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Fhe Omaha Daily Bee.
Carpenter's Panama Letters,
Next Sunday's Bee.
EHTAfiUSIIED JUNE 19, 1871.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCII 19, 1905.
8 INGLE OOFY THREE CENTS.
ART BARGAINS
Dainty Veneer Frames
Fitted with artistic
colored pictures, Sa
turday special
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps
NOVELTY PICTURE FRAMES. 7x9
and 8x10, In all gold, Mark and gold,
with gold leaf burnished cor
ners, Saturday Special, at.."VC
This is positively a $1 SO value, and
we have Just 20 frames to fell.
One frame packed In a box.
Pyrofraphyt Pyrotraphyl
Pymgraphy Outfits for begin
ners, our big special, yQ
Forty M0n) Green Trading
Stamps. This Is a good $3 value.
See us for Picture Framing.
See us for Fine Art Pictures.
Ut
If
OMAHA WEATHER FORECAST
Partly Cloudy Probably Rain.
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SATURDAY SHOE SALE
400 parr of Men's Sample Shoos, Goodyear welts, box calf and vlel kid, worth $3.W and -i nl
3.v. at A.tU
Fifty ($5.(ti) Oreen Trading Stamps.
385 Boys' and Girls' Box Calf and Viei Kid law shoos, worth $2.00, 1,23
Thirty ($3.00) Grei-n Trading Stamps. .
Men's Genuine Shell Cordovan Bluchers, Goodyear welt soles, best work shoes Q Kf
union made, at vi
Men's Patent Colt Goodyear welt, new drop Wall Street toe, button or lace, $5.00 value, t,00
at
. CROCKERY SECTION
Some Special Items for Saturday Every One a Bargain, With Extra
Green Trading Stamps.
Beautiful Clear Glass Tumblers, cut fluted bottom, very fine. Saturday, j gQ
onlv, per dozen
Fifty (Ifi.OOi Oreen Trading Btamps. .,...-,
EngllHh Porcelain Toilet Sets, new shape, large roll top baaln pretty pinks, -7 48
green and olive colors, complete set
Two hundred ($20.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Fancy shapes in Jardinieres, small sizes, 35c value, lVC
for
Double Oreen Trading Btamps.
English Porcelain PlHtes In white, good pattern, breakfast or 7 Inch size,
Same Porcelain White' Jugs'," 'for creem'or milki about 38 of these, take them 0C
quick, each
Special in Dititierware Section, Saturday.
Double Green Trading Stamps on all purchases, and we have a very 7.48
large variety, ranging in price, a set, from 100.00 to
Bennett's Great Grocery
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Better values were never offered In
the grocery line. Our main points are
freshness, purity and low prices.
Forty (14) Green Trading Stamps
with forty-eight pound sack Pride
of Bennett's Flour $1.60
Fifty ($6) Green Trading Btamps
with three pounds finest Java and
Mocha Coffee $1.00
Thirty ($3) Green Trading Stamps
with pound Tea (any kind) 68c
'.en ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
can pure ground Black Pepper 12c
Thirty 3) Green Trading Stamps
with ton cans solid pack Toma
toes $1.00
Thirty ($3) Oreen Trading Stamps
with ten cans fine corn $1.00
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
pint bottlo Bnlder's Catsup 22c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
filnt bottle Bnlder's Oyster Cock
all 25c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
filnt bottle bnlder's Salad Dress
ng 25c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
can Diamond S Salmon 22c
Corn, two-pound can 5c
Potted Ham, can 4c
Worcester Sauce, bottle 10c
Salmon, one-pound can I'm;
Table Syrup, can loo
String Beans, can 8c
Wax Beans, can 8c
Peas, can 7c
Castile Soap, cake.... 2c
Succotash, can 8c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
three-pound package Diamond S
Salt 10c
Five (50c) Green Trading 8tamps
with package Baking Soda 4S
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
Jar Cottage Marmalade loo
BUTTER, BUTTER, BUTTER
RECEIVED DAILY.
Bennett's Capitol Creamery, poundoi.
package, (full weight)
TEN OKEEN TRADING 8TAMPS.
Country Butter, pound JO
r'resh Country Eggs, dozen 14.
Ten ($1 Green Trading Stamps with
ran Imported Sardines 124c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
three packages Shredded Codfish.. 25c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
pound Thompson's Seedless Kaisins 15c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
three pound enn tine Table Syrup 12V4C
Ten (Jl) Green Trading Stamps with
three can Rocky Mountain Cream 25c
Twenty (2) Green Trading Stamps
with ten-pound sack Cornmeul,
yellow or white 18o
CHEESE HEADQUARTERS
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
pound New York full cream Cheese 20c
Ten Ul) Green Trading Stamps with
pound finest Sage Cheese 20c
Ten ($1) Green Trading Stamps with
pound select Mulnster Cheese 22c
' Flower and Vegetable Seeds, pkg... 3c
MEATS, MEATS SPSEATI?R
Chickens, Chickens
All Fresh. Dressed Hens) or fOln
Springs, pound asjv
Fresh Dressed Roosters, Qlr
. ' 3 W
.7ic
pound.
Fork Loins,
pound ,
Spare Ribs, ( pounds 25C
Veal Shoulder Rout, 4 pounds 25c
Veal Stew, pounds 25C
Lamb Stew, 7 pounds 25C
Lamb Shoulder Roast, 4 pounds 25c
Rib 'Boiling' Beef, 8 pounds 25C
Fish, Fish
A full line of all kinds COd Fish,
Mackerel, Smoked Salmon. Halibut and
Herring. Quality guaranteed and prices
lowest.
a the
Lard, Lard
Another fresh lot of Bennett's Capitol
Lard, guaranteed to be the best and
purest kettle rendered Leaf Lard on
the market, on sale In 5 pound EQ .
pails for ". OOC
Forty ($4) Green Trading Stamps.
Harris, Hams
Boneless and Cottage Hants. . 0 1 -
at pound.... VJV
Morrell's Iowa Pride Bacon ttir
(backs), at pound Haw
DOUBLE GREEN TRADING STAMPS
ON ALL HAMS. BACON AND LARD
ALL DAY SATURDAY.
Good Things to Eat at Our
Delicatessen Section
A full line of choice Sausages and
Cooked Meat from Welsel & Co., Milwaukee.
Millinery
Bennett's New Millinery Section
Grows and grows in popularity the air is Jilled with its praises.
Said a lady from New York Thursday morning: " Well, what a beautiful department.
There's nothing to compare with it west of New York."
See the exclusive "Sinclair" styles, and the matchless designs from the greatest milliners of
Europe, and remember that thh superb department is in the control of millinery artists who
have earned their laurels by voicing your tastes in the great fashion centers of the world
The poetry of millinery art has its well-spring at Bennett's. '
Specials for Saturday
A beautiful line of Street Hats, in tur- r Trimmed Hats, an exclusive "Sinclair"
hnns and dress shapes, finished in
hair braid with ribbons nnd orna
ments. They come In black, brown,
nnvy and all leading shades, are
worth up to $2.08, our A Q
price Saturday tj
Street lints, a special display for Sat
urday, values up to 1 OS
$3.00 1, JO
style, large dress shape, very
superior workmanship, y f C
Saturday -.T.
A specially attractive line of trimmed
hats for Saturday,
Flowers, Foliage, etc., shaded muslin
rose, easily 50c values,
Saturday 9C
Crashed Roses, 3 In bunch, dainty,
delicate tints, strictly new shadings,
easily worth 00c, "J E
Saturday iJ
Shaded Foliage for early spring trim
ming large bunches 25c 10
values, Saturday for IUC
Violets, dainty, delicate, a faultless
Imitation, fine 7
bunches C
CLOTHING!
CLOTHING!
RAIN COAT
IS
KING
New, just unpacked, ready for your ap
proval, genuine Priestley Cravenettes, worth
up to $18.00 Saturday only f If 1
nt avsvv
Double Green Trading Stamps.
BENNETTS MILLINERY RECEPTION ALL DAY SATURDAY.
Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Walters and Mrs. Weible in charge.
DRAPERIES, CARPETS AND
FURNITURE
Specials In Draperies
We still have a few of those cheap Rope
Portieres left. See them before It is too
late, for all size doors and open-
ings, in all colors, up from a.w
Window Shades, 3x6 feet, lQc
We 'make' shades' to fit all size windows.
Bring in your measurements, we can save
you money.
A new line of Rug Fringe, yard 10c
nnd
Chair Seats in all shapes and sizes fj
at, each 20c, 18c, 16c, 12c, 10c 9c and....
Lace Curtains of good value and large
sizes, per pair, $1.75, $1.60, 9Sc 90c QSP
and OOfc,
BENNETT'S CANDY SECTION
STICK CANDY SPECIAL
Fresh, Finely Flavored and Delicious..
Six Sticks, for. lc
Thirty Sticks, for , 6c
Sixty Sticks, for 10c
Ten ($1) Greei Trading Stamps with
pound box Bennett's Special Chocolate
Creams 25c
Fifteen ($1.50) Green Trading Stamps
. with package California Figs 12Hc
EASTER NOVELTIES
Efrgs, thirty for lc
Cotton Ducks and Chicks, each 5c
Sunny Jim. each 15c
Roosters and Hens, each lc
Chicks in Eggs, each 6c
Hardware Specials
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps
with Genuine Gray Agate m M
4-qt. Preserving Kettle, 4'4'C
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps
with Genuine Gray Agate f T
6-qt Preserving Kettle, "JJfJ
at
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps
with Genuine Gray Agate m
8-qt. Preserving Kettle, hg
Forty ($4.00) Green Trading Stamps
with 6-qt. Blue and White fk
Enameled Preserving Kettle, jllf
Forty ($4.00) Green Trading Stamps
with 8-qt. Blue and White m Q
Enameled Preserving Kettle, jQQ,
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
4-ft. length Gas Tubing, A
with connections, llft
. at. . ... ...t.1rs. .., v w
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
6-ft length Gas Tubing, 1A
with connections, JJC
Ten' ($i!66) Green' Trading' Stamps will
8-ft. length Gas Tubing, r q
with connections, JOC
Twenty ($2.00) Gre'eri' Trading Stamps
with 10-ft. length Gas Tub- M M
ing, with connections, 44C
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading' Stamps
with 12-ft length Gas Tub- M o
ing, with connections, tOC
Stationery Section
Main Floor
These Are Real Ba.rga.ins
Shelf Taper, 10 yards,
assorted colors A 2C
Crepe Paper, assorted col- f
ors, per roll m
125 Sheets, good ink writ
ing paper
100 high cut Envelopes,
good quality. Jv
2-ounce bottle Thomas' J
Best Ink -C
1 dozen Steel Pen Points, C
any make JC
10c Ink Tablets, assorted C
sizes JC
Young Men's Suits, 12 to 20 years, $15,
$12.50, $10.00 and $7.50 a saving of
$5.00 a suit that's all.
Special Shirt sale, worth $1.J0, at...... 75c
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Hats
"Bennett's Specials," $250 and
Stetsons, $4.?0 and
2.00
3.50
CIGARS
Black Bess, a good 4c cigar, fifty for 1.25
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Elk Granulated North Carolina Smoking Tobacco, lb..25c
Five (50c) Green XTa'dlng Stamps.
Imperial Stogies, same as Pollock's, 100 for 1.50
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps. '
Resagoes, a clear Havana 5c straight cigar, 6. for 25c.
Fifty for 2.00
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WAb DAI A KLAL DAI; MAIM
Eastern Oritioa Spurn the Evidenoe of
Notches on the Gun.
RUDE JEERS COME FROM , TENDERFEET
gtaimte Wholesale Man-Killer of the
Wast Acqalres a Kapatatlon of
a Meek Peraoa In the
I East.
"Is Bat Mastarsom really a 'bad man,' or
la ha a great deal of a .aklr?" Is a question
perplexing soma New Yorkers since Bat
assumed the office of deputy United States
Marshal for the southern district of New
Xark. The New York Press scoffs at the
halo of border romance which makes him
''the mildest mannered man that ever scut
tled ship or cut a throat," and pumps some
lead pencil Into hi record. Writers of
border fiction days, says the Press, have
made him the central figure In thrilling
tales of romance, adventure and Impossible
heroism. Of 'Bat'! It may be said that
in hie day he has had more and more In
fluential preae agents than any prima donna
that ever lost a diamond tiara or bathed
In milk and champagne. Trailing along
kin his wake Is the lurid reputation of hav
ing killed twenty-eight men, without count
ing Innumerable Indians, Greasers and Chi
namen, and the stock of his trusty "Colt's
4S" gun is roughened with notches, every
one of which telle of a fight to the death.
Likewise he enjoys the paradoxical reputa
tion of Being a "square" gambler, provided
such a being exists.
But by his own confession, made in open
court when arrested here on suspicion of
being concerned In a "brace" faro game by
which a man from Utah -was cleaned out
of (16,000, "Bat" never killed a man In his
life. His own words are: f
"I want to say once and for all that I'm
bo 'bad man,' and I never-killed' a man In
my life. These stories about my gunning
people are all moonshine."
It may have been modesty which led him
to thus describe himself, tor, according
to border legends, Masterson once Invaded
a dance hail In Dodge City, Kan., In which
were six cowboys who had killed his
brother. In commanding tones he ordered
everybody out .of the place except those
who had a hand In the slaying of his
relative. The guests filed out, receiving
rain checks good for the next night, leav
ing the terror of the west alone with his
enemies. "Bat's" faithful gun spat fire
six times, and at every report a cowboy
jumped through the roof en route to
heaven. They were all hoavlly armed, too.
and had reputations as gun fighters, but,
somehow, they were hypnotised and could
not reply to "Bat's" salute. When the
carnage was' over ."Bat" sauntered down
the nuiin utreet, casually left orders for
six funerals with the local undertaker and,
borrowing a file from the village black
smith, proceeded to cut six notches In his
trusty gun.
Bio Ketrkes oa the Gas.
Whan arrested here m connection with
the. "braon" fun swindle, this same gun
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was found In "Bat's" pocket, but the most
rigid inspection failed to reveal any marks
of the file. That it was the original gun
was evident from the owner's plea to Mag
istrate Crane for Its return.
"I'd like to get it back more than any
thing,'! he said to the magistrate. "It has
been a good friend to me for twenty-five
years and I wouldn't take one of those
new-fangled guns as a gift. Is It the gun
I have killed twenty-eight men with?" he
repeated In answer to the question, of a
young and awe-stricken reporter. "No;
It's the gun I have always used, but I
never killed a man in my life."
In view of this statement It Is hard to
reconcile It with this excerpt from his
biography, written ten years ago by one
of his press agents:
"On .the night of June 12, 1874, young
Mantrrson and' his two partners rode Into
the pmall settlement of Adobe Walls, a
trading post on the Canadian river. After
eating supper at the camp, which was
pitched by the riverside, a game of poker
was proposed, and 'Bat,' who even at that
age was passionately fond of gambling,
took a hand. Luck was with him and he
won steadily for more than an hour.
"Then one of the players, whom 'Bat'
had met for the first time, lost his temper
and In the course of an argument called
young Masterson a liar. At the same time
he leaped to his feet and pulled his gun.
It was the last act of his life. Before he
could draw a bead Masterson had drawn
his revolver and had shot the man dead
with a bullet through the right eye. The
body was burled and the poker game went
on."
Veteran border men will read of that en
counter with a smile of pity for the writer.
In the days of gun fighting such as de
scribed the man who stopped to draw a
bead was considered a deliberate suicide.
A Brace Game.
There Is a newspaper man in New York
who always has scoffed at the Idea that
"Bat" was a "square" gambler. Here Is
a story he tells about the great killer:
"When 'Charley' Mitchell was training
for bis fight with Corbett about eleven
years ago I was In Florida. I made my
headquarters at Jacksonville, going one
day to Mitchell's training quarters on
Anastasla Island, opposite St. Augustine,
and the next day to Mayport, where Cor
bet t held forth. Mitchell did not train
much more for that fight than I did, and
the story that Masterson went broke bark
ing Mitchell Is rot.
"Mitchell did most of bis hard work play
ing hearts with visitors. I sat In the game
once. Masterson and Jim Hall were reg
ular players. The game was a stiff one.
I had not played long before I saw that
Mitchell was Juggling the cards. I kicked,
mildly at flret, vigorously later on. Finally
I tossed my cards on the table and declared
myself.
"I told Mitchell it was a shabby piece of
business to 'skin' his friends. lie had not
taken in much of my money, but Jim Ken
nedy, one of the bent friends he ever had,
had been bled for S2i0, Masterson and
Mitchell got it. I did not see Masterson do
any queer work, but he knew as well as I
did that the game was crooked. I am al
ways suspicious of the 'square' gambler
who wins in a crooked game."
Among the anecdotes told of Masterson
Is one of an encounter with John L. Sulli
van when the Bostonlan was in his prlmo
as a fighter. The "big fellow" was de
claiming against the climate of Colorado,
and Masterson was equally vehement in Its
defense. Finally, losing his temper, Sulli
van made a vicious swing at the border
hero, who dodged and came up smiling with
his gun pointed on a level with the fighter's
stomach.
"How do you like the climate?" asked
"Bat." softly.
"Fine," said Sullivan, seeing the force of
the argument.
The same story has done good service for
every famous outlaw, from "Billy the Kid"
to Jesne James, the scene varying with
their habitat.
Chasing; the "Long Green."
It was In June, 1902, that Masterson was
arrested by Detective Sergeants Gargan
and Tinker on complaint of George L.
Snow, a preacher, from Utah, and son of
Lorenzo Snow, the Mormon elder. Snow
alleged that Masterson was concerned with
John F. Sanders, Leopold Frank and James
T. Sullivan In a brace faro game by which
he (Snow) was cheated out of about $16,000
In Chicago. He engaged a detective and
the men were trailed to this city and ar
rested. When the case was called to court
Snow could not prove his charge and the
prisoners were discharged. In the Center
street court the bad man from the west,
hero of twenty-eight fights to the death,
terror to evil-doers when sheriff of border
towns, thus described his arrest'.
"I was having my shoes shlned at a
stand on the corner of Columbus avenue
and Sixty-ninth street, when suddenly two
detectives caught hold of me and ran me
Into a saloon. Then they seized Sullivan
and we hud a bit of a rough house for a
minute or two, for they slugged us good
and hard without telling us what they
were after. They kept us there for nearly
an hour, when Sanders and Frank were
brought In, and we started In cabs to Mul
berry street. I asked one of the detectives
It that was the way they usually arrested
men, and he said It was. 'Well, It's a bad
way,' I told him. 'If you had a couple of
bad men to deal with, you might get hurt.' "
And all the while his record gun was In
his pocket, and later he was lgnomlnlously
compelled by Magistrate Crane to pay a
fine of $10 for carrying It The weapon
was described as "a wicked-looking fire
arm with a long barrel and 'quick' trigger."
Guns of 45-caliber generally answer to that
description.
Rnde Treatment.
It was rude of Gargan to treat a man of
Masterson's reputation so harshly. But
then Gargan does not know any better. He
Is a mlld-volced, blue-eyed, blg-flsted Irish
man who would have slapped "Bat" In the
Jaw and dislocated some teeth If the bad
man from the west had made a move
towurd his hip pocket. Gurgan never has
shown proper respect for Tenderloin heroes.
It surely was a shock to "Bat" to be ig
i.nmlnloU'ly drag! el from s bi o black tant
by a stranger, cuffed and hauled Into a
saloon, and then have his head bumped.
And he had his war dogs with him, too.
What would Dodge City think If It had seen
Its most famous citizen' at such a moment?
And how bout Deadwood, Lcadvllle, Butte
and the ether centers ef western civilisa
tion where "Bat" had his private grave
yard? Bat's story of his arrest Is not corrobo
rated by Detective Sergeant Tinker. Here
Is the way Tinker tells It:
"This man. Snow, had been trimmed In
Chicago for nearly $20,000, but was per
suaded to come to New York and get
square and more besides In a little deal
that was to be pulled off here. To be on
the safe side, however, he tipped off head
quarters that there was something queer
about the game, and Gargan and I were
put on the case.
"We had the whole bunch piped for threa
days. Snow kept us posted as to the meet
ing places, and finally the plant was fixed.
Snow was taken to the house In Sixty
ninth street, where a room had been rented,
ostensibly by a man engaged In the life
Insurance business.
"After Snow went Into the house Master
son and Sullivan enme out and stood at the
corner, acting as lookout men. We decided
It was time for action and sauntered
quietly up to the pair and told them they
were under arreat. Masterson seemed - all
cut up over his arrest and began to argue.
Finally he stepped back and said: 'You
have no right to arrest me. I am an
officer, too.'
"That was Gargan's cue. I was busy
watching Sullivan and Gargan made one
Jump and 'hunched' Masterson with his
shoulder Masterson toppled over against
a bootblack's stand and fell. His hat flew
off and Gargan kicked It Into the gutter.
Then we yanked our men. peaceful as
lambs. Into the corner saloon. While Gar
gan stood guard over them I went across
the street and found a plain-clothes man,
whom I pressed Into service. He held
Masterson and Sullivan while Gargan and
I went down to the house and rounded up
Sanders and Frank. We also got the en
tire brace outfit, which had been fixed up
for Snow's special benefit.
Touched for Ills Gin,
"When we got to headquarters the plain
clothe man whispered to me that one of
the prisoners, Indicating Masterson, had a
gun In his pocket. He had 'touched' him
on the trip to Mulberry street and felt the
weapon. I went over to Masterson, lifted
his coattalls and drew the weapon from
his pocket. It was one of those big 46 af
fairs like a young cannon. That gun is
still In possession of the property clerk
here, 'although 'Bat' has said he succeeded
in getting It bock.
"When the case was called In Center
street court next morning Magistrate
Crane questioned Snow, who admitted he
was In the conspiracy to beat the game by
crooked work. Crane, therefore, dismissed
the charge. It was not until In court that
I learned who 'Bat' Masterson was. For a
gun-tighter of his reputation, I must say
he showed little nerve."
In the theatrical section of the city,
which also Includes the Tenderloin, "But"
Is reverenced as a hero and "square" man.
Without exception, however, all his ad
mirers admit that they know him solely
by reputation and. have taken him on
that.
George Consldlne, one of the proprietors
of the Metropole, where "Bat" usually
stays when in the eity, considers bin as
one of the few "white" men In the sport
Ins life. ,
His word Is as good as any other man's
bond," said Consldlne. "He can get credit
at any place along Broadway for any
amount on his simple word to 'make good'
at any stated ttme. As a 'bad man' I know
nothing about his record, but I have been
told, by people who should know, that he
has dropped at least four men. For my
part, I am glad to hear of his appointment
as deputy marshal. He will be a good man
for the place."
Comedian John T. Kelly, who has trav
eled through every section of this country
for more than twenty-five years, knew
Masterson in the palmy days of Dodge
City.
"There was plenty of talk out that way
of Masterson being quick on the shoot and
all that sort of thing," said Kelly, "but of
my own knowledge he was never concerned
In any shooting affray. Personally, I have
always found him to he mild mannered and
agreeable, with nothing about him to sug
gest the border hero."
It Is not known that Masterson has en
couraged the writing of all the rot that has
been published concerning him and his
deeds. He Is modest almost to the point of
retirement In speaking of himself, and
laughs when questioned as to his alleged
bloody records. But If he has not encour
aged the exploitation of himself as the
champion "bad man" he has done nothing,
except that one sorrowful confession In
court to check It.
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WEST
Inviting Ohanoes for Work Swamped in
Crowded Cities.
WIDEAWAKE MEN SURE TO GET AHEAD
Countless Instances of Tollers Who
Jumped Out of the Rot, Sought
New Fields and Became Km-
ployers of Labor.
New War to Stop Street Cars.
She Is one of the sweetest young women
on the North Side, Chicago. None among
the season's debutantes Is fairer. The other
day she boarded a State street car. Some
thing happened to the trolley as the car ap
proached the bridge. The young woman
Inquired the trouble. The motorman did
not know. She asked If the delay would be
prolonged. The conductor was not sure.
"I think that I shall walk across the
bridge," she said. "I can get the car as It
comes along should you start before I get
over."
"We never stop on the bridge to pick up
passengers," suggested the motorman.
"But you surely will stop for me, will you
not?" The smile would have melted any
one but the motorman.
"We don't stop for no one," was the
churllxh reply. "If you want to be sure of
going on this car you'd better stay on It."
The car started before she reached the
middle of the bridge. As It bowled along
toward her she raised her hand In signal.
The motorman smiled grimly. "We don't
stop for passengers on the bridge," he
called out.
But the damsel was equal to the emer
gency, and, without a moment's hesitation
stepped between the rails, turned and fuced
the csr.
The motorman Instantly threw off the
current, applied the brake so vigorously
that every passenger In the car was thrown
forward and brought the car to a standstill.
"Thank you very much," she said as she
took a seat.
The passengere smiled.
The moterman started the ear with a
Jerk. Ctlcago Record-Herald.
The dissatipfled worker who finds him
self unequal to the ceaseless and soul har
rowing struggle In which he is from day
to day Involved, and who makes up his
mind that his condition Is best subserved
by locating elsewhere, will naturally turn
his gaze westward. Farming may be dis
tasteful to him, and, In that event, he
seeks some locality where the cost of liv
ing is not high, and where his skill as an
artisan may be utilized. If he Is unable
to find a suitable location, or falls to se
cure employment at his trade, necessity
compols hlin to accept any occupation that
may offer Itself. In nine cases out of ten
people who adapted themselves to circum
stances In this way have come out of the
struggle themselves employers of labor,
with an established business of their own,
and fairly treading the high road to
wealth.
Towne Offer Opportunities.
The lively, go-ahead towns along the
frontier of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico
offer boundless opportunities for gritty men
who are determined to throw off the
shackles of slavery "bosslsm" Imposes, and
to work for themselves. While capital is
a desideratum not to be despised, yet It Is
worthy of note that nearly every man who
rose to wealth and prominence In the west
ern states started In without a dollar. It
Is the faculty of seizing opportunities as
they present themselves and making capi
tal of them that counts In the race for
wealth. In the states mentioned the op
portunities are plentiful, and It Ilea with
the first comers to pick them up and profit
thereby.
Aside from farming there are abundant
chances for wideawake men to gather In
large returns by raising cattle and sheep
In Wyoming. I know of a clerk In a store
In Pittsburg who went to Wyoming less
than ten years ago and became Interested
In sheep raising. He had been unable to
earn more than $15 a week at the counter,
and with 'this sum he was much dissatis
fied. Ife got 130 a montn and board as a
sheep herder, but finally he became ln'r
estcd In the ranch as part proprietor. That
was the first rung of the ladder of success.
Today the erstwhile clerk owns thouiuinds
of head of sheep and cattle, and Is able
to spend his winters In Europe. While
such examples are rsre, there are In
numerable Instances where men likewise
situated are fast reaching the goat of
wealth.
' ArtUane Do Well In the Weat.
Competent meu who thoroughly under
stand the building trades will find the
smaller towns of the west ready to re
ceive them with open arms. Instances are
plentiful of bright young artisans who,
having worked Intermittently at their
trades in the eastern cities at from $3 to
$4 a day, went to these towns and, while
growing up with the community, estab
lished businesses of their own and are now
fast accumulating wealth. I know of one
case, the mayor of a town of 2,000 popu
lation In South Dakota, who sold news
papers In Chicago, ran an elevator In Mil
waukee, worked as carpenter at Sioux
Falls, and finally drifted to the town where
now ho. is the chief citizen and man of
wealth, banker and promoter of big en
terprises, "Had I remulned In Chicago," he told me,
"I would probably be selling papers or run
ning an elevator In a skyscraper" to thin
day. The opportunities for gaining a com
petence in the cities are extremely limited,
and, altogether, city life Is not what it Is
cracked up to be for the workman. Give
me the smaller towns of the limitless west
with their sunshine, roominess, the genial
good fellowship of their Inhabitants, and
the absence of the madding throng that
makes life In a city like Chicago resemble
a hades on ) earth. Any man with a
thimbleful of brains can succeed In the
west. If he knows how to adapt himself to
conditions. He must be a worker, he must
be energetic, honest, enterprising, fearless.
If he has these qualities the west wants
htm, and he will win oyt all right"
In all the towns of the western states
which are dependent upon the farmers for
support, trade in all Its branches offers ex
cellent Inducements to the settler of energy
and push. Enterprising young men with
new ideas concerning the operation of
stores, carrying large stocks of first-class
goods, well dlxplayed, and who know how
to keep trade after they have won It, are
bound to succeed. The chances for doing
business on the side, as it were, trading for
stock, poultry, selling farming Implements
where the manufacturers have no estab
lished agencies, buying and selling of grain,
etc., are numerous.
Ordinary labor, while not so well paid In
the smaller towns, enjoys the advantage of
cheaper cost of living. The workman. If
he Is enterprising, will soon have a cow
about his place. Then he will got a cream
separator, add three or four more cows lo
his herd of one, and presently he will be
selling Ms cream for 116 a month, a sum
amply sufficient to meet family expenses
should his regular employment fall him.
One thing brings on another In village lire,
but generally they have a golden living If
competently handled by the man who
knocks at fortune's door. Charles I'lrlch
In C'hlcugo Ttlbune.
Why He KJekcd.
Guest (In a village hotel; I want another
ro-m.
Landlord -What's the matter with the one
you h.i' e?
Oiiest It has a fire t-arnpo. I want one
without.
landlord But why do you object to a
fire es.e;e?
Guest Well, I II tell you why. Last nlgh$
the fire escaped from my room and I caukg
near freezing. Cincinnati Enquirer.