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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1902)
DECEMBER 11, 1901 V Grand Display of Holiday Goods- Our trade in Holiday Gocds has opened morevigorously this season than uual. Many people realize that by selecting now they will have the choice of full lines, and are taking advantage of the opportunity. You may make your selections now and we will hold them for you and deliver at any time jou direct. TOY DEPARTMENT. We carry the largest stock of Toys, Games, etc., in the stite, and are the largest importers ot Dolls Toys and Games in the wtst. Nowhere can you find a larger and more varied aortment than we show. We are Santa Claus' headquarters. BOOKS. Our display of books for hol'day gifts is now read and we invite your attendance. , Oar book space has been doubled and we show the greatest variety and lowest prices in the city. nuw iywpui tiiivn If you are looking for something good in footwear for Christmas presents, we are showing some very handsome styles in Shoes, Slippers, etc.. bought espec ally for Holiday trade, and which we would be very glad of the privilege to show you. The styles are the prettiest and the values are the best we have ever offered. Ladies' House' Slippers, in felt, or felt lined, at $1.00, 75c, G5c, 59c, 50c and 39c Ladies' Felt Slippers, hand turned, in black, brown, or red, fur trim med, at $1.97, $1.47, $1.00 and 90c Ladies' fine Kid or Patent Leather Slippers, in all the new styles and shapes, at $3.00, $2.50 and $1 97 Ladies' plain or Oriental Velvet, fur trimmed or Colonial styles, all colors, $1.95 and $1 50 Ladies' fine high grade Beaded Slippers, all styles, at $3.00 and. $2 50 Extra Bargains in fine Shoes, this week in Vici Kid or Patent Kid or Enamel. Some of the finest Shoes made, worth $4.00. Special this week $3 00 Ladies' Kid or Enamel Shoes, up-to-date styles, Goodyear welts, worth $3.00, at $2 50 ( Gent's Furnishings We know that it is sometimes pretty hard to buy presents for men. This season we have made a special effort to get together an array of articles, useful to men, that will make the selection of such articles comparative! easy. The following list, we suggest as a partial list that we recommend as being very appropriate: Smoking Jackets, Silk or Wool Mufflers, Fine Dress Gloves, Fur Mitts or Gloves, Neckwear, Silk or Linen Handkerchiefs, Golf Gloves, Silk or Lisle Suspenders, Fine Night Robes, Sweaters, Fancy Socks, Initial Handkerchiefs, Cuff But tons, Underwear, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, and many other articles shown in the Gent's Furnishing Department. Smoking Jackets, all colors and nicely trimmed, and well made, at $10, 00, $9.00, $8.00, $7.00, $0.00, $5.00 and $3 95 Suit Cases, extra values, at $10.45 down to $1 50 Silk Mufflers, in all styles, Harvard, Oxford, Beaumont Square or Ob long, at $2.00, $1.50, $1.25, $1.00, 75c and 50c Handsome line of Christmas Neckwear in all the new shapes and col ors, at 75c, 50c, 35c and 25o Fine Dress Gloves, Silk lined, all styles, $2.00, $1.75, $1.50, $1.2), and $1 00 MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT It is as satisfactory to buy through our Mail Order Department as it is to buy over our counters. We assure you prompt and careful attention) Send For Samples. Lincoln, Nebraska. Mention This Paper HARDY'S COLUMN Sixty or seventy warships have been called together around the island of Culebra in the mouth of the Caribbean sea- for a winter's training and drill. Admiral Dewey is to command the drill. That island is to be the chief naval island of that section. Illiteracy has decreased in all the territory of the United States since 1890 excepting in Arizona and Neva da. Nebraska heads the list of edu cated people. nished by trusts, corporations and high-protected factories. The amount needed is on the increase every elec tion. Not less than fifteen or twenty millions will be used for that busi ness in 1904. . The Canadian Grand Trunk railroad is about to be extended to the Pacific. It will run some 200 miles north of the present Canadian road. It is thought that the ocean cable from San Francisco to Honolulu will be down-in two weeks so that Christ mas greetings will be exchanged that day. It is said to be a fact that Lake Michigan and Lake Superior are set tling and it is proposed to dam the Niagara river and raise Lake Erie three feet It is reported that many thousand emigrants are going over from Aus tralia to South Africa The French fight in their lawmaking congress brings to mind the assault made by Brooks upon Sumner. When Brooks challenge for a duel was ac cepted by a third northerner, BrooVs wilted. His excuse was he did not dare to travel ihrough the northern states to Canada. Y Whv don't the pure food fellows fight against putting salt into butter and into pork? To be consistent they should fight all mixtures. One of the blackest spots upon the political parties of our country today is the pile of money used to carry elec tions. It is nothing less than bribery. The law requires candidates to report how much of their own money they spent, but no public report is ever seen of how much money was fur- The saloon in the atithracite mining country are opening up and will be running in full force before the holi days. At the present price of coal al' losses will soon be made good. Even the soft coal diggers will get back what they contributed toward the support of the strikers. The obstinacy of ex-Speaker Reed was not sufficiently strong to prevent death from taking the floor and silenc ing the speaker. We are pleased to see Poet Bixby take the same view of football play ing that we have. We believe that murderous games should be prohibited from being run in connection wit'j our university. Bull fights wouil be more harmless, and rooster fights much more harmless still. How deformed the profiles of our fashionable women. The waist con nects the ribs with the hips very much as an elbow connects two joints of pipe. The shoulders lean back bevond the heels. H. W. HARDY. Will Not Refuse Jim Hill, in speaking of the big ships the Great Northern is building, said: "One of our new ships is all ready to float The upper works are on and are painted and she will be launched at New London very soon. The othei one i3 almost, ready for launching, and both of them will be in shape to go into service before the early spring. They are the biggest ships ever built in the world, and will carry more car go than any other thing that floats and, as I said, we would not have built them if we were dependent upon the passage of the subsidy bill. Neverthe less, if congress votes a subsidy bill, we will not refuse our share of it, and will make the best use we can of the money." When was there ever found a man who would refuse a valuable franchise or a gift of money when offered by the government? The elder Vander bilt took all the franchises that the state of New York would give him, and laid the foundation of one of the greatest fortunes that was ever known in the world. Some hundreds of oth er men have been made rich by gifts of moaey, franchises and public lands. Others by benefits from the tariff, bull others by rebates on the railroads. A0 long as the government of the United States is in the business of giving away the money and the patrimony of the people there will be men found leady to accept the gifts. If some millions are to be given to shipown ers, Hill, of course, will want his share. Will Coin More Silver A cablegram from Paris dated No vember 4 says: "The chamber of deputies today ratified an additional monetary convention between France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, au thorizing each country to issue addi tional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000." The coinage of $10,000, 000 of silver in excess of the usual amount will have a tendency to check the fall in the price of silver bullion. Thieving on Trust "You see, also, that we dark-red communists, since we exist only in giving, must, on the contrary, hate with a perfect hatred all manner ol thieving; even to Coeur-de-Lion's tar-and-feather extreme; and of all thiev ing, we dislike thieving on trust most (so that, if we ever get to be strong enough to do what we want, and chance to catch hold of any failed bankers, their necks will not be worth half an hour's purchase." John Rusk in, "Fors Clavigera," Vol. I., page 95; (Merrill & Baker, N. Y.). fatly back in his prosperity, and pro claims that whatever is is right, that you can't change human nature, and that these industrial problems will be leisurely solved by "those Christian men to whom God in his infinite wis dom has committed the control of the property interests of the country." We laugh sometimes at the vagaries and visions of the radicals, but the one fool, blind in his own conceit, Is the hard-headed, practical business man blind to the teachings of history which show that human nature, if not to be changed, is at least to be led in to kindlier paths, so that today the most callous would be horrified at. deeds which were of every-day occur rence only a century ago. Wilis J. Abbott, in The Pilgrim. Trust Panegyrics "Our popular magazines, regularly keep before us a justification, actual or inferential, of things as they are; and though it is couched in less argu mentative phrasing than that of the newspapers it is, no doubt, for that very reason, a more plausible and ef fective expression of the plea. There are panegyrics on our captains of in dustry, tales of their exploits in the great Industrial battles, descriptions of their town houses and country seats all, in fact, that makes for the emu lation of their wisdom and virtues, and particularly of their faculty of ac quisitiveness with a multitude of re cipes for the winning of 'success'." W. J. Ghent's "Our Benevolent Feudalism." The One Fool The remedy? About, it socialist and single taxer, collnge professor and clergyman, reformer and agitator, un ceasingly do wrangle. Only the "hard headed, practical business man" sits The house committee on judiciary has been at work on an anti-trust bill and has had introduced a "publicity" measure accompanied by a favorable leport The democratic members are inclined to favor the measure, inas much as it tends t'j afford perhaps on!o relief from the exactions of the tri'st? The only marked difference of cp;i,ion that have occurred in the committee hearings is as to using the tariff as a weapon ngainst trusts, an.l as this is within the province of the .-.omri.it ee on ways and mans, no dis agreement has as yet come. 9f