GREATLY REDUCED RATE3
Via
WABASH RAII ROAD.
$13.50 to St. Louis and return. On
sale June 16th, 17tn, 21st and 22nd.
$20.50 to Portland, Maine, and re
turn. from Chicago. On sale July 5th
to 9th.
$18.90, Providence, R. I., and return,
from Chicago. On sale July 7tb, 8th
and 9th.
Special rates to all summer resorts
on sale daily. Stopovers allowed on
all tickets at Niagara Falls. Ask your
nearest ticket agent to route you via
the Wabash R. R. For rates, lake
trips and all information, call at Wa
bash New City Office. 1601 Farnam
St., or address Harry E. Moores, Gen
eral Agent. Passenger Department,
Omaha, Neb.
Flattery consists of having your se
cret opinion of yourself expressed in
the language of others.
*20 A WEEK AND EXPENSES
to men with rig to Introduce our Poultry goods.
bcudstjj Juvellc Alfg Co.,Dept D.Parsons,Ivan.
A properly adjusted tongue run3
slower than the mind.
Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity, together with the superior
quality, of Defiance Starch makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand.
It Is better to be slandered by some
than to be praised by others.
Stops the Cough and
Works Off tin* Cold
Laxative Bronio Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.
Ignorance may be bliss, but knowl
edge leaves no room for doubt
SALESMEN WANTED.
. We have a number of agencies in
Nebraska and Iowa w'here we can use
good men, over 30, selling our Stand
ard Stock Food to farmers. They
must have teams, give full time to
the business, be in high standing,
with good business ability and some
knowledge of live stock. We furnish
wagons and offer exceptional Induce
ments to permanent salesmen. Bond
required. Send for application blank.
The F. E. Sanborn Company, Omaha,
Neb.
When a man acts like a mule the
latter is justified in giving him a
kick.
Sensible Housekeepers
will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because of
superior quality.
You can cet almost any man’s atten
tion by saying you dislike to encroach
on his valuable time.
It is usually tomorrow that all re
markable things are expected to hap
pen.
I do not believe Plso’s Cure for Consumption
has an euual for coughs and colds.— Joan F
Bovkr, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. IB. 18001
Consistency, thou are a jewel, but
women seem to prefer other articles
of personal adornment.
A retired bunco man says that love
is not the only thing that needs the
services of an oculist.
A Japanese Worth $100,000,000.
Baron Euchi Shibusawa, who is re
garded as the richest man in Japan,
is in San Francisco on a tour of the
Vnited States and Europe. While in
this country the baron will make a
study of steel plates and shipyards.
Baron Shibusawa is 63 years old. His
wealth is estimated at $100,000,000.
YOU CAN DO IT TOO
Over 2,000,000 people ore now buy
ing goods from us at wholesale
prices —saving 15 to 40 percent on every
thing they use. You one do it too.
Why not ask us to ft'nd you our 1,000
page catalogue ?—it tells the story. Send
15 cents for it today.
3 CHICAGO I
The house that tells the truth. J
TWO IMMENSE PIANO STOCKS
Bought for Spot Cash.
Never In our business experience
have we been able to offer such
bargains In Pianos as now. Lack
of floor space necessitates the
slaughtering of prices on at least
10(1 pianos.
Brand new Pianos from $118.00 up
to the price of the celebrated
Steinway. We sell new pianos on
$5 monthly payments. Call or
write at once for catalog, prices,etc.
SCMMOELER & MUELLER,
Manufacturers, Wholesale and Re
tail Piano Dealers.
1313 Farnam St. Omaha
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Durable and Artistic
Safeguards Health
The delicate tints are made with
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ana germ-absorbing and disease*
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ALABASTINE COMPANY,
Orand Rapids, Mich.
HOGS HAVE LANGUAGE
Naturalist Says the Animal Has Distinct
Speech for Various Occasions
"One of the things that has been
sadly neglected is the language of
some of our lower animals,” said
James Speed, the naturalist. ‘ How
many persons ever thought for one in
stant about what a hog says to an
other hog, or what he says to you or
me?
“Hogs do talk and talk a good deal.
Suppose you go out to the barnyard
early in the morning; doesn’t every
hog come running and in unmistaka
ble language beg for something to eat?
If you give them a trough full of slop,
what is the meaning of the satisfied
grunt which you hear? It is not at all
like the begging which was indulged
in until you feed them.
"One balmy June day I was walk
ing across a field of clover, when far
ahead I saw an old friend of mine, a
big sow. The fresh green clover made
no sound as niy feet sunk in it. and the
sow did not hear mo until I was just
behind her. Suddenly she turned and
at once gave a startled grunt, which
warned her six little spotted pigs that
danger was near. In an instant every
little pig dropped flat on its stomach
and its ears were flattened on its lit
tle back.
“After tne old sow had taken a sec
ond good look at me she recognized a
personal friend who had fed her all
her life, so she gave a low, satisfied
grunt, and each and every little pig
jumped up and went to playing again.
This is an exemplification of what Kr
nest Seton Thompson has so frequent
ly written about animals teaching
their young to drop and freeze' at a
word of warning.
“Later that day, as I came back
across the field, i heard the same old
sow squealing and crying somewhere
in a strip of timber nearby. I knew- in
an instant that something had hap
pened to the sow. for the squealing
was sharp and high, and told of pain
and anger. I hurried to her relief. In
the edge of the woods 1 met the six
little pigs huddled together, evidently
greatly frightened by their mother's
frequent and sharp squeals. At my ap
proach thej- ran to the shelter of some
underbrush and hid. I found the old
sow with her foot fastened between
the roots of a tree and unable to extri
cate herself. In a moment 1 released
; her and she hobbled off. calling to her
pigs with low grunts of satisfaction."
A mill and a wife are always in
want of something.
History of Famous Hymn
Written by Saxon Poet in 1659 It Still Retains
Ureat Popularity
Paul Gerhardt was born in Saxony,
in the year 1606. He is the author of
many choice hymns. It was on a dark
day when he wrote the hymn,
‘‘Give to the winds thy fears,
Hope and be undismayed-”
On account of some conflict with the
king in his religious sentiments he
was ordered to leave the Nicholas
church at Berlin, where he had
preached for ten years, and quit the
country.
With his helpless wife and little ones
he turned his steps towards Saxony,
his native land.
The journey, taken on foot, was long
and tiring. As they turned aside to
spend the night in a little village inn,
his wife, overcome with sorrow, gave
way to tears of anguish.
Gerhardt, concealing his own sad
ness, quoted the beautiful promise:
‘Trust in the Lord; in all thy ways
acknowledge Him, and Hfe shall direct
thy paths.”
His own mind was so impressed by
these words that he turned aside and
composed this hymn.
Late that evening as Gerhardt and
his wife sat in the little parlor two
gentlemen came In, and after some
general conversation said they were
going to Berlin to Gerhardt, the de
posed minister. Madam Gerhardt
turned pale with alarm, fearing some
new calamity.
Her husband however, with entire
self-possession, told the strangers that
he was the man. One of the gentle
men then gave him a letter from Duke
Christian of Meresburg.informing him
that in view of his unjust deposition
from the church in Berlin he had set
tled a pension on him.
Gerhardt in the joy of that moment
quietly turned to his wdfe and gave
her the hymn he had composed in the
early part of the evening, w'heu all
was so dark and seemingly hopeless.
“See,” said Gerhardt, as he handed
his wife the hymn, “see how God
provides! ”
The hymn which, according to tra
dition, had this interesting origin, was
first published in 1659. It was one
among many others which was trans
lated by John Wesley.
When a tree is falling, every on«
cries: “Down with it.”
! Mexico's Grand Old Man
President Dia.z H&s Done Much for the
Welfare of Our Southern Neighbors
But President Diaz is over 70 years
old and can hardly be expected, in the
natural order of things, to remain at
the helm of state much longer. The
question is, who is fitted to take his
place, and how long will Mexico con
tinue to be happy and prosperous with
out him? A strong and happy con
trast lies between the twenty-five
years in which Diaz has ruled Mexico
and the same period before he came to
power. Before, it was war, turmoil
and misery nearly all the time; since,
it has been peace, order, prosperity
and happiness. Diaz was a prominent
figure in Mexico in the dark and
troubled days. He has known his
country as an empire, a republic and a
despotism. He has seen governments
wrecked, rulers murdered, armies mu
tiny, parliaments revolt. He has been
the enemy and the defender of the
constitution. Twice thrown into pris
on, he has twice escaped, and he came
from his prison cell to head a success
ful army of a thousand men, which
went from victory to victory, augment
ing its strength, raising_sieges, and
iimuij uuuKiiife uuuul iuu itTuuauuv.
tion of the republic.
But It was not yet peace for Diaz.
Revolutions were hardy annuals in
Old Mexico and no revolution in the
old days was complete without this
sturdy fighter. In one of the last of
them he was at anchor off the coast,
when, thinking his presence had been
discovered, he threw himself into the
sea to swim ashore. He was picked
up, however, and his safety then de
pended on his disguising himself as a
coal-heaver. Once free, he was coal
heaver no longer, but commander of
an army which defeated the govern
ment and occupied the capital. He has
settled down to quieter times since the
troubled sixties and seventies, when
for a brief while Mexico had four pres
idents at once. His people have rec
ognized the statesman beneath the
revolutionist, and have sent him five
times to power as the head of the
state.—Leslie’s Weekly.
To him who is determined it re
mains only to act.
GOVERNOR AS AN INVESTMENT
Irreverent Legislator Suggests Forma
tion of Novel Company.
Ex-Gov. Bunn tells of an incident in
the Pennsylvania legislature when
Geary was governor of the state. A
veteran of the war with Mexico and
the Rebellion, the governor was known
to have carried bullets away from sev
eral battles in which he had fought
and been wounded. There had been
some startling legislation concerning
the incorporation of companies; and
Geary, who was believed to be a mere
tool in the hands of those who were
near him in affairs of state, had been
very liberal with his signature. One
day, however, he rebelled, and his
friends and the lobbyists worked in
vain to induce him to sign one or two
bills savoring strongly of jobbery. At
last one wag arose and said:
“Gentleman, I move that we consid
er a bill for the incorporation of the
Geary Shanks Lead company, limited.
It is the understanding of the framers
of the prospectus that the governor
would make a paying investment be
cause of the bullets he carries around
in him. And I’ll add that the bill be
given immediate consideration, before
he melts; else the metal may become
molten and, so, useless for the pur
poses of the incorporators.”
He who swears is a liar.
WILL USE ONLY NEWSPAPERS.
Business Men of Scottdale. Pa., Select
Advertising Agency.
The business men of Scottdale, Pa
have formed an association against
all fake advertising. Hereafter they
will place their advertising money into
the daily and weekly newspapers.
Unanimously they have indorsed the
newspaper as being the best medium
of advertising and the only one that
proves satisfactory at all times.
Some asserted in the meeting held
to form the association that they have
spent $100 to $300 a year in schemes
which were wholly without any re
turn as advertising. A meeting was
held at which George B. Shupe was
chairman and C. H. Poonaugh secre
tary. It was agreed unanimously,
that the preliminary agreement, that
of pledging the signers not to take
any part in any advertising scheme
not considered legitimate by a com
mittee to be selected by the subscrib
ers to the paper, should be the basis
of the association. A committee was
instructed to prepare a list of the
objectionable advertising schemes and
present these at the next meeting. A
resolution was passed that any mer
chant violating the contract be sub
ject to a fine, which was amended
^that all mer'hants take an oath that
they will not violate the contract
against taking part in the objection
Duke is Dead.
Colonel Cody's celebrated horse.
Duke, was kicked ou the knee by a
four-dollar "plug" while the show
was in Harrisburg, and veterinarians
agreeing that the wound would nev
er heal, the colonel very sadly gave
orders that his favorite be shot Thus
ends the career of a horse better
known to the \oung people—and old
ones as well—of America than all
others put together. Duke and "Buf
falo Bill” seemed to be in perfect
harmony. The rider's costume and
the horse's coat were of nearly one
color—nature’s concealing color, an
autumn tan. Children noticed the
absence of Duke from the show last
week, and inquired after him. Col
onel Cody now has but one horse, the
brown fellow. Prince, that he bought
in Kansas last year. Prince is a
beautiful equine specimen, hut not a
Duke nor a Dad.
Black, as Clerical Garb.
Not until Martin Luther's time did
black become the distinguishing hue
of clerical garb. When Luther laid
aside his monk's clothes the elector
of Saxony sent him a piece of black
cloth, and Luther had a suit made of
it according to the prevailing cut of
the time. It was long after before
tbe cut of a clergyman's coat became
different from that of the laity.
The Seecet of Health In Old Age.
Shepherd, 111., June 23d.—Sarah E.
Rowe of this place Is now 72 years of
age and just at the present time is en
joying much bettor health than she
has for over 20 years. Her explana
tion of this is us follows:
“For many years past I have been
troubled constantly with severe Kid
ney Trouble, my urine would scald and
burn when passing, and I was very
miserable.
“I am 72 years of age and never ex
pected to get anything to cure me, but
I heard of Dodd’s Kidney Fills and
thought it would do me no harm to try
them.
"I am very glad I did so, for they
cured me of the Kidney Disease and
stopped ail the scalding sensations
when passing the urine.
“I feel better now than I have for
twenty years."
The watched pot never boils and
the unwatched pot boils over, so what
is the cook to do?
ALL rp TO DATS HOITSRKEEPKR9
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because
It Is better and 4 o*. more of It for same
money.
No man thinks he is as stupid a3 he
looks.
ALL UP-TO-DATE IIOl NEKEKPERR
Cso Red Cross Hall Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
Our fears are always more numerous
than our dangers.
Dealers say that as soon an a custo
mer tries Defiance Starch it is im
possible to sell them any other cold
water starch. It can be used cold or
boiled.
A bird In the hand Is worth two In
the cornfield- if the birds are crows.
HK!» C'KOSS BAM. Ht.t’E
Should be in every home Ask your grocer
for it. Large J ok. package only 5 cents
Where there Is much smoke there
Is usually a little tobn oo.
A Place to Spend the Summer.
On the lines of the Milwaukee Rail
way In Wisconsin. Minnesota and Iowa
are some of tne moot beautiful places
in the world to spend a summer vaca
tion. camping out or at the elegant
summer hotels. Boating, fishing,
beautiful lakes and streams and cool
weather.
Okoboji is the nearest of these re
sorts. but all are easily reached from
Omaha, and the round trip rates this
summer are lower than ever before.
Full information on application.
F. A. NASH.
Gen'l Western Agent. C. M. & St. P.
Ry., 1504 Farnara St.. Omaha,
Even the troubles of a pretty woman
are interesting only the first time they
are told.
IRONINO A SHIRT WAIST.
Not infrequently a young woman
finds it necessary to launder a shirt
waist at home for some emergency
when the laundry man or the home ser
vant cannot do it. Hence these direc
tions for ironing the waist: To Iron
summer shirt waists so that they will
look like new It is needful to have
them starched evenly with Defiance
| starch, then made perfectly smooth
and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be
laid away two or three hours. When
troniug have a bowl of water and a
clean piece of muslin beside the iron
ing board. Have your Iron hot, but
not sufficiently so to scorch, and abso
lutely clean. Begin by Ironing the
back, then the front, sides and the
sleeves, followed by the neckbaud and
the culls. When wrinkles appear ap
ply the damp cloth and remove them.
Always Iron from the top of the waist
to the bottom. If there are plaits In
the front Iron them downward, after
first raising each cne with a blunt
knife, and with the edge of the Iron
follow every line of stitching to give It
distinctness. After the shirt waist is
ironed it should be well aired by the
fire or in the sun before It is folded
and put away, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Faint heart ne'er won a fat jack
pot.
FITC P*rm*nrnl|y ‘mrod. Vo fltnor nrrrounnoiM after
■ IIO flmt «i* v '« tine uf |»r. Kllnp'ii Utrut Nt*rvo Mentor*
or. Send for KIllvK fll'i.OO trial bottle And troatlto.
1>R It II Ik pin k. Ltd., 031 Ar ta St reel, ritiladolphla, I'a.
Only a mighty m»an man will send
his wife downstairs to request a burg
lar to make less noise.
Hall'* Catarrh Par#
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75a
Lots of people seem to he proud of
the fact that they have nothing to lie
proud of.
WHEN NOt nrY NT.tKI U
buy Defiance ami set the best. It oa. for
10 cents. Once used, always used.
Don't believe all you hear; you are
fortunate if you can believe all you
say.
Mrs. Winslow's NUrothlns Hjrrtjs
For children locthlny. soften* the corns, reduce# tn
flsiuiDalton. allays pslu. cure* wind colic. 45c s Oollla.
If front what he thinks he knows a
man would subtract what others think
he knows, the remainder might equal
the sutn of his knowledge.
-At i wmnrr-FOt wore thin HALF * cfvtdsv
w'ure llratlKk’. * iinillBitiuH, ( hills Anil Fever, and All WU
mu* I wmpliilnt*. All l»rufgl*ia. I*ri*» *•» er Ata A Has.
WIUUHT S INDIAN t LOLI aUU; FILL Ml. New t ori.
Every housewife gloats,
over finely starched
)inen and iwhite goods.
Conceit Is justifiable:
after using Defiance'
$tarch. It gives a/
stiff, glossy white£
ness to the clothes' \
and does not rot'
'them. It is absoi
| Tutely pure. It is \
the most economical
[ because It goes
farthest, does more t
end costs less than
k others. To be had of all
Magnetic starch Mig. Co.
OMAHA. NEB.
ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OP THE RAILROADS OP NEBRASKA.
ACTION OF BOARD OP EQUALIZATION.
For years r^st it has been quite generally contended
"That the railroads should be required to bear their
just share of taxation." Nebraska has had a succession
of reform administrations, who used this argument as
one of the essential planks of the platform on which
they were elected. The result has been a succession of
changes in the political complexion of what is known
as the Board of Equalization, composed of the governor,
treasurer and the auditor of state. During these suc
cessive canvasses, the railroads have not presented
their side to the people, but in each case have waited
until the parties whom the people should select were
elected to office, and then presented the question of
railroad taxation to them when they acted as officers
of this Board of lSquallzation. Thus it comen that dur
ing the past ten years, there have been republican,
democratic and populist governors and members of this
board in succession. These men elected to office hars
been representative citizens and men of Integrity and
honor, who have taken an oath to do what they con
sidered right In the interests of the people, and in sub
scribing to tills oath, they at the same time Birear to
do their duty in accordance with the law.
The following table will show the relative assessment
of each administration for the past twelve years, show
ing the amount assessed against lands, lots, personal
property and all property in the state during the T*
rious administrations:
UAII.Kl PAD &
GOVERNOR. PARTY. YEAR. LANDS. LOTS. TEUS. PROP. TELEGRAPH. ALL PROP
Thayer Rep] 1889 $74,215,740 ' $38.415,m><. $40,2757.71 $29,850,452 $182,763,538
Bovil Dcm. 1891 76,885,405 40,248,504 36,369,138 29,635,189 183,138,236
Crounse Rep. 189 ^ 87,351,164 40,721,844 37,7149,243 28.860.873 194,733,124
Crounse Rep. 1894 84,047,616 39,012,165 32,451,023 28,206/192 193,717,498
Holcomb Pop. 18145 82,648,108 3 6,349,975 26,778,502 25,6q 1.622 171,468,307
Holcomb Pop. 18146 81,459,367 34,835,019 25,101,676 25/182,208 167.078.27q
Holcomb Pop. 18147 79,394/108 33.574.365 26,402,610 25,822.153 165,193,736
Holcomb Pop. 18148 78,518,838 33,049,882 29,852,205 26,3814.840 167,810,765
Poynter Pop. 18149 77.8140.017 32.752423 32,116,855 26,346,610 169,105,905
Poynter Pop. 1900 78,044.155 33,148405 34,112,738 26,442,295 171.747.593
Savage_Rep. 1901 79.675,195 34,488,950 33473.559 *^801,391 »74.439/*>i
From this statement it will be seen that the railroad
and telegraph property had a valuation in 1901, 10 2-10
per cent less than it was in 1899, and that lots are also
assessed for 10 3-10 per cent less, while the value of per
sonal property has decreased 17 per cent in that same
time. The only property that appears to show any in
i crease what ever is the item of lands, which shows an
incroase of 7 3-10 per cent.
However, we give here a statement of the increase in
quantities assessed in the following items reported in
1899 and 1901, which should be considered along with
these apparent increases and decreases in assessment.
Per cent
Assessed In 1889. Assessed In 1901. Increase.
10,674.180 acres Improved 17,364.770 acres improved 62.7
13.5.V7.727 acres unimproved 14,860.843 acres unimproved 9.5
1,624.327 cattle 2.313,918 cattle 42.
179,269 sheep 410,623 sheep 130
1,328,962 hogs 1,460,777 hogs 10
5,032 miles railroad 5,702 miles railroad 13
Now, how are all these decreases and variations in
assessment brought about? In 1893 and 1894, the as
sessors through the various counties so materially re
duced the assessment of lands, lots and persona! prop
erty that the railroad valuations given by the Hoard of
Equalization in prior years was away above that figure
which would obtain an equality in taxation with other
property.
Owing to the popular cry of increased assessment of
railroad corporations, the Board of Equalization was
deterred from materially reducing the same in 1894, and
in that year the railroads paid practically twenty-five
per cent more tax than they in Justice should have done.
No one accused Governor Holcomb of being any more
friendly to the railroad corporations than the law
would require him to be, but in 1895, the presentation
was made to the board in such a manner that a ma
terial reduction was made in the assessment of the
i
railroads in Nebraska. That board acted in this matter
under their oath, which obliged them to equalise tha
assessed value of the railroads and make that assess*
ment conform to valuations placed on other property.
The assessment made at that time was only fair to tha
companies and put them back near to where they should
have been placed.
However, the local assessors continued to reduce the
valuation on lands, lots and personal property, until
1898, the railroads were again paying twenty-five per
cent more tax than they under the constitution and law
should be required to do.
Since 1898, the local assessors have increased the val
uation a little, but as is shown in bulletin No. 3, the
railroads were assessed $1,169 per mile more value than
they should have been in 1900, and are still paying
more than their fuir portion of taxes.
During the years of hard times in Nebraska, the rail
roads accepted this injustice and paid the taxes charged,
hoping by the assistance thus rendered the poorer coux
tles of the state, to tide over the unfortunate condition
of affairs, and In many Instances they paid tho tax
charged while their stockholders got nothing.
Several members of the Board of Equalization that
have been elected In the last ten years we.re honestly
Impressed with the belief that railroad corporations
were not paying their just portion of tax, but when the
facts have been laid before them, they In each Instance,
Irrespective of party, respected their oath and wont no
further in taxing tho railroads than they could go and
still believe that they were giving that equality In tax
ation guaranteed under our constitution.
Some corporation may not be pay ig their sharn of
taxes, but an Investigation will show that they aro not
railroad corporations.
