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MEN'S RAINCOATS
Genuine) Morlt In Tho
Fall Shoes for Men
We are showing the best fall and winter
shoes for men ever shown In Omaha style
and quality are exceptionally good extra
value at
S53 and S3.GO
The new fall styles of the Florshelm shoes
are here.
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The most desirable and necessary garments in any man's
wardrobe. See all the new fancy rainproof cheviots
in auto styles or plain lapel styles many plain gray
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japei styles many piain gray
;$10 $20
or plain black goods for
rain or fair weather, just V II II 11 TO
the coat you want now.
Brandeis is the House of Fashion Outfitting the Best Dressed Men in Omaha
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Special Saturday Offers in Boys Well Made Clothes
Mothers who desire to make their money go a long way read this ad and observe closely every item. You will save money.
Boys Knickerbocker Suits
These are $5 Boys' Suits that are
Ther were carried over from last
the reason. The styles are Just as
good and they are regular $5 suits,
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Boys' Blue Sere Combination Suits
Rich blue serges, velour casslmeres,
structed of all wool materials, warranted
not to rip 2 pairs of knickerbockers,
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BRANDEIS STORES
WARRING ON CHILD SLAVERY
Traffic- in Imported Children Must
Be Stopped, .
GREEKS PRINCIPAL OFFENDERS
Bacraretle Efforts of tho Government
to Proveat Practical Enslave-
meat of Children In
Workshops.
The bureau of Immigration has started
In to fight the tralfflo in children of both
sexes, who are Imported by thousands Into
the United States to work under condi
tions of praotloal enslavement. Lars
numbers of them labor In the mills of New
England. Others, especially - In the state
of Illinois, are kept In bondage by ped
dlers, who starve and maltreat them. But
the places where they are most commonly
to be seen are the bootblack shops In our
cities, tn which , the boys employed are
Greeks, from the province of Mesajnta.
This province of Greece might be oalled
the bootblack district, most of the boys
born there being brought up to the boot
blacking trad. A tourist conversing wtth
youths of the craft, who are called "lous
troU" In any of toe cities of. Oreece, or In
any Turkish city where the population is
largely Greek, will find that all of them
come from Messlnla. It is only within the
Snappy Woolens
for Fall IVear
of the very handsome array of smart
fabrics that will greet your eyes at this
store for this season's wearing.
Bat you'd better get your order on our
books mow today while the assortment
Is at It's bast. Tou" 11 find the fabrlos sen
sibly priced.
Toull not be coaxed or urged to buy
you're very welcome to look,
An attractive line of MEDIUM
WEIGHT fabric for early Fail
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Trscseri 8ti 812 Salts 525 ta SO
WILLIAM KRREMS SONS.
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!7 Present to You The tteflned Fall Models
Rogers-Peet New York Made
Clothes For Men
Clothes that attain the very acme of perfec
tionpositively the very best "ready for service"
clothes in America, The fabrics and the modes of
the newest 1909 productions.
Rooers-P?et Fall Suits at $21 to $35
Rogers-Pee t Overcoats at $25 to $45
Men s New Fall Styles $t C
Suits xid Overcoats
Full of snap, tone and quality In a vast range of at
tractive new patterns and styles. They are $20 values.
For Men's Serviceable Suits &.nd Overcoats
Built for practical wear correct, new fall 6tyles.
They hold their shape compare with others at $15
selling at $2.50.
season. That i
$250
Scotches con
$5
last few years, however, that the "bosses"
who deal In their labor have Imported
them Into the United States.
About ten years ago certain enterprising
Greeks, with a little capital to Invest, took
a notion to look over the bootblacklng field
In this country. They saw that It was
great and profitable, and that it was oc
cupied almost exclusively by Italians, who
maintained booths or chair stands outside
of saloons and In other such public plaoes.
Possessing a superior shrewdness, together
with a highly expert knowledge of the
fundamental principle of the "shine" busi
ness, the Greeks decided that they would
drive the sons of sunny Italy out and con
trol for themselves this lucrative form of
enterprise.
a oe Saint mar Monopoly.
Which tney promptly proceeded to do.
And, to begin with, they undertook to ele
vate the business by setting up expen
sively furnished shops exclusively for boot
blacking purposes, choosing locations
where rentals were high. Customers
found It more comfortable and agreeable
to have their shoes shlned In such places
than on the sidewalk, especially In the win
ter time, and before long, the system be
ing steadily expanded and extended from
city to city, the Italians found themselves
unable to maintain themselves In competi
tion. Today the latter have been practi
cally displaced by the Greeks, who that
Is to say, the slave bojrs polish the boots
of nearly all town-dwelling Americana
The success of the Greeks was a fore
gone conclusion from the outset. Not only
had they superior knowledge of the busi
ness, but they were able to employ the
requisite labor on such terms as to render
competition out of the question. The boys
who toll tn the bootblack "parlors" receive
only a nominal wage, and their condition
is practically one of slavery. They are
half starved and are worked almost to
death.
Boarded fcy the Boas.
Invariably they are lodged and boarded
by the "boss," the quarters they oocupy
being usually filthy and unsanitary. Bo
absolute Is the restriction of their liberty
that many of these youngsters who have
been in the United States three or four
years possess no knowledge whatever of
the city In which they reside save as re
gards the shop tn whloh they labor, their
living quarters and the streets they tra
verse in- going and coming from their
work. They have no chance whatever to
leant to speak English or to beoome Amer
icanised. The bosses teach them that if
they talk they are liable to be sent back
to their native country that the govern
ment la seeking to deport them, but that
If they refuse to talk nobody can inter
fere with them In any way.
The boys' wages, usually from (130 to
$171 a year, are not received by them, but
by the p.irn's, i r o'hrr relatives. In their
native country, uuo have sold their serv
ices. Incidentally they are bound by agree
ment to turn over.to the "boss" all money
they get In the way of tips, which goes
toward the payment of their board and
lodging. Soma booses post notloes In their
shop at Christmas time and at New Tear
stating that all receipts will go to th
boys as a holiday bonus. On this account
customers tip the boys with exceptional
liberality, little realising that every penny
of the money will find Its way Into the
yawning pockets of the slave driver.
Now, ia order to understand why, even
under such conditions, the boys are anx
ious above ail things not to ba sent back
to their own country. It is necessary that
one should comprehend something of the
clroumstanoes of life among the peasantry
tn the Greek pro Tin oe from which thy
ooma
la that country the peasants are living
Beys'
They are not all
what a boy should
exua pair vi pauw
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Boys' Extr. Knickerbocker Penis
Strong cheviot and casslmeres and heaviest n
double seamed, corduroy knickers, ill
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Boys' K. & E. Shirt Waist Blouses
Tou all know how a K. & B. Waist wears m a
how they wash and how they wear XUf
special at tv
all the time close to the hunger line, and
the question whether an expected baby
will turn out to be a boy or a girl la one
of no little, anxiety. A boy Is an asset,
and his coming to the world Is a proper
occasion for much merrymaking. As soon
as he reaches 10 years of age, be Is hired
out to a roving bootblack boss, or to a.
peddler. The youngsters farmed out In
this fashion are frightfully overworked,
and, as a rule, most brutally treated.
America, as those of them who are
fetched across the water find it. Is vastly
better than Greece or Turkey.
Nine out of ten of these little slaves art
brought hither In violation of the alien
contract labor laws. Formerly large num
bers of them ware turned back by the im
migration authorities. But the "bosses"
are shrewd and have learned how to evade
the regulations. Furthermore, they em
ploy clever attorneys to advise them In
such matters. The boys, before they leave
their native land, are carefully Instructed
by letter as to - what they must say in
response to questions on arrival, in order
that they may not be sent back the thing
of which, naturally, they have the greatest
dread. '
Seenrlngr Reeralta
Tne "bosses" obtain fresh supplies of
boys sometimes by communicating with
relatives of the youngsters already in their
employ If they make the necessary ar
rangements by writing to relatives of their
own In Greece, furnishing money and In
structions for the shipment of the little
fellows. Another method they adopt Is to
advertise In the newspapers of the Greek
provinces, offering "light work" and ex
ceptional wages.
Once In a while the "boss" himself makes
a trip to his native province, where during
a short stay he goes through certain In
expensive formalities by which he be
comes "godfather" to a large number of
children In many families. Thus he ao
qulres a footing of pseudo-relationship,
which enables him later on to have the
first bit In securing the servloes of th
boya It ts a very Ingenious scheme and
has the adltlonal advantage of giving him
a sort of guardianship right over the
youngsters after their arrival in this coun
trya right which they recognise, at all
events, and which augments the surety of
his grip upon them.
Meanwhile the business of Importing
Greek children of both sexes and of tender
age for employment In the mills of New
England has assumed very considerable
proportions. These girls and boys, most
of them brought Into th country with the
help of false affidavits in regard to re
lationships they are usually alleged to
ba the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters,
nephews or nieces of the men who bring
them over and live upon their labors-are
greatly In demand In the cotton mill,
where they are able to earn almost as
much as adult, because their hands are
small and they soon become quick and
dexterous tn connecting broken threads In
the weaving room. This Is a task that can
hardly be performed by grown persona
Crowd In Cotton Mills.
Anybody who stands In front of the city
hall in Lowell, Mass., at f o'clock on a
week day evening and who takes the op
portunity thus afforded to look over the
employes of the cotton mills as they pass
by cannot help noticing a great many girls
and boys who are obviously under U years
of age. Most of these very young chil
dren are Greeks and Macedonians. They
are laboring In the mills tn defiance of the
ohlld labor laws, thanks to fraudulent af
fidavits in regard to their ago. In back
tng this kind of fraud steamship compa
nies have been extremely active, while a
welt known person has made a regular bus
iness of furnishing false translations of
birth certificates at 15 or 1 10 each, with
the same end In view.
With such excellent wage obtainable it
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Combination Suits
wool, but are strong in wear Just
have. Tou get an $ X50
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BRANDEIS STORES
Is easily seen -that a' great deal of money
can be made by fraudulently Importing
young children and hiring them out to the
mills. There are not a few men In Lowell
who spend their .days in saloons, drinking
and playing cards while subsisting on the
earnings of alleged nieces, nephews or
cousins of tender age who are ruining their
youth and health In the cotton factories.
Tet the bureau of immigration baa found
It almost impossible to procure the requi
site evldenoo In suoh cases. The children
themselves, if approached, refuse to give
information and even run away.
Many Greek boys in this country are
employed as assistants by peddlers vend
ers of vegetables and Trait, that Is to say
who pay thorn from II to S3 a wsek, lodge
them In filthy places usually, and often
maltreat them. After a breakfast of bread
and coffee th little wretches usually have
nothing to eat all day until "7 or 8 o'clock
In the evening, when they are allowed to
cook supper for themselves. - Under these
conditions the youngsters are cheap; they
are also very . efficient and useful, going
Into flats and houses, and by their youth
ful appearance so winning the sympathy of
the women as to induce them to buy.
Specific Case of Praad.
Already a gf eat deal of evidence relating
to spectflo cases of such frauds has been
collected, and action will be taken upon it
before long, when the authorities are en
tirely ready. Prosecutions will be brought
against a number of "bosses" and other
persons engaged In the slave traffic; and,
as a means of interfering with their opera
tions, a better system of Inspection will
be adopted, an Important feature of which
should be a thorough cross-examination of
th children, on their arrival, by Immigra
tion agents acquainted with their lan
guage. - t
It Is a curious fact, worth mentioning
lncldently, that just as a single district
In Greece produce all the bootblacks, so
In like manrfor another district, that of the
beggars. In that province begging is con
sidered as legitimate a trade as Is organ
grinding In Italy, and most of the children
are brought up to It. Practically all of
the beggars In Greece, as well as In the
Greek cities of Turkey, halt from Gravers.
To excite sympathy, they stimulate every
Imaginable physical ailment,, and It Is
understood that little boys and girls born
tn the district are frequently malned or
blinded for the purpose of equipping them
for successful mendicancy. Unquestion
ably the business Is a profitable one, and
its proceeds usually enable those who fol
low It to return eventually to Gravara.
buy land, and devote the remainder of their
lives to elegant leisure and the rearing ot
more babies. The only obstacle to their
wholesale Invasion of our own country Is
the Atlantio ocean. Brooklyn Eagle.
COMPLAINT FOR F. J. ELLISON
Chars of Obtaining; Money Under
Pals Pretense Alleged by
Charier Lewis.
Captain Francis J.' Ellison Is charged
with obtaining money under false pre
tenses In a complaint filed by Charles A.
Lewis In police court. A warrant was
Issued for his arrest and when he heard of
it he went to the police station and pre
sented himself with an attorney.
In ths complaint Lewis alleges that
Ellison secured 130 from him on representa
tions that he had a deposit covering the
amount tn the Corn Exchange bank. The
complaint asserts that iw such deposit
existed In that bank to Ellison's credit and
that he, therefor, secured Lewis' money
under false pretenses-
The alleged offense Is said to have been
committed August TV Because of the
small sum Involved, a sentence in th
county Jail ts the extreme penalty.
Quick Action for Your Money Tou get
that by using The Be advertising column.
A Dig Spoclal Sale
MEN'S FALL HATS
1,200 Still and Soil
Bats Bonflhl From a
N. T. Commission
House at Hal! Price
Such well known
brands as Broad
way Special,
Manhattan,
Tiger Special,
Gold Bond and
Kingsbury hats;
all new fall styles
soft and derby
hats, worth up to
$3.00, at
Fall Styles in Stetson Hats
The famous John B. Stetson bats In all the new
fall styles $3.50
Brandeis Special soft and derby fall styles, $2
Boys and Children School Caps
Boys' and children's school caps new fall styles,
at 49
Boys' and children's new fall hats at, 49o and i)St
The best assortment ever shown in the west The styles are the
newest, the quality the best, the prloes always moderate.
Let Us Show You Our Lines of
Red Cross Shoes For Dress and Street
In all the new leathers and lasta. When your feet ache and feel
tired you need Red Cross Shoes
absolute comfort '
Prices
The'Phit Easy Shoe .
For women, welt and turn soles, gun metal, vicl kid
T.!T'!?!Z. ,.$3 aid $3.50
BRANDEIS STORES -OMAHA
Quick Justice
for Little Boy
Judge Take Bench, Jury Waived,
Judgment in Foil Rendered
Same Afternoon.
Millard Boye, a 7-year-old son of Carl F.
Boy, received a quick judgment In dis
trict court In his damage suit against the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
railroad. He brought suit Wednesday
afternoon for 13,500 for injuries sustained
tn an accident. Judge Sears took the
bench, a Jury was waived, and Judgment
rendered for the full amount that same
afternoon. , ,
CHAMPION RUNAWAY SAYS
HE WILL REFORM AT LAST
Boy of Ponrteen Skips Ont Doiea
Time and Goes Homo with
Mother Contrite.
The champion runaway boy has honored
Omaha with a visit To return the com
pliment, the city has entertained him at
the Jail hotel for a week. While stopping
there the runaway celebrated his four
teenth birth anniversary.
Arthur Cut-ran of Lead, S. D., was the
distinguished guest. He was most reticent
about himself, but when his mother, Mrs.
Emma Curran, arrived to take blm borne
Arthur's record cam out.
"He has run away at least a dozen
times since he first left home at the ag
of years," the mother told Mrs. Ellen
Gibbons, matron at the ponce station.
"Well, I was scared the folks would pun
ish me for the last time I skipped out,
so I Just hit the trail again; and I didn't
want to be sent to the military school
either," explained the boy.
"The mother and son Just eat looking
at each other and wept when they met
after Arthur's visit with me," said Ma
tron Gibbons. "I guess he didn't have a
very hsppy birthday celebration. In fact
he never said a word about a birthday
until his mother came.
"One ef the first things his mother re
marked upon after she arrived was how
clean the boy's hands were. He used to
help me in my department and I made him
wash lots more often than he did at
home, according to Mra Curran.
'The mother says this is the last time
she Is ever going after her boy when he
runs away. But she'll go again If he
leaves home any more," adds the matron
with a knowing nod, for polio matrons
are deeply versed In such matters.
Arthur has promised hs will never run
away any more. He used to attend Loth
rop school In Omaha when his parents
lived here. They moved away four years
ago.
Arthur and his mother are now on th
way back home.
MICHAELSEN WARNS OF WIRES
City Electrician Gives Timely Hint
that Daaa-er Exists la Improperly
brave Baatlna.
"Electrlo light wires have a function
other than that of supporting decorations
consisting of bunting and flags, and peopl
should remember that electricity has been
known to start fires," said City Elecirlolan
Mlchaelsen.
Th electrician warns people not to bang
bunting, flags or other decorations over
lectrlo lights or to attach anything of
Manhattan Shirts
The New Fall Stylea
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Men's Heavier Underwear
Munslng Union Suits for fall and winter wear, priced
at $1.50 to $4.50
Sterling Union Suits full fashioned and medium and
heavy weights $3.50 to $5.50
Men's $1 wool and cotton ribbed underwear fall weight,
at 39
Agents In Omaha for Root's Medicated Underwear, also
Norfolk Underwear, shirt and drawers. The sale of
these two makes confined to us exclusively.
Fall Footwear For Women
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Bench Made Shoe.
Most beautiful shoes ever shown In Omaha Buckskin,
Demi Glare, Bronzes and CC AJ C L
Patent Coltr Prices SJ 0"U pO
th sort to th wires. If bunting la al
lowed to .touoh at , light globe, a fire is
likely to start, he said, as happened a
year ago, when considerable bunting on
the front ' of tho city hail was burned in
that way.
TAFT AND PARTY MAY MISS
PART OF PAPRIKA SCHNITZEL
Presidential Party 1 Likely to Be
. Hauled Ont of City Before
Tim Is Up.
President Taft and his party will travel
in two private cars when they come to
Omaha September 20. The private car for
tho president is the Mayflower and for the
rest of the party tha Haalemere.
It had been planned to have the presiden
tial party use the regular Rock Island train
from Omaha to Denver and this train is
scheduled to leave Omaha at 11:11 p. m.
Effective September 11 the Rock Island will
change the running time of that train so
that It will leave Omaha at 10:40.
Should th president use this train it will
cut the time at the den short, so the Board
of Governors is now hustling to havejh
train held to give time for the full rendi
tion of the beautiful oprey, "Paprika
Schnitzel."
The Rock Island has announced reduced
rates of one and one-half fares for the
round trip from all points In Nebraska,
with a minimum of 75 cents, and from all
points In Iowa and Missouri where the
rat is more than 12.
The Rock Island eastbound fast train
from Denver, whloh now passes through
Omaha at t a. sa will leave Omaha at 12:30
a. m. and arrive at Chicago at 1:56 p. m.
' War Notes
Private Donald M. Williamson of Com
pany M, Eleventh Infantry, has been
granted an honorable discharge from the
army by purchase.
The famous Seventh cavalry band Is not
coming to Omaha after all. Th order of
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CROSSETT SHOE
"MAKES LIFE'S WALK EASY"1
It costs only $4 to $6 to mako
this helpful discovery.
LEWIS A. CROSSBTT, In., Makers
North Abingtoa Mas.
Scores of the newest
fall patterns In these
very high class shirts
for men all the best
styles at
$F to 53
Men's Sample Shirts
Plaited and plain bosoms, coat
styles made for this fall and Win
ter wear. Thousands of patterns
to choose from Cf 7 C
worth up to $2, at .JUC- DC
In B. &. W. ShirU,
$2.50
September t, directing that it should go
to Dea Moines and accompany th Seventh
cavalry from ther to Omaha for th Ak
Sar-Bn parade, has been revoked. Tb.
band will remain at Fort Riley.
Leave of abaeno for on month has)
been granted Captain Oeman Latroba, jr.
of th Eighth cavalry.
Captain W. B. Cow In of tha Eighth
cavalry has returned from Camp Parry,
O., and will visit for several days with
his parents, General and Mrs. J. O. Cowtn,
before returning to his station at Fort
Robinson.
A general court-martial has been ordered
to convene at Fort Robinson for th trial
of miscellaneous charges against enlisted
men.
Captain Samuel W. Noyes of th Fourth
Infantry has been detailed to temporary
duty at Fort Crook pending th arrival of
his regiment from th Philippines.
Honorable discharges from th regular
army have been granted Corporal Grover
Hasulrlgg of Company K, Sixteenth infan
try, and Private Antoni Lechel of Battery
C, Sixth field artillery.
Brigadier General Morton and Lieutenant
Troup Miller, with one or two of the de
partment officers, took a horseback rid to f V
and from Fort Crook Friday morning.
The round trip ride waa mad In about an
hour and a half.
The department staff ts busily engaged
in arranging th final details for the mili
tary tournament to begin at Des Moines
September SO.
The typhoid fever patients at Forts
Omaha and Crook hav practically recov
ered from their trio of inoculations with
typhoid serum and have resumed their nor
mal health. Th medical department of
the army la of the opinion that the inooula
tlons have been completely successful, thus
demonstrating the efficiency of the typhoid
serum in preventing th spread of typhoid
fever in th army.
'The search for the pole goet
merrily on, in spite of a cen
tury ol discouragement and
loss. Doubtless all discoveries
are of value some more than
others. To the man who give
thought to the question of shoe
buying, the discovery of the
Highest Degree of Comfort is
worth an eftort to reach.
No matter what th lstitud and lonf
Irnd oi your bom may be, you oaa
ily locate a good dealer and find tha
Shoo that " Makes Life's Walk Easy."
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