JANUARY 8. 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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Grass Seeds.
ALFALFA. Montana grown. It will not winter kill.
Fancy. f8.50 per bu.
Choice .............................. 8.00 " "
Prime .......... 7.75 "
RED CLOVER.
Choice $7.10 per bu.
. Prime 6.80 " "
TIMOTHY. Nebraska grown.
Choice $2.25 per bu.
Prime 2.00 " "
BLUE GRASS. Kentucky grown.
Fancy Cleaned tl.GO per bu.
Extra Cleaned (chaff) , CO "
RED TOP. Good for wet land.
Choice .... t .60 por bu.
, i 2 bu. grain bags extra at 15c each.
We will send samples upon request. These prices are made for
prompt acceptance.
Seed Corn.
We have it not injured by frost fine, sure and safe. ,
Send for catalogue free, of course.
Griswold Seed Co.
P. O. BOX K. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
, . Mention The Independent.
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HARDY'S COLUMN
. It is reported by our consul in Mex
ico that within 25 years past over a
lialf billion of gold has been invested
' in Mexico by American citizens, in ag
riculture; cattle herding, mining and
; railroads. It shows that all Ameri
cans are not afraid of silver. The
Mexican dollar has a little more sil
ver than the American. There is no
r.gold in circulation there for as soon
as a piece is found it is shipped to
the United States and sold for silver
or any other thing they want. The
difference in the money gives them a
premium on everything they sell here
and use a tariff for everything we
cell there.
Church entertainments and diver
sion of the young people is one of the
new and winning fingers ot Christian
ity. The organization of the young
people into leagues and clubs, leaving
the old people out, is a winning and
attractive measure. The idea that a
church member must never laugh or
smile, never be entertaining or so
cial, is all wrong. Such doctrine will
drive most of the young people away
from the church. Young people wlil
have recreation and, amusement and
the church should afford them that
of an innocent and harmless charac ter.
Go to the St. Paul's Methodist
church any evening in the week and
their entertainments.
Germany has been sticking up her
nose at the United States for several
years. She seems to want us to do
something mean, so she may have a
good excuse for fighting us. She ha?
not forgotten what our commanding
officer told them at Manila, that if
they got between our guns and the
Spaniards our bullets would go
; through them.
If they would allow farmers to es
tablish banks by putting vp their un
incumbered farms for security of bills,
as the old safety fund bank law of New
York did, it would bo reasonable. The
farmers used their farms and loaned
out their bills.
The opinion has quite generally pre
vailed that all the plow land fit for
cultivation in the United States has
been taken and is iiow being farm?d.
'This is a great mistake. There ar
millions of acres thai can be made in-,
to splendid farm hemes. Much of it
will require irrigation. Some of tin
-eastern farmers object to the gov
ernment spending money to irrigate
.desert land. They say it will .reduce.
the value of their lands by increasing
Uhe supply "of agricultural products.
- The past week hap been an educa
tional week for Lincoln. A state teach
ers meeting has been held and over
1,800 registered from different parts
of the state. It looks as though book
qualification and college graduation
was becoming the only basis of a first
grade certificate. Of the hundreds of
teachers' certificates we have signed
we never signed a fust grade until we
knew the applicant had succeeded in
managing and governing a school. Col
lege graduates often fail and are no
more fit for teachers than one-legged
men are for running races.
President Schurman of Cornell uni
versity gaye at address on the sub
ject. ' The Filipinos." The main part
of his address was full-blood Bryan
isra. and after he was through with
his lecture, he asked those who were
in : favor of giving to the Filipinos,
vhen settled, the same kind of a gov
ernment we gave the Cubans, to stand
up. It seemed all the teachers ros3.
He then asked those who opposed such
a government, to stand up. There
were only eight, republican politicians,
who rose If our government is the
best in the world, why not favor the
lt DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only, one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
Inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound or 'mperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed foreveri nine cases out
of ten are caused by Catarrh, which
Is nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We rrill give One Hundred Dollars
lor any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best,
establishment of tuch governments
and not go back to kings and emperors.
It is reported that the Filipinos have
lost heavily in the fall of silver lately
Why not take one of our stamp ma
chines over there and run their silver
through and hand it back. Then their
money would be like-ours. Up and
down have not effected our money,
neither does it effect the m'oney .in
Europe.
The eastern high tariff fellows are
pleading for free trade in beef and
coal. Everything they buy they want,
free, but everything they sell must
have high protection. That is republicanism.
There are two reasons why the east
ern millionaires favor the nomination
of Cleveland the fourth time. They
think, with Bryan's help, they can
beat him with leas monev than an
other democrat. And then if he is
elected they know they will get ev
erything they wan: just as they did
before.
The rubber tree was first tapped in
India two or three hundred years
ago. hence "the elastic product was
called India rubber. South and Cen
tral America now furnish the most of
our rubber. II. W. HARDY.
Tha Hen or the Egg
Editor Independent: The Massa
chusetts commissioners' report as
quoted by The Independent last week
that a man is not taxed for the! ex
pense of protection or of recompense
in any respoct to the state for any ser
vice rendered him is an assertion cal
culated to stagger sanity and we would
all naturally want to know then why
is he taxed at all and the commis
sioners' reply only leaves us in a dazed
mental condition to enquire who are
the lunatics, the commissioners or our
selves. They say it is because his orig
inal relations to society require itjV" j
Isn't that a stunner? "Who is : the
original, the human being or society'
Which of the two ; iS creator which
created? The commissioners seem to
say that society is the original creator.
There can be no progress made po
litically in any direction until this
question is settled for good. "Wo't
The Independent start the discussion
of this matter as it 'is fundamental in
its bearings? We are all tied up un
til its final settlement for if the com
missioners are right, the human be
ing will not be allowed by society to
have 'anything to say at all at leas''
not those who accept such a verdict:
and right3 they certainly cannot have
if the commissioners have their say.
H. ELLINGSTON.
Minneapolis, Minn.
(The Independent is always glad to
have its readers discuss any question
that tends for good to the human race
Of course the human being preceded
society away back, no one knows ex
actly when. Doubtless there was a
time, if we are to believe the Biblical
story of creation, when the hen pre
ceded the egg; but nowadays the egg
comes first. Society was here be
fore any human being now living ap
peared on the scene. Men are social
animals. They are born in a socia
state. It is difficult to conceive what it
would be like to have haman beings
and no society whatever. Ed. Ind.)
The attention of readers is called
to the exceptional bargains offered by
Fred Schmidt & Bro. in a page ad
vertisement iii this issue. II is their
regular January clearing sale. If you
need anything in any of the lines ad
vertised you should not fail to take
advantage of this opportunity. Send at
order by mail. The Independent will
guarantee fair treatment and your
money's worth or your money back.
Fred Schmidt & Bro, have been in
"business for 30 years and have one
of the largest and best selected stocks
in this city. When ordering or writ
ing mention The Independent
"It seems opportune to state that
after a further investigation of the
subject. I am more than ever convinced
that this (the Post check plan) or
some other method of making remit
tances, more simple and convenient
than any now in existence, is a great
need of the people." From report of
Third Assistance Postmaster General
Madden for 1902. .
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An Elastic Currrency
Editor Independent: ,JJ. W. Hardy
asks what elastic currency means.
Gen. James B. Weaver defined it
once in a speech. He said that when
he was going to school a playmate
showed him a piece of rubber and Jim
was very anxious to know what it
was. "Why, it's elastic," said his play
mate. "Let me show you how It
works. Take this end between your
teeth and hold tight." Jim did and
soon he saw that short piece lengthen
to a yard, when suddenly it contracted
with such force that Jim was par
alyzed, while his playmate shouted,
"It's the hot stuff, isn't it, Jim?"
W. C. STARKEY.
. Violet, Neb.
"This Post check plan seems to be
practicable, to accomplish several de
sirable results simultaneously and to
afford accommodation to the entire
public at a minimum of labor and ex
pense." From article by Hon. H. A.
Castle, auditor for the postoffice de
partment, in North American Review.
irrigated Lands
Attention is called to the advertise
ment in this issue of cheap irrigated
1 nds for sale in the growing state of
Idaho. Idaho is fast coming to the
front as an agricultural state. Idaho
apple3 and bruits took first premium
at the pan-American exposition, and
her rapid increase in small grain?
show her to be one of the first states
in agricultural products. The lands
offered are situated along a trunk line
of railway, and all lie within a radium
of six miles of a depot and the thriv
ing town of Market Lake. These Iandi
are watered from the never failing
supply of Snake River. All lands an
situated in the famous Snake River
Valley and are under the Butte &
Market Lake Canal, a canal proposi
tion that is owned entirely by the
land owners, no yearly water rent tc
pay, only a small maintenance charg?
for keeping the canal in repairs, which
for th3 past five years has not exceed
ed fifteen cent3 per acre per year.
Title to the lands carry with it stock
in the canal sufficient to irrigate your
lands.
The land is well adapted, both In
soil and climate, to the raising of
fruits, vegetables, grain and alfalfa
hay, and the yield is beyond that of
tain belt countries.
Those interested in irrigated land,
those wishing to buy cheap lands, and
those desiring to change their loca
'Jon, would do well to write the ad
vertiser, M. Patric, Market Lake.
Idaho.
Market Lake has fine schools, good
people ,'and good trading stores,, 3-
that one going into that country would
not be going into a new country as
far as the usual advantages are concerned.
If you need groceries examine tha
special proposition made by th
Branch & Miller Co. in their ad. in '
this issue. It's a money -saver. Tho
good3 advertised ire of best quality
and full weight. The firm is entirely,
responsible and guarantee satisfac
tion or return your money. Send
them an order and mention The Inde
pendent 'when you write.
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For several 'month's the Farmers'
Grocery Co. have been offering read-
ers of The Independent an opportunity;
to save money in the purchase of gro
ceries. They have advertised special-
ly selected combinations at'greatly re
duced prices. Hundreds of our readers
have taken advantage of' these offers
and ordered groceries. There is not a
single case of dissatisfaction. , Tha
goods are always shipped promptlr,
full weight, the best quality and ex
actly as represented. Send them a trial
order and mention The Independent
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