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B TITE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUOTTST 23, 1009. 3 I J, 4 ,4 I 1 SIGHTSEERS IS THE TOWER Touristi and Native in Show riacc. London PATIENCE OF THE ENGLISHMAN Wit and Wllin of IKf II erf Katrrs Kdnmllnn or lafant Mlnd Inttranienls of ToMare that Interested Women. I.OXPON, Auk. 18 The Towfr of Lon don In the Mecca of the tourist. West minster Abbey holds Us own a time goes , on, and you are always aura of finding a goodly number of Rapdekers tn the Poeta' Corner, but comparing It with the Tower tn this respect Is as If you compared a cemetery with Coney Inland. On bank holiday, the first week of August, thera were' 13.XX) visitors, and the average dally attendance la appromlmately 1,300. The line extended one day recently from the gateway past the desk, where very aort of ban, even to the vanity baa;, Is taken away to the entrances of the Beauchamp, White and Ploody towers. The Tower Is like Etlls Island, usually reserved by the middle class Kngllshman to show to his cousin from tin country, In which classification every place, espe cially America, Is Included. It Is the Joy of the personally conducting manager, for Its sights, like boarding house hash, are cheap and wholesome. It takes a long time to get around, and after climbing up and down stairs even the most rabid sightseer Is content to go home and rest. Tor sixpence you can see the armor worn by Henry VIII and can stand on the very spot where one of the kings of England wns at prayer "when the bloody haxe of the hexecutloncr clove "Is skull," so you hear a guide tell a party who are from New Jersey and who stand one after the other on the Identlral bit of paving, breathing heavily aa If they thought themselves back In the Hudson tunnel. No Place for Bomb. This, of course, Is after you see a very smart young woman, and she Is rather In the minority, for the smart young women ' don't congregate here, objecting strenu ously to being separated from a champagne colored, pigskin, melon shaped hag with twisted handles. She la with an English woman who, explains to her at great length that some ten or twenty years ago a man come In with a leather kit and -strolling through the Tower deliberately took out a dynamite bomb and dropped it A corner waa knocked off one of the twenty-foot thick blocks of stone, and naturally since then London, which estab lishes precedents and keeps to them, has guarded the Tower against any similar experlmce. "Uut I couldn't get a bomb or anything else In it," explains the girl, opening It wide and showing to the guard the con tenta, which conttlst of two handkerchiefs, a powder puff and tiny hand mirror, a stick of carmine for the lips and a pencil for the eyebrows, a curling Iron, one dean stock and a package of chewing gum, with a vinaigrette, amelltng salts and two falsa puffs, which had blown off and d not been replaced, as she was too un selfish to keep the party waiting. ' The. guard examines each carefully, while , a line of 100 or more English cltlsens keep perfectly still and do not vole a single objection,, the only restlveness shown being from the American contingent, who wonder none too softly If they are to be kept thers all day. The London crowd will atay put It resembles a fir cracker dampened to prevent mischief. Later one of the beef v eaters tells you what a well behaved lot of people formed the Bank Holiday proces ', ston. , " Behavior of the) Crowd. "Glva you my word, mlra," he says: "not a sound, and theyad to stand 'awlf aa 'our before they could get into a pllce. and when they got hln .there was auoh a crowd. We Just said to 'em, 'Pawae hon and hout!' and they pawsed hon and hout without seeing a thing and not syalng a word." . , 'Welt behaved crowd I call that. Don't believe you 'ave it bty. America, like that? DIARRHOEA Quickly Cured by WAKEFIELD'S Blacbkerry Bal&txm Head This Letter. I have used Wakefield's Blackberry Bal sam lor over fully years. I am not giv en to writing letters of iliis kind. In fact never did before in my life, but I do wish to Kay to you, It has never failed me In one suiKle Instance nor any of my friends. I have recommended It to. When druggists say to me: "Hera la something just as good," I tell them very candidly there Is nothing Just aa good. The faut Is I have never found anything Just as good and 1 never expect to. 1 can cheerfully recom mend It to any one young or old for all bowel Trouble. It has certainly helped me wneu noiiiing else Would. J. B. PARKE, 153 E. 64th at., Chicago, W'akelici. . Blackberry Balsam has been the bi.. m and safest rewody for Dlarrheoa, Dysentery, Cholera Infan tum and Cholera Morbus for 63 years. While It la quick and positive lo its action, it la unlike other remedies In that It la harmless and does not con Btlpate. It simply checks the trouble and puts the stomach and bowels In their natural, regular condition. Of the millions of bottles that have been sold In the past 63 years never has a case been reported where a cure was not affected when directions were fol lowed, even after other remedies bad failed. Every home should have a bottle or more on hand ready for sud den attacks. Full size bottle, 36c, or I far $1.00, everywhere. CI u s: o X a. LJ ml hi CLD in in r i C ft) T3 C u a o a c o w in tn n "to 3 O a o a And they'd plde sixpence aplrce and thrl penne fnT earh child. Wonderful. I call hit. I think the theayter has educated them, standing for the pit you know. In ten minutes an Irish cod would be fighting." A young Englishman wnn w'srs a sof; woolen cap and hicyile tweeds, listens at tentively, and then says lo his companion: "He's right about that. Jolly right you know. I was at Southland when the fleet was there and a single policeman kept a crowd of R.iO for forty minutes at one of the gates and there wasn't a protest, not a man or suffragette tried to pawse. Jolly sort, I say, too." One of the guards stops another young chap who Is smoking a pipe lustily and asks In a stage whisper which has rather a tartar brogue about It: "Are you from GlasgyT" and again, to the Imperturbable nod that the taciturn visitor bestows, continues: "I ken It by tha pe-coo-llar accent. It was the young leddy with you that gave the lo-cal-I-tee awa'." "Young leddlea always gl' everything awa'," finally states the taciturn one as he follows his party Beauchamp tower way, exchanging a stealthy nod with his confessor. ;an Carriages Explained. Miss Know It All stops In front of the plain wooden structure which Is placarded "Gun carriage which carried the remains of her Most Grylous Majesty Queen Vlo torla," and, turning to her party, aays triumphantly: ".There, that's tha third one we've .seen, one In Dublin and one at Windsor. I'll be lieve the story they tell now that there's a skull of Cromwell on exhibition In one place when he was a man and another smaller skull that be wore when he was a boy." 'Madam," Interrupts the pained and perturbed voice of a very courtly beef eater, whose enormous size, which Is not hidden tn the least by the peculiar cut of his costume, prevents his looking as ma jestic as he would like, "Madam, I am pleased to inform you that you did see another gun carriage at Dublin and an other at Windsor. You will allow ma to explain?" He gives tha huge trass buckle that designates his waist line a rack to port and continues: "The queen died. If you remember, on the Isle of Wight, and from Osborne to the boat she was carried on one of these when the remains reached Paddlngton they were carried across London to Waterloo on another, and when they reached Windsor it was necessary to have still another, so you see there are three gun carriages ex tant at tha present moment of my In cumbency. Thank you." The thank you was a sixpence. Stones Might Barn. Another beefeater with a sense of humor holds a warning finger to a cigarette amok lug tourist. Sorry, cawnt allow It, sir. Might set flro to one of the paving stones or a dun geon wall." The tourist thanka him for the warning aa he extinguishes tha causa of alarm. 'Never thought of that. Suppose these old stones are Jolly well combustible." "Indeed iicy are, air; they're only thirty feet thick here, Srr. Never can tell what damage a thirty-toot thick stone might do If It caught fire." A man passes with two small, children hanging to either "knee of his trousers. He carries another one aloft and la accom panied by his wife, behind whom tags fourth at the and of a straightened arm. The man is 'turning the leaves of bis Baedeker with a wet thumb and his face is a map of wrinkles. The wife's shrill voice demands: "Where's 'Whistler's Mother, V "My dear," you hear the man say, with an added line of worry crlsa crossing his noble brow. "That waa at the Luxem bourg." "Oh, so It was. We've been there, haven't weT" The man changes the child and Baedeker wets the other thunmu and saya; "Yea, my dear," patiently. His children are being eductated! Others are, too. There are hundreds of them, all ages and Blsee, and before the tour of the tower Is over another one of the beefeaters confesses to you that per sonally they make him tired. . Bothers of m Beefeater. "It's this way. Sometimes there's a whole school' of 'am, and they've read up about the Tower, and they know more than I ever did or expect to or want to, and they aak me all sorts of Questions, and I'm expected to answer 'am right off. If I don't get tha figures right they lawff at me. Then the little onea about B or I are Just aa bad, they gat tired and are afraid of the dungeons. "I don't see why children have to come to the Tower. Foreigners, too. tilnce the Intint cordial was established by the king lots of French people come here. Never used to see 'em. I have my troubles. Thank you." The thank you Is for the sixpence. A courier with a P. C. party is saying, as he points with a knowing thumb: "This was the window where 'e heacaped tha night berore ' was be'eaded." so he aid escape?" asks a P. C, breathless with the thrill of recalled a- tory. But I don t see," says another, "how If ha escaped he could have " The voice of the courier, "We will now proceed to the room where Lady Jane Grey, for twelve days a queen, waa Im prisoned with her young husband." Sources of Information. In front of the cases where are shown the delicate and charming methods of ob talrung Information and stimulating the memory which were the mode in the Mid die Ages, antong them the thumb screw, the rack and other Inquisitorial tortures, a row of.womon hover with glued eyes and breathless lips. Just why this partic ular part of the Tower should attract them It would need a course in psychology to determine, but, ignoring the mure spectac ular places, they examine with the keenest Interest every detail of then articlea, many of which have grew. Bo me stains. There is a small dull held by the tips of har fingers and her ankles to the ends of one of the racks, the limbs stretched to their utmost tension to show the method of operation. This is especially well liked and the row looks quite Indignant when It Is broken Into by a breexy young person, who says: "My, but what a good way to bant! You could g"et stretched out an inch or two every Cay. I'll wager that's what they did It for. Inquisition! As soon as a titan's wife got too fat, like as not he put her In one of those arrangements, pulled it aa far as It would go and said be was doing It for her soul. I know them. They're Just the same now as Uicy were then. You can't tell me." Roots of Royalty. In front of the enormous glass cases which hold the robes of the King and Queen worn on the coronation there Is always a big crowd. A mother explains thera to precocious child of the enfant terrible order, whe stands winding one leg about another like a tired flamingo. after bis mother died the King wore this robe." she saya. "But I thought you put on black when your mother died," returns the thild, ''J m c V IkvLr jj 1 clJM U 0 )i cij k( rAik , o i 's x(j fe ' fcc a-' u. -1() CK O O O O O O O o o o 5 0 o o o o o o o o o O 5 o o o o For This Solid Oak Dresser 8.50 sT" Tomorrow, Monday, we innugurate our twenty-second annual September Furniture Sale FAR SUBPASS1NQ ANY SALE event of the ENTIRE YEAli. It is an opportune time that offers special inducements to the thrifty and economical buyer. This great September S.ile represents a DISTINCT SAVING TO YOU OF FROM 25 TO 50. It's a sale of such great magnitude that it cannot be compared with any other, as the OPPORTUNITIES TO SAVE MONEY ARE VASTLY GREATER. s.rJIagnificentJp18 Pedestal Extension Table 12.50 59.75 T II icrms f 50c WEEKLY T1119 DRESSER Is made of solid, choicely selected oak and has ' three large roomy drawers and very best of construction. lias French bevel plate mirror set In carved standards. Is easily worth I14.6U Septem ber sale prloe quanti ties of all ad-m-tised Goods S0.50 SEPTEMBER SALE OF 60o Ingrain Carpet, heavy quality. Sept. sale prloe .. . 76c all wool Ingrain Carpets, beat quality.. September sale CO. prloe 33C $1.00 Brussels Carpet, very heavy quality. Beptemeer saie cq. noe Ivet Carpeta, very pretty pat terns. 11.60 values. Sep- OQn tember sale prloe u $7.00 art reversible Ruga, 9x12 else, ptpfemoer saie 17 qs vwaww Rugs, very heavy $71.50 Three Rooms Furnished Complete for .... These 3-roora outfits are positively the best value obtainable any where. They include everything necessary for starting house keeping. Also include beside the regular furniture and carpets, crockery, tinware, sil verware, etc. Terns 7.50 Cisb, $5 Monthly iHllHllllfe iVV never "TOP Mot I will pay you to corns many miles to at tend this sale. CARPETS. RUGS AND DRAPERIES 39c prloe $10 Ingrain quality. September e DC sale prloe Axmlnster Carpets. Very patterns. 1.60 values. September sale prloe pretty SSc $15 Brussels Rugs, very large as sortment. September tn 7C sale prloe IU.I3 $18.60 Brussels Rugs, 9x13 size, ' good quality. Septem- f 11 Cfl bar sale prloe l J.SU 40c OH Cloth, for bath room or kitchen. September J7. eale prloe tOc Linoleum, very heavy cq. quality. Sept. sale prloe. ..' 6 $2.60 Nottingham Lace Curtains, full size. Septem- f 0 0 her sale prloe, pair. l.Ha $5 Lace Curtains, fine texture. September eale price, S2 95 per pair mi $7.60 Tapestry Portieres, beauti ful patterns. Septem- f4 QC bar sale prloe, per pair. . .d.OJ TSaUCS, 60e WXSXX.T. This beautiful, round, pedestal extension table Is exactly like illustration and positively the greatest value ever offered by any house In a substantial table. It la made of solid oak and Is very highly polished. Former price of this TABI.B was $18. September sale price.. $12.50 A SUPREME TIME TO PURCHASE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Our great 8EITKMBKK BALK offers you AN K.V- ckitional orroit. TUN1TY to buy many ar ticles In In our establish ment at UKKATLY ki Dl'CKI) riilCKN. Our new fall stock Is now most complete and ready for your very careful Inspec tion. Every article sold during this sale Is FULLY GUARANTEED and Is sold on Us merits. All goods are EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED. Y O V SAVE MONEY BY BUY 1NG DURING TIUS SALE. Fabrlcold Leather () Couch. o o o C) !!IBarrtW ea 111 I VI ri v i,, below S975 ......... w --v This COTTCX Is mads of the best grade of Chase leather and upholstered over an all steel construction. The frame Is of aollil quartered oak. heavy and massive and of tha Peat worsmansmp. roaiuveiy never offered before I $18. September sale price COR Gil For This Special Steel Range Goods Stored Free and de livered Later il desired arming f V n, with I J ire ele- V are ac- A N offered I I S2G.50 o OOOOOOOOOOOCOOCO0OCOOOOCCOOOOO 1612 & fARNAM STREETS. OMAHA. We have thousands of other items such as Iron Beds, Extension Tables, Dressers, Buf fets, China Closets, Chairs and Rockers, etc., all offered you at a great discount dur ing this September sale. O JlJsl Q o C) () C) Terme S9.80 eash, fa monthly. These BTEEI, BASOI8 are made of selected steel of a special gauge and are guaranteed In every re spect. They are positively the btist f v low priced BTEEI. SAHOB on the 1 market today. Have alx large 8- V J Inch lids and an upper warming closet. A large u-im-n over full h best oa lining. They are gantly nickel trimmed and are ac- tunlly a $41) value, but are offered during ttils great SEPTEMBER SALE at , going to put on black when you die. Torn had a broad stripe on his coat when" "I didn't mean the very day she died, but when he ascended tbe throne he" "I don't see how he could climb In that; he'd trip up. Say is that real ermine, ma? Tom's nurse had a piece round her hat last winter and Tom said It waa cat fur. It looks Just like cat fur." The mother tries. to draw his attention to other portions of the equipment. "See, that's the crown, dear." 'That thing? Tom's uncle wore one when he waa In that show. But he car ried a spear, and the crown was a better looker than that. Ain't there a place, ma, where they chop off people's heads T Tom wrote me there was. Said his father'd seen it" "Yes dear. It's this way." Two Knglish girls stop and wonder In front of the gorgeous velvet and Jewelled apparel. 'Lovely! Perfectly sweetl! Jolly, I say!!! Aren't they frightfully long, but they didn't harff to drawg them far, you see." A 10-year-old girl corrects her mother's manner, which offends the sense of dignity, acquired since she stepped on British soli. "Don't point about so, maw I We look like Germans In New York. You know how they always have their heads In the air staring at the skyscrapers. Feople'U know we're strangers If you do." Modesty of Heroism. In a quiet corner you stop to apeak to a withered Beefeater whose breast carries a long, horizontal row of medals. He ex plains some of them, and la especially proud of the one that designates him a veteran of tbe Lucknow relief. "I don't suppose you hear much about that in America?" he inquires. "No reason why you should. It waa fifty-two years ago and we move, very quickly nowadays, but tt'a good to be here when you look back and think where you were then." There are forty of the Beefeaters all to gether, ten living outside the walls, their extreme age making them useless for any service. One of the thirty active mem bers has Just completed the census of the Tower and Is very proud of the task. "You aee, It Is only done once In ten years," he explains. By his reckoning there are living at present within the Tower soma 1,200 peo ple, Including the Beefeaters themselves, their families and the members of the bat talion, which numbers some 800 men. Thera is a long waiting list and It is said to be very difficult to get one of the Beefeater vacancies, some of the applications being in flfti-en or twenty years before the ap plicant hears anything from It. One must have been- In servlcs twenty one years and the application be made with a rank as low as that of sergeant. The position is for Ufa and the duties, which are more spectacular than real, are supposed to be a gracious reward for long and faithful service. Most of the Beef eaters have many medals and none of them needs wear an undeoorated coat. The curloua uniform, which one of the American girls describes as "a perfect suffragette costume," la for every day wear of scarlet and blue and on special occasions they put on a very gorgeous substitute of scarlet and gold. These spe cial occasions are the annual holidays. In cluding the king's birthday, muster day, Christmas, Ascension and Easter. NOT AS BAD AS PICTURED Grsslsia of 93 Lets Go m Happy Exclamation oa lier first Vblt to Coney. After planning for years to visit Coney Island, which she had never seen, "Grand ma" Ooodwln, who la M years old and llvos at &2J Straight street, Peterson, N. J., irade the trip Friday. She had the time of her life, and It did not coat her a cent. "Grandma" Ooodwln had talked for a long lime about guUig to Cfaney Usland. In (fare POM To Mainly Foiimts m MlktM3 0rgosi9 teingtosi. Ditto VIA Pfi)iiGD Pa QuO The Safe Road to Travel." Low ne-W7ay olonist Rates II ! Ir in effect every day from September 15, to October 15, inclusive, 1909. Hundreds of thousands of acres are waiting to1 bring prosperty to you. Go while good land may be obtained at a moderate price. tmals Dining Car Meals and Service "Best in the World" For literature and information relative to rates, routes, etc., call on or address CITY TICKET OFFICE 1324 Farnam Street OMAHA, NED. PHONES: Dell, Doug. 1020 and Ind., A-3231 the lawyers' offices she eaned she had "I'm 'Grandma' Goodwin of Taterson and heard so many stories of its grandeurs that (he finally grew ashamed of not having visited the place which everybody else In Peterson seemed to have seen. When the men who employed "Grandma" discovered she had never made the trip they said to her: "Tou go there tomorrow." She got on a White line ear and rods to Hoboken. When the conductor came through she said; I'm taking my first trip to Coney Island." "I got your fare once," said the con ductor, and he stood and chatted for a while, telling "Grandma" some of the sights at Coney Uiland that she could not affoid to misa. Now, Strang as It may seem to younger persons who have Journeyed to Coney Is land. "Grandma" found It impossible to pay any fare ut any point on the route, lie "I'm Crandnut Goodwin of Peterson, and I'm taking my first trip to Coney Is land" got her all the transportation sho needed, and plenty of Information besides. When she reached the Island she eaw everything, but could spend nothing. The showmen wouldn't take her money and last night she said she had had three eupa of tea. two glasses of milk and a trip In "one of thoae auto things" without being allowed to pay. "When I tried to pay," she said, "the men Just looke at nit and saldj 'Go right In, grandma. It's against the rules for anybody as young aa you to pay.' They are a very nice lot of men at Coney island, polite and friendly. I know I'm not young. It waa just their way to say I was, but I wish all cf them could know that they have given a tired old woman the only real holi day she's had In many years." Ntw York Herald. Bee Want Ads are Business Boosters. l