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The . Omaha ' Daily Bee. EDITORIAL SECTION. ' Pzqcs 9 (o 16. A Papar for tha Horn THE OMAHA DEE Best & West VOL. XXXVI -NO. 227. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1907. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. Two Cent Railroad Rate Is in Force .... Gome to Omaha and Trade at Bennett's LADIES HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS New Spring Style Hook Only costs 15 cents and Is worth a quarter of anybody's money; more than this, there's a Coupon In It good for 10 cents on a pattern up to June .1st. - , Ladle' Home Journal Patterns are the Easiest, Best and Most Up-to-Date. Pattern Booth Harney Entrance. TRADE ON A TRANSFER Tou ask first clerk you trade with for a Transfer Slip, select the Rootle, leave them with the clerk and proceed to next department with TsVAsTSrua BLIP. After you are "all In" you iro to Transfer Booth (southwest corner. Main floor), poods are all nicely parked up for you or ready to be sent to delivery de partment; you foot the bill and the transaction Is closed. ASK TOM A TKABTarXB ILO. Now a a A3 Hosiery LADIES' FAST BLACK SEAM-, LESS HOSE, 17c value,! for ..... I 2C -S3 LADIES' IM PORTED HOSE, white solo, 35c 25c LADIES' FAST BLACK RIBB'D HOSE-ISc : values for 10 c Great Sale Writing Paper "MS? Sat. 25c High grade linen and bond writing paper and envel opes, put up In large, beau tiful boxes, decorated with floral designs; all new, clean goods, lateBt shapes and moBt stylish sta tionery; positively 60c. 76c a and fi.OO values; Satur- . AuC. day SEE WINDOW DISPLAY Pictures for Easter Gifts Five hundred handsome pictures, brown tone, made in passepartout, religious subjects, copies from old and fl p modern masters, a 25c value, R O Gloves Ladies' 16-button Kid Gloves, tan and brown, $3.50 value ..$2.89 Ladies' 8-button Kid Gloves, $2.50 values, for $1.59 : Handkerchiefs 'Ladies' Hemstitched Initial Hand- ' kerchiefs, each 5S Men's Hemstitched Initial Hand kerchiefs, each -7V2$ Saturday for . . . An easy article to mail to out-of-town friends. - Pyrography Contest Specials For Class A Contestants 75c Taborets for 58 For Class B Contestants $1.25 Waste Baskets for 95 For Class 0 Contestants 90o candlesticks for . . 65 For Class D Contestants School Children's class. New panels and boxes just received. Oval & circle panels.10 20c handkerchief or glove boxes, Saturday ............ 15 Have you registered? Don't delay. Call at our Pyro raphy department, and we'll explain this contest. Picture Framing Have you seen our new -arrivals! Pleased to show them to you. r 2d Floor. An Interesting Waist Sale $2 Waists 'r 98c Saturday Ilarg-aln First Floor Circle 300 Lawn and Batiste Walsta for Saturday's Selling (like cuts), some with all-over em broidery fronts, others with yoke, sleeves and cuffs trim med In Val. lace some worth $1.50, but most all worth $2 Saturday, First Moor, Bar gain Circle each 98c COAT SETS Heavy linen em broidered, extra wide cuffs, worth 69c set, at. i 25 1 if 1 4 a "53 21 If It's From Dennett's It's Good BENNETT'S Big Grocery SATURDAY SPECIALS-Pleaae Leave Orders Early and Avoid Delay Bennett's Best Coffee, 8 pounds. ..... ; 1100 And One Hundred Green Trading; Stamps. Bennett's Best Coffee, pound....... 3 60 And Thirty Oreen. Trading Stamps. Teas, your choice, pound '.' . 680 And Fifty Oreen Trading; Stamps. Pepper, pure, around can . 1 to And Ten. Green Trading Stamps. OaVUraiiATZD UVdAM BOVX.Ir GBXEsT TRAD , XVO BTAKPS. .", Bennett's Breakfast Coffee, 2 -lb. can 48o j . And .Forty, Green Trading, Stamps. Corn, can ,....-..,A:. Bo - Peas, can .... ...I.... 60' OH Sardines, can ia ' Pride of Bennett's Flour, sack.,...'. ,.11.10 And FlftV Green-TradlM HtamDS. - fepper sauce, Dotiie. .......... .o Catsup, Walton, bottle to Mais Breakfast Food. pkg. .... 10c . S&e Bottle Queen oUtm for...l8o Bennett's Capitol Mince Meat. pkgs ISc And 20 Oreen Trading Stamps. Vsat We Have" brand vegetaDles ' Ten Oreen Trading Stamps With Each Can Tomatoes, large can 15o f aked Beans, large can HHc trlnglesa Beans, can ...lie Lima Beans, can 16o Wax Beans, can 16c Kidney Beans, can Ithie Corn, can 13 W Hominy, can 10c Pettis Pols Peas, can liVo Pumpkin, can 12 Ha Navy Beans, hand picked, 10 , lbs Z5e Maine Corn, I cans 25c; dos....00o Pickles, assorted, I bottles. ... 16o IM kiiaaaH LLmHI And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. tiIHt Bennett's Capitol Extract, ' fz'TThF-'iL X bottle :io " 1 "And Ten Green Trading R tamps. Diamond 8 Preserves, assorted, large Jar 2Sc mm t liTISttCTIM ft faOLD OM.T rf ft Bennett's Shoe Section-Where Quality Counts CHILDREN'S DAY -Extra Green Trading Stamps on Boys and Girl's Shoes OXFORDS FOR MEN, AND NEW ONES x i : f TOO. Ask to see the swellest yet. They're a patent colt vamp. Blucher, with white calf quarters, black heel and sole, and black eye lets and black stay. The most stunning thing shown in Omaha, and 60 Other Up-to-date Styles Including such styles as Pingree, Dunn & Mc Carthy, Dorothy Dodd, etc. Sif A SO Green Trading Stamps with .all . MerVs $3, $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes. Shinola Polishing Outfit polish, brush and dauber, for ...... ;. r ...19c T y Saturday Children's Day Children's Spring; Coats Children's Spring Wool Dresses Children's Spring Fresh Violets Ten thousand of these Dainty. Del icious, . . Fragrant. Sweet Violets. 25 in bunch at 12c For Sale on Main . Floor Entrance to Grocery Dept. floor, each $2.95 nd Wash Dresses 275 Children s Spring Jackets and Coats, sample garments, worth fully one third to one-half our prices, all col ors and sizes, Bat turday 2d IOC leSS Visit the STORK ROOM Special Ex hibit of Infants' Goods and Stork Novelties Stork Room- Second Floor Green Trading Stamps With every, pair Boy's and Girl's Shoes up from $1.25 And Twenty Oreen Trading Stamps.- r i x, .. .. u ' , u lull ?uv uv., w wmi. ,............. .i And Ten Oreen Trading' Stamps. Marshall's Kippered Herring, can And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. Shredded Codflsh, I pkga '. ...tSo , And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. Three Star Salmon, can .' .......10c And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. New Tork Full Cream Cheese, pound SOo And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps.. Domaettlt Bwlss Cheese, pound .......25c And Twenty Oreen Trading Stamps. tmt-jraASQVAXTSM fo m rarxaT nOODOlD Fresh Country Butter, pound. ...34c Sour Pickles, quart ,.,.10o And Ten Oreen Trading Stamp. m Prescriptions Have a care where you take your prescriptions. Better bring them to our prescription department. We fill them strictly as the doctor orders. Accuracy, skill, and care. , mixed with ingredients of pertect purity. AT ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES Main Floor South BENNETTS GREAT MEAT MARKET Everything Rollable Positively So SOME SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY Young. Mutton Legs, lb.... ftH jJjLoin Mutton Chops, lb.. 12 ib. 12H Rolled Rib Roast, all bones out, lb., iOO ..........tOo 2So 86c SOo 20o Flower and Vegetable Beeds, pkg tio Pho Chow Pickles, Quart... . . . And Ten ureen Trading btamps. Small Sweet Pickles, quart And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. Jell-O. assorted, I pkgs And Ten Green Trading Stamps. Wiggle Stick Bluing, sticks And Ten Oreen Trading Stamps. H Bennett's Capitol Oats. I pkgs Ana Ten ureen iraaing Btamps. Bennett's Capitol Wheat, 1 pkgs And Ten Green Trading Stamps. 12 He and Pot Roast, from our natlre steers, 7c and 50s Boiling Beef, 8 lbs. for 25? HAM AND BACON SPECIALS. Cudahy Rex Hams, average 8 to 12 lbs., at 14 H Cudahy's Diamond C Hams, av- , erage 8 to 12 lbs, at 15 H Cudahy's Res Bacon, In etrlps, lb 14 Thirty Oreen Trading 8tamps with Each Ham or Strip of Bacon. 10 Saturday in Crockery This glitteringly attractive department never looked prettier or more fascinating than right now. The con noisseur and collector of things artis tic from tho potter's wheel can pick up valuable items at b&.rf&in prices SATURDAY. Some Saturday Specials The finest blovm table tumblers, pretty three band decorations, best of flint glass, on sale Saturday, 6 for. . . .25 Louwelsa Ware Hand finished Jardiniers, pretty shape, easily a one dollar value Saturday, each 49 All Jrdinieres and Pedestals None reserved, each one marked in plain figures, on sale at 33 1-3 per cent off. The Kent Dinner Set Pretty shape on a good grade of porce lain, neat decoration, a $12 value, the full 100 pieces for. 8 98 All Dinnerware Over sixty patterns, including over eleven Haviland patterns, Saturday one day all at 10 per cent off. If you want to match up your set, buy Saturday a discount on every sale over $1.00 in this section. 2d Floor. The Vollmer Clothing Co.'s CLOSING OUT SALE Furnishing Goods, and Hats and Caps Rain Coats and Spring Overcoats Kenrelgn, Kohn Bros Union Label, Bold up to $35, to close; each, at $15, $12.60, $10, $7.50 and $5.00 Broltaw Bros., Kohn Bros, and other good makes, worth up to $35.00, in Winter Overcoats and Ulsters, all. go at three prices $16, $10 and $5.00 Confirmation Black Suits Long trouser asuita, 14 to 20 years $20.00 Suits for $10.00 $12.50 Suits for $6.25 $15.00 Sulfa for $7.50 $10.00 Sulta for $5.00 Dutchess and Odd Pairs Tronsers Worth and sold up to $6 a pair, at $2.50 Men's and Boys' New Spring Hats You can save 60c on any hat In The de partment. See the $2.50 number. New Bargain Square Saturday, all day French Flannel Shirt, collars at tached, $2.60 value, at 98 Cardigan Jackets and Men's S2.00 Sweaters for 08 Men's Medium All Wool Soiled ($1.00 a garment) Shirt or Drawers, to close, each -50J Men's and Boys' Soft Shirts White included, worth and sold up to $1.00, sizes 12 to 18, at .39 Boys' and Children's Suits Sold up to $5.00, sizes 7 to 16 years; to close, at .... .' $1.05 Any Boys' or Child's Wash Suit Sold up to $3.95, 3 to IS years; to close, ftt 08 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT ON DUCK COATS. Saturday in Hardware and Home Furnishings Galvanized Wash Tuba. 85c, 75c and J G5t And Forty Oreen Trading Stamps. Wash Boilers, Saturday, up from 060 And Forty Oreen Trading Stamps.. Gal van lied Pails,' three sizes, 28c, 25c and -200 And Twenty Oreen Trading Stamps. Flour bins, hold 60 lbs.; special, 750 And Thirty Green Trading Stamps. Large assortment Bread Boxes to choose from, ranging in prices up from ... . -530 Ana Thirty ureen xraaing stamps. Round Cake Boxes, In oak colors and very heavy tin, up from .. .,.850 And Thirty Green Trading Stamps.. ; ' ' Sugar Cans, In oak and blue colors, two slice, 10 lbs. and 20 lbs, at $1.08 and ......750 And Thirty Green Trading Stamps. Round Spice Boxes 250 And Twenty Green Trading Stamps. 'Us MSB TO THI UNITED STATES Comparisons tbsf EhoW Epw MUhtv tns Tids Ia BBBSMBassssaa TREK TO THE LAND OF THE FREE 'VnstMt HsTtntst la th History of Bmu . Mtarratloa Asalaat lartoa f ' rsrslssen Oar Ideal. Tha whol vocabulary of mankind, con joins bo more alluring name than that of wtmerloa. This country has attracted mors Voraa hunters than ever went anywhere else since the world began. All the other tnlgratione of men are puny affairs In com parison with the movement to the United etatea; In tact, the grand totals of this unparalleled trek to the land of the free and the home of the brave are so stagger ing thft mere figures do not .convey their full slgjnincaao to the mind. Lt us mak ur similes without the aid of figures. Thore are more Jews In the state of New Tork than were numbered among the hosts who followjd Moses from Egypt to the promised Land. The manner In which the subjects of the kaiser have flocked to Van ksuuiiid Is Indicated by the fact that there are nuarly 7ou newspapers In this country which are printed In the German language. There are so many - French Canadians la lxwelL Mass., that they hold the balance of power in the municipal elections of that ft! ssnls(?tuittn etaie, ' Ttxe -wedes are so thick In the northwest that a Mlnne- spoils newspaper reoently offered the Bible J printed In Swedish as a subscription premium, and there are so many Irishmen in New York City that each year 40.0CO sons of Erin march In the parade on St. Patrick's day. That the lure of America. Is not a myth Is proved by the material conditions of the 178.000 natives of Italy who now make their home In New Tork a colony In a single community In the United States contain ing more Italians than there are in the city In Venice. These New Tork Italians pos sess property worth ttiO.OOO.OOO. They have more than SU.000.OUO In the savings banks of Manhattan. They own 10,000 stores. 4.000 pieces of city real entate and they are In creasing their substance every day. At the last horse show held in Madison Square Garden, an occasion when the richest women of America vie with one another In flaunting their collection of jewels, the most resplendent of them all was Miss Moroslnl, the daughter of an Italian banker.1 Hew TUey Prosper. As a rule It does not take long for the foreigner to prosper In opulent America. If you Inquire In all likelihood you will find that your servant girl is sending part of her wages to the home folks In Europe. The organ grinder and the banana man usually send a portion of their nickels and dimes to dependent ones on the other aide and the eum total from such sources soon climbs Into the millions. The enormous sums going from this country to Europe In this manner are ahown by the postofflo report During the last fiscal year the United States aent postal money orders abroad to the amount of le2.9S7.7IS. and Inasmuch as most business transactions ar buodueted. through, banks the -bulk o the money order receipts Is conceded to be personal remittances. Italians send more money home than any other class of adopted Americans. Last year they sent to their families and friends In Italy and to the Italian savings banks for deposit over 113,000,000, which was an Increase In one year of more than M.000.000. Even the Greeks, who are few In number, sent home over 1600,000 last year. As the Christmas season approaches the volume of cheap travel to Europe al ways Increases. Inquiry develops the fact that many foreigners visit their old home at Intervals. Whenever there Is a strike at the coal mines or at any of the large works where foreigners are employed there is an Immediate exodus for Europe. Surely this Is a land of plenty when It rewards the alien laborer with a living for him. self, assistance for his absent loved ones and holiday excursions across the Atlantic. Eios from Italy. Last year we attracted more Immigrants from Italy than f som any other nation. Now, how does this wonderful United Btates compare with that country from which they earner Italy has a public debt of ITS. 86 per capita; the United Slates has a national debt of til U per eaptta. Italy has a money circulation per capita of tb.75, while the United States has a money circu lation of 133 fei per capita. In other words, should a direct and Immediate tax be lev led for the payment of cur national debt an Impossible contingency, used merely for illustration) the United States could pay off Its obligation and have a balance of 121 47 per capita, while Italy, If It paid the whole amount of money In circulation, would still owe S6s-10 per capita, or about four-fifths of its whole debt. good Illustration of the number at peo ple coming o this country from Italy may be had by the following statement: If the lmmglration Into the United States from Italy last year had been followed by an emigration from the United States to any other country In the same proportion, and all these emigrants had gone from the city of Chicago, there would now be crly sixty three residents. In the great metropolis of the middle west. Since the foundation of our republic the maglo of Its name has drawn S.OOO men and women across the seas. If they had all come from Spain, Sweden and Norway there wouldn't be a single Inhabitant left today In the three kingdoms mentioned. The movement to America is distinguished from all other migrations In that it has drawn, not driven. The great tntra-Euro-pean migrations, the "folk wandering" of the fifth and sixth centuries of the Chris tian era, that resulted In the overthrow of the Roman empire by the German tribes, was a movement of the chieftains who forced their serfs and retainers to aid them to strike out fur victory and spoils, but the tide of homeseekers that has swept to America was a movement Inspired by the Individual seeking to better his condition. He has come from Europe by the millions, and yet so great Is the land which receives hlin that while Efcirope has 114 persons to the square mile of territory, STorth Amer ica has but thirteen and the United States proper but twenty-six persons to the square mile. First Great Trek. In searching history for comparisons of migrations It seems that tbe pilgrimage of the Israelites was the first great "trek" of which we have an authentic account. It is believed that there were about 1.000.000 souls Involved In that movement, which lasted forty rears. During a similar period the United States has attracted 10,000,000 homeseekers, so that as a drawing e rd our country seems to outrank Canaan by twenty to one. Caleb and Joshua told the Israelites the Promised Land was so rich that it was flowing with milk and honey. Let us see how we can show up with Canaan on that score. Last year Uncle Sam's cows pro duced enough milk butter and cheese to sell for $&0, 000,000, and our bees are an nually producing $10,000,000 worth of honey, which would surely be enough to sweeten the "half baked cake of Ephralm." The proceeds of our annual tobacco crop would reproduce the Temple of Solomon and add a few modern furnishings that this early spendthrift had not reckoned upon. In all the other migrations which have affected the history of the world the move ment has been a conquering one. Weaker nations have been overrun by stronger ones. Sometimes cultivation haa been superseded by barbarism. But the millions that come to America come not to conquer but to be conquered; not to change but to be changed. Since the olvll war we have received j0, 000,000 foreigners, and yet our nationality, our governmental system, ' our modes and thoughts and purposes are unchanged. Could the national individuality of any other people have been preserved under the same conditions? Suppose half a mil lion Americans were to go into Germany each year for forty years. Hast Asslaallatloa. The rapid assimilation of foreigners to our Ideals is accomplished through tbe me dium of the little red school house. Last year we gave free Instruction ia our pub lic schools to as many pupils as there are inhabitants In the kingdom of Spain, that proud Spain which, one ruled the world. Free education lor nearly 18,000,000 pupils, and the number increasing all the while, with the extension of the laws compelling children to go to school whether they will or not. The political equality In America, as well as the material advantages, tends to draw men to our shores. In many states Immigrants are permitted to vote even be fore they are naturalized, merely by de claring their Intention to become citizens. This great country of ours offers equal advantages to all. Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, ons of the most highly re spected members of the senate, was a poor boy In Norway. Anton Mlchalek, repub lican representative from Illinois, was born in Bohemia. Richard Bartholdt, a repub lican leader In the house, was an Immi grant from Germany. Bourke Cockran was born In Ireland and reared In France. Another feature of the attractiveness of America Is the absolute guarantee of re ligious freedom, not only to worship as one sees fit, but to be privileged to partici pate In public life without discrimination on account of creed. Oscar Straus of President Roosevelt's cabinet is a Jew, and so Is Istdor Raynor, a senator from Maryland. Charles J. Bonaparte of the cabinet Is a Roman Catholic. The presi dent is a member of tbe Dutch Reformed church, and so It goes. , Our Fourth of July orators do not need to exaggerate when they boast of the great ness of America. It is the most favored child of nature. Its free ' form of govern ment has been the greatest magnet that ever attracted men, and although it is yet In Its Infancy, aa tha age of nations goes, its lustre far outshines tbe "glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Borne," New Tork Sun. KEPT ONE EYE . PEELED Close Obserrattoa Enabled . a Keea Lawyer to Score with tas Jury.' A number of years ago General Benjamin F. Butler was a guest of friends In Brook, lyn. During his visit he noted the rule of the street railway corgpanles compelling conductors to register fares as soon as pas sengers entered the cars and before tha fares were actually collected. Two or three years afterward he represented the plain, tiff In a damage suit for 115,000 la which a Brooklyn street railway company was the defendant. The principal wltnees for the oompany was the conductor of the car on which the accident occurred and his testimony was so strong as to make things look bad for Butler's client- But Butler recalled the unusual rule he had remarked years before and on oroas examination hs sold: "Your company requires you to ring up fares as soon as passengers enter the car, doesn't ltr "Yes." "Suppose a passenger ' boards your car and then finds he la on the wrong line, do you state that fact to your superiors, and do they make allowance on your return for that farer "No. I lose the nickel." "Do you mean to say the company won't take your word for five cents"' "No, they won t." ' "Yet." said the shrewd veteran, turning to trie Jury, "the company asks you to take this conductor's word' for ili.OQO." t. Butler's client received a verdloC Brook" !y Bags,