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14 THE. NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT, DECEMBER 4, 1502. , Post Check Currency The Independent would again call to the attention of its readers the fact that the Post Check Currency. bill is still a possibility at the coming short session of congress. Write your mem ber in congress and urge him to help push it along, 'ihe Leader, of Bing hampton. N. Y., says: "The Fifty-seventh congress will re assemble in a few weeks and it is wide ly hoped that a part of its work will be the passage of the Post Check Cur rency bills, which provide for a prac tical and convenient method of send ing small sums of money by mall. A great deal has been written on this subject, and there are few who do not know that this method Is simply an Issue of currency that can be circu lated as cash and also be safely re mitted by mail, because when mailed It will be made payable only to the person whose name is written in the blank space that i3 left for that pur pose. "Under the present money order system safety can be assured only at the sacrifice of convenience, and con venience can be consulted only ' by disregarding the element of safety. The Post Check plan is both conven ient and safe, and,-being so, it is just what the public needs in its line. , The business interests and the press favor it with virtual if not actual unanimity, and, in fact, the full measure of pop ularity it has won is a warrant, if not an order, for its adoption by congress." The Banner Precinct Clem N. Meyers of North Loup, Val ley county, believes that Independent precinct, Valley county, is the banner populist precinct in the state. The vote was: Mickey 12, Thompson 44. The Independent has failed to receive the tabulated vote for all the coun ties. Does any reader know of a pre cinct that gave Thompson more than 78 per cent of the vote? Around the World When the British finished the last link in the cable that reached around the world, some of them thought of sending the first message over the complete circle, but a Boston man by the. name of Charles J. Glidden did. He is the first man to send and receive such a message. He wrote a message, "Around the world," directed to him self in Boston, and ordered It se,nt by way of Vancouver and Australia. Not being a "rush" message, no haste was made anywhere, and when it reached him in Boston 38 hours and ?-r minutes had elapsed. The route fol lowed by the cablegram of Mr. Glid den embraced these points: San Fran cisco, Vancouver, Fanning island, Fiji islands, Norfolk' island, Australia, thence to Singapore, through India to the Red sea, across the Mediterranean to Paris and London, and finally over the Atlantic cable to Boston. The message did not turn up in Boston, by the way, with entire accuracy. It came in somewhat weatherbeaten, as it were, reading "Gleddon" instead of Glidden, and with "Around" trans formed into "Armund." The two words, "the world," went through safe and sound. A second edition of "The Hench man" by Mark Lee Luther has been issued by the Macmillan company. This novel was published only three, weeks ago. Its success has been prompt. The reviewers in most of the great cities have been quick to find in It some portraits of famous bosses and politicians. The plot is woven round the rise of a country politician to the governorship of New York. EDISON PHONOGRAPH RECORDS on CENTS 0 U EACH We have just purchased 5000 EDI SON wax records independent of the manufacturer and thus are en abled to sell at this price. In order to give all our patrons the benefit of this price we will sell only two dozen to a party and not less than one dozen. It will not be necessary to take them all at once if you do not wish. In ordering by mail give first and second choice. After these are sold you of course understand prices will be as before. All records guaranteed to be new goods. We are giving some inter esting prices on machines also. 811-813 SI Sooth 11th Street Location vt 1 -,ffTBtnw The democrats elected a county com missioner In Cuyahoga county, Ohio, at the last election and thus gave them control of the board Mayor Tom Johnson at once began extending his tax crusade to county affairs, says the Public He took' steps tft abrogate an existing contract with the "tax inquisi tor" an official appointed to ferret out tax-dodgers whom the republican board had appointed for a three-year term contrary to law. The public service corporations were evading pay ment of about a million dollars taxes, and when they saw that their repub lican tax inquisitor a "safe" man was likely to be ousted, they "settled" with the old board and got receipts In full on October 18 by paying the com paratively insignificant sum of $79, 0y3.78. Thus the county lost, and the corporations saved, about $920,000 by the act of corrupt republican officials. Tfis -SSgn oti a W&tch (Esse Thla Keystone Is the Identlfyinr ulgn of the best watch case made do matter what It COSU. It Itanda fop worth an1 for beauty equal to an all-gold case, at a much amaller price. The MS ES&SS Stiffened GCLD Is better protection than a solid eold Case, because Of its atifTneKa unrt strengtn. itetter than any otbcr cae, becaiisn It Will Islat fnr Si vun wllli. out wearing thin, or losing its beaut v. A, reputation of 50 years proves the value of the Jas. Bess Case. Consult the jeweler. Write us for a booklet THE KEYSTONE WATCH CASE COMPANY, Philadelphia. ' m Mr -'mm. m m m i a u:." . if . ;. mm mk i w if r- r t lon't Be Too Fat .?,'!j?ant medicines. Send to Prof. F. J. Kelloinr. 1277 VP. Mala St., B.ttle Creek, Michigan, for a free trial package of a treatment that will rednre yonr weight to normal without diet or dm?. The tre't- tnfint ll nAPf(1l 0:ka natn.nl nn4 a.. I . . H V . I. J. stomach, given the haart freedom, en ables the lan?a to expand Dnturally, and yon wiU feel a hundred times better the first day you try this Ten Centuries Ago Professor Ililprecht of the univer sity of Pennsylvania has returned from Babylonia, having accomplished the greatest results in the way of archaeology that have so far been vouchsafed to man. He has discov ert the oldest library in the world, a library that was in existence 5,000 years ago, and probably much further back, and which contains the oldest records of the human race. It is be lieved that some of the books he has discovered either go back to 10,000 j ears ago, or tell of history in that early age with as much conciseness and authority, as is possible. Outside the Bible, no records are as old as these, and it must be remem bered that we have no original manu script of the Bible that is more than 1,000 years old. It is true that it is believed that fargments of the "Logia of Matthew" have been discovered on, which the gospel by St. Matthew was founded, but to all intents and pur poses present manuscripts date back only to the third or fourth century of the present era. Professor Hilprecht has found clay tablets which are be lieved to be at least 7,000 years old and possibly 10,000. The history of the human race as narrated in the Bible in a consecutive way begins with Abraham, after which there is a connected story down to the return from exile and after, the remaining gap being filled up by the writing of Josephus, Strabo and oth ers who connect the Jewish nation with the writing of profane historians. In the reference Bible there are dates at the top of the columns which more than 200 years ago were placed there by Bishop Ussher as the best computa tions of his time. These have not been confirmed by recent discoveries. Uss her placed Araham about 2000 B. C, though now he is placed nearly 1000 vears farther back. In any event, Hil precht's discoveries seem to go to many centuries beyond Abraham. These clay books are being deciph ered slowly, and many years must elapse before the truth they contain is given to the world. It is known, howevpr, that at the time they deal with there was a high state of civili zation in the valley of the Tigris Euphrates, and that the origin of the race goes many centuries farther back. Philadelphia Enquirer. SPECIAL MARKET LETTER FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MER CHANTS. SO. OMAHA, NEB. Chicago had an enormous run of cattle Monday, reaching over 38,000, and has had fair runs since. Our re ceipts are only 14,000 for three days, but market has been weak in sym pathy with Chicago, but strengthened up yesterday. We quote corn-fed beef $3.75 to $5.50, with choice at $b; high grade year lings $4.50 to $4.75, good fair feeders $3.40 to $3.60. common $2.50 tn S3.30: extra good cows $4; choice fat cows $3 to $3.50, fair $2.50 to $3; canners $1.50 to $2.50; veal $4 to $5; bulls $1.75 to $3.50; good steer stock calves $4 to $4.25; heifers $2.50 to $3. Hog receipts fair. Market about steady. Range $6 to $6.15. Receipts of sheep continue to fal off here. Market is 1J to 15c higher on fat sheep than last week. Feeders slow and lower. Fed. Feeders, Lambs $t.75-$5.00 $3.50-$3.80 Yearlings 3.75- 4.00 3.00- 3.25 Wethers 3.35- 3.60 2.90- 3.10 Ewes 2.80- 3.35 1.00- 2.00 Small Ranch I have for sale 640 acres of land nearly all the very finest hay land to be found anywhere, and the balance pasture. Part can be farmed if de sired. Hay of excellent quality. No better chance anywhere for a man wanting a small ranch. J. A. DONOHOE, -O'Neill, Neb. How Rich Kansas Aint State Auditor Georce E. Cole informs his fellow citizens that the state of Kansas owns "property" worth over eleven millions, and his fellow citizens of the republican stripe promptly shout, "Hoorah for Kansas!" The "property" consists of a state house, a penitentiary and several edu cational institutions. The "property" instead of bringing in any revenue to the state has to be maintained at a great cost to the own ers, that is the citizens. If they owned more "property" it would cost them more to keep it go ingthat is, the more "property" the citizens as a state have, the worse they are off. Auditor Cole might have had a dif ferent tale to tell if it had not been for the grand old party for which he shouts. If the school lands, agricultural lands, swamp lands and other lands conveyed in fee simple by the general government to the state of Kansas were still owned by the state, as was probably originally intended, they would be well worth 100 million dol lars, and would be yielding an annual revenue to the state for educational purposes of between three and five million dollars. Even the few patches of school lands that have not been deemed worth steal ing b.' t4e land thieves who got in on the ground floor have been thrown on the market by this same Auditor Cole, as if he were anxious to get rid of the last remnant of this most magnificent land endowment to the schools of Kansas. Pittsburg Kansan. (A similar state of affairs exists in Nebraska. It seemed that the repub lican officials could not rest until they had sold every foot of land belonging to the state and converted it into mon ey, which in turn must be converted into "United States or state securities, or registered county bonds of this state." In 1897 the fusion legislature attempted to stop the foolish practice or selling or the remaining unsold por tions of the once magnificent endow ment for educational purposes given by the general government, and during the remaining years of fusion rule no more lands were sold. But no sooner were the republican "redeemers" safe ly ensconced at the state house than the "ruling passion" began to assert itself. Without asking for a judicial interpretation of the question but ac.mg on the advice of a police court pettifogger who occupies, but does not fill, the office of attorney general the commissioner of public lands and buildings permits lessees to convert in to sale contracts, and the wastpful and foolisii practice continues. Ed. Ind.) mm mk PURE MALT is one of the best known whiskies on the market and is most prescribed by physicians and most largely used by the men who know what good whiskey is and insist on haying it. It has been mado for OTer thirty years by the famous Willow Springs Distillery and is positiTely guaranteed as pariij hwcu as pos - sessing the finest flavor or any whiskey on the market. You 22.rJ. . try ' becaose if yoa do you wUl like it and ahnrs not H. Willow Sp'gs Distillery, Omaha. WHISKEY $1.10 PER GALLON. ' i It far Trinto Prix Ujt to - CASPER CO. lBJ&mMiJmmi WINSTON. N. C 13S5S FAT T0 FAT People Reduce yonr . 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