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TliE CITY BUMPKIN
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Me to five TbMt Mere 5 !- IkM
thm Crabf KU4 m4 Tb Tleee
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Tta city bumpkin, of which tbe dail
tm bve tothics to ur.Uio chock fall
cf igsoranc that It ! hard for the
see man from tbe coin try to under
uai tlu when h talks. His similes
are so mixed, bis wrong idea so num
erous, his words to i 11 chosen. his
wast of thought so apparent, that to a
caa who hss Ideas, who really knows
something and knows It well, the city
bciapkia U as groat a curloafty as a
talking machine. When the man from
the country the city chap s pend
ing half aa hoar ia making a choice of
colsr far his cesii shirt, in the
depths of detpalr oer the kind cf a
irtf .a iv..t .. V1t mr r?'ir r- A
?ck of dust from his shoes with his YL
pocaet fcansaeretier. see cim wun
ifiiseiEg step parading along the street.
tie country man wonder wnetber each ;
a thicg as that blo-irs to the same
species as hid if. Hat it is w be a tLis
product cf the city trie io ulk that he
excites the woeder cf the sae min.
The Independent has oftea porriered
crti the jier Uf-e of word indulged ,
iu by these strange products cf the
csr.atural life and artificial environ- ,
meats of the city bumpkin. He neer
f.jj to hate a grap of their mean
ing ea if he meat a title of some :
tollrg. or university, j
The peculiarity of toe city bumpkin
has attracted the attention of the w
c'okf 4t asd some of theta have been
taakic a study of tte phenomenon.
Koreoa. ia a late work in writing upon
XAii subject, says: ' Jm2)
A lenured class, enjoyin? securely f-
a hin level of material core fort de- ;
rived from the labor of other, is nor- ;
easily disabled from 'great' work. This
is particularly the case In literature, j
not icerely from the lack of broader f
sympathies which It involves, but for
anher reason directly rIatd to the
material oi tee literary craii. un
cow loose ana impotent a rrssp nosi ,
of the common words of a language i
reUUeg to material objects and physi- j
cl actions are held by tbe minds of j
people e-dtieated too exclusively oa j
books and talk, is never adequately j
recocnixed. ... Pop!e. educated in j
the literary sense, often conceal the
defective realization of the words they
. eves from themselves; but the
defect Is there. As most people bred In
towns remain through life with a most
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To get a big bundle of needed wearing articles here. It don't take all your time to pick out a bar
gain. Just get into our store once and you will be surrounded by the biggest values and tbe
smallest prices you ever saw. v
THE RE SALE , -IS, DOiNiG- THE vWOR K ,
and why shouldn -t it ? It's a sale of necessity a forced sale. That's why we are cutting prices so
deeply and giving the people a chance to carry away with them little or much of our fine stock of
Clothing, Hats, and furnishings at prices which scarcely represent the cost of raw material, say
nothing of what we paid for the merchandise. We want you to participate in this sale. v We need
your patronage. The stock must be disposed of. It's going with a rush. Come quickly as possible.
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shadowy grstp of the meaning of the
cGmaosest words relatlnr to country i 13
life which they habitually use. s o peo- a)
REMOVAL PRICES ON
MEN'S SUITS
Curing to the wonderful selling we. r
are forced to rcgrade many of our lines '
which, in truth, makes our present of-' ;
fering far more liberal than any of our
previous quotations. , ' ". .
FOR EXAMPLE
We bavo regraded our $11.78. line to
start with. This line was composed of
suits that sold at $15.00, $16.50 and $18. .
We have taken broken lines from our
higher priced suits and refilled this
line. Some of these suits sold at $20,
others at $22.50. All go until sold at. .
ANOTHER
INSTANCE OF
May be seen in our line at $4.93. This
line was quite well sold out and in
order to keep it full so as to disappoint
no one, we have resorted and regraded
it all the way through, having taken
suits that sold as high as $10.00. where
there was but one. possibly two, and
In some Instances three suits of a kind.
They are now all In the line and will
go at.'........'.
$11.78
$4.95
ANOTHER CASE
Is that of our $9.95 line of suits. This :
line was originally made up of suits
. that sold at $12.50, $13.50, $14.00 and"
$15.00. In regrading we have taken all
short and broken lots from our $16.50 "
and $18.00 suits and put in with this ,
line, which makes it in all reBpects bet-
- ter than .when the sale first opened.
These suits, good as they are; will be'
closed out in this great sale at.:... ..
. S9.95
A TERRIBLE LOSS
Is shown in the regrading of our line of
men's suits at $7.48. The values shown
in this line are startling in the first
place. They were suits, that .sold at
$10.00. $11.00 and $12.00, all at this one
price. The regrading of this line has
worked a wonderful change. We' have
taken short and broken lines that sold
at $13.50 and $14.00 and have placed
them in the "firing-line" at. ..... i. .
$7.48
REMOVAL PRICES ON
FURNISHING GOODS
Which means a ponderous sacrifice on
' our part and the" most, glorious bar
gains to our patrons.
Jtwould be difficult indeed for us to
give you any idea through an adver- ...
tisement of the magnitude of these bar-v
gains for our space is limited and the
multiplicity of items worthy of men
" tion are so-numerous, we shall there-
1 fore have to content ourselves by nam
ing a few prices which will serve as a
guide to the rest of our stock:
15c Baker & Crown Brand pure linen
, colars go at. .
10c water proof . collars
go at...................
$1.50 "Eagle," VMonarch" and Wilson
Bros, soft shirts go at;..
25c and 40c four-in-hand and Teck
silk ties go at
40c quality men's light summer under
wear, drawers have double seat, go at .
Special assortment summer underwear,
worth 25c and 3c, go at
....8c
... ..2C
...$1.29
.-....".19c
.....25c
19c
50c ana 60c quality men's underwear . . . -OOn
in plain and fancy effect all go at.. ...... '.u3b
10c quality half hose
go at-
15c quality half hose
go at.
Washable band bows " ? Kp
go at................. t.wu
...............5C
............... :.9c
25c and 35c quality fancy half hose, all RflP
go at 17c, or three pair for. JUU
Special assortment men's elastic web Qp
suspenders at . 0 U
Excellent silk overstrap elastic sus-i I Q i j
penders.at. ... . I L ".U
40c quality fancy summer suspenders I "7n
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white handkerchiefs. . 2C
...25C
...49c
5 c
4
5
go at
8c quality
go at. . .
15c quality fancy white handkerchiefs
go at 10c or three for.
$1.00 quality Madras soft shirts, spicy
assortment! go at
15c quality gold plated collar buttons,
for front and back, go at
Choice of all our shirt waists for boys
that sold at 50c,. 75c and $1.00, all
go at
Boys suspenders
only
Boys and Misses' long
hose at . . .
88
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....33c
....5c
, 7c
pie with eo direct experience In man- s
csl work have no T'tal or real under-!
caASie. wjra a isr sxaauer vocsDuiarr. i
has aa incomparably more powerful
grssp of h's words. Tntil e under
stand the diSererce between a strong
and weak grasp of words and the
l24lje5fele conditions of the former.
shall remain the dupei of literary
charlatans. Ia the natnre cf things
so great body of literatore. no great
body of paetry. 'simple; sensuous, and
iss passioned. can arise from a leisured
class sTered from direct contact with
the working life of the community."
Having to grasp of rexj things It is
tut caturai that these city bumpkins
should have a profound belief la the
srJ that they should think that
they hold convene with gbosts cf the
departed, teat astral bodies hover
aroasd ttem. that fortune-tellers and
astrclogisls should -have supernatural
powers, that a mind-healer a thousand
miles away far a fee of five dollars
could csre the most virulent disease. !
The city bempkin pays out annually
thousands of dollars to these creatures i
aad fally trusts In their t signs and
mesa, All the dally p-s peril are filled
with the advertisements cf the men
and wotsea who live upon the credul
ity f the weak-miaded city bumpkin.
A clairvoyant, a ghost-seer, the mind
healer, never goes to the country. He
has learned that he would itarve to
death la a month la any rural com
ercaity. The support of this vast army
f charlatans, and they number thou
aead. comes from the city bumpkins.
The egotism of the city bumpkin Is
bs chief characteristic If he ever gets
2 from paved streets and sidewalks
aad pets his feet upon mother earth,
as ha looks down at the soil from
which all life springs and from which
all wealth comes, he calls It "dirt."
It is altogether too foul a thing for him
to totrer his dainty brain about. He
does act know that men have spent
their Uvea trying to find out what is
ets-mtaiaed ia that dirt and have dir-,
without being able to give a complete
a&sver. They found compounds of
potassium and phosphorus and silicon
aa4 aitrogen and many more things.
They have found millions of mlcro-or-gaaia
that no unaided human eye
caa see and whose lives no ma a knows.
They have found chemical anitles too
delicat and too complex to be acal
ysdmosture. heat, magnetism and
force so Intricate and delicate that
tiy ea&aot be measured all this and
xasea more Ilea hidden ia that "dirt"
which the city bcmpkla spurns with
tit foot.
Schwab and the grabbers after tba
almighty dollar would hsve us believe
that the young maa from the country
who attends the agricultural college
and Wrns some f these things. Is not
better Qualified as a farmer and not a
better rfAtn because of this higher
edacsti&a. The Indepeadeat calls that
kind of talk -rot and that Is all it has
to say abot it.
We Expect to b3 located in our ne quarters at 1221 -1 223-1225-1 227 0 Street, on or about July 1st.
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g Lincoln, Neb., where flail Orders get, as Good Prices as Personal Purchasing.
EDISCK'S LATEST
WlkfW Urn Te NIm Mark, Hli
tomrrngm Bturf Will rrakljr Uw- .
trntimmtw ftmy Wlrmmrm
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'The great dallies are constantly
2124 wih fake about rreat Invea
tioaa that are to revolatloaita trade
a&4 force a reconatractloo ia traaspor
tatiatt aad ao-iety. The ladepeadect
aver Imrdeoa It columns with such
atoriea which are generally pat out la
t& interest cf vendors of patent ricnts
electrical experts secured. From-all
these It seems that this new storage
battery isoue of -the most important
inventions of the last quarter of -a
century. It Is not practical to give a
description 1 of it to those who have
only a superficial knowledge of elec
tricity. They can only understand
what it will do.
While it Is never safe for laymen
and rarely tafe for experts to attempt
to gauge the industrial importance of
an invention not yet in industrial use,
the claims made for the new Edison
storage battery and the reception ac
corded tliese claims ty tbe scientific
world make them of great public in
terest. Hitherto, It may be recalled,
the utility of electric storage batter
ies has been handicapped by their ex
treme weight, by the length of time re
quired to charge them, and by the rap
id deterioration of their cells. It is
claimed for 3ir. Edison's new inven
tion that by his use of "a novel com
pound of iron for the positive, com
bined with the same amount of graph
ite, and a negative of finely divided
nickel and graphite. the weight of
the storage battery has been reduced
to less than one-third, the time re
quired for charging it has been , re
duced to one-half, and the rapid de
terioration now incident to the use of
lead cells has been practically done
away with. It is asserted that with
one charge the new battery will pro
pel an automobile a hundred miles as
against the present thirty miles, and
that electric motors will goon be much
cheaper, than horses for all manner of
hauling done over city-streets. The
increased use of automobiles for car
rying goods as well aa passengers over
country roads Is also made possible,
and the general relegation of the horse
from his time-honored place among the
useful animals is seriously talked of
by some of tbe heralds of the new in
vention. Still another . possibility of
this Invention is that by tbe substitu
tion of portable electric power for
steam power usable only near the
generating engine many kinds of
work may -be done on farms and In
households.
AJI over this state and most of the
other states there are water powers not
now utilized. If power can be gen
erated by them, stored away in these
small storage batteries and trans
ported to any place needed, houses on
the farms- can be lighted, water
pumped, cream separators operated,
w ashing machines run and a thousand
other things done that 13 now done
either by hand, horse or steam power.
The mind of man can hardly imagine
the things that will be the result of
this invention.';
A large manufactory has been erect
ed oa the Edison grounds for the man
ufacture of these - batteries and they
will be put on the market the first of
next November. -
According to the political economy
ventions with shouts .of joy. He sees
in them more comfort, happiness and
joy; for, the toiling millions. Men will,
as the result : of them, wear better
clothes, live . in better houses, have
more libraries,-be better educated, live
longer and escape much of the. weari
some toil that has been their lot in all
the ages past. .
Successful Nebraska Easiness Men
Bi J. W. Johnston. .
of th socialists and republicans this
Bfst this Istect !avat!oa or Kaisoa ; will be another curse to humanity,
teems of a different character. Erery- j er ester than any that has preceded it,
for! kaa bora made to Sad out lust fc-r It will result in more over-produc
what It Is aal what It win do. Tbe
scieatiiLe scagaiiaea have. heea
earchad. intsrvtrw with Edison htm
mli hava bees read a ad the oplatoa of
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tion ard according to their logic, more
starvation nd want: The populist not
being trembled with such vagaries,
Lalls this invention and all other in-
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' LOUIS M. DAVIS.
Louis "M. Davis; the senior partner
of the firm of L. M. Davis & Son, gro
cers, of- Tecumseh, Neb., was born in
Chester county,,. Pennsylvania, near
Philadelphia, May 28, 1847., His edu
cation was principally at Eastman's
Business College at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. Soon after becoming of age, , fol
lowing the -advice of the , late Horace
Greeley, he , removed to Tecumseh. it
then. lacing, a small village. The; fol
lowing year and a half he. engaged as
clerk in the general store of Mr. J. H.
Cross,- -which service - he - discontinued
on being, appointed postmaster of, Te
cumseh under the administration of
President U. S.' Grant, which position
he held the following fourteen years,
and then engaged in the grocery busi
ness, in, which he has continued suc
cessfully since. His motto on opening
was, "Not how cheap, but how good,"
and sticking to this proposition, he has
built. up a large trade among a class
of people who appreciate good goods,
and now has the finest retail : grocery
store In the state, not excepting those
of the largest cities.
He Is a man whose Integrity and
business probity is recognized by his
neighbors, and , the " citizens of hia
adopted town. He has been frequently
a member of the council,; city clerk,
and , is at present city treasurer and
has been for a number or years. He is
aiso now serving nis second term as a
county commissioner. He is an ac
tive., member .of the .Presbyterian
church, of which he Is a trustee and
also treasurer. He is also treasurer
of, the endowment rank of the of P.
lodge of Tecumseh, and the A. O. U.
W., an . dsecretary. and treasurer of the
cemetary association,- all of which
most responsible positions he fills with
such ; fidelity-and. exactness that his
associates in. the: respective organiza
tions continue him in the positions.
He was united in marriage April 24,
1869, to Frances, daughter of Henry
Cross, a builder and contractor of
Perryville, Pa. To this v union were
born three children. One died in in
fancy, a lovely daughter. Irene, at the
interesting age of eighteen, the son,
Charles, being, now associated with
him in business.
!MY. Davis had the misfortune to lose
his devoted companion and wife March
!,-1895. , '
No man in ' the state of Nebraska
stands higher as a citizen and busi
ness man than does Mr. Davis, and
none are esteemed' more highly than
he by those who have been so for
tunate as to become Intimately ac
quainted with his 'sterling character.
Mr. Davis enjoys the comfort of nis
own lovely 'home, which is presided
over by the charming and accom
plished wife of his son, Charles.
THE PORTO RICAN TAXATION
The Hmtj Hand That MeKlnley Hm Laid
Upon Forto Blcanl-A. Tkiatlom Tht
Outdoes Spatm.
The carpet-bag rule Is well under
way in Porto Rico. The other day the
following telegram was sent out from
the White house. It will be -well to
give it a little thought: It was as fol
lows: .
"Gov. Allen, of Porto Rico, tele
graphed Secretary Hay that the Porto
Rlcan legislature has been called to
meet in extra session on July 4.
"At that session the legislature will
pass a resolution ' declaring that the
Hollander and other taxation laws
passed at the last session bring in suf
ficient revenues to make the govern
ment of Porto Rico self-supporting.
It is estimated that these laws will
realize more than $2,500,000 in rev
enues. : . .
. r After the passage of ; this resolution
the president will issue a proclama
tion announcing that the . government
of Porto Rico , can maintain itself
through its own scheme" of taxation,
and suspending the operation of . the
Foraker act, . which imposes a , tax
equal to 15 per cent of the Dingley
tariff rates. This will mean free trade
between the . United States and Porto
Rico, the same as between the states'
, The little island of Porto Rico is a
parallelogram in general "outline, 108
miles from east to Vest and from 37
miles to 43 from north to south. ' In
area it is less than half the size of New
Jersey. It has only 137 miles of rail
roads. A good deal of the little patch
Is mountainous and uninhabited the
books say. unexplored. The inhabi
tants are for the most part In a state
of semi-starvation. Many of them
have fled from the' horrible conditions
during the last year to escape starva
tion. Now McKInley sends a lot of
carpet-baggers down there, to draw im
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mense salaries from those "poor
wretches, and tax out of them $2,500,
000 a year. ; The Independent has pub
lished the enormous salaries which
these carpet-baggers . get twice and
three times as much as men get in the
United States holding similar posi
tions. The Porto Ricans have not a
word to say about how much they are
to be taxed. And this government of
taxation without representation is to
be inaugurated on the Fourth of July!
It Is enough ' to make Abraham Lin
coln turn over in his grave.
Der Boeren.
Fight on, brave souls with Botha and
De Wet!
Ye noole men end boys, whom to
oppose
Requires i cn times your force In
English foes.
God crown your arms with freedom's
victory yet.
For hallowed is your strife, ye pa
r triots bold;.
And may your every aim be true to
thrust
The tyrant's legions Into Afric's
dust
Fools that they are. mere purchased
things and sold.
That heart is 'pulseless to our na
tion's creed
Who lauds the coining of men's
blood to gain
; Gold for a clique and subjects for a
' reign,
- Or for; assaulted freedom does not
bleed.
Rise, freemen, all!, ere King and
Would-Be King
And Greed the knell of all republics
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Franklyn Quinby,4n ,The Public.
One of "the first. things to attract the
attention of Baby Clarence was grand
ma's hat-rack, made of a pair of deer
horns. , One afternoon when he was
three years old, his papa took him to
Capt. G.'s park. . When relating the in
cidents of the trip to. his mamma on
their return, he exclaimed: "And, oh,
mamma!. I saw a deer, and he had a
hat-rack on his head!" Current Lit
erature. . -
THE "NINE FLOPPERS
Hearst has paid Max O'Rell a good
deal of money for writing rot about
women,' but at last he has said some
thing that has some truth to it. , Last
Sunday he remarked that "in the ma
trimonial market, compared to act
resses. American heiresses are not in
it. - The latter only catch, as a rule,
shrewd, penniless and old blase aristo
crats, who use American dollars to re
store their ancestral homes - and - get
their coats-of-arms out of pawn.where
as the actresses, burlesque ones espe
cially, i get the rich, young and good
looking marquises, earls and barons."
"C C.-C." on Every Tablet
Every tablet of Cascarets Candy
Cathartic bears the famous C. C. C
Never sold in bulk. "Look for it and
accept no - others Beware of, fraud.
All druggists, ioc- , ' ;
They Reside at Washington, Wear Iong
Black 'Robes, Look Wlie and Decide
Constitutional Points According:
. to the "Necessities"
In order to meet the "necessities of
the case" and get the administration
out of a hole, the court reversed itslf,
but it was by no means its first per
formance in that line. The New York
World declares that the supreme court
of the United States is the one trib
unal in the universe which can 'give
one judgment at one time and an oppo
site one at another and be right both
times. For example, the World gives
a list of the somersaults executed by
the court:
1. It has decided (Dartmouth Col
lege case) that a state -charter is a
contract which the state may not
break, and later that the state may
break it.
2. It has decided that congress has
exclusive authority to regulate com
merce on all our navigable waters, and
later that it has not. Later yet it has
reversed that reversal and reaffirmed
its first decision. ' .
3. - It has decided that stock certi
ficates may not be Issued under a state
law, and later that they may. "
4. . It has decided that any state may
prohibit the importation of alcoholic
liquors, and later that no state may
do so.
5. It has decided that congress has
no power to make paper money legal
tender for debts Incurred before its is
sue, and later that it has unlimited
power to make paper legal tender in
peace or war. .
6. It has twice decided that an in
come tax is constitutional, and once
the last, time that. It, Is not.
When the record of the court is con
sidered the American people cannot b"
blamed if they regard it as a sort of
teeter-board which goes up and then
down on , all important questions and
points in one direction and then in
another" most absurdly.. .'
The New" Orleans States in com
menting on the decision says:
'The recent contradictory and con
fusing decision of the United States
supreme court has been likened to a
little . girl who went into a grocery
store and when asked by the clerk
what she wanted, replied: "Gimme
some of dat, dem and dose." The whole
country now seems to be realizing the
fact that the court's decision was tiuly
clear jumble and mixture of "dat, dem
and dose." In order to support the
contention cf the administration that
congress has the right to govern ac
quired ' territory outside the constltu-
r ji . . . .
uuu, it was ueuessary ior iae cwurc to
reverse a decision of Chief Justice
Marshall which for nearly a hundred j
years has stood as the law of the land
regarding the imposition of revenue 1
taxes."
Farmer City
After, an almost continual straggle
of seventeen years the opposing
forces of Knox county have succeeded
in taking the county seat away from
Niobrara. Niobrara was defeated , at
the election last fall and the supreme
court has affirmed tbe decision of the
people. The new location is a beauti
ful site on a farm in the Bazile valley
in almost the geographical center of
th county. Farmer City, which it ris
is about fourteen miles from
d, the F. E. & M. V. at Creigh-
ton being the nearest point. It has a
fine stream and is near a magnificent
natural park. If it should succeed in
getting a railroad it will no doubt
make some of the Knox county towns
wish they had left the county set it. in
the old town. Niobrara is one of tbe
oldest towns In the state and has nev
er succeeded in getting a railroad.
Madison Star.
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WHERE YOU CAN GO this SUMMER
VIA THE BURLHIGTOII
WHERE. WHAT. DATE SALE.
Cincinnati Christian Endr. . July 4 to 6
Detroit - N. E. A. fulj 5 to 7
San Erancisco,Epworth League July 6 to 13
Milwaukee Elks July 20 to 22
Chicago B. Y. P. TJ. - July 23 to 25
Lsuisville , Knig-hts Templar, Aug. 24 to 29
Beatrice Cbatauqua June 20 to July 4
RATE. .
122.50
23.05
23.07
18.40
16.40
22.55
1.20 .
LIMIT.
July Ht
July 15
Aug. 81
July 27
July 30
Sept. Z
JtifyS
EXT. LIM.
Aug. Bl
Sept. 1
Aug. 10
Aug. 31
. Sept. 16
. City Ticket Office . Burlington Depot
Corner i oth and O Sts. , 7th St., Bet. P and Q.
Telephone 335. Telephone 35.