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About The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1900)
pilini!l!nn!l!!!i!l!l!!li!Illl!UI!!lllI!I!!!!l!ll!n ARM Yk CI THING COMPANY Open evenings 'till 6:30 o'clock. Saturdays 11:30 E2 OUR merchandise must be right; proved right, as we give you a guarantee which is "your money's worth or your money back." Anything you buy of us, if it is not exactly as you want it, for any reason or no reason, do not hesitate to bring it back and get your money if you like; FASHIONABLE, seasonable good clothes, that have that peculiar something which distinguishes the well dress ed man. Piles and piles of wonderful fine Suits. Thousands of extremely beautiful Overcoats; some of the garments made from the richest imported materials. The usual magnitude of our great stock of HIGH MERIT MERCHANDISE makes it an interesting display. Just compare the stylo and fit of our Clothing! We say it em phatically, there are none to equal them, and yet with air their peerless elegance and their high character, you will see by inspection that we sell cheaply. il 'H f? W r n n a n m n v If AT LESS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES 1,200 Men's Suits, Ic round and square ck. made of LLUy ed aod gtiod ntter. Ca-eimeres and Cheviots; lgulr value, 7.50. Go at S5.0 1,300 Men's Suits, zzz In fetI ar.-i doubl breasted aeks; com jn black Lacdonue eassimeres. and fin cheviots. Clay -a',tSn Lacdonue cia ere, and fin cheviots. They re li&c-d with Italian cloth. Splendid fitters; some have double bratte-d others tangle breasted vests: many of the mt are f 12,00 value, but to make them cheap we i nee tbeta at. $7.50 1,500 Men's Suits, Material are f ee, ail woo! blue serge, pray and black Clay wor:ed, VAai.i&toa cheviot, cashmere and fancy orti; mjtu are. made double breasted, other are made breasted with double breasted vest. They axe ex n ent tt'Ar.g garment, evjusl to made to order suit at Sfcial J .rice. SI0.00 Men's Fine Suits. Come in a variety of thiscseason's most fashionable pat r : terns of all the most popular fabrics, smooth finished serges, fancy worsteds in stripes and checks, trray, black. and blue rough weaves. These garments are tailored equal to, and in most instances better than, the made to measure kind at $25.00 and $30.00. Our price.. , $12.50 Men's Finest Tailor Made Suits Come in all the latest style fabrics, in imported wors teds and Scotch goods, in stylish stripes and checks, also plaip blue serges and black Clay worsteds. These" suits are cut in double and single breasted sacks, cutaway frocks and Prince Albert styles. They show all the tone and style of the finest custom made productions worth upwards of 135.00. k . : Our price 8 SI 5.00 Men's Top Coats. Here is where we surpass all our former efforts. We are showing five times as many of these top coats as any other season. These coats are cut a little shorter than the regular winter coats, and are a very desirable coat for a man to wear. They come in light and dark shades. You can save here easily 12.00 on the purchase of your top coat. 1 00 MEN'S regular retail price $7.50. Top coats in tan shades of covert cloth, are well lined and trimmed, regular wholesale price $5.50; Our price , 1 $5.00 1 en's Top Coats In light aad dark shades of covert cloth, lined with Italian cloth, and finely tailored, regular wholesale price $8 25: regular retail price $11.50. Our price. ... ............... $7.50 1 Men's Fine Top Coats; A great variety to select from in coverts and whipcords, made with velvet collars, or with collars same as body of coat; some are silk lined,1 others Italian lined, others have fancy backs with silk shoulders. Tailored in a thor ough manner. Regular wholesale price $11.50; regular retail price $15,00. Our price $10.00 1 itt? cum Overcoat NEVE R AGAIN TO BE QUALED. Men's 4i; worth 17.00: heavyweight beaver Overcoats, lin ed with grod quality, black, twilled lining, velvet collars; all sizes, 34 to Coat $4.95 I 1200 Men's All wool Kersey Over come in black. blue asd brown shades. r: Ai-o in thaterer irpu!ar fabric. Vicuna, in oxford and cast. rj :r cay hade. They are made toe? or tnedi- upi J?r.gth: have mux velvet c-ouar, extra good 1 Te . tb: hate ailic velvet collar, extra guod Italian I'o-itjvely food value at $11.00. Special sale j)j!0 1 1360 Hen's fine overcoats; blue, black, brown and olive Kerevs: Hsrht medium. ard dark pray Vicuna; also blue Chinchillas. AH made with alk aieeve heig. mme with silk shoulders, pock et m'4 taed. teivet collars, ail neaa;s t-ewed with milk, eie raw or ltajru'Jier.if ca a; Our j-r.ee . . ... tarz.d. tic Italian body liningrs; f ad bt ritlicg, worth exactly $15. $1000 HE mm AI ' m tyh overcoats, more I Men s tV.Xttl $12 50 x,d tns.red. regular tl'Utf value. Go at flen's Oxford Gray Overcoats The most popular and stylish overcoat this season is the Oxford and Cambridge gray. We are showing more than fifty styles of these particular garments, and can furnish them in all wool grades at $5 7.50, 8.93, 10.00, 12.50, 15.00, 18.00 and 20.00. They come in medium, long, and extremely long lengths, and may be had in regular cuts, raglan, surooat, box, or gown raglan style. We call particular attention to our special garment in this line. It is a fine, pure wool, Oxford gray, vicuna coat, half lined, showing fancy back. It is made with silk sleeve linings, velvet collar, or with collar of same material as coat. It is silk sewed and has been as carefully tailored as a garment can be. . It is union made, and bears the union label, and is guaranteed to be the best garment ever sold at $12.50. Our price $8.98 MEN'S ULSTERS A Good Ulster do honest service; worth $5.00, go at Men's Black Frieze Which will fully protect the wearer from the storms and will $3.75 1 Ulsters, full cut, full values, Ar strongly made and 'very sight- JlT ly, worth $7.50, go at. .... . . PT Jr I T1 ,4- rxm Come ia bIack Irish Frieze, extra i len s Ulsters Lri' worsted lining, and ft f f well made. Regular wholesale price $3.00, regular retail J 11 price $10.00. Our price f v Ulsters come in blue and black Kersey, black and Oxford gray 36-oz. Irish Frieze, lined with extra heavy worsted and doable warped Italian cloth; extra well made and trimmed. Regular wholesale price $11.00, regular retail price $15.00. Our price. w Men's Finer $!0 .00 Men's Finest Ulsters come , ia Chinchilla Friezes and Kerseys. Are equal in every respect to the tailormade kind at $30.00 and $35,00. Regular wholesale price $16.00, retail price $2000. Special price , $15.00 1 s END IN YOUR X MAS AT ONCE I Mail Orders Promptly Attended to. i Ji t it CLOTH 1 NG GO o ASK A mm IS illnmmilimn The Fire at Simras'. It was late in December and 100 de grees below aero. The frozen fixited fowls crowded together In the old hen house, and, If a glint of sunlight shot across the pen the old hens fought to stand in it The rooster sank into him self until his hackles looked like an Eliz abethan ruff; when he crowed, it sounded raucous and cold, and the hens shook their heads at each crow, as hens have done since time began, ' They stood on alternate feet and seemed to envy Mrs. Sims her coarse shoes. . ..;,, : She, poor woman, was on her way out to the barn to milk 40 cows before iuu light should fail. The dull, flat, hopeless, dreary, dismal, bitter, sour, doleful, hard, Inevitable, disheartening condition of life on a Garland county farm, was imaged In the bleak landscape and in her weary, haggard face.. . She "walked as If she had several cob blestones ; in the tofea of each shoe. nd she wished Unit she had a millstone about her neck. Jim, her hubauu, was drunk again, which meant that until he returned from town she must sack 1.000 bushels of buckwheat a day, feed and water TOO stupid fowls and provide meals for seven pairs of vicious, quarrelsome twins of her own raisiug. f-:': She entered the low doorway of the hideous. barn, and seated .herself oa her haunches beside the first of the 40 scrag gly, half frozen cows. She was an expe rienced milker, hut the deftest finger in the world cannot guard against a sudden bovine. tiauk .movement, and she saw 33 pails of "steaming milk overturned by 33 suffering auu fractious beasts. Something like an oath issued from be tween her thin, bloodless lips, and she audibly wished that the day that saw ber birth ntight.be blotted from the calendar. In the house she could hear the seven pairs of twins shooting at each uther and throwing kerosene lamps about and slaughtering the cat; but she did not care, a bit. Time hud been when pretty Eliza Simms would hare cared a good d , hut that was a score of years ago, bel e th twins began to come so frequently. "If the house burns up 1 won't have no more meals to get.". Poor woman, she did not realize that another house would take its place and the eternal round of ill cooked, greasy, uninteresting, indigestible meals would continue as before. She had lost the fac ulty of thinking, like all farmers' wives in Garland county. A, couple of odd twins came out to her Buck, one of the oldest pair, and Jen, next to the youngest, i "Jake has set the house afire again," said Buck. ... . He would have kissed her if he had been some sons and she some mothers, but the very name was unknown in tho Simms family. A kick and a cuss they knew too well, but the union of the two sounds meant nothing. "Belle has killed the cat again, and Luce has torn your weddin stifkit to smithereens," said Jen, with a malicious grin. A grim smile sank' into the tough, leath ery face of the despondent toiler, and she milked two vicious streams into the girl's eye. Jen did not know whether to laugh or.cr;-. but the crackling of the flames turned the thoughts of all three in "to another direction . t .' '""Ain't yen go'n ter put out the fierrr? The insurance ran out last week. I heored pap say so." : . Mrs. Simms rose to her feet. It was true. She must save the house if it took the rest of the milk; "It's a wonder your pa can't stay to hum when the house is liable to burn down any day with them youngest twins." , It was the third time In two weeks that they had set the place afire, and milk was high that year. Of course the pumps were frozen hard. "You bring a couple of pails apiece," said she, taking a pail in each hand and balancing another on her head, but the children only jeered at her and began to fight in the hay. u She toiled toward the house, over weighted and " cold. The flames were ; pouring out L of every window, and the sun was just setting, a red ball that looked as if the dwellers beyond the patch of pines on the horizon could warm their hands on its glowing surface. The squawks and squeaks of the fowls, fighting for the warmest place on the roost, broke the frosty stillness of the air, and the dull, black smoke of the burning bouse floated in long, trailing streamers to where the upland was crowned with an orchard of young peach trees. It was all beautiful if she had but known, but this sordid woman was bent only on putting out the miserable . fire that bad attacked the house. What do farmers in . Garland county know of beauty? From fteir birth on ward the grindstone wheti their noses down to the bone, and, look as they may, there is nothing but a whirring grind be fore their eyes. A creaking farm wagon tolled along the road, the wheels making a crankling music in the frozen ruts, Jim was com ing home from his seven day jag, singing . In a raucous voice that jarred harshly on the winter quiet of the night. He saw the flames of the burning building, but he did not hasten his pace. . "I never saw the thing that Liz couldn't down from me to a spread oak. The twins has be'n at it again." And they Were still at it. The flames had driven them out of the house, but" they had all gone into the barn to quar rel, leaving their mother to fight the fire single banded. As Jim drove into the barnyard the flames succumbed to her efforts and the watery milk.' She came out to the side door and looked at hint under singed eyebrows. "What yeb got fer supper?" he asked. "Smoked beef anb'iled milk," said she. "I wish I'd 'a burnt up," she added in a harsh voice.. "Gad, I t isht yeh had. Your life in surance ain't lapsed." It was a brutal jest,' but she did not perceive its brutality any more than she would have admired a nocturne of Cho pin's or an etching by Whistler or a statue by Phidias. Criterion, Cheap Water In Glaaffow. In Glasgow a 15 householder obtains for 71d. per annum a continuous, never failing, unrestricted stream of the purest water in the world, delivered right into his kitchen, washhouse and bathroom. It is calculated that 380 gallons of pure wa ter are delivered to the citizens of Glas gow for every penny paid. And it is wa ter of such peculiar softness that the householders of Glasgow can pay their water rate out of what they sava on soap. Engineering Magazine.
