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The Closing Days of the Most Tragically Stirring Event in Your
City's Trading History Begins Tomorrow at 8 A. M.
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We are only yielding to the force of circumstances in the MERCILESS PRICE-CUTTING POLICY THAT
WILL BE MAINTAINED TO THE END a policy that means a MINT TO YOU though it would appear a
painful nettle-rash to our competitors. -
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Departments are running full force. Under
the orders of the court, all stocks must be
pushed no matter what the loss.
Embroideries Most of our spring embroideries come in
Saturday we can not hold them until after the meeting of creditor, they must all
be aold In ten dHys there Is nearly one hundred thousand yards Intended to be
old at from 10c to 35c per yard It will be put on our bargain table t"5"
MONDAY MORNINQ at 15c, 12c, 10c and Ow
Women's Tailored SuitsThe suits we offered to the
trade since the opening of OUR MAMMOTH STORE have been admltedly the best
atylea and values ever offered In Omaha now you can select your choice from
about two hundred suite and get one-third off our closest prices new Jackets
new cloaks new ulsters new capes new furs, Including Alaska seal, mink,
beaver, otter, Persian lamb, and ail the lower grades are being aold at one-third
off the marked prices.
Women's Fleeced Lined Undervests and Pants
Splendid fine and firm a large shipment that was late coming In 0-r
that should bring 40c each, will be sold at Ov
Handkerchiefs for a Penny The last case of our im
mense handkerchief purchase to sell at Be and 10c, will be put on sale MONDAY
MORNING at 10 o'clock at ONE TENNY EACH.
Women's and Children's Jackets, Cloaks and
Ulsters We must cut down our enormous stock of these
garments Monday morning we will sell them at ONE-HALF OFF THE MARKED
PRICES. Listen. $20.00 cloaks at $10.00 $10.00 cloaks at $5.00 $5.00 cloaks at $2.50.
NO SUCH REDUCTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN MADE ON NEW. UP-TO-DATE
CLOAKS.
At the Linen Counter- floz
..19c
37c
18-Inch bleached and cream table damask, heavy quality, none better at
this price, worth 35c, at, per yard.......;
10-Inch bleached and silver bleached loom damask table linen, the
best 60c linen in the city, at, per yard
60-Inch guaranteed all pure linen cream loom damask, the best wearing tatie linen
1 for restaurant use manufactured, worth A
9c yard, at i VC
fli.i.nk A., an A tiaaw wamnteri alt nurn linen table damask.
cream color, th best 75o grade, at, per yard ovc
72-Inch extra heavy and fine grass bleached superior satin damask, warranted . all -i
pure linen, the best $1.25 grade, Wr
at. per yard.. OOC
T2-lnch extra fine full grass bleached fine Irish satin damask table linen, will give
the beet satisfaction and polish beautifully,, Ck7r
worth' $1.60 yard, at, per yard A C
gO-lnch loom damask dice pattern table napkins, the best wearing napkins made for
restaurant use, worth $1.25 per doxen, ' . O O
at per doien C5 C
18-Inch bleached satin damask napkins, guaranteed all pure linen, worth
1.60 doxen, at
All our fine satin damask grass bleached table napkins, different sizes, A "
worth $2.50 doxen, at I. A O
17-inch extra fine heavy grass bleached Irish linen dinner napkins,
beautiful patterns, worth $6.00, at, per dozen
16x32 bleached huck towels, worth 9c, A
at, each '.
$0x40 all linen huck towels, the best value ever offered In the line for -4 f-
for the money, worth 20c, at, each vC
11-4 sheet blankets, the large size. In gray a, worth $1.25,
t per pair
11-4 extra heavy sheet blankets. In grays, worth $1.85 pair,
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Continues Until January 15, 1903
Such goods, such prices and such terms were
?nevcr ercc- Omaha people. before. We have
V. no used, rented, repaired or second-hand stock
ipf in tnis saie. uniy iiigii graae, up-io-
date piatlOS, all sold at less than lactory
cost do not be deceived by others, but call and
see for yourself these pianos all go; call at once
or write and secure a bargain before it is too late
this is your opportunity of a lifetime to secure a strictly high grade
piano at the price of a cheap one.
New Pianos from $120.00 up
New Organs from $28.00 up
Come in and See Us Before Buying
All Sold on Our Easy Payment Plan
Shoot Music, Musical Merchandise sold at most any price
BE ITT
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Tremendous Clean Up of Boys' and Children's
Clothing at Bankrupt Prices. . . . . . .
MAIN FLOOR.
ALL MUST GO AND GO QUICKLY
The inexorable has happened. The Court says,
"Get these goods out," and out they must.
Norfolk two-piece emits, Norfolk three-piece suits, Sailo T
Blouses, Russian Blouses, Reefer Suits.
1.05
.1.75
3.95
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Large size bod comforts, covered with fine silkollne and filled with
high grade whit, cotton batting, worth $1.35, at each
Large and extra heavy bed comforters, best whit, cotton batting
filling, worth $2.25. at each
Outing flannels in both light and dark colors, check, plaid and stripes,
all fast washable colors, worth 10c yard, at ,
Fringed Denim atand covers, fancy patterns, printed on both sides,
worth 35c, at each ,
89c
1.38
98c
1.48
5c
..10c
AT THE SILK COUNTERS
19-Inch black and silk taffeta, the 65c grade, for this " X'J n
, sale only....- '. 1iC
1,500 yard of very One imported fancy and plain corded silk in corded stripes,
tinsel waitings,! Irish poplins and embroidered taffetas, goods worth - O
up to $1.75 yard, all go in this .ale at, per yard OVC
A few hundred yards of very elegant Frenoh silks, plain evening shades, in a
pretty fancy weave, a good $1.75 quality,
for this sale only X OC
21-inch fine Imported black peau de sole, very elegant quality for dresses, $1.40 qual
ity, will be sacrificed in this sale at, OR
per yard VOC
BLACK DRESS GOODS
40-Inch black English mohair, plain weave, 45c quality, rtQ
at, per yard awVC
44- Inch black English serge, guaranteed all wool, A A
65c quality, at ttC
45- Inch black English cheviot, strictly all wool, the Ja
75c quality, at I uUC
46- Inch black twine mistral, fine all wool quality, worth $1.15 yard tJ
go at; per yard i OC
COLORED DRESS GOODS
50 pieces fine all wool suitings, 38 to 42 Inches wide, almost every desirable shade,
both plain and fancy, values to 65c yard, to be closed O
out at, per yard OOC
French all wool challies, all new styles, the 50c quality, "
at OOC
25 pieces 54-Inch broadcloths, Venetians and suitings, worth up to $1.35 OA
yard, all go In this sale at, per yard OyC
Straw Mattings
Straw Mattings
THIRD FLOOR
SPRING IMPORT OF
Japanese and
China mailings
Fine Japanese Linen Jute Slat-
tings, the spring designs and
colorings, goods that sell reg
ularly at 40c and
4Sr vnrtl. for aaWaaWw
40 yard roll, for ?G.00.
Another lot of fine Japanese
Mattings, to sell at 30c and
35c, at' this 1Qp
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ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES
1.95
2.95
Suits that sold up to $4.95
for
Suits that sold up to $8.95
for
MAIN FLOOR.
GLEAN UP OF
Pictures and
Picture Frames
NEVER BEFORE WERE
PICTURES AND PICTURE
FRAMES offered at such low
prices. We still show a full line
of these goods, all are new and
up-to-date and first-class. In
every particular our line of
moulding is the most complete in
the city. We will have to dis
pose of them either by the length
or made up inlo frames to fit
your picture at prices regardless
of cost' or value.
A Crockery Clean-Up
$8.00 12-piece Decorated Toilet
Sets cut down - A 17 C
to
$9.00 lS-piece Decorated Toilet
fo!.::v.n....6.50
$1.00 Decorated Table Lamps,
Zn. 60c
$7.00 Decorated Table Lamps,
Rochester burner, A ZZ.f
for ..4.0U
$3.00 Decorated Table Lamps,
Rochester burner,
$1.50 Decorated Water Sets, it
tumblers and OCp
pitcher OOC
See what you can buy for 10c,
7c and 5c.
Our $1 Table is a wiuner you
will find $2, $3 and $4 goods
on this table Decorated Im
ported Cup and i Ct
Plate Sets only IOC
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Jewelry Department Will Offer for Sale
Beginning tomorrow at 8 a. m. all bric-a-brac wan
verware STERLING SILVER NOVEL TIES
-8-day Parlor and Mantel Clocks, Sil--Wrist
and Side Bags, Brooch and
Belt Pins, at
HALF OFF
HALF OFF
HALF OFF
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TALES TOLD BY LIFE-SAVERS
Thrilling Ico!dnti Eecalled by the Stormy
Petrels of Ooean Beaches.
PATROL DUTY AT SMNNEC0CK STATION
Peril. KacoMtrred When th. Billiard
User a mm Wheat Iwatr atornis
I.aak the Atlaatle to
Farr.
One of th. lorernment's numerous Ufa
(avlDg station on Long Island's wreck
strewn south beach is called Shlnn.cock.
It Is clghty-flv. miles east from New York
a the railroad runs, and that Is about as
th. ciows fly. The unpretentious one-story
train, station house, capped by a little box
Ilk, lookout. Is surrounded by a trio of
dwelling, doll bouse In proportions, lo
which live as msny families of life savers.
The only other evidences of habitat loa on
" the desolate sandy stretch sr. two or
three unpainted storage sheds and a fla;
'signal pole, vastly overtowrrlog th. squat
building within Its shadow.
From Shinnecock bay, which separates
the beach trout the mainland to th. north,
It be whole station Is clearly visible on a
lair day across th. four-mile stretch of
water; but let one take up his stand on the
ocean's edge fifty yarda to the south of tha
station and look northward, and he will
re naught of human handiwork except the
top of the flag pole that and an abruptly
rising ridge of sand. This ridge, which
it pur. golden and silvery and Iron red
by turns, continues almost centrally along
th. beach as far as cy. can ae. to east
and west, and It baa th. peculiar property
of keeping th. noises of the sea from out
U. ora of the Shlnnecock lit. saver ex
cept on the stormiest of nights when the
-gale is blowing great guns from the south.
It was on such a winter's night that
the two occupants of an ancient cat boat,
baffled In their attempts to reach th.
mainland across Ehlnnecock bay, ran the
boat over the flats until Its bottom grated
and held fast on the sand. Then jumping
Into the knee deep water, they tugged and
pulled the boat after them until it was
Dcaccea. After that they made the craft
Bate from the storm and. a little while
later, aet their facea toward the gale
driven rain and breasted their way to the
atation house.
, They .threw open the door Just aa the llfe
savera were sitting down to a meal of salt
pork, boiled cabbaaje and hot coffee, served
on a table hid under a piece of clean oil
cloth. With that open-heartedness and
naive simplicity characteristic of the men
who work along th. sea coast, the five
"beachers," making no excuse for their
frugal fare. Invited the visitors to eat. As
they did so the heat from the wood fire In
the big cooking atove back of them quickly
dried their drenched clothing and skins, so
that when the last of the mounds of food
had disappeared from the platters and plpea
lighted and chairs tilted comfortably back
against walls, they were in fitting mood to
hew Interest in Captain Alanson I'enny'a
reminiscent observstion:
"Bad night, but clear went hit- alongside
j the night when schooner Louij V. I'la-.e
I went ashore off the Lone Kill station
about four years ago."
Ha took a deep puff at his pipe.
"Maybe you'd care to hear about it? All
right; yea yea."
One. more a big volume of amoke hid th.
captain's face, and, aa It cleared away, he
continued:
"The tea waa awful that night. Gen
erally I don't notice the awfulnesa or
grandeur of the aea, being ao used to It,
but that night the ccaibers were the highest
I've ever seen, aud they threw spray over
the top of the ridge yonder, which is sixty
yards from tbo water's edge at ebb and
about thirty feet above It. And th. sleet
fell In sheets.
"It was around about midnight when the
Louis V. Place was blown on to the bar.
Captain Fam Dnker and his crew were down
at the shore In a Jiffy with the beach ap
paratus, for they knew that quick work
was needed to aave men grounded In auch
a sea. They shot out the line and it
wouldn't hold. They shot out the line again
aud It wouldn't bold, and they shot It out
time after time, but It wouldn't bold, for
the achooner was rolling so frightfully that
none of the sailors dared come out of the
rigging to make It frtt.
"And they couldn't go out to the schooner
in the surf boat. The wind had Jammed the
sea between shore and vessel, fOO yards
away, with porridge that's Ice parked tight
and thick. No boat can live or get through
auch Ice, ao there they were Captain Baker
and his men helpless as babiea, and sob-'
blng like babies, too, with the sailors freez
ing to death In the rigging before tkslr
eyes.
"There wss nothing to do except to wait
tor the wind to die down. They waited two
daya and nights, beside the beach fires,
which lit up the faces of the freezing Bail
ors, and as they waited and watched this
man and that, froxen beyond further endur
ance, let go bis bold and fell Into the sea.
On the aecond night thry aaw one man.
armed with a rope's end. beat two of the
men near him to keep them awake and
from freexing. The next day the sea died
down, the ice broke and the surf boat was
finally worked to the side of the schooner,
but not before the man who had whipped'
the others to keep them alive bad fallen
into the aea. The two survivors were
brought ashore and one died shortly after.
The other, I'm told, lived, but he waa am
putated all to pieces, nearly.
"When it waa all over Captain Baker,
who waa ball craiy ail th Urn b. was
powerless to rescue the sailors, went to
pieces and died a few weeks later. He died
of a broken heart died becafls. he had not
been able to save the eight sailor who
froze before his eyes. And these are the
last words be said before be died:
' 'God pity the poor boy out yonder In
the riggiug.' "
Xlpsy, the Do Life Saver.
Captain Penny struck a match and, as be
relighted bis pipe, be said between short
puffs:
"Tell them about Nipsy, Carter."
Charles A. Carter ia No. 1 at the Shlnne-cc-k
station, where he has patrolled the
beach for twenty-five yeara. He reached
down at bis side and patted a medium alzed
black dog on the head.
"This Is Nlpsy," he said. "He's a cross
between spaniel and bull, and be'a a mighty
bright dog. He kcepa me company on my
watch In good weather, but whenever he
sees me put on my sou-wester he runs and
hides behind the stove. But it there's a
wreck and ho sees us taking out the beach
apparatus, no matter If it'a blowing a gale
and the rain cuts like a knife, Nlpsy fol
lows and works with me.
"Nlpsy has done a good many pretty
bright things, but the best thing he ever
did was to save a life two years ago last
August, when a coal collier, bound for down
east from the Delaware cepea, foundered
several hundred yards off shore. We
launched the surf boat and made for it as
soon aa we saw Its distress, but befor. we
I reached It and just before It went under a
I big wave broke over the ship and washed
the crew of tour overboard.
"It was stiff work, but somehow we man
aged to pull three men from th. aea before
they'd shipped enough water to drown 'em.
The fourth was nowhere to b. seen and,
after looking around for a while, we gave
him up for lost snd headed for the shore.
"When we landed Nlpsy waa running up
aud down th beach, wher he knew we'd
come ashore, barking like all poasessed. He
jumped all around me, nearly knocking me
over, and between Jumpa he'd run eastward
on the beach, aa If be wanted me to go with
him. Finally, I said to myself, 'Nlpsy's
found something and maybe It's the missing
sailor, I said, just for something to say.
Well, anyway, I humored the dog and fol
lowed blm, and he ran about 500 yarda down
the beach and stood still and barked. Pretty
soon I cam up to bim and what do you
think I aaw lying there In the sands? My
nephew.
"Nipsy took mo to blm Just In time and
so we saved his ltf". He waa the missing
man from th. collier, and b. bad been
tossed ashore by the breakers."
I'atrol Daty In a Dllssard.
Carter looked at the clock.
"Almost o'clock," be said. "Rudd, we'll
be on patrol n a few minute and won't be
back before midnight, so apeak up before
we go."
"Yes yes," John W. Rudd, No. 2, drawl
Ingly responded In Long Island vernacular,
and then continued:
"I started out for patrol duty on the first
night of the 'S3 blizzard. It Is only a matter
of fifty or sixty yarda to the beach from
the atation houie, but the snow waa ao
blinding and the wind so high that It took
me fifteen minutes to reach the beach.
Then I beaded for the patrol house about a
mile to the westward. My Idea waa to get
there and stay there, because that's allow
able In auch weather.
"I thought I'd never reach that house. I
fought against the wind until I waa almost
ready to drop, and the only thing that kept
me up at the end was the thought that I'd
freeze If I didn't hold out. The snow kept
me from seeing ahead I couldn't have seen
the captain it he'd been walking alongside
of me. I feared all the time that I'd go
past the box. because, I knew tbo tamp
light wouldn't be visible. Ho. when I thought
I'd almost reached It, I stuck my arm out
in front aa far aa I could and walked that
way until they ached ao I thought I couldn't
keep them up any longer. And then ker
plunk! went a fist against the patrol box.
"Guess bow long I'd been covering the
mile?" Rudd waa faatenlng bla sou'wester
under bis chin. "Just two hours," he said,
aa he slung a coston signal over bis
shoulder and opened the door. "Yes yes."
Tale of an KnalUh Frigate.
James O. 8mlth No. 6. to whose lot fell
th. replenishing of the wood fire, spoke up
as be clattered the stove lid back into
place:
"Don't know why, but "I'm reminded of
a yarn that I beard at a Cape Cod station
a f.w years back.
"Seems that an English frigate win
wrecked off the beach, where the station la,
200 years ago. One day four or five year
ago the hull of a vessel all at once stuck
Itself above the water In full sight of the
atation, and musket and pistol butts, like
those used before the revolution, and old
atyle woodwork was thrown up on shore.
" 'It's the hull of the English frigate
thrown up out of the quicksands," the life
savera said: and then they sent word to the
people In the village.
"They came trooping down to the beach
and began putting out to tbe wreck. In
hopes of securing the treasure that is said
to have cone down with the frigate. But
before tbe first boat waa fairly uuder way,
and Just as suddenly and ailently as it
had appeared, the bull sank bark Into the
quicksands. And It hasn't been aeen since.'
Ilow Mfr-Mxlug t rew W mu Drowned,
"Yea yes; snd tbe crew of that same
station it' the one closest to Highlaud
light lost their Hyb about fifteen yeara
go," spoke up Ceorfce J. Caffrey, surfman
No. 4. "It happened In thia way:
"An Italian bark was blown over one of
th bar and on to th. other. The crew
shot out the line and flew signals and all
that, but tbe Italians, It turned out, didn't
know the first thing about our work, and
ao they didn't know bow to answer the
signals and didn't make taut tbe rope.
"When the captain aaw that the Italian
didn't know what to do, be and hi men
launched the surf boat and pulled out for
the bark. Tbey reached her bow and were
Just making ready to take off some of tba
sailors when the boat got caught In th.
terrible undertow that exist around tba
bar and was sucked under. Every mother'
on of them waa drowned Ilk. rats. And
they went under so suddenly tbey didn't
have time to make a single shout for help.
"Two houra later the storm died down
enough to allow all of th. Italians to
get ashore with almost dry skins."
GAMBLING ON THE INCREASE
Hons of I.orda Mijtes Betting; on
Horse Knees av gnbjeet of
Investigation.
LONDON, Jan. I. The rapid Increase in
betting on bors. racing In th. United King
dom, especially among worklngmen, . and
the evils arising therefrom are fully ac
knowledged In the report of th. aelect com
mittee of th. House of Lords issued today,
but the remedies recommended are not far
reaching.
The commltte. finds th. betting Is greatly
facilitated by the newspapers publishing
starting prices, but the committee Is not
prepared to recommend It prohibition, a
it would tend to encourage dishonesty on
the part of th. bookmakers.
It recommends that all advertisement
and circulars of sporting "tipsters" be
mde Illegal and favor legislation enabling
bookmakers to be Imprisoned for batting
on the streets with children.
