THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
MARCH 21, 1907.
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Spring Ailment
Pimples, boils, eczema and oilier
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeling, fits of biliousness, indigestion
and headache, are some of them.
They are all radically and perma
nently cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
This great medicine thoroughly
cleanses the blood, and restores healthy
functional activity to the whole system.
It makes people well. ,
"I have been using Hood's Sarsapa
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and have never found anything better."
John Flemings, Campbell Hall, N. Y.
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Insist on having Hood's. Get it today.
In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doses $1.
the Standard Oil triba back to the
reservation of legitimate business. No
less than five prosecutions aimed at
the life of the company or at the
special privileges ty which it thrives
,are now preparing or under way. The
first trial is on Jr. Chicago, where the
company Js facing several thousand
counts for law violation, in most In
stances for taking railroad rebates.
The cases have pone far enough to
Indicate, In the opinion of good judges,
that a verdict favorable to the gov
ernment will be reached with result
ing fines not less than a million dol
lars. Of course such a fine, or any
other fine for that matter so long: as
the company controls the price of
the crude oil It buys and the refined
oil It sells, will not injure the com
pany In a direct financial way; but
the blow of a conviction and large fine
would injure its political and 'com
mercial prestige beyond quick repair.
Possibly more serious to the company
is the suit pending at St. Louis to
compel the dissolution of the concern
In this case the first quibble raised
by the defendant company, that the
St. Louis court had no right to en
force the attendance of outside wit
nesses, has been decided in favor of
the state. Indictments are also pend
ing at Jamestown, New Tork; Mem
phis, . Tennessee, and Alexandria,
Louisiana. The general situation' is
the most threatening that Mr. Rocke
feller and his hierarchy have faced
since his South Improvement company
was forced into a metamorphosis a
generation ago. "
there has been well founded criticism
of the conduct .iz the treasury on tnl
score. This has applied to treasureri
for many years back. The banks whose
assistance had material iy aided In past
political campaign' have not seldom
seemed to have marked success in get
ting government deposits. When timet
of stringency cause Wall street to
raise lte hands to Washington for aid
it makes a great difference to the
banks which bank gets the pleasure
and the profit of handling the treasury
funds thrown into Wall street for the
relief of the drought. In a word the
relations between the national treasury
and the banks tend to parallel those
sometimes known to have existed be
tween county and state treasuries and
the banks in Nebraska and other
states. A letter from one of the most
Influential New York banks to a secre
tary of the treasury was lately pub
lished, with its request for government
deposits and a hint that a look at the
list of last year's campaign contribu
tions would show good reason why this
bank deserved patronage. Secretary
Cortelyou has started with the inten
tion to resist all pressure that tends to
the granting of special treasury favors.
No secretary of the treasury waa ever
In better position to succeed In this.
If he does succeed it will be interesting
to note whether when he quits the
cabinet he steps into some lucrative
position in a New Tork fiduciary Insti
tution.. '
AN ARRESTED EXPERIMENT.
Aside from the disaster to those im
mediately concerned in the burning
out of Upton Sinclair's colony at Heli
con ball, there is a public loss in the
breaking up of an interesting experi
ment of possible great general value.
Under the leadership of the author
of The Jungle a number of families
and . individuals numbering at the
latest report about sixty persons, last
fall rtnted Helicon hall, a former boys'
school on the New Jersey palisades
within ecsy distance of New York, for
an experiment in co-operative house
keeping. To finance the enterprise a
stock company was formed among the
members. Each inhabitant of the col
ony paid equally for the accommoda
tions of the "home," $5 a week board
and S3 a week for a room. A nursery
for the children, to relieve busy liter
ary or business mothers, a common
dining room, and a great central liv
ing , room for a social center were
among the facilities of the organiza
tion. An important feature was the at
tempted elimination of the servant
problem by adopting the principle that
nobody should' be considered fit to
cook their food, care for their babies
and manage their physical environ
ment, the housekeeping, whose char
acter and attainments were not such
as to make a congenial fellow member
of the colony.
In a word the attempt aimed to find
the advantages of home and family
life ,mlnu the domestic difficulties
which press so heavily upon familirs
In cities, particularly where the women
are not strong or do not desire to de
vote themselves exclusively to house
work. The Helicon hall experiment had
up to Its untimely end proved neither
a fining success nor a dismal failure.
The reports of newspaper correspond
ents sent out to Investigate nnd make
lifiht of the effort have disclosed no
vital weakness In the operation of the
plan, and Us continuation to the point
of complete demonstration was greatly
to b deHlred.
roiiTi:i.Yoi'!i coon start.
FecreUry of the Treasury Corteiywl
to h.iv Justified the fear of cer
tain financial lntfrta that he U not
the rlKht man fr hi place. It la re
pot tt-d that he has Initiated a policy ot
treating with absolute Impartiality nil
peoj-le nnd Intmrtji with which th
treoiury ha any dealing. In the pu.it
CIVIC REPUTATION.
Is a good municipal reputation of any
advantage to a city? In the past it has
been difficult to test this point, for the
reason that other factors have com
pelled or forbidden the growth of cities.
No moral force can sustain a factory
in one city if railroad rates are so ad
Justed that the factories of other cities
can sel more cheaply up to its very
doors. Approximate Justice in freight
rates, a dream that may come true in
the near future, will tend to put cities
more upon their merits. Then we shall
see whether people would rather build
homes and establish business interests
in incompetently and corruptly gov
erned cities than In cities that are not
made a regions clearing house of crime,
immorality, and graft. The test will be
the more easy for the reason that cities
are more than ever Inclined' to study
one another and profit by each others
mistakes. The spread of the Galveston
commission government idea illustrates
this. The effort to turn other cities
against-municipal ownership by mis
representing Lincoln Is another. When
it comes to be understood that a city
in its general features Is a composite
of the people, the inhabitant of a city
will want the city to appear as clean
and honest as he likes people to think
he Is. Should it prove In addition that
a good civic reputation makes money
for a city, as a good business reputa
tion makes money for a business man,
the property interests of a city would
all at once be united in favor of right
eous government and the civic millen
nium would come with a rush.
A SAGE IHVE5TJGATION.
Mrs. Russell Sage has changed her
mind or else she was misquoted when
It was reported that she Intended to
aevoie ner Denevoience entirely to In
dividual gifts to oeoDlA of
state and city. This is fortunate. The
auucuuy of giving away millions to
Individuals without dolne individuals!
and society alike more harm than
gooa is bo evident as- to make such an
attempt terribly hazardous. More
promising is her proposal to endow
with ten million dollars a "foundation
to investigate and study the causes of
adverse social conditions, including
ignorance, poverty and vice; to sug
gest how these conditions can he rem
edied or ameliorated and in rmt in
operation any appropriate means to
that end." Such a fund, applied to
absolutely Indenendrmr
- ww,y
report on these things by unbiased.
capaoie sociologists, economists, and
humanitarians could be productive of
enormous benefit. But is the endow
ment to be managed on such a basis
uiai every scent may be followed
without Interference to its very
source? Would the searchers be per-
imuea to go even tne length, should
the chase happen to lead In that sit-
rection, of reporting that no small
proportion or tne ignorance and pov
erty iouno was iracefl to an arrange
ment of things that rjermittfd tho o,
cumulation of the. Sa
the answer to such a question depends
whether this ten millions is to be a
Deneractlon or a waste.
JUSTICE TO THE MULE.
May Irenlo Salgado's mule leave
hoof prints on the sands of time! Of
all quadrupeds the mule has received
the most scanty Justice, his merits
considered, at the hands of man. Dar
win tells us what unprejudiced Judges
always knew, that the mule surpasses
the horse in intelligence, memory, af
fection and endurance. In the sunny
south the only other bearer of burdens
that can stay by him in the broiling
cotton rows is the. negro. North or
south where horses fail. for lack "of
steadiness, patience, strength and. con
secration to duty, we call in the mule.
Do we sing paeons to this benefactor'
Far from it. When all other words fail
to convey the depth of our opinion of
a man we describe' him by the name of
the mule's im mediate paternal ances
tor. No politician but would feel half
flattered to be depicted with the ears
of a horse, but picture him with the
ears of a mule and notice the libel
suits. To eay inula driver Is to say
slave; to be a horseman is, or in ante
automobile times was, the height of
social ambition. Not that we let senti
ment Interfere with profit. Any man in
hi tense pays more for p muie than
for a horse. The average mule was
worth sixty dollars when the census
waa taken whUo the average horse was
worth lesa than fifty. A team of year
ling mules sold the other day In a Ne
braska county for $300. Every school
boy knows that a mule Is well worth
going to war over. The seriousness and
necessity of the present struggle be
tween Honduras and Nicaragua will
not bo questioned now that we know
how worthy a bone of contention ex
ists in irenlo Salgado's male. But the
Joy of It is In the Justice It Involve to
the mule. At lavt his worth ta e-
elalmed In the tattle of musketry and
the hummin? of cablegrams. In a mo
ment o excitement a monarch Is aald
ence to have offered his kingdom for
a norm;, but what nation ever went
to war for one?
When wumrn do nociety work, what
trifling thraf they wrk all
THIMBLERIGGING AGAIS?
Not so long ago there was another
great flutter in the New York stock
mar set. That time the movement was
upward, due ta a sudden doubling of
iiamman dividends. When it wns
all over people discovered that the
railroad manipulators had bought
ahead of the rise which thev wv
later to cause, and that Mr. Harri-
mans share was far un In the mil.
lions, somewhere between ten and
twenty.
Thl3 time the motion l
Stocks go tumbling after
of sensational palaver from railroad
manipulators about the danger to the
rawroaas rrom sae legislation, leg
islation that thus far shows no ten
dency to hamper the roads unduly.
With a "watch us" air they have at
tempted to float railroad securities at
a time when no securities float favor
ably. Of course these loans did not
take wejl, giving occasion for further
calamity talk. Forthwith down go
stocks! . .
It Is not asserted yet that Harriman
and his crowd have been selling stocks
for future delivery, and are now ma
nipulating prices downward as a few
weeks ago they were manipulating
them upward to their great personal
profit, but they cannot be surprised
that the public reserves a suspicion to
that effect If they have done other
wise the leopard has changed his
spots.
The effect upon railroad legislation
of the gyrations in the New York
stock market should and will he nil
Wails in Wall street have about lost
their power to wring tears from the
west. -
PROTECTING THE MARKET.
Both In the cotton and the corn
belts of the United States there are
organized efforts to raise the price of
crops by artificial means. The cotton
growers are trying to keep down the
acreage, and to hold back the croD bv
assisting the small planter to store his
bales. The grain- farmers are taue-ht
that they have only to agree upon a
minimum pmce at which they will sell
any crop, hold the crop firmly till ".hat
price is reached, and a hungry world
will have to come to their terms.
Fate, If net this design, has helped the
eotton planters. but the northern
farmers have yet nothing substantial
to show for their pains.
Largely because of these schemes.
though partly because It may have an
effect upon our daily breakfast, the
Brazilian effort by similar means to
hold up the price of coffee has at
tracted widespread notice. The Bra
zilian plan is to build a dam of dol
lars between the coffee fields and In-
coffee cups. The coffee states Iiave
raised a fund with which to buy cofTeo
whenever the prices falls below the
decreed level. They hope to keep the
price up by maintaining this artificial
demand .
The scheme is now in operation, with
results in douit. The stats of Sao
Paulo has already bought J.000,000
bags In the effort to protect the mar
ket. This is all It watt expected to
have to take, but the crop Is alk-ged to
be 10 rr cent alo?e the expected
yield. Some importer ay the govern
ment will be overwhelmed in its ef
forts to cover thla extra yield; others
believe It will succeed In holding the
price If It wucceedii In borrowing the
extra money needed.
In any cae ultimate tuccvus ntmn
to depend on keeping down production
ext year aa4 the ensuing years. If
Weak Heart Nerves
CanM Weak Hearts
A PHYSICIAN EXPLAINS
The heart Itself hu bo power no self -control.
It is made to beat by tender nerve so tiny
that it is scarcely visible to the naked eye. Yet
ten thousand times a day t&is delicate nerve
must assist the heart to expand and contract. -
This nerve is only one of the branches cf the
treat sympathetic, or Iu3ieb, nerve system.
Each branch of this system is bo. closely allied
with the others Uiat weakness or irregularity at
any point is apt to spread. Heart trouble fre
quently arises from Stomach trouble through
sympathy, and Kklney trouble may also follow.
For each of these organs is operated by a branch
cf these same sympathetic nerves the Issxua
In Heart, Kidney or Stomach troubles, it is of
but little use ta attempt to doctor the organ it- -
self the most permanent relief lies In restoring
nerve tn hA t.hn rcta.1 miiwuf Kiirh tronnlPS- '
The remedy known by physicians ana anigtrists
everywhere as Dr. Snoop's Restorative (Tablets
or LieiuidHis the result of years cf endeavor
along this very line. It does not dose the orjraa
to deaden the pain but it aims to t'o at once t
the nerve the inside nerve the power nerve
and builds it up, and strengthens it. and makes
it well.
Every heart sufferer may have Dr. Shoop'a
book on the Ileart. It will be sent free, and
with it you will receive the "Health Token," as .
Intended passport to good health.
For the free book Book 1 cn Dyspepsia,
and the Health Book 2 on the Heart.
Token " you must ad- Book 3on the Kidneys,
dress Dr. Shoop. Box Hook 4-1 or Women.
2t40.RacincWis. Stats Book 5 for Men.
which book you want. Book6onRheumatism
Dr. Shoop's Restorative Tablets pi ve full
three weeks' treatment. Each form liquid or
tablet has equal merit. Druggists everywhere,
this is true valorization will prove to
he nothing more than an equalizer of
prices as between different years, with
the general level of prices to be gov
erned by the supply. Which is the
case without artificial interference.
"SWIPING."
A horrified writer in the Independ
ent has proof that a popular and Intel
lectually brilliant young college wo
man in ,the east displays with pride a
long string of spoons that have been
"swiped" for her by young men of
her acquaintance. Evidence has also
been secured that the habit of "swip
ing" miscellaneous property is wide
spread among college students of both
sexes. A curious moral slant exists in
the minds of people who lead in form-"
ing student opinion in the strictly "so
cial set" in many colleges and univer
sities. They do not recognize the ab
straction of silver from a table as
anything more than a prank. It is
held to be evidence that the boy or
girl doing it is a "good fellow." The
more audacious the "swipe" the more
credit is connected with the escapade.
Perhaps when a student is called be
fore the police court and his broken
hearted father pays a heavy fine for
the theft of an overcoat, even the
most thoughtless of the "swipers" may
begin to appreciate what is the in
evitable consequence of this form of
thoughlessness.
In the east, hostesses who have
highly prized silver on their tables in
vite students with growing reluctance
on account of this abominable prac
tice. Everywhere a feeling is grow
ing that a student who steals muse
be called before the bar of justico,
whether the object of his attentions
ne a souvenir spoon or an overcoat
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