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OMAHA DEE
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VOL. XXXVIU-NO. 48.
OMAHA, SUNDAY M0RN1XU, MAY 10, 1909.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
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Damasks I Towels
Bleached Table Dtmut, 71 and 4-lnehes, any
pleca In stock, worth to 0c, Monday ... .38
Towel Special Hemstitched and hemmed huck
Towels, regular 26c goods. Monday, each 19o
Vapklas, all linen, 18-Inch, variety of good pt
terns, worth 11.50 down, at $1.00
la-lnca Linen Crash red border, a good weighty
serviceable quality, always 11c, Monday spe
cial, at So
Silk Brocade Corsets $1.00
La Grecqae, Da Barry, Xabo, B. ft O. sad Warnsr's
Monday we clean up a very lance line of these
very fine grades of corsets. Many of them are
genuine whalebone stayed, all are daintily lace
trimmed and shown In the most wanted styles;
white, pink, blue; velvet grip hose supporters
attached. On the bargain table corsets
worth 13.60 and 15.00. for
WASH DRESS GOODS
MUSLIN WEAR SALE
One Immense lot of new 86-lnch Llnnns In
checks, stripes, etc.. In light and dark
grounds, for suits, waists, coats, boys' and
girls' wear, EOc materials for 19o
Here's a lot of very fine French Ginghams,.
Anderson's Scotch Olngham, plain Linens,
Sulsi-ttes and mercerlied materials, values
25c, 35c and 60c. for o
Natural Pongee fabrics, plain and fancy pongee
shades, at 95o and 60o
One table laden with
fine Corset Covers,
ln-awers. etc., beau
tifully trimmed, all
values. 19c, 60c and
69c, for 95o
Woman's Drawers
cambric and nain
sook. It styles, lace
and embolrdery
trimmed, at . ...35o
Another table contains
(.towns. In new slip
over style, short
sleeves, lace and rib
. bon trimmed, values
to 86c. at 64
Children's Drawers, 1
to 12 years, made
right and of the best
muslin, 19c, 900, 8 So
and 30o
MOiriJ AT Bale Manaf aeturer's Ctock Drap
ery Samplos and Hill Lengths. Big- Bargains on
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We Bought 9,000 yds. New Pongees and Rajahs
143 Pieces 9,000 Yards 32 New Shades All Pure Silk Pongees
From LEADING PATERSON NEW JERSEY SILK MILL
Value ia the compelling force back of this incomparable silk sale. The greatest and most important silk purchase and sale of recent years.
The fact that these are choice, new silks the most popular of any shown over any counter gives prestige and lustre to the occasion. Aside from
this the magnitude and variety and the HALF-PRICE inducement makes It a power In local retailing circles. All $1.25 and $1.35 silks for 69c.
Everybody knows how these Pongees, Tussahs, and Rajah silks wear. Everybody wants them this year. Improved machinery
has brought them to perfection now. These don't get rough and are smoother and softer in texture than formerly.
Buy tbein for Princess Dresses, Tailored Coat Suits, Auto Coats, Waist, Children's Coats, Traveling Coat, Evening Gowns, Etc. 32 new shades
88 Inches wide -llalf-Frice.
Mouso .
Plum
IIj aclnth
French Chlr.H
Cuta w ba
Marine
Myrtle
Olive
Reseda
Nile
Light Blue
Pink
Black -
Cream
White
Gold
Grader
Walnut
For-get-me-not
Lizard
Wine
Copper
Morocco
National Blue
French Blue
Green Loaf
Mos
Hweet Mijornm
Koyal Blue
HoKewnnti
llnrtensla
Bellerose
White Goods, Sheets, Sheetings
Duplicating Last Week's Wonderful Underprlced Sales
India Llnons 50 pieces, perfect
goods, regular 6V4c quality 3
Persian Lawn 4 6-tnch, regular
39c quality, yard 23
French Lawn 4 8-inch best 35c
line, Imported, yard 22
Cotton Bulting 36-inch 25c
grade, yard 15
Long Cloth 36-lnch, our 11c
quality (12 yards 90c). yd.-8
Muslin Cambric finish, 36-inch,
fine and soft, 10c quality, yd 7
Cotton Blankets for summer
$1.39 quality 98
$1.25 quality 89
Bleached Sheeting "Just It'
brand, 2 yards wide, 30c grad
for -.22r
Aurora Sheeting 2 yards wide,
29c grade, Monday 21
Bleached Sheets 81x90 N. Y.
Mills Muslin, $1.10 grade 69
Blenched Sheets 72x90, well
worth 60c, Monday 39?
EMBROIDERY SCOOP
A sensational purchase. Embroideries never before so cheaply
priced. You save as you never did before here tomorrow.
EMBKOIDEKIKS Several thousand yards new wide handsome Swiss
and Nainsook edges, bands, insertions, galoons; 9 to 12 inches; also
beautiful match sets edges and insertions up to 9 Inches
wide, worth to 35c, choice for
ALLOVEKS AND KLOUNCINGS Fine sheer quality allovers for waists.
dresses and combinations, worth to 76c; also 24 and 27-lncli
flouncings, worth 59c, choice, yard
SHUIT WAIST FKOATINUS And Barred Corset Cover Embroideries,
new and exquisite patterns, barred Swiss with beading QQr
edeo. values to 98c yard: choice Monday 0s
VALENCIENNES LACE Table full dainty dedicate Val Edges
and Insertions; values iOc and 12 &c, choice, yard
9c
alsts.
19c
eries,
I9c
5c
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Our Great May Rug Sale, Entire Stock Reduced
An annual event watched and waited for by hundreds of families. Our entire Spring Bug stock is Involved. It's a grand clearance with
prices lower than we have ever known them.
50 Bugs, room size mitre rugs wonderful values.
11 foot 3-ln. by 13 ft. Brussels Ruga. . . .$9.98
11 ftx6 ft. 9-in. Brussels Rugs 5.48
12x9 feet Brussels Rugs , $8.75
12x10 feet 6 Inch Axminster Rugs. . . .$19.25
12x9 foot Wilton Velvet Rugs S514.75
13&X13 ft. Wilton Velvet Rugs, $10.75
Kashmir Boom Rugs most durable cheap
rug made.
6x9 ft.. $5.98 99 ft., $8.08 9x12 ft.. $9.98
$16.50 BrusselB Rugs, room size $G.48
$27.50 Wilton Velvet Rugs $15.98
$30.00 Sample Axminster Rugs $16.50
$30.00 Axminster Rugs, choicest goods
at
at
$21.50
actual cost to
Oriental Bugs Small sizes,
clear; 120 only.
$15.00 all wool art squares ..$7.50
$6.50 granite art squares..'.. $2.98
Mitre mats, 45 to 54-lnch velvets, Brussels. Ax
minsters, etc 59c
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2,000 Sample Strips Draperies
s Damasks and Tapesteries
: W4 bought a maker's entire stock at a very in
,sgii!ficent price. Yours for "a song" tomorrow.
Plain and Figured Reps up to yard lengths for up-
' - bolstering and pillow tops, choice. 19f
Brocaded Tapestries up' to 3 yards long, worth $1.50
a yard, at, per piece 95c
Bordered, Fringed Portiere and Figured Tapestries
np to 3H yard pieces, very. rich effects, at, per
pisce $1.45
f nmplo Portieres, rich qualities and effects, values
' to $11.00 pair, choice, each '-$1.98
Couch Covers 2 big lots, $1, $1.50 and $1.75 kind
for 48C
!.00 to $3.50 kind for ' $1.48
Short Lengths rep tapestry, all colors for pillow
tops 5c
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Monday's Furniture Economies
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THIS CHAIR Solid
Oak, like cut
$2.50
Ne- Sanitary. Couch, guaranteed;
like cut $3.25
Chiffonier, like cut; five drawers,
at $5.00
Carload chiffoniers and dressers,
all solid oak
Chiffoniers, $8.75; Dressers, $0.23
$20.00 Dressers for $15.00
PORCH FURNITURE
Swings, complete ready to hang
$.1.48, $3.00, f.0.00, $13.M
3-piece Suite, rocker, chair and
Settee $9.50
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PICK OF THE
STOCK SALE
TAILORED $
SUITS. . .
Values to $50.00 1
One of the greatest suit seasons ever
enjoyed by any Omaha store has already
been recorded at Bennett's. Our success
has been phenomenal. Now comes a
clearing up time.
"We still have over 300 magnificent
suits that sold upward from $35.00 to
$50.00. These must go.
Monday
Suit In our stock
Unrestricted choice any
colored cloth Tailored
Is yours for $23.00.
A grand sweeping clearance of our
high class, exclusive models, one of a
kind suits many of which have been in
the house less than four weeks. Superb
three-piece models; most distinguished
Wooltex styles included, absolutely most
refined ultra fashionable modes and
shades of the day.
Never was a more timely sale held
in town and such values. Suitsfthat
you may have heretofore considered
- out of your reach in price now down
to a popular figure, $25.00 but
come Monday for first pick.
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Jos. Drown & Co.
Bankrupt Stock
CUT GLASS
SBBSMMMSasSMMSSSSBI
Continuing greatest Sale in
our history 2,000 pieces flO
per cent under actual value.
CHINA DKPT. SPECIALS
Decorated Platters Cups and
Saucers, Jugs, Plates, Bak
ers and Bowls, closing IOC
Johnson's English White
China Cups and Saucers, per
Pair 10c
Footed Glass Punch Bowls
and six sherbets complete,
eet $1.25
Glass Candle Sticks Electric
or MisBlon style, 8-in., 25
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Phenomenal Jewelry Sale
Ths sals of tas Jos. Bromi lb Co. $40,000 bankrupt stock created unbound il
' inttrset. Soon a sals was asvsr b afore heard of ia Omaha. Frtoes are revolu
- lionising1 in the jewelry trade. Blffest crowds ever attending; a sale of Jewelry,
Diamonds, Welches and Out Glass In the west were here I aturday.
The masroltude of this nurohsss will keen np the
Interest at white heat all week. All foods as advertised
Trtday and la windows on sale until closed oat.
THE WATCH SALE
Men's 7-jewelf 20-year gold filled watches, worth $1 2.50
sule price $8.98
Men's 16-jewel, 20-year gold filled watches, worth 1 is . 7 r .
sale price 18.98
Men's 16 or 17-jewel, 20 year gold filled watches, worth
S2O.00: sale price 910.50
Men's 20 and 26-year gold filled watches. Boss, Crescent.
Uueher, Faye cases. America's best movements; actual
$30.00 watches; salo price 913.78
WOMEN'S WATCHES
20-year gold filled, 7-Jewel. Jlff.00 watches 99.9S
20-year gold filled, 15-Jewel, $21.00 watches $10.86
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Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose, Screens, Paint, Etc.
Challenge," adjustable, 14-lnch ball-
ix anrM i,awn Mower $4.00
"Atlantic" ball-bearing Mower, 14-
lnuii, four specially tampered knives,
Monday, each
"Challenge," plain bearing Mower 14-
lnth, for Ba-98
Orass Catchers free with any mower
tomorrow. 4 -
f 1 60 Galvanised Garbage Cans, 1
gallon, for ' " ' ,2
11.75 Ualvanised Garbage Cans, IS
irullon. for Wl.UO
$2.26 Galvanized Garbage Cans, 25
gallon, for $1.50
Bubber Kose, in fifty foot lengths,
per foot, 15c, 12o and IOc
Elgin Lawn Bpray free with any coll.
oreea Doors, any size and style, at,
each $1-86, $1.60 and $1.75
Hinges and TrimminKW free.
Kcreea Frames, adjustable. 15o
o Galvanized Wash Tubs 39o
79c Galvanized Wash Tubs 49o
89o Galvanized Wash Tubs 6o
Sunshine Paint, per gallon $1.30
Carter's W hite Lead, 100-lbs. . . .$7.35
Double Stamps on Paint.
Brass Nickel Plated Wall Soap Diah,
$1.26 kind
Brass Nickel Plated
Holder, 76c kind, for .
85c ilab Soap Dlah, for
40c Nickel Towel Darn,
Poultry Wire, in full
foot, at
Screen wire, double
luare root
Double Stamps on Wire.
79o
Toilet Paper
490
4 So
each S9o
rolls, square
Ho
selvage, per
SO
Tub Dresses
StyllHh, neat and dressy Houae
Dresses of standard grude wash
materials, plain and fancy effects
and made with rare taste, blirRest
assortment In town, $4.60, $.1.50,
$2.75, $2.25, $1.75 and $1.95
$3.00 Waist', $1.28
A score of richly designed white
Lingerie Walnts many of them
new, algaln this week, lace and em
broidery trimmed, tailored lawns
with Dutch neck: also black lawns.
values to $2.00, for $1.22
fMbnday for Coffee, Teas and Groceries of AH Kinds
Bennett's Golden Coffee, lb
ami ,i0 oh
Dennett's Teas, assorted, lb
and 7f stamps.
Bennett's Capitol Pepper, can...
and 5 stamps.
Iiurnham's Clam Chowder
and 20 stamps.
Kvaporated Peaches, lb
Kentucky Blue Grass Seed, lb. .
White Clover Seed, lb
V getbale and Flower Seeds, pkg
Filet of Herring in sauce
.980
.680
.100
.900
. .80
.850
.850
9V0
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Martha Washington Breakfast Food,
per package 10c
and 6 stamps.
Toasted Rice Biscuits lOo
and 5 stamps.
Japan Rice. 10c quality, 4-lbs.. . . .95o
California Ripe Olives, large can 30c
Rex Lye, three cans for 95o
and 10 stamps.
Oyster Shells for chickens, lb lo
Hone Meal for chickens, lb 2 'SO
Wheat for chickens, lb 9Vo
Hartley's Pure Fruit Jams 95c
Stollwerck's Premium ' Chocolate,
lb. cake for 93c
and 10 stamps.
Mlgonette Marrowfat Peas, 8 cans
for B8c
Batavia Salmon, can ............ 23c
and 10 stamps.
Burnham's Clam Bouillon. "
Large 40c and 20 stamps
Medium BOo and 10 stajrips
Small lOo and 6 stamps
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1YPE OF THE WESTERN MAN
Incidenti of the Stirring Life of Be
rada'i Noted, Senator.
WIDE RANGE OF HIS ACTIVITIES
Maklaa- and 9peadlas; Fortaaes Easily
GalaeeV Beoollectlaaa ef Beeaea
la Mlnio Camps aad la
Washlaeton.
)t ! ev'dont from the probate court pro
t.ejlngs In Washington that the noted Ne
vada statesman. William M. Stewart,
closed his career with very little more ma
in Ul ponsess'ons than he brought Into
the world. He was known to have made
and spent two fortunes, but the third for-
tu'-io, supposed to have been made at Bull
;.og. one of. Nevada's newest camps, has
not materialised. His estate la trifling,
eorsistlng chiefly of stocw ia mines of no
jartlculur value at present.
In his elshty-four years or life Stewavt a
cUvitlcs included that of farmer. Yale
student, Indian fighter, miner, sptci.lalor.
lawyer snd United States senator ' Sl'ver
King' to the feature writers of Welling
ton and "Sage Brush Bill" to the uiU. ng
camps of Nevada, was remarkable In many
repects.a wonderful old man. There are
(ew of his day and time left now, and
when the last one is gon there will be
n tali ri,at-hand stories of what was
in many wuy the most picturesque period
of Amer cHu history, the days of when
the gold fever In the west was at Its
height.
Tbe old senator's very appearanoe was
as provjcutlve of Interest as his life story.
The writer remembers seeing; him once
leisurely walking down a street In Waah
Ington under the broad-brimmed "western"
hat tliat ha always had the good sense to
wer till his dying day. A derbr hat would
rsv? looked foolish and'absurd on Senator
Btewart aad a silk tile ridiculous. Mark
1 aaln, the famous writer, and the senator
were great friends. Mark used his name
and fame freely In his writings, and it U
even said that the humorist wrote a great
pert of "Roughing It" in 8. natc Stew
art's room at Washington, where Twain
wandered In one day and calmly made him
self at home.
Old Coraatoclt Days.
Mark, in telling of the old Comstock
Lode days, relates how mining stock was
given away by friends at casual meetings,
in the same way that a roan with a bag
of apples on meeting a friend would hold
them out and say "have some."
"Very often," said Twain, "It was a
good Idea to close the transaction in
stantly when a man offered a stock pres
ent to a friend, for the offer was only
good and binding at that moment, and If
the price went to high figure shortly aft
erward the procrastination was a thing to
be regretted. Mr. Stewart senator, now
from Nevada one day told mo how he
would give me 20 feet of 'Justus' stock if
I would walk over to his office. It waa
worth $5 or flO a foot. I asked him to
make the offer good for the next day, as
I was just going to dinner. He said he
wculd not be in town; so I risked it and
took my dinner Instead of the stock.
Within a week the price went up to $70,
and afterward to $150, but nothing could
make the man yield. I suppose he sold
that stock of mine and placed the gui'.ty
proceeds In his own pocket."
The old senator once said that though
he hid spent twenty years among tlm
mining camps where only might was
right, where desperadoes stalked around
fairly Itching' for a fight and men killed
each other for tho most trivial offeiues
and Imaginary insults, he never had a
personal encounter the whole lime. His in
variably good humor and affability curried
him through many a tight situation with
out the necessity of violence. He used to
boast, too4 that though at one time he was
an executive officer of the vlgllantees, he
ntver hanged a man, but was the means
of saving several whom the vigilantes had
condemned.
Stopped a I.yarhlag.
It la told of him that one day while
riding his law circuit he entered a mining
camp In which there was an ominous stir
and bustle. As he dismounted at his stop
ping place he saw a distant group whose
gestures and attitudes could Indicate only
one thing somebody was about to be
strung up. In front of a shack that served
for a hotel, Stewart came across a small,
wiry man, whom he afterward learned was
a Texas desperado named Jack Watson,
The little man wore a look of disgust on
his face and Stewart asked him what the
trouble was about The reply was to the
effect that a man was about to bo hanged,
a stranger, an Englishman, who hod come
into camp the night before. Some money
had been stolen, and the Englishman being
convenient, it had been decided to hang
him for it. The Texan added that in his
opinion the man was not guilty. Stewart
thereupon remarked that If there was any
doubt aoout his guilt somebody ought to
Interfere.
Tbe Texan looked up at Stewart keenly,
grasped the hilt of his "gun" and ex
claimed: "Dast you?"
Stewart calmly replied that he "dast,"
whereupon the little Texan grasped his
arm and said: "Come on." They pushel
their way Into the crowd, where the noose
was already being prepared. "Here, boys,"
said Stewart, "before you go any further
let's go Into this case a little bit. You
might Just as well be sure about It, you
know."
There waa some demur, but Stewart was
well known to many In the crowd and
they were ready to listen. Stewart sol
emnly declared court convened on the
Bpot, appointed officials and called vyf
nesses to the stand. He selected himself
as judye, prosecuting attorney and counsel
for the defense. One of the first questions
he asked was whether all of those who
had slept In the hotel the night before were
still around the camp. Several witnesses
admitted that one man had left camp on a
mule early that morning.
"That man's the thief," announced
Stewart, with conviction, and forthwith
declared court adjourned. It turned out
that the departed man was unpopular in
the camp anyhow, so a force was imme
diately organized and started In pursuit of
him. He was overtaken and part of the
missing money was found on him and
Identified. He was brought back and dJly
hanged. The Englishman was turned loose,
with apologies for any seeming discourtesy.
Reception far the First Woman.
An incident which Stewart was fond of
relating afterward was made use of by
Mark Twain. While he and several other
companions were mining at Washoe, an
agitated member of the party came run
ning In one day with the startling In
formation that he had seen a petticoat
flutter from within a passing emigrant
wagon. Not a man Jack of them had seen
a woman In three years and the Informa
tion Immediately created a great comnrn
tlon. Picks and shovels were dropfij
forthwith, and the whole bunch went sky
hooting across country after the wagon,
giving vent to whoops of Joy. The wagon
was found drawn, up at camp, but the
owner somewhat belligerently denied that
he had any woman with him. None was
In sight, and the emigrant looked too crusty
to stand for any poking around. So the
party withdrew much cast down.
But the more they talked ubout It, tha
more they felt they must aie that woman.
The original Informant was positive about
her, so after ways and means were dis
cussed, It was decided to present a purse
to the emigrant and his wife If only she
could be induced to show h.-rself. All
hands enthusiastically chipped In till a
fund of $3,0U0 In gold dust was raised.
Bock they went to the wagon and stated
their urgjnt desire to see the emigrant s
wife. The husband dropped his hostile
manner when the spokesman held out his
that by UBlng The Bee advertising columns.
Quick Action for Your Money You git
bag and mentioned that a small jackpot
had been created which would be presented
to the lady If only the would reveal her
self to their staring eyes.
"Bally," he called into the wagon, "come
out an" show yo'self. The boys ain't a
goln' ter hurt ye. They've got somethin;
fur ye."
A' feminine face appeared shyly at the
rear of the wagon. Stewart advanced and
presented the bag of dust with a profound
bow. The woman took It. thanked the
party awkwardly and scooted for the
wagon again. The assembled party then
threw up their hats and gave threo cheers,
thanked the emigrant for his kindness and
departed for their camp again, much up
lifted and comforted by the first sight of
a woman In three long years.
Features of Ills Public Life.
In his "Reminiscences," Senator Stewart
told the story of his life In the first per
son. But for the fact that they are amply
corroborated by the testimony of friends,
some of the Incidents of his early frontier
life would seem almost unbelievable. He
was a giant of a man. Tail, well formed,
with muscles like Iron, and supple, quick
moving limbs, he was in every way fitted
to hold his own In the rough fellowship
that dominated California and the other
border states before the war and after
ward. To the day of his last Illness, he
kept his height and erectness, and his tan
gled thatch of beard.
While acting as district attorney in 1851,
he moved to San Francisco and formed a
law partnership with Henry. 8. Foote, who
had been a senator and governor of Mis
sissippi. A year later Stewart married
Governor Foote's daughter. Afterward,
when the famous Comstock lode was dis
covered In what was then Utah, the young
lawyer went to look It over, and became
Involved In the Indian fighting, which was
waged furiously over that portion of the
far west. When western Utah was organ
took a leading part in the management of
the new local government,
lzed Into the territory cf Nevada, Stewart
It was In the following year, that
he saw his fortune of $UX,Ou0 swept away
in a night by a flood that carried away his
mlne.'s machinery. Nothing daunted, he
tramped over the mountains, 900 miles, to
Sn Francisco, where on his good name he
succeeded In borrowing $30,0u0.
In 1861 came Stewart's election to the
United States senate, Nevada having been
erected Into a stale by congress because
the northern leaders saw that its votes
would be required In the adoption of con
stitutional amendments to be proposed
when the rebellion should he quashed. He
did not go to Washington entirely un
known. Already his name had been as
sociated with some of the most famous
litigations of the west. He had a f-hare In
the Chollar and Potosl controversy, among
the best known that gathered around the
Comstock lode, and many another. But,
after all, his legal fame rested most
securely upon the mining laws which he
framed and which stand today practically
unchanged, an eternal monument to his
keen Intellect and broad knowledge of the
field.
Senator Stewart was a close friend of
Senator Zach Chandler of MIcMgnn, and he
was one of those to whom Chandler pro
posed his scheme for the Invasion of Can
ada In revenge for Great Britain's assist
ance rendered to the south In the civil war.
According to Mr. Stewart, thirty senators
were pledged to help In carrying out the
plan to throw an army of 200,000 veterans
across the border, but the assassination f
President Lincoln prevented the realization
of the Idea.
Last Letter frosn Llaeola.
It is perhaps not generally known that
Senator Stewart was said to have been the
man who tecelved the last written word of
the war president before he was shot. He
wanted to introduce a friend to the presi
dent on the evening of the day he went to
Ford's theater. An usher brought out a
card from the president on which was
written:
"I am engaged to go to the theater with
Mrs. Lincoln. It is the kind of an engage
ment I never break. Come with your friend
tomorrow at 10, and I shall be glsd to see
you. , A. LINCOLN."
As Senator Stewart waa walking out of
the White House entrance. President Lln
toln wss helping Mrs. Uncoln Into a car
riage. Ho turned to the senator from Ne
vada and extended bis hand cordially. It
was the last time they met. Later that
evening, Mr. Btewart received word of the
attack on Seward, and with several other
senators rushed to the secretary's house.
The doctors would not admit them, and
they started for the Whit House. On the
way they mat a White House attache, who
told them President Lincoln had been shot
In the theater.
SACRED FISH CF THE BAHAMAS
A Hammer for Speed, with Crasalas;
Jaws and a Walpllka
Tall.
Among the many strange Inhabitants of
the great deep one of the most peculiar and
Interesting Is the whipporee, or whlpray.
This curious fish probably takes Its name
from Its slender, whlpllke tall, which la six
feet long and but a quarter of an Inch tn
diameter Its entire length. The exact func
tion of this talt Is not known.' It is un
armed, though the body la provided with
four formidable daggers of from four to
six Inches in length. y
Another fish, somewhat like the whip
poree, railed the stlngaree, has a similar
tall, which is provided with two fangs,
and It protects Itself by switching the tall
through the water with extreme rapidity
and it Is a very dangerous weapon.
The body of the whipporee la drab, with
beautiful colored markings. The head Is
shaped like that of an Immense bird. The
roof of the mouth and tongue are covered
with bone half an Inch in thickness and
serve to crush crabs and other shellfish,
upon which the animal subsists. The fins,
or wings, are very powerful and It Is a
swift swimmer, easily distancing Its nat
ural enemlts, the sharks. It Is claimed
that the whipporee Is strong enough to tow
a three-masted schooner. This may or may
not be true. One off Key West was har
pooneC near shore and struck out for deep
H'lttr, towing an eighteen-foot naphtha
launch three miles out to sea before It waa
tired enough to come to the surface and
allow Itself j to be shot. It weighed 400
pounds and measured six feet from tip
to tip of its fins.
It Is very difficult to catch ths whip
poree owing to Its grest speed, and, as Its
mouth esblly crushes a fish hook, the har
noon Is the only efficient weapon. It feeds
mostly In shallow water snd draws crabs
and other small shellfish from their hiding
pieces In the rocks by suction, tbe water
passing through the gills. Among the
Conchs. or natives of the Bahamas, the
whipporee la considered, sacred. Philadel
phia Record.
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