Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 10, 1904, PART 1, Page 4, Image 4
TIIE OMAnA DAILY BEE: PATTTRPAY, DECEMREtt 10. 1904. fi I Grand Toy Opening Saturday JO LOU MS Grand Toy Hdr finpmnr Great Overcoat Deal A CHOICE SAMPLE LINE OF MEN'S BELTED WINTER OVERCOATS BOUGHT FROM MAX ERNST, 715 BROADWAY, N. Y. Mens $18 OVERCOATS at $10 Just take a look at theco overcoats Saturday. . You will see they are worth every penny of $18. We bought the lin e t bey are all fine samples and wil' -e!l them just as much under yi'.t e we purchased them. Loot, sty.mh, up-to-date belted over coats -in the novelty mlxtore every on i 4 sumiiHi ". mm mm hand made and finely tailored That is the sort of overcoats we offer you Saturday only a limited number be one of the early ones and take your choice at -4 10 SPECIAL. Man's Smoking Jackets The most acceptable gift for a man. Our holiday line la offered at special prices. SPECIAL. Sat of Boys' Clothing ON THIRD FLOOR. Pretty, all wool overcoats and suits at very special prices. Men's Fashionable Clothes FRO1 ROGERS-PEET a CO. New York's Greatest Makers of Rea.dy-to-WeaT Overcoats tvid Suits, $17.50 to $35.00. Tou can compare these ready-to-wear garments- only to the highest grade of merchant tailor's apparel. The style and H snappy appearance Is here. As for fit, you can only realize the excellence of the fit when you try on the garments. If you entertain the Idea of purchas ing a strictly high-class, fashionable overcoat or suit, we recommend you to Inspect this clothing. Tou need not buy because you look. We have confldenc enough In these clothes to guarantee your money back If you are not satis fied. ROOKRS-PEET & CO.'B READY-TO-WEAR CLOTHING THE BEST MEN'S CLOTH I NO THAT MONEY CAN BUY. $17.50 to $35 SHOES ON THE MAIN FLOOR NOW r r-1 i i v mm ivj VdiHmi SHOES ON THE MAIN FLOOR NOW Special Notice of Change of Location of Shoe Dept. We Have Moved all the Shoes FROM THE SECOND FLOOR Down to the Main Floor Ladies' s Shoes Next Aisle to Basement Stairs Main Floor. Ladies' Slippers Next Aisle to Ladies' Shoes Main Floor. Child's Shoes in front of Exchange Desk Main Floor. Men's Slippers Boys' and Girls' Shoes In the rear Main Floor. All Rubbers and Overshoes in the Rear Main Floor. Men's Shoes Next Aisle to Men's Clothing Main Floor. Grand Sale and Display of Fine Footwear LASTING, USEFUL, ACCEPTABLE AND APPROPRIATE HOLIDAY GIFTS. SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY'S SALE Hand Tailored Suits and Overcoats at 14-" CLOTHING TO SATISFY THE CRITICAL DRESSER theae Overcoats and Suitt are per- - A Qkf fectly made all hand tailored else- g zsJ where you would pay $17.50 to $20 j "ii at Brandeis. Lad Sho Ladies' Slippers Girls' Shoes Very Spec! l styles In Dr. Reed's Cushion Shoes In hand turn ana welt soles, at $o.uu 8 styles in kid and patent colt turn and til welt shops. Including extreme Louis ICS ) .heels, at 15.00 and $0.00. OA errlna In miff Tlr-a nHola Cl Oft ananlnl es r shoes in turn and welt soles. 10 styles in the "Brandeis $1.08 Special" Shoe for women, In light, medium una heavy soles. Absolutely everything that's new nnd dainty comfortable and styli6h for bedroom, parlor and ball room in felt, beaver, kid and patent leather from 51c to 73c, 80c, 08c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.59, $2.50, $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00. At $1.30, $1.59, $1.08, $2.23 and $2.50 ln . eluding vicl kid and patent colt skin, In light, medium and heavy soles. Mens Shoes Men's Slippers Boys' Shoes IS new fall and styles In Dr. Reed's Cushion Sole Shoes In vicl kid, calf skin, enamel and ideal kid $5.00 and $0.00. 152 new styles of our own shoes, the "Brandeis $3.00 and $3.50 Special" in every kind of leather and every weight of sole. 22 new styles of men's every -day shoes nt $1.08 and $1.59. The $1.59 shoes are in the basement. (We show this year the most complete lino of men s hand sewed slippers ever seen in Omaha as well as a big line . of low priced ones, from 50c up to $3.50 a pair hut making our special $1.59 slipper the finest value in the world. Our boys' shoe department offers every thing that's good In leather for boys, at D8c, $1.23, $1.35, $1.50, $1.59, $1.98 and $2.50. Grand Toy t Opening- u 5e I Pg S U FJ Z? Grand Toy iS 5ee Page ft Holiday Sale of Men's Fixings Here are Just the Gifts that Satisfy a Man Up to Date and Useful Every Day Fine Christmas Neckwear The finest lot of men's holiday neckwear ever brought to Omaha the latest pat terns and plain effects in the up-to-date styles English squares, aeot and four- i (T. in-hands. all the hand- fjJl down JLwJp somest silks, specials, Iq flji P I, SSf SILK NECKWEAR 15c 15c Here is a big neckwear special all Ilk necktie late styles up to data patterns and priced at less than half what you usually pay, your choice Saturday at.. (Infant's fancy soft sole shoes, 1 to 4 . Children's fancy turn sole shoes, 1 to 1 Children s combination shoes, 5 to b soft soles 89c-$l turn sole $1.2? for 5 to 8 combination I Arrived Yesterday on Sale Tomorrow First Time in Omaha LOWER PRICED DEPENDABLE SHOES ON SALE IN THE BASEMENT Ladies' warm lined slippers 59c Ladies' fur trimmed beaver slippers. . . .75c Ladies' splendid every day shoes 1.59 Ladies' kid strap sandals. .98c Cnilds' ".'olSkid shoes, 5 to 8 59c Meu's velvet embroidered slippers 50c Men's fancy leather slippers 50c Men's good every day shoes 1.59 Boys shoes, good calfskin. 98c-1.25-1.50 Men's $1.50 felt shoes 59c 15c-25c A Splendid Line of Holiday Mufflers at Brandeis French folds, squares, quilted and full dress g mufflers in black and all Z PA down pijJC Sale of Silk Suspenders Fine Bilk suspenders different col-ors-i-lay them aside now they make very nice Christmas presents and the price is modest. . . . Handsome Gift Suspenders . The very highest grade silk web suspenders with fancy gold and A f silver buckles, etc T C A down many in fancy boxes a. JU to Boys' $1-50 Sweaters, 35c-49c Boys' all-wool sweaters in plain colors and fancy effects, just the thing for the boy on Christmas, nothing could please him more, lnese sweaters are worth as high as $1 each, special, at Men's Underwear Good warm winter underwear, all of it high grade and form fitting, derby ribbed, plush back and silk fleeeed, a great surplus stock of .high-class undergarments, worth Z r 4 C ft up to $1 each, at Ja ftI, JUt Koot's, Tivola, Uealth underwear and other well known brands of strictly high-class, two-piece winter underwear, at, CIQ 4rx CH sUt III .JJ 1.50 to 4.50 huh in ai u itiiiiyii un IXI 11 35c-49c per garment Munsing Union underwear, the finest unicn underwear on the market, per suit OUTPUT OF DOPED WHISKY 0nH nndred and Fonr Timet Greater in Quantity Jhan ths Baal Articls. BASIS OF THE VARIOUS COMPOUNDS Imitations I anally Taste the Santa as tha Genuine aid Mar Intoxicate More Quickly Who Knows the Genataet One million gallons of whisky will bs bottled in bond In the United States this year, snd Us age and purity will be offi cially testified to by the government. If you drink whisky and like the real food stuff and are willing to pay (or it, do you think that you will get your fair pro portionate share? Perhaps! But If so your share will be small, for the amount aged, tested and bottled under the supervision of the government Is tiny by comparison wltft the quantity placed on the market directly after manufacture and chemically aged and colored. Tour fair proportion would be to get one glass of really old whisky with a government guarantee to 104 glasses of stuff for which you have the word of the barkeeper or the printed state ment of the individual bottler, It seema: paradoxical,' but It is a fact that the United States government affords ths best protection In the world for whisky drinkers and also the worst It guarantees the purify and age of whisky which It has guarded and It specifies that spurious Iml- StLouisFair Grand Prize AVU3USCD TO wkcr Baker & Co."s Chocolate 5Cocoa Tha Highest Award evr ntada ht this Country HIGHEST AWARDS Ht EUROPE and AMERICA 43 Wallcrl!aia&Co.Lti Itatlons may be manufactured and placed on the market. These Imitations may taste like the real thing, and they may Intoxi cate even more quickly, and that Is the sole Qualification demanded by the average man who stands up nt the bar or who buys a bottle for home consumption. So far as the label Is concerned It may be made to suit the fancy and the pocketbook of the man who orders it. He may draw different brands from the same tank, he may have any age printed to suit his par ticular trade, and he may give every per sonal guarantee of purity. The govern ment will not Interfere with htm in this. The fact that he Is making a misrepresen tation does not Incriminate him or get him Into any possible snarl, particularly as al most all his competitors are doing precisely the same thing. He acts solely on his own account and nothing but his reputation Is at stake. Difference In Cost. There fa naturally a great difference be tween the cost of the genuine whisky prop erly matured for beverage and medicinal use and the cost of the rectified, blended or compounded substitute, and the natural result Is that tha Imitation floods the mar kets and the real cannot be obtained at all In many hotels and cafes. The proportion of the Imitation sold. In New York is even greater than In other sections of the coun try where the consumers are willing to pay fair prices, as the average drinker here appears even more careless than elsewhere about the quality of the stuff set before him so long as the taste and immediate effect are aatlafartory. Bo far as the after effects are concerned they are reputed to be wholly in favor of the genuine article. Real whisky will bring In its wake visions of blue monkeys with green spots, but few headaches on the mcrrow, and after as many doses of It as any medical man would care to prescribe the patient should be able to get up and eat In the morning. Edward W. Taylor, who took a leading part in the recent sessions of the Interna tional Pure Food congress at St. Louis, is now at the Hotel Imperial. He has taken a special Interest In the question of pure whibky, and he gave to a Herald reporter an Interesting description of the efforts made by the government to preserve the purity of whisky bottled in bond. Sometimes .when you have held a bottle, of whisky In your hand you may have no ticed that a green stamp over the cork had been torn when the bottle was opened. If curiosity prompted you to examine further you may have found thkt the stamp had been Issued by the commissioner of inter nal revenue and that it bore the date of Its bottling, the location of the distillery, the figure giving the proof and the name of the local Inspector. These stamps are provided to go over tha corks of bottles containing whisky bottled In the custody and under the Immediate supervision of the United States, while still behind the locks of the government bonded warehouses and after' It has ma tured sufficiently in Its term of storage. It Is presumably as difficult for a man to tamper with whisky after It reaches a bonded warehouse as It would be for him to help himself to new money In the mint, A special revenue officer is assigned to duty and only under bis watchful eye can any of the precious fluid be placed In glass. The breaking of a seal would Involve the greatest trouble. All Sealed at Might. When the storekeeper closes the doors for the night be must cover the facial leeks with slips of paper of specified sises and colors and he must see that they are Intact when he opens In the morning. Tha win dows are barred snd protected by heavy shutters. Long re s of tanks tna!dt have faucets sealed la position by brass locks which cannot be apeaed tuitll tba proper time cornea. The tanks are Sited from barrels which meat be dtlfrerea to the aaortkauacr by the United States gauger. From time to time as the whisky is poured into the tanks the storekeeper must test It with his hydro meter and It must fill the requirements of 100 standard proof. Where whisky has risen in proof strength in dry storage the storekeeper may reduce It, back to standard by the use of pure distilled water, but he Is not permitted to add other Ingredients. He must then close and seal the tanks. WTiere a special cistern is used for receiving the whisky direct from the barrels, under the provisions of the law, a sealed flow pipe may connect It with the tank from which it Is to be eventually drawn and felt eacks may be used as a filter to remove any charcoal which may have followed from the barrel. These Backs must be enclosed in a copper lined box which Is locked and sealed. When the period of maturity arrives the storekeeper, who has satisfied himself by watching every step of the procedure thnt the whisky Is absolutely pure, superintends Its drawing Into bottles, Stamps are then furnished to go over the corks describing the age of the whisky, and, in addition to the brand, a government label Is affixed declaring that any person who refills the bottle Is liable to a heavy fine and to a term of Imprisonment of not more than two years. Special deputies are kept making the rounds of storehouses and any storekeeper who Is found outside his building for a mo ment during operations Is liable to suspen sion. The deputy goes over the books and makea his own tests of the whisky to con firm the work already accomplished. After all this espionage the government gives lti guarantee with every sealed package, that leaves the storehouse. All Slses Bottled, All this work is dona under what Is known as the bottling In bond act, passed la March, 1897. Distillers who take ad vantage of the provisions may put up bot tles of almost any size down to one-tenth of a pint, enough for a single highball, with the government stamp on each offered for sale. Tha reason why more whisky Is not sold with the government stamp was graphlo ully Illustrated by Mr. Taylor, who said: "Suppose you are engaged in the whisky business. Suppose you make a crop thia year. Suppose you put It in the govern ment bonded warehouse to lcava It for eight years In order to be able to put It upon the market as an eight-year-old whisky In 1812. Say you have taken lrom the bunk 100,000. You have Invested the money In grain, fuel, barrels, etc., In sal aries, In maintenance of machinery, and at tha close of the 1801 season you have en tered into bond a crop of the highest type of whisky known to skilled manufacture. "Your Investment is now in new whlxky as It stands, and you have just eight years to wait. liut howT Your costs have only begun. As the years go by your volatile product Is losing month by month in bulk and at the end of each yeur you find yojr commodity growing less and less, and at the end of eight years, when you go to pay taxes on your whisky, you must not only compute the Interest on your original Investment, but you must go back to the bank and draw enough to pay 11.10 to the government cn every gallon withdrawn. "If your whisky baa leaked out or evap orated beyond a fixed annual allowance for outage you must pay the tax on what the government says you ought to have, even If you haven't It. Tbe state baa tazd you annually on every barrel and the county has taxed you right along. "Tou must pay eight years' Insurance snd eight ysars wages to tha waieaouae man. and when you put yeur genuine whisky oa the market you have a rom medlly rendered rigid is price by ousts which you cannot evade. "New, I want ta go Into business. I look at tl.e revised, statutes and see a section which aaysK C ahead and I fats this wbiak? U yea ssaaA tat say a j cense Into the United States treasury and ' cut loose.' I say to myself, 'Well, this Is the easiest way to get rich I ever saw,' and I get my license. I bny so many gal lons of neutral spirits from a high wine or spirit distillery. "Tricks that Are Vain." "I buy so much prune juice, bead oil, aging oil, run in so much water from the hydrant, and lo! before you a real distiller have started on the first week of your manufacture. I have put Into the channels of trade and Into the process of consump tion a substitute labeled 'Eight-year-old whisky,' which I made in eighty minutes, and by the time you have held your whisky In storage for the first of your proposed eight years I have glutted the market with my sham and turned over my capital again and again." At least 85 per cent of the adulterated whisky Is said to be sold In barrels, though some of the worst reaches the retailer In bottles, which do not Indicate either Its true origin or its real age. According to the report of the commis sioner of Internal revenue the quantity of "distilled spirits" made In this country for the last fiscal year was. In round num bers: Gallons. Alcohol MO.) High wines 300,000 Bourbon whisky 30.oX).oio Bye whisky : 18.000.0ii0 Miscellaneous 21,Ono,OtiO Rum l.OclO.OOO Gin 2,ono.0i)0 Neutral or cologne spirits 57,000,000 There has' been a constant Increase In the production of neutral or cologne spir its, which are the basis for almost all the compounds, and are a wonderful solvent, making any reasonable mixture possible. New York Herald. F?dlnv Wild Animals in Winter. Of the animals that we can coax about our houses the gray squirrels become most friendly. Put nuts In convenient plsces and they will make frequent trips for supplies, but only on comparatively mild days will they remain long outside their comfortable winter quarters, where they usually have plenty of food stored. Red squirrels can be coaxed by means of food, but they are very questionable fel lows; in fact, the general opinion is de cidedly against them, owing to their par tiality for eggs and young birds. Chip munks hibernate in their underground homes, s we cannot count on them for winter visitors. The cottontail will con descend to accept dainties In the form of green vegetables (though one seldom has such luxuries In the winter), but, as he comes almost entirely at night, he Is not a very interesting guest. Country Life. As tha Father-Inderstood tha Trouble In the schools of a Connecticut town measures were recently taken to test the children's eyesight. As the doctor finished each school be gave the principal a list of the pupils whose eyes needed attention, and requested him to notify the children's parents to that effect. One night soon after the opening of the fall term a little boy came home and gave his father the following note, duly signed by the principal: "Mr. Dear Sir: It becomes my duty to Inform you that your son shows decided indications of astigmatism and his case is one that should be attended to without delay." The next day the father sent tha follow ing answer: "Dear Sir: Whip It our of him. Yours Mllwaabee'a Mammoth Gas Tank. Ground has been broken by a Pittsburg construction company for ths largest gas holding tank In the world. This will bs constructed near Twenty-fifth street and 8L Paul avenue for the Milwaukee Oas and Light company, and will hold 6,000.000 cubic feet at gaa. Tbe biggest gas holder la ex tatsaca today has a capacity af a,Uk4 f eaL Jamwaakaa Bsjottnak MEMORY OF FACES A TRAIT Instances Tesdlng to Show thnt Priests Possess It to a Re markable Deatree, "Reading a few days ago some stonta ot Pope Plus' remarkable memory for faces I was reminded of a couple of priests who had marvelous memories," remarked a member of the Catholic club, quoted by the New York Sun. "It set me to wonder ing If the possession of first rate memories Is not one of the characteristics Of men of the cloth. "From my tenth to my fourteenth year I was an altar boy and acolyte In a Catho lic cathedral situated in a small city on the west bank of the Missouri river. About a quarter of a century ago there drifted to this city a noted and eloquent mission priest, a member of one of the great or ders. He conducted a mission at the ca thedral, and I jvas In attendance upon him as acolyte at most of his services for nearly three weeks at that time. "Two or three days after I began as sisting him I noticed that he seemed to be somewhat annoyed over the noise which I undoubtedly made by clomping about the altar in my frost-hardened, copper-toed boots I was mighty proud of those boots, by the way, because they were the first coppcr-toed pair I had ever worn. "I caught the mission priest examining these copper-toed boots of mine rather curiously two or three times, and I felt that they were getting on his nerves. I trod as lightly as I could after that, but, try os I would, I couldn't seem to lessen the noise made by the boots. , "So I asked my mother to get me a pair of carpet slippers to wear at the altar. I told her, that the mission driest appeared to be bpthered by those noisy boots of mine. She got m a .pair of carpet slip pers, and I carried them with me to the sacristy and put them on In place of my boots the next time I went to serve the mission priest. "He quickly noticed the change. He looked down with an approving smile at my reet. and nodded his head amlablv. After the service he petted me on the head as I was helping him to remove his vest ments In the sacristy, and told me that I was a quick lad to have noticed that the boots were disturbing him. "That was praise enough for me. I be came so attached to that mission priest before he departed for other fields that I hated to foe him go. "About two years ago It was announced at the church which I attend here In New York that this same priest was to hold a mission at the church. I was delighted to hear that, and I determined to go anj have a little talk with him as soon as I learned that he had arrived In New York. "When I got the word that he had ar rived I went over to the priests' residence at which he was stopping. I gave my card to the housekeeper and told her I wanted to see the mission priest. "Presently he came down the stairs, holding my card in one of his hands, and shading his eyes with the other. He had not aged a great deal, although his hair hod turned from iron gray to snow white, but he was still the same erect, rosy-faced, handsome man whom I bad served on the altar as a boy twenty-five years ago. "He had a puszled look on his face as he continued to gase st my card on his way down the stairs. But when' he reached tha bottom of the stairs he looked up at me with a amlle, and It wasn't ten seconds before his smile developed into a smile of recognition. I hadn't said a word, but was Just taking his preferred hand, when he amaxed me by saying: " 'Ah, here is my little altar lad with the nospelesa carpet slippers grown Into a man!" "I thick that waa an unexampled and almost Incredible feat of memory. I was nly a small shaver a Quarter of a century age. you a reaitmhea, ana thara waa navarl anything characteristic about me. I'm just one among a billion in looks. "But this kindly old priest with the clear mini had me charted before I had a chance to say a word to him. The fact that I have never worn any hair on my face is certainly not enough to account for his marvelous feat In placing me. "Just six months after that I was cross ing the Atlantic, bound for London, on one of the ten-day steamers. When I looked over the passenger list on the first day out I saw that one of my fellow voy agers was the bishop of the cathedral in the little western town wham I had fre quently served on the altar when an acolyte. "I waited to get a look at film at the dlnrer table, and found him not greatly charged a tall, strapping, fine looking, ur bane Bavarian, with the same heavy gold cross attached to his watch chain that I remembered so well, and with the same habit of taking snuff how well I recall the benign r&pa he used to bestow upon my head with his snuff box In the sacristy! "I didn't get an opportunity to present myself to the bishop Immediately after dinner, as I had intended, and so I decided to wait until evening before reintroducing myself to him. After dinner I got into one of those old-time ship amusements, still i carried on on the slow liners, quoit pitch ing, with a number of fellows on the for'ard deck. "I made a sad hash of It. I seemed to have no judgment whatever of distance, and I was 'way at the bottom of the tally very soon after the game began. "After twenty minutes of the exercise I gave It up In distrust and somewhat sheep ishly joined the group of people watching the pitching. I had no sooner done so than I heard a quiet voice In my ear: " 'You had a better eye than that, my son,' the voice said, 'a quarter of a century or more ago, when you used to bat the ball around the lot near the cathedral before vespers.' "I looked up, and there was the bishop of my acolyte days smiling In my face." Walk-Over The Menfs Shoes That Fit $3.50 and $k.00 IVe have the newest things in Men's Slippers for the holiday trade. Minute lerfni t'sed by Watchmaker, "The fourth Jewel screw of a watch la so small that to the naked eye It will not look like anything more than a bit of dust," says Ed Key1, watchmaker, "and is prob ably the smallest screw made. It must necessarily be perfect In every respect, and the character of the workmanship required on It Is Illustrated by looking at It under a powerful microscope, when It is seen that the threads average 260 lo the Inch. "it Is exactly 4-100 of an inch in diameter and over 50,000 could be packed into a lady's thimble with ease. Counting these screws Is never attempted, of course, but l'W are weighed' on a delicate steelyard and the total number of an output is arrived at by comparing the groas weight with the weight of these. 8uch tiny screws can only be made in large numbers by machinery, and the operation attending their manufacture Is one of the most delicate things In watch making." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Our Slipper stock is all of this season's purchase. The new "SOLACE" is a favorite slipper with men. WALK-OVER SHOE SI ORE, 1521 Farnam Street. Small Profit to Prisoner. A white man was arraigned before a colored justice of the peace during recon struction times for killing a man and stealing a mule. It was In Arkansas, neir the Texas border, and there was some rivalry between the states, but the col ored Justice tried always to preserve an lmrartlal frame of mind. "We'se got two kind oo law in dls yere co t." he said. "Texas law and Arkansas law. Which will you hab?" The prisoner thought a minute and then guessed be would take the Arksnsas Its. "len I discharge you fo' siealin' de mule an' hang you to' klllln' de man." "Hold on a minute. Judge," said tha prisoner. "Better make that Texas law." "All right Under de law ob Texas I fine yo' to' klllln' de man an' hang yo' fa' aiaalis' as mala" , "Lei ihem lvavt (Tie money m0 Jvc (he coal p BONANZA ( Si-mi-Anthraclte ) $7.50 SPADRA (Auna') ....$8.50 ROCK SPRIN6S (fcuump ) ..$7.15 HARD COAL (&.).... $10.50 We are still protecting these prices but will advance them soon. Put in a stock now. Central Coal & Coke Co., ISTH AND HARNEY. PHONES I22I-47IS-I693 For Menstrual Suppression IT. r.r"S PEN -TAN-GOT mml4 la mtU Sr saifi a Mot'auaU brae Ca, ilu eraw auaa M ! M S Ml t suae 4