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ohoolhouae, making a long procession.
Philadelphia North American.
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY- BEK: JUNE 27. WOT.
BELL BUYS SMALL RIVAL
Nebraska Telephone Company Takes
Over Clark Aatomatic Line.
MIRGES HZADQUARTEB.S IN LOCAL
Will Tkm Ite Enabled to Imp rare
th Service In Til laws
4 Riant IVrhriik
TtltM,
The Nebraska Telepnnti company bu
bought the Clark Automatic Telephone
company with long distance Una and ex
changes In two Iowa and eight Nebraska
towna.
The headquarters of the company has
been In Bloux City, but will be mored to
Omaha July 1 and merged with the Ne
bianka company.
Uy taking over the business of the Clark
Automatic company the N'ebraaka Tele
phone company secure better service Into
many of the best towns In northeastern
Nebraska and Merrill and Sallx, la.
Announcement haa been made of the
sa'.e by W. R. Sly. general manager of the
Clark company. Mr. Sly sucoeeded J. Her
bert Quick as manager of the company
only a few years ago. Mr. Quirk, whose
principal business Is writing books and
magazine stories, now being associate
editor of IaFollette's Weekly, fell Into the
telephone business by accident, but made
a success of It. His literary work made
the telephone business distasteful to him
and he retired.
Ix Years Old.
The Iowa Clark Auto company and the
Nebraska Clark Auto company hare been
In operation about six years. Alfred 8.
Clark of Providence, R. I., a wealthy
capitaliHt, was president, and W. R. Bly
of Sioux City, general manager.
Originally the companies Included about
forty cities and towns equally divided be
tween Iowa and Nebraska The automatic
phones were used at first, but were dis
carded later for manual service, when toll
connections were established with the Bell
company.
Gradually the properties of the companies
were sold off to the various towns, until
only ten remained two In Iowa, Merrill
and Sallx, and eight In Nebraska, Ran
dolph, Piiger, Wlnslde, Laurel. Allen,
Waterbury, Dakota City and Homer.
This bunch of ten towna were sold out
right to the Bell company and the con
solidation has been completed by the with
drawal from the field of Mr. Clark, the
Rhode Island capitalist.
FAMILY THAT'S A CROWD
Father of Thirty Children Grows
Klch and Continues Farm
Work.
Colonel Roosevelt started for Africa be
fore being acquainted with the fact that
one of the best exponents of the anti-race
suicide is John W. Ouy, a Delaware man,
who Is the father of thirty children, twenty
sons and ten daughters, of whom there are
twenty-one living, his eldest child, a son,
being 63 years old; his youngest, a daugh
ter of 2 years.
Mr. Ouy Is a farmer and resides at
Melfa station, a few miles south of Delmar,
on the New York. Philadelphia & Norfolk
railroad. He was 75 years old on April .
last. In 155 he was married to Mary Ann
ltayfield, a farmer's daughter, both being
In their twenty-second year. To this union
seven children were born.
On September 12, 18T.S. he was Joined In
wedlock to Margaret Elizabeth Ayers,
who was at the time of her marriage SI
years of age. The parents, of the bride
objected very much to this match. An
vlopenient was planned, and the not-to-be-difcappolnted
wooer, assisted by her
brother, stole his sweetheart from the
house and drove to Newtown, Md. (now
Pocomoke), and were married at daybreak
the following morning. To this union
eighteen children were born.
His last marriage was to Lola Crockett,
a beautiful girl of 1 years, the bride
groom then being in his sixty-fifth year.
To this union five children thus far have
been born.
One' of Mr. Guy's sons by his first mar
riage married a sister of his present wife,
and a daughter of his second wife married
a brother of his present wire. Despite the
fact that Mr. Ouy has raised twenty-one
children, he has only twenty-three grand
children and three great-grandchildren,
while eighteen of his own children are
married.
At the time of his first marriage Mr,
Guy was practically a poor man, and,
although he has raised three sets of chil
dren, starting each son out In life, he has
prospered wonderfully, and now la owner
of several nice farms In the surrounding
country, besides his own home.
Although Mr. Guy is well advanced In
years, he Is still robust and hearty, with
out a bend In his body and has no gray
hair, and now he may be seen each dy
working on the farm with his hired la
borer, and his appearance would cause
one to think that he will reach the cen
tury mark. Each morning he may be
seen escorting hi four youngest children,
accompanied by hla grandchildren, to the
MELODIES 0N THE FARM
DIR-ervae lleteea the Real Tnlnn:
and that Welled If from a.
o Pnelle oal.
The printing of sensational and highly
decorated murder and divorce stories Is not
the only way In which Incautious newspa
pers may mislead the youth of the land
and corrupt the public taste. A soulful lit
tle thing like this from the Sylvanla (Oa.)
Telephone, which the New York World re
produces on Us editorial page, may do more
harm than the goriest and raciest of sen
sational news:
"If yna like music and pretty pictures,
you can have them at your will by getting
up early on the farm and listening to the
songs of the bird and all the sign and
sounds of nature' resurrection. You can
hear the chickens, the cows and the hogs--the
neighing horses as the farmer comes
with their feed. You can hear the voices
at the lot as the boys or the hired hands
draw water for the stock and make ready
for the day. Then, as the first long golden
lance of light strikes down across the stlent
fields, you can see all the life and bustle of
another opening day. And all of It I sweet
and brlngeth peace and Joy as we find out
sometimes when we have left It and pine
for It again."
We know a man who was "raised" on the
farm and his recollections are very tender.
He remembers a typical morning In the
springtime. He arose with the dawn, It was
his business to do so, and he lit a candle,
having shivered five minutes before he
could find a match. Then he went out to
the horse lot "to feed." It had been rain
ing In the night, the trees were dripping
and the thermometer was nearer 40 than 59
degree.
It was a cold, wet, drlzzly-drozzly morn
ing, and the Bun would not be "up" that
day, and the mud In the horse lot where
the pigs and mule had romped was six
Inches deep. The roosters were sitting low
on the limbs of the trees with their heads
hidden, without the slightest disposition to
crow. Nor did the "horses neigh;" there
was "nary a horse," so to say, as they
were all mules, three of them.
After tugging at the tatch and wrestling
with the stable door, which the rain had
caused to swell, and skinning the back of
one hand, It was to climb Into the loft and
dig around for three bundles of fodder for
each mule. Then It was to go to the crib
100 yards distant and get eighteen nubbins,
after untying the twine string that held tin
crib door in place. Then came the trans
ference of the corn to the mules, as wull
as of the fodder.
As to Old Sal and Mike It was easy,
but only a skillful mule mariner dared
venture Into the stall of that young Pete
mule and yet it had to be done. Pete
was wonderfully handy with hi heels and
was no respecter of persons, so that feed
ing him was the one matutinal perform
ance on that farm that really thrilled and
warmed. Ah, how keen was the Joy In
waltilng around Pete In the stall, with
a bundle of fodder In one hand, six nubbins
In the other, In the desperate endeavor
to be nearer his front than his rear! Pete'
motive in kicking was merely to have a
little fun.
One did not hear the little birds twitter;
they were busy In the garden eating the
young plants and destroying tho rasp
berries, etc. One v as expected to drive
them away, though one's feet sank an ell
In the soft garden mould. As for the
voices of the "hired hands," It was to go
down to Jim's house and yell at him, and
to Jake's, and then wander down tho line
If perchance' on might persuade Aunt
Millie to reconsider her resolution never
to "cook another breakfast for white
folks." Besides, the cow . might go un
milked and likely as not anvil Jumped
the lot fence, strayed Into Neighbor Jones'
roastlng-ear patch and he had "taken her
up," to surrender her only on receipt of' a
dollar.
True, there were days when on could
"see the first Jong golden lance of light,
and good gracious! they were hot morn
ings. It was difficult to listen to the
ravishing notes of the mocking-bird and
thrush; the note of the crow interfered
with the harmony In the watermelon patch
close by.
To be sure, there Is much Joy on the
farm; but not much poetry. What our
Georgia friend sings Is true sometime,
but the cold and the hot and the stormy
days are In the majority Just as they
are In the banking-house, the lawyer's
office and in all other places. Charleston
News and Courier.
Most Wonderful Henllnw.
After suffering many year with a sore,
Amoa King, Port Byron, N. T., was cured
by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. 25c. For sale
by Beaton Drug Co.
Bee Want Ads stimulate business move.
V-omt of Its Kind.
The meanest of all the "loan sharks" on
record has Deen discovered In Des Moines.
la. A concern actually took a mortgage
on a poor woman s wooaen leg a part or
ner nousenoia itirnuure. When she de
faulted In payment on Friday, the mort
' ut u...i!u to untitnthi Liie tirtitiL-.nl
limb and lay It on top of her goods and
chattela when they were seized by the
process of law. A "peg leg" as "household
iui niture seems to he a new classification.
Ordinarily It would be considered as "wear
ing apparel."
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made of Indian Corn.
A tempting, teasing
taste distinctly differ
ent all H'b own.
"The Taste Lingers"
Sold by Grocer
Popular pkg., 10c.
Large Family slxe, 15c.
Poatum Cereal Co.. Ltd..
Battle Creek. Mich.
Olldl McDaittTi We lb sties n?
IVlIOtit Have Had In Mind
, Our Great Clearance Sale
When He Defined Peremptory
Preventing debater-Final, determinate, fully resolved THAT MUST BE
DONE. These definitions apply perfectly to our ' -. -
Iinmpipovooniertit
Mloradlaiy
In the Basement About 100 pieces fine -lawns
in handsome floral designs, usually sold at 10c,
Monday 64 c. No room for debate as to value. .
Best Domestic Ginghams, and quantities of
them, sold in some places at 15c, quoted as bar
grains at I2V2C on Monday, our price, 8VL'C. This
is the final cut here.
A big lot of staple dark patterns in 36-inch
Percale, usually 12Vc a yard; on Monday, 8Vc.
A determination to unload accounts for price.
A big lot of Madras Tissues, Linen Suitings,
etc. Sold constantly at 25c Will go Monday at
14VliC. "We are fully resolved to se the end of
these this week.
MAIN FLOOR 35c linen and mercerized im
ported Suitings will be sold on Monday at 23c.
You know what "23" means.
25c bordered Tissues, by all odds the best
seller of the season will go on Monday at 17c yd.
A specially good lot of fine Nainsook and Swiss
Embroidery, worth up to 25c will go on Monday
at I2V2C
,In a day or so we'll have something to say
about Dress Goods, Books and Silks which will
cause most people to sit up and take notice.
MAIN FLOOR, ALSO-A large lot of white
and ecru Cotton Dress Nets, 42 and 45-inches wide
fancy and plain weaves Monday 29c; values up
to 75c a yard.
Come to the Basement Again, Please Just a
few words on China. Selling so rapidly that there
won't be need to say many more words about it.
Monday a special lot of Havilnnd & Co., German
and Jap plates, also cups and saucers, Imara
bowls, Jardineres, etc. gold formerly up to 40c
all to go at one price, 19c.
A fine assortment of plates, cups and saucers
and fancy articles, sold before up to 80c at one
price Monday, 39c.
A grand clean up of odds, sold up to $1.25, at
59c
Choice bowls, covered dishes, plates, plat
ters, chop dishes, sold up to $2.25 will go on Mon
day at 98c.
46-inch Imported Scotch Gingham formerly '
65c, 75e and 85c on Monday half former price,
42c, 37V2c and 32V2C The word "Imported" is .
important means just that.
Just as you enter the store look to the left
on front square. Will sell a big lot of fancy Rib
bons, printed wnrp, drcsden, 6tripes, etc sold for
merly up to 50c. A clean out price here, also, for
Monday, at 23c.
Fancy belting, big variety on Monday, lo an .
inch usually sells for four times as much.
Hope to clean out a big assortment of Filet
and Nottingham Curtains on Monday. Three very
special lots-$5.89, $2.19 and down to 98c.
Some beautiful Bod Sets just about one-half .
former prices.
We have taken from the reserve stock room
hundreds of dozens of Hosiery and Underwear and
priced every piece and pair very low for Monday.
The workmen will start soon, wo must make
room for them. Help us to do it you'll l'ind'it .'
profitable.
XBnormais MMpaitiiMicIk: Si Co
UORTAR BOARD AND COWS
Origin and Variations in the Toga of
College Graduate!.
BADGE OF DISTINCTION FOE AGES
Ancient Insignia, of Caste Adjusted
to Modern Uses 81a-nlncance
of Colors aad Qual
ities. The young doctor, who now all over the
country la donning the cap and gown. In
which on commencement day he will face
his college president to receive the diploma
that entitles him to practice his profession;
the sweet girl graduate, who, having mas
tered the arts and many othsr things she
will never need In after life, is gowning
herself for the day of valedictory, and all
the host of other graduates little dream
of the historical significance of the attire
they wear on their final school day.
Way back to the dim mists of the middle
ages, long before any but the most ancient
of surviving institutions of learning had
been founded, must the searcher go to find
out who originated the commencement garb,
and to learn its meaning.
In all ages man has found It convenient
to Indicate rank and calling by specialties
In dress.
Sixteen hundred years before the begin
ning of the Christian era the rank and
calling of the Egyptian would be told by
his dress, so It was with the Greek, the
Roman and the Assyrian. In India it was
an absolute crime for the t.ian of lowly
walks to Imitate the garb of the caste, and
in the life of the Israelite all classes were
indicated by their dress.
Modern Idea.
It was not until the coming of modern
ideas, especially the upsprlnglng of repub
lican institutions, that the habit of regard
ing clothing as , badge of station began
to fall into disfavor. But even until the
present time certain forms survive that
perhaps nothing can ever change.
The guardians of the nation's peace must
have distinctive attire, so must the men of
the church. Soldiers and priests will per
haps wear distinctive garb as long as there
Is an army or a church.
Originally in the Christian church, ac
cording to the ancient histories and crude
drawings surviving, worshippers and priests
alike had special habiliments for times of
pleasure and of sadness, but gradually the
priest, as befitted a man who had author
ity in the church, devised a form of dress,
permitted only to himself, and regarded as
part of the offices of his church.
During the middle ages the priests
adopted a ceremonial garb for their own
use, modeling it as closely as their knowl
edge permitted on what had been used in
the worship of the ancient temple of Jeru
salem. For everyday use the monastic or
der's invented a distinctive dress, different
orders and man's rank in each being indi
cated by some special feature.
History the Gown.
In the stormy dress of this period it
was needful that a man, even a church
man, ahould be speedily able to determine
whether a stranger belonged to aa organi
sation, friendly or antagonistic. This dis
tinctive dress aids materially.
The close aiilanoe of the priesthood with
the world's store of information made it
an easy and natural evolution for the garb
of the priest to be Introduced into the uni
versities of that early period. The priest
was then the teacher. He was the rare
public character who could read. In the
course of his preparation for order be had
profited by access to store of Information
closed to the remainder of the world. Hence
ft he more Intellectual of priests became the
eeuter of great schools, and the younger
meu who studied under them naturally
adopted the dress of their teachers out of
loyalty and pride.
When the universities thus springing up
became regularly organised, the professors
or bachelors or doctors of divinity, and the
graduates of the faaultles of ,law and art
above - the bachelor degree,' wore their
regular dress flowing gowns," with capes
and hoods. Very high rank was then in
dicated by a special cap.
This was the beginning of the present
academic garb so generally seen in the
early days of June, the month of com
mencement. Soma Later Developments.
Although in general form the dress has
remained much the same, there have been
many developments. In the fifteenth cen
tury special distinction was made between
the master's and the bachelor's gowns, the
former' being shorter. Soon a system was
evolved by which the higher degree would
be indicated, and eventually there came
into existence a whole system of graduation
of academic attire just as clearly graded
and marked as the degrees of heraldry.
But this system has never been uniform
among the world's universities. There bave
been many variations growing out of dif
ferences in religions.
Of existing universities, Oxford claim to
have a system that goes back further than
that of any of It contemporaries. The
graduating class of this year In the famous
English university will wear Just exactly
the same kind of ecclesiastical and civil
robes that were proper In the days of the
early Georges, 4 couple of centuries ago.
The gown of Cambridge goes a long dis
tance back, not quite as far perhaps aa the
other. .
Oxford makes very marked difference in
the garb of a graduating minister and law
yer, for Instance. Cambridge still further
differentiates between students of it va
rious college.
A I'nlforra System.
The ordinary academic dres of today
consists of cap, gown and hood, and in the
United States the system has been so uni
fied that a very definite code has been es
tablished. In ISM an Inter-colleglate commission met
at Columbia college with Reth Low aa
chairman and Colonel McCook of Prince
ton, Dr. Palmer of Yale and Chancellor
McCracken of New York university, as
members of the commission. They made a
careful study of academic costumes In
the various dnlversltlea of Europe, and out
of the chaos they involved an orderly sys
tem, which Is the one followed now by all
the greater universities and colleges in the
land.
There are three types of gowns, which
are marked by varying cuts of hoods to
represent doctor, master and bachelor de
grees. The doctor's gown has full open,
round sleeves, faced with velvet and has
three bars of velvet on the sleeves.
The master's gown has a closed sleeve,
square at the bottom, falling below the
knee. The arm enter through a slit near
the elbow. The bachelor's gown has long,
pointed sleeves.
The doctor's and master' gown should
be sllki . bachelor' of worsted stuff. The
doctor's cap ha a gilt taasel, while the
others have silk tassel.
Thus far the United States follows the
custom of Britain, but the lack of uni
formity In hoods and the application of
color to them, made the American authori
ties adopt a system of their own, very
carefully elaborated.
Grades of Hoone.
The three grades of hoods varv In cut
as much as do the three grades of gowns
They are made of the same stuff as the
gown, but are generally lined with the
color of the Institution granting the de
gree. They are trimmed with a color that
stands for the department from which the
degree emanate. This trimming Is gener
ally of velvet.
Arts and letter ai represented by white
Austro-American Doctors Succeed
Where Chicago Doctors Failed
Mrs. N. B. Burtsfleld, formerly of Chicago, but now living at Omaha, has
been suffering from what the Chicago doctor called IntercOHtal rheumatltm. She
treated with a number of physicians, hut was unalile to giiln relief until she
started taking the Austro-Amerlcan treatment. Following Is her letter:
June 22, 1909.
Austro-Amerlcan Doctors,
Omaha, Neb.
Dear Doctors: I have been suffering from what other doctors have called
muscular and lntcrcnstlal rheumatism tor the last five years; have never been
free from pain until I started taking the Austro-Amerlcan treatment. I got
relief almost instantly from the time I began taking the treatment, and I feel
that I am greatly Improved In one week, and believe If I continue taking this
treatment I will be cured. I suffered greatly from constipation aluo, and know
that only tbose who have suffered from muscular rheumatism could realise what
I have gone through. I formerly lived near Chicago and have treateil with a
number of doctors there, but It seemed to me I would never get any relief. Now,
however, I am sure that I have at last found the right treatment.
Yours truly, MRS. N. B. HUKTSFIELD.
Wlthnell Block. Omaha.
Those who are suffering with Paralysis, Rheumatism, Goitre, Epilepsy,
Gall Stones, Diseases of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach, Blood, Chronic and
Nervous Diseases of Men and Women, etc., should call at once as delay Is
dangerous.
No Fee Asked Until the Patient Is Cured
Don't Make a Mistake in the Address. The Only Omaha Offices of
THE AUSTRO-AMERICAN DOCTORS
Are Permanently Located at Bulte 42S Ranige Building.
15th and Harney Htreeta, Just Opposite the Orpheutn Theater, Omaha.
DK. THKODOIUO MILKN. , f
Dr. Mllen, the physician ln
charge, la an eminent diagnosti
cian of 30 years' experience In
nervous and chronic dlegases. lie
sees all patients personally and
outlines their treatment, asking
no questions at all of tbe"patient.
trimming, which is copied from the white
fur found on the Oxford and Cambridge
bachelor of art' hood. Theology and di
vinity ar alway indicated by crlet,
tandlng for teal. Law Is indicated by
purple, h color of kings' V;ourU, or, pos
sibly, this Is a retention of the old purple
stripe on the senatorial toga.
Green stands . for medicine, originally
signifying the green of the herb. The pink
of music Is copied from the pink brocade
of the Oxford gown of the doctor of music.
Philosophy Is blue, the color of truth and
wisdom, the yellow of science Indicates the
wealth that science has for the student,
yellow being the traditional color of gold.
The Introduction of many new depart
ment ha led to the adoption of distinc
tions for them. Pharmacy Is Indicated by
the russet band, dentistry by the lilac, for
estry by russet brown, and so on through
all the special grades of study. The colors
of the institution shown in the hood are
arranged In the old principle of the colon
on a shield.
Both In it ancient origin and in the care
which has been bestowed upon it by mod
ern educators, the academic gown Is a
worthy symbol of the great event It marks
in the lire of the student. Philadelphia
North American.
Musing- of a C'ynle.
Most of us believe In eternal punishment
for our enemies.
A man never fights so hard for a prin
ciple un he does (or reeultH.
Occasionally you find a grown man who
seems to eat almoat aa much aa a small
boy.
The things that make a man discontented
are not what he has, but what he wants.
It is quite natural that a fellow will never
have a show unless he hns the price of
admission.
Home men are ao rich that they even
seem to think they can pay their respects
In dollars.
Fine feathers may not make fine birds,
but a man'a clothes may make him look
like a jay.
There are lots of good points about many
a man we wouldn't suspect If he didn't tell
us about them.
That women have little sens of humoi
may be due to the fait that they don't
want to laugh and grow fat.
When a woman s face la her fortune she
shouldn't have much trouble In gelling
through life on her cheek. New York
Times.
A Baraelor'a Reflection.
All the money a man could make in one
form of Investment he loses In another.
The more mistakes a man make tb,
luckier he 1 If none of them were to gt
married.
Where a girl la smart is knowing how
many more beaux she ran have by being
pretty without the brains.
A woman would Just aa lief be married
The
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most luxurious of any train to and from
Colorado. Every convenience and com
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and every detail that tends to make a trip
one of pleasure carefully looked after. A
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A Gentle Aaaeraio.. mnrti,iini "1 mav not be aa Induatrloua
Among the prisoners brought before a I " some. but. sir. I am BO spe40irUU"-
police magistral on Monday morning wa J Harper a Vt yr.
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