The Omaha Sunday Bee.
PART TWO
ADVERTISE Di THE
OMAHA BEE
BEST IN HIE WEST
EDITORIAL
PAGES 1 TO 6.
VOL. XXXVIII NO. 60.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKNIXrt, MAY 30, 1000.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
Our Wonderful Sale
69c
Silk Pongees and Rajahs
The Mrond week of hlggrct Milk sale opens with
the assortment of shades intact (black and white
only hav been sold out.)
These are high grade $1.25 and $1.35 silks
new rough pongees and rajahs that don't
wear fuzzy or spot. AVe invite most careful
comparison. There is real merit back of
these goods. Made for finest retail trade
and never before sold for less than $1.25 and
$1.35. Among them are plenty of genuine
rajahs. See the name on the sel
vege. Twenty-eight handsome
new up-to-date shades, yard. . .
Where else can you buy so cheaply
year's most desirable
WASH GOODS
Entire dress goods section converted Into a mammoth
display of Bummer dress fabrics. Here are Mon
day sales surprisingly underprlce:
Embroidered French Mulls. In English eyelet effects,
white and colored ground, 75c values 25
Imported Poplins for dresses and coat suits, all new
shades, newest fabrics, 29c values, at 19
Llnfn Suiting Pure Irish linen suitings that Just
passod the customs, new stripes, checks and plain
effacts, 36-lnch, 69c values 10
Scotch OUflitmi, wide ran of pretty new patterns, de
sirable colors. 25c everywhere, for iin
Anderson Madras, book-fold goods, thirty new pieces and
pattern, worth 3Bc yard; Monday
Dress ainghams, one whole caae. regular 10c kind; Mon
day, yard ................ o
Llnon rinlshed Suiting-, plain colora and bordered Ideai
loo goods 80
White Goods and Linens
A radical bargain event, to make the last day of
May the biggest of the month in point of sales.
All the Jrtusssd White Goods In stock. In check, atrtpe and
embroidered effects, selling at 25c to 11.00 a yard in
two lots
Good worth to 45c 2o Ooods worth to $1.00... 39e
36-Inch ions Cloth Regular stock, new choice goods, al
ways $120; Monday. 12-yard bolt. SOoj or, yard 8c
ao-Znch Willi JVlnen Flno and sheer, for waists and un
derwear, 60c material 330
90-lnoh Linen Suiting- For coats and sutta, our regular
$1.25 line at, yard 890
Indian Head Muslin Bleached and Shrunk, for suits and
fancy work. 12Mic quality H"
36-Inch Bleached Cambrlo Soft finish for undergarments,
. 10c quality; Monday, yard V ".,!?
Bleached Sheets Seamless, size 81x90. our regular $1 00
sheots. Buy a supply at. each 8o
American Prints Fast washable colors, choicest new pot
terns at. yard
36-Xnoa Burlap In all staple colors; you always pay 25c
for this. Monday
Monday Sale Linens
70-lnrh Bleached Table Damask, heavy quality almost
half best SOp value at, yard.... v-39.
64-lnch Cream Table Damask, all linen, large line of pat
terns, serviceable and lasting. 5c qtfallty; yard 490
Bleached. Napkins 18-Inch all linen; $125 and $1.85 vahw.
wVnTowel li'mmed, colored or white borders, sise
18x84, best 12Hc kind; dosen, $1,001 each o
Fancy Cluny Pieces
Immense purchase sample ftcarfs and Centers. No
two alike Entire line samples from New York Importer.
All perfect, but slightly soiled from displaying, at prices
ranging one-fourth, one-third and one-half actual worth
ranging from 69c up to $5.00.
Books For The Graduate
Every kind of helpful literature that
will be particularly appropriate for
glft-glvlng. Specially designed for
the occasion are:
My Girl Graduate, at 81.33
School Day Memories, at 40
High School Graduate, at ..$1.23
Printed or engraved Cards and In
vitations, lowest prices.
Era
TTiErnirny
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OPTICAL DEPT. Spex Complete gold filled
frames, good lenses, 92.60 and $:! values $1
n
Our "Capitol
Refrigerator
Made of solid oak, seamless porcelain
lining, doors insulated, ice capacity
75 lbs.; excellent value, at. . .B22.50
Adjustable Pin Curtain Stretchers
special Monday at f 1.40
(House furnishing section, basement)
fBHHm
B 1,000
11
I L5fJ? Monday Half Price
A Radical Clearing Sale
Pieces Amphora, Teplltz, Royal
Bonn and Royal Vienna
Art
Treasures
CHINA AND BIUO-A-BUAO
We are making a grand sweeping half
price offer on our entire line of these magni
ficent art wares. Not a single piece Is
reserved. Every one is a masterpiece In art
from the famous potteries of Austria. We
are expecting big shipments of china soon and
to make room we intend to close out all these
rare old antiquities at half. Never knew of
such a remarkable sale before. No two pieces
are alike.
Monday Another Momentous
Embroidery Sale
Only through the extraordinary purchasing advantages
such as the Bennett Store controls are bargains like this
possible. Nowhere else in Omaha are values so genuinely
good. Over 10,000 yards on sale again Monday.
Wide Skirting Embroideries IV yards wide, exquisite patterns worth
$1.60 yard, checked nainsook corset cover widths; floun- Of
cings and waist frontlngs, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 goods KjuC
18-inch Swiss Embroideries, 27-inch flounclnga, wide corset cover
edges, bands, insertions, etc., v
worth to 50c. at XiC
Embroidery Insertions, edges, bunds, galloons, up to 18 (
inches wide, values to 20c for C
Real Hand Made Laces
Laces from the convents of Ireland, heavy all linen, hand-made laces,
some worth up to $5.00 a yard, fine for centerpieces fancywork col
lars, etc., etc. Can be dyed any color, widths up to 8 QA
Inches, values $1.00 to $5.00, Monday choice yard c5C
Any Tailored Cloth Suit in Stock (gaff) Values to $49.50, and a $5.00 Silk
Petticoat Goes With It for $25.
Here is by long odds the best suit proposition we have been able to make this season. It gives
you pick of our entire, stock colored suits without a single restriction. It's "up to you" now if you
want one of these high class models the opportunity is open to you to get any one for $25.00. The
silk petticoat goes free.
There are no better $5.00 Silk Petticoats made. Surely there never was a more
timely sale. In this lot are over 300 suits plain oolors, fancy hard finished worsteds,
serges, etc., richly made and trimmed, $35.00, $40.00, $45.00 and $40.50 suits. Unlim
ited choice almost, and Monday is the day.
$25
10 Off Shirt Waist Boxes
We believe we have the best selection of these handy waist
Boxes, Matting Covered Boxes, Burlap Covered, Cretonne
Many styles and sizes. Just to make it interesting ior
you we will
at one-tenth
boxes, Cedar
Covered, etc.
and sizes. Just to make It interesting for a a tyf tt
give you pick of any in stock, Monday, jH ur
ti or J
This Box 8S Shown
We feature as an extra special, it is
covered with china matting, and is
bamboo trimmed, finished with brass
corners; box is finished and varn
ished Inside, size
32xl7xl6-inches.
Monday on sale, at . . .
$0.75
HARDWARE YOU'LL NEED
Challenge Lawn Mower, ball bearing,
a strictly high grade machine, with
grass catcher, at $4.35
Rubber Hose, per ft. 15e, 13c, 10
Reel free with 50 ft. lengths.
91.50 Garbage Cans, Monday . .98
$1.75 Garbage Cans, Monday $1.25
Castors for shirt waist boxes, set 25
and 10 stamps.
Screen Door Handles, also for 6hlrt
waist' boxes 10
and 10 stamps.
Screen Door Springs, 3 for-- lOo
And 10 Stamps.
Screen Boor Hinges, pair lOo
And 10 Slumps.
Screen Doors, hardwood, bring- measure
ment!! BSo
73c Bread Boxes, large '. 25J
Poultry Wire, best grade, In rolls,
square foot
Screen Wire Cloth, per sq. foot 22
Gas Pliers, a handy tool to... have
about, combination' pller and screw
driver, Dickie plated, 68c kind,
tor -SOt
Family Scales weighs to 24 pounds,
special, at 792
Mn. Potts Pattern Bad Irons, set. spe
cial 690
Broom Covers, for cleaning walls, 18o
and 80o, and 10 Stamps.
Tailored Junior Suits
A general price shake-up on a large prourf of
stylish suit models for young school goers
of 13 to 17 years. Fine worsted models, full
satin lined; values $15.00; special, $
now ...
WOMEN'S WASH
10
DRESSES
A fine variety of clever new dresses of super
ior grades madras, gingham and percale, in
neat stripe and check effect, hand trimming
tans, blues and piuks, at $2.50
LONG CAPE KIMONOS
Made in Oriental design, with short bill sleeves, Per
sian border trimmed and shirred yoke, plain cre
fabric, pink, blue, red, lavender $1.25
KNICKERBOCKER
TAILORED WAISTS
New madras shirting, with hair line and pen
cil stripe design, on white grounds; stiff
laundered cuffs and laundered linen white
collar; front pleated waist boxed each,
at $1.75
Purchase 1,000 Pieces
MESSALINE RIBBONS
Greatest Klbbon Kvent in Omaha for Years.
Superb all silk Messalines,"
six inches wide; best 40c
quality v
19c
These are the most desirable Ribbons worn to
day. Best for Graduation and Commencement, for
dainty summer dresses, for millinery uses, etc. We
bought this immense quantity at very low price. First
time you have ever seen these qualities at such a
price.
Choice of over 30 shades, including white, cream
and black.
Monday, again, 40c Ribbons, at, yard 19
Bennett's Big Grocery
Cnrnmeal, white or yellow, 10-lb. sack.30o and 20 stamps
Teas, assorted kinds, per lb 68o and 60 stamps
Teas, assorted kinds, per lb 48o and 50 stumps
Teas, assorted kinds, prr lb 380 and 40 stamps
Bennett's Breakfast Coffee, 2-lb. can..48o and CO stamps
Bennett's Challenge Coffee, lb 18o and'10 stumps
Bennett's Capitol Bak. Powder, lb. can. 84c and 30"Ttamps
Pure Honey, Mason pint Jar 85o and SO stamps
Hartley's Marmalade. Jar lOo and 5 stamps
Seeded Grapes, lb. pkg 6o
Diamond Crystal Table Salt, 2 parks.. lOo and 10 stumps
Mignonette Marrowfat Peas, 10c cans, 8c; or, doz 90o
Lemon Cling Peaches, Best We Have brand, 25c klnd.,,18o
Bennett's Capitol Country Gentlemun Corn, 10c klnd....8o
(Two cans, ISO.)
Hartley's Pure Fruit Jams.... BSo
Sweet Pickled Peaches, qt. Jar. BSo
Jap Rice. 10c kind, 4 lbs. for.. BSo
Bub No More Soap, 8 bars....3So
Dr. Price's Breakfast Food, 3 pkgs.
for. . . .85o and 10 green stamps
Prunes, 1,000 lbs.
Santa Clara
Prunes, 12 Ho
quality, lb Bo
3 lbs. for 3So
AT SCHOOL ON THE ROOF
Remits of aa Experiment with, Bos
ton's Tuberculosis Children.
COUNTEEACTUfQ WHITE PLAGUE
All Winter Tliey Studied, Played and
Slept ' In the Open Air Some
Cured, All Pronounced
Better.
BOSTON, Mass., May 29. Since the mid
dle of January Miss Helen M. Mead of the
Boston public schools has been teaching a
class of tuberculous children on the roof
of a b.K brick building hi Franklin park,
where the winds have a fair sweep, and she
declares that If the school authorities
ever acatn try to make her teach Indoors
she will leslgit her place.
The name of that organisation Is nothing
less than the Boston Association for the
Relief and Control of Tuberculosis. It
established lost fall at Parker Hill In Rox
bury what Is railed a School of Outdoor
Life for Tubercu'ous Children. This was
done because an examination had shown
that there were 100" or more cases of In
cipient tuberculosis among public school
children.
At f h st the sick -children were placed In
camp at Parker Hill about the middle of
July, and the camp was not even called a
school. There was no physician In attend
ance, but Dr. Thomas V. Toohey placed
himself on rail.
There were tents at the camp and an
open sided kitchen where wholesome things
were cooked for the youngsters, and be
fore the summer ended the kitchen was
pretly busy, for those children developed
the normal appetites of their age. There
was a large tent for a dining room and a
shelter In case of storms, but mostly the
children played under the trees of an eld
orchard which covered part of the ground.
Fourteen separate gardens, four feet by
seven, were laid out, and two children were
set to dress each garden. In the middle
of the plot was a common garden at which
all worked.
i At the end of eight weeks the children
hud gained from two to ten pounds each,
and at the end of fifteen weeks the ex
amining physician decided that nine of
the thirty-two children admitted might be
discharged because the incipient disease
had been arrested. All meanwhile had ac
quired cheerfulness and normal childish
activity. They had also learned the art of
mutual helpfulness.
The whole thing had been accomplished
at an average cost of less than 2S cents a
day for each child for food and at a cost
of cents each for administration and
training.
It was late In October when the camp
took on the full character of an outdoor
school. From that time untU the middle
of Januaty the school was conducted In an
unhealed tent. Then the removal was made
to Franklin park.
Some years ago Boston built at a cost of
$200,000. It Is said, a huge yellow brick
structure on a lovely bit of rising ground
Just within Franklin park. This was to be
a restaurant whither throngs of driving,
riding and motoring folk might come to
eat, drink and make merry.
There was plenty of room to spare here
and the open air school was welcomed to
the place.
On the roof was set a sort of pavilion
with canvas sides and a big Indoor apart
ment was given over to the school. Miss
Mead has not had her pupils indoors a
single day the whole winter, and even the
accustomed severity of the season that
Boston calls spring has not been able to
drive the school to cover.
A visitor to the sohcol on the roof the
other day found twenty-two youngstprs
at work In the pavilion on the roof with
the canvas curtains all up on the sunny
side, although the wind was keen and the
sun shone rather dimly and fitfully. There
have been fifty pupils In the school alto
gether, but almost thirty have been dis
charged as having In large measure got
rid of their tubercular symptoms.
The pupils reach the place from their
homes early in the morning after a light
breakfast. As soon as they arrive the real
breakfast is served, a simple, wholesome,
sufficient meal, freshly prepared in the
school kitchen.
After breakfast part of the children help
about the kitchen and dining room, while
the rest go to their studies. Books, physi
cal exercise (part of which Is the art of
deep breathing) and rest occupy the morn
ing. Dinner comes at noon, a good hot
meal served in a sunny room hung with
pictures cf child life.
Then after dinner comes a long nap on
folding chairs in the open air, and most
sleep sound and long. There Is a special
mark for sleeping; It counts like a good
recitation.
After a rather short afternoon session
followed by a period of play, the children
have at 4 o'clock a good light supper, and
at half-past 4 they go home.
All winter long the children sat in the
unhealed tent on the big bare roof clad
in blanketed bags that extended from
chest to toes and with thick overcoats
that came almost to their knees. A good
deal of this harness Is still worn on most
days of the malignant Boston spring.
There is a regular drill for getting In
and out of togs, and the children do It
with astonishing speed when one remem
bers how young folk In most homes dawdle
over their dressing. Snap hooks and other
time saving devices expedite the shifting
of heavy outer garments.
The children go out In almost all weathers
and skip across the broad area of the roof
without regard to rain or snow. They
have simple lessons in the growth and
forms of plants and trees right out In the
park, and some part of every day is given
to this work.
Every pupil Is card catalogued, and upon
each card Is a short life history of the
child and his parents. Besides this card
catalogue record, which Is filed away out
of sight, each child has his own dally rec
ord In which are set down a good many
things that most people do not trouble to
record.
Here appears the hour of going to bed
and of arising, a note as to whether the
child has slept well or ill, whether he
bathed, brushed" his teeth and the like, to
gether with the daily record of weight,
length of noonday nap and other physical
details. Right In the open air school
room Is a pair of scales where the children
may weigh themselves at any time, and
every one can tell you at once how much
he has gained In weight since entering
school.
Toward the end of June the open air
school will close, and such of the puplU
as still need special open air treatment,
together with others In like need, will
camp on twenty acres of land In the
suburbs. This little settlement will be ad
ministered by the useful society of preten
tious name.
Rockingham Door
Knob a Prize
Bought hy a Lucky American Art
Student in London for 37 Cents,
Sold for $25.
LONDON, May 10. With the cutting
through of new streets many ancient
houses have been torn down in Londom
Some of them were once stately resi
dences and, boasted bits of fine old brass,
valuable woodwork and door knockers so
elaborately carved and wrought as to
be things of beauty in themselves. , In
the hurry of getting rid of these old homos
some wonderful pieces of age-colored
wood and articles of brass and china have
been picked up by those on the watch, for
almost nothing.
Among other things several Rocking
ham china door knobs, the pride of gen
erations past, have fairly been given
away and a very beautiful one was pur
chased by an enterprising American who
was watching the dismantling and destruc
tion of one of these houses. Thirty-seven
cents was what the bystander paid for
this door knob, as fine a specimen of Rock
Ingham as one could see.
Naturally the Amerlcaan was proud of
her bargain and meant to keep It. She
washed It carefully and put it in the place
of honor In her room and wrote long
letters about It to America.
But life in London Is expensive for
students and one day the American
heard of a rich woman who wanted Just
that kind of Rockingham door knob to
match a set for a drawing room, so she
succumbed and sold her treasure for
$25. Now It Is being used asaln in a beau
tiful drawing room furnished as nearly
as possible in the style which was followed
when the Rockingham door knobs were
first In vogue.
Yoor complexion a well
aiyour tempor is rendered
miserable by a disordered
liver. By taking Chamber.
Iain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets you can improve
both. Thsj cleanse and in
'rlorata the stomach and
improve. the .digestion.
Omaha and Chicago High School Debaters
it
WILL ROSS,
Omaha High School.
HARRT PRTTCKER.
Omaha High School.
,T
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DA 1ST OREENACRE.
Eniflewood High Hchool, Chicago.
I
JOSKPH J. AUGITSTT'S.
Englewood High School, Chicago.
On next Friday evening Miss Daisy
Greenacre and Joseph Augustus, represent
ing the Englewood High school of Chicago,
will debate against Will Ross and Harry
Prucker, representing the Omaha High
school. The contest will be held in Crelgh
ton university auditorium, at Twenty-fifth
and California streets.
The judges will be Judge Kennedy,
Judge Sears and Rev. Thomas J. Mackay.
Whether or not the municipalities of the
United States should adopt the Galveston
plan of city government will be the sub
ject for discussion. Chicago will uphold
the affirmative side of the argument, while
Omaha wiU try to prove the Oalveston
plan of government is undesirable.
This will be the first time in five years
that the local school has contested with
any of the Chicago teams. The members
of both teams are experienced debaters,
and the contest will undoubtedly be close
and interesting. The prospect of a debate
with Chicago has aroused more interest
among the pupils than any similar event
of the ear, and the Indications are that
Crelghton auditorium will be filled from
top to bottom. Many of the alumni are
planning to attend, to accommodate whom
a limited number of reserved seats have
been placed on sale at Myers-Dillon drug
store. All seats will be reserved.
"OMAHA" BARGAINS FOR LOOT
Operation of n Rate City Man
at tbe DarKnln Counters of
Gtbrnltnr.
The greatest curio mn.ltet In Kuropo Is
the free port of Gibraltar. William Allen
White, the Kaotas editor", and seafaring
chum, J. B. Murcheson, known as
"Omaha," made the rounds of the souvenir
Junk piles. Concerning "Omaha's" deals
the Kansas editor writes:
"Omaha" was in his element. For among
the yellow-legged nations of the earth,
bargaining is an intricate science, and
"Omaha" was there to take a post-grad
uate course. A bargain between "Omaha"
and a boat-vender of drawn work sounded
like a Joint debate between two thrashing
machines. And as "Omaha" went up and
down the streets of the town, hsggling and
dickering and Jawing with the populace,
working off the effeota of a bad Spanish
Imitation of an English luncheon in the
English town, he gradually acquired a
stock of merchandise that buried him in
Its growing bulk. He had Moorish "Jaws,"
fruit and vegetables fiom Algiers, Indian
shawls (for the girls at home), baskets
from "somewhere east of Suez, where the
best Is like the worst," and drawnwurk from
Spain, "table covers or bed spreads which
ever you want to call 'em," he explained.
"Come and visit me, and I'll put this
drawnwork cover on you at night and send j
the hired girl up and yank it off when
you leave your room and have It on the
bare mahogany table for breakfatdcnd
swell, six by eight and all for $15. The
fellow started at forty with It. and I
pounded him down with my pile-driver
eloquence to fifteen, and then had to take
It to save my face. It was a great day
for the old flag." And "Omaha" took his
complete stock of staple and fancy gro
ceries, dry goods and notions to another
part of the ship for the women to inspect
his bargains. "I like to bargain," ex
plained "Omaha," in the amokint room to
the men that night, as the ship steamed
into the Mediterranean, "because you
wonder as you pay your money, why you
didn't stick for a little better price, and
you know that the other fellow has the
same uneasy feeling. The fixed price of
Americans has driven the poetry out of
our commerce. Give me a clear field and
a fair show, wNore any kind of 'holts'
go, and I'll wrestle with any man on any
trade, and take my chances. But the fixed
price It's like the canned piety of a printed
prayer book and Is stale, flat and unprofit
ableme for the Methodist religion and tho
open market."
"He'll," sold "Omaha" as he went over
his loot, "you ought to have seen the way
I beat that Moor down on this Egyptian
scarab; breastpin of some ptolomy or
other; he wanted $ii for It nnd I got it
for 45 cents! 'And so we rot and we rot,"
as old Bill Shakespeare says. 'Immortal
Caesar deud and turned to clay, stops up
a hole to keep the wind away," or words
to that effect."
Katy Road is
Not in Contempt
Missouri Supreme Court Refuses to
Cite it in Three-Cent
Bate Case.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 23.-The
Missouri supreme court today refused to Is
sue a citation for contempt against tho
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad com
pany, us anked by Judge George II. Wil
liams of the St. IxjuIs circuit court. The
St. Louis Jurist's attorneys had urgod thut
the road had placed Itself in contempt of
court by putting into effect a passenger
rate of 3 cents a mile in violation of an
injunction issued by Judge Williams,
which injunction is Involved in the pro
hibition suit pending In the supreme court.
No formal decision was rendered by the
court today, the action being noted merely
by an endorsement on the application that
It Is denied. The railroad application for
an Injunction against Judge Williams to
prevent him from continuing to hear the
rase in his court was called In the su
preme court Monday.
BOaCHES-rrtcrsua's Beech Fees' eatices
(leu their biding slices raictaea. ureter but
sad beetlit. Tbef est it sad die. Eca
If they wilk ever it. it kills then.
BEDBUGS: PeUma's DMcevery. Instant-,
ly annihilate! bed buss. First class hoteli,
steamboat companies, etc, always ase it.
A surs preventive.
BAT It Psteraua's Bat-sseaae Fsoe Is se
obnoxioas to rats that titer leave the
premises and do not return. Non-puiaonous
tike rats den't die. No fear ef dead rata
iu the walls.
ANTS AND FLEAS: Pstersua's Aat Feed
gives ItaaiedlsU relict Nothing eUe so
tore.
For ssls by druicsUu. grocers arid dsaicre
William retermtui Xao. Siw Tork