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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1907)
TIIH OMAHA fSrXDAV BKKv OtTOr.KK L'O. 1i07. . THE STORE THAT'S ON THE SQUARE SPUtfOAKISC AS A CRAFr Ghosti Induced to Wak and Talk at Two Dollars Per. SOME OF THE TRICKS PLAYED How Weak-Minded Are Galled and rinrked by Spirit Makers Amaslnc KalllMHty of Sitters. 1 ESTA8LI8HED-183S HONEST VALUES EASY PAYMENTS A SQUARE DEAL ! ; ;f 0 "t i! "A u .1 , II 31 :4 6 I it 4 i i I I 4 STEWmKT Dane BurnVrs haxe no coital. Tliey stand nt tli head of all hiatcr.i using hard cuul as the most economics! stove ever 1 u 1 1 1. Every st In it double heater ami perfect vent Hat ton. it in operation fifl at our store -'JJ Mo Fako Prices here. No bogus adver tisements. We givr you honest values and a square deal. - m m n i LIFE ON A DESERT ISLE I Stranded l'ollrenian . Lives Fourteen an m Crab and a Seal. After battling with the elements for four days in an open boat, August Kocht, a fisherman of tlio schooner Stanley and for merly u drugoon In the Tan re army, was atranded on the desert Inland of I'nlmak, where ho existed for fourteen days on a rrab and the carcass of a seal which he found there. When he was picked up liy the schooner Alice, a codflshlng boat from Seattle, w.dcb. hud put into Dublin bay for a supply of water, Kocht was so weak from hunger and cold that he could barely crep on his hands and knees and wave the signal of dint res which brought his assistance. On board the Alloc Kocht was fed with whisky and milk and his swollen limbs rubbed with alcohol. It was nix days be fore he was able to stand upon bis feet. Four hundred miles north of the point where he was picked up Kocht was turned over to the schooner Stanley, and arrived in port on board that vessel. While, fishing-for cod off the Island of Vnlmak the dory which Kocht occupied wan wept away from the schooner Stanley by a terrific southwester. For four days the distressed llshermen battled with tho waves. One of the oars broke under the i train the second day. and he drifted help lessly. Then the dory capsized half a inlle off the shore of the Island. Aa tho boat upset ft heavy codfish hook caught In tho bark of Koi lit's left hand. It was only by gnawing, th heavy twine with his teeth that the fisherman succeeded in escaping from the leash which held htm to the wrecked boat. Kocht finally munnged to reach the bench, where he sank down In distress. The hook be manuged to tear from his hand with his teeth. For two weeks Kocht suffered privations to which but for hs superb vitality he iiust have succumbed. On the fourth day i f his stay on the island he found a dead i rab lying In the sand, Vpon this he lived for three days wit bout water. Thero was no refuge where he might neck shelter, and he was complied to pace the beach during the night to keep warm. Almost erased with thirst, Kocht wandered thirty miles Inland In starch of water, at last (hiding it In some small clefts In the rocks. Refreshed with t lie water, Kocht once more wandered back to the shore to sot up a lonely vigil for a passing ship. There, ut upon the beach, ho found the body of a seal, and upon the carcass the marooned man contrived to exist, bleeping in the daytime when the sun warmed the sand and pacing the shore during the cool nights. Prom a piece of canvas from the wrecked dory Kocht manufactured a signal, and twloe a day, aa long as his strength lasted, climbed to a pinnacle of rock, where he kept a lookout for a passing sail. When the schooner Alice hove In sight Kocht was so weakened from Ids suffering that he could barely creep upon bis knees. The schooner stood o(t from the shore and A Good Stove Is a Real Economy You do not have to buy more than one of two Moves In a life timeif yon buy good ones. llcciuYs, a good stove ave fuel and repair trouble ut the Knnie time giving the best aervlre. If you want a good stove or range we ak you to examine our complete Hue and compare our prices. We . v V ,-; r.n...n, , , , A Stovsi and Ranges Sold on Payments. MILTON ROGERS & SONS CO., FOURTEENTH AND FARtMH STREETS, OMAHA, NEB. Uyr Omaha F. it Cpt. Co," 18th Parnam ' The Dining Tabic A beautiful design, made of genuine golden oak, highly polished, size of top 45 inches, open 7 feet, 20 MIR "TT- I H a n n m m Mm - ESTABLISHED 1886 I2I3FARNAM ST JUST EAST OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK the skipper motioned for him to swim. Fearful lest the vessel might pasa him by, Kocht sank unconscious on the sand, and It was thus that the llshermen found him. It was not until ho was revived on board the schooner that Kocht learned that within forty miles of the place where he was stranded there is a lighthouse. Captain Wallstedt, of tho schooner Stanley, stated that following Kocht's disappearance he sent out two dories, but was unable to find a trace of him. Seattle Times. SOME QUEER WAYS OF JUSTICE Stealing n Side of llneon Draws Lite Sentence, a Cherry I'le n Year. "Qentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdict?" "We have." "I'rlson r ut the bar, stand up. Gentle men of the Jury, look upon the prisoner. What say you, Is William Welsh guilty of the crime of which he stands Indicted, or not guilty?" . "thillty." Fltonce fell upon those in the court room at Greenville. O. Then In even, measured tones Mine fancied they detected a note of sympathy In the voice Judge Allread was heard speaking: "William Welsh, the sentence of the court Is that you be confined In the Ohio state penitentiary for life." And this sentence was for what hideous offense? l or stealing a side of bacon. For raising a t- note to an imitation J J) note. Irving Toiler, a negro, was recently i til'tirfil In- .Tiiilu,. ffirrifi. in tho T'nltod States court In Baltimore, to serve a prison) term of twenty years and to pay a line of ;n.orio. Doubtless the negro never saw so much in ney as the amount of his line, but be was dohiij ills best to accumulate a "pllf'" when th heavy band of the law fell on him. Ten yearf in prison for carelessness was! the sentence imposed on Albert Oreman, a Now Voir street car conductor. To be sure, his carelessness resulted In the death of ft man, and that made It a sorloua mat ter. - The car Oreman wis running collided th mail wagon, driven by Rernard Mc IJ maid. Tin- conductor had no business at the controller, but be was obligingly acting as moiorman In order to permit the real n.otorman to talk to a woman pas crfic.r. Imposing sentence, Judge Foster tvriai ked : "A it warning to careless motormen and chauffeurs, it is my duty to impose a heavy sentence on you: as an .object lesion against caroleFsn"-" of such men as you. I have been Informed that It costs the Metropolitan Street Railway company nearly K.Ooo.Ono a I your to i-etth damage suits which are dl j recti;" the result of such carelessness and gio8 neglect, to say nothing of the loss of life ant! I nib. " i . ...... . , , , . ... . ., "IVs" Ilutler found himself In the toils I became be Insisted upon selling liquor In i prohlb'tlor. Kansas. He was convicted on twenty-four count, and was given thirty i days in tail on each lifl days in all i I In rdCltlon bo was sentenced to pay mrw Radian! Home Base Burners Oak Stoves Steel Ranges Quick Meal Steel Ranges Cole's Hot Blasts Beckwiih's Round Oaks STAWART The Onk stove for a ly Kind of fuel, makes a quirk fire and are very powerful heaters. At a vfry low price they are well made and fully nickeled with spun hrns ornaments f Ht O. 4 0 ' We Deliver the goods we sell, and we sell the goods we adver tise. -We do business on the square. Honest Values And a Square Deal CO. I liu.v el liot on each count, a total assess- ment of $i40t. A Humboldt man once served . tiOO days In Jull for selling liquor, but Butler 1 is not at all proud, It is said, of having ; beaten the record. Frank Price of Sidney, la., was in I ordlnately fond of cherry pie. He could never get out of his mouth the succulent taste of the pies his mother used to make. Whenever he entered a dairy lunchroom he clamored for cherry pie. Thus It was that two cherry pies In the pantry of John Fallon proved his undoing. They tempted him and he fell. For the theft of the two pies he was sentenced to one year In the penitentiary. A companion who remained outside, but who confessed to eating half a pie, was given six months. One of the most pathetic cases of the law's 'dealings with a weak-willed man Is furnished by a prisoner In tho Jail of New Haven county, Connecticut. This white haired man has spent nearly twenty -seven-years of his life behind the bxi-s for drunk enness. He was first committed In May, 1ST8, after a protracted debauch In New Haven. After serving ten days he was discharged. In twenty-four hours he was back again with a sentence of three months.' That tells his life story. In all these years. It is asserted, he has never been free from Jail more than twelve hours at a time. Usually he gets no fur they away than a little saloon not far from the Jail entrance. His shortest sentence was the original ten I days, his longest four months. He has been ommltted 161 times, and It Is estimated that the Btato ,lag expendcd no leBS tnun $10 000 for his trials and his support. Perhaps the severest sentence on record at any rate, the most unusual was Imposed by a Swiss magistrate at Geneva. A 3-year-old child saw some penny toys dangling at the door of a shop. He seized two of them, took them home and was ar rested on a charge of theft. When arraigned before the magistrate the child laughingly admitted that he had taken the toys. "The other boys had playthings and I had none." he explained. Ho was the son of a poor laborer. "Three and a half months In prison," pro nounced the magistrate, sternly. The child's parents fell on their knees and Implored iilm to remit the sentence, but their tearful pleading fell on deaf ears. Philadelphia North American. Collecting; Fares on Street Cars. I think our system of collecting street rar fares Is the bes'."" said H. J,.etih Ttrnwn of Montreal, at the Plankinton house. "The iares are aw collected before the passenger enters the car. The conductor takes his stand on the back platform of the car and never leaves it. As t lie passengers come in they hand him their fares. The company does not lose any fares, and no passenger Buffers the embarrassment of traveling some distance anJ discovering when the i-unuucior- conies rotintl tlmt ho lius nnt i ' i" n w wi iare in ins pocKet. The conductor can look after the passengera j better when he Is stationed In one place continually than If he moved about all the i of Yhe car. obTfat would ensue Is some were to enter at the a rear while others are leaving." Milwaukee . ... mm..m.ataumml iimB,, x j.t.uwm.m... n' I ' :'L'mJ, . "a-, ; -'. " -';Jk hih ' 'ifrMS - - I , 1 , 'v.- V. H'V -J r ' - for Rarnum struck as near the truth aa hit professional training as a rlrcus man per mitted when be remarked that "A fool it born every minute." Crowds flocked to see the "'sacred white elephant," causing the great showman intense anxiety lest some fi-ol would approach near enough to tho animal to pick off some of the white paint. Similarly, "'spirit mediums" are constantly on the alert lest some of the fool sitters discover the tricks of the game. In the third of a series of papers In Collier's Will Irwin relates these examples or made-to-order spooks: Mrs. Minnie F.. Williams stands at least live feet eight inches tail and weighs more than :Hio pounds. Her tread Is heavy and her waistline Is no more. In spite of this handicap, her ghosts ore often both short nnd slim. Her cabinet is a set of black c'ui tains, ending below the celling, and she uses no trapdoors and no paraphernalia other than a set of white spirit robes, a black veil or shawl, a mask or two. a dress-shirt front, a ma:e wig and some phosphorescent paint. The regular spirit robes, such as she employs; are made of th-i vf.ry finest white silk net. They are hi1 go enough to cover her all over, and yet they fold Into the smallest compass. I Roy of Boston, dealer in supplies for mediums, made me one last May which fold to the size of a woman's fist. Still ilnr ones may be carried In the case of iq eid-tjsl ioned silver watch. The masks ore of the fame material, treated with a little paint. The dress-shirt "dickey," used on all Mrs. Williams' male spirits. Is unique with her; 1 Imagine that she carries It under her skirt when she goes Into the cjb'ntt. On the day when she Is going to give perfoimances, she coats her robes with n plKFphrrescent preparation and leaves them In a bright light to gather their spirit '.i 1111a rice Black Against Black. When Mrs. Williams "goes under control" the light, which Is regulated by a string running Into the cabinet, sinks to a dim point. Tho cabinet curtains, remember, are of tome very dark material, and In this light crie cannot distinguish black against Mack. That invisibility of black against black wts the principle of Herrmann' most elaborate and startling conjuring tricks, such as the famous "decapitation;" It li also the heart and kernel of materializing manifestations. Even dark green, gray and brown, when placed against black, become Int'.i'l nrtlshable In that light. When the manager, dressed In a dark pepper-and-salt suit, approaches that cabinet, he Is visible only as a shadowy face and a white streak, which Is bis collar. While the circle Is singing Mm. Williams Is dlveillng herself of oversklrt and shoes.. Her undei skirt, her waist and her stockings aro all diad black. Years ago she used to wear black tights In the cabinet. She has abandonel that method of late. The floor is heavily carpeted, so that stockinged feet, cvea those of a very large woman, make no sound t'pon It. As soon as she Is ready, the unleashes the voices of her control. From a tech nical point of view, this Is the best thing she does. As a ventriloquist she could make her fortune on tha public stage. "Mr. Cushman" and "Bright Eyea" speak through her entranced lips, giving mes sages to people In the circle, announcing spirits, making moral observations. All through the seance, they keep up this patter, venturing even Into dialogue. "Mr. Cushmnn" Is a heavy, sonorous male voice, with the genuine bass notes on the short vocal chords'. "Bright Eyes" is the laugh ing voice of a child about 6 yars old. In professional slang. "Mrs. Williams baa eight voices;" but these two are the best. They all have a family resemblance, 'how ever. In every voice there are subtle shifts of Intonation- which even the expert can not wholly disguise. Mrs. Williams. In her proper person, speaks In a rather pe culiar accent whose basis Is clipped Yankee: so do "Bright Eyes" and Mr. Cushman. , Klhereallsatlon of PrlacllIa." At the psychological moment. Mrs. Wil liams unwraps a luminous robe and holds It up between the parted curtains for a moment. Although she Is standing behlnd it. her black clothes make her Invisible to the circle. She shakes it slightly, giving an uncertain, shimmering effect, and lets It fall to the floor, where it becomes as a luminous lamp ot while. Suddenly she flips it out of sight behind the curtains. It is "Prlscllla," who always appears first to bless the cabinet. The Illusion of a ghost, unstable,, melting, and suddenly dis appearing, is perfect. This, by the way. Is not full materialization; it is "ethereull zation," or appearance of a spirit In two dimensions. Fully materialized spirits have bodies. Just like those they had In life. The spirit chemists manufacture them in the cabinet. A few more spirits etherealize before a full-formed ghost appears. In the seances which I attended, "mother," summoned for the benefit of a certain middle-aged woman, was usually the first full ma terialization. She la a small, old woman. To produce this, Mrs. Williams "shades down" her bulk by little Invention of her own. Wrapped in the white spirit robe, she drapes - a black veil from her shoulders and leans forward. BU.-k agalnut black, as I have said, Is Invisible; and this veil has the effect of clipping off half her bulk. Sometimes, catchlVg her In the profile, one can see the edge of the black veil, or even Its corners, as they flutter with her gliding motion. The daughter Is always permitted to go for ward and to kiss "mother."' Thla privi lege is for the blindest dupes only; from all others, the spirits keep a certain coy distance. You may ask why the dupe, when she takes this spirit in her arms, does not realize' that sTie Is holding a large woman Instead of a small one. The answer Is that the dupe la blind wltn emotion by this time -'as you or I would be did we believe that we were ilaspnig our dead, resurrected by a miracle. One queer thing about the business Is the ease with which a materializing me dium will make new clean-up, after a few years. In the very city where he has been exposed and published. The "Rev." Hugh Moore went through an exposure In New York. Two years later he was play ing Brooklyn to heavy receipts. At tile end of a year some spiritualists, skeptical on the subject of materialization. Jumped upon the spirit of Running Water, the Indian control, and found Hugh Moore's old father, decked out In an Indian head dress. But Moore was . not discouraged. He moved to New York, and leaped Into such prosperity that he was able, the next summer, to have a camp-meeting all his own. Exposed in New York last March, he went straight to Loa Angeles, and on this very day of writing the newspapers re port that his cabinet has been raided again. Considered mm m Uraft. Let us have done now with methods and consider materializing aa a graft. The op erator will take in about enough from bis private seances to pay the rent of a house. 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What he most needs Is a good, credulous "sucker" to insure big profits. These thirty-third degree dupes are al ways old and wealthy. Methods differ ac cording to their Individual needs and van ities. Old women usually want their be loved dead; old men will nearly always give the best results when approached by a spirit sweetheart. Occasionally the rule Is reversed; a good, gentle old man is worked j through his spirit wife, and a vain old I woman is Induced to go foolish over u 1 spirit affinity who waits for her on tho I other shore. Here are instances: A female medium, famed on the Pacific coast, entrapped a dupe whom we will call Mrs. Nodd. This Mrs. Nodd sat privately for years, i paying good money to see her dead. At the suggestion of the medium, she amended her will to leave 125.000 to a local society of spiritualists. When this hap- i pened there was great Joy on the other shore; and the spirits begged the privilege of giving a spirit banquet to Mrs. Nodd. The medium spread a feast in the seance room, entered the cabinet and went Into her trance. One by one twenty ghosts, includ ing Mrs. Nodd's own dead, came out and sat at the table. The voice of the control In the cabinet utred a blessing. Spirit at tendants waited on the table. The guests ate heartily. You see, the spirit chemists make real bodies, which need real food, for these returning dead. Upon the deata of Mrs. Nodd the society collected its be quest. Believing spiritualists start half of the exposures. By earning the gratitude of the faithful, this medium, whose methods are scandalous, has been able to Bleer an untroubled course. A Spirit Marrlaave. Most marvelous among his tales Is that of the spirit marriage brought off In San Francisco. I huve heard that story, with slighter detail, from other sources; and 1 can guess at the medium who turned this trick. A rich old bachelor, whom the "spirit medium" calls "Mr. Brown," came to Ban Francisco from tho east. Ho fell among mediums. After a few "fishing sit tings'" they brought hun his spirit arllnity. She was a princess of Jupiter, Isis by name. Her costume was elaborate. Entering; through the mopboard, she wore only a chemise. In the cabinet she donned a white and luminous robe, white sandals and stockings, a crown and necklaces of imita tion diamonds. She spotted her Jewels with the Devoe luminous paint, so that they shone both in darkness and In full light. Mr. Brown, It appears, was an Idealist. He loved his princess of Jupiter with a spiritual devotion which stiir.es out all through this tale of the cx-mcdium. Isis assured him that they were affinities, created for each oilier In the beginning. When lie passed over, he was to be staled to her for all eternity. For an eastener Mr. Brown was a little sudden. One day, the medium, simulating a trance In the cabinet, was startled al most Into laughter by hearing Mr. Brown propose -immediate marriage to Isis. The princess of Jupiter, nearly knocked off Im balance by this unexpected turn of affairs, asked for time to consult her spirit friends. Medium and "spook" talked It over. They saw no reason why the spirit marriage j should not bring big money. At the next . seance, Isis gave Mr. Brown her conditional acceptance. She would marry him if the medium could stand It. Bui h a demonstra tion would be a severe tax upon his powers; It might kill him. She dematerlalized, the medium woke, and the causer Mr. Brown laid tiie proposlUon before Iilm. Though appalled by the rlt,k to his life, the Medium (decided to try iU lie would not make (he J cw Kmmf aCi mtfimmi (bur 7 T , W' SCHLOSS BROS. fine Clolhci Ballimore m' r yMmtmnaiMmmm venture, however, for less than I5M. Mr. Brown wrote out Ills clieclc. Workrt to a Flnlsb. In the weeks of the engagement ieriod, Isis reluctantly admitted to Mr. Brown that she. needed one thing to make her hap piness complete. It was vnnlty, she knew, and unworthy her exulted plane of spirit but she wanted to honor her love by dress ing for the marriage Just like a bride of earth. Mr. Brown, eager to gratify her, aslied what was necessary. Only sonic silks, laces nnd jewels, as models for the spirit chemists. Mr. Brown wrote another check. In the remaining sittings of their courtship, the medium always put somo packages Into the cabinet before "entering t he trance." Mr. Brown supposed that they contuinrd the silks and Jewels. He did not touch them; for he had been told tliat ,thls wns a difficult experiment; and an earth toueh on those Jewels Would ruin every thing. (in the bridal day, Mr. Brown decked the seance room with flowers and spread a banquet for seven people. The medium wished him happiness, entered the cabinet. and went into a trance, j-reseniiy mere came a tall spirit in priestly robes. He was . ft. i i : i ft '-i:i iVJ:.HW:f Character PALMISTS claim to read a man's future by his hand They can as readily tell by the clothes he wears- hia Over coat for instance. For there is no other so Definite Character Indication as a man'l Overcoat. You 6ee h'a this way "The successful man is more or less self aoiiiirer an Egoist And the man who thinks some thing of himself is anxious to make the most of his appearance for be appredntM the advantage of a Good Appearance Such a man won't wear an Over coat that looks Shapeless and Ill fitting the Collar of which stands away from the back of the neck and allows the Collar of bis inner Coat to show. He won't wear a "Down and Out" not much I Hell wear an Overcoat with a Shape and Style one that fits to perfection and doesn't lose its Appearance after a week or so of wear. A "Sincerity" Overcoat will b his choice And hia Choice will be rlpht for the expert cutting and tailoring SlyU eosA mi( rM4- Kith. m 1 r v. Makers and New Verlj followed by four Inhabitants of Jupiter, two nnilo rtnd two female. Last of all came the bride, gay with ihlnestones, and casting a dim, Devoe light from ?r robes. Soft, distant spirit music sounded on a floating guitar, while the high priest of the Juplter lans married Isis, the princess of Jupiter, to Mr. Brown. The party sat down to the wedding supper. The bridegroom, who bad swallowed camels, strained at gnat. He did not believe that spirits can eat mun dane food. Respecting this whim, the Jupltcrluns merely smelled the food and wines, getting nourishment and stimulant from the oromn. I have never learned how the romaiico ended, but the "spirit medium" gives the heart and kernel of il when he says that It brought the medium $1,0)10 above expenses. Sli of the Same. "Accidents are frequent on this part of the road, are they not?" asked tho trav-'','r- "No, sir, they are not. answered the indignant conductor. "Why do you think so?" "Because." replied the traveler, as his eves roamed on the succession of laundrv confidences which decked the landscape, "I notice there (ire washouts all along the line." Baltimore American. Indicators the carefully and permanently needle moulded Ehape character istics of "Sincerity" Overcoats will insure that. Remember there's no "doped" Shape in a "Sincerity" Overcoat, Doctor Goose, the Hot Flat Iron, hasn't a "look in" in "Sincer ity Clothes" If you want an Overcoat that will look rifiht from the day you try it on until you're ready for a new one an Overcoat that will make tho most of your Appearance, buy a "Sincerity" Overcoat. You can see "Sincerity Clothes" at your high grade ready-to-wear dealers. Be sure you see them be fore you aupply your clothing re quirements this fall. Look for this label in your next coat. mi Nat Asm A FUchir Ce., f Wl)ol3&l Drapers v. pft. jn ; r' 0 r j