THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUiNPAY , , DECEMBER 7 , 1800-SIXTEEN PAGES. H. H STMA H OWN SA KNOWN We Make this Great Cut in Prices in Order to Unload Our Enormous Stock. Ever known in Omaha , will begin at the Peoples Mammoth Installment Greatest Mark Down Sale House , beginning Monday y December Sth , and to continue until the bulk oj their stock is disposed of. Such actual slaughter of values will be the talk of the town during the coming week , and a wonder to the furniture trade in general. Furniture , Carpets , Stoves , BeddingEtc , , will be quoted at less than half usual prices , and a personal call is requested , and all those contemplating purchasing household goods , as an actual saving of from 75 to 100 per cent is guaranteed. Call early and secure bargains. MOST BlX RAORDINt.AJRY © ALEX EXVBJR Unloading Stoves. Heatliifr 8tove , rcinilar i > rlco$7.r > 0 , innrk down price $ 8 10 Heatliiir Stovc regular price $10 , innrk donn price 4 00 Hard ConI Heaters , rcgnlnr price $10 , innrk down price 7 70 Oak Heaters , icju'iir prlco $15 , mark don u price 7 40 Hard Coal Healers , regular price $157.50 , murk donn price . 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Parlor Suits , ivgular prlcn $35 , murk down price 18 50 Parlor Suits , regular price $ (5 ( , mark dun n price 28 5O PiTlor Suits , regular price $ ( il ) , nmrkdovtn price ! ! 5 00 Pluih Comb > s , regular | rice $15 , murk down price < 8 25 Piush Couches , regular price $2D , murk dimn price It 50 lied Lounges , regular price $ ll ! , miirkdomi price 7 00 . Single Lounges , regular price $3. . " > 0 , mark down prlco 4 50 M Plush Clialra , regular price $5 , mark don u price . 2 00 Lid Make Your Own Terms. If these terms do not suit you notify us ami wo will muko them to suit your own comcnlcnce. $15 worth of goods $1 per week or $4 per month $ HO worth of goods $1.50 per week or $ ( per month $00 worth of good ) $2 per week or $8 per month $00 worth of goo Js $2.50 per week or $10 per month $120 worth of ( roods $ ! ) nar week or $12 per month ' $200 worth of goods $5 per neck or $20 per month j $100 worth of goods $8 per week or $30 per mouth ' I Sped il Inducements t ) now beginners In Imiihckeeplug. "Write for Illustrated Catalogue. me eople's ' Mammoth Installmen ouse Wholesale * and Retail Furniture , Carpet and Stove Dealers , 613-615-617-619 North 16th Street , Between California and Webster Streets. THE LOUNGER IN THE LOBBY , Tlays of a Post Generation and Their Pres ent Interest to Theatre Qoors. ATTRACTIONS FOR THE PRESENT WEEK , Ilo\v James T. I'o'.vers ISxpccts to At- tnintliaDistinction ot'n legitimate Cfliiimcilinn . II. Crnno to Almiulon "Tho Senator. " Plays , as well as actors , have their sea sons. I suppose Aristophanes was the Dion IlouclrauU of his time. Has It over occurred to you that his plays Imvo been snatched from the meadow of performance ) and put Into the licrbailum of classic literature ! Try nnd play "Nutlmn the Wise. " Once It was popu lar. Hut It wns very , very long ago. Try some of the mclo-dr.unas of your child hood , 1C your chiUllicod extends back far enough. How about "Tho Flowers of the Forest , " nnd "Tho Actress of Padua , " nnd Jane Shore , " and "Tho Iron Chest ! " They were undoubtedly the "Monto Crlstos. " the "Cast Lymies , " the "Shnughrauns" of their time. What's the mat'er with thorn nowl Why will uot Tootles sot the town ronrlnir us It used to do wliun I was u boy in an east ern city arcl went night nftrr night to see John Bleoncr ( Jlarka | ilny the delightful role. How is It thut "Tho Serious Family" that once convulsed everybody has got to bo too serious to touch ! Anil It anybody wcro to piny ( Jcorgo Lodcr'a "Serious Family1' polka , that onro chlrupod on everybody's lips , people would vote It dull , Just us they voted Julion'a "Katydid 1'olhn" when it wua revived. There roust have bcon some fitness about these things in tliblr time. They must havp bcon the outcome , of their season , adapted to the sunshine nnd humidity of that hour and touched tlio mood of the moments. To re busdtato them is llko reading the back flies f the dally \upor \ , Nobody docj It for the emotions it will arouse , only for tbo facts that may bo obtained , Muslo and drama Imvo their graveyards. Antiquaries will will wander among them nnd cony the old epitaphs. But ut best it is u melancholy pursuit. Can you Imagine anything moro pcdautl cally dull , and prasmatlo and didactic than a concert of old music I It appeals to scholar ship , not to emotion. It's like an old woman picturing the Mayday of the past. What you are interested iu is the May day of the present , How many members of the Ladles' Musi cal society think you could sit down at the piano and play off hand "Bon Bolt , " or ! 'Alico. Whcro Alt Thou ! " Stephen Foster's melodies nud Howard Glover's madrigals blossomed along thn springtime of their epoch nnd then died. Sum It nil up In the newspaper phases and things of mere beauty have pot to go. You can't stop em. Women do tlo tholr tnnslcs with a ribbon and pin them in a book and wilto under them , "A beautiful day at Mhiuetonkn , " or "That tender hour in the nfter-glow. " But bless vou the sweet days have dawned nnd declined and the pansles have sprung nndcn1 other lovers' feet in the after-glow and the dauco of lifo and death wont on Just the sumo. Hut how sadly I liavo run away from my thought. There are plays outside ot Shake- spcaro that are perennial , you will tell mo and probably you are thinking whiloyou dose so of "School for Scandal , " "London Assur ance , " but the Interest is no longer la the play , but in the players. Every role In the "School for Scandal" and "London' Assurance'1 is a teat nnd a comparison. You do not go to bo tntoi-citod In the story , but to see how Sir Peter will rank or Lady (3ny ( Spanker catalogue. You carry your standard with you. You saw so and so do It in ' 00 , and all that sort of a thing. The ex cellence of the player has become by ac cumulated tradition of technical Interest. There are considerations that are worth heeding when \\o hear so much about the historic ) and classic past. 1 think , myself , that the normal plav house , no less than the player , Is the "brief extract and chronicle of the timo. " , Wo may take n student Interest in Mollero nnd Schiller , but it will not bo the playgoer's interest. Themes press upon us that neither Mnllcro nor Schiller dreamed of , and thcro mo some new duties resting upon the play houses that Uoctho nnd Leasing could not anticipate. In order to live up to the now order of things wo must bo taught to recognlro true char acter ns it should bo , not as It is , and thus Imvo our ideals llxcd for us. To do all this the drama must go on and not look backward. When James T. Powers left Charles Hoyt and his comedies for the wider field of comla opera , and became a member of the Casino forces , thcro wcro those who expressed mis givings for the outcome of his radical do- parturo. His friends argued that In force comedy "Jimmy" 1'owcra was always sure Unloading Carpets , BeMing , Ingrain. Oa .p"fc , rojular price 36o , mark down prlco $ , \2 Brussels Gurpot. regular pr.oo 9Oo , mark down price .42 Hemp Carpit , reguUrprioa 36 c , mark down prlco .16 Moquotte Oaipot , regular prloo $2.50 , mark down prioo 14O 'Window Sbadop , regular prloa $ lmark down prlco , .19 Portlars , rogulur price $10 , mark down prloo ; 49O Laoa Curtains regular prloo'$2.6O , mark down price .75 Pillows , regular price $1 , ma-k down prlco .40 Comforts , regular prlco $2.5O , mark down prloo .76 Blanket3 , regular price $3 , mark down prlco 1.6O Marking Down .Book Bases , v Book Cases , rogulor prloo $1O , mark down proe ! $ 4.5O Book Caafis , regular prioo 815 , mark down price 7.5O Secretaries , regular prioo 840 , mark down prlco 24.OO Secretaries , regular price $50 , mark down prloo 3O.OO Parlor Secretaries , regular prlco $5O'mark ' down price 3O.OO | Unloading Filrnitte. 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Mffl of a iiatno , nnd that it scorned llko madness to Icavo n continental reputation as a farceur , which insured blc salaries and comparatively easy work , for it field that on Its surface promised little for tbo ambitious comedian. Never a great singer , but with native abil ity of an uncommon order , Mr. Powers cut loose from the "rough imd tumDlo" school in which ho early bocumo n prize scholar , and began anew tils artistic career. The Casino proved to bo n remarkable academy. It brought "Jimmy" Powcis into intliimto rcliitlousliip with the brightest people ple in the woild of music , it gav him the benoflt of the wide experience of Mr. Aaron- son , nnd his lieutenants ; it brought him the niendshliiof Francis Nilson , UoWolf Hopper - per , Jolt Do Aiigells , Digby Hell , men whoso names nro known from one thooxtrcmo of the country to the other , and naturally the nsso- elation with the icings of comic opera could not help but prove bcnetlcial ; it mellowed the urt of Mr. Powers , it rounded the rough edges of his impersonations , it gave him glimpses of hroadrr ilelds in which his genius might shine. And when , after thrco years hard , earnest , consricntlousworkin the lend ing comic opera company in America , ho dd- clcied to go back to the comedy stage nnd strive for the position of n legitimate comedian , his friends instead ot deterring him from the stop , as in the previous Instance , welcomed htm back to the stngo which had grown to know him so \\cll. In "A Straight Tip" Mr. Powers has a con genial part which is played very unlike the other Air. Powers wo know as Uats. It Is ft quiet , intelligent study of a flesh and blood young man and gives him nmplo scope to develop the dignified yet unctuous humor which uas always been a part of his nature. We wore talking about the fallowncss of the legitimate comedy stage , and how little it was tilled by the present generation of com- medians , Nat Goodwin and lioland Heed Icing the only two oxponoats of genteel comedy wo have , when Par. Powers said : "My idea of getting Into the legitimate may not bo umusing to you , but I'll ' show you how I expect to accomplish It. During my llrst season with Willie Bdouln In ' 'Fun In a Photograph Gallery , " I made twenty-threo falls during the evening1 , 1 was vary popular then , The next season I cut the number down to twenty. Then when the public was not thinking , tno following year I chopped the number in two and made only ten falls. "Air. Hoyt came along this tlmo nud I Joined his company in "Tho Hunch of Keys,11 I made eight falls during that season. But this I con cluded not too much to entitle me to a place in the legitimate ranks and my next engage ment found mo making four falls. During my llrst year with Air. Anronson I made two falls. You notice the scale , My next sea son I made ouo and in my present play I make one , in the burlesque of Carmancita. But sonio night when everything is still I will cut that fall out nnd 1 will bo in the le gitimate. " Hathor novel manner of getting Into the le gitimate , don't you think ? THE LOUXOKII. "Arizona Joo" will make bis Omaha debut nt the Grand tonight in his sensational border drama "Tho Black llawlt" playing at popular prices , and the engagement continuing until Wednesday evening , when it will close. "Tho Wild Violet" will bo produced on Tuesday - day and Wednesdayevenings. . The latter Is n comedy drama founded on western , border life. The San Franslsco Music and Drama , the recognized theatrical authority of tbo Paclflo coast , says of "Tho Black Hawks : " "Tbo drnma Is full of action and light in teresting , and the members of the company nro well llttcd to the piece , and the gratify ing success that has been achieved is a deserved - served tribute to "Arizona Joo" nnd his tal ented company. fTho comedy in the piece is splendidly interwoven nnd is of that rollick ing nature which occasions roars of laughter and rounds of ujnthuiso. During the perfor mance "Arizona Joo" gives several ex hibitions of his woitderful snill as a rillo mid pistol shot , nnd also introduces his troup of remarkably well-trained dogs , which are nn important fouturo of the production. They display rare intollgenco In enacting the parts assignedlto thorn , nnd the perfect , manner in which'-Uioy respond to their cues Is wonderful. There ore several capable people In the corapanv nnd they sustain their roles excellently , 3 being fully alive to the spirit action of thpiilay. " Mr. Carroll Johnson , the Irish comedian in "Tho Fairies. ' Welt , " which opens a hnif- week's engagement at Uoyd's opera house on Monday night , with a matinee Tuesday and Wednesday , Is one among the versatile men of his profession now upon the stage. John son is said to ha a natural comodl.in , and the chat-actor of Larry Du which ho taltcs is so full of naturalness that ho Ills into it as well as though Con Murphy , the author of the play , had written it especially for him. "Tho Fairies' Well" is looked upon as one of the most picturesque plays now upon the road. "Tho Burglar" opens nn engagement of four performances throe nights and a matInee - Inoo at Boyd's opera house , on Thursday evening next. The cast is Identical with the ouo that appeared in this city last season , headed by that able artist , Mr. A. S. Llpman. Manager Lnwler of the Eden Musco has secured this week a genuine- wonder , a freak tinrlvalod In this or any other ago. In Mite , the Midget , ho has n wonder that tins as yet not boon duplicated. Allto was born in Springfield , Mo. , ten years ago of u well de veloped father and mother but ho Is a dwarf , UNLOADING FURNIURE ; Chamber sots , rogu'ar prlco $16 , mar k down prlco Q 7.4O Chamber s ts , regular prlco 826 , mark d wn prloj 14.OO Bedsteads , regular prlco $3.60 , mark down prloo 1.16 Rockers , regular price $3mark down prlco 1.26 Chairs , regular pr co GOo , mark down prloo 20 Wardrobe ? , regular price $10 , mark down prioo 8.60 Bureaus , regular price $18 , mark down prloo O.76 Con tor Tabloa , ragu'nr prlco $6 , mark down prloa 2.25 Hanging Lamps , regular price $3,6O , mark down prlco 1.70 Decorated Lamp3 , regular prloo $2 , mark down prloo 00 Marking Down Folding Beds , Foldlntr Beds , regular prlco $17 , unloading price $ 7.6O Folding Beds , rgular piIco $27.60 , unloading prlco 12.60 Folding Beds , regular prloa $37.60 , unloading prloa 24.00 Folding Bode , regular prloo 86O , unloading : p loa 3O.OO Folding Bad" , i gulor prloo 87O , un'oading prioo 4O.OO Folding Beds , regular prteo $95 , unloading prlco 65.00 Fold'ng Beds , regular prlco $125 , unloading prlco 7O.OO Unloading Holiday Goods , Plush Ohaira , rogu'ar prlco $0.5O , mark down prlco $ 3.0O Ea-ols , regular price $3.5O , mark down prioo 90 . f. Brass Easels , regular price $16 , mrrk down price 7.6O Plush Rockers , regular prlco $1O , mark down prioo 5.00 HanRlng , Lamps , regular price $8.6O , mark down pricn 4.75 Children's Rockers , regular prioo 81.5O , markdowa prloo GO Parlor Lamps , regular prioo $1O , mark down prlco 4.0O Piano Lamps , regular prioo $15 , mark down prlco 8.OO Laiios' Desks , regular prloo 1O , mark down prlco 6.0O Holiday Presents. Start paying In your holiday prcsants. We have the ripest line In Omaha to select from. All goods reserved on receipt ofa small payment. Elegant line of ladles' desks , rockers , lamps , clocks' , ' ' piano lamps , banquetlamps , easels , plush chairs , plush couches , etc. IIo weighs but eleven pounds nnd is but twenty-one inches tnll. His face and form are perfect. Ho is u handsome , jovial little lad , full of pranks and nlways in mischief. IIo can hide in an ordinary shod silk hat. Mack , the fnshlou plate female impersonator. The funniest oddity nllvo. Ills character de lineations uro goms. Ho must ho seen to bo appreciated. The Adams children nro the cutest little tots imaginable. In their songs nnd dances they win friends by the score. Tney will appear for one week only. An other great attraction is iCanzarctt , the mns- tormaglclan. His works of magic are bowll- dnrintf. IIo is a curiosity in this lino. Rol lins the wire walker , is an artist of renowned ability. Edwin , the king of clubs , is ono of the funniest black face artists now traveling1. Ho has boon secured for ono week , To cap the wholi' , Manairer Lnwler has secured the Adams Gaiety burlcsqucrs , a troupe of world wide fame as fun and laugh producers. The entcitalnmcnt throughout will ho n crisp , bright , sparkling one , iln > t class in every ic- spect. California Kxoiir.sloim. Pullman tourist Hleoping cur excur sions to California nnd Puclllc const points leave Ohtcugo every Thursday , Kansas City every Friday via the Simla Fo route. Ticket rate from Chicago $17.50 , from Sioux City , Omnhn , Lincoln orKansiis City $35 , Hleoplnf ? car rate from Chlunpo $1 per double .berth , fiom Kansas City $3 per double berth. Kvory.- UilnR1 furnished except moalH. Those excursions are personally conducted by experienced excursion manngora who accompany parties to destination. For oxcurblon folder containing full particu lars and map folder nnd time table of Siintu Fo route and reserving of sleeping oar berths ; address S. M. Osgood , general - oral agent , K. L. Palmer , freight and paBs-ongor ngont , A.T. & S. F. niilroatl , 1808 Fat-nam btroot .Omaha , Nebraska. Wcntliop i'Tobiibllitios. For December Indications point to cold , frosty weather. That , however , will make no dllforonca to those who travel In the steam-heated and electric- llg ted , limited vestibule train which Is run only bv the Chicago , Milwaukee & St. Paul Ky , between Omaha and Chicago. This elegant train leaves Omaha at (1:10 ( : p. in. arriving in Ghloago nt 0:80 : a. in. , in time to make all eastern connections. For further information apply at c.lty ticket olllco , 1501 Fnrimni . , Omiiha. F. A. NAHH , J , E. PUKSTON , General Agent , City 1'ussongcr Agent , COXA VJIIA Mt It is rot surprising that n man wanting a divorce should llnd it dearer than his wife was to him. ( Jcorgo D. Prontlss If a man Is happily married his "rib" is worth all the other bones of his body. In the ease o/ the young woman who fainted while nt the marriage altar In Kaclnc the other evening , It is highly to her credit that she did not do so until the ceremony was all over. Mrs. Watts For all thosmirt talk about women's curiosity , the men are just as bad. Mrs. Potts Yes , indeed. Ho never glvos no a dollar without wanting to know all about what I intend to do with it. Thirty-live years ago a sweet young girl In Franco married a wealthy old man of oighty- llvo. IIo has Just died at the npo IIKO of 120 , and the widow is too old to marry again. The story seems to carry its own moral. S. McDonald of Trczovnnt , Tumi. , started for Green Pond. Ala. , where bo was to marry Mrs , L. A. Hickman , but only got as tar as Birmingham , Ala. , where he was taken suddenly ill nud died tbo oay before his wedding. A romantic story is told of a Hiisslan gcn- tlcnmn living on the banks of tno Seine , whoso young wlfo was murdered shortly after their marriage. liy permission of the cnirhohiid the body cmbnlmrd , and taking It to his homo kept if there for ton years. A Missouri Pncillo conductor at Scdidln , Mo. , sent his wlfo homo to bur parents n day or two ago. Ho placed her In charge ot a conductor nnd apprised her parunts by telegraph - graph ns follows : "I return to you , pur Con ductor i-'rownleo , araso of damaged goods. Please pluco the same to account of u bad bringing up. " Mrs. Annie Nelson , a pretty young nermaii woman of San Francisco , was in a dreadful way the other day because she had lost the key to a house she had Just moved out of , and her landlady wouldn't lot her Imvo her mar riage certificate until she produced It. Uy the aid of a police ofllcar tbo mutter was llnnlly compromised , Mrs , Nelson paying for the key and the landlady yielding the precious docu ment. According to the marriage service em ployed in the Salvation army the brldo Is i.ot asked if she will obey her husband. Marshal Uooth , on being nskcd for uii explanation of this , said : "Wo do not admit thu inferiority of women to mon in the Salvation army. Tdat principle permeates the organization from the general down to the meanest private. In fact , most of the married warrlon confess that their wives nro the Iwttur half. " Joseph Spoonman , a dashing young bar- keeiwrof St. Joseph , Mo. , ran away with Mrs. G. A. Mlllor of Savannah , Mo. Miller followed them to a boarding house In East St. Louis. Ho would kill the pair at sight , but ho was so overjoyed at finding his loved though erring wlfo again that ho forgot his threats , took bar In his arms and nearly smothered her with kissos. Ho asked her ta return homo with him , and after much por-V suasion she consented and they walked to the depot together- talking to her and she cry- Ing. The pair remained In the iclny depot waiting room about nn hour. The forgiving husb.mil illlea his wlfo's lap with cairlics- * nnd oranges. She did not touch them , however - over , but bat nnd sobbed on her husband' * shoulder. XMI'IETXKS. Teacher How do you spend Sunday , Tommy ( Tommy f can't spend It all. Pu makes us kcop the Sabbath. Mndgo Do you over really got nn answer to your prayers I Hov. Mr. Wllgus Oftcu. Mudgo Negative or positive ? Sunday School Teacher And why do you say your prayers before vou go to bed , Johnny i Johnny 'Cause I'd got licked If 1 didn't. "What Is Friday's religious belief ! " "He's a member of the I , < mg-Ilstnnco ) church. " "What klndot a chuich i.i thatl" "Tho go- as-you-pleaso. " Preacher ( to three-year-old scholar ) "Lulu , what 'do you go to Sunday school- * forl" Llttlo. Lulu ( with linger in hoi- mouth ) "To see Dlcklo Johnson. " I play with sntan for six days , The seventh go to church- Anil thus I leave the wicked ways Of satnn In the lurch , A , D. ' . ' ,000 , : "Did you go to hoar the phon ographic parson this morning ! " "Yes ; but they got In the wrong cylinder nnd we hud. 'Hionn's Address to the Homatis1 insto..d of u sormon. " Mr. IMngo- Well , Tommy , what did you learn at .Sunday school today ( Tommy I learned how to say uniro. Mr. Illugo Lel < * hear It. Tommy ( meekly ) It only goes \vlth\ two pieces of cake , * Llttlo Uli 1 "Mrs , .Hlghtono snywour preacher Is uu&tero. What docs that mianl" Llttlo liny "Huh I You girls don't know bonnv 11 she says our preacher Is a steer she means our preacher la n bully preacher. ' " \Vho carried elf the gates of ( ! iual' ' asued the Sunday school superintendent. It wns the second morning after Halloween , and twenty-suvon boys rose up nt onw ami f .mild they hadn't anything nt all to do with \if \ | rf would not bo well If all the world were good , Ilrciuiso-atid this l& ono of many Hi/lnplcs If all men wcro , where would Uui cli-rgy got Uueir sinners for their horrible cxamploal