t::;i tb Llcrtgage Has Paid A
Trua Story
Early one bright morning in May,
1899, an agent of the Old Line Bankers
Life Insurance company drove Into
the Tarmyard of John pttersbtrg, liv
ing near the town of Adams, in Gage
county, Nebraska. Mr. Ottersberg
was at work repairing his farm wagon.
Near him stood hi3 wife, a bright ap
pearing young German woman, and
about her were three small children,
the oldest not over sever, years,
The agent presented his business
and received the interested attention
of husband and wife, while the baby,
in the mother s arms, patted her
cheeks with its little hands, and
looked askance at the strange man.
The appealing eyes of the wife as they
Hannah: "I think I will more the
bid bousa tomorrow"' So feeent to
Adams and borrowed jackscrews.
Early the next morning he placed
them in position. As he went frum,
one to the other, turning the screw- a
little each time, he whistled cheerily
at his work. He was thinking. of the
money ,he saved by doing this work
himself. Skilled labor 13 so expensive.
The building gradually raised. Sud
denly there was'-a "crash; the rotten
sill gave vay. The bouse fell, and
another good man was dead.
On November 21, just six months
after. the policy was. taken, Mrs. Ot
tersberg received from the Old Line
Bankers Life Insurance company at
Lincoln, Nebraska, a check for $3,000.
It cost just $04.80, the price of one
premium. The mortgage on the farm
tion on his visit just six months be
fore, "Come again." The mother re
membered it, too, and the tears ran
down her cheeks.
Was it a good investment? Have
you a mortgage on your farm?
The Old Line Dankers Life Insur
ance company has a lower death rate,
a .lower expense rate, a larger per
centage of assets to liabilities, and
earns a larger percentage of interest
on invested assets than any eastern
company.
Address the company at Lincoln,
Nebraska, or see our agent
iwpri nn nne or other of the children is cancelled. Mr. Crum, as he handed
added force to the agent's argument, her the check, remembered the lnvlta
It was just such a situation as an
agent likes. It is Indeed a poor man
who will not listen attentively to a
proposition wh'ch will, at very little
cost to himself, leaye his wife and
children well provided for ; at his
death. " .. ''
When Mr. Crnm had thoroughly ex
plained the plan .and demonstrated its
benefits, came the inevitable quest'on
"Will you take It?" It, was now John
Ottersberg's turn to talk. Admitting
it was good that he needed it that
his ' wif3 and children needed It, he
Raid: "It is impossible. Last summer
I boiipht this p5?hty. I paid down all
I lmd-$r,00. I still owe $2,300. To
pay the interest and reduce tv.e prin
cipal a little -each year wiH.tax ti3
to the uUermct. Hannah and I will
need to work.-arlv and late to (V It,
and unleHs'God smiles we wit: fail."
"It Is true," said Mr. Crum, "that It
"will require economy, good manage
ment, and hard work to pay your debt,
but si'pnosrt you die this year or next,
"ito you think your wife, who must hire
man to take your place, paying him
three' or four hundred dollars a year,
will be able to pay it easier Is it not
true that if you die, she, being with
out relatives or Interested friends In
this country, will lose the farm? She
und the children will c-i.'talnlv suffer.
Is it not also true that when she ad
vertises the cale of personal property
and fctock; to pay funeral expense,
the neighbors will come, not to pay
her a fair 'price, but to tld it in at a
bargain? Bill, as he nears the place
of sale, will meet Joe and sav, 'Now,
Joe, I don't want you to bid cn that
yeatling bull. I want .he bull.' 'All
right,' says Joe, If you don't bid on
the colt, you can have the bull.' Well,
why not. Why should the neighbors
be more kind or considerate to your
wife and children than you, their nat
ural protector?
'You are twenty-eight years Of age.
For less fhan three per cent more in
terest than you are now paving, you
can insure the payment of the roorW
gage if you die, and leave the wife and
children seven hundred dollar ac'.Ji
tional in cash. In other words, three
thousand of Insurance will cost you
$6180 pe. annum for Iwent yeara.
It means a home for your wlfa, and
au education for your chlldreu."-
John Ottersberg took the policy and
mid $61.80. Mjy 23. 1499. Tho wife
timlled. .Putting her hand on her h'.s
band' shoulder, she said: "We will
work a little harder. Joan. Notnlng
of great value tan, ever be obtained
without treit effort" The children,
though not understanding why, knew
4lulr mother waa glad, and bashfully
responded to tho efforts of the asent
to make thMr acquaintance. A he
left thft little one in It mother' aunt
attempted to repeat hrr Invitation,
Com fiMin."
Jhn Ottpmberj worked hard all
Hummer, ill ropn were lair ! ne.
and hi family were1 lomtortatdr,
though llejr bad little .u h, alter pay
Ittf the tntnt and laying by the
notify fur nt jrraf'i premium on the
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There is some indication of a war
between State Treasurer Mortensen
and hia fellows on the board of edu
cational lands and funds. . They try
to drain the trust funds by heavy
purchases of bonds of other states,
thus leaving nothing cn hand with
which to keep the state a competitor
in the purchase of state warrants. So
far the treasurer has been equal to
the emergency, but was obliged to,
make temporary use of the current
funds to do so. The moment he can
not take at par every warrant offered
for sale, that moment the brokers will
put a discount of the state a paper.
Ivlortensen has too much state prldo
to permit this if he can avoid it
but the other members have friends
among the warrant brokers, -who want
a discount.
Last Friday State Treasurer Mor
tensen, who is a member of the state
board of education, introduced in that
body a resolution demanding the res
ignation of tho entire faculty and all
the employes of the Peru normal. He
insisted that the members of the fac
ulty had forgotten their obligations to
the schools of the state by turning
their salary warrants oyer to private
bankers, instead of offering them to
the state treasury for permanent
school fund investments. ' Mr. Mor
tensen wa3 greatly wrought, up over
the matter since the last batch of
monthly salary warrants had been
turned over to an Auburn bank de-
spile tho frequent request of the
treasurer that they be sent o him.
He holds to the theory tnat employes
of the state owe it the duty of seeing
..hat their salary warrants arc turned
over to the permanent school fund.
which is Generally seeking invest
ments.
The Japs attempted to land troops
,.t lalyn Wednesday (10th), but wero
repulsed by Ue Russian.
eian fleet down the Amur river in
1800. - It was an American commodore
who forced open the' port of Japan in
the revolution of 1868. Japan was
struggling, for existence, then, having
neither navy nor army, nor any pres
tige in the economic ' or Industrial
world. Japan had to yield to Russia
by withdrawing from Fort Arthur.
Prof. PHng then gave a history of
he relations sustained by the other
uropean countries and how England
refused to hare anything to do with
Japan, but later promised that if Rus
sia and that country should have war,
Germany and France shouid rot as
sist. Then came the present war over
the possession of a port of China. The
ambassador was withdrawn from St.
Petersburg and at the .present time
Japan has destroyed a good part of the
tussian fleet.
China made public a "restrictive
iiroclamatlon of neutrality" in the
husstHjhpane.se war Kittirday.
Prof. P. M. Fling discussed tho
itufc-so-Japunese war at convocation.
University of Nebraski, Wednesday
morning. He Mleved that the inter
est manifest In the present war 1 duo
to the BiirprUln buccckscj of the
Japanese fleet and the remarkable tie
moialiilns of the Itusiiiaa fleet
"Our sympathy." Raid Prof. Fllns,
"w due to the fad that Japan Is the
mailer i'f the two, and for th frank
way In which h tut conducted her
diplomat l rent ion. Japan Hands
fur the Intvarity of China In the wuh
Irrtwal cf UumU from Mantlmrla,
1 h'K two oui trlwt an the prota&tjn
Ut of th world behind."
It (tiled attention to the fa t t'.;at
In ordr to ftiirf InU lit Integrity i f
Jamtn. on nuit take a very broa.'
view of It. lia tola or im fipanuon
Rogers & Perkins Co., successors to
Webster & Rogers, ' and Perkins &
Sheldon Co., 1129 O street.
J. W. Edwards, Weston, Neb.: "I
wish to become a member of the Old
(iuard. I ; helped to nominate honest
John Powers the first time."
FARMER., ATTENTION.
Do you wish to sell your farm? If
so, send full description, lowest price
ar.d best terms, or, if you wisn to
buy a farm, ranch or Lincoln home;
write to or call onJWilliams & Bratr,
1105 O st., Lincoln, Neb. "
"The question is," rsma.ked Prof,
ling, "Will Russia absorb part of
Asia or will Japan? Shall we make
use of Russia by checking Japan, or
shall we make use of Japan by theck-
ng Russia? The question, of what
the outcome will be Is a world ques-
on and one of the most complex ever
known."
Senator M. A. Hanna died of typhoid
fever at Washington Monday evening
and Wednesday funeral services were
held in the senate chamber.
The death of Senator Hanna re
moves for the time being any sem
blance of opposition to UieTioraination
of Roosevelt. Possibly it insures the
president's success in convention.
But " , .
We may confidently look for the
Wall street forces to redouble their
efforts to control the democratic con
vention. Not tnal Roosevelt has hart
the trusts by any of his grandstaud
plays; but he is a little too much on
th bull-in-the-china-shop order. Be
sides, his loud talk about "shackling
cunning" might inspire a few million
apathetic people to wake "up end try
it a whirl. And Wall street would
avoid such danger. L.
The .Berlin Morgen Post a3sert3
that bitter discontent is prevalent in
Russia because the czar has to osten
tatiously shown his displeasure at Lht
outbreak of war with Japan. His ma
jesty baa refused to go to Moscow
to Issue his customary proclamation
and has also refused to attend stiviec
at Kasan cathedral. He Is now accused
of lacksof patriotism.
An official dispatch from Toklo to
Paris announces that one of the main
branches of the Japauee army, con-
slhtlng of three divisions and includ
ing a division of guards, is now golns
on board transports. 1; u ocuevra
the disposition of this force Is a point
near tho mouth of the alu river or a
pot on the LUoTung penlniula
nankins Tort Arthur.
Congressman Shafrotlt of Colorado
sprang a rrcat surprise on hi rol
league Mondav by asking that he be
undated and his place ghen to his
opponent. Mr. Ilonrnse, who had
contested It, Klcctlon fraud In V n
ver had rendered It certain that sev
era! predncta would thrown out
nnd thre would cancel Mr. Khafroth'i
uiurallty. The fraud wire committed
by others and not with Mr. Khafroth'
consent or knowie,!e, or 10 i-iei 1 him
Hut he hal to suffer for lht? atiit of
ut Intra.
lUorcanli.tlMi kho iale: 13 to f.f
wet c nt dnuount on all slaH s eicept
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