Great Riches in Nebraska 'Mines'
I Ms ad Slits at Palf Price I
Manufacturer's Overstock. This Spring's Productions. .
. All Garments Are Perfect. 50 per cent Saving,
All Garments Half Price.
This Seasons Skirts
$6.00 Skirts, now $2.50
6.75 Skirts, now 3.37J4
7.50 Skirts, now 3.75
8.50 Skirts, now.. 4.25
10.00 Skirts, now 4.25
12.00 Skirts, now 6.00
12.50 Skirts, now 6.25
13.50 Skirts, now 6.75
14.50 Skirts, now 7.25
16.50 Skirts, now 8.25
15.50 Skirts, now 7.50
This Season's Suits
$12.50 Suits,
13.50 Suits,
15.00 Suits,
18.00 Suits,
20.00 Suits
now $ 6.25
now 6.75
now 7.50
now 9.00
now 10.00
25.00 Suits, now... 14.25
30.00 Suits, now 15.00
32.50 Suits, now 16.25
35.00 Suits, now 17.50
37.50 Suits, now I 18 75
Sale and Display of Ostrich Plumes
Special
Domestics
Pillow Cases
A fine Bleached Linen Finished Pil
low cas& ,
42x36, Hemmed, 15c, value, at.12'2c
45x36, Hemmed, 18c value, at... 15c
45x36, Hemstitched, 23c, value
at 18c
Wash Cloths
100 dozen Electric Wash Cloths,
a fine Knitted Sanitary Cloth;
5c value; special, at 2 for 5c
Dish Cloths
Electric Dish Cloths, Knitted,
soft and durable; special, 10c
value, at 5c
Continues
Bear in mind this sale concerns South African Ostrich
Plumes and that we are passing them in at less than
cost of domestic productions. ,
OEFEHED AT f (MOWING PRICES
12-inch Plumes worth $2.00 lor.' $ .49
14- inch Plumes worth $3.00 lor 2.14
15- inch Plvmes worth $4.00 lor . 2.89
16- inch Plumes worth $5.00 for 3.49
17- inch Plvmes worth $6.00 for 4.19
18 1-2-inch Plumes worth $8.00 lor 5.89
19- inch Plumes worth' $9.00 lor 6.98
20- inch Plvmes worth $11.00 lor . . 8.49
21- inch Plumes v rth $13.50 for 9.98
22- inch, Plumes worth $15.00 for 11.49
16-inch and 18 1-2-inch Plumes come in black and
colors, all other sizes black and white only.
Lawn Mowers
Summett Lawn Mowers, 14 or 16
inch cut; light running; 9-lnch
wheel; all bearings made of cold
rolled steel; special this week,
$2.75 value
at $1.98
Refrigerators
We are making a special offer on
all Refrigerators and Ice Boxes.
To close out our complete stock,
each Refrigerator and Ice- 'Box has
been marked at 20 per cent reduc
tion. Garden Hose
25 feet of good Garden Hose, 3 ply;
special
at $1.39
Women's Under wV
Women's Extra Large Vests,
low neck and sleeves; full
tape neck and arm, narrow
shoulder; each.. 12'c
Children's Light Weight Long
Sleeve Vests and Short
Pants, sizes 16 to 34; each,
15 c to 25c
Women's French Lisle Hosiery,
newest shades of Brown in
Alover Lace; Lace Boot
'and Embroidered; per pair 50c
Women's Fast Black gauze
weight Hose, a splendid val
ue; 3 pair for 50c
Women's Hosiery
Women's Plain Lisle Holsery,
in fashionable shades of
Brown; per pr., 25c, 35c, and
Women's Brown Hosiery, in
Fancy Stripes; Lace Boot
and Embroidered; per pair.,
Women's Brown Silk Hosiery,
all the new shades; per
pair $1.75
50c
.39c
Women's Knit Corset Covers,
light weight, high neck, long
sleeve; cotton; each 50c and. .25c
Special
Women's Extra Size Corset
Covers, high neck, long
sleeve; cotton; light weight;
each 35c
White Wash Belts, Tailored or
Embroidered; narrow pleat
ed effects; Pear' and Gilt
Buckles; each. 25c to 50c
White Kid Belts at 25c
White Kid Belts, with Kid cov
ered buckles and back orna
ment; special, each.. 50c
Shoes
Brown Oxfords, a new ship
ment of all the Brown
shades; all sizes; per pair. .$3 50
Misses' and Children's Ox-
fords, Black and Brown;
Vlcl or Patent Leather; per
pair, $1.00 to $2.50
AGENT'S SAMPLE
CASES.
16-inch to 18-inch.
$1.75 to $5.00
AGENTS' SAMPLE
CASES
16-inch to 18-inch
$1.75 to $5.00
White Belts and Bags
White Kid Belts with hand
some Tinted and Pearl
Buckles, up to .....$1.50
White Charlton Bags, each.. $1.00
White Embroidered Linen Bags,
each 65c
White Leather Bags, each $1.00
All these White Bags can be
washed.
?
Shoes
Complete line of White Can
vas Oxfords, per pair $1.50
Special
Women's Oxfords, Patent
Leather; all sizes per pair. .$2.49
Report of a "Useless" Committee Makes Members
v Sit Up and Take Notice
The great number of useless committees in the legislature of the various
states has long been recognized, but no effort has ever been made to abolish
them. In fact, their existence and continuance has been looked upon as
a joke. "
...
During the present legislative season one of these committees "made
good" much to the surprise of their fellow lawmakers. It is the house
committee on mines and mining in the Nebraska legislature. '
There are no mines in the state except a few coal diggings in Nemaha
county. The committee was appointed nevertheless and gravely went about
its appointed task of doing nothing. -
OUTPUT OF NEBRASKA MINES
However, just before the close of the session, the chairman announced
that his committee was ready to report, and here is what he handed it:
As miners we have dug up the following, based on statistics of 1905, as
near as possible: ' ,
From our wheat mines we dug np. .......... .7. .. .. 28,940,629 .
Colorado gold mines produced 24,395,800 '
Balance in favor of Nebraska. . . : .,v . , $
From our alfalfa mines we dug up .....:.....$ li,715,840
Alaska gold mines produced 9,160,500
4,544,829
Balance in favor of Nebraska
Our hens scratched from the grass roots. .......... t 4,650,736
The gold mines of Arizona produced ' 3,343,900
Balance in favor of Nebraska
From the concentration of grasses and grains into
beef and pork we dug up ..;..$ 81,792,311
Michigan produced from iron, copper and coal ' 46,596,259
$ 2,555,340 c ri
1,306,836 ;
Balance In favor of Nebraska .,
The total dug up from our grain mines. ...$149,376,549
Produced from Pennsylvania coal mines 103,564,182
35,196,052
ft ' Jps
If you should go into the offices of the Metro
politan Street Railroad company in New York
city, a corporation controlling several hundred
miles of trackage and many hundred cars, and
representing an Investment of $200,000,000, and
should have business calling for the attention of
the general manager, you would probably get a
surprise when he appeared, unless you knew him.
For you would not be ushered into the presence
of a graybeard with furrowed face, showing the
years of business experience qualifying him for
so important a position, but a mere lad in ap
pearance a college freshman. Tall, raw-boned,
keenly alert, he would stand before you and trans
act his business with a sureness and briskness
that would startle.
This is Oren Root, nephew of the secretary of state, and recently made,
while scarcely over 30, vice president of this vast corporation.
Young Oren Root is the youngest railroad manager in the world. By
heer ability and hard work, within eight years, he has worked up from a
clerkship to be general manager of the Metropolitan Street Railway system.
He has 460 miles-of road to oversee and 14,000 men to direct. Mr. Root, a
Hamilton college graduate, without any sort of technical experience, began
as a lerk in the company's offices. Noting his quality, H. H. Vreeland, then
general manager of the road, determined to advance him. At his suggestion,
Mr. Root worked as a cable-car grlpman, then as a motorman, and then as a
conductor. Thus he gained an insight into the operation of the roads. Grad
uating from this hard school, Mr. Root became an inspector, starter and
general utility man about the barns of the company. 1 After that he was made
assistant general manager, and finally general manager. Mr. Root does not
even look 29 years old. H Is smoothly shaven, has light hair and blue eyes.
He has stalwart shoulders and untiring energy. In all the time he has been
employed by the Metropolitan system he has been out of New York only
seven days, and that was when, at the request of a syndicate, he went to
Chicago to examine the street railway system there. Upon his report the
indicate bought control of it in that city.
Millions of Instruments Are In Use in
This Country.
Washington. Statistics issued at
the close of the year 1906 show that
there were in use in the United States
alone more than 7,000,000 telephones,
while an aggregate of a little more
than 6,000,000 miles of wire was used
for telephone service.
The telephone industry gives em
ployment to 90,000 persons in the
United States, an increase of 171 per
cent, in six years, while during the
same period the number of stations
has increased 239 per cent, and the
wire mileage 349 per cent.
There is little doubt that much of
this increase is due to the general
adoption of the so-called message rate
system in place of the flat annual
charge formerly In vogue. By making
the charges proportional to the num
ber of calls the use of the , telephone
has been widely extended both be
cause of the greater willingness of
people to become subscribers under
such conditions and because the sys
tem gives -an incentive to the - local
telephone companies to give good ser
vice and encourage the use of the tele
phone. Another cause for the increase in
the number of telephones in use is
doubtless the extending number of
large business buildings in various
cities, since the telephone is an ah-;
solute necessity in the modern tall
building, making it possible to tran
sact business as well from the twen
tieth story as from the ground floor.
The installation of the telephone in
every suite in the modern hotel and:
large apartment house accounts for a
portion of the increase.
EAT SWEETS, SAYS DOCTOR.
Sugar Most Strengthening and Choco
late Antidote for Fatigue.
London. A noted Harley street
physician bids fair to become the
most popular physician in London,
especially among, the youth of both
sexes and among the dentists. Every
body should eat at least a quarter of
a pound of sweets daily is his dictum..
"Nothing," he says, "is- more
strengthening than sugar. It is pos
sible to work for hours after eating
four ounces of chocolate without feel
ing the slightest fatigue. If I had my
way every soldier in the British army
snould be allowed a quarter of a
pound of sweets every? day. My prac
tice is to take five or six lumps of
sugar in every cup of coffee or tea,
Asked as to toothache, the physician
replied: "I can only advise people to
clean their teeth oftener."
Balance in favor of Nebraska.. ' ' $ 35,815,367
Total dug up In Nebraska mines' $247,898,482 I
Total gold and silver produced in United States and
Alaska ; 122,290,097 .. . ..
; $125,608,385
Balance in favor of Nebraska.
We have dug from our school bdoks an education that places Nebraska
in the highest rank of any state in the union.
The committee could have gone further and said, "We beg to report an
old Nebraska mine which has been worked quietly for years, successfully,
by a number of rich Eastern companies who have sent East the output.
Statistics show that these companies have shipped East about $25,000,000
in cash taken from this mine in the past fifteen years, which has been almost
entirely lost to the state. ' "
This committee might further report that they have, discovered in Lin
coln, the capitol of the state of Nebraska, a company which is prepared to
work this mine, divide the profits with its operatives and keep all the
money at home. It is the greatest policy holder's company in the. United
States. It has been at work in this state over twenty years.1 'and notwith
standing the fact that its rates average about $4.00 less per thousand than
the rates: of Eastern companies, it has dug up over $2,000,000 of assets,
every dollar of which stays at home. It is maturing con tracts, made in the
last ten, fifteen and twenty years, above the estimates made when the pol
icies were written, a result attained by no other company in this country.
This is the Old Line Bankers Life of Nebraska, and the committee could
recommend, in view of its lower rates and because of the fact that the
entire product will remain here permanently enriching -the state, that this
mine be operated in the future by this home company to the advantage of
every business interest and citizen of Nebraska. . :
KUROKI WAR GENIUS
Among all the ihe'n vwho.'gaihed distinction In
the Russo-Japanese war none' has attained a high
er place in the esteem of his .countrymen and In
the respect of the soldiers .throughout the 'world
than Gen. Baron Itei Kuroki, commander of the.
Japanese first army, now visiting in this ' country.
Until- the appearance of Field Marshal Oyama be
fore Liao Yang Kuroki was in supreme command
of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, and even
after the arrival of his superior officer, Kuroki
remained very much in the lime-light during the
remainder of the campaign. "'.
Kuroki it was whose military genius and ac
tivity forced the Russians to make the first of:
those "masterly retreats" that later became so
nuch of a habit with the czar's soldiers that they
will go down in history as the principal features
of the war. Absolute coolness and military daring of a character such as
few commanders in history have displayed are Kuroki's principal character
istics as a leader. r '
When the occasion, la his opinion, required it, Kuroki did not hesitate
to go against all the established rules of attack and defense.
Military observers on duty with the little Japanese commander com
mented freely on his wonderful nerve, but from the fact that his apparently
foolhardy maneuvers were almost invariably successful they could do nothing
else but praise him. .
GIVES MILLION TO CITY
Gen.' William Jackson Palmer, whp has of
fered $1,000,000 worth of land to Colorado Springs
for park purposes,- finds at 70 years of age that he
has too much money. He thought the i same
six: years ago, when he sold his interest in the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad to the Goulds for
$6,000,000. At that time he turned over tie prince
ly sum of $1,000,000 for distribution among his
former employes on the railroad.
Palmer began life in 1853 in the employ Of
the Pennsylvania road.. Her" quit to serve through
the civil war in the union army, retiring with the
rank of brigadier general. He then went west
and helped build the Kansas Pacific line.
Gen. Palmer was the first v president of the
Denver & Rio Grande, which he built through
Colorado in 1871. He founded Colorado Springs
July 13, 1871. Ever since he has made his home at Glen Eyrie, a picturesque
canyon just north of the Garden of, the Gods, three miles northwest of that
city. He has given liberally to Colorado college. Recently he gave the city
Austin Bluffs, about 1,000 acres, for park purposes.' He says he has ,retlred
from railroading and he has invested Jiis millions in building. up Colorado;
Springs and in other public enterprises. He is averse to notoriety, but no
Colorado pioneer has greater claims for distinction. 1 '..'-
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