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December 25, ioo2." THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. '
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lAIViS' VILUARS (44994). One of lams' VVld8-as-a-Wagon Elsck Percherons.
Our illustration is from the largest importing establishment of draft and coach Lior.ses in all Nebraska "The Home of the Winners" that of Frank lams,
St. Paul, Nebr.
Villiars (44991) is a black Percheron, three years old, wt. 2,(80 lbs. lie i.s wide ns a-wagon kind, with two good ends and a middle in fact he is as big when ho
lays down as when he stands up.) Ho is so wide that a wheelbarrow will pass belweeu his front legs, and a four-foot door will barely lct-hini back out through. Ha
has a 14-inch clean, hard, flinty bone; he has big da.-hing style, and a very bold way of going.. He is a steam engine in motion, and he moves like a whirlwind.
He is royally bred, "approved and stamred" by the European government, as all of lams' stallions are. Every certificate shows the brand of "free entry" from the:
United States custom officials. (And many stallions imported do cot have this brand and are not full bloods, although they are registered in the Stud Books of Europe.-
"Villiars" is only one of the many model draft stallions in lams' importing barns. Jle.has just imported 03 stallions, all blanks and bays, making a total of 117
head of full blooded stallions and mares now on hand. lams guarantees to show you rroro full blooded black stallion's and mares than can bo seen at all importing
barns in Nebraska. He is selling Top-notchers at $1,000 to f 1,400, guaranteed better than are being sold to stock companies for $3,000 and 4,C0O, If you do not find
this so, on visiting lams, be will cheerfully pay your fare both ways for your trouble. His buyers get all commission and salesman's salaries. You can see them
there as good and big as they grow. He has one pair of five-year-olds, wt. 5,100. They are worth goitig 1,0 JO miles to see. ' , , ,
Visit or write lams. He will send you the finest horse catalogue on earth, and an eye opener.' That will tell you why you should buy your stallions of lams
of St. Paul, Nebraska. ; , ; ' '
News of the Week
Civilization in the Philippines seems
to be advancing along the following
course: The soldier, famine, pesti
lence, the franchise hunter, a new
money standard and the banker. All
of which .according to Teddy, is pure
philanthropy.
A huge solar motor has been in
actual operation at Bostou for several
weeks. Steam is generated by the
concentration of the rays of the sun
upon a boiler, by a system of power
ful reflectors. A small saw-mill has
been successfully worked. The French
are using solar motors for irrigation
purposes in Algeria. Perhaps some
method may be invented to do away
with the coal operators who cannot
furnish enough coal to keep the peo
ple of the United States from freezing.
The law requiring candidates to file
sworn statements of election expenses
has been as everybody knows, consid
erable of a farce. It has, however,
proved amusing in the case of some
very conscientious men. One New
York man, a candidate for a county
office, in filing his statement includ
ing an item of fifty cents which he
said he paid his wife for getting up
five mornings and making the fire.
Lawyers of high standing are de
claring that the destruction of the
Venezuelan navy before war was de
clared was an act of piracy upon the
high seas. If the Monroe doctrine
does not cover piracy by European
governments in American waters it
needs amendment.
dice of good order and military dis--:
cipline and in violation of the 62d ar-:
tide of war. Generals Chaffee and'
Smith have both been summoned to
appear as witnesses and must go all
the way from the United States. f A
smp will be sent to Samar to bring
other witnesses. This trial is likely
to cost something and many months'
will elapse before a verdict will be
rendered.
President Baer solemnly affirms that
"thfi scarcity is not due to a combine
holding up coal." Then please tell us
what is the cause of it. Coal is scat
tered in unlimited quantities all over
the United States. There are plenty
of men willing to dig' it out of the
earth. There are railroads fully
equipped to haul it to market. Why
don't we have coal?
The second court-martial for the
trial of Major Edwin F. Glenn assem
bled in Manila the other day. The
formal charge against the major is
that he unlawfully and wilfully 1-illod
seven prisoners of war to the preju-
The horrors of child insurance with
which the old world has had so much
experience and which has been almost
totally suppressed there, is in full
swing in this country. That many
hundred little babies and other chil
dren are murdered in this country to
get the insurance cannot be doubted.
It is worse than savagery to allow
child insurance. American Medicine,
published at Philadelphia, in an edi
torial article speaks of this inhuman
business as follows: "According to
report there are as many as 75 societ
ies in one of our eastern cities oper
ating under a law which requires no
report to the commissioner of insur
ance, no surplus, and in which no age
limit is fixed. It is said that 240,000
children are insured in this city. Some
companies issue policies on infants
one month old. There is the most ur
gent need that legislatures should at
once enact laws that will stop the
abuses of child insurance. It is al
ready hard enongh for the innocents
to live without putting a premium up
on neglect and murder." It is only to
be expected that a city that would
allow corruption to exist to the extent
that Philadelphia has, would also al
low murder of innocent babes for the
insurance placed upon them. No one
should be astonished at any sort of
crime committed in Quay's domain.
The dailies continue to talk about
the reduction of the array and sneer
at anti-imperialists, when every paper
one takes up contains a government
advertisement calling for enlistments.
These calls for new recruits, while
Teddy is reducing the army, makes the
whole thing a little worse than a
farce.
A most horrible famine is prevailing
in Russia, especially in Finland, where
no crops at all have been raised. In
that portion of the empire, as well as
in several other provinces, it is an
nounced that-there is not food enough
to feed the people longer than until
Christmas. Vegetation has so entire
ly disappeared; in large districts that
thousands : of- dead wild birds have
been found -that- have starved to death.
Congress; ; appropriated $500,000 to
enforce the anti-trust law, but it did
not, provide for the impeachment of
the present attorney general, so there
will nothing come of- it.
Silver has been going up again a
point at a time and at this writing it
is 48 3-8. It will probably be at 50
in a few weeks. The scare that the
sudden fall in price gave to manufac
turers all over the world who sell
goods to silver standard countries
prompted the trust that fixes the price
to call a halt Instead of helping the
gold idea to popularity, it had ex
actly the opposite effect. It was plain
ly seen that a further fall in the price
of silver would ruin the oriental trade
of all Europe and America.
The new tariff law enacted by Ger
many largely increases the dutie? ir.
fact in most cases doubles them on
all kinds of provisions. The hiedi tar
iff men in this country in denouncing
this action of Germany, which will
seriously curtail our export Lrt.de,
abandon the arguments that they use
when they advocate a high tariff for
this country. Then they pay that
"the foreigner pays the tax," but in
this German case they say that the
people of Germany have to pay it and
not the foreigner. They declare that
the increase of duties by the German
government will add an average of $27
per capita per year to the cost of liv
ing to every adult, and an average of
$lS pr year to every child over 5
years of age in that empire, and that
the working population will bo re
duced to a diet of black broad and
beans. A tariff in this country, they
say. works directly opposite to that
and protects and enriches labor.
The Venezuela muddle has got to a
point where Great Britain agrees to
arbitration without any guarantee on
the part of the United States, and
Castro will abide by the decision and
pay. Germany will arbitrate if the
United States will guarantee the pay
ment and specify the time when the
money will be handed over. Italy
will agree to anything that suits Eng
land and Germany. France, whicn Had
made an agreement for arbitration'
before the war broke out, thinks she
comes in as preferred creditor. The '
rest of the world Had 'not 'been heard
fr6m. " It is announced, unofficially,
that President Roosevelt has agreed 1
to accept the position of arbitrator. ' '
One of New York's "400" last rum
mer while playing golf got dissatisfied
with his caddie and knocked one of the
boy's eyes out with his golf stick. A
jury recently rendered a verdict of $6,
000 damages which the dude golf player
will have to hand over. '
The anthracite investigation still
proceeds and from what has occurred
it is evident that there is going to be
a divided report. Judge Gray, the
chairman, is constantly making deci
sions and remarks that plainly show
that his sympathies are with the oper
ators. He refused to hear evidence
concerning the extortionate railroad
charges and as to who paid the law
yers who profess to appear for the
scabs or non-union men.
Dr. Hillis came to Chicago from hi3
Brooklyn cfturch and delivered a ser
mon devoted to attacks on organized
labor of the utmost bitterness. The
most extreme positions ever taken by
plutocracy in regard to the creation
of wealth and its distribution were
defended by him. Some of the most
fervid mammon worshippers are to
day to be found in the high-priced
pulpits.
It is said that the house committee
on merchant marine will report a bill
to suspend the coastwise navigation
laws for thirty days. The effect of
this would be to permit tramp steam
ers and other foreign vessels to engage
in the coastwise commerce of carrying
coal to Boston, New Haven and other
ports where a fuel famine prevails.
The navigation laws of the United
States are about as barbaric as any
set of statutes ever enacted and they
were enacted by New England influ
ence. It is a port of poetic justice that
that part of the country should so se
verely feel their effects that their rep
resentatives in congress are loudly
calling for their suspension. Every
body in the east is demanding tht re
peal of the duty on coal, but your Un
cle Mark says, "No. You must stand
pat and let well enough alone."