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PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES ONE TO SIX. FOR ALL THE NEWS THE OMAHA BEE DBEST IN THE WEST ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. FEBRUARY FIVE CENTS. corY SINGLE VDAY 07 iy Bankrupt Wholesale Stock Dry Goods from the Sale by Hargadine- Swotford Bros,, “ciry McKittrick D. G. Co,, 755 Bought by Bennett's at Unprecedented Low Prices. On Sale Monday Thousands of dollars’ worth of the splendid new spring stock was scooped in by our buyers at the sale Feb. 15th. It's just by such methods by profiting by every opportunity and the magic of big buying that enables us to give better bargains than others. Bennett’s will be the bargain center of the great west tomorrow when this fine stock goes on sale for the first time. OMAHA, SUN MORNING, 1910. KANSAS Percales One of the best Swotford sale pick ups; thousands of yards of 36-inch standard 16c per- cales, dark red with sc Bleached Muslins 36-inch bleached, best 10c quality; wholesaled by Swofford Bros. at 7%ec; our Monday price, yard very white figures; while quality lasts, yard. Embroideries from the Swofford Sale All new fresh stock selected for this season’s trade, the wholesale price on every plece being 27%c to 46c a yard; goods retailing at 45¢ to 76¢; 60 pleces 24 and 27 inch flouncings, 8 pleces 45 Inch skirtings, 20 pleces allover embrolderies, 25 pieces corset cover embroider- ied and others, totaling 3,000 yards, velues actually to per yard ... Swofford’s Cream Serges at 79c Here's ‘one of the best “buys’” of the sale. Values are immense. Cream serges, plain or white hair line, beautiful all wool fabrics, 44 inches wide, worth $1.00 and $1.26—will make handsome spring suits. There is also a piece of 60-inch, $1.50 eream coating serge in the lot. Monday the purchase of ten pieces is offered at one price, Bleached Sheets Bleached Muslin; full 8x4 size; identical quality we 39c retall at 63c; Mon- durable Apron Checks Well known Amoskeag Ging- hams; dealers everywhere must pay more than we sell it for Monday. Large line of patterns. You know b the goods. Crowds will come; yd. day, at .. N Bleached Sheets, muslin, 9-4 size, worth 80c. Buy n good supply, at htl\), The March Monthly Stvle Book of Ladies' Home Journal Patterns Is in. Get one, free. ( Gloves, Hosiery, Underwear, Handkerchiefs from Swofford Stock Average 50c on Dollar A Great Glove Purchase—90 | Thousands Samples of Hosiery, | Children’s Hose—Buy stock- | Swofford’s Spring Underwear | Handkerchiefs—A treat if ever dr]m*n very choice xl“r;-nch lf'ld' from big St. Louis jobbers; we ;ngs for the l‘m_\'.u :m;l girvlam 495 Gloves, secured from the | b0kt all the house samples| Puy-& season’s supply. Two e p Swofford stock at a marvel- . 5 : '“, m‘uw SAIDIER | ases all we could get. Dur- seconds”’, embroidered cor- ; . in fine black lisles, all colored . ous price. -(Hoves are all per- Ybldns: aibrotdersd Ateier 5 able ribbed, seamless stock- fect, in full edmplement of col- Lo SIDTOICerotSURIoN, | UL - Svtre: withy teipla fea: ' The ors and black, for spring; all black and colors and hand em- price is less than cost to make broidered hose. They are very sizes, too; one row embroidery at the mills. We have all sizes. 4 x & # on back; values are $1.25 and | fine imported lines for spring | The regular retail price is 19¢. | €Very kind of a garment a wo- | slight’and scarcely noticeable; wear; values $1.50; Monday, We offer them man needs—all on sale, up to 7The, c c on sale, Monday, grades; all each, Swofford's Stock of Fine Laces at One-Half Price at. offered at at. Many thousands of dollars' worth of exquisite, high grade laces of every description. The superb wholesale stock of the defunct firm. Magnificent trimmings in full piece lots, 50c on the dollar. l ' Net Top Bands and Galoons, up to $3.00 yd.; Venise Bands, with edges to match, up to $7.50 yd.; Filet Bands and Galoons, worth up to $12.00 yd.; Baby Irish Edges, with in- sertions to match, up to $6.00 yd $12.00; Real Cluny Bands, worth up to $3.50; Motifs of all soru, cluny, filet, baby Irish, up to $10.00 yd.; All overs, cream white, baby Irish, Venise, Filet, Oriental and others-—All go 'Vlon- Wash Suitings Beautiful linen finish materials —look like all linen; every good color; 25 pleces, 28 ins wide; fast colors; worth 36¢; from Swotford l c Pillow Cases Two splendid bargains; bleach-~ ed cases of fine muslin; 42x36 inches; nowhere for less than 16¢, at.... <Bleached es, 45x36 fine & 20c article as you will find Our Monday price, at Samples—Ilouse samples and | there was one; dozen travelers’ samples, 320 dozen of them in spring weights; | ner Swiss handkerchiefs and inch. As sleeveless vests, long sleeve | lace trimmed effects; values sale, at vests, pants, union suits to 15¢. Imperfections are very Zephyr Ginghams We were fortunate In securing three cases of them; genuine 26c¢ Scotch goods, in a world of pretty new patterns; Swof- ford’s wholesale price 12%c and 16¢ yard; 7é_c_10c our price.....ee A fine spring weight blanket in white and colors; just a little solled; 10x4 size, worth 69¢ per pair, Swofford’s Foreign Silk and Wool Dress Fabrics The very cream of this high grade stock, ridiculously cheap. Fabrics of silk and wool, retail- ing at $3.00, $2.50, $2.00 and $1.50 a yard. Such as merchants usually buy in single dress lengths for exclusive trade. Such goods as these. Silk marquisettes, silk volles, fancy silk wool poplins, silk warp taffetas, eoliennes, soft chiffon weaves and others. These come in light shades for dinner and evening gowns, alsa in blacks. Undoubtedly the most sensational bargain_ in high class goods and wanted fabrics ever in Omaha, at yard Irish Crochet Bands, up to 6 inches wide, worth to ‘3 Pnce All Wool Challies 26 pleces only—very choice light and dark colors—all wool goods, worth §59¢. Hand- some patterns for 25(: Japanese China 4,000 pleces high grade ware, with fancy floral decorations and solid gold dpfilgnn cups and saucers, plates, bowls, nappl vases, 0% oi‘ choco an ete. discount now of.. Picture Framing Annual Quarter Off Sale For Omne Whole Week. 500 frame samples to choose from; gold leaf, mahogany, rosewood, lacquer, bronze, onks, etc., all ‘Kinds and widths, including ovals. Bring your plotures long kimonog and negligees; yard. . Do you realize that one month from today is Kaster? Be a little forehanded and come now for your new: suit, We are splendidly ready. \‘gveral thousand new spring suits, .all exclusive Bennett styles are in, The selling is active for as usual we have stuck to olr poh(-y of nam.mg most moder- ate prices. We can make alterations, if necessary, in good season and with greater satisfaction now than during the rush days preceeding Easter. The prices run like this. .50 535.00 159 5195 595 5950 These are modest figures but they represent biggest kind of suit values. Clearly five to ten dollars less than you'll see anywhere else. The styles are the new 32-inch fitted or semi-fitted straight coats and Russian or Balkan blouse effect. Many of them have just a touch of self color silk or moire at collar and cuffs and made with long roll collars. Materials are light weight serges, diagonals and plain stripe worsteds in light and dark colors. Every one is man-tailored and finished; cut, built and stayed to fit the form perfectly and to be shape retaining until worn out. 186 pieces in all-and just such kinds everybody is buying this spring. Our buyers got the choicest-plums when this stock was sold. Less than half price on ' every lot Come with the Monda.y crowds. ]’N)l!.l‘ARDS. “MARS" SILKS. 50 pieces in all the new spring Lverywhere retailing at $1.00 colorings, wholesaled by and $1.25 yard, soft, shim- Swofford at 62%c yard. No- mering semi-rough’ silks In where is finer 59c all new shades quality shown afd na tural under 86¢ and pongee tans— fancy taffetas, etc. $1.00 yard, at.... £ LA 76¢ and 86¢ val. .. PONGEE SBILKS—36-inch goods and ten good shades. A marvelous bargain in spiration and spot-proof, full yard wide, season’s most popula.r silks, 29c Heavy, strong 89¢ and $1.00 $1.00 value ......, : dress and walst sllks 49¢c Swofford’ Whi Goods and Li Great Bargai wofford's White Goods and Linens--Great Bargains Fortunate for you that these sales come in February. Some of the best bar- gain feasts we ever have had are told of here. .Come Monday sure. Every item speaks eloquently of big savings. Flannelette Gowns White Klannelotte; heavy mater. Is regular and ‘extra 75 $1.26 gar- aaY, BUk Waiste—Tailored Messalines eacl and Taffetas; best cnl-ss 95 o MESSALINES, ETC ‘Wa bought all the cut pieces of the Swofford stock, waist and!dress lengths, mostly messalihes and l\gc other soft silks, BLACK WASH SILKS—Guaranteed per- est ors: worth '$6.50 and $8,00, at Groceries On Sale Monday and Tuesday Bermett's Golden Coffee, roasted while you walt, Ib. % And 40 Stamos. Bennett's Capl now at .. Pebruary Offering. Room Rugs New Velvet, Body Brussels, Wiltons, Royal and French Wil- tons and Axminster Rugs — priced lower than the lowest and surprising 8. & H. Stamp offer included. And’ 40 Stanips. Bennett's Capitol Baking Powder, 5-1b. can And ‘100 ‘Siamps, Teas, assorted, | Velvet lllll 9x12 ft. siz And 750 Stamp Body Brussels W great demand, 9x at news ABRIng - 1itiesy Tea .Almmu 18¢ pke. Capltol Mince Meat, And 10_Stamps, Green Turtle Meat, "$1.00 cans, at .. All Réady Codfish, can’ And 10 Stamps, Hartley's Jams, 300 ston pure fruft sugar, 300" Jar 120 ‘280 size 3 ‘Dhgs. 60c Mercerized Table Damask, at .... 86c Bleached All Linen Damask at. $1.39 Double Damask Linen, at, vd. $2.26 All Linen Napkins, per doren ... .§1.49 $3.26 All Linen-Napkins, per dozen ..$2,25 $5.00 Double Damask Napkins, dozen $3.50 1lc All Linen Bleached Crash, yard ..,.8% ¢ 14c Huck Towels, 19x40-inch, at ... -10¢ ‘98¢ Maker's Big Surplus Shoe Stock The eagerness of Fastern shoe houses to close out their over supplies of women's shoes, has made great bargains possible; $5.00, $4.00 and $3.50 shoes for $2.45. New spring shoes in many styles; gun metal button shoes in several styles, gun metal lace shoes in several styles, patent colt button and lace shoes, patent colt cloth top shoes, tan adult animal. The young cheeta cannot be trained as a hunter. There are certain snugly increases the hips and is made without boning, § l 2 , shoes in Russian calf. Just think any pair ou llke best, at trees to which the older bnes go to whet allowing freedom and comfort, especially while in a sit- ting posture. It's a regular $2.50 model, beautifully trimmed and fitted with supporters; Monday for | | " heron. Along with the great auk .he|bison which roamed over this continent in ything about & pig White heron perished because of the love | the elghteenth century, less than 3,000 now | saved but his squeal; at a modern whaling of woman for its beautif.l plumage. 1t 15| remamn as sombre sentinels of & dying |Station everything is saved but the spout sald that, over 1,000,000 robins are slaught- | species. A bison census taken by Willlam A western inventor has patented a steel | thelr claws and around these trees are tied many nooses of deer skin. The leg of the cheeta s caught in one or these nooses when he begins his claw-sharpening opera- 28-inch Rep Suldns. actual 25c¢ quality 15¢ 33¢ 69¢ -98¢ al i ¥ £V e3ecial | Dight Weight Jackets—New 32-inch 82478 covert serges and diagonals, plain weaves and stripes, In tans, grays and dark colors $6.95, §7.956 and $8.95 Misses’ One-Piece Dresses—sallor style in navy and green serge, trimmed with white silk, Hercules braid and red te; a stylish new model at $18.00 Misses' Junior Suits—Smart, jaunty tatlor mades, for the young woman of 18, 16 and 17 years, Mostly of all wool serges with pleated skirts, full satin lined coats; about one hundred new spring garments . .816.00 Long Berge Coats for early spring. New full length garments, some strictly tallored, others with a touch of sllk trimmings at collar and cuff, light and dark colorings— at..........815.00, $19.50 and $35.00 ""And’ 750 " Stamps. 9x12 ft. Asasinonis i 28- mch Welt Piques, best 39c quality 25¢ bnulltul floral design 36-inch Cotton Ramie Sulting, 25¢ quality 15¢ 36-inch White Linen Crash Sulting, 50c value, 39¢ 90-inch All Linen Suiting, $1.50 quality 98¢ 46-inch All Linen Suiting, 75c quality 49¢ BED SPREADS—Henmmed, full size; wize, Mundly for .. Mignonette Peas, And 10 Stamps. Sterling Gloss Starch, now at 0" 'Stamps. ‘Wilton Bugs, 9x12 ft. al- ways $45.00, here for .. $4a. And 1000 Stamps, Fremch Wilton Rugs, Dxlz And 1000 ‘Stamps.’ Seamless Wilton Rugs, nx]:uf« at .. And’ '§30 " ‘Stamps. Axminster Rugs, 27x61 Inches, .. §2.35 R 3 ‘And 50 Stamps. SALE OF BED DAVENFPORTS Leather, moroccoline and plush, §35.00 kind at .... And 10 other gréat values. 00 CXES 85 Per Oent Off—A -up reduction on our entire ock, none excepted—one-quar- ter ore! 6-1b, bhox, And Stamps, Mt. Carmel -Pumpkin, 8 cans @80 Wiggle Stick Blueing. 6 for ..260 And Gc Wonder Wax free. Huntley's and Biscuits, 1b. Rex Lye, 3 cans .. And 20 Stamps, Double Stamps on Butterine Capitol Pure Maple Syrup, % gal can, at . 75¢ Print Dresses, in two-plece styles dressing sacque and flounced skirt, in shepherd checks and stripes, ut.$1.25 Save $1.25 on These Shapely Corsets Monday we will have on sale 25 dozen stylish corsets in the new long skirted models. It's the correct corset to bring out the long slender, slightly curved lines of the fashionable figure. The skirt is long and ft., 5.00 $1.50 value; Marseilles designs, at [’nhnm Impur;;fl 880 Boys’ Two Paats Suits 200 suits to sell in a day—Here's the reason. Double breasted cas- simere suits in three good pat- terns, every suit with two pairs knicker pants, éizes $ 65 And 50 Stamps. Poligs Soupe. 10c cans, ER'S GOO. And 10 Stamps, Chili Sauce, at And 10 Stamps. K)vx(ar Cocktall SBauce And 10 Stamps. Salad Dressing. .. And 10 S Gafllard’s Olive Ofl . And 60 Stamps. (‘nluup. at car 6 to 12 yrs., best " bargain ever ..... DS, allowed for only a few weeks at the end of each year. The most popular method of hunting these animals Is known as “call- Ing.” This is done by un Indian guide with a birch-bark trumpet, who imitates the |low of the cow. If this fails the call is changed to the sudbued challenge of the enraged bull. To complete this deception, the gulde breaks off branches of trees and thrashes his, horn against the bushes, What is claimed to be the biggest moose ever killed In Canada is one that was shot this year on the shores .of Georgia bay Some Things You Want to Know Hunting and Fishing. this corporation is President Daz of Mexico. The National Association of Audubon Societies of America s making earnest offorts to. conserve the game of the coun- try, and the protective laws that are on the statute books of nearly all the states are for the most part a result of its labors, It is now making an effort to have taken a bird census of the country, in order to get full detalls as to'the destruction that obtains {n other states the number of | hus taken place, and the best methods of “mighty hunters before the Lord” in|protecting the birds In the future. The America must run into the millions. | Baicaseverrn. Ml ol onicbuciysd g v iog The great problem confronting the Ameri- | tional leaflets intended to interest school can sportsmien today, with respect to fish | boys, one of which s entitled “The and game, {8 how to “eat cake and have | Aigrette ilas Lost Caste.” It included a It They realize that the pot-hunter is|letter from ex-President Roosevelt declar- cutting down the supply below the danger |ing that Mrs. Roosevelt will not wear an :‘l The quail and the pheasant are dis- | aigrette, thus showing her disapproval of ng and In the effort of the sports- | the slaughter of the beautiful birds which men to restock the country with these game | hear them. | The forest, fish and game exposition now belng' held in Chicago has brought to- gether a most unique collection of outfits for fishermen and hunters. has been 50 many devotees of the rod and gun gs there are today, and manufacturers and dealers aro reaping a harvest from it, | A Massachusetts authority estimates that there are 30,00 hunters and fishermen in the Hay state, and it the same proportion There never Bliss Carman, editor and author, told at @ dinner in New York a story about James Russell Lowell and a bad boy. “A Boston and woman,” sald Mr, Carman, ‘asked Mr. Lowell to write In her auto- graph album, and the poet, complylng, wrote the line: ered annually in Louistana alone, and the | 7. Hornady two years ago showed 1141 in | trap for catching fish. It is very much | | Department of Agriculture thinks that the the United States, 8% in Canada and 130 | like the ordinary steel-Jawed fox trap, ex- i eastward spread of the boll-weevil is to, in Europe. In addition to these there were [ cept that the Jaws are perpendicular in- be traced directly to the destruction Of | 345 hybrids calied cattaloes—a cross be- [ stead of horizontal. A hook s baited and |tion. He is then carried into camp and these birds in the Mississippl country. It|tween buffalo and cattle. The last buffalo | the trap let down into the water; the mo- | his tralning begins. This comsists in his has been estimated that the annual 108s [ which is known to have assoclated with | ment a fish touches the bait the jaws [being bound and blind-folded, tormented from insects in the United States amounts | the great herds that roamed wild over the | close and the vietim is held secure. An-|and starved, kept awake when he wants to to something like 300,000,000, and that a!prairies of Canada, was Sir Donald, the|other inventor has patented a trap which |sleep and handled so persistently and large percentage of this sum might have | veteran bull of the Banff herd. He was |catches the body of an animal as well as | roughly in other ways that he gives up In :Tl'l:d.l?l‘l::. by the protection of all soft- | killed rac’en!l)' for museum purposes. This | a leg. 1t consists of four upright pleces | despair und becomes as abjectly tame as | The spread of the horns is fifty-eight {animal was captured In 157 by Jufll’bl'»xhudl.lg above the jaws of the trap. he formerly was wild Inches and the length f) b One of the greatest natural deer parks | Mackay. All those which survive SIr| wpen ex-President Roosevelt goes to/| Wh A 9, \euh - Srai oot ot esn in the world is the Cocodrie swamp of | Donald were born in captivity. In \“"ku‘ Vh ; jdrag. Hoose \': . en the training period Is over, and he | fifteen feet, seven inches. It required six LOGIMARS: "TE hAb Dot CVRER. thix WIBtar | Chg farin et e N bl e Berlin he will find Emperor William a |is to play the part of the hunting dog, he |days for four men to bring the carcass [ by & lot of hunters who shot the deer for | taining. 10,000 Animale are fromioniy. soom, | [0 1688 enthusiastio sportsman than him- (is taken into the fleld with & hood over |twenty-threo.miles through (he forest to thelr akins alone. More than 10 Carcasses | For tcsnees Mominy th anein St Laa |If A8 0 hunter the kalser has had | his head. When fairly clase upon the | tho raliway already have been found and this 1s known | pep.. u‘ i ‘; b -"":;“" B ': : o ["' some exclting times and nothing but his | quarry he is given a sight of the game. BY PREDERIC J. MASKIN. to be only & portion of them. The people L“‘"u roke the world's record last winter | office has prevented him from tackling the |and such o superb rice ensues that one | TOMOrrow—THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, of the community are up In arms over this | U7, SAPturing 818 whales in a single sea-|pig game of Africa. At his hunting lodge ‘lymllmun declared it worth a trlp from —_— \ pot-hunter invasion, and it probably will ';’f‘- Of these 241 were humypbacks, SIXty- | at Potsdam simplicity marks everything. | Europe to Africa to see a single antelope FProwptly Answered. result in some addition protective action | X SUlPhur-bottoms, ten finbacks and one | The hunting horses ‘are all English-bred [caught in-this way. The cheeta is perhaps by the Loulsiana legialature. The othes|®Perm Whale, With all this great eatch | roans, the dogs are English fox |nature's nearest combination of the cat | side of the game law question is shown in | L'€'® Was not a" single serious accident. | nounds, taken across the channel when |and the dog. Its claws are only partjaily | the experience of the farmers in. Shelby | T'® Modern whaler uses the latest twen- | they were pups. There are seventy hounds | retractile, and it fias so many canine chaf- and adjoining countles in Iowa. Here the |\!/eth century methods in his work. He |in the pack and the emperor personally has |acteristics that it sometimes fs called the | .. game laws have been enforced so rigidly | T84 the dead whale to the surface with | watched over their training. He has two | dog- Very few of the American and that 40 deer are running at large and an- | “Ompressed air. An inclslon is made In|scts of kennels, one of which Is occupied | English hunters who visif BEast Africa birds there has come a new Industry—that of quall and pheasant ralsing. Young quall bave been grown with only Indiffer ent sUccess, but pheasants are compara- tively ®asy to rear. A Colorado corpora- tion has been orgmalzed to raise and sell ph d has been recelving orders from here. Among the patrons of Another work of the association is the purchase of islands off the coast of Florida and Loulsiana, and their conversion into havens of refuge for the millions of shore birds which inhabit those regions, The year 1908 saw the extinction of one of the wust beautiful specles of birds America has ever noying the farmers by their depredations. The bucks in some instances have become 80 ferocious as to attack school children. a few animals which escaped from a pri- vate park in Avoca, Ia., some ten years ago. This splendid herd of deer has grown from | |the body and & connection with the air pump. sutficlently buoyant the incision is plugged up with oakum and & buoy with a | is attache the carcass Is then turned adrift until the day's work is over, when | the whole catch is towed to the whaling possessed—the white | Qut of the countless millions of American | station. It has been said that in the great | established | gvery other day, while the other is being When the carcass 1s | thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. What the greyhound of this country fis to the deer hunter the cheeta is to the na- tive antelope hunters of Africa. It 1s| known us the hunting leopard. The only point where real skill comes into play in dealing with them (s In eapturing the | use the cheeta In their opefations. The North American big game Is now to |be found mainly in Canade and Alaska | The moose, In addition to being monarch of the Canadian woods, is the largest and | most powerful apecies of deer now in exist. ence. Like all other game it is now pro tected by stringent laws, and hunting i | *‘What is 80 rare as a day In June?' | “Calling at this woman's house a few | days later, Lowell dly turned the pages of the album till he came to his own auto | graph. Beneath it was written in & ehild crawl Chinaman with delphia Record whiskers,’ "~Phila-