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THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BKE: FEBRUARY '21, 1909. I Talks oi Tccih Oy Dr. E. R. L. Murphy Good Teeth for All How often beautiful face will b marred by bad teeth. To people afflict! with bad teeth. Iocs teth or missing teeth. Dr. Murphy's Al veolar Method of restoring- missing teeth without platea or ordinary brldgework la a boon and a blessing, for Alveolar Teeth ara Perfect Teeth. Br means of this remarkable Invention, owned by us, known as the Dr. Murphy "Alveolar Method," we are able to re store missing teeth and place them In the Jaws so perfectly that no one, not even yourself, could tell where nature's teeth left off and Alveolar teeth began. "We follow nature's plan and set each tooth la Its m socket. This work la painless, BO emtttnff e boring Into the . gams. If you are a victim of pyorrhea, com monly known as Hire's disease (loosen ing of the teeth and sore and bleeding gums), ws have a message for you. By our method we are able to tighten your loose teeth and our your sore gums; It la a simple method and not In the least discomforting. By a plan of adhesion we are enabled to make each tooth solid, and a preparation Of our own discovery does the work of curing the diseased condi tions of the gums. We can prove this to ' you In one sitting in our office. It is a very dlffloult matter to explain the Aveolar Method of restoring missing teeth without the use of plates or ordinary bridge work at long range or in the brief apace nf a newspaper advertisement If people would only come to our offices and talk with us they would soon be convinced that we could do all that we claim we can do. ' The Alveolar Method deserves to be heralded abroad, for It is a blessing and A life-saver. 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Is considered a notably good one for a man of 80 years. It was not so much a try for a record as a reply to army officers who criticised the president's order requiring officers to cover fifty miles In three days. There are on record many rides by army officers, which overshadows that of Presi dent Roosevelt. Five years ago, last July, General Miles rode horseback from Fort Reno to Fort Bill, ninety miles away, In nine hours and ten minutes. Ths trip was mads to prove that General Miles at the age of retirement, 64 years, was still m good physical condition. On the trip the general had nine mounts. Captain Bayres of the Eighth cavalry made the trip with him. Forty minutes after reaching Fort 8111, General Miles reviewed ' the troops there, and showed no signs of being tired. Here are a few of the notable distance rides by American horsemen, mostly army men, taken at random from the Ust'oom plled by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge: In 1ST several single couriers rode from Thornburg'a "rat hole" with news of that officer's danger to General Merrltt's column, a distance of 170 miles, vrtilch each courier covered In leas than twenty-four hours. Colonel Lawton rode from Red C)jud agency, Nebraska, to Sidney Station. Ne braska, with dispatches for General Crook In twenty-six hours. The distance was 128 miles. That was In 1876. Captain Fountain's feevf. In 1881, Captain Fountain of the Eighth cavalry rode eighty-four miles In eight hours and 110 miles in twenty-three hours. while two troopers of the Eighth, bearing dispatches, covered 1MT miles In twenty hours. Rides of from 120 to 1R) miles within the day and the night, saya Colonel Dodge, have been mads repeatedly by ordinary United States troop horses, when not spe cially prepared for the work, and over very bad ground, and, as a rule, the animals have not been Injured by the test. Thlrty-slx years ago Colonel Mackensls rode his oommand Into Mexico after Lpan and Kickapoo Indians, defeated them In a sharp fight, and returned across tbs border, making 146 miles and winning a battle, ail within twenty-eight hours. The following year Colonel Mackensls rode into Mexico again, this tlms In pursuit of a band 01 horse thieves, and covered eighty-five miles In fifteen hours. In averaging these rides of regiment or troops, the fact must not be lost sight of that a large body of horse men, carrying equipments and in column formation cannot begin to get over tne ground so rapidly as a group of three or four riders without luggage of any sort. Four man of Company IwFlrJl.(5vairy, carried dispatches from Fort Harney 10 Fort Warner in 1870. Their time was eigh teen and a half hours, and the distance was Is) miles. . twenty of it through deep sand. But the horses were in such good oondition that, after one day's rest, the troopers started back and made the return trip at the rate of alxty miles a day. Lieutenant Wood, with a troop 01 tne same regiment, did seventy miles In twelve hours In 187. and Captain Dodgs. that same year, rode his troop eighty miles in sixteen hours. Captain Fechet In command of Troops F and O of ths Eighth cavairy, ion r on Tatea on a December midnight in 18M and reached Bitting Bull's camp, forty-five mllea away, at 7:10 o'clock In the morning. Then the troopers dispersed the Indians in a skirmish, rescued the survivors of ths band which had killed Bitting Bull, scouted the country a dletAnce of ten mile beyond, and then rode to camp at Oak creek, covering, all told, a distance of eighty-five mllea, be sides f IghUng the Indians, in fourteen hours. General Merritt, In 1Si. with four troops of cavalry, and hampered by a battalion of infantry In wagona, rode 170 miles to the relief of Payne in sixty-six ana one-nan hours and reached his destination In prime oondition and ready to go at once Into a fight Few Treope. Jos Huea General Guy V. Henry rode 106 miles In S3 hours with four' troops in 1SS0. The actual riding time was twenty-two hours. There were between S00 and 400 men in that column, and with ths exception of one horse that tell dead at the end of the Journey troopers and animals were fit to take the return ride after a day's rest. There are numerous cases on record of entire regiments of cavalry making long continuous marches at the rate of alxty miles a day. Colonel Henry, an expert on distance riding, used to say that after a month's hardening of men and horses by Callv rides of from fifteen to twenty miles a day, a cavalry command could easily cover from fifty to sixty miles a day for an indefinite period, and oould, in an emer gency, do 100 miles without hardship. For the purpose of seasoning tbs men and their mounts. General Miles once organised a systsm of pursuits on ths plains. A raid Ing party, so-called, consisting of about twenty men, was sent out from a fort or camp, and eighteen hours later an equal number of troopers were sent out to catch them. One of the rules was that the fugitives should rest six hours after riding eighteen and to halt again for twelve hours, after riding twelve. Pursuers could ride "go as you please," but were ordered not to tn Jure their horses by too hard a pace. This was. In one sense only, play. That is, there waa no spur of compulsion to save life or turn the tide of a battle. Neverthe less, the results were creditable to men and animals. One of these pursuits began en September IT, W7, when Lieutenant Scott of the Sixth oavalry. with twenty-five troopers, rode away from Fort Stanton as a fleeing band of raiders. Eighteen hours later twenty-seven pursuers, under Lieu tenant Pershing, set out on the trail, and captured the first detachment after rid Ing 130 miles In thlrty-slx hours. On another pursuit twenty-two men covered 171 miles In forty-two hours. Colonel Dodgs seems to take the ability of the United States cavalrymen to spend many consecutive hours in the saddle and to ride many miles without a halt as a matter et course. He cites most of his cases principally to show the remarkable endurance of the very ordinary sort of horses the government provides for Its mounted troops. A description of one hard ride in pur suit of a deserting first sergeant, who had stolen his company's funds. Is given la detail to show how the most was got out of the animals with the minimum risk of over taxing them. "We left the poet at Fort Reno, L T.. at IM p. sV said Captain A. B. Wood of ths Fourth cavalry, who was la command of the absconding geant's eight pursuers. "The day Was hot; lead, faMvtoel ba o Defoe me, X ttoPrac Co not posh the an'.mals very bard for the first twenty-five mllea, which distance we had covered by p. m. This brought us to Knngflaher creek, where we' halted for one hour unsaddled, got something to eat, let the horse, roll and grass, then groomed their backs and legs, saddled and started again at T p. m. "We walked for thirty minutes, trotted fifty minutes and then dismounted and rested ten minutes; mounted snd went at the trot for fifty minutes, dismounted, and walked ten minutes. This rotation of fifty minute trotting periods and ten-minute rests was kept up until midnight, when there waa a twenty-minute halt, followed by the same rotation until 4: JO a. m., when there waa a halt for one hour's sleep. An other grooming of tegs and backs followed the sleep and then the grind was resumed." Tne ISO-Mile Ride Completed. . And so it went, until after thirty-one hours, all told, the troopers reached Ar kansas City, 1M ml.es from camp. What happened to the dishonest deserter does not appear In the record "At that time," continued Captain Wood, 'our mounts were purchased In Missouri and Kansas, The horse I rode waa 11 years old; the others were a lit tie younger. All the horses except one were In good condi tion on our return. That one had been made unserviceable by bad riding. The trooper who had him was not a very good horseman and rode too heavily forward. I tried to correct him. but It is Impossible to teach ail the niceties of horsemanship on a trip luce mat. u was tne naraest ride I ever had." Borne of the famous rides by westerners not in the army occurred in Ban Fran cisco, whsre N. H. Mo wry. with relays of many horses, did W0 miles in fourteen hours on a race track In 1868. Ten years before that J. Powers made ISO miles In six . hours and forty-three minutes, and there is a tradition that a rider named Anderson covered -1,304 miles In ninety hours. Among the pony express riders, F. X. Aubrey undoubtedly held the record. On a wager of tl.OOO he undertook to ride from Sante Fe to Independence, Missouri, a dis tance of 800 miles, inside of six days. He did It in five days and nineteen hours. He had a dosen fresh horses waiting for htm at different points along the line, and cov ered most of the distance, at a gallop. Jim Moore rode a mall route from Mid way station to Juleaburg, a distance of 140 mil. a It waa his regular custom to maks the round trip of 280 miles once a wesk. On one occasion ths other rider on that route, was 111. and to keep th sche dule unimpaired, Moore not only did dou ble duty, but in less than half ths time he usually took for his wsek's work. He rode the 180 miles In twenty-two hours. President Lincoln's first Inaugural mas sage waa carried from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Oal., a distance of 1,980 miles. in seven days and sevsnteen hours. Ths news of the firing on Fort Bumtsr was carried from Bt Joseph to Denver, about 675 mllea. In sixty-nine hours, the riders riding night and day, stopping only to Changs ponies, the time allowance for which diversion was about two minutea. That was in the days of ths old "pony sxpress," some of the riders of which made records that still stand. Jack Keetly, for Instance, has a record of 140 miles, without rest or sleep, in thirty-one hours and Jim Moor bas a record of 380 miles in fourteen hours and forty-six sec onds. Bill James had a 60-mlle route and made the round trip, 120 miles, in twelve hours, and seldom came In more than a few seconds off schedule time. The sche dule of the old "pony express" called for something like 260 miles every twenty hour and the riders usually mads It. RARE TRIBUTE TO LOVED ONE Leavf from s Tender Knloary Penned hr the Late J. terllns; Merteaw Writing of Arbor lodge and Its founder In the February Issue of Country Life In America, Paul Morton, son of the great Nebraskan, says: "I know of nothing that better illustrates my father's private character than an edi torial which he wrote and published - in the Conservative a short time before the untime ly death of my brother Carl. The fact that both the author and the two loved ones of whom he so tenderly wrote have passed to the Great Beyond Imparts to this beauti ful passage a moat exquisite pathos: " Tt was a bright, balmy morning in April more than a quarter 6f a century ago. The sun was nursing ths young grass into verdure, and ths prairie was Just be ginning to put off its winter coat of sombre colorings. Tranquil skies and 'morning mists were redolent at Arbor Lodge of com ing resurrection of the foliage and flowers that died the autumn before. All about the cottage home there waa. hope and peace; and everywhere the signs ot woman's watchful love and tidy care, when, sud denly, toned with affectionate solioltude, rang outi "Carl, Carl I" but bo answer came. Downstairs, upstairs, at the barn, even in the well, everywhere, the mother's voice called anxiously, again and again. But the silence, menacing and frightening, was unbroken by an answer from the lost boy. At last, however, he was found be hind the smoke house, busily digging in the ground with a small spads, though only t years of age, and be said: "I'm too busy to talk. I'm planting an orchard," and sure enough, he had sst out a tiny seedling apple tree, a small oottonwood and a little elm. Ths delighted mother clasped htm In her arms, kissed him, and said: "This orchard must not be destroyed." "And so now I hear the muffled tramp of years , Coins stealing up the slopes of Time; They bear a train of smiles and tears Of burning hopes and dreams sublime. " The child's orchard Is mors thsn thirty years of age. The cotton wood Is a giant now, and Its vibrant foliage talks, summer after summer, in the evening breese with human-like voice, and tells Its life story to the graceful, swaying elm near by, while the gnarled and scrubby little apple tree, shaped, aa to Its head, like a despondent toadstool, stands in dual shade, and bears small sweet apples, year after year, In all humility. . But that orchard must not bs destroyed. It was estab lihed by tbs young est tree planter who ever planted in this tree planter's state, and for his sake and the memory ot the sweet soul who nursed and loved him. It lives and grows, one Cot tonwood, oae apple tree, one elm. But O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still. - Tne memories mat live ana bloom In trees, that whisper of the loved and lost in summer leaves, are as Imperishable as the seasons of the year immortal as the love of a mother.' " Ceffee and Cigarettes. The man behind the gun la the man who wins life's battles. A mint Julep isn't really so cool, but it loons snaay. - The modern heaven Is not reached In a slngls bound, but by a moving staircase. The other clace by chute. Given the duke, any girl will furnish the kind heart that Is more than coronets. Don't do It today. It may be the wrong thlug to do at any time. All the old cats were kittens once- Kate Mastereoa. la Boa art Bet. The bled Uasl removes liver Inaction and bowel stoppsge with Dr. Klcg't New Ufe Pills, the pain. lees regulators JDo. For aale by Beetoa CATCDISC UP WITH TIME Ma,n, Beast ftnd Machine Score New 1 Speed Becordi. HOT PACE OF THE CENTUBT Everything is on the Move on Land, Ben end Air Some ' Reee.t Sports that Are Top notehere. The twentieth century is ths age of speed. Before Its dawn ths world Jogged nlong at a paltry sixty miles an hour and boasted that It was going faster than antediluvian stage coaches and sailing ships. Then man woke up and realised that he was losing time. He became ashsmed of his slowness. A feverish desire to catch up snd hustle and get there boiled In his veins. Ha smashed the old machines and made sur prising new ones calculated to devour dis tance on sea, land and la the upper air. At the sams time he groomed himself to surpass athletic records and his horse to better the gait of tedious epochs. Now sven Father Time has an anxious worried look as the wind stiffens his white whiskers and he endeavors to pour the sand from his glass fast enough to keep ahead of the procession. Everything Is on the move. If the steel lever lags In ths piston, try a turoms wheel; if coal Is cumbersome, use gasoline or the electrlo "Julce.' Man himself may be lubricated and hustled with a dose ot oxygen. The Pennsylvsnla railroad has Just ordered 100 electrlo locomotives, which will be able to spilt space at the rate of 120 mllea an hour and bring Philadelphia nearer to New Tork than some parts of Brooklyn. When the system is completed, lesdlng cltlsens of Pittsburg will take the theater train for the metropolis snd get back In time to spend ths next day re cuperating from lobsters and chorus girls. Two Miles Mtnote. Two miles a minute U rspld, but already electrical cars on the Marienreai-j&oaeen line In Prussia have traveled at the rate of l5o miles an hour. Neither ths motor nor the tracks seem to suffer from this thumping, speed, while the passengers, ku ancestors were warned of the fatal danger of riding in a steam train at six-' teea miles an hour, survive comfortably. The fastest bit of railroad travel In ths United States up to dats was done by a Philadelphia V, Reading train, In 1904, over a four-mile sireicn imm c RH ean tine Junction, when the wheels re volved at th rate of 116 miles an hour. A year later a Lake Bhore A Michigan South ern train averaged nearly seventy miles an hour on the long run between Buffalo and Chicago. It is not fair to call motorists scorchers who tear around country roaas. mcjr rarelr s:o faster than the Twentieth cen tury Limited, but the true scorchers are ambitious to equal the record of Fred Marriott at Armond beach a couple of years ago. Mounted on a cigar shaped devil wagon, Marriott flew over the smooth sand at twenty-eight and one-fifth seconds for the mile, or better then two miles a minute. At the same contest Demogeot up held the honor of France by covering two miles In fifty-eight and four-fifths seconds, and Clifford Earp proved the endurance of England by knocking off 100 miles at an average of forty-five seconds to the mile. That some handy going could be accom plished on a plain country road was the contention of Walter Christie, the Ameri can, and he made good on Long Island last year with a 120-mlle-an-hour clip. Catching; Up. . Everything that goes fast needs some thing faster to catch it While the racing car la at present unapproachable, the com mon scorcher may be overhauled by a mo torcycle, which is the torpedo boat de stroyer of 'the highway. A streak of dust, a pop-pop-pop like a rapid fire gun, and the majesty of the law on two wheels cap tures ths four-wheeled violator of the speed limit. At Morris park on last elec tion day, Walter Goerke won the ten-mile national championship for motorcycles In ten minutes end forty-five seconds. Ocean Flyers. Leg power still has Its records. Aided by the suction of an express train, behind which he rode' a bicycle on a board track, Murphy pedalled his celebrated mile in fifty-four and three-fifths seconds. Robert A. WeiUvour has dons' his mile In 1:06V4 and K. Caldwell has gruelled fifty miles In a tick less than an hour. Most machines that go fast ars compli cated and costly, but any country boy can make an Ice yacht skim ths froxen lake or river at an unparalleled speed. No motor yet devised has driven anything on wheels as rapidly aa ths wind drives tbs ics yacht over its glassy course. There are no bear ings to get hot, and If there Is any friction on ths stsel skates ths Ice keeps them cool. On the frcaen BTirewbeury river two years Ago ths yaot Drub went over a short measured course at the rate of a mile in twenty-four seconds, or 160 miles an hour. In order to exceed this, man may have to launch himself In a cyclone or get shot out of high power rifle. Ioe yachts often make two miles In a minute, and quite outdistance slowpoks express trains on the bank of the Hudson river. The transatlantic blue ribbon for pas senger steamships is held by the Lusltanla, with a record of 25 knots, whils the cruiser battleship Indomitable recently took the prince of Wales horns from the Quebec celebration at an average gait of 25.13 knets. Dixie II, which won the Interna tional motor boat race In Huntington bay last summer, made an alleged world's rec ord of 86.86 miles an hour in a private spied test. Charhs R. Flint's launch Arrow la credited with ths phenomenal speed of 46 miles an hour. Probably the swlftiat warship In the world Is the English de stroyer Tartar, which not long ago spurted a abort distance st the rate of 42.60 miles an hour. There ars five of these smoke- belching speed devourers of 760 tons dis placement and 17.000 horsepower. Each has turbine engines working on triple screws and uses oil fuel. . It Is hard to estimate the speed of aero planes because the machines trsvel In lr- Overfatness Condemned Fat, or even fattlsh, women readers who want to be In the mode this year must un derstand that ths demand Is for lines,' not curves, and govern themselves accordingly. That means OFF with the fat It has be come a duty. Many are trying exercise or dieting; but It Is certain they will find these methods too slow and unreliable. The cheapest and safest way to get la form for tbs Plrectolre mode is by means of Mar mola Prescription Tablets. Any druggist (or ths Marmola Company, Detroit, Mich.) will give you a large-elsed case of these elegant little fat reducers, containing a good, generous supply, tor seventy-five cents, and even this quantity should be enough to make a decided Impression on your sxeess fat. Many have lost as much as a pound a day. These Marmola Prescription Tablets may be used with impunity and likewise perfect confidence, for, being made strictly in ac cordance with the famoue Marmola Pre scription, they are, ot course, quite harm' lees. They are rather beoeflelal than uh rwlse. In fact, never disturbing the etoin- j,sjub tar oauei.ng a .wrinkUuf of th flesh. In this sale we include every single piece, every design of which we have only a few and every pattern which we have decided to discontinue. Every piece offered is clean, up-to-date, reliable stock, and will be closed out at a mere fraction of its value. Our one thought is to clear out these goods to dispose high class merchandise at actually less than One-Half Price. srrBmnmrf X 51R50 For This Magnificent ID- S27.S0 Brus Bed Terms 1 (1.60 eash SOe Weekly. Exactly like Illustration made of carefully selected stock, and of a very handsome design. At the above low price It Is a most exceptional value. IRON BEDS $1.00 Iron Beds, 4 Ati special , , ,,,l.4vJ 14. SO Handsome Iron Beds, 9 9R t 18.60 Iron Beds, special Ann h price T 111.60 Elegant Iron? Beds, "T OK 9 special 3 I I I I 1 1 9 XXAOTIiT 1 I I I I li S ADTHTIgXl CHINA CLOSETS DRESSERS U7.E0 China in 05 closets, special. . I J $13.60 solid oak dressers, special $16.00 solid oak dressers, special. $21.60 China closets, special. $85.00 China closets, special. .13" .19" 60c Ingrain car pets, per ROCKERS $3.60 rockers,' like cut, wood or cobbler seats, special. 4 QQ price l.uO $5.00 parlor rockers, highly polished, n 7c special aC. f J regular circuits and go up and down aa well as ahead. A minimum gait of SO miles an hour is necessary to fly at alL Orvllle Wright made about S9 miles an hour before his accident at Fort Myer last September. The monoplane of M. Bleriot is said to have traveled at SO miles an 1 hour. Monoplanes are conceded to be faster than double plane airships. Speedy Hereetleeb. ' The swiftest running horse in the world Is Roseben, which covered a stretch of track In 1906 at the rate ot a mile in 1 minute and 64 seconds. Salvator covered an entire mile In 1 minute and S6tt second In ths sams year Dan Patch, tbs pacer, beat all rivals of his class on earth with a mils In f;66. Among trotters Lou Dillon gained supremacy In 1906 with a record of 1:HH for ths mile. The fastest of running horses negotiates the track at the rate of 68 miles an hour, which la about the apsed of motor boats and aeroplanes. Athletics can go some on cinder tracks, on ice and In water. "Tim" Donoghue, the skater, rivalled a good trotting horse when he swept his steel shod feet over a mile course in 2:124. The world's record for a mile run, made by T. P. Conneff, at Travers Island in 1806, atlU stands at 4:U. The hundred-yard dash was brought down to 9H second, by "Pan" Kelly, of Oregon, two years ago. If this speed could be continued it would amount to a mile in 1:48, or 21 miles an hour. The adoption of the ordinary "crawl" stroke In swimming has broken all water records within the last fsw years. This stroke has been. Imported from Australia, and the one who usss It looks more like a fish than a man, being under water most of the time The crawl was dlscovsrsd by an expert, who tied his legs together and found ho could go faster with that apparent handicap. At . the English races last ysar, B. CavilL swam a record mile in fl minutes and 11 seconds, while Charles M. Daniels of Nsw Tork, who holds all kinds of world's records, splashed a hundred yards in 654 seoonds, which amount to about four miles an hour. . The fastest mile In rowing was accom plished with an slght-oared shell on the Harlem river by a New Tork Athletic club crew last year. The time was 4 mln. utes and 23 seconds. For comparison these record making feats may all bs reduced to a common mlle-an-hour basis, which gives the following table of relative, swiftness: ' Mils Hour. Ice yacht 150 Electric railroad motor 10 Automobiles I'M Bieam railroad locomotive 116 Aeroplane 60 Motorcycle , 60 Horse running S8 Man skating , H Man running , 21 Nsw Tork Tribune. Reela turn Cse Seer. They were telling a guileless, unsuspect ing Englishman how chop auey Is made." "First," they Informed him, "the Chinese restaurant man catches a very young chicken." "Ah indeed!" "And he locks that chicken up in a pas teurised ooop." "You don't say!" "And he sets a trusty dog to watch over that coop." "How Interesting!" "And hs feeds the chicken on milk. Infant mushrooms, iced tea, and sweet pickles." "O, I say how very curious.. "And presently the chicken's wings begin to sprout." "Yes." "And the Chinaman cautions the dog to be particularly watchful." "Yes." "And ths dog goes to sleep. "Indeedl" "And the chicken peeks a bole la the pasteurised coop and flies away." "O. dear n-.e!'r "And the Chinaman appear., sees what has happened, flies Into a terrific rage. Erabs ths dog, mak.s mlneement out of Ira, and serves it to his custom.rs as chop suey, and starts alt over again with another young chicken." "But, 1 say doesn't didn't He could get so saU taction. Philadel phia, Ledger. Quick Action for Tour Money You get that by uatng The Bee eAvestlstog ooinrir.a of them quickly at any price. Here's the opportunity to obtain Complete home furnishers or those only desiring single piece, ran save none by attending this sale. linaO For This Beautiful 518.50 III Pedestal Extension Table Termst 11.00 oashi Mo Weekly. Exactly like illustration, and positively ths grandest value ever offered by any house In a substantial pedestal extension table. Made ot solid oak, highly polished. The Xi- Cjf ' We only sonata of- fr"? VA enumerate a fared durtag,,' fflf,w of th thU salsiC -J) offeTe'a range from J TV ( during this S3H ttA COUCHE8 AND BED DAVENPORTS 8.75 0,95 $10 velour couches, special $16 chase leather couches, special . . $20 chase leather couches, special . . $40genulne leather couches, special . . $30.00 soUd oak 11 7C dressers, special I I. fw $37.60 handsome 1 J QC dressers, special. $20.00 princess in 7C dressers, special I v. Ill $46 bed daven- ports, special CARPETS AMD RUGS $6.60 art reversible ruga, special 80o all wool Ingrain EC. carpet, special, jrd.wwtj 9 60 brussel car- COn pets, special, yd. . . UJU $1.26 velvet car- OQn pets, special, yd. . ,00 w $10.00 bruasel rugs, C Clj good quality, spe...0iuu ,JPVc?a,br.ul.:,!f,'..10.50 $37.60 velvet rugs, 11 C( good patterns, spe. 1 1 iwU r s ' - 4 RNAM . STREETS. OMAHA. (The Veeplea 1 mil tore and Carps Co, UstabUshed HOTELS. CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara ) ... THE POTTER AMERICAN PLAN Rates Single $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 $7.00 Has .Its Own Squab Itancn, $3 00 live Stock. Farm, $9.00 Poultry Ranches, Vegetable $10.00 Gardens, Private Country Club. $11.00 Race Track and Polo 'Grounds, Private livery. Wireless Telegraph, Art Gallery and Picturesque Golf Links, Good Table, Good Iirlng. Cheerful Service, Rates Graduated to All, Reasonable Requirements. Accommodations for One Thousand Guests, . Artesian Well and Refrigerating Plant, Conservatories, Green Houses, A Whole Mile of Geraniums. Open All the Year Round. 80.000 Fine Rosebushes, Child ren's Grove, Zoo, 60,000 Pigeons and , Would be Pleased to Send You Booklet MHO M. POTTER, Manager HEW MAJEOTIC Earlleet and beet tn the world: Early Ohio. Early Rose and Early 81a Wseks; th standard of all best varieties. Also Cannon No. I: Rural New Yorker No. 1 and other hmmt aorta. T seed is Ken ruver grown ana tne nne.i hock w ra iuuna any Big Illustrated Catalogue of all farm, field f raaa and garden seeds. where. Write for Bl It's VBXH to the asking. Address, IkAYXaUara JU KOVS, heBaadoe. Iewa Iie4tetl X 50175 For This Superb $35 ? - Bed Davenport X Terms l 99.00 eash Boo Weekly, Exactly like illustration, and Is fo.ltively sn unbeatable barftnln. O t Is upholstered In a high grade X Imported velour, and has a guar anteed construction. CVTCrlCMfl TAPICO LAIklltflUIl IHUIiLU $6.60 Extension Tables, speolal $lt.60Extenslon Tables, special ..I., $140 Extension Tables, spvctal 3.95 6.95 .9.50 116.00 Pedestal Extension IB IE a. Tables, special IO1IO V PARLOR SUITES $25.00 3-pc. par- 11.75 ? r f VtLu .9.75 12.50 23.50 AC 7c C U. f 9 .3.75 $19511 For This Bssd- Y l sosse $11 Dresser 6O0 Weekly. A Exactly like cut. and X made of carefully selec- ted solid oak, an excep- ttonal value. T $8.60 chiffoniers. 5 4 .4.95 1 drawers, special . . . la 1887.) Rates Doubb $7.00 ' ' tor suits, special iu $37.60 8-pc. par- 01 25 i lor suits. speclaliC I V $55.00 3-pc. par- OQ.50 lor suits, spocialuw . ilSilllil)! 1 BAILEY ra MACH DENTISTS Beet equipped Dental office in the middle west. Highest grade Ientitry at Reanable Pries. Pom oelaln fillings, just llks the teelhT Hi tnetssuaeaUi carefully sterilised after eaoh patient. """"nl" XK1KD FLOOR. PAXTOM BXOC& OotmcsT Ittix aaad Fsmasa St. BETTER BREAD-MORE OT ITI GOOCH'S pest FTLJQILJIE Oxaaha Branch-405 N. Y. Ufe Clig. Tatoptton Daagtaa 1)58, SEED POTATOES