tiE VALENTINE DEMOCRA
X. J RICK ,
TALEKTINE ,
Some widows seem to think that
husband Is better late than never.
On a western race track there is J
horse named Crime. Is it not almost i
crime to run him ?
Europe is again discussing disarma
xnent. But the Krupp gun works ar
running right along.
A Missouri aeronaut has just made i
decidedly novel ascension. He wai
sent up for thirty days for gambling.
Aguinaldo made the mistake of hii
life when he sat for his picture witl
Admiral Dewey as the snapshot art
1st
A veteran of the Civil War aged 7 !
has married a girl of 18. Add on <
tnore name to the list of widows' pen
slons , Mr. Ware.
The Governor of Yucatan report *
that his country has neither a war noi
R revolution on hand. This woeful lad
of enterprise is truly deplorable.
The man who will step into PresI
t dent Roosevelt's shoes after the next
election will have every reason to be
proud of them. He pays $18 a pair.
Ping pong is to be dethroned. A new
game is coming into favor. It is played
with a pair of bellows and an air ball ,
and it is called Piff-Puff. Oh , pshaw !
A fisherman is said to have found a
nugget of gold in a fish caught in Lake
Michigan. This is a new way of put
ting the gold cure where It may do the
most good.
Francis A. Palmer , of New York ,
mother rich man , has started In to
build colleges. It will presently come
to pass that college building will be
Another of the overcrowded profes
sions.
Brigham Young's grandson has been
appointed General Superintendent of a
railroad that runs somewhere in Utah.
If the whole Young family travels on
"paper" the road won't pay a dividend
In a million years.
Jonh Bull promises to make the Boers
50 happy under his rule that they will
be ashamed of themselves for not hav
ing begged him to take hold at the be
ginning. It Is to be hoped that John
Isn't merely talking In order to hear
the applause.
Twenty-six miles a day would be but
a snail's pace for an ocean steamer ; but
the twenty-six miles of Pacific cable
how manufactured each day are reeling
off the distance between the United
States and the Philippine Islands which
this same cable will practically reduce
from eight thousand miles to fifteen
minutes.
One peculiar result of prosperity in
many of the manufacturing industries
is to make business dull In the facto
ries which produce low-cost goods only ,
whereas in times of general depression
these concerns are the ones which run
overtime. This rule applies to the
classes of things which people must
buy , not to those with which during
periods of stagnation they can dispense.
Young Alfred G. Vanderbilt is hav
ing a "camp" fitted up in the Adlron-
dacks for himself and a party of
friends. The "shanty" will cost about
B75.000. It will be finished in hard
\vood ; * each room will have a bath ,
tvith hot and cold water , attached ; a
gas plant has been Installed , and the
kitchen will be presided over by a
20ki-week chef. It must seem terri
bly rough for a young man who has
been brought up amid refined sur
roundings to have to go camping in a
aide place like that.
A report by one of the United States
: onsuls in England calls attention to a
resolution adopted In May by the Na
tional Federation of Fruiterers. The
resolution is directed against the unsat
isfactory way In which American ap
ples are shipped to England , and asks
that the Canadian plan be adopted , by
which the government sorts the apples
and stamps the grade upon the box or
barrel. The federation says that tills
or any other plan that will insure the
English purchaser that the quality of
: he apples he buys is what it pretends
io be will greatly extend the market
i'or American apples.
When Harvard University made
President Roosevelt a doctor of laws
she honored one of her own graduates
as well as the chief magistrate of the
nation. Thirteen other Presidents have
been college graduates , and two at
least of the remaining twelve entered
college without finishing the course.
The two Adamses and Roosevelt were
educated at Harvard ; Jefferson and
Tyler at William and Mary ; Madison
at Princeton ; William Henry Harrison
at Hampden-SIdney ; Polk at the Uni
versity of North Carolina ; Pierce at
Bowdoin ; Buchanan at Dickinson ;
Grant at West Point ; Hayes at Ken-
yon ; Garfield at Williams ; Arthur at
Union , and Benjamin Harrison at Mi
ami. McKInley entered Allegheny , but
left on account of ill health , and Mon
roe enlisted In the Revolutionary army
while a student at William and Mary.
The great Burlington Railroad Com
pany bites the pennies as hard as one
of its $50 a month clerks. A few weeks
ago one of the engines of the Chicago ,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Jampc
the track and demolished a city h ;
drant The city of Chicago rendered
bill for $05 , the cost of a new hydran
A few days following Commissioner <
Public Works Blockl received a repl ;
The Burlington Road held that tt
value of the scrap Iron should be d
ducted from the bill that scrap ire
was worth 2 cents a pound. Deput
Commissioner Brennen figured that
hydrant sold for scrap iron woul
bring about $1.97. So this amount wl
doubtless be deducted from the bil
You would scarcely expect a great co :
poration to be so particular about th
pennies. But watching the pennle
makes dividends possible. Big concern
pay high salaries to men who can sav
more than their salaries by keeping a
eye on the little leaks. J. J. Hill know
to the fraction of a cent the cost c
everything that goes into the Grea
Northern roadway or rolling stocl
Where other managers would fail t
make expenses , he makes monej
Great Industrial enterprises are cor
ducted with success by making thei
entire profits from the utilization o
what was formerly waste. "Take car
of the pennies. The dollars will tak
care of themselves. " Individuals a
well as corporations must learn thi
lesson. Most men fail because the ;
have never learned the old-fashionei
lesson of economny. There is a bij
difference between stinginess ant
economy. The manager of a busines
who can make the distinction , th
manager who can run the line be
tween thriftiness and niggardliness i
the manager who succeeds. It pay ;
the Burlington to have a man who wil
look out for the discount of $1.97. I
that corporation can afford to hire J
man to watch the corners , how mucl
more is it necessary for the man wh <
does business for himself ? A larg <
volume of business on a small margii
of profit with soniebady to look afte :
the leakage that is modern business
No metaphor so accurately describes
the fate of the measures which hav (
received more or less of the attentioi
of Congress without actually passing
as to say , when the long session closes
that they are side-tracked. It implies
some progress already made , and e
chance to move forward at the next ses
sion. To say of most of these bills thai
they have been killed would be to exag
gerate. The Congressional Record Inde >
shows , for example , as many as sixteen
legislative stations between the intro
duction of a certain private pension bill
and its approval by the President. Nc
wonder adjournment overtakes many a
more Important measure some distance
this side of the White House ! Legis
lation for the restriction of immigra
tion , by the reading and writing test ,
has been under consideration by sever
al Congresses , but has in each one been
side-tracked somewhere on the jour
ney. This year the House Committee
reported a bill to codify the existing
immigration laws , without changing
them in any essential particular. Some
what unexpectedly , the "educational
test" was offered as an amendment ,
and carried ; the Senate , however , un
willing to pass hurriedly on so import
ant a project , has allowed It to lie
aver in committee till December. A
shipping subsidy bill passed the Sen-
ite , but efforts to get it reported by
the House Committee have been una-
railing. Two military measures were
; ide-tracked still earlier in their course.
3ne for the improvement of the militia ,
) riginating in the House , was reported
'rom its committee ; a Senate measure
: o provide for a general staff came to
i standstill in committee. The bill for
: he creation of a new Department of
Uommerce went over. So did meas-
ires for the better protection of the
President , and for the revision of the
Bankruptcy bill , as well as two pro-
> osed amendments to the Constitution
vhich had passed the Senate ; the bill
o admit new States to the Union was
lide-tracked , but there is an arrange-
nent that the first train in December
ihall take it on , for at least another
un toward the terminal.
Wheels.
The earliest mention of wheels in the
Jible is in Exodus xiv. 25 , when the
: hariot-wheels of the Egyptians were
'taken off by the Lord , " although
ihariots are mentioned in Genesis xii.
3. But there were older nations than
he Egyptians. The Chaldeans used
harlots , and the Greeks are said to
lave had chariots at the siege of Troy ,
500 B. C. Probably in reality the
rheel is about as early a piece of ina-
hinery as any now existing. Of course
t has been developed , but the bicycle-
rheel of to-day is a direct descendant
f the section of a log of wood used
> y the agricultural peoples thousands
f years ago.
Their "Words Stack.
When Mark Twain was In Egypt he
ne day arranged with a friend to nyet
im at one of the pyramids. The lat-
jr engaged two old but experienced
.rabs to guide him to the place. He
fterward complained that , although
e had some knowledge of their native
inguage , he could not ascertain any-
ling that his guides had said to him.
"You should have hired younger
ion , " Mr. Clemens told him. "These
> othless old fellows talk only gum
rabic. " New York Times.
4,222,140 for Pens and Pencils.
The census bureau has issued a re-
ort on the manufacture of pens and
sncils in the United States for 1900.
: shows that a total of $3,671,741 was
ivested In this manufacture in the
fty-five establishments reporting for
le United States. The value of the
roducts is returned at $4,222,149 ;
ages , $1,192,405 ; materials used , mill
ipplies , freight and fuel , $1,747,852.
You all hear this frequently : " 111
ill you what you ought to do / '
Nebraska Politics.
Bxcerpfs From The Nebraska Independent , Lincoln , Nebraska , Made by
Direction of the Populist State Central Committee
TAXATION IN NEBRASKA
Two Periods In tha History of the State
Railroad AiicBsmeuts Arerage Ten
Per Cent Too Low for 13 Tear *
The Independent has shown in
number of articles that ever since 187
there has been a tendency to COE
stantly depress the assessed valua
tions of all property ; but that th
state board of equalization has de
pressed the assessed valuation of rail
road property much greater relative !
than the precinct assessors hav
crowded down the assessed valuation
on lands.
We showed in a former article tha
in 1874 the railroads were assessed 01
an average of $10,095.89 per milt
while lands , improved and unimprovec
were returned at an average valua
tion of $3.91 per acre. Similar fig
ures for the year 1901 were : Rail
roads , $4,630.43 per mile ; lands , $2.4
per acre.
The per cent of decline in assessei
valuations between 1874 and 1901 was
Railroads , per mile , 51 per cent ; lands
37 per cent. If the railroad assess
ment of 1901 had been made 37 pe
cent less than the 1874 valuation pe
mile , the total assessment for 190 :
would have been ( in round numbers'
ten million dollars greater than thi
republican board actually made it
And that would have produced abou
$400,000 more of state , county anc
school district taxes. It would havi
helped out the state general fund aloni
? 50,000.
But it has been suggested that ii
the year 1874 the railroads were toe
heavily taxed ; BO. for convenience ii
making our calculations , we shall taki
average valuations extending over t
period of several years. Although th (
tendency , as we have said , has beer
downward for the past 28 or 29 years
there is a point where we can divid (
Into two periods. The first is fron
1874 to 1889. both inclusive , 16 years ;
and the second , from 1880 to 1901
both Inclusive. 12 years. With excep
tion of the year 1879 , lands during the
first period were not assessed on the
average at less than $3.00 ranging
from $3.91 in 1874 to $2.86 In 1879 , and
averaging $3.28 each year for the 1C
years. During this period railroad
valuations were above $6,000 per mile ,
except the last two years , ranging from
$10,095.89 in 1874 to 355,828 in 1888 , and
averaging $6,960.48 each year for the
16 years.
During t1 f second period acre valua
tions ranjred from $3.08 in 1893 to $2.45
in 1900. areraeing $2.73 for the 12
years. Exc ° pt for 1893 the $3.00 mark
was not reached in this period. Rail
road valuations per mile went stead
ily downward from $5,788.42 In 1890 to
$4,587 ? ? in 1S96 , rallyinr under fusion
administration to $4,710.70 in 1898 ,
but averaging for tra 12-year period
$4,938.20 per mile.
With these facts before us we are
enabled to compare one period with
the other and by a calculation in sim
ple proportion ascertain whether
lands or ra'lrcnds derived the greater
benefit of trc constant decrease in as-
Bessed vaV'-itions :
$3.28 : f 0.9 60.48 : : $2.73 : ( $5,488.45) .
Lands in the first period were as
sessed at $3.28 per acre and railroads
at $5,960.48 per mile. In the second
period lands were assessed at $2.73 per
acre and railroads should have been
assessed at $5.488.45 per mile to be in
proportion. But they were not.
.Per mile.
They should have been . . $5,488.45
They were 4,938.20
Shirking taxation on $ 550.25
Thus they were under-assessed
J550.25 per mile per year for 12 years ,
1 total of $6,603 per mile for the per
iod. And as there were on the aver-
ige 5,515.79 miles of railroad in the
; tate. the roads in 12 years escaped
taxation on $36,420.761.37 of value-
iaore than three millions a year. If
ive assume that taxes averaged $3.50
: o the hundred dollars valuation , the
* oads actually shirked $1,275,000 in
state , county and school district taxes
luring the 12-year period. At 40 mills
> n the dollar the taxes shirked would
36 $1,450.000.
Of course the problem in proportion
; an be turned another way. Above
ve assumed that the land valuations
vere not too high , and found that rail-
oad valuations were 10 per cent too
ow each year for twelve long years ,
f we now assume that the $4,938.20
) er mile is about right for the rail-
oads. what ought to be the acre valua-
ion for the second period to make it
n proportion with lands In the first
> erod.
$6,960.48 : $3.28 : : $4,938.20 : ( $2.18) .
Accordingly , farm lands , improved
ind unimproved , should have averaged
i2.18 per acre for the 12-year period
rom 1890 to 1901. But they did not.
Per acre.
? hey were assessed $2.73
[ 'hey should have been 2.18
An ovsr-assessment of $0.55
Now , an over-assessment of 55 cents
. year for 12 years is $6.60 an acre
or the period. And , as there were on
he average 29,467.417 acres returned
ach year , this would mean that In the
2 years the owners of land paid taxes
in $194.374,952 of value over and
bove what they should have been as-
essed to be in proportion with the
ailroads. An average levy of $3.50
in the hundred dollars valuation
rould mean that the land owners paid
6,800,000 more state , county and
chool district taxes than they should
lave paid.
At an average of 40 mills on the dol-
HOW LONG WIIX IT FLOAT ?
The warnings that The Independent
as been giving concerning this credit
alloon that the trust promoters and
anks have sent kiting ten thousand
re-echoed in Eu-
eet high are being -
ope. In a recent article the French
conomist , Leroy-Beaulleu , says :
"It seems , nevertheless , that for
a year past the successful daring
of the American financiers has
boon turning a little into presump
tion. Their gigantic scaffold of
trusts would hardlyseem proof
now against every strain. They
lar they paid $7,770,000 too much taxc
In the twelve years if the railroac
were properly taxed during that pei
iod.
Of course , we do not claim that tl
land owners absolutely paid six or se\
en million dollars more taxes tha
they should have paid but only re :
atively so. In other words , if th
railroads paid enough , the land OWE
ers paid six or seven millions to
much. If the railroads paid thei
share , then the land owners paid si
or seven millions more than thei
share. But the railroads DID NOT
ENOUGH. THEY DID NOT
THEIR SHARE.
The 12 grand assessment rolls , 189
to 1901 , aggregate the sum of $2,119 ,
635,114.10 , an average being about a
follows :
29,467,417 acres at $2.73.$81,446,048.4
5,515.79 miles of railroad
at $4,938.20 27,238,074.1
All other property 67,952,136.9 :
Total $176,636,259.5
If , however , the railroad assess
ments had averaged $5,488.45 per mil
( which we found to be the proper
tionate amount to agree with land :
and railroads in the first period ) In
stead of at $4,938.20 per mile , as the :
actually averaged for the 12 years , th <
a/erage grand assessment roll woul (
have been :
Lands $81,446,048.4 :
Railroads 30,273,127.6 !
All other 67,952,136.9 !
Total $179,671,312.91
Now , an average levy of $4.00 to th <
hundred dollars valuation would mak (
a tax charge of $7,065,450.38 each yeai
on the average grand assessment rol
as it actually was. But this sun
could be raised on the second roll bj
a levy of $3.93 on the hundred. Tht
railroad taxes would be about $100,00 (
a year heavier ; land taxes about $57-
000 a. year lighter , and taxes on all
other property would be about $43OOC
lighter.
At the most conservative calcula
tion the railroads have , by means oi
too low an assessed valuation , in the
past twelve or thirteen years escaped
paying somewhere between a million
ind a million and a half in state , coun
ty and school district taxes , and this
has been thrown upon the shoulders
of the land owners chiefly for land
cannot escape payment any better
than the railroads. Some personal
property escapes assessment alto
gether ; and some fails to pay ; but
lands and railroads cannot be hidden
or run away. As between the two ,
however , the sixteen hundred asses
sors always put a relatively higher
valuation on lands than the governor
auditor and treasurer put apon the
railroads especially if these officers
are republicans.
The populist platform pledges our
candidates to raise the railroad as
sessment to at least forty millions of
dollars. Even if this should be rel
atively a little higher than all the
land at eighty millions , It will help
correct the injustice of the past thir
teen years. It will raise railroad taxes
about $450,000 per year and help wipe
out the floating debt of the state.
CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE.
WHY THEY DO IT
Explanation of the Came of the Constant
Reduction In Laad Assessment * The
State Board to Blame
Many people have vaguely wondered
fvhy the precinct assessors have per
sistently forced down the assessed val-
lation of lands and other property , in
plain violation of law. The answer Is
; hat they take their cue from the state
3oard of equalization.
It can be shown by the records in
the auditor's office that this is the
; rue solution. It will be remembered
; hat the state board assesses the rail
roads for the current year after the
issessors have performed their du
ties , but , however , before the state
joard has sufficient information tab-
ilated from which to make the raii-
oad assessment in harmony with oth-
: r assessments. Accordingly , any
adical reduction in railroad assess-
nent would be met by a reduction by
he assessors the next year , or during
he next two or three years.
For example , the game of squeeze
s best told as follows :
(1) ) The state board cut down the
ailroad assessment per mile , In
(2) ( And the following year the as-
iessors cut down land assessments
> er acre.
( D (2) )
875 $1,343.59 $0.13
876 670.75 0.39
877 934.72 0.10
878 208.68 0.14
879 136.71 * 0.51 *
880 950.21 0.17
881 427.96 * 0.15
882 237.58 0.16 *
883 272.18 * 0.11 *
884 32.22 * 0.17 *
885 82.75 * 0.03 *
886 182.18 0.35
887 370.00 0.08
888 322.00 0.03
Totals $4,267.89 $0.56
* Made a raise in valuation.
This record for fourteen years shows
he quick , but not always proportlon-
te , response of the assessors to the
tate board's action. In only one in-
tance was the rule disregarded the
ssessors in 1882 failed to respond to
he board's raise in 1881. but they
emedied that in 1883. In four of the
have failed in their effort to keep
copper at a price the double of
what it costs to get it from the
general run of good mines. Their
great steel trust also inspires
doubts. It seems now as if they
were beginning to see a scarcity
of capital for the support of all
this succession of syndicate and
consolidations. And it would not
be surprising if within 12 or 18
months the United States should
suffer a violent speculative reac
tion , if not a thorough collapse. "
The constant demand from Wall
treet for "more "money" with "which
cases of a raise by the board , the t
sessors met it by a raise the folio
Ing year.
In the later years , however , the i
sponse is not so ready , probably I
cause the assessed valuation per m
is so low that nothing but a consi
erable rise would be regarded. T
effects of the raise made by the fusli
board are even now being felt , lai
valuations in 1901 and 1902 showing
rise although the republican boa :
cut down the mileage valuation <
railroads both years. Land valuatlo
would undoubtedly go up to $3.50
$3.75 If the railroad assessment we
put at forty millions.
Recent changes are as follows :
(1) ) The state board cut down tl
railroad assessment per mile In
(2) ) And the following year the a
sessors cut down land assessmen
per acre.
(1)
1895 $ 453.62
1896 0.06 *
1897 24.91 *
1898 98.47 *
1899 0.36
1900 49.12
Totals $ 279.66 $0.3 !
* Made a raise in valuation.
NOT MYSTIFIED
Mr. Watkins Is not Fnzzled by the Ti
Bureau's Figures Something About
Farm Earnings
Whenever anybody except himse
and his associates attempts to do
little calculating on his own accoun
Col. Browne of the railroad tax bt
reau frowns disapprovingly and mer
tally marks the audacious individiu
as having "a little crazy streak abou
figures" or a populist who "is lost to
certain sense when he approaches
mathematical proposition. " One woul
imagine that the colonel really believe
he has some sort of republican specla
privilege to do all the figuring for th
people of Nebraska. It is gratifying t
note , however , that some of the peopl
prefer to make their own calculations
The following letter is self-explana
tory.
Editor Independent : Will you kind
ly permit me space to comment on ai
article in last Monday's Omaha Dail ;
News , on railroad and other taxation
headed , "Earnings Exceed Assessei
Vri mtions. " In this editorial it i
stated that railroads are assessed high
er than farms. Their error is In no
taking into consideration the differ
ence between the amount of labor re
quired to run the 121,525 farms and thi
amount required to run the 5,700 mile :
of railroad in Nebraska.
I would call attention to the horsi
the tax bureau writer hired at a dol
lar a day , afterward discovering tha
it had been assessed at $7. Now , di
vide the 18,432,595 acres of improve <
farm lands into 80-acre tracts and al
low one team of two horses to each 80
With 250 days work to each team yoi
have nearly the entire gross earnings
of the Nebraska farmers. If to this
horse rental you add the amount paic
for hired help , $7,399,160 , and we hav (
not enough left to any more than paj
our taxes hardly that and leaving
us nothing for our own services or tc
procure utensils with.
It must be admitted that horses or
the average are as valuable as the one
hired by these tax bureau writers
especially as we have to furnish har
nesses and utensils to use them with :
and must keep them the 115 days thai
I have not counted.
Our farms including holdings are
valued at $577,660,020 and assessed ai
$78,044,155 , or 14 per cent. The rail
roads are worth at least $300,000,000
why should not they be assessed at
$42,000,000 ? They work probably less
than 20,000 men ; we farmers work
over 200,000 , besides our teams and
implements why should not our gross
income be ten times as great as the
railroads' , instead of only 4 % ?
If I have made any errors , just name
them. If not , pass me by by calling
me a pessimist. Nearly everybody
would say you had the question then
GEO. WATKINS , Farmer.
Verdon , Neb.
A FAIR SAMPLE
The ratio of 1 to 13 , as a basis
for assessing the property of rail
way corporations in Nebraska , is a
live issue and will continue to en
gage the attention of the people.
Omaha Bee.
But how shall It be settled ? By
electing the populist-democratic ticket
pledged to raise the railroad assess
ment to at least forty millions , or by
sleeting the republican ticket and
thereby necessitating a mandamus suit
2very year ? Mr. Rosewater deserves
credit for his attempt to secure In
zourt what the republican board
should have done on its own motion ,
but the officer who must be compelled
to do his duty at the end of a man-
lamus suit Is certainly not the one to
settle a live issue. Perhaps Mr. Rose-
water tries to deceive himself into
thinking that the question Is not a
political one but It must be settled
3y officers elected by some political
party nevertheless. Shall It be bj
nen who make a definite pledge as tc
ivhat they will do , or by men who
strenuously oppose what Mr. Rosewa-
er seeks by mandamus to compel them
: o do ?
There are statements constant ! }
nade in London that in less than five
rears the Boer war will be renewed
During the last three hundred years
; he Dutch have often been whipped ,
jut the trouble has always been thai
; hey would not stay whipped.
o keep their credit balloon afloat , th <
iesperate and futile efforts of Secre-
: ary Shaw to furnish it , together witl
: he fact that for every additional dol-
ar added to the currency there are ter
lollars of credit piled on top of it
nakes one doubt whether the balloor
: aa be k pt afloat for 12 or 18 months
Everywhere on Labor Day the wage-
larners marched in solid columns
ihoulder to shoulder. When they have
earned to march to the polls In thi
iame way then labor may get its
eward.
Corpse. f
A man whose first name was John
and who was notoriously close ana
stingy died some years ago in StJ
Paul , and two young men who were
well aware of his proclivities sat up-
with the body. It is a grewsome oc
cupation at best , and in order tc !
make it as cheerful as possible , the-
two men lighted all the gas in the :
room and prepared to make them
selves comfortable. Thej dozed , but
were awakened by some noise that V
sounded very uncanny. One of the-
young men sprang to his feet in ter
ror. The other merely yawned and ?
remarked : "John wants us to turm \ -
down the gas. " Chicago Chronicle ,
Showing the Way.
Most of our readers know all abouk
the aches and pains of a bad back ;
very few people are free from sick-
kidneys , as the kidneys are the most
over-worked organs of the body and
"go wrong" at times , no matter how
well the general health may be. The-
trouble is so few understand the indi
cations of kidney trouble. You are-
nervous , tired out and weary , have
stitches , twinges and twitches of back
ache pains , but lay it to other causes ;
finally the annoyance and suffering at
tendant with urinary disorders , reten
tion of the urine , too frequent urina
tion , make you realize the seriousness
of it. At any stage you should take a
remedy that will not only relieve but
cure you. Read the following ana
profit by the lesson it teaches :
C. J. McMurray , a resident of Free-
port , 111. , address 47 Iroquois street ,
says : "I have greater faith in Doan's
Kidney Tills to-day than I had in tne-
fall of 1S97 , when I first took that rem
edy , and it cured me of an acute pain
across the back and imperfect action :
of the kidneys. Since I made a public
statement of these facts and recom
mended Doan's Kidney Pills to my
friends and acquaintances , thoroughly
believing as I did , both from observa
tion and experience , that they would
do just as they were represented to do.
1 am still pleased to re-endorse my
statement given to the public shortly-
after I first began to use the remedy. " "
A FREE TRIAL of this great Kid
ney medicine which cured Mr. McMur
ray will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. Foi
sale by all druggists , price 50 cents
per box.
Irrigation in Wlacontin.
For some years irrigation has been ,
carried on experimentally in Wiscon
sin under the direction of the state
university. Some of these experi
ments have been conducted at Madi
son ard some at Stevens Point. Last
year drought in Wisconsin being very-
severe , the results in favor of irriga
tion were very marked. In t'ie ' pota
to fields alone the yield was 160 bush
els of potatoes in favor of those irri
gated. This difference does not ex
ist in most years , but irrigation is
always an insurance against loss-
from drought. Farmers' Review.
Have used Piso's Care for Consump
tion nearly two years , and find nothing
to compare with it. Mrs. Morgan , Berke
ley. Gal. , Sept. 2 , 3901.
The volcanos Irazu and Poas , Costa-
Eico , are now quiet , but Turrielba
is reported to be in eruption.
For winter or summer , Mrs. Austin's Pan
cake flour. Always good. At grocers.
One of the new apartment houses
in New York City is equipped with
a swimming poolin the basement.
Diphtheria , sore throat , croup. In
stant relief , permanent cure. Dr.
Thomas' Electric Oil. At any drug
store.
G 891 was marked on one wing of
an exhausted carrier pigeon which
alighted on the steamer Persic ,
when 3000 miles from land.
Us the famous Red Cross Ball Blue. Large
J-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company ,
South Bend , Ind.
Electricity is now being adopted
as a motive power in many slate
quarries in North Wales.
Don't forget a large 2-oz. package Red Crois
Ball Blue only 6 cents. The Russ Company ,
tonth Bend , Ind.
Japanese national flags are alleged
X ) be practically unobtainable just
low in London.
Terrible plagues , those itching ,
westering diseases of the skin. Put
in end to misery. Doan's
sures. At any drug store.
Fifteen Fiipinos , just arrived iD
3aldwell County , Texas , intend to
tart an agricultural colony here ,
nd have sent for their families.
[ ? hey propose to introduce a number
if Philippine agricultural products
? hich they believe to he adopted tc
he Texas climate and soil.
Orders have been given for the re-
aoval of the wire fence encircling
ohannesburg.
DolUrs 'Weekly copying letters at Home during
5 spare Hours. Five cents foi particulars. D. S.
Po. Boz 572 , Sunset Supply Co. , Rocheter , N.T.
UMNSFAILINAIYTIME
OF THE FISH MB FM5
IHAWETTIMI.
THft M5H aa a
cidn has a history.
Tnia is told in an
interesting booklet
which is yours for
the asking.
A. eJ. TOWER CO.
BOSTON. MASS.
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