THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt BTJKDAY , OOTOPEB 8 , 180T. To buy Fumishiii House Bedding anything in BIG CUT IN COMPORTS Without first paying a visit to "The Peoples" is an unheard-of preceding. 75c Coin forts- . 38c Four Acres of Floor Space , big enough to ta\e in any department store in the city , thin wcuk llllcd us novcr bofri o wltb the very Intcst anil most beautiful products of thorworkshop and loom. ZD this $2.50 wonk Comforts , 98c Prices so low that it is merely a question -selection. . $4.00 this week Comforts 165 Terms so easy that your purchases are paid f6r almost before you are aware of it. $1.50 Cotton ' Blanket 75c Salesmen so courteous and obliging that you feel as if you had met a friend , $4.50 this week Wool Blanket , 198 Service so prompt that the goods reach your home often before you return. this Wcofc ' . The only One-Price House Furnishing Establishment in the city. The only Establishment $7.00 Blanket tills week 2,95 ment which sell you as cheap on credit as for cash. The only establishment that gives you $3-00 tlih week per pair 6 lb. Pillows . .1,25 your money back if you want it There is absolutely no competition on The People's prices , $2,00 Sofa Pillow tills week 98c terms , service and guarantee. Stupendous stove sacrifice Carpet Estate Beckwith's Star Other Furniture Oak genuine Estate basement , Bargains Heater round steel bargains argams oak Coal hod . . 12c YouVill agree with us that the plain truth is good We guarantee "ES- bv no other enough for any business house when you see the goods TATIi OAKb" for perfect them We nt bought n , compulsory 300 stvlc of ut steel range satisfaction in durability - Stovepipe 6 in 9c f3.r > 0.Cobbler Rocker , this week 2,03 we advertise. When xve say values , it's values , and fect control of fire , for n bitf discount , cnnuling us to jrlvcii nnd price , Elbows . , . 9c 52.50 I.ndlca' ' Cane Seat Antiques HocUcr , this week Me sell them uhuupcr than others on sale thla J2.00 'Oak Center Table ? , this week _ 75c when the People's Furniture and Carpet Co. say reduced cleanliness , for durabil can buy them. A $19.00 one week 2925 Stove zinc . . -32c $ :0.00"Oak Combination Hook Case , this week JS.W ' ity and beautv. on sale this week. $3.00 Kitchen Safe , this week $2.Co duced such values such lines find prices on or on , you'll ' * * 7c . . . KMJ Dampers , , . Jl.r.O Woven Wire Cot. this week it so very time and that's what it is this time sure This s'.ovc is guaranteed 9.45 $14.00 Oak Hall Trees , this week ? 3.X ! > Stove pokers , 3c $7.50 Mahogany Tnbourctte , this week 51.43 . Reluctions the best kind of teed to hold lire with Peninsular . enough gain. Big on $3.00 Mahogany , Oik or Hbony Piano Stool , this week $1.43 goods made , and all the latest styles , with a third and a one charge of soft coal base Pipe collars. , 2c $12.(0 Oak Hook Case , this week $4.)3 . ! ) No8 $23.00 Oak Sideboard , this week $11.43 half of the price knocked off. for iorty-sevcn hours. Fire shovels . 5 c 50c Kitchen Chairs , this week 30o Beyond "doubt the finest cook burner v $1.23 Oak Catio Seat dial . this week ( V.c 1 soft coal stove made. Wash boilers.52c $3.00 C-foot Extension Table , this week $ -1.ftJ $1.50 Axmlrmtcrs , this week 9Sc stoves Need no talk to affirm $10.00 Oak ladles Writing Desk , this week $1.60 $1.25 Velvet , tills wuflt 7Sc A S20 00 stove on Tea kettles . 29c $3.00 llnmboo Mu ! e Cabinet , this week $1.2t Jl.CO Body Brussels , tills week 9Sc itsgriodiiejss. The milkers give $ , ! 0.00 China Closet , this week $11.50 OOc Tnpcutry Carpets , this week -I0c special sale this week with oocl size oven ft written gunrantGo with each Steel fry pans lOc $1S.OO White Enamel Oiesscr , thlH week $7.90 70c All Wool Ingrnlns , this week \ 2c ! ) at line baker , worth genarully stove , und we buck it u [ ) . On ' . , . J'w.OO Mahogany or Oak Frame Parlor Suit this week $21.50 45o ling-Cnrpet , tills week 2Sc $18 , on sale this week ut sale this week tit Tea . . 12c . . 30c Hemp Cnrpct , this week 14c pots , $20.00 lied Lounges , this week $ S.43 35c Mattings , this week 13c $18.00 Folding Ileds , this week $7.50 TCc Linoleums , this week 3Sc Coffee pots . . 7c $7.M White Enamel Iron Bed , this'week $3.13 $15.00 Misfit Brussels Cnrpct , this week $7.50 J2.,0 Wash Stiiiul , this week $1.21 $10.50 Misfit Inprnln Carpet" , this week S1.9S Lid Lifter - IcOn $30.00 Bed Uoom Suit , this week $11.50 2.000 OH Cloth Samples ( one yard Ffjuare ) , worth 50c , thla week 13o 1,500 yards Oil Cloth , worth GOc , this week l'c ! ' $20.00 Hoi ! Ton Ofllce Desks , this week $ i.S3 ) 000 Door Mnts , worth 73c. this week 2So $13.(0 ( Chiffonier , this week $0.73 3,000 ynrels Remnants Matting , worth 3jc. this week Co . . $15.09 Warelrobe , this week JG.75 2.0CO ynrds Inurnln Kcmnnnts , worth 73o , this week 23c 1,2.10 ynrds Ilcmnnnts Brussels , worth $1.23 , this week 3Sc $1.50 Infants' Crib , this week $3.S ! ) 1.00 Hassocks , this week -fc On ii bin or in.nn On a bill of SjdO.OO On a Mil of tjtTS.OO $3.ew Cradle , thin week J1.C3 3.00 Carpet Sweeper , this week SI--I3 $1. ' ( > per treok or i ? l.e ) ( ) per iiiontli. ! . , ' > < > per TVt-e'lc or JJUJ.OO per month. $ : : . ' . ! . " > | it > r i\eeU or il.OO per inoiUll. J100 Hamboo Kas l , this week 4Sc On a bill of . ei.oo On a bin of ijCiD.oo on it bill or . < ; io < ) .oe > _ $3.00 Oak Screen , this week $1,33 175 ] ivr i\evlc or 1 5.00 ] icr inontli. i ! Oil. per ivccl ; or if.S.OO ] icr iiiontli. ! ? - 5e per Muulc or $ UMM ) per muiitli. On u bill of O ei ( ? - ! . ( ) ( lu-r.M-celc or tj < l. , . ( ) ( ) PIT moiitli. Rugs ? 5.SO Dictionary Holder ? 2,75 $8.00 need Reception Chair $ ; i.90 0x0 Jnpnnusc Hug , worth $17.50 , thl fD.OO Tapestry Couch . . $3.30 week ? 7.00 TxlO'A Japanese Ruga , ivorta $19.00 ? 2.00 High Clulr 9Sc this week ? 8.50 TVIII.KS AM ) CllAIIlS KOIl UU.NT . 9x12 Japanese Huge , worth $20.00. tills wvuk § 115.50 FOIL C\\in \ I'lHTIUS , K'I'C. g BUTTONS AND HIS WAYS * dp Boys Who AVork in Great Modern Hotels and tlicOpportnni- ties Oir.-rod. Bv 10. W. MAYO. Arriving at a hotel toJajtlie first tiling ft traveler" hears Is "Front" called out by tlio clerk on duty. Immediately n gooel-look. Ins b ° yi one of I'1" aozcu - sltttag In a row Just oft the main corridor , hurries up , taltes charge of the bigs , pilots the visitor up the elevator and down a long hall to his room on' the eleventh floor. Ho Is usually a re spectful but buslne-islllco young fellow , who wears a uniform of datk green and his thort jacket has an amaziaG number of brass but tons. You will learn prcsontly that the adornment has caused him to be known as Buttons. Getting to know him better you will dis cover that ho Is an exceedingly -wideawake young chap who has taken your measure ou the way-up and had decided In his own mind . -whether you are likely to give him a dlmo era a quarter at the end of thn trip. The running of a modern hotel requires A small array of employes. There are more than 1,000 boys at work hi the hoteH of jiow York city alone , and If all the members of the "buttons" trlbo In this country were brought together In ono place they would make a 'boyarmy ' of Imposing size. It would to & well-drlUqd army , too. for the first les- on that buttons learns IB to be quick and obedient , and his work makes him nlmblo jwlth brain as well as with hands and feet. In the largest hotels , whore between twenty and thirty bell boja arc employed , tboy are nil In charge of a sort of buttons captain , > vhoe duty It Is to see that they ere kept In order and nro promptly on hand to respond to calls. This head lioy has usually served his tlmo In the ranhs , KO to speak , nnd somotlmM ho Is over 30 years of ago. The head buttons In one of the great metropolitan hotels died n few months ago , leaving H wife and child and A comfortable fortune , oil of which ho had made from his . work as a boll boy. Ho wns ccqualnted with Eorao of 4ho most famous men In the coun try nnd could lell Interesting stories of many of the great politicians , for thn hotel Is ono that entertain * various men prominent In the Affairs of the nation. He had had many offcni of good positions In other kinds of work , but preferred to keep ( ho ro-ponslblo place that tie bad 'long held , and was ono of the moat .valued employes of tbo great hostelry. This A IUIJU IN OHNTKAh I'AKK. i ' - - bo tu exceptions ) caio. but it thows thu possibilities ol tlio work. Huttone usually begins \\l\n\ \ lie U about It ) years old Only tho-e nha src reasonably ( irlglit , who are t\tiling to UCJT the unlfonn And do exactly ns thry are told , nu-1 only thobo who can ha thejvguBlily tr R'cJ are occcptctl. If iho boy conma up to tlicso ro 4ulrt meats ho will not JluU Ul woik n cult. At first he may be bullied a Ilttlo by the older fellows , and ho Is apt to look upon the captain as a tyrant , for that stern olllcl. l keeps careful watch of the time ho takes to do an errand , and keeps him busy rushing uip and dow stairs , carrying visitors' cards on a sliver plate or showing guests to their room ? . After a little , however , ho bccomca accustomed to his round of work , learns to know the regular guests of the hotel , and then. If ho Is bright and well mannered , abundant opportunities Ure offered for get ting on. A boy In ono of the fashionable hotels told mo of his experience with a well known French scholar nnd financier who was In thla country for several months last year. The Frenchman's work requited him to spend most of his days In the olllco of a Wall street I firm , but ho wanted to see Iho city and Us I sights In his own way , and he selected Hut- tons , who waa a very clever youngster , to be hla guide. Tbo bay nus put on duty BO that he had hU evenings to himself , and every ' night ho cuterlnlned and was entertained' by his Frenchman friend. The latter learned English from lluttons ( I'm afraid that there must have been a good deal of slang In hla talk by the time ho returiicd to Parlf ) , and lie taw New York through the eyoi of an Amcilcan , boy , which was , no doubt , very In- ( erecting to him. And Uuttona lir.d a giand tlmo. "Wo went to the theaters and the music halls and down In Chinatown and every where. " tald ho In telling of It , "And wo played billiard and rode on the cable cars and sometimes In cabs. And ho was always just a pollto to mo as he was to his swell friends , " They became great chum * , and But tons now clierlihvs the French Bcholir'u pho- ograph among MJ most treaeured bclons- RBV bell buy in ouo of the Now York family hotels goes out one morning In each week on a shopping tour with ono of the fashion able women who lives there , and another boy In the Mine hotel has a standing job of ac companying one of New York's wealthy little boys for a bicycle rldt In the park. Of course , this is outside their regular work , but the opportunities for such odd Jobd came to them In the course of their ordinary dutlo ? . The Fifth Avenue hotel Is the recognized headquarters for republican politicians of New York , mid the boys In that hotel know many of the most prominent men In the party. They all swear by Senator Plait , who makes the Fifth Avenue h'ls New York resi dence. "Ho always has a good morning for you , " said ono of the boys in explanation of his open admiration. "Now , I don't think much of that Sec. Sherman. He's a crabbed old fel- lorand never notices anybody. Mr. Harrlfion , though ; he was a dandy. Ho used to come hero before he waa married , and ho was al ways as jolly as you please. Ho gave mo a I dollir once for doing an errand , and I've got | it at homo now. " Most of the boys leave the hoteb by the i time they are of voting age. A few of them 1 stay on and become head boys In time , and a ' few others are gradually promoted to be DOWN IN CHINATOWN. clerks , but most of them get office positions , often through acquaintances made In the hotels , Ono young man who was sent abroad re cently as United State * coniul to a email Eng lish city began life as a bell boy. Ills bright ness caused a prominent republican politician to become Interested In him , The politician look Buttons Into his employ first as valet and later as his private secretary , and finally Induce ! President McKlnley to give him his present position. Hli rise was due quite as much to lila own efforts as to the friendship of the politician , and his mates , who used to jeer at him for putting In his spare moments In reading and study , now wish that they had beeu as wUc , IJI-'KEOTS OK IJIAGIXATIOX. A Sturjllluvtrutlnir ( lie 1'ovrvr of 311 ml Over -Mutter. During the slcgo of Breda , In the Nether- lauds , the garrison w a badly afflicted with the Ecurvy. So useless vteu the medical aid afforded the soldiers , anel so desperate were they In con sequence , that they resolved to give up the city to the enemy. i This resolution came to the cars of the prince of Orange. He Immediately wrote ad dresses to the men , assuring them that ho possessed remedies that were unknown to - piiyslelans , and that ho would undertake thrlr cure , provided they continued In the discharge of their duty. Together with thcsa ' addresses he sent to the physicians small vials of colored water , which the patients were assured were of Immense price and of ' unspeakable value. Many , who declared thai I all former remedies bad only made them I woreo , now recovered In a few days. A lone and Interesting account of the wonderful ] working of this purely Imaginary antldotei . was drawn up by M. Van eler Myo , one of the I physicians of the garrison , whose office wan | thus successfully usurped by the prince of i Orange. A corroborative proof of the well-known ! liower of the Imagination In affecting disease I is afforelexl In the following Arabian fable : I One day a trive'er ' met the Plague going Into I Cairo , and accosted It thus : "For what pur pose arc you entering Cairo ? " "To kill 3,000 lieople , " rejoined the Plague. Some tlmo after the same traveler met the Plague on his return , anel said : "But you killed 30,000 ! " "Nay , " rejoined the Plague , "I killed but 3,000 ; the rest died of fright. " 1MIATTI.U OF THIS YOUXGSTKHS. Minister Ah , Tommy , Is that you ? I trust you are alwa > 6 a good boy , Tommy ? Tommy Yes Hlr. Minister That's right. I am sure you are always kind to your good mother. Tommy Yea , sir. I was helping her yes terday. Minister Very glad to hear It , Tommy. What did you do for her yesterday ? Tommy I hplpcd her with the washing , sir. She said she couldn't get on with the washing If wo didn't take our dinner an hour sooner , and I took U as eoon as she had it ready. Two elueky small boys were quarreling ; one was pouring forth a volume of vituper ative epithets while the other leaned against a fence and calmly contemplated him. When the How of language was exhausted ho said : "Aro you tree ? " " " ' "Yes. "You ain't , got nuffin' more to say ? " "Well , all dem tings what you calltd mo , you Is. " Sunday School Teacher ( after delivering a homily on loving and respecting one's par ents ) You always obeyiyour parentu , do you not , children ? ( JIBES ( In unison ) Yes'tn. Teacher Now , Jlmmlo-'Jones , you may tell us why you do so. Jlmrnle ( promptly ) 'Cause dey're blgger'n me , an' I getter , Little Willie Say , ma , , have they got a dog over at Deacon Smlth'sT Momma No , dear , notitnat I know of ; but why do you ask ? Little Willie Because when I was over there yesterday I heard iMrn. Smith tell the cook to chase the growler as soon as the coast was clear. Elderly Lady You and your brother are twlus , are you not ? Llttlo Boy Ycs'm. It's hard luck to bo twins. Elderly Lady How Is that ? Llttlo Boy When mamma don't know which of us docs a thing she llcka us both. Said the Judge : "Do you understand the nature of an oath ? " And the Ilttlo boy looked up In astonish ment as he replied ; "Gneea you don't know my dad , or you wouldn't have asked that question. " AM.lTHI'll ' .MRTAI. WOHICEHS. Hemtu Miiku Oriiiiiiif" < iil IHiiKCN , IMn Triijx , I5u. ( , front Old Tin , The average boy and the occasional girl like any amusement tu which hammer aud nails figure , and llko It all the better If an ornamental or useful result can bt produced , A somewhat novel application o ( this gen eral titto U to bo found In racial work. When the young mechanic finds mere car- pantry pall upon him let him turn to a now although related branch of Industry with frish zeal. The tools rcqulrceV are few and simple , just such as are to be found In the average household In town and village. They consist of n few files of different sizes , n pair of tinsmith's shears , a coldchlsel , a pair of pliers or "nippers , " aud an Iron vis ? . Any old or ordinary kitchen table will servo for ' a work bench. Punches and fret saw maybe bo added to the tool box If more ornate work Is desired as skill Increases. I The material needed Is even simpler ; old , tin cans and boxes , any small pieces of brass or Iron piping , such as boys are always pickIng - Ing up , sonio steel and common Iron nallB , Email brass screws with round heads , furnish a lavish outfit. The A B C erf metal 'work may bo found In the ornamental hinge. It Is better to begin with a small on ? . A piece of tin three and one-quarter Inches long by ono and one-half Inches wldo Is a good slzo. With a eliarp- polnter Instrument draw a line on the sur- 'aco an Inch from each end of this oblons piece. Then dlvldo the middle section , an ihown In the Illustration , and cut out by these lines , which will give the two portions of the hinge. Punch holes for the screws In the places \ indicated by crosses In the llanges , Ou each flange punch holes In regular order to form the decorative design , aa In the second end illustration. The young artisan may vary tbo ornamentation at pleasure , and often will find this more distinctly artistic branch of the work to be the more Interesting. The dots may be punched entirely through the tin or merely Indented deeply. The silts may be varied In similar manner , and the holes and Indentations can bo combined effectively in the same design. This part of the work done > , the hlnce Is to be put together by- using a round steel nail as a pivot. Wrap the flap around the nail by tbo aid of a hammer aud nippers and when they are firmly adjusted hammer the sharp point of the nail down sufficiently to prevent the hlngo from slipping off. Having acquired some deftnon In using tbo tools by this simple tak , something else may be attempted In the way of decoration , such as cutting out geometrical figures In the tlu through which the wood shows , some times Inserting round-headed brass screws In relief pattern * , sometimes Oiling the "cut out" places with red lead or other color. For cutting out Into branches and sprays a fret-saw Is necessary. An effective re pousse can be obtained by uilng a small hammer and a Urge blunt nail for a punch , Relief con bo made either by hammering back the surrounding portion or hammering out the relief IUef. ) Pretty pin or match trays may bo made by cutting out a ciroulaplpco of tin , sboet brass or ccyper the required slzu and marking another circle within it with a blind punch ( one side does not go through ) . With the pliers bend the edge up at Interval * , tlio In dented circle defining the Hut portion of the tray. If you have a visa Im which to secuie the pleco ho much the botto. % Do not try to bend the edge up evenly. Tlio Irregularity IK prettier In Its Hov.iiiG curves. The decorative deslfsn may be. applied to edge and center before turning- the edge. When the form Is completed thu entire tr.iy may bo covered with black lacquer , gilding or bronze , If de sired. , Such a tray niHy ba converted Into .a bed room candlestick by taking a round piece e > f tin or whatever metal was used for the tray , cutting It Into the shape of n clover leaf anel bending up the thrco leaves Into a e up. Thin can bo riveted easily Into the center of the tray. Handles for boxes and drawers can be made by cutting tbe > Iront piece the desired size and form , and having secured It to the ftV - . --J/O. T\ . py.-- ' ) y > Sci/TCriCOM , K article with two largo holes perforated through both wood and metal , pans a stout wlro of brjis or Iron through tlio holes and bend on Iho Inner side. Common Iron nails c.in bo filed Into a variety of blind punches nnd stamps , diamond mend shaped , oblong or hquaro. Ilrass or Iron tubing furnishes excellent cutting out punches , hAHOIt AM ) IMIII.STKY. A paper telegraph wire Is announced. Japan Is buying South Carolina phos phate. Wabhlngton's wool clip for 1897 amounts to C,000,000 pounds. Dondbvllle , Mass. , mills are so driven with orders that they are running nights. Three-fourths of all the Iron mined In the United Stater is shipped from Uuluth. Four vestels at Tacoma are loading with 4.600.00 feet of lumber for foreign ports. A woolen mill at Almonte , Ont. , Is to be run by e-ompressed air a * the motUo power. Tlu > Itlchrnond cotton mill at Columbia , S. C. , started running on full time September 20. 20.Tho Anr.oskcag corporation mills at Man chester , N. H , employing 10,000 persons started up last week. Within six months the Pullman ihopi at Chicago , III. , will bo exerted to their ut jest capacity , There are already l.OOU wore ) at work in the shops than at this time last year. j Probably nt no tlmo during the past four years have so many people found employ ment In Stafford , Ct. , as at present. Wo can deliver steel girders from our Ame.rlc.inmills Into Kngland 15 per cent , cheaper than they can make thorn there. -Mexico exported to the United States last jctri.000.000 pounds of chicle , nn , exudation of the sapcta tree , which IB used for chow- 1112 gum. .Myron F. Thomas of Campello , Mass. , an nounces that he will build a new shoe fac tory nt Urockton and a Htart will bo made on It next week. The Victor Cotton Mill company of cen tral South Carolina will complete Its plant as early as passible , In order to begin opera tions November 1. It Is almost impnshlblo to secure deep water Bailers at San Franciscu. Five grain laden thips have been lying at ancjior In the Htre.em for several Jays waiting for crown. The Pcndletou , Hed Key nnd Greenfield window glr.-s companies of Anderson , Ind. , called for the wage scale during tbo last week , signed It Independently of the other companlCH and Htaitcd their plants. No. 1 mill at the Eagle & Phoenix plant , Columbus , Ga. , IK now running day and night with a full froco In all departments. This airangemcnt will continue for several mouths. The People's Cotton factory of Montgom ery , Ala. , comuuured opeintlons .September 0. It has 10,000 Ejilndlea and will turn out 16,000 yards of cloth a day , giving empls/- mcnt to oUO persons. Orders have bccni received from the treas urer of thu Monadnoclc cotton mills , Clarc- mont , N. H. , ordeiliiR the mills 10 start en full time at onco. The p'.int has IIL-CII rune nlug on half tlmo for over a year. Three larso coidage mills which have been Idle Elnce the National Cordage company tolled , fclx yosrs ago , have been bought byl Xcnli , 0. , capitalists end others , aud all will bo started. The plantH cost over ff-00,000 and employ many men , I Tlio United SUtcs rrcisul at Amoy , China , sajs In a icceut dispatch : "The Chinese people prefer American cotton fabrics , spin nings , Hour , oilH , canned goods and meats and oven buy them at higher prices than other Importations can bo had for. " 1I also ways : "Thero Is a more amicable feel ing existing bt'twe'e-n the natives nnd for eigners at Amoy and tu the t < urroicidlng : country than propably exists at any other lort la Clilna. " I , > I MIT Klictiri'H. Cleveland Plain Dealer : Miss Shapclelgh Ne , Hlr , figures don't Ilo. Mr. Cynlcus They don't , eh ? Well , I happen to have proof that they do. Miss ShnpelolBu I'd like to know what your proof Is , Mr. Cynlcus While at tlio seashore this Bummer I met a number of ladles that I had always been l ; d to bellevo wcro rather [ ilump , I uuppoHO 'Hut ' she changed the subject. Itching , tcaly , Herding palrax , tlia ttd painful linger tiui ! , plinplfi , oily , ta'illiy kkludry , , Ililn , cud falllni ; liulr , ( tch. lUK.ic.ily iralpt , ull jleld quickly to warm liallii T/ilh CUTICIMU Foil- , end ui-ntlu with Cuiicuiu ( oliiimcnt ; , tLc greet ekla euro. I < ictd ihtc-iicbojttl > < TC > rU. I'oiri t Vivo ino Cmu. Conr. hol r oti.Ho.H > i . . ULT"Uvv la fiudurc frfl , V litU llinai"lte. [ mm HUMORS