Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1901, Page 7

evovo- wom- PROCRESS OF THE FILIPINOS dustrially, Pelitically and Intelleotu Iy Advanosment is Apparent. REPORT URGES CONTINUED SUPPORT Recommends Government Shored in by Natives, but Based Upon Ulil- mate Control by the United States, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Provision for a permanent civil government and for much fmportant legislation regarding the {ndus- trial development of the Philippines is em- bodied in the annual report of the Phil- fppine commission. It is declared that the federal party has spread like wildfire throughout the archipelago and there are few towns which have uot their federal commissions. The members of the party were most active in Inducing insurgent ders Lo surrender. It is declared by the that “Outside of the five pro named, Batan gas, Cebu, Bohol, Samar and Mindoro, there 18 peace In the remainder of the archipel ago. All insurrectors have surrendered and in most of the provinces, except among commission the Lake Moros, it is entirely safe for travelers unattended to go from one town to another. The people are fricndly to the elvil government and manifest no desire whatever for a continuance of the war, but only a desire for p ace and protection Regarding the qu future of the the noof Civil Laws, the is declared stion of Filipinos, it theory on which th proceeding is that the only possible of instructing the Filipino people political method in meth that | commission 18 | | PHILIPPINE CIVIL Phillppines In Uncle Sam's service, but not as soldiers Their desire is to secure clerical or other | | positions under the Treasury department for positions in the customs and other local services in the Philippines will be held by | the Philippine service board. This latter statement in referring to “other local serv | tees™ 18 thought to include the postoffic service there and to imply that applicants | ods of free Institutions and self-govern- ment s to make a government partly of Americans and partly of Filipinos, with | ultimate control in American hands for some time to come. Loss than 10 per eent of the people speak nish and the edu cated people under the influence of Spanish | teaching have but a faint conception of real civil liberty and the mutual self restraints required for its maintenance The commission, however, has established municipal suffrage in the pacified parts of the island and has limited suffrage to those who can read and write English and Spa ish, or who own property of the value o $250, pay an anuual tax of $15, or have municipal offices. So far only 4 Tin6tons have qualificd under these provisions out of a population of 2,605,801 in 300 munici- palities, showing only 18.37 electors per | 1,000 inhabitants. This is, only about 10 per cent of the number which would qualify under with law, similar population Anertean No ves Are ( The commission declares these qualifications 1t followed the mendations of all the Filipinos who consulted except that there were many advocated a higher qualification. It posed by practical le the minds of the more the community these In government which in fixing recom who 18 pro sons to eliminate from intelligent part of leas of absoluteism control and imp cn them the divislon of powers prevailing under the American system For the purpose of carrying out these views the commission outlines a project which, in brief, contemplates the contin uance for two years of the of the commission. Then government s to be formed, composed of a civil governor, a leglslative council and a popular assembly, the powers of the lat- ter belng closely limited &0 as to prevent it from choking the government in making the budget in fits of passion or through in- experience. Let The president of the United States would of course reserve absolute veto power. The Filipinos also should have the right to be represented before congress and the ex ecutfve government at Washington by two delegates, ) The commission proposes to settle vexed question of land titles by le providing for the sale of public the homestead principle and through a bond issue of -the price of the lands now held by the religlous orders A 50 per cent reduction in the tariff of Philippine imports into the United Statcs would, it is sald, increase our trade by le and bounds. Other recommendations in substance, that the present s, timber cutting under license that mining and inc atlon passed, that the commissjon be to confer charters upon railways them by grants of lands or gus interest upon the investments (prebably the total obligation would not exceed $1,850,000) that laws be passed providing for colnage on the gold standard, with lgeal silver cur rency, and for a system of national banks an@l land mortgage banks etxisting powers representative resident serve Veto, the 1slation lands upon the payment stem of be continued laws be permitted and to aid romress | A full account Is given by the commis- slon of the eystem of organization, which has been golng on so vigorously under Dr. ntie F. W. Atkinson, the general superintend- ent. The English language is the basis of Il public instruction, and nearly 1,000 tralned teachers from the United States al ready haye been put to work and cities of the pacified in the towns provinces, The Building Requires a foundation. That is just as true of the building up of the body as of the building of a house. The founda- tion of a strong body is a stroug stom- h. No man can be stronger lfi.lu his tomach. A weak stomach means a weak man, Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enables the perfect digestion and assimi- lation of the food which is eaten. Thus it builds up the bady and restores strength in the only way known to« Nature or to science—by digested and assimilated food, *While living in Charlotte, N. C., your medi cine cured me of asthma and nasal catarrh of ten years' standing® writes | 1. Lumsden. Esq of 221 Whitehall Street, Ailanta, Ga. " time life was a burden to me. ading hundreds of dollars under numerous octors 1 was dying by inches. | weighed only I pounds. 1n twenty days after I commenced Your treatnent 1 was well of hoth troubles, & in six wonths I weighed 170 pounds. and was in perfect health. T Wve never felt the slightest symptom of either since. Am uixiqfive vears 1d and in perfect health, and wech . poinds No mouey could repay you for what you did for me. 1 would not return to the condition [ 1n, in October, 1872, for Rockefeller s wealth.” Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets assist the action of the * Discovery,” when & laxa- tive s required, | not be so discriminating in this for the rea- | elares th | and even stenographers tives to obtain a knowledge of English and | A general primar G ation. In Manila | secondary scho: have been established, | the instruction of Filipino teachers an l night schools are holding reg esston with 1,500 pupils | Manual training schools and agricultural | colleges are a part of the project being | carried out for the education of the people | to better methods of labor and production. | Recently instruction in telegraphy has begun with the ald of the signal de ll ment of the army, and it is proposed to | gradually transfer the telegraph service | from the army to the civil government by | provinces as young Filipinos become suff- | | clently competent the opening day number enrolle eventually enrolled to act as operators. On of the normal was 430, being school the the number | over 600, | SERVICE Anxio Returned Volunteers * to Get t Places in the Islands, Govern Miss Coffin board, 18 secretary of the civil service discovering that a good many returned volunteers wish to go back to th and they have asked so frequently for in tormation concerning examination dates that she wrote President John R. Proctor of the civil service commission This morning she commission examinations recelved a reply in saye that it Is expected for the positions of rapher and typewriter and translator. possibly, for other positions in which the that stenog and Phillp the he pine service, will be held throughout the United States during the spring of 19 the manual to be ready about January 15 The letter further says that examinations for euch position will have to be in Manila to ge a chance at such a8 ita champlons on the islands and its enemies over here, the former defending it he he advantage it gives who claim to be best qualified by reason of | their jobs. This plan those | stay there, and the latter criticlsing it on the ground that it isn’t right to neces- | sitate an applicant going 6,000 miles to | take an examination in which, through some accidental error, he might fail to pass | and thereafter be left stranded far from home and mother's cooking The advantage of familiarity with the islands and the islanders would seem ply quite as well in the case of translators but Uncle Sam can- | son that the kind of employes he wants are | such experts as are not distributed promis uously nor easy to pick up. He 18 always | short in his supply of the kind most 4I~-~l|‘~"li and for that reason makes the concession of | holding examinations where it s more con- | venient for them Mies Coffin says that old and young, men | and women, black and white are among her | inquisitors, but that the most of them are | young fellows who served as volunteers, se- cured employm nt in the customs service on the island for a while after being mus- tered out and now recall the experience with such satisfaction that they wish to return there to remaln permanently We invite you, one and ali, to visit our Oriental Pagoda, where we serve tea and wafers free. Store open every evening un- til Xmas | ORCHARD & WILHELM CARPET CO. Free Skates for Boys and Girls, Any boy or girl can get a free pair of skates. It any of your family, or neigh- bore, take The Twentieth Century Farmer get a copy of it and start out to get usa few suscribers. We will send you a splendid | pair of skates free, express charges pro- paid. If you cannot get a copy of the paper #end to us and we will mail you a sample You will see that a agricultural ma interest not only to whole family, is one | want, particularly it they can help you at | the same time to get a pair of skates for | nothing | It you will send us two new suscribers we will en you a pair of Barney & Berry | skates, size 8 10 12 inches. This skate is | thoroughly made and durable, adjusted by | single thread screw foot-plates, heel plates clamps and brackets of best steel and blade of solid hardened steel. By sending three now suseribers we.will send you the same skates only pickel plated 1t you will send us three new suscribers we will send you a Barney & Berry skate, size 8 to 11 Inches. This skate has heel strap and is particularly designed for chil- dren's use. It you will send four new suscribers we | will send the same skate nickel plated For six new suberibers we will send a pair of BArney & Berry skates, size § to 12 weekly gazine like this, the which Mustrated that is of but his one will mer. every inches. This is a five dollar pair of skates polished and nickeled, made of the very best steel that is produced THE TWF FREE SKAT TIETH CENTURY FARMER, DEPARTMENT, Omaha, Neb. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. C. W. Turner of Lincoln i at the Tler | Grand | Michael Elmore, a_rafiroad contractor from Allia & (n Omaha on business H. A Thrift of the paymaster's depart- ment of the United States army {s at the Millard 3 )X Jr. of Chicago, vice pres dent ‘of the Standard Oil company, Is at the Millard Nelson Vanderpool, northwestern pas- | senger agent of the New York Central rafl- road, Ix at the Murray Councllman D. T. Mount left last night for Venango, where he will spend two woeks on his sheep ranch i Wword Chicago I8 to the effect that W, J. Burgess of Boyd, who has been sick” from pneumonta, fs sufficlently re covered 1o be able to return home on Fri- day Charles Thorpe, a diminutive Nebraskar who has been riding winning mounts on the | English turf for several years and is now | visiting among friends {n Nebraska, ar- | rived Vesterday from Geneva, where he | owns a ranch. He will be at the Mer chants hotel several days. His wife s | with him | Mary Mannering Hackett and the twenty three members of the company appearing with her this season in a dramatization of TJantce Mertdith were ut the Millard ves- terday afternoon. They came up from Lincoin, where they appeared Tuesday Wight, to rest a day before starting fol Balt Lake Clty. the next point in thelr tour. From there they go to the couct and return to Omaha six weeks' hence for \ three nights' stand. Miss Mannering, or trs. Hackelt as she registers herself. ‘de U the west is treating her kindly her business has more than met and that LOCAL BREVITIES. The Visiting Nurses \ts monthly meeting afternoon in the hotel An alarm of fire w o'clock last evening Dodge str assoclation at 4 o'clock parlors of the i1l hold hursday Paxton s turned in about 5:30 rom Twenty-fitth and s, caused by a chimney burn- ing out at 101 Bouth Twenty-fifth street Police Surgedn Francls L. Borglum left laxt night for a trip to Butte and other points — west. During his absence Dra. Renawa and Mullen will look after the surgfoal work at the station mes Allan, deputy United States mar- L brought in from Homer, Neb., on Wednesday afternoon, Willlam Harfison and Burt Boalf, charged with seliing fire- water to the noble red Harrison and Loalf are now in the Douglas county jall | sep: | Linthan, which takes place today. IE OMAHA DAILY ‘R 19 1901 GOES TO DUBLIN T0 STCDY! Weod of Mayweod Will Wail for Emerald Inle GRADUATE COURSE Dr. W, TAKES A POST Describes Character of a Physicinn's | Life in Mis Section of State— the best | It is pure. Dr. W. H. Wood made his last round of | patients Friday, when he drove sev- enty-five miles, with the mercury clear out of sight and the snow blowing flercely in his face His home raving Snowstorms to Save Life last It is gentle. It is pleasant for the last three years, or since It is efficacious. his graduation from a leading medical col- lege in New York City, has been in May- It is not expensive. wood, Neb., but he has transferred his pra tice from there and leaves soon to take a It is good for children. post-graduate course of several months at the university at Dublin, expecting also to travel extensively throughout Great Britain and in France. The doctor was at the Mer- cha el last night and £aid that while there were universities in this country of- fering post-graduate cources quite as thor ough as that obtainable at the institution in Ireland he preferred to cross the water be- of the travel it would give him with- tal coet greater than that to be in curred on thi the living expenses at Dublin being enough cheaper to make up the cost of ocean passage. Dr. Wood is a compar but his experience It is excellent for out a It stands highest, continent tively young man, produces. Nebraska has in w aged him, because of rigors that he, like every physiclan in a new country, has ha to endure He sa that a drive of twenty-five miles to see a patient s con- sldered nothing extraordinary, and that drives of seventy-five miles in a single day are not unusual. Horseflesh 18 cheap when the mustang variety fs used—and the mus- | ung varfety is the best possible for his pur- as the team of the diminutive, bardy | whether this will ten miles an hour from | gther name in the minds of those Ranchmen out there are perfectly willing | mathods of the church. any fee the may ask, thelr [ yn this connection a report from Chicago only requirement being that his services announcing that Bishop Muldoon has been must prove speedily effective. Patients suf- appointed coadjutor archbishop of Chicago fering with even as dangerous maladies as is received with ineredulity in Omaha. No pneumonia are seldom called on more than meeting has been held of the pastors of the three times, and the are | djocese to consider the question and an ap- rated by suffictent length of time to ad- | pojntment without such a meeting would be it of the patient being ready for elther A | establishing a new precedent. square meal or an undertaker before the FIRE RECORD. urth visit is due. will added is a question not settled be changed or an- brite cover sunrise to sunset who know the two or e calls Dr. Woodsn his practice, which extended over pretty nearly the whole western sece 1 s Over ndred LLR tion of the state, used three nurses and re- Sou; 10:Wiie - 1od ob them %o mest auy smergency e | BAUTTMORE, Dév. 19.=Wire wes diveos Quired, When he returns from Dublin he | “Fed shortly before midnight tonight in the basement of the Yale laundry, 15 West La- otte street, and at this hour, 2:30 a. m., | the entire building is a mass of flames. The expects to locate in Colorado, as he says he | has had enough of long drives in the severe weather of the mewer Nebfaska. In the : e B ‘] Irish city he expects to find several friends, ;“I""“h'l:“l’wv_‘r‘:’"".““",:‘ 4 "‘u‘v:‘".“ \1.,,?1:- | as ten of the sixty who graduated in his heeviest lonsrs AEC osepl Fdle Boson class Lave gone there to take thelr POSt: ung g Co., shirt manufacturers, who ac NERIURES cOUERe cupled the five upper floors, $25,000; Al- Amerlca makes the finest brand of cham- | strom & Co., tailors, first floor, $10,000; pagne, Cook's Tmperlal Extra Dry. It is| Charles R. Deeley, dental supplies, $5,000 fruity and pure. | 1saac A. Sheppard & Co., | turers, $10,000 ¢ deliclous, stove manufac ANNIVERSARY _OF ~ KIDNAPING At vorld Wibihiatarn on of BEddie| xpw YORK, Dec. 18.—Fire tonight caused vents that | the Diamond Rubber company, an Akron (0.) corporation, which has storerooms on upper Broadway In this city, great loss. The flames burned thelr way Into the third story of the seven-story bullding next door, entirely occupied by Burr & Co., manufac- turers and dealers In carriages. The third story and the effects above it were par- tially burned out and Burr & Co.'s big stock of vehicles on the lower floors auffered much from water. The fire department officials estimated the loss at $50,000, divided about equally between the two companles. Reen Cudnhy and Followe: lee Crime. The police are remarking that last night {s the first anniversary of the kidnaping of Eddle Cudahy, an event which set the en- tire country agog for the better part of a year. Tonight is the first A. Cudahy's famous drive out on the Fremont road with $25,000 in gold in his buggy and a red lantern to let the bandits know he was coming. Everything was favorable to the out- laws,” said Chief Donahue yesterday. “It wouldn't be possible to commit such a crime tonight, because It would be easy to track the bandits in the snow and also anniversary of Normal School at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, 8. D., Dec. 18.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The Aberdeen State Normal school building was destroyed by fire ecarly this evening, involving a loss estimated at $20,- because it would be so cold that they would have to have u fire in the room where the | 000. The structure was nearing completion hostage was detained. A year ago it was |and still in the hands of the contractors, o warm at this time that a man would be P. Franzen & Co. of St. Paul, who will comfortable on the street in his shirt- [have to bear the loss. They are partially | sleeves. For this reasan the bandite didn't [ protected by insurance. No portion of the | have to bulld a fire in the Melrose Hill [1oss falls on the city or state, and the | prison house. The sight of smoke coming | building doubtless will be rebullt in time | out of the chimney of that house, which had | for use when needed next fall Leaves Orphans in Bad Way. TIFFIN, 0., Dec. 18.—The two-story brick heating plant of the St. Francis Catholie Orphans’ home was almost entirely de- stroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this morning Conditions are very serious for the 300 in- | mates, as the thermometer registers around zero and there is no other way of heating the institution. so long been vacant, would certalnly have ttracted the attention of the neighbors." Meanwhile Pat Crowe seems to have run out of postage stamp: BISHOP LINIHAN'S SUCCESSOR ay He Mnde by sion at Dubuque Week, his Bishop Scannell has gone to Dubuque, where he will attend the funeral of Bishop Destroys Life. CANYON CITY, Colo., Dec. 15.—Two daughters of Mrs. James E. Wing, 6 and | 4 years of age, were burned to death In a | fire that destroyed the house occupled by Mrs. Wing and her six children. Another of the children was so badly burned that | No notice has been sent out of a meeting of bishops to be held to make recommenda- tions for his successor in the sce of Chey- enne, but it is believed that 1t all of the bishops of the archdiocese are present at|She will probably die. | the funeral, a conference will be held s Thursday afternoon or Friday. | High Scho ding. l\ In regard to the proposed see of Sioux| ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 18.~Lincoln High | City the list approved by the bishops last [ school bullding, which cost $35,000, caught yrup.of Fi It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances, It is used by millions of families the world over. fall is believed to contain the names of Rev. J. M. Cleary of Minneapolis, pastor of St Charles parish, 0/ Rev. P. J. Garrigan of fire this afternoon while school was In ses- sion, but the pupils marched out in safety. | The building is practically a total loss the Catholie Ziversity at Washington. | Nearly all the pupils lost thelr wraps. first man to enter the Yosemite valley. o e 7 - ~ . Scenes in Stores Where Santa Christmas Shopping | it = Omaha stores one week before Christmas “Oh, papa, seo that sled. I are like those stores at mo other time. “Papa, just look at that— These are gala days for those who would “Mamma, tell papa to look this way. I study mankind in crowds, for despite the want him— cold, the fiying snow and slippery side- “Here, oh, mamma, papa, see Santa walks Omaha, and especially feminine Claus! Mamma, do you think he'll bring Omaha, is seen on the streets and in the me those skates—and Mary her doll that marts of trade. cries and all those things we asked for?" Every store has on it holiday attire, And eight small eyes start as the “really, some subdued as befits the dignity of long sure 'nuff Santa Claus” places in four hands years of tablished success and a trade books which tell stories to interest little which comes in carriages with a coachman folk while reminding their elders that From the dignified showing of houses to the more at- v display of the house on the box theso exclusive tractive it more gaud —'s is open mot only at Christmas, but all the year around Up aad down the alsles go our party with which caters to ordinary humanity is a 100 other parties just like them, except for change which is pleasant numbers and in and out around the family The department store—where everything groups fly bevies of girls looking for ‘‘some- is for sale for everybody—is where shop- thing that will make a nice present for ping Omaha can best be seen one week Jack,” and numerous ‘“Jacks' wander from Christmas day. Here black and around the building congldering what to white, the daughter of the millionaire and purchase for their “Jills,” mentally cal- the daughter of his butler meet upon a culating how this week's wages Is to cover level and scramble equally hard for the all that they should buy for Christmas same bargalns presents, Here all is life aud activity, Shoppers All of the people in the store are not fill the alsles, scramble at the counters, there to buy, nor yet to sell. Here Is a argue with salesmen and saleswomen about comfortable little body who several days the price, with fine disregard for the fact ago has made her purchases. She is the that the clerk Is as unable to alter prices careful aunt of no one knows how many as the prospective purchaser, Here 1s & man who has brought his fam- Santa Claus.” A second first observation to be a fact proves to be that the little nephews and nieces. In her room at home there are yards and yards of cloth of all colors and kinds. One plece is to make a cloak for Nettie, another a dress for May This will be a hood for a baby and that an fly out “to see look shows the mistake and the family has brought the head of the house overcoat for one of the boys. Much of the along “'to see the cutest little games, the stuff is made up, but this afternoon the finest dolls, the best guns, the fastest of kind dressmaker has been unable to de- sleds, the sharpest of knives, just like I cide whether the baby's cap should have want Santa Claus to bring me. blue ribboas or piok, so here she is down | day, aged 107 Because family laxative All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. ladies. To get its benefic Manufactured by a laxative, with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances, It contains the laxative principles of plants It contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste, Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to the orginality and simplicity of the combination, al effects - buy the genuine. San Francisco, Cal. Loutsville, Ky. Autroria fia Svee ¢ New York, N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUG@ISTS. HOMER BAXTER WINS SPURS Deted This was in the spring of 1844, when he was In charge of a hunting party, all of whom were killed by Indlans, he alone escaping ef at Work nt Store J. €. Stone, LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Dec. 18.-J. C. Stone, sr., aged 75 years, died af his home here today from {llness incident to old age. sr. Homer Baxter, 7 years old, is probably the | youngest detective in the country. He 18| o oices theoioh the Mexioan war as o not a sleuth of the “Three-Fingered 1ke™ | aniain was adjutant general of the state type, as Homer never read a yellow-backed | o' yeariac®a i oS0 Bl war and was novel in his life, but a real Hawkshaw, and is carried as such upon the pay rolls of a big department store not far from the post- offce. About ten days ago, when the Christmas trade began in earnest, there were numer- one of the first projectors of the Union Pa- cific rallway. WOMEN'S FIRST DOG SHOW Unusual Interest Shown the ous complaints from the salesmen in the toy % e department that little street arabs were Ladie e plifering from the counters. Tt was impos- Opening Exhibition. sible for the clerks to watch everyone, as | s were crowded with buyers. To| n or woman to watch this depart- ment alone would be too expensive, so the manegement hit upon the expedient of put ting a bright boy in the place, and Homer W YORK, Dec. 18.—The first bench show of the Ladies' Kennel Assoclation of Amerlea bas begun at Madison Square Gar den today. Unusual interest In the show was aroused by the benching of mew dogs Baxter was chosen from among the cash grom England in the bulldog, collier and bas. terrier classes. There was a strong lot of Yesterday Homer made his first catch fox terriers present, including English and American chumpions. The other cla; were well represented, especlally the col lles, setters and Spaniels spafford-Jackson BEATRICE, Neb, Dec. 18.—(Special.)— Cards are out announcing the marriage of Harry E. Spafford of Deatrice to Miss Eliza- beth B, Jackson. Th ceremony will be per- formed next Tuesday morning at 10:30 at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Jackson, 613 North Elev- enth street. Rev. George W. Crofts will He saw a littlo negro lad secrete a toy lo- comotive and one of those little mules that nod their heads underneath his coat and told the floorwalker about it. “‘What have you got there, Rastus? the walker, “I never took nothin'!" exclaimed Rastus. And he held up his hands to prove it® but when the pressure of his arms was with. | drawn from the coat the toys fell to the floor with a clatter. Rastus was told he wouldn't be arrested this time, and Homer was rewarded with a tin star to wear on his vest. asked officlate. Parlor tables at one-half, one-third and Heavy Snow at Plerre. one-fourth off from regular price In O uppp g D, Dec. 18.—(Spocial Tele- gram.)—Four inches of snow fell here last night and today, it being the heaviest fall | ORCHARD & ‘ ‘ in several years. WILH BLM CARPET CO DEATH RECORD. wing Daily. AL M T M s 1 ) Vi g o glass works at Belleville and St BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 18.—(Special.)— The & A. M. T. Miller, :m.» of the oldest [;,,,‘,,,m,, I Louls are daily blowing over 300,000 I;omu. of this county, died yesterday at Siloam | Which are to be flled with the famou | Springs, Ark., Mr. Miller was born in Mary- | | land fifty-four years ago and came to this county in 1880 and settled upon a farm near Patent Leathers — Pickrill, in this county, where he engaged | in farming and stock ising. About two, Men's Patent Leathers for Christmas vears ago he moved to Beatrice and entered | gitts—The ideal patent Kid—the patent the employ of the B. & M. rallway as im migration agent. Besides a wife he lea four daughters and two sons. calf in all the new and late lasts and toes ~—Nothing will please a man more than a | pair of patent leather Shoes—We have W, Kinstry. | such a large line of these that we can suit ONAWA, Ia., Dec. 18.—(Special)—W. 1. | the fancies of any man and glve him a per- MecKinstry of Ute, Ia., dled yesterday at his | fect fit—Speaking of fita—~you can have home of appendicitis, aged 46 years. An | your purchase of today fit to his fit after operation was performed last Monday, but | oprictmas—It's the same with our Christ- jx:f;""l'r""‘";":‘.“‘;n:”’:';" “l:‘;‘n'u‘m‘::“‘;“'m":“: mas Slippers—We've so many there will county, where he has lived for more than | be D0 trouble in exchanging them. twenty years. The funeral was held Wednesday. Drexel Shoe Co.. Omaha's Up-to. Shoe House. 1419 FARNAM STREET. New Fall Catalogne Now Ready. irandmoth Tommy" Ryun WATERTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 18.—~Mrs. Vire ginia Yocng, the oldest person in nortbern New York, is dead at Redwood, Jefferson county, aged 104. She was grandmother of “Tommy" Ryan, the pugilist. dext Man in Michigan, LUDINGTON, Mich,, Dec. 18.—~Louls Rock, the oldest man in Michigan, died here to- Rock was reputed to be the You Think a Great— deal of your boy?—Then buy him a pair of our Barney & Berry skates from d0c up— or a good strong sled from 25¢ to $2.25—or A pocket knife from 25c to $4.00—Any of the above will make him the happlest boy in town—Then we have Iron express wagons | trom 75c up—velogipedes $1.25 up—But the finest thing we have for a boy is an elegant tool case filled with first-class tools for $10.00~1t's the handsomest thing out—For the men nothing nicer than a Star safety razor—We've lots of nice things for a Christmas gift—like & o'clock teas—carving sets—tea and coffee pots — sliver-plated spoons, etc.—Hetter see us, at the store. The counter has shown woman behind the ber a dozen caps, but her mind s not made up as to the color of those ribbons, and still she looks. After while she will see a cap that she admires and she will take especial note so as to make one like it at home, But the crowd is still passing, struggling and wurgiog. once o white mere 1w an A, Co RAYyMer eddd where ona can stop and get their breath. Then the eddy is carried away and Builders' Herdware and Tools. nothing but call it a camp a mass of people=they would “boom™ In a Minnesota lumber 1814 Farnam St. remalins. | | — Merchants that Christmas goods as it bought never before The cold weather and the snow have 1o- Tfig Best Xmas Gift For Children— creased what might be called normal Christmas sales. Last season tho sales i5 yndoubtedly some small musical in were abnormal. Warm weather made the say Omaha s buying presentation of a sled, of skates ironical | strument—They enjoy them and learn and in despalr those who gave hought “use- | hy them—It gets them started to love ful'* presents—those frauds upon Christmas 4 . > J will be easy for them later which Kkill the spirit of the day. When s | Usic and it wi y boy wants a drum it is little pleasure to | on to take up piano or some other prin- ;N,‘;m 8 sult of clothing, no matter how | ,nq) instrument—We have a great num- adly it may be needed. 4 The spirit of Christmas {8 over every- ber of beautiful little instruments—such wmouth harps—musie boxes—accor. | deons—fifes—horns—drums—jewsharps— thing—over the crowds which visit the | gg stores, over the people at the theaters, in the cars on thelr way home, In the mes- | v Lo, = senger boy, whose work Is doubled this time | toy trombones—zobus—toy violins—etc. of the year, and even in the saleswoman, | None of them cost over §1.50—Bring the whose body Is tired and whose soul s tried | children to our store by the cndless line of shoppers. It is a Jolly time and even today you will see vy...‘ spirit of the one yoy me holldays in the face of every- A. HOSPE, o Muste ond A, 1513-1516 Dougles. Budwelsor' beer, brewed by the Anheuser Busch Brewing Association, 8t. Louls, Mo. “Young Gri ™ Ring, CHICAGO, Dec. 18.~Albert Griffiths, well known * throughout sporting elrcles a Young Griffo,” a clove \welght has been’ forced to b of a valvular affection of that may bring death to him in t iy time. Late today Dr. Medres “clan for the Olymy amined Grifiths and becaise of his weak ness refused to nllow him to enter n mateh for which he was scheduled tonight ¥u s Son Wil et Him, OAKLAND, Cal, Dec 18-A son was born to Mrs. Frederick Funston, wife of Brigadler General Funston of Kansa toduy. Mrs. Funston returned from the Philippines a few weeks ugo and has been J¥Ing with her parents here since. General Funston sailed from Manila for the United States last Sunday. 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