TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. DECEMHEU
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ICAL msmuMEm
purchase
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FOLLOWED BY THE GREATEST SALE EVER HELD IN NEBRASKA
Last week we purchased the entire stock of the Collins Piano Co., 113 Scuth 17th street, who are retiring from the retail business. The Collins Piano Co.
was one of the oldest and most reliable houses in th wsst, making a specialty of high grade instruments. Our cash offer for the stock and good will was
accepted by the firm and we took possession of the stock, which consisted of Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Accordeons, Violins, Guitars, AUndolins, Ban
jos, Talking Machines, Records, Music Boxes, in fact everything known in musical merchandising. This stock goes on sale Monday morning in our
Musical Dept. If you are expecting to purchase anything in the way of musical instruments for Xmas now is the great opportunity to do so and make a
great saving in your purchase. If you select a piano in this sale this, week we will set it aside and deliver it Christmas eve if you desire. The extremely
low figure at which this stock was purchased enables us to sell a very fine high grade piano at a wonderfully low price.
Tliere is nothing you can buy for an Xmas present that will I of more tK'iiefit to the one that receives it. than a musical instrument. They are instructive, entertaining and interesting. Look over
this grand assortment of Pianos and you -will find such well known makes tb select from as the Cable. Conover, Shubert, Fischer, Chickering, Ester, Kingsbury, Franklin, "Wellington, Jacob Doll,
Hehr Bros., Nteck, Schaeffer, Melville, Clark and several other makes. Below will be found a few of the many bargains to be sold during this THE GREATEST OF ALL PIANO SALES.
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
One Upright
Piano.
Piano.
Piano.
Piano
Piano.
Piano.
Piano.
Piano.
Collins' Iri. Our Sale Price.
.$150 $ 75
.. 175 82
... 200 1 00
.. 225 115
. 242 . 118
.. 255 132
.. 265 1 47
.. 272 1 68
One
One
One
One
One
One
One
Upright
Upright
Upright
Upright
Upright
Upright
Upright
Piano.
Piano.
Piano.'.
Piano.
Piano.
Piano.
Piano
One Upright Piano
Col Una' I'rlie. Our Kale Price.
..$280 .$175
.. 295 192
. 315 205
.. 325 218
. 335 238
.. 350 247
.. 365 263
.. 400 270
Squnre Piatio-$.5.00, $18.00, $22.50, $25.00, $27.50, $32.00, $33.00, $40.00.
Organs $5.00. $8.00, $11.0 J, $15.00, $17.50, $21.00, $24.00, $26,00, $28.50, $32.00.
All small musical instruments purchased from the Collins Piano Co., will be closed out at about one-fourth th sir a:tml vilu:
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One Talking Machine, regular price $10 Sale price 55.00
On Talking Machine, regular price $15 Rale Price 7.50
One Talking Machine, regular jnice'JO Sale price . . . $10.00
One Talking Machine, regular price $115 Sale Price 12.00
One Talking Machine, regular price $30 Sale Price .
One Talking Machine, regular price $40 Sale Price
$15.00
. 20.00
Cylinder Records at 15c each. All the latest popular shvet music will go in this sale at 9c per copy, or three for 25c; 1c extra by mail. All pianos in this GREAT SALE 'will be sold on easy pay
ment plan if desired. 150 empty piano boxes for sale. New pianos for rent. Write for catalogue and prices.
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SIGHS 10R THE OLD WEST
Ioroidi f Cm'iixt ian Pratokat BtgTtti
Fram a rnntierimw
THE JOY OF ILiNG IN THE PAST
Moving; Pleto.ro of the lira ad Old
Days and the rbnraetera That
riltted Before the Lights
aad Vanished.
"I'll old west 1 going, and with Its p
ing comes civilisation, and with civilisation
the grind; but I will not be In my day. an1
although It. Is approaching, I will have
passed over tlie tlreat Divide before It
renlly arrives "
I'lie speaker as John Donovan, one of
Colonel Bill Cody's right-hand men- After
hour of walking about the hard St. Lou's
pavements until. ns Mr. Donovan expressed
It. the soleg were almost worn nit their
shoes, one of the boys remarked:
Say. John, let's he getting bark, for this
walking about the, city atreeta Is Just like
walking up one canon and down another."
"Now, that Just about the way I feet
about the matter." said Mr. Donovan. "The
big citlea are all right for a time, but then
' the Craving for the open plains and the
long trails geta bold of a man. and then If
ha can't get back he feels like as If he were
In Jail. Why. every time 1 come to a city
and 1 look about and see the mm In the
grind, I am rtore than ever convinced that
1 am In the right (dure baik In the plain
and -hills, and then 1 Just polls up stakes
and follow that thought, and then I'm
happy agula.
"But then the old west is a-going and
a going fast, and nothing ahows it better
than when a mnn sets out with a couple of
horses for a trip. Tn the old d.ivs ox teams
could set out on loT.g trip, and they were
able to And plenty nf grub for the teams
and there were twenty oxen to a team.
Now a man with a couple of horses must
buy fodder all the way. The reason Is that
tbera Is no grass open for a man to feed his
horses on, and what places are open the
grass If all cropped down close. No, it ain't
like the old days in the least, and the rail
roads and the wire fences art the causa of
It
Pletaressjae Characters.
"Jl has just taken twenty-five years to
ee ths change. Some of tha oihsr states
got It tha worst, but Wyoming was the
last to see the change. The old-time char-
acters are all dying off and In a few years
they will all be gone. Buckskin Jim, who
was well known as a government trans
port man. died a year ago, and when Jim
died the old west lost another of Its most
picturesque characters. Then there was
Calamity Jane. She's gone over the divide
with th! rest of 'em. Calamity waa a
great gul In her day, but from all I know
she was all right, except that she loved to
drink and fight. Why, I've seen her come
into a barroom ar.d order his nibs behind
the bar to set up the drinks like the best
of 'em.
"Then with the disappearance of the
characters that made the west famous
some years ngo has gone the big game. It
ain't so very long Hgo when we could lake
a rifle and go out after a buffalo. But
where do you find m now? Only in soos
and In Yellowstone park. The rest of the
game has almost gone. too. The game Is
being driven to the summits of the tnoun
Vains. The railroads have cut up tho coun
try so much that the hunting grounds are
smaller and the game is taking to the
woods, as they say In the city.
"Where are tho old-time bad men? Well,
they've tHken to the high timbers, too.
I don't know whether It was the railroads
or the wire fences or the generous use of
hemp that scared that class of men out
of the west, bt they're gone anyhow. Once
in awhlfe one turns up. Sorter drops in
fro-n Mars to pay his respects, and then
if he docs anything bad a painful duty
falls upon the good citlxene, and one bad
man las gone to Join the thousands that
have gone before. But even In the old days
the bad man bad a pretty rough road to
travel and I never envied any of 'cm.
"Of course, those were rough days and
NO LIBRARY
can expand beyond tha spKer
of the Globe-werrVcke "Elas
tic" Dookcues.
aig v
OrchuUW.ihila Cirpit C.
not take the jury long to And him guilty,
ind then he wag ordered to be hanged.
Before the hanging Job was carried out
ihe prisoner was asked if he had any pray
ers to say or last words to leave before
the sentence of the court was carried Into
effwt.
"Well, that fellow started off on a long,
rambling story of r-hat an Innocent child
he had been all his life, and the like.. I
Finally the gang began to see that he was ;
talking against time, and then they got I
suspicious that he had a reason, and when
the suspicion got Ktrong enough he waa j
hanged forthwith. He had hardly got I
through kicking before his wlfo rode up on j
a horse covered with foam, and she had
tw six-shooters. Bho told us thnt she and '
her husband, the aforesaid bnd man, had an
agreement. It waa that if he waa ever
caught, and he know what that would j
mean, she waa to come and shoot him.
Most men would rather be shot than
hanged. They think hanging Is too much
like a dog's death.
To a ah and flloodr !.
"Those wore tough and bloody days !
sometimes. Why, I know of lota of saloons
that kept a blanket for no other purpose
than to carry out the dead men In. A sa- ,
loon light was generally over In second.
There would be a few words fsotnetlmes
even the words would be omitted), th
crack of a pair of shooting irons, and then
the blanket would be brought In and the
body carried out of the bar room, where
It was apt to offend delicate guests. Then
the dances used to see lots of shooting. '
Those dance shooting affairs were generally
caused by women. At most of the dances
you would And bad women, bad men and
bad whisky and, say, that is an awful
combination when it is mixed up, and it
leave 'em at the hotel when they go pran
cing about town, and that's the safest way
after all. I've done almost everything but
stick up a coach and marry, and It wasn't
hecituso I didn't have sand in the first case,
ulthough I didn't in the second, and yet
I've managed to keep a whole hide, when
so many dashing fellows with a load of
guns are sleeping under the willows. If
you're looking for trouble you generally
get It. and no man hacNjo get gunned un
less he was sorter looking for it.
"No, I'm glad to get back to the west.
I feel better than I do here, but the grind
is reaching us there. I remember a few
years ago when the fellows would walk
along with their heads up high and their
hats on the backs of their heads, but now
you see 'em coming along with a frown
on their faces and looking at their feet.
They've learned to scheme. It's all a
part of the grind, and they'll be In the
middle of it before long, but until that
time comes I will ,he happy only on the
plains. I feel sorry for many of the men
tn the city. Take men working for wages.
Sonic day they must all be fired. It comes
to 'em sooner or later, and even when they '
are working, they ain't getting the benefit j
of their work. Back in our country, when
a man digs a post hole and puts In a post,
he h bound to get some benefit from It
at some time or other, and, then, If he had
good health and a clear conscience, he is
as well off as anyone
the dancers used to see lots of shooting j w-aa no wonder that a few men would fr
ont another man s lights, but the better t burled the next morning. A shooting affair
element were generally In the Iad. and at a dance only lasted a few min-jtes, and
anything that looked real ditty was looked Him the dancing would be resumed.
Into. If two men. fully armed, met and "In all my experience I found that the
had a difference and went at It like men ! safest way to keep out of trouble was to
and one got potted, it was all right. That leave the shooting arms where they were
waa fair. Borne poet said something about j safe. I never carried a gun in a town, be
gun fighting once. He said: .i cause It wasn't safe. We all carry them
" 'He had sand in his craw, but waa slow i when we're out on the trail, but the wise
on tha draw,
Ho we hurled him under the dslsies
"That'a the way It was In them days, as
long aa things were anyhow fair. But
j men leave them off when they go to town.
i now, i used to know a lot or men Who
carried two guns, and even a knife, but
they're all dead now. Then I used to know
a lot of men that carried one guri all the
time, and they're pretty nearly all dead.
! And I might say that I knew a lot of
j chaps who never carried a gun at all. and,
1 strange to say, they're all In the land of
the living yet. The reason of it all Is
simple. The chap with the two guns was
more apt to get Into a fight than the man
with one, and the man with one more so
than the fellow without any at all. Tha
man without tha gun did not have the
when It waa a deliberate case of assassina
tion or nturder. then the better citizens
took a hand, with the result that there
would be a little hanging, and Justice be
ing don. the incident was forgotten. Tes,
-there were bad men In plenty, but they
began to see their finish before long. The
American people are a good people, but
they are not a nation of killers.
Flalshrd tb Bad Men.
"The disturbing element In the old days
waa generally made up of gamblers, bad ; tendency to get Into trouble.
men and cheap sports. Bometlmea a lot J "From my years of residence In the west
of em would get together and then they . and the places where the bad men flour
would make a bell on earth for the fellows I ished. I might say that the shooting affairs
that tried to be anyway decent. At Bis- were the result of three things. The flrst
marek one time they had a bunob of about reason was one man taking a woman away
fifty bad men. but before the better fel- j from another: the second, jumping claims;
lows got through with them there were j and the third, grabbing money in card
thirty-three dead bad men. Then there I games. Once In awhile a fight would re
was another section In the old days that ! suit over some big personal spite, but as
bad a wondrous growth of the bad men. a general thing, the man that did not mix
They got so bad that they sorter thought
they owned the earth, and murders got
to ha right common.
"Well, there waa a meeting of a crowd
f good clttiens one night. As a rtsult
up with any of the three reasons was
pretty safe.
"Ou the trail we all carry guns, but the
leal gun man wesrs his all the time, and
eats and sleeps with It. Many men carry
of the meeting a Judge waa chosen, a ; guns about the town even yet, but in some
or the towns where they have been both
ered with fellows shooting Them up, they
have pasaed ordinances agalnvt the guns
being carried about. Of course. If a
stranger wearing a gun was to come
through and acted peaceably, ha would not
be annoyed, but If he began to act atrange
he would receive a gentla hint to move oo
and be goad.
"The fellows sir getting gd now. ar.d
U Uiey aj gtn U wearing Iron, they
jury, a prosecuting attorney and an at
torney for tha defense. The sheriff waa
Instructed to bring in the bad men. He
got plenty of deputies and soon tha court
had a lot of bualnasa on hand. Well, after
they had got about sixty-two bad men and
had hanged mostly all of em. things be
gan to clear up a spell In that territory.
"One ef tha fellows that was brought
to trial waa on of the worst bad men
thai Lad Scuristsa fer lead tluia. It did
END OF CELEBRATED CASE
Traasltloa nf a ned Kplaropal Min
ister to the Greek Catholic
Chorrh.
The ecclesiastical history of this cuuntry
has received few announcements more
astonishing than the one that liev. Pi'. In
gram N. W. Irvine, unfrocked by the Epis
copal church, had been received Into the
Oreek Catholic church of Russia and was
now a full-fledged priest, connected with
the Cathedral of St. Nicholas In New York
Hnd has appeared In the pulpit several
times.
This marks the ending, or It might he
proper to say, a new development, in a case
that has been one succession of sensation.
Dr. Irvine, at flrst an Episcopalian of
rank, accused of Immorality, and unfrocked,
foe of Bishop Talbot of the Episcopal dio
cese of Pennsylvania, in bitter IlilgJtion,
returns to religious work, the flrst Amer
ican evr to take orders In the Orcek
church.
When, four months ago, Dr. Irvine made
hie application to the archbishop of the
holy orthodox church of Russia for admis
sion to its priesthood, he accompanied his
request with a full story of the charges
that had resulted In Ms downfall and In
sisted that h had been wrongly treated by
the bislii.p of the Kpisct.pul church In cen
tral Pennsylvania.
Evidently his tide of the case found cre
dence, for on the occasion if his first ser
mon delivered In the Russian cathedral.
New Tork, a notable array of Russian dig
nitaries, Including Archbishop Tikhon,
Bishop Raphael. Dean Ilotovltsky, R"v.
Zetlkoi. Rev. loaniky. Rev. Solonionedy
and Rev. Kalooff assisted In his ordinal inn.
H Is the old story of a won. an ho drove
D:'. Irvine from his place as un Episco
palian, caused him to make one of the most
protracted and bitter r.ghta ever made in
both secular and ecciesU tii-al courts in
America, and put him Into the church of
Russia. Had It not beeg for her. he might
have remained an able member of the Epis
copal faith.
His scandal, for such It U known, began
lu lufti. and resulted in a war martd al
most without cessation, until it ended tn the
final defeat of the accused doctor about a
year ago.
The two great rnaJe figures in the contro
versy were Dr. Irvine acd Rt. Rev. EtLtl-
bert Talbot. D. D., LL. D., bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church. In the diocese
of central Pennsylvania.
The two men had known each other as
students in the General , Theological semi
nary. New York, and the friendship of Tal
bot for his brother In the cloth had been so
pronounced that August 12, 1898, In sending
him to the parish of St. John's church,
Huntingdon, Pa., he went out of his way
to pay him high compliments and to ex
press the opinion that the members of his
new congregation would like him.
At the beginning of Dr. Irvine's work In
the parish he was popular, and until lfc!9
there was no hint against him.
At that time the attention of Dr. Irvine
was directed to some passages In the life
of one of his parishioners, a wealthy
woman, Mrs. Emma D. Elliott, who, It
was stated, had been divorced from two
husbands for causes recognized by the
church as adequate, but was now the wife
of another man, who, in turn, hnd a wife
living from who he had been divorced on
grounds of desertion.
Wishing to avoid Interference In a matter
so delicate, Dr. Irvine submitted the entire
matter to Bishop Talbot, who. after going
m-er the papers, ruled that Mrs. EUlott
was by canon of the church excommunl-
fated, and Instructed Dr. Irvine to deny
her communion should she present her-
self with the intention of partaking of It.
This Dr. Irvine did, with the result tha. i
he so Incensed Mrs. Elliott that she wrote .
to the bishop making serious charges
atminst the character of Dr. Irvine.
The bishop then wrote to Dr. Irvine a
second letter. In which he Bald that after
taking tip the matter more thoroughly he 1
found that Mrs Elliott was an Innocent j
victim in her divorces. i
Dr. Irvine, while admitting this fact.
contended that the force of the- charges
against her rested in the fact that she ;
was living with a un whose wife was
still living, and from whom he had befn
divorced merely on the ground of deser
tion. For this reason Dr. Irvine refused
tn restore Mrs. Elliott to communion,
j Bishop Tnlbot then demanded the.resig
: nation of Dr. Irvine The latter refused
1 to comply Mt first, but eventually was
forced tn glvi! In.
The parish became vacant, the mem
bers made efforts to get Bishop Talbot to
choose a successor, but failing In this
after a delay, they met. and. as they had
; a perfec t riirht to do as an organised
parish, they elected Dr. Irvine to act as
rector.
This action wss repudiated by the bishop.
' but the chancellor of the diocese decided
that It was perfectly legitimate.
On March 17 Dr. Irvine was haled Into
court on charge of for:ery. The evidence
i developed that Bishop Tjlbot had apnar
' cntly made a avs'ematic campalcn to get
' rid of Irvine, and. when the latter was
: held and called for trial some months later.
! Bishop T.i'hot appeared before the grand
Jury of Huntingdon Vounty and assisted
' counsel In pressing the indictments acalnat
' Irvine. The Indictment was quashed and
I Irvine freed.
Dr. Irvine cited before Bishop Talbot to
I show cause why the pastoral relation be
I tween them should not be dissolved, re
' plied by having the bishop cited for vlola
j tion of the laws cf the church.
The bishop appointed a commit'ee of In
vestigation, and signed Its findings, reflect
ing seriously on Dr. Irvine. Then csme an
eccelHlastical court. Dr. Irvine declined
to plead.
In the workings of this court there were
many charges of Irregularities. Bishop
Tallsit did not apiar to testify, ei lie
had been ordered, and Dr. Irvine contended
that this was because his evidence would
help Irvine's case.
Eventually the ruling went against Ir
vine, and he waa unfrocked by Bishop
Talbot in Bcracten church. April S. VjC
rrera that tune fee four yeara, Or rm
never relaxed his efforts to get a vindica
tion, and there were times when It seemed
he might succeed, for he attracted to his
case many Influential Episcopalians, and
some went so far as to tako Bishop Talbot
Into court.
But In the end every effort failed. The
House of Bishops sustained Bishop Talbot
by a vote of 5 to 4, and the case was dis
missed by the supreme court of Pennsyl
vania for want of Jurisdiction, the ruling
being that It was one that came entirely
under eccelslastical law.
Through his bit tie Dr. Irvine lias held
many partisans, and his work In hia new
field will be closely watched. Washington
Post.
once unanimously.'
ynne.
-New Oilcans Plcu-
Interestlnar Hellc.
An Interesting paperweight has just be"ii
given to Epworth university at Oklahoma
City. It Is a section of the brass pump
rod of the steamship Slrlus. the first
steamer to cross the Atlantic. The trip
was made In 1S3S, and the vessel left Cork
on April 3 and arrived In New York on
April 32. The ship was lot on the English
coast In June, 18-17. and was salvaged In
1SR6. fifty-one years later. The metal work
of the vessel was purchased by the Masons,
a firm of Birmingham. England, ahlp sup
pliers, where the pump rod was cut Into
sections and the souvenirs made. The
paperweight Is about half an Inch thick
and four Inches In diameter. It looks as
bttght as If It had never seen the bottom
of the Ma
rio Died Vnanlmoasl).
Representative Adamson of Oeorgla while
going to Washington one day not long
ago noticed a crowd around the depot at
one of the stations on the Southern, down
in North Carolina, and poked his head
out of the window and atked of a negro:
"Adam, what's the matter here" "Jim
Johnson's dead, sah," was the answer.
"Homebody shoot him?" "No. Sah; nobody
done nothin' to him; he Jlst died all to
entlsnents of the AVboolntaster.
Theie Is a tide In the affairs of coeduca
tion, which, taken at (he flood, leads
straight to matrimony.
Money talks and stoDs ti: Ik.
Some orators have a fine command of
other men's language.
Anyone can be a Power of evil It nk
character to be a power for good.
The fact that someone else does It. Is
society's excuse.
Certain men are determined to art
share of what does not belong to them.
You can lead a man to college, but ju
cannot make him thick.
You can fool everyone save (iod nn.l
yourself.
Talk la not always cheap.
A man always with his eyes on th
ground bumps his head: a man with hi.
nose always In the air stubs hia toe.
wnen he can wear his left shoe on his
tight foot your pessimist will be pleased.
Dignity carried to excess Is a malady
American Magaslno.
Heartrending;
was the stale of A. C. Suckel's daughter,
Miletus. W. Vs.. with a leg gore. Buck
len'g Arnica Salve cured her. 26c. For snie
by Sherman McC'onncll Drug Co.
EsBlodlnsT Diamonds.
A ourloua fact regarding diamonds n
that It Is not uncommon for the crystals to
explode as soon as they are brought from
he mine. Sometimes they have burst lu
the pockets or the warm hands of mlneis,
due to the effect of Increased temperature.
Iatge atones are more likely to do thla
than small ones. Valuable atones have
been destroyed In this way. By way of a
safeguard, sotne dealers imbed large dia
monds In a raw potato for safe transport
from South Africa.
STATE
MEDICAL
INSTITUTE.
Th Man's Trua Saaoialigta
! Doctors for Men
PIP
Will
HvdrocaU,
Varleoerl.
Stricture,
Emicaiona,
Impotent.
Gouorrhoea.
Blood Poison
(BrpullU).
Itoptare.
brratsa
Debility.
If we could but see and treat all men
when the flrst symptoms show them
selves there would soon be little need
for so-called specialists In chronic dis
eases, and there would be few men
set king a rejuvenating of their phy
sical, mental and sexual powers, and
there would be none marked with the
Indelible stamp of constitutional
Byphlls. and the suff "rs f-o n
VARICOCELE. GLEET. -TRICTCRE.
Kidney and bladder Diseases would b
reduced to a minimum, out lis lung
as MEN continue to disregard the
rnlrien idil "A stitch in time auvea
KIDNEY and URINARY Diseases .,in. and continue to tirrlect them.
and all Diseases and Wrakntsses of , or to exercise Indifference r
MEN due to evil hablta of youth, . poor Judgment In securing the right
abuses, excesses or the result of tieg- treatment at the outset. Just so long
lected. unskilled or Improper treatment i will there be multitudes of chronic
of specific or private diseases. ! sufferers.
rnXtlll TATIBM FiFF ,f Tuu cannot tall write for symptom blank.
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