Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1910, Page 8

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 THE BEE: OMAHA, worth o at ¥1.50 Special Sale of *1.00 Pictures at 10¢ ] For the past week we have shown in two of our show windows the most wonderful bargain in framed pictures ever seen any where. Pictures of various sizes, in black and gilt frames, worth up to $1.00 each, are going to be sold at. 100 On sale in basement of the new building. There is going to New Corsage Bouquets, Beautiful bouquets of the favorite spring flowers, put up in a fancy box—many varieties, maiden hair ferns and lily of the valley, poinsetta, pansies, ete. They are extremely fashion- able this season. We bought them at a bargain and offer the genuine corsage bouquets— at, each Great Sale of Women’s Sample Skirts A SPECIAL PURCHASE OF HIGH QUALITY SKIRTS IN STYLES FOR 1910 ' Women'sand Children’s Rainproof Coats The celebrated Hydegrade fabric coats, rainproof- ed by Priestly and Cravenette process, all colors and sizes for women, misses and children. Very This was a very fortunate purchase of new spring skirts. Buy them Saturday for % what you’ll have to pay later. All correct new styles for spring, made of fine Altman voile, chiffon panama, French serges, ings, ete. = ALL THE WOMEN'S === Skirts Worth §4 to $7.50 | % | grey worsted, smart colored suit- | || Skirts Worth $7.50 to $10 ALL THE WOMEN'§==== be a big demand for these and we recommend an early call. A SPECIAL SALE Blue Serge Suits FOR MEN and YOUNG MEN A good blue serge is the right suit for any suit. It is the cor- rect suit for business or dress—for winter, spring, summer or be tween seasons. For Saturday as an extra special we offer fine Oswego weave | serge suits—pure dye and sun proof—hand tailored, mohair lined newest 1910 patterns. An exceptionally good value for a man who wants the best kind of a .. ! Women's and Misses’ Cloaks at $2.98 e S S W& 79 All our women’s winter cloaks must go at once. V\te have grouped all our good winter cloaks for misses and Women, the same coats that were sell- suit for every month in the year. $15 84 to 38 to g7 to tra_larg, 44 in regular. 46 In stouts and ex- e, 46 in siim and ex- tra long. R GREAT BARGAINS Tjem RYAN STOCK Men’s Shirts Neckwear, Hosiery, Suspenders, Efc. New lots from this Immense stock of men's fixings from Ryan's store in Atlantic City, N.J Nn'w’ lots of men's $1 Shirts from the New‘ lots, men's $1.50 Shirts fron New lots of men's $2 and $3 Shirts, at 98¢ and $1.50 NECKWEAR Men's 36c Neckwear, from the Ry- 15¢ an stock, at . T6c Men's 50c and Men’s $1.50 « Neckwear from the o b 25 Neckwear from the Ryan stock, at.75¢ Ryan stock, Men’s Lisle Hosiery New lots of Men’s 50c¢ quality plain and fancy Lisle Hose from the Ryan 25 BUOGHBL B PRILL v 5%7ie ot st sunn c Winter Suits and Uvercoats $10 and every day wear, guaranteed spotproof, rainproof, positively worth $5 to $1 l practical coats for early spring, auto, street $2.98 0, at . l ing up to $12.50 a few weeks ago, ‘ Saturday in one big lot, at these pretty cloaks at once. These three immense bargains Saturday. Any Children’s Cloak in the hou in ages 2 to 14 that has been sell- ing at $5 to $12.50 (just 150 to choose from) at $29 China Dept. —West Arcade Big Dinnerware Sale Including Coalport, Dres- den, Minton, Haviland, Syra- cuse and all our domestic patterns, 82 in all to choose from, Saturday at special bargains. 25 Per Cent Discount on all Open Stock Kost ; Gas Heaters Choapest expense %o Jet; warms a roo: in five utes, éach— $1.50 heat known - average per|Blectric Sad Irons . hour; fit4 any gas |Gas Sad Iroms, for .. min- se, skins, plush, ete., worth $3 to $6, at, each . 8 ey Special Sale of Sad Irons $3.45 --$1.45 m Brass Goods Sale Saturday at 33% per cent on entire stock. Children’s Oloaks in ages 2 years, plain mixed cloths, to 14 | Children’s Cloaks ages bear- $2.00 and $3.00, in one big group, at a special bargain . .. Fashions in Hair No need to worry if your hair seems thin and worn or it it is falling out. Our modern up-to- date and scientific hair treatment and our wonderfully accurate matehing of every shade and qual- ity of human hair in switches, curls, rolls, braids, etc., atone for any and every defect. Our prices are very moderate at all times— our gervice is always the best and we do manicuring, facial massage. shampooing, Grre;tlyuRoducAedflPri;:es on‘AII Children’s Winter Cionka At these prices it will pay you to buy for present wear and for the next winter as well. We must sell all 2 to 14 years, bearskin, ete., a big variety, worth 98¢ On Our 2d Floor Our Roman Braids, 28, 34 and 36 inch special piece for Satur- day, worth $5, at Saturday’s greatest bargains in halr goods. long halr, 36 fnch long, 4 oz., others sell for $15, our price . . Auto Nets — | 24 inch washable hair roll, 76¢ value Large two for .. lsc 1 Special for Saturday only, Turban —! BRANDEI for Natural wavy, all .. $8.98 24 inch hair roll, 50c value, Bl lgc for . -23¢ S0¢ | Caps, 60c values for .. 8 STORES Do you want to save money? Come here tomorrow and buy one of these good winter suits or overcoats, a few weeks ago they were slo $18 to $22.50, Saturday, at Men’s Pants Coals and Vests Winter weights In odd | Sizes 34 to 38 only, left pants, many out of high over from suits that sold priced suits and worth at $10 and $12.60, a big double our chance for small 98 price, Sat- men and young sl' urday, at i men in school. . . New English Rubberized Rain Coats Roseberry Cloth and Garbetine Coats—strictly new models in rain coats and auto coats on our second $5 '0 $35 Spring Hats ¢ %) pring and Boys John B. Stetson Soft and Derby Hats for Men—Lat- est Spring styles, ay.n Imported English Derbies— Made by Joseph Wilson & Sons, Ltd., Denton, Eng- land —in all the newest blocks. Every hat guaran- teed best English $3 00 hat made, at...... o Brandeis Special Soft and Derby Hats—Cor- rect styles for spring .... .....$2.00 Boys’ Hats—in all the latest college styles, Eie i 49c¢, 98¢ and $1.50 All the Hats from the Ryan Stock All the Fine Imported Crushers— 7 5 ¢ $2.00 values, at....... All the High Grade Soft and Derby Hats— Values up to $4.00—in two big lots Saturday .....98c and $1.50 New lots of Men’s 35¢ plain and fancy Lisle Hose from the Ryan stock, at, lsc a pair. e Men’s Lisle Suspenders Various styles from the Ryan stock, worth up to 50c a pair, at, i 17%2(:'25‘: a pair. .. brugs and Toilet Articles 26c Batinette Powder, oo 140 10c William's Shaving Soap, for ... Pear's Unscented Soap, 26c Lilac Talcum Pow- der for .......... B¢ Colgate’'s Tooth Pow- der, for tee.1Bc 26c Sanitol Face Cream, for . .. 14c 26c Tollet Bath Pow- der, for ... .. 12¢ 26c Satin Skin Cream, 18¢ 650c Java Rice Powder, “es Fe Palm Olive Soap .. Te 10c Shinola .....,.7c 20 Mule Team Borax, per pound . N 16c Liquozone Soap, fOD, soevenshracss B0 36c Perfect Face Pow- der, for oo l4c Initial Card Cas Solild leather Card Case with embossed gold initial on a Roman gold design, as shown in illus- tration, with 100 cards, for only 48c. The cards, to say nothing of the card case, are well worth 48c, 80 you are practically getting this beautiful initial leather card case free. We also print wedding invitations, announce- ments and birth cards at lowest prices. BRANDEIS STORES HIGHBROW OVERLOOKS JOKE Erudite Saturday Evening Paper Treats Humor Solemnly. WESTERNER NOT ONLY RUBE Omaha Jobber Sends Freak Letter to Eastern Publication and Gets Back a Most Serlous One in Reply. All the “rubes’ are not confined to-the innocent, trusting young west. Some of the most refreshing specimens are.to be found among the sophisticated leaders of | eastern thought and cosmopolitan advanee. ment. | About the first of the year a western | HAVE YOU HE Dough rises best . hustler sent in a rush application for a po- | western: ginger 'to uee in the human inter- #itlon as traveling man with one of Oma- ha's wholesale grocery houses. In the luxurfant exuberance of his self-compla- cahce he assumed the position would be | Ehipped right- out to him by the next mail; hence he explained: 1 do not use liquor, and am steady, and e a fine education. I have never ed as @ salesman, and have no ex- . but I have traveled on the rall- reat deal, and what 1 have not traveled I have read. I would like to go to Wwork quick. Please state wages, and if I must carry a sample case, or have a trunk and If the territory you have for me was éver warked. If s, how much. And state gverything in your letter, and make your At offer, Maybe I will glve it a trial. Answer at once, for I cannot walt As the man who matls' out traveling men's jobs was busy that day, the position Was not sent. But the breeziness and keen deésire to get quick action rather pleased the reciplent of the hurry-up note. After reading it a second he thought it would be a good sample of time, on another day, | est magazine he had seen “more than a million and a quarter” people reading. So a copy of the application was sent east, with permisslon to the Boss High Brow of | the magasine to use it any way he thought best “‘to point & moral or adorn a tale.” Boss High Brow Can't Sec It. Mr. Bops High Brow in the magazine thought foundry dldn't do anything else | but pass the letter along to the circulation {department. The circulation manager |couldn’t see the possibility of offering it |as a premium, nor could he figure it out a |good “'ad” for his end of the job. Appar- |ently e deliberated, surveved the thing in | calm and dispassionate manner, stood it on end, and gazed at it sideways; and still | his bump of ‘humor quivered nary a thrill, his sentlent soul still slept on the good thing he fondled. Finally, Mr. Circulation | Manager wrote the Omaha wholesaler in this solemn and dignified strain We thank you for your letter enclosing the applieation for a traveling position 1 ARD ABOUT THIS ? when made from' A trial will prove it WASHBURN-CROSBY €O - with this firm. (Here the Omaha man fell out of his chair and hit his funny bone on a nail in the floor, with the result of gathering all his department heads about him in astounded worry, but he read fur- ther.) We want to call your attention to the fact that the copy you sent us was not signed. Will you kindly give me the name of the party who wrote this, so we may communicate with him? Very truly yours, The Lord's Own Publishing com- pany. “There's what I get” murmured the Omaha captain, for trylng to make one tool see the point in another blessed idiot's effervescence. Send In that stenographer whose face hurts her.” ‘Stcwart Wins on the Third Trial Railway in Case that Be- came Sensational. In the third trial of his suit against the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rallway company, Robert A. Stewart gets a ver- Gets Verdict of $3,600 Against Street | ephoned the correction to Creighton. The Judges revised all the figures and now give out the standings as follows: Creighton, first; Wesleyan, second; Cot- ner, third; Doane, fourth; Hastings, fifth; Bellevue, sixth; York, seventh; Grand Isl- and, eighth. Mr. Matthews will accordingly be the representative of Nebraska at the inter- state contest. He also takes away the sum of $30 which, owing to the error of the judges, Crossland was awarded as an ad- Jjunct of first place. FAMILY OF EVA HART GETS SLICE OF SLEUMAN ESTATE Settle the Case for $2,500 and Dis- miss it from the Court Records. Final adjudication has been reached in district court of the claims against the estate of Sewell Sleuman made by John H. Hart, Byron W. Hart and Mrs. A. W. Taggart, the father, brother and sister of Eva Hart. The members of the family get the sum of $2,500 by agreement and the case is dismissed. Sult was originally brought In county court by E. E. Burns, the administrator dict of $3,600. THe jury, which retired at 4 p. m. Thursday, reached its verdict at) 10:% o'clock, but did not return it until] Friday morning. | Stewart was Lurt by a car at Tenth and | Harney streets back in 1904. His first suit came before Judge Day, who finally took it from the jury.on some technical grounds, The case was appealed and the supreme court upset the Day action and ordered a new trial. This trial was before Judge Day also and it {s the one—last June—that | came 80 near resulting disastrously for one Al Keenun, bond broker, who hhs been | known in other roles as well around the court house, and had the effect of alarming | certain others beside Colonel Keenan. This trial, because of the charges of attemptod Jury bribing, resulted jn a mistrial and the third time the case went to Judge Redick's | | court, | | STANDINGS IN ORATORICAL CONTESTS ARE NOW REVISED‘ Crossland’s Tip that Creighton Man Won firmed by the Judges' Fi o The judges in the recent state oratorical contest have revised their figures and con- firmed the statement of W. P. Crossland of Wesleyan that F. P. Matthews of Crelghton and not himself won first place Crossland made this discovery after he had returned home from the cont was held at Crelghton univer | 1ow, of the estate of Eva Hart, whom Sleuman killed in September, 1%08. His suicide fol- lowed. Two suits were filed, one for $5,00 for the death of the girl and the other for $4,000 for destruction of household effects and presents made to Eva Hart by her @mirer. Judge Leslle threw out the first suit and awarded $3,000 on the second. An ap- peal by the attorneys for the estate of Sleuman followed, and it is this appea: which is now dismissed. A strenuous effort was made by attorneys to keep the fact of a settlement from the publie, ‘OMAHA MEN SEE REMAINS TAKEN OUT OF MESSINA RIVER that h C. Fanning Writes Still Removing Vietims, They Are | ke | Colonel Charles E. Fanning was not in the vortex of the shock that laid Messina but he has been shocked at Messina Just the same. | Writing to friends In Omaha under date | of February 8 he sends a pleture of the ruined Corso Cavour, which is apparently | nothing but a tangled plle of debris. In| the foreground Is u statue of the Virgin | | Mary, which appears to have survived the | earthquake and the fire which followed. | Colonel Fanning says: They are still finding bodies In the ruins. | ' Vesterday we saw two taken out. To stand in the public square, where the enclosed pleture was taken, and then try to realize that In a few seconds this town of 160,00 people was completely wiped off the face of the earth Is something of an experience. They tell us here 110,000 people were killed in thirty-two seconds, and viewing the |by rulns even at this late day we can well believe the story. It will take fifty years to repair the damage done at the time of the earthquake and fire. We have been over miles and miles of partlally clearsd nature pared to to come. them. But the is distressing an rulns, and it 1s astonishing to count the number of five and six-story stone bulld- ings that were thrown down. The only relleving feature of the grue- some scene today I8 the irrepressible good with which roached, “touched” travelers are ap. (g rand{a One of the many delights of visit here is to take a coach ride through the Coconino .ot pine forest on the rim of the canyon. /d¥ a s The luxurious California “9 Limited / Carries a Pullman for the Canyon. Two to five days’ time, $6.50 railroad fare, a reasonable hotel bill at El Tovar (management of Fred Harvey) and a few dollars for rim and trail trips —that’s all the extra expense. Write me for illustrated book- lets—"“Tiitan of Chasms Tovar,” *“California Lim- ited.” 'l L r, Gen. Agent, A T. & S. F. Ry, 3 So B Avvein"Bs Dol v, ‘Coaching on Rim & with artistle natvette, the hel"" that are met with merican “‘moochers" are caleulated to make one dellght to meot ectacle all over the city will be for a long time Com- these folks