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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1908)
Tilll OMAHA DAILY BEK: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1908. prop. ORCHARD & WILHELM Qiq1618 South Sixteenth Street Prepare now for the happy gift giving time, while stocks are at their best. We have assembled an unusual assortment this season of articles suitable for gifts in furniture, rugs, curtains ,bric-a-brac, kitchen utensils. "We agree not only to give you better quality but to save you on your purchase. FURNITURE FOR. HOLIDAY GIFTS What could be more acceptable to the husband, brother or gentleman friend than a broad, comfortable Morris Chair? What could please mother better than a roomy, high-backed Rocker? What could please sister more than a Music Cabi net or Dressing Table? In fact, every member of the household may be remembered with furniture gifts that are par ticularly pleasing and prove lasting remembrances and daily reminders of the giver. Certainly such gifts are the most practical of all. Articles for holiday gifts may be purchased on credit and the giver can pay for the goods at his conven ience. Remember ours is a strictly confidential credit plan. o 4 n ! 71 FEW FURNITURE SUGGESTIONS Ladles' Writing Desks. We have an almost endless assortment of styleti, comprising all woods and finishes at all prices. i : 6 till -XT' 1 Music Cabinets (Like cut) These come In quarter sawed golden oak or birch ma hogany finish. Cabinet Is 13-ln. deep, 17-ln. wide, 40-ln. high, has French shaped legs and pretty ovbJ mirror In the top.. Price special In either finish. .7.00 Desk (Like cut) Is one of a number of Inexpensive patterns. This desk Is made of birch mahogany fin ish, handsomely polished, inter ior is conveniently arranged. Desk Is 28 inches wide; special. each $6.50 I Turkish Rocker (Like cut). One of 60 pattern as sembled for this Holiday Sale. Tills Is a full slxe rocker, eovired In gen uine leather, . tufted back, tuffle puffed front, regular value $30 00 Special, $21.00. The greatest of all Toy displays ever offered for your inspec tion. No showing ever made to compare with this. A wonder ful assortment of instructive, amusing and interesting Toys. TY SBTUROHY SPB61HLS w Brlo-a-Brae Department offers for Saturday only a blue and white china Cup and Saucer, eggshell china, fin ished edge, coffee size, a cup and usurer that sells regularly for 2!c. Special Saturday only, 6 for 830. Drapery Department will sell an a special Saturday a 30-lnch Grenadine In white, with borders In dainty de signs. Sells regularly for S5e per yard. Saturday Special, 19o per yard. Trunk Department in Base mentRegular $8.00 24-inch genuine leather suit case with heavy leather lock and clasps and full linen lined Saturday special, $5.25. Snameled Cooking Kettle Colum bian gray enamel, with heavy tin cover. Has patent lock for holding cover for draining. Kettle Is Inches In diameter and 5 Inches deep. Tl.ls kettle sells regularly for tie inch. Saturday only, 95o each. Solid Cak Davenport Sofa Beds Made with frameB of solid oak. each corner post adorned with a carving. Upholstered in a superior manner with verona velour or guaranteed Nantucket leather coverings over on tempered, steel springs, opens automatically Into full size hed. Price Buy Holi- day Goods On Credit ft m CLUB FOR RAILROAD MEN Headquarters for Traffic Officials is a . , Possibility. OVERLAND TIME WILL BE CUT W. Holdren-e, General Manager of the Burlington, Returns from the Eaat with Report of BaatarM. r ... . . theV lroads centering In Omaha are be com I active in the formulation of plane for a transportation club in Omaha. The Idea of thla club Is to have some place where jthe traffic men of the city may gather for social Intercourse and where vis iting railroad men may be entertained and where they will meet the employes of the different roadi. St. Paul and San Francisco operate sim ilar clubs and they are great successes. In these cities the clubs are maintained over aomo well known cafe where meals may be ordered directly from the restaurant and thus reduce the expense of running: the club. Omaha has general offices of three of the largest railroads of the country and 1t is estimated that such a club would easily have a membership of ut least SuO persons and that it would be a great suc cess. Employes of the different roads are , now getting up a list or the prospective members and the matter Is expected to come to a head In a short time. V. r.'s Corn Show Display. The Union Pacific has spared no expense In gathering a most interesting exhibit for the National Corn exposition and all the material Is now In Omaha and is being ax ranged' so It will bo In place for the show. Many 'inquiries concerning the exposition are being received by all the agents and also at the general offices at Omaha, which Is taken as an Indication that the people of the west are aroused as to the im portance of the show and will come In large numbers. The Union Pacific Is looking for a big bus iness, and while no arrangements have been made for special trains, ull the ex.tr a coaches of the line will be pressed into service on the regular trains to handle the crowds and It a train becomes too heavy to handle as one train It will be divided up into ' sections. The Union Pacific has several trains a day In and out Omaha on which the business may be handled. Overland Time to Be Cat., Beginning Sunday the Union pacific will shorten Us running time on Its Overland train between Omaha and Portland two and a quarter hours. Union Pacific No. 6 will leave Omaha at the same time as for merly. 4.10.p. in., and will make up the time and arilve In Portland two und one quarter hours earlier. The former arriving time, was 9:46 a. m. and the train wl". arrive at 7:30 a. m. In the long run half ay across the continent the Union Pacific will make up one hour and ten minutes of this time In the Jtrttch between Cheyenne and Green River. ' The equipment of the train wilt also be increased by the addition of an observation car by the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway and Navaga tlon company to correspond with the obser vation car on the Union Pacific which runs on to San Francisco. Trains Over Carr-Borle. Regular trains will be run over the Carr Borle cut-off of the Union Pacific begin ning Sunday. This work is now complete and the new line will be of Immense help to the Union Pacific In the operation of Its heavy trains as It will save some of the heaviest grades on the line. The new route not only will save a climb Into Cheyenne by permitting heavy trains to switch off for Denver before reaching Cheyenne, but a lesser grade Is also ninde for trains be tween Denver and Cheyenne. Kant O. K., Say Holrirege. "As far as. I could judge business in the east seems to be picking up." said G. W. Holdrege, general manager of the Burling ton, Friday, on his return from a hurried trip to New York. Mr. Holdrrge said his mission was of no speclnl ImiKirtanee and that when he was In Chicago he simply decldVd to run over to New York to look around a little, lie said that no definite plans have been announced fur building of any new lines In the spring and that the question of the new Wyoming line wai Just as It had leen for some time. All Most Bay Tickets. ' After December 15 the Union Pacific win require all passengers entering Its trains within tho state of Nebraska to buy tickets from the station agi-nts before get ting on the trains. The Burlington and Rock Island have been trying this plan for some time and It Is said to work quito satisfactorily. Most of the-Unlon Pa cific trains across Nebraska . are long through trains and It Is quite a task for the conductors to collect the fares, espe cially when tickets are not secured In advance. Next Monday the general agents of the Union Pacific will meet In Chicago for the annual rourtduji. E. L. Lomax, general pas senger agent, will preside and topics of general Interest to the agents and for the welfare of the road will be discussed. mm fit HUB Sanitary Steel Couch 3LS Made with heavy angle steel frame and cov ered with best couch fabric, both sides elevated, making full size bed. special this sale at. LARGE OAX HEATER3 They are made with heavy eastings und are guaranteed for durabil ity. They are of hand some proportions and or namented beuu- C A LCk tlfullv with 9B OJ nickel trim- T. luniks. ni"i'tr.i . HEW SPECIAL 80L- 13 oax Bvrrsi An exceptional oppor tunity. Jlade of the best selected material, highly polished, roomy drawers, lame com partment, top set with French CvJaTlC tilate bevel ? I edge JjifJ WE WILL GIVE THIS MAGNIFICENT MISSION CLOCK Absolutely free with every purchase of $25 or over made at our store this week. It's really artistic and uovel and very unique and hand Bome. The frame is of solid oak, weathered finish, with imitation tile panel. It Is a splen did clock, with brass movements; a fine time piece. It stands 13 inches high and Is 10 inches wide. NOTE If you desire to purchase the clock It will be sold outright for $1.95 25c cash, 25c weekly. If at any time within one year you purchase goods from us amounting to $25 we will refund the money you have paid on the clock, or credit your account with same. EiaLWPJSILJL.MtLllU).g fr':TiTi Storln yii LIKOS BTEZXi RAJTOEB. They are complete with hlfih shelf, as shown above. Have large square ovens, elaborate nickel trimmings and extra heavy casting. Equal to any H0 ratine on sale in Omaha. f Our price only EXTRA X.AXOE BASE BUXHEB. Exceedingly elaborate In design and nickel trimmings. Has return flues and Is a powerful heater. It's a magnifi cent Hase NINE NEW INVENTIONS COMING j Mr. Edison says They Are on Itond and Hundreds Will Folloiv. 9 x feet Tapestry Brussels Rugs, no rniter seams, all first quality and guaran teed perfect. xiaou RUGS $7.75 Rugs. Special. 12x9 feet Seamleos Wilton Velvet Hugs, best quality, elegant design, worth fully 135.00 Special $22.45 vJl1 "' 10 4x8 feet Wilton Rugs, high soft pile, handsome coloring. Reduced from $28 F.n. atpe.c.,a!.. $19.25 12x9 feet Axmlnster Rugs. Every rug In this lot Is worth dou ble the price asked. Regular price $36. J5. ar.c!?!.. $23.10 Oa.k or M&hoga.iy Ladies' Desk . . . . $5!f This desk is made of solid oak, handsomely polished, large roomy writing compartment and drawer, neatly carved ornamentations. M M 1 'Teather your nest I4M-I4I6-I4I8 DOUGLAS ST R A 1T e m mum LAN ." Burner. ? Mm3 Special tJ at i i ! ( l MOBJtZS CHAIB BYECIATj Made of wdld quartered oak on mahoganv fin ish, neatly carved and upholstered In guaranteed Imported velours. Seat Is set with best oil tempered (( uteel springs, back Is broad y OJ end comfortable. M Price - The next era will mark the most won derful advance In science and Invention that the world has ever known or hoped for. So vast will that advance be that we can now have scarcely any conception of Its scope, but already a great many of the Inventions of the future are assured. It is only of those which I regarded as practical certainties that I speak here. First. Within tho next twenty or thirty years-and It will start within the next two or three concrete architecture will take enormous strides forward; the art of molding concrete will be reduced to a science of perfection and what is equally important, of cheapness; there will rise up a large number of gifted architects and through their efforts cities and towns will spring up 1n this country beside which Turner's picture of ancient Rome and Carthage will rale Into nothingness 1 I I will be able to enjoy the benefits of them. These are sjme of the Invlntlons which the world Is awaiting which It Is sure ot seeing reallxed. Just how they will be realized Is what the inventors are work ing now to determine. Thomas A. Edison in New York Times. RESULTS OF EMANUEL CLINICS A Medical WarnlnK ARalimt Uangera Which Heat the (harrh -Movement. :J Xrm i : i if,-i ' w Money Made Buying those Suits, Raincoats and . Overcoats Sold up to $30. at REASONS - Small lots and stocks we wish to close. VOLLMER'S Expert Clothe Fitters 107 South 16th Street and 1 the buildings 1 of the Columbia ex hibition will appear common. But great expense will not attend this; it will be done so . that the poor will be able to enjoy houses more beautiful Can the rich now aspire to, and the man earning 1.60 a day. with a family to support, will be better housed than the man of today who Ib earning $10. '" Second. Moving picture machines will be so perfected that the characters will not only move, but will speak, and all the ac cessories and effects of the stage will be faithfully produced, on the living picture stage. This, of course, will not be done as well , as on the regular stage, but Us standard will approach very near to that, and the fact that such entertainment will be furnished for 5 cents will draw vast numbers of the working classes. The re sult will be that the masses will hsve the advantage of the moral of good drama, they will find an Inexpensive and improving way of spending the evening, and the death knell of the saloon will be sounded. Third. In perhaps fifteen or twenty yeirs depending on the financial condition of the country the locomotive will pass al most altogether out of use. and all our main trunk lines will be opnrated by elec. t'lcltv. Fourth. A new fertilizer will spring Into existence, containing a large percentage of nitrogen! This will h drawn from the air by elertricltv and will bo used to .In crease the arablllty of the land. Kven now this Is dnn. to n large extent In Sweden. F'fth All our water power will be util Iifd by electricity to sn extent now slnvet unthought of. and will be used with great advantage, both Industrially and f r railroads. Sixth A successful aerial navigation will be established perhaps for malls and will achieve a sound, practical working basis. Seventh We shall be abl to protect ciur aelvca against environment by the usr of nonius and things of that sort sn that the general state- of health wtll Improyj and the average span of life will incrense by a large percentage. The great flehl which Is being made against tuberculosis and cancer will reach a successful culmination, and these diseases ' will be entirely mas tered. , Eighth A new force in nature, of some sort or other, will be discovered by which many things not now understand will be explained. We unfortunaM v have only five senses; If we had eight we'd know more. Ninth We will reallie the possibilities of t ur coal supplier better, and will learn how to utilise them so that per cent of the efficiency will not be thrown away, as it la today. - Finally, let It be said, hardly any piece of machinery now manufactured is more than 10 per cent perfect. As the years g'l on this will be Improved upon tremen dously; more autrmatic machinery will be devised, and articles or comfort and lux ury, will be produced in enormous num bers at such small coat that all classes Religion and medicine have always been twin strvants of mm, and formerly all physicians were priests, but that was when spiritual causes were supposed to exist 111 every case of sickness. The studies of the early physicians revealed so many physical causes af malfunction that there was a natural split between the two professions and the separation culminated In those re markable denials of the existence of the spiritual when the nineteenth century wavt of materialism swept over the scientific woild. The pendulum has begun Hs re turn swing, and In every part of the world there are reports of a disposition to class certain nervous diseases In the roalm of the spiritual, though it does seem that the only reason for the movement Is the fact that we have not' yet discovered the materia! causes. Thu new movement then, though d ilng some good, Is liable to do harm, and It certainly behooves the medical profession to go slow and warn against extremism. About -two years ago a clergyman very foolishly proclaimed pos session of an nnuved divine power to cure all dleifies, and that all ordained priests had received the same power from Christ through apostolic- succession. American Medicine commented uprm this absurdity at the time, and the remarks were un fortunately tnken to be a condemnation of the more rational movement Inaugu rated by Rev. Dr. Flwnnfl Worcester of Ernmnnuel church In Hoston. The le.tent church medical movement differ from all pest ones in that phy sicians are associated with It ti make the diagnoses und tn.d p itlents needing med ical or surgical care. T'- only cases ac cepted for pxychl? or spiritual treatment X V enilyyoi prompt- dowels, cleanses acts j V A. vnn me uoue flip Rvfitom effectually. assists one m overcoming habitual constipalton permanently. To get its beneficial effects buy iKe genuine. Nanujacturcd by the CALIFORNIA FigStrupCo. are those which are declured to be purely "functional" enuroses and psychosos. Heie In lies the danger and also an assumption which may be wrong. The list of func tional diseases, once quite large, Is always diminishing, for wo are constantly finding organic changes formerly overlooked. Sometimes the symptoms are reflected to a healthy organ, and even "lr-thHs" remain ing after the cause Is removed, may de pend upon nerve changes, which will be discovered In the future. It Is not con ceivable that a perfect organism works Inlperfectly under normal stimuli. Hence neurasthenia and psychastenla are now generally recognized as due to abnormali ties In the protoplasm of the nerve cells, oftn congenital though sometimes a mere matter of excessive expenditure or defec tive nutrition, or both. Hypotheses are like balloons, and If not anchored to the solid material of disease they drift away. The cure of neurasthenia and the rellf of I'.a symptoms are two vastly different matters. These cases constitute the great majority of the "cures" of Christian science, though many, being congenital defectives, are wholly Incurable. There has been a relief of symptoms or even a transfer to some other form, and though life has temporarily been made much more worth living, the question Is being asked as to whether the ultimate results of the stimulating psychic treatment will not make the last state j worse than the first and whether some of j those who need rest and food are not made worse. It is claimed that the spiritual treatment Is soothing, but there 1s nothing to equal the tremendous mentul stimulus of seeking aid from what has such a mys tic atmosphere. Yet It is quite possible that such shocks, as In hysteria, s Tve to start a new functioning which In lta turn leads to better nutrition and restores health. The longevity of neurasthenics Is well known, and It is often said that tho disease prolongs life, though by that Is meant thut the miserable rufferers, being unable to exert themselves, give up the fight, lessen the strains and avoid the myriad adversities which carry off the more ro bust. In war time the weaklings live long, est becaUKO only soldlerr. ire liable to bullet wounds. Both Christian Silence and the Kmmanuel movement deal with a very small percentage of invalids, and these would live long anyway. For such reasons the results of the Emmanuel clinic are being keenly studied with t lie forlorn hope that Worcester has found a menns of bringing permanent relief to a large num ber of cases which generally wander from doctr r to doctor through a long complain ing life. The danger of a little knowledge Is the fault of Worcester's book, "Religion and Medicine," for It contains errors of fact and Inference. Is Interlarded with baseless assumptions, refers to theories discarded 'hlrty to fifty years ego, and mixes the rpirltual element with purely material mat ters. His former work on the Hook of Genesis was so safe and sane that was hoped he would at ply his great . mental power to the New Testament stories if miraculous healing, but the only outcome la an attempt to fit modern diagnoses to cases which physicians cannot even recog nise as having existed. There is a curious psiallel between the ulleged cures ut gour des or in a Christian Science church, with those In the Mediterranean basin, recorded si ine fifty to eighty years after the events, from the traditions ot Illiterate credulous peasants. It Is el so amaslng that one should reject the Idea of dtmonlac posses sion and accept the rest. The only thing to do with these stories of cures is to treat them In the same reverent way Worcester has treated the stories of Oenesis, though ... V.. . .nr. Il..r. lu nrnwlmf luiH,' . j Biblical btudents convinced vt the historical truth of the fact that cures of something (lid take place American Medicine. PENSIONS FOR WORNOUT MEN Seventy Great Corporations Make Provision for Their Old Employes. One of the most eignificant develop mmls of the last ten years, says a writer In McC'lures, bus ben the adoption of pension plans by mrre tin n seventy great coi poratlons. This is one of the most tangible ways In which wage earners have profited from the country's recent indus trial prosperity. In.lSDS the pension Idea ws practically foreign to this country: now It Is very much In tho air. In that year only one rallrrad, the Baltimore & Ohio, systematically grfnted retirement al lowances; since 1898 eighteen lines, repre senting one-third of the railway mileage of this country, have ndopted automatic pension schemes. Ten years ago almost none of America's great Industrial corpora tions regularly made provision for their old men; now the laigvst do so, or have at present plans under way to that end. I'ntll IrtiO pension endowment funds had not Impressed our lich men as suitable! tubjects for philanthropy; since then An drew Carnegie alone has given nearly $.1),- tO.OOO for this purpose. The International Harvester company, the latest to adopt the pension Idea. Is one of thoce corporate aggregations popularly referred to as trusts. As with most trusts, Its management is a marvel of Intelligence und enlightened self-interest. A survey of the field reveals ona slsnlflcant fact; among corporations It Is chiefly the trusts and the railways that have most enthusi astically taken up the pension Idea. Those corporations and those captains of industry that have figured in recent years most conspicuously as the exemplars of a piti less commercialism have uppu: ..itly de veloped the tendercst emotions toward tin Ir broken-dow n employes. Since 1903 the Standard" CH company hat generously treated its Inactive men; It re tires them on half pay at the age of 6i and on quarter pay at 70. Since 1900 many of the subsidiary com panies forming the I'nlted States Steel corporation have granted pensions; the directors have now under consideration a plan, which will probably become effective next year, for an automatic pension scheme affecting all their 100.000 employes. The unpopularity of the Powder trust Is so great -that Us president was recently obliged to drop out of the republican na tional campaign; this corporation, however, retires Rt fair wages its usedup men. Those forced to pay exorbitant rates for gaa and electricity in New Ycrk City may find some consolation In the fact that part of the money goes to pension the septua genarian gas man. Bad as Is Thomas F. Ryan'a Metropolitan Street Railway com pany. Its conductors and motormen are able to look forward to the time when they can retire at half pay. Kven many of the great financial houses and Insurance com panies that have been recently suhjected to general criticism keep their faithful old employes on the pay rolls. Omctnl Vote on Delruaif. rHEONIX, Arlx.. Dec. 4-The official result of the voto for weiegate to congress shows: Cameron, republican, Smith, democrat. 11,727; Cannon, soclallc'., l.SU; Cleary. Independence league. US: Stewart, socialist labor, C9; Sibley, proliltllton. U Field Club (New) Fit! "dose Cf" Better Styles Longer Wear And they cost you no more than machine made collars. Corliss -Coon Collars Hand Made 2 for 25c Have the Individuality of superior hand workmanship. .. v me avengtn to retain their original individual style because they have not hem strained in the making by machine processes. Charge your memory with Corliss-Coon' ' ''Hand Made" aeainst your next collar purchase. rr .i rveep ur and see "V H man,, trip, h M. IW-yP They also r, 5 I