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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1901)
The Omaha Sunday Bee. EDITORIAL SHEET. PAGES 11 TO 20. ESTABLISHED jrE 19. OMAHA. SIXDAY MOE1Tt. AVGlT -i, 1001. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. HAYDEN 1 DiiYAntisi' IT filmier R flMiM at TK, GiM TLL tlll. !izrtcu' is mmm iwmm mmu ks nu am k i his yvkhk Ml UCRS mi. Aiit,AL jsuuji i.,rAiJin i i.ai. J 1 illjmj Jiii iiiu UHANDEST DISPLAY ()1 MOST SEASONABLE AND DES1KABLE GOODS AT THE MOST ASTOMsH QUOTED BY ANY DOUSE IX AMERICA. ATTEND THE GREAT GROCERY SALES. ,OVT -Ol'-TOWN CUSTOMERS GIVEN EVERY ACCOMMODATION UREE.l INdlLY LOW PRICES EVER The Big Store's White Goods Department. We have stU & large assortment of our Saw opera batiste. Persian lawne. mulls. Ewisi mull and India linen left, which w e are selling below manufacturers' price. Wf tre clearing out the whole of ottr fine white poods to make rosa for our faU stock 4Mneh opera batiste, regular price $1.00. tt yard. r7ic. India battf te. regular price The yd. HTr Persian lawns, regular price S"c. yd. 36c 4-iti Mull, recular price II.. at. jard. flOc India linen, regular price ire. yd. Tic. Madras cloth, white, regular uric 60c. at. A Lowering of Furniture India scats hate Income a much a ncccssitj in the home an chutr and rK le er They mak- a comfortable low neat and are capaMc of belnc made very at tractive by the ingenious housewife These seats have sold In the part as high Hf JC acb After the demand became greater lor them. factories began turninp th-m out so they could be sold lor from Il.SB up to I; BO Betnp always on the alert to swore bargain for our cuBtnmer m have nuc ceefied In cetttnc 500 of the India reau, and tf introduce you to our furniture department will put the whole lot on pale Monday at iUr each. After rleanlnc up our wareroom we flni a lot of odd chair on hand, and ar there are only one or two of a kind, will let them co at a price Tbic chairs have all Fold from 11. - up to Astonishing Jewelry Mcn It-Blze pold filled huntinp cae watcher, guaranteed to wear 30 years, fitted wtth 11 Jewri ntckM. Elgin or IValtham movoroenu. worth tl'u 00. Monday t- sale price 1.95. Men f open face gold flllfd watch: truaranteed to woar 20 year; fitted with Jeweled Elgin or Waltham movement lor Jll.Wj. Men' nickel watches open face, screw back and bezrnl, fitted with American mcivement. for tSSO. Boys' watchek, 12-slze, good accurate time Veenerr. Monday iZti. Good tsilver-platod ioons. Sc set. Table ipuont. to match 50c set. Flannel Dept. 1 case Lnen and wool white flannel, per yard 2t regular price. 4'c 1 case in dlfferer.t patterns of embroid ered flannel, jmr yard Uc . reptrtur price 4!c. 3 cases California embroidered blurts pat terns, each Zc, worth oot Bed Spreads TVe carry the larpest stock of bed spreads we lead them all In prices. Extwi good bed spreads, each Stc. Extra large spriMifis, each Sic Extra large and heavy spread, each Kc; regular crlce S1.I0. Extra heavy t Inches wide, yards long, each !6c. wortli X2.ua 2 cases. !J Inches wide. 21J yard long, ex tra heavy fringed spread, each 11.2: -worth fcI.CS. 1 case, 80-Inch wide. 2; yards yards long, marscllles spread, pink and blue, fringed, each Sl.C, regular price X2.9S. Furnishing Goods Sale Closing out all the men's summer under wear ul less than manufacturer's cost. All the men's shirts and drawers, in plain and fancy colors, that sold up to 75c. on sale at 25c Men's fine silk trimmed balbiiggan shirts and drawers that sold up to ILOu, on sale at lc Mn's fine lisle thread shirts and draw ers that sold up to ILS0, on sale at 5&c All the men's fine cotton and lisle thread socks that sold up to bOc, on sale at loc 15c and 19c Closing out all the men's 11.00 colored laundered shirts ut 4!c. AH the men's line ullk front shirts that sold up to S2.0Q, go at 7I.C. THRILLING SONGS OF FAITH Old and Kiw Eymni in fttcird U11 b tlit Ohnrclei. ORIGIN OF SOME OF THE FAVORPTES A Decided Improvement In Public Taste In tbe Last llalf-Ccntnrj' Grotesque Line Mincle Tilth the Beautiful. It may be only another example of tbe persistent self-repetition of history, eaye the New York Tribune, that on Easter morning of the year 1901 English tersions cf at least throe of the medlojval hymns, which fifty years ago might very well have been regarded as musty rubbish of the dark tgea, were sung in many Ecoret of churches In this newest of Christian lands. "Welcome, happy Doming! Age to age Lhall tell" Is the work of that same Vcnan tlu Tortunatus who more than fifteen cen turies ago composed the original of "The royal banners forward go." and ctng it from between tho bars of the prison into which the secular arm had thrown him for hi uncompromising adherence to the church's lews. "Come, ye faithful, raise tbe strain of triumphant gladness" is entered in the Episcopal hymnal as from a Greek original cf the eighth century, while "Sing, my tongue, the savior's battle" 1 from a Latin "I'auge lingua" of the thirteenth and a close translation, too, following the rhythm tf It original foot for foot, as doe "The Royal Banners." How much the taste of congregation ha changed In these latter day may best be realized by first considering the literary character of two other favorite of the present time and then taking a glance at the vagaries of thirty or forty year ago. Everybody, almost, nowaday know "Lead, kindly light," but in the year 1S70, say, it was seldom rung In churches outside of its author's own communion. Again, Baring Gould' processional, "Onward. Christian soldiers, marching a to war," is, in the tplnlon of one whD has dally cxperlenre to guide him, more often sung both In church end In Sunday school than any other These two examples are taken for the special reason that they are to be found In tfcs Episcopalian Hymnal and the last edition of "Gospel Hymns," which 1 in general use among the evasgellral bodies and may be regarded at the two prime favorites of American non-Roman Catholic worshippers at tbe present time.. It Is presumed that the hymn sung in tbe lamilj where hymn are sung at all are those which the children have learned to like best In tbe Sunday school. Revolt if Guid Tattc. Whatever else may have helped to bring about this reaction to the hymns of cen turies long gone by, It certainly eemx, when one consider the character of tbe s-upposedly religious song which used to swell to heaven forty year ago in thl country and in England, that a general revolt of good taste must have had mui-b to do with the change Men who hare no: arrived at the stage known as "one rard. Stripe fancy white goods, worth 2c tt, yard. issc. lira! tie rtrlpc. wrth Jftc. at, yard, ISc. ""hetk nainsook, at, yard. 4-c Check and etripe filmltw at, yard, 5c Piaucs. white, lie and U-c.. Prices Never Attempted UTS each, and are oak and have cane feat and brace arm. and with few ercet tlone would be cheap now at ll.Mi. To nhow you that we can make price., and are worklnc for your trade., you can have the chain at toe each. A few of the waabtiiand advcrtlied last week ctill on hand, ou can yet have one or C.7S. Fine bent eeat, golden oak rocker, with arms, hlph back, for II SK Spedai reduction on Oo-Cartu and Car rik pefi A HE TOr INTERESTED IN OrFlCE rfltNITl'ItE TVe carry a complete line Jtotl top dek. all oak. 6 oak front plBcon hole tntxer. I rmai drawerr Is to;.. v.) made and well finished A Grand Rapid. Mich., deek, lor n.'i.bO Send for catajoput Bargains Monday Nickel alarm clocks, good timekeepers, dc Good roll-plate beauty pine lor shirt walrus and caS pins, l&c set. Rogers' standard quality Al plate tea rpoons. per set Qhc Sllver-plated knives ajd forks, worth XI.50, per set; Monday II 45 jr set I Solid Bllver olive lorks, &Sc Solid silver brooch pins, new and pretty pht terns, lta- VERT SPECIAL. SALE Or RINGS La dls' best gold filled stone set rings, In new , and unique mountings, emeralds, p-arls. rubles. ametLysts real opals and sap;. hire c2ects. each and every one a rare bargain, .sale price 11.00. Special sale in Ladies Furnishings AU the ladles' 25c stockings. In black and fancy colors, on sale at 12i-c. All the ladles' 35c and 50c stockings, In black and fancy colors. In drop stitch and plain, on sale at lSa Children shawknlt nocking on sale at 2S cents. All the new makes in straight front cor sets at 11.00 and IL5Q. One lot of ladles' vests, in lisle, in white and fancy colors, worth up to Sc, on sale at 15c Optical Dept. GLASSES SUITABLE TO ALL SIGHTS. Prices r.ultable to all pockethooks. Eyes examined free of charge by expert graduate optlclRn. ' Gold filled frames, rutrs.r.tccd for 10 years 13.50 values for 11.49 1 Strong, but light, alumlnold frames, with fine crvstnl lpnu. ' :r UM. for : 11.59. trom0" EltS!,e,i- Bcnulne eye protected, Lenses exchanged. Repairs of all kinds foot In tbe grave" mar vet ntnr 1 ,Mri. fied amazement at wartime photographs of .utulraiv in negiop" trousers and other contemporaneous f urnishlcin! Kn n.r .v.-.. and their wives, perhaps, regard such as ciB-uipjes o- wnat they thought it right to try to think godly and edifving hymnody m tholr young days: Till to Jesus' croBs you ellnc By a simple faith, Doing is a deadly thing, Doing ends in death. Speaking of the tendency of congrega tions to make special favorites of certain hymns, a clergyman connected with one of the largest parishes in New York said the other day that the great general trend of devotional taste nowadays Is against the strongly controversial. Exactly the oppo site trend of feeling forty years apo might account for tbe popularity of this crude exposition of a favorite doctrine, if the same bad not been so prettily expressed in. Nothing in my hand I bring, Ehnplv to Thy Cross I cling; Foul. 1 to the fountain fiv; v ash me. Savior, or I die! This 1 one of the stanzas in that "Rock of Ages." by Toplady. which Mr. Gladstone is said to have turned into Greek iambics to koep himself out of mischief during a tiresome debate in the Hoube of Common. At any rate, there is no nartlcularlv iw- trinal significance to excuse this: Sh,?JJlda5,.th'' hani in Britain break. 1 he Bank of England smash, GS; y?.a 5'our checks to ZIoc's bank loull surejy git jour cabh. It seem that doggerel made it appear ance of necessity overc now mfl among tbe multitude of hymn which ap- pearoc in tnc latter half of tbe eighteenth century, when the movement to r-nl&p i, old metrical version of the Psalms with soncimng mere popular followed the preaching of the Wesley. But by the middle of the nineteenth century a climax had been rcoched In the revival move ment, which is responsible for the follow ing extreme of "bringing religion down to the level of the plain peaple:" Ti-'.Vv,li5f' oi h,enven bJ' Christ was made. rVnm 1Eni5' t,rutns "le rails were laid; From earth to beaven the line crtnndL To life eternal, wher" It ends. extenak Refrain Thi 1ib,.wthe Lamb, the Weeding Lamb! I love the sound of Jcmis's name; It sets my spirit in a flame. ' Glory to the blafAlng Lcrab! The last stanza runt. Come then, poor sinner, now' the time At any station on the Une' If you'll reptnt and turn from s4n. The train win stop ajid take you In. For the Plain People. At about the same period "the level of the plain people" was supposed to have been fairly reached by a lyric beginning thus: I!i?,le'or meet, jou always say. What s tbe news' What's the news? Pray, what's the order of the day? hat's the news? What's the new: Oh, 1 have got pood news to toil My barlow hath done aU things well And triumphed over death end hell That the new: That's the newt: Still another of tbe songs whhb had a great vogue In those day with what was known as the "Hallelujah Band" had a refrain like this. Come to Jesus, come to Jesus, come to Jesus just now: and several other verses constructed on much the same nlan. with no j in them, though with less excruclatlsr . cuii vi iue sarrea name, one ol the 1 "Hallelujah' type which wa adopted for In Our BigWash Goods Department Monday T a.. - . .Digger ana oeuer oargains than ever belore in our Great S6c Quality French Mull, in stripe. yard.Qbc 75c quality Emb. Dotted Batiste, yard 25c Goc quality Imported Satin Stripe Dimity I9c 50c and 60c quality Yoven French Xovelty Madras, yard 25c 50c quality Silk Stripe Organdies, yard. . 19c 50c quality French Swiss (eltyant style). .25c 50c quality pure Linen Batiste ) yd .. 29c Si quality SUh Warp Limn Batte CTlSOc Monday in the Bargain Room Monday will be a day to be long remembered in the Bargain Room 50c and $1 wash coods w-lll po at ftr; S&c to f.Oe goods go at he tad all the 10c. Iftc and lf.c poods will go at Stc and 4HC yard. And ramomber that . JL L.p,acr 10 tbe Mt th" sucb x toese can be given Is in HATIEN BROS. BARGAIN ROOM. NO MAIL OR UERS FROM BARGAIN ROOM. AS SALE LASTS ONLY ONE DAY. Vn.wm yards ol all the l&c baUMe. Jaconets, organdies and other goods that sells in New York City at 15c, at 4-c. yards of organdies, white poods, dimities, batistes, etc.. that sold up to c. He lW.HH.. j-ards of all the finest Imported or gandies, lii-h and Scotch dimities. French batiste. Mil: foulards, white good. piques, lace strijes. Austrian creiions that everv lady In town has priced thum at from S&c to yard, all will go at one sweeping price Sic. But a few of the styles wiu go at "Hie t cases of fine . jircales. JP-e. Remnants of .TO-lnch percales. 25c grade. 6c REMNANTS OF WASH GOODS. We will place all the remnants of the high grade wash goods up to II yard, at 5c. Win place all the remnants of the wash goods ur to 25c. at JHc We will place all the short remnants of wash goods at 2ac The New Fall Silks Will Soon Commence to arrive. In the meantime we are catting prices on our best qualities in Fancy Silks, Foulards, TaSrtts. Grenadines. The E1G SILK DEPARTMENT is doing a bigger busines than ever before, and our special sales on Mon day are the wonder of all 1,500 yards of foulard rllks 20 designs and colors, pure silk, warranted to wear al ways sold lot H and 11.25. Monday 49c lO.OuO yards finest wash cord silks, pretty checks, pretty colors, always sell for 50c, on sale Monday 19c. 10,000 yards finest wash cords silks, pretty colors, fine assortment, worth 50c and 75c on sale at onlr 25c. ir.5(ii' yards fancy washable silks, all Im port! d uutl the most beautiful designs and Mattings 1 Snccial cleorlnp sale of mattinps. Choice China mattiCR. 10c 12VC. 15c ISc and 20c. Cotton warp Jap matting, ISc I Clearing sale of best of Jan porch blinds, CxS, 0c, txb, SL29, txlO, n.29. HAYDEN BROS Sunday school use In many parishes, be ginning, Here we suffer grief and pals Here we meet to part again, In heavtn we part no more, had two Uses which the children often rendered Teachers, too. shall meet above And the pastures which w-e love. To be sure, the hymns themselves are not to be blamed for mispronunciation, but it Is a pity that tbe revered author could not have avoided the stumbling block to tbe dear little cockneys of a certain Catholic parish in London, who, wishing to sing "Hail, Holy Joseph, Hall!" to the best of their ability, could otly produce "He, Owly Jowzuflilc!- Teinpcraiicc Hymn. Tbe subject of hymn abominations In the middle of tbe last century recalls, by the way, the songs of the then young and lusty total abstinence movement, which, if not exactly hymrs, were religious songs of a sort. If poor, dear Walter Map could only have lived so long be would have pointed in triumph to the following as proof of his theory that a mas cannot write verses without the help of wine: In Eden's preen retreats A water brook that played Between soft, mossy seats, Beneath a plane tree's shade. Whose rustling leaves Danced o'er Its brink. Was Adam's drink And also Eve's. Thl H from an "ode" published tborreseo referees) In Boston about the year IMS. The last stanza Is, perhaps, tbe most re markable part of the whole work: If Eden's etrenpth and bloom Cold water, then, hath given, If t'an beyond the tomb It is the drink of heaven. Are not pood wells And crystal springs The very things For our hotels? which, somehow, sounds as if it might have been the model for Bunthorne's famous "Asphodel I cannot teH" ode Evidence that this "ode" was ever actually sung in public is wanting. It would probably have needed a special musical composition, but the following may have been sung to any of several old hjmn tunes: Who. the sacred page perusing. Precepts, promises and laws. Can be guiltless In refusing To support the temperance cause? Another movemeat which blossomed out into a great deal of what may be called "freak" hymnody at tbe outset, and seems to have quieted down within the last ten years or so. Is the Salvation army. One no longer hears such soul-sttrrlng paeans as thl sung by the blue and red uniformed heroes and heroines: The devil and me, Wt can't agree. For 1 hate him, and he hates me Glory' Hallelujah! but it wa one of their first slogans In the early days of the army's existence. Even ye-t the topic of queer Salvation army songs would be more prudently avoided. I'nexpeeteil liuiiroi ement. By all account, the quaint In negro hymn lnglns Is fast dying out, even down south. It Is already several years since a New York women who wa visiting In Virginia and went to a "colored church," expecting to be amused, was bitterly dis appointed because tbe service wa aU decorously consistent with the rubric of tho American Episcopal church, and the hymns-sung were from the officially au-1 DRESS GOODS. 73c black dress poods, 2!c. Mf all wool henriettas. Sic. 2K henriettas. r Me and 75c novelties, irc J5c and 3ht noveltle, 10c Remnants of 2Kc dreas poods, 5c Remna..ts of V drees poods, lc FfRNlSHING GOODS. Ladles' 15c vests. P-c. Men's 10c handkerchiefs, 5c. Roys' 25c suspenders, 9c. Ladler' and children's 26c hose. Kc. Men s II fatK shirts, with separate col lars 21c Al! our SOe and 75c men's fine balhrigcan underwear in plain and fancy colors, llc. Ladles 35c summer corsets, ltc. Men s 5"c hlc cle hose. 25c Boys' 2!t bathlnp suits. l(c. MEN S and BOYS' CLOTHING. Bovs 2..c wash pants, Kc Love 5c cloth jiaMs, 15c colors .worth 11 .00. for only 39c. Only about So more of those black grenadine dress patterns left, some sold for S2, some for SC. and some for H, all go at one price, at tl.00 vard. lO.ouo yards of Silk of all kinds, one of the best lots wc have ever ottered to you on special scle. Wc want you to see these Ixautlful silks. Brocade silks for dresses, hemstitched silk in white for waists. Beau tiful novelties in every shade. 27-lnch black and colored taffetas. 45-lnch black Grena Draperies. This wool; w mnr. nn 1. v, VimA. somcst line of rotn. Tinr-fW- the city. All new stvles and eolorlncs. A very nice rope at SIX Somethlnr better at f.50 and S2.2: Ertrn hnrr mAe, .rrt at SS.00 S4 00 and tZ'.Od. thorlzed "Hrmnal," The improvement In tbe poetlca!.nd devotional quality of tbe hymns new most popular is, probably, chiefly due to the greatly widened field for choice. It should be remembered that the age of ugliness la English hymns also produced Watts' "There It a Land of I'ure Delight." Not Ul tbe hjmn! of the middle aces were "grand old Latin hymns," either, but the grotesqucries have long since been weeded out. Four crosses to my bed. Four angels round my head Matthew. Marl:. LuUe and John Bless the bed thai I lie on is only preserved in English rural tradition. And this metrical version, made in the six teenth century, of a formula once held sacred, is certainly not among the favorite spiritual songs of toduv What man soever he be that ualvatlon bo;es to gain. The Catholic belief he must before all things maintain; Which faith unless he whole doth keep, and undeflledly. Eternally, without all doubt, he shall be sure to die. Nor has any one ever translated this lor "Hymns Ancient and Modern:" Orientls partlbus Adventnvlt Aslnus, Tortls et mitisstmus. Sarclcnls aptlssirous. He-haw! And perhaps tbe most wildly and festively mediaeval of Latin hymns. O fiUi ct tiliae. 4 , Rex Coelestis. Rex Gloriae Morte eurrexit hodlc.' Alleluia! has dropped out of us because it would not translate decorously. Here is a specimen of one translator's success ct It: When John the ajxwtle beard the fame. He to the tomb, and J'eter came. But on the wtj outran the same! Alleluia: leaving it doubtful who outran whom. But even thi is decidedly less offensive than "Tbe line to heaven by Ctris: was made." iil:lh;ioi. Plans are making to hold simultaneous missions In the principal cities ol the t rilled States next winter, as was done in England last winter Dr. Caroline H Daniells of Detroit, for merly missionary in Sjatow, China, has been appointed to tbe chair of natural sciences In De Molno college. Iowa. , The Church Standard states that up to J"'' " Sunday schools have contributed t.C.lffl.2k to the Easter and Lenten offerings of the Eplscoiml board of missions. The Roman Catholic diocese of Bosun opntrlbuted 122.742 last year for foreign mis sions, carried on under the auspices of the Society lor the Propagation ot the Faith, with Its central councils In France. An English paper says that the EnclUh church contributes a little over S'.inju.OOO a year to missions, and that the collection of this sum costs tl2.ouO. administration of it costs f7,500 and salaries to nineteen clergy men as aw.istb.nt secretaries amount to 127.100. One hundred years ago there were but 100,000 Roman Catholics in all the United Mates. It is estimated that we now nave nearly lu.ooo.oou In addition to this .000.010 more In Porto Rtoo and the I'htUpnines have been brought undir the stars and stripes In the last two years George C Thomas of Philadelphia, a member of the arm of Dresel A: Co.. has presented the Church of the Holy Apostles of which he Is a member, eight large elec tric fans, which have been placed in the body of the church, so as to send draughts of cool air In every direction across the Rev Samuel Scovllle. hon-ln-law of Henry Ward Beeelmr. has resigned a ims tor of the Jlrst Congregational church of lneland N J to accept a call to become' associate nilKt.ir nf Tl'mm tl, . k. Brooklyn Hi pastorate at Flvnvjth I church w.U begin on the firrt Sunday la 1 September. ' August Clearing Sale?. 75c quality Sill Warp Madras for verwffc37ic $1 quality black - col'd French Grenadine 39 C Beal imported Irish Dimities in choice stylos and colors, blues, helio, prays, cfcAoc Batistes, Lawns, Dimities, etc., all tooriJi up to 25c yard, in our clearing sak at. . 10c Choice of all our 50c quality Wm. Ander son Glasgow. Scoteh Madras Shirt was in over 20' choice p-atterm, clearing sak 35c Beys' 7c and SI cloth pant. 2e. Boys' Il. wash suits, Sfce. Boys' S1.26 wash eults. 4fcc. Boys' SZ.00 wash suits, 75c Boys S.flO crash suits. 45c. Boys' I2.SP cloth suits. Sic Brys' IK 00 wool HUlta. S1.4t. Boys' long pants crash suits, upe It to IS. worth SJ.90. at 50c. Boys' SIX long pants, 95c. Men's S2.50 jiants. Men's SI.00 pants. 75c. CLOSING OT.T HAMMOCKS. 75c children's hammocks, 19c SI.50 hammocks. 11.60. 00 hammocks. 12 9S. JS.OO hammocks, SS.9S. lii odd hammocks at less than cost. Full standard prints. 2c 5c yard wide, extra heavy unbloachod muslin, 3,e Turkey red table damask, 15c. 12rc toweling, 5c. dine silk in this lot. worth up to 12. all at flOr Big black taffeta sale We sell more black taffeta than all others m Omaha com bined because we only ask about one-half for Just as good or better qualities. Black taffeta. 27 inches wide, 50w pieces, w orth 11.25 to 11.50, at 69c. Black taffeta. 27 inches wide, 200 plcca, worth ILOu. po at 59c. Black taffeta, 3C Inches wide, 50 pieces, worth $2.00, go at tl.00. Cheese and Butter Ohio Swiss cheese, ITt-e. Neufchatel cheese, each, 3c. Wisconsin brick cheese. ITJ-c '! . Good Toantry -butter, 13c Choice dairy butter, 15c Taney separator creamery butter. 15c i FUN IN THE DIVORCE COURT Beat Queer Seasons JLdTuoed by "vToraen for Vtrtitg 1 Dcre with UiraoLj. EVIDENCE THAT CUPID IS A HUMORIST One Wife Objects to llrr Husband nr. enuse He Ilnliltuull; Ent Onion. Before Retlrluc An Old Dl lorce Lawyer Theory. Some person with a taste for statistic; has been figuring it out and has found that SO per cent of the applicant for divorces arc women. He doesn't attempt to assign a reason for this interesting fact; perhaps he doesn't dare to. being a married man himself. But a well known lawyer of Omaha, who has assisted at the undoing of much of oupid's botch work, tays it's be cause men have a keener sense of the ridic ulous than women. "It is t generally accepted fact," said he. "that all domestic broils are funny to all save the participants and their immediate relatives. That Is. 1 mean it is a gen erally accepted fact among men. Women know it only by hearsay and bence are Im perfectly convinced of its truth. To the average female mind there is nothing humorous in the situation of a woman throwing cups and saucers at her husband during the dinner hour, or sewing up the nock of his nightshirt under pretense of fastening a button in place. To her tbe one is rudeness and the other carelessness. But the best evidence that they are funny Is found in tbe fact that some of tbe most successful farces and comic operas of tbe past decade have been founded upon Just surh situations. "Now. tbe application of thU philosophy is right here: The average man knows that If he file a petition for divorce against hi wife and makes specifice alle gations, as he is required to do in most cases, be becomes a public lacgtitig stock a sort of low comedian in a domestic farce comedy. This he is unwilling to do. He sees tbe humor in tbe situation; hi wife does not. so she brings the suit, and he Etws away and lets bar have tbe decree by default." Wenr. Hoot.. In Bed. There is no doubt a good deal In this observation of the lawyer, as certainly tbe woman who sued her husband for di vorce because be went to bed with his boots on bad a very w&rped and Insuf ficient souse of the ridiculous. She was shakes with sobs on tbe witness stand when she told the story and when news of it get out it made Omaha merry for a day. And it was all unnecessary, too. for she got ber decree on a prosaic plea of non-support- Then there was "Judge" Ja:kson, the restaurant waiter, whose wife must supjilement ber petition sotting forth cruelty and drunkenness with two very ab surd allegation. One was that, while h was only getting 110 a week, he was load ing a double life and maintaining two sep arate damertla establishment, the other thut he smashed the portrait of ber rela tives "bc'-ause tbey were homely" tn1 threw the fragments into the strc1- Hcratn "er Mctrec," continued Big Store's Linens, White Goods, Domestic Dept. are LETTING down the prices on table linens, napkin, sheetings, musllnf and white poods in order to make room for tall roods We ctur lor Monday aome el th greatert bargains on tbse poods that have ever pact o&ered in th city, and havi cut prices fully fre pr cent af the aswal retail price. -lnoh heavy cream damask, at SPa. OMnch heav cream damask, at Jse. -inrh heavj cream dice damask, at 4tc fla-lnrh heavy cream daoiaak. at frc. Tl-mch heavy cream damask, at 7fc. flMneh bleactHKl all Unen daMaak. worth (Tt at 4c yard s-lnch Meacbed Kc st c ard. Tt-lnrh bleached II at 7Tc yard. Tl-lnch bleached tl.sfl. at n yard all Unen damask, worth all linen damask, worth all linen damask, worth I-yard wlver bleached pattern worth V Tt. at JSc ?Vjard sll' er bleached pattern worth at Si. St Nyard bleached all linen patterr worth K. at SI ?n. ?t-ard bleached all Unen pattern cloths. cl 'ths. rlc ;hs (i. -,hs Cook Stoves We have tvtr 4'H as; tick stores and for spot t titfc nu'fc beicw the n-arket pri are bound t g tp e nia'-k rr r?oes th benefit .f 'l.r ttriii'rl.Lury dcai at Drug Prices Cramer's Kidney Cure 75c Mennen s Talcum Powder 15c Carter s Pills If Flp Syrup : e Fig Sjrup lf Peptonic Stomach Bitters c Celerj" Ko'.a Nen'tne Wc Smith's Iron Bitters 'c Samson s Nu-Trl-Ant Tonic Wc Beef. Wine and Iron, per bottle 2Sf- Liver Jills, per box tc Violet Talcum Powder 15c Wltchhasel Salve 15c Roach Powder. Jer pound 2hc Petro Milk Soap. 2 boxes for 15e Tar Snap. S rakes for 30c Hard Water Soap. S cakes for 30c Grocerj' Bargains Granulated cornmeal. per sack, 10c 30 lbs graham our. 36c 2 7-lb cans grated pineapple, 25c Large bars white castile soap, 30c. Shredded cocoanut. jx'r pound, 15c Table syrup, per can. ic. Oom Mtarch. ,;er package. SHc rancypackage seedless raisins, 9c Moor Park evaporated apricots, 16c Bartlett pears, evaporated, 3 lbs. for 25c Evaporated Crawford jeaches. Sl-3c. Large Santa Clara prunes, 8 lbs. for 25c. 3 Jars assorted preserves for 25c Meat Special Ronrt beef per can, 12-c Veai lnaf per can. l&c. Nr 1 California hams. FUc Tlrl..,.,i f,T tw.r tioimrt. 41e. t 5 Pounds iure leaf lord, Clc. the divorce lawyer, "wanted to be known as a Frenchman Instead of a German and ordered his wife to refer to him as sucb a very harmless fad. It would seem but his wife, when she sued him for n divorce, alleged It as one of the reasons why life with him was Intolerable. Another Omaha woman wanted a decree because her hus band habitually ate onions for supper and . another because he snored In his sleep. I "Of course If a man would make I a complaint like these against his j wife he would be laugbed out of court, but with a woman most any klnd of a charge is respected. A lawyer In drawing up a petition has to be careful I about this fact, for there Is no doubt but I that it has w eight with tbe uverage trial 1 Judge." "Martha Plnkney alleged that her hus band, Frederick, chewed tobacco to excess and that all tbe Juice that didn't run down his shlrtfront he spat into a band-palntod vase that her sister had given her as a 1 birthday present. She got ber decree on tbe charge of desertion. ! Pert on Dluliic Tubjr. "Catnerlne C. Hayes thought she ought to have a 'bill' becauBe her husband "studied up Ingenious and cruel method to humiliate her." She had been brought up In a proud old ICcutucky family and wa used to dainty things to eat and wear and to polite company, whereas he was so lntepsely democratic that be used to cock his feet on tbe dinner table while she was entertaining guests from ber native state. One evening while she was at tending a swell party he culled lor her about 11 o'clock garbed in a red sweater and a pair ot greaEy overalls and had htm- 1 self announced in tbe drawing room as her ' husband. I "But once in a while you'll come across a man to whom humor and pathos are one. Ht is rare and to my way of thinking will 1 more rare ten year from now, but today there are a few specimons of him extant. I sup pose he find employment helping te get out the comic supplements of the Sunday newspaper. I "Here are a few cases that come under the latter head: HBmer T. Millspaugb 1 wanted a decree from hi wife, Dorothy, liecaused she sovred tbe bedroom carpet with tacks and used tbe pillows lor pin cushions. He also complained that she painted roBes on tbe dinner plates and me paint came on and made tbe whole family sick. Of course he didn't pet a divorce. His wile filed a cros-bUl, in which she said she didn't know the paint would come off and that tbe pins In the pillows were purely accidental and the Judge sent Homer about his business with a reprimand "George Adams also made a mistake when he said hi wife. Alice, insisted on giving him morphine t ease the pain when he had talon too many green upples. The Judge, so far from seeing any homicidal intent in tbe wife's act, saw only a hu mane and amiable purpose. "Jebn C. Camll sought legal separa tion from Josopblne because sb would throw the breakfast dlsbes aj him while he was saying grace. He thought this un klad if Josephina, epscially since he had prepared the breakfast himself and had dressed tbe children while she lap in td But the Judge attached considerable w tight to Josephine ni.anafion that the rofffe was muddv and the bee'steal: burned "Thi re Is ao hope for a man worth Xt. at a. ID. -yard bleached all linen pattern clotha, worth U7 it an Jlewhed t caw rd table linen, pnaran. lewd to hep Its color, worth up 1o ft yard, in blue and red checks and plaid, to t smM Monday for Tie yard Extra heax-j- brown muslin, yard wide, 4c. Extra heavy bleached niueltn. yd wide be P(ieclal for Mnndat . If. yards limit, extra ftiM bleached yard-wide muslin, worth W3 yard, at 16 yards for II 00 r-lticii tMpaciieO pillow casing at loc. 4t-lt(h blenihed l'lllow caslnc at lie. K-4 blMirhed sbeetmp worth ffVr, at lffa, 1(4 bleached sheetlnc. worth Sire, at 3c, S-4 brown sheeting at lfc. a few hemsutched that are slightly sollol W'rih 16c. po at 5f yard Remtisnts of sheeting and casing. and Ranges. 2 stiel ranges In our warebeHsc. bought re. and wrb present Indications pricct a cording to what they cost us. giving you less than wholesale price. THE RANKER a 2 pnuna No. f cook. worm iii w sen uiem tor jb.iii. THE LV?TRi-A beaatlful nickel-plated ciKik. lincb oxen. 4 elght-lnrb holes, war ranted a verj' tin1 taher. worth IlCBTi. wo sell them for 111 4s THE MEDALLION with rescrvlor Ilka cut, a very handeonie smooth cast stovr, with while enameled reservoir. lS-lnch oven worth ISuWi. we can sell them for 117 4S We have a nice fi-hole cast range, with VMnch oven, a tery line baker, worth n.Wi. w sell thern for 111 The Standard Steel Ratip-The bert all around steel range In Omaha, very larpo !HiLl4x22-tnch oven, gray iron top. body made of double annealed patont leveled steel, asbestos lined throughout, duplex prate for ooal or wood, worth S3&. Wc can stll the for $.9S. China Dept. M.W0 cups and saucers, lc each. 10,000 all size plutes. 2c. 3c 4c t.0"(' Irult saucers. 3c. Thousands of tumblers, lc each. lli.OHi potato dishes Sc. Sample loi of water pitchers, all colors finely decorated These pitchers are worth from II to St.50 each, sale price 45c 6c 75c Gas mantles. 5c. Complete lamp, with burner and chimney 19 cents Oenulne rainbow howls. 2 lor 15c. Decorated cups and saucers. 2-c each. Mason fruit jars, pints, 5c. quarts, 3iCl 2-auarts, (Sr Tin top Jelly glasses. 3c I'atent stopper root beer bottles, 75c dozen. Teas and Coffees A beautiful present given away free wlt3 one pound of any of our celebrated tea. Fancy Japan, for ice tea. per lb, 35c First crop basket fired Japan tea, 40c. EngUsh breakfast tea, a choice drink, 40c Sue '-ured Japan tea, 34r. 3 lbs. of our Superior Health Coffee, 25c. Fresh roasted Rio coffee, whole. ICijC Broken Mocha and Java, only litjc. Grand Lace Sale Monday 25c and 25c net tcrp wash laces. 5c 20c and 25c net top wosh inserting. 5c Uk fine laces, 10c yard. We will mark down every piece of fln laces from 25 to 23 1-3 per cent. We have the best assorted stock in ths city and our prices have always been tha lowest And with this reduction our pricea will only be about half the regular retail prices. Black lace galloons goods worth from; 35c to tl.00, on sale at 9c to 35c yard. The late copywrlght books, 47c each. who thus gets specific In his pe , tition. He must deal in generalities. I He must anchor his faith to tbe abstract and pass up the concrete. He must al- lege desertion. Infidelity or Incompatibility of temperament and let it kd at that. Then. he may get his decree or he may not." QIA1XT rilATrilll! OF LIFE. Tbe fire which oost Davenport, la., tl.000, 000 on Thursday last was started Ly a cigarette which a freckle-faced boy smoked In a lumber yard. Tbe S&P.OOO fire at Sioux City, in tbe same state, on the samr day, had a more curious origin. The heat of the sun as it patsed through tbe plate glus rhow window of a dry goods store was so Intense that it ignited tbe goods displayed therein. A Castle Valley (Pa.) man says: "Oa Thursday night of Inst week I went to bed very late, undressing and putting out tba pas in a kind of dream. A mosquito awak ened me with its maddening buzz, and 1 lay in a stupor for a little while, asking myself whet the overpowering odor was that flllea the room and what the cause of my feeling of dizziness and faintness. Then I tried to get to sleep again, but the mosquito wouldn't let me. It buzzed and bit. and at last it roused me thoroughly. 'Whit a smell of gas," I said to myBelf, and got up and staggered to the chandelier to find one burner turned on full. I would have died of asphyxiation if I had not been aroused, and it was a mosquito that awakened me. I may truly say. therefore, that a mosquito saved my life.'' John Evans. 167 Perth avenue. Maywood, 111., wa severely stung by a Fwarm of bees and was held prisoner by the Insect in a room in an empty house to which ho had fied. Evans was repairing a sidewalk at St. Churlei roBd and Fourteenth street when be accidentally unearthed the hive. The bees swarmed over the Intruder. He seize! his ooat and fought tbem off. He covered bis face mid head with tbe garment, but the enraged multitude stung him again anl again upon the arms and legs. Evans ran Into the empty house and closed the doors. He quickly killed tbe insects that clung to him. but tbe army outside besieged the room lor a Iohe time before tbe prisoner could escape. A man whose stomach and not his throat has been for several years tbe habitation of a frog is one of the curiosities of a ham let nestled among the Watcbung mountains, about five miles from Bound Brook. N. J. Edward Blaslre, a farmer, has been alllne for some time. His symptoms have baffled Physicians of the vicinity and one by ono they have given up the case as incurable. Notwithstanding the fact that be was un able to work and was slowly wasting away, Blaslre was particularly Jond of msat. When Dr. Fred A. Wild of Bound Rock questioned him he said be suffered from pains in the region of bis stomach and occasionally experienced a sensation as if something animated was moving about. Dr. Wild urRed an operation, which was porformed. The doctors removed from tbe patient stomach a full grown frog more than five laches long t was sim ilar to ordinary frogs croept that an ex amination showed that jt had never had the use of its tjes "W.ng to It strange dwcl .tg r.u'e Iiiat.re is new on tie 1P&S ic misery. , ,