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THE OMAHA SUNDAY 11KK: AVIUL U. 1009. DANCERS TOE SEALERS FACE An Industry that Employ. Four Thousand Newfoundland Men. WORK LASTS ONLY TWO MOUTHS Modern Meaner, liar Replace thr Old WNn (iallla Vmrta, bat taa Peril, of tar lee Flo fiemala. BT. JOHN'S, N. P.. April lO.-On March in there be, an tha annual hunt for the hair seal off tha Grand Banks of New foundland. Thla Is an Industry wlilch lasts only two months, tbut employi about twenty-fire atout steamers' and 4,090 men. whose home la the rock ribbed coast of Newfoundland. This seal hunt has been prosecuted for hundred of years. It yields a harvest of from $6oo,n(io to rTuO.roo annu ally, and like the cod fish In the same waters, the seal has defied all attempts at extermination. This Is all the more re markable when we find that today the famous Bering- seal 'Ishery Is now r-duccd to a mere skeleton of Its former Import ance. A Newfoundlander takes no small pride In this sllng- venture, and his views with regard to It are Illustrated by the story tf tha scaling skipper, who hearing once of the appointment of a prominent lawyer to the judicial bench declared that "It was an outrage to give such a fine Job to a man who had never brought a trip of seals Into the country." The seal folk for some reason describe their prey as "swolls," and In the same fashion, to "spell" an object meant to carry It; hence we can Imagine the amasement of the young cleric, who on one occasion asked a burly hunter how he spelt "swolls," and was answered: "We ion't apel! 'em, we hauls 'em." Little Known of Heals. Of the natural history of the hair seal, or "Ice-riding pinniped," as scientists describe It, little Is known. All that Is certain re specting their habits and movements Is that they appear on the coast of Labrador In the early winter and drift south on the Ice floes, where heir young are whelped on the naked crystal plains. They are born about the end of February and are suckled there by their mothers, the father keeping guard dally while she dives into the sea In search' of food. The herds are absolutely countless In number. On occasions as many as 200.000 have been seen In a single "patch." and yet each mother will return at nightfall to her own Infant and find the particular hole In the Ice by which she went down, even though the floe has shifted many miles snd changed its position entirely. Toung seals are termad "white coats," being fat, downy, pallid little masses vt blubber, with voracious appetltlea growing with such amazing repldlty that within a fortnight their pelt with fat attached weight from forty to fifty pounds. It Is at this time the ecu; hunt begins, A century ago it was prosecuted in small boats by means of nets set along the coast, then larger smacks were em ployed and went further afield among the floes. . Later stout schooners were built, and then square rigged vessels and fifty years ago a fleet of too sails put out from the various porta of Newfoundland In quest of the greasy spoil. In 1R31 as many as 374,000 aeals were brought in, while In 1864 the smallest catch on record was caught, 121,000. All Steam Sealer. Now. The modern era In the seal fishery began In 1WSJ, when a wooden steamer, the Blood hound, was built. Jn Bcotland and brought across for the express purpose of engaging In this pursuit. The introduction of steam marked the downfall Of the sail, and today there Is not a sailing vessel remaining at the work. The whole enterprise has been monopolised by a small steam fleet railing from St. John's, and only 4,000 men are taken on board these. Until three years ago It was thought that a steel ship was unsuitable for this work. It Is a seeming paradox that Iron should be less strong than wood for Ice naviga tion. However, an enterprising and far seeing St. John's ship owner resolved upon the construction of a specially designed steel steamer for the sealing business and which should also be available as a cargo carrier during the rest of the year. This was the chief drawback of the old style sealer, which was a twin sister of the Arctic whaler and Indeed sometimes used for that business. When the Dundee whal ing business proved a failure the ships were bought In for the Newfoundland seal fishery, but for ten months of the year she looks forward to the hour with apprehension. Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that rka V ,Va t A. A..an4 with but little suffering, as I V numbers have testified and If VH Raid, "it is worth its weight In XL and v II III M. ' gold.' tl.OO per bottle of drui Book containing valual forsuttoa suited tn. m BKAOriSLD RRBOULaTOB. CO. iLrtsnts. O Extravagance is npt necessary to good printing. The best work depends upon the good taste and capability of your printer A. L Rm4. Incatnsraasa, 1210-11IS Hownra Street Spring Announcement 1909 We are now displaying a most oom plete Una of foreign novelties for Spring and summer wear. Tour early Inspection I lavtted. aa It will afford aa opportunity of ohos tn from a large number of exclusive tries. We Import In "Single ault lengths." aad a suit cannot be duplicated. Aa order placed now may be dllr at your convenience. were laid up at 8L John's ssve when hired by an Arctic expedition or for a cruise to Hudson bay. The new ship Adventure Is a powerful, strongly-built steel freighter, costing nearly l.".m). Its lines belrg somewhat like those of the Canadian Ice breakers. I'mm the very outset It was a success. The method of conducting the sesl hunt is that the steamers, which are not allowed by law to leave port until the morning of March 10. so tlist the young seals may have time to ittaln a fair growth, make their way through the Ice to where they suppose the teal herds are. I. oca tins; and Killing;. This Is by no means an easy task, for the whole ocean Is strewn with mighty masses of crystal and every wind sweeps them to snd fro. so that H cull for the keenest Judgment to loocte t "mIn patch." This Is the cht Mis, -tfl and when It Is found i. r y men out over the I c t- k' ' pinnipeds. This Is done I a long Iron tlipij pole i,v v Is then rut, ripen and t. c from the carcass, the luttoi the Ice.' When a man gets '. pelts he makes them Into n tj them back to the siiln 1- t .11 tf.I on ' jur 11 of it long rore he carrtef for ti:e purpose. If It lr. too far away tl:e men, who go In gangs or watches, make plies of them on a convenient "pan." or flat mass of ice. setting a pole with the ship's flag on it over them to establish ownership. The men go from eight to ten miles from the ship In their dally hunt, and when bill iards break on them direful tragedies oc cur. The worst of these was In 18!W, when the steamship Greenland had forty-eight men frosen to death and sixty-three ser iously frostbitten out of a total of ISO. Daily, except on Sundays, the work Is kept up until the ship has got Its load, then It makes for home. So strong Is the feeling for Sabbath day observance In the colony that seal killing is forbidden then. A few years ago a sealing skipper's log of an unusually interesting voyage was published on his return to St. John's, when this naive confession was exposed: Sunday, March 28. This being the Lord s day no seals were taken. Crew busy hoist ing seals aboard and shifting coal In the bunkers. One of the peculiarities of the Industry Is the fact that so m my thousands of seal. being killed every day and left on pans until the ship can reach them there Is an Irresistible temptation to appropriate these under cover of night, and In Newfoundland there are two currrnt phrases to which the peculiarity has given rise. Men, Ye Swore .Noble." The "sealing liar" Is the gossip who gets busy shortly after the fleet sails with stories of steamers being reported, and the "sealing sweerer." supplies glib but unconvincing testimony In the cross suits which follow every season's fishery. Some years ago a victorious skipper, in one of these actions, apostrophized his gallant snip's company thus: "I thank ye, 'men; ye swore noble!" It Is scarcely an exaggeration to say that very little reliance is given by New foundland Juries to the testimony adduced In sealing cases,' and In one of the most recent fictions, wherein . some thousands of seals were sued for, the verdict was for two pelts, valued at S3, aa they alone could be positively and indisputably In dentlfied. The Industry Is one where men walk In dally and hourly danger of death. Within the last two years five ships were lost, the Leopard was driven ashore and 130 men narrowly escaped death; the Greenland broke Its shaft and was carried seaward, its crew being rescued In the last extremity; the Orand Lake was crushed and went down. Its crew being thirty-six hours on the floe before rescue came; the Panther and the Walrus had a similar experience. Every ship that returned last year was more or less seri ously wrecked, some of them so badly that they could scarcely limp Into port. The loss of so many of the old style boats enables the owners to replace them with ships of the modern type, and this year ees four of them In commission t ho Bonaventure, the Bellaventure, the Boe thlc and the Florixel. The first three are designed to serve as ordinary freighters during the year. The Florlzel Is a still more ambitious departure; it Is a ship of 2.000 tons, with passenger accommoda tions for 100 saloon and as many steerage passengers, and Intended to he run as a. tourist craft between St. John's, Halifax, and New York, when not employed In the seal fishery. It Is fitted with wireless telegraphy, and for the first time on re cord the Newfoundlanders hope to he apprised this year of the dally movements of the sealing fleet. Is to love children, and no home can be happy without them, yet the ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass usually is so full of suffering and dread that ffxfYY II jOLEuxA 11 11 Guckert McDonald, Tailort 317 Sooth Fifteenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887 BREAD LINES IN LONDON Thousands of People Are Oat Work and Near Stanration. of EFFORTS AT RELIEF ARE WEAK reemployment n Vnr More rresslnsr Evil In Knnland Than la Gener ally Realised, as Indlrated by Stories of Misery. LONDON, April 10. fncmrloymjnt and the resulting poverty, bringing thousands how many it Is Impossible to compute to tiie starvation line. Is a far more pressing evil, even a more immediate danger, In this country than Is probably realised either here or abroad by the general pub lic. Early last autumn It Is not too much to say that the British government looked forward to the coming winter In a spirit almost of panic. t'nemployment and distress were reported on such a scale frmo all parts of the king dom even then that alarm, and very se rious alarm, was felt as to what might be the result when the real pinch of winter should come. As It happened the most serious part of the year went by without anvlhlne: more alarming coming to pass thnn previous years have witnessed. But the widespread unemployment, poverty and distress remain, and with them the ques tion of what they are to lead to. So far the alarm they have Inspired In a weak kneed government has led to s cer tain amount of panic legislation which, while leaving the root of the evil un touched, hns served as a sop to the leaders and organisations, which vaguely threat ened trouble. The ill considered and worse applied old age pension act and other leg islation affecting the legal status of trades unions and the relations of employers and employed, which have been too fully de scribed to need more than a bare mention now, have been the work of a panic stricken government too anxious to pacify the mob they fear to consider the welfare of the masses, who, beyond question, are In need of assistance based on prorer economic principles. Pearfnl Poverty Known of All. Nowhere more than In London Is this need so evident. In no city Is squalid, starving and ragged poverty so forcibly thrust upon the attention even of the cas ual passerby. In the warm weather the turf of every public park Is thickly strewn throughout the day with the sleeping forms of the un employed, among them, no doubt, a cer tain proportion of deserving poor and un fortunate people. When th days arc cold there does not seem to be a street In Ixin don that has not at every yard a ragged and hungry looking beggar to open the door of a cab, and beg, articulately or mutely, according to the distance of the nearest policeman, for a copper. Thousands of these are wastrels, unem ployed becaune they are unemployable. Excluding them and the ever Increasing number of youths who have learned to do no sort, of work, and the pitiful army of broken women, 5,000 of whom made a rathetle spectacle sliuffling through the streets of the West End on the day of the opening of Parliament, there must, It Is calculated, be at least 25.000 unemployed men In London who have the will and the ability to be hard working citizens, but are yet near enough to starvation, thousands of them, to take advantage of the several schemes, public and private, who provide them with their Uttle food once In the twenty-four hours. That may seem a strange, perhaps an ungracious way In which to refer to charity offered and In many, cases accepted In a proper spirit, but It connotes a truth which will be apparent from what Is to follow. Effort nt Itellef n Fallore. Municipal attempts at providing relief work have, generally speaking, been a failure In Ixjndon. Labor colonies have p-oved a costly failure. Street cleaning and other sanitary work, with very oc casional snow cleaning, seem to have pro vided more work for communities than unemployed, A recent article In The Bee on the poor law as It now exists shows that it pro vided no remedy. The food nnd shelter of the workhouse, to which every destitute man has a right, only prevent the recipient. If he Is a bona fide worker, from looking for employment, while for the loafer they provide the attractions of a free hotel which he enters and quits at his own sweet will. But there are attempts made to provide the hungry man with one meal a day In order to give him some measure of physi cal strength to prosecute his search for employment. Day after day and night after night the Church Army feeds thou sands of these derelicts. The Thames Embankment near Charing Cross Is the assembling place. Here are some impres sions gathered personally for the purpose of this letter not many nights ago. What is true of one night is true of every other; the people and the weather change, but the pirture Is otherwise always the same. It was an hour before midnight, a cold winter night with the snow lying on the street and a bitter east wind blowing that had driven Into shelter all that had a shelter to seek. But already a long shiv ering queue of men and youths are wait ing, and every moment adds to their num ber. Starving;, bat Orderly. Policemen are there In charge, but their services are never wanted. The hungry crowd waits In silent, orderly misery, and no late comer tries to filch the place of one who has arrived before him. Take them all round, these men do not give the lm prtssion of being useless wastrels, neither drunkards nor criminals. The marks of pain, hunger and sickness are stumped on n.arly all. A talk with some of them may be taken as giving the measure of the rest. Their talk is free from pose or hypocrisy, for their lnter v'ewer is there In the guise of one who, like themselves, is waiting for his meal ticket. The first man spoken to still showed considerable traces of better days. This, In thort, was his story: "I am 48 years old and since my seven teenth year I worked as a boiler riveter. My wages rose to an average of 50 shil lings a week; with a family of six I put little by for a rainy day. "Ten munlhs ago I was dismissed, with many more, from the firm with which I had been working for eleven years the reason was simply slackness of trade. For tight months we kept the home together, then It went. "You can guess the rest. The parish guardians are looking after the children, my wife Is In the workhouse Infirmary, and 'full up' or trade's scarce' Is the an swer when one asks for any kind of woik. I walked about looking for work two das and two nights without any food or shel ter before I could buck up any courage to fall into these ranks, but I'm glad I've done It: It has helped to keep body and soul together, and I'll manage to regain my feet somehow this summer." Lay On MMdle-Aaed. Here, no doubt, one saw one of the re sults of the employers' liability act. When dismissals are necessitated by slackness of KITVHKN C'AHINKTS W are agent for the celebrated McDougal Kitchen Cabinet, priced ran fro from 8I..-.0 to 7-V. J Oaf P aVe a rnsnn PurPr'se 'n store for this week's slioiiers in connection with - the many pood values always to be found in our Drapery Department. LBCG wtirtcinS This week we are offering special inducements in LACK CURTAINS. There - are about 1,200 pair of Lace Curtains of which we have only two to six pairs of a pattern, that must be closed out at once. We have gone through the entire stock and have marked each pattern at reductions from 20 to 50 per cent and in many ' cases even lower. These prices will undoubtedly induce rapid clearance and the early buyer will secure the best values. "We list a few of the values this sale offers: We are exclusive agenU for the Vulcan Gas Ranges. Gas range like Illustration with four burners, three small, one giant burner and one simmer burner. Oven in this range is eighteen Inches instead of sixteen Inches. All corners and base are made of malleable Iron, mak ing a substantial solid stove. All trays and burners can be rernoved for cleaning, price connected in room $17.50 Other ranges from $10.00, $13.75. $15.75, $17.50, $19.75, $21.50 and $28.00, these pftces are for stoves connected in your kitchen. It Is a high rade, light weight, strongly con structed Oo-Curt, ab solutely draft proof, an shown tia.00 Without storm cur- tain, for $10.00 We have others up from 9-60 We are agents for the Victoria Suction Carpet Sweeper, the price is $3.60. trade, out goes the steady man of 48. for In spite of figures to the contrary given by some large employers of labor, the no tion holds that the man over 40 is a greater liability risk to his employer than the younger man. The next spoken to was a man wno looked In poor health. His wife and two children were being cared for by- an aunt, poor enough herself, while he searched for work. A brass founder by trade, he had been six years In his last employ when dis missed. "They told me th'y were sorry to part with me and some others, but they had to as orders were slack. I am a trades untnn man," he added, "and that's been my curse. It s like this. It I try to get some work at my trade I must not take a Job unless they give me 2 a week. If I worked for less I should lose all the benefits of my club, which I have paid these sixteen years. 'Tor the first twelve months I was out the club allowed me four shillings a week: row I get nothing, and I have been out seventeen months. It It wasn't for the Insurance on my life I should have broken with the union before this and probably been at work now at my trade, though on a smaller wage. I know others Just In the same fix." This man's story is a very common one. Unable to get work at his trade union wage, he must remain Idle or lose the benefit of years of Insurance. Specimen 1'lece of Flotsam. One of the moet dilapidated looking1 men In the whole crowd, his clothes a mere amorphous bundle of rags held to gether with pins and string and his foot gear nothing but wrappings of sackcloth, was certainly a hopeless case. Neither a drunkard nor unwilling to work, he con fessed that, to Judge from what possible employers hud told him. he was "nothing more pr less than an encumbrance." four years ago he was In possession of an Inherited Income of 2.500 a year. Find ing it sufficient, he got into debt, tried to recoup himself by speculating on the Slock exchange and now found himself destitute and helpless. At midnight an officer rf the Church army arrived and gave every man a slip of paper which was good for a bowl of soup, with the proviso that he should do a certain amount of work. A quarter of an hour's walk brought the whole contigent to the Church army tents. As this lot ar rived about 100 men were departing. Throughout the twenty-four hours the tents are filled with shifts of men, each shift remaining three hours. On enter ing each man receives a pint and a half of thick Joup and a thick slice of bread. After eating this, they are put to sawing and chopping and tying up the small bundles of kindling wood that are uni versally used In Ixindon. At the end of the three hours each man again receives the same quantity of food he had on entering, and on going out gets a ticket entitling him to a bed for that night In some lodging house. In the number of unemployed whose lot was followed on this particular night were several Americans. They were men who had either come over on a single ticket with little or no money to go on with on tlx tr 'arrival or had crossed as cattlemen and found themselves entirely without re sources and unable to get a passage back. Two Hellef Armies. The Church Army, which Is, of course, entirely supported by voluntary contribu tions, feeds about fto men In this fashion twice or three times a day. The work done by the men helps to piy expenses, but the deficit on each man aided amounts to Miller tewart 413-15-17 South $7.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $4.75 $8.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $5.00 $25.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price 917.25 $30.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $12.75 $35.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $17.50 $21.60 Saxony Brussels, sale price $13.50 $24.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $14.25 $15.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $10.50 $20.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $12.50 $11.75 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $7.25 $8.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $4.75 $3.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $2.10 $5.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $3.75 $3.25 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price $2.50 $11.75 Cluny Lace Curtains, sale price $8.50 Many other Lace Curtains at similar reductions. Oriental Rug Sale The stock of Oriental Rugs for spring have arrived and are now placed on sale. Every district in Persia, Turkey and the Caucasus is represented on our floors. Anatolian, Hamaden, Shirvan, Beloochistan, Dachestan, Bokhara, Kazak, Kelim Guenji, Cashmere, Tabrez, Sultana, Irans Bergamus, Shiraz, Khiva Rugs, and many others included in this stock. To force rapid selling we have marked every piece in the entire collection on a very small margin of profit. We suggest an early visit to our Oriental Rug department where expert salesmen are in attendance who will take pleasure is assisting anyone who may require their good judgment and knowledge in making selections. Everyone is invited to inspect this grand collection wheth er they wish to purchase or not. 6 pence a day, the weekly loss since No vember averaging about 70. The Salvation Army Is the other great relief trganlzatlon. From 1 a. m. to 8 a. m. Salvation Army officers distribute soup tickets to the crowds of starving and seml- starvlng men that assemble on the em bankment and elsewhere. This ticket Is good at one or other its halls for a bowl of soup, a slice of bread and an hours rest In a warm well-lighted room. No applicant Is refused, and as in tho case of the Church Army no questions are asked. It Is assumed that no man will stay out In the open till midnight in bitter winter weather for a basin of soup unless he be tn desperate need. On some nights over 1.000 men are fed at the hall visited by the writer In the same week that the Church Army tents were visited. The same kind of men were seen, only In the bright electric lighted hall of the Salavtlon Army the desperate misery of the crowd was more plainly to be seen. It was easy to pick out a great number whose looks and bearing showed they were still trying hard to keep themselves from out of utter depths. Old men, young men and mere boys were there. Condition la Desperate. There were three things that were, per Spring Debility Is marked by loss of appetite, by weak, tired, languid feelings, and if the blood is very impure, oy pimples, boils, It is a condition in which hard to overcome the germs of infectious and contagious diseases, which invade the system, here, there and everywhere. The white blood corpuscles, sometimes called little Soldiers la the Blood because the; fight the germs of disease, are too weak to do good service. It is a condition, therefore, that not only makes you feel sick and miserable, but also ex poses you to danger. The extraordinary efficacy of Hood's Sarsa parilla in Spring Debility has been proved by the largest volume of voluntary testimony in the world. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all spring troubles, restores appetite, gives strength and animation, cleanses the blood, clears' the complexion, and builds up the whole system. And it is no trouble to take it only three small doses daily. Boils and That Tired Teelinf. "It is from a sense of duty that I recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla and write you this letter. Every spring I would have boils break out on my body and as the season became warmer, would have that tired feeling. This weakness and ner vousness unfitted me for labor, so I began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine, weigh ing only 132 pounds. I am glad to say it did me a wonderful amount of good, purified my blood, overcame that tired feeling, made my nerves quiet and steady, and my weight has increased to 190 9 . Beaton Sixteenth Street. We are exclusive arenta for the Bonn Dry .tr Syphon Foreelaln-Unea Befrtgeratora. These refrigerators are constructed on scientific principles, and the latest product of advanced Ideas In this direction. Wood work is of selected oak and the hardware of solid brass polished. The latches have patent lever catches that draws the door absolutely tight, and prevents the escape of cold air. The construction Is such that other manufacturers would call extravagant, but thev do not pav the Ice bill. The Syphon that divides the provision chamber from the Ice chamber Is lined with heavy galvanized iron porcelain, and cannot break, wear out or get out of order. We have these refrigerators on our floor, readv for Inspect Ion, and Invite criticism, prices ranging from $38.60, $38.00, $31.75, $28.60. $28.75. dow n t 919.00 haps more Immediately noticeable than any thing else. First, the desperate hunger of many, shown by the wolfish wsy they seized upon their food. Second, the utter physical weariness of those who had been tramping day after dny In a vain quest for work; no more eloquent proof of this could bo needed than to sec a man In the prime of llfo fall fast unWp sitting on the bench In the warm room before his lips had touched the food he held In his hands. Third, the almost complete silence of them all as they seemed to hug their brief spell of ahelt-jr and warmth. Before touching upon the other London relief work of the Salvation army there are two or three other charities which may be mentioned, the sole object of which is to give a meal to a desperately hungry man. Scattered over Ixindon are a number of soup kitchens the prganlxers of which sell books of tickets at the rate of three hahfpence each to the puhllc, wlio In their turn distribute them among the poor. Eustace Miles, the tennis playor. nnd his wife havo also started distributing meal tickets on the Thames Embankment, on similar lines to those of the church and Salvation armies. Beginning in a small way this fund is steadily Increasing, and eczema and other it is esDeeiallv pounds. I was constable in my little town for many years, able to handle the best of them, all owing to the benefit I derived from Hood's Sar-. saparilla." Robert II. Despreaux, Middletown," N. J., Jan. 23, 1909. Pimples and Poor Appetite. "I ain well satisfied with my experience with" Hood's Sarsaparilla, and if ever I need a blood medicine again, I shall certainly take it. In the spring I had pimples and boils all over my back, with poor appetite, and general nin down springy' condition. One course of treatment for my blood bad done me no good, then I turned to Hood's Sarsaparilla, which did the business just right. It gave me a good appetite, and drove all the impurities out of my blood. Every oppor tunity I have to recommend this medicine, I glad ly do so." II. P. Boyce, Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 11, 1909. USf-Hood's Sarsaparilla effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains sarsaparilla, but because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingredients, eaeh greatly strengthened and enriched by this pecu liar combination. These ingredients are the very remedies that suoeesaful physicians prescribe for the same diseases and ailments. There is no real substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla. If urged to buy any preparation said to be "just aa good," you may be sure it is inferior, costs less to make, and yields the dealer a larger profit. Get Hood's Sarsaparilla today, in the usual liquid form or in the chocolated tablets known a Ssrsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar. CIUKTSMAN FVUMTl UK We are Omaha nnd Tlrtnlty amenta for Ui frtiftinal Ciustar Stickler Craft5iiian Furniture. We make a special ty of mads-to-order window hangings, we famish estimates and original designs which are adapted for speolal purposes. In tlu, last si or seven weeks it has pro. vldcd over 42.000 meals. There are numerous other societies, which? fltat ulm at the one meal In t wenty-fouP hours for men wh. would otherwise gi focdless the whole ,!. The resources of ' every one of tli.ni arc stretched to the ut most, but all combined they luir.lly do mora than Just touch the surface of London's starving poor. The Sulvotion Army n.tik.s n h. rlous at-' tempt to find rcgnlur employment for tho, likely men whom they collect on tha Thames Knibankmeut nnd elsewhere. It ' has a labor bureau which keeps In touch ' with employers to whom selected men aro sent as vm-imcl, occur. It has five work shops of Its own, h, which they i-tart men nt paper sorting finding for as many as' there Is room work which covers the cost of board and lodging and an average of about 4 shillings weekly In money. To these men the way Is always open fop, promotion In the Salvation Army organiza tion Itself, and outside employment Is also found for many, thus nuklnt; room fop others from the streets. Last year tho Salvuiion Army In London found employment for 22,41-3 persons, and 4,177 In Its own factories. eruptions.