THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 1004.
A Sale of KijSh Grade Embroideries
Ladies 20c Handkerchiefs Oct 10c
The very finest Swiss nainsook and c nmbrlc embroideries and Inserting, In
Swiss embroidered liandkereliiefs with scalloped eilges,
lace trimmed with nil linen center and plain all
linen hemstitched handkerchiefs, worth 20c each, at. .
nil m I1 1 t.n tip to 18 Inches many soltnbe for
roryrt rnvrrs, :e., drums of styles
at, ppr yard
5c-Ilo25c
Iff
10
M f I L. I Til t 1 P ' W H V I
Splendid Pattern flats, $5
Genuine $25 and $J5 Imported Hats
'. From Fifth Avenue N. Y. Stock.
Very handsome chiffon, rnaline, foliage and
flower hats for evening, carriage, theater and
street
med
)) ValBo
$15-$20 Pattern Hats at $2.50
Jhe very latest and best winter ideas, velvet
lints, fur f el t r, etc., in black and all colors,
elaborately trimmed and C '"TS Cft
originally priced at $15
and ?20, at
Big Selling Events in Basement
THE LAST WEEK OF
Imported long cloth 12 yard bolts, soft
Uronjj (or babios' clotboa, women's
underwear, etc.. worth 123c per
yard, er bolt of 12 yards
Imperial Ion; cloth in bolts, special
lor M on May, bull of 1-yards, worth
fl.'JO, at
1.50
79c
15c
9c
25c Bolten cambric, finest in
America, Monday, per
yard
Ind a llnons, full prices,
l!Jc quality, por
yard
40-Inch Victoria lawns, sheer quality,
worth lite, at, por
yard
Fine white and dotted wnisllngg.
would be a bargain at 25c a yard,
at, per yard . :
SIX SPECIAL
fvolored shlrtlnz madras -desirable
patterns for men's shirts
Fancy prints, best
stylos, at, por
yard
9 ntiii in
7k
i and shirtwaists, worth
- 19a a yard, at,
a yard
Heavy
Scotch ginghams, checks and
:kh and
6k
stripes, fast colors,
12c value, at, a
yard '
colors,
at, par
yard ,
MYSTERY OF KASPlJt HAUSER
Modern t arohlight Turned TJp:n a Frait
fil Thsma for Paapbleteers.
OPENED PATH TO THE PRUSSIAN THRONE
A Tragedy In Karlsruhe Nearly
Century Asro mnA the Snbae.
quent Events Analysed
aad Explained.
) '
The first of a series of artlclrs by An
rew rig, historian and critic, on the
great historical mysteries of the world, ap
pears In the New York Independent under
the shove caption, and Is as follows:
Darknrss In Karlsruhe! 'TIs the high
noon of night: , October 15. 1812. Hark to
the tread of the twelve hours as they pass
on tits palace clock, and Join their com
rnrtes that have been! The vast corridors
are still; in the shadows lurk two burly
mlnlor.s of ambitious crime, .Burkiyd and
Sauerbeck. Is that a white moving shadow
.which aprpoaches through the gloom?
Titers arises n shriek, a heavy body fallx,
'tis a lackey who has seen and recognized
the White Ijidy of tho Grand Ducal House,
that walks before the douth of . princes.
Burknrd and 8auerleck spurn the Inani
mate body of the menial wltneas. The
white figure, bearing In her arms a sleep
ing child, glides to the tarestrlrd wall, and
Vanlnhew through It, Into the chamber of
the crown prince ,a babe of 14 days. Bhe
returns, carrying another unconscious in
fant form; she places It In the hands of
the ruffian Sauerbeck, eh (Itnappcars. The
eloakrd miscreant speeds through a secret
postern Into the park, you hear the tram
ple of four horses end the roll of a car
riage on th roudl Next day there Is
silence in the pnluce, broken but by the
shrieks of a berenved royal mother. Her
babe lies a corpse! The crown prince hus
died in the nlgM! Tho path to the throne
lies open to the offspring of the Countess
Von Hoehberg, morganatic wife of the
reigning prince, Karl Prledrlch. and mother
of the children of Ludwig William August,
Ms youngest son.
Sixteen years fleet by, years rich In royal
crimes. 'TIs lola golden Writ Uomliy
afternoon. In old Nuremberg. May i. 1S."S.
The town lies empty, dusty, silent; her
merry people are rejoicing in the green
wood and among the nuburban beer gar
dens. One man alone, a shoemaker, stamls
by tho d'or of his house In the Vnschlttt
fVas; around 4lin llo the vacant streets of
ths slevping city. Hl eyes rest on the
form, rls, n as It were out cf the earth or
fallen from the klrs, ot a boy, strangely
clud, speechless. Incapable either of stand
ing erect or of moving hU limbs. Th:it
boy is the royal Infant placed of yore by
the White fchadovr In the haiuis of the
cloaked rufrlan. Thus does the crown
jrlnce of Da den return froni the darkness
to the daylight! He named h!melf Karpar
llauser. He Is to die ly the digger of a
cruel courtier, or of a hireling English
ear!.
El4ear Bew Hderla.
Tats trVfy. r.4. I trust. l:r.ress!vly,
"lav I '' tr history of Kaspar
ir.iiaer. .;'- fW'.! of F rope," as It was
14 HaA hr r.. Oer-r.arv. and prntej
t-f tj, I'.T" xn p.ifphleteers, and. In
Itri, t,t y. f'.r.' th K. Kar. Hit. as
ttt " J !:.- rrtrSs" on tilth the
f r::ei f tC.i,t J.'tuT e4 their
rsiin". IN vtiv wnf fkntk-a-t-'d,
.,.;:. it Ivv h r-vulfa fit a llhel
i.r.n m ;. s- f f.V-T!. art worthies
. , wn. Ic4 -1, fa tMM as Ui
K'if fr-.-wer w bew'fterW er;fuk.n.
I tou yar sfter h arrival, a
0
wear trim
with ostrich
plumes and tips,
real Jaces and
limrapa n I I at
them new, fresh
and recently im
ported, at, each
All the Very
Monday
F5
Long; double coosy scarfs with brush tails,
also brook miulc scarfs, at
American marten
scan's, tail and
Jr
Astrakhan cape, 30
worth 120, at
THE GREAT CLEARING SALE
and
Mercerized red etamlnss, worth 35c per
yard, Monday, at, per
yard
Unbleached sheeting, two yards wide, .
good grade, worth 20o a yard, at,
per yard
7-4 bleached pearl sheeting:, splendid
fcr hotols, one bolt to a customer,
at, per yard
Bleached muslin, Lonsdale and
cambrics, regular 12u goods,
por yard
11c
ioc
Dotted curtain swlss, worth 25o yd. off
the bolt, 8 and 10-yard remnant, at,
per yard
Imported Swiss madras, excellent for
curtains, draporles, eto., worth3oo off
the bait, special, per yard. .
BASEMENT BARGAINS
4k
Shirtings, heavy skirtings, eto
worth up to lEo
a yard, at, per JO
yard
Drapery Sateens, 30-inch, for
re-covering comforters,
15c value, at, per (f
yard
mercerized and twilled
sateens, black and nearly al 1
worth 25o,
7k
book about him was published by Paul
John Anselm Von Keuerbach. The man
was mortal, had been a professor, and,
though a legul reformer and a learned
Jurist, was "a nervous Invalid" when he
wrote, and ho soon after died of paralyBls
(or poison, according to Kasparltes).
Taking Feuorbach's romantic narrative of
1832, wo find him averring that, about 4:30
p. m. on Whit Monday, May 26. 1828, a
citizen, unnamed, was loitering at his door
In rnechlltt I'las, Nuremberg, intending to
wtlly out by the New Gate, when he saw
a young peasant standing In an attitude
suggrRtlve of intoxication, and apparently
suffering from locomotor aticla, "unable to
govern fully tho movement of his legs."
Tho citizen went to the boy, who showed
him a letter directed to the captain of a
cavalry regiment. Tho gallant captain
lived near th New Gate OKI paces from
the citizen's house), and thither the young
pcamint walked with the citizen. Bo he
could "govern fully the movements of his
legs." At the house, the captain being
out, the boy said, "I would be a horse
man as my father was," also "Pon't know,"
Later ho was taken to the prison, up a
steep hill, and tho ascent to his room was
one of over ninety steps. Thus ha could
certainly walk, and when he spoke of him
self ho said "I" like othor people. Later
he took to speaking of himself ns "Kas
par," in the manner of small children and
Foma hysterical patients under hypnotism,
nut this was an after-thought', for Kaspar'a
line nbw was that ho had only been
taught a few words, like a parrot, words
which he used to express nil senses in
differently. His eyeti,-!t, when he first
appeared, seems to have been normal: at
the prison ho wrote his own name as "Kas
Tr Haufor," and covered a sheet of paper
with writing. ' Later he could only see in
the dark.
K u par's Rarllest Exploits.
So says Feuerbnch, In lf?!2. Who he
does not say Is whence he got his In
formation us to Kaspir's earliest exploits.
Now, our earliest evidence, on oath, before
a magistrate, is dated November i. 1SJ9.
Gcnrsi Weichmann, shoemaker (Feucr
buch's anonymous 'citizen"), then swore
that, on May 2(1, lR-. ho saw Kapur. not
making paralyzed efforts to walk, but
trudging down a hilly street, fhontlng "111!"
("or any loud try"), and presently asking,
"with tolerable dimlncincss," "New Uate
Htreet?" J took the boy that way, and
tho boy gavo him a letter for the captain.
Weichmann said that they had better auk
for ttim at the New tlnte guard house, and
tho boy suld, "Guard huuseT tJuard house?
New Cute no doubt Just built?" Ha s:ild
he came from I'.atlntion, and was In Nurem
berg for the first lime, but clearly did not
understand wluit Welchnmim meant when
he Inquired as to the chances of war
breaking out. In May. 1831. Weichmann
repeated his evidence as to Kanpar's power
of talking and walking, and was corrauo
rnted by one 4ucob Heck, not heard cf In
lX.1t. On Isece-.nb'.r U, HO. Merk, the enp
tuli.'s servant, rpoke to Kapur' fatigue,
"he reeled as he walked." end would an
swer mi ouesUoua. In 1834 Merk cxpanduj
and said "we had a long chat." Kaspar
averred that be could read und write and
hod cr.id tho frontier daily on his way
to Bchoel. "He did rot know where he
caine frou." Certainly Mork, In 1S3I, re
membered murh more than In 1S29. Whether
lie (u!irtaed facts In 1!23. or. In 1X11, In
vented Illicit, we do not know. The
cavalry captain (November t, 1JV) remem
bered several intelligent remarks made by
Kaspur. His dreka wss pew anil clean
(denied by Feuc rlutch), h was tired and
foolaore. The cvldeoca of the police taken
In iWt ws remote In time, but went to
prove that Kaupvr'a eyesight and
lower cf writing wvre normal,
fturruarh atso'uuiy discredits Mil
the swora evidence of 1K2, without glv.
Irg Mis ovn source. The evidence shows
tbt Kepr could bitb walk and talk, sad
Extraordinary Sale of Ladies' Clocks
Our biff sale of Cloaks is the talk of Omaha Thousands of High Grade Coats going at about one-fourth value
Splendid $15 and $18 Winter Coats on Sale at $5
Such an offer as this comes but rarely in the history of cloak selling. These
cloaks were bought at less than one-third their value. They are all fresh
and brand new. The Hwellest ideas in long and short coats, the newest
military effects, etc., beautifully trimmed and made in all late novelty
styles. An immense variety of styles and every size,
worth ?15 and $18, at
High Class $20, $25 and
Your choice of an immense variety of high grade cloaks from a big special
purchase also high cost coats from our own stock all of them in stunning
styles, and worth $20, $23 and up to $:0 to clear
them away quickly, at
All of our highest grade exclusive coats, in long and short styles, at corresponding re
ductions in price. Everything must go this week.
Specials in Furs
1.38
.4.98
9.98
and fox slnzle and double
cord trimming, at....
inches long,
J?p for. 50c
goods
wool flannels.
prunellas, etc.
9c
12k
121c
for dress
fjjtf square,
Wamstitta
at,
,
6ic
12k
15c
Chiffon voile, every
at, yard
CHALLIES, FRENCH
heads, wreaths
each.
see normally, by artificial and natural
light, all ot which Is absolutely Inconsistent
with Kbspar's luter account of hlmtelf.
Floue ICnibleins. '
The personal property of Kaspar was a
horn rosary and several Catholic tracts
with prayers to the guardian angel, etc.
Fcuerbach holds that these were furnished
by "devout villains" a very sound Pro
testunt was Keuerbach and that Kaspar
was Ignorant of the being of a Deity, at
all events of a Protestant Deity. The let
ter carried by the boy said that the writer
first took charge of him, as an Infant, In
1R12, and had never let him "take a single
step out of my house. I have al
ready taught him to read and write. And
ne writes my handwriting exactly as I do."
In the same hand was a letter in Latin
characters, purporting to come from Kaa
par's mother, "a poor girl," as the author
of the German letter was "a poor day la
borer." Humbug as I take Kaspar to hirve
been, I am not sure that he wrote these
pieces. If not, somebody else was In the,
affair; somebody who Wanted to get rid of
Kaspar.
How Kaspar fell, as It were 'from the
clouds, and unaeen. Into the middle of Nu
remberg, even on a holiday, when almost
overyono vas out of town. Is certainly a
puzzle. The earliest witnesses took him
for a Journeyman tailor lad (he was ubout
10), and perhaps nobody paid any attention
to a dusty traveling tradesman, or groom
out of place. Feuerbach (who did not .nea
Kaspar till July) says that his feet were
covered with blisters; the Jailer says that
they were merely swollen by the tightness
of his boolH.
Once In prison, Kaspar, who asked to be
taken home, adopted the He of "a semi
unconsclous animal," playing with toy
horses, "blind though he saw," yet, not
long after ho wrote a minute account of
all that lio hud observed, llo could only
eat bread and water; mekt.made bim shud
der, and Lord Htanhope, who later be
friended him, says that this peculiarity did
occur In the cases of some peasant soldiers.
He had no sense of hearing, which mtons,
perhaps, that he did net think of pretend
ing to be amazed by the sound of church
bells till he had been In prison -for some
days. Till then he had been deaf to thtlr
noise. This la Foacrbach's story, but we
shall see that it Is contradicted by Kaspar
' himself, In writing. Thus the alleged facts
may bo explained without recourse even to
! a theory of Intermittent deafness. Kaspar
I was no more deaf than blind. He "was all
! there." In 18'. he completed a work of
autobiography.
FrUun Fable.
Kaspar, he wrote, till the age of 16 was
kept In "a prison," "perhaps six or reven
fet long, four broad and five high." Thera
were two small windows, with closed,
I black, wooden shutters. He lay on straw,
I lived on bread and water and played with
toy horses and blue and ryl ribbons. That
I ho cou'.d see colors In total darkness Is a
proof cf hU Inconsistent fables, or of his
j "hypert-sthtsla." abnormal acutens of
' the senses. "The man" who kept blra was
not less hyperesthetlc, for he taught Kas
I par to w Ite In the dark. He never heard
: any noise, but avers that. In prison, he was
alarmed by the town clock striking, on the
I first morning, though Feuerbach says that
I he did not hear the bells for several days.
' Fach is Ksi'psr's written account (18'9;
j the published account of July, lf2, df
I rived from "the expressions of a half dumb
, animal" (as Feuerbach puts It), Is much
i more prolix and minute In detail. The an
! Imal said that he had sat on the ground,
! and never seen daylight, till he came to
j Nuremberg, lit used to be hocused with
water ot an evil taste and wake in a clean
shirt. "Tho man" once hit him and hurt
! Mm for making too much noise. Tha maa
taught him his letters and the Arabic nu
merals. I-ater he gave htm Instructions in
the art of standing. Next took him oat
$30 Cloaks Special Monday-$9.98
Ladies' Silk Skirts
Made with ruffle trimming- on bottom
over tucked tops, your choice
Ladies' $12.50 Cravenettes at $6.98
Smart waterproof coats. In late styles,
belted backs, etc., at
Golf, Skirts at
Made of meltons and mannish cloths,
fashioned, ,at
Final Clearance of Fine Dress
and 60c dress
54 inches all
Black eheviots,
4CJf for 75c and $1 dresa
goods, Sicilians, black
and navy, cheviots, and 54 inch
kerseys, etc.
poods worth ud
to 82 a yard
stylish today and fashionable for spring, new pan a mas,
utaiuuies, crasnes, ewj.
C or re2"lar 75o raeroerized vesting, also linens, silk gauze
grenadines, piques, etc., all high grade imported goods, a most
extraordinary bargain.
We are as usual the first to display and sell elegant and
exclusive new spring dress goods.
Linen mclnnK6 and 2Sr w lnch 8'cTllans, v AQr Chiffon crepp, all
flocked voile, yurd.AOW yaTd colors, yard....
correct shade, CQn
o"w
New Scotch tailor
at, yard
FLiANNELS, silk mousscllnes' etc, bargain
Pillow Top Handkerchiefs at 8c
New lot of pilloAv top handkerchiefs, just received. Indian
and floral patterns, at,
High Class Laces at 24c and 5c
Vals nnd torchons, in all widths and styles,
worth up to 25c a yard, at, yard
and taught him aBbut nine words. He was
made by the man to walk he knew not how
far. or how long, the man leading him.
Nobody saw this extraordinary pair on the
march. Feuerbach, who maintains that
Kaspar's feet wero covered with cruel blis
ters from walking, also supposes that "per
haps for the greater part of tho way" he
was carried in a carriage or wagon!
Whence, then, the cruel blisters caused by
walking? There Is medical evidence that
his legs were distorted by confinement, but
the medical post mortem evidence says that
this was not the case. He told Binder that
his windows were shuttered; he told Hlltel,
the Jailer, that from hla windows he saw
"a pile of wood and above It tha top of a
tree."
Kaapar's F.dncnt Ion.
Obviously Kaspar's legends about him
self, whether spoken In June, 1828, or writ
ten In Febrifary, 1829, are absurdly false.
He was for three weeks In the tower and
was eternally vleited by the curious. Yet
In these three weeks the half-conscious
animal "learned to read tolerably well, to
count, to write figures" (that he could do
when he arrived, Feuerbach says), "he
made progress In writing a good hand and
learned a simple tune on tho harpsichord,"
pretty well for a half-unconscious animal.
In July, 1828, after being adopted by the
excited town of Nuremberg, he was sent
to be educated and live with a schoolmas
ter named Daumer, and was studied by
Feuerbach. They found In Kaspar a eplen.
did example of the "sensitive" and a nobis
proof of the powers of "animal magnet
ism." In Germany at this time much was
talked and written about "somnambulism"
(the hypnotic slate), and about a kind of
"animal magnetism" which, In accordance
with Mesmer's theory, was supposed to
pass between stars, metals, magnets and
human beings. The effects produced on
the patient by the hypnotist (now ascribed
to "suggestion") were attributed to a
"magnetlo efflux," and Relchenbach'a sub
jects siw strange currents flowing from
metals and magnets.
In my view, Kaspar was, to put It mildly,
an ambulatory automatic. who . hsd
strayed away from some place where no
body desired his return: rather his lifelong
absence was an object of hope. The longer
Kcapar lived the more frequently was he
detected In every sort of Imposture that
could make him notorious or enable him to
shirk work.
Kaspar had for months been the pet mys
tery of Nuremberg. Some thought him a
run of Napoleon; others averred (as we
saw) that he was the infant son of the
Grand Duke Charles of Iladen, born In,
1812, who had not died within a fortnight
of his birth, but been spirited away by a
woman dlxguUed as the spectral "White
Lady of Baden," an aristocratic ban-shi.
The subtle conspirators had bred the
Crand Ducal Kaspar in a dark den, the
theory ran, hoping that he would prove,
by virtue of such education, an acceptable
recruit for the Bavarian cavalry, and that
no questions would be asked, t'nluckily,
question were now being asked, for a boy
who could only occasionally aee and hear
was not (though he could smell a cemetery
at a distance of 00 yards) a useful man on
a patrol, at least the military authorities
thought not. Had they known that Kaspar
could see in the dark they might have kept
him as a guide In night attacks, but they
did not know. The promising young hussar
(he rode well hut clumsily) was thus It ft
In the handa of civilians; the Grand Ducat
secret might be discovered, so an arsaFsln
was sent to take off the young prince.
Mashed with Rasor.
To make a long story short, on October
17, 18:D, Kaspar did not come to midday
eating, but was found weltering In his gore,
in the cellar of Daumer'a house, Blng
offered refreshment In a cup, he bit out a
piece of the porcelain and swallowed It.
He had "an iuconsiderabla wound" on the
.00
at $2.98
and all
2.98
S0.98
with capes,
$2.98
stylishly
6.98
2.98
Goods
oa front bargain
$1.25 quality fine bleached all linen
Irish satin damask,
yard
$1.50 quality best bleached all linen
satin damask.
yard
$4.00 quality 24-inch very fine full
bleached Irish satin damask nap-
kins, plain center, dozen
2.60 quality extra heavy 24-inch silver
bleached German napkins, Mon
day, dozen
yard Ot?v
cloths, 4 rf
I.UU
square,
25c
in .rnh towellnar.
yaVd. "w
THo huck towels, at, 3C
each
15o all linen fringed dollies and
tray cloths, tOc
each
8y8c
Yard
1 C
2C!JC
38e I pillow shams and
scarfs, at
35c linen tray cloth,
each
forehead; to that extent the assassin had
effected his purpose. Feuerbach thinks that
the murderer had made a shot at Kaspar's
throat with a razor, that Kaspar had
ducked cleverly, and got it on tho brow,
and that the assassin believed hla crime to
be consummated, and fled, after uttering
words In which Kaspar recognized the
voice of his tutot, the possible albino. No
albino or other suspicious character was
observed. Herr Daumer, before this cruel
outrage, had remarked, in Kaspar, "a
highly regrettable tendency to dissimula
tion and untruthfulness," and. Just before
tho attack, had told the pupil that he was
a humbug. Ksspar left Daumer'a house
and stayed with various good people, being
accompanied by a policeman In his walks.
He was sent to school and Feuerbach bit
terly complains that ho was compelled to
study the Latin grammar, "and finally even
Caesar's Commentaries!" In his new homes
Kaspar lied terribly, was angry when de
tected and wounded himself ho said acci
dentallywith a pistol, after being re
proached for shirking the Commen
taries of Julius Caesar, and for
mendacity. Ho was very vain, very
agreeable as long as no ops
found fault with him, very laxy and very
sentimental. .
In May, 1831, Lord Stanhope, who. since
the attack on Kaspar In 1829, had been
curious about htm, came to Nuremberg
and "took up" tho hero with fantastic
fondness. Though, he recognized Kaspar's
mythopoelc tendencies, ho believed him to
be the victim of soma nefarious criminals,
and offered a reward of 600 florins, anony
mously, for Information. It never was
claimed.
A Sew Theory.
Already had arisen a new theory, that
Kaspar was the son of a Hungarian mug
nate, an Idea at which the lad caught
greedily. Later, Lord Stanhope averred,
on oath, that inquiries made In Hungary
proved Kaspar to be an Impostor.
Lord Stanhope, though he had relieved
Nuremberg of Ksspar (November, 1831), and"
had made ample provision for him, was
deeply skeptical about his narrative. Tha
town of Nuremberg had already tried to
shift the loadof Kaspar onto the shoul
ders of the Bavarian government. Lord
Stanhope did not adopt him, but under
took to pay for his maintenance, and left
him. In January, 1832, under the chargo of
a Dr. Meyer, at Anspach. He had a
curator and a guardian and escaped from
the commentaries of Julius Caesar Into
the genial society of Feuerbach. That
Jurist died In May, 1833 (poisoned, say the
Kasparltes), a new guardian was appointed
and Kaspar lived with Dr. Meyer. Find
ing him incurably untruthful, the doctor
ceased to provoke him by comments on his
inaccuracies, and Kaspar got a small
clerkly place. With this he was much dis
satisfied, for ho, i like Feuerbach, had ex
pected Lord Stanhope to take him to Eng
land. On Decemlier , 18S3. Meyer was
much provoked by Kaspar's Inveterate
falseness and said that he did not know
how to face Lord Stanhope, who was ex
pected to visit Anspach at Christmas. For
sumo weeks Kaspar had been sulky, and
there had been questions about a Journal
which ha was supposed to keep, but would
not show. Ha was now especially resent
ful. On two earlier occasions, after a
scene with his tutor, Kaspar bad been In.
Jured, one by tho assassin, who cut his
forehead; once by a pistol accident. On
December U he rushed Into Dr. Meyer's
room, pointed to bis side and led Meyer to
a placs distant about 600 yards from his
house. Bo agitated was he that Meyer
would go no further, especially aa Kaspar
would answer uo questions. On their re
turn Kaspar said: "Went Court garden
Man had a knife gave a bag struck I
ran as I could bag must 11a there." Kas
par was found to have a' narrow wsund.
metal effects, champagnes,
etc. oil new and fash
ionable foulards, worth
75c and 85c, at yd ,
Lyons Batins for linings,
and a splendid lot of
imported glace and
plain colored
taffetas, at,
yard
geuuieincai
styles or .vionaay, oniy
at, yard
Greater Bargains in our Sale of Linens
The remarkablt bargains that whavt offered throughout the great January
linen sale will be even greater than ev$r tomorrow. Every price qwt(Jf
represeit an extraordinary value in linens.
An Extra Special 20 pieces of the celebrated genuine round
thread finish embossed all linen German table damask, actually
worth til a yard, Monday -while it lasts, yard ....
85c
98c
1.98
1.50
for. Ki 15c hemstitched
doylies,
eac h
50c l?mstltched and plain
tra cloths,
each .'
75c j11'.ow alums
and scarfs,
each
11.60 quality plain linen henv
stitched lunch cloths,
each
IQc
at, IQc
"two inches and a half under tho center
of the left breast," clearly caused by a
sharp, double-edged weapon. In three or
four days ho died; tho heart had been In
jured. Ho was able to depose, but not
on oath, that on the morning of tho Hth a
man In a blouse (who had addressed him
omo days earlier) brought him ,a verbal
message from tho court gardener, asking
him to come and view aomo clay from a
newly bored well, where. In fact, no work
was being done at this time. He found no
one at the Well, and went to tho monu
ment of the rather forgotten poet, Ux.
Here a man came forward, gave him a bag,
stabbed him, and fled. Of tho man lie
gave discrepant fiescrlptlons. He became
Incoherent and died.
Suspicious Circumstances.
There was snow lying when Kaspar was
stabbed, but there wero no footmarks near
tho well and elsewhere, only ono man's
track In the Hofgarten. Was that track
Kaspar's? We are not told. No knife
was found. Kaspar was left-handed, and
Dr. Horlacher doclared that the blow must
have been dealt by a left-handed man.
Lord Stanhope suggested that Kaspar him
self had Inflicted the wound by pressure
and that after ho had squeezed the point of
tho knife through his waded coat it had
penetrated deeper than ho had Intended, a
very probable hypothesis.
As for the bag which tho assassin gave
him, It was found, and Dr. Meyer said It
was very like a bag which he had seen In
Kaspar's possession. It contained a nots,
folded, said Mme. Meyer, as Kaspar folded
his own notes. Tho writing was In pencil,
In Splegelschrlft that Is, It had to be read
In a mirror. Kaspar, on his deathbed,
kept muttering Inooherence about "what la
written with lead, no one can read." The
note contained vague phrases about coming
from ths Bavarian frontier.
After Kaspar's death the question of
"murder or .suicide" agitated Germany
and gave birth to a long succession cf
pamphlets. A wild woman. Countess Al
bersdorf ("nee Lady Graham," says Miss
Evans, who later calls her "Idy Caroline
Albersdorff") saw visions, dreamed dreams
and published nonsense. Other pamphlets
came out, directed agalnJt tha house of
Baden. In 1870 an anonymous French
pamphleteer offered the Baden romance, as
from tho papers of a Major von Hennen
hofer. the vllllan In chief of tho Whits
Lady plot. Lord 8tanhope was named as
the ringleader In the attacks on Kaepaj,
both at Nuremberg and Anspach.
In 1883 all the fables were revived In a
pamphlet produced at Ratlsbon, a mere
bash of the libels of 1834. 1839. 1840 and 1870.
Dr. Meyer was especially attacked. Hfs
sons defended his reputation by an action
for libel on tho dead, an action which
German law permits. There was no de
fense and the publisher was fined and or
dered to destroy all tha copies. In 1892
the libels were repeated by "Baron Alex
ander von Artln;" two documents of a
palpably fraudulent character were added;
tha rest was old stuff. The reader may
find It In Miss Evan's "Kaspar Hauser"
(18K2). For example, Daumer knew a great
deal. He even. In 1833, received an anony
mous letter from Anspach containing the
following statement: "Lord Daniel Alban
Durteal, advocate of tha royal court in
London, said to me, 'I am firmly convinced
that Kaspar Hauser was murdered. It
was all dona by bribery. Stanhope has no
money and Uvea by this affair.' " Daumer
and Miss Evans appear to have seen noth
ing odd In relying on an anonymous letter
about Lord Daniel and Alban Durteal.
It Is quite possible that Kaspar Hauser
no mors knew who he was than the valet
of 16C9-1703 knew why he was a prisoner.
Nothing Is certain, except that Kaspar was
an hysterical humbug, whom people of
sense suspected' from the first, and whom
SPECIAL SILK SALE
75c and 83c New Spring Foulards at 29c
As a special for Monday we show on bargain
square T0 pieces of strictly new spring 11)04
printings, dVea fuolards, v -
navys, rose, browns, gun U jj l II j
us.
$2 Silks at 59c Yard
3,500 yards of high-class silks. These eilks
have been shown in our window where they
have attracted much admiration-. There is
imported glace Louisenes, Sappho silks, chif
fon satins, small seeded shirt waist silks,
Imported embroidered Shantungs, printed
Pongees, Pongees in dots, robe patterns and
-" 1 CT . . - 4 . . .1 ...... .SF
ruevi, iiuy.iuto WIj r C
50c
$2.00 quality 12-4 Imported Turkey
red fringed table cloths. Monday,
each .'
Balance of the 10-4 hemmed pattern
table cloths, worth (1.60, at,
each
$2-25 quality all linen full bleached
10-4 pattern table cloths, at,
, each
$200 quality hemstitched 10-4
berman linen pattern table
cloths, at
1.25
98c
1.39
1.25
... I0c
15c
25c
50c
5c
39c
49c
69c
15c large
huck
towels,
each
JOo huck and fringed
damask towels,
each
60c tine damask
towels,
each
75c damask
towels
each
believers in animal magnetism and homoeo
pathy accepted as some great' one, educated
by his royal enemies In total darkness to
fit him for the military profession.
The fablo about a prlnco of Baden had
not a single shred of evidenco In its favor.
It is truo that the grand duchess was too
ill to be permitted to see her dead baby. In
1812, but tho baby's father, grandmother
and aunt, with the ten court physicians,
the nurses and others, must have seen It,
In death, and It Is too absur to suppose, cm
no authority,- that they were all parties to
tho White Lady's plot. Abject credulity,
love of mystery, love of scandal and politi
cal passions, produced the ludicrous mass
of fables to which, as late as 18'.C1, tho
duchess of Cleveland thought it advlsablo
to reply. In England it is quite safe to
accuse a dead man of murder, or of v.' hat
you please, as far as the duchess under
stood the law of libel; so she had no legal
remedy. .
' Doing Sosnetklaa for It,
lTncle 'BIJah was a great sufferer from
rheumatism.
"Why don't, you do something for itr
uncle?" asked one of his white neighbors.
"Dat's what I's doln', 'boss. , Takln' it
right along."
"Is It helping you any?"
"Not ylt, but It will. Do man I gtt It
f'um say It boun' to knock it out."
"How long have you been taking tho
medlclpe?"
" 'Bout four yoahs."
"Four years? And It hasn't cured you?
Why don't you quit It and try something
else?"
"Boss," said Uncle ,BIJoh, 'Ti had dls
rfaeumals fawty-fo' yeahs. Yo' dcu't 'speck
I kin git shet on It all to wunst, do yuliV"
A CONVERSATION WITH A CLIMAX
. ?'
wikea a ProfeastonalMHan Talks, It's
to tho Iolat.
r. !
'Several famous American physicians and
surgeons were recently dining together
after a session of a national meeting liuld
in Now York.
"I had a remarkable case 'his winter,"
remarked a surgeon present, whose name
as a specialist in rectal diseases is world
wide, "My patient was a womun, a delicate,
nerve-racked creature, who hud suffered bo
fearfully from the ravages of hemorrhoids,
that ths knife seemed the only solution of
the trouble, and yet her heart was weak
and her strength so wanted by this fearful
disease that we dared not operate.
)1 had ceased my visits to her for a time
and had given up all hope, when one morn
ing she entered my office looking like a
new woman; the pallor had disappeared
and the lints of suffering were nearly erad
icated from her face. Bhe told me the had
bought at a drug store for fifty cents a
proprietory medicine In suppository form
called Pyramid Pile Cure, and had ob
tained Instant relief from the first Inser
tion. I made an examination nnd fouad
the rectum In excellent condition, the In
flammation entirely disappeared and tie
swollen veins In normal condition.
"I was so Interested In the asu that I
had the remedy analyzed carefully and wis
so pleaied with tha result of the analysis,
finding a combination of the most healiug
and scientific research present in the Pyra
mid Pllo Curs and in a more convenient
form -than I could secure them otherwise,
that I wrote to the Pyramid Drug Company
at Marshall,, Mich., asking for their booklet
on Piles, their Nature, Cause and Cure,
(which by the way is sent free,) and heve
since used their I'll Cure extensively antf ,
with best results in my practice. I do not
hesitate to recommend it to you all. It will
often save your patient from a painful
surgical operation which In many cases re
sults fatally."