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March 6, 1S02 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 11 a WORLDWIDE PEACE. Czar of Russia Tells How It Can Be Assured. 7AB PKEPAEEDNESS ' MUST STOP. i r, A v Is H A.- ir 71cliolsu II. Declares Great Armies and Navies Mast Be Reduced or a Conflict , In-rolTlnff the: Whole World Mar Come Sooner Than Ex pectedAdvocates General Disarm ament Tho czar of Russia has within the present month declared that great ar mies and navies, instead of guarantee ing the peace of Europe, will be power less to avert the war of the future which may, he adds, involve the whole world. lie asserted that the powers, now staggering under the burdens of overtaxation, are rushing to disaster and that the catastrophe may come sooner than people expect. The ruler of all the Russias sees permanent peace for the world only by general disarma ment, and he declared that he regard ed it as his sacred duty to persuade the nations to disarm. The views of Nicholas II. were ex pressed during the recent maneuvers of the German fleet in the Baltic sea while he was a guost on board Kaiser Wllbelm's yacht Ilohenzollern. The czar was in earnest conversation with the German admiral commanding the fleet, and this conversation is reported In the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which have just reached the United States. The Frankfurter Zeitung is looked upon as the most reliable and honorable newspaper printed in Eu rope, and in consequence of the high position it holds in the political world Its report of the interview between the czar and the admiral has attracted general attention on the continent. The conversation between the czar and the admiral as reported by the Zeitung fol lows: Admiral Your majesty is pleased to confer too great an. honor upon an old sea dog like me. I am delighted to think that your majesty received farorable impression of our army and navy, for, your majesty may rest assured, we strain every nerve to keep the - army and navy abreast cf the times, whirl) is the- ideal thing for every good government to do. The Czar There I differ with you, admiral. According to my own views, the ideal thing to do would be to reduce standing armies and navies lastcad of keeping on increasing their strength. Thi so called preparedness for war arming on a great and ver greater scale is overburdening the peoples of Europe. AH .governments should strive to lessen their expenses for the army and navy. As long as they do the opposite they are simply t'upholding and perpetuating an intolerable situa tion. ,, Admiral A humane , and .extremely generous 'jthought, your majesty, but- 5 The Czar (interrupting) Not a thorht only, admiral. I m devoting my life to the realiza tion of the pe.ee idea. Admiral Indeed your majesty's big hearted endeavors permit of no misinterpretation, but th other powers, your majesty, the other pow ers! Your majesty won't believe for a moment . that the others powers will find it to their inter est to reduce their armies and navies'. The Ciar I am convinced that a condition such s I have outlined will serve the true interest and conform to the just aspirations of all the powers. Admiral May it please your majesty, don't you think that a perfect army and navy, an army and navy ready to move against the enemy at a moment's notice, bo to speak doesn't your maj esty think that such weapons as those constitute the best guarantee of peace? The Czar In order to establish true and perma nent peace it is absolutely necessary that the rations' war preparedness, as constituted by their armies and navies, be limited. The nations durst not go on forever increasing their war strength and heaping up war material. There should be no further progress, so called, in the art of killing men and animals, destroying Ehips, interfering with commerce and laying waste provinces. All that ha3 to stop. The nations want a rest. They have been ciamoring for the cessation of war scares, produced by the announcement that A lias better guns than B or that " is building more and better ships than Y can afford to do. They have demanded a let up in war preparedness for twenty years! On that point the civilized nations are fully agreed, and international policy, my dear admiral, will eventually compel the permanent peace policy, I say, and not armies and navies. Admiral I bfg to assure your majesty that my government, Ml.e that of St. Petersburg, strives for peace most earnestly. To preserve peace is its sincerest wish, believe me, your majesty, but to preserve peace our army and navy must be in the best possible shape. We must increase and aug ment them steaJily to keep pace with the growth of population aid the armament of other peoples. Your maje?ty knows the old saying: Si vis pacem para bcllum. Cod forbid that we increase the army and navy with the idea of carrying war int our neighbors' land. It's all done in the in terest cf peace. For peace's bake we are willing to make any sacrifice. The Czar Ye?, I heard this story before. You compel your people to bleed itself to death to furnish ways and means for keeping up a tremen dous force -n land and sea and for adding to it constantly tn a manner heretofore, happily, un known. Neither Napoleon I. nor Frederick the Great, neither Alexander nor Peter, neither Louis 2CIV. nor our own Catherine, ever dreamed of such armies and navies in wartime as are now estab lished while Europe enjoys the blessings of peace.' But all your, arming and the whole immense ap paratus afoot and afloat, eating millions day by day, don't amount to a row of pins as an actual guarantee of peace. The nations of Europe are today as far as ever from declaring the perma nency of peace. Despite your armies and navies the blessings of a world's peace are not yet with in reach. Admiral True enough, your majesty, armed peace demands great sacrifice. ! We have to pay heavily for the maintenance of peace by a grand army and navy; but, your majesty, the people are glad to contribute to the welfare of Europe even at considerable expense. The Czar Maybe, admiral, but the thing can't go onl The sacrifices demanded of the taxpayer are constantly growing. Financial troubles, owing to the expense of the army and navy, are increas ing day by day. I tell you this thing spells dis aster. The public welfare is threatened at its roots. Admiral Your majesty Is pleased to leave many things, stamping armed preparedness as a blessing to the people, out of your calculations. , Big armies and grand navies compel the nations L to work and strive. They banish idleness and . caU for honest competition. Nowadays every people in Europe is trying to produce the best ' weapon, the finest ships. . The Czar But it's not humanity's business to produce means of destruction. We were put upon this earth to build up, not to do the other thing. All the money spent for the army and navy above s certain necessary amount is money diverted from Its real purpose, money invested in unpro ductive labor. Admiral Your majesty was pleased to admire our fine quick firing guns. You have seen those 5 mysteries of the sea boats that travel under wa ,' ter, the ironclads yonder, our incomparable flotilla - of torpedo boats all these wonders of twentieth i century technique. Are they not evidence of mar- '' velous progress? Doesn't your majesty recognize ' that our people give their best thought, .their brightest endeavors, to the fatherland? I .repeat ' 1 -J rested therein pays abundant? interest" by the maintenance of peace. The people's money could not bt more profitably invested than in securing peace as w do. . The Czar (shaking his head) Indeed, and what about those hundreds of millions you are spend ing for means of destruction, today labeled the "best and latest," while tomorrow you must ad mit that ' they are valueless because something new, something to offset them, was invented? A fine investment, admiral. Admiral I will not deny that we are frequently doomed to disappointment of the sort your maj esty referred to. But if your majesty will permit me I dare say the competition of inventors bene fits our home industry and consequently the peo ple that live by industry and commerce. The Czar Your argument is illogical, admiral. Powder and guns, torpedoes and submarine ves sels, ships not destined for commerce all such things are false values. . The persons engaged in their manufacture contribute neither to the world's betterment nor to their own happiness. Ironclads, grapeshot, swords and lances are not agents of progress by any means. Their wholesale manufacture presupposes s deficit in the making of articles that stand for culture and economical advancement. Besides, it is easy to prove that the system of armed preparedness is largely re sponsible for the financial deprereions that crop fep from time to time in all countries turned into camps. Admiral But, your majesty, what has pre served peice during the last twenty and more years if it was not our grand army? If we hadn't been so well prepared as to number of soldiers and ships, as to the latest pattern of guns and other war material, hostilities might have broken out on several occasions. The Czar Hypothesis, my dear admiral 1 There Isn't an atom of proof for what you say. I am convinced, on the other hand, that your grand collection of war material is a permanent menace to peace. Admiral On that point I beg to differ with your majerty, and the people, I am sure, think as I do. They love the army and value it for the protection it renders the nation. And for these services they are willing to pay. The Czar It is unfortunate that you and armed war preparedness enthusiasts generally will not see things in their proper light. As a matter of fact, standing armies and big navies are obstructing national development everywhere, and the people, staggering under the weight of overtaxation for army purposes, hate and loath the institution, while fearing it at the same time. I teli you, admiral, if things go on as they have been going, the catastrophe which you hope to avert will oc cur sooner than you think. The disaster will be awful. The thought of it might make an honest man shudder. Admiral I beg your majesty's pardon. I am only an old sea dog trying to do my duty. Now, duty, as I take it, compels the state to do every thing in its power to keep the army abreast of the times, increasing and equipping it in the best manner possible, so that, in the hour of danger The Czar No, no, no. It's the state's duty to avert war by otlir means than by laying up war material that must necessarily lead to war. Don't you know thit the war of tho future, of which we stand in such dread, may involve the whole world ? Admiral Is your majesty thoroughly in earnest? The Czar Most thoroughly. I regard it as my sacred duty to secure permanent peace for the world by persuading the nations to disarm. At the same time, I am not blind to the fact that this grand purpose can only be achieved by the co-operation of all civilized peoples. This ended the conversation, the czar rising and giving the signal for the dis missal of the fleet. CENTENNIAL OF HUGO. France to Celebrate Famous Writ er's One Hundredth Birthday. M. Waldeck-Rousseau and his col leagues in the French government have decided to celebrate in a national way the one hundredth birthday of Victor Hugo, which will fall next February, says a Paris dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald. The celebration will be on the largest and most Imposing gcale. Representatives of French art and literature, all of the highest dis tinction, will participate, and the fes tival will be in a special sense such a one as the masses may join in. In making the announcement for the gov ernment the Temps says: "In spite of the reaction against the school which Victor Hugo led, In spite of a tendency to question his original ity and his philosophic authority, he nevertheless remains, both by virtue of the amount of his product and by the brilliancy of his imagination and his unrivaled control of the melodious ca pacity of words, the most imposing lit erary figure in France during the nine teenth century." Doubtless the celebration will lead to a revival of popular interest in Hugo's novels and poems. Literary French men see in him not only the chief of romanticism, but the ablest exponent of socialistic democracy. Tossibly, though, his anticlerical prejudices will prevent the French religious classes from joining heartily in the projected ceremonies. No New Silver at Christmas. No new silver coins will be Issued by the mint this Christmas, the Bank of England being notified recently that, In view of the fact that the present stock of silver coin is large enough, new coins bearing the king's effigy will be issued in the new year, says the London Mail. In future the issue of silver coins will be regulated by the requirements of circulation and not by the desire of the public to possess ncrr silver at Christmas. TWAIN'S TaLE OF WOE The Automobile to the Horse. Go to, thou equine dotard I Boon wilt thou find thy place With other relics of an ancient time. The dodo, the pelicosaurus. The thingumbob and the whatsitsname. An infant am I, 'tis true, But what a hearty, lusty fellow. With a constitution of steel, not mere iron. Thou would'st point with scorn at my lack of ancestry. I would have you know I am the fruit of generations and generations of giant brains. The conception of years of thought and toil have conceived me. As the swift moving railway train has displaced the lumbering stagecoach, So I will displace you. I have my faults, but my virtues o'ertower them. What if I bust a flue Or if my carburettor fails to carburette Or even if I do short circuit occasionally? If I were a horse, I'd have the glanders or a spavin Or the unromantic colic. , Without a cause I'd shy and throw my rider. Dost thou know, foolish horse. Thy days are numbered? For be it known When man has once begun to feel The thrill of life above the wheel Of an automobile He turns his pitying eyes upon thea And murmurs gently: "Thou wer't s good makesk ft In times gone by. I thank thee kindly. But, with the Alsorans, Thou must stand aside. G'lang there I Mark Relates His Experience With a Fast Train. HOW HE CAUGHT 'AN EXPRESS. Humorist Loses His Hat, Coat and Onl j a Little Dlood In a Wild Rush For His Train at Elmira, X. Y. Told Driver of Ilia Carriage to "Whoop Her Up." Mark Twain went to New York re cently with a sad tale of woe, inciden tally with a badly cut hand. It Is a new tale, he says, and "it's not so very fun ny either." He arrived from Elmira on Jan. SO, where, he says, he had a hairbreadth adventure with an express train which nearly put an end to his "perpetual ex istence," says the New York Journal. Mr. Clemens boarded a Madison ave nue car soon after his arrival fvom the Erie railroad station in Jersey City. He was looking at bis right hand, which showed evidences of rough usage. He held it in his left hand. "It's for being overstrenuous," he was heard to say, "but I'm glad I caught the train." "What's the trouble, Mr. Clemens?" asked a friend who happened to be on the car. "Trouble? There's lots of trouble in my family at this moment," the hu morist answered, giving his bruised hand a gentle squeeze with his left. "I have just come down from Elmira. It's a great place to keep away from in winter. Don't mind it in summer, but in winter! Well, just to show the kind of a place it is express trains passing through It never stop long enough to j see whether a fellow gets on or not. "Yesterday an express train was passing through the village I don't know just how fast it was going, but it was going fast enough to kick up the dust. "The driver of the carriage which I had hired when I first reached town and had not been able to lose, try as I would, said it was my train and we had just a minute to drive a mile to the station to get it. " 'Whoop her up!' I said, and with a queer kind of a smile the driver whoop ed her up, and we went sailing. It was the fleetest animal I had ever sat behind and by far the worst. She didn't trot. She didn't run. She whiz zed. We made the station just as the train was pulling out. "I was going to catch that train if I had to lose a leg or an eye or an ear. I was determined to lose something and catch the train. I made a leap from the carriage and a hop for the train, and before I knew it my right foot got mixed up with my left, and a second later my face touched the rail that the train had just passed over. I was up in another second, running down the tracks yelling to the brake man to wait a minute. He must have thought that I was Prince Henry or Grover Cleveland, for he immediately pulled the bell, and the train stopped. "I had caught the train and still had the leg. I lost my hat and lost my coat, and I came out on top save for the cuts in my hand." And here the humorist squeezed his right hand with his left, said he had reached his destination and left the car. WILL USE ANCIENT MACE. Cnrions Scepter to Be Employed In King? Edward's Coronation. Since the lord mayor laid claim to the privilege of carrying the crystal and silver scepter or mace at the coro nation there has been a great deal of interest displayed by Londoners to know the significance of this scepter and what it is like, for it is no exagger ation to say that no one of a hundred thousand was aware that this curious and ancient relic was still in existence. It is indeed a curious thing. The staff is about eighteen inches long and com posed of crystal, cut and channeled with alternate bands of gold and sil ver, tiays the Chicago Record-Herald. The divisions are decorated at inter vals with eight strings of large seed pearls. The coronet is composed of four crosses and four fleurs-de-lis dec orated with three rubies and three sap phires, besides six very large seed pearls. Other pearls are arranged in groups. There is no record of the period when this curious relic was made. It Ijs evi dent that it has been altered from time to time, but in its present shape it has been assigned to the early part of the fifteenth century. This emblem of the lord mayor's authority has not been seen at any state function since the coronation of George IV. It will likely therefore be one of the objects of most curious interest next June. DINNER AT $100 A PLATE Artificial Pine Forest at Delmonleo's Scene ot a Choice ,t Feast. The red room of Delmonleo's trans formed into a miniature bower in - a pine forest was & few nights ago the scene of one ot the most remarkable dinners in the hhrtory of that famous hostelry, says the New York Evening World. r, - - ' ; The name cards for each of the ten persons who attended were painted on oak leaves and the menus on squares of white birch bark about ten by seven Inches in size. The wines were all of the rarest and most expensive, vintages, and the eatables corresponded. The cost of the dinner amounted to not. less than $100 for each of the covers laid and the bill was footed by Mr. George Heye of New York. For the transformation of the room hundreds of pine boughs had been brought from the woods, and these were so adjusted upon the walls, celling and floor of the apartment , as to com pletely conceal the original interior. In visible wires were strung through them and connected with hundreds of small Incandescent light globes which peeped out from the green boughs on walls and ceiling. Each globe was shaped like an orchid and shone with' a pale green light which lent reality to the sem blance to the rare woodland flower. Over the crash that covered the floor had been strewn pine boughs, tangles of thick woodland, moss and bushels of autumn leaves in all their rich tints of scarlet, yellow and gray. A round table eight feet in diameter made of unfin ished oak rose from the litter of moss and leaves, and its stout legs were com pletely covered with green and gray moss. Ranged around the table were the ten chairs, each of which, especially built for this occasion, was made of black birch boughs fashioned in varied rus tic designs and with the bark left on the surface. The center of the table was a mound of maidenhair fern and a quantity of moss and oak leaves. Twen ty or thirty small electric globes were arranged in the midst of these, and in front of each cover was a cluster of thirty of the rarest of natural green orchids that the florists of New York could provide. Mr. II eye's guests comprised Dr, and Mrs. Gannt, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Battles, Mr. Hart, Mrs. Heye and Mr. Josephi. X RAYS FOR CURE OF CANCER Wonderful Claims Made by a Chica go Physician. "We are in the beginning of an era when cancer will have no terrors. In the last year and a half I have treated over fifty cases of cancer, Including many forms of the disease, and have j'et failed to find a single one that , would not yield readily. I am of the belief that the disease can in the fu ture be broken down quickly and sure ly, even when treatment does not begin before the disease is well advanced." This confident statement was made recently by Dr. John E. Gilman, pro fessor In the Hahnemann Merlcal col lege at Chicago, in referring to the re sults cf his experiments with Roentgen rays in the cure of cancer, says the New York Herald. Dr. Gilraan's meth od is simple. The patient is given rem edies which will supply material need ed for the rebuilding of the destroyed tissue, and he is subjected to the influ ence of the X rays every day for a few weeks or months, as the case may be, in order that the cancer may be de stroyed. One case which Dr. Gilman Is treat ing now is that of a Nebraska ranch man. The whole left side of his face was affected by the cancer. The growth pressed on the base of the brain so as to affect his memory, his left eye was closed and his nose forced sideways. There was danger that any moment the walls of some of the main blood vessels in his neck would give way, causing Instant death. He has been under treatment two months, is getting well, and soon will leave the hospital. The tissues are being restored so that he wiil look like himself again when his cure is complete. PARIS SETS STYLE FOR MEN Marie Twain and the Compositor. All compositors, however intelligent, are not gifted with a sense of humor, and professional humorists sometimes suffer severely at their hands. Mark Twain once had a trying experience with a compositor, one of those con scientious compositors who not only know, but know that they know, says Harper's Literary Gossip. Mr. Clemens had received from his publishers the proofs of a story which he considered as funny as anything he had ever writ ten, but on reading the proofs he dis mally discovered that the fun bad been carefully eliminated. Mr. Clemens re turned the proofs, congratulating the compositor upon having consumed "only one week in making sense of a story which he himself had required Embroidered Waistcoats the Proper Tiling For Afternoons. The boulevards of Paris this winter will be ablaze with colored and em broidered waistcoats, the incoming style placing practically no limit on the extravagance permitted in this respect, says the Chicago Record-Herald. The ordinary colored waistcoats will be strictly reserved for morning wear. An embroidered garment of chenille, wool or silk will be de regueur for the afternoon, while for evening the waist coat will be of black or white, plain or embroidered silk. However, black vel vet, plain or very discreetly festooned with light silk, may also be adopted. The prettiest women among the aris tocracy are taking special delight in embroidering their husbands' and sweethearts' waistcoats. A Bisexual Pronoun. A correspondent comes forward to fill a few of the gaps In the English language, says the London Chronicle. He notes the awkwardness caused by the lack of a bisexual pronoun to cover "him" and "her" and the rest. Well, the word "Eurasian," made up of Eu rope and Asia, gives the clew. Why not commingle "he" and "she" and make "heesh?" And"himmer" is the ob vious resultant of "him" and "her," while "his" and "her" precipitate into "hizzer." What do you think of this sentence, which Illustrates the new English: "A wTiter is annoyed when heesh finds hlzzer work treated as pub lic property, rather than hizzers, and instead of being credited to.hlmmer Is pirated bypapers by which heesh is When Hot Winds Were Hot- Remember A little stream of wa ter was running down every corn row in my fields during the drouth last summer while other fields were suf fering very badly, and drying up. Do you realize the difference? In other words my fields produced a fine crop of fully developed seed corn. The other fields produced mostly nubs and some not that. If you wish to raise a full crop this year, you cannot do it by planting drouth-stricken seed. When you plant my Irrigation Grown Seeds you have planted the best, and they will assure you a strong and vigorous stand, with the great vitality which is necessary to secure a large yield of corn. Send four cents for samples. CLARENCE L. GERRARD, Columbus, Neb. An Improved Brake Safety, coupled with speed, is the aim of every great railroad; but above all things safety. No. innovation that gives promise of insuring the safety of passengers or of carrying them more quickly is over looked by the heads of modern rail roads. Every improvement tending to increase speed must of necessity be counterbalanced by some device that will insure safety. Nothing fills these requirements to sr.ch an extent as the air-brake. The latest improvement in this valuable aid to train operation is a high-speed at tachment which, after several years of experimenting, has been brought to such a state of perfection that it may be caUed perfect. The new high-speed brake adopted by the Burlington Route, the first western railroad to put thi3 safety de vice in operation on all through trains, consists of the standard quick-action brake with a pressure-regulating at tachment. It was designed to meet the requirements of trains scheduled at the high average rates of speed now in common service, The value of this improvement may be appreciated when it is realized that the high-speed brake will stop a train in 30 per cent less distance than required with the brake ordinarily in use. While local trains frequently run at very high rates of speed for short dis tances in convenient places, their op eration is under conditions that In volve but little more real risk than the running of a slow freight. With a good roadbed, well ballasted and laid with heavy steel, a clear track and an unobstructed view for several miles, the engineer of a local train may in dulge in a burst of speed at fifty or sixty miles per hour and yet keep his train under control. ; But the trains which require every possible safeguard are not of this kind. They are trains which must run at a high average speed, requiring a veloc ity through yards and over bridges, switches and crossings (where trains are required to be under full control) not heretofore demanded. Safety signals have been located at such distances from danger points as to provide ample space in which to bring ordinary trains to a stop from the customary speed of 25 or 30 miles per hour, but there is no such provision for the present day flyers, which must go through on schedule time, but slightly reducing speed at many places where ordinary trains barely move. It is to meet these new and unusual requirements, which have sprung up within recent years, that the new brake is designed. And it meets them as no other device can. The principle of the new brake is not hard to under stand and it is simple in operation. By means of auxiliary air tanks of high pressure, it exerts a comparative ly high pressure on the wheels at high speed and relaxes the pressure auto matically as the speed slackens. For instance, a train is running at 60 or 70 miles per hour when the engineer sights an obstruction on the track. With the old style brake he could ap ply a pressure of only 70 pounds to the square inch, but with the new ap paratus 110 pounds are available in an instant. As the speed slackens the pressure relaxes, therefore preventing the wheels from sliding, which would flatten them and perhaps cause serious injury. The customary braking force which an engineer may use is about 90 per cent of the weight of the car, but an emergency application of the new brake increases this to about 125 per cent; or, in other words, the pressure of the brake shoes upon the car wheels is about 40 per cent greater. The care ful tests which have been made show that a train may be stopped in 30 per cent less distance than with the next best braking appliance. The Burlington engineer cow .sits in his cab alert and keen-eyed as ever, but he knows that by a mere twist of the wrist he can stop his train in far less time than he could with the old brake. This difference, in many in stances, will amount to the difference between safety and disaster. The pos sibility, of a wreck is lessened in just the degree that the distance In which the train may he brought to a stand still is decreased. Though the installation of the new brake on the Burlington's equipment has been too recent to give facts and figures of its achievements on this road, its record since introduction has been remarkable by reason of its uni formly high efficiency and entire free dom from accident. There is every reason to believe that its adoption by other railroads will have a marked effect in increasing the safety of high speed trains. Our readers intending to put out a strawberry patch should send for price list of irrigated plants to O. E. Cox, Columbus, Neb. Applauds Wheeler. Editor Independent: I am a Ger man, often called a "Dutchman." but I delight in such men as Wheeler. Abolish kings, emperors and slave holders and anarchism will disappear. Hurrah for New Zealandism. NICHOLAS KUTH. Progress, O. BED RUGS DOOMED. ; Of all the worries of the house-keeper this bed busr is the worst. All will be thankful, a remedy which absolutely rids a bouse of all bugs has been found. Mrs. Bertha Fremont, 431 Fourth. Des Momes. Ia., is the discoverer. She wil l send a large sample, enough for three beds, for 15c, o.nH pfpostngetpacking. etc. Her regular CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION; STATE OF NEBRASKA. , OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. . Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Potomac In surance Co. of Washington, in the District of Columbia, has complied with the insurance law of this tate applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue tha bui iness of FireTand Lightning insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor oi Public Accounts the day and year first above written. '. CHARLES WESTON. Aud Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION . STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF .. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. i Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that tho . FisEucn's In surance Co. of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, ha3 complied with the insurance law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903.' Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. ACts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA . OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS . Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the British Ameri ca Assurance Co. of Toronto, in Canada, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the cur rent year ending January 31. 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year fire. above written. CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts. H. A. Babcock, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, in tho state of Pennsylvania, has complied with the In surance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to con tinue the business of Fire and Lightning Insur ance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS , v Lincoln', February 1, 1902. : It is hereby certified that tho Lafayette Firs Insurance Co. of New York, in the state of New York, has complied with the Insurance Law of this etate, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning:. Insurance in this stat s for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the senior the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first abovs written. . CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATEOFjf NEBRASKA . 'OFFICEvOF v if 4 AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the American Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, has complied with the insurance law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the bus iness of Fire and Lightning: insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. v- ".- Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. ' " CHARLES WESTON, . Auditor of Public Accounts. By H. A. Babcock, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION . STATE OF NEBRASKA OFFICE OF V AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Traders Insur ance Co. of Chicago, in the state of Illinois, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this statu for tho current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the sealot the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Auditor of Public Accounts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. ' It is hereby certified that the Greenwich In surance Co. of New York, in the state of New York, has complied with the insurance law of this state applicable to such companies and in therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. . . CHARLES WESTON. Auditor of Public Accounts By H. A. Babcock, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. ' Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Salamandra In surance Co. of St. Petersburg, in Russia, has complied with the Insurance Law of this stato applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the cur rent year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and.year first abova written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln. February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Delaware In surance Co. of Philadelphia, in the state of Penniylvania, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized . to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the current year euding January 31. 1903. . ' Witness my band and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. . CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION; STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF. r AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It i3 hereby certified that the Reliance insur ance Co. of Philadelphia, in the state of Penn sylvania, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is thereforeanthorizedtocontinuethe bus iness of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. - Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written,-- - . ,s, v :c , : . s CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts! -o.. tt a t -nnnnir pnrmtv CERTIFICATE OF ' PUBLICATION STATE OF . NEBRASKA ' " ! OFFICE OF i AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. : , Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the United Fire men's Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, inthestat4 of Pennsylvania, has complied with the Insur ance Law of this state, applicable to such com panies and ia therefore authorised to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31. 1903. ' Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Publie Accounts the day and year first above written. - . . CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H,' A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. - STATE OF NEBRASKA. : - .fsc -.OFFICE OF-; AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. ' . . . v ' - Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co. of New York, in the state of New York, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to each companies and is therefore authorized to con tinue the business of Fire and Lightning Intur. ance in this state for the curront year ending January 31, 1908. :- ' . Witness my hand and the seal ot the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. - , ... CHARLES WESTON. Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. -A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. - OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Co. of New York, in the state of New York, has complied with the In surance Law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to con tinue the business of Plate Glass Insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31. 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Publie Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. " OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the American In surance Co. of Boston, in the state of Massa chusetts, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and and is therefore authorized to continue the bus iness of Fire and Lightning Insurance in this state, for the current year ending January 31. 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON. Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION . . STATE OF NEBRASKA. 5 OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the American Surety Insurance Co. of New York, in the state of New York, has complied with the Insurance Law of this stata applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to eontinue the business of Fidelity and Surety insurance in this Stats for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. " CERTIFICATE OF. PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Western Assur ance Co. of ; Toronto, in the Dominion of Can ada, liasjcomplied with the Insurance Law of this state applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire and Lightning Insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my band and the seal of the Auditor of Publie Accounts, the day and year first above written. " - CHARLES -WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ti. By II. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION, STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It is hereby certified that the Prussian Na tionai. Insurance Co. of Stbttin, in Germany, has complied with the Insurance Law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Fire And Lightning Insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, ISK. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE , OF PUBLICATION, STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR . OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It ia hereby certified that the Lawxers Surety' Insurance Co. of New York, has com plied with the Insurance Law of thi state, ap plicable, to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of , Fi delity Surety insurance in this state for the current year ending January 31, 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. ' CHARLES WESTON. Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF -AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. ;' Lincoln, February 1, 1W2. It is hereby certified that the Nkw York Plate Glass Insurance Co. of New York, has complied with the insurance law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to continue the business of Plats Glass Insurance in this state, for the current year ending January 31. 1903. Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF : AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. ' Lincoln, February 1, 1902. It 13 hereby certified that the Concordia Fikb Insttrancb C". of Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, has complied with the in surance law of this state, applicable to such companies and is therefore authorized to con tinue the business of Fire and Lightning in surance in this state for the current year end. ing Janpary 31, 1903. , Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first abov written. . CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts By H. A. BABCOCK, Deputy. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lincoln, February 1. 19)2, It is hereby certified that the Union Assur. ance Society of London, in England, has com plied with the insurance law of . this state, ap plicable to such companies and is therefore au thorised to continue the business of Fire and Lightning insurance in this state for the cur rent year ending January 31, 1903. - Witness mv hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts the day and year first above written. . . , .... CHARLES WESTON, Aud. Pub. Ac'ts. tt a BABCOCK. Deputy. - Q