
All over the country there ere women
who have boen invalids for many years,
Buffering with female derangement.
What a boon to such wo wen is Dr.
H&rt man's free advice I So famous
has his skill made him that hardly a
hamlet or town in the country but
knows bis name. He cures tens nt
thousands, and be offers to every
woman who will write to him her
symptoms and a history of ber frou
ble, free advice and treatment.
The medicines he prescribes can be
obtained at any drug store, and the cot
is within the reach of any, woman. He
describe minutely and carefully JuBt
what she shall do and get to make a
healthy, robust woman of herself.
Address . ; Dr. Hartman, Columbus,
Ohio, for a free copy of "Health and
Beauty.' .
BARGAIN COLUMN
AN ADVERTISEMENT in this column will
bring more and quicker rsturns for the money
raid than any other newspaper in Nebnuiktt.
Nearly everybody roads this column. Kate lo
per line each insertion.
CflD Oil C Pair of registered Scotch Collir
I Ufl OMLL dogs. Splendid dogs with eattio.
L. H. Tbkstkr, Lincoln, Neb.
2 BEAUTIES large size
Sealed lists for stamps.
Bay Shore, N. Y.
(no tights), 10c.
Star Novelty Co.,
HER OLDEST GRADUATES.:
Harvard's Senior Alumni From Com
fort Star, 1047, to Preaent Day.
A somewhat unusual honor roll has
recently been completed at Harvard
rnlversity comprising the "senior alum
ni" of the college from 1711 to the pres
ent day. Although commonly referred
to as the "oldest living graduate," the
senior alumnus ranks not by age, but
by date of graduation, and may or may
not be the oldest person living who has
received the Harvard A. B.
The record which has just been pre
pared begins with Comfort Star of the
class of 1647, 50 years before any other
American college had been founded.
who died in England in 1711, and ends
with Joseph W. Cross of the class of
1828. who Js still living. The list In
cludes altogether GS names, making an
average of almost exactly three years
for the two centuries which, roughly
speaking, the record comprises. . Thom
as Cheever of the class of 1677 held the
position longest, succeeding Samuel
Andrew of the class of 1675, whose
death occurred In January, 1738, and
himself dying in December, 1749, the
interval between the.two deaths being
a day or two over , 11' years and 11
months. Oxenbridge Thacher of the
class of 1698 survived his predecessor,
Salmon Treat of the. class of 1694, by
a little over ten years. On the other
hand, Benjamin Willis of the class of
1740 outlived his classmate, Samuel
Hale, by just three days, the former
dying July 13 and the latter July 10,
1807. The class of 1817 furnished no
less than three senior alumni William
W. Allen, Samuel E. Sewell and George
Bancroft, the historian. '
The senior alumnus of 1800 graduat
ed in 1728, and his successor in" 1900
graduated in 1828, each of them, that
is, 72 years out of college. Another fact
of interest Is that only four of the, sen
ior .alumni have been centenarians
Erwaril A. Hoiyoke, class of 1746, "100
years 7 months; Samuel S. Blowers,
class of 1763, 100 years 7 months; Ezra
Green, class of 17G5, 100 years 1 month,
and Timothy Farrar, class of 1767, 101
years 7 months..
World's Largest Red Oak.
A Baltimore firm will have on exhi
bition at the St. Louis fair a stick of
red oak 50 feet long, 23 feet 5 Inches
In circumference at one end and 21 at
the other, says A Little Rock dispatch
to the St. Louis-Globe-Democrat, The
tree from which this stick will be cut
Is now the largest known, red oak
standing in the world. It measures 35
feet around the base. It Is located In a
forest on the Black river 40 miles from
Newport, Ark- Jn order to get jt from
the Black river to St. Louis It will be
pontooned a . distance - -of nearly 800
miles, as it Is too long to be carried
overland by rail.) Thl piece of timber
will cut 20,000 ferft of lumber.
CCUfl me 25 cents for receipt that will pr.
OLIlU serve eggs two years. A. II. Waychojf
Culver. Kansas.
WWII I
u - t i. v i 1 Tf.
worth of excellent writing fluid. No better in It
for fountain pens.' Once used always used.
W. I. Harrison, SistersTilie, W. Ya.
Morning: Bros, and O. IV. Iterre, Attorn
' NOTICE OF SALE.
Ia the District Court of Lancaster County, NV
braslta.
In the matter of tbe application of Charles V.
- Wertz, guardian of Laura Barr, a minor, to
sell real estate.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an
order of Honorable A. J. Cornish, one of the
judges of the district court, of Lancaster coun
ty, Nebraska, made on the 17th day of Jnnn,
l H01, for the sale of the real estate hereinafter
described, there will be sold at the east door cf
the court house, in the city of Lincoln, in sal 1
county, on the 2d day of August, l'JOl, at 10
o'clock a. m., at public vendue, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
The interest of a minorl Laura Barr. being au
undivided nnn-t wntiat h intora.t in tk. InlU...
described real, estate, to-wit :
iiots one (l) and two (2), block on hundred
forty-seven (147), in the City of Lincoln, Lan
caster County, Nebraska.
Th south seventy one (71) feet of lots eleven
(11) and twelve (12), in block on hundred
twenty-eight (128), in the city of Linooln, Lan
caster county, Nebraska.
Lot five (5), in block nfty-eight (58), in the
City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. -
The north half (N. Vt) of the southeast quar-
ter S. E. M of thn iinrthwMt nnir( IN YV 1.
of section six (6k town ninn m rnr'm
east of the 6t P. M. in Lancaster County, Ne
braska, which has been platted and is also de
scribed as follows :
The sonth 33.7 feet of lot three (3) in block fif.
teen (15) now known as irregular tract lot fifty
six (56): the south 33.7 feet of lot eight () In
block fifteen (15) : all of lots four (4) five (5) six
16) and unit f71 in hlru.tr fiftanr, 'lit . . 1 1 ..r .
noe () ten (10) eleven (11) twelve (12) thirteen
i tl J ali.. rti -i . ' ......
r.lrwlr Givt.an ft fl 1 11 i .t r i
fift??n J5 sixteen 16J seventeen 17J eighteen
18 in block seventeen f 171 ; U of lots one Jl j
two f2 three 31 four 4 J eight 8 nine 9J ten
1- " . - uitcvu OiiWODU -HI- Wr, Vf I'. -
een -17- eighteen -18- in block eighteen -18-; all
of lots one -1- two -2- three -3- four -4- five -5- six
-6-seven -7-eight -8-nine -9- ten .10. eleven -11-
twelva .12- thlrtoon .la. fnn.l..n 1 1 . ..
sixteen -16-in block nineteen -18-: all of lots on.
-1- two -2- three -3- four -4- five -5- six -6- seven
-.-eiu;-o- nine en in block twenty -20-1
th north 1.25 fA nf !- a i
i . - - . l' uu eleven -n-
SSr. uf ' onX' .n,d tweiV -12- in block twenty.
"' uuiui M.i leetoi juis tnree -3- four -4-nv-5-six-6-
seen-7-in block twenty-six; -26-
i . - 'v avi-uuo -i- buu fc wo .a- now
known as irregular tract lot fifty-seven -57-; th.
north, part of irregular tract lot twenty-two -22-
"..u uuw iiHj-nms irregular tract.
bainv Bltn atari in U.Ki II. It : r . '
County. Nebraaka. Said sale will remain open
one hour. CHAKLKS V. WKHT7
. Guardian pf Laura Barr, a minor under four
teen years of age. '
.Dated 18th day of July 1901. .
$rmtntu-3iii&i ash.
. - UTAH
AN IDEAL CLIMATE.
The first White man tn RPt fnnt
Utah ' soil. Father Silvestre Velez de
ii.scaiante, who reached the GREAT
SALT LAKE on the 23rd davmf s-n.
tember, 1776; wrote in his . diary:
"Here the climate is so delicious the
air so balmy, that it is a pleasure to
breathe by day and by night." The
climate of Utah Is one rf tha i.tv
endowments of nature. On the shores
of the Great Salt Lake especiallyand
for fifty miles therefrom in every di
rection -the climate of climates ia
found. : To enable persons to particl-
f" lucoc aceiuc. ana cnmatlc at
tractions and to reach the. famftfl
HEALTH. BATHING AND PjEea
SnT4nS?RTS f Utaa' the UNION
FAGIFIC has made a rate to OGDi.V
?nldALT AKE CITY of one ro
for the round trip, .plus-$2. from Mis-
tn sr..??1'. t0, beIn effect June. 18th
to 30th inclusive.- July 10th to Aus.
olSt InClUSivP Return H.v.1 -v.i .
and $30.00 for the round trip on Ju
U5lve Bept- 1 to 10 Inclusive
x luiurtionateiy low rates from inter
mediate points:
Tor full information, call on or ad
dress E. B. SLOSSON, . -
. 1 ," - - Agent,