book so free from erroneous doctrine
as Mr, Del Mar's Science of Money.
I wish it could be used as a text book
in all our schools, colleges, universi
ties and other institutions of learn
ing. - Twenty-five years of such use
would give us a generation of men
and, women who - would understand
money as a science.
To illustrate what I mean: , We
ought to teach the . children " in the
public schools, that when a column of
figures representing dollars is added
up, each sum of money is the numer
etor of a great fraction, the common
denominator of which is the total
number of dollars in. the United States.
We are supposed to have about two
thousand millions of dollars doing the
work of money. If this is correct, then
a single dollar is such a fraction CX
money as is represented by one di
vided by two thousand millions; and
two dollars is such a fraction as is
represented by two divided by two
thousand millions; and so every sum
of money is the numerator of a frac
tion divided by the common denomi
nator of two thousand, millions. If
we could have this understood, in
stead of teaching that a single dollar
is the unit or whole thing, we would
soon have a generation of men and
women who would know the funda
mental principle in the science of
moriey.
Take one more illustration: All
the property or wealth of the people
of the United States is set down by
the census report as one hundred bil
lions (100,000,000,000), and all the
money (dollars) of the United States
at two billions (2,000,000,000), which
shdWs that there are fifty dollars of
wealth to every dollar of money in
the United States. Now, suppose con
gress should destroy all the money of
the United States, except one single
gold dollar, then' that one single dol
lar would represent or be equal to fifty
dollars of wealth, and it would pur
chase all the wealth of the United
States, and therefore It would meas
ure the value of all the wealth; and
might be called the nation's unit of
.money or unit of value. My insistment
is, that congress cannot make a "unit
of value" out of-a single gold dollar,
without destroying all the dollars but
one. It ought to be understood that
the total wealth of the United States
is as much as it is, or one hundred
billions, simply because the total mon
ey is two billions; and that the value
of each piece of property, (when ex
pressed in money) is as it is, simply
because the total volume of money is
as much as it is; and that, if we should
cut down the total money to one bil
lion, or one-half the present amount,
then the total wealth, when expressed
In dollars, would be cut down to fifty
billion dollars, or one-half the pres
ent number of dollars. And so we
might go on and . say, that, if we
should cut down all the numbers of
money to one single dollar be it gold,
silver or paper then all the wealth
of the United States would be cut
down to fifty dollars of wealth and
the one single dollar of money woul 1
purchase it all. This is what we mean
by a "unit of money" or a "unit of
value."
I have occupied so much space in
trying to explain what Mr. Del Mar
meant when he said "all money is the
unit of value" that I cannot now take
up some" other points suggested by
Mr. Van Vorhis thoughtful article,
without trespassing upon the patience
of the reader, t-would like to point
out, in this connection,, the difference
between moneys arid currencies, the
difference between value and price;
and I would, like to show that, while
there may be a general, rise or fall of
prices, there cannot be a general rise
or fall of values, as Mr. Van Vorhis
suggests there may be. I would like to
show that, as there is no such tiring as
"intrinsic" value, in science, so there
Is no such thing as "commercial" val
ue in science, as Mr. Van Vorhis sug
gested there is. He spoke of the "level
of values" once, and of the "level of
commercial values" once, and I would
like to show that while there may be
a level of prices, higher or lower, there
cannot.be a level of values, higher or
lower.
Coming back to the original ques
tion. What is a unit of. money? let me
say that Mr. Del Mar was not discuss
ing currencies, but moneys; and that
be was insisting that what we call a
unit cf money In common parlance. Is
only a fraction of money; that what
we, in the United States, call the mon
etary unit, the dollar, is not our mone-
tion of our monetary unit; and, that.
If we wish to find our monetary unit,
we must add together all our dollars
of every kind, whether stamped upon
silver, or gold, or paper, and then we
would see our real monetary unit.
I do not blame Mr. Van Vorhis for
being somewhat confused on the sub
ject of money, value, price; but I do
blame the "gold standard" people
when they attempt to set up a little
quantity of gold, 25 8-10 grains mine
tenths fine, and then ask me and all
the rest of, the people of the United
States to believe that it is our unit
of money, our "unit of value;" and,
at the same time, point to an act of
congress as evidence thereof, which
act must have been procured by brib
ing a senator of the United States, if
not "other senators and members of
congress. This wonderful act, wonder
ful because it was procured in a won
derful way, is enough not only to con
fuse one man, but a whole nation;
not only a nation, but all mankind and
all nations; and to set one-half of the
world against the other half In deadly
conflict. It Is enough not only to set
one man crazy, but to make a whole
nation crazy; and all nations crazy;
enough to produce a civil war, not
only in one nation; but civil wars In
all nations;, ar.d, perhaps, enough to
produce a deadly conflict between the
eastern hemisphere and the western
hemisphere between , silver standard
countries and gold standard countries.
When ..we. take into consideration the
manner in which the act was foisted
upon the American people, and how
the same kind of an' act has been
foisted upon more than half of man
kind nearly all great nations except
China ar.d Mexico we aro obliged to
come to the conclusion, that it is and
must be a deadly thing, a thing that
will deprive all men of their rea
son Let us not, then, blame anybody
for being confused on the subject of
money, value, price.
Coming back to the old question
again, let 'us remember that Mr. Del
Mar has been, for a long time, con
tending with those men who are teach
ing that a little round gold plate with
"one dollar" stamped upon it, with
other images and superscriptions, is
our unit of money, our unit of value.
Remembering this, shall we believe
that all our money, under the control
of the American people, is our unit of
money, our unit of value, our stand
ard of value, o'ir measure of value? or
shall we believe that a little quantity
of gold by weight, dignified by the
stamp of the United States, is our unit
of money, unit of value, standard of
value, measure of value? If we be
lieve the latter, then we begin to wor
ship sold as a God; and, a? soon as
we begin .to do this, we begin to lose
our. reason, our common sense, our re
ligion, our moral sense, and begin to
sink to the level of the beast and are
ready to fight our fellow men in dead
ly conflict God save us from the
"gold standard." God help Del Mar,
in his great flht against all the con
gresses and parliaments, that have
been Induced to pass such acts as the
wonderful coinage act of 1873.
JNO. S. ; DE HART.
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address The Independent, Lincoln,
Neb.
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MICKEY'S NEIGHBORS
(Continued from, Page One.)
for $8,000. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, having
served in the civil war as a membei
of the Thirty-seventh Indiana. He has
lived in Polk county for eighteen years
and has always voted the republican
ticket.
"I have always been a republican,"
said Mr. Harmon to the World-Herald
man, "but I can't support Mickey. I
have no doubt, however, that he will
be elected, although he will run poor
ly in his home county. I am opposed
to John Mickey because I know he is
not a, man of his word. I can place no
confidence in him and so have no re
spect for him. He has caused many
a man to lose his farm to his (Mick
ey's) own profit. His failure to keep
his word with me caused me to lose
$1,000 on a hay deal. He is certainly
not the kind of a man for governor."
John Burgess lives on his own farm
about five miles northeast of Osceola.
He was formerly a populist, but two
years ago he returned to the republi
can party. Mickey's nomination for
governor is too much for him, and he
will vote for W. H. Thompson this
fall.
"Mickey's a mighty hard man to deal
with when he has you in his clutches,"
said Mr. Burgess. "I've had experi
ence with him, and I know. He closed
us out on two eighty-acre tracts of
land on which he held mortgages, and
he got the land because he would give
us no chance at all and showed us no
mercy. For a chattel loan of $300 for
seven months he charged me $35 in
terest." "Yes," put In Mrs. Burgess, with
considerable warmth, "and he got- a
deficiency judgment for $700 against
u.-. on land worth twice what he got it
for. and when we raked and scraped
and paid him the last cent of it, and I
told him I could go home now and go
without supper because he'd taken our
last cent, he sneered at me and of
fered me a bushel of potatoes! It's a
good thing I'm only a weak woman
and not a man" with a somewhat
belligerent look at her husband "or
I'd have taken It out of John Mickey's
hide a long while ago."
William Fellers of Pleasant Home
precinct, past commander of the Grand
Army Post at tromsburg, is one of
the best known farmers and one of the
most intensely partisan 'republicans in
Polk county. He cast his first vote in
the army, . as member of an Indiana
regiment. He is very well-to-do and
a man of considerable Influence.
Mr! Fellers was seen by the World
Herala man just after he had con
cluded In the presence of a consider
able audience, a particularly forceful
tnd unsparing discussion of Mickey's
defects and fallings. He was asked to
give, for publication, his reasons for.
opposing Mickey for governor, but de
clined to do so.
K "I rfnri't want r tnlL- in irn,-, " V
said. "I dbn't dare tell you why I am
oposed to Mickey. And then I may pos
sibly swallow him yet, for he's an old
comrade, though he hasn't treated me
as one comrade should another. Be- 1
sides, I don't want to bring down on
myself all the vllllfication and abuse
I'd get if I told you what I think of
Mickey and you printed It in the
World-Herald."
Mr. Fellers then proceeded with a
discussion of Mr. Mickey, which was
of such a character as to disseminate
a lurid glare and a smell of brim
stone around about. . -
Charley Lohr of Valley precinct is a
young man, but he has never voted
anything but the republican ticket.
He was a member Of the Roosevelt
Rough Riders' Campaign club in 1900.
His father is a minister at Columbus,
and formerly lived in Polk county. Mr.
Lohr lives on a rented farm.
"I will vote against Mickeyv and for
the balance of the republican ticket,"
said Mr. Lohr, "and nearly all my re
publican neighbors will do the same.
The reason is that Mickey is not a
square man. My father owned eighty
acres of land in Platte precinct. It
was mortgaged to Albinus Nance for
$1,300 and-Mr. Mickey held a second
mortgage for $300. In 1894, Mickey
foreclosed, bid in the 'land for him
self and afterward traded it to Nance
for another eighty acres' of land. My
father had been offered $3,500 for the
land three years before, but at the
time of foreclosure the hard times
were upon us and we stood no chance
and you may be sure Mr. Mickey
gave us none. The land is now worth
$4,000. It is one of the choice eigh
ties in Platte precinct."
A. M. White, a farmer in Platte pre
cinct, fought in the civil war as a
member of the Second Iowa infantry.
He is republican born and bred, but
he will vote against John H. Mickey.
"I cast my first Vote way down in
Mississippi in 1863 for Governor Stone
of Iowa," said Mr. White, "and I've
been voting the republican ticket ever
since. Mickey cast his first vote in
the army, too, he says, but I think I
was a younger man than he and cast
my vote first. I will not vote for
Mickey for governor. I do not con
sider him a square man. Mr. Mickey
poses a great deal with the veterans,
but I used to be in the habit of at
tending Decoration Day programs In
Osceola and I do not remember ever
having seen him go with the boys to
the graveyard."
George Beebe of Hackberry precinct
Is one of a family of several brothers,
all republicans. He declared that
there is not one Mickey vote in their
household. The Beebes have resided
In Polk county for a number of years
and while their personal relations
with Mickey have been very limited,
yet George says that he does not con
sider that the people will be given a
fair show with the corporation inter
ests should the republican nominee be
elected.
Ed Johnson, living In the western
portion of Osceola precinct, said that
under no circumstances will he vote
for Mr. Mickey, although always hav
ing affiliated with the republican par
ty. He said that he had been re
quested and importuned by some of
the republican nominee's friends to
get in line, but that he proposes to do
all in his power for the defeat of his
candidacy, and that he wishes it under
stood that there is no question about
his position. Mr. Johnson is a brother-in-law
of John N. Westberg, city
comptroller of Omaha.
The foregoing are merely samples of
what republicans are saying about Mr.
Mickey in his own county, where they
know him best. There are plenty oth
ers just like them. The World-Herald
man, in a very brief stay in Polk
county, met at least twice as many re
publicans as are mentioned above, who
declared they would vote against
Mickey, coupling the declaration with
a request that their names be not
used.
It is the exceeding bitterness mani
fested against Mr. Mickey by his own
party associates in Polk county that,
makes the situation there remarkable.
It would be hard to go anywhere in
Nebraska and find a man of some
prominence as a politician who has
so many and so bitter enemies among
those of his own political faith as has
John H. Mickey in Polk county.
H. E. N.
SENATOR HOAR'S SPEECH
A Japanese Comment It Should be Trans
lated all Over Asia
The Japan Times of Yokohama, on
July 17, printed a letter from a Sikh
correspondent highly eulogistic of Sen
ator Hoar's speech in the senate last
spring on the Philippine question. The
Asiatic writer said in part:
"The speech of Mr. Hoar, though
an address to his own countrymen, is
a message of hope to the whole world
which sank with despondency at the
sight of republican America behaving
like a cruel, tyrannical and rapacious
empire in the Philippines, and par
ticularly to the broken-hearted peo
ple of Asia who are beginning to lose
all confidence in the humanity of white
races or is it that they have lost it
already? Hence all papers in Asia
should reprint his speech, translate it
and distribute it broadcast. It is sure
to find a permanent place in the his
tory of American elocution as an ora
tion of high order, and let it be
brought home to the Asiatic people so
that they may work and worship their
champion and his forefathers."
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Neb.
SNATCHES OF HISTORY
A Historical Insight Into Extra Sessions
Roosevelt's Sun Glass too Weak to See
the Mad in the Republican Well
Editor Independent: Why was not
a reciprocity bill for Cuba passed at
the last session of congress? Why is
an extra session desired "after the No
vember election?" The American peo
ple cannot all be fooled. The basal
reasons; the top, sides, and ends, cov
er the whole iniquity box with a can
opy marked "Cuban Annexation."
Perhaps Roosevelt does not see
through the same. Let us presume
he was sincere In naming September
for an extra session of congress; to
conclude after all that the "house is
not needed" in such an enterprise as
the passing of a reciprocity bill. Do
the spectacles of the president need
counsel of an oculist to show him
where those with more powerful glass-;
es are now managing to place him
where they can compel his assent to
an annexation of Cuba scheme, under
the banner of 1904?
Whatever toolery he is cajoled into
will not secure him a presidential
nomination by the republican party, a
portion of which is playing fast and
loose with him. When he has a few
more years over his head he will won
der at the depth of the republican well,
and see why his sun-glass in bright
days did not show him tbe mud at the
bottom. ' : v - - ';.
Annexation of Cuba is , a scheme
that has been played at by those who
have lived in Washington before
Roosevelt ;was thought of,, save in the
"Now I lay me down to sleep" period
at his mother's knee. No wonder he
"sees -through a glass darkly," as
many another man has. done. Those
who have been in Washington for as
many years as Mr. President has lived
are familiar ..with the unwritten his
tory of the various attempts to bring
about those conditions and complica
tions that would eventually lead to
Cuban annexation to the United States,
without the Cubans delving at the bot
tom of the pretended disinterested mo
tives. There are Americans In Cuba In the
guise of friends who are shrewdly
managing to defeat the success of the
Cuban republic for the purpose of an
nexation as an excuse In her inter
ests, and who are the tools of Ameri
cans at home who cry, "If Cuba
reaches out a hand for help, I would
step into the water and take her In."
"I (C. H. Grosvenor of Ohio) voted
repeatedly against the clause in the
Teller resolution, and spoke against it,
that declared that 'Our purpose In the
war with Spain was not aggrandize
ment and that we did not want any
more territory. I DID, and HAD
CUBA IN MIND. ... We ought to
have placed our flag there to stay."
The above confession was made in
a public meeting at Chatauqua, N. Y.,
but recently. Why this greed, you
ask? Why this deception to the Cu
ban patriots? The answer Is the fin
est steel, rich copper mines, iron
mines, tropical fruits and tobacco (I
hate even to write the vile word)
could be produced in enormous quan
tities by American management and
capital, and therefore small as well
as large capitalists are trying to havo
a pig added to the stars and stripes,
and push it into struggling Cuba.
There "Is a scheme to get Cuba to
borrow $35,000,000 at 5 per cent, for the
purpose of getting her into the condi
tion that would culminate in annexa
tion. Cuba better "let well enough
alone" and work out her own salva
tion. Borrowing begins with the sec
ond letter of the alphabet, while pay
ing begins with the sixteenth, and in
terest Is the half way alphabetical
swamper in the sea of trouble. Un
booked for disasters have overwhelmed
nations as well as individuals and ad
vice not to borrow better be heeded.
There are $250,000,000 of mortgages
in Cuba now, and if the government
does not oppress the people by a na
tional loan, the probabilities are that
the most of the people will be able to
be clear In a given time. Individual
greed under the foster of our govern
ment cries for Cuban annexation. Mil
lions and millions are in American
dreams regarding the Cuban resources
that are developed only in part.
When General Regan (that courtly
gentleman) informed me that he was
"going to Cuba on insurrection busi
ness" and stated the advantages to
the United States. I told him that he
would get a hemp collar and he did.
At different times for forty years, to
my personal knowledge, there have
been Cuban annexation schemes, hop
ing for the great advantages she af
fords, as herein above stated, and all
this time the Cubans have been made
to believe that they had the most dis
interested friends In great America.
All honor to Senator Henry M. Tel
ler for his resolution; and. while he
knew It cut to the quick and was with
difficulty passed, he no doubt knew
that he was the maker of a Cuban re
public possibility. The twisting and
turning since the close of the last ses
sion of congress to plan an extra ses
sion with the house left out, and to
decide in committees against that
body's rights, is ominous. And then
to plan such session "after the ,fall
election" warrants the Cuban annexa
tion scheme, hoping for a two-thirds
vote of tbe senate as a treaty matter.
There Is hoped to be money wanted
badlv enough to fix up the lacking two
thirds. Will thp American people sit supine
ly, or will thpy show that they can
not all be fooled all the time?
MARY E. WALKER, M. D.
Oswego, N. Y.
Public Indignation
The suppineness of the average
voter is well described in a letter to
the Springfield Republican. Tliat in
dividual will take no action to pre
vent injustice and wrong. He takes
but little interest in public affairs un
til his own pocket and own interests
are invaded, and not then until the in
vasion begins to be actually felt. That
Is the way of the voters in this state
and it is a fair sample of their action
all over the country. The letter re
ferred to was as follows:
I notice in your issue of today an
article speaking of the anger or in
dignation felt throughout the United
States, as reflected In the newspapers,
against the coal trust and its action
in the present strike. Allow me to say
I think you quite overestimate the
popular Indignation on the subject,
whatever it may be in newspaper offi
ces. Next winter there may be great
indignation, when extra money has to
be paid, but at present I don't think
such indignation would change one
vote in a hundred in a political con
test outside of Pennsylvania. High
prices for coal will only be a new
kind of taxation, but when have the
"people" shown any interest in tax
ation except certain grumblers' who
think they pay more than their share?
Could any reform legislation, looking
to an equalization of tax burdens, be
carried in this state, county or city?
I opine not. S. SANDERS.
SAY, MR. PREACHER
: f
Mr. Iakin Asks Some Pointed Questions
of a Preacher
Editor Independent: A certain
preacher in the northern part of Ham
ilton county a few Sundays ago held
up before his people one Mickey In
stead of Christ and told them what a
grand and glorious bank president he
was and what a fine record he had
made, and no doubt he may have told
them what a lovely saint he would
make on the throne in the state
house.
Say, Mr. Preacher, the next time
you come before this people, you might
take for your text, "and Judas also
which betrayed him stood with them,'
and then hold up this man Mickey be
fore them as treasurer of Polk coun
ty and then call up the expert ac
countant who examined the records
made by Treasurer Mickey.
Now,-Judas had a clean record be
fore he betrayed Christ. But, say, Mr.
Preacher, this man Mickey may also
have had a clean record before he be
came treasurer of Polk county. And,
say, Mr. Preacher, Bartley may have
had a clean record before he became
treasurer of the state of Nebraska.
And, say, Mr. Preacher, there was also
a certain superintendent of one of the i
insane asylums who is another of your
beloved saints. ,
Say, Mr. Preacher, hadn't you bet
ter hold up Christ instead of man?
But if you must preach man, hold up
one like W. H. Thompson a man with j
a clean record. W. M. LAKIN.
R. F. D. 2, Aurora, Neb.
DEGENERATION
The Rich Give Themselves to Barbaric
Displays, Vices and all Kinds
of Gambling
It is now four or five years since The
Independent began to call the atten
tion of the readers to the degenera
tion that had set in with this age of
Mammon worship and foretell what its
results would be. Special privileges
granted to the few under republican
policies, which have enabled them to
become enormously rich, could have
no other ending than what is now
seen. The Independent was like a
voice in the silence of the night when
it first pointed to these dangers. There
seemed to be none to hear and none to
reply. At last, some years afterward,
as has often happened with the writ
ing in The Independent, others begin
to take up the same theme. Julian
Ralph, in describing the moral hor
rors at Saratoga, one of the haunts of
the rich, speaks as follows:
"Saratoga is today the wickedest
place in the country. I write this de
liberately, without any desire to be
sensational, but with a strong belief
that the facts should be known and
not 'scamped' or blinked at. The pas
times of those who lead in the ruling
pleasures here are the most demoral
izing that have ever disturbed the
even tenor of our staid and virtuous
American holiday life. Moreover, the
demoralization has this year been
more general and has struck deeper
and spread wider than ever before.
"There is a fever of betting and
gambling on games of chance, on orgy
of illegal speculation, a madness for
risking .nd winning money. It rages
on almost every hand among the per
sons whose names find their way into
the newspapers and these are lead
ers in society, in Wall street, and in
trade; it is carried on as openly as the
sun shines, it provokes neither re
buke nor comment in the local press or
pulpit or from the lookers-on.
"I, who' am familiar with what
passes as fashionable dissipation in
nearly every corner of the world, have
never before seen such publicity and
promi3cuousness in these follies, have
nowhere else known gambling to be
gin close upon breakfast and carried
on, in varied fields of chance, until
after midnight; have in no other place
found young maidens, new brides, and
family domestics risking bets side by
side' with tbe heads of mailies And
never before or elsewhere have I seen
fathers and mothers teaching the
tricks of gaming to callow children or
fathers looking with smiling faces at
their sons beside the faro tables in a
gambling resort."
Mark those words of Mr. Ralph:
"Neither rebuke nor comment in the
local press or pulpit." The degener
acy of the ric,h churches is the most
destructive of all the influences named,
and until there is a return to the moral
standards for church membership
which formerly were insisted upon
there will be little hope of reform.
The enormous amounts of money
tied up in gambling of which The In
dependent spoke last week is one of
the side evils only of the doings of
the rich. The training of their chil
dren in vice, their example before
the people, their influence upon so
ciety and government, all based upon
easily acquired wealth, tends not
only to destroy all that is highest in
man, but to the ruin of the nation
itself.
A CASE IN PONNT
Mr. Leach Tells Ills Experience With the
Man Who has More Papers Than
He Can Read
Human experience has shown that the
pioneer in almost every line is pushed
to one side at the moment of victory
and that the "eleventh hour" men as a
rule reap the reward. Mr. Walter M.
Leach of Fairfield a breeder of high
grade Hereford cattle is a staunch
populist and has done valiant work for
The Independent in the past. His re
cent experience selling campaign sub
scription cards is worth repeating:
Editor Independent: The five cam1
paign subscription cards have been re
ceived. I have sold one and will either
sell or give away the remainder, where
I think they will do the most good.
I tried to sell a block of Liberty
Building cards, but failed. .Tried to
sell one to a man who wanted to rep
resent Clay county in the legislature a
couple of years ago; but he said he
was taking so much reading matter
he didn't have time to read it. I find
soliciting campaign funds rather dull
business; some of them have found
office-seeking tedious and have given
up the job until the next panic comes
which we are sure to have and then
they will all rush to get into the band
wagon and help destroy the g. o. p.
business, trusts and all, and the fellow
who dtdn't have time to read The In
dependent will want to go to the legis
lature or to congress.
However, let me say that things
look fair for a fusion victory this fall,
the excellence of our ticket being a
thing to : congratulate oursely.es on.
Mr. Thompson is a very popular man
in this part of the state. He was my
choice for governor next to Suther
land. I said if it was to be a demo
crat, by aU means let it be Thompson.
I think . the republicans have up two
as unprincipled men for the legislature
as could be found In Clay county.
WALTER M. LEACH.
Fairfield, Neb.
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L Our Catalogue? ;
name and address.
We are going to send out four hundred thou
sand of them this fall, and we'd like to have
you gt one of them.
- We are ready to mail them now, and you'll
get one if you drop us a postal' giving us your
They are full of information regarding cloths,
shoes, and hats for men, women, boys and girls. Our Catalogue
tells you how we can afford to do better by you than any other
store in America.
When you visit Omaha come in and get acquainted with us'
check your parcels here, make this store your headquarters.
Nebraska Clothing Co.,
Omaha, Neb.
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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
Qrade 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
M
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Ware room
1120 O Street
LINCOLN, NEBR.
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Real Estate Agents.
A Word to You.
Do you want to know where tbe next jrreat
land boom will be, and where you can make
plenty of money? If bo, write the undersigned
for circular telling "All about it."
J. P. MERRY, Ass't Gen'l Pass'r Agent,
Illinois Central Railroad, Dubuque, la.
Best Low Priced Hotel n the City.
RATES,
$100 per day and up.
Hotel Walton
1510 O St.
LINCOLN, NER,
To make cowa pay, use hbarpl Cream separator
Book"Buslnes8 Ialrying" & Cat.IO free W. Chester. r
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San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
525.
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Via The Burlington.
Tickets on sale during September and October, 1902'
Call and get full information.
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Jt Cor. 10th and O Sts.
Telephone 235.
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7th St., Bet. P & Q.
Telephone 25. Jt
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ONE GALLON WINE FREE
With every gallon finest 10-year-old ) Both gapped in ( Q Q I C
.nin TIMES WHISKEY " J plaincases ,or" " ( du.l 0
We mnke this unparalleled offer to introduce quickly. Old Times Whiskey won
first prize and gold medal at World's Fair and is guaranteed Ten ears Old and
absolutely pure. Send orders direct to
Eagle Liquor & Bottling Co., Western Distributers,
til' Kansas City, Mo
I. H. Hatfield, Attorney
SHERIFF SALE
Notice is hereby giren, that by virtue of in
order of sale issued by the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of the Third Judicial District of
Nebraska, within and for Lancaster County, in
an action wherein Ellis T. Hartley is plaintitf,
and Mary Fitzgerald, in her own right, and as
administratrix of the estate of John Fitzgerald,
deceased, et al Defendants, I will, at 2 o clock,
P. M., on the 30th day of September, A. D. 1902,
at the east door of the Court House, in thi city
of Lincoln. Lancaster County, Nebraska, offer
for sale at pnWic auction the following de
scribed Lands ana lenemems, w-w:
The north half of lot Ttire 13; in mo iwo
(2) in Muir'a Addition to J. O. Young's East
rnln. Lot fire 5i in Block Twenty-niu (29)
u-Snnv'a "D" Stmnt Addition.
Lot fen (10) of irresular tracts in the
Southwest Quarter (SW of Section Twenty
five (25) Township Ten (10) North of Range Six
(6) East of th3 6th P. M., all in the city of Lin
coln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. '
HOME VISITORS' EXCURSIONS
via the : : :
ROCK ISLAlsD SYSTEM
to points In Indiana. Ohio and
other eastern states. Dates of sale
- Sept. 2 9, 16 and 23 and. Oct. Z, 3,
4 and 5. Low rates and favorable
limits. For further information
' call on or address : : :
F. H. BARNES, C. P.. A.,
1045 O st., Lincoln, Neb.
LOW RATES TO CALIFORNIA AND
OREGON via the : : :
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
During September and October th
Rock Island will sell tickets to the
principal points in California and Ore
gon at rate of $25.00. Only two and
one-half days from Lincoln to Los
Angeles via the Rock Island's new El
Paso line. For further Information
call on or address : : :
F. II. BARNES, C. P. A.,
1045 O st, Lincoln. Neb.
WANTED. A TR rSTWORTH Y GENTLEMAN OR
lady In each cnunty to manage buslmss fur an old
tabllshPil housf of solid financial stand ing. A MrHitbt.
bona Ada weekly cssh r alary of tlH.OO paid by cUre k
each Wednesday with aU expanses direct from fca4.
quarters. Monry advanced for expenses, ajanager.
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