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LINCOLN'S PREMIER SUIT Department Special attention paid to mail orders Elegant new Blouse Suits for $15.00 You never saw better value offered any where than this one. A handsome "suit made of basket weave cloth, 5 gore skirt with graduated flounce, new blouse jacket, double breasted, skirt effect on jacket, colors gray and tan, a splendid 0 I C f n 118.00 value, sale price ...... 0 IJiU U graduated flounce an ele- C7 Kfl gant value, sale price....... ..v liwU Taffeta Silk Dress Skirt with deep net flouace, finished with 4-inch pleating and solid juby trimming, all " lengths, a great' value for ,OQ QC $15.00. Sale price.... .. .... .OuiUU Petticoats, Etc. All the "new styles in adjustable yoke underskirts, a complete showing. SPECIAL 75 Mercerized Petticoats, all high grade numbers, deep accordeon pleated flounces, Vandyke point ' effects, trim- 38 Beautiful Suits Made of pebble cheviot, 5-gore skirt, . .graduated flounce, taffeta silk stitched ' , band on jacket, taffeta silk - vest, comes in black only, fl I O C fl well worthy of a $20 price. . 0 I UiUU Two Dress Skirt Bargains 60 dress skirts of all wool black cheviot, trimmed with taffeta silk and broad cloth squares, tailor stitched TWO BIO SILK WAIST. VALUES. $6.50 i SILK WAISTS FOR' $3.95 - 55 Silk Waists.made in taffeta silk, black effects, come hemstitched &hd tucked front, tailor stitched strap to center, . . caugnt with crochet ring, i tucked sleeves, also a line of QC fancy colors, worth to $6.50. . .OOiD J med with juby edging; colors cerise, helio aridvrpurples, O I QQ worth to $3.5o;. . : :;,c. 0 I JQ 50 Walking Skirts made of basket cloth with 5-gore flare, neatly tailor stitched, come in colors. Oxford grey and blue, a remarkable val- 01X0 ue, at ... HOU 75 Full Gibson Waists, made with moire silk yelour, tailor stitched pleats, box pleat trimmed with black crochet but tons, - stylish "collar; colors, - v plain black or plain white, OC jlh splendid value OuiUU Fitzgerald Dry Goods Co., ' Lincoln, Neb. Send in a Hail Order. Mention the Independent. Independent Readers Working Liberty Building Cards Going at a Host Encouraging ,:. Rate. Letters From the Front v; STATE COMniTTEEHEN SLOWER Not as Loyal in Their Co-Operation With the State Chairman as They Should be ' ' ' Notwithstanding the busy season of the year the, readers of The Indepen dent have been industriously at work during the past week selling Liberty Building postals and extending the circulation of this paper. The loyal support they are giving indicates a general increase in the interest taken in political affairs and points to one of the most vigorous campaigns this fall ever known in the history of the state. . They realize more than ever before the dangers ' of imperialism, trusts, and plutocratic control. The machinations of the meat trust to control the price of live meat and also the selling price, by which they have made this staple of life a luxury and placed it beyond the reach of com mon people has caused some serious thoughts in the minds of the laboring men in large cities." Many letters re ceived at this office indicate that a little more oppression will have the result that it has in the past in so many other countries change the ad ministration. Readers of The Inde pendent have known for a long time what must be the ultimate result of present political policies. They are now helping to spread the information by increasing the circulation of this paper and helping to raise a fund sufficient to construct a permanent home for its use. The outlook for the success of the undertaking is most en couraging. More than half of the cards necessary to be sold to raise the fund have beeen ordered. It is time that a number of cards will be returned unsold, but apparently the loss on that account will not be large. The state committee is having more difficulty, in disposing of the 2,500 sold to them than was originally antici pated. Figures show that committee men are not as industrious or ener getic in,the cause of good government on the ' average as are the men in the ranks, the plain readers of The Independent. Of 2,500 cards sent to readers of The Independent not one tenth of them ' are returned unsold. Of the same number sent to state committeemen nearly half will come back. Of course the chairman of the cpmmittee then sends them out to other members of the committee and in that way hopes eventually to dis pose of .the entire number purchased for the committee. This is an illus tration of one of the sources of weak ness In the reform ranks . at election time. Committeemen who do not join with the chairman in his efforts In one line ordinarily cannot be de pended upon to co-operate in other lines. . Committeemen were requested to sell the block of five cards sent them at $1 for each card $5 In all and send the; money to the state ' chairman. He' would pay $3 of thu amount to The Independent for the block of five and , put the remaining $2 in the party treasury. If all com mitteemen had joined with him in the work it would have raised a consider able sum for the campaign fund. Many have done so, but there are ethers who should. I The county conventions will soon be held and The Independent hopes to have several of Its readers as agents selling blocks of five at these conven tions. If you expect to attend the county convention, why not send for a block of cards to take with you. Take them with you to the precinct caucus. 3 Both occasions wll be a good place to dispose of them. Do not be afraid to undertake it. It -costs you nothing: to try. Send your order for Here is what others are doing: Louis Thoelecke, Sutherland, Neb.. 5 J. J. Carkadon, Neb. City, Neb 5 A. L. Entrekin, Aurora, Neb 5 John B. Anderson, Funk, Neb.... . 5 G. M. White, Sutton, Neb. G Henry Minderman, Aurora, Neb... 5 J. L. Coon, Burwell, Neb.......... 5 E. T. N. Alford, Cairo, Neb 3 Robert N. Simonton, Lawrence, Neb. 5 J. N. Patterson, Volney, Ark 5 S. H. Kintsel, Stamford, Neb 5 Mrs. A. Younkin, DuBois, Neb.... 5 W. Marion McCarty, Rep. City, Neb.10 W. S. Wrighton, Stella, Neb 5 Dr. J. Hollister, . Greenwood, Neb.. 5 J. T. Montgomery, Grant, Neb 5 Robert F. Kingsley, Madrid, Neb.. 5 J. H. Kennedy, Ceresco Neb C J. R. Porter, Wetfciore, Colo 5 J. W. Calver, Ainsworth, Neb 5 H. Selby, Imogene, Ta.T. . . ........ 5 J. M. Dimmick, Macon, Neb 5 T. J. Cooper, St. Marys. Ky 5 S. Jorgensen, Clarks, Neb 5 A. P. Bodwell, Lebanon, Neb 5 Clark Summers, Ida, Neb 5 Chancy Cooper, Leland, Neb....... 5 Milton Zimmerman, Riilo, Neb,... 5 F. P. Beyer, Julesburg, Colo....... 5 N. D. Reynolds. Gilmer, Wash.;..V 5 A. N. Spears, Trumbull, Colo...... 5 P. L. Baker, Oakdale. Neb. 5 U. T. Duncan, Ruloj-NebU . . . . . . !' 5 L. W. Hubbell, Frahcesvllle, Ind... 5 J...W. Register, Edgar,., Neb 5 Geo. Vance, Naponee, Neb...- 5 Morris Manson, Shickley, Neb. . . . 5 M. C. Moon, Arcadia, Neb 5 J. C. May, Buck-Horn, ?Wyo 5 Frank Loomis; Edholm.'VNeb 5 John W. Hildreth. Walnut, JNeb 5 D. J. Ring, Brooklyn, "Pa.... ...... 5 J. H. Kingsolver, Washburn, Tenn. 5 Jno. Hartline, Beach f City, Ohio.... 5 J .W. Banning,: Guernsey, la. . ..... 5 Shultz Hammond, 'Wilber, Neb..... 5 J. M. Whlttaker Fall City, Neb... 5 W. P. Burrows,, Waverly, Kas 5 Orrin Colby, Arlington, Neb...... 5 Joseph M. Cox, Louisville, Neb.... 5 Clyde Wheeler, York, Neb: 5 Nicholas Effle, Walnut, Neb........ 5 J. F. Pronse, -Emerson, Neb 5 G. E. Bentley, Beatrice, Neb.. .... 5 E. W. Smith, Silver Creek, Neb 5 Wm. Carr, Glenville, Neb. 5 J. H. Wood, . Farnam, Neb 5 E. P Ferguson, Wakita, Okla. Ter.. 5 Herb S. Green, Wlckahbney, Idaho. 5 W. E. Ferguson, Wilber, Neb . .. 5 D. E. Sheesley, Alvo, Neb. ........ 5 Wm. Schildwachter, Walworth, Neb. 5 H. L. Shelton, Wauneta, Neb...... 5 M. L. Yocom, Independence, Wash. 5 W. D. Shike, Menlo, la. ........... 5 T. H. Connerly, La Junta, Colo. . . . 5 E. S. Whittaker, . Syracuse, Neb .... 5 W. C. Dietrichs,; Rockville, Neb.... 5 John Welsh, St. Paul, Neb .......... 5 J. N. Howerton, North Star, Neb. . 5 Richard A. Feist,. Iowa Falls, la. . . 5 H. W. Morrill, Bazile Mills, Neb... 5 M. Dickinson, Erickson, Neb.... .. 5 C. H. Adams, Seward, Neb.'. ....... ! G. R. Rhoades, Fullerton, Neb. .... 5 Cyrus Kellogg, Chapman, Neb ...... 5 Encouragement From Iowa r Enclosed $1 for my; subscription! Please send me a block of five. I be lieve I can sell them. , The Indepen dent is -the people's f best; paper n earth; would not be without it. r J. W. BAUNING. Guernsey, la. y'r : ' Third Block Wanted I have sold the ' second block of J)U lid i D C rd for wMrri T ptipIaq o. ther. has been unsettled arid I could not get around well. It takes consid erable travel here as the cduntry is thinly settled, but you may send me another block. I think I can sell them as soon as I get out a little farther from home. J. C. MAY.: Buck Horn, Wyo. From Colorado , I enclose five cards sold and money order for $3 in payment. Please send me another block of five. J. R. PORTER. Wetmore, Colo. Wants Second Block I have sold the cards. You may send me another block. Think I can sell them in" short time; J. T. MONTGOMERY. Grant, Neb. Omaha Tax Case (Continued from Page 7.) tax cases by Federal Judge Grosscup should be sustained by the. supreme court of the United States, this deci sion will be overturned. Judge Gross cup said that the market value can not be used, because market values are largely fictitious. On U-is point Judge Sedgwick says: "When the, capital stock of a cor poration has a market value, that value may be taken as a basis "to as certain the value of its intangible property since the value of the stock is the net value of its assets and 1 found by deducting its indebtedness from the gross value of its tangible and intangible property, but when the capital stock has no market value It cannot be used as a basis in ascertain ing the value of the assessable prop erty and franchises of the corporation, since the value of the intangible prop erty must be ascertained before thfc true value of the stock can be deter mined in the sense in which the term is used in the statute quoted. But our constitution provides in express terms that the franchises of corpora tions must be assessed for taxation, and when, as in this case, it does not appear that the capital stock has any market value, its assessable value af ter deducting the tangible property of the corporation, is the same as the value of its franchises: The legisla ture may direct the manner of ascer taining the ' value of property ami franchises, but it cannot -prescribe rules that prevent the assessment of the property and franchises of cor porations on an equality with property in general in proportion to value." Without doubt these Omaha corpor ations will go Into federal court and ask that the city council be enjoined from making the equalization, or per haps they will wait and enjoin the collection of the taxes. When the capital stock of a corporation vhas a market value, the assessors need have little trouble in making a proper as sessment; but. under Judce fiprisr- wick's rule, where there Is no market i vaiue, mere win be trouble. To un derstand the matter. let us take a con crete illustration: 'A Certain corpora tion Jias .. ,. : Stocks . . ... ...... . . $100,000 Bonds ................ .... 125,000 may be' made in the charter grantin it the right ; Can the value of this franchise be ascertained in the same manner as the value of the power house, engines, pipes, wells, . etc.? , -Certainly, not; There are two well defined ways of ascertaining it3 value, and in each of them it is . necessary to deduct the value of the tangible property from a sum to be determined, and the remain der represents the . value of the f ran chise, " One way ; is'l to take tho net, earnings of the corporation, "capi talize" them at " a certain rate per cent, and from this "capitalization de duct the value of the property the remainder , is franchise. Suppose the net 'earnings were $9,000 a year This "capitalized" at 4 per cent would in dicate that the property and fran chises are worth $225,000, because the business pays 4 per cent on that much money.' ; ; " , - ' Now, stocks and bonds are much the same in effect as the title deeds to a farm. They . give evidence; that the holder : OWNS a certain interest in th6 property- and franchises of the corporation,- and that he Is entitled to his fehare of the earnings, or will bo obliged to bearhis share of the losses. The -only difference between stocks and bonds is that the bondholder has better- security - and will not 'be called upon for assessments to make up losses-but both are liabilities against the corporate property and franchises differing in degree as to security. ,n our first illustration the corporation has $225,000 of eapital in stocks and bonds. It has only- $120,000 worth of actual property. - It pays $9,000 a year in - net earnings; i- Accordingly, its stocks and bonds-will average face value, because they. earn interest and dividends on a valuation of $225,000, no matter whether the stocks and 1 mds are quoted on the stock ex changes or not. But if the corpora tion - has only $120,000 of property what makes it -worth $225,000? Its franchise makes- up the other $105, 000j and is worth that for taxation just" the same as the property is worth $120,000. - - - Judge Sedgwick's rule where the stock has a market value is not hard t follow. But he leaves the assessor in the dark as to how he shall ascer tain the value of a franchise where the i stock la. not listed. a; It cannot be determined " in any other way except by reference to the stocks and bonds, or by reference , to the net earnings To say that he must ascertain the value of the- property and franchises before he can know the "actual" value of the stock, is simply putting the cart- before the horse. That part of the rule cannot be-followed except by resorting to guess-work. But where stocks are -not- quoted, why not.takr the par value? - This would tend to squeeze -out-the "water. By Issuln; stocks and-bonds up to a certain fig ure,- the -corporation gives its esti mate of what its ' property and fran chlses are-worth. 41 Why not take it at its "word, if the stuff is . not offered for sale in the markets ? ' Total capital....... .......$225,000 It has actual property of the fair value of $120,000. It need not be dif ficult to estimate the value of this property, because it can be. seen. But what about the franchise? Who can estimate the value of ; that without reference to the net earnings or the stocks or bonds? What is a fran chise, and how is its value determined? Webster says a franchise , is "a par ticular r privilege conferred, by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested In individuals." Concretely the franchise of the Omaha' water works company consists in its right to v oc cupy the public streets of Omaha with its mains and pipes and to furnish the citizens of Omaha with water, charg- '"Mi. Root. They have caught "you in the act, Mr. , Root " They have flushed you for a fact, - f.lf flnnf' i - - ATX IbUU b Senators whom Miles addressed On -the army bUttotf pressed And got papers y6u" suppressed, . ' Mr. Rotit. " . . Thought you'd keep 'em in the dark, ; , Mr. Root., V But they made you toe the mark, Mr. Root People will insist 'upon 1 ' Knowing what, is going on When they've got to" raise the "spon," - , , Mr. Root,, ., There are sad and, lonely, scenes, Mr. Root. ' In the far-off Philippines, Mr. Root , Though; you say the trouble's done, Seems that it's but just begun, , , Spite of fairy tales you've spun, . C : Mr. Root , Heard you say you were, quite sure, Mr.. Root, That there was no "water cure," Mr. Root . . Heard you say with accents clear That your plans were not severer But we're onto you, my dear Mr. Root. : You've an easy job. to hold, Mr. Root. . But vthe chances; are, my bold Mr. Root, If you had to hike and fight, Wade and. sleepan swamps at night, , Yu'd declare it isn't right, ; , Mr. Root Don't you think it would be best, . Mr. Root, ; If you stepped up and confessed, Mr. Root That you've hidden things from sight, Trying to make wrong look right, Till you're in -a -pretty plight, . : , Mr. Root? ,. W. M. Maupin in The Commoner. - . A Soldier's Sufferings. - - 1 St.' Louis, ;April: 3 Published ac counts i of . the : torturing to -death of Edward C. Richter, a private soldier in the Philippines, are apparently con firmed'in a letter written by Corporal Henry W. Perry, Company C, 13th Infantry, and received by Miss Emma Carter of No. 4308 Hunt avenue, this city. ,: ' ' ' In his letter; which was written more thap, a aionth ago, before the story of the torturing and death of Richter had been published; Corporal Perry tells the story of the splashing of water on the face of. the soldier, drop by drop, which caused his death from strangu lation, and intense pain. Before entering the Philippine ser vice' Corporal Perry was employed by a St Louis coal - firm and boarded at Miss Carter's home. Her request in a recent letter, for information about the ' treatment of . soldiers,, was ans wered, by his description of the Rich ter Jcase, which follows: "Last week, in ' one , of : the southT era I provinces, a young soldier was killed !by his company's- commander. It Vas pay day; :an4 ther young man was in the prison " with 'some other boys. They " were talking in a loud manner, having been drinking some- nStas jk (Onto m told them to be quiet, but this order .they disobeyed, whereupon the lieu tenan ; returned and ordered the ser geant of the. guard to bring one of the young. men outside and bind and gag him: '.c .. "Not satisfied with this, he ordered the sergeant to bring him a bucket of water, ice cold. This done, the lieu tenant began to drop the water on the helpless soldier, drop by drop. . "This finally choked the boy, but the; lieutenant continued the barbar ous treatment until the boy ; began to bleed at the' ears, nostrils, and mouth. The lieutenant then began to realize that things were coming to a crisis, so he .ordered the boy released from the ropes and gag, but it was too late. He had gone'to- another land and had passed all earthly torments. . "A day or so Afterwards his com rades bore him to his last resting place, where ' the last rites of a sol dier were administered and 'taps,' the sweetest of . all bugle notes were sound ed. This call always puts me in mind of that song: 'When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.' "This will give .you an insight into some of the punishments a soldier has to undergo - Of course, few cases are as barbarous as the one I have de scribed." ' SOUSA'S FOREIGN TRIP Experiences of - the Celebrated Bandmaster In England. OPT UP ALL KIQHT BY THE ZEU(J ' " The Low Price of Wool. I have noticed of late that there are many persons interested in the produc tion or wool asicing wny wooi was eo low , under , the present high tariff law. ' I will eive below the direct and in direct cause and the only remedy- In order to be specific and prove every proposition 1 1 make I will give below a table showing the imports of wool into this country for some of the years from' 1873 to J 1901. As nearly all of the wool imported into this country rnmes directlv or indirectlv from countries using silver for their money, I place in the table four columns. No. 1; years; No. 2; quantity or wool im ported: No. 3. import price in the money of the United States; No. 4 price received by the producers of the wool in the various silver-using coun tries which- ship their wool to our country. No. 2 No. 3 No. 4. No. 1 1873 1875 1880 1885 1890 1893 1897 1899 1900 1901 85,496,849 54,901.760 128,131,747 70,596,170 105,431,277 .....172,433,838 .....350,852.-026 .15 76i,736,209 .107 .155,928,455 .13 103.583.505 " .12 t .24 .20 .18 .13 .15 :i2 .21 .21 .20 .16 .20 .20 .32 .23 f.1 23 One elance at . the. table above will show! lust whv "wool, is so low under the present ' high tariff." The pro ducer of wool of any of the states or territories only has to see that we im ported 103,583,505 pounds of wool dur ing 1901 at 12c per pound. This show ing of itself would fully explain the low . nrice of wool, but to make it clear I will state the facts contained in ile official records. A little over 30.000.000 pounds of thi 105.583.505 pounds of wool was first class and valued at about 27c per pounds, about 5,484,000 pounds of tre wool was No. '2 and valued at about 20c per: pound, and about 67,417,000 pounds of the wool was class iso. i and ; valued at 9 c. per pound. A larire proportion of the wool produced in the mountain , states, and territor ies would probably fall in the class of No. 3.V The import price does nor m rinri the tariff which is about 4c pr pound on class No. 3 wool. Column No. 3 shows, tnat tne price or wooi Tm flppHnfid to :t.he American produc ers in other countries who produce nine-tenths of -the wool shipped to us received 24c per pound for their wobl in1873 and 26c per pound for their wool during 1901. The wool producers of this country snouid maKe study of column Jno. i. T wish to sav the the American far mers and the people ' that are interes ted in the wool industry of this coun trv that, there !? enly one way to save what is left of that industry, and that to place silver at 1.Z9 per ounce tho "mm'fP of silver ! had been that price during 1901 the pound -of wool ou!d have been wortu ztc per pouna jstead of 12c per pound. The'Amori- .' farmprs ran vrv pa'-ilv place sil ver at $1.29 per ounce; if -they will. Cr jBUllOCK in XNeorasita luucptrii- dent , . . " ' " ''. ' "r- . .; 4 ; Ma meetings in favor of suffrage were held on April 20 in all; towns in: Sweden. In Stocknolm some rioting took: place.-: - 1 f - ; It is rumored tnat J. Fierpont Mor gan will finance a new underground railroad system . in - London.: that will rival Charles vr. Yerkes scneme. , Advices ' from London announce that ntrlish trades unions denounce th-3 tax on common the ground that it Is departure from free trade princi ples.'.., , ' s. : -: TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE Your Lif eawavl You can be cared bf any form of tobacco usioar easily be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor by taking KO'TO'DAC, that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in teu days. OTer 300000 t in ii. I , i r M.. ' . . Uualclan Telia. Hott Hta Band Vu Treated In, Edward VlVm . Bvlfet Car on the - Weir to fiandrtBsrnum. ' aad'Baek jkvata to London 4)ueen Lilted nagtlme Tnnei eait. John ; Philip Sousa, the celebrated composer and bandmaster, visited Phil adelphia a few days ago. When Sir. Sousa . arrived in . the cit j he Immedi ately called upon ex-Judge Gordon, an old friend, with whom he took dinner in the evening. . .The greater part of the famous conductor's time in the! city was given up to the task of telling how he played before ' King Edward bf Great Britain on . his recent trip to England, During his visit many prom inent, men met Mr. Sousa in ex-Judge Gordon's office, and as each said, "Tell me all rfbout it," Mr. Sousa had to re hearse the story a score or more times. "Let me tell you how; King Edward kept my band out until 3 o'clock In the morning," said Mr. Sousa to a reporter for the Philadelphia Press. 'That's a nice thing for a king to do, isn't it? Well, you see, we met King' Edward and Queen Alexandra in , London on Dec. 1. The king had arranged with me to hold a concert at Sandringham palace on that day, as it was the fifty seventh birthday anniversary of Queen Alexandra. - , ' : "A special train was in waiting. To gether with . the , royal party, majly members of the nobility went along. That train was certainly an Indication of England's democracy. After we had been out of London for three minutes you couldn't have told a bandman from a knight of the Garter. , "One of the main features of the spe cial train was the buffet car. That was the reason why the king of .England kept my baud out until 3 a. m. . It was certainly a feast that they had in store for us. I don't suppose you could men tion a wine -that wasn't there. The mu sicians held in well, though, on the up trip, because they felt that they were representing , America, but King Ed- ward kept tbemreating and drinking. Say, he's a jolly fellow! "I was very much worried, but when I arrived at Sandringham I found that the band was still intact. Our pro- f gramme was true American fr5ru the start to finish. I had determined that I would let the king see that we had good native music. ? "Of course we had to play 'God Save the King,?, because that is required at all court entertainments. But we eased our consciences by playing it over again under the title of 'America, and do you know the king never betrayed the slightest sign that he noticed that the tunes were the same. , "Little Prince Edward of York want ed; to come to the concert, but I didn't have the honor of playing to him, as his nurse objected. The little fellow made a noise and went away crying that if he couldn't hear 'ragtime' by my band he'd have some played on his phonograph. Later I found that while I was holding my concert the boy was having one bytbimself up stairs. "I never felt so much at home in all my Hfe.ata concert. The king, made me feel at ease. s Everything was in formal. The chairs of the royal mem bers of the party and those of the no- bility were placed in artistic confusion, and in a gallery'' here Mr. Sousa used a term which must be bad form at court "and in a gallery there was a gang of court attaches. "All the music seemed to lake with the king; The queen and all the other royal. ladies seemed to. like the. 'fag time' best They clapped like gallery gods when I played 'Whistling Ruf us. But the king seemed best pleased with Hands Across the Sea.' I guess he thought of that old saw that blood is thicker than water. . "Well, after the concert proper, had concluded, the royal equerry notified me that his majesty the king wished to speak with me. King Edward 6aid some awfully nice things about Amer ican music and particularly the num bers I had rendered. Then" here cam another . word not in the. court dictlona ry "then he yanked out a Victorian medal a silver medal such as Is given to men considered of high artistic mer it He asked me to accept it as a to-! ken of the respect of himself and tho queen. - ... . ;.. . , "My, but I was embarrassed! I sup pose that, the bow. I made was very awkward. When I went, back to the music stand, the band men heightened my.; confusion. All through the next number which I played . as an encore, so to speak I. heard small voices say ing, 'I wonder what the king gavo him?' . . "Then the Prince of Wales came for ward and asked that I let him pin the medal on my coat Did I do it? Well, I couldn't refuse him. I don't believ any other American musician was ever honored so highly. I. am sure that I am the first to receive a decoration. "Then with the king we started back for London. The king had directed that we were to proceed slowly. So it was after 3 a. m. when we arrived In tho capital, and there was so little in tho buffet car that I think the band would have been unable to play, another tune. "When we left the king, he Bald to me, 'These musicians of yours are flna fellows.' " , ".v '. -'' V" , ,' ' ;j ' Concerts For a Nlclcet A number of society women of New York are Interesting themselves in what Is called the nickel concert They are members of prominent music so A Medicine for Old People. Rev. Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Kas, is past 83 years of are, yet he says: "I am enjoying excellent health for a man of my age, due entirely to the rejuven ating influences of Dr. Miles Nervine. It brmj?s sleep and rest when nothing else will, and gives strength and vital ity even to one of my old ace." "I am an old soldier,M writes Mr. Geo. Watson, of Newton, la., and I have been a great sufferer from nervousness, vertigo ar.d spinal trouble. Have spent considerable money for medicine and doctors, but witn little benefit. I was so bad my mind showed signs of weak ness. I began taking Dr. Miles' Nervine, and I know it Savea my life." Miles' Saved nvs from the ' insane asy lum," Mrs. A. M. Heifner, of Jerico Springs, M-x, v rites. ; . 1 was so nerv ous that 1 could scarcely control my self, could not sleep norrcst, would even forjet the names of my own children at times.- I commenced using Dr. Miles' Nervine and it helped me from the first, and now I am perfectly well." Sold by aM Drugj;lta on Quarantaa. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Good Homes Cheap Good land; best system of irriga tion in the United States! I have given this colony personal inspec tion and found good ' land with per petual . water right at small cost for water. Colony is situated in S. E. Wyoming suroundirig the towns of Wheatland, . situated on the, Colorado Southern R. R. between Cheyenne oa the U. P., and Gurmsy on the Burl ington, fine climate, produces large crop of all small grains, vegetables, alfalfa and fruits. Iand is sold at $22.50 to $27.50, including perpetual water, on ten years time; 6 per cent interest .A, rare opportunity to get a good home with small amount of capital. . Our next excursion is May 6th. Round trip $21.10. Call on or write, E. W. ALLEN, n05 O St., Lincoln, Nebraska. . HARIIESSor HORSE COLLARS e AjKYOUK DealertoSHOVT HfH BEFORE. YOU BUY. AANUFACTURtO Bt . HARPHARS BROSXO. Lincoln. Neb. THE NEW MODEL SUSPENDER t a ni invention that rromises to revolutionise . . . 1 i 1 tnesuspenaer iraac. 10c wh i nf the best oualitv: the notefced tips are of fi rm, oak-tanned belt leather; the fasteningsot first-class tf .-t-v enft and flexible. Adjustable front and back,' they will not slip eff the shoulders or tear off but tons. There is no metal to rust. ' break, or. cut the clothing the onlyabjust--able suspender made with out metal. It will outwf ar any suspender made. While for men of heavy work it hattin emint on account of material and wearing qual ities, yet it is dressy enough . fnr nnimne- makincr it a de sirable suspender for all ' T.a value in re ceived In the purchase of the - ordinary suspender dress. The best the cheapest. , Ask yonr Dealer for "THE NEW nODEL" and take no other, or send 50 Cents and we will mail you a pair postpaid. Regular lengths 31, 33 and 35 inches, special length made to order. Give length when ordering. All of these goods are made' out of the very best material. We believe the people will ap preciate the value they get at these low pricea. MBserve-Edgerton Mfg. Co,, JLINCOL.N. - - - NEBRASKA. The Many. Conventions to be held this, summer1 on ;r ' - THE PACIFIC COAST, - offers chances not to be ; missed, to visit the : COLUMBIA RIVER region and the PUGET SOUND country with via 'the ''-- ' 5 ' their mild-climates, and return eal3 NORTHERN ' PACIFIC RAILWAY and YELLOWSTONE PARK. The park is a wonderful spot. There are geysers, water falls, bears, elks, boiling springs by the thousands, a sulphur mountain, a -mud volcano, a glass cliff 200 feet high, and the grand canyon of the Yellowstone, 20 miles long, 1,200 feet deep and colored like a rainbow. Good hotels at all impor tant points. Write to G. D. ROGERS, D.'P. A., N. P. R., Des Moines, la , or, CHAS. S. FEE, G,"P& T. A., N. P. R., SL Paul, for particulars, giving date when