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o THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE o . loor,. SEVERAL CMLOAES OF NEW PIANOS , Ordered for San Francisco Bought for Spot Cash at a Remarkable Sacrifice by the Schmoller& Mueller Piano Company Two of the largest San Francisco piano companies were forced by the great catastro phe to forfeit heavy contracts with eastern factories our ready cash takes advantage of the eituatioin, the pianos were stopped at Omaha and go on sale Monday morning at prices below the makers'. cost. Handsome, new upright pianos of New York and Boston manufacture, in pure colon ial casings (no carving) of rosewood, mahogany or French burl walnut finish pianos that possess a rich tone and beautiful polish, will be quickly sold as follows: Han Franclsr Price. Sacrifice Salo Price. J San Francisco Price. Sacrifice Sale Price. $285.00 Upright Pianos for only. .142.00 $330.00 Upright Pianos for only.. 164.00 $300.00 Upright Pianos for only. .156.00 $350.00 Upright Pianos for only. . 175.00 On the Special Terms of $6.00 Cash and $3.00 Monthly Until Paid. Elegant cabinet grand upright pianos, four feet ten inches high, finished in charming " style, polished like a niirror, pianos that were made for the elite of the Pacific coast, will go on sale Tuesday, at 8 a. m. You may safely take our word for it this is the piano bargain opportunity of the year: San Francisco Prk-e. Sacrifice Rale lrtce. San Francisco Price. Sacrifice Sale Price. v $400.00 Upright Pianos for only. .245.00 $500.00 Upright Pianos for only.. 315.00 $450.00' Upright Pianos for only. 285.00 $600.00 Upright Pianos for only. 355.00 . On the Special Terms of $100.00 Down and $5.00 Monthly Until Paid. Each and every one of these pianos are of reliable manufacture, fully guaranteed by ourselves as well as the maker, and we hereby warrant them to be as represented or all 'money paid will be refunded to the buyer. SPECIAL TERMS TO ALL Do not delay call or write at once. We ship pianos everywhere at a saving of from $75.00 to $150.00 on reliable instruments. Address The Schmoller & uJueller Piano Co. Sole iearesentatives Isr Steinway k Sobs, Slrger Sons. Emerson. A. B. Chase, Hsrdmsa and Fifleea Other Standard Makes. 1311-13 FARNAN STREET. OMAHA, NEB. 1 WEST IS A WEST NO MORE Bobs of a Seaboard Filerim Orei Old Illusions Banished, MISSING CHARACTERISTICS OF OTHER DAYS l;rra tvSTeteae Manifested In V ari as Way All Kinds of Prog ress Ytatkle Darin n Trip to the Tactile. DEMOCRATS SORE AT EDITOR lany of the Faithful Are Eiled at Hitch oook'i Latest 8cheme. THREATEN TO DEFEAT HIS PET PLAN tocaso Him of Tying Vp with Fob . taaelle Knlfer to Keep the Senatorial . Nomination in 111 Family. Gilbert M. Hitchcock's double-barreled linbltion to be a United Stales senator and congressman at the lama tlmu, together Hth the announcement of, the candidacy of ts. father-in-law. also for United States senator, but as a republican, baa angered lumbers of the democratic brethren. "The proposition la getting pretty jtrong," said one of tbera. "Here's Hitch Jock trying to corral the congressional and Senatorial democratic nominations and his father-in-law trying- to gel the republican Senatorial nomination, to keep. K all In the family. - i .',' ' :'' . "Already .' tnutterlng. has been, heard threatening' U throw do wa the Hitchcock blaa for a referendum vote on senator In the atato convention. - It la recognized that If Pouglaa county doea not support "the plan It has no hopes of being adopted. Daklmsa WUI Control. ?Mayor Dfihlman will control tha bulk f the Douglas county delegation to the State convention, and don't you forgot It. U has not been decided yet who Douglas ill support for governor, but It will be It Dahlman's dictation And not at the di rection of Lee 'Herdroan. The delegation aa. been made up of Dahlman's friends, ah will stick by him, and If he decides e wants the gubernatorial nomination they will stand by him to the last ditch. "It Is clear that the candidacy of Hitch lock's father-in-law. Is the result of a deal ketween Hitchcock and the Fontanell tnlfers, whether strictly bound or simply nutually understood does not matter. It srould have been terrible If neither hud any tandldate with which to oppose Mr. Rose irater, so the ex-governor was dragged out f retirement. "The remnant of the Fontanelle club, so much derided by Hitchcock during the late municipal campaign aa a horrible example sf machine rule, is now working with him hand and (lore, inspired by a common ha tred. The ordinary democrat does not synv pathise either with the feel(ng or the tie-up and In preparing to put the kibosh on one Hitchcock when the tlmo Is ripe." Dr. Goose UnmasKca . When ths clothes-man says " Oh I J pan ikrlnk uf that Fullness in a minute," or "I can ttrtttk out that Tightness in a iiffv." It is ths same old makeshift that is constantly substituted for sincere 'tailoring in 80 per cent of all clothes. The next time this happens to yru, just have ths detective place opened up and revised by hand needlework. Ths trouble with Flat-Iron dope" is its 4tmprry natuie. It is merely a Stimulant. CANDIDATES FOR DELEGATES FILE Fontanelle Complete. Delegation with World-HrraM KrfUnr on I.lst. Candidates for delegates to the state convention Hooded tho ofllce of the county rlerk with applications for places on th primary ballot Saturday morning. One practically complete delegation was flled by the democrats and It Is understood to be for Hitchcock for senator. ' Just before the 'office closed, Former City At torney J. P. Breen 011 tne names of fifty seven .candidates selected by 'the ForiTa nelle club In - the Interests of ex-Governor Crounse, Hitchcock's father-in-law. E. Clancy Hunt, who writes the World- Herald's editorials on the news pages, is of the Fontanelle candidates, as is W. H. Wilbur, also of the World-Herald, and Gus C. Mclntyre, son-in-law of .Mr. Crounse, and with the Individual applications which have been filed this will make a complete ' Fontanelle' delegation. The names flled by Mr. Breen are: ' ; Charles Cummlngs, W. B. Vansaiit, tr. 8. Burney, James Austin, Michael Smith, Otto Wurmback; Thomas Galloway, i. I. Sullivan, Paul Stein; South Omaka; C. W. Bruegmann. Alvln R. - Hensel, R. K. Pax- ton, R. A. Stewart, Ernest C. Hunt tWorld Herald reporter), William H. Wilbur, Gus C. Mclntyre, J. J. Boucher, W. A. Messlck, Sidney W. Smith, S. 1- Bush. Frank H. Gaines, E. Benedict, Hugh A. Myers, Sam K. Greenleaf, C. A. Mangum, Kllery W. Westerneld, Victor Dahlstrom, George H. Devereux, H. HI Cochran, A. H. Donecken, Martin Langdon. Rome Miller, J. H. Mer chant, Charles Unitt. John P. Breen, H. Brome, Omaha; P. W. Burkhouser, Florence; J. A. Gillespie, E. E. Brando, Theodore P. Servls. Carl E. Herring. H. O. Beatty, Dr. John J. Foster, Carr Axford, W. C. Church, Henry T. Clarke, Jr., Nelson C. Pratt, John A. Longren, Byron G. Bur bank, Frank A. Woodland, C. J. Andersen, Francis A. Brogan, Duncan M. Vlnson haler, S. K. Spalding, L. S. Hoffman. H. A. Whipple, Clement C. Chase, Omaha. Other Individual filings for places on the republican delegation are as follows: James W. Carr, H. E. Peterson, Enill Wahlstrom, Charles von Kessel, P. J. Barr, Dundee; Otis D. Reeve, James J. Casey. The democratic delegation follows: W. W. . McCombs. Sol Hoppe, Ie Bridges, I. J. Dunn., Thomas J. Flynn, Rob ert W. Wolfe, Dr. T. R. Ward, Otto J. Bauman, Peter Hofeldt, E. E. Howell, Ed P. Berryman, S. 3. Potter, W. T. Canada. John C. Drexel, John A. Rlne, S. Arion Lewis, Peter E. Elsaaser, Oscar J. Plckard, R. F. Williams, A. H. Hippie, J.'W. Wood rough, E. Epstein, D. J. O'Brien, C. II. Wlthnell, A. A. Alter, D. C. Rouden; Otto Stuben, George Rogers, S. J. Rothwell, D. Horrigan, Robert P. Jensen, Louts J. Piattl, John E. Reagan, ". George Holmes,' J. C. Donahue, J. J. Monks, John W. Zellers, James M. Roucek, C. E. Kelpln, C. J. Cameron, Arthur. L. Anderson, John M.. Gilchrist, Oldrich Jllen. H. S. Daniel, P. ktostyn, William Orchard, A. H. Rowltser, James C. Dahlman, Alma Jackson, W. I Nichols, C. O. Lobeck. Jeff W. Bedford, Dan B. Butler, Harry E. Bowman, Lyle J. Abbott, Ell Garrett, Eugene M. Bouce, John II. Bennett, Dominio Cosgrove. W.-8. Shoemaker hss also filed appli cation for a place on the democratic delegation. MTITTIE'S WOUND IS FATAL Well Known Sportsman Die of Hemorrhage at the General Hospital. FRANK HAMILTON GIVES HIMSELF UP Man Who Mabbed McVlttle Election Maht Offer rlea that He led Knife In Self-Defense. A little wtar or dam in 11 takes it all out. and leaves ths garment with all its riginal uetects, so neatly masked ty "Old Dr. Oooa lor ta time being. Ths label of ths SINCERITY CLOTHES Makers In any garment, is' a substantial Proof that It has been cat and tailored nnttrtly. and Rmd, whet nscetsary, by skiari mnd SINCERITY CLOTHES excel in Style aa well as la Workmanship, and they art frn from Flat-Iron 'trickery." For sal by leading Clothiers everywhere. Find this label, and you'll find satisfaction. its tk ttttktt tkat mk$ tk4 laM wrtk It's if the garment, and reads like this: Al. J. McVittle died at 4 o'clock Saturday morning at the Omaha General hospital after an operation on an artery of his neck. McVlttle was stabbed by Frnnk Hamilton during an altercation in the Mer chants hotel bar on the evening of May 1. after the city election. Frank Hamilton who had been arrested for the stabbing and was out on a bond, called nt the city jail Saturday morning and was. again ar rested., pending action of the county at torney, who has not yet decided what com plaint will be flled against Hamilton. McVlttle received nine stab wounds on the head, one on' the- throat and several behind the right ear and on his cheek.- He was removed to Mercy hospital at Council Bmffs'and within a week was able to be taken home and soon was able to go out for short walks. Last Tuesday, McVlttle took a turn for the worse and was taken back to the Mercy hospital, where another operation was per formed on the artery. Friday evening the artery broke again and he was hurried to the Omaha General hospital, where an op eration was performed at 10:30. At 2 a. m. the patient apparently was doing nicely, but about 4 o'clock he had several severe hemorrhages, which, with his already weakened system, caused sudden death. Funeral Monday Afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the home of a married sister, Mrs. Edward Bowles, 2)01 Bristol street. Tlie burial will be private. Al. McVittle was proprietor of a cigar store at 1507 Harney street for four years. He wa . born In Omaha, at 915 Farnani street, was 33 years of age last Thursday and had a wide circle of friends and ac quaintances as a sportsman and good fel low. For years he was associated with Frank Bandle In the cigar business. , Ha is survived by two brothers, Tom and Will, and two sisters, Kats McVlttle and Mrs. Bowles." Frank Hamilton maintains he stabbed McVlttle in self-defense. The affray oc curred about 11 o'clock on the evening of election day, and Hamilton and McVlttle were celebrating the occasion. An argu ment over politics was said to have started the trouble. An eastern pilgrim Journeying to the Ta- Iflc presents In the Brooklyn Eagle a la mentation with the earmarks of a "Jolly," over the vanishing of the old west and In Its place the pungent' varnish of the 'effete east." In the same tone the writer hands Omaha a combination knock anl boost. Here Is what he says: Vanished and varnished Is the west. Our eastern effeteness, expressible In chewing gum, opera houses and shirt waist, has dragged its loathly length from state to state, shooing away the prairie dogs In Its advance, end now, when the member from New Tork arrives at Coyote Corners, the citizens, who used to meet him gleefully with guns, eager to see which could shoot his plug hat off first, gather to him In kid gloves and rush around the place In an automobile, to get his opinion on their rathedrsl and art gallery. Then they take him out to the park to see a ball game be tween the Methodist and Presbyterian teams, and wind up with some S o'clock tea with a symphony concert. And they call It civilisation I Although I hsve been to "the coast" by other routes since then. It Is twenty-five years since I went over the Union Pa- clflo last, and. oh, the difference now that go over It again! Why, Chicago was west, then, almost. Anyway, you were In the west when you reached Omaha. This time I haven't seen a building in Omaha that I know, and the oldest house In sight Is a decrepit .veteran of possibly ten years. Omnha used to sit on a bluff and bathe Its feet In the Missouri, which caused the water to take on Its peculiar color. Now It has moved the hlufT Into the Missouri and ceased to bathe its feet. People In Omaha not only weaf eyeglasses. out nave parlor organs, plush albums, pig sticking festivals all kinds of progress. ine perrect ladies in the railway restau rant who ought to dole out sinkers and coffee to us in the morning, because on ac count of the rush to 'Frisco we cannot get into tne dining car. unless we breakfast st noon, are as superior as the women on Firth avenue, and let us know that they wait on us simply out of good nature, and not because they have to. It' Different Xoir. When you left Omnha and doda-ed the holdup men. you entered a treeless, fence less prairie, that lasted all the way across Nebraska and kept getting more' so till you began the climb across the Rockies. where there was nothing but atmosphere and engc brush. Now you enter a farm yard and, stay In till you reach the moun tains. It s the same old earth, no dnnh hut who is going to Believe It when It is covered with straw, manure stacks and signs, plowed in furrows 800 miles Ion fenced with wire, decorated with telephone poles and electric lights and dotted with Doard homes whose owners protect them with windbreaks of willow and Cottonwood no longer groves, but forests? That has made the physical, mental, moral change trees. v nen It was open country the bll sards dashed over It and the air wns dry ana crisp. ow It is warm and soaav. And isn't It characteristic of us that while we are planting these trees in the flats we are chopping them down as fast as we can get our axes Into them In the hills? The prairies have their share of rain, but in tne east, where fn summer we have to rely more or less on the stored water of our springs, we are destroying the forest that holds the water and changing the land Into desert. The prairie rivers continue to he unimpressive. I should think thev .,m build dams over them, something, lust to see the water move. Here Is the Platte, wnicn is nve miles wide In one place, thev claim, and six inches deep. Imagine living with a river in the country and having no nance to swim in it! But the trees secure tho rivers, such as they are. and the rain and dew belt is moving toward the Pncin Borne morning, when w. Rave destroyed me lasi or tne trees on the Alleghenles we shall awake to a dryness of centuries and shall use hard names to the lumber companies that will have destroyed our rarms, our factories, our villages and our drinking water for some people do drink water, even In the west. . If they are left aletie long enough, and the patent medicine man does not exterminate them. Now and then, st some bleak station, where the scenery Is blue sky snd tawny earth, I discover a band of Indians work ing on the track. They are a little darker than the Comanches and Sioux, and they wear mustaches, but they sre dressed In the same old wrecks of clothes as the reservation Indians; they clan by them selves, avoiding the white man and re garding him suspiciously; they smoke brutes of pipes, now and then they quar rel, and one of them Is pinned to the ground with a dosen or fifteen knives. 1 am sorry to notice this decadence, for they are more dirty than the Indians of twenty flve years ago, more Industrious and more revengeful Suddenly they begin to Jabber Italian, and another Illusion is gone. Beside the Italians the railroads are em ploying Huns and Slavs as section hands. Dull-faced men, addicted to cruel pipes and rum, when they can And any to addict themselves to. but tolerable workmen, who live like gypsies, moving from place to place with great, show of bundles and bedding, and camping In those makeshift shanties such as Italian laborers occupy around New York shanties that, you are milling to promise, are occupied by as widely variegated menageries as any you can find In the Bronx. Some of them do not bother with houses, but live In wagons and I discovered, with temperate Joy, a genuine old prairie schooner doing duty at one place In Wyoming, where It had been fitted for occupancy by putting a canvas hood over It and rigging the stovepipe up through the middle of this cover. The last prairie schooner I had seen In service was In Kansas a few years ago, and the town turned out to look, because it was driven by a long-haired Rip Vsn Winkle and his clay-colored wife, pulled by a hump-backed mule and had a fly-blown, moth-eaten yel low dog tied by a bit of ship's cable to the under side of It. At Sherman, where we are S.OHO feet above the sea,- and don't know It, there are snow drifts beside the track and a temperature of nearly 90 degrees In the shade for an hour or so, but there Is the cooling view of the (Rockies, their vast snow fields an ethereal silver In the hssy light, and as we enter the desert there Is the sage brush, one remaining Indication of the west, pushing Its tender and high scented leaves out of the alkali, or, up rooted by the wind, rolling fantastically along the earth, and bounding over the moss agntes like ghost plants on a spree. But the old rudeness snd heartiness have gone out of the towns along the way; they are Just commonplace, every-day settle ments, like those in middle New Tork, with girls In shirt waists and men In hand-me-downs. Rarely Is ' the sombrero seen, even among the cow punchers who come In from the ranches, and few ranches have cow punchers any more; and as for re volvers, I warrant that a round-up of clti sens on the east side of Manhattan would recover more weapons than you would find In the clothes of an equal number of men In Hell's Hollow, Placervllle or Stand Pat. And they use them less in the west than we do, and are punished more promptly when they use them, too. A cruel telegram recalls me befor the Journey to the coast Is finished,-so that conditions In the Bait Lake basin and the Sierras are surmised; but I Imagine that they will not differ from those elsewhere. and the mournful conclusion Is that ths west Is a west no more. QUEEN OF ACTRESSES PRAISES PE-RU-NA. KOOOOO0OO00O0OCK' Jetter's Gold Top Beer delivered to all parts of the city. Telephone No. J. "SINCERITY CLOTHES" , BUD! All lOAIalTftl IT KUH, NATHAN ANO FIJCHEI CO. CHICAII Banknote Piper Stand Severe Teat. After all the sweeping and often indis criminate charges of "graft" and other misdoings against those who Berve our government in any capacity. It Is refresh ing to record the fact that the company to whom for years haa been Intrusted the highly Important duty of furnishing ths paper on which the government notes art printed has acted .with invariable fair ness, honesty and scrupulous - fidelity in every detail. To use a commercial phrase, the material furnished has always bi-en "all wool and a yard wide." A Utile In cident showing the genuineness snd en during quality of the paper on which our greenbacks are printed occurred up In the Maine woods last winter. Three years ago a lumberman who had bca given at 110 bill on lii wage account lost the money on his way home. One day In January last a friend found the bill In an open field, where It had been dropped, still Intact and easily -recognisable after having been drenched in th rains, frosen by the snows, and bleached In the sun of three year. BWng restored to It original owner, the bill wa sent to the United States treas ury, where It was promptly redeemed Is new paper. Leslie's Weekly. Medical Men Gather. BOSTON, June . The flrt meeting In connection mtih the great gathering of medical men 10 be held In this city next ffk. hen the annual sexsiun of th Amrrican Medical association will attract several hundred physicians and suraeons to Boston, wa held today. It being the an nual convention of the .une'iian Academy f Medicine. Th convention, which was hi Id in Hotel Brunswick, wa opened with a Huion fur member only. The oblect of tle American academy i to elevate il standard of rtajulreuivDia for th nwdlcai aigi. ured product of the preaont time In action Boun enfenbled. disordered stomscJ eaunciaily tf tbr Is ulceration or catarrba Bad Stomach Makes Bad Blood. Too ran not make sweet batter In a foul, unclean churn. The stomach serve as a churn in which to agitate, wont up and disintegrate our food as It Is being digested. If It be weak, sluggish and foul tha result will be torpid, sluggish livtir aod bad, impure blood. The Ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are Just such as best err to correct and cure all such de rangement. It Is made up without a drop o( alcohol In It composition; chem ically pure, triplivre fined glycerine belug nsd Instead of the commonly employed alcohol. Mow this glycerine is of luwlf a valuable mediciue. Instead of a deleteri ous agent like alcohol, especially in tha cure of weak stomach, dyspepsia and tha various forms of indigestion. Vrof. S'lnley Kllingwood, M. 1)., of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says of It: In dyspepsia it serve an excellent pur pose. It Is one of to beet mannfscv- Its stomachal 1 fwtrtiiatcatarrhsi InflinmiUoo of fctotuca. It 1 a must enii'Mnt prntrauon. uircenn will relieve BurctM of p twit (beanbum) and iMe Mrt acidity. It la owfai in rtirunic Intestinal dp-iwia. periil U flatulent variety. ud In renain forms of curunko consUpaitun. tlaialUuc tb secre tory and excrelwry funcuunaof Ui tutestijial d combined, in lost the right propor tions, with Golden Seal root, Stone root, Black Cherry bark. Queen's root. Blood root and Mandrake root, or the extracts of these, at In Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, there can be no doabt of Its r treat eftioacy in the ear of ail stomach, Ivor and intestinal disorders and derange meats. These several ingredients bav the strongest endorsemeut in all such rases of such eminent modlcal leaders as Prof. B. Banholow. M. I) . of Jtffemoo Med ical Cullege. Chicago; Prof. Hubert A. Hare, M. D., of Medical bepaitCMSil, University of fa; Pruf. Laurenc JotuMon. 11. IX. MwUcal IDartmeni, luiverslty of Sew Torfc: Prof. Id win M. Hale. M !., Hahnemann Medical CuUrg.t'hlrta-o: Prof. Jobs L K ntUier. M. I and t'ruf. Julia Kins. M. !.. Aainur of lb American Iilspensaiury, and cor of oUusrs aiuucjg tb leading medical men ui our land. Who can doubt the curative virtu of a medicine th ingredient of which has such a pexcwnkmol udorsemmt . Constlpsuon cured by Doctor Pieros'a i IMeaaaat Pallela. On f tw a ctosa. iiV, OVi1-'! WH'. it f . a , v 1 v I X..... V- 1 ifJtf 'V'r1 u ' Kfifj 4 9 MISS JULIA MARLOWE. Heartily Approves of Teruna for the Nerves. 0-&000K (00000-C0K IN a letter to The Peruna Medicine Co.. Miss Julia Marlowe of New Tork City, writes the following: "I nm glad to wrlto my ourlorac mrnt of the Krt"at reim'tly, I'ernna, as a nerve tonic. I lo so most heartily." Julia Marlowe. Nervousness Is very common' among women. This condition Is due to snemlc rerve centers. The nerve centers are the reservoirs of nervous vitality. These cen ters become bloodless for want of proper nutrition. ' This Is especially true In the spring sea son. Every spring a host of Invalids are produced as the direct result of weak nerves. This can frequently be obviated by using Peruna. Peruna alms at the root of the difficulty by helping the digestion. Rome Thing Missing. Most of the wild animals are gone, even the gophers. Those herds of woolly horses that pranced across the plains In my geo' rapny nave disappeared with the antelone and the buffalo. A fellow passenger re ports one coyote, prowling disconsolate within sight of the train, but I have to take his word for it. The larks are singing. bless them, but the milliner will be along presently, and then the lacks will decorate the heads of the Women's Club of Dead Horse Gulch the name changed by that time to Bmithvllle. And I suppose you could wander over the buttes without meet ing as many rattlesnakes as used to swarm there. People kill other things for food, but they kill snakes on principle, and al though the rattlers do not make an ex hibition pf themselves, as the deer and elk and buffalo used to do, stones will seek them out, and I dare say you will not encounter them half as often as we used to see them. hen I went over this road a quarter of a century ago I shot a rattler at the very top of a butte so steep that you had to climb It with your teeth, al most, and I wonder why he had to live up there. Another missing Item In the romance of the west Is the old-fashioned prairie fire-old-fashioned in books of travel and our geographies. According to those ancient pictures the Indians used to touch off the grass to rout up the game or scare off the whit men; the fire swept like a tornado In a vast wall, 100 feet high, with smoke enough for Pittsburg, and hunters and set tlors at distance, seeing It coming, mounted their chargers and fled as If hades were yawning behind tbem, as Indeed it was. I bav seen several prairie fires since they broke out In that school geography, with herds of wild car horses flying fu riously before them, and I have never had the luck to see one where the flames soared more than four feet or so. or advanced faster than the average hobo will walk And what took out the poetry was to see the farmers wandering In and out among them, swatting them with old coats. No, the prairie Are Is not worth while sny more. Poor Lrf Modernised. But saddtst of the proof that the west is now the east is the Indian. When I last saw him in Nevada snd around there, he waa wearing feathers and tin csns. snd was the old. majestic creation oi Fenl mort Cooper almost. Now h wears whiskers snd sits on th grocery step. I did se on camp of 400 Sacs and Fuzes near Tama, but Tama Is in Iowa, where the table d'hote exiat; still, the Indian were wearing blanke't, carrying their papooaea on their back and living in wlcklaup. They own a reservation there, but hav taken to farming and stock raising, and very now and then they go down Into their Jeans and extract a hundred or so for anothur acre to add to their holding, so that lby will buom Influential cltlsens WHERE CLERKS ARE TRAINED Boston Take an Educational Sw Department Which 1 ' Pro- nonnced a Good Thing;. - Schools where clerks In stores and those spiring for such .positions way be taught how to watt on customers and to fathom human nature are among the latest edu cational schemes. ' Graduates from these Institutions are able to step Into actual sales work In department and other stores without having to serve an apprenticeship ss cash girl, bundle girl, etc. Boston Is said to be the city where the selling trade was first taught, the schools being an outcome of the welfare work carried on among the employes of the re tail drygoods houses there. But the plan is being adopted elsewhere and Is m"t ing with as much sdecess as In the New England city. ' "In Boston both day and night classes are held," said a New York merchant "Those patronising the day classes are generally boys and girls It years old and up, who want to obtain positions in retail stores, while the students In the evening classes are the clerks who are already employed. These latter take the course so that they may rise In their departments sooner than if left to their own devices and the uncertain task of learning the business from those directly over them. "The younger pupils are taught spell Ing, penmanship and arithmetic, while the older ones receive instruction in human nature through lectures on psychology. ' A knowledge of how to deal with each on of the many kinds of customers with which a clerk comes in contact In a single day is an invaluable asset In his or her experi ence. 'The time when a girl unable to do any' thing else can obtain a position In a dry goods store is a thing of the past. Mer chants wSnt trained clerks now, . well dressed, well appearing, refined and cul tured, and those where such are found get ths best trade and the most of It, Per sons who come In contact with the public In these modern dsys must be Intelligent and tactful whether it Is In a store or In public business. In their efforts to ob tain these trained workers large stores are paying higher salaries. Sometimes clerks are born, but the ma jorlty of them have to serve an appren ticeshlp before they are capable of going behind a counter and coming In contact with the kinds of persons who patronize a large establishment. The need for knowledge of arithmetic, spelling and penmanship is greater nowadays, when each sale require such a number of en tries on different slips, than It used t be when the system In vogue for handling money and making a record of the sales even in the large stores were simpler. But It is the human nature study that counts most. There are different ways of treating different persons. .A successful salesman on the road knows that, and usually owes much of his successful sell ing to his knowledge of how to approach customers. Ignorance of their dispositions snd characteristics would mean failure for him many time. Such knowledge comes largely through training, which Is nothing more than experience. "It 1 the ssme wsy with the clerk. The display of a Uttl Impatience or Irritability at the Indecision of a cus tomer will send th Utter away without her making a purchase, so disgusted with that store that she will not go there agsln. "But most Important of all I It for a clerk to be tactful, courteous snd such a good student of men and women that he will know when a few words adroitly spoken in praise of an article he Is selling are proper and when to maintain sllenc. A sale is often mad If the clerk doe not appear too anxious to force the article on the customer, when a continual refer ence to the good qualitit-s of It would send sn Intending purchaser away. These points sre what every clerk should know in tultively, and inch Intuition com from experience or training." New York Trl bune. Digestion furnishes nutrition for th nerve centers. Properly digested food furnishes thesa reservoirs of life with vitality, which lends to strong, steady nerves and thus nourishes life. Peruna Is In great favor among wome-i, especially those who have vocations that sre trying to the nerves. 1 Kxpressions of Gratitude. Dr. Hartman has received numlerless let tpra containing expressions of gratitude for relief experienced through the use of Peruna In ceases of nervousness. Probably no otKer physician has a larger number of grateful patients scattered all over the civilised world than Dr. Hart man. Not a day passes that he does not re ceive some token of appreciation from the patients whom he haa relieved of eoms chronic malady. THE BRIDGE THAT BAILEY BUILT The famous house that Jack built. Is now a story old; To little folks throughout the land The tale has oft been told. "These modern days have brought a song Of somewhat different Hit, And now we hear In cheerful vein. The bridge thst Bailey built. Si 312 Paxton Block. The bridge that Dr, Bailey built Has won a wide re nown; And Pax ton block tn Omaha Is known to an tha town. His praise mankind rfnth ristlv sin. --. . ...... ' And every mouth pro claims with Joy The bridge thst Bailey built. Bridge Taeth $3.50 S. HniSCH Ch CO. I II V l II A QUAKER MAID RYE "Highball" A tall, thin glass, a lump of ice, QUAKER MAID DVP I Fizz tha seltzer or fill tha glass) witn ginger ale or soda Ah! THERE'S a drink mellow, refreshing, delicious; a splendid tonic and a keen appetizar. QTTAKEK MAtB BT la tbrwSlm winner. It osDrorsd ta lk Award al at. lx.ola. istt; Vaftt, IMS; Portland, 1mk. It baa asdiapBtsa tigfct i ita alsiati 44 THX WHISKEY WITH A ILlUTATJON" Jor sals at all flrst-elaas bars, oafes and ding stores KANSAS CITY, MO. D. A. Sampson, General Sales Agent, Omaha. HOTELS. Engraved Wedding Invitation A. Root, lino.) 121i JUiwa4 St., Omaha. . 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