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ADVERTISING EXTRAORDINARY We are not trying to beat anybody in volume of
advertising in this paper today." The truth is, we have so many bargains in every line of
household necessities bargains that no other store in the great west can duplicate we are
compelled to this unprecedented consumption of newspaper space.
Find full page Pry Good Advertisement, front of EditoriaiSwtlon.
Find full page Crockery, Milliner), Shoes, etc., on page IB, Ak-Sar-Ben Section.
Find half page Grocery, Hardware, Art, etc., page 9, Editorial Section.
Last, but not least, find a huge Piano ad on page 4, Want Ad Section. . .
Come Monday, come Tuesday, come Wednesday -com? every day, Get your share of these money-saving
. bargains. See the gorgeous windows and fall festival decorations.
Pyrography
Specially Priced to Ak-Sar-Ben Visitor
For Monday Only
15c Button Boxes. .. .10c
25o Jewel Boxes 17c
26o Picture Frames.. 18c
26c Work Boxes 10o
40c Whisk Broom Hol
ders ....... .... ,80c
76c Collar and Caff Boxes
at 6Bo
60c Glove and .'Kerchief
Boxes, stained in water
colors, ready for burn
ing, at 45c
90c Necktie Boards, with
brass rods. 00c
Outfits at S4.B0, $3.25,
$2.25 and $1.60.
We're Western Headquarters on Pyrography. 2nd Floor
MONDAY ALL DAY IN GROCERY
Bennett's. Capitol Creamery Butter
. The Positive Perfection in Butter-Staking.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FULL WEIGHT
ONE POUND BRICKS,
s Regular Price 28c, Monday,
Specials in Hardware, Monday
STOVES.
Buy Your Stoves Now
Before the Rusk
6.50
Heaters,
up from....
75c
80c
56c
lip. from
PENINSULA , A ,
Family Scales, with plate, worth $1.25, at
No. 811 Copper Bottom Boiler, special ...
Galvanized Wash Tubs, 72c, 64c and
And Forty Green Trading Stamps.
Rinlr Scrarer. scecial 10
Mrs. Vrooman's Sink Strainer 19c
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
50-ft. and 75-ft. Wire Clothes Lines, worth 25c, at 15c and,.10c
NWAl-nlfltWl Oaa Plate. 75o and 56c
And Thirty Green Trading Stamps.
Black Jack and Black Eagle Stove Polish. . . . '. 10c
And Ten Green Trading Stamps.
No. 8 14-oz. Copper Tea Kettle. $1.15
And Fifty Green Trading Stamps.
SEE BIG LINE OF SPORTING GOODS-ANYTHING YOU
WANT AND PRICES RIGHT BASEMENT.
Special Sale
PIANOS
CHICKERING, 1VER.S ZL
POND, EVERETT, HAR
VARD, KOIILER. H
CAMPBELL, and othen
During Ak-Sar-Ben
See Ad on page 4, Want
Section.
Meats! Meats!
Specials for Monday
Fresh No. 1 Leaf Lard, ft
11 pounds for l.UU
2,000 pounds Morrell's Iowa Selected
Hams, 10 to 12 pounds average,
every ham guaranteed, J5"C
Thirty Oreen Trading Stamps With
Each Ham.
We're Headquarters for Best dradss
MORRELL'S Haras and
Bacons.
Fruits nd Vegetables
.Canned..
" BEST
WE HAVE"
BRAND...
Ten Green Tradinjr Stamps
with Each Can.
OMAHA'S LEADING
GROCERY
ax wats portrz.A wmr. fccoirOMi-
CAX. KOUSCKEKPSKS.
Hill AMD aSIOABI,! OOODt.
Itnntt's Cap- a r
ltol Flour, sack. '"
And one hundred green
trading klampa.
Bennett' Breakfast
Coffee, I-lb. (U,
can J
And forty green trading
stamns.
Tea, all fQr
kinds OOC
And on hundred green
LiArllUU ORANUT.ATED Rl'OAR
DOUBLE OREEN
SmCSV TRADING STAMPS.
Honey, pure,
pini jar w
And twenty green trading stamps.
Diamond C Soap, OS
ten bars
OAinrxD goods beciax.
Regular. Special.
Palace Car Com 17 Ho 10o
Beauty Anparnrua 2ftc, leo
V. 8. Baked Ban 0c 6
Oenepee Wax Bean ...12 Ho Bo
Omar Wax Beans lfte To
Brookport Corn 12 Ho Bo
D'amond S Sifted Peas 17Ho J3o
Palace Car Jam l"Ho 19o
Cot tn ire Jam '."..Mo 10o
fnttam Marmalade 16c loo
Peal Island Clams 9c 6e
Bennett's Capitol Wheat,
package
And ten green trading stamps.
Bennett's Capitol Oats, Ifli
pack n re ...svrC
And ten green trading stamps.
10c
Bennett's Capitol Extract,
DOttie
18c
And thirty green trading stamps.
cwvinn.
New York Full Cream, OCln
pound
And twenty green trading stamps.
V'relnla Fw(s Cheese,
finest, pound , uC
And twenty green trading stamps.
BZADQtrAXTEBS wn THI rXHXST
KADI,
Bennett's Capitol Creamery Th Per-
faction 1 -lb. brick,
full weight
BVT.X. PXCXX.ES.
Sour Pickles,
quart
And ten green trading stamps.
Chow Chow Pickles,
quart I5C
And ten green trading stamps.
Pimento Stuffed Olives,
pint 25 C
And ten green trading stamps.
Uneeda Biscuit,
4 packages
25c
10c
Ak-Sar-0ea Art Bargains
Specials for Oul-of-Town Visitors
100 Carbon Photographs, richly framed in 4
inch brown gumwood moldings, a $5.00 value
in every art store for 9 F"k
'Omahans and out-of-town jM A y
visitors, sale price "
ltoproductions of the world's best masters,
Murillo, Bougereau, Barabini, Bonheur, Le
Fevre and many other famous painters. These
pictures guaranteed genuine carbon photo
graphs and cannot be purchased elsewhere for
less than $5.00.
Get a work of art in your home.
See window display Harney street.
Other Pictures, attractive for the
home, from $100 to.
See the Great Oil Painting, "Battle of
Aughrim," by Mulvaney.
ART GALLERIES, SECOND FLOOR.
10c
Jewelry Souvenirs
for Ak-Sar-Ben
A Most Entrancing Value Giving Display
Sterling Silver Souvenir Spoons, cofteo
size, postoffice building in bowl 29c
300 styles Sterling Souvenir Spoons, from
$3.50 to $1.00.
$1.00 Souvenir Cups ..69c
Old Location Main Floor.
Woodenware Snaps
Dlssrll's Grand Rapids Carpet Sweeper. . . , .".$2.50
And Fifty Oreen Trading Stamps.
$1.23 Curtain Kti-eU-hrr .98o
And Twenty-five Green Trading; Stamps.
Bft. Stcpladder, with bucket shelf, flrat-claas . .. ..05o
And Twenty Greet Trading Stamps.
Six Large Rolls Toilet Taper 25o
And Ten Green Trading Stamps.
BASEMENT.
,. 15c
And ten green trading stamps.
Jell-O, assorted, three "J
packages SOO
And ten green trading stamps.
FECZAX TKADTNO STAMW 07PXK
JOS. TETZiET'8 TEAS.
Chocolate Menler, t
pound 4i3C
And forty green trading stamps.
Pride of Bennett's Flour,
saca
1.20
And fifty, green trading stamps.
Bchepp's Coooanut, a;
pound package ,...S3C
And thirty green trading stamps..
Bennett's Bargain Soap, oe
ten bars ioW
COAL! COAL!
Capitol CoaJ
Hottest and cleanest soft
coal that's mined.
C&piiol Lump ...... $6.25
Capilol Nut $6.00
Try a sack of Capitol Nut
Coal, delivered direct from
store with your other goods.
25c per sack.
Bonanza Lump . . . . $5.50
Bon&LiYza Nut . . . . . . . $5.00
Amazon Nut $4.50
Quick deliveries, polite
teamsters. Give orders main
floor, fronting elevators.
Bennett's Candies
Basement.
Fresh Made Marshmallows, .
vanilla flavored, lb J 10c
30 in sack, for 5o
Chocolate Creams, vanilla
flavored, pound' lOo
Clothing
These Cool Nights You Need a
Light Overcoat or Rain Coat.
Let Us Show You the
K0HN BROS.
PRICES FROM $50 DOWN
TO $10
OUR $15 COATS ARE EQUAL
TO $22.50 COATS IN
MOST STORES
Brokaw Bros.'
Heavy OVERCOATS and SUITS
at $35, $30 and $25
Once you wear vx BROKAW
SUIT or OVERCOAT, youll
say you have feurvd the money
saving kind of CUthes.
POSTAL SERVICE SIWERY
B. P, Larrabee Beolans Ballroad Mail
Department Bales Almost Uabearabls.
EFFORTS AT REFORM ARE SUPPRESSED
Business Mn Tells Why Appll-
eauts tow These Psstiloas A'
Scare and Yaath
Stars Oat.
tfenjamln P. lrrabe, credit man for
John T. Mllllken Co.; chemists, who re
cently resigned from th railway postal
service, said yesterday It was no wonder
, the government Is having trouble obtain
ing men to accept positions In that depart'
ment.
Mr. Larrabea Is emphatlo In his asser.
ttons that the regulations of the service
are almost unendurable, and that the men
are prevented from seeking the aid of their
congressmen In Instituting reforms. He
says the service is Ilk a prison.
The strict rulings, poor pay, danger in
a railway car, the refusal of the govern
. ment to provide for orphans and widows
and th necessity of working under negro
supervisors, ar given by Mr. Larrabe
why applications for positions ar snare.
In speaking of th matter yesterday Mr.
La it be saldt .
"I'ntll last July I was a railway postal
clerk, in which capacity I served th pub.
Ho for seven years, until luck cam to my
door and Invited me out of this veritable
prison, which government employment, la
my opinion, certainly is. Let m state that
I have a record In servtc to which
can point with pride. I am not smarting
under any discipline, for such I never re
ceived doting my seven years service, ex
cept a demerit of two points from time to
time for leaving off some piece of red tape
In making reports. Other than this, I
have never bad any trouble.
Aamisas to Disclose It.
"I resolved during my service that If I
was ever in a position to let th public
know of the way postal clerk ar treated
I would do so. First, I chars that the
postal service regulations are nothing short
of one phase of peonage, only worse. Men
ar deprived of asking their congressman
to use his efforts In getting such legislation
enacted as would provide for the men and
their families. One occasion I can cite,
which la only on of the many times their
mouths have had a gag placed over them.
"Not many months ago, after wrecks
had rendered many a wtf husbandless
and many children fatherless, th men un
dertook to submit to their respective con'
gressmen a petition Insisting on leg-tula
Uon by congress requiring the use of the
block; system by railroad The depart
ment found U put and we were not al
lowed to raise our voices to our congress
man, AS a mater of fact, th railway
mall servtc is ths poorest paid branch of
th government servtc.
."Nat a dollar for retirement; not a dol
lar pension to widows, wbos husbands
hgvs bees ground Into a pulp in a postal
oar when th train Is wrecked. I know one
case, a friend of mine In fact I know of
many, but this on I take for example. He
was head clerk at tl.400 a year. Hi train
was wracked. Hs drew pay for on year.
or until ha sent In hi resignation. His
back was so Injured ss to threaten paraly
sis and he was compelled to use a stick to
walk with. The department let him go,
and not on cent did he get as pension.
"Th danger in a postal car is something
terrific. Hardly clerk escapes In a seri
ous wreck. ..Th engineer' and firemen's
places ar preferable. Considering from a
LyinnibeG3
Leads in
If these Count. Come to Us. HjANDYI
S. E. 16th and Douglas.
standpoint of comparison with th army,
postal clerks ar 'In action' every day
they ar on duty, while soldiers often
serve a lifetime without going Into action.
' Salary Proposltloau
"Now as to salaries. Why is It that a
postmaster at a third-olaas office is paid
from hi first day as much, and in many,
many case more, than a postal olerl gtg
after years of service. If evert A I post
master begins to draw his salary the first
day hs gets into office.' Hs can go to
Washington,' lobby around for legislation
and stay ten days pr longer, still drawing
his salary.
"If a postal clerk is off duty he cannot
arrange with on of his fellow clerks and
lay off to protect his run, but must get a
substitute aVd pay caah from his pocket
to protect th run. I say that th post
master la drawing th people's money Just
as much as th postal clerk, and he has
no light to any more liberties. His respon
sibilities are not on iota more.
"Postal clerks handle Infinitely more in
value than do postmasters. They have to
study constantly to keep astride with dis
tribution changes. They are examined on
postal laws. Now, out of postal clerks'
pockets com their expenses on ths road.
The law provides that these expenses shall
be paid, but they haw never gotten It.
They have to furnish their own equipment
In th way of rubber stamps, pads, writing
paper. Ink, pencils, etc. Postmasters ar
furnished every conceivable convenience;
even the calculations are computed In
book. All they must know Is th amount
and rate, and th furnished table do the
rest.
"On retiring from th service I was de
prived of on day,' work. I remained over
th first day of th month as an accommo
dation at my own expense to protect my
run until relieved. When pay day cam I
was informed that only thirty days made a
month. I was absent thirty days In July,
therefor I bad nothing coming to me.
Yoansr Bfea Do Not Gm la.
"Young business men of th country,
don't go into government service. Tou
ar at th mercy of a gang of political
schemers, against whom you ar power
less. As such you ar a machine. Your
brain can make you more money other
wise. Stay out of it They claim a basis
of merit. This is a faro and I can prov
It. I got a few thing myself by pull, and
I can cite others who did th sain thing.
Unless you have pull you'U never have
any cinch on your job any longer ihon rjT
day.
Thes things, ar facts and I Cefy th
postal officials to contradict them. Young
man, how would yu Ilk fe I placed In a
postal car.- with a negro over you to g've
you ordersT
"This Is what you aaa expect If you en
ter th postal service.' I have experienced
It. They are putting more negroes into
th servlo every year. It is an exoepticn
In the servlo where ther Is a lln wher
ther Is not a negro working cn quality
with whit man, and many, many tlmea
th negro is In charge.
"The best men ar year by year Iraving
th service, and many mora would do so
had they not (pent their best yeara In It,
and now, bound by Ignorance of any other
means of making a living, must rndur
this 'state. St Louis Republic.
Horrible Bxamale.
"My dear," said Mr. Btrongmlnd. "I
want you to accompany m to th town
hll tomorrow evening."
"What for?" queried th meek and lowly
Other half of th combine.
"I am to lecture on th "Park Bid of
Married Life,' " explained Mr. Btrong
mlnd, "and I want you to alt on ths plat
term a&4 pes as on of th Illustrations."
CLIMBING MOUNT M'KINLEY
Loftiest ' Peak ' of North America
Balks th Kffurts of Ex
plorers. Pr. Herschel C. Parker, of Columbia uni
versity, who was Dr. Cook's companion
during a large part of the summer, tells an
interesting story about their explorations
In Alaska. H forcibly illustrates the re
semblance between such an undertaking
as trying to reach the summit of Mount
McKlnley and. a military campaign.
Neither can well succeed until there have
been extensive reconnaissances. . No gen
eral hopes for victory unlesa he has in
formed himself aa fully as possible regard
ing the strong and weak points of his
enemy's position, the various routes of ap
proach, and the possibilities of subsistence
(or man and beast along the way. A con
siderable amount of information about the
chief mountain range of Alaska and the
surrounding wilderness has been acquired
within the last five years, but according
to Dr. Parker neither he nor Dr. Cook had
any intention of attempting the ascent of
Mount McKlnley thla season. They de
voted themselves exclusively to studying
the ground, and Dr. Cook waa still so em
ployed when his companion left him a few
weeks sgo. Much that they have learned
is discouraging, but it will enable them to
direct their efforts more wisely In the fu
ture than has been possible In the past.
Dr. Alfred H. Books, who was sent to the.
region by the United Btates Geological sur
vey In 1003, studied its topography pri
marily In the interest of the government,
jut he offered a number of suggestions
which were designed to help explorer who
should try to reach the summit of Mount
McKlnley. When Dr. Cook went to Alaska
th following year he mad a long and tor
tuous journey to th northwestern base of
the peak, but mad no direct assault from
that quarter. The western face was ap
parently Impregnable, a It presented a pre
cipitous granite cliff several thousand feet
high. After many delays an attempt was
mad on what appeared to be a ridge sep
arated by a glacier from the mountain
proper. By a detour Dr. Cook waa able to
reach th surface of the glacier itself, and
there he was confronted with another ver
tical wall of granite. Abandoning the
southwestern side as hopeless, the explorer
mads a hasty circuit around by the north
to the east of ths range. His scrutiny
ther satisfied him that It would be a waste
of ttm and strength to make a trial from
that side, and then he hurried to th coast
before cold weather ahould mak him a
prisoner.
This year's work Included a fresh inspec
tion of the southwestern face of Mount
McKlnley and a study of the mountain
from the south and southeast. Observa
tions were made from the tops of adjacent
mountains, which afforded exceptional fa
cilities for such surveys, and the result
was to convince Dr. Cook and Dr. Parker
of th hopelessness of further effort In the
region to which they gave their chief at
tention. The only remaining chance is now
believed to be afforded on the northwestern
side of th mountain. This chanc Is con
sidered small, but is not to be rejected
without fuller Investigation, and It will
furnish the Incentive and guide to next
season's operations. Dr. Cook remarked
three years ago that In Inaccessibility,
arctic environment and steepness combined
Mount McKlnley was without an equal
anywhere in th world. It grow Increas.
Ingly doubtful every year If man will ever
set foot on Its summit unless he uses a
flying machine, but at least on more effort
will be made to get ther by old-fashioned
methods.
Although both Dr. Cook and hi associate
hay bad saucb xperlnc la mountain
climbing,. It is reported that they Intend
to secure for their pext campaign th serv
ices of veteran Alpine guides. It is prob
able that the duke of the Abruzsl was
largely Indebted to the aid of such experts
In his ascent of Mounts St. Ellas and Marg-
herlta (In the Ruwenzorl range). Dr. Cook
and Dr. Parker have, perhaps, less occasion
than the Italian prlnoe had to supplement
their own skill with professional advice, but
it will hardly come amiss. New York Tri
bune. ...
Oat f th Misty Past.
Hannibal had gained another great vic
tory over the Romans.
"How many of them have we slain?" h
asked.
"General," aald the chief of staff, "the
ground Is plied so thickly with the dead
that we can't distinguish friend from foe."
"Count their noses, you idiot 1" roared
Hannibal.
Dismounting from his war elephant, he
went into his tont and dictated a wireless
telegram to his niggardly countrymen In
Carthage, begging them for the love of
heaven to loosen up a little and send him
a few regiments of rough riders and moun
tain climbers If they .wanted him to keep
up his winning gait. Chicago Vrlbunn. .
Forestalled.
With stealthy footsteps the burglar
made their way Into the business office
of the merchant whos store they had Just
entered.
Flashing a dark lantern around the room
they saw that the door of the safe was
partly open.
On a small table near th safe were
several documents.
The burglars Inspected them.
One was a bill for automobll repairs.
Another was an ic blU.
Both war rejected,
"Pete," aald one of th two men, In a
hoarse whisper, "ther" haint no use iookln'
at th other dockymenta. We re too lata I"
Softly making their way back toward th
window through which they had entered,
they climbed out of th window and disap
peared In the darkness. Chicago Trlbuns,
"So
Worth the Money,
you want to marry my daughtsr.
eh?" queried the stern parent.
"I -do," answered the young man.
"Are you aw re, sir," continued ths
stern parent, "that It cost me more than
$15,000 to bring her up and educate her?"
"No, sir," replied the applicant for th
job of son-in-law,, "but I'm right her to
Inform you she's worth every dollar of it."
Last Big Land Opening
in Oklahoma
RICH LAND FOR FARMERS
Over a half million acres of agricultural lands will be opened to settlement this
fall in Southwest Oklahoma. 1
The Quarter Sections will be sold to the highest bidders.
Minimum price, $5.00 per acre, which is a very low figure considering th rich
ness of the soil in that portion of the New State.
Purchasers must be qualified homesteaders and comply with homestead law as
to residence, cultivation and improvement. ;
Terms are reasonable Purchaser has the privilege of paying for his farm in
five equal annual payments. k
The lands are mostly rolling prairies, well watered by living streams.
, Corn, wheat, oats, rye, alfalfa, cotton and all kinds of garden products and fruits
of almost every variety can be grown in abundance.
This opening will be the best opportunity to get a good farm at your own, price
ever offered the homeseeker. '
You cannot afford to miss it.
You should lose no time in getting on the ground either to select a business loca
tion or to familiarize yourself with the lands on which you intend to bid.
Cheap rates first and third Tuesdays of each month via Rock Island-Frisco
Lines, only direct route to the Big Land Opening.
A6k any Rock Island agent for pamphlet giving complete information.
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
Passenger Traffic Manager,
La Salle Station, Chicago; ,
. or Frisco Building, St. Louis. I
Rock Island-Frisco Lines
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