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LAST BUT NOT LEAST YOU SHOULD HAVE ALAMITO MILK, CREAM AND BUTTEtt For the baby, ask for certified milk from Alamito For cooking and household purposes, ask for Alamito to milk from selected dairies. Telephone 411. Ninth Raffles StoryNinth Raffles Story Ninth Raffles Story nesa, but even through that inpenetrablo veil I knew It was a sham. I had laid hold of the hand rail. It shook violently in my hand; he was also holding It where he stood. And these suppressed tremors, or rather their detection In this way, struck a strange chill to my heart, just aa I was beginning to pluck It up. " 'It Is lucky for Btefano,' said I grim as death. " 'Ah, but you must not be too 'ard on 1m,' remonstrated the Count. 'You have stole this girl; he speak with me about it. and I wish to speak with you. It is very audash uss, Arturo, very adaushuss. Perhaps you re even going to meet her now. eh? "I told him straight that I w Then there Is no 'urry, for she Is not there.' " 'You didn't see her in the cave?' I cried, too delighted at the thought to keep it to myself. ' " 'I had no such fortune,' the old devil said. ." 'She Is there, all the same.' .," 'I enly wish I 'ad known.' " 'And I've kept her long enough!' "In fact, I threw this over my shoulder as X turned and went running down. " 'I 'ope you will find her!' his mallo'ous voice came croaking after me. 'I 'ope you will I 'ope so.' "And find her I did." naffles had been on his feet for some time, unable to sit still or to stand, mov ing excitedly about the room. But now he stood still enough, his elbows ou the cast iron mantleplece, his head between his bands "Dead?" I whispered. And be noddod to the wall. 'There was not a sound in the cave. There was no answer to my voice. Then I went in, and my foot touched hers, and it was colder than the rock Bunny, they had stabbed her to the heart. 8he had fought them, and they had stabbed her to heart!" Tou say 'they' " I said gently, as he stood in heavy silence, his back still turned. "I thought Btefano had been left behind?" Raffles was round In a flash, his face white hot, bis eyes dancing death. "lie was In the rave!" he shouted. "I saw him spotted him It was broad day light after those stairs and I went for him with my bare hands. Not flits, Runny; not fists for a thing like that; I meant getting my fingers Into his vile little heart and tearing It out by the roots. I was stark mad. But he had the revolver hers. He biased It at arm's length and missed. That steadied me. I had smashed his funny bone against the rock before he could blase again; the revolver fall with a rattle, but without going off; In an instant I had it tight, and the little swine at my merry at last." " You didn't show him any?" "Mercy? With Faustina dead at my feet? I should have deserved none In the next world if 1 had shown him any In this: No. I just stood over hint, with the revolver In both hands, feeling the chambers with my thumb; and as 1 stood ha stabbed at me; but I stepped back to that one and brought him down with a bullet in his guts. " 'And I can spare you two or three more,' 1 said, for my poor girl could not have fired a shot. 'Take that one to hell ' with you and that and that!' "Then I started coughing and wheeling like the Count himself, for the place waa fa ! suMe, VYbea U cleared my man was very dead, and I tipped him into the sea to defile that rather than Faustina's cave. , And then and then we were alone for the last time, she and I, in our own pet haunt; and I could scarcely see her, yet I would not strike a match; for I knew she would not have me see her as she was. I could say good-bye to her without that. I said it; and left her like a man, and up the first open-air steps with my head In the air and the stars all sharp In the sky; then suddenly they swam, and back I went like a lunatic, to see If she was really dead, to bring her back to life Bunny, I can't tell you any more." "No even of the count?" I murmered at last. "Not even of the Count," said Raffles, turning round with a sigh. "I left lilin pretty sore for himself; but what was the good of that? I had taken blood for blood, and it was not Corbuccl who had killed Faustina. No, the plan was his. but that was not a part of the plan. They hud found out about our meetings In the cave; nothing simpler than to have me kept hard at it overhead and to carry off Faustina by brute' force in the boat. It was their only chknee, for she had said more to Stephano than she had admitted to me, and more than I am going to repeat about myself. No persuasion would have Induced her to listen to him again; so they tried force; and she drew Corbuccl's revolver on them, but they had taken her by surprise, and Btefano stabbed her before she could fire." "But how do you know all that?" I asked Raffles, for his tale was going to pieces in the telling, and the tragic end of poor Faustina waa no ending for me. "Oh" said he. "I had it from Corbuccl at his own revolver's point. He was waiting et his window, and I eould have potted him at my ease where he stood against the light listening hard enough but not seeing a thing. So he asked whether It was Btefano, and I whispered, '81, Signer," apd then whether he had finished Arturo, and I brought the same shot off again. He had let me In before he knew who was finished and who was not." "And did you finish him?" "No; that was too good for Corbuccl. But I bound and gagged him about as tight as man was ever gagged or bound and I left him in his room with the shutters shut and the house locked up. The shutters of that old place were six Inches thick and the walls nearly six feet; that was on the Sat urday night, and the Count wasn't expected at the vineyard before the following Satur day. Meanwhile he was supposed to be In Rome. But the dead would doubtless be discovered next day, and I am afraid this would lead to his own discovery with the life still in him. I believe he figured on that himself, for he sat threatening tne gamely till the last. You never saw such a sight as ho was, with his head split In two by a ruler tied at the back of it and his great mustache pushed up Into tils bulglmr eyes. Bat I locked him up In the dark without a qualm and I wished and still wish blm every torment of the damned." "And then?" "The night waa still young, and within ten miles there was the best of ports In a storm, and hundreds of holds for the hum ble stowaway to choose from. But I didn't want to go further than Genoa, for by this time my Italian would wash, bo I chose the old Norddeutscher Lloyd, and had an ex cellent voyage In ono of the boats slung in board over the bridge. That's better than any hold, Bunny, and Lxlid splendidly on oranges brought from the vineyard." "And at Genoa?" "At Genoa I took to my wits once more, and have been living on nothing else ever since. But there -I had to begin all over again, and at the very bottom of the lad der. I slept in the streets. I begged. I did all manner of terrible things, rather hoping for a bad end, but never coming to one. Then one day I saw a white-headed old chap looking at mo through a shop win dowa window I had designs upon and when I stared at him he stared at me, and we wore the same rags. Bo I had come to that! But one reflection makes many. I had not recognized myself; who on earth would recognize me? London called ne and here I am. Italy had broken my heart and there it stays." Flippant as a schoolboy one moment, playful even in the bitterness of the next, and now no longer giving way to the feeling which had spoiled the climax of his tale. Raffles needed knowing as I alone knew him for a right appreciation of those last words. That they were no mere words I know full well. That but for the tragedy of 'his Italian life that life would have sufficed him for years if not forever I did and still do believe. But I alone see him as I saw him then, the lines upon his face and the pain behind the lines. How they came to disappear and what removed them you will never guess. It was the one thing you would have expected to have the op posite effect, the thing Indeed that had forced his confidence, the organ and the voice once more beneath our very win dows: Margarita de Parete, era a' sarta d' e' slgnore; se pugneva scmpe e ddete pe penzare a Balvatorel Mar ga rl, e perzo e Balvatorel Mar ga ri. Ma 1' ommo e cacclatoret Mar ga rl, Nun ce aje corpa tu! Chello ch' e fat to, e fatto, un re parlammo cchleul I simply stared at Raffles. Instead of Some Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay rnjrraotoaft flpfrch. w I I anent political address, "was m I iiinirr.Mnii. It Nimlnill mmi ff A Scot's speech to his wife. "The Scot had maTrled for the second time. His new mate was senti mental and a little morbid. She could not resist asking her husband now ' and then If he loved her better than he had loved her predecessor. "She would say: " 'Do I mure than fill Jean's place In your heart. Jack?' " "Are ye sure ye're no' regrettln' Jean, laddie r " 'Jack, do ye love me better nor her?" The man bore several of these exami nations patiently. Then he ended them onre for all with a gruff: " 'Tak' ma word for It, Betty, If Jean wu llvln" ye wadna be here.' "New York Trtbvne. , A rhsss of Mind. James Dalrympte of Glasgow, the expert on municipal street car ownership, was comparing In Cleveland the public with the private operation of water supplies, gas works and kindred utilities. "When private hands take hold of these things," said Mr. Dalrymple, "they run them beautifully at first. The people at first are highly pleased. But with time's passage the popular pleasure wanes; it changes to vexation and to bitterness; and that," said Mr. Dalrymple. "reminds me of a recent happening in Glasgow. 'There was Glasgow man to whom his wife said 'Donald, next Thursday is Helen's birth day. She will re 11 years old. Give me a little money, please, to got a birthday pren ent for her.' , 'The man, as ha took out bis puree, said querulously: " How the deuce are you able to remem ber so exactly the dates of all our chil dren's births?' 'Easily enough,' the woman answered. 'Our first child was born on January 17. and on that day you gave me a necklace of diamonds and rubles. Our second was born on June Z, and on that day you gave me a needle case worth sixpence. Our third child was born on October 27, and that date Is firmly fixed In my mind through a terrific rumpus that you made about a milliner's bill.' "Buffalo En culrer.' Willing to Pay for It. The following anecdote is told of Gen eral Oilman Marston, a once famous New Hampshire lawyer: General Marston was attending court at Dover, when a young attorney made a motion that was denied by the court. The young man remonstrated against what he thought was the wrong ruling of the judge. Bo vehemently did he remonstrate that he waa fined $10 for contempt of court. An older attorney took the matter up and he was fined a similar sum. Still another, who thought he stood a little better with the Judge, endeavored to straighten the mat ter out, but he, tooT enriched the coffers of the state by .paying a "ten spot" for contempt. General Marston was then seen to rise In Ms sent and advance to the clerk's desk. Taking his long pockethook from hjs pocket he took out two flO bills and laid them on the ek. "What Is that for?" said the court. "I want, you to' distinctly understand," said the general, "that I have Just twice as much contempt for this d d court as any man here, and I am paying for It." Boston Herald. lie (iot It. On the day following the railroad wreck nesr Harrlsburg recently, while a party of newpair men were waiting In one of the company's offices awaiting news. word came that some of the railroad claim agents had already settled with and se cured releuses from some of the Injured passengers. That called forth a story of the experi ence of a claim agent who had been sent to settle with a passenger injured in a wreck on a southern railroad, In which a coach had rolled down an embankment. The passenger had several ribs and a leg broken, a scalp wound and internal in juries, and the railroad man stood ready to have paid him $2,500 for a release. When asked what he thought would be right, the Injured passenger, as Arkansau, said: "Wall, stranger, that was a pretty long fall. They tell me that thar car must have rolled about sixty feet. I think I ought to get $1 a foot, anyway." Philadelphia Ledger. Beerher Scored on Inaersoll. The kindness and generosity of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll won for him many friends who could not but deeply regret his opinions. Among them was Henry Ward Beecher. In the study of the famous preacher was an elaborate celestial globe, which had been sent him with the compliments of some manufacturer. On Us surface, in delicate workmanship, were raised figures of the constellations and of the stars which compose them. The globe struck Ingersoll's fancy. He turned It round and round, examining It with admiration. "This Is Just what I want," he said; "who made It?" "Who made it, do you say. Colonel?", re peated Beecher. "Who made this globe? Why, nobody, of course; It Just happened." Philadelphia Record. A t ome Dunn. Former Congressman H. St. George Tucker of Virginia tells a story -of a Vir ginian who had been Indulging too freely In the flowing bowl and who had become overconfident of his own greatness. look ing around at his companions, the Virgin ian boasted. "Gentlemen, I can lick any mau In Richmond." Nobody took up the challenge, and the Virginian returt.ed tq the charge. "Gentlemen." he said, "I can lick any man In the whole state of Vir- glnla." The words were hardly uttered. the narrator said, before a tall, lean, sin ewy man from the western part of the state gave the boaster a thrust that sent him sprawling on the floor. Like Owen Wlster's nameless hero, this Virginian had a sense of humor, and as he picked himself up he turned to the group and drawled, "Gentlemen, I'm ready to acknowledge that I klvered too much territory." Buffalo Commercial. Not for the Record. A fruit grower of California was giving testimony before the eenate Interstate commerce committee and mentioned a par ticular kind of orange. "That Is the best orange grown," re marked Senator Cullom. "It is," responded tho ' witness, ."and, Senator, you will got a box of oranges for saying that." "You will find In this little book," re marked Senator Clapp, when the laugh subsided, "the names and addresses of every member of the committee." "Don't let this go Into the record." said Senator Kean, who waa presiding, address ing the stenographer. Washington Post. Makes I ouresalon. An Irishman, who was painting a house green, dropped a bucket of paint. A woman passed Jvuit after the paint bespattered the sidewalk and she Inquired: "What does this mean?" A small boy who had seen the accident said: "De bloke up d'Te had a hemorrhage." An Kngllshman to whom the old Joke was told, exclaimed: "Positively absurd! Any one ought to have sense enough to know that the blood of every man in red, even If he U Irish." New York Times. Horrors of War, The eld gentleman in the smoking-car was declaring vehemently that. In his opinion, war was a disgrace to civilization. "War." he exclaimed, "is an abomination, a blot on tiie universe!" I'pon which he rose and left the car. 'The eld man seems to feel pretty strongly on the subject," said one of the passengers. "Has ho lost some near rela tive through war." "Yes," answered a friend, "his first husband." Harper's Weekly. wife's A Trifle Late. A quack doctor whose treatment had evi dently led to the death of his patient was examined sternly by the coroner; "What did you give the poor fellow?" asked the coroner. "Ipecacuanha, sir " "You might Just as well have given him the aurora borealls," said the coroner, "Well, sir, that's Just what I was going to give blm when he died." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Altogrethrr Too thy. J. M. Barrle Is as shy as a school girl, says a writer. I At a pretty girl look stead fastly at llarrle for five minutes and If she ran catch his eye he will exhibit about the same symptoms of distress as a man who has swallowed a fish bone. Constant activity and contact with the world seems to be powerless to cure him of the shyness which Is developed the moment he talks with a good looking woman. Only tqe other Jay a young actress who had been rehears ing in one of his plays and directly under his eye pleased him so much that he asked her to luncheon. She couldn't go that day, and the refusal embarrassed him, but he plucked up courage and asked her again the next day. Another engagement inter fered, but on the third trial the girl ac cepted and waa pleased to think that she was to have an hour of delightful intel lectual entertainment. Barrie ordered the luncheon and as the dlches were brought on he looked up and looked into the girl's eyes. From that moment he was absolutely Schless. He did not utter one word during the meal and after it was over he was Just able to gasp out: "Shall we re turn to the theater?" and offer bis arm. Then, as a sort of relief, he hunted up the stage manager and talked to him at the rate of ninety words a minute for half hour. deepening, Ms lines had vanished. He looked years younger, mischievous and merry and alert as I remembered him of old In the breathless crisis of Borne madcap escapade. He was holding up his finder; he was stealing to the window; he was peeping through the blind as though our side street were Scotland Yard Itself; he was stealing back again, all revelry, ex citement and suspense. "I half thought they were after mo be fore," said he. "That was why I made you look. I daren't take a proper look myself, but what a Jest if they weret What a Jest I" "Do you mean the police?" said I. "The police! Bunny, do you know them and me so little that you can look me In the face and ask such a question? My boy, I'm dead to them off their books a good deal deader than being off the hooks! Why, If I went to Scotland Yard this minute to give myself up they'd chuck me out for a harmless lunatic. No, I fear an enemy nowadays, and I m In ip'ror -f the some time friend, but I have the utmost confi dence in the dear police." "Then whom do you mean?" "The Camorra!" I repeated the word with a different In tonation. Not that I had never heard of that most powerful and sinister of secret societies, but I failed to see on what grounds Raffles should Jump to the con clusion that these every-day organ grinders belonged to It. "It was one of Corbuccl's threats," said he. "If I killed him the Comorra would certainly kill me. He kept on telling me so. It was like his cunning not to say that he would put them on my tracks whether or no." "He is probably a member himself!" "Obviously, from what lie said." "But why on earth should you think that these fellows are?" I demanded as that brazen voice came rasping through a sec ond verse. "I don't think. It waa only an Idea. That thing Is so thoroughly Neapolitan, and I never heard It on a London organ before. Then, again, what should bring them back here?" I peeped through tho blind In my turn, and, to be sure, there was the fellow with tha blue chin and the whit teeth watch ing our windows, and ours only, as he bawled. "And why?" cried Raffles, his eyes danc ing when I told him. "Why should they come sneaking back to us? Doesn't that look suspicious, Uunny; doesn't that promise a lark?" "Not to me," I said, having the smile for on"!e. "How many people, should you imagine, toss them S shillings for as many minutes of their Infernal row? You seem to forget that that's what you did an hour ago!" Raffles had forgotten. His blank face confessed the fact. Then suddenly he burst out laughing at himself. "Bunny," said he, "you've no Imagina tion, and I never knew I had so much! Of course you're right. I only wish you were not, for there's nothing I should enjoy more than taking on another Neapolitan or two. You see, I owe them something still. I didn't settle in full. I owe them more than ever I shall pay them on this aide of the Styx!" He had hardened even as he spoke; the lines and the years had come again and Ms eyes were flint and steel, with an hon est grief behind the glitter. 4Knd of Ninth Story.) W ' 'A