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November 21, 1901 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT A GREAT SINGER'S NARROW ESCAPE. ''' . -- . His Voice Was About Lost Physicians Failed Peruna as a Last Resort Brought Back Health and Strength. - PROF. FRITZ VOLL.MER, PRESIDENT SCHWiEBISCHER SiENGERBUND OF CHICAGO, ILLS., SAVED FROM ENTIRE LOSS OF VOICE BY PERUNA, 3 1 r ANY PEOPLE can tolerate slight Yl catarrhal affections. But this is not true of the public speaker or singer. His voice must always be clear, lungs perfect, digestion undisturbed. Ilence the popularity of Peruna among the leading professional men ana women of the country. Fritz Vollmer, President Schwse bischer Siengerbund, Chicago, in a re cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., says: " was greatly troubled for ' weeks with throat trouble which the doctors defined as catarrh, but could only give we temporary relief. "My voice was badly affected and I was afraid 1 would lose it entirely. read of some of the wonderful things your Peruna would do and thought it advisable to try some myself. I am pleased to state that in a very short time I was cured."' FRITZ VOLLMER. -e An Opera Singer's Experience. Miss Jennie Hawley, a contralto singer of great popularity in comic opera, is one of the many professional singers who use Peruna. She writes: Riggs House, Washington, D. C. "I regard Peruna as invaluable to singers and actresses, and all persons who use their voices in entertaining the public. I have for ad it excellent for a cold or cough." Jennie Hawley. ; Ex-Congressman C. Pelham, of Ban croft, Va., writes : "My sister-in-law has been suffering from catarrh of the throat for a consider" able time. She has been using Peruna for about one week, and is manifestly improved. I believe it is an excellent remedy for catarrh." C. Pelham. Not only is Peruna of untold value in cases of laryngitis, but a bottle of Peru na rightly used in the family during the winter months is of value untold. Peru na cures colds, cures coughs, cures la grippe, cures all diseases due to catarrhal congestions of the mucous membranes. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, O., for a copy of Dr. Hart man's latest book on catarrh. CHEATED AT THEIR OWN GAME The Chicago Dailies have been filled for a month with Lcrrible reports of the devastation that was resulting from smallpox among the Indians on the Winnebago and Omaha reserva tions in Nebraska. The editor of The Independent knew all the time, having special means of information, that there was not a word of truth in the stories and look the. trouble to write to one of the Chicago papers denying them, but that little bit of truth was not permitted to see the light of day and the paper went on printing the Associated press dispatches telling how the Indians were rotting in their teepees and dying by the score. Finally the Indian bureau took the matter up and sent a physician out there to institute proceedings to stop the spread of the disease. He reports that it was all a scheme of the gov ernment appointed republican Indian agents and traders. They wanted to f orc; the Indians to stay on the reser vation and spend all their money, of which Lt present they have a good sup ply, at the traders' stores where they charge from fifty to a hundred per cent more for goods than they can be purchased for at the neighboring towns.. These towns about the reser vations which lost the trade all voted the republican ticket at the last elec tion and they have simply got a dose of republicanism, pure and undefiled, which The Independent is glad was administered to them. It hopes that the ' political Indian trader will keep at it along the same line until the re publican merchants along the line get enough of it. The people of Wisconsin are told by the great $400,000,000 railroad trust that the state has no jurisdiction over the traffic of the iron ore roads of the northern part of the state, owned by the United States Steel Co., prac tically shutting out the independent mine owner from owning or shipping his ore at a profit. The Steel trust has a New Jersey charter and that settles it. It is announced that all the papers in the states of Minnesota, North Da kota, Montana and Washington are unanimous in the opinion that some thing must be done or the great $490, 000,000 railroad trust will override all the laws of those states. They charge that the combination organized to con trol the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific is for the purpose of curcumventing the laws of those Keep Your Bowels Strong. Cpnstipation or diarrhoea when your bowels are out of order. Cas carets Candy Cathartic will make them act naturally. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk All druggists, ioc - - , states. The suggestion is made by most of them that laws be passed that corporations organized in New Jersey shall have no legal status until they get charters in the states where they carry on operations. Papers advocat ing such a doctrine as that can hardly stay, in the republican party, for by all the rules laid down by them, that is anarchy. REPUBLICAN OAINS The republicans have received large accessions to their numbers during the last year. Immigration of the most Ignorant in all Europe has large ly increased during that time and al most to a man that class of emigrants vote the republican ticket. The principal countries from which the steerage arrivals for the year came are given in the official reports as fol lows: Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, 135, 996; Austria-Hungary, 113,390; Rus sian empire and Finland, 85,257; Ire land, 30,561; Sweden, 23,331; German empire, 21,651; Norway, 12,248; Eng land, 12,214. The . Irish, Scandinav ians, Germans and English, all to gether, make but a poor showing in numbers when compared to the hoards that come from the countries where humanity has been trodden under the feet of despotism until they have be come what we see at Castle Garden. But that class will swell the vote of the republican party and that is one of the main objects that big corpora tions have in bringing them . here. Besides that they can be used to beat down the wages of labor until the la bor organizations have time to edu cate them up to .demand a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. MEDICAL MURDERS The medical profession includes all sorts of men, from some of the most learned and philanthropic to the big gest educated fools on earth. The laws have thrown some restraint around them but it seems that there is need of more. A story comes from New York that a Miss Emma H. King consented to be inoculated with the virus of consumption and that there was a doctor found. willing to do it. Dr. Barney prof esses to - be indig nant at the suggestion that he may be arrested by order of the New York Board of Health. He took precaution to secure a certificate from Miss King stating that: she . submitted to the ex periment from, her own free.; will and exonerating . him from a Jl blame for any poslble consequences. But such a document would hardly produce much impresion in court. Our laws do -not permit people to assist others to commit suicide. Neither io they allow one person to murder an other t n securing ' the victim's con sent. ' . ' If Dr. Barney had shot and killed Mis King he would not have found good ; defense to produce a certificate stating that Miss King had consented to be shot. ; Nor will he find such a document any more effective in the case of murder by tubercle bacilli. v The medical association of New York should immediately call a meet ing and expel that doctor and deprive him of his license to pratice medicine. If the profession wishes to keep the confidence of the people that is the thing to be done. A MAGNIFICENT CI FT ' The city of Omaha is about to make a present to the Union Pacific railroad of several million dollars worth of land and unpaid accounts against the corporation and in1 return will get the right: , First to extend the big main sewer running along Izard street from Eleventh to Eighth streets, , or through its grounds, at the ex pense of the railroad. Second To allow the city sew age right-of-way privileges in the southern part of the city from Twenty-fourth street east to the river along the Union Pacific trackage. - Before the railroad corporations took control of the government of the state of Nebraska it was generally conceded that the things obtained by the city of Omaha in this deal with the inherent rights of the city without any grant from the Union Pacific railroad corporation. This contract, drawn up by a host of lawyer's and to be sanc tioned by the city council, finally and fully acknowledges the sovereignty of the Union Pacific in the city of Omaha. When the extra session of the legis lature, which is to be called, getj through with its work this winter, the final and complete sovereignty of the railroads will be acknowledged over the whole state of Nebraska. In the gift made to the Union Pa cific in this contract is Included 11 U acres of land in the heart f the city, together with a great many valuable business lots, besides the claims against the road which are pending In the courts. The road is going to build some shops and that is the excuse for this magnificent gift. The road would be forced to build the shops anyhow as they are necessary for the conduct of its business, but it prefers to have the city of Omaha pay the costs. The republican city, council will do It. That was what it was elected for. DEGENERATES AND, REGENERATES , In some of the states the. pure food commissions are used to bolster up the trusts. If there is an article that is competing in any degree whatever with the trusts, the agents of the com bine buy up the inspectors and insti tute prosecutions against the impu dent slaves who dare to disobey the order of the magnates. The alienists have had a good deal to say about de generates and degeneration, but there seems to be a field for their investiga tions among the "sports" from the human stock who run the trusts. While this investigation of the causes and effects of degeneration is being pushed by certain scientists, it might be well for another section to begin a research Concerning "regeneration." If there is "degeneration" there cer tainly is also "regeneration,", and the scientists should not give all their attention to the former and none at all to the latter. All along the line of capitalism and commercial greed, there is degeneration from the ideals that were formerly entertained by the educated classes. The gathering to gether of gold was not always the higacst ideal of the development of the human race. That is a latter day notion and certainly the alienists not only ought to find that this degener acy and these degenerates exist, but indicate in some manner how the de generacy can be stopped and "regen eration" begin. The worst degenerates are not in the lower classes. A de generation in the higher classes that looks upon cunning and the, accumula tions of gold as the highest develop ment of man, will prove much more disastrous to the human race than that sort that indulges In petty thiev ing and lives on back-door handouts of the tender-hearted housewives. DON'T LIKE THEIR MEDICINE There has been a great uproar in which the people have taken a hand all the way from Duluth to Seattle, covering the states from Chicago along the British line to the Pacific Ocean. The states always. vote the re publican ticket and support the party of trusts and combines. They have received a dose of that sort of thing too big to be swailowed at one gulp and all the governors are threatening to call special sessMns of their legis lature to save themselves from what they have been voting for To tbo last twenty years. It seems that a great combination has been . f ormed ; be tween their transcontinental railroads which run parallel lines and have been competing organizations. Hereafter they are to run as ons? company and charge all the traffic will .tear. Jim Hill, Harriman and the men who own the lines have formed a railroad trust with $400,000,000 of capital and say that they are big enough to defy all the legislatures along the whola route. The attorney general of the states up that way are all got up after the fash- A TWENTIETH CENTURY MARVEL Doctors Who Treat and Cure Patients Without Pay. ; This is What the Brit ish Doctors are Doing at Their Office at the Corner 11th and N Streets Sheldon Block. ' A staff of eminent physicians and surgeons from the British Medical In stitute have, at the urgent solicitation of a large , number of patients under their care in this country, established a permanent branch of the Institute in this city at the COR. 11TH AND N STS., SHELDON BLOCK, These eminent gentlemen have de cided to give their services entirely free for three months (medicines ex cepted) to all Invalids who call upon them for treatment between now and December ,6.A These services consist not only of consultation, examination and t dvice, but also of all minor sur gical operations. The object in pursuing this course is to become rapidly and personally ac quainted with the sick and afflicted, and under no conditions will' any charge whatever be made for any. ser vices rendered for three months to all who call before December 6. The doctors treat all forms of disease and deformities and guarantee a cure in every case they undertake. At the 1st interview a thorough examinaton is made, and, if incurable, you are frank ly and kindly told so; also advised against spending your money for use less treatment. . v Male and female weakness, catarrh and catarrhal deafness, also rupture, goitre, cancer, all skin diseases and all diseases of the rectum, are positively cured, by their new treatment. The Chief Associate Surgeon of the Institute is in personal charge. Office hours, from 9 a.m. till 8 p. m. No Sunday hours. . , Special Notice If you cannot call, send stamp for question blank for home treatment. ion of our own delectabel Prout, all being republicans and elected by the railroads. With thsso conditions The Independent sees no way of beating the great railroad trust. Republican officials were not elected in the33 states by the railroads without knowing what they were doing. Governor VanSant and the rest of the governors r.long the line of states are making a great out cry, but every one of them were elect ed by the railroads and will do noth ing serious. When republicanism comes to be applied, the people up there don't seem tcj like it. But they voted for it and now they will have to take their medicine. " .' . The idea that the government that grants trusts charters and special priv ileges has. no right to control them is so ridiculous that it is strange that any, sane man can accept It. for a mo ment. The corresponding idea that the government cannot control" is still more ridiculous. It involves the ac ceptance of the statement that the creature Is greater than the creator. Both of these doctrines are dilligently advocated by the republican press, and that press claims all the Intelli gence, all the honor and all the hon esty in the land. The longer the war goes on In South Africa the more danger there is of other nations becoming embroiled in it. The other day a Dutch fishing smack sighted an English boat of the same class. The crew of the Dutchman locked their captain up, and then at tacked the-English boat, shouting the Boer war cry. They mauled the Eng lish crew to their hearts content and then let them go. . A formal complaint was made to the English consul and the thing is up for settlement. ' Out breaks of that kind are growing more imminent all the time. There is great bitterness manifested against Great Britain all over Germany and France and something of the same sort may occur with men of those nations at any time, the end-of which might be serious. Republican architecture in the city of Lincoln is about as disgraceful, in competent . and horrible as Steufer j management of the school fund. A year or so ago a costly building was erected on the high school grounds. The grand entrance must have been copied from the north end of a Penn sylvania Dutch barn. Now they are going to build . another just like it. They built a school house with the first story half under ground and they howl about the little children being forc ed to spend the hours of their school life in basements, The other day a Chicago detect". ve was tried and found guilty of boat ing a helpless prisoner of whom he had charge and who was making ho resistance. The evidence showed that the prisoner was beaten because he refused to pay the detective money which he claimed for allowing the man to remain In the city. The Inde pendent is sometimes inclined to the belief .that most of the crime in tb.e large cities is committed by direction of the police, who employ men and protect them for the purpose of rob bing the people. ' ! One set of courts and one set of judges issuing injunctions, would seem to be costly and burdensome enough, but in these United States there are two sets entirely distinct, the federal and the state. . The former seems to be created for the especial benefit of the. corporations. Whenever they get beat in the state , courts, they imme diately fly to the federal courts where they are pretty sure to get what they want. The Illinois corporations are now trying to get the federal courts to enjoin them from paying the taxes which the state court says they owe. A republican writes to The Inde pendent saying ; that: "A neighbor gave me a copy4 of The Independent. I never seen it before and can't under stand what "you are driving at. There was two or . three pieces in it about watering stock, pretending that that was an awful crime. The pops may never water their stock, but a republic can who has any sense thinks as much of watering his stock as he does of feeding them. What do you mean by all that anyhow?" A Medicine for Old People. Rev. Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Ks, is past 83 years of age, yet he eayst "I am enjoying excellent health for t. roan of my aire, due entirely to the rejuven ating influences of Dr. Miles' Neirrlne. It brines sleep and rest when nothing else will, and gives strength and vital ity even to one of my olej age." - "I am an old soldier," writes Mr. Geo. Watson, of Newton, la, "and I have been a great sufferer from nervousness, vertigo and spinal trouble. Have spent considerable money lor medicine and doctors, but with little benefit. I was so bad my mind showed signs of weak ness. I began taking Dr. Miles' Nervine, and I know it saved my life." MueV Nervine Saved me from the insane asy lum," Mrs. A. M. Heifner, of Jerico Springs, Mo, writes. ' "I was so nerv ous that I could scarcely control my self, could not sleep nor rest, would even forget the names of my own children at times. I commenced using Dr. Miles' -Nervine and it helped me'from the first, and now I am perfectly well." Sold by all Druggists on Outran!.. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. The theatrical trust which has con trol of most of the theaters In th3 country is adopting all the trust meth ods. Whenever a critic makes an ad verse comment on any of the shows which it puts on the boards, it com pels the discharge of that critic by the paper employing him. In this way the censorship of the press is extended to literary and theatrical matters af ter the fashion so long employed by capitalism in other fields. I Winter is Knocking f if 5 7 L ( at your door don't let it catch, you unawares: Now is the time to get a warm Cloak or jacket, as we are closing out .the big lot of Manufacturer's Samples of Ladies' and Children's Cloaks and Jackets- we secured at the beginning of the season. They are all of the latest styles and materials and we have priced them to go. ;; LadioS' Cloaks Made of Beaver Cloth, Kersey and Venetian Cloth, in both the stylish full and three-quarter lengths. Cloaks worth $4.00 to 16.00. for .....$ 2 75 $4.50 to $5.00 ones for .. 3 49 $8.50 to $9.C0 ones for 6 75 $10.0tf cloaks for .... . 7 45 $16.00 cloaks for 11 95 $19.00 and $20.00 cloaks for 14 45 $22.00 and $23.00 cloaks for . . . . 16 65 Shirt Waists A few shirt waists in flannel, French flannel and flannelaine in light and dark colors at special prices. $1.25 ones for . 78c $2.25 ones for ' $1 54 $2.50 ones for 1 35 $2.75 ones for 1 98 Misses' and Children's $5.00 and $6.00 Jackets 3 98 $7.00 and $8.00 jackets 5 69 $9.00 10.00 and $12.00 jackets.. . 7 25 Furs to baffle Jack Frost. Collarettes in Marten, Seal, Astrakhan, Beaver, Mink and Marten, made in the pretty little collars with long tails. Prices from... .....$1 50 to $20 OO Muffs to match at. ... . 75c to $16 OO Boas from..:.. $1 OO $3 50 Thanksgiving Linen Sale Our table linens are good enough to grace any table, and cheap enough at all times to please the most thrifty, but for our Thanksgiving sale we make a special drive that will be irresistable to money saving people. 1 Our 20c quality Turkey Red Damask 58-in wide 40c auality Turkey Red Damask 60 inches wide 33c 50c Renfrew brand Turkey Red ' Damask, 60 inches wide. ..... 25c bleached damask 54 in wide 35c half bleached Damask, 52 in wide... 50c bleached damask, 62 inches wide.... 75c bleached damask, 68 inches wide $1.25 bleached damask, 72 inches wide ,. $1 10 Nankins to match table cloths . $1.00 quality half bleached for 69c $1.25 quality bleached for... . . . . . $1 10 $1.75 quality bleached for ..... . 158 $2.50 quality bleached for 2 25 $3.50 quality bleached for . . . . . . 2 98 17c 43c 21c 28c 43c 63c 43c 89o $1 58 Blankets and Comforts 50c blue rock 10-4 blanket $1.00 11-4 blanket. . . ........... $1.7512-4 blanket. .. $3.50 10-4 silver gray wool blankets.... 3 15 $4.75 11-4 fine all wool blankets per pair.... .. A 28 Good values at $5.50, $6.00 and 8 50 75cc full size comforter at 63c $1.00 full size comforter at 89c $1.50 full size comforter at 1 35 $2.25 extra large comforter at . . 198 $3.50 comforter made out of best satine with beautiful colorings and filled with best cotton, special. 3 15 Shoes :or Little Men We shoe .the rich we shoe the poor. We sell the finest shoe made at the lowest possible price. One lot of boy's lace shoes, light and heavy weight soliM, 1 to 5, to close out at, per pair ........ $1 28 Little Gent's Russian Colt skin shoes, 8i to 13, special price this week 1 37 Youth's Russian Colt skin and Kang, calf, seamless, 13 to 2, ; special price this week.. 1 58 Russian Colt skin and Kang, calf shoes for boys, the kind that will stand the hard knocks, 21-2 to 5 1-2, $2.00 value, this week, ' per pair ... . . . . . ... ......... 1 79 Try a Mail Order if you can't come yourself. Satisfaction guaranteed. Underwear You can snap . your fingers at frosty weather if snuggled up close in a warm suit of bur underwear. ' Ladies' Jersey fibbed vests and , : pants, good 35c values, sale price, each...... 25o Ladies' fine Jersey ribbed vests and - pants, heavy, worth 50c, sale price . each '. 43o Ladies' all wool vests and pants '.. worth 75c, sale price, each 680 Men's fleeced shirts and drawers, 40c value at each -29o Men's 50c heavy wool fleeced shirts 5 and drawers, at, each -39c Men's 75c half wool shirts and . drawers, at, each 67o Men's $1.00 all wool shirts and drawers, f t, each 89o Overgaiters and Leggings Ladies 7-button overgaiters, special this week...... ........ ..19a Ladies' 7-button overgaiters, better grade, special this week.... .... 45o Gents &ud ladies' 10-button over gaiters ......680 Try a Pair Tadies' felt house slippers at 49 C 65o and 89c- Ladies' velvet nullifiers, they are beauties, special price, per pair $1 43 Men's warm lined shoes and slip pers from... 75o1to$2 50 Hosiery Sell m Ml T Seasonable hosiery at prices that need only to be told to bring a multitude of buyers. 10c Misses' fleecedhose, ribbed, fast black, 5 to 9 special price this week 8&C 17c extra heavy bicycle hose, 6 to 10, special price, a pair 14 O 15c ladies fleeced hose, per pair. -X2Ho 25c ladies' cashmere hose, per pair 21 0 25c ladies' cashmere hose, per pair 21o Special values a:. .... .. 433 ftn329o 'eel 917921 O Street, Opposite Postoffice, LINCOLN Bro. 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