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Omaha s Most Brilliant Fashionable Function is at hand. Society awaits the Horse Show and it's attendant display of finery. The preparations that Draw
deis has made to meet the kemands Jor correct apparel on this notable occasion are complete. Our own corps of buyers p nt weeks in Paris and other European
centers in the selection of the most exquisite attire andaccessories expressly for this event. A wealth of beautiful apparel shown for the first time at Brandcts Monday.
EXCLUSIVE HORSE! SHOW MODELS
Beautiful Parisian Millinery
Our importations of Parisian millinery were made on a more lavish scale this
eason than any western house ever attempted. The French hats we show this
week for Horse Show wear are all new, fresh from their original cases and more
bewitching than ever.
In the selection of these hats abroad our buyers chose those models desijmd
expressly for Horse Show wear. There are scores of new models from the hands
of French designers of world wide renown, faultless taste and perfect tone
harmony characterize every hat.
Individual Horse Show Models elaborately trimmed with graceful ostrich
plumes and featherslarge and small shapes that lead in favor. Every hat is a
gem and without a duplicate in this country. Ctlor schemes that harmonize with
the brilliant evening costumes. We specially mention jgtl FJJI Jg TS FJ1
iwo linen oj xioTBfi ii h js A y
Show hats at ....
Brandeis Horse Show Hats at $10
Many brilliant New York models are repre
sented here as well as a number of copies
from expensive French hats trimmings are
of ostrich plumes and tips,
feather pompoms, ribbons and
fine ornaments every leading
fashionable shape, at
rimmmgs are
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Ladies Evening Robes, Costumes
and Imported Tailored Apparel
The most exquisite French robes and costumes are assem
bled in this style show. The French alone can give such
grace of design and such perfect har??iony of tone as is foiind
in this gallery pf sartorial art. . The display rivals the most
brilliant shows of imported wear to be Jou?id in Paris itself.
Late arrivals are now ready for their initial inspection.
Noted masters of dtsimim are represented, such as Worthy D recoil, Fran
cis, Bed fern, ljnace,Colle'.t Sauers and others whose
reputation is better known in France than America on ac
count of the exclusive character of their creations
In this broad raDge of styles we mention a few of the
most nofable values:
Fine Opera Coats in white broadcloth, at ... . $25 to $50
Some Special Gowns, dainty, stunning styles. $25 to $45
Evening and Reception Gowns from $65 to $250
Elegant Opera Coats, beautifully fashioned, $49 to $200
urn.
Marabout and Feather
Boas We Imported many
boa and muff sets la
black, white and delicate
colors.
Jewelry, Belts, Opera Dags, and Novel
1 ties for the Horse Show
The little essentials of the Horse Show
toilet aro shown at Brandeis in. widest
variety. Our buyers secured the most
beautilul novelties in Paris in combs,
necklaces, bracelets, belts, bags, purses,
bijouterie, etc., now shown for .the ! first
time in our jewelry section.
Imported Gloves for Horse Show Wear
No western bouse can compare with Brandeis In the showing of the high
est quality of kid gloves for street, for dress or evening wear. Our buyers In
Europe. personally selected the very highest grades of French gloves and made
a special buying trip to Grenoble, Just outside of Paris, to buy
THE FAMOUS TREFOUSSE KID GLOVES
These are the gloves that are handled exclusively In Paris by the famous
Louvre. We show the 12 and 16 button glaces and
suedes, In black, white, brown and gray, at
Perfectly appointed glove department In the new store Is presided over by
salesladies who are adepts at fitting gloves.
Perrlns, Monarch and ReynJer Gloves, in Suedes and Glace
Black and white and all delicate evening shades to match costumes, 8, IS. 16
and 20 button lengths. These gloves imported expressly for Brandeis and
bought by our own buyers in
Europe prices are.
$3-$5.50
la 2.50.$3-3.50.$4
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ERMINE fURS-Art the uttra flashionable
effecte for lloree Show. We thow the great'
ett variety of neck ecarfy and muffi ) or even
ing wear. '
LADIES' ELEGANT FOOTWEAR , .
Brandeis' newly enlarged, shoe department, on main
floor, old store, shows all the correct new effects in
ladies' shoes for evening wear. Low shoes and slippers
in delicate shades to match costumes. The highest
grades of fine kid and patent leather footwear.
Ladies' Silk Hosiery-Highest grades of imported all
silk hosiery white, black and all sLades to match cos
tumesplain and silk embroidered lisle hosiery, etc. .
the greatest possible variety.
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AMERICAN MX IN CUBA
Uaitsd States Honey it Coin Much for the
Quess of ths Antilles.
WRECK OF SPANISH WAR CLEARED AWAY
taland Merer So Prosperous Wow,
nnd All Doo to Aotlrlty" of
Developer.
BOSTON. Oct . The Americanization
of Cuba has gone on so quietly and vet so
rapidly that It waa not until the present
Internal difficulties sros that moat persona
came to realize the alia of the American
take In the laland republic. From a finan
cial point of view, It may be said that our
interests in Cuba are almost as great at
those of the Cuban themselves. American
trade, American financial interests, the
American monetary system, Amer1rn ma
chinery and American enterprise a 11 to
the fore In Cuba, and it la for tl . eason
that most of those familiar wlh actual
conditions In Cuba believe that the ulti
mate acquisition ot the Island by the United
States Is Inevitable,
When the war with Spain ended Cuba
waa a commercial. Industrial, financial and
political wreck. The output of sugar, Its
hlef.crop and the most Important Index
of its prosperity, had fallen from 1,004. OCO
tons n 1H36 to the Insignificant proportions
of Jlt.OU tons In 1KW; while tobacco, the
Beat most Important crop, which had
reached a value of SU.KT.OGO In IS!, dropped
to KJTT.OOO In the same two yeara. Two
month ago, when the leader of the Cuban
liberal party were arrested at the Instiga
tion of President Palma, the Island had
reached a atate of prosperity never before
known In It history, while Immigration
and capital were setting to its shores In
a Strong and ever increasing tide. By 1OT
the sugar 'crop had reached l.ano.ooo tms,
the largest proportion ever known, valued
In its raw atate at about ITS.OOO.OOO; while
the production of tobacco had reached a
value of t:6.7H.0oo more than double that
of the record year 1S93.
lae and Importance of Cab.
' It la douottul If anywhere else In the
world there la an equal extent ot terri
tory with equally great and varied re
sources. About the same si as as. John
Bull's tight little Island, somewhat amallcr
than the state ot Pennsylvania, and with
only a small proportion of land under cul
tivation. Cuba boa within this limited area
a natural monopoly ot the best tobacco
In the world; the greatest sugar supply,
produced from not more than eJO.OOO acre
f land coffee of the blgheat grade, an
Infinite variety of fruits and vegetables.
' unexcelled pasture lands, an abunJant sup
ply of valuable timber and a wealth ot
mineral reaourcea
, There Is scarcely an enterprise or. Indus
try In Cuba today lu which American cap
ital is not teavlly Interested, If not la
ctual control. In fact, many of the en
terprises In which foreign capital has the
largest snare are controlled in New Tork.
In many of theae Canadians are interested
heavily, and herein Kngtand sera a line of
cleavage which may widen to a gulf be
tween bar and her one Important posaes
Sloa In North America.
la the three great agricultural Industries
of Cuba, sugar, tobacco aad cattle landa
sad cattle, there are said to be nearly or
suite Siu,Cuu,0u0 of American, capital In
vested. A single tobacco estate lo the
famous Vuelto Absjo district of Pinar del
Rio embrace ,(U0 acre under the con
trol of American, and In the eastern end
of the Island the Chaparra Sugar com
pany, another American corporation, con-1
trols a sugar estate of almost equal ex
tent. The thirty American sugar planta
tions in the island are capable of pro
ducing1 one-third of the total output of the
republic. There are also hundreds of Amer
ican who have deserted our own farm
land and gone to Cuba a fruit and cocoa
nut farmer. Nothing Ilk a satisfactory
estimate of the value of theae amall hold
ing can be obtained, but they are believed
to very nearly or quite equal in the aggre
gate the larger Individual Investments In
the railroad, tobacco and sugar corpora
tions. Americas Interests la Island.
American capital controls absolutely the
electric traction of the island, the tele
phone and telegraph service, practically all
of the railroada In the eastern halt of
Cuba, about half of the tobacco Industry
and a quarter of the sugar output, besides
having something over 110,000,000 Inves eJ
In real eatate and unimproved lands, with
a total holding of over 4,000,000 acre.
Twenty-nine American colonies have, been
established in Cuba since the close of the
war. In the extreme western province of
Pinar del Rio there are eight' of thee colo
nlea: In Havana province, one; In Matan
sa. two; In Santa Clara,' one; In Puerto
Principe, Ave; In Santiago d Cuba, ten;
in the Isle of Pines, one.
The most Important single enterprise,
however, la that of the Cuba company, a
New Jersey corporation, at the head of
which ta Blr William Van Horn, a native
ot Illinois, who was knighted by Queea
Victoria In recognition of hi work In
building the Canadian Pacific railroad. Thl
company alone own about 100.000 acres of
land, and ha Invested some $18.000,0'' 0 In a
trunk line rdllroad, which, with It various
connection, extends from one end of the
Island to the other. The road afford crm
munlcatlon between Havana, the chle'
northweern port, and Santiago, tre chl'f
southwestern port. In thirteen hours In
stead of the many day formerly required
to make the ourney half around the Island
by ateamer.
Financial Inflaeaees.
The entire eastern end of Cuba I con
trolled Industrially by Americana, but it
I In Havana that the result of American
Influence are most Immediately and con
spicuously apparent to the casual tourist,
and It vii In Havana, naturally, that theae
Influences were first felt. First and most
important among them was the reform in
the financial and currency systems of the
country, which made it possible for foreign
capital to And a safe and profitable In
vestment there. When the American oc
cupation began, the currency of the Island
In addition to some 120. 000.000 in Spanish
paper, only very Inadequately secured by
deposits of silver, consisted of Spanish,
Amerloan and Mexican coins, which cir
culated with equal freedom and to the
great confusion of strangers.
American - and British gold and paper
were at a premium above Spanish gold.
and at a still greater premium above the
silver, while paper money had a different
and still lower value. There were only
two chartered banking institutions in the
Island, one of them, the Spanish Bank of
Cuba, an agency of the Bank of 8pain la
Madrid, which had headquarter In Ha
vana and branches la all the larger cities,
had also ths exclusive right to Issue public
notes, and waa collecting agent tor the
Spanish government for all Internal rave
nue. for which service It received com
mission of 5 per cent on all bill presented
whether collection wai accomplished or
not. Spanish gold was the basis of all
transactions except In retail business and
the payment of wages, in which Spanish
silver was used. The familiar use of
checks and pais book waa unknown and
check for amount of loss than 50 could
not be drawn.
The Trust Company of America, a Nv
Tork banking Institution of large expert
ence, was appointed fiscal agent of th'
United States government, and lmmed'
ately set about a reform. Gold was mad
the standard of value, and several million'
In Spanish coin were sent to the Unite
States for recolnnge or to be exchange'
for American money. The banking syste
waa so thoroughly and successfully revive'
and brought up to date that nearly 5.000.iX'
of American-capital has since found Invest
ment In the Island In banking enterprise
and the amount I i steadily Increasing
Within the last few months New York
Interests have organized the Banco de la
Havana, with a capitalization of SAOCQ.OOO.
One-fourth of the amount has already beivn
paid in by American . investors'; and the
remaining three-fourths are Cuban, French
and English, but the control is entirely
from New York.
The next most Important of the primary
causes of Cuba's prosperity were the work
of repaying Havana' streets, the work of
sanitation to which Colonel George E.
Waring sacrificed his life, and the eradlni
tion of yellow fever from the city of Ha.
vann, where, for a century and a half, by
actual record, the disease had never failed
to appear annually. When that was accom
plished, Havana, already the Paris of
America, the gayest and most quaintly
beautiful of Spanish-American cities, took
on a fresh dash of color. It I aald that
not fewer than 2R.0OO Americana rea1atei'A
In Havana lost winter, besldeB thousands !
of foreigners from other parts of th world,
who find In the sunny climate and equable
temperature of the inland no mean rivals
to the blue Italian skies. It now e'.'ua
likely that the aeaaon of 1 ;-?, with Its
dash of military splendor and excitement,
due to the present- of American troops and
shlpa of war, will be an especially brlUlAK
one.
Bad Weutlia Coats for ;lls.
For bad weather coats of stylish design
and handsome material have been prov ded
for girl ot all agea Thy are of pUid
surah adlk, rubber lined, and they cams
In all the latest shades of checks and bar.
The surah I lighter than th crnvenetta
In weight, and is much mors stunning In
appearance. Ths coat Is loose fitting
enough to cover everything. It Is double
breasted and may be worn with th
notched collar or turned up clore at ths
neck.
Many of the coat have collar cf velvet
lo match or to contrast with th pla d
used in the making of the garment. On
use to which the coat Is put Is automo.
blllng. As a matter of fact. It la known
as an automobile coat rather than as a
rain coat. It Is extremely dressy and
smart looking and bids fair to bectms
one of the most popular of outdoor gar
ments. Another novelty for young girl which
this season ha brought out ar th
checked velvtiteens and corduroys. Bulls
cf thee materials are among the latest
styles and are not only effective, but are
eirteclally designed for the coldest
weather. They are appropriate for dregi
occasion and may be made with trimmings
of lac and buttons, but the fact Is little
embellishment 1 needed.
CAR HORSES USED FOR TOOL)
."xtremity ts Which Hstioni f Old
Europe Are Bsdncsd.
UNITED STATES HAS IMMENSE SURPLUS
Senator Harris of Kansas Dlsenssea
the Condition and Suggests a
Reciprocal Arrnnccsaent
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. LYNWOOD, Kan.. Oct. .-(Bpecial Cor
respondence ot The Bee.) "Strange, la It
not, that human beings ohould be starving
for wholesome food within a week' jour
ney of this land of plenty? yThe wotld
grows smaller every day, and the product
of its earth should be barred from no hun
gry and honest man."
This was th answer of William A. Har
ris, former United States senator of Kan
sas and now a candidate for governor, at
his residence here to a question as to th
advantages of commercial reciprocity be
tween this and other countries and espe
cially as to Its effect upon agricultural in
terests of the west.
"I waa in Chicago the other day," con
tinued Senator Harris, "and I eaw that the
receipts of cattle there In a alngl week
were nearly 100,000 head. A prominent
packing house man said to me: 'I do not
know what on earth we are going to do
with these cattle. We simply cannot sell
th9 meat.'
"I that because the people of other na
tion are not hungry' for our jneat? Cer
tainly not. On the other aid of the At
li.nilc the numbers of population have gore
up, while th number of flocks and herd.
hnv gone down. This is true of England
aid of Ireland. In France the count of
live stock has decreased In twenty-five
years from 1(8 head per ,1.000 sere to 184,
a dead loaa of twenty-four head per 100)
acres. In th samo time Denmark ha lost
eighty-two bead per 1.000 acre. In Ger.
many,' Holland and Swttstrland th flocks
of sheep have decrearajd K per cent. Th
combined population of Germany, Francs,
Austria. Hungary, Swltserland, ' Sweden,
Denmark, Belgium and Holland ha in
creased In twenty-five years from 140.000.00
to 173,000.000 of people, or ti per cent, but
the combined herd of cattle n these coun
tries have increased only to per cent.
Contrast In Condition.
"The number of th human race In Eu
rope Increase faster than do the animal
that the butcher kill for It food. Yt
we see a dally surplus of this food In Chi
cago. Kansas City and Omaha. Price for
meat on th continent average 100 per cent
higher than In the United States. The
masse of the continental nations must
either abstain from meat eating, or pay
extortionate prices for such food.
"We are confronted, then, with sn en
ormous surplus on this aid of the ocean, a
great Increase In both quantity and quality,
and with a simultaneous lack of meat sup
ply abroad. Our surplus production of
meat has been relieved only temporarily
by a series of wars the Boer war, the
Boxer trouble in China and ths struggle
between Russia, and Japan. Had it not
been for the demands thus srtlflclaily
created, the great bulk of cattle produced
In th United States ntnee mvo could not
hav found a market here except at prices
ruinous to the farmers.
"Never was the time so opportuns ss
now for Increasing our export trade In
meat product. It our proposed reciprocity
treaty with France, negotiated by Mr. Kas
son, had gone Into effect, a single exporter
told me he would have shipped 1,000 head
of bulls a week to that country, where the
market demands coarse, strong meat for
boiling rather than for roasting or broiling.
"Germany is today suffering from a meat
famine that may aatound the . world. In
Berlin alone 12,000 horse were killed In
one year for food and In the lame year
79,000 horse were eaten in Prussia. These
horse were not, tender colt, but wornout
tramear beasts.
"There I the demand; there la the mar
ket for the food product Into which w
turn the yield of our great western ranges.
Yet statistics show a decrease In-our ex
ports of canned meats. Woe betide the
range Interests of the central and western
states If we do not gain this market for
our beef and our pork. Our exports of
these products could easily be tripled un
der reciprocity. There is the demand. We
have the supply, with Indefinite capacity
for Increase, If we make tariff concessions
in return."
Mo Longer a Monopoly.
"But will not this European demand for
food products compel the continental na
tion to come to this country for their
needed supply?"
"W must cease to think that the United
States has a monopoly of the supply of
bread and meat. There in growing Into
formidable proportions upon this American
continent a com:tltor that threatens to
crowd us closely In the market of th
world. That competitor is the Argentlno
Republic That Is th greatest natural
Cattle country on earth. It fs 100 tlmos
as big as the state of Illinois. Its latitude
are such that In ths north you can grow
fig and oranges In the open air; thence
there stretch southward t.600 mile of rich
prairie land. The agrarian people there
have been spending for ten yean, untold
sums of money to improve their cattle
stock. They are Importing from Great
Britain and elsewhere the best bulls alive
and they are breeding cattle that would
astonish the citizen farmer of th United
States. They have learned how to ship
dressed beef. Ws knew that from their
southern clime they had to paa the equa
torial tropica to get to the market of the
northern hemisphere and for a time w felt
secured by that natural barrier. But th
Argentine .shippers have built packing
houses that can send dressed beef to liver
pool and London at prices that will out our
throats.
"Moreover, w must realize that ths
European market would rather buy meat
from the Argontine than from the United
States. Why? Because Argentina buys of
Europe and thus keeps ths balance ot trade
in fair condition.
Tariff and Reciprocity.
"No one questions the wisdom of a pro
tective tariff In general, nor can there be
valid objection to any Individual schedule
required to protect labor or capital In
mutually profitable production. But there
are such Individual schedules thct can
be reasonably modified. The great Iron
and steel Interests, the manufacturers of
rails and of machinery and tools, could in
crease their exports If they would per
ceive the wisdom and fall In Una with the
policy of reciprocal tariff concessions.
That would be far better for manufactur
ing interest than to continue to sell
finished products in fprelgn market at
prices lower than to home consumers. I
may quote th late Tom Reed, who said
In the last campaign he made for con
gress that there are two classes of people
who would starve the government-the
free trader who would kill the revenue
and the exclualonlst who would bar out
Imports by a prohibitive tariff.
"What method would I suggest to bring
about freer commercial exchangee without
Injuring our national prosperity? I would
re-enact section 4 of the Dlngley law, so
as to authorize the president again to ne
gotiate reciprocity treaties. That section
waa designed to open the way to commer
cial relief by Inaugurating the conven
tional and the statutory schedule, with a
margin of 20 per cent between. That
was the Intention of Mr. Dlngley and that
waa the Idea of President McKlnley when,
in his last publlo utterance, he said that
the period of exclusivenes was past and
that we must buy of others If we expected
others to buy of us.
"Ws ought to authorize the exeoutlvs
to apply ths minimum rates whenever
reciprocal concessions can bo obtained
from sny foreign government that will
Justify those rates, without additional lettlw
lation. The president would then not havs
to go to the senate for approval of
treaties; thers would be no general tariff
agitation nor upset of business conditions.
Both th exports of manufactures and of
agricultural producta would be relieved of
their surplus output; and our great corn
belt, which Is close to the base of the pros
perity of the entire country, would bo
feeding the human race in Germany and
other lands with wholesome beef, pork
and flour.:' e. C, HOWLand.
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