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May 29, 1902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 3 Headache kills, not necessarily suddenly, but SURELY. It preys upon the intellectual powers more than we realize. It consumes the vitality faster than nature can replenish it, and we cannot tell just what moment a temporary or complete aberration of the mind will result. Headache and pain should be promptly re moved but properly. Many pain cures are more harmful than the pain. Beware. If you would be safe, take M?.r- Pain Pills. "As a result of neuralgia I lost the sight of my ripht eye, and the pain I hare suffered is incomprehensible, be ing obliged to take opiates almost con tinually. A friend gave me one f Dr. Miles' Fain. Pills and it promptly re lieved roe. J then purchased a box and now my trouble is gone. They have also cured my daughter of nervous headache, and I heartily recommend them to others." W. J. CORLEY. Ere mond, Texas. Sold by Druggists. 25 Doses, 25c. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. THE LIBERTY GUARDS What a Long tine ef Patriot are Saying as They March Along In the Kanka of Reform W. E. Moore, Blossom, Texas: Please send me block of five. Thin,k I can see a gleam of light in the future for true patriots and reformers, and may be the people will get control of the government in 1908 (not sooner). The Cleveland kind of democrats may get control of the so-called democratic party in the next national convention; if so, then the peole's party and true blue Bryan democrats must have a ticket and a platform that means something. Mrs. Ira Campbell, Waddy, Ala bama: Of necessity for defense of liberty, the people's party was born la Omaha, Nebraska, in 1890. The two old parties had fallen from grace to that degree that they could not care for this republic or did not in the manner designed by the consti tution. No other party has ever stood on so grand and substantial a plat form. This along with alliance prin ciples only needs to be obeyed and strictly adhered to to bring the people under the best government on earth. The plutocrats and monopolists, with out heart or conscience, seeing the situation, would if possible shake the earth to loosen our hold on justice. We are glad, however, to read what The Independent says on the public opinion of the great city of Chicago. Now, when the people all over the country look straight through to the interest of the toiling masses, surely inz; need of government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, etc. Let the municipal authorities fight on the same line and fight to the fin ish. If there were enough phick and ambition, born of true valor, populist principles would ride above the dash ing waves of the money power. It is the money power that is crushing liberty and causing tears to flow where smiles should abound; and poverty to lurk where comfort and prosperity be long. There is a limit to cruel injus tice. Let us hope that, limit is In sight. Nicholas Kuth, Progress, Ohio: Go ahead; rebuke evil; advocate what Is good; and then you and your read ers are sure to be in opposition to the military and brutal doctrines of the falsly so-called republican party. Where the carcass is the buzzards will gather. The buzzards are mem bers of trusts and combinations, carpet-baggers, salary-grabbers, Philippine-brutality defenders and let us not forget high priced preachers and smart theologians. Who or where is the carcass? The honest and diligent laborer, who labors faithfully to ele vate and support his fellow man in submission to the golden rule, regard less of hopes of heaven or fears of hell, out of pure love to his fellow men. A. Pickard, Paola, Florida: Will you please excuse a correction? In your issue of May 8, page 5, column 4, your notice on the areas of an acre and a hectare are wrong. A square of 70 yards on a side is an acre, and contains 4,900 square yards (4.S40 square yards is an acre exactly. Ed. Ind.) and a square of 100 meters on a side in one hectare, and contains 10.000 square meters; but as there Is a difference in the length, of the yard, and meter of nine centimeters (I for got on which side) I cannot say Just the area of the concession in acres, but it will be 1,250 acres more or less. As an old Frenchman, but American since 1855, I am very well pleased by your paper and hope to have it as long as I live. I hope the views of W. J. Bryan will progress until they ter raine by those you Introduce; but I believe we have to begin by demo cracy to go to populism. Too many people are afraid of the change. W. J. Campbell, Amboy, Washing ton: Send me a block of five. I con sider The Independent the best paper published does me good to read it In these degenerate days. J. A. Dahlgren, York, Nebraska: I falIJT TOBACCO SPIT iJPWlM I and SM O KB T YourLifeawayl "T . I r m . J he Biad. well, strong, magnetic, full of new uic ana -rigor Dy talcing MO -TO -D AC. that makes weak, men strong. Many eain cured. All druggist. Care guaranteed. Boot let mr.A IdTir WBOTf 1 A A r- rr- JV. ,i VUBMSDY CO, Chicago or New York? i could not get along without The In dependent, I have read It a good many years and I know It tells the truth and that Is Just what a pop wants. ' Samuel Heiser, Charles worth, Mich igan: It seems that some of the mul lets are getting their eyes opened. If they don't they never will. Be sure some never will they are so married to corruption nothing will save them. Many now see where the shoe pinches, but I am afraid the party In power is going to load the next administration down with the greatest burden that ever was. Things look that way now. P. G. Smith, Wootan Wells, Texas: You seem to boom the democratic party, that is, the free silver demo cratic. I haven't seen the allied peo ple's party named In your paper. I think that all reform parties should get together. That Is all the chance I see for them. (The allied people's party is .simply a myth. The peo ple's party national organization, with ex-Senator Marion Butler as chairman and J. A. Edgerton, secre tary, had nothing to do with the Louisville conference. That had no binding force as a convention. Even now Jo Parker is posing as chairman of the Barker-Donnelly bolting fac tion as well as chairman of the al lied party. The Independent recog nizes no allied party. It stands by the platforma of Omaha, St. Louis and Sioux Falls. Ed. Ind.) S. L. Conger, Inman, Nebraska: We have plenty of pops here that ought to take The Independent the best paper in the state but they don't. Warner Starr, Allen, Nebraska: Pass the word down the line to the boys to hustle and place The Inde pendent in the hands of every new settler in the state. The state con tains many thousands of new men who are ignorant of Nebraska politics, and these men must be "showed" through the reform press. Republi can organs don't accuse themselves. John H. McGary, Maple Plain, Min nesota: The Independent is one of the best papers I have struck for some time. "Hew to the line and let the chips fall where they will." It will not hurt the people to know the truth. Uriah N. Ingersoll, Columbia Falls, Maine: I admire your motto ("The truth about everything") but have no hope that you will live up to it, ac cording to the light that is In you. Ruskin did it, I think. There are some tremendous forces tearing down our ethics, If we ever had any. Chief among them are ignorance, bonds and interest, insurance, and pensions. Schools dare not put the light on top of the bushel. The church is a hot bed of hypocrisy, pretending to "be lieve in letting your light shine and ready to kill you if you do. L. G. Stewart, Geneva, Nebraska: As I read the names of those who have put their shoulders to the wheel by helping establish a home for our true and tried champion of liberty, I feel like extending to them the hand of full populist fellowship, and it Is my desire to have my name enrolled with men whose actions speak louder than words. I have tried to sell some cards and I get awful hot when men we have put in office don't take The Independent and say they have so many papers, etc., etc. I never nave scratched a man on our ticket, but doubt if I would have voted for them in years gone by by if I had thought that as soon aa they got loose from the seat they would have been so well, we have some of that spineless set who act as if they were for "what there is in it." J. C. Lafferty, Marion, Nebraska: I often think of the adage, "God take care of the rich, and the poor devils can take care of themselves." If our small grain doesn't go back on us, and if the elevator trust and the railroads don't take it all for handling it for us, I would like to sell some of those Lib erty Building cards; but money is so scarce here now, I don't think I could sell them yet. I see my old friend, J. M. Babb, of Clayton, 111., has got the scales off his eyes. You advance my ideas to a T. F. M. Massie, Nehawka, Nebraska: I have always admired The Independ ent's firmness on all issues taken and its advocacy of the common people at all times. G. E. Bentley, Beatrice, Nebraska: I spent two days trying to sell the cards and sold but one; so I made the $3 up out of my own pocket. But it is all right. I am in the fight for re form and have been for thirty years. I belonged to the patrons of hus gandry in Illinois 38 years ago, and expect to stay in the fight as long as I live. George Bliss, 211 Hancock St., Dorchester, Mass.: Sample copies re ceived O. K. and passed along where I thought they would do the most good. I am waiting to see a friend of mine who speaks at labor meetings through the state. Had not seen him for some time until last week, when I found he was a strong Hill man. Did not have, much time to talk with him; told him I would see him again. I thought I had a copy of The Com moner containing a good article giv ing Hill a roast. Since then I got the May 1st number of The Independent, which has a letter from John S. De Hart, Jersey City, N. J., "Hill for President," which Is just the thing. I am keeping a copy for my friend. In regard to the postal cards, I sold one and have given two or three away. As a rule the folks here In Boston thinks they know it all and are so stuck on themselves that It is hard to get them to read anything of much account. If they can get themselves up in patent leather shoes, etc., etc., go to the theatre and put on a general bluff, they are perfectly happy. Will you please send me ten copies of your issue of May 1? I will put them in the hands of Hill men. Jacob Zeigler, Peoria, Illinois: I have been trying hard to dispose of those postals you sent me, but it seems Peoria contains too many mullet heads to the square yard. Philetus C. Burns, 526 Massachus etss ave., Buffalo, N. Y.: Populism of fers a combination of liberty and pro duction that cannot be outdone. When all the forces for public ownership and economic advancement (now di vided) unite, that great aggregation of voters whom you represent will be foremost among the sharers of the grand triumph to follow. And under whatever name that ofganization may be headed, it will he THE PEOPLE'S party- FREDERICK THE GREAT The Emperor of Germany "Will Erect a Statue of Hlra in Washington The German emperor on Wednesday, May 14, telegraphed as follows to the president of the United States at Washington: "I am still under the deep impres sion created by the splendid and cor dial reception of my brother, Prince Henry, by the citizens of the United States of America. In the speeches with which he was greeted the fact was often mentioned that my ancestor, Frederick the Great, maintained a friendly attitude towards the young American republic , during the course of her formation, thereby laying the corner-stone of the friendly relations which always have existed between our two countries. "The example set to me by the great king I intend to follow. I wish to commemorate the visit of Prince Hen ry by a gift to the people of America, which I request you to accept in their name. I intend to present a statue, In bronze, of Frederick the Great to the United States, to be erected In Washington, on a place which you will kindly choose. May this gift be looked upon as a lasting sign of the intimate relations which have been successfully fostered and developed between our two great nations. "WILLIAM, I. R." President Roosevelt's reply, which was sent In German, translated, is as follows: "Washington, D. C, May 15. Em peror William, Wiesbaden: I highly appreciate your grand, friendly ofTer. I thank you heartily, therefore, In the name of the United States. I will sub mit it immediately to congress. It will no doubt be to the greatest pleas ure of our people to receive from your hands a statue of the famous ruler and soldier, one of the greatest men of all times, Frederick the Great, and it is especially appropriate that the statue should be erected in the city of Wash ington, the capital of the republic, upon the birth of which he looked with such friendly interest. "For this new proof of your friendly feelings towards our country I thank you in the name of the United States. Your gift surely will be considered here as a new evidence of the friend ship existing between the two nations. We hope and believe that this friend ship in the coming years will become still stronger. "It is a hopeful sign for the welfare of all mankind that in the beginning of this century the American and Ger man people are working together in a sense of happy friendship." Later it was announced that the president had come to the conclusion that it would not be necessary for him to ask congress for permission to ac cept the statue and did so on his own authority. The kaiser is bound to get ahead of the British in this Interna tional friendship business. For over sixty years Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by mothers for their children while teeth ing. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of 'Cut ting Teeth? If so send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup" for Children Teething. Its value Is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for chil dren teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians asd nurses in the United States, and is for sale by all druggists throughout the world. Price, 25 cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup." THE SINGLE TAX Views of Various Correspondents of The Independent Answers by C. Q. De Trance Editor Independent: The Inde pendent fails to see the justice of the Single Taxers' proposition for govern ment to appropriate ground rent in place of all forms of taxation. It can not appreciate the logic of singling out land values for taxation, "because they are produced by the community," when the values attaching to other things are likewise produced by so ciety the result of supply and de mand.. The selling price or value of land is the potential ground rent commuted or capitalized. Where there is good prospect of quick settlement and ab normal demand, land may have a speculative value beyond the capital ization or present ground rent. Ground rent indicates the value of superior land (in fertility, location, etc,) over the poorest land in use. All men have an equal natural right to use the land, or any particular land, even the best land. Neither con quest, priority of occupancy or vested right, gives a valid moral right to ex clude others from land. If a man belongs to himself, if he be not a slave, what he produces be longs to him by right. This is the natural title to property. If what man produces belongs to him, whatever value attaches to his products, through the desire of others, is his property. But no man made the land. All having an equal natural right to use the best land ( physical impos sibility), it devolves upon us to devise and apply a system of land tenure by which the equal natural rights of all may be secured and maintained. To do this it is only necessary to di vide ground rent, pro rata, among all the people of a political division. As suming that government is necessary, a labor-saving institution, the simple and logical disposition of the com mon fund is to use it for all expenses of government, to the exclusion of all forms of taxation. A. FREELAND. Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. (If the single taxers would devote more time to showing the feasibility of a tax upon land values exclusively, than they do to discussing the ethical sinfulness of private ownership of land, The Independent believes they might accomplish more. This sug gestion Is made from the standpoint of a populist who understands how populist3 generally regard the ques tion. As Louis F. Post admits, taxes are paid by men and must come out of the products of labor. According ly a tax, whether it be on land values or values of other things, must finally come out of the taxpayers' Income and the products of. his labor. Placed simply on the proposition that a single tax on land values would be productive of better results and be more equitable, because the levy can be made with more certainty and can be collected with less expense, the single tax movement ought to In crease wonderfully. But from one end of the country to another our peo ple are acustomed to the private own ership of land, and too much of the single tax discussions are upon the ethical side of the question and too finely spun for the average man to thoroughly understand. Too much of the single tax discussions leave the impression to the uninitiated that a tax on land values' exclusively could be paid with but -little, if any effort, on. the part of the taxpayer. Another matter which Is not made clear by the single taxers usually Is the application of their single tax to public service corporations like the railroads. Properly developed and properly presented, the single tax idea applied to railroad franchises is very simple, as it appears to me. Giv en, a railroad corporation operating a railroad. Stocks and bonds, $1,000,000 and selling in the markets at par. Value of ties, rails, rolling stock, labor of preparing road bed, and all im provements except the bare right of way, say $600,000. Then the fran chise value is $400,000, which is simply another way of saying that the value of the bare right of way is $400,000. That would be the taxable value of the railroad under the single tax. I am not fully satisfied that the right of way value and franchise value are identical; yet under any other hypoth esis, it is difficult to say what Is the value of the right of way. It cannot be determined by reference to what it cost; it cannot be determined by comparing it to the value of farm land adjoining. Public ownership of the of the railroads would eliminate this problem from the single tax, and its operation would not be difficult when applied to farm lands and city prop erty. C. Q. De France.) Bolton Hall, 111 Broadway, New York, well known as an authority on taxation and an exponent of the single tax, sends The Independent the clip ping printed below and says: "En closed is so well expressed and an swers so succinctly the question you recently asked, or one of ybur corres pondents asked, as to why rich a man could not monopolize land under the single tax, that I send It with the re quest that you print it." The clip ping is as follows: "Should a man try to hog the land, as on a farm, for instance, the moment he tried to hire laborers to earn the rent for him to pay, if he paid them more than they earned, he would break up; while if he paid them less than they could earn for themselves, they would put In plans for them selves, deal' directly1 "with the public, and squelch the middleman. If a large farm is wanted, several will club to gether and get a competent foreman to superintend it, who Will share returns with them." The only trouble about this para graph is the implication that under the single tax there would be a great quantity of land always idle and al ways ready for occupancy by any man dissatisfied with the rent his landlord might ask. Without security of tenure there would be little incentive to erect good buildings and make valuable per manent improvements; and with se curity of tenure the landlord would do just as he does now get all the rent he can. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state afore said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of De cember, A. D. 1886. (Seal) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. 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A stick is put through the ropes where they cross between the shoulders and then turned to suit. "Will it make a man talk?" Mr. Loughran was asked. "A wooden Indian would make a speech if you gave Llm the rope cure," he replied. . Mr. -Loughran says that this was far more effective than the water cure, which is slow. 150 A MONTH Tf vou wanttomaka mnnav in your own locality or elsewhere, send for particulars. Bonanza monev maker. No capital required, pleasant work, big returns. No canvassing. Address POWER & CO., BOX 1JBS, OMAHA, NEB. A PINK BOOKLET And What Cams From One Woman's Reading it A woman In Rome, N. Y., Mrs. W. T. Clark, was cured of stomach trouble and nervousness by a certain medicine and gave the manufacturers permis sion to use her statement recommend ing the preparation. This was pub" lished in a booklet and thrown around at the doors. Now Mrs. William Me tot, also of Rome, was ailing, and. happening to read the book, came across the description of Mrs. Clark"? case. In some respects their symptoms were similar, so she went to Mrs. Clark's house at No. 318 West Thomas street, and asked her about it. Mrs. Metot tells the story as follows: "I had been miserable for a long time, suffering with the troubles which come with the turn of life. It made me sick to my stomach, I had smoth ering spells every once in a while and, if I walked any distance, my limbs felt like sticks. My head felt just as if I was going to be crazy and with It all I was afflicted with nervousness and heart trouble. I felt so bad that I did not see anything to live for. "I went to a doctor, but he didn't do me much good and so I was pretty well discouraged. Then I saw In a booklet that was thrown around, how Mrs. Clark was cured. I went to see her and upon her recommendation T went that very day and got some of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple. "I felt better before the first box was all taken and continued using them until I was well. My husband Is sick and is going to take them and so is my sister. I have recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to many people and will continue to do so for I know what they will do from my own experience." Mrs. Metot lives at No. 426 W. Bloomfield street, Rome, N. Y. Her statement is another proof of the well deserved popularity of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Among the many diseases they have cured are locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, and all forms of weakness either In male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by all dealers or will be sent postpaid on re ceipt cf price, fifty cents a box; or six boxes for two dollars and a half, by addressing Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. SPRAYING ORCHARDS Timely Suggestions by E. T. Stephen the Veteran Orehara 1st, Crete, Neb. Throughout the southern portion of Nebraska the most pressing work at this time with the orchardist is spray ing to guard against our insect ene mies. Since 1891 the apple orchards have not set so much fruit as this spring. Nearly all of the blooms were evi dently properly pollinated, and the trees at the present have set a great deal more fruit than they can carry. The properly balanced farm seems to be likely to gain as much on their fruit orchards as they lose by the grain crop being below the average. Now, that our apple orchards are so full of promises, it is just possible that your readers may be Interested in some of the particular details con nected with the effective work of spraying. In southern Nebraska the codling moth rarely commences to fly and de posit eggs before the middle of May, and from that time until the first of June or later it is active in getting in its work. We spray at this time, not because the moth is at work, but because the most promising way to lessen the work of the first brood is to lodge poison in the calyx of the ap ple before the lobes of the calyx close so tightly as to render the lodgment of the poison unlikely. Prof. Card in his work demonstra ted that 80 per csnt of the larvae of the first brood entering the apple seek entrance through the calyx doubtless because it offers the likeliest shelter for the young larvae seeking refuge from its enemies. Should spraying be delayed until after the calyx Is very tightly closed, we have then lost our best opportunity to intercept the larvae of the first" brood. If we can lessen the number of the first brood we of course very greatly curtail the work of the second brood. The large number of these trees we have to spray and the necessity of doing the work in a very few days makes it, for us, ad vantageous to use a horse power pump. The power is applied by sprock et gearing from the hind wheel of an ordinary farm wagon; on this run ning gear is placed a timber frame strong enough to support a 200-gallon tank. We find this pump capable of applying eight tanks full, or 1,600 gal lons daily: something depends on the water supply and the distance of the orchard fromthe water tank. If the pump could be supplied by another team hauling water It could apply from 2,400 to 3,000 gallons of the solu tion in a da v. With our trees, in age from 10 to 25 years, we usually apply about two gallons to the tree, cover ing, without the help of a water haul ing wagon, about 800 trees per day; this with a driver and one man to di rect the spray from four seneca noz zles. We have been using a horse power pump some 12 to 14 years, us ing hand pump only on very rough ground and where it was difficult to run a horse power pump. The objec tion urged against the use of the horse power pump Is that the pump passing the trees at the speed of a walking team . is not likely to apply a sufficient amount of spray to do effective work With this fact In view we drive twice around each row of trees, spraying twice from each side. We have found it necessary in former year to spray the trees at three and sometimes four different times during the season. The first time commencing four to six days after the blossoms had fallen and the young, apples were noticeably formed. During the early years of our work we used London purple be cause it seemed to be more readily kept In suspension in the water than Paris green. Not always being earef ul to use enough lime to neutralize the arsenious acid in ..the London . purple we sometimes burned the foliage of our trees. For three seasons wis have been using green arsenold, manufac tured by the Adner Color and Chemi cal Works of New York city, costing 15 cents per pound. Fanners' bulletin No. 146. Insecti cides and Fungicides, by J. K, Hay ward the department of agriculture. regards this particular preparation as a very good compound that has given excellent results in the various state stations, especially when mixed with a little lime. We are rising bordeoux mixture In connection with the green arsenold, using 16 pounds lime, 12 pounds blue vitriol and one pound green arsenoid for each tank of 200 gallons of water. The blue vitriol costs, by the barrel, 6 cents a pound and comes in barrels containing 450 to 500 pounds. A convenient method of preparing is to weigh out 96 pounds for one day's use and hang it suspended in a sack in 32 gallons of water; by suspending it in a sack It dissolves more readily than when al lowed to settle to the bottom of the barrel; the lime is slacked by the barrel and the slacked lime 1h esti mated by measure In the preparation of each tank full. The tank 13 first nearly filled with water, the amount of slacked lime, by measure, that re sults from 16 pounds of lump lime is stirred Into and dissolved in half a barrel of water; this solution 1 then added to the tank already nearly filled with water and thoroughly mixed; then measure out four gallons of the blue vitriol solution and rapidly stir this into the tank of lime water. Af ter this has been carefully mixed by stirring, next take one pound of green arsenoid, add a little water to make a paste, then use a couple of gallons of water to get it in complete solution; this is then added to the tank full and stirred together. The tank full is then ready for orchard work. It takes perhaps longer to describe these details than to do the work, but perhaps this detailed description may be of Interest to those who are not familiar with this class of work. To spray the tree while it was in bloom or before It was completely out of bloom would be likely to degtroy the blossom and prevent pollination. Work cannot be commenced until the petals have fallen, until polliaatlon has taken place and the apples are beginning to swell and form. It is advantageous that the orchard should be planted in rows, varieties blooming at like periods; that is, It would be unfortunate to fill out a Ben Davis row with Rawles Jenet since the Rawles' Jenet would be Just in bloom when the Ben Davis womld be ready to spray. In windy weather the work of spraying is very disagreeable and care should be taken to absorb as little of the poison as possible. A long continued season of spraying al most always effects the health of the workman. TJie use of a considerable amount of lime causes the solution to stick to the foliage better. It neutralizes the ar senious acid and renders it lews lia ble to burn the foliage. In the early years of our spraying, we not Infre quently found the foliage injured and regarded it as very detrimental to the trees. We see no objection to using as much lime in the composition , as can be freely passed through the noz zles. Using the proper proportion of lime the foilag-3 does not suffer. E. F. STEPHENS. Crete, Neb. . A LETTER TO BIXBY Mr. Watkins Has Tormed the Open Letter Habit and Will Probably be Lector ' in Xext Editor Independent: I see In the semi-weekly State Journ al of May 6th Bixby says "Some men are happy only when they are talking politics." Now I hate to see Bixby unhappy and as he has a chip on his shoulder I will knock it off and see if he is as brave as he would like his readers to think he is. Bixby what do you think of the Fowler bill any way? You never say anything about it and I am very anxious to ses your little game. If you want it to become law you may just as well go ahead and pass it as it will make no difference with your vote in the coming election I have mentioned this bill to two very prominent republicans and both made the same statement "I have perfect confidence in any financial legislation my party enacts." As you intend to en dorse this bill in your state platform you may just as well do it as to sneak it though as you did demonetization of silver. It may be like stolen water melons very much sweeter. Anyway, Bix, as we are to have asset banking, redeemable silver dollars and the green backs retired, please tell one why you want the greenback retired or the silver dollars redeemed in gold, also why corporations known as oanks should be furnished by the government with money at one per cent? When you have answered the above questions I will ask you some more Just to keep you happy; or would you rathe? write about a boar black pig and a cow called Speck and tell Porter to put it back. Why In halifax don't you say something about , Hartley s putting it back? Your party created both the law and the constitution by which Porter got his swag. Do you, when legislating, pass laws for re publicans only? If so, I should think they ought to be satisfied without go ing outside to get swag. Now as I said before don't be afraid to speak right out. You can carry the next elec tion, I don't care what you do or say. We have all laid down and I only write this to make you happy. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am yours for your pleasure. GEO. W ATKINS. Verdon, Nebr. ranch some months ago set his cow- punchers on the old Indian Fighters trail with orders to "go fetch me her his scalp." And obedient to the com mand, with their long forty-fives and with savage Ki-yis, they are still dig ging their bloody spurs Into the reck ing flanks of their panting cayuse and are rattling, hot-foot, along the trail. However, they haven't yet dared to go within scalp-taking d's tance, but are content, perforce, with taking long-range shots in the hope of disabling the "Old Man." The latest of these shots was fired the other day when the Hero of Sau Juan Hill, stirred by the battle pas- sion of envy and spite within his heart, signified to the French ambas sador that it would make him th3 H. of S. J. H. very tired If the French government should do anything , s silly as to decorate or even ofTer to decorate those two old ciphers, Mile: and Dewey, the heads of the army and navy respectively. Whereat the Frenchman wondered. which same Frenchman, if he will come to Tennessee we will take him to the top of a medium-sized peak ot the Cumberland mountains and show him the ears of a jack ass a-floppin' clean over yonder In Washington city. Which same when he returns to which same city will not again be filled with so much wonder when he hears the ex ceeding loud and discordant bray o! which same jack ass. B. O. DUGGAN. Sparta, Tenn. $1,000,000 HEW BUSINESS ON THE 19TH DAY OF MAY, 1002, THE MILLION DOLLAR MARK WAS PASSED BY THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE On New Business for the Year. Total Premium Collected Reached ' $55,000. Nothing succeeds like success. Thrt more the enemy howls the more the loyal people of the west rally to th standard of the most aggressive, most successful and strongest Nebraska company. Young, energetic, reliable and up-to-date, its field corps finds a warm welcome in all the western states. The people have determined that this former folly of banking life insurance savings 2,000 miles beyond their reach shall not be repeated. Hence B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT of the Bankers' Reserve Life Associa tion, finds a cordial welcome waiting his company in all western communi ties. The people are awakening upon the subject. The contemptible, clan destine, malicious slanders circulated by the Life Insurance Trust, better known in this state as the Nebraska Life Underwriters' Association, in tended to impair the usefulness of THE BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE fall flat In the face of the fact of con tinuous and merited success. A com pany only five years old which writes $1,000,000 in three months and a half will write $3,000,000 of new business during the year. In other words, tha Bankers' Reserve will show next De cember that it has doubled its busi ness. Every western man loyal to his grand section of the union is invited to join in the crusade for home life insurance. A few additional first-class special and general agents wanted for good territory on extra liberal termf. to handle its superior policies and plans. Call on or address BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE, OMAHA ROY'S DRUG STORE 104 Mil lllll St. We say "Roy's" drug store as a matter of fact it is EVERYBODY'S drug store almost. Roy only con ducts it, buys and keeps to sell Jie goods, and meet and force competition. Our patrons do the rest. We want to remind you of seasonable goods, viz: Garden Seeds, Conditio a Powders, Lice Killers, B. B. Poison, Kalsomlne. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc. We make a specialty of all kinds of Stock and Poultry Foods, etc. Don't miss us. A STRENUOUS STORY Old Tenneessee Offers to Show the French man a Pair of Psndtroui Ears We, people of : middle Tennessee, don't love Lieut. Gen. Miles very much; but we will give even the devil his due. We believe Miles to be a brave soldier, a skilful and efficient officer, and are of tho opinion that he has been and Is very shabbily treated by the administration. j . The foreman of the White j House Roys9 1 04 Mo I Oth Money Prudent people buy their drugs and patents here and save money. Here are a few prices; $1.00 Peruna : . .". .". . . . 63c $1.00 Miles' Nervine.....;..... 63c $1.00 Pierce's Remedies 65c $1.00 Hood's Sarsaparilla .....63c $1.00 Paine's Celery Compound.... 65c $1.00 Wine of Cardui....... 63c $1.00 Stuart's Dyspeptic Tablets.. 63c $1.00 Pinkham's Compound........ 63c $1.00 Kilmer's Swamp Root .63c $1.00 Scott's Emulsion IbSc $1.00 S S S 6oc Syrup of Figs lvc Meadows Malted Milk 33c Castoria, Dr. Pitcher's Formula . , . .13c To each purchaser of $1 worth of goods .we give a substantial present there is no prescription too difficult for us to fill and. we'll save you money. Come in and get acquainted. Add 25c for boxing where goods are shaped. Gut Rata Pharmacy 12 th and 0 STS., Lincoln, NcU