PART 2 Pages 9 to 16 THE OMAHA DAILY
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ESTABLISHED JUNE 19. 1871.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1904.
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS.
XA1AS GREETINGS IN ART
Good Motto Cards 33c, 23c and 20c
Passepartout Mottos, 24 subjects after Brooks,
Emerson, Lowell, Whittier, Wilcox, Kteventuni,
Including "My Symphony" by Wm. Henry ('ban
ning and "Tho Footpath of Peace" by Henry
Van Dyke, Bale price Saturday only, email size,
at 20c
Large mze, at 35c
Ten (f 1.00) Green Trading Stamps witb each.
For our friends out of town. 200 beautiful mottos.
in celluloid, tinted with handsome floral designs,
in envelopes ready for mailing, same subjects
as above, choice Saturday, .each 25c
Above prices are the cheapest ever made in
this lino of goods in Omaha an absolute fact
also sold exclusively by The Bennett Company.
ryrography nov'KI' still arriving for those doing the t
burning. Rpmp"i' "r we're headquarters. Outfit... 1.17
riCTTRE FRAMING -We're brenking all records In thla line
of work. Can li.umle more, as our facilities are greater
than eTer thin year.
AIITIST MATERIALS Jet your painting supplies at Ben
nett's Art Department.
EnraLved CaLrds
Xmas Presents
100 Engraved cards and copper
plate, any style script type, best
wedding bristol stock, C
special U Jl
100 engraved cards, old Z C
English type, special. .. J
100 cards engraved from L C
your plate w
Note These prices are good Saturday and
Monday only.
Our styles of engraved cards and
stationery are strictly up to date
and from the artistic viewpoint
they are samples of highest engrav
ing art.
Our prices are lower than any en
graving house in Omaha; a little
comparison will prove this.
MAIN FLOOR.
OMAHA WEATHER REPORT-Saturday Fair and Colder.
Copyright Books
Xmas Presents
"ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES," written by Mau
rice Thompson, beautifully illustrated and in colored
cloth binding, would make a handsome Xmas present,
so would any of the 243 other titles that we have in
this edition. Here are a few "Graustark," "The Fil
igree Ball," "The Cavalier," "David Harum," "Red
Rock," "The Right of Way," "Dorothy Vernon," "(Juin-
cy Adams Sawyer," "The Crisis," etc.
Price, Saturday and Monday
only
Send for a list of the 245 titles.
MAIN FLOOR.
45c
The Tabard Ian
Library
A life membership to this
World's Greatest Library if you
buy one of our $1.50 copyright
books, I f Q
Saturday
THE TABARD INN LIBRARY con
tains all the latest litorature in fiction,
romance, art, history, religion, adven
ture and travel. You can exchange
your book any time on payment of ex
change fee of fc. Retain it if you wish,
the book Is your own property, or get
another one for It.
TABAR.D INN memberships
ma.ke good Xmavs Presents.
Book Stalls, Main Floor.
An Attractive Sale of
AUSTRIAN COURT CASES
Ir the Jewelry Section.
We secured a large lot of beautiful Aus
trian Court Cases dark Flemish oak, solid
brass bound and silk lined they make up
a most beautiful display aud no other store
in Omaha has gut as much as a siugle
sample of the line. We bought the lot and
they go on sale Saturday. These articles
comprise -
Toilet Boxes, Jewelry Boxes,
Collar and Cuff Boxes,
Glove and Handkerchief Sets,
Cigar Boxes, Poker Sets, etc.
Could you suggest a more handsome
thing for a Christmas
present? The prices
are $1.50 to
JEWELRY SECTION.
ifh- iin uunuiiirj
4.50
ROUSING SALES IN HARDWARE, SA1 13 DAY
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Your Last Opportunity for Raging
Graniteware Bargains for This Year
Remember that a nice granite kettle
makes a useful Xmas present.
9Sc Granite Tea Kettle 80c
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps. .
No. 300 Lip Preserving Kettle, ten quart 52c
Thirty Green Trading Stamps.
No. 260 Lip Preserving Kettle, six q"rt3Qg
Twenty' ($2 no')' Green ' Trading Stamps.
No. 240 Lip Preervlng Kettle, V ur iuart33C
Twirt'v (K fttV Oreen Tradlnir 8 Irnna.
No. 220 Lip Preserving Keltle. three Mutirt30C
Twenty' '(12.00)' Ore in" Trading Stamps.
ILk. ; .'iiiisa
551.08 SAVOKY ROASTER. . . 98c
More Xmas Presents from Hardware Section
The most complete and finest line of CHAFING AND
RAKING DISHES ever shown in Omaha at this or any other
time!
CIIAFINO DISHES, up from 2.50
RAKING DISHES, from $4.25 to 2. 15
NICKEL PLATED RATH ROOM FIXTURES, all kinds, all
made right, and prices way down.
Ice will soon be here and we've got skates thousands of 'em. Barney KQp
& Berry's, the best skate made, price trora $6.(0 to
tt " "T" s0
THE RIGHT TIME FOR. TOY BUYING IS RIGHT NOW! SECOND FLOOR.
Santa Claus buys all his toys at Bennett's the
dear, good, sensible old fellow that he is!
iTbi ww&ffiWSfa tt hs own domain (second floor) and see the cargos
MUrMmltJi of beautiful things that delight the little children.
I heir delight will give deugut to you, you will enter
into their enjoyment, for, as Henry Wnrd Beecher
once tritely remarked, "No man is really a man who
has lost out of him all the boy.'
SATURDAY WILL BE A HUMMER. TWENTY
($2.00) EXTRA IN LITTLE GREEN STICKERS WITH
EVERY dollar PURCHASE OR OVER. THIS INCLUDES EVERYTHING IN
IN TOY DEPARTMENT.
MECHANICAL TRAINS The kind that "don't get off the track" Fifty
($5.00) Extra Green Trading Stamps with each train, Saturday only.
STEAM ENGINES Fifty ($5.00) Extra Green Trading Stamps with every
engine above $1.00.
A Raging Crockery Cataract
IOC WHITE CHINA SALE
Wp will plnoe on Sale Snturtlny morning a special pur
chase of white chinn for (ltM-urntlng, consisting of bread,
butter and dessert plates, twisted salt and pepper shaker,
cups and saucers, p.ckles, vpooii trays, etc.
Wo do not hesitate to say that these are the greatest val
ues in white chiua you ever purchased.
Sold only on paid orders, no C. O. D.. mall or 'phono
orders taken. No reservation or exchanges made. COME
EARLY.
LIMOGES FRENCH CHINA, nicely decorated (TIC
100 piece dinner sets vbl J
See our special barKaln tables of Haviland & Co.' Li-
moes chlua funcy iheoes more (julck prices and extra
stamps.
Special Sale of Japanese China Bon lion Boxes
and Hair Receivers.
Rich French China decorations at less than half regular prices. On sale
Saturday for f 1.48, USc, KSc o
and OOC
One hundred ($10.00) (Jreen Trading Stamps.
Welsbach uns burner, complete with mantle and Imported M Q
air hole globes, each T"OC
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps.
COL TON Double Green Truding Stamps will be given on purchases In
China Department on condition that this coupon is presented to clerk at
time of purchase.
No. 1 or 2 heavy brass lamp burners,
each
5c
'I
Photo Supplies Photo Supplies
Bargains for the Christmas Snapshotter
Folding Pocket Poca-A, size of camara plate 3x4J 3.50
Brownie No. 2 Film Camera, size of plate 2x3. 2.00
Bull'a-Eye Film Camera, size of picture 3Jx3J .5.00
Cyclone Camera, size of plate 3Jx4J 8.00
Cyclone Camera, size of plate 4x5 1000
Eastman's Film Camera No. 3 A. size of picture 3Jx5J. .20.00
Trinting frames, drying racks, trimming boards, card
mats, albums, solutions and all photo accessories, qualities
absolutely guaranteed and every price right.
Developing and finishing is a photo specialty; don't risk
spoiling the pictures you've taken, but bring your plates to
our camera man, southeast corner main floor.
Be the Early Bird Saturday
and Attend Our Startling Sale
of Shirt and Dress Waists.
W will put on sale Saturday morning- every walnt In plain and fancy mohnlrs,
Imported Salisbury flannels, (Inetit French flannels, metallic velvets, nuns' veilings
and serges, albatross and melrose cloth. Silk taffeta and peau de sole in black,
white and colors.
This sale includes our stock from $4.50
to $7.5U, all will go Saturday at
Bargains in Rubber Goods for Saturday
GEM FOUNTAIN SYRINGE, 2 qt..60c
Gem Fountain Syringe, 3 quart 70 c
Gem Hot Water Bottle, 2 quart 55c
Tyrian Success Syringe, 2 quart 1.08
Tyrian Success Syringe, 3 quart 1.18
Premium Combination Fountain Syringe
and Hot Water Bottle, 2 quart 1.50
Same in' 3 quart. . . r." 175
Tyrian Pure Gem F't'n Syringe, 2 qt. 1.98
Same in 3 quart 2.25
Tyrian Hot Water Bottle Sl0q,th.!?.s.!"!?.n....98c
Same in 3 quart 1.08
Near Velvet Rubber Glove, pair. . . . 1.00
Red Rubber Glove, pair. 1.00
Grease Proof Rubber Glove, pair... 1.25
GREEN TRADING STAMPS ON ALL FOREGOING ARTICLES.
3.75
Imported German Blanket
Robes on Sale Saturday
A GreaJ SaLturdy Shoe SaJe
Meu's Patent Colt Goodyear Welt Wall Street Cap Toe,
fo6;.00.6.11"6."" ...4.00
Men" Velour Calf, Goodyear Welt, Duke Cap Toe,
jr.r. :.. 3.50
Men's Box Calf, Double Sole, Goodyear Welt, Bluch-T AA
I'M- $4.00 shoes for
- "ti ;
Men'R Box Calf and Viol Kid Goodyear welt shoes,
$3.50 shoes for
THE BEST BOYS' and GIRLS' SHOES IN THE CITY,
ROCK OAK SOLES, GUARANTEED
for
2.50
G CITY,
1.50
SIXTEENTH STREET ENTRANCE
We place on sale 600 very pretty Blanket Robes, Just Imported from Germa-ny.
Good fast colors, styles suitable for ladies and gentlemen's bath and lounging
robes pretty borders, light, dark and med'um shadings are extra IOC
large one blanket makes a full robe worth up to $6.50 special sale I "1
8aturday-$:.S6, $2.60. $2.26 and '
On Sale Bargain Table, 16th Street Entrance.
Double Stamps All Day Saturday
Blanket and Comfort Sale
Ten dosen fine sllkollne covered Comforts filled with fine whit cot- f (
ton worth 1.25 Saturday each v,v'
Fifteen dozen extra large and very fine sllkollne covered Comforts f CZ(
worth t'i- Saturday ,,uw
Twenty-five doxen extra, fine quality very fluffy and light weight Com- O
forts very handsome patterns very cheap at 13.26, Saturday each
Cotton Blankets
One thousand pairs of fine Cotton Blankets, In grays, tans and whites fCr
Saturday pair 12.26, $1.26. 96o, 85c and UVW
Wool Blankets
Two hundred and fifty pairs of fine Wool Blankets, In grays, tans, whites O
and plaids we are muklng very special prices pair, $12.60 to mtA Cf
Handkerchief Sale
Two thousand dozen ladles, and children's Handkerchiefs fancy borders, plain
nemmucnea, preuy emoruiuereu una lacs euges in linen ana BWIsn
Saturday eacn loo, 5o and
Christmas Belts
Saturday we place on sale about 26 dozen Indies' and mioses' Belts
newest shades and styles of black satin, black silk, black velvet
and other novelties quality worth up to two dollars each at
each
3c
48c
Sale of Ladies' Neckwear for Saturday
One thousand sample pieces of fine Neckwear worth up to $1.00 a
at 25c and 1UC
Great Sale of Ladies9 Under
wear for Saturday
Fifty dozen silk fleeced extra fine ribbed, silk taped. Vests and set snug
Drawers splendid cut and finish some of these are slightly dam
aged and sell when perfect as high as $1.00 gurment Saturday we sell
them at gurment ,
39c
GROCERY DEIT.
Headquarters lor all the guoii things of
Hie season tor the table.
Two hundred l$2v.uuj Uteen Trading Stamps
with twenty cans tiructcpori und pam
tomatoes ti.uO
One uuuured (10.wj Cirecn Trading blaiupd
wnn ten uiDa rocnpuri Build p.-
tomatoes
Fllty iu.uu) Urevn Truding blamps witu
with nve cans urocaiioii auuu puck to
matoes hie.
Forty t4.uu Uretu 'i radlng Utauips wan
three iiounds nnebt Java ana Mooiia
coffee
Thirty (.t.uu Ureen Truding Ijtaiiips witu
one pound leu. tuny kinuj boo
Ten ti.ut Ureeu x'rau.ng blamps Willi
puuiia can licnuell's tii.ol Ouaing puw
uer 24a
Ten itLW) Ureun iTadlng b lamps witn
gallon medium sour picaiea io
Ten Ui-w Ureun iiuaiag Stamps witn
three packages liennett's Capitol mince
meat ioo
Five (50c; Ureen Trading Stamps wuii
pint bottle catsup luo
Honey bpecial t lve tooc) Green Trading
Stumps with frame Colorado honey luo
Branuiud Cherries Five (Mc) Ureen Trad
ing titamps with Jar of this delicious
fruit iuc
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps with
quart can Franco-American oxtail or
mock turtle soup 35c
Ten l.i) Green Trading Stamps witn
fiound New York full cream cheese. ...20c
ve (50c) Green Trading Stamps with
can Asparagus 2uc
Five (ttK- Ureen Trading Stamps with
puckage Dr. Price's food 1-Hc
Ten Ui.uO) Green Trading Stamps witu
three Neufchatel cheese 16c
Ten (Jl.oo) Ureen 'trading Stamps with
pound William Baker's premium choco
late U;c
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
Jar syrup lOo
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stumps with
gallon Jug catsup 5oc
Ten ($1.W1 Green Trndlng Stamps with
half pound William Baker's cocoa 24o
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps with
three-pound can grated pineapple ....luo
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps with
quart medium sour pickles loo
THERE YOl' A RE AGAIN! FIVE
HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE LITTI-.E
GREEN STICKERS $.9.50 worth almost
twenty pages of your book with the fore
going modest grocery order that amounts
to $9.6
New California raisins, per pound Sc
New cleaned currants, per pound 10c
New season corn, 2-lb. can 9c
Extra clerks, extra clerks. To avoid
waiting In Grocery, Tea and Coffee and
Butter Departments.
CANDY DEPT.
Now Is the time to make your selec
tions of the attractive novelties at low
prices.
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps with
pound box Bennett's special chocolate
creams : 25o
Five (60c) Green Trading Stamps with
glass Jar filled with candles, each 10c
Butter Scotch, package 5c
Lemon drops, package 6c
Toasted marshmallows, package 5c
Chocolate chips, package 10c
Glass bank, filled 1'lc
Candy beads, per yard 2c
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
one pound honey comb taffy 25c
CIGARS
Gen'l Thomas, a 6c club house shape elgar,
twenty-tlve In box $1.10
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Helen Gould, two for 26c, twenty-tlve
for $2.75
Forty ($4.00) Green Trading Stamps.
A fairly good cigar, twelve for I 25c
Parked In a box.
French briar pipes. In cases, up from..7So
Cigar cases, up from 25o
Two Big Clothing Bargains
100 suits, no more, value to $16.50, QQ
200 men's and young men's overcoats, OCA
value to $18.00, at
You can find just the style and pattern you like by at
tending this sale.
Double Green Trading Stamps up to 11 o'clock a. m.
Furnishing Goods
Special for Saturday 100 dozen silk four-in-hand
ties, 50c value, at .siC
Double Green Trading Stamps up to 11 o'clock a. m.
Fancy Cotton and Black Wool Half Hose
35c value. f f
at VJC
Double Grsen Trading Stamps up to 11 o'clock a. m.
Smoking jackets and house coats, worth
double, $12.50 to
Saturday only.
Double Green Trading Stamps up to 11 o'clock a. m.
Iioys' nil-wool sweaters, worth $1.50, 100
Double Green Trading Stamps up to 11 o'clock a. m.
3.00
Our furnishing goods department contains double "the
stock formerly carried; easy to find just what he wants for
Xmas.
With every purchase in clothing and furnishing depart
ment up to 11 o'clock in the forenoon you get double stamps.
Meats! Meats!
Omaha's leading meat market. Everything guar
anteed. A few of our specials for Saturday.
All fresh dressed young
Hens pound
Roost Pork
pound Spare Ribs
44 pounds for
Rib Hulling Beef
10 pounds for
Chickens. Roasts. Etc.
10ic
.61c
25c
25c
Fresh Dressed Roosters
pound Lamb Stew
H pounds for
I.anib Koast
pound
Home-made Corned Beef
sugar cured pound
..71c
25c
..41c
31c
Green Trading Stamp Specials
BENNETT S SPECIAL PURE KETTLE RENDERED
LARD another fresh lot 5-pound i.ai.K
1 lilrty ($a.(K() Grii'n Trading Sliiiupa with each pall.
MORRELL'S IOWA RKG1I.AR IIAMS-every one guar.Ol
aiiteed migRi' cured average 8 to 10 poundf euch at. . . 3
Thirty (XO0) Green Trading Stumps with each ham.
55c
FISH! FISH!
Five hundred kegs new Holland Herring every one S-
guaranteed, at per keg iuv
Thirty itlOdj Ouen Trading Stamps with each keg.
Ninety (J9.00) Oreen Trading Stamps with tho above three Items.
KAUFMAN'S ORCHESTRA 6 TO 10 SATURDAY EVENING. CORNET SOLOS BY DR. LAIRD.
PROBLEM OF ENGLISH POVERTY
i "
rlesitists Seekt Remedy for
pallia PamperUsa la
ICngland.
..i the October number of the West
minster Review Mr. W. V. Roberta write
f Bc(eno and I'ovtrty." His teat of
I u arty Is that formulated by Mr. Rown
u. who has. studied thoroughly the eon-
UIU m or ma pvw
That family is In poverty wnot total
earnings are insufficient to obtain the min
imum iieei-esarlea f' r the nvilu enance of
nirrely phyeical efficiency, or ho total
earnings wouiu -....,v n i wr i
the maintenance of merely phyi-leal BrH
cleiicy wuru 11 not that Kiaa purUou oX It
was absorbed by other expenditure, either
useful or otherwise.
But London and many other British cities
know a poverty far below this standard,
absolute hopeless poverty.
One night last winter the public health
committee of the London County Council
made a census of the homeiees poor of
London. The officers of the council Waited
certain districts of the metropolis and
com. ted In that night, walking about the
street, 1.463 men, lid women ai d forty-six
toys and !"ir girls apparently uni.er th
age of 16. They ulsj found 10 male and
sixty-eight females asleep in doorways, un
der srenways and on vialicaea. n.aking
1.797 uersona who it must be cresumed were
I so plteoiialy poor th.it they hud n it trie
wherewithal to irovlde themselves with
I the i heaiK'Si hospitality ol a c mnun lo ig
: ing houiM To put It another way, one
person In iinjo of the population was lortej
10 upcna tne areury niuis or a winters
night in the eold stre.-ts of London. The
bguriM.cbuvvy but a Xalul loipiaulun ol the
sum total of human misery Jat they rep
reHent. We cannot grasp all the hideous
signlfleance of such a depth of outcast
wretchedness. But It Is a striking picture
of concrete poverty and Is worth many ab
stract definitions.
The principle of the present union system
of relief In England Is described by Mr.
Roberts as this: "That the tandard of
comfort of the pauper ought to be lower
than that of the poorest laborer, on the
ground that to make pauperism comforta
ble Is to encourage Indolence and vice."
At present 65 Boards of Guardians are cir.
j rying out this principle and system, and
I15.5K3 bodies take part In the administration
of the pour law. Yet alajlute pauperism U
nut decreasing as It should. In 18TS Eng.
land had Sn.sSO paupers, 104.S17 of them
adults; and the bill was HI, 162.360. In Jan
uary, im, relief was being glvta to IT,-
m paupers, 112,616 of them able bodied, and
the bill for 1902 was 161,306,960. Discourag
ing figures, and of course, the poor law
relief does nothing whatever for the per
manent removal of poverty.
Mr. Booth estimated that thirty per cent
of the people of London are "below the
poverty line." In York. Mr. Rowntree. In
vestigating on his own hook and by hut
own methods, put the average at twenty
eight per cent. The census of lmn showe
that the urban population of the Unlud
Kingdom was seventy-seven per cent. If
London and York are typical -towns, thn,
leaving village poverty out of consider tlon.
twenty-one or twenty-two per cent of the
entire population "is without the means
of keeping themselves In merely physical
efficiency." What UUa gorl o tjOstabfi.
means to the families subjected to It is de
scribed vividly by Mr. Rowntree;
A family living upon the scale allowed
for in tills estimate must never spend a
penny on railway fare or omnibus. They
must never purchase a halfpenny news
paper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for
a popular concert. They must write no
letters to absent children, for they cannot
afford to pay the postage. They must never
contribute an thing to their cnurch or
chapel, or give any help to a neighbor
which costs them money. They cannot
save, nor can they Join alrk club or trade
union, because they cannot pay the neces
sary subscriptions. The children munt have
no pocket money fur dolls, marbles or
sweets. The father must smoke no tobacco
and muKt drink no beer. The mother muht
never buy any pretty clothes for herself
or for her children. Should a child fall 111
it must be attended by the pariah doctor;
should it die. It must be burled by the
parish. If sny of these conditions are
broken lh satrft axpeudltura Icvulvsd bj
met, and can only be met, by limiting the
diet; or, In other nurds, by sacrificing
physical efficiency.
In such a pitiful state nearly one-fourtb
of the British population Is existing or try
ing to exist. Can conditions so sinister to
national progress be permitted to endure?
The church, the state, private philanthropy,
have done much and failed. Can science
provide a remedy? At any rate, It should
try.
Mr. Roberts offers no detailed program.
His suggestions are these:
Beginnings might be made In the direr
lion of the grouping of the fm ts relating
to the feeding of i lilldreu; the pr ad of
kii'iwli dg' relating to Jhe wl-e selei'tlnn I
and cooking of the cheapen! foodstuffs; the
possibility of the forma lion of labor schools
such as are being Introduced Into tier
many: the qutslioii of the abolition of un
skilled lab Ureal ucuuragemeut should
also br- given to the study of political
ecoun.ny, Hnj .Speclally to that branch of
t which seeks to discover the laws relat
Ing to the distribution of wealth These
are mere Indications of some of the direc
tions which scientific Irouliy should take
Pcrhips they are not the most urg-nt but
of one thing I am sure, and that Is the
vlt.il necrsH ty of concentrating upon ho
effort to roll.ct material facts and to dls-
rearnorner.relUt"'n l ,h'r d
The study of political economy may seem
a little less fruitful to many of us than it
seems to Mr. Roberts -New York Sun.
Building Operations Inri-raae,
CUM.' AGO. Dec. ft. In reviewing build
Inn operations In the iwen'y five prir-dpal
cltleH of the I'nited Stit'-n for the month
of November, 1IM as compared with lha
same month In 1903. Constructions - News
tomorrow will say that there has been a
total Increase of about 26 per oeuU , ,
