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A SIJPPIEPITMY EASTE1 MP
Sec full pace advertisement, pace 8, Fashion Section, containing
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ladies' ready-to-wear, millinery, embroidered robes, line silks and dress goods, white goods,
Easter gloves, hosiery, handkerchiefs, neckwear, etc., etc.
Carpets, Ruge,
p0i Linoleums and Mailings
We're now showing a complete Spring line
of these, in all foreign and domestic goods
at a saving of from
to 20 .
Nine-Wire Brussels Rugs 9x12, extra high
pile, strictly all wool and fast colors, both
floral and conventional designs each,
at $14.75 and $12.75
Bed Room Rugs In injrain, fibre and cash
mere, each, at $9.75, $5.75 and $4.50
Extra Heavy Cotton Chain Ingrain Carpets
Yardwide, big variety of patterns and colors,
others ask 65c yard for them; our price, yard,
only 45
Fine Furniture
Ladies9
Home
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Solid Oak Davenport bed and
wardrobe combination simple (a child
can handle it) upholstered in corduroy
or verona our price... $27.00
We have the exclu
sive rights of sale
for this territory.
Patterns 10c and
15c each. New
Spring Book on
sale at 15c, and contains a cou
pon good for a 10c pattern up
to June 1st.
April Style Book free for
the taking. Pattern Booth,
Harney Aisle.
Ladies9
Home
Journal
For April
The greatest mag
azine in the world
for women, on sale
in otfr Stationery
and Book Depart
ments. April issue
is especially large. Has a
cover "When I Meditate on
Thee in the Night Watches,"
one of the best journal covers
ever produced well worth
framing
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Grand Easfer Display In Crockery
and Cat Glass Sections
There are scores, and even hundreds,
of very appropriate Easter articles in
these ever attractive neotions sections
which carry, greater varieties and much
larger, stocks than any other Crookery
Department in the West. WTe have se
cured for Easter some very beautiful
things and have cut prices to their keen.
est edge.
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value. Mondav for. . .Oft 1 1 1
Cut Glass 8-inch Bowl, $3.00
value, Monday for Sj1.75
VISIT OUR CRYSTAL ROOM
New shipment Colonial Glass Punch
Bowls, Jugs, Nappies, Wines and Tum
blers'. To introduco this line, Monday,
6 tumblers . ... -25t
Twenty per cent discount on all toilet ware.
Including all English and American makes.
Jardlnierr For Easter Lilies at 33 1-3 per
cent off Monday.
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New Picture Galleries
Moved to Southeast Comer. Second Floor.
Five Handsome Galleries, rehung
with some handsome new pictures
Large new movable display fix
turesdisplaying over two hun
dred framed pictures.
Beautiful Pyrography Room.
Now's the right time to buy a
new picture with the coming of
spring, and housecleaning shows
the need of some new pictures to re
place old ones, or a vacant spot to
be filled.
To celebrate our opening, and to Intro
duce our new galleries, we will make three
great discount sales for this week:
20 per cent discount on any Framed
Picture In Galleries.
20 per cent discount on Picture Fram
ing. 20 per cent discount on Pyrography
materials, except outfits.
ALL AKTICLE8 MARKED IN PLAIN
FIGIKKS.
Your Moncy'a Worth, or Tour Money Back
SECTIONAL
BOOKCASES
AGENCY FOR.
Nacey Sectional
Book Cases
A STACK
: $12.50
Take Out Stack from Bennett's
ReUable Furniture Dept.
THIRD FLOOR.
Lace Curtains, Drapery Silk,
Madras, Portieres, Cretonnes
And All l'p-to-date Drapery Materials
at Extraordinary Low Prices.
GREAT VARIETY OF NEW SPRING GOODS
Nottingham Lace Curtains Full size, usually sell for $1.75,
on sale, pair , 08?
Iloautiful Parlor Curtains In Brussels, Net, Irish Point and
hand-made Cluny, all new, neat effects, worth up to $7.50,
on sale, pair $3.9S
Overstocked on Ropo Portieres In order to reduce our stock la
a hurry, Monday we'll allow a reduction of 20. None re
served. All goods marked In plain figures. For instance:
98c Ropes for 77?
$1.98 Ropes for $1.58
$3.50 Ropes for $2.80
Beautiful New Drapery Silks, yard at 65c and 59?
THIRD FLOOR,
Fine Furniture
3-piece Parlor Suit mahogany finish
upholstered in velour our price $15.75
3-piece Parlor Suit solid oak upholstered
in genuine leather our price $36.25
Fruits and Vegetables--?.",
Radishes, bunch
Green Onions, bunch 2
Lettuce, bunch 3
BENNETT'S CANDIES
Easter Novelties, up from 3
Ducks, Chicks, Babbits, each. , .5
Candy Eggs, 95 for 5
Assortment 10c pkg. Candy for 5
Shelled Filberts, lb 20
Hardware and Housefurnishings
Extra Good Copper and Tin Boilers, up from 860
And Forty Oreen Trading Stamps.
Galvanised Tubs, each 86c, 75o and 630
And Thirty Green Trading Stamps.
Lawn Bakes, each
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Garden Rakes, each 40 and 85o
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Shovels, round point or square, each 65o
And Thirty Green Trading Stamps.
Children's Garden Sets "'O
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Children's Garden Sets at 15c and XOo
And Ten Green Trading Stamps.
Granite Sink Strainer
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Carpet Beaters 8
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Wall Paper
Papers, worth 5c, 10c
and 15c per roll, spe
cial price, roll, at
7c, 5c, 3c,
Third Floor.
CORSETS
$1.00 and $1.50 Coutil
Corsets, straight
front, long hip, also
short hip, lace and
ribbon trimmed, a
splendid corset, Mon
day1-each, . yf
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Second Floor.
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"IfR From Bennett' a It' Good."
Dennett's Big Grocery
Monday and Tnend? List. Coffce Roasted in
the Department While You Walt Fresh as a
Daisy.
Bennett's Capitol Coffee, lb. pkg 28c.
And Thirty Oreen Trading Stamps.
Basket Fired Japan Tea, lb 48c
And Forty Green Trading; Stamps.
Bennett's Capitol Baking Powder, lb. can... 24c
And Twenty Oreen Trading Stamps.
Granulated Hugar Double Green Trading
Stamps.
Bennett's Capitol Mincemeat, 3 pkgs 25c
And Ten Oreen Trading Stamrs.
Wiggle Stick Bluing, 6 sticks for... 850 I
And 10 Green Trading Stamps.
Jos. Tstlsy Oo.'s India and Osylon j
Tsaa, Sunflower brand, Vi-lh. tin 400
And SO Green Trading Stamps.
"'Best We Have" Tomatoes, large can 15c
And 10 Ureen Trading Htamps.
"Best We Have" Corn, can UVio
And ,10 ureen Trading stamps.
Pickles, assorted. 3 bottles OSel
And Ten Green Trading Stamps.
New York Full Cream Cheese, pound Boo
And Ten Green Trading Stumbs.
Virginia Swiss Cheese, pound 850 1
And Twenty Green Trading Stamps. I?"
Red Cross Cream, can'....' 100 L
aiiu ivii ureen i ntuins mumps.
Bennett's Capitol Oats or Wheat, 2 pkgs SOo
And Ten Ureen Trading Htamps.
Cluster Table Raisins, pound package 85c
k And Twenty Green Trading Stamps.
Cleaned Currants, pound 10a
And Ten Green Trading Stamps.
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Those Superb Windows Greatest Panoramic Window Display Ever Produced in America
OUR FIRST PEACE CONGRESS
Vtu .1'er Tha Catharine la Htw York
Se xt Month.
Fathering of many notaile men
N Will Disease Questions to Be Pre.
seated to Nest Conference at The
Ilaa,a Well Kowt Men
to Be Preseat.
The first National Arbitration and Peace
feonrress ever held In America Is to meet
In New Tork from April It to 17 next. The
tneetlng Is to be held at that time In order
Chat the American delegates to the second
fjague congress In June may be impressed
Srlth the Idea that the American people ex
pact certain things to be accomplished.
The questions which promoters of Inter
national peace expect to see taken up at
The Hague upon the Initiative of the
lAinerican delegates include the establish
ment of general arbitration treaties be
tween all nations, the establishment of a
ptate world congress, at flrt only advisory,
but gradually increasing Its powers and
volvlng a code of International law; grad
Ual proportionate disarmament, following
the lead already taken by Chile and Argen
tina, and a small armed International po
lice force, to meet the posiblllty of civil
War.
Committees at Work.
The committees at work on the plans for
the New York Peace congress Include men
eminent In all works of life. The legisla
tive committee, of Which Representative
JUchsrd Barthntdt ef Missouri, president
Of the American interparliamentary group,
a chairman, and Samuel J. Harrows 1
Vice chairman. Inslude these senators:
Jtaoon of Georgia, burrows of Michigan.
ftVarner of Missouri, Overman of North
Carolina. Koraker of Ohio, Knox of Penn
sylvania, 1-ailmer of South Carolina and
' Culberson of Texas.
These members of the house of represen
tatives are on the committee and have
promised to attend: Andrus, Goldfogle,
Parsons and Ruppert of New York, Roden
burg of Illinois. Hepburn of Iowa, James
Of Kentucky. Broussard of Louisiana. Lit
tlefteld of Maine, Williams of Mississippi,
Harris Nebraska Wood of Now Jersey,
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Burton of Ohio, Moon of Pennsylvania,
Granger of Rhode Island and Biayden ' of
Texas.
The committee also Includes the gover
nors of the thirteen original states.
The committee will In turn Invite the
governors of all the other states In the
union, the speaker and president of each
state legislature and the minority leader
of each.
The Judiciary committee, of which the
chairman is Judge George C. Holt of the
United States district court of New York,
will take an equally Important work In the
congress. Its members are Justices Day
and Moody of the United Htatea supreme
court, I'nlted States Circuit Court Justices
Colt of Rhode Island, Gray of Delaware,
Pardee of Louisiana, Lurton of Tennessee,
Grosscup of Illinois and Morrow of Cali
fornia, -and the following Judges: Judge
Baldwin of the supreme court of errors
of Connecticut, Chief Justice Clark of
North Carolina. Judge Jordan of the su
preme court of Indiana. President Keith
of the supreme court of appeals of Vir
ginia, Chief Justice Knowlton of Massa
chusetts, Judge McAlvay of the supreme
court of Michigan, Judge McClaln of the
supreme court of Iowa and Chief Justices
Mitchell of Pennsylvania and Parsons of
New Hampshire. Through thera invitations
will be extended to Judges of the lower
courts.
College aad t'nlveralty President.
A feature of the congress Is expected to
be the greatest gathering of college and
university presidents ever known. The
chairman of the intercollegiate committee
is Dean Klrchway of the Columbia Law
school. Among the members are Presidents
Butler of Columbia. Hadley of Yale, Eliot
of Harvard, Jordan of Leland Stanford.
Judson of Chicago, Wilson of Princeton
and Alderman of Virginia. The college
committee expects to Induce the president
of nearly every Institution of higher learn
ing In the country to attend and bring at
least one representative of the student
body with him.
Through the press committee, the chair
man of which is Hamilton Holt, the editor
of every newspaper in the country with a
circulation of over t.OtO- has been urged
personally to attend and has been Invited
to aid the work of the congress In any way
possible.
The other committees and their chairmen
are: Commerce and transportation, Mar
cus M Maraa; laoor, cnartes sprague
Smith; religious and ethical societies, the
Rev, rrederluk. T. Lyaab; f triads sooie-
tles, Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner. The ar
rangements for the dinner on Wednesday
night, April 17, which is to be the cul
minating feature of the congress, are in
the hands of a committee headed by Lind
say Russell. )
Dlstlnaralshea Men Expected.
The two men around whom the greatest
Interest at the congress will probably cen
ter are President Roosevelt and Earl Grey,
governor general of Canada, both of whom
are to be speakers at the concluding dinner.
The promoters had planned to have Presi
dent Ilax of Mexico present, but this tele
gram expreslng Ills regrets has Just been
received :
I would accept with pleasure the cour
teous and honorable Invitation which you
have pleased to send me undvr date
of February 27 last, to assist at the Con
gress of Arbitration of Peace which is to
convene In your city from April 14 to 17
next, and to speak at the public banquet
which is to terminate so interesting and
timely an assembly on the approach of
the peace conference. However, I cannot
obtain permission from the congress of the
nation.
During Its next sessions, devoted to fix
ing the budget and other grave questions,
I shall be prevented from having the honor
of being associated with the very dixiln
gulahed persons tu whom you refer who are
going to promnte the noble and most lm
tMirtant cause of peace throughout the civ
ilised world.
As soon as the telegram of regret was
received from President Dlas, Hayne Davis,
the secretary, wired asking him a send
the vice president or some other member
of his cabinet to represent him, and a favor
able response Is expected.
Program for Sessions.
The sessions of the conference are to be
rln Oil Sunday, April 14. On 'hat night a
musical service will be hcUl In Carnegie
hall, or In a larger auditorium If necessary,
which will be conducted by Dr. Frank
Danirosch. Many of the leading musical
organisation in the city will take part.
Brief addresses will be made by Arch
bishop Farley, Bishop Potter, Bishop Vin
cent and Rabbi Hlrsch of Chicago. In ad
dition to the plans for the Sunday night
musical service the committee will com
municate with all the churches In Greater
New York and ask that the churches be
given over to a peace aervloe for that Sun
day night. The committee will furnish a
peaker to lead each meeting.
The opening meeting of the congress on
Monday afternoon will be addressed by
Governor Hughes and Secretary of State
Ellhu Root. At the meeting that night
Mr. Carnegie will preside, and addresses
will be made by Ambassador Bryca, W. T.
fitoad. Baron d'EetouraoUaa da Couatam
of France, head of the French section of
the International Peace Conference, and
Baron Descamps, minister of state of Bel
glum and member of the Hague court of
arbitration.
On Tuesday morning a women's meet
ing will be held, which will be addressed
by Miss Jane Addams. Mrs. Ellen M. Hen
rotln, Mary E. Wooley and Mrs. Lucia
Ames Mead. Mrs. Anna Garlln Spencer
will preside.
A meeting for school children will be
held In the afternoon, presided over by
Superintendent of Schools William H.
Maxwell. One of the Important sessions
of the congress is expected to be the meet
ing for college students on Tuesday night.
Music will be furnished by college glee
clubs. Among the college presidents who
will probably speak are Eliot of Harvard
Wilson of Princeton, Alderman of Virginia
and James of Illinois.
On the same night a meeting for wage
earnera will be held at Cooper Union,
when John Mitchell, Samuel Gompers.
Mrs. Florence Kelly and others will speak.
The great objects of the congress will
be discussed at the meeting on Wednes
day afternoon In Carnegie hall, when
the speakers will be Justice Brewer, Sen
ators Lodge and Bacon, Representatives
Bartholdt, Williams and Burton, and Will
iam Jennings Bryan. At the public dinner
Wednesday night the principal addresses
will be made by Earl Grey and President
Roosevelt.
Distinguished Porelaners Expected
Owing to the fact that the congress will
be held Just after the dedication of the
Carnegie Institute In Pittsburg on April
11, the congress will be attended by a body
of distinguished foreigners who will be
In this country to attend the dedication.
The foreign delegation will i.iclude Dr.
John Rhys, principal of Jesus college, Ox
ford; Dr. E. 8. Roberta, master of Con
vtlle and Calvs college, Cambridge; Sir
William Turner, principal of Edinburgh
university; the Very Rev. John Marshall
Lang, principal of Aberdeen university;
Sir Robert Cranston. Lord Provost of Edin
burgh; W. T. Stead, editor of the Review
of Reviews: C. F. Moberly Bell, manager
of the London Times; Hammond Hall,
editor of the London Dally Graphic and
Clement K. 8horter. editor of the London
Sphere.
Besides Baron d'Eatournelles de Constant,
the delegation will Include these representa
tives from France: J. Thomas Homolle, dl
j rector of the gallery of the Louvre; Luonce
jBenedJte, director of Uia Luxembourg
gallery; Prof. Marcelin Boule, director of
the Museum of Natural history, and
Camilla Enlart, director of the Trocadero
Museum at Paris.
The German representatives will be
Lieutenant General Alfred F. J. L. von
Loewenfeld, Theodore von Moeller, Privy
Councillor; Dr. Relnhold Koser, chief di
rector of the Prussian state archives;
Frledrlch S. Archeuhold, director of Thep
tow Observatory; Prof. Frita Bchaper, the
sculptor, and Ernest E. von Ihne, court
architect to the emperor.
The novelist, Maarten Maartens, who In
private life Is J. M. W. van der Poorten
Schwartz, will attend as the representa
tive of Holland.
OUR TWO GREATEST GIVERS
Mlllloaa Poured Out by Rockefeller
Far Behind the Record of '
Carnegie.
Mr. Rockefeller's great gift of t32.000.fW
to the cause of general education Is re
corded as the greatest single gift which
has ever been made by any one man for
any one purpose. As such it becomes
worthy of imperishable record, so that
the plutocrats of the future, if not of the
present, may see what they must do to
establish a new record. It may even be an
encouragement to Andrew Carnegie to per
sist In his noble endeavor not to die rich.
While Mr. Carnegie does not appear on the
records as having bestowed any such mu
nificent single sum, yet his total rather
overtops Mr. Rockefeller's, For Instance,
we see by recent tables that Mr. Carnegie
has given away the following sums:
Oifts prior to 1902 f Jl.WS.ieS
Pittsburg Polytechnic Institute 30,im,hO
Endowment rkotch universities.... 15,Cu),uii0
United States National univer
sities 10,700,000
Carnegie foundation pensions for
educators lO.flfiO.'iOO
Branch libraries. New York 3.2).'")
Hero fund MnO.uuO
Scotch scientific research b.".fV
Employes' pension fund 4.u.(mi
Branch libraries. Pittsburg I.I'Vl.OrtO
Branch libraries, Philadelphia l.yi),)
New York engineering societies.... 1 . 6 '
Peace temple at The Hague l.fru.iO)
Engineers union 1. ",(
Branch libraries. St. Louis l.buO.OnO
United Arts Societies building.
New York l.OOO.OiO
Tuskegee lnxtltute K0,(M)
I'an-American home, Washington. 7fu
Hraddock (I'a.) library 6".u")
liuqursne (Pa.) library tjuf'.OOO
Homestead (Pa.) library 6ii.no
Cooper Union iou.HiO
Glaagow library fcO'.lfO
U4hlela TtichiUcaJ school......... bou.uuu
London library 600.000
Baltimore library &O.000
Richmond (Va.) library 200,000
Spelling reform lfiO.ono
Small colleges In 1!W; 776.3SO
Small libraries In liMJ 136. 7aS
Total $1S4,955,3R5
From the same source we learn the fol
lowing particulars about Mr. (Rockefeller's
chief benefactions:
University of Chicago 21.K'4.322
General Education board 43,0u0,000
Yale university 1.0"0.u00
Institute of Medical Research 1.8A,0li0
Barnard college l,376,i0
Southern educational fund..... 1,124,000
Harvard university l.onn.ooo
Baptist missionary fund 2,000,000
Brown university S2S,(Xi0
Bryn Mawr college J30.000
Cornell university 2TA0HO
Mc.Master's college 275,000
Oberlln college 2n0,0u0
Rochester Theological seminary... STAflno
Yasnar college 4"ooo
Teachers' college 6HO.0OO
Newton Theological seminary ISO.)
Adelphl college ' 125.im
Syracune college 1'it.ono
Smith college 1'rt.ono
Wellesley college lOG.ftO
Columbia college Kn.od
Pennitmn college V6.)
Furman university l)fi
Hpellman seminary, Atlanta 1M0
Seven smaller colleges 816,664
Nine Young Men's Christian associ
ations 846.000
To churches (known) i0?5.)
Juvenile reformatories l.ono.ofl
Children's seaside home 126.000
Cleveland city parks l.Wh.wO
Cleveland social settlement IOO.OjO
Missions (known) 2.26O.OU0
Total SX5.056.9X8
From these It may be seen that If it had
not been for Mr. Rockefeller's latest gift
he would hardly be In the running with
Mr. Carnegie, although there Is this much
to be said for the oil magnate, he has not
been In the business so long as the steel
king. The pace he has set la a hot one,
though. Buffalo Express.
Heeoarnlsed Real Pnlner.
Here la an anecdote about Mr. Cassatt
hitherto unpublished. He was walking out
to his home In Rlttenhouse square with one
of the dlrectora
"That's a very fine place you have there,
Mr. Cassatt," said the director, survey rig
the mansion of the president.
"Yes," replied Mr. Cassatt, with doubtful
appreciation, "but I would rather live in
the country."
"Then why don't you?"
Mr. Cassatt looked at bis friend very so
berly and asked:
"Aren't you married?" Philadelphia Record.
SIX-MONTHS' PROVISO GOES
Beitr'.otion on Esmarriaes Ganerall
Adopted by tks District Jadt-es.
THINK IT WILL STAND LEGAL TEST
Laxity of Kebraska Divorce Laws Pro
volte Abnaa and Judges Arm En
deavoring; to Coaster,
act This Evil.
If coming events cast shadows befota,
the finger of fate seems to point to a Cur.
tailing of the privileges of the easily mar
ried and easily divorced couples In Ne
braska, The Judges of the district court
are banding down decrees of divorce with
sparing hand and are attaching to more
and more of them the provision that neither
party shall remarry within a period of six
months unless they .marry each other.
Judge Kennedy has placed this provision in
several decrees. Saturday Judge Hedlck
handed down a decree containing the pro
vision. It was given to Sadie E. Bolton
and against Arnold W. Bolton, whom she
charged with cruelty.
There la some doubt as to the legality of
this provision if It should be resisted by
either party. It la generally regarded aa
perfectly binding, however, because it Is
the right of either party to appeal the case
within a period of six months. If one of
the parties were to marry within that
period and the other party ahould appeal
to the supreme court and have the decree
set aside, then the party who had remar
ried would find himself guilty of bigamy.
So, at best. It Is a risky thing to remarry
before the expiration of six months.
Judge Button gave a provlsloual decree
last week. He disposed of the children,
but Informed the parties that he would
sign their decree at the end of six months.
This brings about the desired result In an
other manner, which la technically sounder
before the law.
The Judges In the district court are all
of the firm opinion that the lax divorce
laws are the cause of much abuse of the
privilege of divorce and propose to do all
they can with their powers to combat toe
evil until the legislature shall amend the
laws In this respect.
Now la the time to make your want
known through The Hue Want A4 pac.
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