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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT February 20, 1902 of five for three reasons: Flrst.we do not have to pay an agent his wages and traveling expenses to secure the subscriptions. All that expense, which Is usually heavy, we avoid by this method. Second, we will use the mon ey to build a home for The Indepen dent and quit paying rent which now costs us $65 per month. Third, we wished to make it easy for our friends to sell the cards. Those are the plain reasons why we are selling "Liberty Building Subscriptions' In blocks of five at the low figure we are. We have been as liberal In our offer as possi ble. It costs more money to publish a paper devoted to the defense of tne plain people than to publish one ad vocating the cause of plutocracy. The money power would1 gladly furnish material to fill all our columns free of charge if we would accept It. They would be liberal with their advertis ing patronage and generous to a fault If we would indorse their legalized robberies. That's' why plutocratic sheets cost so little. Shall we give you that kind of a paper? Never! We will print the truth and sell the paper as cheaply as we can. Invite your neighbor to try it for a year. Ask him to compare It with the hand-me-downs and ready made stuff furnished him by the organs of plutocracy. Here is the roll of Liberty Guards and what they have done to date. Let us add your name to the list: No. cards ' ' ' ordered. Mr. H. F. Canon, Tecumseh, Neb.. 3 Dr. W. P. Cunningham, 336 West 14th st, New York city 5 H. B. Lorain, Upland, Neb 5 H. L. Watts, Marshall, Ark 5 T. W. Granberry, Long Pine, Neb.. 5 J. B. Wolfe, Tamora, Neb 5 W. F. Wagner, Bertrand, Neb 5 J. S. Freeman, Columbus, Neb...,. 3 J. H. Harper, Shubert, Neb .. 5 Cornelius Horan, Rulo, Neb........ 10 J. R. Lind. Negunda, Neb.. 5 W. H. Ground, Prosser, Neb...... 5 Wm. Surman, Carlinville, 111 3 J. E. Jamison, Battle Hill, Va. . . . . 5 C. Sorensen, Dannebrog, Neb 5 A. H. Stegall, De Land, Fla....... 5 J. C. Andre, Logan, Neb S A. L. Caskey, Oregon, Mo 3 F. G. Welch, Cedar, la .. i B. F. Ormsby, Grangeville, la 5 J. M. Smith, Baker, Neb : 5 Wm. Thomssen, Grand Island, Neb. 5 J. M. Elrod, Madison, Neb 10 J. A. Greenlee. Betrand, Neb.. 5 C. H. Jeffry, Chadron, Neb .. ... 5 W. E. Mullikin, Somerset, Neb.... 5 W. C. Brown, York, Neb 5 J. C. Dietrick, York, Neb... 5 A. W. Halleck, Clarks, Neb 5 R. C. Snyder, Eaton, o.... 5 Abner De France, El Reno, O. T.. . 5 J. M. Jamison, Valparaiso, Neb 3 L. W. Hubbell, Francesville, Ind.. 5 Mrs. E. J. Harkelrode, Wassie, O . . 5 Peter Sauber, Aurora, 111 5 W. C. Brown, Brainard, Neb 5 H. C. Stoll, Beatrice, Neb 5 J. H. Cronk, Ord, Neb 5 M. N. Shoemaker, Union, Neb 5 O. T. Baughn, Tobias, Neb 5 D. C. Butler, Kingsley, Ore 5 Lewis Rickard, Wood River, Neb.. 5 B. N. Cleveland, Fremont, Neb 5 W. W. Smith, Peru, Neb 5 E. O. Smead, Kearney, Neb & Sands Brownell, Salem, Ore 5 C. Sorenson, Dannebrog, Neb 5 Wm. Surman, Carlinville,. 111..... 3 C. T. Bride, Washington, D. C 5 Marshall Mayo, Rio, 111 5 Julius Smith. Salem, Neb 5 Mamie Fenton, Dawson, Neb R Wm. Graves, Rulo, Neb 5 E. R. Woods, Burwell, Neb 5 S. A. Hauston, Pickaway, W. Va... C Thos. O. Clark, Baltimore, Md 5 Alfred Anderson, Stromsburg, Neb. 5 A. P. Sheenden, Willmar, Minn... 5 A. S. Bennett, Forge Village, Mass. 2 H. C. Stoll, Beatrice, Neb 5 A L Caskey, Oregon, Mo 5 Jas. A. Haley, Philadelphia, Pa... 5 F. M. Hayes, Rensselaer, Ind Z A. C. Cameron, Brownsdale, Minn.. 5 L. E. Hallstead, Petersburg, Neb.. 5 Chas. M. Bowen, Bath, N. Y 5 Connor Shotwell, Cambridge, Neb.. 5 O. Z. Zook, Hillsboro, Ore 5 P. B. Neal, Madison, N. C 5 J. Miner, Friend, Neb 5 W. E, Bllleter, Ainsworth, Neb 5 R. C. Snyder, Eaton, O 3 J. M. Elrod, Madison, Neb 5 Peter Johnson, Gordon, Neb 5 J. W. Rooth, Londonville, 0 5 Geo. Gillett, Burwell, Neb 3 J. E. Guthrie, Comstock, Neb 5 E. S. Gilbert, Weeping Water, Neb. 5 Louis Berry, Pawnee City, Neb 5 S. G. Halle,, Clearwater, Neb 5 J. P. Bridges, Mt. Airy, Ga 5 Mrs. Ellen Rice, So. Dayton, N. Y. 5 J. N. Diffendat, Finksburg, Md 10 J. L. Brouse, Stratton, Neb 5 C. W. Klnch, Lexington, Neb 5 S. G. Mower, Falls City, Neb 10 Albert Beals, Omard, Mich 7 Wm. Hancock, Loup City, Neb.... 14 D. P. Pugh, Imperial, Neb 5 C. J. Jackson, Nolanville, Tex.... 6 J. W. Bray, Falls City, Neb.. 15 Wilfred Lebert, Archer Neb 5 W. E. Freeman, Cushing, Neb.... 5 L. E. Hallstead, Petersburg, Nett.. 5 S. Hunzlker, Guide Rock, Neb.... 5 J. W. Bray, Table Rock, Neb 3 D. E. Burkey, Giltner, Neb 5 Lewis Reynolds, Union, Neb 5 J. F. Abbott, Unadllla, Neb 3 Mrs. Eliza Sowards, Ashland, Neb.. 5 J. M. Babb, Clayton, 111 5 Jas. O'Fallon, Mead, Neb 5 Wm. Scott, St. Paul, Neb 5 C. J. West, St. Paul, Neb 5 Joseph Wittwer, Salem, Neb 5 C. W. Duncan, Pilger, Neb 5 D. W. Haskins, Geneva, Neb 5 Lewis Frey, Fairmont, Neb 5 L. O.' Lefflngwell, Frankfort, Kas.. 5 A. W. Cox, Bladen, Neb 10 B. A. Dean, Juniata, Neb 3 Michael Hoferer, Wamego, Kas 5 J. Miner, Friend, Neb 3 L. Brickard, Wood River. Neb 3 H. B. Lorain, Upland, Neb 5 Dr. W. P. Cunningham, New York. 5 H. F. Canon, Tecumseh, Neb 5 Total . To state committee of Neb. . 603 , .2500 Grand total.......... .3103 From Brooklyn, Haw York re- Editor Independent: I have celred two copies of The Independent and must say that I 'like It,' because It tells the truth and don't sneak behind the returning board. . ; " W. W. DE LAMOTT. OPPOSED TO A BIG NAVY . v ' :r, ' It Will Never be Needed While we Can Whip Any European 6oTtramnt la Three Weeks by Kef using to '' Ship JfooU Htuttit. ' ' v Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. In the past week congress has accomplished very little that is worth recording. The house republicans are so -busy patching up their family rows that no business of any importance is like ly . to be ..transacted .until, there , is greater harmony in the ranks. 'In the senate the republicans are trying to force the Philippine bill to a vote and the democrats are pushing them iuto a very tight corner on the administration policy in the islands. The republicans have been obliged lo make some very damaging admissions. It has been a gloomy week at-the White house because President Roose velt and his wife were' called to Gro ton by the serious illness of Teddy, Jr. The youngster is now recovering and the president is again at the White house, having deferred his, Charleston trip until after the visit of Prince Henry." ' ' " Andrew Carnegie is one of the big gest ship builders in the world and it causes more than a ripple of sur prise when he declares that the United States does not need a big navy. He points out that we are. an isolated na tion! If attacked 'we can whip any foreign nation by ceasing for three weeks to export food supplies. Germany has almost .identical in terests in the far east with England as against Russia, but Germany has been so Incensed by England's attempt to belittle the visit of Prince Henry to this country that she does not care for any new alliance with England, preferring to go it alone. Prince Henry will be here in a few days and It Is to be feared that his reception will be marked by anything but Jeffersonian simplicity. All the. world likes tinsel trappings and brass bands and there will be the usual throng of sight-seeing, curious people wherever the scion of royalty appears. But it is all nonsense to talk about his visit portending any advantageous trade relations between the two couri tries. We always hear this shibbolech whenever royalty travels, but nations seem to forget that subsequent exper ience never justifies the assumption. Senator Piatt of Connecticut, ana others on the republican , side make strenuous efforts to give the impres sion thatjthe Filipinos are being given all the measure of self-government for which they are fitted. The republi cans are also anxious to make it ap pear that a majority of the Filipinos desire American' rule. Great stress l& laid on the fact that some of the Fili pinos have participated in municipal elections and are alleged to have de clared themselves in favor of Ameri can government. It must be remem bered, however, that General Chaffee stands over them with an army of 40,- 000 men for the sole purpose of hunt ing down those who object to Ameri can rule. Governor Taft has promulgated a law which condemns to the peniten tiary those who engage even in peace ful agitation against our sovereignty. Between the bayonet and the yawn ing jail it is a wonder that any por tion of the Filipinos manage to k-j up a desire for independence. Gov ernor Taft has also promulgated a law which makes it a penitentiary offense to read the Declaration of Indepen dence at a Fourth of July celebra tion in the Philippines. Senator Piatt had better heed the blunt recommendation of General Chaffee that every soldier we have there should be kept in the islands for at least five years more. In fact the sooner the republicans close debate in the senate on the Philippines tho fewer damaging facts will they have to explain away. The anti-imperialists and the demo crats are showing a very bad state of affairs in the islands. Our entrance fee of twenty millions was not a cir cumstance to what they have cost us since both in cold cash and in sub version of the principles on which our government was founded. D. P. B. From New York City (Continued from Paeo One.) iu?lity of The Commoner and the Ne braska Independent that the people must look for the preservation of the republic. As one of the most ardent supporters of "Bryanism," your paper should be in the hands and your words burnt deeply into the mind of every Bryanite. W. P. CUNNINGHAM. New York City, N. Y. STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN A Jewish Rabbi Who Says That the Com moo Meeting Ground for all Mankind Will be the Religion of Jesas There is no more learned and schol arly man in all the west than Rabbi Simon, who preaches to the liberal Jews in Omaha and Lincoln, and his congregations are in full sympathy with him. At Temple Israel in Omaha last week Rabbi Simon spoke of the dream of a Messiah, saying that from the German tradition of FrederickBar barrosa a writer in the course of time may say that the Germans had an idea of a Messiah and that he came in the person of Bismarck in 1872. It seems from the writings of the fathers that the word Messiah meant no particular person, but a leader who would relieve the people from oppres sion and restore the nation. In the period of a nation's misery, with the people suffering, it is not surprising that there were hundreds of false "T 6 S 1 cl ll s "We Jews In this land," said the rabbi, "can say, so far as political life is concerned, our Messiah has come: that it came when the declaration of independence was written and Wash ington wrested the land from Eng land. But we are beginning to think that the Messiah means more than political freedom. We -have spiritual ized the old, idea and we believe that there will come' a time when peace will rule the world. The Messiah will come he is always coming If you obey. is the triumph of the last century and we find that the conception of the Christians and the Jews as to I the Messiah Is the same. "When I see the desire for intel lectual freedom shown by Dr. Pier son, Dr. Briggs and others, when I see dogmas cast aside and when I see the same movement on the part of Judaism, I think that the next 100 years will see a coming together on the meeting " ground and that ground will be the religion of Jesus." When reading that the editor thought of the time when the Indian children were rounded up In the old mission house some seventy miles north of Omaha on Sunday mornings and taught to sing: "Lord, I ascribe it to Thy grace And not to chance, as many do, That I was born on Christian ground And not a heathen or a Jew." The Independent would not say a word against those missionaries. They did a noble work and strove accord ing to the light that they had, but there have been great changes since then, although the Indian children who sang that song are now only in middle life. WOMEN S FACES Some Have the Glow of Health and Some are Sickly Pale A Few Useful Hints to Mothers of Growing Girls "A woman's face," said a well known physician, "is a mirror which reflects unfailingly the condition of her health. "One can tell at a glance if she Is well or not and usually one can tell what the trouble is. Upon parent? rests a great responsibility at the time their daughters are, budding into wo manhood. If your' daughter is pale, complains of weakness, is tired out upon the slightest exertion, if she is troubled with headache or backache, pain in the side, if her temper is fitful and her appetite poor, she is in a con dition of extreme peril, a fit eub ject for that most dreaded of all dis eases, consumption. If you notice any tf these symptoms lose no time in procuring Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They will assist the patient to develop properly and reg ularly; they will enrich the blood and restore health's roses to the cheeks; bright eyes and a lightness of step will surely follow their use, and all danger of consumption and a prema ture death will be averted." Out of the many cases which illus trate the truth of this may be cited that of Hannah Nicholson, of Erie, Colo. Her father, Mr. Newton Nlch-' olson, says: "Our daughter, Hannah, 15 years of age, was taken sick about a year ago. She seemed to have no life or energy and became white as chalk. Of course we had our doctor, "and he is consid ered a good one, but the girl did not get any better and we were feeling very uneasy about her. One day I was in a drug store and I picked up a little book about Dr: Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. It described her case exactly. I purchased a couple of boxes and she had not taken them for mere than two or three days before we could see a change for the better. They did wonders for her and now wo recommend them to all who are ailing as she was." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are an unfailing specific not only for anaemia, but for all diseases arising from Impoverished blood or shattered nerves. They cure loco motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, ner vous headache, after-effects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, and all forms of weakness. . At all druggists, or di rect from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., fifty cents per box, six boxc3 for two dollars and a half. Thsy are Frauds Lincoln has passed into history along with Washington. It is with regret that the pop'o of this, stele ob yrve the manner iu which a certain class of partisans ass time to "honor" the memory or' a president, whose lift?, services and fame have become th common heritage of the American people. These men claim to have suc ceeded to the party banner that Lin coln carried, but it is neither the same banner nor the same party. No po litical contrast could be greater, or more . suggestive of change, than the republican party of 1856-60 and the re publican party of 1902. It rose into prominence and power on the asser tion of the principle that "all men ara created free and equal," as af firmed by the Declaration of Indepen dence. Today it is repudiating an dually important affirmation of that document that "all governments de rive their just powers from the con sent of the governed." There i3 scarcely a principle or a practice in government that it professed in the days of Lincoln that it has not aban doned. Lincoln himself, If he couM return to life, would not recognize the party he aided to create, and would be the first to repudiate it. Indig nantly would he resent the use of his name as a cover for the schemes a gang of political grafters, plotting acrainst the welfare of the people. Denver News. From flaine Editor Independent: I send you $1.35 for The Independent and New York World. T want both papers. J. B. CROSSMAN. Monmouth. Me. IDAHO LANDS Do you want a home on easy terms or an investment that will pay you 15 per cent. We have it in Idaho land, and have sent an experienced man to investigate and can and will furnish 'reliable information. Write P. J. Carey, Lincoln, Neb. News of the, Week England has found a friend at last In little Japan, For some time she has been without a friend except Hay and Choate. All the governments of the whole world refused to make al liances with her for not one would trust her. Now at last she has formed an alliance offensive and defensive with Japan, which only makes the other governments hate her worse than ever. The proclaimed object of this treaty is to preserve the ten! torial integrity of China and Corea, and the general opinion is that it was made to stop the advance of Russia in Manchuria. The house of representatives tunfed populist for about half an hour -the other day and unanimously passed a bill incorporating one of the prin cipal planks of the populist platform, that one demanding a constitutional amendment, for the election of United States senators by the people. If it had a spell like that about once a week, we might have a pretty decent sort of government after a while. The English, government having been proven guilty of trying to form a coalition of all the European gov ernments against the United Stae:? at the. outbreak of the Spanish war by the official documents held in the German foreign offices, now tries to sneak out by another false statement. Lord Cranbourne, after these docu ments were published, made a state ment in the house of commons 'n which he said: ; "Whatever opinions were expressed by Lord Pauncefote during the discussion, which was of an Informal character, were personal to himself and not pursuant to In structions from her majesty's govern ment." That hole is altogether too small and thee English government can never crawl through it. The proof is overwhelming that England did try to form a coalition of the European powers against us and it was the Ger man emperor who put a stop to it. Senator Tilman remarked the other day that if some of the senators had to pass a civil service examination that they would not be eligible for re election. Wonder if he had in mind the heavenly rffins from Nebraska? An amendment to the census bill providing that the permanent bureau that is to be established should gather and publish statistics concerning the trusts, was voted down quicker than you could say Jack Robinson. Dur ing the next campaign the republican spell-binders will be telling the people how much the republican party is op posed to trusts and how "publicity" would cure all the evils connected with them, and every mullet head in tb.3 land will answer, "Yep, that is so." An article recently appeared in one of the eastern papers concerning tho societies that have been established in various cities in the United States to propagate oecultlsm. The writer feared .grave results from the revival of these so-called sciences of the mid dle ages. - He pointed to the fact that several thousand men and women were accumulating considerable fortunes from the earnings of the weak-minded by the practice of these deceptions both In public and in private. He pointed out the fact that several mur ders had been committed in the United States in which members of theosopn ical societies had lost their lives or were in some way connected with the death of the parties and wanted to know if Indian "Thurgism" was be ing introduced as part of this impor tation of the ancient Hindoo cults. Citizens of this country must re member that all news that comes from South Africa is censored by the Brit ish and presents the British side of the case only. Not that there are any actual falsehoods sent as official re ports, though that has been charged on the floor of the house of commons, but not all the truth is told or it comes in driblets, so as to not affect public opinion. Reading the reports of Lord Kitchener for the last two weeks with some care and then summing it all up, the truth can be got at fairly well. It Is some trouble to read dispatches sent on many different days in con nection with each other, but from that sort of & critical examination it p p?ar.3 that De Wett performed one of the most brilliant military feats in all history. On one side of him was a railroad lined with armored trains, every car a little ironclad filled with rapid fire guns. On another side was a line , of block houses In supporting distances to each other and the spaces between filled with barbed wire fences and other wire entanglements. Then Kitchener, under his own supervision, formed his whole force, consisting of over 150,000 men, so as to make a com plete cordon around De Wett and his forces which were said to consist of between 10,000 and 15,000 men. Kitch ener slowly and carefully advanced his men, entrenching every night with pickets stationed along the wholfi line of fifty miles not further than r0 yards apart. The armored .trains dashed up and down the line of rail road carrying the most powerful searchlights which illuminated the whole country while other searchlights were stationed along the line of block houses. Inside of this cordon. of the finest and best armed military force of all modern times was De Wett with his little force of 15,000 Dutchmen. And De Wett escaped with the loss of 186 killed, wounded and prisoners! If anything in all history equals that, when did It happen? What historian makes a record of it? tinguished English general, watched and, guided every movement' in per son, wnen the right moment came De Wett gathered up the great herd . if cattle that was within the enclosure and stampeded them on one portion of the line, his men riding in the midst of them lying down flat on their horsoj so that they could not be distinguished from the herd of animals which they drove oerore them and cut his way out When out, he did not stop. He' turned his worn-out horses loose and took fresh ones from the reserves that the British had in the rear and captured sixty ammunition wagons, taking al the ammunition that he wanted and destroying the rest "' -' A correspondent who was permitted to send an account says the battle was in the night and was the most spectac ular fight that ever occurred on the face of the earth. The Dutchmen charged first one part of the line and then another until there was a roar of artillery and a rattle of pompons from one end of the fifty mile lensrth of battle line to the other. The armored trains dashed up and down throwing their searchlights out all over the country. The line of block houses was lishted up from one end to the other, until the whole earth seemed to be rm fire. The steady line of . English troops never wavered, but slojvly and stead llv nrtvnnnpd font bv foot, makllia ls,o- ranch lands in Colorado: Wvo- I , pngipgyiro Wiaiipr. .atA amaiiai ui witicn uui iur tuufiicas aim in1-: M After a day's rest, De Wett got after tne .British again and set a trap in wnicn he caught nearly a whole regi ment. There was a lone farm house that had not yet been burned. De Wett managed to Inform the British that the Boers were making use of It as a rendezvous and a regiment was sent to burn it and kill or capture the burghers who were there. When the British appeared one lone Dutchman ran out, mounted his horse and fled away to the distant kopjes. The regi ment Of British cavalry followed and the first thing they knew they found themselves surrounded by De Wett's horsemen and were all captured, killed or wounded except a very few. Among the killed were several prominent untisn officers. There have been no generals of mod era times who have performed feats that will bear a comparison to those of De Wett and Botha when the fact is taken into consideration that thv have constantly fought forces that have outnumbered them ten to one and those forces commanded by the ablest of European generals. While there Is no bitterness in the hearts of Am ericans against the English people who are driven on their mad career by a few imperialists who have control of their government, yet every true patriot and lover of the doctrines laid down in the Declaration of Indepen dence finds his sympathies going out to tnese crave uutenmen wno are fighting the bravest t "tie that man ever fought for their country and the right of self-government. Far away from the scenes of De Wett's brilliant maneuvers in another part of the country, burghers fired with the same love of home and na tive land fought a force of British on the Witervale river and defeated them with severe loss. If this thing keeps up trie map makers will be sorry that they so hastily changed the names of two little republics on their maps Lo Vaal River colony and Orange River colony. They will have to go to work and make their maps all over again. Those who read the dispatches In the dally papers must have an admira tion for the army of brilliant liars who are employed by the Associated press. Among the sensations that they STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY The Alien Life Companies of the Moneyed East Are Aggressively Working to Retard the BARKERS RESERVE LIFE Because They, See That In the Suc cess of This Aggressive Young Company the West Will Be Emancipated. In the year 1901 The Bankers' Re serve Life Association secured nearly $2,000,000 of new business. Ite pre mium income reached the snug sum of $111,311.72, and it gained in strength all along the line. The impetus of the year's growth has already been felt, and January, 1S02, was a banner month, the business being more than double that of Jan uary, 1901, and the company WILL WRITE $3,000,000 IN 1902. These figures, as shown by the an nual report of the president, have alarmed the alien agents and the alien corporations who have been sapping the commercial vitality of the west for thirty years or more are renewing their malevolent attacks upon the fair fame and good name of Nebraska's favorite company., B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT, Has demonstrated by the report made of the growth of the Bankers' Reserve during its existence that no other company in the union has succeeded so well as judged by the business trans acted. The Equitable of New York, at the end of Its third year, had 'a premium income of but $95,332, and the New York Life but $69,427. The Northwest ern of Milwaukee, at the end of its sixth year, was AWAY BEHIND THIS HOME CO., And the National of Vermont had not reached the water mark of the Bank ers' Reserve at the end of Its six teenth year. No wonder the avar icious aliens are alarmed. The time is coming when the west will take care of the west in this matter of life in surance. Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska are the best insurance states in the union in proportion to wealth and population, and the loyal people of these states and the west generally have SOUNDED THE KNELL FOR THE ALIENS'. The Bankers' Reserve Life defies the venom and malice of these for eign competitors , and challenges a comparison with any company in the world, as. to relative resources, plans ; of insurance, economy of management and evidence of prosperity. j - Agents wanted by. B. H. Robison. A FINE CATTLE RANCH 900 Tons of lUy.S.OOO Am of I'astnr 6 riowlar W1U , This Is known as the Tyrrell Ranch, and is located fifteen miles south of Atkinson, Holt county, Neb. This ranch consists. of 1,600 acres; 960 acres deeded land and mostly fine hay mea daw, the balance, 640 acres, U a nchool section, tLe lease running for twenty two years at less than half what the taxes would be on the same tract. There Is some hay land on the (school section but it 16 mostly adapted to range, and this, with enough of the free range land adjoining to make 3, 000 acres, is fenced with a substantial three-wire fence. . A good six-room frame house, barn 35x80 with stanch ions for twenty-eight cows, granary, shed room and good yards, pens and corralls. Three small pastures of 20. 40 and 120 acres, fenced with good four-wire fence and each containing a fine flowing well, which flows a inch stream of the purest "water on earth the 1 year around. Ten acres good timber. Daily mail delivered al door. Postoffice, store and blacksmith shop on adjoining farm. There is no better ranch in Nebraska. Price, $16,000, $6,000 down, the balance In ten annual payments at 6 per cent In terest. Call upon or address, EDWIN S. EVE3, O'Neill, Neb. concocted last week was a story that Prince Henry had written a letter to Admiral Dewey full of apologies, tho one sent out from Lincoln concerning Booker T. Washington and some half dozen others of the same sort that have been denounced and denied by .ill the parties interested. The success of these chaps seems to indicate thit the managers of the Associated press must have a valuable gift which it be stows on the biggest liar at the end of each week. That, or something of that sort, is the only thing that could keep them up to their work. The trustees appointed to manage the $10,000,000 Carnegie gift to estab lish at Washington a university for original research are all gold bugs of the purest sort if we except one oi two who are included in the number ex-oSlcio. That is the way to do. Put everything, including science, in the hands of the few men who have gath ered immense fortunes. There are no men outside of them Who are fit to be intrusted with the management of educational or any other sort of in stitutions. Here is the list: (Ex officio) the, president, Theodore Rooso velt; President, of - Senate William P. Frye, Speaker : of House D. B. Hen derson, Secretary Smithsonian Insti tution S. P. Langley, President Na tional Academy of Sciences Alexander Agassiz. (Regular), Grover Cleve land.VJohn S. Billings, William N Frew, , Lyman ; J. Gage, D. C. Gilman, John Hay, Abram S. Hewitt, Henry L. Higginson, Henry Hitchcock, Will iam Lindsay, Charles D. Hutchinson. Seth Low, Wayne MacVeagh, D, O. they not only steal, but commit a breach of confidence. All that Is an old story to the. readers of The Inde pendent. 1 Populists have always said the same thing from the beginning. wne reason wny tnese thieves havo flourished Is that their highway rol beries have received no condemnation from the plutocratic pres3. The dall -ies will , report the minutest details .? the wofk of some common burglar or petty; thief, "but they never mention these enormous robberies which are the foundation of many of the great fortunes of today. When the city of St. Louis was robbed of millions la this way they did not have a lino about It, and it was only when the aristocratic thieves were brought Into court by the efforts of patriotic pri vate Individuals that they deigned to notice it. That Is one of the con comitants of a subsidized press. The Danish treaty, for the purchase of a job lot of Islands In the West In dies was confirmed In the senate the other day. By the expend Uur of $3, 000,000 we have bought some more people and ti e '.ands on whUh rh-y live. How much a head they cost hrs not yet been stated. While Governor Taft Is In Washing ton, declaring that the Filipinos ar pacified and elections are being held everywhere, General Chaffee cables for more troops and sticks to hi statement that it will require 50,000 of them to hold the Islands. Mills, S. Weir Mitchell, William W Morrow, Elihu Root, John S.SpCtoncr.t of -the republicans and the socialists- Andrew D. White, Edward D. White, Charles D." Walcott, secretary and di rector of the U. S. geological survey, and Carroll D. Wright. Recent official reports show that the railroads give away every year $40. 000,000 In transportation in free passes that go mostly to the politi cians. The railroads ought to get a lot of favorable legislation for thac amount of money and no one will deny that they do. This does not, however, include the' cost of, maintaining; Im mense lobbies at the session of -every legislature and at Washington. The money which is spent in various ways for political purposes by the railroads, would, if kept in their own treasuries, enable them to carry passengers at 2 cents a mile and make much more money than they do now. NO OVKKrKODl CTKIN The most potent argument in favor of one great manufacturing concern in place of fifteen or twenty small ones is that by consolidation of capital and Interests and more minute divi sion of labor, the cost of production can be cheapened. There is no dout.t that this is true. But It does not follow as a matter of course that the consumer will derive any benefit from the cheapened production: In this age of progress one can scarcely conceive of a state of society where no division of labor takes place. Imagine the waste of time if each person were obliged to produce everything he con sumes. But it must not be forgotten that while by division of labor and exchange of products society is en abled to produce goods in enormous quantities, care must be taken that there be also a division of products which will give each laborer his share of the total production. Deduct reasonable rate of interest upon the capital invested as remuneration to th capitalist, and the remaining value of the total production in a given time will be found to ; be largely in excess of the total wages paid to those who produce. Now, every producer is at the same time a consumer, but he can not consume unless he has the meanj to purchase; and as the producers con stitute the majority, the great ma jority, of the consumers, it follows that if all the wages paid to all the producers will not purchase all the goods produced, there will be an ex cess of goods that cannot find pur chasers. This is the "overproduction" an unfortunate term because it im plies that society has produced more wealth than its members want, when In fact that is never true. "Under consumption" is a better term, because so long as there are unsatisfied want there can be no oversupply of things to satisfy such wants. Do you want an incubator? See advertisement of Sure Hatch Incubator Co. on page 5. Some of the scholars down east among whom are Lyman Abbott and a few others, are indulging in the vain hone that the value of experts in mat ters governmental and educational will gradually come to pervade all grades of society. That will never come to nass until the modern notions that rrovernment exists for the sole purpose of trade and the accumulation of wealth ia abandoned. Society looks at everything from the standpoint, of money: : Not a bill is introduced mio consrress. not an appointment, not a policy adopted but this end in view. What need is there of any sort of ex perts Jn any. line, if by experts are meant scholars who have devoted their lives to study in philanthropy, pure science and education. These men .do not know, how to make money or to help form a government that 13 devoted wholly .to trade. There win be no place.for them in government a long as the republican party remains In power. ,- The fifth wheel to the government wagon which was formerly known as the house of representatives at Wash ington, last week went through with farce a little - more ridiculous , thn common. - It passed a bill repealing tne war taxes and reducing the govern ment revenue . $70,000,000 without a word of debate. The .little clique of republicans that run the house under the Reed rules brought In a rule for bidding any amendments being offered to the bill and appointed two days for debate. The opposition tried to get the rule referred back to the commit tee and permission granted to offer amendments, but the republicans to a man stood by it. The opposition leader then arose and asked unanimous con sent that a vote be taken immediately and no one objecting, the bill; was passed. It created a great sensation afterward. The members of the op position said that if no amendment? were to be permitted that a debate on the bill was simply a waste of time. n which they were lght. We have no more a representative body at Wash- ngton. The house is simply in the control of a half dozen rabid republi can partisans who 'dictate absolutely to the remainder of the body. Those who- are not members of this .cliqu mieht as well go home. They can do .nothing by remaining there. . nresident. McCague bid., Omaha. Neb.l f,Jfn gold and guaranty It 11 rtro- oi imcum imp 'M'r f'-T " The Outlook says that members of city councils who give away the cittes From Texas Editor Independent: I received sam ple copies of The Independent and I like it. If every voter would read The Independent he would be prepared to vote Intelligently A. P. HOWARD. Bonlta, Tex. OLIVES AND PRUNES Something About Two Orchard Flle4 to Thr Promlilnr I'rolU At Corning, Cal., In the great Sacra mento Valley, are two twenty-acr tracts planted to choice fruits. On? of these is set to prunes, the other to olives. Scattered among the trees of both orchards, to give variety, an peaches, pears, plums, apricots and almonds. Trees on both tracts are et 22 feet apart 90 to the acre. The The prune orchard If bordered on sides by a row of large fig trees, which make fine Bhade and bear heavily. Trees are 8 years old and just coming into full bearing. In 1900 they pro duced 8 tons of prunes, at $60 per ton. This orchard faces county road, which Is graded and gTavelled like a boulevard. It also fronts the princi pal business street of the town and 11m just across the street from May wood Addition to the town of Corning. It Is valuable for building lots. Oiw and a third acres diagonally across from Its s. w. corner sold two years ago for $500 cash. It ia onS-half mile from depot, one-half mile from can nery, five-eighths mile from school and one-half mile from drying hous. Forty rods" east and across the av enue from the north end of the prune orchard lies the olive tract. ThU contains the . richest soli in the col ony. Twenty acres planted to Man zanlllo, Nevadillo and Mission olives One-half of these are 7 years old anrt bore first commercial crop last year 260 gallons at $1 per gallon. The bal ance of the trees are younger. Th olive Is of slow growth, but when mature It produces the most valuable fruit that grows. The location and soil conditions of these orchards are most favorable. 110 miles from Sacramento, three mllef from Sacramento river, giving trans portation by boat as well as by rail. Both tracts are level,' without draw or waste land. Trees In this section of the state are free from scale or in sect pest. ' No thunder, wind or du3t storms. A rainfall of 2b inches renders irrigation for slnele crops unneces sary, while 25 to 40 feet wells furnish abundance of ' water for Irrigation where more 'than one crop or where orange or lemon Trees are aesirea. These tracts were purchased and planted for: a home, -and have been carefully . cultivated. ;, Because ; of changes In family they are now "of fered for sale. Prunes. $4,000: olives,