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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1905)
OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. March M. Big Silk Sale Monday Our offerings in silks in this sale are the greatest bargains of the season. Here is your opportunity to buy your Easter Silks at-the lowest price possible. The Cawnpor the handsome India silk suiting. This season's choicest style, is 27 inches wide ami comes in exclusive shades as follows Ivory, Charapncne, blue, pray Smniere, I'laln Itoule, Olftnlon, golden brown and navy blue, regular $ 2.-5 quality Monday, yard.. . . $1.69 An excellent quality in the new njessaline finish, 24 inches wide, crepe de chine In a full line of colors Monday only, per yard 49c We are now showing the larg est and finest line of fancy silks for shirt waist suits nud waists in the city Monday In three lota, yard $l.23-85c-69c A complete line of color wash silks in plain and cords for wash dresses Monday, at, per yard 49c-35c 10-Inch color taffeta, all shades splendid for liard wear, very special, yard 59c Our Black Silks Our 10-lnch black taffeta is the strongest and best finish 53c taffeta made for special, per yard Our 27-inch taffeta grades, as follows: Our Soc quality, yard. Our $1.00 quality, yard Our $1.10 quality, yard Our f Uio quality, yard Our r.G-lnch Jafl'etns equal as to wear. Our f 1.00 quality, yard Our $1.25 quality, yard Our f l-'tS quality, yard Our $l.(v5 quality, yard Monday .. .. SSc in four 69c .. .. 79c .... 85c ..$1.05 have no i .... 79c ....98c ... 1.10 .. ..1.25 T mm THE RELIABLE STORE. Tit EVER BEFORE has the powerful efficiency of our great buy IV ing organization been so clearly demonstrated as in the grand showing of beautiful and enticingly priced spring mer chandise now displayed in our various departments. High ness of quality, lowness of price and unlimited variety makes selection here of your spring and summer needs an easy and profitable proposition. High Grade Dress Goods Black Dress Goods 62-ln. blnck Sicilian MVj 51-in. Mack brllllantine onr fl.tm quality for Monday . . .7c 41- in. inohalr, Taml.se extra silk llnlsh our $1.50 quality, for Monday I $1.00 42- ln. eollenne, silk and wool, the new finish our $1.25 qual ity, for Monday Wtc 45 in. Bilk and wool eollenne our $1.08 quality, at $1.25 45-ln. silk nnd wool eollenne our $2.50 quality, Monday. $1.(59 Evening Shades Henriettas 75c, Hoc and Kollennes 50 85c and. iAHsdowne, 120 shades. Outing Surges, 50c. 75c aifd $1.N) Mohairs and Sicilians, 50c, i;c and $1.00 Albatross all shades, 50c to $1 Batistes, all shades. 50c to $1.VS ..25c $1. $1.25 Voiles, evening shade, 1 75e to $1.50 Mohair Waiatings, fancy em broidered, 5e to $1-2J Basket cloths, panamas, crepe do Tnils, etc, ehalllen, broad cloths, prunellas, etc., Jfroin 50c to $1.00 yard. Colored Dress Goods MOFIAIRS In nil the new fancy shades, at ,.50o Mohairs, in all the silk mix tures, silk finished, wide, go at, yard. Cravenctted mohairs, inches wide, all effect mixtures, 40 inches .$1.00 66 to 00 new vmannisli $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.08 Panamas 54-in. plain colors $1.00 40 to Do-in. in spring weight and colors $1.00 In seeded and ricod effects. .59e Tailor Suitings We carry a nice lino of man nish effects,' at 500 A good line of suitings, in all the new effects, at 50a ' The very best suiting in the marKci, at . j Ture worsted, hard twisted. J J beautiful goods $1.5tO j Cravenettes and Rainproofs WVln. very fine and heavy. $1.00 Real cravonette $1.25 l-'lnc cravenettes $1.50 Men's weight cravenettes. .$1.08 Very flue weight $2.50 liest made plaid back. .. .$:t.5) Spring samples now ready, sent free on application. Send for samples. Grand Showing of 1905 Rugs AT HAY DEN BROS. MONDAY, MARCH 20. Our entire Carpet Department will be devoted to the display of the greatest lot of Ruff values ever brought to Omaha. HUN DREDS OF TnE NEWEST AND BEST. TAPESTRY, BODY BRUSSELS, VELVETS, AXMINSTERS, WILTONS IN ALL SIZES FROM, 7x9 TO 12x15 FEET. AS SPECIAL FOR MONDAY WE OFFER 9x10 ft. 6 in. Tapestry Brussels Rugs at 11.50 9x12 Tapestry Brussels Rugs at 12.50 9x12 Handsome Axminster Rugs at , . 22.50 9x12 Splendid Axminster Rugs at .19 00 9x12 Wilton Velvet Rugs at 15.00 Vfsit the Carpet Department Monday. Make your selections and we will hold any Rug you may select until later if you so desire. Monday Specials IN THE GREAT SHEETING AND MUSLIN DEPARTMENT 30c Utica Mills bleached sheet ing, 2 yds. wide, limit of ten yda to a customer, Monday, at yd sLLKf 16c Utica Mills bleached Pillow Casing, 42 in. wide, limit of 10 yds. to a customer, f t Monday, at yd IsfiC 50c Bleached Sheets, ready to use, home made, 72x90 TQn size, nti.... JjrC 12$c Ready to Use Cases, 15x36 size, Monday, Q ' each. C 65c Seamless Sheets, bleached ready to use, 81x90 A.7n size, Monday, each. ...m I 2C Crockery Prices Badly Broken FIXE ENGLISH PORCELAIN under glazed decoration, everything that goes to make up a fine dinner, tea or meat set Closing out the en- m tire lot, at, choice per piece 15c 10c and DO.VT DRINK MUD-Purify your wa ter with one of our Filtering g r Worksmakes water - 3t0 clear as crystal price W DECORATED TOILET SETS (12 pieces) regular $8.00 and wd $0.00 values, at half 11 )fl price, -$3.98 and Lining Department Wo have the greatest Lining Depart ment In the west. Skinner's Satin, all colors, J 5Q Opera Satin, the best satin made for the money, is guaranteed to wear AAA two seasons, alh colors l.UU Sampson Silk, an all silk taffeta, 140 . shades, for linings, for drop skirts, for ruffles, etc, guaranteed for C Q one whole year DOC Yama Mia, an air silk taffeta, M r at fJC Gloria Silk, the finest satin mer- ccrized lining, made JDG We also have Lustra!, Tice spun glass, Manhattan and every grade of good linings made. -. Tailors' findings, sleeve linings, can vas, rubber tissue, serges, mohairs, etc. Examine our linings. Exclu siveness in Style Pre-eminence in Value Are dominant features in the great bargain offerings in our Cloalt and Suit Department Mon dav. The superiority of our offerings must be seen to be fully appreciated. We are offering for Monday values such. as cannot be duplicated in this western country. Don't fail to see them. 8.75 BEAUTIFUL TAILOR SLITS, lu Sicilians, pnnamas, broad cloths, voiles aud serges, in all colors and very newest styles, manufac tured to sell at $25, special, 18 30 $20.00 TAILOR SUITS, In all the newest styles and materials for spring wear, y J A f pedal Monday at $15.00 TAILOR SUITS, in panamas, serges and cheviots, in plain and fancy mixed fabrics, special-Monday. . NOBBY SILK SUITS. In the very latest de signs and most stylish colors, worth Q C up to $15.00, special at tJD BEAUTIFUL SILK SHIRT WAIST SUITS, made of Gcvernards best taffeta in all colors and handsomely tucked aud pleated, well worth $22.50, special Monday, JQ STYLISH CRAVENETTES An elegant line in tans, greys and olives, with shirred backs, a good value at $15.00, special Q OA . U.U Monday, at. A MAGNIFICENT LINE OF CRAVKNETTE COATS Unsurpassed values at $:'.5, $25, $20. $1S.50 and..., 15.00 NEW COVERT JACK KTS, In Keren differ ent styles, excellent IV.: 4.95 O T II K It COVERT JACKETS, at I3O.00, ns.oo. $1(1.00, t tn and 4OU Exceptional values in new Panama and Slcll iau Skirts, at $10.00, $8.50, $(J.50, T'CftQ $5.00 and JtJO WALKING SKIRTS In I PRESS great vnrlety of color and fabric, good $5.00 values, at SKIRTS In broadcloths and series worth up to $10.00, 2.98 Tc!: 4.98 $5.00 SILK "WAISTS. In all colors, at 2.98 HIGH GRADE WASH GOODS "ISr NEW SPRINa WAISTS, in lincus, lawns, nlbatros, .mohairs, etc.. ut $12.50, A A $10.00, $7.50, $5.00, $2.08 and... I.UU CHILDREN'S SPRING JACKETS, in all col ors, capo over shoulders, fully worth f Clfi $rt.50, special at .I.0 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Wa wish to announce to our customers that we have Just receive a larRo shipment price" .ce.le.b'a.t.ed ?.m.. !".a.de. W!'.?.P."?: 1.25-1.50-1.75-1.98-2-25 OOMB ' AND " SEE ' THEM'. Wash Goods Specials In the Great West Room VOILES. Grecian voiles, Bradford voiles, voiles supreme, voiles re-enforce, voiles on dule, etc., at, yard, 10ct Cfi 15c, 10c, 25c up to JUC WASH MOHAIRS. Lustrn mohairs,' Zoek mohairs, Bedford mohairs, silk mohair, at, Cfl yard, 12Vc, 15c, UK-, 25c up to. . JUC ORGANDIES. Half silk org:uidles, 70 per cent organ dies, silk spot organdies, Kaye organ dies. Carrcaux organdies, sublime organdies, real Irish dimities, etc., nt, yard, 10c, 12Vjc, l.k 7 C 25c, Site, Soc and DC SUMMER SILKS. Half silk, two-thirds silk and nearly all Kilk, Shimmer silk, Sole Radteut, Solessctte, Damantlne crepe. Sole Boucle, silk Jacqunrd, Mousscline de Sole, Eolicnnes, taffetas, Toklo silks, silk Pllsse, Allossia silk, etc., at, yard, 10c, 25c, 39c, 50c, 100 75c up to. ; l.UU HI.1I SILK. Something like Raja silk, one yard wide, makes the most beautiful silk T C dress and only, yard DC WniTE GOODS. Jaequards, Marseilles, Piques and nlco line, full mercerized, at, 1 C yard IDC nigh grade Imported contumo cloth," handsome patterns and "Jf designs, at, yard DC Beautiful goods, at, yard 39c mercerized 50c Best Manchester, Eng., white goods, looks Just like silk, at, yard SWISSES. Scotch, French nnd EnKll.h Swisses, best in tn world, at, yard, lOc, loc, lflo. i!5c up to India Linens, Hatlsles. French i craian Lnwnn, cto., at all prices. IRISH 11 XEN DRESS. Butcher's linen, pure, at, yard, 19c, 25c. 39c and Drewi linens run from 18-100 to SO-100, all yard wide and full bleached, CQp at, yard, 19c, 25c and WAISnNO LINENS. 2G-W0 to 46-100, round thread, for KOf t n-.,r1 nt- I'l, .'.1 k a t wl U J W V Handkerchief Linens, 60c, J6o, 4 OS I $1.00 and - 100 Lawns, 50c 10c Seersucker Ginghams, at, yd 120 Tercales, 30-ln. wide, at, yd.. . CV-jc Standard Dress Prints all new patterns, at, yd ..6lc 3Sc 50c Mercerized Sateens, all colore long rem man ts, at, yd liC 8Vc Standard Dress Ginghams, great snap, at,yd.. ... 19c French Madras for shirt waist suits, 36-in. wide, at, yd I 5c 10c 15c Trlnted Organdies, fast colors, at, yd 15c tine India Linons, at, yd 25c Mercerized Waistings, pretty f P puttorus, at, yd DC 7k 7k Price Inducement and Dependable n i- 1 Goods he tw,n tractions' usf ,2iilSlizLi now ,n our furniture dept. Monday we place on sale a largo number - of this handsome Mission Jardiniere ' . Stand. Just what you want to hold a plant or piece of statuary. It is finished "weathered," and is strictly well ma do and correct in dci tall prtco NEW DESIGNS IN HIGH GRADE METAL BEDS We have Just received a large number of new style metal beds and offer a very fine bed in blue, green and carmine finish best enamel, regular, price $8.50 at NEW DRESSERS, NEW BEDROOM SUITES and a large shipment of NEW KOClvEKS. If you are interested come hero and save, money A WELL MADE COTTON TOP MATTRESS any size will go for The factory informs us that wo can still offer a few of these mattresses at above price, and wo advise you to get your order in soon. 25c 5.95 1.50 Ask to see the celebrated "Nerve Tone" mattress, well price It makes you sleep 9.50 Enlarging Our Mammoth Grocery Dept. Tearing out walls. Stock must be reduced. The highest quality of goods to be sacrificed at these ridiculously low pi-nv. S-pound can Boston Baked Beans this Flannel Department 30c AVhito Flannel, 1 Q at, yd IOC 18c Drapery Sateen, lOl at, yd IiC 15c best made Silkollne, v Q 1 at. yd V..'....:.02C 30c best grade Art Ticking, f j at. yd IC 12c Drapery Cretonne, at, yd O2C i.uc tjomrorter Uallco, c at, yd JC 10c extra wide Shaker flnnnel, at QC 10 cases genuine Marseilles bedspreads conies in pure white, pink, blue nnd j enow, mis is sometning tine nnd the best wo have Imported. Extra large worth $3.00 on sale, f jn each :....tfV iu cases extra fine bed comforter covered with the best Silkollne tilled with extra tine cotton, worth $1.50, ou salo Monday, rQ each HOC 6-pound palls Pur Fruit Jelly this sale 15c Quart can Golden Table Syrup this sale 7H0 Gold Dust per package this sale 15c 10 bars Best I-aundry Soap this sale.. !i&c Bromangelon or Jellycon, per package this sale 1V& Jell-O or. Fruit Puddlne, per package this sale 7o 48-pound sack High Patent Minnesota Flour this sale : 1.48 10-pound sack best Coriyrieal this sale. 15c 7 pounds best Oatmeal this sale 16c 4 pounds best Hand Picked Navy Beans this sain 16c 4 pounds best Pearl Tapioca this sale. 15c 4 pounds best Sago, Barley or Farina this sale IGo OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF CANNED GOODS MUST BE HOED WE NEED THE ROOM YOU NEED THE GOODS. 3-pound can Solid Packed Tomatoes this sale 7o 3-pound can Golden Pumpkin this sale Be S-pound can Lye Hominy this sale 6c tt-pouna can nancy Appies xojb na.ie... ou aalo 7c 3-pound can Fancy Table Apricots this salo I2c 3-pound can Ees or Greengage Plums this sale . lOo 2-pound can best Sweet Sugar Corn this sale .' 6c 2-pound can Fancy String Beans this salo 6c 2-pouud can Fancy Wa Beans this sale . . 60 2-pound cai Fancy Lima Beans this sale . 60 1-pound can Assorted Soups this salo . 7c 1-pound- Jar Pure Fruit Preserves this sale .'. 7&c Large bottle Pure Tomato Catsup this sale 714c Large buttle Fancy Pickles, assorted this sale 7c X-Celo or Malta Vita, package this sale 7c WE SEED STEWART'S FAMOUS GAR DEN SEEDS THE MOST RELIABLE TO BUT. HAYOEW BROS. Housefurnishings and Hardware Department Odd lengths Garden. Hose, per foot,. 3c Poultry Netting, per square foot. . . .Vic Screen Wire, per square foot. .lc Multum In Parvo Carpet Beaters. .. .loc Mop sticks 7c Galvanized Pails .v 13c Finest Steel Spading Forks 79c Garden Rakes and Hoes 15c Garden Trowels : 5c Garden Sets .' 10c Bird Cages, up from -lUc 2 burner Gasollue Stoves 2.75 Scrub Brushes 5c Meat Grinders' 70c Closing out a lot of durable dipped Enamel ware. There are Tans, Cups, Basins, Pie Plates, Pudding Pans, Covered Palls, etc. Any article A in the lot at lUi Linen Department SPECIALS FOR MONDAY " $1.25 TABLE LINENS, bleached ant uubleached, special, O C at yard O JC $1.00 TABLE LINENS, bleached and unbleached, special, f Q at yard OOO 75c TABLE LINENS, bleached and u bleached, special, JQ. at yard rOC COc TABLE LINEN, bleached and un bleached, special, Q at yard JZfC $2.00 PATTERN CLOTHS, hemstitched, all linen, 2!j'yd. long, Mon- f f Q day, each. 11 J $1.50 PATTERN' CLOTIIS, all linen, hemstitched ready for use, 2,,2 CIQrt yd. long, Monday, at ZOC 50c Round Thread Linen Waistings, 3d in, wide, Monday, in at yd JlfC 49c Pure Linen Lawn, 30 in. wide, great snap, Monday, at yd LDC 12Vc Curtain Swiss, 30 in. wide, Monday, at yd 71c Optical Dept. 1 ..-s When your Eyes tire 7 see our Optician. Correctly Fitted Glasses at Popular Prices. Perfect Satis-'' faction Guaranteed. Return of Sherlock Holmes (Continued from Page Three.) man who hobnobbed In ruin and water with Black Peter lit the dead of the nlglitT Waa it his profile that was seen on the blind two nights before? No, no, Hopkins, It is another and more formidable person for whom we mint seek." The detective's face hod grown longer and longer during Holmes' speech. His hopes and his ambitions were all crumbling about htm. But be would net abandon his position without a struggle. "You can't deny that Nellgad was prs ent that night, Mr. Holmes. The book will prove that. I fancy tliut I have evidence enough to satisfy a Jury, oven If you are able to pick a hole in it Besides, Mr. -Holmes, I have laid my hand upon my man. As to this torrlble person of. yours, where is he?" "I rather fancy that he Is on the stair," aid Holmes, aerenly. "I think, Watson, that you would do well to put that revolver where you ran reach it." Ha rose and laid a written paper upon a'sldo table. "Now we are ready," said he. There had been some talking in gruff voices outside, and now Mrs. Hudson opened thu dour to say that there were three men Inquiring for Captain' Basil. . "Show them In one by one," said Holmes. The first who entered was a little rlbston pippin of a man, with ruddy checks and fluffy white side whisker. Holmes had drawn a letter from his pocket. "What name?" he asked. "Jumta Lancaster." "I am sorry, I-ancaster, but the berth Is full. Here Is hult a sovereign for your trouble. Just step into this room, and ' wait there for a few minutes." The second man was a long, dricd-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks. Hla name was Hugh Pattlns. He also re ceived his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the order to wait. The -third applicant ' was a man of re markable appearance. A fierce bulldog fuce was framed in a taagle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, over hung eyebrows. He saluted and ' stood sailor fashion, turning his cap round in hU hauiis. "Your name?" asked Holmes. "Patrick Calms." "Harpooner?" , "Yes, sir. Twenty-six voyages." , "Dundee, I suppose?" ' "Yes. sir." "And ready to start ' with an exploring blpT" "Yes, sir." "What wages r' "Eight pounds a month." "Could you start at once?" "As soon as I get my kit." "Have you your papers?" "Yes, sir." He took a sheaf of worn aad greasy forms from hla pocket.' Holmes glanced over them and returned them. "You are just the man I wiuit," said he, "Hera's the agreement on the side table. If you. sign it the whole matter will be settled." ' , The seaman lurched across the room and took up the pen. "Shall I sign here?" he asked, stooping over the table. Holmes leaned over his shoulder and passed both hands over bis neck. "This will do." said he. I heard a click of steel and a bellow like an enraged bull. The next Instant Holmes and the seaman were rolling on the ground together. He was a man of such gigantic strength that, even with the hand cuffs which Holmes had so deftly fastened upon his wrists, ho would have very quickly overpowered my friend had Hopkins and I not rushed to his rescue. Only when i .They act like Exercise.) ff r? TV Vf syi 1 NNw-for the Bowels Ten . All Cents -Drunnista j , I, - - - . I pressed the cold muzzle of the , revolver to his temple did he at ' last understand that resistance was vain. We lashed his ankles with cord, and rose breathless from the struggle. "I must -really apollglze, Hopkins," said Sherlock Holmes. "I fear that the scram bled eggs are cold. However, wxtu will en joy tho rest of your breakfast all the bet ter, will you not, for the thought that you have brought your case to a triumphant conclusion." Stanley Hopkins was speechless with amazement. 1 "I don't know what to say, Mr. Holmes," he blurted out at last, with a very red face. "It seems to me that I have been making a fool of myself from the begliuilng. I un derstand now, what I should never have , forgotten, that I am the pupil and you are the master. Even now I see what you fr&ve done, but I don't know how you did it, or what it sumlfles." "Well, well," sold Holmes, good humor edly. "We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time Is that you should never lose sight of tbe alternative. You were so absorbed in young Nellgan that you could not spare a thought to Patrick Cairns, the true murderer of Peter Carey." The hoarse voice of the seaman broke in on our conversation. "See here, mister," said he, "I make no complaint of being man-handled in this fashion, but I would have you call things by their right names. You say I murdered Peter Carey; I say I killed Peter Carey, and there's all the difference. May be you don't believe wlia I say. May be you think I am Just slinging you a yard." "Not at all," said Holmes. "Let us hear what you have to say." "It's soon told, and, by the Lord, every word of It Is truth. I knew Black Peter, and when he pulled out his knife I whipped a harpoon through him sharp, for I knew that It was him. or ma. That's how he died. You can call It murder. Anyhow I'd as soon die with a rope round my neck a with Black Peter's knife in my heart." "How cam you there?" asked Holmes. "I'll tell it you from the beginning. Just sit me up a little, so as I can speak easy. It waa in 'S3 that It happened Auguet of that year. Peter Carey was muster of the Sea t'nliorn. and I was spare harpooner. We were coming out of the ice-pack on our way home, with head winds and a week's southerly gale, when we picked up a little craft that had been blown north. There was one man on her a landsman. The crew had thought she would founder and had mads for the Norwegian coast In the dinghy. I guess they were all di owned. Well, we took Urn on board, this mar, and he and the okipper had some long talks In the cabin. All tbe baggage we look off with him wss one tin box. So far as I know, the man's name waa never men- - Uoaod, and' on the socond night !n disap peared as It he had never been. It was given out that he had either thrown him uelf overboard or fallen overboard (n the heavy weather that we were having. Only one man knew what had happened to him, aud that waa me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over Iho rail iu the middle watch of a dark night two days before we sighted the Shetland lights. "Well, I kept my knowledge to myself, and waited to see what would come of IU Whoa we got back to Scotland it was cos ily hushed up, and nobody asked any Ques tions. A stranger dled "by accldont, and It waa no&ody'a business to Inquire. Shortly after Peter Carey gave up the sea, and it waa long years before I could Uhd where he was. I guesBed that he had done the deed for the sake of what was in that tin box, and that he could afford now to pay me well for keeping my mouth shut.. "I found out where be was through a sailor man that had met him la London, aud down I went to squeeze him. The first night h was reasonable enough, and was ready to give me what would moke me free of the sea for life. We were to fix it all two nights later. When I came, I found him three parts drunk and in a vile tem per. We sat dowu and we drank and we yarned about old times, but the more ho drank tho less I liked tho look on his face. I spotted that harpoon upon the wall, and I thought I might need it before I was through. Then at last ho broke out at roe, spitting and cursing, with murder in. bis eyes and a great claspknlfe In his hund. He had not time to gut It from the sheath before I. had tho harpoon through him. Heavens! what a yell he gave! and his face gets between me and ray sleep. I stood there, with his blood splashing round me. and I waited for a bit, but all wus quiet, so I took heart once more. 1 looked round, Jind there was the tin box on the shelf. I had as much right to it as Peter Carey, anyhow, so 1 took it with mo and left the hut. LOke a fool 1 left my 'baccy pouch upon the table. "Now I'll tell you the queerest part of the whole story. 1 bud hardly got outside the but .when 1 heard some one coming, and I hid among the bushes. A mau came sliuk Ing along, weut into tbe hut, gave a ciy as if be had seen a ghost and legged it us hard as he could run until bo waa out of sight. Who he was or what he wanted la more than I can telL For my part 1 walked ten miles, got a train at Tunbrldge Wells, and so readied London, and no one tbe wiser. "Well, when I ciiain to examine the box I found tlieiu wss no money iu It, and noi ti ll. S but papers tluu J would nut dare tu sell. I hud lout my hold on Cluck I'eitr, aud was suauded In London- without a shilling. There was only my trade left. I saw these advertisements about harpooners and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. That's all I know, and I say aaln that If I killed Black Peter the law should give me thanks, for I saved them the price of a hempen rope." "A very clear statement," said Holmes, rising and lighting his pipe. "I think, Hopkins, that you should logo no time In conveying your prisoner to a place of safety. This room Is not well adapted for a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a proportion of our carpet." "Mr. Holmes," said Hopkins, "I do not kiiow how to express my gratitude. Even now I do not understand how you attained this result' "Simply by having the good fortune to get the right clue from the beginning. It is very possible if I had known about this notebook it might bave led away my thoughts, as it did yours. But all I heard pointed in the one direction. The amazing strength, the skill in the use of the har poon, the rum and water, the sealskin to bacco pouch with the coarse tobacco all these pointed to a seaman, and one Viho had been a whaler. I was convinced that the initials 'P. C upon the pouch were a coincidence, and not those of Peter Carey, since he seldom smoked, and no pipe was found In his cabin. You remember that I asked whether whisky and brandy were in the cabin. You said they were. How many landsmen are there who would drink rum whon they could get these other spirits? Yes, I was certain it was a seaman." "And how did you find him?" "My dear sir, the problem tiad become a very simple one. if it were a seaman, It could Only be a seaman who had been with him on tho Sea Unicorn. So far us I could learn he had sailed in no other ship. I spent three days In wiring to Dundee, aud at the end of that time I had ascertained the names of the crew of tho Sea I'nicnrn In 1883. When I found Patrick Cairns among tho harpooners, my research was nearing Its end. I argued that tho man was probably In Ixndon, and that he would denlre to leave the country for a time. I therefore spent some days in tho VaihI Knd, duvlsed an Arctic expedition, put forth tempting terms for harpooners who would serve under Cuptain Busll and behold the result !" "Wonderful!" cried Hopkins. "Wonder ful!" . "You must obtain the release of yotrng Nellgan as soon as possible," said Holmes. "I confess that I think you owe him some apology. The tin box mu&t be returned to him. but, nt rourse, tbe securities which Vvier Curry has sold are lost for ever. There's the cab. Hapkins, and you can re move your man. . If you want me for the trial, tay address and that of Watson will be somewhere in Norway I'll send partic ulars later.' PRATTLE OF THIS YOUNGSTERS. Mamma Dick, why can't you be a good little boy as good as that llttlo Rollo Stan ford? Dicky It wouldn't be any use, ma no body 'd believe it. Cleveland Leader. His Grandmother Well, Tommy, what do you feel like eating today? Tommy I feel like eatin' a wliole pie, grandma, but mamma wouldn't like it If I waa to eat more'n half of one. Chicago Tribune. Mamma There! You have a black eye and a bloody nose, and your coat Is torn to bits. How many times have I told you not to pl.iy with that bad Brown boy? Bobby Gee, ma! Do I look like we'd been a-pluyln'? Philadelphia Press. While Prof. George E. Vincent of the University of Chicago addressed the Chi cago Woman's Aid the other afternoon on "The Psychology of Democracy," his son, John, aged 11 years, wlio had been prom ised a bicycle when the lecture was dono, impatiently "sat It out." ju inr oeu.1, wnen ne wriggled un easily, John Vincent was testimony that hla father was a prophet without honor so far as he was concerned. Tho boy held a watch on his father, when the lattor, with effective earnestness, sold: "Society Is held together by sentiment. It Is that which guides tbe great mass of people, and the test of moral Insight is the ability to decide by instinct tho right and wrong of any proposition. Therefore I John Vincent was not waiting to hear what Vincent elder said; he was wait ing in the vestibule. "Going to buy mo a bicycle now," he told a sympathetic woman, "and I guess listen ing to him talk I earned 1 (-"-Chicago Tribune. SmaJl Clarence had been called In to see the new baby. "Mamma." ha said, after a long and earnest look at the new arrival, "didn't you say one time that I waa the apple of your eyer "Yes, dear," answered his mother. "Well," continued Clarence, with a slKh, "I s'pose I'm only tbe core now." Chicago News. j Whenyou get a letter written on cheap, poorly printed stationery, doesn't it create an unfavorable impression? Now turn your mind to your own stationeryis it all it should be? TELEPHONE 1604.