Set ieadly for Clhristinnias
We have Anticipated All Your Wants and Needs and Can Supply Them at Prices that will Save you Money,
day Buyers get the Cream . of Everything. Do your shopping early.
The Early Holi-
DRESS GOODS SPECIALS
40c -Mannish Suiting 29c
85c Scotch Suitings and Zibelines. . .65c
$1.00 Meltons and Zjbclines,-.. 80c
$l..ri0 Suitings, such as Meltons, ,
Zibelines ..$1.20
Special Discount on all Dress Goods
This Week.
KID GLOVES
Kid Gloves make a very desirable Christ
mas gift. , We will exchange any
Gloves bought of us for different size
or color. Or wc will sell a Glove Bond
which entitles the bearer to a pair of
Gloves at any time. We carry a
complete line at...$l, $1.25 and $1.50
MEN'S DRESS GLOVES
We carry the best that can be had for
the money that is the Adler
Glove, at $1, $L25 and $1.50
ON SALE ONE-FOURTH OFF
We have just received a sample line
of one of the greatest manufacturers in
Ladies' Neckwear, Belts, Bags and
Combs, which will be put on sale this
week at 25 Per Cent Off the Regular
Price. These are all new goods and in
first class shape.
Ladies' Neckwear, worth from 10c to
$1.00. for ..... 7c to 66c
Ladies' Belts, the largest line in the city,
worth from 25c to $3.00
on sale for........ .....18c to $2.23
Ladies' Hand Bags, all the new styles
and the best of goods about 300 to
choose from worth 25c to $8.00
on sale from 18c to $6.00
Ladies' Combs, sample line, selling
from 7c to 85c
Ladies' Shirt Waist Sets, Buckles, Stock
Pins a big variety to choose from,
at One-Third Off the Regular Price.
Buy Christmas Ribbons Now
No. 40 all Silk Ribbon, all colors. ... .10c
4i-inch riaid Ribbon 25c
5-inch Changeable Taffeta Ribbon... 25c
4-inch Taffeta Ribbon, with silk em
broidered polka dot 25c
No. 80 Warp Print Ribbons, fast colors
and new effects .25c
6-inch Ombre Ribbons, new colors, this
week 39c
Cloak
Room
.Visitors will find
unexcelled values
offered for this
week.
Furs!
Muslcrat Scarfs, blended and natural, with
tails, $2-50 and $2.2-5 4
values; special 2 J ,gg
Marten Scarfs, dark and light brown,
with 6 tails, $4.25 and 9 OC
$3.95 value; special ZtfWaWw
Isabella Fox and Marten Scarf with 2
bushy tails, $6.95 value ; g O
special ; ZDObCtO
Isabella Fox Scarfs, 60 inches long., with
2 bushy tails, $11.5 AAC
value ; special .. . . -9waJO
Brown Coney Boas, with 6 tails and
cord, a good value
at
S2.50
Isabella Fox Boas, with 2 bushy tails and
, cords and Marten Boas with 8 tails and
cords, $13.50 and $12.50 f4 ff
values; special ........ B(JU
Muffs to match in flat and round style, in
Fox,, Marten and Coney, at -very low
prices.
Children's Sets Coney, Chinchilla, Et
mine and Angora Furs in silver grav
and white, at $3.85, $2.95, $1.50 and 98c
SILK WAISTS
Black Pratt de Soie , Silk Waists,, made
with shirred yoke, a Bapi
"Beauty" at 44. I p
Brown and Black" Peau de Soie Silk
Waists, made with pleated front, a
superb, garment,
at
S3.95
Changeable Taffeta Silk Waists, made
with several rows of tucks and pleats
in Iront, very attractive
at
$3.95
CHRISTMAS SLIPPER
SALE
Our Christmas Slipper Sale will com
mence right now and continue until
CHRISTMAS EVE., DEC. 24.
We have everything in Slippers for
everybody and we have put special low
prices on our Slippers that will certainly
pull every Slipper buyer in this direction.
Our Slipper, assortment is immense and
our styles are the best that's made. . ...
Note These Prices
Can you even think of going anywhere
else for Christmas Slippers?
Men's Chocolate Alligator Slippers. .85c
Men's Velvet Embroidered Slippers,
$1.00 and 75c
Mens Dongola Everett Slippers. . .$1.00
Men's Wine Goat Slippers. $1.25
Men's Fine Kid Slippers, Everett and
Opera style .". 1 . : $1.50
Men's Cronie Kid Opera Slippers. . .$1.75
Ladies' Velvet Gaiter Dongola Vamp
Slippers and Kid one-strap bow,
sizes 13y2 to 8 $1.50
Ladies' Patent Kid Opera Bar
Sandals .$2.00
Ladies' Kid 2-strap Sandals. ...... .$1.25
Ladies' Comfortable Felt Slippers,
$1.10, $1.00, 75c .65q
Misses' and Children's Slippers,
v 48c and . .33c
DOLLS! DOLLS! DOLLS!
Big assortment of real beauties at cor
rect prices.
Undressed Dolls ,10c to 35c
Kid Body Dolls ...25c to $2.00
Dress Dolls . ... ...... 10c to $3.50
SILK PETTICOATS
Our $4.!)8 value, in black, and colored
Taffeta Silk, special , . . , . . ...... $3.95
CHILDREN'S COATS
Special Discount on our Entire Line.
Buy Your Xmas
Nuts and
Candies Here 917-921 0, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
Our Toy Department
Contains all the
latest Things
in Toys
a
on't Be Mislead
We can save you from $10 to $15 a suit on your clothes
.made to your order. We cut, fit, make and trim the best
clothes in town. You are especially invited to come in our
place and see our tailors at work.
Suits to
Measure
$15 and $20.
Suits to
Measure
$15 and $20.
BRITISH WOOLEN MILLS COMPANY
BIG TAILORS
1210 O STREET
CAPITAL- AUXILIARY.
THE rSEA
Palace Dining Hail.
The Finest la the City
MEALS, 25c
Meal Tickets, $3.50
COOK JUST LIKE
' MOTHER DID"
Beu. Phone u:$0. Auto Phonk iao
LEMING'S
DEALKR IN
lee Cream, Oysters, MilK, Cream
Confectionery and BaKcd Goods.
Prompt Attention Given to AU Orders.
401 So. Ilth Street, LINCOLN, NEB.
Lincoln Auction Co.
1325 O.
Will give yon bargains the next thirty
days ir. Furniture, Stoves, etc.
Wm. Walworth, Prop.
COAL
WOOD
AND
COKE
HvtchinsS Hyatt Co.
One of the best stocks
Xmas presents in the city
CALL, IN AND EXAMINE
BEFORE BUYING.
Cbas. W. Thmingt Jeweler
1311 O Street.
PHONE Al.Wil BELL. AUTO. l'!tl.
"Suppose 1 were to tell you you must
not go to the matinee today." said Mr.
Nagglt. "How would you like that?"
"O!" ambigruously replied hfci young
wife, with a steely glitter in tier eye.
"1 wouldn't mind."
Waging Warfare Against a "Rat" News
paper .With Good Success.
Capital Auxiliary, No. 11 'met with
Mrs. Cert Wilson this (Friday) after
noon and the usual social good time
was enjoyed by the large number
present. Capital Auxiliary is doing
some splendid work in support of the
'typographical Union. It is now en
gaged in helping the union in its fight
against the unfair Los Angeles Times.
A committee has been appointed to
write to general advertisers, protesting
against their use of the imes' columns,
against their use of the Times' columns
some good results.
USEFUL BULLETIN.
The Union Pacific's Crop Report Unusu
ally Complete This Year. .
The passenger department the
Union Pacific has just issued a val
uable bulletin showing ih crop yield
by counties in Nebraska lor the year
Ji:st drawing to a close. Tiie bulletin
is full of useful information and sIiouM
be in the hands of every enterprising
business man and farmer. Its pub
lication .is another evidence of the
enterprise and public spirit of th
gentlemen who manage the greai
Overland Route.
"When young fellers begins a
courtin'," said Farmer Haicede of New
Jersey, "they jest gets crazy, an' that
thar boy Jim o' mine ain't no excep
tion." "What's Jim bin a-doin'?" asked
Farmer Soanreep.
"Hanged if he didn't go inter town
yesterd'y an' spend a hull quarter fur
a teeth brush!"
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GEORGE W. HOLMES
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The inaugural committee which has
t-harge of the arraiigenients for Presi
dent Roosevelt's Inauguration March
4 has unanimously decided to hold the
inaugural ball on Saturday night,
March 4. This action was preceded by
a discussion of a suggestion that that
function, always a' feature of the in
augural ceremonies, should be held on
the Monday night following so that
Sunday would not necessitate the early
closing of the ball and interception of
the promenade concert program. It
was pointed out, however, that thou
sands of visitors would leave imme
diately after the '.formal inauguration
and that if the ball were deferred until
Monday evening the attendance neces
sarily would be comparatively small.
The inaugural parade, ' it is said, will
be an unusually large one, both in
point of civil as well as military representation.
We JIa-ra 'Very F.w ,o.f Tlicm.
Boone county, Illinois, has a single
family in which there aj-e now living
live generations. This record has been
received through the birth of a son
to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P.. Dunham of
Garden Prairie. Mrs. Alfred Dunham
is grandmother, Mrs. Helen Dunham
great grandmother, ' and Mrs. Phoebe
Crandall great-great-grendmother. The
latter is more than 100 years old.
Ou TuuriirpieitHire; t'siaes Homo Ktc'i
With 100,000 Hussian dollars in his
pocket, Horace G. Burt, former presi
dent of the Union Pacific railway, is
homeward bound from St Petersburg
and will pass through Denver about
New Year's day on his way to New
York, where he will assume the man
agement of the Grand Trunk.
Mr. Burt about a year ago started
on a tour of the world, ostensibly for
rest, but on reaching the Russian cap
ital, at the personal request of the
czar, undertook and carried out most
successfully the reorganization of the
various railway lines in that country,
especially the Trans-Siberian road,
which was. in poor shape t meet the
extraordinary demands or the war
which ws then imminent."
Faith .s believing without thinking
about it what you couldn't if yon did.
Anything that makes a woman look
a fright is sure to be the latest fashion.
A woman has worries as naturally
Life
We are born; we laugh; we weep;.
We love; we droop; we die!.
Ah wherefore do we laugh or weep?
Why f'o we live or die?
Who ki. vs that secret deep? ,
Alas, net I! ..;..
Why doth the violet spring
Unseen by human eye?
Why do the radiant seasons bring
Sweet thoughts that quickly fly?
Why do our fond hearts cling
To things that die? .
We toil through pain and wrong;
We flght-rfind fly;
We lcve;.we lose; and then, ere. long,
Stone dead we lie.
O life! is all thy song
"Endure and die?"
Bryan Waller Procter.
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(Copyright, 1904, hy Daily Story Pub. Co.)
"I reckon I've cured you of your
contrariness for good and all," cried
Farmer Haines, ' swinging in at the
kitchen door, standing an old shot gun
behind the stove and scowling fiercely
as he took his accustomed seat at
table. His blazing eyes challenged
those of a i slender girl engaged in
emptying the steaming contents of
several pots into a line of waiting
dishes.
"Why, father, what have you done?"
The girl's hand went up as if she felt
a clutch at her pretty throat and her
eyes flashed back a look of defiance
not unmixed with fear. "If you have
killed him. finish your mad work and
shoot me, too!" she cried, dropping a
saucepan and rushing for the door.
The old man turned to stop her, but,
even as his arm was raised, the door
flew open and a young man, minis
terially garbed and very much out of
breath, nervously dabbing at his chub
by face with a large silk handker
chief, entered precipitately and con
fronted the young woman.
"Dora Haines!" he gasped, "you look
all worked up. What's the matter? I
thought I heard "
' "Ask father he knows," faltered
Dora, breaking from the affectionate
grasp of the Reverend Giles Faxon
and flying down the pathway leading
to the' road.
"What what's happened?" asked
the parson, seating himself and gaz
ing with impatient curiosity at the
stalwart Haines, as he proceeded to
transfer his dinner from the stove to
the table. "What what's Dora so put
out about? I thought I heard ".
"You heard nothing," declared the
farmer, pausing to level a warning
finger at the preacher, "Jo you under
stand? You heard nothing!"
"'But I certainly "
Kaiues in one stride was at the
other's elbow. His great fist was
within an inch of the reverend nose.
"You shut up and let me talk," tie
hissed. "That Barker fellow has been
snooping around here again contrary
to, my orders. He's after my Dora,
and she the ninny loves him. Hear
that? Loves him!"
. "But Barker's a forger I ' thought
ho had left the country."
"Will you be quiet? Dora would
have run away with him if I hadn't
kept my eye skinned. I warned him
that the next time ho came around
I'd put shot into him, and I guess
I've kept my word-"
"Oh, I trust you havenl "
"Never you mind. "Xou've heard
nothing and you want to let that stick
in your memory or you may come to
harm. If yon have any idea of mar
rying my daughter, mind what I'm
telling you."
"Was Dora going to him when I
came in?"
"Go and see, for ail I care but re
member you heard no shooting."
The Reverend Giles Faxon, in any
thing but a happy frame of mind, left
the house. Several farm hands were
coming in from the fields to dinner.
His first impulse was to inquire of
them as to Barker and the shooting,
but he remembered Haines' warning
and let them pass unquestioned.
"Perhaps ne is lying wounded down
there by the ereek," he thought, "per
haps oh, God perhaps Haines killed
him and it is all my fault. I will
There was no answer and the young
clergyman floundered around for sev
eral minutes without observing any
sign of a scuffle. Suddenly he heard
a voice and, guided by the sound,
soon came upon Dora Haines kneeling
beside the prostrate form of a man.
Dora appeared not to , notice Faxon
who, as soon as his eyes fell upon his
rival's face against the girl's heart,
rcried out: ;
"How can you, Dora? He is a felon
he who forged old 'man Cotton's
"If you have killed him, shoot me,
too!"
go and see. Dora, if she expected him,
may be there before me."
Less than half an hour had elapsed
since Faxon, on his way afoot from
his school to dine with Haines and his
daughter, had heard high words from
a clump of trees near the creek by the
roadside words, followed by tbe re
port of a gun. He had distinguished
the voices but, being of a timid na
ture, had hastened his steps toward
the farm house, not pausing to in
quire into the cause or effect of the
strange occurrence. ?
Arriving at a little bridge. that span
ned the creek,. Faxon, leaving the road,
tremblingly plunged into the under
brush, callings "Prra ' ' . w
ui 4 you, l)o a .
' Live? Yes! Live to see you well
rewarded!"
name the man whose arrest is wOrth
five hundred dollars." x
Dora turned upon him with scorn
in her beautiful eyes. "He is inno
cent!" Bhe cried. Barker stirred and
the farmer's daughter again gave him
her attention, calling him by endearing
names names the Reverend Faxon
had never before heard from her
lips. A sigh escaped Dora's lover and
suddenly he sat up, looking longingly
into the girl's eyes and then letting
his gaze . wander to the surprised
countenance of the parson. . "Dora
knows I'm innocent, ' he said, and
then something like a smile brighten
ed his handsome features: a vsmile of
triumph. Faxon made a move as if
to withdraw.
"Not yet!' cried Barker, and there
was strength in his voice. "Stay!;"
and Barker's, hand was raised. In .it
he held a shining revolver. "Dora's
father told me, before this little forg-.
. ing incident, that she loved you, so
when you stooped to forge another's
name and further stooped to accuse
me old Cotton's clerk for love of
her, believing that she really loved
you, I let it appear that I left the
country.' But I was not very far away.
One niglit I stole to Dora's window
to say good-by, .and learned from her
lips that her heart was mine. Her
father interrupted us and, believing
the lie you spread concerning me,
would have held me to claim the re
ward. Dora pleaded for my liberty
and her father let me go, threatening
to shoot me should I again be seen on
his place. To-day I came to expose
yon and to take . Dora away as my
wife. I managed to send her ?.
message to meet me here, but her
father saw me and kept his promise.
As for you you will soon change your
ministerial garb for a striped suit." :
"You can prove nothing;"
' "That will come later; Jttst now you
have work, to - do--the last- task you
will perform as a clergyman, I think
for some time marry us!T
The Reverend :Giles Faxon trem-'
bled, hesitated and stuttered. Dora
hid her face on her lover's shoulder.
The point of Barker's pistol rose a
trifle and Faxon did his duty.
"Will he live?" asked Faxon, for
Dora and Barker were very silent fol
lowing the strange ceremony and the
clergyman feared or did he hope?
that his victim might be passing be
yond the power to accuse him to the
world.;
"Live? Yes! Live to see you well
rewarded," cried Barker,' springing to
his feet.
"Why why, I thought you were
badly wounded," declared the Rev
erend Giles Faxon.
"He would have been," said Dora,
nestling close in her lover's arms,
"had I not thought to put blank cart
ridges in father's gun."
Edison and Pasteur. .
Thomas A. Edison has settled down
to the life of a country gentleman .un
der the shadow of the New ' Jersey
mountains. Americans are inclined to
forget that his is one of the great
names of the world.
Anent this fact, says a writer in the
Brooklyn Eagle, I recall an interview
with , Pasteur, the immortal French
bacteriologist, In which he said, with
the simple and unaffected vanity of a
Frenchman: "Your Edison is a great
man. When the history of our genera
tion comes to be written the;, two
names that will stand out most promi-i..-Tf.-
.'. FPVfcciT'w'.il.. ! h" '
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EQUAL TO THESEIKROftNCYJ i
Actor's Ready Wit That SW3 Erri
barrasslng Situation."-,
Francis Wilson, the-actor, 'was talfc
ing at the Players' club about the
value of a ready wit" in stage emer
gencies. : 1 . ' . ..
"I remember well," he said "ti
reaay wit or a dear old man in Annie
Pixley's 'M'lisS' company that I pi
with some twenty-five years ago.
old fellow was never at a loss on
uoaras. no matter wjiafc dtsconcerytagl
accident might happen. I complimekt-l
ed him on his readiness one night, and
he told me, with a pleased smile, of ai
mishap, that .had once befallen him in!
Pizarro. . ' ; . . - .i
"He was, he said, a ryonng man at!
the time, and he was playing the part
of Rolla: There, is in IPlzarro.'OHnrr
member, one scene where Roll stands
on the stage awaiting Ataliba's army.
The army, a great horde of supers,
files past him, then gathers- roand
him, and he addresses it with a spirit
ed exhortation. ' .
"Well, on the night in question, all
the supers but one struck; for SOWS
reason. or other, at the last moment,
ana tnere was nothing to be 4ame.: .
The 4ne, super had to do dutrftttnV '
whole 'great army of Ataliba. Thurto .
my friend Rolla, awaiting the army in '
front of the footlights, the Solitary s
super marched, . i ; ,
"But Rolla was equal to an emer-.
gency even so trying as this. He made
a grand gesture, and exclaimed:
" 'What, all slain but thee? Come,
then, my brave associate,' etc." ,
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DEATH TAKE8 GOOD MAN.
Charles Shumacher Will Long Be Re.
membered in Wall Street. -:
The death of Charles Shumacher ret
moves' from Wall street one et Its
most interesting figures as well as oae
of its most generally beloved gentle
men of the old school. Many a man
prominent - now in its affairs -owes
much to the kindly counsel; and help
ing hand generously . extended af tbe
outset of his career by the elder Shu
macher. The banking world was in.
debted to him for his, skillful analyses
of the intricate "movements of foreign,
exchange, which guided its operations
therein 1 for oyer thirty years. . Not
man in America or perhaps in Europe
more thoroughly understood thls-op-:
zling branch, of haute finance. In Cis
connection a story -iff told of a- ynx
man new in- Wall, street 'who- ca. :J
upon Mr. Shumacher ' and saUM'
wanted to learn all about foreign x
change.: -'V';;..- 5', .'. -'- v
"How much time can yoi
subject" asked Mr. Shi
"Oh, about an hour,1
itor.
. "The time is pretty si
banker. . However, he ex
of the main points of the laws
ternational credit to the caller. -, .,
"Do you , understand foreign, ex
change now?", asked1 Mr'Shumacber.
, "Oh, thoroughly, thoroughly," was
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"Then you are a truly remarkable
young man,", said the sage. "I-kave
studied it for. fifty years, and.-1 dcUnot'
thoroughly understand it yet. Bos
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One On the Mule.
William . H. Taft, secretary of 'war.
weighs 320 pounds. His predecessor,
in office, Elihu Root, tips the tocales at
only half that figure. V; ,; f': 5
When Secretary Taft was civil gOT
ernor of the Philippines his health was
sadly K'1ftirtfwja6,
under greaF'respcsibruty la govern
icg the archipelago, where condition-
were yet so disturbed as to
retary:' Root" and'. President -Roos
much concern. Mr.'RootJherejto
quested Judge Taft- to keep hi
vised by the heW Pscific cable'
the state of his health. 1 One day i
message came to Mr. Root from
Taft at Benguetr'
near Manila:
"Rode ten miles . on a mule- to-day. :
Am feeling much better. ' TAFT." '
Mr. Root Chuckled and doubled Vit '
mirth in the chair which Secreary,
Taft has since discarded as. too smlll.' '
He dictated this reply: '.
"Taft, Benguet. Glad to hear it, lKt
how, is the mule? ROOT.l V , ?
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She Declined the Seat."
Georgie was a well behaved
boy. . He had been especially .taught p
by his, father to be polite to ladies 'v
and in a crowded car always to giv
up. his seat to one of the gentle, sex. v
regardless of age, social condition anil
good looks. On a Subway car last Sun
day papa had an unlooked-for and em-' -
barrassing . illustration of how well
Georgie had , learned his lesson. Tbe :$
car was crowded, but Georgiie bad pre-
empted a seat. A handsome young '
lady entered' at one of the stations at,
which the train stopped. ' . There was
not a vacant seat. ' ,. '.
"Take my seat, ma'am, said little
Georgie, as he doffed bis cap.
She didn't take the seat. She look- r ,
ed fierce enough to box bis ears, and .. '' .
the passengers had to laugh in spite jf j ' 'l !
of her mortification.' Georgie was sit-
ting on papa's lap when he so gallant- . 1
ly offered to give up bis seat to the
pretty young lady. Exchange.
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The Goddess From the Machine. ':
Singing for phonograph sems to be
as high-paid musical exercise as. there'
is. A phonograph company baa offered
a prima, donna, who sings at tbe Met- ;
ropolitan opera house this winter, $14,-?
000 for four songs. That is, $6,000 as'
soon as the songs are sung, and ,2,0p0 -.
a year for; four yeas as a reward for
not singing Into any mother, machine. ;
Great and, many are the means of in-
come of a goddess of grand opera. .
She could live splendidly oh what she
can get for using a pill, a perfume, a j
pianoi ' or -a phonograph. With th ;
Procession, Everybody's Magazine. , .
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A Toast
Let him who., will drink- to his love.
Or pledge a friend In wine; -
A rousing toast I'll -rive tr thee, .
O enemy -.oi, mine i - : '
Pour forth the amber liquid; fill '
Your elasseg to. me Drira, .
Here's t the man whose Heart ior
Bears nausnr du natreu biuus ,.
How oft when steep ascents I climb 1
Would I cast down my ...
Did not his royal enmity 4
My lagging lootstepo v-
So drink ngaln: your ptiniper raise , -
And jrayly CJinn .,... r- -
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