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1 . i' J :' THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT May 8, 1902 , CV . We fcerebr offer $400.00 tmh for the largest Ram of an j breed or croaa. Bam to be weighed November 30. 1902, and awora statement of owner and weigher ? 'tooasea to bo forwarded! to tha "Airwioiii ' 8h BaiitDR,'' Chicago. III. .Bam winning thie offer to bo daUvorod in Chicago at tha Lira Stook Show ia Daoembar. 11102, when tee tiOOtOO will bapfttd bl International Stock Food Co. "lataraaUeaal 8teek h"eim Eorw, Cattle, Hoe-, Sbep, Cot., Calre., Pte and Lamb to grow Terr rapidly and aiakea them Healthy an Titoroi. It oed and rtronily en dorMd hj orer 500,1100 Parmer. We feed it every day to the .toe on our "lateraattoaal Stock Fod" lira. It it. Mid ea a Spat Cash Claaraatee ta Rfe Tear Maaey U aay eaae af failare, by ott 30,000 Dealer, tt will make yoa extra money ha Growing or Fattening Stock. Owing to it blow! parifyicg and stimulating tonic effect, it On re or Pre sent. Diaeaee. It I a afe vegetable medicinal preparation to be fed in amall-elzed feeds in connection with the regular giain. It ratten Stack ia SO te SO Day leas time, bacanae it aide Digeetion and aasimllaaioa. In thi way it to a large amount of Grain. The ae of "International Stock food" only ecate ar S FEKDS far OAK CKKT. Qg Ak your A 03000.00 ST0CI BOOH FREE ' i tr FOB YOU AND EFEET BEiSEB OF THIS PAPEB. "k ' Thll Be6l Contains 183 Itrge Collored Engravings of Bonea, Cattle, Sheep, Bog, Poultry, ate. Iteot a $3000 to hare oar Artirt and tngTVtm Bftka the EBPrartnr.. It aoatauia a finelr illustrated Veterinary Denartoun th.it will .era yon Hundred of Dollar. Oim rfacrintir.n and hintor h Rnwvia dnnu CiHI slum. Rrm n4 Poultry. The Edltar af this Paper will tell yoa that yoa ought to have a copy of tbi finely illustrated Book for reference. We will ship yon free ) 14.00 worth of "UteraatleaaT Steek aa" if Book u nit eaactiy a. fepraaenied. THIS BOOK FBEE. Postage Prepaid, if Yoa Wriie Lb a Postal Card and Answer 3 Questions: mm amm uua mm opw uracil noca m ymt . jrun ei uie --laieraauoaai mac roea tor Hone or Cattle or Sheep or Bog or IO II or Mure k Lamb or rigs i answer taa j tjneationa and writo lis at Once for Book. INTERNATIONAL STOOK FOOD CO. 'Minneapolis Minn. fj S. A. Laneat Stock Food Factory ia tft World. Capital raid to, l,0O0,00O. afadtt (3 3. itrii.i -THoWS 1 SISlii&SfcB F women who had been taken prisoners after the homesteads had been burned, were sometimes carried along wit'u the columns foi weeks. .. - "At night the women were placed around the British camps as a protec tion against a night attack from our - side. " "When the women realized the ob- ject of the enemy they tried to escare, but were pursued. They were even fired upon. Sometimes they were caught again, and then they were removed to greater distances and placed in tents. "But from these camps hundreds or sweet messages reached us, telling us - not to worry about them, but to con tinue the struggle for our country. Many women have already lost their lives either from wounds or from the misery thc-y have endured. My own wife was ordered by Lord Methuen to leave her home and everything she possessed. She has been wandering about the country for over twelve months with six small children. My . mother, an eld woman of eighty-thres, "1- who had been a widow for nine years, ' has been carried away as a prisoner. All her cattle has been taken away and her house burned. She has been re moved to Klerksdorp." America and England make the loud . est pretensions to civilization and hu manity of all the nations, and yet modei'a history offers no counterpart of these two stories. So foul blots as these stain the escutcheon of no other civilized powers. Nineteen centuries of the Christian era have passed away without a model and without a sha- - dow of these irreparable wrongs. ! . i.. There Is some hope that the east i5 undergoing a change of sentiment re garding our part of the country. There is room to believe that a discovery has been made that our people " are not horned, booted and spurred to trap the unwarry, but that the new civilization of the west is producing a race of giants intellectually as well as physi cally. Read what the Philadelphia Inquirer says: "What irrigation won't do for tbv arid western lands the enterprise and industry of their prospective settlers will. We had proof of something like this In the case of the so-called sandy states which not many years ago were . little less than deserts and now yield : bounteous crops. Nor should congress take a sectional view of the subject, i as . certain enemies of the west have ' urged. The east has a deep and last ing interest in the development of the west, and her representatives in con gress should lend their aid to every proper scheme for western advancement." The official statement has been is sued of the net earnings of the United States steel corporation for the year up to April 1, as follows: April, 1901 $ 7,356,744 May, 1901 9.612.349 June, 1901 9.394,747 July, 1901, 9,580,151 August. 1901.......!..;... 9,810,880 September, 1901 9,272,812 October, . 1901 12,205,774 November, 1901 9,795,841 December, 1901. 7,758,295 January, 1902 8,901.016 February. 1902 7.678,583 March, 1902, (estimated) . . . 9,700,000 Total net earnings $111,067,195 A study of these figures ought to be interesting to the republican farmer who votes the trust ticket. His pop ulist neighbor would like to be in formed where the division of profits come3 in that we hear so much about. "After traveling for two months in the United States I have rormed the opinion that this country will soon pass into the control of a working man's party, much as New Zealand did nine years ago," said Mr. D. R. Cald well, of Aukland. New Zealand, who is a guest at the Raleigh hotel. He is president of the board of trade of Auk land, and Is making a tour of the world in company with friends. "The trusts," he continued, "have become so powerful here that there must be a reaction. Your laborers are perfecting their organizations. The?e organizations will become well cen tralized In time, and the result wilt be a movement of the laborers, which will be successful if properly man aged." If the workingmen of the land could be brought to realize wherein their In terests lie, a movement on their part would be irresistible. So long, how ever, as they continue to vote the trust ticket they cannot expect fair treatment nor labor's honest reward. No stronger proof can be adduced of the way In which the workingmen have been "gold-bricked" by the re publican party than to recall the fact that in 1900 the "full dinner pail" cry was dinned Into their ears by the same voices who now say, "Don't eat meat." An interesting decision has been handed down by the New York court of appeals In a ease arising out of a controversy between a steam fitters labor union and certain contractors concerning the employment of non union men, or men belonging to an other union or association which ap pears to have been regarded with dis approval by organized labor. An in junction was granted, to restrain the first union from striking or threaten ing to strike, the union having gone on a strike in some cases and threat ening to do so in others, with the pur pose of causing the dismissal of the members of the other organization. This action of the lower court is re versed by the court of appeals, al though three judges dissent. The court says workingmen have an undoubted right to organize for the purpose of securing higher wages or other ben efits. The important parts of the decision are as follows: "They have the right to strike, pro vided the object is not to gratify mal ice or inflict injury upon others, but to secure better terms of employment for themselves. A peaceful and or derly strike is not in violation of law. A body of men who have organized for purposes deemed beneficial to them selves have the right, when they feel it is detrimental to the interest of their organization, to refuse to work. Their reasons may seem inadequate to others, but if it seems to be in their interest as members of an organiza tion to refuse longer to work. It :s thpir lee-al rieht to do so. The de fendants had the right to strike for any reason they deemed a just one, and had the rieht to notify their employer of their purpose to strike. I am un able to see how it is possible to deny the right of the defendant organization and their members to refuse to work with non-members, when in the event of inlurv bv the carelessness of sucn co-employes the burden would have to be borne by the injured without compensation from the employer ana with no financial responsibility on the nart of those causing the injury. So long as workmen must assume all the risk of iniurv that may come to tnem through the carelessness of co-employes, they have the moral and legal right to say that- they will not work with certain men, and the employer must take their dictation or go with out their services. The defendant as sociation, as appears from the findings, wanted to put their men in the place of certain men at work who were non members, working for smaller pay, and they set about doing it in a per fectly lawful manner. They determine I that if it were necessary they would bear the -burden and expense of a strike to accomplish that result, and in so determining they were clearly within their rights. A labor organi zation is endowed with precisely the same legal risht as is an individual to threaten to do that which it may law fully do." Justice Gaynor, of the New York supreme court, has denied the applica tion of a firm of bookbinders in Brooklyn for an injunction to restrain a bookbinders' union from establish ing a picket and patrolling the vicin ity of the plaintiff's factory, where a strike was bes;un some weeks ago. No violence had been done to person or property, he said, and courts should not interfere except in cases of nec essity. "These plaintiffs," he continued, "seem to have brought on the trouble by ostentatiously and needlessly post ine: in their factory a notice that they will not recognize the bookbinders' union. Wiser employers have learned that it is a convenient and useful thing to recognize lawful labor organ izations and to deal with them." The aristocracy of the effete east are ago? with excitement. . Some one has learned that the decree of King Edward VII. makes the taking of snuff the quintessence of "good form," hence the haste of the wealthy and the ostentatious to follow English and especially kingly habits. The furore which this custom has occasioned may be surmised from the fact that Phila delphia has thrown off her time-honored habiliments of sleep and her so ciety has worked itself into a frenzy of enthusiasm. When Philadelphia wakes up there Is something doing. A dispatch from London conveys the in formation that one of the Armour fam ily of Chicago was "graciously per mitted to kiss the king's hand." Mo3t gentlemen would not object to kissing the hand of a queen (more especially were she pretty) but. I submit that the kissing of the king's hand and the taking of snuff because he set the fashion are features and customs of American society life which are dis tinctly repellant to democratic and republican traditions. " ' II. W. RISLEY. THE SINGLE TAX Genuine sUmped C. C C Never sold In bulk. Beware of (he denier who tries to sell oinethlnjustats'jood." , Mr. Atkinson Give Til a Idea ef It Ground Kent a Blgc;)r Problem Than Even . Single Tax art Think Editor Independent: I have seen several current numbers of your pa per, and have been very much inter ested in the single tax discussion go ing on in its columns; so much so that I feel constrained to write "my Idea of the single tax." The corner stone of the single tax theory is the proposition that ground rent is produced by society, belong3 to society, and should be claimed by society. Ground rent Is simply the price of the advantage a man enjoys in ocupying a piece of land. It is high or low according as that advantage is much or little. It the occupancy con fers no advantage there will be no rent. It may be said that rent is caused by demand and supply like the price of labor products. That is true, and the demand 13 furnished by society in both cases alike. But whereas the supply of labor products comes In response to individual effort the supply of land is furnished by nature, and that ad vantage, of which rent is the price, is rendered available by government. As- Shearman says, "Where there is no government there is no ground rent. As government grows .more complex and does more for society, ground rents increase. Any advant age possessed by one piece, of land over another will, it Is true, give rise to rent, but that rent cannot be col lected without the aid of government, and no advantage in fertility is ever equal in value to the advantage of society and government. The six teenth part of an acre of bare rock In New York city is worth more than a thousand acres of the best farming land in Manitoba." Ground rent is caused by a natural law, and it involves no injustice to the man who pays it. He pays for the ad vantage he enjoys, it Is a market equivalent. Value given for value re ceived. - But the injustice comes in permitting the owner to appropriate a product, that he did not create. Ground rent Is the income of exclu sive privileges in the use of land. The vast amounts and manifold forms of ground rent are, I think, often little appreciated by single taxers them selves. Not only does it include the Income, actual or potential, of farm lands and residence and business lots but it constitutes nearly all of the monopoly profits of railroads, tele graph and street car lines, stock yards f and docks, not to mention the numer ous trusts. What is it that enables corporations to maintain capitaliza tion millions in excess of the actual money invested. - It is the exclusive privilege of using land of a peculiar and highly intrinsic value. A single railway terminal may be worth more than all the farm land in several coun ties. It is land privileges of one sort and another that form the basis of all franchise corporation. It is concen trated ownership of land that sup ports the iron and coal and petroleum monopolies. It is! private ownership of the railroad rights of way that per mits rebates, which cause a system of secondary monopolies and cement all commercial monopolies into a com mon fraternity. The single tax would reach all of these at their source, by taking for public purposes the un earned increment of the land. Little would then remain in the way of in come but legitimate wages and legiti mate profits of business. The baneful efforts of private prop erty in land are three-fold. First, it diverts a public fund into private hands. Second, it stimulates the hold ing of land for speculation, instead of for use. Third, in certain cases it per mits all of the land suited to a par ticular use to fall into the hands of single interests, thus producing an absolute or nearly absolute monopoly. The way the single tax would cor rect these effects is obvious. The ideal of the single taxer is the Jeffersonian principle, "Equal rights to all and special privilege to none." This ideal is impossible of attainment while rent is allowed to be appropri ated by private individuals and while some men are compelled to pay thtir fellows for permission to utilize na ture's bounties. Equal rights can be made to harmonize with permanent occupation by each landowner being required to pay into the public cof fers the worth of the advantage he enjoys. There are many reasons why capi tal should not be taxed. A tax on capital, besides being burdensome, de structive and unjust is unnecessary. Economic rent constitutes the natural, just, and sufficient revenue of any state. To quote Shearman again, "It. is not merely a tax which justice al lows; it is one which justice demands. It is not merely one which ought to be collected; it is one which infallibly will be and is collected." Today it i? collected for private purposes. It rests with the state tc say when it shall be collected for public purposes. In the issue of March 20, I notice in the editorial comments on one letter the following: "Land might be taxed on Its value exclusive of improve ments,' but no single taxer has yet shown a scientific method of deter mining how much is due wholly to so ciety, and how much Is to be credited to the efforts of the individual." This topic has 'been treated by different writers, but an outline here would oc cupy too much space. The 'subject ia perhaps best treated by Thos. A. Shearman in his book entitled "Nat ural Taxation. This is too large a subject to handle adequately in a newspaper discussion. Any who are interested should pro cure some of the many excellent works on the subject. Whether as an advo cate or as an opponent, every one at all interested in economic questions should be familiar with the argument of the single tax school. The best brief treatment of the sub jest is "Shortest Road to the Singls Tax" (Geo. P. Hampton, 62-64 Trinity Place," New York. About 150 pages. 10 cts.) This is adapted from the writ ings of . the two ablest writers that have ever handled the subject. "The Story of My Dictatorship." .(Frany Vierth, Cedar Rapids, Ia., 10 cts.) is an excellent work: In allegorical style. All who desi: o a detailed and scien tific knowledge of the subject should read the two masterpieces, "Progress and Poverty,' by Henry George, and "Natural Taxation,", by Thos. G. Shearman. . In conclusion, let me express my sincere appreciation of the great edu cational work that The Independent is performing. GEO. W. ATKINSON. White, S. D. (The Independent has letters from Dr. W. P. Cunningham and Dr. Wm. N. Hill on this same subject which it hopes to find space ' for in a short time. Ed. Ind.) . . .: MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Condensed Summary From the Municipal Year' Book Taking first a general view of the whole country, it . appears that (ex cluding cities which do not have the services named) nearly every munic ipality owns its sewerage system, over half own their public water supply, one-eighth or more own electric light ing plants. Very few places own gas works, only one city owns and oper ates a street railway system, and not a single municipal telephone exchange is reported. There are, however, some municipal telephone fire-alarm, and possibly police, telegraph systems. Of the less common municipal services, a few cities own ferries, and a few others own conduits for underground wires, but none own . commercial cen tral heating stations. The north' central states lead with 65.3 per cent of their cities and towns having municipal ownership of water works, and 30.5 per cent of the electric light plants In the same category. Tlx? south central states make the smallest showing (39.5 per cent) for public ownership of waterworks, and the New England states, ,ther smallest (9.7 per cent) for electric lights. Indian ter ritory, New Mexico, Nevada, and Ida ho have no public waterworks, and there are fifteen states and territories with no public electric light plants. Over 75 per cent of the places in Ver mont, Massachusetts, Georgia, Mich igan, and Colorado own their water works. Indiana, Michigan, and Min nesota are the only states, in which over 35 per cent of the electric light ing plants repdrted'are owned by the municipalities, and in none of these does the percentage exceed 43. Twenty-three municipal gas works and two plants under joint ownership are shown. The gas plants under full municipal ownership and operation range in size from the one at Rich mond, Va., where the population is 85,050, to the one at Dunkirk, Ind.,. which place ha3 3,187 Inhabitants. Two of the cities, Anderson, Ind., and Chanute, Kas., report that natural gas is the commodity supplied, and probably the same is true of a few other places not mentioned in the list. There has long been an occasional demand for a list of places having private sewerage systems. Such a lit is here made public for the first time. It includes forty-seven places, in five of which there are also publicly owned sewers. Some at least, and probably a considerable number, of these sewer systems serve only small proportions of the population, but the same is also true of many of the sew erage systems classed as public. New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania have twenty-two of the forty-seven private sewerage systems, and in these and n few other states it appears that formal franchises have been granted by the municipalities. Of the eighty-two cit ies reported as having ferries, some ten or twelve are said to be owned by the municipalities, Including thosa at New York, which are leased to pri vate companies, and those at Boston, where there are private ferries also. Of the 232 cities and towns which re ported that some of their electric wires were underground, the ownership was divided as follows: Private, 228; some private and some public, 7; public alone, 7. - The "Municipal. Year Book" also covers all highway bridges owned by companies and all instances of mu nicipal bath houses, markets, parks, playgrounds, gymnasiums, cemeteries, docks, and fire and police alarm tele graphs. Most of these have no direct bearing upon the struggle between municipal and private ownership, but indirectly their number and variety indicates that in the future franchise companies will be more and more fre quently confronted with proposals for municipal ownership. Tbe Engineer ing News. ' THE TORRENS SYSTEM , j : r. : its workings can best be shown by giv ing a few. patterns of official docu ments: ' - DEED FOR $5,000. Herewith shall be known that Jacob Jackson of Jacksonville sold to John Johnson of ' Johnstown: Northeast quarter of section 1, town 5, range 5, Jacksonville precinct, with good house barn, granaries, etc, on it, insured for $2,000 by the Phoenix Insurance com pany, for the sum of five thousand dol lars ($5,000), with interest at 5 per cent from March 1, 1902, and payable as follows: $2,000 mortgage from January 1, 1888, to J. Catchem, New York. $125 IV interest to March 1, 1900. $500 mortgage from March 1. 1899, to G. Gregory of Georgetown. $25 interest due March $1. 1902. $40 taxes for the year 1901. $1,000 cash paid upon recording of the contract. $1,310 must be secured by a mort gage on the land, payable in five equal payments due March 1, 1903-4-5-6-7. Total, $5,000. SERVITUDE. Northwest 4 section 1, 5-5, has the right of way with wagons, farm ma chinery, etc., along the north line of this quarter section. B. HONEST, Recorder of Lancaster Co. Lincoln, February 1, 1902. ABSTRACT. Lazarus Needy of Jacksonville pre cinct wishes to borrow $2,000 for which he offers the following real es tate as security: Northwest 4 sec tion 1, town 5, range 5, in Jacksonville 1-ecinct, with good house, barn, gran aries, etc., on it, Insured for $2,000 by the Phoenix Insurance company. This property is mortgaged as follows: $800 mortgage, January 1, 1890, to John Goodman, Lincoln. $200 to secure a credit of that amount with the First National bank of Lincoln. RIGHT OF WAY. This quarter section has the right of way with wagons, farm machinery, etc., along the north line of northeast section 1, town 5, range 5. B. HONEST. Recorder Lancaster Co. Lincoln, March 1, 1902. In these documents is not a single superfluous word, but they contain ev erything that the parties must and wish to know and they are so plain that everyone can understand them. You will see in these patterns th?.t that right of way for the east quar ter is entered as a servitude and for the west quarter as a right. F. SCHWEIZER: Woodlawn, Neb. Mr. Schweizer Shows the Practical Work in ga of This Simple Method of Transferring Titlea Editor Independent: I . have seen in The Independent that our supreme court appointed a committee for In vestigating the Torrens system, with a view of introducing that system ia this state. It was introduced several hundred years ago In Switzerland and offers the greatest security for every one who has any kind of interest iu real estate and is so simple that I have wondered that it was not introduced long ago in this country. Deeds, mortgages, etc., are entered In the journal, of the county recorder and then signed by the parties. After that the recorder makes the necessary entries in the protocols and records, whereof he expedites the official docu ments. How. Simple the system is in Crowninshleld the Great. Rear Admiral Crowninshield has hoisted his flag on the battle ship Il linois and gone to take command of the European squadron. No, previous naval officer assuming flag rank has been so favored as has Crowninshleld. His is the choicest of assignments. He has been given the pick of the ships, and he is to take a conspicuous part in the naval demonstration in English waters Incident to the corona tion of King Edward. All of his wishes have been respected. Other officers reaching the grade of rear ad miral have been sent wherever the department saw fit to assign them to duty. News Dispatch. "Oh, who is Crowninshield, papa, That, he should have the best , Of everything there is to have And shine o'er all the rest?" "Great Crowninshield, my son, has done A lot of wondrous things, And now he reaps the proud rewards That virtue always brings." "What were the virtuous deeds he did, That he should simply name The things he wants for his rewards And straight annex the same?" "Oh, you can never understand The wonders he has done; The fight they made on Schley he planned, And that was great, my son." "What other fights were fought by him Whose flag so proudly flies High on our greatest ship, before The world's admiring eyes?" "No other sailor ever sat Behind a desk and fought As glorious a fight as that, Or planned as grand a plot." "But when and where did Crownin shield Stand on the bridge and show His 'bullies how to train their guns Again the firing foe?" "Oh, fie upon your 'firing foes' And 'bullies' and such things!" Great Crowninshield sat at his desk And deftly pulled the strings." "And was that all he did, papa, That he, with bulging chest, Should head the list of heroes now, Eclipsing all the rest?" "Go out and chase the pup, my son, And bother me no more; Great Crowninshield's the greatest tar That ever stayed ashore." S. E. Kiser. Hardy's Column We want a man for governor of whom the meanest thing said of him is that he lent money and took a mort gage on a spotted cow and black pig. The Philippine legal tender silver dollar is only to be about one-tenth heavier . and one-twentieth finer than our silver dollar. It is found to be impossible to kick the Mexican dollar off the islands. The f?iihan nresident is on his way to take his office and will be inaugur ated May 10. He has been an exile from Cuba for eighteen years. His name is Thomas Estrada Palma, and has resided in Central Valley, N. Y., since his banishment from Cuba. , We feel proud of what has been done for Cuba. Another independent republic is to be hatched from a Span ish king shell. If we could say the same thing of the Philippine islands we would be doubly proud. Consis tency is a jewel, inconsistency is the devil's best game. . Why should the day laborers, who work for others for wages, nave . a - ... ; 1 state bureau and not the year laborers who work for themselves? i Another plank in our Bryan fusion platform would be well; it Is this, thai no person shall be nominated or ap pointed to any state office who has held an office within the last five years. The most of those who have held offices have not given satisfaction and have carried their party out of power Better try new material. 1 There Is no action of colored peo ple that is taken as a greater insult than for a colored man to ride In a fine carriage with a white man for a driver. . " We would like to see W. J. Bryan governor of Nebraska, but we would like much better to see him continue to spend his time and powers of in tellect in the publication of The Com moner. In the one he could greatly benefit the state; in the other greatly benefit all the states and the whole world in a measure. . i It appears the Russian government is about to build a canal from the Baltic to the Black sea. Near fifty years ago a canal was built aroun.l the rapids of St. Marys river between Lake Superior and the lower lakes'. Since then one has been built around the falls of Niagara and the rapids of the St. Lawrence. One has also been built between the Meditteranean and Red sea. There is more business dono on the two canals between Lake Su perior and the lower lakes than on any other of these canals mentioned. The canal talked of across the isthmus of Darien seems to be on a rest. It looks as though the present con gress will not vote on the ship sub sidy bill this term. If they vote for it many of the western members will be left at home and If they vote against it many of them will fall to get the money from the trusts and co porations sufficient to carry their elec tion. So there they stand between Mark Hanna and the deep goose pon i. We believe it would be good eco nomy for the government to rent out the nine millions of acres of sand hills in this state and let them lu fenced for pasture in fields of nn more than four or five thousand acres each. It appears that the government of the United States has fifty or more immigration inspectors, located In dif ferent border places and harbor, whose duty it is to keep out undesir able Immigrants. Paupers, insane an'1 diseased persons are rejected. A larga proportion of those rejected are ef fected with infectious diseases of the eyes and scalp. The diseases resem ble the leprosy and result in blind ness, sore heads and death. These (Continued from Page 3.) IAMB8 STUDI . ml ST-U1 f impprtoci and home bred draft and coach stallions are larger than all import rs of Nebraska. His BLACX stallions and pricea are "HOT PROPOSITIONS to his competitors. lams Compel them to "ffO-wiT-haeknH.iitdnwn" and sins "iin't.l...t)im. Th.t Iivu imports and breeds only the best first-class bi draft stallions,flash coachers.and he aells them at much less prices than we can afford to. He sorely hypnotizes his many buyers with his top &r .dTl?T,158-H.edoe" business. Hut he is the only man in D. 8. that imports ALL. BLACK. oTALiLIONs. . He has on hand 100 Black Percherons, Clydes, Shires and Coachers. 00 They are the SENSATION" of the town. Visitors throng: the barns and say: "Most select and largest stallions I arer saw.' "Sea that 2,000-pound-two-year-old-a 'ripper' : and that 2.3J0 pound thre-i-year-old 'herd header' 'a topper'." "O. my 1 See that 5,000-poond pair of four-year- OKIS; toe? are OUt Of SICht ? lArfi-Alt rAir in 17- H wilia rnH nrxrnn .Kliii... t?.nrf ILin.k Done ana they more like flash soachers." lams has a larger "HOKSfi SHOW" arery day than. t.au in noon a.b uhiuwb or neorasaa state r airs, ae nas on hand 50- Black Ton Stallions- 50 two to six years old, weight 1,600 to 2,500 pounds, fast morers. MORE Black Percherons, torn stallions. Pans Exhibition and State prize winners, fovernment APPKOVED and STAMPED Av5o8 ?,,n7.?n5olmKFter- Umn Pak French and German, pays NO INTERPRETER. NO t Xiyivi:0 SALESMEN, no two to ten men as partners to share profits. His buyers ret MIL DLEMEN'S. PROFITS and SALARIES. lams buys direct from breeders. This, with hi. twenty years experience secures the best. All the a bore facts save his buyers $50000 to $l,0OJ.Ui on a Bret-class stallion, and you get a first-class horse. a only second-rate stallions are peddled by slick salesmen to be sold. GOOD ONES SELL THEMSELVES. It costs $600.00 and $."SO).00 t have salesman form CO. and sell a second-rate stallion. Form your own companies. Go direct to ii? arn5'-iHJtl11e11 ou a stallion for $1,000.00 and $1,200.00 than others are sellim? ?5A niS nd $4,000.00. lams pays horse freight and his buyer's fare. Good guarantees. BARN 3 IN J. OWN. Don t be a clam. Write for an eye-opener and finest horse catalog on earth. FRANK IA MS 9 ST. PAUL, HOWARD CO., NEB., ON U. P. AND B. & M. RYS. Reference-St. Paul State Bank, First State Bank, Citizens' National Bank. WE ARE NOT THE LARGEST IMPORTERS In the U. S. Neither hare we all ton horses. But we do make fire importations each year. Our stables at Lincoln, Neb., and at Souta Omaha Union Stock Yards are full of first-class stallions. If you waut a good one for what he is worth, it will pay you to see us. Our bort won sweepstakes in all draft aud hackuoy classes at Nebraska Slate Fair 1W1. Address all correspondence to WATSON. WOODS BROS. & KELLY CO,. Lincoln, h'sb. & SPKCIAL NOTICE Woods Rroa.. of TJncnln. Kh . h t.n f Shorthorn and Hereford balls and cows for sale at a bargain. iillt What Your Soil Needs To malie it give the very best results is intelligent fertilizing &he Farm. Field and Fireside Soil Diagnosis System Tells what to do, and what not to do. It is a Money V MaKer and a Money Saver For free ctuestion sheet address The Howard Co. 500 Masonic Temple, Chicago toe Favorite Schiller J ftsa Tfj.vaia,,7 2F5 The Schiller Piano has always been the favorite with people wishing a really good Piano at a moderate price. In short, it has not a single equal at the price. Their success along . this line has in spired the company to attempt something higher. The new High Grade Schiller is the result. This, like the medium grade, is the best yet produced for the money. The price is necessarily some higher, but just as low in proportion to quality. Write for description and prices to the Matthews Piano Co. uii ik o o o o o o o MARBLE, GRANITE, SLATE I Several hundred FINISHED MOXU3IENTS O always on hand, from which selections can be made. A personal call desired where this is not convenient we j win man designs, prices, etc. ; O Send for illustrated booklet, free. Mention this raner 2 o o o o o KIMBALL BROS., 1500 6 Street. Lincoln. Nebr O O O o o o 00000X?00000C