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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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December l2t 1901
What tills Boy's
Mother Savs
has been said by the mothers of
many other boys and girls, re
garding the wonderful curative
and strengthening qualities of
Mnes' Nervine
Hasting. Nb.
Our little boy, Harry, had spasms
for 3 years and we feared the disease
would affect his mind. Though we
doctored continually he gTew worse and
had ten spasms in one week. Our at
tention was directed to Dr. Miles' Nerv
ine and we began its use. When he
had taken the fourth bottle the spasms
d.wappeared and he has not had one
for five years. His health now is per
fect" Mrs. B. M. Tlndaix.
Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold
by all druggists on guarantee to
benefit or money refunded.
Cr. Mites Medical Co., Eikhart, Ind.
Best Low Priced Hotel n the City.
RATES,
$1-00 per day and up.
Hotel Walton
1510 O St.
LINOOLX.'NEB.
OUR PHONES IN ENGLAND.
American 3Iaoliines Have Snperseded
tli Cider pnglisli: Systems.
"Another electrical industry which
the -English in a measure have allowed
to slip from their grasp is the making
of telephones," writes Allen Sangree in
Ainslee's Magazine for December.
"Here again America is unexcelled, and
the general postoffice has just testified
to our skill by giving to the Western
Electric company of Chicago he entire
order for London. England, while
blaming its own manufacturers for
lack of enterprise, is so overjoyed to
see a new era in telephone mechanics
that she has only words of excessive
praise for the Yankees. This is because
the National Telephone company, that
up to the present has controlled all the
important patents in the United King
dom, made sellish use of its position
and refused to improve the service.
"To any one who has attempted to
talk over a telephone in London it j
"Would seem inconceivable how any j
people, even the Arabs, could stand i
such imposition. The London system i
Is such that it frequently takes an hour j
to secure connection. I was present at
one frustrated effort when, after strug
gling for more than that length of
time, enduring all the anguish of Sisy
phus, we were finally advised by 'Cen
tral' to call up a messenger. 'You will
make better time,' said he. ,
"The telephone rates, too, are exor
bitant, , and one subscriber that I know
pays a yearly rental of $400 for five
telephones. This does not include
charges for conversations over three
minutes. The American system about
to be introduced will be the biggest,
cheapest and best in the world, more
reasonable even than that we have, in
our own country. The charge for busi
ness houses is but $20 a year and for
residences only $14.
"Before selecting the system English
experts traveled in a number of foreign
countries making tests, and they chose
American telephones not alone been us
of their efficiency, but also because the
order could be filled here in less time
than elsewhere."
THE "MAN IN THE BOX"
Johann Beck's Story of His E
. traordinary Ocean Voyage.
TRAVELED IN A PACKING' CASE.
XJowIe Wants a "Zion" In Every t;iry.
Zion cities in all the countries in the
world is a 'dream that was expounded
by "Dr." John Alexander Dowie to his
audience at the Auditorium in Chicago
the other afternoon, says the Cleve
land Plain Dealer. lie declared the
reign of God on earth would not be
complete until Zionism was intrenched
In its own citadels in every land. The
head of the Christian Catholic church
did not say when or where he would
build his next city. Speaking of the
Chicago Z?on city, be said that city
was to be the earthly counterpart of
the "New Jerusalem" in the skies and
would become the seat of the new the
ftcroov ho was establishing. '
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Stownway Telia His ExpeEiericeo
During Sixteen Days In Ship's Hold.
Felt Hands of Watch to Follow
Ktslita and Dan-Ballt Air Caitlei
While Rats Gnawed at Ills Case.
.The following interview with Johann
Beck, the "packing box man," , is the
first authentic statement made by him
since his arrival in the United States
on the steamship Palatia.: He said the
other day: "I have made no statement
whatever up to this time. If I have
been quoted, the interviews were false.
Until now I have not been permitted,
by the doctors to talk, and, besides, I
could not have done so had I' wished
to."
Here is .a verbatim account of his
story in part as related to the New
York World on the top ; floor of St.
Mary's hospital, Hoboken, N. J.:
"I came to America in a box," said
Beck to a reporter, "because I felt that
there was hope for me in this couAtry
and nowher& else. Times are very bad
in Germany. I was in Hamburg since
last January, and in all that time I had
no regular employment. I worked a
few days or weeks, then was idle for
weeks. I saved my money as well as I
could, but I never could keep any
thing. "Johanna? She is my sweetheart. I
do not want to tell her family name.
She is at home now with her family in
Wissmar, Mecklenburg. Germany. Sh
was sick in Hamburg, where she had
employment, and she had to undergo
an operation in the Veeins hospital.
Then she went home.
"As soon as I can make some money
I shall send for Johanna, and we shall
be married. I met her first in Ham
burg last Yvinter, and there she prom
ised to marry me. But we were poor.
Her illness took all her money, and I
could not have any-thing because I
earned barely enough to pay for my
lodging.
" 'Way not go to America and earn
money and send for Johanna?' I
thought. But how should I get to
America? Steerage passage was 120
marks, and 1 never had more than 20
or SO marks at a time. It was early
in November that I began to think of
sending myself to America in a box
as freight. Where I got the idea I do
not know. The more I thought of the
plan the better it seemed. I have good
self control. I was not afraid. I weigh
only 130 pounds when I am in health,
and I felt sure that I could easily bo
carried around without danger of being
dropped or hurt. '
"I went to the office of the Hamburg
American line on Tuesday, Nov. 12, and
learned that there was ' no express
steamer that week, but that the steam
ship Palatia. Captain Reessing, would
sail for America on the following Sat
urday. She would take fourteen days
or less, they told me perhaps only
twelve days. I had very little money,
and I made up my mind that I could
not wait for the uext'express steamer.
"For two marks I bought in a second
hand lumber yard the packing box in
which I came here. For 30 pfennigs 1
bought a few strips of thin stuff about
two inches wide and an eighth of an
inch thick to make the false bottom on"
the box lid a sort of rack in which 1
could carry collars, stationery, neckties
and other things that are easily injured
and which must not be put down in the
box with me. For a few more pfennigs
I bought four latches, or thumbscrews,
to fasten the lid on to the box. 1 had no
eyes for these latches to fasten in, but
the storekeeper gave me eight nails,
which 1 afterward drove against each
other in loops like eyes. I carried the
packing box home to my lodgings on
the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 13. I
told my landlady I was going to ship
all my belongings over to America. My
rent was paid up to Saturday night, so
she did not care.
"1 began to fit up the box on Thurs
day morning. A carpenter friend of
mine lent me the tools. I cut up strips
of the thin stuff for battens and nailed
them on the inside of the box lid so
that it was all solid like a door. Then 1
built the false bottom, or rack, on the
box lid aDd put in it all my small be
longings. 1 bought for 25 pfennigs a
piece of thick, coarse cotton cloth G
feet G inches long and 3 feet wide. I
got an armful of hay in a stable and
carried it home. 1 packed it in the bot
tom of the box for a bed and tucked the
cotton cloth around it.
"1 bought provisions for my box in a
store around the corner from my, lodg
ing. I paid 1 mark 15 pfeniigs for four
teen pints of seltzer water. 30 pfennigs
for one pound of dates and 2 marks for
two and a half pounds of chocolate. I
knew that the chocolate alone would
sustain life, but I addsd the dates as a
luxury.
"1 worked all day Friday and most
of Friday night packing uiy clothes in
the box and putting away the pro
visions carefully, so that I could find
each article without dilQculty. When
all was ready. I climbed into the box
and drew down the lid. It was almost
dark Inside, but I found, the hasps and
locked down the lid. I was comforta
ble;
"1 wrote a letter to Schaeffer &
Neumuller in New York, asking them
to excuse me for shipping myself to
them and to give me work. I thought
they might give jne a chance because
my manner of traveling to them was
so novel. I did not know them, but 1
picked up one of their cards In a cafe
in Hamburg.
"I went to the office of the American
Express company and told them I had
a model at my lodgings which I want-
ed shipped .as . express freight to
Sen Aeff er & Neumuller, In New Yo fk.
When I told them the size and weight
of the box, they said the charge would
,be 32 marks, and I told them to collect
it in New York. I said I wanted them
to call for the box at l p. m. and that
they must be careful with ft and keep
it right side up. 7 s
"I hurried home and put on two
suits of clothes. Then I told my land
lady that I was going out, btit that
when the expressmen called she should
let them get the tjox from my room.
Then I went outdoors, but came in
again and reached my room without
being seen. I watched until the ex
pressmen came to the house. Then
before they could climb up to my room
on the third floor I gojt into the box
and fastened the lid from the Inside.
The expressmen called early. I heard
them read the warning on the box lid,
Nicht sturzeii,' which meant 'take
care.' They carried me down the three
flights of stairs with great care and
put me in the wagon without shaking
me up. I wTas comfortable in my box.
They put me down carefully on the
steamship pier. .
"When I had lain on the pier a long
time, the box was suddenly ' pushed
over, and I could feel that a rope sling
was being fastened around it. Then I
heard a whistle, and I felt myself fljr
jng through the air. Another whistle,
and I was sinking fast. All my seltzer
bottles were along the floor of the left
side of the case, tucked in beside the
bedding, so as to save fthem, but when
the men raised me up in the hold and
piled my box ou top of a big packing
case they rolled it over for a moment
on its side and let it drop a few inches.
The jolting broke three of my seltzer
bottles.' That meant water for three
days, but I still had eleven pints left,
and I thought that would last. I don't
think the men saw the water that
leaked out. None of them said any
thing about it. t
"I knew I was piled up high on the
top of the cargo of my deck. There
was still a little light in my pox not
real light, but grayness that came
through the cracks of the wood. About
an hour after I was loaded on the ship
I heard the men close the iron door of
the bulkhead. Then 1 was in black
darkness. Still I was comfortable.. By
bending my knees a little I could lie
flat on my back.
"I could tell when night came. The
noise of footfalls ceased in the steer
age. When all was still, I could hear
the men ou watch walking about. I
could hear them talking that Is, 1
could hear the tones of voices, but not
the words when one watch relieved
the other. I invented a way to tell
time. I took the crystal off my watch
and felt the hands. When both hands
were together at the top right under
the chain ring, I knew it was. 12
o'clock. If there were many feet scuf
fling about the deck, I knew it was
midnight. Soon I learned to tell the
hour hand from the minute hand. I
could always discover the time within
an hour or so.
"I was asleep most of the time for
the first two days and nights. One
thing surprised me, the noise of the
rats. I could hear them running over
the cargo, their claws scratching on
the wood of the packing cases. They
ran across my case, too, and scratched
at it. I suppose they smelled food in
side and wanted it. I was afraid to
make a noise to drive them away, be
cause I did not want any of the sailors
to hear me and drag me out. It was
ghastly to hear the rats running
around and squeaking while I was ly
ing there in the dark like a rat caught
in a trap. Still they did not gnaw at
my box or try to attack me in any way.
"How did I spend my time? By build
ing air castles for Johanna and myself.
" Johann,' I said, 'you must find
work in America. - It is a rich country,
and every man who is willing to work
hard can make a fortune. You will soon
be there. If you can get work at your
trade as a painter, good. If not, you
are young and strong, and you can
sweep the streets if necessary to make
a beginning. When you get 100 marks,
you can send for Johanna and marry
her, and then you will both work hard
and make a fortune, and some day you
can go home and visit Germany for a
few weeks, and you won't have to trav
el like this.' I was always building
these air castles when I was awake.
"It must have been on the thirteenth
day that I found that I had not one
drop of water left Immediately my
thirst began to torture me. I did not
dream of streams and fountains, but I
was asleep nearly all the time a sort
of dreamy doing. I was tempted to
crawl out of my box and knock at the
deck right above me for help, but I
said: 'No. If you knock, they will catch
you and send you back, to Germany.
You are almost in America row. Have
courage for a little while.' I thought
the voyage tasted fourteen days, but
the people tell me I was sixteen days
in the ship. "
"I shall never forget the gleam of
gray that came through the lits in the
box when the stevedores opened the
bulkhead and began to take out cargo
from my part of the ship. I could not
stand the thirst any longer.
" 'Water, water!' I cried as I threw
back the lid of the box and crawled to
ward the light. The longshoreman near
me called out, but I was too weak to
move farther or say anything. I lay
there and moaned. When I again be
came conscious. Captain Reessing and
two doctors, were taking care of me.
Then I was brought to this hospital.
"Sir. I have had nothing but kind
ness since I came to America. I ask
the American people not to send me
back to Germany. ' I am industrious
and sober. I will work at anything to
get a living. I am not an anarchist or
a socialist. I am a, German working
man, and all I ask is a chance to earn
my living In this free country. I en
treat the American people not to send
me away. ,
"This Is the true story of my trip." .
SGHMID1
Pleasing Presents at Pooper Prices are Found Here. "The Home' of Honest Values."
Santa Clans is King!
"We are showing Christmas gifts innumerable that will appeal to your pride, pleasure
and pocket book. Don't wait until the eleventh hour, but come now while
things are new bright and fresh. Make your selections
and we will lay them away for you.
Holiday Hints
Furs
Nothing will please a
woman as much as a gift of furs.
Ours have been carefully se
lected by an expert buyer. We
have put them' on 'sale at a
healthy reduction in prices.
Collarettes at $17.508,40
$4.25, 9 2.25 and $1 25
Muffs at prices to match.
Jackets
28 inch jackets in Kersey and
Beaver cloth, well made, all
latest styles and colors
813.00, S(J.00,S6.75 and. $5 40
Same style jacket, 3i-in
length in black, red and tan. . --$11 25
Beautiful 42-in coats in gray, tan and black
Kersey and Beaver cloth, satin lined,
I1G.G5, 113.50 and $6 75
Special bargains in short jackets at $3.49,
..$2.75 and $1 95
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Baskets
Baskets little baskets big baskets of all kinds.
Basket for everybody, i
Low baskets from 10c to . -40c
High baskets from 75c to. --$1 25
Perfumes
We handle the famous Lerkin
Perfumes; per box 75c 35c and
25c
Handkerchiefs
We expect big buying in
our handkerchief depart
ment and have prepared for
it. Our prices and quality
will induce you to buy.
Good handkerchiefs with
printed bordere, 5c
and 3C
Plain hemstitched hander-
chiefs a fine line,
for 20c, 15c, 10c and. . ,5c
Embroidery edge, 40c,
; 15c,- 10c, and i . . . 5c
Lace edged ones for 15c, 12c and 10c
Men's Handk'chfs
Red and Blue Bandanas, 10c and. . , 5J
Plain white handkerchiefs, 12c 10c and. . . ... . -5c
Japonette, hemstitched, with silk initial, only
25c and.... 12C
Best silk handkerchiefs, $1.00, 50c and. ....... -25C3
Jewelry
We are showing a complete line of jewelry for
the holiday trade and nothing makes a prettier gift
See what we have. ,
Rings plain band rings, at $1.00, 75c and ...... 503
Solid gold set rings, $3.50 and ...... $3 00
We can't mention prices in everything but see
our watches, watch chains, breast pins, lockets, belt
buckles, silver purses, sleeve buttons, hair ornaments,
etc.
Sterling silver thimbles. 25c
Triple plate silver knives and forks, half dozen
in set; special for Holidays only, per set. .$3 "75
Ladies' and men's purses, $1.00 to 25
Shoe Specials
Men's winter shoes, vici box calf, leather lined, ex
" tension soles, new English lasts. These soles are
feet fitters and retain their shape until worn out;
sizes, 6 to 10; regular price $3.00, special
this week $2 49
Ladies' button shoes, medium weight sole,
plump kid stock, good titter and wearer,
sizes 4 to 8, regular $2.00, special. $1 58
Ladies' Kid lace warm lined shoes, made on
new shape last, all sizes; regular $2.50 .
shoe; this week $2 20
Ladies' all felt house slippers, sizes 4 to 8,
for.., 58c
Overs for German sox and felt boots, to close
out :' $1 18
Men's Alaska overshoes, coin toe, sizes 7 J to ,
9 .. 65c
Women's Arties, as low as, 75c
A lot of Misses' Buckle Artie overshoes, sizes
11 to 2, a bargain, at . v . . 50 C
flen's Neckwear
We have anything you want in Ties, Furi-
ton, Bat wing, Four-in-hand, String ties,
Tecks made up in bows, 50c to... 25 C
Newest styles mufflers 75c and 50c
Mufflers, quitted satin lined, only . . ......... .$1 00
Suspenders
Suspenders for everybody at 50c, 35c
and
10c
Extra tine Christmas suspenders, in fancv
bores, 75c and G5c
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Bring the Children to see toydom. Wo have
everything that delights the hearts of iitt!
folks. We can't tell you of this fairy land, you mu-t
see it for yourself.
A FEW HINTS-Fascinators, gloves and mi:
tens, albums, toilet sets, smoking sets, pocket knives
candies, nuts, apples We will make more supges
tions if you need them.
Skirts
Have just received an
elegant lot of Li
dies' Dresjj Skirt
One lot made of
black, brown and
green erpe, ilk
and braid trimmed,
a rare bar
gain at $3 00
Serge
and
fi a n n e .
skirts in p r 1 1
grays, brown,
blacks and blue
'flare flounce,
silk trimmed, only $5 50
Popular mixed black and white skirts, flare
flounce, trimmed with seven rows stitch
ing. These are the most serviceable
and stylish skirts made, only --SG 50
Skirt bargains at $3.75, $2.G7, $2.18
and..;... : $1 65
Christmas
Two Weeks away.
High time you wore getting the pretty little doiiy
or cushion top to work that make such acceptable
gifts.
Our lines and the silks to work them are com
plete.' Instructions for working with each piece.
Dresser scarfs worked in all the pretty shades
of silk, only 40c
A little better grade worked in white,
50c to 75c
Stand covers, 35c to 00c
Pillow shams, 40c 90c and $1 25
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READ THESE FACTS:
Those who invested $100 in the following Oil Stocks have seen their investment grow as follows:
$100 in Alcade now worth $30,000
100 In New York OUCo., now worth 40,000
100 In Home Oil Co., now worth, ' 50,000
$100 in Black Mountain, now worth $3,000
100 in. Kern, now worth 2,200
100 In Kern River, now worth 5,200
OTHERS HAVE DONE IT. WHY NOT YOU?
If you don't part with your money until YOU KNOW it will buy an interest in a
Texas Gusher Flowing Daily 50,000 or Barrels of Oil
And all Oil and Mineral Rights of 1,000 Acres of Land, all for $85,000, HOW CAN YOU FAIL
TO MAKE MONEY? That is exactly what you know when you get stock in the
Nebraska-Iowa-Beaumont Oil Co., now offered at 10 cents a Share.
But yoji must be quick. But little remains unsold. Today is the time you should confer or write to
Willard Kimball, Local Agent at Lincoln, Nebraska for the
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Youngermah Building,
AUMONT OIL CO.,
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DES KlOiNES 1NCUDATOR COWPANV, v klt:frrJ 9
Box 33, Des Moines, Iowa, or Box 33. Buffalo. N. V. - - ---r
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S. T. Cochran Attorney- '
S. K. Oliver, first name unknown, will take
notice that on the 22d day of November, 19U1,
Frita Westermann, a Justice of the Peace in
and for Lancaster County Nebraska, issued an
order of attachment asrainst yon for the sum
$25.03 and probable costs not to exceed $50.00, in
an action pending before him wherein Samnel
B. Hams is plaintiff and said S. A. Oliver, first
name unknown,, is defendant, for services ren
dered as an attorney at law, and that proparty
consisting of money in the hands of the iirst
National Bank of Lincoln, has been attached
and said bant garnished thereunder, and on
said order of attachment. Said cause was con
tinued to the 10th day of January, 1902, at 9
o'clock a. m. of said day. .
SAMUEL B. HAMS, Plaintiff.
By S. T. Cochran, his attorney,
Meier &neier Attorneys, 134 O St.
NOTICE TO CJON-RESIDENT DEFENDANTS.
To Catherine Rogers, Thomas Rogers and .Bar
ker Emery defendants. ,
You and eauh of you take notice that on the
27th day of November, J'Al, Elijah. J. Garten
filed hef petition asrainst you and others, in the
District Couri of the Third Judicial District of
Nebraska, in nd for Lancaster county, to fore
close the lien of n tax sale and certificate of
November 24t;b, 1899 made by the county treas
urer of said iiounty to the plaintiff on the fol
lowing property, towit: Lat eight IS) North
east quarter (N. E. J, ) Section thirty ;? . T
(11) Range eight (81-Waverly Precinct L:
ter County, Nebraska, for the delmuot ,
and county taxes of the years i -
IMtf, 1SSM. 1897 and 180s and the lieoof Stat
County Taxes ou said property for th y t
ISSty and iVKRi paid by the plaintuf tin -1-r - :
cate on which there is now due the pUmtt I
sum of thirty-six dollars and :;:-
cents ($;?.'. 7) with costs oftbt notice ant
terest on twenty dollars and five cent t; .
at ten per cent per annum from November .
1901.
Plaintiff prays that said property be ;
satisfy said liens, and the com of thu
including an attorney's fee as provided by
and for general relief.
You are required to answer sai l petition f
or before the third day of February. V,rt
ELIJAH J. hUlt:, i
r By Meier A Meier her Attora
