March 6, 1S02
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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a WORLDWIDE PEACE.
Czar of Russia Tells How It
Can Be Assured.
7AB PKEPAEEDNESS ' MUST STOP.
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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
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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.
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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. -
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