7 T s The Omaha Sunday Bee. v EDITORIAL SECTION. PAGES 9 TO 16. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1004. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. B CREEN TRADING STAMPS ARE QUITE A CURRENCY! A currency In the sense of securing for you valuable premiums you cnulrtn't gpcure other wise thnn with considerable, com. Those premiums keep whole factories going In the turn ing of them out, and an enormous trlng of freight cars running In the transportation of them. These two facts strike us as being of some account In American commerce, and you rr-an a rousing advantage tiecause thewv proniiu.il so produced are the mere enhnncinl In their value nnd the verities are endless. The number of hows In Oman that show "sam-pli-s of Oreen Trailing St imp Premium" are COUXTAHLK by the thousand. Are vou among the number? The Little Green Sticker costs you nothing, and you might as well have It us not! WOMEN'S SAMPLE SUITS M had another chance ftatardny and picked np fifty w sample salts. Tbtac .nils are sll of the better class. Colors bine, hrows and black. Am sample, me sernred them at about BOe nn the dollar. They will be oa sale Monday. Mses, 31, 8fl aad 38 mostly. If yon are Interest ad la salts come early. LADIES' RAINCOATS Just in, all sizes in Cravenette rain coats, Oxford gray and tan, the very latest CO models, prices. $18.50, $16.50. $15.00 and 1WU WOMEN'S THREE QUARTER COATS 1QT0 $71 Our stock is now complete, prices from. . P m J Special attention is called to the following three items: TAN AND OLIVE COVERT COATS Winter weight, satin lin ed, tucked sleeve, pleated back, five pleats on f Z QA each side of front, regular $20.00 coat, at UiJU BLACK WOOL CHEVIOT Extra heavy, satin lined, velvet trimming and pleats, broad shoulders, big mutton y J? sleeve, worth $1G.50, at lt.d3 FANCY MIXTURES AND BLACK at $17.50 We make a specialty of $ 25.00 values at this price. Every t"1 A one an exclusive model, at 1 JU Wool fascinators and shoulder shawls, from.. $4.50 down to 19c Wool shawls, beaver squares, from $895 to $1.48 Wool squares, from $4 95 to 93c Wool long shawls, from $7.95 to $2.25 Ladies' and Misses' sweaters, to wear under Cravenette coats, all colors. $2.95, $2.50, $1.95, $1.48 Ladies' and Misses' fur scarfs and boas, special sale on Monday, 20 styles, long, medium and short, values from $0.50 to $8.50, at . $495 BIG BARGAINS IN SILKS MONDAY Another big sale of fnncy and plain silks nt Bennett's Monday. 1B0 different styles In fnncy Messellnes. penu de Cygnes, Louislnes, soft taffetas and Paris novelties. TlieHe silks are liandwome for waists, suits and evening powns. no one can a nurd to miss tins nig oner Monday. J!) Indies, 21 indies nnd U7 Indies wide, a bargain at $1.25 special Monday, for , 10,000 yards of plain Messelines in every shade, both light and dark, for street and evening wear. Messellnes are the finest silks this season affords for handsome gowns, very soft and guaranteed to wear. 19 Inches wide, the regular $1.00 quality, Monday, at : Another Bis Sale of Black Silks 27-inch peau de Moise, the $1.25 quality, for 9c 27-inch peau de Moise, the $1.50 quality, for $1.10 36-inch peau de Moise, the $1.75 quality, for $1.25 19-inch taffeta, the 50c quality, for..;...: 33c 24-inch taffeta, the $1.00 quality, for 69c 27-inch taffeta, the $1.25 quality, for 9"c 36-inch taffeta, the $1.25 quality, for : 75c 85c for street Tords for 69c DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT , 2.00, 1-50 and 1.00 ALL GO ON SALE MONDAY At 50c a Yd REDS REDS REDS The sombre browns have been supplanted by the NEW REDS. My lady's gown ' , for Thanksgiving must be made from Hed Broadcloth. The edict has been flushed across the ocean from Paris and Vienna. Dame- Fashion has so decreed. We are first to show these new materials our foreign buyer has shipped us lltty pieces and we will place them on sale Monday. See them in window. Yard Dress Goods Barea'ns Evening shades Princess Crepes Albatross Wool Batistes Henriettas Wool Challls, pinks, light blues, creams, champagnes and other colors Dress goods for shirtwaist suits and traveling wear, such as Scotch mix tures, Camel's hair. Criinltes, fancy and plain Mohairs, Sicilians, Meltons, and Kerseys storm cheviots and serges, and many odd lots, worth up to $1.50 a yard Black Dress Qoods Barga'ns a8-in. Canvas Cloth 38-ln. Henriettas 38-In. Nun's veiling 88-ln.. Albatross 38-ln. Etntnim. 14-in. Mohair 75c and $1.00 values 50-Inch Sicilian. Monday ; 59c Mi-inch Storm Cheviot Monday 75o 60-Inch heavy Suiting, Monday 1 O J 54-inch Nuns serge, Monday 1.25 Monday on the Big Bargain Square Dress Goods at 39c a Yard. Worth up to $1.00 a yard, odd lots, black and colors, plain and fancy weaves, every piece a bargain. Many of thet.e are especially adapted for girls', school dresses and ladies' shirtwaist suits. Big: Sale of Black Lace Bands and Eyes COO pieces tine black lace edges, galoous, appliques, bands, medallions and in serting effects. This Is a big lot bought very cheap from one of New York's leading importers, the values In this lot run from 6oc to 75c lft yard, all go on sale near liith street eutrance, Monday 1UC BIG SALE OF HE J SPREADS 100 white bed spreads, full bed size, some fringed and some plain hemmed, they are always sold at $1.73 euch, while this lot lasts, only 1J ALL GO ON SALE MONDAY At 75c e. Yd ALL GO ON SALE MONDAY At 50c 3l Yd WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER!! Great remnant site In Wall Psper. Ons and two-room Iota. TheM roods are of the best make und must go at once. White Blanks, up from, fl Golds and Qllmmera, up from, flr per roll I V?r roll Tapestries. Varnished Golds, Two Tones, Embossed Gilts, etc., up from, lfic iva srkl 1 ' W per roll 1 DOUBLE GREEN TRADING STAMPS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. Spi atfWMt IIJJI.1 ELlLflieWMi. 11 J U.1SB T. BCfiaSESmESSSB A Bargain Broadside From Hardware Section. COAL HOPS You imd one! Tou'll have full occasion for using it pretty soon, for the frosts ara coming. Get In on the ground floor by buying your Coal Hod Monday at a money saving price. WE'LL NEVER SELL THEM CHEAPER! No. 1" Japan Coal Hods, open Twenty (f2) Green Trading Stamps. No. 17 Galvanized Coal Hod, open Twenty ($2) Green Trading Stamps, 28c mps. 32c No. 17 Japan Funnel Coal Hod 32c Twenty t$2) Green Trading Stamps. o. 17 Funnel 'ICp Coal Hods OOfc. Twenty ($2) Green Trading Stamps. First grade Galvanized OH can, 1 gallon Ten ($1) Green Trading Stumps. First grade Galvanized Oil Oj Can, 2 gallon 04V Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps. Other Specials 22c First grade Galvanized OH A A Can, 3 gallons ips. 58c Ten (1) Green Trading Stamps. First grade Galvanized Oil Can, 6 gallon Twenty ?-) Green 'Trading Stamps, Nut Cracks and Picks Every one wants nut cracks and picks Monday, and Dennett's ore the people that have them for you. Nickel Plated Spring Nut Crack 6 Nickel Tlated .Nut Picks 15c 15c 1 set of 6 picks and 1 nut crack, nickel plated 25c 1 set of 6 picks and 1 nut Eftp crack, heavily nickel plated KJVJS EXTRAORDINARY" Sale of German China Samples Many worth from three to live times the price asked. Where have you ever seen such goods for such prices? IT'S A NEW YORK IMPOttTEHS' SAMPLE LINE OK GERMAN CHINA AND INCLUDES CHOCOLATE POTS, CRACKER JARS, SALAD DISHES. SUGARS AND CREAMS, etc., and the lot goes on sale f Monday for, each ijC fiOOD LIGHT MEANS GOOD CHEER Increase your light and reduce your gas bills. The celebrated Block Light demonstrated in China department Monday. Bb ck light sell regularly from $1.25 to $1.75 yours Monday 98c Yusea Wellsbaoh Gas Mantles, each 25c Johnson Bros. Royal English Porcelain Breakfast Plates. To Introduce a very popular white and gold pattern, we will sell on Kfsri Monday at, set of six, for OVC Twenty (12.00) Little Green Stickers. Headquarters for the high class products of this world-famous pottery. We always carry a very nice variety of patterns, either In sets or open stock In white, decorated, and white and gold. English ware Is the ware that wears. Lantern Globes, each Ten (11) I.itt:e Green Stickers. 8 j5-?allonStone J 1 Jars, each ....Tt Thirty ($3.00) uttle Green Stickers. Colored Paper Lamp Shades, each OC Ten (11.00) Little Green Stickers. SHEET MUSIC! SHEET MUSIC! Packages containing ton copies of the latest music, regular 25c pieces, live vocal and live instrumental, 50c Sold in lots of ten only. Positively only one package to a customer. Art Section, 2nd Floor. Art Flyers for Monday 300 Cute Little Dutch Pictures, in passe partout, beautiful sot of subjects. .. .' ..20c 20 (2) Little Green Stickers. Pyrojraphy Money Savers Visit our large display of goods for pyro-burning, photo boxes, beautifully stamped poppy designs, regularly DUc, Monday's price 78 c Nann Plush Center Pieces, applinued beautiful green leather, ready, f QQ work. Monday's price Without parallel In beauty of art work. Artist's Materials Fry's China Palettes, special Monday ...1.00 Marshlng's Liquid Gold f'in Monday UJl Oil of Turpentine and Clover, 1fr Monday 'Uv C. Paper, 72-pound, 20C Whatman W. for Oil Paints, for Water Colors, VV. & N., ordinary 1fr colors Iw Academy Boards, 16x24, special 20c Handy Little Things In Woodenware Five Hook Hall Rack China Salt Box Piano Down Duster 16x22 Bread Board Best Quality Washboard Each for . 35c Twenty (J2.00) Green Trading Stamps wiih either of these Pour Interesting Furniture Bargains Golden Oak Dresser, large French Pattern Tlate Mirror, serpentine front, trimmings are east brass,- $18 value, will go at 12.45 Couch, golden oak frame,, deep tufted seat, sanitary steel con struction, spring edges, $11.00 value, at .7.45 Child's Iron Crib with drop sides and close mesh fabric spring. Finished with best hard baked enamel, colors blue, white or pink, $0.50 value, will co at .3.95 Chiffonier, golden oak. 5 draw ers, with beveled mirror, stan dards neatly carved, brass trimming, $8.75 value. . 6.45 Millinery! Millinery" Black velvet hats, large size, flat or high crown just as you like; trimmed with long ostrich plume, silk, C ribbon and ornaments, worth $10.00. at '. pD A new toque or turban, made of chenille braid and T C ( silk velvet in blue, brown and black, worth $7. nt. . vww Street hats that formerly sold from $2.00 to $4.00, at Children's scratch hats felt school 98c 49c Children's caps in red and navy that are marked to pell at 50c , And Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps', Monday only. Ask to see the Kimball 'Anti-Rheumatic Ring, sure cure for rheumatism, on sale in Millinery Dep't, Bennett's A Sensible Shoe For Women DOROTHY DODD Shoes give that trim, well-dressed feeling and give the wearer a free 'yn in walking that she never en joyed hefore. Boots, $3.00 and $3.50 T Oxfords,$2.50and$3.00 4g Hallowe'en Candies Vanilla Flavored Choco late Creams, very delightful per pound 12c Hallowe'en Tump kin Lanterns, each And ten i$l.Kt) Green Stickers. 20c Little Pretty Candy ltnskets, for , Class Hunks fill ed with fine candy, each Headquarters for lowe'en Candies. 5c 10c Hal- 35c Hallowe'en Nuts and Fruits 2 lb. Bennett's Capi tol Mixed Nuts for . . And t-n ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps. 2 pounds Naples Eug lieh Walnuts yffi for rliC And ten (11.00) Green Trading Stamps. Pecans, 2 lbs. Larcre zP for JJ And ten (J1.00) Green Trading Stumps. We are eflslly ltallows'en Headquarters for all Fruits. Beimctt's GreaJ Grocery You'll save more money on Groceries buying your Groceries at Bennett's, and you'll have a bigger variety with fresher and more up-to-date stocks at your hand, than. you'll find elsewhere. Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with found can Uennett's Capitol 0.1c taking i'owder Ten Gren Tradlnp Stamps with 3-pound can Table Syrup l2iC Ten ($1) Oreen Trading Stamps with two pounds Japan Rice 14C Five (fiOc) Green Trading Stamp.'fflf, with Can Peaches Five (&) Green Trading Stamps Cp with can .baked Beans 13 9c Jar Preserves, Ass'fc at Ollves.stuffed, bottle IOC Pancake Flour, 8-pound pkg. 1QC Baking Soda, package at Corn, at.. .... 4c 2-pound can IOC Early June Peas, 2-pound can If)-, at iKf" Potted Ham, can An at w Pepper Sauce, bottle 7c Fresh Country Butter nt BUTTER Received fresh daily 15c Bennett's Capitol Creamery 25c Dill Plokles, dozen at 12c Third Floor CARPET Third Floor We place on sale Monday twenty-live pieces of the best nil wool Ingrain and C. C. Ingrain Carpets. Carpets that sell regularly at from 5e to 90c per yard, putterns that we will not carry over lor our spring line, we place TAc on sain Monday at, per yard KJ A 3W (Bring your measurements.) RUG SPECIAL 9x9 ft. Extra quality Brucsls Rug, small Persian and Turkish doslgna F.x-4( Afl cellcnt patterns for Library or Dlmng Room, regular $14.50 values at...v0 DRAPERY Special for Monday and Tuesday. 300 Roman Stripe Couch Covers 3 yards long 50 Inches wide fringe all 1 around, worth $2.00, for Roman Stripes, worth Jli.GO 1,48 A flne'aiwrtmenV'of"up-to-da worth $3.75 and $3.25 O 7R oa'li. special at $2.80 and A J Portieres to match Couch Covers at, per pair, $3.00, $3.50, $3.00, $2.76 2.50 21 In. square,' 'double pillow tops to match couch covers and portieres at, 25C These'goods' wiii'be dlmJlayed "in our Harney Street Windows, bon't fall to take advantage of this offer. , CLOTHING DEFT Tremendous Values Ilirsh-Elson & Co., of Chicago, sold us 500 suits and over coats at 50c on the dollar. Everyhody knows they make only fine clothing. They are 26 to 3G size, huilt for small men young men and boys, who wear long trousers. We Will Give Dauble Green Trading Stamps to Move these Suits Qjickly SlOO Suits and Overcoats at $t2-5'0 Suits and Overcoats at $10.00 "Suits .andLD vercoats at Knee Trousers worth 35 c .. Here's Money Saving For You. ON BARGAIN SQUARE 7.50 1 6.501 5.00 15c ON BARGAIN SQUARE Boys' Shirts, worth 75c... 50c And Thirty ($3.00) Little Green Stickers. NEBRASKVSSTATE PRISON Improvements Made There Binoe Warden Seemer Hat Had Charge. "flANT BECOMES A MODEL OF ITS KIND Lighting, , Hentlus, Ventilation od Powvr Arrnsnen Chauvrd for Better ! piclpl! Amended I'nder PreiFWt Hetinr. (From a Staft Correspondent-) LINCOLN. Oct. 29.-3peclal.)-A fdi'r'l' tlon of the Nebraska state penltcntiury Just st this time couM well be tecured by clipping from the advertisement of a sum mer resort. The extrnvagam-e of a sum mer resort snnouncemrnt would not do mora than Justice, to Its clean rooms, Its parked walks. Its green house, its com modious chapel, Its clenn kitchen. Its Im maculate dinlnc room, its broad seres tilled by well fed and well groomed ion vlcts, its good water, its splendid loca tion and the purs sir that circulates through every well ventilated cell. The man who fractures the laws of man could find no more ideal place In which to make reparation end In which to while sway the tedious hours. In fact, a true description of the penitentiary snd Its splendid management would almost be an Invitation for men to become criminals. Men who doffed the livery of a convict two years euro, returning, would not now recognize the old place. The old engine that for so many months occupied the "principal part of a scrap pile out in the yard and which was branded "old iron" Is now doing yeoman duty In running the dynumoes thct furnish the electric lights for tho buildings and power for the ma chinery. The old belts and shaftings that us?d to dlsllgure the prison yard, a menace to life und good appearance, are gone forever. , Instead, one can And on Investi gation a wire here and there carrying the power from the engine room to all parts of the buildings. In only ons por tion of the building Is steam used, and that la in the room next to the engine. All of the machinery In the great machine sliopa, In the broom manufactory and. In the "otTtW-flcpgrtments where there is ma chinery, electricity ' lhe-v power. The atnte no longer has to pay to the trsrtjon company of the city of Lincoln tribute every year for Its lights at the prison, for that, too, is manufactured In the build ing and it is dona st a cost less than half what the tructlon company use to receive for It. Better Water and I'lenty of It. Tli latter day convict also has It ovsr his old- time brother In the water that is furnlvhed him. Two years ago the peni tentiary boasted of a board lined well that could be pumped dry In twenty min utes, even on a rainy day. A new well bus been wink snd the prisoners get a quality of water that should make them tetotalers the rest of their born days. An entire new system of water works hss been instituted and with it a Are department has bees Installed that Is capable of put ting out any blaze that might get started, no matter how badly the records got mixed up. The fire apparatus consists of plenty of hose and a hose wsgon and to the depart ment belong about fourteen men trained by the engineer to a high degree of effi ciency. In fact, a comparison of the state prison now with what it was two years ago would only tend to make the old-time convict envious that he got out too quick. Ever since A. D. Beemer became Its warder, every day has told of soma Improvement made; a betterment of the condition of the unfortunates, better discipline, one step nearer the ideal. If there is such a thing as an Ideal penitentiary- And while these permanent Improvements have cost tha state something, much has been saved the state. Old machinery that had been cast aside as worthless as a result of the Mrs, has been dug out of the ruins and la now doing what new machinery would be doing. To tell of all the Improve ments that have been made under the managument of Mr. Beemer would be to go through in detail every department of the prison, for not one single department has he overlooked. Every one has been overhsuled. Treated as Hasan a Beings. But In making the penitentiary sanitary and in making it a real penitentiary, Mr. Beemer has not overlooked tha man under his charge. He rooks on a convict as a human and not a convict has come out of the penitentiary so far as heard from who has had a word to say against his treat ment by the warden. That the convict may not have ble pride broken any more than can be helped Mr. Beemer has Inau gurated a system that is proving a success. Gradually he Is doing away , with the stripes. Under the rule , be has promul gated It is the fault of the convict If he Is seen with stripes on after having been in prison for six months. When a prisoner haa conducted himself according to the rule of the prison and has shown that he still has some of the sparks of manhood In his system, he Is allowed to discard his stripes and don a suit of blue. Blnce this system was started It haa been the ambi tion of a majority of the men to secure enough credit marks to get tha new uni forms. In tha prison today the stripes are the exception rather than the rule. With this cleaning up of tha men came a general shaking up of the dining room and kitcheo. The cooking is done In a room apart from the prison proper, and the food Is carried into the dining room through a tunnel which connects the two. In this dining room, spotleanly clean, there Is as little odor of cooking as there Is found In any well regulated hotel dining room. The floor shines and glistens, so clean is It. Vhe old-time convict coming back would find nice folding chairs, an In vention or a auggvatlon of the warden, in place of the old-time hardwood bencbee that ha used to occupy, from tha large bakery comes a most appetizing odor, and the bread that is turned out is as good as anyone could get anywhere. Only experi enced bakers are employed, and this la not saying that many experienced bakers have been sent to the penitentiary, but that probably some of them have had plenty of time in which to learn after becoming & resident of Lancaster. Sleeping Quarters Improved. The sleeping apartments of the prisoners are said by men who have tried them to be superior to many of the hotels In Lincoln. This because hey ara absolutely free from outside interference in so far as burglars are concerned. The new steel cells have filled a long felt want and they have been a great aid to Warden Beemer in eetab Ushing discipline. When Oovernor Mickey reached out into the state and instated that Warden Beemer again take charge of the state's prison the prisoners were huddled together much on the order of the machin ery that was heaped In tine prison yard. Uprisings and threats of mutiny were of frequent occurrence. Mr. Beemer ham-i mered the legislature until ha secured an appropriation to buy those cells, and no legislator need feel ashamed that he voted for that bill. With one lever every cell can be locked or unlocked, or any particular cell can be locked or unlocked. Each cell Is well ventilated, and from a sanitary standpoint it is ideal. The women's department Is one in which Warden Beemer and Mrs. Beemer have taken especial palusL The rooms of the various female prisoners open into one large room and in this the unfortunates secure all the oomforts that It is possible for them to have. They do their own wash ing and ironing; their own cooking and spend their time in sewing and mending and making new clothes. In fact the de partment affords more real comforts than many of the female convicts over enjoyed before. Off the main penitentiary building is the hospital building, probably the -least used of any on the grounds. The good sanitary conditions of all the buldings and the care the prisoners are compelled to use In look ing after themselves makes sickness a rara thing among the convicts. But the hospi tal is there and ready for use at any time. Beaatlfylng (be Gronnde. Warden Beemer has devoted much time to the making of walks In the prison yard and to beautifying the prison grounds. lie has mada many flower beds and beautiful little parka, which give the prisoner a splendid Impression upon his first visit to Lancaster. All the work is dons by con victs and everything Is done according to a system and everything moves along like clock work. Borne day, and may be at no distant day, some other Improvements will be made at the penitentiary. One of ttveae Improvements will be the doing away with the lock step. The other will be the start ing of a school in the prison walla War den Beemer has a well regulated Institution and ovary convict thai should be proud tt ,' 1 QUESTIONABLE M)TES IN RUSSIA Extraordinary Increnso In Passt Money Causes Much Comment la Business Circles. - ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 29. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) With regard to the extraordinary increase of paper money in circulation the following Incident Is significant. A business man this week went to the Samara branch of the Imperial bank to draw a considerable sum of money. The officials wished to "fay a large part of It In (-rouble notes, but he refused to take them and asked for go!). He was Informed that there was not enough gold In hand for the moment. lie then proceeded to ex amine the notes, and although they all bore the date 1M8 a great many of them were signed, not by M. de Tleske, who was steward of the treasury at that time, but by M. de Tlmashoff, who was only ap pointed some years later. The bank offi cials to convince htm of the regularity of the proceeding, showed him the stacks of psper money which they had In stock. As a compromise he u greed to accept payment In that form, but Insisted on their sorting out only those notes hearing M. de I'leske's signature. The othTrs, he declared, must bs the forgeries ismied by the Japanese In Manchuria to bring discredit on 'Russia, about which the Russian papers have writ ten so much lately. At the Nljnl Novgorod branch of the Im perial bank notes have actually bees is sued bearing the official cancelling mark.