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ij-f)w sl V f.'naw v?:;:--- if 6 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT February 20, 1902 : i II- II' si Hi" ! i! Champ Clark's Letter. Special Washington Letter. UILDING castles in Spain Is a very common and harmless mental recreation. President making three years before the date of the election is Just about as common ; and as harmless. Whenever the newspapers run out of anything else to do they try their hands at springing new presiden tial candidates. On the Republican side it seems that Hanna and Roose velt are in the lead, with occasional mention of Fairbanks and Spooaer. It is in the Democratic field where, the nomination prophet gets in his most interesting work. His vaticinations range from David Bennett Hill of New York as one extreme to Benjamin R. Tillman as the other. The latest and most Interesting prognostication as to a Democratic candidate comes in the shape of a news dispatch from Boston and-U to the effect that Hon. William J. Bryan intends to make Tom L. John eon, mayor of Cleveland, the residuary legatee of his presidential estate. If that dispatch is true, it is of vast im portance to the American people. Bry an's influence is still unquestionably great with the rank , and file. Tom Johnson has much strength of his own. Bryan's strength added "to Johnson's would make Tom ' irresistible in the convention and at the polls. Tom Johnson has been justly rated as a big man ever since the Fifty-third con gress. Many persons then believed him a presidential quantity, and his recent career has increased the number of his admirers and adherents. His geographical . location is good first rate. It Is rumored in Ohio that be will run for governor next year. If he does, he will be elected. The Hanna Foraker feud will give him the state. If he is elected governor, he will at once loom up as a president in posse. If he is elected governor and Bryan sup ports him, he will certainly go into the presidential office March 4, 1905. It Isn't English, You Know. If Hon. Charles Fremont Cochran of Missouri is not careful he will render himself persona non grata to both the Republican administration and King Edward VII. He has had the temerity to introduce into the house a resolu tion inviting South Africa's Grand Old Man aye, liberty's Grand Old Man Fresident Faul Kruger, to visit the United States as the nation's guest and appropriating $25,000 to pay the expenses of his visit. Should it pass and should Mr. Kruger accept, the plain people of America, Republicans? as well as Democrats, would give him Buch a welcome as would warm the cockles of his 'great heart; but it will not pass. The Republican bosses will see ' to that. Cochran may Introduce all the resolutions which his generous soul and fertile;; mind can suggest, but this Republican administration will never permit them to pass. It wouldn't be English, don't you know. The People Want It. More and more it becomes apparent daily that the Democratic party is the party of the masses and the Republican- party the party of the bosses. Of late, years there has been an insistent movement among the peo ple In favor of electing United States senators by the people instead of by the legislatures. More than once the national house of representatives has voted to submit a constitutional amend ment to that effect. It was always per mitted to sleep the sleep of death in the senate the millionaires' club. Dem ocrats declared for it in their last na tional platform. If submitted to the people, it would be adopted with a whoop. At last the Republicans have shown their hand. It happened in boss ridden Ohio, where the Republican duumvirs Hanna and Foraker divide the Buckeye world between them. The resolution came up in the Ohio house of representatives, which is over whelmingly Republican, and was kill ed with dispatch if not with neatness. Straws show how the wind blows. Burdens of Taxation. As a ; philosopher and logician the Philadelphia Inquirer is a dandy yea, verily, .a Jeemes Dandy. Just for amusement read this chunic of wisdom from that source. It is rich, rare and racy. The Inquirer says: "Very few people have felt the war tax. Verj few of them have known they were taxed. Indeed, many of them never .were. Why, therefore, simply because there is a surplus should the revenue be cut .off? Can we not use it to ad vantage?" .Yes, of course we can. We might squander a large portion ol It in buying flannels for our new wardi In the trppics or fans for our old wards In Alaska. There is no trouble to find ways to use it; quite the contrary. But, pray, whose money is it? The people's, and the people want the taxes cut down. They are willing to spend all the money necessary to support the government liberally, but they do not desire to be mulcted beyond that. And they are right, or all the political econ omists from Adam Smith to the pres ent time are wrong. The truth Is that many of the wai taxes were burdensome and vexatious. Stamp taxes have never been popular in this country ' since the day of George Grenville and his stamp tax act. - Many of 'the features of the war stamp tax caused lots of trouble and produced little revenue. For instance, the tax on telegrams was a nuisance and exasperating. It was the intent of congress that the telegraph com panies should pay it, but they did nothing of the sort. They shifted the tax to their patrons' shoulders. The stamp tax on deeds, mortgages and contracts was a source of irritation to the people. The stamp tax on patent medicines was unjust, being out of all proportion to the value of smaller ar ticles sold by druggists. And so on to the end of the chapter. If The Inquirer will put Its ear to the ground, it will ascertain that : the body of the people want these taxes repealed, ' and their repeal will most probably prove to be the most popular act of this congress. Where the Government Loses. . Hon. William - Sulzer, the gallant young Democrat from New York, de serves great credit for introducing a bill to force the treasury officials to de posit public funds in banks which will pay 2 per cent on quarterly balances. Mr. Secretary of-the Treasury Shaw admits that had such a law. been in ef fect the government would have real ized the handsome profit of $32,000,000. Why should not the government make that profit? The conduct by Demo crats of Missouri of the financial af fairs of the state for the last thirty years dertjonstrate? what can be ac complished by an honest, economical and. Intelligent management of public funds. The law in that state requires that the state treasurer let the funds to the banks which will pay the lar gest per cent on daily balances after having given ample and approved se curity. The scheme has worked like a charm in Missouri and has largely aug mented the public revenues. Why will a law that works well in Missouri not also work well when applied to federal balances? Echo answers, Why? Not a Happy Choice. Wonders will never cease. If Gen eral Samuel Pearson, the Boer rep resentative in this country, is not misinformed, the bloody '; Britishers have opened up a regular British army post at the port of Chalmette! One would naturally conclude that Chal mette is the last spot on the American continent where the English would feel at home, for it was there that one An drew Jackson in twenty-seven minutes, with a handful of raw militia, killed 2,600 Englishmen, the very flower of the Peninsular army which had snatch ed the iron crown of Charlemagne from the brazen brow of Napoleon. That that spot of all others should be select ed as a base of English operations against the heroic Boers is the very irony of fate. General Pearson begs the president either to break up this English rendezvous or to permit him to proceed against it, and General Pear-r son is right in his request, provided he is correct as to. the fact. This is a neutral nation, at least it is supposed to be, and should enforce the neutrali ty laws without partiality. Schwab Should Write a Book. That superemlnent member of new American aristocracy whose coat - of arms is $ Charles M. Schwab is Cer tainly having an uproarious and royal time in Europe. The man who can break the Monte Carlo gambling bank, be received with eclat by the venerable Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary and while away a happy half hour with Edward VII. is quite likely to arouse the jealousy and envy of all flunkydom. It is not known whether Mr. Schwab is a man of literary merit or not. If he is, he ought forthwith to is sue a volume entitled "Crowned Heads I Have Met" and should be particular not to omit a description of the Prince of Monaco, who is perhaps the most unsavory potentate in Europe, Asia or Africa since the death of the dissolute Alexander, ex-king of Servia. Mr. Schwab can add largely to the gayety of nations if he will explain in detail how he managed to break the gambling bank. Perhaps that was what he told Edward VII. Playing Politics and Horse. Brother Babcock 13 "sly, sir, devilish sly," like Major Joe Bagstock, if not "tough, sir, devilish tough," like that doughty warrior. For more than a year the Wisconsin congressman has been cavorting around, pawing up the ground and vexing the circumambient atmosphere with declarations as to what he would do with the trusts. He even Introduced a bill or bills to cut down the tariff oh certain articles. The other day he seized a moment when two Democratic members of the ways and means committee were at sent to move to tack his tariff reduc tion bill on the war revenue repeal bill. Brother Eab and Brother Jeemes Tawney of Minnesota, both Republic ans, voted fcr it, but of course it was defeated, and defeated by Republic ans, the vote standing 7 to 0, just as Bab knew it would be defeated when he offered it. It is said now that Bab will set up the claim that Republicans could and would have carried it had the two Democrats been present and therefore that the Republicans should have the credit, and It is said, further, that Brother Bab was playing sharp pol itics. Yes, It was sharp politics -so sharp that it will fool nobody. Our 1902 catalogue of Nursery Stock and Seeds is a money-saver. Get it. Seed potatoes, $1.00 to $1.50 bushel; apple, trees, 5 to 6 ft, $12.00 per 100; plum trees, $10.00 per 100; 60 varieties strawberries; seed corn. We pay freight. Send for catalogue, 52 pages, free. Everyone answering this ad. and cut this out and send 10c silver can select 20 cents' worth of seeds from our book.. J. M. T. WRIGHT NURSERY CO. Portland, Jay Co., Ind. ,.,i..jii,jM,,toiMi,,lir-- I Behold The Hen Doth Lay An Egg. I tier part oi tne wont is aono, men we tarn care ei tnac egg wiia we tfICC&&I til Incubators and Brooders V M tejpg ta a. rong, 'vigorous. bread-wlnn i ri wtwiinar otiiok-Mi will mrk tnr m. Hw-lixr .mnml th f.rm rudr Hftra'a something new in ctlrK-ue 6 different editions, la 6 different laeguages. ngUeh edition tent for 4 cents; otaers free. Covers the pealtry question like blanket. DES MOINES INCUBATOR CO., Bex Dee Melaet, Ia..er Bex J BiftsJo.N.Y. If Brother Bab is in earnest, why did he not offer his amendment when there was a full attend ance ,of Democratic members of the committee? lie not only played poli tics; he played horse. But the action of Messrs. Babcoek and Tawney shows that the people of the northwest are waking up on the trust question. It was hoped that Bab was a bono fide recruit to Democratic, ranks, but his sharp political play . will cause men to think of the old saying, "Timeo Da naos ferentes dona" (I fear the Greeks bearing gifts). Let us hope that Bab is not a quitter, for be it remembered that in the dog days of 180$ at St. Lou is that great Republican patriot, Hon. Sam Fessenden of Connecticut, assured that other great Republican patriot, Hon. Joseph II. Manley of Maine, that "God hates a quitter." That was up on the sad but memorable occasion when Joe hamstrung Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed as a presidential candU date by vociferously and prematurely admitting from the housetops that Mr. Reed had not a ghost of a show for the nomination. A Visit to Chillicothe. Recently I lectured at Chillicothe, O., and had the good fortune to be intro duced to the audience by that sterling young Democrat John Jacob Lentz of Columbus, who is now in temporary retirement because by his bold and able advocacy of the people's cause he had made himself peculiarly obnoxious to the Ilaiina gang. Lentz as long as he was in congress was a sharp and painful thorn in their sides. He is making a valiant fight to oust the Re publican who holds the certificate. If Le succeeds, he will be the eighth wonder of the world, No doubt he will be returned to the next congress, for such a man as he is cannot be kept down, but in essaying to get justice in his contest he is attempting the impos sible. It does a patriot good to visit Chilli cothe. It was the habitat of Governor Allen, popularly nicknamed "Rise Up" William Allen, who was a United States senator before the civil war and whose eftigy in Parian marble adorns Statuary hail. There never was a more honest man than "Old Bill" Allen, and there have been few abler. Chillicothe was also once the home of Allen Q. Thurman, "the Old Roman," worthy to have been the chief magistrate of the republic. It is the present home of Hon. Lawrence T. Neal Larry Neal who is known from sea to sea as a man of capacity and fidelity to prin ciple, a Democrat who is not afraid. So when in Chillicothe I felt that "it was good to be there." I once heard that brilliant Democrat Henry St. George Tucker of Lexing ton, Va. say jocosely that in his state the graves of presidents are so numer ous that a person can hardly take a stroll without stumbling over one. It is a good deal the same way with gov ernors' graves at Chillicothe. Five of Ohio's chief magistrates sleep there Allen, Tiffin, Worthington, McArthur and Massie. A gentleman told me that some years ago when Mr.'" Van' Meter was a candi date for governor a little girl naively remarked: "I do hope Mr. Van Meter will be elected. Then we will have six governors up on the hill" "up on the hill" meaning in the graveyard. It Is astonishing to think how many big men Democrats, Whigs and Re publicans Ohio has produced, and they are not all "up on the hill." Some of them are still tabernacling in the flesh. Senatorial Dignity. The naughty manner in which sena tors are behaving and the way in which they hurl epithets at each oth er's head must give great pain to a ver bal precisian like Senator George Fris bie Hoar. The capers they are cutting: aud the language they'are using would lead a blind man to think he was in the house instead of the senate. Henry Cabot Lodge pronounced one of Sena tor Teller's statements as "silly." Sen ator Money in open senate exclaimed, "Let the Philippines go to the devil!" Senator Teller complained that Sena tor Beveridge had accused him of ly ing. Now comes Senator Tillman and calls Beveridge a will o' the wisp. But the worst break was when Senal tor Foraker intimated that were it not for Senator Tillman's senatorial privilege his words would endanger his neck by hanging for treason, where upon the venerable and cherubic Sen ator George Frisbie Hoar jogged For aker's memory about, certain treasona ble language which he had once used and which would have jeopardized his neck had the law been strictly con strued, all of which. I suppose, demon strates that the senate is the most dig nified body on earth! The house rare ly acts in such an unseemly manner. President Roosevelt's pronunciamen to to the effect that no government em ployee shall directly or indirectly ap ply for increase of salary has created a great uproar in and about Washing ton, where employees most do congre gate. They ' claim that it denies to them the right of petition, and they are not at all mealy mouthed about blurting out what they think. Teddy will probably find that it is easier to Issue an order cf that sort than to en-fo-ce it unless he proceeds resolutely to firing the recalcitrants. There Is a vast army of them, constantly and rap idly growing vaster. They now num ber about 300,000. These, with their kith, kin and . hangers on, swell the numbers affected Into the millions, many of them women, who will talk. The president has tackled a big job. , - Put Out the Torch. '(The lofty light In the hand of the Goddess of Liberty, standing in upper New York bay, Is to be permanently extinguished on March 1 because of lack of , congressional appropriation. Press re port.,' ; ' ". ' , .. Put out the torch! Why should it blaze, - When Liberty herself has fled? ' Why should the glory, of its rays , . . r O'er subject lands be shed, ,,. ;. . To light the deaths of those who fall, While on her sacred name they call?, ; ';- That light appeared td Washington, A guiding beacon held on high. ; He saw it flaring like a dawn Across the Eastern sky; - ' , - And many a dying soldier's sight . ,: Beheld its glory, and grew bright. Ourfathers loved It; By its gleam ' '" ' Across the wilderness they pressed, O'er mountain,-prairie, hill and stream - Into the boundless West, ; . To build a state where men should be, . As their own air, forever free. It shone o'er Lincoln. To uphold And keep it blazing in the sky, : And. tides of civil conflict rolled " : And heroes dared to die; ; Till he proclaimed unto the earth That Freedom had another birth. . But blot it out. It has no, place Where Greed has come to claim the throne. Why" light the pallid, lifeless face . ; From which the soul has flown? ., 'Tis for the free, the just, the brave. ' ... It must not shine upon a slave. We need our money now, to chain Our subjects in an alien land; To send our envoys o'er the main To kiss . a monarch's hand. We have none left that we can spare On sentiments we do not share. To royal friends across the sea Why should we longer give offense, By keeping up this mockery, This vulgarvain pretense?- Ourselves why seek to thus deceive By this transparent make-believe? 'Tis Mammon rules the land today, Our emperor without a crown. Erect hi3 statue in the bay And tear the other down. Place in his hand a dollar sign i , And let that o'er the waters shine. , Then may the monarch, prince and lord, Who come to us across the foam. Know that we are in sweet accord . , And feel themselves at home. Our aristocracy . of gold ; Will join their, rank and titles old. uSpeak not. to us of Nineveh, ; Of Rome, or Babylon, or Tyre. s &sty not we tread the ; self -same way .-iiV.T Where dynasties expire. : j- For nations rise, and nations fall. . ; -Great Baal is reigning over all. ; . (. Prate hot to us of some ted. hell, rW : Some revolution of the poor. 'Tis far away and all is welt, ioa We are,. at least, secure." .,Qur children reap What we have sown? - fi,JLt them keep ward upon their own. lfIt is a menace and a threat, x That flaming torch. Why let it burn? r .i-xis A rebuke to those who get ''The wealth their brothers earn. ' ' 'Our colonies its glow may see. ;i - Blot Out the torch of Liberty, ' ! J. A. EDGERTON. '" ; (Mr. Edgerton, who is at present a writer on , the Denver Daily News, is the secretary of the pop ulist national committee, He was in the work here from the beginning and is known all over the west . as the poet of populism. Ed. Ind.) & jt vt HARDY'S COLUMN. lt The Yankee is getting to be just about as foolish and soft pated as any of the old country people. Look at the amount of the poor men's tax money they are expending to enter tain a German prince and witness the crowning of an English king. Neither of those men have ever done anything worthy of historical record; Edward is a good sample of his mother's uncles drinking, gambling and run ning with forty. is their ground of highest honor. Little Henry may not b quite so bad yet. His grandmother was a decent queen, but Ed is his cousin.' What has either of them ever done that is noble? Not as much as to kill a rattle, snake or a skunk. Ten times more noble is either President Kruger or Booker Washington. We would go ten times as far to see either of those men. Not In Her Line. "But, oh, can't you learn to love me?" 'No; I never could study." Brooklyn Life. r.l . Imr-r . lU.ilWIH . 1 1 1 1 There is now no necessity for crowd ing into cities or overcrowding any country. When sail ships and camels' backs were the only means of trans portation and travel it was different. Previous to 1830 a large proportion of the inhabitants of the. world,. lived in sight of navigable water. Sea coast, lake shore and river banks- were crowded with population. Railroads in a measure have opened up Vast pro ductive territories" that before were considered uninhabitable. "The work is not half done "yet. The first im provements were turnpikes and canals. In a majority of cases these have given place to railroads. Yet cities are. more and more crowded. Pesti lence and famine once dispersed an-., depopulated cities, but the laws of health have been so thoroughly studied and put Into force that epidemics are seldom heard of in civilized communi ties. And as for famine, steamships and railroads have opened the supplies of the world to the most remote popu lation. It seems strange that any full grown human being should prefer to wade in the slums of cities, feeding on garbage, rather than take to the coun try and build a home. A queer case in Christian science healing was brought to light In Michi gan the other day. A firm believer In that healing science was at work re pairing a ra!Iroa,d track. As a result of neglect or accident bis foot and ankle were smashed and his leg had to be amputated below the knee.. ; He sent word to his boss that he would be back to work In a few. days. Every when he dressed his leg it the new leg was growing any. The first thing he did after getting on his crutches was to visit the head divine healer, living several miles away. He told the healer he had come to have him put on a new leg and asked if he could do it. "Of course," said the healer. "I can do it, but the everlast ing result must be considered. If I put on a new leg you can use it only a few years and when you come to die and be resurrected you will come up with three legs and you will have to carry them all through eternity. You better get along with one leg for a little while than to be bothered so long with three." The man went home and is cheerful and happy with one leg. It is a fact that a large factory can turn out large quantities of goods at less cost per piece than a small fac tory can. The trusts are dividing up their work and each factory makes but one things Department stores seem to be on the increase, while depart ment factories are on the decrease. Watch factories have been conducted on this plan for years. ' Each room turns out but one kind of wheels and the men in one room cannot step over and work in any of the other rooms without instructions how to work and days of trial. They are making loco motives In the same way. Iron and steel works are divided the same way. Locomotives and bridges are made and shipped to Siberia and the differ ent pieces are made in different fac tories miles apart. They cannot di vide up the sugar and oil refineries In that way, for the product is not made up of parts. There are two ways for the government to keep trust prices within reason. One is to limit price3 by law and the other is to establish government factories. A million of doll rs will establish as good a sugar or oil refinery as can be found: Four or five millions will establish a good iron and steel works. The government can, pay good wages and then sell products at actual cost. The salt trust puts up salt to an unreasonable figure. The packing men bought one cargo of Lisbon salt, but now are run ning their own salt wells and making their own salt. Monopolies must be kept within reason by law or else the government must start competition. It is so with railroads. They must be kept within reason by law or else the government must build a few roads. There is no doubt that the consolidation of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific, with the Burlington and Atlantic roads from Chicago will greatly lessen the cost of country. Canada has a through oad on the north and the Union and Central . Pacific, ' together with the Northwestern, Lake Shore and ; New York Central form a through line on the south. , Wa well remember when, the Lake Shore road undertook to con nect the different pieces of road so they' could run the same train f rotn Buffalo to Chicago, what a muss it stirred up. It was called the Erie & Ashtabula railroad war.. There is on thing that can be done at once that will work good to the-' common peo ple and reduce the many .millions of profits gained by the tTusts and that is to take the high' protective tariff off of all trust goods. - ' , i Let us take a sail on the Mediter ranean sea. The name signifies be tween, and is between Europe, Africa and Asia ' We will sail east through the only open water door,r the Strait of Gibraltar, once called the Strait of. Hecules. Africa is on our right and Europe on our left, tipped with an English fortress high up on the rocks In ancient times but little business was done through this narrow outlet. The most of the trade was with coun tries east. We will sail along the north coast of Africa, past ancient Cesarea and Carthage to the mouth of the river Nile. This river rises several hundred miles to the south in the Mountains of the Moon and its mouth Is near four hundred miles from the Atlantic coast. It haa Its annual overflow season which Is the only source of irrigation in the rain-, less country of Egypt. A high dam is being erected far up the river and' It ; is expected that a large portion of the water will be turned out of its nat ural channel, to the west, onto the great Sahara desert. One of the an cient lines of commerce was up the Nile about a hundred miles, then on camels' backs to the Red sea, thence around to the Indian ocean and up the Euphrates or Indus rivers. Up to-the discovery of America it appears that the people of the Mediterranean knew nothing of the country East India. They supposed they had discovered the east side of that country and called the people Indians and that name has stuck to them. Sailing a few miles further east wa come to the Isthmus of Suez, which is the only land con necting link between Africa and Asia. This narrow strip of land was an other high way of commerce to those who drove camels all the way through Arabia to the Euphrates. They now have a ship canal across from the Mediterranean to the Red sea. About half way up the east end of the sea we come to Java, where we must land if we would go over to Jerusalem and the Dead sea. It is quite evident that the river Jordan once emptied Into the Red sea, but a huge upheaval dammed it up and formed the Dead sea. This ; eruption undoubtedly caused the shower of fire and brim stone upon the cities, of the plains. We will sail a little further north , to Tyre and Sodom, Here is the gateway to another commercial tract. Freight was taken upon the backs of camels. and carried across the; Syrian desert by way of Damascus and Pal my ra. to the Euphrates, thence down the river to Babylon. Still further to the north there is another commercial water highway thrbugh the Dardinell, Into the Black sea, thence east along the southern short two or .three hundred miles, then on camels' backs to th? Tigris, thence down to Bagdad and the Euphrates. . Sdncato lour ISoivela With Ccrct. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. I0c.25 IfO n,r r'-rto-fiurrfimiirnoner. How An Tear akldxtey Dr. Hobbs' Sparapus PUlscure all kidney Ills. Sam plefree. Add. Sterni-p !fwi-r 0iciroorN. Y No, Thank You Editor Independent: I beg to offer a suggestion which, if acted upon, will bring you abundant returns (finan cially), which no doubt is the great desideratum. The advice I would proffer is that you change your base of operations. Instead of tbe Ne braska "field," where little can be ac complished even could your influence, sway Nebraska, bring your outfit and establish a publication similar to the present need not vary a jot or tittle in this vicinity, New York, Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts or New Jersey preferably New York City. There is not the least doubt that it would be well sustained from the start and prove a money-getter to the amount of six figures numerically in a less period than two years; It would re-, quire no greater outlay in cost of pub lication than where now . issued and no doubt would hold its present west ern patrons and increase a thousand fold in the eastern states. Its influ ence would be felt early In the next presidential campaign and as a dis turbing or dangerous factor would speedily be eliminated. How?- By the method that has never in these latter days been known to fall SUB SIDIZED! T. S. FARLOIt. Whitestone, N. Y. . . (The Independent felt flattered by Mr. Farlor's letter until it reached the last sentence. There is doubtless a great field for a true reform paper in Gotham, and the wonder is that no one has been enterprising 'enough to oc cupy it. The Independent is not ready to move, however; ; its growth is gratifying, and Uncje Sam's postal service (barring some of. Madden's rul ings) could scarcely be' better. Every mail "brings in scores' of subscribers from 'the eastern states.? Subsidies, did vou sav? No. thank you. The editor had a subsidy shovM under his nose last winter, and that is what he said. Ed. Ind.) Read this paper carefully and then hand it to a neighbor. Ask him to subscribe; or better send for a block of five "Liberty Building". Postals and get up a club of subscribers. There is no other way in which you can do so much to advance the ' cause . of 4 good government. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT In th District Coart of Lancaster County, Ne braska. 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C5c $1.00 Pinkham's Compound. ...... .65c $1.00 'Kilmer's Swamp Root.. 65c $1.00 Scott's Emulsion. 5c $1.00 S. S. S,. .............65c Syrup of Figs . ............ lc Meadows Malted Milk 35c Castorla, Dr. Pitcher's Formula.... 13c To each purchaser of $1 worth of goods we give a substantial present there Is no, prescription too difficult for us to .fill . and we'll s save you money. Come In and get acquainted. Add 25c for boxing where goods are Shipped. , 12th and O. STS., Lincoln, Neb. . Low Settlers Rates During March and April, 1902, the Northern Pacific will sell ONE WAY SECOND. CLASS SETTLERS' tickets from eastern terminal points St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland, Duluth, and the Superiors at greatly reduced rates to nearly all points on Its main line, branches and connecting lines, west of North Dakota. These tickets to Northern Pacific points will be good for stopover west of Hope, Idaho. . For further detailed Information about these rates call upon or write to O. D. Rogers, D. P. A., N. P. R., Des Moines, la., or address Chas. S. Fee. Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, Nor. Pac. Ry.. St. Paul, Minn. Some of the important valleys reached by the Northern Pacific are the Yellowstone, Gallatin, Madison. Deer . Lodge, Bitter Root and Clark Fork in Montana, the Palouse, Bl? Bend, Colvllle, Clearwater, Walla Wal la and Yakima in Idaho and Washing ton, the Puget Sound and Britsh Co lumbia regions and the Oregon coun try. It is a vast empire where climate soil and other advantages make of it a favored lan I. The liutnpfcrey Hardware Co. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Notiee is hereby siren that the undersigned bare formed a .corporation under the laws of the state of Nebraska. 1. The oame of the corporation it THE HUMPHREY HARDWARE COMPANY. 2. The principal place of transaction the business of the corporation is the city of Lin coln, Nebraska. . The general nature of tbe basinesa to be transacted by tbe corporation is tbe buying and eelliosT at wholesale and retail hardware of erery lcind and description, tools, implement and cutlery of erery sort, irrain and seed of erery description, carriages, baggies, wagons, and all manner of rehiclea used in the trans portation or conreyance of persons and prop, arty. The doinj? and transacting of a general storage business. The purchasing, ownmg and leasing of such real estate and personal prop erty as in the judrmeut of tbe board of direc tors of said corporation, or the general man ager of its business, shall be neeessary or expe dient in the transition of its business, and tbe sale, conreyance or other disposition of any or all of said property. 4. The capital stock of the corporation is thirty thousand dollars, dirided into shares of one hundred dollars each. The stock is to be paid iu full at . the time the corporation is au thorized to commence business. 5 The corporation commenced on the 10th day of February J 902 and terminates on the 10th day of February 192i, unless sooner terminated by the action of a majority in numbers and amount of its capital stock, or by operation of 0. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the corporation shall at any one time subject itself shall not exceed one half of its capital stock. 7. The affairs of tbe corporation are to be conducted by a board of three directors, and it officers are to be a president, secretary and treasurer. Dated this 10th day of February. 1902. SARAH M. HUMPHREY. JULIA H. HERRICK. CORA H. WHEELER. eS tC eS tjj? at at tt rf " WABASH ! Jit RAILROAD J & New Rails. New Equipment. J Shortest and Quickest. t Most Popular Route. Omaha to St. Louis. Leave Omaha (Union Station) v . 5:15 p. m.; arrive St. Louis J (Union Station) 7:00 a. m. J Running on its own rails from Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago to Detroit, Toledo & and Buffalo. & Reduced rates to all winter resorts of the south on sale jt dally. Home-seekers' excur- slon one fare plus $2 round J trip to most all points'ln the v & south, on sale 1st and Sd Tues- & jt day each month. & For rates, descriptive matter and all information, call at & Wabash City office, 1416 Far- num st., Paxton Hotel block, "t or write Harry E. Moores, gen'l agent - Passenger Dept., Omaha, Neb. J &jt.&JtJtjJ& tj&j t TURKISH LOST MANHOOD ft a DOM CO the weak man's friend. bArOULLO A POSITIVE guaran- . tee always gireu with erery fi order, that they will do just what we claim in curing exual weakress, nerrousnsss, and any and all weakness arising from early abases. ; Our medicine will make you happy, fl boxes for IS will cure any case, no matter how looar standing. Single boxes $1. Bent free of charge in plain wrappers. If not thoroughly con rinced as to your fondttion send for symptom blank before ordering. Cor reapondence strictly confidential. Ad dress HA UN'S PHARMACY. IBM Farnam bt . Omaha. Neb. L.-jarftTa Sold by B. O. Knstka. Lincoln, Neb. St aC aj aC et at jt HOMESEEKERS jt EXCURSIONS & via 'J THE NORTH & WESTERN LINE ! ! February 18. J To points in Nebraska, Wyom- & ing, Minnesota, Wisconsin. 3 Northern Michigan, Arizona, , Indian Territory, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, North and . . South Dakota. ; ; The Best of Everything. V v - ' - ' J zr