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VOL. XXXVJII NO. 31.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOHXINO, JANUA11Y 17, VM
SIXOLK COPY FIVK CENTS.
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2d WEEK, SALE of LINENS and COTTONS
Another wwk of the white carnival and tain of il
h grwitest values ever put on housekeeping nee
slnrn Its Inception. Tha beat offering you'll hav
mommy ni infl wwk.
PATTEXI TUL1 CITHB
AU at Exceptionally Sharp Pries mad notion
Size, yards. Usual price. Sale prion
2Hx2H is no
2Hx2S tn 50
2Sx2Vi 18.50
2'xJ $7 00
2'3 ft) no
2'4jiH $7o
24 js.r.0
2Vx4 $10.00
VAFKIH8
S3 60
4.40
ts.eo
(S.80
6.60
4.9S
95.60
7.30
DAMASZ AJTO
PTio Damasks, sale price 39o
rc DnniKsks, aal price 7 So
$1.60 Damasks, sale price 91.00
$l.2f Napkins, anl prion 98o
ll.Mi Napkin, sale price 91.10
$2.00 Napklna, aaln price 91.60
$2.75 Napkins. Bale price 92.00
ne linens and cottons. 1 his salo. remarknhla fur
la. has brouitht an unceasing flow of ahoppera
e for many a day are being- held out to you again
TOWELS AITS TOWEUNO
lop Hurk Towels now are 7lio
lie llurk Towels now are llo
S.ic Muck Towels now nre 85o
l',c Crash, bleached, for 6l0
12'c Crafh. Munched, for So
lV.c Crash, bleached, lor laVaO
SHEETS AITS PILLOW CASES
Plx' Inches. Usual price. Sale price
T.'xko
72x90
M x HO
81x90
1 1 X!0
4L'X1
42x.1
4Gx36
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$1 no
$110
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ISO
20O
PILLOW CAB I HQ
43-lrwh, usually lHc, now
43-lnch, usually 184c, now ,
390
75o
630
690
890
100
lane
ISO
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JJJ Winter Style Book 1
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Most Extraordinary .Sale Winter loats ever m umana
Choice of S Cloth Coats
Is brim full of timely style hints and fashion topics, l.'iO
pages; all it costs is 5c when purchased with a 15c Ladies'
Home Journal pattern.
Continuing Sale of Picture Frames
Every conceivable kind and size of flame, square and oval shapes, 4x5
to 18x40 Inches; genuine gold leaf, gold lacquer, bronze and oak, in
great clearing 10a to 89o
$10
$30.00
Any Colored Coat in the House
Positively the grandest cloak offering in many year9 is made for Monday
and until all are sold. High class styles in largest variety shown in all Omaha,
every coat absolutely new. The majority are $l'j.00 garments. A great many
others were $.'50.00. Come Monday and take your pick for $10.00.
CLOSING OUT FURS Our entire stock of fine furs in a final
mark down to close them out. No better fur pieces are turned
out; every one new, stylish and thoroughly reliable. Mink, Jap
Mink, Black Wolf, Fox, etc. Scarfs, ties and muffs, nil ........ .
Half
PRICE
500 Dinner Sets In Most Wonderful
- Sale Ever Planned By a Western Store
Commences Monday
A sale of dinner sets of every description from the greatest manufacturers of the world. An unprecedented event with
every set barely half its actual worth.
This is an entirely new stock, shown for the first time in Omaha or elsewhere tomorrow. Many are sample sets, others
lots of two, three to twelve sets of a kind. All the cream of the makers best lines bought at prices that will revolutionize
China selling in this city.
We say it again, there never was a better sale with bargains so genuinely good ever conducted in the west.
THE SAVINGS ARE SIMPLY PHENOMENAL. This sale will be the talk of all Omaha and for many miles around and
will prove a monument to the Bennett store's enterprise and progressiveness. The big second floor will be a sea of dinnerware.
Greatly
Increased
Space
and Extra
Salespeople
to Walt
on You
Promptly
jpffi n values actually double snaO
grade French patterns, of beautiful imitation,
encrusted gold and red and matt gold designs
values actually double
See
Harney St
Window
Front Filled
With the
Marvelous
Bargains
100-piece American Dinner Sets, very
high grade pattern, fancy black and
gold and green fern designs, values up
to $30.00, at 18.50
100-plece American and English Dinner Sets In
German rose border, Havlland spray, green
and gold designs, wonderful values. .... .$15
100-plece American Dinner Sets, four different
decorations, such as wMte and gold, chrysan-
. thetoum. rose. PUviland rose spray, and Jap
anese green and gold, all big bargains,
at $11.98
100-piece American Porcelain Dinner
Sets, in white and gold designs; very
handsome sets and extraordinary value,
at $10.00
100-plece American porcelain dinner sets in
handsome soft blue, green and gold scroll de
sign, with gold trucing, very special. . .9.98
There will be great reductions on all our reg
ular stock patterns of English, German, French
and Havlland Dinnerware. The only opportunity
to replace your dinner service at greatly reduced
prices.
100-piece American Dinner Sets, in white
rose decorations; the entire set for
only $6.98
100-piece fine English semi-porcelain dinner sets
in fancy rose spray designs, actual $15.00 val
ues $7.50
HALF PRICE
Wonderful selling of high grade French
china. Most beautiful goods and designs such
as dinner and service plates, cups and sauc
ers, trays, chocolate sets, etc. Six big tables
every piece half price.
Great Clean-up Sale China and Glass Continues
All odds and ends must go this month regardless of former price or cost. Glass Jelly Dishes. Sugar Bowls, Vases, Creamers, - fjA
'cracker Jars,. Chocolate Pots, values up to 60c, for AUl CLllU.
Individual hotel creamers
dozen 20
Decorated Frnlt Saucers, 2 for.5
English Tea Pots, any size..l5
Bowls, blue decorations. .. .10r
Globes for Welsbach lights
THKEK FOR 25
Blue decorated eggshell cups and
saucers, pair 10
Six to a customer.
Fire proof cooking ware, casser
oles, handled pots, etc., worth to
40c, choice 15?
Fancy Glass water pitchers quart
size 10
Individual bakers 10
Decorated Plates and cups and
saucers 3 pieces for 10l?
4-piece stone cooking or baiting
set, with cook book 39
950 Pieces All Pure Worsted Suitings in
Full Skirt and Dress Lengths
From New York Commission House at i Value
79c
This immense purchase is the most important we have made In years. Includes high grado foreign wor
steds in all shades. Blues, grays, greens, tans, browns, burgandy, etc., in shadow stripes, two tones,
plain colors and bordered effects. Absolutely new styles, 54 and 56 Inches wide, values
positively worth to $2 yard. A X. Y. house to reduce Btock cut up every piece into skirt
and suit lengths. We bought almost 1,000 lengths at one-third their value. Weights
and colors suitable for spring wear. One-piece frocks, skirts, etc., yard
We also closed out all their shorter lengths of fine woolens, of every disenption and color. Lengths 2 to 4
yards; several lengths of a kind that match up. These goods nre worth $1.50 and are
offered in Monday's sale, at, yard
Half Price on Broadcloths & Novelties
Beginning Monday our regular stock of all broadcloths, (blacks and evening shades excepted), also all
novelty suitings in the department regardless of cost In most radical clearing ever known All llif
Price.
$1.50 goods 75M2.00 goods $1.00 $2.50 goods $1,231 3.00 goods .... $1.50
49c
WHITE CARNIVAL BARGAINS
Muslin
Underwear
Thousands of beautiful daintily
trimmed garments, all new styles
direct from the makers. Tables
loaded with fresh lots for Mon
day. Every piece radically under-
39c Corset Covers...
58c Corset Covers...
98c Corset Covers...
$1.25 Corset Covers.
$1.98 Corset Covers.
50c Gowns for
. $2.00 Gowns for
25
390
590
750
980
390
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$2.50 Gowns for... $1.25
98c Chemises for 750
$1.48 Chemises for... 980
4Sc Drawers for 250
69c Drawers for 390
75c Drawers for.... .590
$1.25 Drawers for....75
$1.98 Drawers for 80
$2.95 Combinations. $1.95
$3.50 Conibiuatlons.$2.50
$4.95. Combinailons..$3.95
$6.50 Combinations. .$4.95
Great Bargains All Skirts.
..SILKS..
Initial display Spring Foulards
and Mesxallnea for 1909. Com
plete new line pattern, xpot
proof Poularda and two tono
stripe mesHallnPH, In all tlie
lato shadea. See 16th Street
window tl.00 and 8So
BFBCZAX MONDAY .111 Inch
black Meanalln a very bril
liant soft and durable Hllk
for waists, one plere frocks,
for petticoats, $- value, 91.39
Sr6-tnch Ht In Majeatlque, In
rose, tnupo, wistaria, poa
nik and other new shadow,
at 160
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Impor tant Monday Sale
HAND-LOOM
Embroid'ries
Vary finest creations In lace
combination, open and blind
effects, all at naif and less
regular.
1,000 yards, 27 and 45-inch
flouncliiKU, exquisite. deelgnM,
new AiiKlaiHU effects, all
$1115 goods 690 and B90
4 and 27-lnch Swiss and Nain
sook KlouncliiRs and Cornet
Cover Kmbrutderies, DOc qual
ities, per yard 39o
Wonderful assortment beauti
ful embroidery eilKe.s, soma
up to 18 Inches wide, also In
sertions and bands, values
to 2bo, all in Kreat Monday
sale, at, per yard 100
Handsome Iron Bed $2.48
Like
Cut
LIKE
Is full size and conies In 4
colors; one of the hundreds
of great bargains In our
January Furniture Sale. Be
early for this tomorrow,
at $2.48
Three-Pleoe Parlor Suites of
olid oak. and full sire
settee, rocker and arm chair
very solidly constructed.
A most attractive bargain;
offered Monday at J7.B9
DENNETT'S DIG
sack . . . .
GROCERY
WOMEN'S SHOES AT
HALF
Three special lota on sale tomorrow
204 pairs women's $4.00 patent colt,
laced and button shoes, hand sewed,
clearing price $1.98
(4 pairs nurses rubber heeled lace
shoes with turned soles, 12.00 shoes
at 91.00
Women's felt, fur trimmed Juliets,
with belting blither soles; black,
Kray, brown, red. II 50 and Qfls
$1.25 .aljes, clearing; at 0lJ
Kennett's Capitol Klour, larjte sack sJ.uu ana i r . .reeii ,-ianips
Hennetfs C.ol.len Coffee, pound 86o and JO t.ren btamps
Itennett'.s Challenue Coffee, pound 180 and 10 li cen Stamps
Teas, assorted, pound . . 480 and 40 C.reen Stamps
Tea Klftlnns. pound ISO and 10 Cieen Stamps
Allen's llmwn Bread Flour, pkn 10o ....
ilHlllard s Olive Oil. larse 70c and BO open Stamps
Coiiiineal. white or yellow, 10lb. sack aoo
Cleaned Currants, three pounds . . . 95o
Granulated Bofar, 90 lbs. for $100
Miicnonetlc extra Marrowfat Peas, can 10
PEAOX SPEOIAt California Evaporated Peaches,
splendid lilts'" values, per pound .9o
Oatmeal and C.raham Crackers, pkg lOo and 10 t.reen Stamps
Franco-American Coups, ut. can 35o and 40 lireeu Stamps
20c Clam Chowder for 15o, or two for 950
Japan Itlce, loc quality, lour pounas lor soo
Coal
100 S. & H. Stamps
with each ton Capitol
Coal Ordered Monday-
capitoi CWI is "The best that burns",
and is sold exclusively at Hennetfs
Others offering you coal under the
name of "Capitol" are not giving you
a "square deal." Order Cajiltol Coal
at Dennett's and you will make no
mistakes.
Kor range ttse Capitol Nut.
For heater or furnace use Lump.
SG50
PER TON
Sale "Just It" Sheetings
Monday we put on sale the famous "Just It"
brand Sheetings, tor which we have the exclusive
sale in Omulia. Kvcry piece guarantor full width,
K-4 full 72-inrhcH, 0-4 full Ml-lnches, IO-4 full DO
Inches. Quality equal to Pequoit, I'tica ami other
standard brunds. Our White Carnival Price:
Bleached; 8-4 usually 27 Vac for 220
IMeached 9-4 usually 30c for '2 lC
Bleached 10-4 usually 35c for 27 HO
Unbleached 8-4 usually 25c for 190
Unbleached 9-4 usually 28c for 22 HO
lnbleached 10-4 usually 32c for 250
HARDWARE SPECIALS
On sale tomorrow. Staple lines at much less than
regular prices.
Kfic Japanned Flour Cans. Japanned B9o
7;lc I, read Hox.-x. nicly japanned 49o
91.35 H (I. K Sail Irons, five In set, for 9BO
$1.10 Mir. I'otts' Sad lions, five In set, for 79o
$l.r0 Asbestos lined Sad Irons, live In set, for $1.15
2;ic enameled lierllu Sauce l'ans, with cover 100
32c enameled Herlln Sauce l'ans, with cover 16c
CiSc enameled lierllu Sauce 1'nns, with cover S9o
2c Victor Flour Sifters, special 17o
Wash Hollers at 96o np and 40 Stamps
Waffle irons 85c and 98c and 40 Stumps
Footballs and Pnnohlna; Bag's Cloning out a hi if assort
ment Monday at 35 Off
January Clearing-Corsets
Three Big Specials
FOR MONDAY
Three remarkable bargain offerings
f!)e, 79c and 89c for corsets that sell regu
larly at two and three times these prices.
Several makers' surplus lots and agents'
sani)les, bunched with a gathering of brok
en lines from our regular stock one of the
best varieties we have ever placed on sale.
Best models of the season included, various
Lot 1 for
makes and styles all bies.
made and prettily trimmed-
They are well
-coutil and ba
tiste; cheap at their
The best will go firbt.
Lot 2 for
69c
X N . '
regular prices, too.
He early for yours.
Lot 3 for
79c
89c
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INSECT A MASTER BUILDER
The Trapdoor Spider Both Architect
and Engineer.
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LIVES IN A FINE CEMENT HOUSE
It Is HitK. Warm mn Waterproof
Heaerrfsl Lid hat Closes
(iood Bprlac
with a
II lae.
POINT LOMA, SAN PIF.CIO. Cal., Jan.
16,-lf slightly acquainted with the ways
cf a trapdoor srldr you are reminded of
that little Insect every lime you watch the
men at work building caissons for a foun
dation for a new steel ribbed skyscraper,
you think how much better the spider en
gineer would do that work with his home
m.ide tools than the men with shovels and
hoists and buckets and all th rest.
The trapdoor spider, curiously you say
at first thought, selects tha hardest nd
firmest abode, almost as hard sandstone
Itself. Into which to sink his caisson home,
for his castle is built In ths ground six or
eiirht Inches below tha surface.
With Infinite patience, gralrs by grain,
ho remove the sun baked adobe, making
an opening In the surface about the slse
f silver dollar, ahd burrjwlag almost
straight downward until at six, seven or
eight Inches down he ceases his work.
The. main excavating Is done. The hole
Is beautifully rounded anil ends In a
smooth cul-de-sac at the bottom.
The opening made In the earth the next
thing is to Insure It against dampness, for
when the rain comes even the dry adobe
tries to drink In the wa'er that all the
surrounding land thirsts for.
What kind of cement and how It is mixed
the writer does not essay to explain, but
from top to bottom of that caisson Is laid
on a coating of cement quite as Impervious
to moisture as any cement ever laid by the
hand of man. This Is plastered on with the
greatest care and more smoothly than if
laid on with a brush.
And when the job Is done his house Is
waterproof beyond question. When the
cement dries expansion and contraction
are proved to have been well considered,
for not a crack shows anywhere In the
walls. There is no settling, no swelling
no receding of the structure.
The plastering done, the house walls are
now to bt tapestried, to be made snug and
warm. 60 from top to bottom a coating
of downy substance Is laid on. something
similar to the material that makes up the
hornet's nest but of a much finer,
smoother texture. This is laid on with the
greatest care and precision and when done
It la a job well done, so much so that one
might well envy the spider family In lis
fresh, snug home.
The uiiOu struaure vouiplvted nj fur
nished, now comes not the least Important
part, tho building of the trap door. Here
Is displayed the Ingenuity, skill and fore
sight of the trap-door spider-
Water, air and dust must he kept out,
and as the door Is even with the ground
surface and to all Intents and purposes
an undisturbed part of U, the faculties of
the spider are taxed to the utmost.
The fit of the door must be so perfect
as to exclude the air quite as perfectly as a
preserved can of fruit a housewife has put
up. The shoulder of the caisson is so per
fectly rounded that when the trap door
fits In and rests upon the curved shoulder
the naked eye falls to detect the Joint ex
cept upon the closest Inspection. The
sharpest pointed knife blade finds no lodg
ment in the crevice.
No bill of a road runner or a sickle bill
thrush can make any headway In prying
open that vault cover, even If the spider
home Is detected, which Is not often the
case. The trap door must be strong enough
to resist the tapping of an inquisitive road
runner who at rimes tests the engineering
of the spider to the utmost.
Again the trap door Is even with and a
part of the earth and must bear the weight
of anything, anlmai or human, passing
over. The heel of a heavy man makes no
Impression upon this entrance to tha spi
der's domain. The inside of the door Is
rounded like the end of an egg, the strong
est construction known.
The quury now comes up as to how the
spider gets In and out. The door is hinged,
and it is a bit of naiuie's haidw.ire work
hard to equal, for it Is a spring-hinged
door, working as smoothly and as rapidly
as a shutter on a camera. The spring ten
sion, while amply strong to secure the door
In place, quickly and easily responds to any
outward pressure from inside.
The care with which the door is made to
counterfeit the surrounding surface is won
derful. The door is undoubtedly made up
as to tho outside surface and not hewn
from a solid disk of adobe, lilt by bit it
must have been put together, held by the
underlying cement, and when all done the
tiiiish'iug touches upon the surface so
adroitly arranged as to rival the art of any
copyist who ever forged a llcmbiaudl or a
Van Dyck.
If the adobe adjacent shows small de
posits of moss the cover of the caisson is
In no particular different. It would seem
that the feeling of safety prompted the
Bplder to exert Iris utmost ingenuity when
simulating the surface of his trap door to
the earthy surroundings.
As a copyist of nature the trap-door
spider Is a master hand, for even the tex
ture of the surrounding sun-baked earth
la simulated.' And when this last finish
ing touch is put on Uis Job is done, and
welt done.
One thing more. The door has a hinge,
and It is a spring type of hinge. When
the spider sallies forth to forage he opens
ths dovr of Id bouse wide vpen, and it
remains oen. Thr sprlni? hliipe In somi
manner Is set with a hair trigger. And
there is a reason.
The spider while pnying upon flies and
small l:sects knows only too well that he
is ardently sought for by scorpion, centi
pede, road runner. y! kleblll thrush and
othtr enemies. Vigilance of the most eter
nal kind is the price of his life.
He must therefore keep his avenue cf re
treat open and his bridges in good order
fora quick escape If the tneniy presses
too closely. It's a run lor his life where
every fraction of a second counts. When a
l ng-lcggcd, fleet fooled road runner esph s
l.im he must not tarry i.n the way.
Through the thickest of the chapparal he
takes his flight, the better to impede or
delay pursuit, and when the goal Is
reached like the llash of an electric spark
he has descended Into his caisson, the
door Instantly closing snugly upon him.
Now Is the time that tries his soul. The
road runner has St-n his retreat and at
oncu sounds the ground with his sharp
bill to break In and seize his prey. But 11
Is of no use. The firm, tough abode re
sists the repeated blows of the horny bill
of the bird and he goes to othtr pastures,
giving the spider a new lease of life.
Not content with all his provisions for
safety the spider must, like, the hero of
old, thrust his arm through the door fast
ening in lieu of a bar and hold his castle
entrance agvlnst Intrusion. Nests discov
ered and pried open with difficulty by a
knife bliido Iul'.b disclosed thu fact iliat
the spider has thiust his arm or leg
through slots In the door and will and
that the h g has ac tually been torn loose,
from tho body In the forcible oienlng of
tho di or.
It Is impossible tn a short sketch to do
Justice to this most wonderful of nature's
engineers. Could any one Hpu.ro the time it
would well repay a day spent with cam 'ra
watching the egress and Ingress of the
little Insect and studying Its habits of life.
As a caisson builder, an engineer of tlia
ilrst class, let the drap door spider be
coir mended.
HOLDS HOPES OF HOLLAND
Royal Talare Cynosure of All Ryes
Hlnce feiprrted Heir Was
Announced.
T1IR HAGUE, Jan. 11 (Xpeclai.) From
the moment when It was first announced
by the court physicians that Queen Wil
helmina of Holland expected an heir to the
Dutch throne one building at "Die Hague
attracted an Immense amount of public at
tention. It was the royal palace, on the
outskirts of the city. On the right of this
palace are large public gardens and there
crowds gathered every day men, women
and children who kept their gase on the
second-story window of the palace lu the
room behind which tha "Interesting event"
waa supposed to take place.
It might be said with truth that the little
while iojvaI building hag be bo recently tlie
most persistently gazed at of any build
ing In the world. Everybody who went
Into or ciuiio out of It was silently noted
by the stolidly staring Dutchman. When
newspaper reporters camo up on their
"bikes"' for Information no one In tho crowd
ever thought of asking them a question.
The crowds of gazers went on smoking
their pipos and philosophically staring at
the little second-story windows. And if tha
Dutch were pleased with this simple spec
taclewhich they could look at every day
In tho year why should tho outside world
trouble Itself? As they say over one of the
public gates to tho Schevenlngen the sum
mer resort mar The Hague "MlnJ Uon
oegen," my satisfaction, expresses the
height Of Dutch delight.
Though The 11 uo boaBts of its splendid
cleanliness, the canals which run through
It are quite the opposite. They are said to
swarm with microbes, which doctors say
have eated up all the goldfish. However,
even of their canals tho Dutch are proud,
and express "my satisfaction" by leaning
over the bridges and staring at the gaily
colored barges as they go slowly by.
Cabinet Itralicus Again.
liKI-GiCADK, Juii. It. The Servian cab
inet for the third time has tendered Its
reslgnullou, which King I'eter Is considering.
Bigger, Belter, Busier That's what ad
vertising la Ths B sWm tut four
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