PART THREE. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. PAGES 17 TO 20.
TWENTIETH YEAE. OMAHA SUNDAY , MORNING , NOVEMBER 1C , 1890-TWENTY PAGES. NUMJ8EH 151.
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Department
Visit this Department on
Monday for Boys'nnd Child
ren's Overcoats.
SPECIAL VALUES IN
Bop' ' liters ,
We nro showing n larger
line of Boys' Ulsters than at
any previous season. Priced
J8,19 , $10 $ id $12. $
Special Bargain Lines ol
BOYS'
Gape Overcoats
AT
$3.50 , $4 , $5.
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Special Sale , This Week ,
-OF :
MEN'S RLL WOOL
, UNDERWEAR.
'fries , 75 Bente a garment ,
-VVewili sell this week 7B dozen of Men's Natural Wool Shirts
and Drawers at 76 cents each ; $1.80 per suit. In all sizes 34 . to 44.
TheseTao'ods are never retailed for less than $2.6O per suit. We
guarantee them strictly all wool , JU11 finished garments at 76 cents
each.1
SPECIAL
BARGAIN SALE
OP
MEN'S
AND SUITS
This Week.
OVERCOATS.
We carry by far the largesbstock of any house in this city.
One glance at the enormous pi-les on our tables will soon con
vince you'of the fact. The purchase of a good overcoat is a
matter of some importance to ; a close buyer. In a stock like
ours , you are certain to be suite $ . The range is from
MEN'S MELTON- OVERCOATS , $15
This week we will offer special values in Men's Melton
Overcoats at $15. This is thexpopulat1 fabric this season neat
and serviceable in several shades and all .sizes , 34 to 44.
MEN'S , BEAVER OVERCOATS , $10
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Weil \ offer this week a special line of Men's Fine
Beaver Overcoats in blacks and browns at $10 each. We know
this overcoat is sold by others as high as $ i 5. Our price this week
and until they are all sold will be $10. If you cannot visit our
store , send for one of this lot and if it is not as represented , it
may be returned at our expense.
We have sold hundreds of these nobby double-breasted
overcoats this season in black and fancy cheviots , dark Meltons
and plain Kerseys---elegantly made and trimmed and look like
custom-made . made in work-rooms
- garments. They are our own -
and combine quality and style for which our clothing is noted.
The prices are not high :
$18 , $20 and $22.
SPECIAL VALUES
IN
H ITS.
Our sale of Black Cheviot Suits has
been greater than the supply. "We have
sold them all season faster than we could
make them and for the first time this sea
son , we find a surplus on our counters.
This week we will offer a line at $ i 5 which
cannot be bought outside of ( he Contin
ental for less than $20. Be sure and see
this line before you buy.
Price $15.
Elegantly made and trimmed , Ful
length.
MEN'S
BUSINESS SUITS.
Price § 8.
We call attention to a special line of Cassimere Suits in
frocks and sacks , made from a neat brown mixed cassimcre ,
well made and trimmed , which we will sell this week at $8 per
suit. If you live out of the city , send to us for a sample of the
goods orve will send you a suit on approval. We know this
to be one of the best values we have ever sold , in all .sizes.
Sacks and Frocks at $8.
FREELAND , tOOMIS & CO. ;
.JL Corner Douglas and Fifteenth Streets ; Omaha ; Neb :
V1TII MALICE TOWARD NONE ,
frlio Daily. Lifo of Abraham Lincoln at the
White House.
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SOME INTERESTING REMINISCENCES ,
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A Grcnt'i heart 'Mnrte Sorrowful by
, Contact ivUIi the Suffering
Uroiifbt About by the I3x-
- Igonulos of War.
In the midst ol a crowd of visitors who
began to nrrlvo curly In the morning ,
nnd who wore put out , grumbling , by
the servants who closed the doors nt
midnight , the president pursued those
labors which will carry his name to dis
tant nges , writes Colonel Hay in the
CJontury. There was little order or sys
tem nhont it ; those around him strove
from beginning to end to erect barriers
to defend him from constant interrup
tions , but the president himself was
always the first to break them down. IIo
disliked anything that kept people from
him who wanted to eoo him , and
although the continual contact with im
portunity which ho could not satisfy , and
with distress which ho could not always
rcllovo , were terribly upon him and
rondo him an old man before his time ,
ha would never take the necessary meas
ures to dufond himself. IIo continued
to the end receiving these swarms of
visitors , evorono of whom , oven the most
welcome , took something from him in
the way of wasted nervous force. Henry
\Vllson once remonstrated with him
about it : "You will wear yourself out. "
IIo replied with ono of those btnllos In
which there was so much of sadness :
"They don't ' want much ; they got hut
little , and I must see thorn. " In most
cases ho could do them no good , and it
afllictcd him to see that ho could not
mnko thorn understand the impossibility
of granting their requests. Ono hot
afternoon a private soldier who had
somehow got access to him persisted ,
after repeated explanations that his case
was ono to bo settled by his Immediate
superiors , in begging that the president
would give it his personal attention.
Lincoln tit last burst out : "Now , my
man , go nwayl I cannot attend to all
these details. I could as easily bale out
the Potomac with a spoon. "
Of course , it was not all pure wnsto ;
Mr. Lincoln gained much of informa
tion , something of cheer an encourage
ment , from thwo vUlts. Ho particular
ly enjoyed conversing' witn otllcors of
the army and navy newly arrived from
the Hold or from sea. lie' listened with
the eagerness of a child over a fairy tale
to Garllold's graphic account of the bat
tle of Chickamaugn ; ho was always da-
lighted with the wlso and witty sailor
talk of John A. Dahlgron , Gustavus V.
Fox nnd Commander Ilonry A. Wise.
Sometimes a word fitly spoken had Its
results. When R. B. Ayroa called on
him in company with Senator Harris
and was introduced as a captain of ar-
tlllory who had taken part in a recent
unsuccessful engagement , ho asked :
"How many gnus did you take in ? "
"Six , " Ayrcs answered. "How many
did you bring out ? " the president asked
maliciously , "Kijjht. " Till * uncsuoct-
cd answer did much to gain Ayres his
merited promotion.
The inventors wore more a source of
amusement than annoyance. They
were usually men of some originality of
character , not infrequently carried Into
eccentricity. Lincoln had a quick com
prehension of mechanical principles ,
and often delected a flaw in the inven
tion which the contriver had overlooked.
IIo would sometimes go out into the
waste fields that then lay south of tlio
executive mansion to test an experi
mental gun or torpedo. IIo used to
quota with much merriment the solemn
dictum . of ono rural inventor that
"a gun ought not to rokylo ; if
It rokyJed at all it ought to rokylo
little forrld. " IIo
a was particu
larly interested in the first rude at
tempts ut the afterward famous mitrail
leuses ; on ono occasion ho worked ono
with his own hands at ttio arsenal , and
sent forth peals of Homeric laughter as
the balls , which had not power to pene
trate the target sot up at a little dist
ance , came hounding tack among the
shins of the bystanders. IIo accompanied
Colonel Hlnira Bordan ono day to the
camp of his sharpshooters and there
practised in the trenches his long-dis
used skill with the riflo. A few fortu
nate shftts from his own gun and his
pleasure at the still bettor marksman
ship of Derdan led to the arming of that
admirable regiment with breech-loaders'
At luncheon time ho had literally to
run the gauntlet through the crowds
who tilled the corridors between Ixis
ofilco and the rooms ut the west end of
the house occupied by the family. The
afternoon were away in much the same
manner as the morning ; Into in the day
ho usually drove out for an hour's air
ing ; at G o'clock ho dined. Ho was ono
of the most abstemious of men , * the
pleasures of the table had few attrac
tions for him. His breakfast was an ocrg
and a cup of coffee ; at luncheon ho rarely
took more than u bhcuit ivnd a. glass
of milk , a plate of fruit in its season ; nt
dinner ho ate sparingly of ono or two
courses. Ho drank little or no wine ; not
that ho remained always on principle a
total abstainer , ns ho was during a part
of his early life li } the fervor of the
"Wnshingtonian" rofqrra ; but ho never
cared for wine or Jiquprs of any sort , and
never used tobacco.
During the llrst year of the adminis
tration the house was inudo lively by the
games and pranks of 'Mr. Lincoln's two
younger children , Yfillium and Thomas ;
Robert , the oldestj.iyaa away at Har
vard , only coming homo for short vaca
tions. The two llttlct boys , need eight
and ton , with their -western independ
ence nnd enterprise , kept the house in an
uproar. They drove j their tutor wilfi
with their good-natured disobedience ;
they organized a minstrel show in the
attic : they mndo acquaintance with the
olllco-sookors and booarao the hot cham
pions of the distressed. William was ,
with all his boyish frolic , a child of
great promise , capable of close applica
tion nnd study. Ho" had a fancy for
drawing up rail way 4 time tables , and
would conduct an.'imaginary train from
Chicago to Now York with per
fect precision , lip wrote childish
versos , which Bomotimos attained
the unmerited honors of print. But
this bright , gentle , studious child sick
ened nnd died in February , 18(12. ( His
father was profoundly moved by his
death , though ho gnvo no outward siga
of his trouble , but kept about his work
the same as over. His bereaved heart
seemed afterward to pour out its fullness
on his youngest child , "Tad" was n
merry , warm-blooded kindly little boy ,
perfectly lawless and full of odd fancies
nnd inventions , the "chartered liber-
tlno" of the executive mansion. Ho ran
continually in and out of his father's
cabinet , interrupting his gravest labors
and conversations with his bright , rapid ,
nnd very imperfect Bpeooh for ho nnd
an impediment which made his articula
tion almost unintelligible until ho was
nearly grown. Ho would perch upon his
father's knee , and sometimes-even upon
his shoulder , while the most weighty
conferences were going on. Sometimes
escaping from the domestic authorities ,
ho would take refuge In that sanctuary
for the whole evening , dropping to sleep
nt last on the Iloor , when the president
would pick him up and carry him ten
derly to bed.
Mr. Lincoln's life was nlmost devoid
of recreation. IIo sometimes went to
the theatre , and was particularly fond
of a play of Shakespeare well acted. IIo
was so delighted with Hackett in
"FnlstiifT" that he wrote him a letter of
warm congratulation , which pleased the
veteran actor go much that lie cave It to
the Now York Herald , which printed It
with abusive comments. Hackett was
greatly mortified and made suitable
apologies \ipon \ which the president
wrote to him again In the kindliest man
ner , saying : /
"Givo yourself no uneasiness on the
subject. , . i T certainly did not ex
pect to see my note in print , yet I liavo
not been much shocked by the com
ments upon it. They are a fair speci
men of what has occurred to mo through
life. I have endured a great deal of
ridicule without much mallco ; and have
received a great deal of kindness , not
quite free froth ridicule. I nm used to
it"
it"This
This incident had the usual sequel ;
the veteran comtnodlau asked for an
olllco , which the president was not able
to give him , and the pleasant acquaint
ance ceased. A hundred times this ex
perience was repeated ; a man whoso
disposition nnd talk were agreeable
would bo Introduced to the president ;
ho took pleasure in his conversations for
two orthreo interviews nnd then this
congenial person would ask some favor
impossible to grant , nnd go away in blt-
torncss of epirlt. It is a cross that every
president most boar.
When only one or two were present
ho was fond of reading aloud. Ho passed
many of the summer evenings in this
way when occupying his cottage at the
Soldiers' Homo. Ho would there rend
Shakcspoaro for hours , with a sincrlosec
retary for audience. The plays ho most
effected were "Hamlet , " "Macbeth" and
the buries of histories ; among thesa ho
never tired of "Richard the Second. "
The terrible outburst of grief and de
spair into whichRlohnrd falls In thosoc-
end act had a peculiar fascination for
him. I have heard him read it at
Springfield , at the White House and at
the Soldiers' Homo. * * *
Ho read Shakespeare more than all
other writers together , IIo made no at
tempt to keen pace with the ordinary
literature , of the day. Sometimes ho
read a Hclcntille work with keen appro-
ciatiation , but ho pursued no systematic
course. IIo owed less to reading than
most men. IIo delighted In Burns ; ho
dald ono day after reading these exquis
ite lines of Oloncalrn beginning , "The
Bridegroom may forgot the bride , " that
"Burns never touched a Kontitnont with
out carrying it to its ultimate expression
and leaving nothing further to'bo said. "
Of Thomas Hood ho was also ex
cessively fond. Ho often read aloud
"Tho Haunted House. " JIa would go to
bed with a volume of Hood In his hands ,
and would sometimes rise at midnight
and traversing long halls of the execu
tive mansion in his night clothes would
come to his secretary's room and road
aloud something that especially pleased
; him. Ho wanted to share his enjoyment
] of the writer ; it was dull pleasure to
1 him to laugh alono. IIo road Bryant
and Whittier with appreciation ; there
were many pooras of Holmes that ho
read with intense relish. "Tho Last
Leaf" was ono of his favorites ; ho know
it by heart , and often u&od to repeat
with deep feeling :
The inossy marbles rest
Ou the lips that ho has pressed
In their bloom ,
-And the names ho loved to hear
Have been carved for many a year
Ou the tomb ;
giving the marked south western pronun
ciation of the words "hoar" and "year. "
A poem by William Knox , " 0 , why
should the spirit ot mortal bo proud ? ' '
ho learned by heart In his youth , and
used to repeat all tils life.
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A. Factor of Btudunt Ufa.
Tho'conditions of student life in nil
American universities and colleges unvo
shifted in a remarkable degree in the
last half century. The advancing stand
ard of scholarship , the broader and
more complex forms of intellectual ac
tivity , linked with Increasing social
claims , have compelled the atten
tion of thinking mon to the prob
lem of retaining an equable balance )
botweeen the mental and physical
powers. Walter Camp says in an'lllus-
tratcd article in Outing for November
that athletics , for athletics'sake , always
would have existed as a feature of college -
logo life regardless of their higher
value , but when to the y.oal and /.o t of
their actual enjoyment was added thoi
conviction that they were an id wain to
benefit , physically and mentally , their
position us a factor ot student llfo became -
came assured. Perhaps athletics in any
given degree became estubllshed in our
colleges as 60011 as that degree was as
certained. Certain it is that the old
conditions made no such demands ns the
modorn.
It is these glints of color in thopictura
of college days that stand forever bright
nnd steadfast when other outlines Be
come blurred and indistinct , You do'not
remember whether Thorpw right was
valedictorian or not , but you can never
forgot that glorious run of his in the
football game of 18 , when , with his ad
versaries left tohlnd , ho made the touch
down that gave your college the cham
pionship and added another silk ling to
the trophy room. Nor can you blot out
of your memory , oven If you would , the
"throe-bagger" ho made In the last half
of the nintli inning , bringing in the
winning runs ,