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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1895)
12 Tina OMAHA DAILV SATURDAY , DEOEMJJIDII M , is 5. is MISTRESS OF HERSELF. From the I'lill.ulclplila Pros * . The lowering clouds had begun lo empty themielve * with a dreary drlzle by the time the train reached Temple , and Anna was . o glad to got out that i-he did not mind the dampness. Uotli tlie conductor nnd the porter nerc busy wllh the num > rous parcels of a party of } oung girls wliose gav chatter lud made tlicm 'jultc conspicuous during tlie Journey , KO Anna had lo make two trips to the wall ing room before she got her own baggage off. She put her telescope In \ncant fat in the corner by a window , while she went back for i j her bag and lunch box. On her return she put the telescope on the floor nnd . nnk down Into the \.icint seat dejectedly. The Journny had not been a ple.isani one. It had secfnoii to Anna that the deid In el of the Texas plains depressed lier. The sky touched the earth at too close a horizon today , the dull gray abo\o molting Into the dull gray below , leaving no vistas. The clumps of mesqulte and scrub oak lost their green In the general dullness ami the wheop in the pastures huddled together , cold and * shl\cring. Tlie whole aspect was gloomy. The chill of the east wind crept Into the badly-warmed and 111-vcntllatcd coach , and H had lt n In valt < for Anna to button her well worn cloak up close about her tliro.1t ; her feet anil limbs were cold , though her face i was feverishly hot. The whole thing had set her head aching , i nnd she pressed It agilnrt the celled pane f now , looking out across ths wet plalrs hope- I I IcsMy. Now nnd tren the door of t'lc wiit- $ Ing room opened as a newcomer entered , * and tha tharp gusts of wind that came In 1 ' from the drear outside made her shiver. i I Within , In one corner'of the spacious rocm , j 5 two boyn wcie dealing cut plug tobacco , | , ham sandwiches and coffee .it in old oil- i * cloth-cohered lunch counter. Poor , Ill-fed I I wcmcn , with dirty children nnd crjlng i f bablee , Iniilillfil about the stove , making fro- j ' quent trips to the leaky water tank with | , Its rusty tin cup. Cowboys , with hlgli- f hecloil boots and clinking spurs , walked rett- < ' lossly about the room or Ftcod and steamed I ' their damp clothes before the fire. A Mexi can tninale vender , who occupied the sat next Anna's , fit dczlng wltb his arms folded over his rmoklng basket. The commingled odors of the damp shucks , ; grca y meat and steamed meil was sicken ing but the girl felt almost too tired to move , and ther > Bcemed small clunco cf her .gc lng another seat. A thin-chested , ! watery-eyed youth , with a soiled ban dage coveting half of hfs cankere-l mouth , , ' vis eracWng pecans between his knuckles jj and flipping the hulls Into the sawdiibt box 1 | cuspidor across the aisle. Anna felt a i S twinge of pain every time a nut cracked , and | 1 now. and then unconsciously pressed her . ) $ fingers nervously against h5r throbbing * tcinplec. Out'ldo the cars were- switching * back an.l forth , clanging nnd whistling , nnd * porters were tossing and tumbling trunks f" noltlly on the soggy platform. i Life seemed to Anna utterly and altogether desolatr ; and she closed her eyes by and byte to shut cut the hideous sordid details of the scene around her. There are moments , rare enough to most of us , thank God , when * we seem to lese the competing link which u binds us In the chain of pulsing , breathing J humanity , and leave us stranded upon an t U'land whenc3 we may see only the Intricate h mechanism of life's hideous r allty. Sush * a moment had como to Anna Klnloch , an 1 A when her closed lids turned her gazt Ink - k , wa'rd tears trickled beneath her thin lids ? . helplessly. , l It EC mcd to her that though hrr llfo had belli one succession of battles she had never " > knqwn many victories after all" , and all of them had left her soma dead to bury , but It did not make lur defeat any easier now to , , reflect that It was far from being the I only one she had eVer cxperlencsd. It did not' help her to know that there had b en extenuating clrcumbtancoa In her favor. She hall only taken the school on a venture , niul the cdils had been against her from the ' rta'rt. She had be n too quiet , too reserved. too cultured. In fact , for poor hard-featured , , narrow-minded settlers whose children she j had trUd to teach In the llttlo bare Texas town that made scare ? a blot en the spread- I Ing prairies. 1 The children who had l > 3en brave enough 1 to come to school to her pat and stared at her-over tlielr ilesks , their eyes big with fear and wonder : tlie women , poor hard- worked , weary things , cinie to their doors to look after her as she passed , and the men stopped their teams and forgot to lift their hats when they saw her wandering alone about the prnlrles with her flower press or her stone hammer In her hand. It only made the memory of nil tlito harder now to" rellect that she might have met the chil dren's awe-struck , helpless gaze half way nnd batlsded It. That she could have gone to the little bare houses sometimes and sat with the tired women and held tlielr babies , maybe , nnd talked with them about their \\ork _ , which was all they knew , poor things ; that she might have spoken a word or two now and then to the m n to sOiow them she was neither dazed nor daft. These were the things she might have done nnd had not. Instead , she found herself driven more and more upon herself here , nnd when mid-term came the burden had gronn too great and flic had shifted It. She had told the few children who wcro left i ' staring nt her that they might pack up their books and go home , and the poor things had been too scared to ask why. There was nothing cite to do but to lock up tha school houpj , and gUe the key to the old blnck- Bmlth next dcor , from whom she had ob tained It In September. "This here place ain't ilttln * fur you , -Miss. " lie hud said to her that first day , nnd he only repeated It with a little look If pity when she told him goodby. Ho wan tlie nearest ap preach to a friend she had made during her stay. Old .Mrs. Caddy , with whom she hoarded , had shut her llpg clew when Anna told her shs was going away. The $5 which the girl paid her weekly was almost all that lay between the old woman nnd utanatlon , but deep down In her heart the poor thing felt n tense of relief. "Mlfis Klnloch's ways ain't our ways , " sh * had told the neighbors when they came first to gobnlp with her nt the back door about her boarder , nnd that vas as much as she had over learned of the quiet woman who oc cupied her best room and whom she seldom ua\v except at meals. Anna thought of all this now , nnd though her defeat had not ben very much of n one , It pained her , nevertheless. At 30 women begin to f.'cl a llttlo loosening of the tension , bometlmcs to lo > fslth In themselves , and Anna wondered If there wore not at1 many mistakes behind her as there seemed to be dangers nhfad. She looked back upon her years of struggle and called them wasted. She had ttrlvtn to force her llttlo stream of life Into broader currents than It was made for , only to see Itu waters trlcklu and fall where the rocks wcro rough or the banks wcr3 steep. It wa that comprehension of her Impotence biforo that had sickened liur nnd driven her to Texas for a hraco up. Hut the current was too feeble to run over so broad a bed and uho had made no effort. Perhaps It < 1I < 1 mil matter after all , She was alone In the wet Id , and ono failure could not count for much In the whole universe , she thought. The tears Hill trickled down her cheeks , but she had ceased to btart when the boy cracked his pecan ? or when the door opened. The man with tamales got up and went out. A train had como In , and passengers were crowding off and on. The stools around the lunch counter wcro filled with people , and the two 1)0 ) j a were busy filling plate * and rattling cups. Anna opened her lunch box listlessly , and was not surprised to find Mrs , Caddy liad put up only enough for one meal. "She owed me to much and no more , " bald the girl to herself , with a little Kard imlle. She eet tlie box down on top of her tels- gcopo and went over to the counter for a cup cf coffee. When she held out her hand to receive It a man on the stool just bslde her gave an order , Anna turned sharply , facing him and letting the cup fall heavily upon the counter , whence It rolled noisily to the floor. "Look what you're about , won't you ? " tald the boy sharply , "LooTf what you are about , youngster , " said Jle : juan. springing to his feet and lean ing over the counter. The boy winced aud picked up the cup sulkily , "Can I assist you , inadamo ? " the man con tinued , turning to Anni and llltlug bis bat. ' 'Don't > ou know me , Hohert Dscrlng ? " ihc ask d. "Why , It'i Annn Anna Klnloch Mill ? " ho ? il'l ' pl'asintly. hoi ling out his hand. She frit with a sudden thrill what a big , strong hnntl It was that she put hers Into and was not surprised a moment later to find herself following Deerlng to a neat llttlo cloth couTcd table by a window In the cor ner , lie had the same masterful way that she knew so well In the old < 1n > - < s olid It pleased her now ns much as It had displeased her then , so she sat down at his bidding and waited for him to servo her. "It's nicer here , " he said , pouring her a cup of coffee from the steaming pot which the boy brought at ills direction. "Hut you don't know how glad I am to see you , Miss Anna , " he went on , filling his own cup and cutting n wedge fiom his sandwich. "It seems quite like old times , dccsn't It ? And I don't bcllevo > ouo changed one bit. " "Neither ha\o you , " she said , looking at him steadily for a moment before the spoke "Oh , never mind me , please , " he said hastily , almost nervous under her steady ga/e. " \Vc shall not mention my gray hairs , for Ins'nnco , and 1 shall promts : not to reproach preach jou for the pirt jou played In their production I'm glad to ; ec you for all that nnd I only wish " he began looking through Hi ? window toward the sleeper that stood on the track without. "Oh , don't , Robert , please , " ehe inter rupted him eagerly. The people at the lunch counter had bosun to dippers ? , and the two had the waiting room almost to theitibclves. "Don't reptoich tro ; 1 cannot boar It. Vou do not know how I have suf fered , jou do not know how Kind I am to sco you It teems Ilk- one tnoro chance of life left to me. I love you " her words wcro coming rapidly , and though he looked up sharply she did not stop. " 1 love you , Robert Deerlng , 1 love you. 1 lovrd you long ago , nnil 1 strove against It. I thought It warf strength that made me. I know now It wnj weakness. , 1 am stronger now , strong enough to tell jou that 1 win not honest ullli vr.i hi thrpn nld ilnvs. Mint I WAR un- true to myself , and the falsehood has dark ened all my life. I have been walking In the fhadow. " She would hove kept on , her gray eyes- kindled , and her cheaks flushed , but Deer lng hnd linen to his feet. He thought as ho looked down Into her upturned face that the I.ad never been so beautiful ns phe was then. . Ho held his watch open In his pilm , and without upan the platform the con ductor hallooed , "All aboard I" Anna heaid the watch-ticks like the thumping of great heart-beats. From be tween her tense lids she saw the gray hairs rlso and fall on Decrlng's temples ; shs heard his quick breath stirring lile > moustache. From the window of the Pullman , which was beginning slowly to move , a woman In a gray suit poked out her shapely head crownei with Its smooth , fair braids. Deer lng llft.d his hat and smiled back at her. "That Is my wife , Anna , " he said gently. For a moment ho held the girl's hand In his , and In another he had stepped upon the rear end of the rec3dlng train and was gone out of her life fore\er. Anna saw him like ons in a dream , but the hoarse shrUk of the departing whistle roused her. In one momnt she had broken down the reserve of years , and the overflow of p nt-up passion left her stunned as by a blow. She stood dazed and helpless , leaning against the table wh'rc D3erlng had Isft her , Etarlng out through the open doorway. A man who liai been walking back and forth on the plat- Term came In by and by and blood quite close to lur , his cap In his hand , before she seemed aware of his presence. "Can I get y&ur bagga'ge checked , or any thing , Miss ? " he said politely. "B'llevo you snld you was goln' north , an' your train will pass in a few minut s now. " . Anna winced as she looked at him. He was the brakcman on the local train which had brought her In that morning. She re membered him by a pleasant little way he tiad of wrinkling lily nose when he sinllul. "If you will put my things back on your rain , please , I shall be glad. I am going jack with jou this afternoon. " The words se'med to have come from her without her own volition almost , but the .sound ol them strengthened hr. "That's right , " said the man soothingly , trying not to show the surpribo which he felt. "Better not turn loose once you've put your hands to the plow. Some of 'em was sayln' to me this mornln' they didn't know what they'd do 'bout a school now you'd left. They said you certainly mad ; the chil dren learn , whatever else you did. " It was faint praise enough , but Anna grasped 'It eagorly. "Do you really think I can succeed It I try again ? " she asked simply. "I know you can , " he said with a man's decisiveness. "Now , If I's In your place , " ho went on kindly , "I'd go to the ladles' room there and rest up a bit. There ain't many 'commodatlons , but It's bJtter'n out here. " Slu followed him across the room grate fully. "I tell you , " he mid , as he held the door open for her , " 'spose you let me fetch a pitcher of hot water from the lunch stand over thsre. It'll do you the most good In the world. My wife says hot water beats all the patent medicines goln' . What do you say ? " "Oh , thank you so much ; you are very kind , " and there were tears In Anna's eyes as aha spoko. They wera tears of repentance this time and they EOftened her. The steaming water upon her face and the back of her neck refreshed her beyond meas ure , and by the time she had recoiled her heavy hair she felt like a new person. The clouds had drlve.ii on westward and by the time the brakcman came for her baggage the sky was beautifully clear. The great prairies fairly gleamed and the trees glis tened with the sunlight on their wet leaves. The whole vast plain was ono realm of beauty , as boundless as hope , as full of happy possibilities. Anna opened her window to drink In the draughts of pure ozone and felt the rich blood of a new life , quicken within her. Her way lay clear before-her , fair ns the sky and limitless as the horizon. The friendly brakeman'was on hand to help hir off when the train " ' ' stopped , "I'm goln' to sen' my llttlp girl to school to you , " he said. It was quite dark when Anna got to Mrs. Gnddy's , and she found the old woman taking her solitary supper In the little kitchen. She hustled about , startled nnd disturbed by the girl's biidden appearance. "You ain't met with no accldwit ? " she asked sharply. "No , " said Anna , "I changed my mind about going , that Is all , and I've come back to stay this time If you will let me , please , MrtGaddy. . " ' "That'll as you're a mlnter , " said the old woman ungraciously. "Your room's as you left It. Wetter go In there till I can cook you up something flttln' to eat. " "I should ho so glad If you would Just let me sit here and share you biipper , please , Mrs , Gaddy , " Anna said , taking off her hat and cloak , She found a pinto and knife and fork on the shelf , and fat down on tha other sldo of the deal tnblo without waiting for the old woman to answer. Mrs. Gaddy had a vague suspicion that the girl was daft , anil scarce ate n mortcl for wonderment. When the meal was over , Anna turned up her sleeves nnd poured the water from the Etojinlnt ; kettle Into the dish pan. "Yen must let me wash the dishes for you this evening , Mrs. Qaddy , If you don't mind , " she tali ] , "You ee , I am beginning life CUT again , and It will remind me of when I was a little1 child and mother iiivd to tuck up my tlcves nnd stand mo up In a chair beslilo her while she wached the dishes. Now nnd then elie would give mn a llttlo piece from the scalding water to wipe , and it ploised mo to think I was helping her , " "Ycur mother dead ? " atked Mn. Gaddy , "Yes , " wld Anna softly. "I am all alone In the world. " " \Vliy didn't you tell mo before , honey , why didn't you ? " And the old woman put her arm about the girl's shculdert and looked at her with tears in her dim eyes. "Seem like I'd 'a knowcd better how to 'a treated you If you'd n-told me , " Shu uit down by and by and got out her knitting , watching Anna eagerly as uht < went back and forth with the dishes. She was thinking of her own little girl , a sllimpeaked puny thing nho died when she waD no higher than the table. She told Anna about her after a while , dwelling on the meager rcmln- isct'HCM that made up all that.ua left of her now. "Somehow you put m ? In ' 'mind of her when you's talkln' 'bout lielpln' you ' rn t my little B l mnuRht ' been to me when I eo you ltlln' 'roun' so pyenrt. " It hnd not been Iprd to find the way to one heart , Annn thought , ns she went to sleep In her old bed ttint night. She sttrprlfd the blacksmith by nn early cnll for the key next morning , and had the p heel mm swept nnd n fire burning long b'fore It WAS time to ring the first bell. Most of the poor llttlo scared clilldrm whenever never understood why they had been tent homo the day before were nn hand when school cpencd , and before the week was out the desks were full , " \Vc vc got a new teacher , " they snld , nnd Anna emlleil gratefully Into their happy faces. "You arc getlln' on bolter , miss , fur nil the place ain't flttln" fur you , " said the blacksmith. "I was not fit for the place before , " Anna mid. _ A b.MUil.l.Vi ; TAM3. How n HclutHc Turned Informer nml Iout lllH SUIIK. "Years ago , " said an old secret service man to a Washington Post reporter , "I was In business In New York. Men at my trade as a detective hear nil sorts' of stories : come of them long after the knowledge will do any good. Nocrthcless , now and then thcso yarn * ) form curious bits of history Ndt long ago a gentleman from th3 inside was telling me n bit of the unwritten history of the New York customs house. What he re- lattd took place over twenty years ago In fact , not long after the war. He was ex plaining how money wan made Inside the customs lines , " 'A friend of mine , ' said that gentleman , 'was ono of the Inspectors in the New- York office. Ilia business was to go aboard boats , ransack the trunks of passengers and over haul the effects of Immigrants. In other words , h3 was to look out for smugglers. This was In 1S69. " 'One day his chief came to him and said : 'You meet such and imch a ship when she comes In. She h at the narrows now. Toke with you one of the women of our office , be cause jou will have to search a German girl who Is aboard the boat. This girl will be with her father , whose name Is Schmidt and who comes fiom Hremen. He has noth ing on him or about him tliat is wrong , but the girl has a whole handful of diamonds donp up In her back hair. You have the In- spsctresa who Is with you search the girl , and have her finally find the diamonds In her chignon. Don't bungle the Job , nor go straight to the diamonds ai If you knew where they were. I want the discovery to come along in a regular way , and nothing done to Indicate that we have had any pointer as to the folks and their diamonds. " " 'There was no time , ' continued my friend , 'to ask any questions as to how my chief know the whereabouts of this plant of diamonds' . I took the woman inspector , as he directed me , and we went aboard the boat and quickly found our passengers fiom Bremen. This Schmidt had been further de scribed to me by my chief as having only ono eye , so he was easy to pick out. I searched tha old man In a careful way and the woman with me took the girl Into a stateroom , and , after fooling away ten min utes In a pretended search , finally discovered the diamonds In her waterfall , as the peculiar coiffure of that day was vermcd. " 'Of course we took possession of the diamonds and put the old German and his daughter under arrest. It was a sore blow and they walled and wept and beat their bosoms mightily. " 'As we always did at that time , we contented oursshes with confiscating the dia monds. Of course I made a bluff. I told ths old man and his daughter they were undr arrest , but that I would let them gofer for the night. The next day they must nturn at 10 o'clock to the customs ofilce , when we would t'nd them to the penitentiary foi anywhere from tin to twenty years. " 'This last , as I say , was only a bluff , howe\er , and the people never came back , as * we bad every reason to suppose would be. the case. We had no tlms to try criminals and usually contented ourselves with con fiscating the goods which they attempted to ymuggle , and , ns these wore generally very vSluabl : , It was punishment enough. " 'When I found my chief I told him 7 had the diamonds all safe enough , and had given the old German and his daughter such a scare that none of us need expect to see either of them again. Then 1 asked him how- he knew so accurately about the diamonds. " 'My ch'ef told me that his Information came from the son-in-law of the old man. It seems that the old German had two daughters. The elder ono was married and already In Uils country , living i'n ' Now York City. The younger girl , when she and her father got ready to como over , wrote the other how they had turned all the property Into diamonds , which could be bought at a low figure In Europe , and on account of the tariff sold for double the money here , and how she proposed to conceal them In her hair In order to smuggle them , ushore. Nat urally the elder sister told her husband , ami It was he who informed my chief. What was his object ? Why , the Infernal rascal expected to get 45 per cent of the proceeds of the confiscated property when sold , being the amount which In that day went to the Informer. " 'I couldn't for the llfo of me see where my chief and myself and the other boys in the cuotom house were going to get any part of ths proce-eda of these diamonds. They were , of course , reported to the office as con fiscated , and their sale would duly take ylace : but with the reptile sc'n-ln-law get ting 15 per cent as Informer , and Uncle Sam the other 55 per cant as confiscator , I couldn't see where we'd get In. But my chief , who was a very Intelligent man , bade mo bo of good cheer. Ho had a plan which he was confident would work. " 'At ono of the sales which the custom house periodically holds the old German's diamonds were duly hawked off. Wo had never seen either him or his daughter since I turned them loose on the wharf , although wo knew from the son-in-law that they were at. his house In Now York , very much over come with their loss and the fear of being punished ns btnugglers , a fear which hs very much fed , by the way , telling them awful ptorleo of what happened to people who were caught trying to beat the custom house. The diamonds , when sold. If I remembsr correctly , were taken by Tiffany and brought between $9,000 and $10,000. The share due the Informer was over J4.000. " 'The amount due to the government was turned over and shortly following the faith less son-in-law came skulking Vji to get his share of the money. " 'Certainly , 'replied my chief. "You're the Informer and the money Is yours. There Is bomethlng over $4,000 coming to you. But I propose to have witnesses when It Is paid o\er. I will pay It to you any time when you bring yo.ir wife and her Bister and yrur father-in-law with you to sen It done. I In tend that they shall witness the transaction and learn Just exactly what sort of a cur you are. " "Tho son-in-law informer crept away and never returned. He couldn't face the condi tions which made his obtaining the money possible. It was not lost , however ; you may " ; > e sure It went to good people , who know liow to use It. " TilIIV T.U.IC SHOP. ; Coiillilrnot'H About \iidilil ) ' "Talk about newspaper enterprise , " paid ho young man with soiled cuffs and a brier- wood pipe , to the Boston Transcript , "did I over tell you about the big thing wo did on he Startler a year or two ago ? No ? Well , t was a great ilrhe and well worth the elling. "Thoro hadn't been a murder for throe days , and not ono of the mysterious disap pearances amounted to a hull of beans , We'd got to have a sensation , but what It was going to be wao more than any of us could . guess. i "Tom Skipper , our local man , was so much concerned about the matter that he actually offered to commit suicide to help the paper out , but old Cutter , ono of the desk editors. , happened to think just In time that if Skip per suicided there would bo nobody left to write the thing up in Skipper's Inimitable style. "Then somebody miggested that Instead of killing himself Skipper should kill some other fellow , but that wouldn't be much bet ter , for Skipper would bo locked up beyond the reach of tilu fclysore ; so the whole busi ness was dropped. But something mutt be done. "Finally our literary editor got an Idea. Of course It was of no use to him ; couldn't use Ideas in his department , you know. So ho gave It to the city editor. 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ONLY CLOSING , PA IK OUT IQc Itclnforccd back nnil front , sold evcrywhoio nt ( ac. 16th and FarnamSls ' CLOSING OUT 1'iueu , Ladies' Gray C\ ' 13AC1I I tJ Morse's Old stand , Wool Ribbed Vests All sizes , wnim nnd durable. Safe , Fixtures , Showcases , etc , , for sale. Itreitlnr < 5c g ods CLOSING OUT piuci : . IACH Heavy Natural Gray "Underwear Jewelry Dept. Corset Dept. Ladies' Camel's Extra Hair Vests Fine 2,000 Stick Pins Duplex , Wnrncr'H , Health , and pants , excellent quality , Shirts nnd draw or ? , nil sbrs. Ttlcoin nnd Mridnme Fov's all sizes , Morjp'R price $200. Morse's price 40c. CLOSING Aborted style" , In ' silver nmj Corsets , good sizes , Inhlto ( "LOSINO OUT 1'UICC , 1.29 OUT rmcn , UACH . gilt designs. Morfo'n lOc nnd ' nnd crny , Jl and J1.23 good . I3ACI1 . ibc goods , chioicn ONIA' . . . CLOSING OUT SA1.K ONI.V ? LadioV Extra Fiuo Gold Filled Arinorslde , S. 1\ Morse's Rings White Australia Special nnd Dr. Unit's Hoaltli Camel's Hair Vests ! ! Warranted 15 yearn , assorted CLOSING OUT SAUJ ONLY Wool TJndorwoar Btvl's , Morse's price $1.00 to and pants , all sizes , very line , CHO1CI3 ONLY . P. D. Corsets soft , warm goods. Morvp's All sizes phlrts nnil drawers. No . 218 nnd 07 , In white , price 37140. CLOSING OUT Gold Sot Rinps 1'IUCi : , UACH Klesnnt line Rood1 ! . .Morse's grny nnd blnck. Morse's price 11.60. CLOSING OUT O - Fine stone setting" , Mon > e'u price 00. CLOSING OUT mien , UACH . vow price Jl.OO. CHOIC13 ONLY . SALK ONLY Ladies' Extra Fine Black Silk Hose Took Neckwear Hoth plain nnd dropstltch. Morsp'p price MM ) to $5TO. CLOSING OUT 1'UICi : , LOAKS and SUIT CI1OIC13 , ONLY Light nml dark colors , hand- tome styles , nil slk ! KOO.IS. Morse's price 75c. CLOSING OUT 1'RICU 35C ; 3 roll. . . . Notion Dept. Morse's SI Soarfi Mors-o's Closing WILL BE CHEAP SATURDAY- price , out price. Tecks nnil four-ln-hands. Tooth Brushes . So Ic CLOSING OUT I'HICn. EACH . . I'lns , 2 papers for . 3c lo The last few days we have made a big Lndle vncn ' . Collars nnd lOc Cuffs nnd 15o Ic Asst. Hairpins In boxes , Co 2c hole in the stock but have still a com Curling Irons . lOc 2c Glove Dept. plete line of jackets , capes and suits on Countess Cnblnct Ilnlr- Be 2c 1'utz Pomndc v .30 Ladies' Genuine hand that we offer at special reductions. Jet Koods Black . I'lnt , \ > cl lOo , 3c French Kid Gloves Sewliifr Mnchlno Oil. Choice tailor inado Suits , inailo In the latest fashion , wide skirts , best quality . Go * ' 3o All sizes , all colors and similes , Including black , lined throughout reuulnr value $10.00 and $12.00. Saturday's price § 0.1)5. ) Che" ebroiiBh's Vnsellno , Morse's price $1.75. CLOSING i f\f\ per bottle , . tic 3c OUT 1'uict : , PAin i-w A hotter lot of Suits , made with two-button box coats , regular value Swansdown Fnce Powder lOc , Sc $15.00 and § 18.00 , Satnrilay's price , $10.05. Ulchter , Ilnr- 10-Key - Umbrellas Jackets and Capes , odds and ends , but all new and late styles , worth monica . Ida 4. 8c fioin $10.00 to $15.00 , Saturday's price $7.39. liatley's retroleum Jelly , All kinds ladles' and gents' goods. 2 ounce bottles . Co , So , OUR ENTIRE LINE OF WRAPPERS REDUCED nnlley's Petroleum Jelly , I ounce bottles . lOo Cc Morse's J1.7C goods , CHOICEi -t\ ONIA' Hi * $1.0S Outing Flannel Wi uppers , OSc. Lnce KdeltiB1 , G-yard . pieces 15o ; Co $ li.l > 5 Ontlns Flannel Wrappers , $1.5 : ! ' Morse's 13.00 goods , CHOICE O f\\ Penr's Unscented Soap , ONLY O.UU . < : t.OO Eiderdown Wrappers , $2.05. per cake . < . 15c Ctf $4.00 Eiderdown Wrappers , $2.H5. Pnd Letter Pnper , 100 sheets . ICc , 7c Wo have a full stock of Fur Garments , from the lowest to highest in Pockctbook , assorted price. Styles . "Oc 7o Wood b.ick Hnlr Handkerchiefs. llrushEs . 15c 7o . ' Boy's Clothing Odd Two-Piece Suits Cuticle Soap , per rake. . 2Jc 7c and Reefers , Morse's price , Flno Whisk Hrooms . 15c Sc Morse's lOc Handkerchiefs , Department. J300 to JO.OO. TAKE YOUH CLOSING OUT P1UCD , CHOICE F6R . Tooth Hrushes. French KACH Oc Only a couple of hundred Odd Suits left : they won't stay Ions nt these Two -Piece Suits- IJoxes EnvElopei nnd Morse's 35c'Swiss .embroider prices ; come after them quick. Heavy Paper , 21 ench . 23o lOc ed Handkerchiefs. CLOSING ' Waists Double Sent nnd Double Triple extract Perfumes , Boy's OUT PRICE , EACH Knee Pants , Morse's prlco Italley's , Klubs btoppcr Sizes , 2 > A to 6 years ; every $500. blze1 to 15 jcars. ffl bottle . 15c lOo thing left Is put Into this TAKE YOUR CHOICE FOR M Morse's 45o Sllklcttc lot. Morse sold them for Tetlow's GoHKinior Face Initial Handkerchiefs. CLOS 7&C to $2.00 , TAK13 YOUH 1Or- Powder . 2oc He ING OUT 1'IUCK , UACH. . . . CHOICE FOR IJ * Boy's Overcoats Trilby Uoquct extract. . . . 25 18c Boy's Extra Jackets SnnKlangue'K 2-oz. , KlaBS ' Heavy Good" , Morso's prlco stopper bottle Perfume COc 25c Morse's 75c pure silk Initial Size 2V4 to 7 yeai1 * , Storoe's Handkerchiefs , CLOSING prices , J200 to $1.00. TAKE J800 cn6icE all blzes , TAKE YOUH Pocketbooks , a OUT PRICE. EACH YOUll CHOICE FOR FOR styles , up to . 1.00 25c It was to print a few chapters of the bible under a pcaro head and lots of crosj lines. "Well , sir , wo did It , and there- never prob ably was such an excitement among our read ers. It was brand-new to nlneteen-twen- tleths of them , and the way they besieged the office for copies and the way they bragged about theStartler's enterprise was a caution , I can tell you. Why , sir , we sold more than 3.000,000 copies of that day's Issue , and , oven then , we were wholly unable to meet the de mand. " "Not so bad , " said the young man with the moth-oaten mustache , "but nothing to the little stroke of enterprise we did awhile ago on the Snark. Just as you had done , so wo , too , hnd tried everything we could think offer for a sensation and everybody was at ids wit's ends. Nobody could suggest anything that was worth trying. "It began lo look blue at the Snark office. It was the first time , you know , that we had ever been strapped for an Idea. We began to think we'd have to suspend publication , for It was useless to think of Issuing a Snark with no sensation in It. "Luckily , however , our office boy came for ward with n tip. Wo get most of our sugges tions from our office boy , you know. What do you suppose his Idea was ? You'd never guess in a thousand years. It was simply this , that we issue a number of the Snark with not so much as a Binglo Ho In It , "Well , sir , the thing was done ; It was wearisome work , but It was done , The paper was printed , but It didn't take at first ; our readers couldn't understand It. But after a while a few of them got onto it and then the news spread. Well , sir , to make a long story short , we sold 17,000,000 copies of that paper. Wo tried It again the next week , but the folks wouldn't buy. They said once would defer for a sensation , a novelty , but for a regular thing they preferred the Snark's regular vin tage. " _ IMIISOMCHM. I'arlHlniiH AVIio Support Tl Iiy ColiiK to Jull for ( Mlici-N. The French are a practical people. For ma'ny years it has been the custom for the more explosive Parisian editors to keep a "ghost" round tlie corner. Generally the "ghost" Is sipping absinthe at the nearest cafe. But ho Is the titular editor. And when the paper falls foul of the authorities and the editor has to go to Jail , it is lrae "ghost" round tlie corner that goes. The scheme' Is convenient. Justice Is satis fied and the paper cames out ns usual , There Is an establlshdi : bureau In the Hue Drouot , with a register and a tariff , for the supply of "doubles" for wealthy citizens w ho are averse to hard labor. It does a very thriving business and does not limit UH re sources to catering tiiltly for the require ments of newspaper men. And gay young sparks who fall foul of the police can , by u llttlo Judicious "squaring , " send round to the bureau far a substitute who for $1.25 a day , payable in advance , will take his place In prison and do the allotted time meted out for venial offensei. For hlg.ier grades of punishment the tarlf Is a llttlo more and usually comprises at extra sum of $10 for a new t > uit of clotheb upon release from Jail. FRIDAY AM * TIIIKTEUV. Modi Have I'lnjcd Important 1'iirtN In IIiiyi\nrtI'N C.INI * . In fixing the date of the execution , says th Minneapolis Tribune , Governor Clough Interfered with fate to an alarming extent. The public can hardly realize this until It Is presented with a brief review of dates In the most celebrated case. In the natural course of events Hayward would have been hanged on Friday , Decem ber 13. This would have been doubly gam- bler's luck , and Hayward was superstitious. At almost the last moment David B. Hill came to Minneapolis , and there was a quick response to his Idea of changing the Friday superstition by altering all dates for hanging from Friday to other days. Governor Clough consented and fixed the date on Wednesday , the llth. Thl was really the first change in a .queer chapter , and would not have taken place but for Mr. Hill. It might bo argued that thcie are thirteen letters In "Harry T. Hayward , " In "Cath erine Qlng , " "December third , " and any number of other combinations , but to come down to actual facts , the following presents Itself as matters of record In the history of the county and courts. It was on Friday , December 7 , that Bllxt was arrested. Thursday , December 13 , the Indictment was returned and filed with the clerk. Thursday , December 13 , was the date set for the municipal court hearing , by an en tirely different Judge. Tht ) testimony for the defense opened In the trial on Friday. Friday , Marcli 8 , the Jury returned a ver dict of guilty. The argument for a new trial was heard April 13. The time for an appeal expired Friday , June 19. July 13 ths order staying the- execution was filed by the governor. September 13 the return of the appeal was completed and sent to the supreme court. Had not Governor Clough been won over by a now Idea the hanging would have taken place Friday , December 13 , M of llnill < * . A descendant of th ? famous poet , Dante- , Count Dante Serego Allghlerl , the mayor of Venice , died recently at Ills villa , Gargag- nano , near Verona. Ills family descends from the author of "La Dlvlna Comedla" on the female sideonly. . The last male descend ant of Dante , Pl tro dl Dante , died In the year 1547 , Ills daughter was niarrlod to a Count Serego of Verona , and ho obtained the right to add his family name to that of his wife. The family of ScMgo-Allghlerl Is very numerous and wealthy , and most uf Its mcni- beru live In the province of Ventzla. Raymond Jeweler Partial list uf articles for ladles In sterling silver , or mounted with sll\or. Card CUKCH Hulr DrusliCH Dead Necklaces Cwnbs Hair I'ln lioxca Holt Uuckleu Chutfialno Hags Hulr I'lna lion lion lioxcu Chatelaines Hair I'ln Tru > s Don lion Hpoonti Cloth HnuheH , Hut I'lna Bbnnet J'liiH Cologne liottleJ Ink Stands liook Mnrks Kmerleu. Jewel Tray3 Jlrucrlets Flunks l ccketu. Jlroochc-a Floka Doxes L rpnettes Cuff ButtoiiB Gartei-s Munlcure Artlcloa Cundle Shades Clove Colognes Memoranilum liooka Cundlo Smiffera Glove Hooka Mirrors C. S. Raymond. 16th ainl Ilouylat AM , I sz Likes CLAUS I Say3 it saves time saves money makes overwork unneces- i sary. Tell your wife about it. Your grocer sells it. Made only by IThe N. K. Fairbank Company , Chicago. RESTORE LOST VIGOR Uesult in i SHRIIMAN & MCCONNELI , Dnua CO , . IBIS Dodge Street , Omaha , Neb ,