Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1890, Page 17

ey PART THREE, THE OMAHA SuNDAY BEE PAGES 17 T0 20 SPECIAL ARGAIN SALE POEY ) JEE MEN’S Fine Overcoa 0YS AND CHILDREN Department. SPECIAL VALUES —]N— FINE SUITS. Nen's Double-Breasted BLACK CHEVIOT SUITS 4 Our sale of Black Cheviot Suits has been greater than the supply, ‘We have sold them all season faster than we could make tlrem and for the first time this sea- son, we find a surplus on our counters. This week we will offera line at §1 5 which 3 cannot be bought outside of the Contin- ental for less than ¢20. this line before you buy. Price $15. Elegantly made and trimmed. length, Visit this Department on Monday for Boys'andChild- ren's Overcoats. SPECIAL VALUES IN Boys Ulsters. We are showing a larger line of Boys’ Ulsters than at any previous season. Prices! 8, 0,90 a2 Special Bargain Lines of BOYS’ Cape Ouercoats LATS $3.50, $4, $3. FURNISHING GOODS DEPT. Special Sale, This Week, MEN'S ALL WOOL NDERWEAR. Price, 75 Cents a Garment. “We will sell this week 78 dozen of Men’s Natural Wool Shirts N S In all sizes 84 to 44. and Drawers at 78 cents each; $1.80 per suit. 4 Thesge goods are never retailed for less than $2.80 per suit. We guarantee them strictly all wool, full finished garments at 78 cents each, OVERCOATS. We carry by far the largest:stock of any house in this city. One glance at the enormous piles on our tables will soon con- vince you'of the fact. The purchase of a good overcoat is a matter of some importance to a close buyer. In astock like ours, you are certain to be suitegl. The rangeis from 510 TO $30. MEN'S MELTON OVERCOATS, $15 This week we will offer special values in Men's Melton Overcoats at $15. Thisis the.popular fabric this season—neat and serviceable—in several shades and all sizes, 34 to44. MEN'S BEAVER OVERCOATS, $10 We will offer this week a special line of Men's Fine Beaver Overcoats in blacks and browns at g1o each. We know this overcoat is sold by others as highas g15. Our price this week and until they are all sold will be §ro. If you cannot visit our store, send for one of this lot and if it is not as represented, it may be returned at our expense. omng Men's Double-Breasted Overeats We have sold hundreds of these nobby double-breasted overcoats this season in black and fancy cheviots, dark Meltons and plain Kerseys---elegantly made and trimmed and look like custom-made garments, They are madein our own work-rooms and combine quality and style for which our clothing is noted. The prices are not high: 22 ; $18, $2O and Sacks and Frocks at ¢8. & FREELAND, LOOMIS & CO., . Corner Douglas and Fifteenth Streets, Omaha, Neb. Be sure and sce MEN’'S BUSINESS SUITS. Price $8. We call attention to a special line of Cassimere Suits in frocks and sacks, made from a neat brown mixed cassimere, well made and trimmed, which we will sell this weck at $8 per suit. If youlive out of the city, send to us for a sample of the goods or we will send you a suit on approval. We know this to be one of the best values we have ever sold, in all sizes. E WITH MALICE TOWARD the summer evenings in this hen occupying his cottage at the ' Home. He would there read ¢ grown. He would perch upon his s knee, and sometimes. even u\mn his shoulder, while the most weighty conferences were going on. escaping from the domestic authorf he would take refuge in that sanctuar for the whole evening, dropping tosleep at laston the floor, when the president ed answer did much to gain Ayres his merited promotion, The inventors were more a source of amusement than annoyance. They were usually men of some originality of Wilson once vemonstrated with him about it: *You will wear yoursell out.” He replied with one of those smiles in which there was so much of sadness: Wi uch; they get but “{l‘,‘o“"“‘;‘:”[ whak el - W egaienhuy character, ot infroquently carried into cases he could do them no good, and it | eccentricity. 'I‘"wvll" ht}‘l? qui ml»m- afficted him to seo that he could not | prehension of mechanical principles, malco thom undevstand the impossibility | 414 ‘:\’-fli:‘-l;ltll\f:;:\lnff\fm“f,,'.'.'x Jhe iuten: of granting their requests. One hot | o would sometimes go out into the afterncon a private soldier who had | waste fields that thenlny south of the somehow gou access to him persisted, | executive mansion totest an experi- after repeated explanations that his case m"“‘ulv_mm or torpe H;& “wt‘ to was ono tobe settled by hisimmedfate | qiote with much merriment the sol o superiors, in begging that the president fil.:;"‘r“‘m “fou“'l';’t ‘;:‘]é" u:“‘f‘“l‘,“"lt,“‘;} periors, in beg ] y g rekyle would give it his personal attention, | it rekyled at all it ought to rekyle Lincoln at last burst out: *Now, my [a little forrid.” He was particu- man, go away! I cannot attend toall | larly interested in the first rude at- these dotails, Icould aseasily bale out | [mPts at the afterward famous mitrail- : i leuses; on one occasion he worked one the Potomac with a spoon. with his own hands at the arsenal, and Of course, it was not all pure waste; | sent forth peals of Homeric laughter as Mr, Lincoin gained much of informa- | the balls, which had not power to pene- tion, something of cheer an encourage- | trate the mlx;gel fie‘t "Ll?u“{( ll.l“\‘l‘t)lll,o di’;.‘o “icular- | Ance, came bounding bac g ment, {roin ihees white. Ho parfioular. shinsufHmhyfllumln‘;a l{um-mufimi.ul ly enjoyed conversing witn officers of | (g1one]l Hiram Berdan one du{ to the the army and uavy newly arrived from | camp of his sharpshooters and there the field or from s Ho listened with | practised in the trenches his long-dis- the eagerness of a child over a fairy to Garfleld's graphic account of the used skill with the rifle. A few fortu- tlo of Chickamauga; he wasalways de- of milk, a plate of fruit in its season; at dinner he ate sparingly of ono or two courses, He drank little or no wine; not that he remained always on principle a total abstainer, as he was during a part of his early life in the fervor of the “Washingtonian® raform; but he never cared for wine or liquors of any sort, and never used tobaceo. would pick him up and carry him ten- During the first year of the adminis- | derly to bed. tration the house was aade lively by the Mr, Lincoln’s life was almost games and pranks of Nr. Lir n’s two | of recreatlion. He younger children, William and Thoma the theatre, and was tobert, the eldest,.was away at I of a play of Shakes vard, only coming home for short vac: was so delighted tions. The two little boys, aged eight and ten, with their western independ- ence and enterprise, kept the house in an uproar, They drove:their tutor wila with their good-natured disobedience; they organized n minstrel show in the attic: they made acquaintance with the office-seekers and became the hot cham- pions of the distressed, William was, with all his boyish frolie, a child of great promise, capable of close applic tion and study. He had a fancy for drawing up railway. time tables, and would conduct an‘imaginary train from Chicago to New York with per- fect precision, He wrote childish verses, which sometimes attained the unmerited honors of print. But this bright, gentle, studious child sick- | quite free from ridicule. ened and died in February, 1862, His | it ” giving the marked southwestern pronun= cintion of the words **hear” and “year. A poem by William Knox, "0, wh should the spirit of mortal be proud?’ he learned by heart in his youth, and used to repeat all his life. e T A Factor of Student Lifo. The *conditions of student life in all American uni ties and colleges have shifted in kable degree in the last half centur; The advancing stand- ard of scholatship, the broader and more complex forms of intelloctual nc- i linked with incrensing social have compelled the atten- Sometimes for audience, The plays he most effecied were *Hamlet,” *Machoth” and esof histories; among thess he w of “Richard the nd.” The terrible outburst of grief and de- spair into which Richard falls in thesec- t had a peculiar fascination for him, I +have heard him read it at Springfield, at the White House and at the Soldiers’ Home, * * % He read Shakespeare more than all other writers together, He made no at- | g, tempt to keep pace with the ovdinary | tion of thinking men to the probe literature of the duy. Sometimes he | lom of retaining an equable balan read a scientific work with lkkeen appre- | hopwi 1 the mental and physical ciatiation, but he ]{umu:(l systematic | powers, Walter Camp says in an illus cour He owed less to reading than | trated art n Outing for Novemt He delighted in Burns; he | that athle for athletics’ snke, always uy after reading those exquis- | would have existed as a featurs of eol- of Glencairn beginning, “I'he | logo life regurdless of their higher oom muy forget tho bride,” that | yalue, but when to the zeal and zest of never touched a sentiment with- | their actual enjoyment was added the ing itto its ultimate oxpression | conviction that” they were an absolute aving nothing further to be said.” y penefit, physically and mentally, their homas Hood he was also ex- 1 position asa factor of student life bes e y fond. He often rcad aloud | came assured, Perhaps athletics in any +The Haunted House.” He would g0 10 ¢ given degree became established in our bed with a volume of Hood in his hands, | ¢olleges us soon as that degree was as- and would sometimes rise at midnight | ceptained. Cortain it s that the old and traversing long halls of the execu- | conditions made no such demands as the tive mansion in his night clothes would { modern. The Daily Life of Abraham Lincoln at the : ‘White House, SOME , INTERESTING REMINISCENCES, A Great. Heart Made Sorrowful by , Contact with the Suffering Brought About by the Ex- igencies of War. devoid sometimes went to particularly fond well acted. He with Hackeit in warm congratulation, which ple: the veteran actor so much that he gave it to the New York Heraid, which printed it with abusive comments, Hackett was greatly mortified and made sultable apologies upon which the presilent wrote to him again in the kindllest man- saying: vo yourself no uneasiness on the subject. . . . T certainly did not ex- pect tosee my note in print, yet I have not been much shocked by the com- mentsuponit. Theyarea fair speci- men of what has occurred to me through life. T have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not In the midst of a crowd of visitors who began to arrive early in the morning, and who were put out, grumbling, by the servants who closed the doors at midnight, the presidont pursued those labors which will carry his name to dis- tant ages, writes Colonel Hay in the Century, There was little order or sys- tem about it; those around him strove from beginning to end to erect barriers to defend him from constant interrup- tions, but the president himsell was always the first to breals them down, He ner, nate shgts from his own gunand his 1 am used to ploasure at_the still better marksmane aisliked anything that kept people from him who wanted to see him, and although the continual contact with im- portunity which he could not satisfy, and with distress which he could not always relieve, wore terribly upon him and mnde him an old man before his time, ho would never take the necessary meas- uves to defend himself. He continued tothe end receiving these swarms of visitors, everone of whom, even the most welcome, took something from him in the way of wasted nervous force, Henry lighted with the wise and witty sailor talk of John A, Dahlgren, Gustavus V, Fox and Commander Henry A, Wise, Sometimes a word fitly spoken had its results, When R. B. Ayres called on him in company with Senator Harris and was introduced as a captain of ar- tillery who had taken part in a recent unsuccessful engagement, he asked: “How many guns didyou take in “Six,” Ayres answered. *‘How many did you bring out?” the lu‘e:ldun! asked wallciously, “Eight.” This unexpect ship of Berdan ledto the arming of that admirable regiment with breech-loadors* At luncheon time he had literally to run the gauntlet through the crowds who filled the corridors between his office and the rooms at the west end of the house oceupied by the family, The afternoon wore away in much d)m same manner as the morning; late in theday he usually drove out for an hour’s air- ingiat 6 o'clock he dined. He was one of the most abstemious of men; the pleasures of the table had few attrac- tions for him, Hisbreakfast was an egg and a cupof coffee; at luncheon he rarely ok more than a biscult and a glass father was profoundly moved by his death, though he gave no outward sign of his trouble, but kept about his work the same as ever, is bereaved heart seemed aftdrward to pour out its fullness on his youngest child, “Tad” was a merry, warm-blooded kindly littie boy, verfectly lawless and full of odd fancies and inventions, the ‘‘chartered libe tine’ of the exccutive mansion. He ran continually in and out of his father’s cabingt, interrupting his gravest labors and conversations with hisbright, rapid, and very imperfect speech—for he had an impediment which made his articula- tion almost unintelligible untyl he was This incident had the usual sequel; the veteran commedian asked for an | office, which the president was not nhlul to give him, and the pleasant acquaint- ance ceased, A hundred times this ex- perience was repeated; & man whose disposition and tulk were agreeable would be introduced 1 the president; he took pleasure in his conversationsfor two or three interviews and then this congenial person would ask some favor impossible to grant, and go away in bit- torness of epi It is a cross that every president mest bear, When only ¢neor two were present ke was fond of reading aloud, He passed “Falstaff” that he wrote him a letter of ’ come to his secretary’s room and read aloud something that especially pleased him. He wanted to share his enjoyment of the writer; it was dull pleasure to him to laugh alone. He read Bryant and Whittier with appreciation; there were many poems of Holmes that he read with intense relish. ‘The Last Leaf” was one of his favorites; he knew it by heart, and often used to repeat with deep feelin Tho mossy marbles rest Un the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, Anil the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many & year Ou the towb; It is these glints of color in the picture of college days that stand forever bright and steadfast when other outlines be- come blurred and indistinet, You do'not remember whether Thorpwright was edictorian or not, but you can never forget that glorious run'of hisin tha foutball game of 18—, when, with his ad- versaries 'eft nehind, he made the touch= down that gave {INII‘ college the chums pionship and added another silk flag to the trophy room. Norcan you blot out of your memory, even if you would, tha “three-bagger” he made in the last half of the ninth inning, bringing in the winuing runs,