Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1889, Page 9

twif THE OMAHA 'SUNDAY N NETEENTH YEAR. GRAND HOLID Toys Awful Cheap in Qur Lo We Prdclaim to the Masses of t Uptown stores ask, in many instances, twice as much for fancy articles as we do. BASEMENT. * 1000 DOZEIN SILK MUFFLERS AND HANDKERCHIEFS. Just received by Field, Chapman & Fenner, ‘This was the largest sale of express from the great auction sale of Messrs: i 8364, 366 Broadway, New York City. ilk Mufflers that has ever taken place in New Yurk’fmul our buyer secured some very choice goods at very low prices, LOT 1: BROCA DED MUFFLERS. This is an olegant Brocaded Mufller, an exact imitation of silk, in cream and white only. We have always sold for 0c pal bt AR Ao At tLOT 2: COLORED SATEEN MUIFFLERS This is in very showy colors, in all bright colors, full gize, and a real bargain. LOT 3: ALL SILK MUFFLERS. This lot includes over 50 differcnt styles of Mufflers, plain white, broeaded and all colors. LOT 4: IMFORTED SILK MUFFLERS. In this lot are some ot the finest Mufflers we ever car- rmed: in endless variety. LOT 5: VERY FINEST MUFFLERS. In this lot are Mafflers that would be a bargain au £3.50 if We offer them at $1.49. bought in the regular way. LOT 6: SILK HANDKERCHIEE'S, is o nice large All Silk Handkerchief, plain and brocaded, in dozens of different styles, LOT 7: SILK BANDKERCHIEF'S. This lot comprises over 20 different styles ot very fine and choice Handkerchiefs. hese goods go on sale Monday and Tuesday. AT ‘Worth 50c. AT ‘Worth $1.00. 75¢ ‘Worth 81.50. | 99c ‘Worth $2.00. $1.49 ‘Worth up to $3.60 e —————————— e | 25 ‘Worth 50c. AT 49¢ ‘Worth 81.00. J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS, 502, 504, 506, 508, 510 SOUTH 13'TH STREET. OMAHA, S INDAY MORNING, DECEMBER AY SALE T0-M “THE | 502, 504, 506, 508 and 510 SOUTH 13TH STREET. he People, WE ARE YOUR STORE AND WE CATER FOR YOUR TRADE. Unequalled attractions, unexcelled in the matter of prices at which we sell our goods HERE ARE OUR PRICES ON CLOAKS! Our stock of must be sold. 'V Plush Cloak! OUR $15 N CLOAKS, M . OUR %19,75 $ 15 5 oU FARL $25| 00 CLOAKS, £350.00 TAL 'MARKETS, $ ] OUE_¥50.00 SEAL SEAL PrrL il CLOAK SEAL PLUSH WRAPS, onks is entirely to large, and to-morrow they derntion. markets! fe $5.00 B8 T80 $ 9.50 $12.50 OUR %15.00 ALL WOOL BEAVER NEWMARKET, OUR¥15.00 CHECKED AND STRIPIED NEWMARKET, OUR$235.00 SILK MALTESE NEWMARKET, MILLINERY. LET *ER GO, SANTA CLAUS SALE! HA'TS, 5¢ 10e. 25¢, 50¢, 75¢, §1 each; nothing but 'tne newest and latest sliazes. NCY FEA R 3] new goods. all shades. PATTER Al an & . R OPEN EV ac, 10¢, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢, BONNETS, 'Hhv-v. $1; all clean, j §1.50 1o 8§6; 25 peér gen ices for everyihi; NTIL 9 O'CLOVK, less than illinery. 22, 1880~TWENTY RROW and TUES! AlIR"” Dress BEE. PAGES. PAGES NUMBER AY 185 Dolls Wonderfully Cheap in Our * BASEMENT. * Goods Linings and Buttons at Half Price To-morrow 756 Full Dress Patterns of | 45 Dress Double Fold Fancy Cuality natish 52 In Black Twilled Suitings, With Side Bands, $1.a0 This 18 & fuil Dress Patters 85 Dress Patterns of Best Quality Englsh Broadcloth, $4.20 Worth double this price. In Bluck A Full Dr Containing A Full Dress Pattern op Genuine Cornet Brand- luck 610 Grain Silk, $13.60 16 yards in each pattern, Genuine Regatta (an't be 85 Elegant Dress Patterns, Silk Finish Henrietta, $4.10 Wide Gros Grain Silk $14.15 85 Dress Patterns In French Imported Tricot and CASTOR CLomH, $3.40 Look at these. 24 Side Band Effects PARIS ROBES, $0.30 Worth 810, A Full Dress Pattern Containing 16 yards Yery Wide Elegant Cashmere GUINET SILK, $11.89 None Better. Patterns Best Henrietta 30 and Coiors, and Colors, No two alike. ress Pattern, 16 yards Very duplicated. J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS.|J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS, 502, 504, 506, 508, 510 SOUTH 13TH STREET ., 502, 504 506, 508, 510 SOU 'H 13TH STREETS. Closing Out Sale —OK Blankets -~AND— Comforters! 182 piir large full BLANKE 'S, 75c¢ Pair. Verv fine White or Shiver Gray RLAN=- KEDs, $1.25 Pair. Fine Wool White BLANKE 'S, $1.69 Pair. Very finest lamb's wool White BLAN=- KE1S, $3.25. 11-4 all wonl California BLANKETS, $5.00 Pair. $.15 COMI‘Q\F.’I’ERS $1.35 Lxtes ”\t:““»’{'“;"mr $I : 9'5“ $2.50 Each. J.L. BRANDEIS & SONS 502, 504, 506, 508, 510 S, 13th width White COMFORTERS CHINTZ 'COMFORTERS THE POURING OF LIBATIONS. How Christmas Wus Spent in Omaha by Barly Citizans. SOME OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS. Probably the Kirst Turkey Which Ever Graced the Table of an Omaha Man and Its Cost. They Were All Young, 'OME of thestaid old citizens of Omaha, the men who today L7 represent the city’s: € wealth and dignity, may not remember in a few weeks the pleasures that the coming Christmas E will have brought them, They will soon forget just what Christmas it was thit their children made them a present of some elegant contrivance in gold and gilt, but tiuey will always remember the first Christmas they spent in Omaha when, away from home and home associations, they filled their systems with egg-nog and apple toddy, and took part in a frontier Christmas celebration. There is a» score or more men in Owaha who came here between 1858 and 1860 when Omuha was simply a trading post with- out pretensions or prospects, The celebrations were crude. Inthe ab- sence of homes, churches and social orgunizations, the male population of the village celebrated the day in a method that made up in vigor what was lackin g in decorum. **I can remember Christmas in Omaha in 1854,” said Constable William Snow- den, "1 hada house which wes used as & boarding house down on Tenth street, just opposite Metz hall, I used to have & hall-interest 1n 850 ncres of land lying east of Twentieth street, and takirg in what is now Huscall’s park, I remem- ber I sold fort, o8 of it just before Christmas in 1854, and was right in line for a time with the boys. There wasa general store on Twelfth and Jackson streets that carried everything. Two articles they carried I remember, and they were whisky of a yery poor quality and some garden seed that never bad a fair chance to exert itsalf. Well, on Christmas,in 1854,the boys got on a spree and drank up all the whisky und planted the fnrden sceds in the snow. Whom do mean by the boys? I won't tell you. Many of them are here now iu high places, and never drink anything uimtumr than champague, ava they wouldu't cire to have their names meutioned in the little festivities in which we used to indulfi . What did I have for din- ner in '64¥ That I don’t remember, ax- cept that we dida’t have turke,. had to get all our luxuries from lowa in those days,and they came high,too high for us most of the time.” Mr. Snowden’s house was the scene of the first religious services heid in Omaha, in Aufi st 1854 Rev. Mr. o Cooper, a Council Bluffs minister, also We, preached at Snowden’s on Sunday bo- fore Christmas of that year. Mr. A. B. Moore was in Omaha in 1854, and remembers his Christmas cel- ebration very well. “There were'nt many of us,” said Mr. Moore, *‘but we muade up what we lacked in numbers b, hoise,and Our epergyin getting nround, There were only a few ladies in Omaha at the time, and A. J. Hanscom. John L. Redick, und some of those fellows who were the dudes of those days, got the | girls, and the rest of us had to stag it. We had a session over a barrel full of eggnog, a very popular drink in those days and a very effective one too, and when wo got_through we didn’t pay much attention to the location of side- walks, but took the streets tor it., The nexlrymr, orin 1857 I guess it was. the legislature was in session and on Christ- mas we organized a third house and had a mock scssion of the legisiature. I remember I was a member of the com- mittee on matrimony ana had some fan out of A. J. Poppleton, a member of the logislature, who was keepsng company with old man Sears’ daughter over in Council Bluffs. J. Sterling Morton mude us a speech and after that we went out on a painting expedition as you young fellows now call it. I don’t remember just how it wound up. We had no trouble with the police, how- ever, as all the state and town officials were in the party. H, H. Judson, who used to ruo a hotel on Douglas strect near Fourteenth,was leader of the dance we had that night after our mock legis- lature had adjourned,” Mr. John A, Horbach was in Omaha on Christinas in 1855 and has a very dis- tinet recollection of the festivities of that occasion. ‘“‘The Farnhum house,” said Mv. Horbach, *'now used for an ag- ricultural warehouse on Harney street near Thirtecnth had just been opened and all of ‘the members of the legislature stopped there. I had a commission house at the time and sold the proprietors of the rhn:o $64 worth of whisky and other iquors, and I have the account on my books yet. All of the big guns got loaded with that whisky and marched up Douglas street forty abreast, yelling like Modocs, The winter was a fear- fully severe one and many of the Mor- mous who were¥hen quartered at Flor- ence died from cold und hunger. There were four feet of snow on the ground from the first of December until late in March,” The price of turkey s one of the things that ‘"Mr. Herman Kountze re- members about the Christmas of 1856, *I was living then,” smid Mr. Kountze, “with my brother Augustus and a wid- owed sister, in a little log cabin out on Tenth street where my present home uow stands, The day before Christinas @ mun came in here from some place in Towa, with a wagon load of turkeys for the Christmas trade, I paid #5 for one, they were luxuries in those days, and ad a turkey dinner for Christmas and thought we were living high.” Fred Drexel came to Omaha in 1856 and located on a farm of 350 acres where the South Omaha stockyards are now located. *He spent his first Christ- mas in Nebraska in hauling wood to Omaba. Tom Swift ecame to ()muh& recalls the first Christmus spent in this section of, the country, *'I slept that night in an old log hut in Madison county. Salisbury was running a mill in those days and [ was huulln‘{ stuff to the men, I tell you it was lonely in that cabin that night, 1t was the first Cheistmas I had spent away from home. It was oold——()dully I There was snow four feet deep all around me,” “1 was here on Christmas in 1856,” 56 and said Mr. James Creighton, ‘and re- member very distinctly that it kept me very busy getting fuel enough to keep my family from freezing. I lived at that time in a frame shanty at the cor- nerof Fourteenth and Daven port streets, where I now live.. 1 ? Why turkey that Christmas was taken from the side of a hog.” Mr. Joseph Barker lived at Webster and Twenty-second streets in 1856 and remembers his Christmas of that year because they had no potatoesin the house. ‘“‘Potatoes were scarce then,” he said, *‘and were worth 84 a bushel. We had venison, I remember that Christmas, and onions and a plum pud- ding.” George Medlock lived at Florence in 1855, and had been busy all fall digging wells, He had a stake at Christmas and blew 1t in for a quarter of beef, a $12 barrel of flour, three pounds of butter at 75 cents a pound, three bushels of potatoes at $3 a bushel and & gallon of whiskey for $2. VICTIMS OF THIRST-MADNESS, The Modern Medical Therory of,Dipso- manis.—An Unjust Law. The periodical desire for strong drink which sometimes besets individ- uals otherwise moral and exemplary is a species of paroxysmal mania beyond the control of the patient. It is quite certain that there are thousands of cases of remittent drunkenness which present the specific symptoms of dis- enso, The periodical drunkard is not a ba~ bitual dram drinker. But at particular times he appenrs to be attacked with a thirst madness which deprives him of the power of volition, and hurries him into the most terrible excesss. During the interval during the paroxysms he may be a perfectly sober man, For many weuks or even months, he may huve steadily refused to taste a drop of liquor; may,indeed,have felt noinclina~ tion forit,but on the contrary regarded it with disgust. And yet, when the fit comes on, the raging thirst for alcohol ul.tltlarly paralyzes his conscience and nis will, A man in this condition is a mono- maniac and should be treated as one, according to a writer 1n an English magazine, If put under proper restraint at the commencement of thia furor, the dipsomaniac, in nine cases out of ten, might be tided over his difficulty in the course of a week and & perseverance in the course at the recurrence of the hal- lucination would probably eventuate in & complete cure. It is not easy to persuade the world that all drunkenness is not voluntary. The law does not recognize dipsomania, It treats all inebrates alike, This seems 10 be unjust, although it is hard to say wheve the line should be drawn between free-will excessaud that which precedes from an uncontroliable mania, el e The funeral of Dr, H, H, Tucker, an emwnent Baptist divine, which took place at Atlanta a few anyl ago, was upique 10 many respects, Dr. Tucker left & letter giving instructions con- cerning his funeral. He dirccted that he be buried in & wood coffin, so that it might rot, He instructed that prayers be offored for anybody connected by afinity or consanguinity with his fam- ily; for anybody who had ever done a fayor or good tura for him.or his fam- ily; for everybody who had injured him in any way, There was to be no address of any kiod at the funeral, and no musie, only prayer and reading of serip- ture, His orders was carried out to the letter, COTSTHE JUKE ON NR, BLAIN Why Evarts Opposed the Removal of a Consul, HE COULDN'T FIND THE DOOR Then Sunset Cox Set upthe Drinks Himself—Sothern gnd the Boor —Lucky Baldwin's Costly Sk oF. Ourrent Anecdotes, ‘When Mr. Blaine was secretary of state under Garfleld one theory of his, and a not unpopular one, was in favor of limited tenures add rotation in office, says the Washington Post, If a consul had slumbered through three adminis- trations at some far-away post,in a dolce far nieute of lotus-eating and salary- drawing existence, the keen secretary astounded him by inviting a return to the shores of America and the appoint- ment of his successor. Mpr. Blaine sat in his private office one day discussing affaips of state with his immediate predecessor,ox-Secretary William Maximum Evarts. “*Now, here,” said he, ‘‘is a case in point. This man has been consul at Un Hung for for twenty years. He: went there during the war,and has remainea there ever since. Itis time he returned home to be acquainted with his country before he grows a queue. If he ‘stays there much longer Re will have a Chi- nese bias in his sight. /I shall remove him at once.” ' 1 *‘I wouldun’t remové him, Mr. Secre- tury,” replied Mr. Evapts. *“Why not¥” h “I a0 afraid it would: be an unpleas- ant thing to do. To be vulear, 1 fear it would make a stink.”’ | “*My mind is made up,” replied Mr, Blaine; ‘‘as soon as find a good, live man w0 take hig , I shall re- move him,” “But I think you willi have a grave difficulty in finding . a good, live man who would be willing idsake his place.” ‘I anticipate no supfdificulty. But will ‘ynu explain to m v, Evarts, why you ihink there wm'\r any dificulty, and—I confess I fuil tg Understand—why it will, to use your expression, make a stink?” *‘Because this map! bas been dead and buried these six, yagnths, Mr, Sec- retary,” Secretary Bayard oilee took part in the ceremony of unveiling a statute in a purk near the house occupied by Sun- sev Cox, says the Ph?lmlelphiu Tole- graph. Mr, Cox took an interest in the affair, and bad & punch-bowl in his house, around which he assembled soma of his particular friends, among thein Mr. Bayard. Mr, Bayard was among the last to appear at the brink of the bowl, and was the lust guest in the house. All the others being gone the two were quite sociable, and were disposed to extend their sociability to broader fields. “Let’s g0 take o glass with Sen- ator Blank; he’s my next door neigh- bor,” B;o]med the {It lg New Yorker. ‘The Delaware statesmen was pleased with thuwnuon. 80 away they went. They clim! the front steps next door wnd rang the bell, ‘‘Is Senstor Blank ip?” Mr. Cox nsked when the servant appeared. “Why, Mr. Cox,” the sor- vant replied, ‘*Senator Blank lives next door on the other side.” ‘Why, to be sure; to be sure,” said Mr. Cox, taking Bayard's hand; *I turned the wrong way. It is next door on the other side. Right here; right next door,” and he led the way up afew stone steps and rang the bell. He was bound to be right this time. ‘Does Senator ‘Blank live here?” he asked. “Fo the Lo’d, no, Mr. Cox; you lives here yo'self,” answered the darkey at the door. “Oj to be sure; to be sure, I guess we won’t call on the senator today. Come in, Bayard, come in; we’ll have a glass of punch,” and again the two friends walked up to the bowl to- gether. They are telling a story about E. H. Sothern, says the New York Sun. He was coming up town in a car, and upon entering found the car full, though one man took more than his share by stretching his feet out along the scat. Sothern held on to the strap and bore this for a while, but when two ladies entered and were obliged to stand his Sunoncu gave out. Leaning over the iffused man he said in a clear, loud voice, but with elaborate courtesy, and with his most honest and innocent Dun- dreary stammer: ‘“E-excuse m-me sir, for a-addressing you, b-but I'm very unxious to l-learn w-what nerve tonie you take¥” A grin spread over the faces of the passengers, the man got red, opened and shut his mouth two or three times, and then bounced up und left the car, upon which tho actor and the two ludies sat down and Sothern gazed pen- sively out of the wiudow. Cougressman Stahlnecker told me a new story about the late S. 8. Cox the other day, says the New York Star. Among the latter’s friends 1n the house was Congressman Lovejoy.a burly six footer with a big voice. The two got into an eltercation about some petty matter in a debate,and Lovejoy applied the epithet, of which the word *‘little’ was o part, that angered the wit. When he got & chance to reply, he said, *'I hope that when my friénd and fellow member passes from this mortal spare to a beautiful hereafter, the people of the district which he represents will build a mopument over him, to which they can point with pride and say: “'There lies our congressman, Lovejoy, aod thatI may be permitted to write an epitaph on one side of it. There, with the ‘Fermluiuu of the house, will be the words: “‘Beueath this marble stone good old Love- joy lies: Little in everything except his size, But tho' his burly body fills the hole, Yet through hell's keyhole crept tus little soul.” Of course, with his millions of wealth derived from his electrical machines, nobody would be fool enough to offer to ‘pay Inventor Edison for smusing her guests,- but a certain Fifth avenue matron undertook to accomplish it by diplomacy, She was going to give a reception, and through a mutual friend she invited Mr. Edison to be present. He devotes no time or attention to sooi- ety of any sort,says the New York Star but he allowed himself to be persuade: to become 8 guest on this occasion. He has become accustomed to fame and the attention of scientists, but it is possible that he felt justa littie flat- tered by the countenance of New York swelldom, Anyhow,he committed him- self t the reception, On the day pre- vious he received a note from the pros- ctive hostess very politely requesting im to bring along a vhonograph, as she thought its operation by him would , be highly aporeciated by the company. Then ho discerned the trap that was set for him, and he kept clear of 1t by writing his regrets at being compelled to break the engagement. It does not seem easy to realize how cheaply you live in California until you have tried some of the eastern hotels, says the San Francisco Chronicle. E. J. Baldwin went to a hotel in New York for arest. He was only going to stay a few hours in town. It was about 3 o’clock when he registered, and he wanted to take a little sleep before he was called at 10. The gentiemanly clerk recognized the name and the man, and looked pleased to have a whack at the long purse of the Califor- nia millionaire. Baldwin had his sev- eral hours’ sleep, and was called av 10 o’clock as ordered. He went to the office and asked for his bill. It was handed to him—$30. Mr. Baldwin looked at it: “I am very much obliged to you for waking me at 10 o’clock,” “Why?? “If T had slept afew hours more it would have busted me.” Colonel Thomas,atvone time member of congress. was in the city this week, and among tales of the old days told the following about Thaddeus Stevens, says the New York Tribune: **Thaddeus Stevens was sitting in his office one day with a few friends when in walked an old lady, wearing a poke bonnet, blue goggles, and carrying a green alpaca umbrelia, She looked around the room as if in search of some one, and then said solemnly: “'Can you tell me where to find Thaddeus Stevens, the Apostle of Lib- erty ¥ “Old Thad blushed. “*I'm Thaddeus Stevens,’ he replied shortly. **Are you Thade-e-us Stevens, the Apostle of Liberty?’ * 1 peckon [ am, ma'am.’ ““The old lady dropped her parasol, made a rush towsrd Stevens to kiss him, and when he held her off, she sad: ‘I came from Bucks county to see Thad-e-us Stevens, the Apostle of Lib- ertfl. and to take home with me a lock of his hair.’ *'The Apostle of Liberty took off his red wig, handed it to her, and said: *‘There it is, ma’am, Take as much as you want,’” Here is one of the stories that A, M* Palmer brought back from his summer trip to Europe, says the New York Sun, He overheard an animated- discussion in the Victoria hotel, London, between an Englishman and a *'Yankee,” as all citizens of the United States are called on the other side. The dispute, of course, was relative to the merits of the disputants’ respective countries, It happened that the American was a bit the readier witvh his tongue, and main- tained his ground so stubboraly that the Briton at last gave it up with the remark: ““Well, you Yankees are getting so bumptious that we shall have to send over an army pretty soon to take some of the conceit out of you,” The Amevrican’s reply was one word: “Aainy”? An old woman walking along a Brook- lyn street with a bundle of sticks ou her shoulder was accosted by & gavg of rude boys who gave her & push and sent the wood flying in evelx' irection, says the Rochester Herald, An alesnntly dressed gentleman camealong, and learning the cause of her distross, hastened to pick up her load without stopping to remove his uew tam-colored gloves, He piled the sticks in the tattered apron the ancientdame words of sympatl some sutall change, helped to plac bundle on her heud, and raising h with instinetive politeness, passed on, removing a3 he did 5o his gloves, which were ruined beyond redemption by the mud. It was thon that he was recog- nized by a reporter as ex-Congressman Timothy L. Woodruff, Walter Gale, the Happy Jack of *“The Old Homestead,” tells & oo Roland Reed and the thoatri puss fiend, says the New York Times. [t was at one of Reed’s engagements ab the Grand opera house, Chicugo. Kvery seat was sold nightly, and “standing room’’ was a coveted boon. He was an old acquuintance, who had gone from the stage into trade and found better success, Here is the dinlogue of the scene: *‘Roland, can’t seats for tonight?” “Sorry, but the only way T you two seuts is to buy them.” “0, pshaw! See if you can’t squeeze me out two seuts?” “I tell you I can only do it by buying them.” **Anywhere will do, in the balcony?” “If you must persist, come.with me to the box ofiice, and I'll show you what I oo do.” They go to the box office, and Reed passes in $5 with the remark, **Give me two seats.” A *Is that right, Roland?" “Why, of course it is; don’t you see my monoy there?” “Well, if you have got to pay for them you might us well make it three. My wife's sister would like to go.” This was too much for the comedian, who walkoed away, forgetting his change, and mumbling upon the abys- mal ‘h:uthsol human depravity.” you let me have two can give Can't you fis me A youn% lady of Mississippi was visit= ing the blue gruss region of Kentucky, and was entortained at a dinner party at the governor’s mansion, says the Sun Francisco Argonaur. During the course of the dinuer a degenerate son of the governor talked loosely about things in icnerul. and among them of a visit in lississippi, remarking that he hud not seen & protty woman in his tour through * the state. The girl from Mississippi awaited her opportunity, and during & lull in the couversation turned and nsked the governor if what she had heard of the gentlomed of Kentucky were true. The goveanor wanted to know what it was, and the attention of tne whole company was directed to the lady’s remarks: “Well,” said she, “I heard that Kentucky gentlemen edu- cate their horses and turn their sons out to grass.” Gereral Joe Hooker, & member of congress from tho Soventh Mississippi district, was one of the heroes of the late war against the union. He carries an empty sleeve as u velic of his ex- eriences on the fleld. Mujor Powell, he chief of the geological survey, was 1 the-union army und he also carrvies un umplly sleove, Gonersl Hooker's lost arm is on his right side und Major Powell’s on the left. Their remulnl): hauds are of the same proportions, ufi they have a mutual sfi:wmenl under which which they purchase gloves in common, Mnjor Powell using ull of the “rights” and General Hooker the ‘lefts,” No difliculty ever occurs be- tween them about the selection of these gloves, for they pay little utiention to the pereuniul ohunge in the modes and fushions,