Oct. 9, 1902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. m Our reason for advertising so extensively these days is to attract NEW customers to our store, people who have never done business with us. We feel that 30 years of fair dealing with our patrons justifies us in asking a close examination of our stock by those persons who have recently become residents of this city and county. Our old customers we are sure of. They know they have always received up-to-date goods of us, of the best quality at the lowest possible prices. We give below a few of the reasons why YOU should become one of our new customers. " , - ium - Dress Goods at Special Prices for This Week. 0-4 black JJrocade,special price 12c per yd. f9 38 inch Cashmere, black and colored, I QR i.v, on : l l ,.l.iu n I including black, special price 45o iGOOQ! sz-iccn meirose, reajoiue ana green, special price 68o 46-inch whipcord.guaranteed all-wool, red, brown and navy, special price. 89c ana gray oniy, special price o7C 40 inch chalk lino covert, all wool, cadet, gray and brown, special price 12 32 inch all-wool tricot flannel for children's dresses and waists, at a special price 2TC Three Specials in Waist Cloth. 20 inch fancy striped assorted colors 15c 29-inch cotton albatross in assorted fast colors and a handsome raised stripe, special price 21c 29-inch all-wool albatross and French flannel, assorted colors, spe cial price 48c Silks and Velvets. 18 inch Taffatine, in black and colors 50o 22 inch Jap or China silk, black and colors 50c 18-inch taffeta, all silk, black and colors 75c 27-inch guaranteed taffeta, black only 98c 22-inch silk finished velveteen, all staple shades for waists and trimmings 50c 18-inch silk velvet, assorted colors and black 90c Silk Embroidered Flannel for Underskirts White. 75c quality at 63c 1.15 quality at 98c $1.50 quality at $1 29 Appllqued Lace Collars in all the new patterns, cieam, natural and white 85c, J1.00, 1.25, f 1.35, 12.00. w Ladies' Fall Footwear... Autumn is here and fall foot wear is iu demand. The styles in ladies' shoes are handsomer and more varied this fall than ever. Every correct shoe is here from the lightest and daintiest house and dress shoe to the heaviest street boot for out-door wear. Every shoe, whether light or heavy, is com fortable from the first moment of trying on. Every pair of them has passed the critical examination that admits them to a place on our shelves. Choose any style you like and you can rest assured that they lack nothing. Good values at 4.00, 3.50, 3.00, 2.50, 2.00, 1.50. Specials in Table Linen. 58-inch sterling turkey red, special 22c 58-inch turkey, assorted patterns, special 36c 54-inch unbleached, handsome patterns, reg. 30c, special . . . . 24c 64-inch bleached or unbleached, assorted patterns, special 44c Domestic Department. Yard wide unbleached Minnehaha LL muslin, reg. 5c 3C Outing flannel, assorted patterns, light colors, reg. 7c 52c Flannellette, reg 8c 6$C Pepperell Hills Sheeting At Special Prices. Bleached. Unbleached. 8-4 18c 16c Hk4 20c 18c 10 4 22c ak 2 20c Blankets. Make your bed comfortable. On cool nights you will need a pair of our soft woolen blank ets. Wa have a splendid as sortment of fine, all-wool blank ets in red, tan, white and gray in 10-4 and 11-4 size that we are selling at bargain prices. Also comfortables, Marseilles and crochet bed spreads; also prime live geese feathers and pillows. Wool Blankets at the follow-i ing special prices 2.69, 3.38, 3.83, 4.50, 4.95, 5.40, 6.75 and 7.65. Bed Comforters 67c, 89c, 1.13, 1.35, 1.58, 1.80, 2.25, 2.70, 3.15. Hen's Felt Hats. The right hat for the right head at the right price right here. Doesn't make any difference whether you want a Derby or a Fedora hat we have tha latest in all styles, as you can easily ascertain for yourself if you will take a look at them. All we ask is a call. Don't buy if you are not suited. One lot of Fedora style hats, assorted colors, worth up to 1.75, to close out at 89c. One lot of black Fedoras, our regular $1.50 grade, your chance to get one of them at 98c. Special Discount on all other soft and stiff hats, the latest arrivals in the newest shapes and colors" The line worth 1.50 goes at J. 35 2.00 " 1 79 2.25 " 198 2.50 2 25 3.00 " 2 69 8 u ft We carry the very best quali ty of Grocer ies. 917-921 O, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. 11 A U Will you be one of our new Customers? m THE BABY TRUST The. Fantern People in the Worst Situation Since I.ee Invaded Pennsylvania There was courage to fight when Lee invaded Pennsylvania and out the coal carrying railroads from the west, hut wiin the bahy coal trust shut, iT the supplies, stopped many manufactur ing concerns, threatened the schools find caused untold suffering among hundreds of thousands of the popula tion, there was no fight left in the present, government at Washington. Teddy sent out a white flag and wanted to parley for terms. The Philadelphia Press, in discussing the situation, says: '"If this strike continues two weeks longer there will ensue the worst coal panic America has over witnessed." One of the oldest and most conserva tive coal shippers in Philadelphia, a man who has been in the business for 4 years, made that emphatic state ment yesterday. He was not talking of anthracite, but of bituminous coal. The public cannot overestimate the acute crisis which has been reached in the soft coal business. Spot coal which ordinarily sells for $2.40 a ton in Philadelphia in September, now . lyings $5 and cannot even be procured at that figure. It is $S a ton in New York. Not since General Lee invaded Pennsylvania, in 1863. and threatened to cut all the soft coal lines to the east, has there been a bituminous sit uation that compares with the present one. Contracts for delivering soft coal are made on April 1 to last for a year. Many dealers and shippers in Phila delphia are living up to that contract to the letter. The result is told by one man's experience. He says: "I loaded two ships today with coal at the contract price, and my profit was exactly six cents a ton. I could have sold the same coal right here in Philadelphia and made a profit of $2.75 a ton. In all I lost about $2,200 by ful filling my contract to the letter." Dealers are offering a large bonus to customers to release them from their contracts. Sometimes this prem ium is as much as 50 per cent. In one 7T case yesterday a firm delivered near ly 1,000 tons of coal at the old price and offered the purchaser $700 cash to cancel the obligation. This was re fused, and the coal went in at under $3 a ton when it could have been sold anywhere for $5. Boston is in gVeat distress. Tele grams come to ship coal without re gard to the price, which means that they will buy it at any figure. They need the coal in manufacturing plants. Big firms here and in New York are in the open market bidding for great quantities of bituminous at double the schedule rate. There is a vague notion that house holders can get all the soft coal they want when the anthracite supply is not forthcoming for winter use. That is a mistake. Bituminous will also be extremely scarce and it will cost, if the strike does not end, far more than hard coal usually does. Tne difficulty is in getting the coal from the mines. Cars of the Baltimore and Ohio that were loaded on August 20 have not yet reached Philadelphia. They should arrive in four days. The Pennsylvania railroad has cars on its tracks that were started from the mines in southwestern Pennsylvania on the 1st, and they are'not here. The roads are blocked with coal trains, sidings are utilized for storing their own supply of coal, and there is a lack of locomotives to haul the enorm ous quantities demanded." If a baby trust like the one for which Baer is the spokesman can create such havoc what will become of us when one of the really big trusts get after us? If Teddy sends out a white flag to Baer, what would he do if Morgan came marching down on him? Would he crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after him? Stop and Think Editor Independent: Wall street or t.ie plutocracy are engaged in a new scheme by which these men intend to capture all the great increase of wealth resulting from general education. Is not this simply what the monied interr ests have ever-been trying to accom plish? Yes, the people must do their own thinking, but it is mighty hard to do much thinking along the lines of political economy and do the hustling for a living, which is necessary today under the high pressure to which the monied interests have brought the poor of this great land. Give the ycung all the education practical, but. with the avenues of enterprise all shut up to them, what can they do but simply become servants of the very power to which they should by right f and to their own best interests stand opposed? I have often noticed a tendency in political writers and speakers to go too far ahead of their audience, not real izing that the rank and file are not keeping pace with them and hence they give up the attempt to follow up and think out the issues brought to their attention. The average laborer in this country is worth two of the old world laborers and can and does pro duce twice to three times as much in a given time. Then he ought to have more comforts and more leisure and if he will use part of his time in study ing the application of economic prin ciples and unite to bring about better conditions then there will be hope of a better future for all concerned. I ask the men of . my adopted country to pause and think where we are going to allow the Jehu of finance to drive us to in the near future. At the present gait it will not be long until all of liberty is lost. Then stop and think think of the almost boundless re sources of our common country and consider how small a share is yours, in return for all your labor. RICHARD CAWTHRA. Holbrook, Neb. The Missouri Banker Because the Missouri banker was not a reader of the Nebraska Inde pendent he has not yet been shown what to do with his reserves and still sends them down to Wall street where the Wall street banker refuses to hon or his drafts whenever the stock gam blers are pressed for money to keep their margins good. That is what those bankers did in 1893, in defiance of the banking laws, and what some of them have been doing lately. A treasury official makes the following statement: "The banker in your prosperous Mis souri manufacturing town formerly loaned his money, at a reasonable rate; of interest, to the manufacturing con cern. Tnat concern is now in the trust, and its financial affairs are managed from New Y'ork. The Mis souri banker gets no share of this patronage. At the same time the Mis souri banker is requested to send his deposits to his reserve bank in New Y'ork. They ?.re received with thanks, but when the Missouri banker wants to withdraw $100,000 of his own mon ey, to aid in moving the crops or any local enterprises, the New York bank ers have a fit, start a cry of a money panic and appeal to the government to help- them out." The Nebraska banks have for the most part taken the advice of The In dependent and kept their reserves out of Wall street. When the boom bursts the Nebraska banks will not be in the condition that they were in '93, ex cept the few, whose managers never read anything but republican papers. The Independent has been saying for a long time that the next crash will catch the eastern communities that: have been casting the big republican majorities, while the west, where the people have been studying banking and finance to some purpose, will es cape its worst effects, and it is more firmly of that opinion than it ever was before Do You Want a Genuine Bargain Hundreds of Upright Hanoi returned from rentier to be disposed of at once. They inelodo Stein ways, Ecmbea, Fuchen, Sterling! and other well known makes, xanr csnnot be dis tinguished from new sssje ana sfBk m ff JF all are offered at low i fine instrument at el'X), f oily equal to many tWO pianos- Monthly payments accepted. Freight only about tS. Write for list and particulars. Ton make a great caving. Piano warranted aa represented. Illustrated Piano Book free. IOO Adams St. CHICAGO. World's largest mafic house; sell Iverything known in Musi. p mm niemngs ana otner wen mown nimtes. sany csnnot ne tingulshed from new SHBJt sna gg en n yet all are offers a greit disc junt. D Hfl JS f'3 Upright as as $100. also bean- B Q K tLf tiful w 1 rl;hUat125,tl.W, g g Q jf f g 1150 and 165. A BANK OEPOSITS Fignrcs From the Tmmry Department Showing; the Enormous Expansion of Bank Credit A glance' at the tables below will explain why Secretary Shaw is adopt ing such unusual methods to expand the money circulation. Rapid as has been the increase in actual money, the bank deposits have grown still more rapidljr. An increase of nearly 34 billions between 1897 and 1901 helped create an upward tendency in prices which will react as soon as the money expansion and bank credit ex pansion ceases. Such matters never stand still. The ratio between bank deposits simply another name for debts due from the bankers to their de positorsand actually money is now above the limit of safety. Any fur ther inflation of the credit bubble with out more money would burst it. It can not be inflated much further without more actual money in the bankers' possession. So Shaw grants them ab solution if they violate the reserve law so far as concerns government depos its, and in other devious ways seeks to increase the actual money under control of the bankers and thus per mit them to further increase their loans and- deposits. Of course the hair of the dog will not always cure the bite. Slmilia similibus curantur is probably good enough doc trine for homeopath physicians, but it won't work in finance. Shaw's present inflation will undoubtedly put off the evil day for some time, but the reac tion will be all the more severe when it does come. The bank deposits of the people of the United States aggregate eight and a half billion dollars, an average of $108 per capita. Ten years ago they aggregated $4,232,000,000, or just half the amount of today, and twenty years ago they were $2,600,000,000, or a lit tle more than one-quarter of those of today. These figures are presented in a ta ble just prepared by the treasury bu reau of statistics for publication in the forthcoming issue of its monthly summary of commerce and finance. They are compiled from the reports of the comptroller of the currency and include the deposits in national banks, savings banks, state banks, loan and trust companies, and private banks, and cover the official figures of the year 1901. The figures for the various classes of banks stand as follows: Total deposits in 1901. Deposits in Dollars. National banks 2.937,753,233 Savings banks 2,597,094,580 State banks 1,610,502,246 Loan & trust companies. .1,271 ,081,174 Private banks 118,021,903 Aggregate 8,535,053,136 The figures thus compiled by the bu rean of statistics show the total de posits in the various banking organi zations of the country so far as they can be obtained, from 1875 down to the present time; though it is proper to add that the figures for private banks include, since 1887, only such banks as voluntarily report to the comptroller of the currency, in other words only about, one-fourth of the total number of private banks in the United States; while during the period from 1875 to 1882 the figures cover the deposits in practically all private banks. Taking the figures at inter vals from 1878 to 1901, the total de posits in all banking institutions stand as follows: ! Year Deposits. 1878 $1,878,434,270 1882 2,755,038,053 1887 3,255,772,134 189 4.630,490.156 1897 5,196,847,530 J901 8,535,053,136 During recent years the growth has been very rapid. From 1878 to 1882 the increase was $877,503,783; from 1882 to 1887. $499,834,081; from 1887 to 1892. $1,374,718,022; from 1892 to 1897, $566,357,374; from 1897 to 1901, $3,338,205,600. The following table shows the total deposits in the five classes of banks named national, savings, state, pri vate, and loan and trust companies in each year from 1878 to 1901. except the years 1883-6 .for which complete figures are not obtainable. 1878 $1,878,434,270 1879 1,940,701,712 1880 2,300,986,680 1881 2,609,518,492 1882 2,755,938,053 1887 3,255,772,134 1888 3,458,266,965 1889 3,751,514,133 1890 3,998,973,105 1891 4,232,059,335 1892 4,630,490,156 1893 4,586,213,170 1894 4,638.931,485 1895 4.872.035,276 1896 4.888.089,119 1897 5,196,847,530 1898 5,927,489,998 1899 6,675.471.743 i.jOO ' 7,464,719,145 1901 8,535.053,136 2902 not available GENERAL BARRY What the Treat of the Sixth DUtriet is Say ing About the Gallant Old Hero Gen. Patrick H. Barry, brigadier gen eral of the Nebraska national guard; passed through Lincoln Wednesday en route for Ft. Riley, Kas., in obed ience to special orders No. 137, issued by command of Governor Savage,, to attend the encampment and maneuv ers of troops of the regular army, and of the several states, at that place, up to October 8. General Barry is the populist-democratic candidate for con gress in the Big Sixth, and his ab sence will give Civilian Kinkaid an opportunity for a week's campaigning in company with the socialist candi date, undisturbed by the inroads be ing made by Barry in the splendid campaign he has been making. Al though it is doubtful if the governor's orders are effective to send a member of the guard beyond the state lines, yet General Barry is not the man to quibble over technicalities and like the true soldier that he is, he obeyed without questioning the governor's au thority. During his absence, the pop ulists and democrats of the Sixth dis trict will not allow his campaign to go oy default. Speaking of deficiencies, what is the matter with the one which will be piled up under this republican admin istration, with Adjutant General Colby throwing the state's money right and left? Aside from the office expenses, the legislature of 1899 gave General Barry (who was then adjutant gen eral) $23,853.52 for "support of the na tional guard. y He accomplished the reorganization of the guard and got through with something like $8,000 of deficiency claims for pay of the guard and railroad transportation. The leg islature of 1901 gave General Colby $34,600 for "support of the national guard," and it was exhausted long ago. General Barry must bear his own ex penses at Ft Riley and take his chances of the next legislature re imbursing him. The following, from the Alliance Herald, shows General Barry's stand ing In his home district: CAN YOU DO IT, OLD SOLDIER? The subsidized press of this district and we use tne word understanding tells us that Gen. Patrick H. Barry is already beaten in his race for con gressional honors; that Moses P. Kin kaid is as certain of being elected as If the people had already spoken. Know ingly, and with no other motives but to deceive, they indulge in misrepre sentation. They tell us, for instance, that General Barry was born in 1834, attempting thus to create the .impres sion that the heroic old soldier is too old to send to congress that he has outlived his usefulness and is, in fact, in his dotage. The truth is General Barry was born in '44, and is as hale and hearty, physically, as the average man ten years his junior, with a mind as clear and bright and strong as ever aided in the guidance of our great ship of state. How well does every man who is acquainted with General Barry know this to be true. But carried away with party success, the receipt of pecuniary assistance and the posi tive assurance of more, the men who control the columns of the republican newspaper of this district will stop at nothing in order to secure the success of the man who represents corporation greed. They tell us that the old vete rans will not support General Barry, and to prove their assertion true, quote some "old soldier" who wears the insignia of G. A. R. membership, but who in truth bore scant part In the terrible struggle to prevent the dismemberment of the union. Well they know that all this is false, but like the drowning man who grabs at a straw, they hope to avert the death political death of their candidate. But they reckon without their hosts. What real defender of an inseparable union can grasp General Barry's hand, look into that scarred face and let his eye rest upon that empty sleeve, with out feeling his blood tingle, and with out experiencing a sense of pride of comradeship, of admiration for this heroic brother whose person tells how grandly and heroically he acted out his part in that memorable and terri ble time when brother fought against brother, each feeling that his cause was holy? Let the Herald tell you something, old soldiers of Nebraska. Let it tell you how Patrick H. Barry received those facial scars. It was on tho 12th of Itly, 1864, at the battle of Spottsylvanla Court House, Virginia, when General Barry's regiment had charged and been repulsed, and the dead and dying were all around and about the stubbornly retreating living. Finally they made a stand, the enemy was checked and the tide was turned. Exploding shells had started a forest fire, in the midst of which lay the wounded boys in blue. Volunteers were called for to attempt their rescue. Among the first to respond was young Barry. Gallantly and with that cour age that belongs only to the born hero, the boy fought his way through smoke and flame till he reached a fallen com rade. Gathering the dying soldier in his arms young Barry started on his perilous backward trip, bearing prec ious burden. The awful flame had reached into the limbs of the trees, but through it went the living and the dy ing. Patrick H. Barry succeeded, and as he laid his comrade down, out of the reach of the cruel flames, death mercifully ended his suffering. But at what a fearful cost to the rescuer! His life had almost been the sacrifice. The skin was burned from his neck and face, and writhing in agony and tottering and exhausted from his su perhuman effort, proud comrades bore him to a place of rest. And this is the man this is the hero that we are told is not competent, is not worthy, is too old to represent us in the halls of con gress. Who are we asked to honor in stead? Moses P. Kinkaid, a mediocre lawyer, chronic office-seeker, corpora tion servitor and smooth-tongued apol ogist for greedy, unprincipled monop olists. Can you do it, old soldiers? Can you stultify yourselves? Not in a thousand years could you be guilty of such treachery! And right well the Herald knows it. "The World do Hove" Editor Independent: My only rea son for sending you this little clip ping is that it is from the Buffalo Courier, an old democratic paper that suppoiled McKinley and the gold standard in 1896 and gave Bryan only half-hearted support in 1900. Th clipping is as follows: "This country's financial system is benevolent, as well as wonderful in its complexity, so proved by the practice of lending the people's millions to the banks without interest to be in turn lent to the people at high rates of in terest." Again "the world do move." But why such admissions from such a source? Do they know the right and still the wrong pursue? Or why do they uphold (with the exception of an occasional break like this) the present financial system? I confess It Is too much for me. I wish you would go to New York city with your paper, as your friends sug gest, and I for one would never fear of your environment causing you to change your style of writing. Think of the good you could do with the in creased circulation that would come. Your friends are quite right The eastern people are so conceited they will not in this generation at least loolc to the west for information. 'Tis sad, but true. Think it over, friends, how badly we want such a paper as The Independent to. help us in our fight against plutocracy. ""f CHAS. M. BO WEN. Buffalo, N. Y. BAD WEATHER - WHAT IT DID TO A FARMER IN OREGON. . , It Effects Lasted for Several Tear He Telia llow He Final) Got en IIU Feefc Acaln After a Series of. Reverae "It was all due to the weather," said ir. John Lee', a farmer of Greenville. Oregon, in relating a recent experience to a reporter. " - " '. "The weather." he continued, "plays an important part in a farmer's life and In this instance its effects upon mine lasted for several years. It wits in the spring of 1895. Working in the fields during a long stretch of cold rain and wind brought on an-attack of the grip. It took right hold of me and I suffered terribly with it. When that finally went away It left me with the ague. Several doctors prescribed for me but their medicine did me no good. My head ached and I was dizzy; my blood was very bad and I was so very nervous that every , little sound an noyed and worried me. Besides this I had a very severe case of stomach trouble, food did not nourish me and my appetite was poor. It would be Im possible for me to describe my misery." "But how did you get relief?" asked the reporter. "Well, one day I got hold of a book let telling of the cure of a case similar to mine by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and thought I would try them, i felt better after taking a part of a box so I kept on till cured. About three boxes did it and now I am as well as ever I was." It is of the utmost importance to your health If you have suffered from the grip, that you should cleanse the system of the lingering germs and put it in condition to resist and ward olf disease. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are an unfailing specific not only for the after effects of the grip, of fevers and of other acute dis eases, but also for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial par alysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neu ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, palpitation of the heart, pale and sal low complexions and all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple are sold by all dealers or will Iws sent postpaid on receipt of price, fifty cents a box; six boxes, two dollars ami fifty cents, by addressing Dr. Willlama Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. TWENTY-ONE WEEKS OF STRIKES THE ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE HAS BEEN ON NOW FOR 21 WEEKS AND THERE IS LITTLE HOPE OF SETTLEMENT In the Near Future. Meanwhile An thracite Coal Has Advanced to Frightful Figures. President Mitchell and J. Pierpont Morgan have not yet settled the coal ttrike. So far as the public can see this disastrous controversy between owners and laborers in Pennsylvania is no nearer settlement than it was more than five months ago. The ten sion it great, and the issue of immense importance. Every fireside in the land is affected. COMPULSORY ARBITRATION is an economic principle which experi ence approves and demands. The Am erican genius for self-government must devise some feasible scheme for avoid ing these awful business cataclysms. A cyclone or conflagration is not so de structive or so far-reaching in its pow er of evil. Meanwhile the necessity for good life insurance companies like THE BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE increases. The greatest fiduciary or ganizations in the world are those forms of savings institutions. They gather nearly $2,000,000 a year from the earnings of Nebraskans. They pay back to beneficiaries in this state near ly half a million per annum. The re maining $1,500,000 nearly all goes east and never finds its way back to this state. The 'Bankers' Reserve Life has be gun a work of reform here. It now has nearly $6,000,000 at risk. Its sur plus is invested in Nebraska securi ties. Its income for the present year will average $15,000 per month. It has no unpaid death losses. It is a home grown and home growing enter prise. B. H. ROB1SON, PRESIDENT, announces that $2,000,000 in new busi ness has been written this year. The annual report for December 31 will 1 an eye opener to friends and foes. It will show not only a phenomenal growth in volume of business but an equally remarkable increase in income and assets. Active business and pro fessional men and experienced solici tors can obtain liberal terms and choice territory. Address BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE. OMAHA Live Stock CATTLE SHEEP Com mission Nye & Buchanan Co,, but in UMAUA, AUBBASKA. Best possible service in all depart- h menis. rue or wire us xor markets or other information. Long distance Telephone 2305