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.
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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.
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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
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