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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1905)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, RErTEMBEfi 16. 1005. Last Day of the Great Manufacturers' Loom End Sale Gaturday, September 16th Saturday, - Ct September vll I Thousands Upon Thousands of Yards of Loom Ends Thousands of Yards of Ml Wool Dress Goods SB inch Suitings, all wool Boucles, all wool Tricots, all wool Henriettas, Worsted Suitings, etc., in lengths from 2 1-2 to 0 yards, worth from 75c to $3.00 per yard, in Main Wash Goods Department, at yard, 59c, 39c and nn in all kinds of lengths. A general clean up of the entire lot, values up to I8c per yard. On bargain square in the great domestic room, at choice, tl per yard . THE RELIABLE. STORE. 8 n7 ran 55c New Laces, Per Yard, 5c The finest line of brand new laces ever shown in Omaha, worth 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c per yard, will be placed on sale Saturday morning, all at one price, while they C -laBt, per yard Silk Domestic Room Specials aOc Galatea Suitings, good pat terns and colors, 1 at O2C (Vlc Standard Dress Prints, light and dark colors, in pretty patterns, at, yard J2.1 lOc Snow White Cam- P brie, at, yard JC 10c Double Fold Percales, splen did quality, at, C yard J 15c Arnold's Flanelettes, 36 inches wide, at, yard 2 V 1,000 remnants of Table Damask and Toweling at less ihan manufacturer's cost. 1 Loom Ends of Silk Ribbons, worth 5o to 25o per yard, at 7c, So, 3o, 2o, and C '.Se Tooth Brashes 25c Needle) Books, :r??...7Sc :r!:!...y2c '.0c 'Pearl Buttons, 25o Ladles' Neck special wear, spec- B at, doz...-2C lal, at JC 15c Hose Support- 860 All Bilk rub ers, snap A. bons, spec-f ft at IUC Ul at.yd.JuC Omaha's Greatest Fresh Fruit Department Fancy Ripe Freeune Peaches, per dozen , Thr tnf&iurii Peanuts, for - .... Pur Honey. pr rack Fancy large Rip Bananas, per doxen Large Juicy Lemons, per doxen Fancy Bartlett Pears, per dosen 10c 10c 10c . .12ic 25c 15c iWZHOFF, WISHER OF WIVES Three Icore to Hit Credit and Sereral States to Hear From. MARRIAGE AS A MEANS OF ROBBERY (moot heat Matrimonial Craek that Ever Hit the Pike and Fleeeed His Victims How lie i Worked His Ustme. Ths record achieved by Johann Hoch of Chicago as a much marrlM man Is thrown In the shade, hy the champion bigamist. Dr. Oors;e Wltihoff of New York and netgliborlng cities. Wltzhoff Is said to have annexed at least sixty wives at va rious places snd under various names, robbing and deserting each at the first op portunity. Ten of his wives have Identified the photograph of the doctor, but the authorities have not been able to appre hend the matrimonial crook. Wltzhoff is good looking, hut his one lcey to the hearts and sentiments of his many omen victims was courtesy. Hs was also very considerate, and during his various courtship won their affections by carefully noting all the little details of sorrsct deportment that appeal to women. He would help them on and off cars: hs would stand beside a dining table until his companion was seated; he was careful to carry the packages when he met a sweetheart out shopping; ha stood chatting with his hat In his hand; he inquired gently and solicitously after ths health of his victims he nrglected absolutely no oppor tunity to give to prospective wives ths Im pression that he was a finished gentleman. All his victims figured that If he was a gentleman he would make a good husband. Indicted More Than a Tsar Aao. On June S, 1304, an indictment was found against the mueh-marrled man In New Tork City on a charge of bigamy. Mean while he disappeared and only recently cams into the limelight, when dozens of his wives commenced sending their names to lawyers. It Is learned that In Detroit he posed as DISFIGURING HUMOR Bruahid SciIm from Fact llki Pow derDoctor Said Lady Would Ba Dlafigurad for Ufa. CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS ' " I suffered with eczema all over my body. My lace was eorered : my eye brows cam oat. I had tried three doctors, but did not get any better. I then went to another doctor. He thought my face would bs marked for life, but my brother-in-law told me to ret Cnticara. I washed with Cuticura boap, applied Cuticura Ointment, and took Cuticura Resolvent as directed. I could brush the scales off my face like powder. Now my face Is just as clean as it ever was. Mrs. Emma White, 641 Cherrier Place, Camdca, fcN.J,April 5. 'tV. Saturday Men's Hat Specials An immense lot of Soft Felt Hats, in all the most up-to-date styles, Fedoras, Tourists, Co lumbian etc., in blacks, otter, sage, maple and all the most popular colors. They possess a high quality and Btyle that will recommend them to all careful buyers. They're equal to any J2.60 values, but we got them at a bargain and give you the benefit. Your choice 100 Saturday, at I.UU HI Iff Hats, In the very best styles and colors, good values at $2.00 to f 3.00, greatest snap of the season, I AA Saturday, at fl.BO and I.UU See Oar Line of Stetson Hats. Ac1os7t"d .3.50 to 5.00 Boys' Caps, In cashmere, flannels, serges, etc, In yachting and auto mobile shapes, at ")P 0Oc and Z,DQ Unmatchable Shoe Sale SaVrd'y 5 Saturday the last J cnffiyffffiM L00M END SALE vVV & QnJ ne banner ii Wi day in the two big I wS0' Bnoe p81111. 1 , Men's $3.50 and $4 Shoes. . . L.LO vsfe!S Several lines of the VV X ;t $3.60 Ultra shoes ,v. - for ladies,f Q U&ttosr-' at 1.1 O Childs' $1.00 Turn and McKay Kid lace JJq Misses and ChildV $1.50 and $1.75 schoolQQ shoes .OC Meu's, Boys and Youths' $1.50 satin QQ calf lace shoes, all sizes 70C Burley and Stevens $2.00 and $2.25 school shoes for boys and girls, in all sizes, 130 Infants 50c soft sole shoes, all colors "1ft and styles tJ Shinola, always 10 cents 5c 26 styles of the Crover soft shoes for tender feet in stock. Are they easy. Ask the woman 1 a mechanical dentist. He was known there as Muller, Hauser, Westhoff and Wexler, and always posed as a dentist, physician and professor. A woman calling herself Catherine Westhoff says that she had been robbed of tl.OOO by a man answering the description of 'Wltzhofr. He married her under the name of Westhoff. It was at Cleveland that Wltzhoff stud led mechanical dentistry and was known In many of the dental shops. It Is also asserted that, posing as an evangelist In the Shaker community In Wllkeabarre, he had married a girl there and robbed her of the little money she had saved. A woman In Cleveland wrote to the detectives asking for a picture of Wltzhoff, as she thought a man who married her two years ago, and who was a dentist, might be the man she was after and who had robbed her of money and Jewels worth 1700. Seven Weddings In One Week. One woman declared that she knew he married seven women In one week and In each caae under a different name. An amazing feature of the doctor's marital transactions is the manner in which he car ried out the religious end of them. If the girl he was courting was a Roman Cath olic he would be of the same faith; If a Trotestant, he would vow that faith, and the same with Jewish girls and all other. He was read In religion and portions of the Hlble he could speak word for word. The woman who so positively identified a picture of Dr. Wltzhoff as the man who married her and then deserted her after taking about $S0O of her money. Is Sophls Youeker, who lives at 806 Broome street. New Tork, and who, when Lawyer Frank lin showed her a picture taken In Minne apolis of Wltzhoff, said that It was with out doubt the photograph of her missing husband. Miss Youeker said she knew that after he assumed at different times th names of Abraham, Krelger, Herowltx, Olucker, Schwarti. eCohen, Cahn, Goldstein and Bteln, and that under one or ths other of these names he married different girls, only to rob and desert them at th first op portunity. Married Two In a Week. Under the name of Goldstein th man married Rebecca David of 284 Stanton street. He married a week later another girl named Rebecca, who lived In Attorney street, and in ten days deserted and robbed each woman. These marriages wer all arranged through a schatchen, or marrlaga broker. The broker participated In the plunder and was one of th gang. The idea was, accord ing to Sophie Youcker's knowledge, that all of the gang participated in some way in the plunder, which has reached, she says, st least lJS.000. A man known as Harry Kaufmann as sisted Wltzhoff In his schemes, she said, and th two had been making a wholesale business of marriage, robbery and deser tion for years. WttzhofT's first exposure csm through his marrying and robbing Anna Parkhlll. Mrs. Parkhlll. tall and handsome, had been divorced from her first husband, Philip Parkhlll, when she met Wltzhoff. She had a son. Herbert. She met Wltzhoff. as he called himself. In a dental parlor In West Korty-secoiid street, where he was em ployed. Bhe was Impressed with his r nnement and good looks, and oon tbey were friends. Mrs. Parkhlll then had a furnished room heuss at No 414 Scherraerhora street. ATTRACTIVE AUTUMN OFFERINGS Saturday for the first time this season w throw open our great cloak room and Invite your Inspection of ths most magnificent stock ever shewn In th wst. A surpassingly beautiful display of Imported cos tumes cxqulilta Parisian designs from ths day, at. 71 SAMPLE designs, no two alike; surpris ing bargains Saturday at, ISS.,.M:!!,....20.00 CRAVHNBTTB COAT9 Anether lot of those $16 .00 Cravenettes, very newest styles and colors all sewed with silk, magnificent bar- 8.90 PRTTTTT SILK COATS-Llned and with 10-Inch cape, over shoulders; special value Sat- 'f- 6.50 FALL MILLINERY WATCn FOR HATOEX'S BIG MILLINERY OPENING. "Knowlton" Smart Tailored Hate at $4.08. It has always been our aim to sell the beet value possible at this price and this season will come forward with an unsurpassable selection of the J (jO season's best styles. They come in all the new colors, at. HftZJO Motoring and Touring Hats at $8. BO. The latest eastern craze Is the new "Motoring" hat. It is a very nobby turban, made of the very finest English broadcloth and prettily draped PA with a crepe de chine scarf. Saturday, at JD) Ladles' and Misses' Trimmed Street Hats at $1.08. The assortment of styles offered at this price Is without doubt the best ever, and comes In all the best shapes, derby polos, high back, sailors, no turbans and the new baker's tarn. Saturday. . . .' l,ZfJ Millinery Counter Specials for Saturday. Natural wings, guaranteed not to break, colors black, brown, navy, white and light blue, at, pair .' Velvet Foliages, at Buster Brown and Baker' at Grocery Ws sell nothing but FLOUR. FLOUR We have contracted wltU one of the largest flour mills In the country for 10 cars of ' Fancy High Patent Minnesota Flour made from the best selected hard wheat, which eentalns all the neocessary por tions that are required to make flne bred for the table. The first car Is In and will go on sale; per pound sack....: :. 10 bars best brand Laundry Soap J6o The best reari Tapioca, or rinni, per pouna l-lb. package best Macaroni l-ib. package Corn Starch l-lb. can fancy Alaska Salmon... OH or Mustard Sardines, per oan. 8-lb. can Boston Baked Beans.... Pevlllo 'Man, per can Brooklyn, where by a singular coincidence Frederick E. Carlton, who also haa a record for marrying, lived later. There Dr. Wltz hoff called, and they were married in the Lutheran church. Eighth avenue and Fifty seventh street, Manhattan, on September 19, 190S. The bridegroom signed his name as Dr. George Westhoff. Under the plea that he was a dentist of experience and ability, Dr. Wltzhoff got his wife's father, who lives at Sayvllle. L. I., to give her $3,100 to start a dental office at Bridgeport place. They went there to live, but hearing that the dental agents were after him for practising without a license ha cloeed up and moved th plant. Two Wives at Onee. At this residence an Incident turned light on his career and also was the be ginning of much of his trouble. It was said that Wltzhoff tried to swindle a friend, and. having prior to this told of his prowess In winning the affections of women, th friend began an Investigation, which made It positive that Wltzhoff had married Mis Etta Randall, of Boston, on February 19, 1903, and had lived with her at No. 28 Forest street, Somej-vllle, a sub urb of Boston, under the name of Dr. George A. Muller, In a spirit of revenge Wltzhoffs supposed friend wrota to Miss Randall telling her that her husband was living wlf another wife in Bridgeport. Miss Randall, not hav ing seen "Dr. Muller" for some Urns, hur ried to Connecticut. Bhe arrived at Bridgeport on th anni versary of her marriage. When she found the house and knocked at th door Wltzhoff, or Muller, opened It. Most men, with a wife in th house and another on th doorstep, would have fld. Wltzhoff was able, however, to carry off the situation. He calmly told his first wife that he had married Mrs. Parkhlll as "a matter of business" and picture 'Mrs. Parkhlll as a terrible woman who would stop at .nothing In her vengene If she found out that she had been deserted. He warned Miss Randall. for her own safety as well as his, to go back to Boston that night. He declared that when h re turned th money h had taken from Mrs. Parkhlll he would return to her In Boston. He so frightened Miss Randall that she left the house in fear. To th wlf re maining Dr. Wltzhoff stated that his caller was a former patient. This lulled suspicion for a while, but finally matters culminated In th disappearance of Wltzhoff with all th property of Mrs. Parkhlll h could get Th deserted woman began her search for the deceiver. Trace of a Philadelphia woman who was robbed of ' tl.OOO was also found. Steps were taken to get her story. As Dr. Heffer, Wltzhoff Is said to have been at work In a New Haven dental shop hefor coming to New Tork. A Mis Chapman of Chicago says th man married her six months ago, after a hurried courtship, robbed her of SB0 In cash and some Jewels whll on a train on their wedding trip and left hr to shift for herself. A Close Call. Another victim of Wltzhoff is Miss Ella Goldbaum of 51 West On Hundred and Seventeenth street. New Tork. Mis Gold baum was only engaged to b married to Wltzhoff, who courted bar under th nam of Arthur Hoffer. She escaped going to ths altar with him en account of th suspicions and vigilance of her younger sister, Rbcca H secured vary best makers, an handsome tailor sulta Amsrlcan manufacturer, will be a feature Saturday. Our prices the very lowest consistent with honest merchandising. MANUFACTURER'S BTOCK OF CHILDREN'S C0AT8 Hundreds of them. In almost unlimited variety of color, style and material all medium, fall and winter weights In ages from 3 to 14 years worth In a reg- O En ular way 16.00. It. 00 and $7.50; choice Saturday 4t. UJ 148 HANDSOME TAILOR SUITS-In great variety of material and color, ' with tl-lnoh satin lined coats; sold elsewhere at (16.00; special n ffi Saturday, at t IU.VHJ 178 BLEQAMT TAILOR SUITS In the most popular styles, fabrics and colors; would be good value at $22 60; special bargain BUrre-Biqulslte COVERT JACKETS For early fall wear. In tans and blacks; nobby new styles and elegant values y SXfl at $10 00 and ,,ou LADIES' SKIRTS In extra, large sizes, SO to 88 Inch waist, M to M Inch length In flne cheviots, Panamas and voile e nn at $10.00, $7 69 and - Special bargains In Children's Fall Dresses, at $3.9$, $2.M. "? uo 1.00 IH- I Silk and Velvet JJK Roses, at r,.?T. 25c - 39c Prices for Shrewd the highest quality and freshest goods on FLOUR. Tar Soap, per cake SHo Jell-O, Jellycon. Advo Jell or Fruit Puddlne, per package 7Ho The best Pickling Spices, per pound 20o The best pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon. 26c The best Soda Crackers, per pound 6VsO Xcelo, Malta Vita or Egg -O-See. per package 7V4c Fresh, crlep Ginger Snaps, per pound.... 4c Nabisco Wafers, per package lOo BUTTER AND CHEESE! SPECIALS. Bago. Barley 4o Fancy Dairy Butter, per Choice Creamery Butter, 4c Fancy Separator liutter. . . fc Fancy Cream Cheese, per pound ISO 3: Fancy New York White Cheese, per lb..lSc ."Vic Fancy WlHconsln Brick or Llmberrer ..2Hc l Cheese, per pound $80 from the family, however. Imposing to the extent of J400 upon Dr. Isador C. Elsen berg of 76 Rlvlngton street, a brother-in-law, who Introduced him to Miss Ooldhaum. When a photograph of Dr. Wltzhoff was shown to Miss Goldbaum she said: "That Is he. I was Introduced to htm In 1900 by my brother-in-law. Dr. Elsenberg. He was a most accomplished and polished gentle man, and held himself nut to be a dentist and physician. He said he had a wide knowledge of drugs, and this leads me to believe the statement of the Roston wifa that he attempted to feed her pills and po tions. "Within six weeks I became engaged to him, owing to the warm Introduction given by Dr. ESaenberg, who was greatly deceived by him, and then the family loaned him two with which to start a dental office. "He was at that time conducting a small office In Lexington avenue, near Thirty eighth street. Within a few days after getting the loan he disappeared, leaving me a note, saying that he had been called out of town on urgent business." "There was something about the man I did not like," said Miss Rebecca Goldbaum, "and I often turned my sister against him, because he could not look ma straight In the eye." Behind the roaster. On the pier, smoking and chatting, sat a number of young salesmen In shops and stores enjoying their vacation. "My work with the druggist Is amus ing," one said. "The other day a woman came In and asked for the secret of Im agination. She meant citrate of magnesia. Paroxlgon of lgide was ordered In a letter from a blond lady who ought to have known better than to write peroxide of hydrogen like that." "I don't like our shoe department," said a second young man. "Still, It has its odd side. A little man last month came In to be fitted. His size was five, and the size that suited him cost three dollars and a half. He found that the extra large sizes of this style tens and elevens were reduced to a dollar and a quarter. 80 he bought a pair of tens, put them on and stumped out, proud and happy." "A boy once presented a note from the doctor that said: 'Four ounces of vase line, to be well rubbed In thrice dally,' " said a third young man. "I weighed and bottled th vaseline, but I didn't label It w are not druggists, you know and the next day the boy's aunt came back with the empty vaseline bottle and said: " 'Will you please give me a double quan tity this time? It's the only kind of Jelly that will lay on our Willie's stomach In his awful weak condition." "Philadelphia North American, A Washington Relic. Joseph I. Keefer, a member of the Sons of the Revolution of Washington, while on a recent visit to Charlestown, W. Vs., found In the residence of Mrs. R. B. Chew, a grandnlece of George Washington, a very valuable and historic pen portrait engrava turp of King Louis XVI of France, which was sent by that personage to General Washington, th presentation of whjoh was the first Incident of the kind in which a foreign potentate had evinced so close a personal relationship to our republican gov ernment. On Fare to Mot Spring, Ark. Plus 12, for round trip, dally, good for 10 days. Summer Is ths best tints for treat ment. Ask any ticket agent. from the foremost Satur- JJ 75 FUR LINED COATS will bs very popular this season snd we are showing over 800 gar ments ranging In 15 Kft price from $160 to.... OU Call and see them It's no trouble to show goods. FROM g TILL A. M. Women's Flannelette Dressing Haoque. 39c at. FROM 1:90 TILL 8:30 A. M. Women's $1.80 Mercerised Un- dersklrts 69c at A DEAL red, 49c 1ft . JC - 49c - 75c Buyers Wsmitzsr Sato IC" -J la all have French Plate mirrors and in every case you save $10.00, as they are at least this much below regular prices. HERE ARE A FEW SAMPLES: Two So. 617 Sideboards, regular price 119.60, now. . . 0.60 Three No. 688 Sideboards, regular price $11.60, now. .11.50 One No. 686 Sideboard, regular price $22.76, now... 12. 75 Seven No. 616 Sideboards, regular price $24.26, now. .14.25 One No. 488 Sideboard, regular price $26.00, now. . . .15.00 Mall orders filled. Order by number. Are you in need of anything in Furniture! Come in now. We save you money. the market pound I8e per pound Hie per pound 23c I5c COS! OF KILLING IN WAR Modern Warfare More Ezpeoaire, but Fewer Men Are Slaughtered. IT WAS DIFFERENT IN OLDEN TIMES Glanre at the Mortality Record of Ancient Rattles When Warrior Got Together with Spears, Arrows and Axes. It costs far more to kill a man In mod ern than It did In ancient warfare. Accord ing to the best authorities of Russia and Japan, the conflict which has Just ended Involved a total cost of $1, 500,000,000. Of this the Russians suffered a loss of ap proximately $1,000,000,000 and the Japanese $500,000,000. The Russian casualties amounted to 400,000 and the Japanese to 200,000 men. It may be estimated, therefore, that every man who fell on either side In the recent struggle for supremacy In the far east represented an expenditure of $2,600. It cost $1,225 to vanquish one Russian, and Russia had to spend $6,000 to over whelm one Japanese. Although more money Is spent today In war than In olden times, yet fewer are killed. The great guns of modern Inven tion, costing thousands of dollars to con struct and hundreds of dollars to fire, and the battleships, representing expenditures of from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 each, are less destructive to human life than the spears and arrows of the ancients. At the same time that men have devised more power ful engines of warfare they have gone still further In Inventing more nearly In vulnerable methods of defence. Irge armies were common In the days of the Asiatic supremacy of the world, and the great battles tt those times were bloody ones. According tq the Bible, Abljah "set the battle In array" against Jeroboam with 400,000 "chosen men." Jeroboam's forces were 800.000 "chosen men mighty men of valor." According to the record Jeroboam lost 600.000 in the pitched battle which ensued. Xerxes's famous srmy con tained 1.800,000 men and Darius confronted Alexander the Great st Arbela with a million. If one may believe the statements of the early historians. Greeks aad Persians Meet. It Is said that the 410,000 men engaged In the battle of Palatae. about 479 B. C. when a Greek army defeated an invading host of lightly armored Persians. 296.000. or 72 per cent, lost ther lives. These were chiefly Persians. At the battle of Arbela, 331 B. C. when Alexander the Great met Darius. 800,000 or 28.8 per cent of the 1, 07.000 men said to have been engaged, were killed. At the battle of Issus. fought be tween the two rulers earlier In Alexander s great campaign, only ISO.000 men were en gaged, but 70 000 or 3 per cent were slain When warfare became more of a science and the value of armor and discipline was recognized it became necessary to hire soldiers. Arming and hiring men from a ruler's treasury was quite a different mat ter from Inviting men to Join In a free booting expedition. The armies became smaller. This did not decrease the per centaee of casualties, however. At Cannae. In August, tit B. C, when Hannibal liter-I New Corset Styles All our new goods are in, which means that you have here the greatest line of up-to-date models from which to select to be found in the west. Warner, Eabo, O. D., R. & O. and W. B. Corsets, in all new est styles, up Ifin from I.UU The Dowager Corset, for stout figures, in all sizes up to 36 nothing "better was (( ever shown, at abjsUU La Orique Corsets, in batiste and ribbon or belt corsets, with two sets of hose supporters, at UU La Marguerite the queen of good corsets in all newest 5.2.50 to $10 We Fit Oprsets in the Dept. IN SIDEBOARDS We purchased a con- & signment of 35 Side boards that was shipped a firm in Fort Dodge, These .sideboards were T'!l-5VJff!rKrTRai 80-d by the factory to us syKsfoasmanrgj , . , , , below factory cost. Look in Our Dodge Street Window. The goods shown there and the prices on each article speaks more elo- , quently than we can. These sideboards are all new designs, all oak, ally wiped up the ground with the Roman troops, there were only ISS.Onn men encased. Llvy says Hannibal's force of 1A0!fl piled up 70,000 Roman corpses on the field. The per centage of the casualties In this battle was 6S.8. At the battle of Hastings, when William the Conqueror changed the course of history by defeating Harold, It la said that one-fourth of the Normans were slain. Bows and arrows and axes were used In this battle. With the battle of Crecy the feudal sys. tern of providing troops received Its death blow. At this battle gunpowder Is sold to have been used for the first time. "Bom bards," an ancient writer quaintly says, "threw with fire little Iron balls to frighten the horses." Whether the "bombards" frightened the horses or not, the English troofis of Edward III, following the BU k Prince, caused 1.200 knights and 3n.nno font men, fighting under the French colors, to bite the dust. More than 30 per cent of tho troops lost their live In this battle. Battle of Last Century. Some of the great battles and wars of the last century seemed bloodier than they ac tually were In comparison. The battle of Waterloo was one of the bloodiest of the contests of .the century. Of those who fought under Wellington snd Napoleon In this battle, 85.8 per cent gave up their llvs or wer wounded. The battle of Lelpsin ranked next, with 26 per cent of casual ties. On the field of Gettysburg the per centage was 20.6. Judging by percentages, the battle of Mukden In the recent war was bloodier than any of these. Its per centage of casualties was 38.8. Taking some of th recent wars as a whole, the percent ages have been: American civil war. 6 4; Franco-Prussian war, 10 7; Boer war, 18. A comparison of the cost of providing a gun and firing It, as It has grown within the last century, gives a good Impression as to the Increase In the cost of warfare. It Is said that In the time of the war for the overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte, when solid shot were used, a thirty-two-pound ball cost only t shillings, or $1.25. At the time ofnhe Crimean war. In the '50s, these had been replaced by thirty-two-pound shells. The shells cost, ready filled for fir ing. $5. Th charge of powder and wadding cost $8 more. A slxty-elght-pound shell, powder, etc., cost $9 50. The cannons weighed from three to five tons, and cost from $326 to $475 each. A twelve-Inch gun, an Inch larger than th great howitzer used by the Japanese at Port Arthur, costs the United States government $11,000. It weighs from fifty-four to sixty tons, snd each time It Is fired the treasury Is mulcted of $440, or the cost of a cannon less than fifty years sgo. That war relatively cot less In the mid dle ages than today I Indicated by the fact that on English king was prevented from going to war because he was a debtor for $2,600,000 and could borrow no more. Another English king, by evading several wars he was expected to undertake and sav ing the money which he had received for carrying them on. laid th basis of a for tune which at his death amounted to $10. 000,000. He was the first to use srtlllary In England. Bonding the Cost of War. Two or three centuries ago It was dis covered that money for warfare could o secured more easily and In larger quantities by bonding the nation for It and taxing the people to pay th Interest. War began to cost mer. In less than 800 years Great Britain has spent on warfara tVtt.W.'.OOO. Twelve Furnish- ing Bargains Sessonskle merchandise at prices which are bound to spprsl to all thrifty buyers. , ( LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSE Heavy ribbd. regular 10c and C 12Hc. at JC LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSE Regular 10c vslues, 7I t -.c LADIES' HOSE In lisle and fancy em broidered, splendid fOc values, t ff at S5c or three pair for I.UU CHILDREN'S FLEECE LINED lN DERVVEAR All sires from 161 r to 34, regular 26c quality, at. UC LADIES' RIBBED VESTS and PANTS Fall and winter weights, Q worth 60c to 7to, at 2.V and I.C LADIES' UNION SUITS - Fall and winter weights, worth up to jin $1.U0, at r!C MISSES' 60c UNION SUITS In )) all sizes, at 4DC MEN'S HEAVY FLEECED UNDER WEAR Worth up to 76c, at.Ti choice iC MEN'S ALL WOOL SHIRTS AND DRAWER 8 Worth up to $1.60; great snsp while they last ffc t 6yc MEN'S NEGLIGEE SHIRTS In light and dark colors, worth 76c and PA 11.00, at JUC MEN'S IMPORTED LISLE HOSE All the best colors In plain and fancy, worth up to 50c at. f Plr IsZzC LADIES' $1.00 KID GLOVES r all the new shades, t 65c The Big Meat Section. With Low Prices Spring chickens eo at pound IOC Boiling beef fancy i at pound uC Corn beef fancy ijj at pound Shoulder roast (Sl at pound ... ... otc Shoulder steak ej at pound OJC Mutton stew at pound OC Round steak 01 at pound O C 1 The revolution of 1(8 cost $155,000,000; ths war of the Spanish succession, $1'20,000,000; the Spanish war, $.125,000,000; the seven years' war. $.i;5,nno,ono; the American war of revolution. $7,ono.000; the war of the French revolution, $2.,KiO,ooo.onO; the war agnlnst Napoleon, $?,9.",0,ooo,0no. The Boer war cost Great Britain In cash more than $wi.noo,ooo. It is estimated that the wars of the nineteenth century cost the world $17,922, ooono A statistician has flKUred that there are 3.1.",673.b09 seconds in a century. Ac cording to these figures the world paid out nearly $i a second In the last century for war. Adopting Archbishop Usher's chro nology, which made the world 5,904 years old at the end of 1S99, the nation spent In the nineteenth century for war an amount equal to nearly IS a minute since creation. The debts of the chief nations of ths earth aggregate more than $.14,000,000,000. It Is believed that three-fourths of this sum was swallowed up In warfare and prepara tions for It. Nearly all the sum represented by the debts of Great Britain, France and Germany was spent in warfare. Thesq countries are spending annually in Interest on their debts nearly $39O.fi.0i'O. This sum Is In addition to the amounts being ex pended for the support of military arma ments. The amounts appropriated this year for this purpose by Great Britain In round figures Is $3fiO,0f,(Vl0; by Germany, $217,5O0.0fO; by France, $JOO,200,"00; by the United 6tates, $196,000,000. If the cost of war goes on tnoreaslng at this rat the time may come when, If two nations think they really must fight, they will first agree to fight with their naked hands, feet and teeth only. This would save the awful cost of modern death-dealing machinery and would, perhaps, result In even greater loss of life. New Tor Tribune. y It dtUgUi the taste and 1 It costs but half the price of foreign Champagnes, as there is no duty or ship freight to pay on Cook's Imperial Extra Dry. ( osamo raits, sr. Louis woblb'S rata SKATED EVCBTVYHk.au: oas wins 00 sr. tovia 1
