FEBRUARY 26 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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In Silk, Wool and Wash Dress Fabrics
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Choice Spring Novelties Silks
Foulards, fine quality, beautiful effects, in pin dots on black or navy blue grounds
at..... 79c
Cheney Bros. Foulards, best quality, in ring patterns on navy blus grounds
at $1 00
Novelty Taffetas, in Pekin stripes, blue and white or black and white, very pretty
for waists, at 85c
Changeable Taffetas, 24 inches wide, in all the popular color combinations at 95c
Fancy Velveteens, black ground with white metallic figures, at 75c
Black Silks Peau de Soie, all pure silk, deep, lustrous black; special values at
$1.25 and II 00
Black Gros Grain Silk, splendid quality, beautiful finish, at... $1 00
Wool Dress Goods
Mohair Dress Fabrics promise to be in great demand the coming season; we show
a full line of colors in plain including black or white at.. 50c
Corded Albatros, for fancy waiatings, all wool and choice colors, at.;.. 65c
Printed Challis, in this season's choicest printings at 75c, G5c and 50o
Black Wool Dress. Goods Black Voille, 46 inches wide, fine quality, very firm,
open mesh; special values at 11.25 and $1 00
Black Novelty Granite-Cloths, a handsome line, particularly adapted for separate
skirts at $150 and. $1 25
Wash Fabrics
- Never before have we shown auch an exquisite line of high grade novelty
Wash Goods as we do this season. This line is so extensive that it is simply im
possible to enumerate the different weaves shown. We extend to all a cordial in
vitation to call and look through our line. It Will afford us a great pleasure to
show them to you.
Shoe Department
You are kindly asked to investigate the values we offer in shoes this week.
Ladies shoes, in fine kid up-to-date styles, heavy or light soles, patent tips, this
week at $2.00'and : $150
Ladies' Fine Oxfords, new goods just received, nearly all styles at $2.00, $1.75
and . SI 50
Dancing or party sliprers, patent kid or fine Vici at $3.00, $2.50 and. . ..... $2 00
Misses' and Children's Shoes, in several lots, offered away below what same grade
of shoes are sold for elsewhere.
Send for samples. Mention this paper.
Ladies' Cloak and Suit De
partment
We can show a complete new line of all the newest and latest styles in Ladies
Jackets, Suits, Skirts and Waists. We are particularly anxious for youtose
them.
250 Ladies' Coats1, in 42, 27 and 19-inch lengths, mostly blacks, a few Oxford, red
blue and castor; in sizes 32 and 34 only; worth $10, $12, $15, $16.50,$18 and $20;
extra special, at v. ..$250
Choice of any Ladies' Coats in our stock in all size except 32 and 31 as above
mentioned, at ONE-HALF OFF THE REGULAR PRICE.
200 Children's Percale and Gingham Dresses, in pink, blue or gray; in ages 8, 10,'
12 and 14 years; worth $1.00, $1.23 and $1.50; to reduce stock, your choice at,:
ach... -50o
Eiderdown Dressing Sacques, all sizes, pink, blue, red or gray; were $1.25 and
$1.50; choice, each, at . .. 50o
Gent's Furnishings
We have just received the largest line of Men's Fine Silk Neckwear ever received
by us. The line include? all the new up-to-date shapes and colors, in all sizes
of Four-in-hands, Tecks, Strings and Bows, etc., including the popular little
"dinky" Striog and Bow. Large assortment at 50c and 25 O
We will show this season by far the largest and best values in Men's Fine, Fancy
Shirts, we ever carried. Our shirts are all made by the most reputable shirt
factories in the country. The styles are mostly exclusive with us, and wo
would be very glad to have you look them over before you make your pur
chases. Price, $1.50, $1.25, $1.00, 75c and 50o
We have just received a new line of Trunks, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases. The
styles are correct and the values we offer them at will not be duplicated elsewhere.
Visit this department for anything you need in the line of underwear.
Hosiery Department.
Our lines of Spring Hosiery are arriving and we are showing many new and
handsome patterns and designs in Fancy and Lace effects. - At the value we offer
them will not be duplicated elsewhere.
Ladies' Hose, extra heavy, double heels and toes, with extra double soles. Extra
good wearing hose, at only 15c
Ladies' Hose, plain black, full fashioned, split or all white feet, double heels and
toes, extra double soles. Extra good values at - 25 C
HERtf ARE VALUES! Misses' and Childrena Ribbed Hose heavy quality,
double heels, toes and knees, all sizes; 2 pair for 25c
Ladies' Imported Lace Hose, in beautiful designs, at $1.25, $1.00, 75c, 50c and 35c
Ladies' Lace Hose, in cotton or lisle, handsome designs, at, only 25c
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God's Revenues
Editor Independent: I would like to
ask the editor if he does not see intent
on the part of the Creator in the fol
lowing instances, viz: that men were
given feet to walk with; that birds
were given wings to fly with; that
fishes were made to live in water and
men to live on land? Of course he
does. Are not all these things writ
large on the face of nature? Does the
editor want additional "documents
With the Almighty's signature attached
containing the law laid down by Him"
in these cases, before he will be con
vinced of His intentions? Or will he
say that the intent of the Creator
stopped here? Not at all. Hence, if
he would learn the intent of the Cre
ator itx social affairs, let him but look
and he will find that the Creator made
man to live in society, and knowing
that society would need revenues, He,
at the same time, provided the rev
enue, just as He provides milk in the
breast of the mother for the nourish
ment of the child.
The revenues which the Creator pro
vided for the needs of the community
Is that wealth which is not due to the
labor of any individual, but is the
free offer of nature seen wherever one
piece of land will yield more to the
same application of labor than an
other piece of land;- or what is known
in the terminology of political econ
omy as economic rent. To take this
wealth in the form of a single tax,
and with it pay common expenses, is
the way single taxers propose to con
form to the natural law or intent of
the Creator. And it is the refusal to
do this, and the permitting of indi
viduals to misappropriate this rev
enue as they do where land is treat
ed as private property that causes
most of the ills which afflict the body
politic, even as withholding the milk
in her breast injures the mother and
robs the child of the nourishment
which the Creator intended for it
rermit me to say that the single
taxer whom you criticise in your last
issue for speaking of the single tax
as "the natural tax laid down by the
Creator," was wholly right, prepos
terous as his assertion must have
sounded to you. C. F. SIIANDREW.
Germantown. Pa.
(Either the Creator gave man some
discretion as to the formation of the
society he lives in, or He did not. If
lie did not, then the single tax is
wrong and far from being the "nat
ural tax laid down by the Creator,"
because it is not employed in any so
ciety on earth today. If He did give
man some freedom as to detail, and
really designed the single tax as a
divine .method of raising revenues,
then man has been an interminably
long time making any headway toward
adopting the tax schedule of Omnisci
ence. One of the definitions Webster gives
to "revenue" is: "The annual yield
of taxes, etc., which a nation, etn.,
collects and receives into the treasury
for public use." How coM the tax
gatherer collect land values God-ordained
revenues for the model society?
Evidently Mr. Shandrew has been
studying "Progress and Poverty" so
earnestly that he, too, resorts to "el
liptical expressions."
If single taxers will brush away this
nonsense about their scheme being
"natural" "and "laid down by the Cre
ator," and simply make their fight
upon the ground that land values con
stitute the best basis upon which to
calculate the amount of tax each
should contribute, and quit crying out
"robbery" at the suggestion, of taking
man-made wealth for revenue (for all
taxes must be paid in the things man
produces by his labor, no matter how
the amount is calculated and ascer
tained), it is highly probable they
would make greater headway. Ed.
Ind.)
Forests in Sand Hills
Washington, D. C, Feb. 18, 1903.
The task of growing valuable forests
on the barren sand hills of Nebraska
will begin' this spring, when the bu
reau of forestry will seed about 100
acres of the Dismal river forest reserve,
near Halsey with red cedar and jack
pine. If the seeding succeeds and is
done with , economy, the bureau will
seed and plant the following year
probably 1,000 acres in cedar and pines
and will ultimately extend the forest
by gradual plantings over a large part
of the 208,000 acres in the Dismal river
and Niobrara reserves.
A nursery has been established at
Halsey, in the valley of the Middle
Loup river, with a half-acre seed bed
protected by laths. A tool house and
office building have been built. Near
ly 000 pounds of seed principally
western yellow pine, red cedar and
jack pine, has been collected for plant
ing in the spring.
The sand hills are unfit for agriculture.-
If large forests can be grown
on them, the timber will be of very
great value to a country now without
trees, where lumber brings high
prices. The attempt of the bureau
has every chance of success. '
