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TITE OfATIA' SUNDAY BEE: DECEUTrET. 9, 190(5. 5 N r Edison PSinnnffranSis t ' .' ' i, A J I 73 J "W ABl rXCT 1,1 ww.v jpg.r3 50,000 i Victor FaiEiing Machine New Records to select from Frco Concerts Daily NOVEMBER RECORDS ON SAl 1907 Models $10 to $100 SPECIAL XMAS OFFER Nothing Down We offer to Bell you an Edl on or Victor Talking Machine on the condition that you ry for the Records only, and begin to pay for the Instrument thirty days later. WE PKEPAY AliL EXPRESS CHARGES on all RK T4II, ORDERS. Write for catalogue. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT Our Wholesale Department Is the largest, most complete and best equipped In the west. We carry the largest stock to be found In the west If you are a dealer or want to handle a line of Phonographs, write us for our liberal proposition. We Aro the Only Independent Sewing Machine House in Omaha "White" Sfewing Machines King of Them All The "White has built up a reputation for quality work that is world-wide. It is no trouble at all to show what it win do. They come in either movement, Vibratory or Eotary Shuttle. Forty years intelligent catering to family sewing machine trade exclusively has resulted in the production of a machine that will please and satisfy the most critical uaet. We carry a large and well assorted stock of makes, and we will svef yon money. If you want a cheap machine Tor ?15, see us; we nave inem. i SECOND-HAND MACHINES Drop-Head Machines, slightly used, but In flrst-claes condition. with attachments. Complete Guaranteed. New Home $18.00 Eldridge $15.00 Standard $25.00 White , $30.00 Box Machines, any make, from $5.00 to $12.00 We rent machines, 7 Be per week or $2.00 per month. We repair and sell parts for all makes of machines. OPEX EVERY EVENING. Wheeler & Wilson . $20.00 to $30.00 Household $8.00 Domestic $23.00 Singer $20.00 to $30.00 ' - ,. , "?' Nebraska yele ompany Corner Fifteenth and Harney, Omaha 324 Broadway, Council Dluffs... Phone 0618 Ceo. E. Mickel, Mgr. AN WITH WOODEN FAMILY Rears a Happy . Home With Wife, Dambteri and Son Carred from Pin Block. In the thriving little town of Fort Bragg-, Mendocino county, CaL, lives Wil liam Bennett. There is no citizen more respected than he. He is an electrical engineer by profession and ban charge of the town's electric light plant. He la (0 years of age, alert, hard-working, well-to-do and respected. Mr. Bennett doesn't nay anything about hi" old life his life back in the hills of the New England states where he fell madly in love with a winsome lass. 8hc promised herself to him only to be fickle In the end. She married another man. There was nothing for poor Bennett to do then but to take his grief and his utter blackness of life as far away from the old scenes of his love-dream as he could. He went to California. There he prospered. He had money in the bank, a respon sible position, the friendship of the townspeople and a reputation above re proach. He made up his mind that he would build himself a home, even if ttiere was no woman in the world to brigtiten it for him. 1 That house Is done now and furnished completely. It has a parlor, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and four bedrooms. And there the man who craves the love that will never bo his lives in peace and content with his wooden family, all the creatures of his hands. His home is ons of the prettiest in all the town. There is a piano In the parlor, a sewing machine In his wife's room, lace curtains in the windows. There are cut glass and the thinnest of china, Angora rugs, heavy carpets, cretonne hangings. Every loom is papered with taste. It is a home of which any man might well be proud. And the bedrooms, where sloep those wooden folk, are models of dainty prettlness and comfort with their spotless linen, their fresh, bright wall papers and their im maculate floors. There is something sad in all this do mcstlo comfort. Mr. Bennett can not ex- plutn it himself. In a sort of way h came to understand that be had been created a domestic man and needed home and family; the one woman who could have been his wife would not be and gradually the Idea came to try to solve the problem. Indeed, it was a lonely home this pretty nest fit for any family. There was the canary, to be sure, and the cat and her kittens and the watchdog and the flowers that he planted regularly every spring. But no one save he dwelt there. And then the idea. He would carve out for himself a family of blocks of wood. He would start with a wife. He would make her the Ideal woman he had dreamed of so often, and there would be children, too children who would be marvels of filial respect and family love. The idea, once conceived, took full pos session of the man. He was already skilled with tools. He .began his task with enthusiasm and day by day the work progressed. He spared no pains; It was a labor of love. And as he worked he found himself In love with this wooden image of the woman his own hands were fashioning, full slse and true to life. It was finished. His home was no longer empty; there was a wife to sit with Mm at table and attend to the household duties while be was absent at business. And she really does perform the duties of a housewife, In semblance at least. At the proper time you will And her dusting the parlor in automatic quiet. There Is the duster in her hand, but it moves not. An other time she will be seated at the piano, her hands stretched across the unrespon sive keys. Tou will And her in the kitchen, standing before the table, rolling pin in hand, making Imaginary bread. She would be the model wife Mrs. Bennett, as her husband calls her oould she move and speak for herself. But the wife is only on r this Inter esting wooden family. There are the five daughters and a son. Edith May, the eldest, was married recently and her father, Mr. Bennett, made for her a splen did wooden husband. Sometimes the neigh bors got glimpses of their honeymooning, the husband kissing bis bride or holding his arm around her waist. No on in Fort Bragg laughs at this pa thotlo attempt of a lonely man to surround himself with beings he may love. In fact, people have humored him in his loneli ness. He has a responsible position and bis credit Is ot the best and Bennett Is no miser. lie buys all sorts of things for his wife and daughters, candy, flowers. A-- 17 i Dyball's Xmas Candies w 'HETHER you are buying candy for the home, for church fairs or for Christ ma entertainments, you should be In terested, above all things in the purity of the candles. The candy we sell is made by us In our own confectionery, under our personal supervision, and we can vouch for Its purity and wholesomeness. Notwithstanding; the as surance you have of quality and purity, we name prices that are not equaled by any other store selling an equal prade of srweetiuekta. You must not compare our candles with the stuff sold by some btores, some of which Is absolutely unfit to be eaten by adults or chil dren. Choose quality and not quantity In buying Christmas candy. i ( W manufacture every known kinds of candy. 6 our beautiful fancy Christmas boxes and baskets. All kinds and prices. special prices made to churches and societies on Christmas candy In quantities. DYBALL 1518 Douglas St. "The Pnlnce of Sweets' Jewelry, clothes. His son Is usually for tunate. The women of Fort Bragg have no hesi tancy In - calling occasionally upon Mrs, Bennett and her five daughters. If they are "out" the visitors leave their cards. But more often they are "in." Sometimes Mrs. Bennett is reclining on the couch In the parlor with one of the newest novels In her hand. Sometimes she Is bending busily over the sewing machine; oftener in the kitchen. Sometimes she Is at the table with her family, food cooked for all and Bennett at the head of the table carving the roast. The Fort Bragg people have accepted this strange condition of things and respect Mr. Bennett's own personality. No one dreams of making fun of this pathutlo figure of a man who knows his profession well, keeps the conventionalities of life and has to content himself with a wooden family Instead of a real one. He la very frsnk in talking about It, too. William Bennett is a thoroughly satisfied and contented man. He spends his spar hours In caring for his family, and many nights after his day's business Is finished he may be seen going into the dry goods store, looking at and examining the latest patterns and materials with never-falling interest and a keen eye to their suitability for his daughters. The jewelers of the town know him well. Many pieces to order have been made by them for Mr. Bennett's family and they know that when Christmas or any anni versary oomea Mr. Bennett will do his share of the buying. Even the candy chops are well patronised, for all the girls are fond of sweets and their father is not niggardly in his gratification of their likings. Chicago Chronicle. Open evenings, Frenser, Jewei Full Dress Suit, rJio W, made to sell for 106, at Bennett's Clothing Dept., $36. Dog's Drinks High. A big touring car rolled up to the entrance of a roadside "hotel" on the north shore er.e day last week, with two nan on (.be front seat and two women and a beautiful cocker spaniel In the tonneau. One of the men ordered some drinks for the party, and as tiiey sat refreshing themselves the spaniel mad It known that he also was thirsty. "He wants a drink," cooed one of the women. "Well, how about it?" remarked th man who was driving the machine to the Gor man waiter. "Valt a minute," replied that functionary, and h disappeared behind the swinging doors leading to the barroom. Presently he emerged, cirrylng a tin drink shaker filled with water. The cocker barked his appre ciation and scrambled up on the seat near est to th point where the waiter was hold ing th tin vessel. Whan th dog had finished drinking one of the women opened her purse and handed the waiter half a dollar. He made more out of that order than his employer had for th other drinks. Chicago Inter Ocean. UNCLE SAM'S NOBBY "FENCE" Where Gold ted Film Ewc ii Accepted and Ho Questions liked. CONVENIENT TO WALL STREET, TOO Oarrromfst Assay Office la Hew York a Mecca for Burglars and Beyond the Reach f th Police. rid it ever occur to you tiiat your lTncl Fam runs the greatest "fenre" for thieves end burglars In the United Ptates? Start Una;, but true, he spends millions a year on the secret service nnd the postnmre de tective foree. Yet in the government assay office in Wnll street ho runs the bluest snd most convenient "fence" for stolen gold and silver In the country. And while the New York office is the largest fence In the country, the other assay establishment are exactly the same thing. The proceeds of countless burglaries all over the country run Into them as Into a mill, to come out a shining grist of clean gold dollars. For at all of these plunder mills Uncle Sam not only refines the spoils of gold and silver thieves in general, but he also buys a good proportion of the result ing precious metal at market price and no questions asked. And the rest can be sold at the bullion establishments on the same terms Just across the street good, clean money by the kindness of genial Uncle Sam for the criminal's plunder. Of course the government does not do this out of any benevolent feeling toward that eccentric man about town, the bur glar. The conversion of the loot into mar ketable bullion or coin of the republic is but a part of the enormous business In refining, mostly for legitimates purposes, that the federal administration does every year for the coinaKe, for use in the arts, for the Jewelry trade. Yet no one realizes how great a figure in that total Is cut by the loot of midnight marauders .and with what ridiculous case every sort of plun derer that makes plate, trinkets. Jewelry cr any other gold or silverware his spe cialty has been allowed for years to m ike his loot an easily marketable product nay, sometimes to convert It immediately into clean money through the kindness of Uncle Sam. Everything; Goes. At the Wall street mill of the precious metals, for Instance, $3,100,000 worth of "gold Jewelers' bars, old plate, etc.," was refined and bought during the year ended July 1, 190$. Nearly a million more in sli ver of the same class went through the mill, coming out as gsod, clean dollars. And it is admitted by officials of the assay office that more than half of this mass of gold and Bllver is the proceeds of burgla ries. In other words, Uncle Sam plays the part of chief fence extraordinary and pleni potentiary to the housebreaking profession in an annual amount of mor? than $2,0OO,(AX) in New York City alone and something like $10,000,000 In the whole country. The "old plate" which contributes to this Illicit total Is merely the plate which has been plundered from various sideboards, had its monograms and other marks of identity removed and then been battered up a little more to give it the appearance of age.' The "Jewellers' bars" are the re sult of dropping the settings of rings, watch cases, brooches, match safes and plate of either unusual and easily identified or much advertised design both gold and silver into a plumber's melting pot. The gasoline flame is hot enough to fuse the metals Into a mass lacking all signs of original identity A turn of the pt Into a rough mold of black sand, and you have the "Jewellers' bars" of commerce, which Uncle Sam so delights to refine and pay good money for. Anyone who does not accidentally drop "jimmy" on the threshold can deposit these bars and old plate in the Wall street office. Aji appearance of respectability is all that is essential In the bearer of the brick of stolen bullion, with a plausible story for use In the rare event of suspicion being aroused. That any reasonable story will do is abundantly proven by the fact that although these are sometimes lnvestl gated, never, so far as the memory of the officials runs, has a burglar been arrested through banking his loot with Uncle Sam, The brick Is weighed before him and a receipt given for It. The bar Is then re fined, and when he calls for it later with the receipt he can exchange It either for bricks of the pure gold and silver, 99 fine which have been found In his "Jeweller bar," or for the value of the same at the price thon prevailing In the open market, less a trifling fee for refining. Quick Retnrns. An odd thing about this is that he could get the money for his brick the next day after depor ting It, while he would have to wait one week to get back the gold and silver which the refinery would sep a rate out of the base metals all fused to gether In the brick. This arisna from the fact that the officials of the assaying plant. If desired, can compute the value of each brick deposited with them In a slngl day, while the reduction of the brick, ac cording to their practice, takes nix days, They take four samples from each end and the nrlddle of th bar deposited and run these through the test room, where sample assays are made. Here the small bit of mixed metal Is fused in a small pot mad of bone ash. Each bit Is carefully marked in the beginning, and when the bone ash crucibles are arranged on th platinum pans, sixty at a time, to be pu Into the gas furnaces, they are nlway put on from left to right and from the tray toward the workman, so that the same bit Is followed all the way through the operation. It is a simple method and mistakes seldom occur, the four dlfferen samples assayed Invariably betraying sueh a mistake by a discrepancy In the final checking up. The white heat In the gas furnaces causes the mixed metals to liquefy, and the tin, sine, copper ami other base metals are soaked up in the bone ash, that ma terial having a strong attraction with its alkalies for them and having none for the gold and silver. They emerge from the fire as a white pellet. Hot for Him. "She'll mak soma man a apUndld wlf." ' "Sh la scientifically trained, isn't she?" "Yes." "Not for me, I don't want a wife who will glv m lectures on 'Alimentary Ethics' In place of palatable biscuits, or who substitutes talks on "Hygienic Puri fication' In place of th dust cloth." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Neatest In the World. Th neatest town In th world is Brock, a Holland town of 1,700 Inhabitants, where Edam cheese is made. No horses are allowed in Brock, so great Is th enthusi asm for perfect cleanliness, and the sun shines whenever It is abov th horison, Instead of peertng through the smoke and looking Ilk a large bloodshot eye, as Is th case In most American cities. Dr. Harris Mar Recover. CHICAOO, Deo. a Dr. Benjamin Harris, who was shut yesterday by A. C. Campbell of Antlgo, Wis., was reported by his phy sicians today to be In an Improved rond.1 Uwa with a flsUtUig sLauc fur his Or. E ILLUSTRATIONS Shown in this advertisement aro exact re productions of pioces of furniture shown on our floors. Ones that we thought would make Useful and Lasting Xmas Presents. "Wo will tag and lay aside any articles that you wish for Christmas, and then will deliver whenever you wish them sent. AVo have thousands of other articles that would make equally as appropriate gifts as thes-e shown, but for lack of space can not display them. Payments on these spe cial advertised articles do not commenco until after Jan. 1, '07. WE EXTEND CONFIDENTIAL AND CHEERFUL CREDIT TO ALL. All Goods Marked la Plain rig-arss. j o "E lpri6 -SO 16W ABNArl STREETS. OMAHA. ' -Jpp (PEOPLES-FURNITURE-oVCARPETpp) SJJW .l sXSTAaUSHED. ...... iSO?' " Any of These Articles Sold for $1.00 Cash and $2.00 Monthly. This cooIf, Is hammered flat and washed In a solution of nitric acid, which takes off what remains of the bone ash residue. A boiling In concentrated nitric acid takes up all the silver, leaving the free gold. This Is washed of nitric acid In boiling and cold water and welshed. The silver is precipitated from the acid lth a simple reagent and likewise welshed. If all the four samples check against one another the result is compared with the original weight of th samples and the proportion of gold and silver thus determined. Com putation of the value of the brick is then merely a matter of simple arithmetic. Great Help for Rafllee. A similar method on a large seal la followed with the mass of the brick, with the difference that cheaper materials are used, making the process of redaction take six days. When the operation la com pleted each brick is weighed and held sub ject to the depositors' orders. Thus it is that Karlles, if he is respect ably dressed, has Uncle Sam do his re tin ing and buy bis loot with as little aueatloi. as does th largest wholtal jeweler 1) th city with legitimate metal. And offi cials of the assay oftloe, and in fact ol every other branch of the federal servic In Nsw York. In their moments of relax i Uvu rU UU gut Utai Uur laul Cie slightest doubt that many a burglar brings down his loot regularly for the government to turn into dollars for him, and the gov ernment willingly obliges him. Of course, the suspicions of the officials are sometimes arouaed and the matter re ported to the police for Investigation. Vet, as has been said, no depositor has ever been arrested through such Investigation. This can be easily understood. The pos session of a genuine gold brick is no crime any more thaa that of a quantity of gold plate, so long as every mark has been re moved which might identify It as the loot from some rectnt burglary. A consideration of th commercial end of the burglar's game is interesting in showing how almost all of his loot he takes direct to his friend Uncle Sun to turn into dollars for him and Just why he does it. For it can be seen that good plate o. finished pieces of Jewelry are worth moi In the open market than the bullion ana jewels out of which they are made. Uncle Sam is a real friend in need to Rallies. For the chief danger in that gen tleman's business lies in being caught "with the goods on," especially after making a safe "get away." A quick turnover of his booty Into good, hard legal tender is the one thing he desires above all else. Loot Oat of Sight. Th desirability, nay, th necessity of this can be seen at a glance. About half of the arrests made for burglary are due to the discovery by accident or otherwise of the loot. Uveryone will remember, fur example, that it was only through the uo cldenUU finding of the beaped-up plunder of William Meteiski, the "M&sonio burg lar," that the astonishing series of mid night marauding excursions, wilh their rich hauls, were definitely fastened upon that remarkable criminal. It Is in order to minimize the chance of such discovery that KaHles never works with a band, but always alone or at most in couples. Forg ers, on the other band, usually operate in j bands of four or five; green goods men i have at le ist six and sometimes elyht la I their combination, and yeggmen Invariably work in groups of five or six. The idea of getting the most he can for his loot, then, is balnncing in the cracks man's mind with the knowledge that the bulky stuff certainly, and as much of the rcBt as is possible, ought for safety's sake to be turned over into cash right away. Adding weight to the latter consideration is the desire of every criminal to get his dough and begin to have a good lime with it. lie has taken a furnished room In some obscure locality, where he has imule him self known, perhaps, as a plumber, lie locks the door, still panting with the ex citement of his dodging run across town, down alleys, shunning a policeman like a walking plague, and always with that precious, telltale bag under his arm. lie spreads out the loot and ponders each piece, whether It had best go into the melting pot or could be safely held on to for sal through suiue pawnbroker or antlqu mer chant. Prerautlous of Croaki, Of course,' all the Jewels are ripped out of their settings at oiuce and set aside to be pawned as soon as the noise of the house breaking has died away. The rings and other settings are Immediately thrown into t lie melting pot. Oddly enough, the finest pieces of plate and of Jewelry, on account tt being so liable to Identification, invaria bly meet the same fate. The plate of an ordinary and widely current design Is us u.Uly set aside. Kafflea will get to work on it with acids and a slout file and after re moving all signs of Identity will bide It until it can safely be sold through the deal ers. Tl.e same is done with Jewelry of an ordinary type. All the rest brooclin s. ear rings, wa.ch cases, trinkets, rings, go 1 and silver platt-ao into the common mcltinj pot to be finally run Into the "Jewellers' bars." As a matter of fart P.afTVs always con verts the bulk of his plunder Into the bul lion, leaving out little besides the sparklet's for later sale. The cracksxnun Is too cau tious a criminal and not quite commercial noush a man to take risks by holding his tuff fur t deposit ttf th bricks wlta th federal fence. In six days, for he is not liable to arouse suspicion by asking for his money at once, he comes back and receives In gold eagles and hundred-dollar bills the gold and silver he stole In the night a week back. With a little more trepidation V sells the remaining stuff to a crooked pawn broker or antiques merchant such as every Journeyman cracksman, knows. After all, the Junk might by some freak of fate be identified and the merchant, to save him self, squeal on him. But Uncle Sam never squeals. He has done the burglar the kind est service possible. As safe and uncommu nicative as a church, he has played th fence to him on practically all his plunder, without so much as a thank you and hugely to Mr. Raffle' safety, convenience and, pos sibly, amusement. New York Herald. -VHAT MAKES A GOOD PIPE Boost for the Humble Corncob, Taking; Rank Near Head of th List. Pipes) are smoked by millions, always have bnen, always will be. yet not one smoker In a thousand knows the elements of a good pipe. Engineers have been known to talk by the hour over the draft of their fireboxes and never once in half a lifetime think of the draft In their pipes which they smoke hourly. Bage attention Is pejd to the pipe ma terial, all of which has little if anything to do with the qualities of a pipe, and gen erally nothing whatever is thought of shape and proportion, the two things that make a pipe good or bad. A 2-cent postage stamp spent, with intelligence will buy as good a pipe as there Is In the world; everything added to that price is for ornament, vanity and especially for Ignorance. The corncob holds a high place among pipe smokers and deserves this place- usually for the best of scientific reasons. When a pipe Is built on right principle the bowl is as narrow and deep as la con venient to fill; the hole In th stem meet the bowl at the very bottom and In th center, thus Insuring a perfect and even draft, hence a complete and even burning of the tobacco. The cake prevents the fir from burning the bowl, thus prevents mak ing its bore larger or uneven, which would in proportion spoil the draft. The sides) of the bowl are thick to keep In the heat, thus making the burning at the same tern perature at the edges of the tobacco as at the center. In this way a clean sweet smoke is assured. Technical World "-sln. Feared for Ills Cab. Th lawyer went to Hyde park to keep an Important engagement. When he got there it was raining hard pouring, in fact. He 'phoned for a cab, and waited patiently for awhile, then Impatiently. Finally h 'phoned again. "What In thunder Is th matter wlta that oabT" he asked. "I'll miss my man. I'U be latel" "All right, sir," cam the voice of the cabby through the 'phone. "Th cab's hitched up. The horse Is all ready. We are only waltln' for It to quit ralnln', sir, to come for you." Chicago Inter Ocean. Pnblla Policy. The nabob of peshwar had ordered a gen eral advance In wages. "But, your royal nibs," cried the employ ers, "we cannot afford this, making, as w do, dividends of scarce mora than 100 par cent." "Enough," said th nabob. "Your work men now subsist on hay. My decree is that they be enabled to have, In addition, a weekly ration of corn." So It was done, but with deep murmur lngs. Philadelphia Lodger. fir vr' "" ' i a m WINTRY days bring the need of stouter shoes. But stouter shoes will not mean clumsy shoes nor less handsome shoes if you but buy "Queen Quality." Don't make the mistake ofthinking that all such shoes are alike and that any pair -will do. You want the best, and the best will cost you no more than the commonplace, if you see that they bear the stamp "Queen Quality.', HAYDEN BROS. I f