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; THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1900 WELCOME NEW BUSINESS VeS| NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Many New and Valuable Volumes Snited to Needs of Purctase s, FLOOD OF FASCINATING LITERATURE Storles of All Sorts and Kinds Pre- wented in Hook Form to Please the Readers of the World— Boyw’ Hooks Abundunt. L. C. Page & Co., whose very full and foteresting fall line of books was described in detail in these columns recently, has added a few works worthy of more than mero passing notice. A volume especlally designed for the holiday trade and well adapted for gift purposes by reason of its artistic and dainty appearance is “Cele- brated Comedians of Light Opera and Musi- cal Comedy in America,” by Lewis C. Btreng. The contents of the volume are sufliclently well described by the title, and it only remalns to be added that it is em- Vellished with some twenty-five or more portraits of actors. Another volume of the same order s "“Prima Donnas and Sou- brettes of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in Ameriea,” by the same author as the above. Both books will be most thoroughly appreciated by the admirers of light opera. Another attractive holiday volume from the same publishing house i entitled “Shakespeare in Art,” by Sadakichi Hart- menn. The volume is embellished with thirty-two iHustrations from celebrated paintings by the great masters. The work 18 beautifully printed and bound, producing & most artistic effect. Messrs, Page & Co. have added to their ot extensive line of juvenile fiction “The Young Bunbearer,” by G. Waldo Browne. It 1s a stirring tale of Arcadia and the slege of Louisburg, and Is a book that will fnterest any boy fond of storles of outdoor life and adventure. Price $1. Another volume that will appeal strongly to the admirers of fine books Is “'Historic Towns of the Southern States,”” edited by Lyman P, Powell. It completes the triad of volumes dealing with the older American towns along or near the eastern coast. Like the preceding issues, this volume has beth a patriotic and educational purpose. It will be found interesting and instructive by all who take any Interest in the history of the country. The artistic merits of the volume are many. G. P. Putnam's So New York. The appearance of a new book by Edward Bellamy, whose death occurred three”or four years ago, Is exciting a good deal of interest. The “Duke of Stockbrid was really written before “‘Looking Backward" was concelved. It was undertaken as a historical romance and thus is the pioneer of the whole brood of romantic historical novels. It is a romance of the Berkshire hills, among which Mr. Bellamy spent his life. The theme is that curious post- revolutionary episods called “‘Shay's Re- bellion,” In which the discouraged debtor- farmers revolted furlously against the courtly aristocrats of the old New England towns. The times were the hardest this country had known and the rich were fore- closing upon the small farmers and crowd- ing the foul Jalls with debtors. The author's failing health postponed its publication, until just before his death he gave permis- slon for its bringing forth. Silver, Bur- dette & Co., Boston. Price $1.60, ‘The title of a new book by the author of “The Crulse of the Cachelot” is “The ‘Men” of the“Merchant ‘Service. In this Mr. Bullen glves an account of the life of the various officers and men aboard ship, occupying positions from the highest to the lowest, and on all classes of craft, whether » great transatlantic liner, an ocean tramp or a salling vessel. Interspersed are nu- merous anecdotes of actual occurrences at sea, all told in Mr. Bullen's inimitable way and giving the book a spice and interest even to thoge that have no great curlosity as to the work of captain, cook or engineer. No one has evér been able to write of the sea like Frank T. Bullen, and a reader with the slightest relish of salt air will enjoy his work The cover design, a night- mare In green and blue, {s as abominable A8 the contents are enjoyable. Frederic A. Stokes company, New York. Price $1.50. In “A White Guard to Satan,” Miss M. A. Ewell has given a very spirited account of Bacon's rebellion in Virginia in 1676. The book is written in the form of a chronicle made by Mistress Elizabeth God- stowe some fifteen years after the re- bellion. She was a cousin of Nathaniel Bacon and accompanled his wife to the scene of the attack by the rebels upon Jamestown, when Bacon used the women as & “‘white guard” to shield his forces from the fire of loyallsts. It s this in- eldent that gives tho title to Misg Ewell's book. The chronicler had many gdven- tures In that exciting period and her own experiences and observations give on graphic plcture of the times and also an insight Into the real character of Bacon. Houghton, MiMin & C Price $1.25. ‘“The Cobbler of Nimes," by Mary Imley Taylor, is a love story which has as an historical tting the struggle of the French peasants of Languedoc for religlous liberty, denied them by Louts XIV. When the story opens, Rosaline de St. Cyr, the heroine, Is a young woman of noble family and a Huguenot, but unconfessed; d'Agues- au, hor destined husband, is also a Hu- guenot, and between him and the Catholic hunchbacked cobbler, who is the titular Bero, the honors are divided. The story moves swiftly and lightly. Matters of his- torical detall the author leaves to the historian. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price $1.25. In taking up a new book by Mr. Hichens the reader can always feel sure that he will e I 0l 0. BARKIL & SON Disilsiscir / / 16400 SE vt dd GRAND PRIX & GOLD MEDAL lor e pubhicalions atthe Paris b xposition. AGENTS WANTED. The greatest display of fine book: and artistic bindi ever made wa that at ‘he Exposit'on at Parls, where there were over a thousand exhibitors from AMERICA and EUROPE. In this class there were 345 entries from the United States alone. An AMERICAN firm, GEORGE BARRIE & SON, recelved the GRAND PRIZE and A GOLD MEDAL (the highest award), and the credit of pro- ducing the FINEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD. During the past y had engaged in Parls corps of literateurs and artists on a work which the New York Times has pro- nounced “a new standard in the pub- lishing and printing art.” Agents are wanted for the sale of this work. For particulars, address 1313 Walnut 8t., Philadelphia. firm has r find It commonpl there is orlg- inality as well as force In everything he writes. “Tong of Consclence,” Mr. Hichen's latest work, s no exception to this rule. It consists of five stories, not one of which has a plot that is common- place. These all carry out the great promise of Mr. Hichen's earlier work. In the series are soveral stories which are almost long enough to be called novelsttes. The titles are as follows: “Sea Change," “Willlam Foster,” “The Cry of the Child, ‘How Love Came to Prof. Guildea,”” “The Lady and the Beggar.” The second edition has just been brought out. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. Price, $1.50, 8. R, Crockett, who first won notice with his “Stickett Minister” seven years ago, has, for the moment, left off writing storles of adventure and on “The Stickett Min- Ister's Woolng,” Just published, makes wel- come return to his original fleld. The result Is a book of homely power which will delight itd author's old readers and win him many new ones. A cousin of Crockett's Is sald to have been the original of the “Stickett Minister." Mr, Crockett himself WAS @ preacher before he became an author. The present work s a collection of quletly pathetic and humorous short stories, at which the author, in the oplnlon of many of his admirers, is at his best. :)‘u::lulny & McClurg Co., New York. Price, Two books have been recelved this week from Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago Which are deserving of attention. “An Amerfcen Girl's Trip to the Orlent and Around the World,” by Christine Collbran, is the work of a Denver girl, and such will appeal eepecially to western readers. Everyone s curious to know how the other half of the world lives and Miss. Collbran places befors the reader's mental viston faithful pen plctures of the scenery, ous- toms, dress and many Interesting incldents seen and noted during her trip around the world. The work fs profusely fllustrated Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, Price, $1.25, The second volume from the same house Is “Eugene Norton; a Talo from the Sage- brush Land,” by Anna Shannon Monroe. The story 1s a tale of modern people of culture and refinement and yet it is in- fused with the best spirit of the west. The heroine passes from riches to poverty, takes up journallsm, enters an insane asylum in the pursult of her profession, and in order to Investigate the oficial conduct of the man she afterwards marries. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. Price, $1.25. Juvenile Literature, The Appletons have just published three vaulable and Interesting books for boys. “In the Days of Jefferson,” by Hezeklah Butterworth, is a story founded upon facts and 1s a fascinating work. Mr. Butter- worth {s the author of several boys' books of the greatest value, among which is “The Stery of Magella “In the Boyhood of Lincol The Treasure Ship,” ete. “For the Horor of the School,” by Ralph Henry Barbour, 18 a vivid story of boys' sport and life. The hero is an athlete, but also a scholar and the larger phases of school Iife are placed before the reader in their true value. The third volume from the same house s “Reuben James: A Hero of the Forecastle,” by Cyrus Townsend Brady, author of “Commodore Paul Jones,” “For Love of Country,” etc. This book is brought out as one of the “Young Heroes of Our Navy'* serles and Itke all the books of that serles is a work to be commended to young readers. All three books are good, healthy storles for boys and the kind that will instruct as well as anter- taln. Good boys' books are none to nu- merous and people who are anxious that their boys should read only good, healthy storles will appreciate these three vol- umes. b ““The Childhood of Ji-Shib: The Ofibway," by Albert Ernest Jenks, is a book abso- lutely new in its line. In both text and 1llustration it f{s sclentifically accurate. Concerning this phase of the work, Prof. McGee, the best American authority, who 18 at the head of the government's bureau of ethnology, says: “The story fs gocd, ethnologically and geographically. The description of the habitat, habits and cus- toms of the Ojibway Indians is accurate, the local coloring s faithful and the au- thor has caught with exceptional success .those elusive characteristics of Indlan thought expressed in oblation, fasting, proparation for warfare and other pe- cullar customs.” It is, therefore, an in- structive volume for young people as well as an entertaining one. Published by the American Thresherman, Madison, Wis. Price, $1. Among the most noted juveniles of the season is the “Gray Fairy Book,” edited by Andrew Lang. In appearance It is a most attractive volume, being handsomely bound in decorated covers, full gllt, and profusely {llustrated by H. J. Ford. The tales are derived from many countries, Lithuania, va- rious parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greeco and other regions of the world. A number of different writers have taken part in their translation and adaptation. No child with a liking for fairy tales could fall to be pleased with such an attractive and eptertaining volume. It is in every re- spect exceedingly well adapted for holdiay gift purposes. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. Jamieson-Higgins company of Chlcago have brought out two attractive volumes for children. “The Princess of Hearts" is by Shiela E. Braine and “Adventures in Toy- land" is the work of Edith King Hall. Both volumes are nicely {llustrated by Alice B. Woodward. While the two volumes are not perfectly uniform they are very much alfke, both in the matter of binding and contents, 80 that they aro especially well adapted for hollday presents whera there are two chil- dren in the same family. ““Boys’ Book of Explorations” by Tudor Jenks 18 a collection of storles of heroes of travel and discovery, chiefly during our own time, in all parts of Africa, Asia and Australia. Mr. Jenks has a thorough knowledge of what Interests a boy and he bas made full use of the dramatic and ple- turesque possibilities of his subject. While the book has a distinctive informative value, showing what has been done in the way of opening up new lands and giving a boy new ideas about the geography and na- tives of these countrles, its chief claim to uttention lies in the Interest of the stories and in the picture of the resolute men who risked thelr lives to the cause of sclence and civilization. The volume is very tully lllustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co,, New York. Price, $2. Recent additions to Macmlllan's “Pocket English Classics” are Washington Irving's “Sketch Book" and Macaulay's essay on Warren Hastings. The first is an Amer- fcan classic, which contalns two of the short masterpleces of Irving, “Rip Van Winkle" and “The Legend of Sleepy Hol- low."" The other is one of the most elo- quent of Macaulay's ess Both have introductions and notes that will be found valuable by student or general reader. The Macmillan company, New York. Price, 25 cents. — & Child Dies at Depot. earge T. Ryan, the 14-month-old son of Dr. and Mrs. J' P. Ryan, who are on thelr way from Bolse Clty, Idaho, to Hot Sorings, Ark., died about 4 'a'clook Monday afternoon of cholera Infantum in the wait- ing room of the Union depot Burgeon Major George H. Toney, ‘10 8 A " the child’'s grandfather. was notifled by wire of its “iliness and arrived from ot Springs . short time before death. Tha father of the child, Dr. J. P. Ryan. Is a Yn\lnf army surgeon. The body will be sent to Hot Springs for interment. MEAD IS SEEKING MILLIONS Great Grandson Wins First Round in Con- test for Miles' Wealth, SON HOLDS CCFFERS AGAINST ALL COMERS Defense Produces Richardson County Showing and Alleges that Mead is Inconsiatent, but De- murrer Is Granted, Before Judge Munger in the United States circuit court yesterday Joseph Edward Mead won the preliminary bout in Lis struggle for a share of the estate of the late Nebraska millionaire, Stephen B. Miles of Richardson county. The Miles will case has become historical as the most sensational sult of its kind every pleaded in a Nebraska court. In all of the cases Joseph H. Miles, the executor under the will of his father and prineipal beneficiary, has been the principal defendant and up to this time has won every contest. The Richardson county case, where Miles' brother is plaintiff, {s pending in the supreme court on an appeal by the plaintiff. The matter got into the federal court on the petition of the father of Joseph Edward Mead, a great-grandson of 8. B. Mlles, who applled to the court to have a share of the estate of the deceased millionaire awarded to his son on the grounds that he had been unintentionally omitted in the dis- tribution of the estate by the decedent. The defendant flled answer in which he set up the proceedings of the county court of Richardson county and the afirmation of those proceedings by the district court of the same county, together with the fact that In the proceedings in the stato court the plaintiff had alleged that he was a cltizen of Nebraska, while in the pending case he alleges Missouri as the state of hia citizenship. To this plea the plaintift filed a general demurrer and certain exceptious. The case was argued on the demurrer some time ago. The opinion of Judge Munger was filed this morning. In his opinion the court says that the exceptions were not considered as the demurrer would be sustained. He states that, although the county court probated the will of Stephen B. Miles, that fact does not preclude the bringing of a bill in a chancery court for a construction upon the terms of the will-and that the pro- ceedlngs In this court are of that nature, although he can find no precedent for the enforcement of the statutory provisions in cases of an Intestate death where a natural heir has been unintentionally omitted from a will. He further says that while in the chief case he may have no power to order a distribution or to determine the distribu- tive share of the complainant he has juris- diction and gives the respondent twenty days to declde whether to appeal from the decision on the demurrer or to proceed to trial. Accuned o road P Company He Blame to Junk Dealer. There s a criminal case in Judge Baker's court that presents the curious anomaly of the accused and the retributory agent changing positions and the prosecu- tor being placed under the necessity of clearing himself of the charge originally preferred against the accused. The case 18 that of the State against Charles Roos velt and James E. Veatch, the charge being grand larceny. The police and rail- road dotectives thought that they had a clear case against the two men for steal- ing the brass journals from freight cars and selling the metel to junk dealers. Roosevelt and Veatch have been in court threc times on the charge of filching this metal. The stolen brass was found in the possession of Jacob Milder, the junk dealer who purchased the brass. Milder sald he purchased it from Roosevelt and Vestch. At the home of the men was found a large quantity of the metal broken into pleces. Concealed on the premises were facks like those in use by house movers for holst- ing heavy bulldings. huge hammers for breaking the journals, and olly clothing. At the morning sessfon of court Roosevelt was placed on the stand by his attorneys. The witness explained that instead of hav- Ing sold the brass to Milder, as the testi- money had shown, he and Veatch had taken the journals from the junk dealer 10 break for him at a specific price a pound, The hammers found on their premises were for this purpose. The broken metal found there belonged to Milder and not to them, and as for the metal found in the junk dealer's storehouse, they knew nothing about it, ex- cepting that Milder had told them to be careful in carting the stuff to and from the shop and thelr homes not to let the “cop- pers’ see it, or trouble might be made for him, This story throws the whole suspicion on the man on whose testimony the detectives and the police had relled in convicting Roosevelt and Veatch. The jury will have occaslon before the end of the day to indl- cate whether the explanation is & plaugible one or not. SMYTH SECURES A MANDATE Attorney General Goes to Unnecennary Pains to Secure Ruling from Judge Baker, The case of the State against the Omaha Natlonal bank will be taken to the supreine court on an appeal in time to be heard at the next sitting. Attorney General Smyth instructed the district clerk to prepare a transcript of the proceedings of the last hearing in the sult before Judge Baker, saying that the papers will be filed in tho higher tribunal immediately. The attor- ney general appeared before Judge Baker late yesterday afternoon with a mandate to compel him to rule immediately on a motion for a new trial and if the motion was not sustained to enter judgment with- out delay. The requirements were promptly complied with, the judgment being for the defendant. In enforcing an immedlate ruling on the motion by mandamus the attorney general put himselt to needl trouble, as the court simply awaited the convenience of the at- torneys intrested before completing the for- mality. The case is based on the Bartley de- falcation, the state seeking to recover judgment for $201,000, alleging the defend- ant to be liable for this sum in having allowed the former state treasurer to draw state funds for use on private account. After a first trial In the district court the case was remanded for a second hearing there. It was subsequently remanded agaln and it was the judgment In this second hearing just entered. Erwin Wins His Polnt, Judge Keysor has issued an alternative writ of mandamus compelling Willlam R. Learn, justice of the peace, to transfer to the court of Willlam Alstedt ca in which the National Life association Is plaintiff and Chester H. Erwin is defendant, The writ was {ssued on the petition of Er- in, who alleges that when the sult, which is one for forcible entry and detainer, came up before Justice Learn, he flled an afidavit asking for a change of venue on the ground that he believed he would not have a fair trial. The justice declined to permit the requested change. Judge Key- 80! _'comlnlnaed him to comply with the re- \ Quest of Erwin of appear in court on De- cember § to show cause why he should nof do so, FoR C DAMAGES o' Beasle Bonwn ( Agninst Raflrond in Settled Out of Court. The damage suit known as the “‘Bessie Bonsa case,” which has acquired considera- | ble more notoriety than the ordinary sult | of the kind, has been settled out of court It was to have been heard before Judg Keysor today, but the litigants came be- fore his honor and agreed to have judg- ment for $1,200 entered by consent. The case has been in court three times since It was started in 1805, At the last trial the jury awarded damages in the sum of 810,000, but Judge Keysor set the verdict aside because, in his opinion, ft was ex- cessive, The suit was brought by the parents of Bessie Bonsa, In her name, against the Burlington kallroad company. Damages in the sum of $5,000 were asked for on ac- count of personal injuries sustained in an accident alleged to have occurred through the neglect of the defendant's employos. When the child was 5 years old she was at play one morning on the switch tracks of the Burlington road near her home in the south part of the city. An engine running through the yards at a high rate of speed struck the little one, but in such a way that the only injury she received was the loss of three fingers. Court Notes, Judge Estelle has returned from Tekamah, where he has been holding court since Saturday. Frank Swickard has petitioned the dis trict court for a divorce from Pearl 1 Swickard on the plea of desertion Judge Keysor has fssued a decree of divorce in the case of Minnle L. Shipley against John L. Shipley on the ground of non-support. Judge Dickinson has fssied a decree of divorce In the case of Willlam A. Gardiner againat Eilka Jane Gardiner on’the plea of abandonment. Howard J. Whitmore, recelver of the First National bank of Neligh, has filed sult against Mrs. M. G. Btanley for $2,500 for money alleged 10 be due s a liabiiity of a stockhglder in the defunct bank The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance com- pany has applied to the district court for an order restraining Douglas county and the county treasurer from levying taxes on certain’ parcels of real estate on a §7,748 valuation, which 18 asserted o be exces- sive. Gustay A. Kuenne of Omaha has filed application ‘in the United States district court, asking to be dec ed bankrupt. He lists debts in excess of $6,000 and aswets of $50. The debts were mainly contracted provious to 1894, when the petitioner falled n business in Omaha. On the petition of Mary Garmas, Danfel and M. Carroll Judge Keysor nas {ssued a restraining order to prevent the elty and RB, Carter, bullding inspector, trom tear. ing down frame bulldings at the corner of Sixteenth and Webster atreets. tioners are owners of the property, Judge Vinsonhaler called the civil docket in the county court yesterda; disposing of seventy-cight cases.” Thirty of the num- ber will be heard at the present term of court. The most important of these are the sults ‘brought by the recelver of the Fx- position company to recover judgment from the stockholders who have not paid their entire subscriptions. Albert Hoffman, recelver of the Bohemlan Life and Building association, has filed in the county court an inventory of the sets of the concern, and a petition to pass the account and be discharged. He reports that there has been pald in $124 and that there 18 a balance of $4! ainst which claims in the sum of 81, been filed. The remaining assets of the defunct as- soclation are considered worthless, FARMERS BLOW OUT THE GAS Two More Unsophisticated Ones Pay Dearly for orance of Ad- vance of Science, The peti- 8. A. Hodges and Frank Kennedy, farmers from near Westborotigh, Mo., blew out the gas Monday night in’their room at the Aetna house, Thirteeplh and Dodge streets, and, when found at 6:30 a. m. yesterday were unconsclous, Life was not extinct, owever, and Police Surgeon Ames was summoned. He administered restoratives and recom- mended that the men be led up and down the street fn the open air to revive circula- tion, which was done. Janitor Jackson of the Jail served as their conductor and good- naturedly fought his way through the crowds that congregated to look at the men who had blown out the gas. At last ac- counts the patients were in a fair way to recover. The night clerk ak the Aetna house sald Hodges amd Kennf'y came to the hotel about 11 o'clock Monday night and called for a room. They were perfectly sober. He showed them to rcom No. 48 and demon- strated the use of gas, in which, he sald, they seemed to take comsiderable interest. The next he saw of them was just as he was £oIng off watch in the morning. Attracted to their raom by the smell of gas, he unlocked the door with his latchkey and found both men lying on the bed apparently dead. The jet was turned on full force and all ventilation was shut off. Hodges was almost entirely recovered at 1 p. m. yesterday and, aside from a headache, was none the worse for his ex- perience. He says he remembers the lec- ture of the night clerk on the subject of 1l- luminating gas, but when it came to turn- ing the little thumbscrew his heart failed him, us he was afrald the pipes would burst it he tampered with it, 50 to be on the safe side blew out the flame. The Inquest in the cases of Schill and Kroft, ‘who blew out the gas in the Little Gem rooming house Saturday night, will be held in the office of the coroner Wednesday forenoon, . Do you want & stenograpner? Spend 26 Commercial Olub Members Extend Glad Hand to Recent Arrivals. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO AK-SAR-BEN Occaston Made to Serve to Introd Representatives of Recently Located Jobbing Firms to Their Omnha Brethren, One hundred and fifty commercial men of Omaha enjoyed a complimentary dinner given by the Commercial club to the Board of Governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and the members of three of the new wholesale firms located here—the Byrne- Hammer Dry Goods company, Martin Cott Hat company and the millinery establish- ment of M. Splesberger & Son Co. The at- fair was a successful one in every particu- lar. The reception rooms of the Commerclal club began to take on an air of bustle and activity shortly before 6 o'clock and for an hour an informal soclal gathering was in- dulged in.. The newcomers, in whose honor the dinner was given, were made to feel the cordiality of an Omaha welcome. They were introduced to business and profes- sional men whom they had not before known and good fellowship and soclabllity were rampant, At 7 o'clock the doors of the banquet room were thrown open and the banqueters marched to the tables, which were three in number, stationed at right angles with the table. An cight-course dinne rved. John Steel was in charge of the committee having under its direction the dinner and was untiring in his efforts to see that all of the guests were cared for to thelr complete satisfaction. Commereial Club and Omaha. Euclid Martin, president of the Com- mercial club, presided as toastmaster and ushered in the post-prandial program with & short address well suited to the occa- slon. “The first and foremost object of Omaha's Commercial club,”” he sald, “1s to | look after the commercial interests of the | eity. It has broadened out in fts purposess and membership and today we have a large membership among the professional men of the city. Naturally as the club broadened In members it branched out into other things than those strictly in line with com- merclal pursuits and today it stands for evervthing that has for its intent the good of Omaha, “The auditorium project, the success of which there is no doubt,’ sprang from the musical festival, which had its birth in the Commerclal club; Ak-Sar-Ben and the fes- tivities of its knights have been the out- growth of the Commercial club and we can today take pride in the fact that the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are known as well and as favorably as are the festivitles ot the Mardi Gras at New Orleans or the Velled Prophets at St. Louls. We can re- member whe It was a question whether or not the Ak-Sar-Ben festivites should be repeated from year to year, but now the tentative stage has been passed and the reign of the king will continue uninter- rupted.” 1. W. Carpenter responded to the toast, “Our Guests,” and opened his remarks with the mssertion that a ‘“city is s pro- gressive as her citizens.” He then cited instances of the progress made by Omaha citizens in public enterprises, beginning with the time that Omaha secured the state foir. “In the three years that the state falr was located here there sprang into be- ing the enterprise that has characterized Omaha people in later years in matters of the public welfare. Ak-Sar-Ben was the direct outgrowth of the state falr and the importance the fall festivities have been to the commerclal institutions of this eity by reason of bringing thousands of people into Omaha has been incalcuable. Long live the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and as you grow in years may you grow in wisdom. Mr Carpenter spoke of the three wholesale firms in whose honor the banquet was given and welcomed each one into the city's midst. Reautien of Ak-Sar-Ben. “Ak-Sar-Ben” was the subject of the toast to which Thomas A. Fry, a member of the Board of Governors, responded. “The success of Ak-Sar-Ben,” he said, “has been due to the efforts of the individual mem- bers and with the constantly growing in- terest and enthusiasm there are greater felds yet open. I believe the organization of Ak-Sar-Ben was responsible for giving new life to Omaha and made possible the holding of the Transmississippi exposition. This was true for the reason that Omaha people learned through our organization what they were capsble of doing. “Prior to that time If anyone had said that $400,000 could be raised here for such an enterprise as the Transmississippl expo- sition he would have been looked upon with suspicion. It has been proven that Omaha citizens can accomplish anything they start out to do. It has been said that ‘money is the root of all evil,’ but I think selfishne 18 the root of all evil. If we banish all selfish interest I venture the prediction that Omaha Wil at no far distant date bo the queen city of the west." Why He Came to Omaha. Thomas C. Byrne, member of the new cents for a Ree ‘‘want ad."” dary goods firm, spoke briefly on the subject, For Blood and Nerves cases where physicians ha ery was abandoned. Atall dry Medioine Co., stated that his firm believed thers was room here for another wholesale dry goods house and cited the fact that although Omaha has a tributary territory wholly as large, heretofore the wumber of whole- salers in dry goods has been small com- pared with Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louls. Mr. Byrne remarked the pleasure taken by himself and the other members of his firm in the cordial welcome extended them and particularly expressed his appreciation for the kindly treatment accorded them by M. E. Smith & Co. Toastmaster Martin waxed eloquent when he introduced the next speaker, Dr. George L. Miller, and paid high tribute to his char- acter and influence in the community from the time of its infancy. Three cheers for “Omaha’s grand old man" were proposed and were glven with a right hearty good- will and men rose to their feet and waved handkerchiefs, shouting enthusiastic wel- come the while, when Dr. Miller was pre- sented. Dr. MU Dr Miller was to give some “reminis- cences” avd he asserted, after feolingly re- sponding to the welcome accorded him, that he could regale his hearers with rem- iniscences until the night should be s ceeded by the day. “Forty-six years ago, he sald, ““a few of us came here with little money, but making up what we lacked in that respect in energy and aggressive force. We went through all sorts of disaster and three panics. The early days were dark and dismal, but we went through them and lived in happiness and contentment. We had but little commerce. Our trade was largely the swapplng of horses, jacknives and cor- ner loto and tradition says there was lit- tle trafic in legislative votes, but I will not speak on that subject, for I was a mem ber of the second legislature myself. “When we came here western lowa anl the whole transmissourl region was de- nounced as an uninhabitable desert and 1 can easlly remember the time when If one went as far north as where Cuming street now 18 he was in danger of mecting hostile Indians. But many of us decided to stay and we bullt air castles of the time when Omaha should be a city of 1,600 pop- ulation. The three things which fixed the r's Reminiscences. DrWilliams' Pinflgol?ills Pale People An unfailing specific for all diseases arising from im- pure or impoverished blood or from weakened nervous system., Most remarkable cures have been made in ve failed and hope of recov- lata or direct from Dr. Willlame Sehenectady, N.Y. recelpt of price, Ge. per box ; pald on oxes, 8240, your dinner?” In Washingto fice would you like to have?' “Coming to Omaha,” contipued Dr. Hirst, “‘the stranger ls atruck with an inyisible, indescribable, refining, invigorating wel- come. The question, as typical of Omaha's welcome, is, ‘Sir, what can we do to assuro you of the genuineness of our welcome and hospitality?' " Dr. Hirst drew an inspiring word ple- ture of the future and predicted that in twenty-five years hence the visitor (o Omaha would find all of the ldeals of the present day a completed fact, including the great auditorium, a magnificent hall of commerce, schools of medicine and art, pa- latial homes and colossal fortunes. BETRAYED BY YELLOW VEST ¥y Explain Be Arrayed in ake's Saffron-Hued Walsteont. , “What of- An ornate double-breasted walstcoat, con- spicuous for its chrome-colored aspect, may prove the undeing of Samuel Bussey, who is on trial before Judge Baker on the charge of larceny from the person. The garment lies on the long table within the attor- neys' enclosure in plain sight of the jury. It is cireumstantial evidence of the theft, The walstcoat, together with a Lord Rag- lan overcoat of the latest style, is the property of Ben Hake of the Merchants hotel. Hake and Bussey passed the even- |ing of November 11 in each other's com- pany. Taking advantage of a nap in which | Huke had momentarily indulged Bussey is sald to have dlvested him of the garments named, substituting apjarel of his own. On the witness stand Hake told the court how he happened to be In Bussey's com- pany. He sald he had the walstcoat and overcoat on when he went to sleep In a downfown amusement resort. When he awoke he was clothed in the cheap gar- ments which Bussey had discarded. De- tective Drummy testified to having ar- rested Bussey on the succeeding day when he was wearlng the waistcoat and over- coat belonging to Hake. The overcoat, Bussey sald, he must have put on by mis- take, but he was unable to explain to the satlsfaction of the officers how he hap- pened to have made the same crror with the walstccont, permanency of Omaha were the location of the cajital by Governor Cumings, which established this city as against Bellevue | and Florence, the location of the Union | Pacific railroad and the location of lhei bridge. | “We began our mew career twenty years | ago when young men of business began to | rrive and lald foundations of the trade | 'and commercial Influence, which today | mark this city. The glory of today Is the | young man. The possibilities of Omaha In | the future are not in doubt while in the | hands of such men as those seated about these tables ton!ght. Dr. Hirst on His Welcome. Rev. Dr, Hirst made a happy closing ad- dress. He responded to the toast, “Omaha as Seen by a Newcomer. The newcomer at varlous of the large citles of the land, he sald, is greeted with an Interrogation typlcal to the city. In Boston it is, “How much do you know ?"* In New York, “What's the size of your bank account?” In Phila- delphia, “Who was your grandfather and did your ancestors come over with William Penn? “In Baltimore, “How long do you A Careful Compounding of Prescriptions by Competent Pharmacists from Pure Drugs at Reasonable Prices. ' THE ALOE & PENFOLD CO. Largest M 1y Heuse, 1408 Farnam St, OMAHA, Opposite Paxtom Hotel, hope to stay and what would you like for “Why We Located in Omaha." Mr. Byrone Cheap Cand'es— “1 can buy cheaper camly.”—Of course you can, madam—oceans of {t—But “cheaper candy” has a consequence coupon attached to every mouthful— and you'll find the consequence coupon an expensive article by the time the doc- tor and apothecary get through with your digestive machinery—As for us, we'd rather eat and sell pure candy than “cheap” candy—Any girl would rather have a half pound of our choco- lates thah a pound of ordinary candies. W. S. Balduft, 1820 Farnam St. Our Bicycle Man— Just as he wheeled around the corner 16th and Willlams, a woman opened the door quickly and bhollered at him to come in and see her cook stove—the kitchen full of smoke—two lids cracked, one lid a plece broken out—the back wall nearly gone, so that the oven wall of the stove was burned through and allowed ashes to fall lnto the oven—the feed door would not shut—a big hole burned in the front grate, the bottom grate badly warped and one end gone entirely—But we fixed up the stove as good as ever and there I8 no more smoke in that house and a great saving of fuel —We carry repalrs for any stove made, OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS Telephone 960, 1207 Douglas Bt How's This? A $350 piano for $197—on easy pay- ments—$5.00 per month. We are going to offer you this week a number of our fine $350 planos for tne above men- tioned figure, We have to make room for the Christmas stock—hence the sacrifice. Call early on Tuesday before they are sold. This offer is open for a few days only. We guarantee them for ten years and include a stool, scarf and instruction book. Our self-playing plano attachment, the Apollo, is the only successful attachment on the mar- ket. A. HOSPE, Moo ad At 163 Douginn. How About Winter Shoss? 2 There has been a steady flow of men the last few days going Into Drex L. Shooman's and with very few excep- tlons every man went out with a pajr of our $3.50 shoes—Either in the box calf or winter tan—These shoes with the heavy soles make them the ideal shoe for winter wear—While the price I8 B0c to $1.00 less than it ought to be on the same grade—we put all our shoe ability and reputation back of these shoes and know the world doesn't hold their equal anywhere else for $3.50— You are invited to look at them, Drexel Shoe Co., Fre tor