Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1910, Page 9

THE BEE: OMAHA, 1910. AT THE SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO COMPANY 106 PIANO MUST BE SOL The Balance of the Entire Stock from 6 PIAND STORES The prices teil the story—Never were highgrade Pianos marked down se low OVER 100 PIANOS SOLD THIS WEEK And as many homes made happy by the acquisition of one of these superb pianos boughi at this graat piano sal Some Things You Want to Know The West Indies Ever since the Panama canal became a ful certainty, American interest in the West Indies has grown steadily, until now it Is frequent water holes known to the | probably greater than at any time since and hore they are easily shot. The the American flag was to be seen on every eat them with relish, but stra ocean and Afmerican bottoms carried more seldom stomach the idea or the meat than their share of the world's commerce. proverbial predatory habits and mischiev | Americans resemble the Athenians in al- Ousness of monkeys cause them to be a | ways seeking some new thing, and In their nuisance to the white planters, and in their | restiess search more and more of them ere wrath over damaged crops they smother | beginning to appreciate tne delightful any compunction they might have about | voyage that may be made from their east- killing them. When the monkeys become | ern coast through summer seas at com- unaccountably scarce, the revive paratively low prices. An evidence of this a tradition that they have passed to the was furnished this winter when the first Island of Nevis, only a few miles away, by | strietly exeurston ship, carrying a full submarine tunnel quota of passengers, left New York to Rvery island in the | erulee among the West India islands and abode of tradition, amplified history and |down the coast of South America as far historical facts stranger than fletion. For | as the Straits of Magellan hundreds of years the Carlbbean Sea was The West Indies are distinctly the habitat the haunt of buceanecrs, pirates, wreckers, of the negro. There aro all kinds of the beach combers, free oldiers and adven | v00doo worshippers in the interior of Haytl .turers from the four parts of the earth, | and San Domingo, to the cultured, highly- and nowhere did they leave their impre | poilshed, ever hospitable college graduates more strongly than on St. Thomas, the |of the English and French islands. 'Che first call for ships trading from New York { first desire of the American traveler Is to down through the Leeward and Windward | compare the negroes and men of color In islands to the Demerara river in British | the islands Wih those he is familfar with Guiana. As the ship salls into the magnifi- | |in his own country, and he is almost In- cent harbor of Charlotte Amalia in St vartably surprised at the difference. Laugh- Thomas—the harbor so greatly coveted by ter, unprovoked mirth and an utterly the United States before the war with Spain | For Spring---Ladies’ Oxfords and Pumps that must cause ||, e m i s St T i R . . of the American negro of the south, bui, on which the city is bullt, Is seen a round Unbounded Admll’&tlon"' 1(“: r:z’::,m::‘ev:.su:::cfir the ;West Indies tower, resembling a truncated cone. On the more serlously. central hill is another tower similar the monkeys are scarce and find, but in the dry season they hard to have to hunter, natly gers can natives West Indies is the very e Forty distinct, authoritative, admiration-compelling models of Ladies', Misses' and Girls' Spring Oxfords and Pumps, are now in readiness in that ‘*basement™ of ours—at $2.45 per pair. 4 The prettiest of gun metals; nobbiest of patent leath- ers; most recent tans and the like, are shown—made up into 'any style—any size—all REGULAR goods mind you-+NOT the ‘jobs’’ you have been accustomed to see at so popular a price—$2.45. The leathers—the fashionable *‘put up®* of this foot- wear—will astound—surprise—convince beyond measure. It's a chance to prove out our ‘'non expensive'’ basement theory of selling shoes—on low cut shoes that you MUST use soon. rickman Falls Three Stories: ! and May Die lward O'Keefe Makes. 'liutep on Brandeis = Building and is Seriously Injured. iward" QiKeefe, a brickman employed the Brandels bullding, fell from the of to- the third ‘floor of the building Fri- y and was seriously if not fatally hurt, right leg was broken just below the and he recelved a frightful gash in forehead and just below the right eyé: Keefo was an empioye of Contractor Hoye., He 18 single and lives at 1626 erfck street and s about 38 years of 'he injured man was taken to the hos- al and his injurjes looked after by Dr. uls Swoboda. Keefe was: wheeling a barrowload of ok when he accidentally stepped off the rary platform, falling three floors, hile not rendered unconsclous by the Bl he suffered great pain, Robert Smith 18 Prisoner at Home Clerk of Distriot Court is Confined by Quarantine While Children Have Scarlet Fever, Robert Smith, clerk of the district court, is @ prisoner in his own home. Ho has been shut up in It since last Saturday. It is the quarantine regulations which have thus cribbed, cabined and confined the county officlal. Mr. Smith's daughter and son are fll with scarlet fever. The case was duly reported by the attending physiclan Saturday and an officer went up with the red card of warning. Mr. Smith was in the house at the time this card was nalled up and he has not been allowed to emerge since. County Recorder of Deeds Frank Bandlo is reported doing well at the Wise Memor- fal hospital. A Cruel Mistake is to neglect a cold or cough. Dr. King's New Discovery cures them and prevents consumption. G0c and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. The Key to the Situation—Bee Want Ads. === STOMACH DISEASES SIMPLY VANISH *ndigeltion,' Gas, Heartburn or Headache five minutes later, If you had some Diapepsin handy d would take @ little now your stomach stress or indigestion would vanish in e minutes und you would feel fine. aration will digest ything you eat and overcome a sour, t-of-order stomach before you real- A x y } f yolr mealy don't tempt you, or it iltele you' do eat seems to fill you, > lays lké'a lump of lead in Momach, or if you have heartburn, that & a sign of Indigestion, Giksk your Pharmacist for @ b0-cent rp of, Papew. Diapepsin and take a ttle just as soon as you can. There Will be no sour risings, no belching of undigested food mixed with acld, no your | stomach gas or heartburn, fullness or heavy feeling In the stomach, Nausea, Debllitating Headaches, Disziness or In- | testinal griping. This will all go, and, | besides, there will be no undigested | food left over in the stomach to potson | your breath with nauseous odors. | Pape's Diapepsin is a certain cure for | out-of-order stomachs, because it pre- | vents fermentation and takes hold of your food and digests it just the same as If your stomach wasn't there, Rellef in five minutes from all stom- |ach misery s at any drug store walting | for you. These large 50-cent cases contaln more | than: sutticlent to thoroughly cure almost any case of Dyspepsia, Indigestion or |any other stomach disturbance Reputation The best reward for a long and faithful service, such as Browning, King & Co. have given ‘to the publie, is in having that service recognized. When we say that the clothing that we make for Men and Boys is the best that can be made, it is worth a lot to us to know, as we do, that what we believe to be true is accepted by you as true. The new Spring goods are all ready for your inspec- tion. 1 One of our new lightweight overcoats is just the thing for this weather— Let us show you. The New Easter Hat Is here waiting for you in an endless variety of blacks and colors—both in soft and stiff styles. ¥ ! Browning, King & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS AND HATS, FIFTEENTH axo DOUGLAS STREETS, OMAHA, R. 8, WILOOX, Managen : | They are exceedingly voluble when aroused, | but the chattering gayety is lackipg. The | nearest approach to the American style of negro is among the coal passers of St Lucia, who, as they wind In and out from | the coal piles of the ship, maintain an in- cessant flow of banter and chaff. | At one time or another France owned nearly every Island in the West Indles, | but its possessions there are now limited |to Martinique, Guadaloupe, St. Bartho- | lomew (better know as St. Barts) and a part of St. Martin, the other portion of which belongs to Holland. England has | persistently Angelicized its islands until the | French suzerainty has been almost for- | gotten, yet it Is a curlous fact that a | French patols is the language of the na- tives of nearly all the English island below the Virgin group. The people are bilingual, using the patois among themselves, but all having just as good & command of English In the Danish islands of St. Thomas and St. Crolx (which s better known as Santa Cruz) the back-country natives have a patols which is not Danish, although the {Danes have owned the islands for 20 | years. Danish {s now taught in the public school of these islands and the children speak it: as do the government officlals, but all speak English as well. ‘West India brings thoughts of rum—the rum that has cut a figure in history and is famous the world over. In the early days the exchange of West Indla rum with Af- rican chlefs for slaves for the western | world was a regular and enormously profit- | able business. Slavery passed, but the rum remains—millions of gallons of it. The na- tives, forelgn residents and tourists drink rum in all the islands. Special brands ars spoken of with pride, and thousands of bottles are carried away every year by tourists s preclous gifts for friends at home. This exists everywhere except among the whites and higher classes of British Guiana, which, although on the mainland of South America, is always counted as one of the islands. For some strange reason, In British Guiana it Is con- sidered extremely blebelan to drink rum. The . people there drink gin and Scotch whisky. Perhaps the explanation of this pecullarity Is the fact that back in the al- most impenetrable wastes of British Gul- ana the natives make “moonshine” rum like the mountaineers of the southern states make ‘“moonshine” whisky. It would be advisable for ail Americans BoINg to the West Indies to lay In a supply of English money before starting, Travel- ers landing with nothing but American coins will be greatly inconvenienced unless they are of gold. Every isiand varies more or less In its willingness to accept American silver, although the gold and bank notes are readily exchangeable at the banks. In Antigus, for instance, not even the street peddlers are willing to accept Amerlcan silver at all If they can possibly get Eng- lish money. The Danish islands have a special coinage of their own, which Is cur- rent nowhere else. Guadaloupe and Mar- /| tinlque each has a coinage, but Martinique silver does not pass in Guadaloupe, or vice versa. The small shopkeepers pass off this local colnage as frequently as possible, and travelers who have made purchases seldom leave without taking more or less of it trom every island, some as souvenirs and some through carelessness. It would be in- teresting to know how much of the local coinage disappears forever in this manner. Demerara presents still another peculiarity in that while its medium is English money, prices are all computed In dollars and cents. To the ordinary man the thought of shooting & monkey would be abhorrent, but [the natives of St. Kitts have no such |scruples. The tsland has long been famous for its wild simians, the hill behind Basse Terre, the capital, being called Monkey hill, When' the rains are on and water plenti- In appearance. The first is called Blue- beard's tower and the second Blackbeard's tower. The are ideally situated to com- mand the town and harbor, and tradition ! has it tha they were bullt by the bl‘~; whiskered pirates whose names they bear. | Bluebeard's Tower stlll has its old cannon | and masonry defenses. 'he view from both | 1s magniticent. A local historian has dis- pelled the lllusion by showing that Blue- beard's Tower original a Danish | fort. Blackbeard's supposed structure fis not so disillusioning when #s history fs| examined. The records show that it was built in troublous times by a cltizen with large ideas of protecting himself when things happened. In fact, he erected such a formidable structure that the governor | of the island feared he might become the political and military boss of the town, and ordered him to vacate. | Barbadoes is the only island in the West | Indles which has remained English from | fta first settlement, which was in 1635, to the present time. It contains 168 square miles and supports 200,000 persons, lllaklnx‘ % one of the most densely populated countries on the globe. This overcrowded | citizenry is onc of the most intensely pat- | riotic In the world, and in all the British empire there is no people more proud of | the fact that they live under the British flag. “I am a British subject, sah,” |{s almost the first statement a Barbadian utters when he meets a stranger in a strange land and if you look at him crossly or crook your finger at him he hastens at once to the British consul to tell his troubles. It is said that if a Barbadian, while in swimming, sees a shark about to attack him, he sternly utters those talis- manic words: “I am a British subject, sah,” and the shark flees' at once. | Although not one of the West Indies, | but a part of the mainland of South | America, British Guiana is generally spoken of ae if it belonged to the island chain. This s because It Is the natural terminus of a Swing through the islands and be- cause of its intimate relations with them. The Gulanas are of interest to Americans for several reasons. The most important 18 because when the peace treaty of 1667 was concluded between England aud the Netherlands, the Dutch traded New York for the settlements which the governor of Barbadoes had founded on the Surinam river in what is now Dutch Gulana. This turned out to be the worst “swap” in the history of the world. There is great confusion of terms in the| popular mind in regard to British Guiana. The tourists and sailors call it Demerara, and the reader or hearer whose knowledge of geography 1s not detailed has little idea where it 1. Also the sallors do not mean Demerara itself, but a city, which again confuses strangers. The truth is, Demerara. is the central, smallest and most important of the three countries into which the prov- ince of British Gulana is divided, and the port to which the sallors refer is George- town, capital of the province, sftuated at the mouth of the Demerara river, One of the most pleasant features of traveling In the West Indles s that the visitor who makes himself agreeable and remains any length of time, is almost sure to be “put up" at the local club. This Is a courtesy not to be despised, for the club i® usually the coolest and most attractive | place In town. It is to be regretted that | at least one club down here does not | welcome tourists with any great enthusi- asm. Some months ago when a large ship | arrived and the courtesles of the club were offered to all the passengers, the strangers showed thelr apprelation by carrying ot | many of the club's odds and ends as| “souvenirs.” By FREDRICK J. HASKIN, Tomorrow—The Culture of Flowers, was ANNA NELSON POSES IN COURT, SUED FOR FUR COAT She Contends it is No Fit and Re- fuses to Pay ana Dealer Brings Action. County Judge Leslle must decide a dell- cate question. Does a certaln sealskin wearer perfectly? And, If so, should the front edges meet evenly or should they fall away in an acute angle, opening to- ward the feet of the wearer? Is it more fashionable to have the V effect, or does the really swagger fur coat have its front edges meet, or perchance lap over? These questions are really up to the court in a serious way, though they may seem to a mere man to be more or less humor- ous. At all evénts, they are not humor- ous to the firm of La Book & Yost, fur- riers, or to Anna Nelson. who s being sued by the firm for $500. Thus it came about that a version of “Nellle, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” was staged In county court, with Miss Nelson in the role of Nellfe. eral attorneys hovered round and a fur expert or two watched the woman put on the coat which, viewed by and for itself, is a handsome af- fair, whether It fits perfectly or not. It is of seal and is full length—down to the shoe tops. Its general design fs like that of those near-pony coats which have been 50 extensively worn along with a few coats of real Russian pony. Miss Nelson's attorney gallantly held the coat while his client slipped into it. “Look at that gap,” sald the wearer of the coat ‘“That's the fashionable style,” retorted one of the firm. George N. Aulabaugh was now sworn as an expert on fits or fur He was invited to Jook at the coat and to observe how wall or fll it fitted the form of the wearer. Mr. Aulabaugh wurveyed the coat from several angles and remarked that “It's a good general fit, at all events.” The upshot of the case is uncertain Miss Nelson, who conducts an establish coat fit the ment on Tenth street, ordered the coat and contracted to pay $%00 for it. She forked over an even $100 and then declined the coat on the ground that it did not fit In tront. MRS. HANSON AGREES TO ACT Reluctantly Consents to Become Ad- ministratrix of Her Hus- band’s ate. Mrs. Jennle L. Hanson has somewhat re- luctantly consented to her appointment as administrtrix of the estate of her husband, Tolf Hanson. The appointment is made because Mrs Emily Murray, widow of Rudolph D. Mur- ray, has a judgment against the estate for $10,000. This judgment was taken by de- fault in district court. Murray wus an employe of the cafe who was caught in a dumb walter at the cafe shortly after it had opened and wes killed. The estate of Tolf Hanson has no assets and Mrs. Murray is seeking to get a share of the dividends declared for’the creditors. Therefore It was sought to have an ad- ministrator or administratrix appointed Mrs. Hanson at first refused, but later consented rather than have the county court nominate some one else ROBBED TWICE IN OMAHA €. A. Irwin of Denver Loses Money on His Last Two Visits to This City. C. A. Irwin, a Denver attorney, doesn't llke Omaha. Thursday night he was “touched” for $40 by some smooth-fingered scamp and four years ago, his last visit to the city, he lost §200 by the same method. Mr. Irwin is the attorney for Millard Powell of Jacksqnville, Fla, one of the elghtecn alleged members of Colonel Ma- bray's fraternity, now “in convention as- sembled” in the Council Bluffs federal court m for the transiction of formal We Have Not Only Surprised the great buying public by offering such high grade pianos for a great deal less than manufacturer’s cost— Have Stifled All Competition Do you want a Piano at less than cest? Here is the greatest chance ever offered in the western country - but WE MUST HAVE ROOM Come—select the Piane that you want and MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS You take no chances—every piano we sell is backed by 51 YEARS OF HONEST DEALING Ask one of your neighbors who owns a piano bought from us and you will learn that the place to go for a square deal is Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. 1313 Farnam St., Omaha-Both Phones Bell 1625; Auto-1625 [] WE RENT NEW PIANOS $3 A MONTH--"7. He’s Sure Not Saying Too Much W. J. Calhoun, New Ministez to China, Has No Difficulty Keep- ing His Counsel. W. J. Calhoun of Chicago, the new United States minister to China who suc- ceeds Richard T. Crane, also of Chicago, who was removed from office by Presi- dent Taft, passed through Omaha, Friday morning, en route to the far cast. Mr. Calhoun will sall from San Franelsco, Wed- nesday, for China to take up his new dutles at the American legation in Pekin. “I have nothing to say regarding the happenings of the past,” sald Mr. Calhoun. “I look only to the future In my work in China I hope to find much that will inter- est me. Anyway, it will be somewhat dif- ferent from the grind of & lawyer's office in Chicago.” ABE HORTON PICKS FRANK M’BRIDE AS HIS ASSAILANT Towa Farmer Says Omaha Youth Led in Robbing and Beat- ing Him. Frank McBride, 19 years of age, 2818 North Twenty-eighth avenue, has been ar- rested and positively Identified by Abe Horton, the Council Blufts farmer, as the man who enticed him away from the Ar- cade hotel on a subterfuge of escorting him to the State hotel, where he wanted to find his brother, Tuesday night and then leading him to' Tenth and Douglas stre where he and two others proceeded to beat and kick Horton into insensibility, after robbing him. Horton was very badly bruised. Detectives Maloney and Van Dusen ar- rested McBride Thursday night on Douglas street as & suspiclous character. McBrido was arraigned in police court and pleaded not guilty of the charge of larceny from the person. After a prelim- Inary examination he was bound over to the district court. Bonds were fixed by Judge Crawford at $50. McBride 1s a brother of John MecBride, who ran a saloon at Twentieth and Paul streets, but who dled six or seven months ugo. He left some property, which is In probate and Frank, the younger brother, will share in the estate. Relatives and friends of the youth have endeavored to keep him out of trouble and have provided him with work, but he would not keep his positions. When Abe Horton, battered and bruised, faced the young man In court he declared positively that he was the one who led him to the scene of thé robbery and had a hard in the assault. He also said McBride was the one who went through his pockets, McBride stoutly denied taking part in the assault and sald he was merely with the | man when he was attacked. Chamberlain's Coughh Remedy banishes business. all tendency toward paeumonia. & )\ \i» The € Bellemont $3% setters of men’s fashions this year pro- nounce in favor of hats like these. Examine them at your hatters if your tastes run this way. mont line includes: all the correct styles, both advanced and conservative, The Belle- "THE WESTERN HAT & MFG. CO. MILWAUKEE T e locks the front of a folded collar and makes it sit like this. You will find it in the BELMONT ARROW COLLAR 15¢., 2 for 25¢c. Cluett, Pesbody & Co., Makers ARROW CUFFS 25 cents a pair Tuning