I HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , SUNDAY MOUNTING , FEBRUARY 20 , 1S08-TWENTI' PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS ,
Tomorrow Second Day of the Greatest arid Grandest Bargain Sale We Ever Held
The Choicest of the Whole. $180,000.00 Stock
ALL THE FORMERLY OKT THE S. W. COR. E AND MONROE STS. , CHICAGO. Boys' $3 and $4
BOYS' nil wool d *
25o and 35o NO MAIL ORDERS NO MAIL ORDERS
FILLED FROM GOODS AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE. F1LLEDFROM GOODS SUITS
KNEE PANTS ADVERTISED , . ADVERTISED .
FROM THIS SALE FROM THIS SAL1-
From go the at , Oc. Slock ages 7 to 10 yvs
ALT , TUB ISih'and Douglas Boys9 $2 and $2.5O
BOYS' all wool
B
SI and 8125 Knee ranis
KNEE PANTS
go lit50c. .
PROPRIETORS.
Your choice of all the
1,50O
Yards 50c , 75 , $1.00 , $1.25
From the New York Goods Store Stock
From the New York Dry Goods Store Stock. Dry
Consisting of the highest cost and finest grade Dress Goods in this 10 at
State Street , Chicago , stock , including
All widths of blenched Bhuating , S-l , 0-1 and 10-1 , Plquot
46 Inch German Henrietta , § 9 loci ; Freocli Serges , in this stock for and po tomorrow Now York at Mills , worth tA up to 2Sc yard ,
Tufted iohairs Clay Worsteds Beps Velours All the unbleached P All the blenched muslin nnd
, , , , cambric fiom this stock , inclu 1-
ni > matter the grade , go In i _ lilff New Yoilc Mills. Lo.iml.ilD
' one lot at S'.fcc yaid thcsrt are 3F tfjlj cambric and Ullca muslin , in
Figured Masses and FrenoSi Pop'ins worth up to 7l c E 2 , fact all tlie best tuiilltk | > 4. no
, matter what the former prleo
- was , they go at 5c yard.
jn Black and all New Spring Shades ,
In this lot are plain and fancy In the New All the drapery denim
Immense bargain in
ribbons morie ribbon York Dry Goods remnants from this stock , that
, * ? , striped sold us high n * 22o yard , go In black sateen. The llpr t qual
ribbons , etc. 'We have had Store Stock one Immunsc lot at "lie yard. . retailed ity of black at the lit New in let York la satec-n Store ,
many i ribbon sale before but that sold in Chicago for at 35C , go ut S'ic
" All the iwlilto from this
one to ecfual this. , Roods All the checked
never ,
stock
stilpoil checlted and apron
Yd $10 $91 or $ ! 5 cross . , haired . , muslin , nainsook , ed KltiKham from this stock
, etc. etc. sold at the New York that sold In Chlcauo nl 7'o '
Store as high as Kc yard , go lit yard , 150 at 8'to yard
Co yard
Your choice ofany l Including all the
From the Mew York
unite m From the New York Dry
At Less than Hal ! Goods Store
Dollar Silks for In single and double breasted
Sacks straight and round cut Two cases of extra 10,000 yards of the very best
All the Liberty Silks in All the Silk Chiffon and
\vortli from § 8 to $ Sacks and Cutaway frocks heavy quality Elastic quality of plain and heavy
black , blue , rose , cream Mousselin cle Soie , 52 indies
Your choice of of these
any Canvas , in black and twilled
and Avicle , th.it sold iu the
light green , for - , " "
Suits for § 4.98 colors G-ic '
from the New York .Dry Goods Store , ydfo'EV.1 Silesia and French Percalinc
New York Dry Goods stock , at $1.00 , in black and all colors,1
go at 25e yard go at 4ftc yard Thousands of yards of 74e yard ,
the very best quality of Avorth up to
corduroy and double- warp silk
linished vclvctc-ou ttkirt binding , 2fic .
All the § 1 Silks from the Your choice of the highest go at fie yard , worth lOo
New York Dry Goods Co.'s grade Silk from the New 500 bolts of
stock , including black satin , York Dry Goods Store stock , Three cases of silk "Crown" Velveteen
gros grains , brocades and includhig elegant waist and finished Knstlo TaiFeta Skirt Binding go at
Binull nml ' Itii-j-'o boroll HjriiroH and trimming- silks In the silks new , ft tiHa t stjlcs Ills' ) nml class colorings dress , Skirt Lining , go at 4c yic bolt , all colors-
ht-avv tiill'ottis , Biiitablo for silks Iilnlils , cheeks and uroc ides , sold In Chicago
s and drews linings , goaHOo yd cage at $1.25 , go ut C3c yard yard worth 12c
Ordinary Interest Has Changed to Intense Excitement More Salesmen Have Been Engaged More Wrappers More Everything Except Prices
All the Men's All the Men's All the Men's All the Meu'ti $ All the Men's
and Ladies' and Ladies' P and Ladies' and Ladies' i $ and Ladies'
Black Tan or Wine Custom Made Welt and Turn
Shoes they are Shoes , four dollar Five and Six
marked at four dollars and a half kind Dollar Shoes
go at lars , go at go at go at § 2.25 and go at
Ill I PUT WTl\\TCMlMlil P'PII I I Ilf '
\YASIIi\G10i\S\VIIOSIILLLIVii \ \
Direct Descendants of thi F.nfc President' '
Brothers ,
INTERESTING HISTORICAL R.MNISCENCES
The .Nilmo ami ( lit * llluuil Iloiiui'iilily
Itojircnrillccl III Anu-floaii Life
1 SlrlUliiti Kiiuilly
We are BO accustomed to associating thii
name Washington with "tho mighty dead"
that to most of us tlio knowledge'that tdero
are living Waslilngtonn who trace their kin
ship to him cornea as a surprise- .
Although the first proa I dent died childless ,
hu had siivti'al brothers , Invhwa famlllcH
the n.iino waa perpetuated. Ilushrod Wash
ington of Charleston , W. V < . , Is directly
descended ( ram Samuel , a yomigcr brother
of tCio gonvral , and preserve * many of the
family traditions. Ho Is the author of an in-
tcro.itIng article on Mount Vtrnon In one of
Ibo January magazines , jloro remotely con
nected BIO the WashUigtonx of Tennessee ;
t
Joseph E. Washington , for several years a
member of coup ess , and bin brother , who
Is tittorney genn/al of the state. They are
descended from President Washington's
cousin , Ooner.il William Washington , who
foaght bravely In the revolution , and had
the distinction o ( "whipping" Tarletnn at
Ilia batllo of { Coupons , cuttlnn off three
fingers from thft la'hcr's left hand by a flccco
lunge with hls'sword.
A good story Is told In connection with this
Incident , which shows tfwt American women
were sharp at repartee then s now. The
Hrltlsh general , some tlmo nftcr , remarked
with afti-cted aupercllloiisneBs : "Whcc e nw
Is this General Wllllairi Wcahlngton ? I
should like aw to eeo him ? " A lady In
the company replied sweetly : "If you had
stopped to look bldlnd ydu nt the battle of
Cowpcus , OeneraPTarleton , you would have
bom him , I understand that ho touched
jour h < ind In greeting , " with a significant
glance nt the mutilated member.
From John Augustine , eldest brother ot
Prchldent Washington , Mr. James U. Wash
ington , now resident In I'litsburg , Pa. , do-
dve-K descent , aa his father , Colonel Lowh
William Washington , was the grandson of
John Augiutlno , who married his cousin , the
daughter of the president's half-brother.
Mr. J. 1) ) . Washington was graduated from
West Point , In tlio class to which Cutter
belonged , and wna ulso a classmate of Fltz-
Hugh Lee. At the opening of the civil
war ha Joined the confodu-ato army and was
major on the stuff of General Joseph E.
Johcston , Later , ho had the singular ex
perience of being taken prlecucr by his old
( dum , General Custer. When the war ended
ho went Into the rallicart business and Is
now Interested In the llaltlmoro & Ohio.
His son , Lewis William , Is president of the
Ellot-WiifihlugUn Steel tompany of Green-
castle , Pa.
WILLIAM
The man who has more , however , of
Washington's blood In Ills veins than any
other living Is James I'a half brother ,
William do Hcrtburna Washington of Now
York- The son of John ( Augustine , the presi
dent's eldest brother married his cousin ,
daughter of the president's half-brother , and
their son George Corbln Washington , was
father of Colonel Low Is William Washington ,
who IVRU father of William do Hcrtburne.
The mother of Mr. Washington was the
cousin of her busbund ( whose second wlfo
she was ) , and daughter of George Washington
Ilaisott and Betty 'Durnett Lents , who was
the granddaughter of General Washington's
only sister , Hetty. It thus appears that 01 r.
William do Hertburno Washington unites
three distinct strain's of . the Washington
blood. It is Interesting to note that he la
related also to Martha , Washington , the great
woman who established 80 high t standard
for all surctttllDK "First I.adl'a of the L nd , "
whoso tls'rr , Anun Dandrldge , was his
mother's great-grandmother on tlio paternal
side , Hetty ( Washington ) Lewis being her
great-grandmother on the "distaff" side ,
William do Hcrtbura QYasaloston WM
born In Vlrlglnla In the stormy war period ,
Juno 29 , 1EG3 , and the first sound to greet
hl ears was the firing of musketry , as the-
house was surrounded by troops. Ho last
his father while very young , and was
educated under the care > of his mother , a
woman of 'brilliant ' Intellect and great force
of character , whoto strongest desire was that
iicr son should be worthy of his name and
bood. | Choosing civil engineering as his
profession , while fitlll a mere boy , he devoted
special study to It at Maryland college , and
on leaving college was appointed ono of the ,
engineer corps In the survey of the West
Virginia Central railroad. U Is an odd
circumstance that he began the exercises of
tils profession , which Is that of General
Washington , on the same spot Fairfax
Stone , W. Va. that witnessed George Wash
ington's first professional work. Ho was en
gaged subsequently In the construction of
the road and was commended highly by the
chief engineers , Major Warfleld and General
fc'lckles.
YOUNGEST CONSUL EVER APPOINTED.
Soon afterward Mr. Washington was ap
pointed by President Cleveland , early In his
first term , to the position of United State *
consul at London , Cut , He was the youngem
man ever appointed to a consular otllce ,
having JuU parsed hli 21at birthday , yet
filled It with unusual brilliancy , If one may
Judge from the fact that seven times during
bis term of service he received "special
commendation" from the department of
state. When Genera ) Harrlsen became pres
ident. Mr , Washington established hlmeulf
In New York , and has been remarkably suc
cessful , being now * president of the Hydrau
lic Conitructlon company. Ho has Invented
a number ot valuable applltuces la thU di
rection and the Mercantile and Financial
Times said of his sjstem of hydraulic caisson
sinking : "Mr. Washington has given to the
world ono of tlio great Inventions of the
ago. end one whcso deutlny must bo to revo
lutionize existing methods. "
Mr. Washington Is not wholly devoted to
business , however , but finds tlmo for poli
tics and Is deeply interested also In pbllan-
thcplo work , having been oaie of the- famous
tenement house commission of Now York ,
appointed by Governor Flower. It was he
who first suggested to that commission the
tca& blllty of cor.atruc.tng ! parks on all the
city piers , for the , benc-.1t of the "submerged
nine-tenths" an Idea that has been carried
out. successfully to New York and Is under
way In many other cltlto , Ho Is president
of the "Model dwellings association , " organ
ized by a number of .the mcst prominent
citizens cf Now York to aid wage-earners
In owning their homes , In addition to hold
ing podltlcus on aflvlopry committees in sev
eral other philanthropic associations. Mr.
Washington la a brilliant talker , an effective
public speaker and a forcible writer on the
subjects that Interest him. In the presiden
tial campaign of 1SSS ho was the author of
documents of which nearly 3,000,000 copies
wore distributed by tlio democratic national
convention.
Personally , ho bears a striking resemb
lance , whew lite mustache ) Is removed , to his
distinguished relative , and Is exactly the
same height , six ( eet one ; and one-half Inches.
Ho Is also of the same magnificent proportions
tions , The brown velvet cajtume worn by
the president at his Second tnauguratltn fits
Mr. Washlngtcn , who U.It present possessor ,
as If made for him. ( The accompanying Il
lustration shone him its he appeared at an
historical pageant recently given at tbo
Metropolitan opera hffuse , New York , In
WILLIAM D. II. WASHINGTON OF NEW
YORK IN COSTUME OF GEOHGH
WASHINGTON. |
which ho represented ( lie Father of his
Country.PRECIOUS
PRECIOUS FAMILY KELICS.
Mr. Washington Is the poasessor of many
Interertlmg historic relics , among them portraits
traits of ha ! fraternal great-great-grand-
mothcr , Hannah Huahrod Washington , anil
his maternal groat-great-grandmother , Betty
Washlngtcn Lcw.'a , both of which are here
reproluced for the drat time. A line old
China cggaogg bowl has been ki the fam
ily over 200 years , and Qoorgo Wnshlngtoi.
uiidouhtcdly drank many n glass front It.
A silver sugar bowl was part of the cnmj )
service of John Cliurchlll , first duke of Marlborough -
borough , and waa Inherited through his
mother from her ancestress , Elizabeth
Churchill , '
It is evident that the country will not be
without worthy representatives of Its most
1-onored name for many years lo come. Who
knowa but that eomo clay there may bu even
a second President Washington ?
Oddly enough , the English branch n ! the
family has a eolon ! ) New York , but It la
the American branch Unit sheds luster on
a name always honorable , Indeed , but nevci
distinguished until our general made It 1m-
mortcJ unicese go back to the founder
of the family , William do Hertburno do
Washyngtono , ono of the gallcnt knlghtH who
accompanied William the Ccqijueror to Eng.
land ,
I.AIIOll AMI 1MHJ.STUV , .
Mexican miners get 37 > fc cents a day.
Artificial stone la now in a do In steel molds.
The congressional committee on labor has
appointed a subcommittee to draft a bill on
blacklisting.
The engineering str'ko In 'England will go
down In history as the greatest labor strug
gle In the world.
There are ibetween 1BO and 200 women now
practicing dentistry In the United States , ac
cording to a recent estimate.
Native car building works In Japan pro
duce all the parts of the cam except the
wheels. These are still Imported fiom for
eign shops.
The Dixie hosiery mills , Atlanta , Ga. , re
cently burned , are to bo rebuilt by B. A.
Magill. The new factory will bo double the
slzo of the old one ,
The production of emery In the United
Btatre In 1897 was 1,500 short tons , ngaltmt
1,050 , short tons In the prcvloiu year. This
wia mined chiefly In Massachusetts.
There were 1,152 locomotives built In the
United States In 1607 , though It was not the
best possible year for the business. Of three ,
225 were built on orders from foreign couiu
tries.
The production of bora : : In the United
States was 18,000,000 pounds In 1697 , against
15,208,014 pounds In the previous year , As
heretofore , this was entirely the production
of California and Nevada , Considerable rart
of the output was conveitcd Into boriiclc
acid ,
President Fish of the Illinois , Con'i. l lias
Issued an order to Ilio ofllcsrs and employee
of thu road that no ofllocr and that meaiiK
In all dcpaitmenta shall hereafter accept
any present from cmplojca , nor shall they
permit their nameu to be ii ! > ed In voting eon-
teats for articles of value.
The Gro.it Wiatein Pottery works at KG-
komn , Ind. , the Itirgrut plant for the manu
facture of sanlMry pottery west of New
Jersey , has resumed operations after a shut
down of six ivcoks. The s.'ok house fa
empty and ocdcro are on the books to keep
the concern busy ( Mr several months. Thrto
hundred men me employed.
The Illinois Steel company of South Chicago
cage lias madu a denunU tn.tt Its uiiipKijt , ,
work seven days a week and the dt'inan I
has been acceded. Charles II , Footo , vice
president < > f ttio company , Ctiya It l.i nuccs-
wry In order to meet competition and tnal
the men will bo ) uld for their oven lino.
Tim chief consideration wilch led the mt'ii
to urcpt : WEB the adoption' the clght-hotii1
day by tlio company.
A locomotive factory In Philadelphia has
jiif.t completed four engines on an order
from tlio llrltlsh government. They are to
bo shipped to South Africa. Tfio engines
were completed thirty-one doya after the
order a received , No ftuch rapid wwk
WAI over done before anywhere In the woild.
In Minnesota the co-operative Idea has ex
tended to all phases of rural life and bunl-
m via Thcro are In that btato 110 co-
operatvn ) farmers' f'.fu limuranco companies ,
with { 05.000,000 In live rUks , whkd they arc
carryltif at rates varying from 8 to 20 ccnlH
per $100 a year. Co-opcratlvo stpres furnish
supplies at wholcbalo prices , with 10 pec cent
addc-d , which 10 per cent they arc able to
pay back In dividends to tficlr farmer I'toclt-
liolders. The ca-opcratlvo creameries have
icduced the cost of butter-making to almost
half a cent a pound , the product being Hold
almost exclusively In the Now York market
Fifty years ago , says President Search of
the Nation il Association of Manufacturers ,
25 per cent of oil the cotton goods need In
the United States was of foreign production ,
while now wo make at dome more than nine-
tenths of all the iiKdufactucca of cotton we
use. Fifty years ago our product of $50- $
000,000 worth of woolen goods represented
about four-fifths' of our consumption , but to
day , with close upon (400,000,000 worth of
doircstlc manufacturer of wool , wo have con
trol of more than nlno-teuths of our niaikct.
Fifty ycus ago the manufacture of fabrlcB
of bilk In the United States wa.s an Insignificant -
significant Industry , with a product of less
than' $2,000,000 per annum , \vhllo our Im-
pcrta wcro valued at more than ten times
that sum , Wo now liavo a magnificent
Industry , which yields on annual production
that has pasted far beyond thp $100,000,000
mark , and which rcpro unt more than turec-
fourtbs of our cnUro consumption.
TIIic oin-TMiiits. :
Mrs. Clarlmla J. Laurence of .Marlboio ,
N. II. , baa parsed her 102d birthday. She
I fo related to the Trumbull family of Con-
nectlcut.
Mrs. ICecly , at ono tlmo one of tlio most
promlnait ngures In the English dramatic
world , has enturcd upon her 93d year , > et
she fitlll takes a kcea 'i.tsrest ki dramatic
affairs.
On Ilonrlk Ibscn'a 70lh birthday , which
will occur 0:1 : March 20 , a complete German
cdlt'on of lite worki will bo tnibllshed at
Hu-Iln In nlno volumes , under the edltoralilp
of Dr. Julius Ellas.
St. Louis papers say that Captain Jock
Ilayncs of that city l < the oldest veteran
soldier In the world. IIIi. ago in 110 years.
Ho fought with Jacl.urn at Now Orlecrifi ,
ran. a filnvo Milp and w.o the engineer of
the llrt steambont bill t In Now Orleans ,
Robert Taylor of Scarva , County Down ,
Ireland , aged 116 yoara Is one of the promi
nent MothodUts of that country. Ho has
been postmaster at Scarva for ever seventy
ycar.1.
JIiu. Ann .MnconiLur of Soutli Westport ,
Ma. s. . haa rounded out a full century of
existence. She Is remarkably wo'l pre
served , and , despite her extreme age , cnjo > s
good health.
Alexis Claremoit , wt'o dltd In Wisconsin
the other day , carried the mall on foot from
Green Day to Chicago tilxty-alx years ago.
At the opening of the World's fair ho walked
210 miles In order to co It. although he was
at the time almost 'JO yeans old.
Mrn. C. Pnrlnh , whuia ago la 81 , who linn
been shipwrecked three times In three differ
ent cuen.-s. recently entertained a party of
frUnds at her homo In San Francisco , The
age of the youngest pcrtoa present was 70
ycara , T o gontlemcci , one ti : < and the otlu-r
102 yeare old. cent regreln bccaucic of buul-
ncfis engagements.
MICH Mary KJIOOIICT. aged 101 , the oldcnt
womtiv In MaisachilBCtls. received a larga
company of callcra at lu-r homo In Acuohnot ,
February 8 , her birthday rnnlvemary Aunt
Mary la the eighth of ( lie cli-von children of
Mlcah Spooner , who was uio of the aettlers
of Auushnet and who Hervtd honorably In
the revolutionary war. Shu was born In Iho
log house which her fathir occupied wluo
ho lira * , took ponsesulon of bin farm , after
the manner of the oturdy plonerrd. Of all
the big family Aunt Mary alone remains.
Her slater , Patience , reached the age ot
91 , and her mother died uhcn 94 years old.
Cure that cough with Shlioh's Cure. The
best cough euro. Relieves croup ( iroinolly ,
Ono million bottles sold last year. 40 dose *
for 25c. Bold by Kuhn & Co. , 16th and
Douglas ; L. K. I'ayton , ? Hh and Leaven-
woilh ; King's Pharmacy , 27th and Leaven-
worth ,
The Union Cotton mllln , Union , S. 0. , will
put lu 30,000 more- spindles and 6CG loom * .