Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1894, Page 12

12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, - THE 0AK IN A MIGATY CALE Reoollections of Pennsylvania's Great Com- moner in War Times, THE LEADERSHIP OF THADDEUS STEVZN Unbending Integrity and Fearlessness Min gled with Biting Sarcasm-—Ex-Senator Dawes Sketches Thrilling In- cidents In His Life. (Copyrighted, 1894, by McClure.) Those entitled to rank as leaders in the military service of the country have been exceedingly fortuniate in their historians. Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Logan have each put upon the permanent pages of thelr country's history a record of the great events of which they were themselves the central flgure with an accuracy ai fidelity equalled only by the modesty and imperson- ality of their narrative of their own leader- ship. There has been much written also— none too much—of the personal exploits and sacrifices of other less conspicuous but equally brave and devoted military heroes. But of the civil leaders during the same critical period and the crucial one of reconstruction which followed, nothing comparatively has been written. Lincoln, who was at the same time military and civic head of the govern- ment, is almost the only exception. Frag- mentary and Imperfect sketches of the work, here and there, of a few others conspicuous in the civil service of the country during those periods Is all that has been, as yet, con- tributed for the perusal of coming genera- tions, commemorating a service, if less dazzling and attractive, still not less essential and vital than the achievements of victorious armies and their immortal commanders. It 18 to render an act of justica, tardy enough and long overdue, to two cf these civil leaders that this article is written by one who was Dy thelr side as a witness of the commanding and leading influence in the direction of public affairs exerted by these men in shap- ing events which preceded army movements and fn establishing those bases of supply without which there could have been no movements of armies as well as in securing the compensating fruits of success without which victory itself would have been disaster. ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE. Thaddeus Stevens entered the preliminary conflicts which led to the civil war at the opening of the Thirty-sixth congress as the representative of the Lancaster district in Pennsylvania, the home of Mr. Buchanan, then midway in his most pitiable and disa: trous presidential term. He had already at- tained the advanced age of 66. He had pre- viously served four years as a representative and had been In retirement six years. He and Mr. Buchanan had been intense political opponents all their political lives. They had, however, lived as neighbors in the same town, maintaining rigidly and with extreme formality all the outward forms of polite in- tercourse, concealing from public observation under the guise of an extreme courtesy of de- meanor that intense personal hostility which their followers openly manifested. Mr. Stevens had voluntarily retired from public life to the practice of his profession, but the gathering storm was so surcharged with electricity, and the lamentablo weaknesses of his old oppo- nent were glving such direct ald to his hered- ftary foes that, like the old war horse who snufts the battle from afar, he sought to re- enter the lists. On the night of his election he telegraphed the unwelcome news to the president, his long-time most formidable po- litical foe, In this apparently innocent mes- ssage: “I'm.on my way to Washington.” No ‘one' else, hardly Mr. Stevens himself, under- stood its true meaning, however, as well as did Mr. Buchanan. The Thirty-sixth congress, to which Mr. Stevens had been returned after a retire- ment of six years, was the one next pre- ceding the inauguration of Mr. Lincaln, and the war of the rebellion. In it the struggle of a halg century for the extension and per- etual domination of slavery in the repub- fc had come to naught, and it was the one in which was kenneled the treason that fail- ure had begotten. The repeal of the Missouri compromise had brought fatal weakness upon the cause it was intended to strengthen. The Kansas-Nebraska act had proved worse than dry ashes in the grasp of the slave power, for it had secured the admission of two new free states Into the union instead of two glave states, and had thus turned for the future the balance between siave and free states on the side of freedom instead of slavery for which that repeal had been pro- Jected. And before the close of this congress & new one and a president had been clected upon the distinct lssue of free soil. No congress since the beginning of’ the govern- ment had been so shaken with conyulsions as this one. AT ONCE BECOMES A LEADER. Into this congress Mr. Stevens came at the age of 67 to deal with the men and measures of a period in our history without parallel in the depth and reach of the purposes or in the grandeur of the results which have made its record immortal. The place of leader was at once conceded to him, and was maintained till he died after a continuous service of nearly ten of the most eventful years in our annals, In all that time and during all its storms and crises he never for a moment relaxed the hold upon that supremacy which 1s ever accorded to the biggest brain and the stiffest will. There was not an hour in the ten years that he was not in armor and searcely one that he was not in battle, but * there is no record of a bended knee or a broken lance. The whole life of this man and all there was in him were aids to that brain power and unbending will which made him the un- rivaled leader he was. The field on which he took command was the battiefield of freedom | and slavery, and he had been bred a lover of the one and a hater of the other. Born of the freedom and force from which men | epring in_the bracing atmosphere of Ver- mont, and to no other estate but poverty and opportunity, a graduato of that Dart- mouth college which sent forth to a great public career such men as Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate and Salmon P. Chase, with which he took rank in public life, he cast his lot in the yet new and undeveloped portion of the state of Pennsylvania before he had reached his majority. With this people he passed the remainder of his life devoted to the progressive and perpetual struggle of manhood to assert its superiority over the accidents of birth and wealth and pride and prejudice, with which it is so often weighted in the race that all must enter. There was to him no discharge in that warfare, and the armor which he buckled on at the outset was laid aside only when work with him was done. This be- camo to him In after lfe religion and theology as well as politics, and he had little <elso of either. His perseverance in this creed, like that of the saints, failed him not to the end. It was the spirit which thirty years before this period, in fighting against the color line and for free schools in the Pennslyvania constitutional convention, rompled him to declare that “If this is to a struggle betwcen tho powers of light ~and the powers of darkness, I go for him whose banner streams in the light.” And it was the same pirlt which, living through al the subsequent years of conflict and of trial, found utterance again in solemn direc- tions in his will for this inscription upon his tomb: “I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural prefer- ence for solitude, but finding cther cemeterles limited by charter rules to race, I have chosen It that I might be enabled to fllustrate «in my death the principles which I have advocated through a long life—equality of man befors his Creator.” 1In all the inter- wening years this spirit which found such striking utterance at the threshold and at the close of his publio career directed and determived all his conduct. STEVENS AS AN ORATOR. ‘When, therefore, Mr. Stevens was called back to the public service ho did not enter _upon the exciting scenes with which the Thirty-#ixth congress opened as & raw recruit, but as a soldier already trained for the very Teadership which was at the outset accorded _ Bim. And he came with every faculty in him qaickened and drilled ready for the o ¢ pervice. And they were no ordinary facul- 4 tles. Few, If any, public men in our history, ...+ o contemporary, were £o richly endowed by R turo for the very place he was to fill and rk which Lenceforth fell to his lot. He had the Instinct of an orator without his rhetoric or grace. He never studled what to say, or how to say it, but it seemed to flash upon him en the instant where to hit and with what; and taking deliberate alm, he never missed. It was no volley or cannonade, but a single_ rifle shot, and all was over. He could not make a long speech. Even at the bar, in the most complicated case, it Is eald he never addressed a jury an hour, but grasping the point on which the case turned with unerring instinct, he con- centrated all pressure there, casting aside everything else. His weapons in debate were sometimes the thunderbolt descending upon the head without warning, sometimes a rapler reaching the heart before its approach is even felt. Then he would take an antag- onist at long range and in fancled. security, Listeners would hardly discover the direction of his aim before they saw the victim fall, He would drop a bombshell into the midst of a self-satisfled or self-sufficient group of opponents and they were hopelessly scat- tered. It might have been a mere witticism, or only a sneer. It might have been a fire ball revealing in its glare to the gaze of all something so ridiculous or so0 hideous that its very parents would run away from it. One volley of denunciation he would some- times discharge, but he never kept a pack of artillery. HIs encounters in debate were flerce, sharp, terrible and decisive. He never played with his victim nor kept him long in misery, but usunlly dealt him a single blow and he was done with him. He was more effective in assault than in defense, and owed much to the suddenness of the attack A MEMORABLE SPEECH IN CONGRESS. He rarely made orations. The globe is full of these, but they are the frult which grows on lower bushes. One I do well remember. No one could forget the scene, though all I can say of it and him seems tame enough without the inspiration of the occasion and his presence. This one was delivered in that last session In Mr. Buchanan's Administra- tion after the election: of Mr. Lincoln, when the house was more like a powder magazine than a deliberative assembly. His denuncia- tion of the plotters of treason to their very face was terrible, and his expose of the bar- barism of the go-called civilization behind them was awful. The scene was past deserip- tion, like one man holding flends at bay, when ho furned toward the representatives of this barbarism before him and said: “For twenty years past it has been unsafe for northern men to travel or settle in the south unless they would avow their belief that slavery was a good institution. Every day brings news of unoffending citizens being seized, mobbed, tarred and feathered, and hanged by scores without any trial by legal tribunal or evidence of guilt.” Nearly fifty of them rose to their feet and rushed toward him with imprecations and threats of personal violence. As many of his friends gathered around him, and moving him in a sort of hollow square to the space in front of the speaker, opened in front of his assailants and stood guard over him while he arraigned the slaveocracy fn an indictment for its crimes against humanity surpassing in scverity even the great arralgnments by Mr. Sumner. He was an old man, approach- ing 70, on whose frame and figure time was already making sad work, still standing erect and firm as a_man of 35, calm and self-pos- sessed as a judge, he lashed them into a fury and bade them compose themselves at their leisure. The excitement aroused by his fiery denunciation and deflant scorn beggars ail description, and can live only in the memory of those who witnessed it. A DEBATER RATHER THAN AN ORATOR. Mr. Stevens was a debater, not an orator. The weapons of the one he used with con- summate skill, but those of the other were comparatively feeble in his hands, His wit wore the keenest edge and drew blood fear- fully. His sarcasm blistered and his frony tortured beyond endarance. He excelled in the power of statement, a faculty very rare and yet most effective. It was often all he had to say, and it was enough. Great as he was in debate, he was not fond of it and never sought occasion to en- gage in it. He did not ever lie in ambush and take an opponent unawares, nor step out into the open field and lay down his glove. But when discussion had arisen, an assault had been made and debate was unavoidable, or some gigantic wrong was impending, or some unholy plot needed to be dragged to light, he did not shrick or lag, but, taking the lead as of right, he maintained it as long as there was foeman for his steel. On such occasions he seemed to have the power to impart something of his own fire and courage to those around him, carrying majorities by an unscen magnetism and overcoming oppo- ition by storm. PERSONAL TRAITS AND PECULIARITIES. Although the place of leader was accorded to Mr. Stevens by common consent and never questioned, yet it is not so easy to explain’ how it was attained and by what means he was able to maintain such un- disputed ascendancy during ten years of constant change in the personnel and political drift of the house of representatives. He had none of the graces of person or manner which sometimes captivate, but was negligent of his appearance and reserved and retired in his intercourse with his as- soctites, “loving solitude and understanding its use.” He was a great intellectual gladiator. His weapons were Invective, sarcasm and wit, in all of which he was without a rival. These are powerful in skill- ful hands, but they do not win friends; they are in their nature repellant. One could not venture to differ with him in de- bate without the fear of being cut. Nor did he scrutinize very closely means which seemed to promote that end. Scout- ing the idea that the division of Virginia had tho consent of the old state, but believing it to be a necessity of the situation, he boldly declared that necessity was paramount to constitutional obligation, and the majority fol- lowed him. In like manner did he lead the majority to declare by law that treason worked a forfeiture of the entire estate and not merely one for the life of the person at- taived, and also to enact that speculation in gold should be punished in the penitentiary, an act so absurd and futile that it was re- pealed in less- than . three weeks. Other measures of like questionable authority and wisdom found their way upon the statute book under his leadership. These traits of character strikingly marked, it they stood alone would make his leade:ship a mystery difficult indeed of . salution. But with all this there was an exceeding tenderness and kindness of heart, as well as openness of purpose and sincerity of conviction which won the affections of many and the respect of all. AN OPEN HEART AND HAND. He was one of the most generous of men and his hand was as open to a political op- ponent as to a friend if no personal taint forbid. Personal and political associations were not with him identical, but were de- termined by other considerations, There was no personal malice In him and every one was consclous of it even when suffering most under his wit and sarcasm. He did not alm at the man, but at the wrong be- hind him, and if the man was hit it was only because he was an interven- Ing obstacle. “There was no cruelty in the blow, and he not infrequently won the dmiration of the victim by the dexterity with which it was inflicted. He never pounded or bruised, but cut a smooth gash, and the very profusion of blood seemed to prevent inflammation’ and cause the wound to heal with the first intention leaving no scar. Once on an intensely hot afternoon in July he was conducting an Indian appro- priation bill and had become well nigh ex- hausted by interruptions of members from states in which there were Indian tribes. One member in particular had been worrying him all day. This member, although a nauve of Massachusetts, was in feature and figure and complexion so aboriginal that he was gener- ally credited with Indlan blood. Some one observing how weary Mr. Stevens was movyed an adjournment that he might have rest, but turning toward his swarthy interrupter, the old man responde 1 can get along, Mr. Speaker, with the Indians themselves very well, but these half-breeds make trouble enough.” Incldents llke tils of frequent occurrence amid more serlous and exciting current events, although of no consequence in thém- selves, yet serve to give a glimpse of the man himself and somo insight Into the power he wielded on the floor of the house. CARRIED DAILY TO THE SENATE His Influence in'the house continued unim- paired to the end. Indeed, It was never more marked than in his last work—the impeach- ment of President Johnson. Although in fee- ble health and waning strength, at the com- mand of the house he appeared in person at the door of the senate charged with its mes- sage of Impeachment of the chief magistrate of the nation for high crimes and misde- meanors. The scens was most impressive. Mr. Sumuner sald of it doubt if wor more effect, when broken with years and 1894 Do you want a pair of PANTS “OR $250 We have put in one lot nearly 300 pairs of pants in every- size—every color—in wors- ted—cheviots-—cassimeres—made in first-class style by an eastern manufacturer from whom we do not intend buying any more—as we have arranged to buy of another dealer. For that reason, while the lot is fresh and complete we have decided to sacrifice now rather than later on—and thereby give perfect satisfaction. $2.50, M. H. Cook Clothing They are regular $5 pants for TWICE AS GOOD VERGON As anybody else sells for Many Styles, All the Latest, Co., suceessors to Columbia Clothing Co., 18th and Farna:a Streets, Omaha. decay he stood before the senate, and in the name of the house of representatives and of all the people of the United States impeached the president of the United States of high crimes and misdemeanors in office. Who can forget his steady, solemn utterance of this great arraignment. The words were few, but they - will sound through the ages.” The end was draw- ing near. His conduct of the impeach- ment with his assoclates appointed by the house was his last work. He was so feeble that he was carried daily for that purpose from the hall of the house to the senate chamber upon the shoulders of two stalwart messengers. Yet it was the body only t weakened, all else held out to the end. With grim humor he sald one day to those stout and hearty men as they were bearing him on their broad shoulders along the corridors: “Boys, what shall I do when you are dead and gone?’ His strength failed him in the delivery of his final argument for the prosecu- tion, and its reading was completed by one of his associates. This was the end of his work and he was taken to his sick bed, from which he never rose. Congress adjourned soon after and left him to die in Washington in the ab- sence of the body over which he had exerted, during a period the most critical in all its history, a controlling influence and direction unequaled in the career of any other states- man. The directions of his will were strictly followed and the grave of the great commoner is hardly distinguished from the others in a retired private cemetery near his home, where is recognized the law of his life—the equality of man before his Creator. (A second paper by ex-Senator Dawes, deal- ing with Henry Winter Davis, will be pub- lished next Sunday.—Ed.). —_—— Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kldney ‘rog. bles. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists, AL THE LAW IN THE CASE. Substance of Decislons by the Courts on Many Questions, The closing of a public alley to permit its use for private purposes is held in Van Wit- zen against Gutman 24, L. R. A. 403, to be an unlawful destruction of the easement of an abutting owner, The nulsance constituted by filth from a creamery s enjoined in the Wisconsin case of Price against Oakfield Highland Creamery company, 24, L. R. A. 833, in which case the court allows a recovery of damages for past injuries. The theory that crime is a disease result- ing from heredity, and that criminals should bo considered irresponsible, to be treated for diseaso only, appears again in the Kansas case of State against O'Nell, 24, L. R. A. 555; but the court refuses to adopt this doc- trine, which it calls that of psychological en- thuslasts. The criminal lability of directors of the poor for neglect in apprenticing a pauper boy to a person whom they Kknow to be unfit for the charge, and in refusing to res- cue him from the cruelty of the master, s sustained in Commonwealth against Coyle, 24 L. R. A. 552, on the ground that the offense is indictable ‘at common law, The statutory power of the Board of Re- gents of normal schools in Wisconsin to re- move teachers at pleasure, is held in Gillan against Board of Regents of Normal Schools, 24 L. R. A. 336, to be beyond the power of the board to waive or bargain away, and every contract for the emplovment of a teacher s held to include this provision as a part of it. The Mnnesota statute compellng ralroad passenger trains to stop at county seats is held in State against Gladson, 24 L. R. A 502, to be constitvtional and valid, even as to mail trains which carry passengers. The court does not regard it as an interference with interstate commerce. The proprietor of a theater is held llable, in Dickson against Waldron, 24 L. R. A. 483, for an assault by his janitor and ticket taker, who was also a spectal policeman, upon '@ person who had got into a dispute as to his change with the ticket seller, The fact that the employe had been appointed speclal policeman was held not to relieve his employer from responsibility. The mistake in the initial of the middle name of a mortgagor on the records is held, in Fincher against Hanegan, 24 L. R. A. 543, 10 be not necessarily fatal to the effect of the record as notice, if there I8 nothing to show that there is more than one person of that name., The form of Christian name which is required by recording acts is the subject of a note to the case The practical monopoly of a street by rail- road is held In the Missouri case of Lockwood against the Wabash Railroad company, 24 L. R. A. 516, to be beyond the power of city authoritiea to permit, and the use of a nar- row highway devoted to wholesale purposes, by railroad operations which virtually de- stroy the use of the: strect for street pur- poses, for nearly the whole day, is held un- lawful. Street sprinkling 1s. regarded in Chicago against Blafr, 24 L: RJ A. 412, a5 too evanes- cent in its beneflts to constitute a public im- provement, for which: assessments could be laid on abutting property. This is directly in conflict with a Minnesota decision. A note to the case presents all the authoritles on the subject of the:right to impose on abut- ting owners the duty or expense of sprink- ling, sweeping or:cleaning streets or side- walks, Certificates of depogit have become 50 com- mon a form of securities that their negotia- bility is an {mportant subject. In case of the loss of such an instrument, a bona fide holder is held in Kirkwood against First National bank, 24 L. R. A. 444, to be entitled to re- cover, and his obligation to give indemnity depends on the factof its being nogotlable by mere delivery, at the time of its loss. A statute requiringimembers of municipal councils to be freeholders is contested in State, Thompson mgainst McAllister, 24 L R. A. 343, on the ground that it was repug- nant to the constitutional provisions, which merely provided that no person except a cit- izen entitled to vote should be chosen. But this provision is held by the court to be en- tirely consistent with the right of the legis- lature to add further qualifications, Minerals under the surface of the street, which were reserved by the owner on de- dicating the street, pass to a subsequent purchaser from him of the abutting lots, under a conveyance of the lots by number and by reference to the plat showing the street. Snoddy against Bolen (Mo.) 24, L. R. A, 607. The case is a peculiar one, but the court applies the rule by which the conveyance of land bounded by the public street carries the fee to the center of the street. Decidedly refreshing, if not startling, is the refusal of a person to accept office, and the attempt to compel him to do so by mandamus. ~ Such a case is found in Peo- ple, German Insurance company against Wil- liams, 24 L. R. A, 492. The court sustained the writ ordering the citizen to accept the office of town clerk. There Is a note with the case, on the power to compel a citizen to accept office. This was in Illinols. Tho anti-monopoly act of congress was brought in question In United States against E. C. Knight Company, 24, L. R. A. 428 An attempt was made to establish the illegal- ity of a combination for the business of re- fining and selling sugar in the United States, but the decision was that this did not in- volve a monopoly or restraint of foreign or interstate commerce, within the meaning of the act. These provisions, the court says, do not include the- regulation of manufac tures or productive industries of any sort even if their product is a subject of com- merce. Among the Important questions about for- elgn corporations, that of the right to main- tain a suit outsido of the state of incorpora- tion is now generally taken for granted. It 1s, however, decided in Cone Export & Com- mission company against.Pooel, 24 L. R. A. 289, and an extensive note to the case reviews the authorities on the general sub- ject of the recognition or exclusion of for- elgn corporations by states. The right of a foreign insurance company to do business in a state is presented in the Ohio case of State, Richards against Acker- man, 24 L. R. A. 208, in which an unin- corporated guaranty and accident Lloyds as- sociation is ousted from business in the state on the ground that it was doing busi- ness as a_corporation. A note to the case presents the authorities in respect to the restrictions on business of forelgn insurance companies. The constitutional | provision that “Justice shall be administered freely and without purchase,” is one that fortunately has never needed much attention. In an Indlana case, Henderson against State ex rel. Stout, 24 L. R. A. 499, there was=an attempt to show tha this provision was vielated by a statute au- thorizing officers ‘tolitax or collect fees for their gervices in drder to create a fund out of which their salaries should be paid. But the court decided that such a statute did not violate the canstitutional provision. An elaborate discussion of the difference between a glove comtest and a prize fight is presented in the. Loulsiana case of State against Olympic @lub, 24 L. R. A. 452, in which the court concludes that sports like the Sullivan-Corbett. contest do not consti- tute prize fighting. s Testimony of various leading citizens, dncluding prominent law yers, a college professor, and other persons of like standing, is glven at great length. One of the witnesses considered these con- tests much superiod, both from a humane and aesthetic point of view, to the game of toot ball. A peculiar adaptation of the old plan of nding & person to prison for fallure o e VI R e e e pay debts survives In the proceedings to punish a person for contempt if he fails to pay installments of alimony ordered by the court. The Wisconsin case of Staples against Staples, 24, L. R. A. 433, not only sustains such proceedings In the absence of any right to issue an exccution to enforce payment of alimony, but holds that inability to pay will not prevent a refusal to pay from being contumacious and punishable, if the inabil- ity was brought about by the party himself. In a note to the case the whole series of authorities on this question have been ana- Iyzed and classified. e WHEAT RAISING AND FARMING. Competition with the United States Grow- ing Enormously. Agriculture in the United States in one of its chief branches has another very im- portant competitor in the feld, says Harper's Weekly. The Argentine Republic promises s00n to become the greatest wheat producing country in the world. The planters there have but recently begun the exportation of wheat, but the Increase has been very rapid —rapid, however, in so steady a way that we cannot speak of it as a mere temporary or spasmodic _contribution to the world's supply. These shipments from Argen- tine were first noticed in 1892, when about 25,000,000 bushels were sent to Burope; in 1893 the shipments amounted to 45,000, 000; in“the first half of 1894 the shipments had been about 45,000,000, and the indica- tions in Buenos Ayres were that before the end of the year the shipments would aggre- gate 75,000,000, Another crop will be har- vested there fn December, and this promises to amoupt to 125,000,000. ' There are 5,000,000 people In Argentine, and it we allow five bushels per capita for home consumption, it will easily be seen that in the South Ameri- can republic there will be a surplus of 100,- 000,000 bushels, and this, of course, will g0 to the European markets and Brazilian mar- kets once supplied by us. The Brazilians have abrogated the treaty of reciprocity with us, and naturally our flour and wheat, once exchanged for sugar, will have to find other purchasers. The shipments of agricultural machinery from this country to Argentine are at preéent greater than ever before, and this shows that the wheat planters there are preparing to enlarge the acreage, as the machines most in demand are reap- ers, mowers and threshers. Thers are othér considerations that make this Argen- tine competition formidable. The climate is mild_there and the food is plentiful and cheap. ~ The laborers do not need to be housed or clothed so well as those who work in our harsher climate. Then, again, the Argentins wheat-growing reglons are quite near the seaboard, and there is no need for a long and costly land haul to the place of exportation. These considerations make It wise for us to look at the future of wheat culture in the United States with candor and frankness. It will do no-manner of good to underrate the fmportance of facts because we hold the Latins of South America in low esteem, It would be wiser for us to come in competition with them only when we can beat them, or at least hold our own. We cannot beat them in any game that requires the American farmers o live as Italian laborers live who till the fertile soil of the plains of South America. Nor should our farmers abandon the field to any competitors, however formid- able. In other words, we should by no means consider the possibility of no longer cultivat- ing wheat. But we should cultivate it more wisely, —_— In the Coun They had but recently been married, says Life, and the young husband was airing his wit before his bride. An old deat man, un- known to the bride, was just passing. “I say,” said the husband, addressing the old man, “you old bald-headed idiot, did you know your hat wasn't on straight?’ “Why, Charlie!” interrupted the bride. “Good evening,” said the old man, halting and unconscious of the insult. “May I ask you if you saw & big red calf come along this road a minute or two ago? I've lost sight ot him, but I thought I heerd him holler.” ———— The Professor Was Interested. Washington Star: “And you say he was defeated by one vote? said the professor. “Yes," replied his wife, who had been re ing from the paper. “That's interesting; very iInteresting,” he mused. s a positive paradox. It's what wight be called a singular plurality!” Shiloh's Cure is sold on & guarantee, It cures incipient consumption. It Is the best oough cure. Only one cent a dose; 25¢, 600 ead §L00, Sold by Goodman Drug Co, A Thanksgiving Story. E was at a boarding school to spend his first Thanks- giving away from home, and this is what the lonesome little fellow wrote home a few days before Do you blame him? “When the Turkey's in the oven, And the "Tater's in the pot When the Cranborry’s a boiling, And the Pudding's smoking hof When the nuts ave eracked and And the raisins heap the plate, And you feel so awful hungr, That you'd rather die than wait, THEN you'll remember me. 8.—1’A, can't I come home?” THANKSCIVING WEEK is always a busy one with us, particularly in our Crockery and Stove Departments, Our Crockery department ls of g clal pride to us, verything conce uble in China, Crockery, Glassware, Plated Ware, Lamps and zen hard wood antique finish VING CHAIRS, with brace arms, hand made cane se louble streteh all around, embossed backs, Reg- ular price, $i Clocks. . Thanksgiving Pr'ce 74c Each 50 dozen massive solid oak, hand Our Special Thanksgiving Offerings, polished DINING CHAIRS, with wide Thanksgiving Cider Pitchers quarter sawed oak pancls, handsome- In clear, fire polished, cr s, ved and to mateh the table men hold nearly th quar(s, Regular tioned above, Regular price §2.50 R Thanksgiving Price $1.48 Each This Week 290 L4 Thanksgivint Tumblers SIDEBOARDS For tomorrow or as long as t Ore of the many bargalns in slde- last, a first c rysial table tumb- boaras {s described as follows: Cons ler, one dozen only to a customer structed of the best selected oak. It Worth §0c per dozen, meazures 41 inches in length by 20 inches In width; with 1 mirror This Week 20 Each measuring 21 inches by 14 inches, It Thanksgiving Carving has a commodious s cad, Knives and Forks. w]]v]mll(- by r.l.nml br ! Sppros With genuine stag handles, Meridan priately carved, two s with Cutlery goods, Worth $3. roomy cupboard below; work This Week $1.85 Pair 43 all paneled; the (immings are Thanksgiving Salts and Pcppers solid cast brass; it fs mounted dn good castors, It is worth every cent In blue, rose of white opaiescent tints, with fleur-de-)is embcssed dec ot §2, but our ol SRl iall Thanksgiving Priceis $11.45 orations. Worth 1sc. Th s Week only 6c Each From our Stove Department SPECIAL PRICES on a beautiful THAT BIRD must be cooked, and line of celery trays in I'rench and JIkht, To e ou to'do it e Kab Vienna China and embossed glase S0 g s Bkt Your friends will call ankegiving highest grade enstern made Ring: € haif price. We thoroughly guar= eve. Greet them in a pleasantl ighted PRI LA G hall. We hava the finest line of hall antee ever e, although much be- lamps in the city. They are very swell low the lowest wholesale price, Spocial for Thie Week WE ARE PRy Rose and Ruby Globe Pendant Hall Dumplete Honae CUrhiaete ANV Only $2.49 Zach we never saw. It would well pay you Our further Thanksgiving offerings 1o look i whethe ares purc 101, patticular] Piilar Ex‘ension Tables R Solid_onk, 42 inches wide; heavy L | sLbstantial ‘goods; quality and work- manship guaranteed. Worlh §12. s and services i§ . This is the time of This Week $5.98 TERMS—-CASH OR PART DOWN AND BALANCE WEEKL OR MONTHLY. Formerly People’s Mammoth Installment House Open Monday and Saturday Evenings. MME. M. YALE, THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY, To Lecture n OMAHA, At Boyd’s Opera House, FRIDAY, DEC. 7. MME. M. YALE, The Celebrated Beauty and Complexion Speclallist from LheTemplg of Beauty, Chicago, Will Lecture to the Ladies of Omaha, —~—ON THE SUBJECTS OF —— Health, Beauty, Physical Culture, The Coms plexion and Hair. Tecture will take place at p m. Ladles are advised to socura their seats in advange Tickets now on sale at the box office of Theater, 50c. Mme. Ya'e was awarded the highest honors from the Worla's Falr, aud 1s endorsed by Congress. Mme. Yale's rema;kablo beauty has croated o sensation all over the world. Perfest ({ the crown of her queenly liead to the so'es of her shapely little feet, she dolles old F‘; w Time to lny one witheriug finger mark on hor. 8he will tell the ladios how she cultivate n?: beauty and instruct them to do likewlse. Mue. Yale 1s 42 years old, and does not look wuiore than 18 In her Physical Culture act Mine. Yale will wear a costume especlally dosignod for hor by Worth to show off to adyantag outlines of her faultless figure, and also to enable fiet 19 give the necessary exercises for making perfect the femalo form. Mme. Yale ts the cu\w‘{ of Beanty Culture as a professional brauch of sclence. Evory lady should hear hor, as shi the greatest authority living on beauty. From the Detroit Free Pre Oct. 26, 1895 “Mpe. Yale, the famous lecturer and complexlonlst, addrossed a targe audlence of Iadl yesterday in the Detroit Opers House, illustrating hor locture with lor own remdrkal beauty, which stood the test of the strong electrical lights without rovealing a stugle biemis| There 1s no extravagance in sayinz that Mme. Yale 140ne of the most beantiful women la tie world, nor has there been auyone to resomble Lier since tho days of Lola Montez, the beautitel countess of Lansteld. Like her, Mme. Yalo bas produced lier own beauty, and she claf what she has done any other woman can do. She does not hesitate to give her ago as 43, ual o her lovely arms, neck and face would ludicato a balance botwesn childhood and youth. Hep curling locks of golden hair, her brilliant eyes, with tholr long lashos, callud forth oxpression a dmiration from the audienco. The closing part of the occaslon was dovoted o physic culture drill, tn which the graco and flexibility of Mme, Yalo's dalaty figure formed o series of beautiful pictures. The falr lecturor held hor audience spell-bound durlig’ threo hours by ber racy conversational address. 4 S