THE OMAHA SUNDAY NINETEENTH YJEAR. OMAHA , SUNDAY MOKNING , MAY 25 , 1800-TWENTY PAGES. NUMBER 335 r Boys' and Children's Dept Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Boys' Knee Pant Suits , GRAND BARGAIN SALE , Prices Unheard of , and a Wholesole Stock to ' Beginning Monday , May 25. Select From. $4 and $4.50. v : , Owing to the backward season we find ourselves overstocked in many of our choicest lines of cassimere and cheviot suits. We have We will offer several lines of Knee Pant Suits at $5 , manufactured This line will embrace a number of styles of pure wool fab decided to name prices on some of the largest lots which will tured this season to sell for $7 and $8. They are all new , fresh rics , and cannot be duplicated for less than $7 per suit. This close them out quickly. Come on Monday if you want the best. Remember the snme quality . of goods always sold in this depart goods , made this season in our own work rooms and cannot be price , $4 and $4.50 , makes them the best values we have ever wo ment cannot , will characterize honestly recommend. this sale. We never sell any gc rment which duplicated outside of our store. sold. : ' Long Pant Suits. WASHABLE GOODS. Boys' Cheviot Suits AHWOOI , $8. In Fancy Combination Kilt Styles , $1.75. Boys' Cassimere Suits AHWOOI , $ S. In Pant Suits , Washable , $2,00 , Boys' Fancy Plaicl Cassimeres ; $ IO Novelties in Flannel and Jersey Blouse Kilts and Knee Pant Suits , the Don't Buy Until You Have Seen These Lines. best styles ever shown , Prices $4 to Boys' Knee Pants , Men's Department Hat Department Opening of our new spring styles in straw goods SO Cents. . ' Special Sale of Men's Sack Suits. on Monday. The largest stock ever shown. Monday and Tuesday , 200 pairs boys' Prices $8 , $9 and $10. The Best Variety at Jobbers' Prices. odd Knee Pants at 50c. SEE SAMPLES IN OUR WINDOWS. Men's genuine Mackinaw Straws at 78c and $1. CUSTOM DEPARTMENT. Special sale of $35 suitsmade in our merchant tailoring department , reduced from $45 for this week. For this week , orders will be filled at $35. See samples in our corner show window. H \ | Hi ' H I * H 11 T" I d D , & CO. , OMAH THE LAWYERS OF CONGRESS , Statesmen Who Have Mnilo and nro Making Fortunes at the Bar. PAID HIGH TOE HIS GEESE All IiK-ldont in the Career of Senator Milolioll How Stanford's Hnrned v Ijilirary Made HIsKortuno A $5OOOO Retainer. jii/i foif ? , IfflO , tin Fmnk G. Canunttr. ' ] May 21. [ Special to THE Bi'B. ] The lawyers of congress I Their name is legion. They popper the house anil the senate. You llml them on every street corner in Washinton and after they lenvo public life they settle down hereto to practice. Of the 412 members of this con- RIOSS i-'bS .are lawyers. The speaker is a lawyer. A'll .tho leaders of the house uro lawyers .nid moro than three-fourths of the men who hold down those soft live-thousand- dollar cushions In the senate are or were limbs of the law. It has been" so since the beginning of the government. The law Is a stepping-stono to politics. Clay , Webster mid Culhoun were all lawyers. JolTorsonwas making $ . > ,000 a year at the law when ho mar ried. Madison and Monroe had each studied law before tlioy got Into politics. Tom Beaten ton practiced In the Tennessee courts before ho went to Missouri. Presidents Arthur , Hayes , Johnson and Lincoln practiced law , mid so did I'lcrco , Tyler , Fillmore , Martin Van Duron , Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. Buchanan made $9iS ; the llrst year ho practiced and ten years later ho had jiin his fees up to (11,000 a year. Ho dropped the law when ho ( jot into politics and this Is tlio cuso with some of the public men of ilay 'John Sticrman was admitted to the bar ut twenty-one. Ho studied law in his brother's ofllco In tlio little town of Mans Held , Ohio , and borrowed ? 50 to go to Colum bus to bo admitted to practice before the buprenio court. When ho caiuo back his brother took him lute uavtuerbhlp uud the two had a very fuir collection business. John was soon able to save JuOO a year , and these Mivlngs well Invested formed the foundation of his fuituuo. It was about ten years after this that ho was elected tfl congress ami dropped his practice. Ho has not taken it up 6 1 nro and is u statesman pure ami simple. It is different with other members of the 8CimUI saw George F. Hdmunds shaking the few locks of his b.ild head and spouting out an argument at the rate ofTen Ton Dollars a Word iu the supiemo court yesterday. Hols said to mnlcv $ , V > , ( KX ) a year at the law and I don't doubt it. William M. Kv.uta niakos llvo times as much as Chief Justice Fuller out of his law practice and Senator Mitchell of Or egon has scores of gilt-edged cases from the northwest before ihosupremo court. Ho charges for all of them and docs not act like f Ale.Mindcr II. Stephens who used to try the A cnscs of his constituents for nothing , yotli riny and Webster got good fees for all they Uld and u United States senator once told mo that Webster used to take fcos for making i.ficUn'3 on ouo sulo or the other of the bills uliiih caino before the senate He made tuts of money but btivcO none and was m debt all llie time ho was In Washington. The fees of that Uino were uotliiub' lu cQuiparbgu viith this and Ben Butler and George F."Edmunds innko tens of thousands where the statesmen of the past made one. Hamilton made ? 10,000 a year on an average it is said and William AVirt thought ho was doing well when his yearly fees amounted to $ 'i,000. Alexander Stephens got a single fee of ' 0,000 , and it is said that Aaron Burr made 510,000 out of a single ciso. Koscoo Colliding received a cash retainer of $ TX,000 ) for advo cating the interests of the Apolllnaris water company before Secretary Folger , and Benja min II. Bristow received $ "i,000 for a short speech on the bill organizing the bureau of engraving and printing some years ago. A number of cx-cabiuet ministers arc now practicing law hero. Their high standing gives them a wonderful influence In the de partments and they can get immense fees for their work before the house and senate com mittees. Ex-Secretary George Boutwoll has been practicing hero for some years. Attor ney-General Garland has an oflleo hero and ox-Secretary Bclknap has a good practice. Ex-congressmen as lawyers are as many as the leaves of Valambrosa , and ox-sonators are everywhere. Joseph E. McDonald Is u regular practitioner In the Washington courts and at the capltol. Jeremiah Wilson , once a member from Indiana , makes $50,000 a year as a Washington lawyer , and the fees of Judge Shellabarger , who was a noted Ohio congressman In the sixties , amount to ten times a congressman's salary. Phil Thomp son of Kentucky Is practicing in Washington , and as for ex-bureau lawyers , you llml thorn by the dozen. I understand tliat Ben Butter- worth will drop the unprofitable Held of poll- tics to go Into the more prollt.iblo ono of the law at the close of his term , and ho could , if he would , have a bigger patent business than any other man In the country. Of the lawyers now in the United States senate Dan Voorhocs Is perhaps the Host in Criminal Canes. Of the murderers among his clients none have over been hung , and ho can bring the tears to the eyes of the Jury In any case ho pleads. lie defended oao of the mumbors of JohnBrowu's raid at Harpers Ferry and ho gets the biggest fees of his kind. Senator Spooner was nmkln ? $10,000 a year as a rail road lawyer when ho was elected , and ho Is said to have one of the clearest legal minds iu tUO United Statea. Allison was known as a good lawyer in Ohio before ho wont to lown , and there aw few bolter lawyers In the country to Jay than old Sauator Joe Brown of Georgia , Brown Is a self-undo man , made from the ground up. Ho drove a pair of steers to tlio South Carolina academy where ho w.us educated , and got the master to take the stoeis in payment of his bo ml and tuition. It was hero that hq got the rudi ments that on iblo 1 him to l > 3gtn the study of the law , mid ho tauijht' school after this and studied law at the same tlmo. Ho borrowed enough money to glvo hlai a year tit the Yale law sohool , and Improved hU llmo so well Unit ho was able to make $1 , 00 during the llwt year Of his practice. Ho pushed lib oarnlnijs from this steadily up until they reached f'1,000 , and ho liu'tutoil all hU savings well. The llrst $150 ho nudu went Into a pleco of land with a coppir mine on it , and ho sold the half Intercut for this later on for SJ.I.OOO , which ho invested iu farms , and which fanned the batis of the Iiniiwuso fortune which ho now owns. Ho U worth $ > , OOJ,000. Tom Kced studied law while ho was to.ich- lag school In California , uud ho would have been a rich man if ho had stuck to the prac tice. Lcland Stanford om-a told mo that ho made iu',000 the lli-Jt year that ho practiced law lu Wisconsin. Ho had one vf the liucst law libraries of the northwest and was doing well when a lire broke out and at3 up this and the thirteen mortgages which then con tained the bulk of his accumulations. The result was that ho was reduced to $ < 00 , and rather than rebuild ho decided to go to Cal if oru It. Ho there became involved in busi ness and railroads , and instead of becoming a rich Wisconsin lawyer ho has become the millionaire United States senator. Senator Ingalls studied law In Massachusetts and as soon as ho was admitted to the bar started to Kansas with $ " 0 in his inside pocket. Ho opened an ofllco near Atchison. His law library was Made Up of Three Books and the whole of his furniture was a chair and n table His first client was a carpenter and his fee was paid in kind. I to got a table and a high desk for his legal services and this desk , painted green , is kept in the In galls family today as one of its most precious pieces of furniture. It belongs to Ingalls' son Ellsworth , who carried it with him to college and who probably now uses it as a part of his ofllco furniture In the starting of his law practice. Senator Ingalls1 ofllco furniture recalls a story which Senator Mitchell told mo about his early legal experiences in Oregon. Mitch ell had just $ , " 1 in his pocket when ho reached Portland , but ho registered at the hotel as thouuh ho was a millionaire and engaged rooms which cost him $10 a week. Ho tented a little 6x10 ofllco which had no furniture whatever in It , and ho spent his $3 for a vol ume of tlio statutes of Oregon and this con stituted his whole library. Ho found ho could got trusted for his board and his rent but ho was at n low as to furniture. A friend of his gave him two chairs and ho went to a carpen ter and asked him to make a table for him on tick. The carpenter coolly replied that ho did not do business that way , and Mitchell finally obtained the use of n desk In an ad joining ofllco. Ho put out his shingle and at the end of that year ho had twenty-six out of the fifty-two cases that came before the court. His practice grow steadily , and citi zens of Portland tell mo that ho was soon making $10,000 u year. Ho had ono client , Bon Halliday , who paid him $10,000 , a year for a number of years , and ho still makes some of the biggest fees of the country. Ono of Mitchell's first cases became famous In Oregon as asTlio Tlio "Oooso Cnho. " A poor German owned four gecso which were killed by a wealthy but unscrupulous cltUcn of Portland. The German retained Mitchell and tlio wealthy man employed "Laundelet" Williams. The damages claimed were S20 , but the rich man , by perjuring him self , got n verdict in his favor. The Germ in was lu despair , but Sjmitor Mitchell , knowIng - Ing the character of the rich defendant , n.1- vlsod his client to take a backseat In the lead ing saloon of the plauo that night to see If the man would not acknowledge that ho lu-1 shot the geese , hi the presence of witnesses , an lit ho did so to notj tholr name ) . It turned out as no thought. Tno rich man m ido anight of It and celebrated his victory by treating his friends. Ho told them that ho had shot the Dutchman's gco3o , but "th it blaukod ll tlo PltUburg lawyer of a Mitcholl-coaldn't provo It. " Upon this Mitchull domindeil a now trial and won the case. The rich man carried It to the supreme court and Mitchell again won and the result wai that the nnn hail to piy for the gecso ami to foot a bill of f IOJ fur the costs. The gocso thus coat lio.'i uploco. Nearly all the southern senators tire law- years. The late Senator Beck hud a good practice iu Kentucky bcfcro Uc cauio to con gress , and Blackburn can make a splendid speech before a jury. Bates of Tennessee was practicing In Nashville and left his la v oftico for the United States senate , anil Gov ernor Vance is ono of the loading lawyers of North Carolina. Butler comes from a family of lawyers , mid ho studied in the ofllco of his uncle , the Hon. A. P. Butlor. Senator Bustis of Louisiana is a graduate of the Harvard lawschool _ , and ho has > bocn for years professor ser of civil 1 iw In the university of Louisiana. Ho comes from a very rich family and ho has n number of noted lawyers among his ances tors. Senator Gibson is also a lawyer and ho is also rich. Gcorgo of Mississippi is not only a good lawyer but ho Is a legal author and his frowsy head Is packed full of legal facts. General Wultuall was getting $10,000 n year as a railroad lawyer when ho was elected to the United States senate , and ho was at ono time a partner df Justice Lamar. Lamar himself has paid moro attention to books and literature than to low , but ho has a good legal mind and he is n hard worker. Lamur's first case wo.s the defending of a man who had whipped another , but feared that ho could not do so again , and ho wanted his rival bound over to keep the peace. Lamar succeeded in doing this and received as his fco two jugs of handmade whisky. The lute Sunset Cox got $ 5 for his first law case and Henry Clny'H First Pco amounted to Just fifteen shillings. Represen tative Ilolman , the noted economist , learned how to skimp the government by skimping his stomach to fit the slzo of a country Hoos- Icr's legal salary and John Allen , the funny man from Mississippi , made his first jokes before the bar. Speaking of the investments of legal earnings some > of the big fortunes have come from fees' In kind which have grown into millions. The late David Davis died a millionaire. The bulk of his fortune cnmo from some lands about Chicago which ho was given for legal services which ho got when ho was a young man and when the lands wore supposed to bo worth practically nothing. Ho held to them and tlio city glow and the lands grew with it until they brought him in hundreds of thousands of dollars In stead of n few hundred dollars. It is so with many of the coses that como before many of the Washington courts and before the departments. Patent lawyers accept sometimes interests In. the patents they se cure , and ouo of the rich men of Washington Is a patent lawyer named Anthony Pollock , 'who manages the Goodyear rubber patents. The land claims that como before congerss amount to millions of dollars , and when n lobby lawyer gets ono through on the condi tion that ho Is to receive one-half or one- third , ho makes n big strike or nothing. When the electoral commission was settled there was considerable talk about the big fee that Senator Evarts'received for his argu ment before tho. commission. The people supposed it to bo thousands of dollars and the truth Is that Kvai'ts did the work for nothing. Zucli Cluuidler , who was then chairman of the republican national commit tee , called UJKJH him and asked him to take charge and' select . his own assistants. Ho then asked him what ho would charge , saying that the republican committee was poor and It could not offur him a very large retainer. Kvurta 10- pllcd that as the matter was u public ono he would make no charge , and Mr. Chandler told him ho must ut Uatut ullmv linn to pay his hotel expenses. He was ut WuslmiKtun tit the time Chandler cann l < an l.inutidvvus stopping ut Wormier s liuu. Ho ifm.uiicU thirty duj to try tuo casu uml ha uiu for this time amounted to $500 , as ho had had a number of friends to dinner. This was pre sented to the national committee , but Chan dler was not present and It Was Not Honored. When Evarts was told this he said ho would pay the bill himself , and ho did so. Xach Chandler wanted to make it right , but Evarts would not hear of it and the result was that ho got $ oOO less than nothing for making ono of the greatest legal arguments of history. One of the most constant practitioners before fore the supreme court ut Washington is Bon Butler , and ho probably makes more money there than any other lawyer iu the country. Ho docs an immense amount of * tlmnk-you business and is always assisting some poor young man or some poor woman for nothing. Not long ago the boy of oao of the brightest widows of the interior department was seri ously injured in a railroad accident. The ac- cideiit was due to the carelessness of the offi cials and the railroad company was asked to make some compensation. This they refused to do and the woman was in despair. She called upon Ben Butler at his oftico hero and stated her case. Ho took it , tried it for her and got her heavy damages and would not accept one cent of pay. This is an instance that came under my personal vision but it is only a sample of many others of which 1 have heard. It was the same with Hoscoo Conkling. Ho charged the millionaires , but ho worKed for nothing for the poor. A highly cultured widow of Washington , whoso property was tied up uud was being unjustly appropriated by others through a supposed legal technical ity , met Mr. Conkling in Now York and pre sented her case. Ho offered to take It up hut she told him she could not pay him. In the gentlest manner Mr. Coukiliig told her ho would do it for nothing , and ho then set the machinery of law in motion which gave her back her little fortune. It did not cost her u cent. FlIANK G. CAIIl'UNIKII. A Boy'H Kstmy on Brcntlilnj ; . A Kentucky schoolboy , of twelve years , recently wrote the following essay on brouthing : "Wo breathe with our lungsi-oui' lights , our kidneys and our llvoiw vif it wasn't for our breath wo would die when wo bleep. Our breath keeps the life ageing through the nose when wo nro asleep. Hoys who stay in a room all day should not breathe. They hhould wait until they got out In the fresh air. Boys In a room make bad all- called envbonicide. Carbonicido is as poison na mad dogs. A lot of boldlors were once in a black hole in Calcutta and carbonleido got in there and killed thorn. Girls bomot lines ruin the breath with corsets that squeeze the diagram. A big diagram is best for the right kind of breathing. * * You vlll have no further use for spectacles If you use Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening Hyo Salve ; It removes the film and scum wnich lUTuimiliitr.s on the eye balls , subdues hillumimillon , cools and soothes the irritated nerves , strengthens weak und fulling sight. Co a box. Mlro I ) rd nl ; iho Christmas Mrs , Judge K , F. Law on , of Waynesboro was presented uitha case f ohampagnu and it was carefully btowed away , bays the Maoon ( tin. ) Tel egraph. A few days ago Mrs. LUWBOII opened the ease and out jumped bover.il mice , fat and sleek. Ono by ono she drew out the bottles of sparkling fluid , until to her Mirpi'isu thn ooinpt > bottles VWTU fn ind. the MMtiiig busing ln n tiiki n ull and 11 n < > hn1' hull Him i in I'MIJ . ttlui tlio ' l' > uiiia | iiu { i"JH > / CH JijnLni , ilmUij'n uv. ial3. AMONG THE MERRY MAKERS , Bright Shafts Shot from the Bows of the World's ' Jokers. SOIENOE IN SWEET CHAPTERS. Tlio Aiinronclilnj * Advent , of I lie Girl Graduate A Feminine Paradox A IleartlcH Kxplanntion Jones' Wife Kvldcntly It new. A" u > Yurie Ilcrnltl. Soon tlio sweet girl graduate , On science will expatiate ; With eyes alight and cheeks aglow , Will toll of things she does not know. And this , I ben ho kind , O Futol Beginning Their Vacation. Now York Sun : "What is tluit sing ing ami rejoicing wo hciir'i" ' "It is the oyster and the griddle-cuko celebrating. " Spare UN n Mltlo. Now York Herald : Chicago Yes , wo tire going for the fair with hoth 'cot. St. Louis Don't do that. The public will want to bee eonio of it , whatever it is. An Alarming Outlook. ClikntinViidij / f'ovt. Strikes are Increasing every day At very rapid paces ; Even the lightning , so they say , Has struck at several places. An Illinois Philosopher. Whitcsldo (111. ( ) Herald : The man who put on his Hiuniner underwent" hist wcoK WIIH Bnillling around with n hud cold after Tuesday morning's frost. Thin is in iierfcot harmony with the universal law of gauze and ollect. A Good Nnino. New York Sun : "He's n good ball plnyor ; hut why do they call him { Spider ? ' " ' Becuubo hois death on llics. " Gold Spectacles Are Morn GonoronH. Jeweler's Weekly : Little Kthol Don't peoples wear specs to tickle their oycs ? Ascetic i'apa Yes ; plain ones. Gold rimmed ones are worn to tickle other people's eyes. _ _ _ _ _ A Kcmlnlno I'nrndot. Whitcsido (111. ( ) Herald : It is one of the inexplicable paradoxes of humanity that the woman who wears a No. 5 shoo in variably Fends her husband to the store when she wants n now pair , whllo bho who wears nlJ ! is always able to visit the shoe dealer's herself. Not Very .SatisOioiory. Detroit Free Press : " 1 think I will htivo to return the dog I bought of you , " she said , as she called at iho fanolor's the other morning , "Anything wrong , nm'nm ? " "Why , IIO'B bitten the bain- . "Oh , that's nothing. Ho , , . . . . . , took tlio child for another dog. He will outgrow that if you give him Uino. " oo IH a ( jood J'onolior , .iowoltirs' Weekly : Installment jeweler - elor "Lot me sell you a scarf pin. ICIo- gant carbuncle betting and only } 1 a \\0oll.1 Bivwi'i "Vull , I t-'uies > i' ' iloii't du nuit.ngb of dvr land .Minu I n < u 1'iU i Lad \uu ( jl deal giirtiuuvlca uu u tunifj < f ho didn't boon lanced , mine grand mod dcr said , ho vas an angol. " She Kvldcnlly Know. Merchant Traveler : Jones' was not a very bright woman , but she sometimes said things which wore worthy of a wit. One day after doing or saying something silly her husband nipped out : "Well , you are a little the worst I over saw. ' | "Why , what's the matter now ? Have I done anything wrong ? " "I should say so. You don't know the difference between ahorse and a donkey , I don't believe. " "i didn't say you were a horse , did I ? " she replied meekly , and Jones baid no more. Ho WIIH Allowed. Detroit Free Press : lie stood in a doorway with an umbrella in his hand , and as a young lady came briskly trip * ping along in the shower ho stepped oui and said : "Aw allow rno , miss. " "Oh , certainly. " she replied , and tak ing the umbrella from his hand she con tinued her trip as far as lie could be without once looking back. "Aw sold again , you know ! " ha sighed as ho made a skip for Iho shelter of an uwnlng. It Changed Him. Detroit Free Press : A man got info a side yard on Adams avenue the othetf morning to find himself surrounded by three largo dogs , each ono of which boomed perfectly willing to take hold of him , and UH lie blood there in nnxlouo frame of mind a woman opened the dooi and asked : "Want anything ? " "Y-yes , " "Vietmils or clothes ? " "Neither ono , ma'nm. " ' . 'But you came for one or the other. " "Exactly , ma'am , but oireumstnni'CB have worked u grave and important change in my wants. 1 think my pros- cnt suit will last mo for the next llvo 'years , and I don't euro "If I don't have anything to eat for a month to como U you would only bo so kind IIH lo ' She culled 'em oil' and ho skipped. Couldn't Ktand Annie Itoonoy. San Francisco Chronicle : " ( Jo over and arrest that follow for mo , " was the rcriuost of a mild looking man named Houorts of a policeman last evening on Koarny street , near Montgomery n\o * nuo. Hoborts pointed to the open door way of u saloon , inside which a lusty , , lunged steam beer consumer wan bawl' ing forth tlio well-worn ballad , 'hullo Annie Hoonoy , " to a piano aeeon.paul . * ment. "Arrest him ? What for ? " the olllcer. " \Vliy , isn't that singing enough to ehnrga him with ? He's boon shu .t i y out that pong for over an hour. " The policeman turned on bin ! ) < ' IH.ll told Hoborts to move on if ho duln t KG tlio music , "Yes , " put-slated the complainant fol- lowing the olllcer , "hut I've hounl tl.nb bong today until I'm tired of it. I iuit t escape it. That last line , 'My tutot- lieurt , ' is.haunting mo tnwywln heard it at the park today , on th. uliu HnoH , in Chinatown every wheiv , u "Put him down for plain drimii. the olllcer to the sergeant , as I ad KoberU up to the desk at the uij ten iiiliiut'- ' 1 iti-r. Now Coaios llonso , Kan. City A If "lilt * ' ' Hi jiiuuf Fiui' i m l lii'i'f'il tiutc ! in Kuii u. . Lily LJiUXkUiluU lu lU uy