June 12, 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
AN ACROBATIC BOARD
State Board of Equalization First Declares it Refused
to Assess Franchises; Now Says it Performed
Its Full Duty in the Manner Provided
by Law
PROUT AS RINGMASTER-WESTON AS CLOWN
Two Snap Shots Showing the Flying Leap Over Rosey, and the Double Back
Summersault
THE FLYING LEAP.
"Respondents further answering
aver that . . . Edward Rosewater
made demand . . . that the said
board assess, in addition to the
tangible property of said . . . com
panies, which had by said board
already been assessed, the FRAN
CHISES of said corporations,
which the respondents . . . RE
FUSED TO DO for the reason
that under the statutes ... it
doubted its right to do bo."
Prayer.
"Wherefore, the respondents ask
this Honorable Court to place a
construction upon the constitu
tional provision. above quoted and
the sections of the statute herein
cited and instruct the respondents
as such board whether or not it
has the power ... to VALUE and
ASSESS the FRANCHISES of the
corporations named In the affidavit
of relator, and if so, to announce
some equitable rule by which the
value of such franchises may be
ascertained.
FRANK N. PROUT,
Attorney General.
Verified and sworn to by
CHARLES WESTON,
Auditor. . ,
THE BACK SUMMERSAULT.
"And said board did then and
there enter upon the consideration
of the valuation of the properties
. . . and thereafter . . . did assess
the value of all the properties of
said railroad . . . companies in the
MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.
. . . That in arriving at the valua
tion . . . said board considered
that said companies . . . were act
ually engaged In using and oper
ating all their properties in the
performance of the duties incum
bent upon them ... by law to per
form . . . and each of the prop
erties . . . was valued AS A UNIT
for said purposes of assessment
and taxation. Said respondents did
not believe . . . the board had au
thority to value and assess EX
TRA CORPORATE FRANCHISES
. . . separately and apart from
their tangible property."
Prayer.
Wherefore, these respondents
submit to this Honorable Court
that said state board of equaliza
tion performed its full duty in the
hearing, consideration and assess
ment of the different properties of
the several companies, railroad,
telegraph, and sleeping car, doing
business in the state of Nebraska.
F. N. PROUT,
Attorney General.
Verified and sworn to by
CHARLES WESTON,
Auditor.
When the people of Nebraska elected
the present republican state officers,
they did so with full knowledge that
every man jack was a full-fledged cor
poration tool. So when the attorney
general threw away his opportunity
to put the finishing touches on the
Standard Oil suit which had already
been won by Attorney General Smyth,
except securing the final Judgment
the people of Nebraska had no cause
to complain; or, at any rate, those
who voted for him had not.
That the present state board of
equalization would not make any ma
terial raise in the railroad assessment
wa3 a foregone conclusion. The ques
tion of assessing railroad franchises
was presented to the board in a letter
from M. F. Harrington, and orally by
Edward Simeral; and the board had a
very clear Idea of what is meant by
assessing franchises and how to de
termine their value. The law on this
subject is not clear, although the con
stitution says in no uncertain lan
guage that "the legislature shall pro
vide such revenue as may be needful,
by levying a tax by valuation, so that
every person and corporation shall
pay a tax in proportion to the value
of his, her or its PROPERTY and
FRANCHISES, the value to be AS
CERTAINED in such manner as the
legislature shall direct." The legis
lature evidently did not understand
the matter as well as it is understood
today or was under the usual railroad
hypnotic influence so common in re
publican legislatures and the stature
law for ascertaining the value of fran
chises is very vague and, prior to the
decision in the Omaha tax cases, was
contradictory and unconstitutional.
But since the Omaha tax cases were
decided, the law is sufficiently plain
to Justify the state board in assessing
railroad franchises. This the board
absolutely refused to do, notwith
standing the arguments of Messrs.
Harrington and Simeral.
On the 20th day of May, 1902, at
the Instance of Edward Rosewater,
Mr. Simeral filed In the office of the
clerk of the supreme court affidavit
and motion for a writ of mandamus,
setting up the facts and praying for a
writ to compel the board to reconvene
and reassess the railroads, etc., de
termining the fair value of the "prop
erty including franchises." An alter
native writ was issued at once, but
Governor Savage, Treasurer Stuefer,
and Auditor Weston had fled from the
city and service' and officer's return
were not made and filed until May 28.
On the same day the board made an
swer to the writ, quotation from which
appears in the first parallel columa
above. At that time the board an
swered the court the same as it had
answered Messrs. Harrington, Rose
water, Simeral and others: that it
would not assess franchises because
it believed it had no right to do so
under the statutes in force. That an
swer evidently was made without con
sulting with the railroads; it was a
truthful answer, but a tactical mis
take from a railroad point of view.
On the 3rd of June, M. F. Harring
ton asked and obtained leave to file a
notice and application to intervene
in the case as one of the relators
along with Rosewater and the Bee
Building Co. This was a shrewd move
on Harrington's part, because it ren
dered Rosewater powerless to dismiss
the case after the republican conven
tion is over something he might have
done if the political situation seemed
to demand it.
The barefacedness of the board's
truckling to the railroads is well il
lustrated in its action last Friday
(June 6). Even the State Journal
hadn't the nerve to make any excuses
and told the story, in the following
language:
"Following a meeting of railroad at
torneys with members of the state
board of equalization, Attorney F. N.
Prout filed an amended answer in the
supreme court yesterday in the case
of the Bee Publishing Co. against the
board. A writ of mandamus is asked
for to compel the board to assess rail
road ! franchises. The board filed an
answer May 28 admitting that It had
refused to assess franchises, giving as
a reason that the law does not confer
such power on the board. The amend
ed answer contains a new statement
of facts as to what the board did do
when it met as a board of equalization.
This statement indicates that fran
chises or intangible property and the
earnings of the railroad companies
have already been assessed by the
board. The amended answer contin
ues by asserting that the board did
not believe that under the law defin
ing Its powers it had authority to as
sess "extra corporate franchises" sep
arately and apart from their tangible
property. The board insists that It
did its full duty under the law.
"The meeting of board members and
attorneys was held at the office of
Governor Savage. J. E. Kelby of
Omaha for the Burlington road, J. N.
Baldwin of Council Bluffs for the
Union Pacific, Ben White of Omaha
for the Elkhorn road and Attorney
Frank Ransom of Omaha were pres
ent. The board members are Governor
Savage, State Treasurer Stuefer and
Auditor Charles Weston. These were
also in attendance. Attorney General
Prout was the last to come into the
consultation. Beginning at 11 o'clock
the conference lasted two hours.
Attorney Kelby is quoted as assur
ing the board that the defense out
lined could not embarrass the board,
as he thought no one, not even a mem
ber of the board, couid say that the
board had not considered franchises
when the assessment was made. That
he believed was the chief ground upon
which the application for a writ was
based."
The amended answer Is Intended to
tie the hands of the court so that the
writ will be denied; it affirms that the
board did all things required of it by
law and that it assessed the railroads
"in the manner provided by law." If
this is true, of course, there is no
ground for a writ. But this is a mat
ter of fact to be determined by com
petent evidence the same as any otner
fact. . It really looks as though the
amended answer would necessitate the
appointment of a referee to hear testi
mony and report findings of fact. If
it should turn out that way, The Inde
pendent hopes the court will be more
fortunate in Its selection of a referee
than it was in the Standard Oil case.
It would seem that a gleam of light
ought to strike through the aching
vacuum in the head of the dullest of
mullet heads. The board answered at
first in a truthful way, and defended
its failure to assess franchises by
doubting its right to do so and asking
the court for information. That didn't
suit the railroads, for it meant a ralso
in the railroad assessment. So a co
terie of railroad attorneys called upon
the state officers and read the riot act
to them. A special meeting of the
board was hurriedly called, and the
three members, Governor Savage,
Treasurer Stuefer, and Auditor Wes
ton, together wit,h four railroad at
torneys, and "Necessity" Prout, talked
two long, weary hours over the mat
ter. Then came the filing of the
amended answer which in effect saysr
"We did our full duty now do your
w-o-r-r-s-t." Nobody but a mullet
head could fail to see that the board
and attorney general are owned, body
soul and breeches, by the corporations.
"Extra corporate franchises."
Whooh! That's fully up to the "full
dinner pall" and "let well enough
alone." The people of Nebraska will
be mighty lucky if the railroads pay
a fair tax upon their plain, every
day franchises, and allow the "extra
corporate" kind escape altogether.
"Valued as a unit." That's good. The
Independent has been urging all along
that a railroad should be valued as an
entirety and not as a scrap-heap of
rails, ties, and section tool houses.
Evidently the railroad attorney who
drew the amended answer has been
reading The Independent to some pur
pose. But the "unit" business cer
tainly didn't apply to the Burlington
and C, St. P., M. & O., for these roads
made no report of their earnings, etc.,
as did the others. The board couldn't
know whether these two roads had
any "extra corporate franchises" or
common, old-fashioned ones.
The people of Nebraska are watch
ing the- outcome of this Suit with much
interest. It is the first skirmish in a
battle royal between the public ser
vice corporations and the public itself
as to which shall rule.
ANGRY ABOUT IT
Rcpobllcaa Machine Worried Because of
Culberson's .Exposure Trying to
Blame Miles Cuban Expendi
tures Bidden
Washington, D. C, June 7, 1902.
(Special Correspondence.) The lat
est tempest in the war department
waB caused by Senator Culberson's
quoting the records in the war ae
partment showing that Lieutenant Ar
nold had been guilty of gross cruelty
to the Filipinos. It developed that a
private In Lieut. Arnold's company
had made the charges. They were
investigated and found to be true. Gen
eral Miles advised that Arnold De
court-martialed. No attention v-as
paid to this recommendation. Lieut.
Arnold was allowed to return to this
country with his regiment. The re
cital of cruelty included the water
cure, the beating and otherwise mal
treating of suspected Filipinos and s
new form of torture by cutting a strip
of flesh from the ankle and twisting it
tight with a stick.
The ingenious Lieut. Arnold, it
seems, did not hesitate to have Fili
pinos str,ung up by the thumbs. H3
had another mode of torture worthy
of the Tartars. He would nave a
Filipino attached by a rope to a sad
dled horse and the horse set off at
full gallop. If the poor wretch could
run as fast as the horse he might suf
fer little Injury. If not he was dragged
through the dust and over stones and
through briars. Any farmer's boy wno
wants to get a realistic idea of this
form of torture might try to keep up
with his father's best driving horse
and see how long it will be before he
is forced to call a halt.
The amazing thing about the whoie
matter is that the war department
has not a word of regret or explana
tion for having permitted such cruel
ties. Its whole cause for grief ia
that the public ha3 been permitted to
learn the details of this case so care
fully hidden in the archives. Secre
tary Root and the administration hav,
been howling themselves black in th;
face and threatening all sorts of pua
Ishment for General Miles because he
is suspected of having allowed Sena
tor Culberson (dem.) to obtain the de
tails of this case. An elaborate search
has been made to find out the leak in
the war department records.
What effrontery. Not a blush at the
fact of having permitted such cruelties
to go unpunished. But only indigna
tion at being found out. Now the ques
tion arises. How many more sucu
cases are recorded in the war depart-,
ment? This one case makes it abund
antly clear that the administration did
not punish such actions. The country
can now judge for itself the value of
the republican howl that the army is
being attacked by the democrats.
There is absolutely no proof that
General Miles furnished Senator Cul
berson with the copy of the records in
the case. But if he had he would hava
been doing the country a service in
letting it know how the honor of the
army is being prostituted by the ad
ministration in the Philippines.
Do you approve of such cruelties?
Let each citizen, regardless of party,
ask himself this question. Senator
Hoar silenced Senator Spooner with
just that question. Senator Spooner
had been attempting to defend the
cruelties in the Philippines by quot
ing the Massachusetts statute of 1722
offering rewards for scalps of male
Indians 12 years or more old.
"Does the senator approve of that
order?" inquired Senator Hoar. Sena
tor Spooner had to admit that he did.
Otherwise how could he defend tha
Philippine case? In the same way the
republicans place themselves in the
position of defending lynching and
burning of negroes at the stake in the
south. They must necessarily approve
of " every lawless act they cite as
parallel, else why attempt that mode
of justification? It is well for the
country to know that the administra
tion and the republican party stand
for cruelty in the Philippines and all
other unlawful acts which might fur
nish any sort of a parallel.
It seemed that the Nicaragua canal
Idea had been buried in oblivion and
so it is so far as any action by this
congress is concerned. Senator Han
na made a speech favoring the Pana
ma route the other day, not because
he expected any action to be taken,
but this is one of the times when any
thing is grabbed at as a diversion
from the awful exposure of the repub
lican administration in the Philip
pines. Th'e majority of the house military
committee the other day tabled a res
olution asking for an account of our
expenditures during our military oc
cupation of Cuba. The action was
taken on the ground that an investi
gation "would be a criticism on the
administration." Talk about the di
vine right of kings. You taxpayer
must put up the money to support this
Imperialist administration, but not on
you life must you inquire how it is
expended for that is a criticism on
your masters.
The ending of the Boer war reflects
no credit on Great Britain. The Boers
get practically everything they asked
except the freedom in name. To give
this up is a most bitter sacrifice to
the brave men who have fought a
war that will go down in history as
one of the most splendid achievements
of all time. We can say nothing De
cause we are ourselves trying to sub
jugate an unwilling people. Had we
been willing to give the Boers the aid
they deserved the outcome might have
been different. As it is England has
had a most humiliating lesson and
will let South Africa pretty much
manage its own affairs for the future.
D. P. B.
By the State or Without It
The average person would probably
say that every man's own conscience
is his sufficient guide in conduct. And
the average man is quite mistaken. It
is not at all the function of conscience
to tell what is right and what 13
wrong. As a plain matter of fact if
never does that. It is not a finger
board standing at the cross roads of
action to point the right path. Con
science has nothing to say to one at
all ' until he first has found out what
he ought and ought not to do.' After
he ; has . learned this by other means,
then and not till then does his con
science have anything to : say ' It
speaks to the will, not to the under
standing. In a society such as that
in which we live and in which plastic
youth are growing up how are they
to learn what' is right and what is
wrong? Who is to teach them? Who,
in point of fact, is teaching them?
If one will set himself seriously to find
an answer to these questions he will
find food for very sober reflection.
Right and wrong in the affairs of
conduct are not matters of instinct.
They have to be learned just as really
in fact as history or handicrafts, fs
this knowledge being imparted to our
children in any efficient way and by
any efficient teachers? Is the public
school doing it? Is the church doing
it? Are fathers and mothers doing
it? We are compelled sadly to say no
to all these queries. There have been
times and places in which no distinc
tive instruction of this sort was need
ed. The standard of right living was
at these times and places so clearly
held and practiced that children came
Into the knowledge of it unconsciously.
In a New England town of a century
ago there were no doubt bad boys,
but when they were bad they knew
they were bad. There was never any
question in their minds as to what
they ought to do. Their duty to God
and their duty to their neighbor was
as clear in their minds a3 any otner
fact. But the conditions of life nave
wonderfully changed in this regard.
The truth is we are taking for granted
a moral intelligence which does not
exist. We are leaning upon it, depend
ing upon it, trusting to it, and it is
not there.
Our whole machinery of education,
from the kindergarten up to the uni
versity, is perilously weak at this
point. We have multitudes of youths
and grown men and women who have
no more intelligent sense of what is
right and what is wrong than had so
many Greeks of the time of Alciblacles.
The moral density of the Burns girl
and her friends and of the gangs of
well-fed and well-dressed youths who
consort with them is a startling revel
ation of a peril which is already upou
society. They are naked and not
ashamed. Their moral faculties have
been left as undeveloped as though
they did not exist. There is no ef
ficient machinery existent to instruct
them and their like in righteousness.
Their parents have abdicated their
position as teachers of everything. In
deed, teaching as a parental function
has practically disappeared. People
are paid for doing that. Parents have
come to assume that it is no part of
their function. But who will do It?
The great Roman Catholic church
steadily maintains that our state sys
tem of instruction is so, defective on
its ethical side that it cannot submit
its children to its processes. We be
lieve Rome would be doing better if
it joined with the state heartily ana
brought to it what it so desperately
needs instead of holding aloof from
it. But it is unquestionably right in
the contention that the whole system
as it now exists is morally a negation.
The trouble with our whole theory of
education is that it takes for granted
that people know right and wrong
without being taught. They do not
know. Sinister symptoms of moral
obtuseness stow themselves on every
hand. We are foolishly surprised
when we find a gang of toughs as
saulting harmless passengers on a trol
ley line, or stoning a passing carriage,
when we see a whole populace un
moved at any extremity of corruption
in civic administration, when we see
young men of respectable families run
ning about the streets and their sisters
affecting the manners of the Tender
loin. Why should we be surprise 1?
Is is the literal truth that they know
no better. This is the depressing part
of it all. If folk felt themselves to be
doing violence to their sense of right
there might be hope that the pain thU3
caused would work its own cure. But
they have never learned. They have
never learned because there i3 no pro
vision made for teaching them.
The great company of educators and
the whole American community need
to be sternly warned that if morality
cannot be specifically taught in the
public schools without admitting re
ligious dogma, then religious aogma
may have to be taught in them. For
righteousness is essential to a peo
ple's very existence. And righteous
ness does not come by nature any more
than reading or writing does. Some
body must teach it. Any school which
permits a pupil to be in it for six
months without seeing to it that he
has learned essential morality, and has
been taught what it practically means,
has shown its unfitness to be a piace
of training of future citizens. It will
not do to say that this kind of in
struction belongs alone to the family
and the church. This might be sail
with some plausibility if all. citizens
were free to send their children to
school or not as they see fit. But the
state claims, and rightly, the power
to compel the child of every citizen to
be sent to school. It exercises control
over the child's life during the whole
period of its training. If at the end of
that time the youth does not know the
difference between right and wrong,
the fault lies at the state's door. We
are within measurable distance of the
time when society may for its own
sake go on its knees to any factor
which can be warranted to make edu
cation compatible with and inseparable
from morality, letting that factor do it
on its own terms and teach therewith
whatsoever it lists. If the state can
not or will not learn how to teach
ethics without dogma, ethics will be
taught, all the same, by a method or
system to which dogma will be al
lowed or excused. Brooklyn Eagle.
Remember the Dead
If you have relatives dead do not
neglect to show your reverence for
their memory by erecting a suitable
monument at the grave. Do not put
it off indefinitely and eventually neg
lect it altogether. Write today to
Kimball Bros., Lincoln, Neb., for
their Illustrated catalogue of monu
ments and make a selection. You can
have it made and In place by fall and
will never regret it. Write today while
you have it in mind.
NEBRASKA LAND FOR SALE.
4S0 acres tinder irrigation, Elkhorn valley, at
J15 per acre. ,
320 acres. 7 miles from Lincoln, 147.50 per acre.
640 acres, improved, $40 per acrd.
190 acres 4V4 miles from Lincoln, $50 per acre.
We have special bargains in Nebraska farms.
Terms of sale about one-half easb, balance at 5
per cent.
PAUL H. HOLM, 1045 'O" St., Lincoln, Neb.
$15,000,000 FOR
THE BRAVE BOERS
PEACE HAS BEEN RESTORED
IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE
TRANSVAAL QUITS WITH
HONOR. -
AFTER NEARLY THREE YEARS
Of Destructive, Cruel Warfare, Great
Britain Agrees to Terms
of Peace.
The Boers have earned the sym
pathy of the world by their braver
and fortitude. Their mighty antag
onist at tremendous cost of men, mu
nitions and money has finally granted
terms of peace which are highly hon
orable to victor as well as vanquished.
Absolute independence is lost to the
South African republic, but the coa
cesslon granted speaks volumes for
the heart of conquering Britannia and
will go a long ways toward pacifying
the plucky people of the Transvaal.
$15,000,000 IN BRITISH GOLD
will not restore the destroyed homes
or make good the Boer losses, but it
Is a generous contribution toward that
worthy purpose and the world would
cheerfully contribute as much more
to aid these suffering people to recon
struct their homes and fortunes. It
was a most unfortunate controversy
which plunged these Christian people
Into wicked warfare, but it is ended.
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
knows from experience what fighting
a powerful foe means. From the date
of its organization this Nebraska life
insurance company has been con
fronted by malignant, relentless, re
sourceful antagonists. The Great Life
Insurance Trust decreed the death of
the home institution. In spite of the
fight made upon the Bankers' Reservo
Life, that plucky young company ha&
steadily worsted its alien competitors
and
B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT,
has been able to announce from
month to month a gain in the amount
of Insurance placed. The people ad
mire energy, honesty, fearlessness and
fortitude. They have thrown over
$1,100,000 of new business into the
home offices at Omaha since January
1, 1902, and by the new year of 1903
the business of 1901 will have been
more than doubled. Every insurable
man in Nebraska should have one of
the new Gold Bond policies of the
BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE.
Superstition
The Anglo-Saxon looks with scorn
upon the Chinese and other Asiatic
people on account of their supersti
tions. Some of them think that those
heathens ought to have the gospel
shot into them with Gatlin guns and
KragJorgensens. Yet tnese same
Christian enthusiasts cherish super
stitions that are just as absurd. W. E.
Curtis, after describing the river Jor
dan in Palestine as it actually is and
always has been, a crooked, muddy
stream, the waters foul and filled with
millions of disease-breeding microbes,
says:
"Intelligent men and women often
come all the way from Europe, and
occasionally from the United States,
to be baptized in Jordan. They tell
of -rich men who jptQt only come tnem
selves, but bring clergymen with them
for the purpose of performing the
ceremony. Others induce missionaries
in Jerusalem to come down and dip
or sprinkle them, and are willing to
pay a large fee for the service. Some
are prompted merely by sentiment;
others are under the delusion that
there is a special saving grace in tne
waters and that the act of immersion
in a stream where the Savior of Men
was baptized will wash away any
amount of sin. Only the other day
Cornelius Van Ness, from Port Jervls,
New York, a man 80 years old or
more, and said to be a millionaire,
came to purify his soul, and was bao
tized by Rev. William K. Hall of New
burg, N. Y. He went away happy and
contented.
"Tin cans, shaped like the canteen
of a soldier, are provided for tourists
who wish to carry Jordan water back
home with them, but they are cau
tioned that it is necessary to boil
and filter it before sealing the bottle,
or they will find it very foul at the
end of their journey. Not only mud,
but all kinds of filth, are carried in
solution, and myriads of microbes."
North Coast Limited
of the Northern Pacific which, in its
two seasons of service has justly ob
tained the reputation of being the
"Crack Train of the Northwest' was
again placed In commission May 4,
1902.
This train replaces trains 11 and 12
and the twice-a-day through train
services is maintained, as heretofore.
The "Limited" runs between St.
Paul and Portland, via Butte, Spo
kane, Seattle and Tacoma as in prev
ious years, and is electric lighted,
steam heated and wide-vestibuled.
New, modernized Pullmans, the
most advanced type of Tourist Sleep
ing cars, new Northern Pacific Rail
way Dining cars, the usual fine equip
ment of regular Day Coaches, etc., and
crowning all, the superb Observation
cars of the Northern Pacific Railway
at the rear of these trains, all together
form a train unexcelled anywhere. It
is worth something to see the North
west on a train like this. Passengers
having paid for first-class Pullman
berths have the privilege of the Ob
servation car and its fine library and
reading room free others holding
first-class tickets pay a small fee for
the privilege.
This train carries the east-bound
Yellowstone Park travel and the Park
Pullman during the Park season May
30 to September 15.
Send six cents for ''Wonderland
1902" to Chas. S. Fee, General Passen
ger Agent, St. Paul, Minn.
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Pure Pepper per lb.. ,25o
Good Writing Ink per bottle, . . . , c
Large Can Baked Beans... ....5c
Pure Tomato Catsup a bottle.... 5C
MONEY-SAV1NQ ORDERS.
25 lbs best granulated sugar.. ; rifl
8 Bars W. R. Soap.... ..:25c
1 lb purest pepper.... 250
1 lb can Best Baking Powder 2Q
3 10c packages Soda 25c
All the above for..,. $2 OO
25 lbs best granulated sugar., g nr
10 bars W. R. Soap. , t 25c
10 lbs Nary Beans 2n
1 lb Best Baking Powder. JjSo
1 lb Pure Pepper 25c
All the above for $2 OO
Send for pricelist , ,
THE
FARMERS GROCERY
226-228-230-232-234-236-238 North 10th St.,
LINCOLN,
NEBRASKA.
A Miraculous
Feat,
"It seemed that nothing short
of a miracle could save my little
daughter from an untimely
death," says City Marshall A.
H. Malcolm, of Cherokee, Kan.
"When two years old she was
taken with stomach and bowel
trouble and despite the efforts
of the best physicians we could
procure, she grew gradually
worse and was pronounced in
curable, A friend advised
Mues Nervine
and after giving it a few days
she began to improve and final
ly fully recovered. She is now
past five years of age and the
very picture of health,"
8old by mil Druggists.
Dr. Miles Medics! Co.. Elkhart, nd.
Cheap Excursions
. Via Illinois Central Railroad , .
The Illinois Central R. R. will sell
round trip tickets, good for return until
October 31st, 1902, from Omaha to the
following points:
Tickets at rates named in column (1)
on sale June 1st to 15th inclusive; in
column (2) June 16th to 30th inclusive.
tf (2)
St. Paul $ 9.60 $12.65
Minneapolis 9.60 ' 12.65
Duluth 13.G0 16.65
The Superiors 13.60 16.65
Ashland, Wis. 13.60 16.65
Bayfield, Wis. 13.60 16.65
Madison Lake, Minn. 7.60 10.65
Elysian, Minn., 7.60 10.65
Faribault, Minn., 7.60 10.65
Northfleld, Minn. 7.60 10.65
Randolph, Minn., 7.60 10.65
Cannon Falls, Minn., 7.60 10.65
Red Wing, Minn., ' 7.60 10.65
On June 16, 17, 21, 22, we will sell tick
ets to Chicago and return at rate of 114.75,
good for return until Sept. 15th, 1902.
In addition to the above, we will sell
round trip tickets during the summer
season, to Eastern points; also via Du
luth or Chicago and Steamer via the
Great Lakes. Special arrangements for
securing Steamer accommodations in ad
vance. Writs or call on the undersigned for
particulars. W. H. BRILL,
No. 1402 Dist Pass. Agt., 111.
Farnam St, Omaha, Neb. Cent R. R.
Best Low Prlosd Hotel n tha City.
RATES,
$1-00 s)r day and up.
Hotel Walton
116 O St,
HXCOLTi. XKIt.
Illl f" O Vistula, Fissure, all Rectal
M 1 1 Is V Diseases radically and per
I ILalaW manently cured in a few
weeks without the knife, cutting, liga
ture or caustics, and without pain or
detention from business. Particulars
of our treatment and sample mailed
free.
Mr. W. O. McDanlel, railway engi
neer, writes: , Hermit Remedy Co.
Dear Sirs: I have doctored for bleed
ing and protruding piles for fifteen
years, the trouble becoming worse aa
time went on, until I was laid, up sick
in bed not able to attend to my du
ties. My wife came to your office to
get treatment, one Saturday, . the fol
lowing Monday I was able to go to
work, and in thirty days I was com
pletely cured without the loss of an
hour's time. Several doctors told m?
that nothing but an operation would
relieve, and I think the cure in nay
case, in so short a time, Is wonderful
indeed, and la most gratefully ac
knowledged. Very truly yours, W. G.
McDanlel,' 367 Milwaukee ave., Chi
cago. We have hundreds of similar testi
monials of cures in desperate ca.sfci
from grateful patients who had trie.1
many cure-alls, doctors' treatment,
and different methods of operation
without relief.
Ninety per cent of the people we
treat come to us from one telling the
other. You can have a trial samp'.e
mailed free by writing us full partic
ulars of your case. Address Hermit
Remedy Co., Suite 738, Adams Ex
press Building, Chicago, 111.
ROY'S DRUG
STORE
104 H n SL
We say "Roy's" drug store as a
matter of fact it is EVERYBODY'3
drug store almost. Roy only coo
ducts it, buys and keeps to sell ;he
goods, and meet and force competition.
Our patrons do the rest. We want i-
remind you of seasonable goods, viz:
Garden Seeds, Condltl: i Powders, Lice
Killers, B. B. Poison, Kalsomlne,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc.
Wo make a specialty of all kind3 of
Stock and Poultry Foods, etc. Don't
miss us.
Roys' 1 04 No I Oth
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 elck child
Buffering 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 la 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 and
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." ,