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Of HlQti Grade Standard
413-1C-17 Soutl. lGtt. Street.
The manufacturers of Furniture have shown greater improvement this
season than ever before in their new styles of Furniture, particularly Dining
Room and Bod Room Furniture.
These goods are now on inspection on our floors and all are invited to
inspect and criticise the new ideas.
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We are showing the choicest designs of DININQ ROOM
FURNITURE that if on the market, tmch a. QOTHIO, JAC
OBEAN, WILLIAM & MARY, FLANDERS, EARLY ENG
LISH, OLD ENGLISH and HEAVY COLONIAL DESIGNS
in SOLID MAHOGANY, aU at prices difficult to duplicate
elsewhere.
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Flanders Buffet B. P $68.00
Flanders China Cabinet $45.00
Flanders Table $G3.00
Flanders Side Chair $0.75
Flanders Arm Chair $9.00
BRASS BEDS
Our BRASS BED Section shows a
great improvement over the efforts of
last season's manufacturers. The new
construction overcomes the tendency
of a bed of this character to work
loose or rattle, caused by loose joints.
The assortment which we carry of-this
class of goods makes it impossible for
us not to satisfy any customer, no mat
ter how fastidious. We have them in
all grades which range in price from
$250.00 down to $15.00.
The $15.00 bed is the cheapest brass
bed made with guaranteed construction.
Colonial Mahogany Buffet. . .$G8.00
Colonial Mah. China Cabinet $58.00
Colonial Mahogany Table. ...$72.00
Colonial Mahog'y Side Chair $15.25
Colonial Mahog'y Arm Chair $21.50
Colonial Mahog'y Side Table $42.00
IRON BEDS
' All of our Iron Beds are made from
Shelby steel tubing, making'them from
75 to 100 lbs. lighter and easier to"
handle, and twice as strong as the ord
inary. The construction at the joints
are all seamless. We have them in the
different finishes, some very choice
styles in white finish, others in Vernis
Martin, made in all sizes, 4-ft. 6-in.
wide, 3-f t. 6-in. wide and 3-f t wide. The
prices range from $18.00 down to
$2.00.
Early English Buffet $31.50
Early English China Cabinet $26.50
Early English Table $20.00
Early English Side Table $3.75
Early English Arm Chair $6.75
RUGS
FOR CRAFTSMAN FURNITURE
On account of the unusual demand
for Craftsman Furniture it has been
necessary to make rugs particularly
adapted to use with' this class of furni
ture. These are made in all sizes and
in two or three tone shades without
figures, in the different shadings of
brown, blue, green and gray.
No room furnished with Craftsman
furniture should be without a Crafts
man rug. These add so much to their
improvement and appearance. They
are reversible and are heavy, service
able goods; prices range in the 9x12
size from $35.00 to $20.00.
FURTHEST WEST OF ISLAM
Moon Are Sore the Puritans of the
Mohammedans.
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Brltlah Stronghold.
TANGIER. Sept. 4. The Moor have fre
quently been called the Puritan of Ialiun.
Whereas most educated Turks and many
Persians, Egyptians and Indian Mohamme
dans have adopted the European style of
dress, not a single Moor living within the
borders of his own country has laid aside
the cloaklike Aralban Jeleba. In the streets I
of Tangier, the city most Infested with
Christians, there Is not a tramway or a
hackney cab.
With the exception of a few kilometers
of narrow gauge mining railway not an
Iron track penetrates the country any
where. There Is neither a telegraph nor
a postal service. And except for the dis
credited ex-Sultan Abdul Ails not a Moor
has deigned to test the Inventions of Eu
rope, which they scorn. It seems extra
ordinary that such a country, the Moghreb
al Aksa, as the Arabs say, or furthest west
of Islam, should He across the narrow
strait of Gibraltar, a few hours run by
slow steamer from a city where British
law and the advancement of Christendom
hold sway.
If the day Is clear you are within sight
of Tangier at Gibraltar. It takes the little
ferry steamer about three hours to make
the Journey. In less than forty minutes
the boat has crossed the strait and coasts
along under the shadow of the Moorish
rocks. Shortly you come upon a bleak
stretch of sand, aa from the Hahara,
breaking through the mountains, and there
beyond, where the yellow hills begin to rise
again toward the clear warm sky, Is the
outpost city of the east, a mass of square,
flat-roofed, almost wlndowleas houses, blue
end white, climbing In Irregular steps much
like the giant's cause ay. to the walls
of the ancient Kasbah. or citadel, with here
and there a square green minaret aad
a towering palm.
Tangier Is a place somewhat outside this
mediaeval country. It seems like a show
ty left for the tourlut and the European
ader. Men from within the country come
ut to the fair to trade and others, while
clinging still to thtlr ancient dress and
cusnmsi are content to reside here, yet
they will tell you, sighing, that It U no
longer truly Morocco.
There Is no mella where the Jews must
segregate themselves; Spaniards and out
casts from othec Mediterranean countries
have oorne to stay here permanently and
may quarter themselves where they please,
and there are great hotels by the water,
with UtHe houses In front, where Eu
ropeans, both men and women, go to take
Off most of their curious clothes and then
rush Into the waves. Truly Tangier la
defll d Fraaelseasi monks clang noisy
bells orownsag tbo voloe of the meussln
on the grand mosque; the hated telegraph
runs into ths elty from under the sea; a
Frenchman sits ths day, long In the ous
totn hows and takes one-half the money,
and ae Moor may say anything to all tola
thla
Still there are oompensaUona The
European builds big ships and guns that
shoot stralghtsr than Moorish guns, but he
Is not so wis. He works all day like an
animal, and when he gets much money
he comes to Tangier with It. and true be
lievers, who live In cool gardens and smoke
hasheesh, make him pay flro times ths
orrttimiy prlco for everything he buya
tied at modern French or Spanish
at a cats In the s)oko Chlco (the
market), the stranger U beset by
youthful bootblacks and donkey drivers,
and at evening guides, so-called, . come up
to tell In whispers of ths charms of a
Moorish dance "genuine Moroccan, a
Moorish woman, a beautiful Moorish'
woman" that can be seen at a quiet place
for 10 pesetas, Spanish. One of them, con
fident of catching us, preseuts a testi
monial, and with difficulty we restrain our
smiles. It reads:
"Mohammed Ben Tarah, worthy de
scendant of the prophet. Is a first-class
guide to shops which pay him a commission
on what you buy. He will also take you
to see an uninteresting Moorish dance,
thoroughly Indecent, well Imitated, for all
I know. He has an exaggerated Idea of his
superficial knowledge of the English lan
guage, and aa a prevaricator of the truth
he worthily upholds the reputation of his
raoe."
The Soko Chlco, though an unwholesome
place, Is very Interesting. About the width
of Broadway and half a block long. It la
large enough as spaces go In, Moorish
cities to be called a market and to bo
used as such. From early morning until
midnight this little Sok Is crowded with
petty merchants, whose stock of edibles
brought on platters or In little handcarts
could be bought for a 8panlsh dollar.
Mightily they snout their wares, 600
hawkers In a space of half as many feet.
The noise Is terrific. The cry of horsemen
(or passage, the brawl of endless argu
ments, the clatter of small coins In the
hands of money changers and the strains
of the band at the Grand cafe struggling
to make audible selections from an opera
aa these together create an Infernal din.
The Soko Chleo, where the postofflcas
of the powers alternate with European
cafes Is of all Morocoo the place where
east and west come Into closest touch.
The Arab woman veiled sits cross legged
In the center of tha road selling to Mos
lems bread of semolina, and the foreign
oonsul seated at a cafe table sips his
glass of absinthe and water. Occasionally
a horseman with long bushed hair goes
by toward the Kasbah, followed a moment
later by the English oolonel who lives on
the Marshan and wears a helmet.
A score of tourists gather at the cafe
tables in the afternoon, and as many
couriers, with brown, knotty, big veined
legs, always bare, squat against the wall
of the various foreign poetofflces, resting
until the last moment before beginning
their long, perilous all night runs. Jews,
who dress In garberdlnes, listen to Jews In
European clothes who tell them about
America.
But there Is another Sok, the Outer Sok,
beyond the walls of the city, whera the
camels and the storytellers come, and this
Is no hybrid place, but really Morooco and
and as fine a sok as any town but Fes or
Marakeah can show. Here across a great
open space that rises gradually from the
outer walls are stretched rows upon rows
of little ragged tents as high aa ons's
shoulders and before them sit their keep
ers. Arab barbers ready to shave a bead
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from ear to ear or leave a tuft of hair;
unveiled Berber women, generally tattoed.
selling grapes and prickly pears or, ai
the Moors call them. Christian figs; Sou
daneso, sometimes freemen, trading or
holding ponies for hire; women from the
Soudan, tho greater number slaves and
pockma'rked, squatting among their mas
ter's vegetables; Riff men, who have come
from the fighting district to sell a two
frano load of charcoal; pretty, little halt
veiled girls with one earring, selling bread
broken Into half and quarter loaves; sol
dlers carefully feeling the weight of each
small pleco and asking for half a doxen
seeds of pomegranate aa an extra Induce
ment to buy; minstrels and snake charm
ers and bards; water carriers tinkling
bells; blind beggars chanting ' dolefully
"Allah, Allah-la!" camel drivers, saints.
At dark the big Sok goes to bed with
the camels and the donkeys and the
sheep; man and beast bed down together,
and It Is an eerie place to pick one's way
through when tha night Is dark.
But4t Is not only whan the sun is down
that tho Moor sleeps. He sleeps as well
by day. He Is a lasy fellow, and he tells
you his religion teaches him that aa
nothing matters he may take life easy.
Wrapped up In his wollen oloak he lies
down wherever slumber overtakes him In
the sands upon the beach or In the road
way under the city wall. What difference
does It make, the earth is sweet and a
hard bed Is best! Why work like the
Christian to spend like a fool?
One day I saw a fisherman without a
turban sitting on a rock, beside him a
sleeping bundle of homespun halk. They
were a pretty pair and with my kodak I
proceeded out to where they were, going
cautiously. Intending to get a picture from
behind of the shaved head and Its single
trailing scalplock. But the fisherman dis
covered mo and hurriedly lifted the hood
of his Jeleba, at the same time muttering
something In Arable The sound waked
tbo Bleeping bundle, which moved uneasily
a moment and a youthful face thinly cov
ered with sprouting beard.
"You KnglisbmanT" said the bead.
"No, "Merlcan," I replied. ,
"Dat's belter, more richer. Open your
mouth and show thla fellow you got gold
teeth."
I did as he bado and disappointed him '
"Me woman," he continued.
"A beared woman," 1 suggested, at
which ho laughed and explained, still ly
ing on his back, that bs had been to Earl's
Court onoo In a show; that he had had no
beard then, being bu 13. and because he
wore what seemed to Londoners a fumlnint
attire they all thought that he must be a
woman.
The, Arab quarter of Tangier la entltely
Moorish. The kasbah or citadel, hiyh
above the water of the straits Is sur
rounded by Its own walls, as Is customary,
and within these no European Uvea; It Is
thoroughly Moorish. Ths tourist may enter
without a guide and poke his way through
tho heavy arches and the stalrllks stree.s.
Ho may go Into the square where the
Basba governing the district, like the sov
ereign at the capital, receives delegations
and hears the mesagts of irllje.-nnii in
trouble; but the Infidel, even though he be
a foreign' minister, may not enter fort,
mosque of arsenal or any other place ex
cept the residence of the Kaid who Is In
command.
He may look In, however, at the door of
the piiKun and even talk to the prisoners
crowded within. Uut there Is much grumb
ling and no doubt some cursing If he goes
away forgetting to distribute francs among
the dosen Jailers whoss graft Is to make
a living In this way from Europeans. There
is one man In prinon here who speaks a
little English and tells you he has been
In Jail tor more than ten long years and
will be there forever, for he has no money
and bis friends are far up country.
He was Imprisoned, so he says, because
a rival told the pasha that be had smug
gled arms from Spain. Now smuggling
anna Is a trade that meets. In ports where
consuls do not Interfere, with speedy ex
ecution, and not many rears ago thla pun-
During the hot summer months when the piano business was dull, we ordered from
the great eastern factories hundreds of pianos to be made for us, according to tho latest
modern and most improved designs and styles. WE PAID SPOT CASH FOR THESE
PIANOS, and therefore received large special discounts for cash. ,
All of these pianos have arrived and with, our entire stock will be offered for sale to
the Visitors of the Great Ak-S&r-Ben Festivities. We promise to save every piano,
buyer from 33V4 to 50 on the Dollar, by purchasing a piano during this GREAT
AK-SAR-BEN SALE. If you live within a hundred and fifty miles of Omaha, you will
at least save your railroad fare and a week's expenses by buying your Piano at Hay
den's now.
Every Piano In Oar Store Is Marked In
. Plain Figures and Is Sold at One Price
We do not ask you to pay more or less than any other purchaser, and we sell you a
strictly high grade piano, guaranteed for ten years, at the same margin of profit that
we would sell any other article of merchandise in our store. This is something that
will be of interest to you, if you intend to buy a piano. For after you have looked
around and compared our prices, our pianos and the values we give you fpr your
money, with our cocmpetitors, you will see why we sell more pianos than any other
piano house in the entire west.
This is a broad assertion, but we are ready to show you what you can save if you
buy a piano now, by quoting you a few of the many piano bargains:
$300 oak pianos sale price $185
$275 mahogany pianos : sale price $168
$290 walnut pianos sale price $189
$325 mission style pianos sale price $205
$315 plain mahogany pianos sale price $193
$250 English oak pianos sale price $172
Mahogany pianos former price $375; sale price $250
Oak pianos former price $500; sale price $375
Mahogany pianos former price $525; sale price $375
Puritan style, mahogany pianos, formerly $425; sale price $320
SECOND HAND 7
Oak piano former price $300; sale price $185
Mahogany piano former price $600; sale price $265
Walnut piano former price $400; sale price $175
Mahogany piano former price $350; sale price $150
Oak piano former price $300; sale price $190
Mahogany piano former price $365; sale price $205
HAYOEM
Xtie Largest Piano House In tine West
Ishment was meted out to soma offenders
even In Tangier. There Is a graphic story
of one such killing told originally, I think.
In a British Blue Book.
"An Englishman, Drummond Hay, com
ing out one morning at one of the gates of
Tangier, saw a company of soldiers drag
glng along two prisoners with their arms
bound to their sides. One was a mountain
man from the Riff, formerly a gardener
to one of the European residents at Tan
gier; tha other a young fellow, tall and
with an open and attractive countenance.
The Englishman asked the officer in com
mand what crimes these two unfortunate
men had committed.
" The sultan,' was tho answer 'may Ood
prolong his life! has ordered their heads
to be cut off because they have engaged
In contraband trade on tho coast of the
Riff with Infidel Spaniards
" 'It Is very severe punishment for such
a fault,' observed the Englishman, 'and
If It la to serve aa a warning and example
to the lnhabltanta of Tangier why are they
not allowed to wltneaa the execution? The
gatea of the city had been cloaed and
Drummond Hay had cauaed one to be
opened for himself by giving money to the
guard.
" 'Ho not argue with me. Nasarene.' re
sponded the officer. 'I have received an
order and must obey.'
The decapitation was to take place In
the Hebrew slaughter house. X Moor of
vulgar and hideous aspect was there al
ready awaiting the condemned. He had In
his hand a small knife about six Inches
long. He was a stranger In the city and
had offered hlmnelf aa executioner because
the Mohammedan butchers of Tangier who
urually fill that office t.ad all taken refuge
In a mosque.
"An altercation now broke out between
the soldiers and the executioner about the
reward promised for the decapitation of
thotwo poor creatures, who stood by and
listened to the depute over . the blood
money. The expcutloner Insisted, declaring
that he had been promised 10 francs a head,
and must have 40 for the two. The officer
at last agreed, but with a very 111 grace.
"Then the butcher seized one of the con
demned men. already half dead with terror,
threwvhlm on the ground, kneeled on his
chest snd put the knife Into his throat.
The Englishman turned away his face. He
heard the sounds of the violent struggle.
The executioner cried out- 'Olve me an
other knife, mine does not cut!' Another
knife was brought and tha head separated
from the body. The soldiers cried In a
faint voice, 'Ood prolong the ' life of our
Lord and master,' but many of them were
ntuplfled.
"Then came the other victim, the hand
some and amiable looking young man.
Again they wrangled over his blood. The
officer, denying bis promise, declared that
he would give but JO francs for both bsads
and the butcher was foroed to yield. Tho
condemned man asked that his hsnds
might be unbound.
"Being loosed he took his cloak and
gave It to the soldier who had unbound
him, saying: 'Accept this; wo shall meet
In a better world.' He threw his turban
to another who had been looking at him
with com passion, and stepping to tho
plaoe whero lay tho bloody corpse of bis
oompanloa bo said tho Moslem creed In a
oleag, firm votco There Is oe Ood bat
Ood, and Mohammed 'Is His prophet!'
Then taking off his belt he gave It to the
executioner, saying: Take It, but for tho
lore of Ood out my bead off more quickly
than you did my brother's.' He stretched
himself upon the earth in the blood and
tbo executioner kneeled upon his chest.
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"A few minutes after two bleeding
heads were held up by the soldiers. Then
tho gates of the city wero opened and
there came forth a crowd of boys and men
who pursued the executioner with stones
for three miles, when he fell fainting to
the ground, covered with wotrrida. The
next day It was known that ho had been
shot by a relative of one of the victims.
Tho authorities of Tangier appar
ently did not trouble themselves about
the matter, since the assassin came back
into ths city and remained unmolested.
'After having been exposed three days
the heads were sent to the sultan In order
that his Imperial majesty might recognise
the promptitude with which his orders
hsd been fulfilled."
Since this Incident of thirty years ago
Tangier has changed. No longer may a
man be flogged In publio In the Sok; no
longer may the slave bo sold at auction;
no longer may tho heads of the sultan's
enemies hang upon tha gates, for the
plnre. Is dominated now by foreign diplo
mats with tender European hearts. Though
still nominally within the empire of the
sultan the city Is defiled forever, gone over
to the Infidel Nasarene.
FREDERICK MOORE.
"AN ENGLISHMAN'S CASTLE'
Aaaerleaa Learas More Aboot Aa Oft
Oaoted Phrase's Mean
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YORK. England, Sept. IS. That the
Englishman's horns Is his castle la a
statement often quoted. How the thins
works out In practice sometimes an Amer
ican had a chance of seeing the other
day at Saltburn, a watering place nuai
here.
The American had arrived at Kaltburn
some days earlier and taken lodglugu.
Next to the American's room was that
of an English woman and next tier's
that of her two children. These rooms
occupied all of the first floor of the
modest house. On the night tha trouble
came tho "hall room front," as he
would be designated In New York, "the
gentleman," as they put It here, was
aroused from the sound sleep that comes
soon after retiring and found a man wno
had Just entered the doorway approaching
tha bed. Supposing the intruder to be
some confused lodger the American
merely aaked, "Well, what la Itr with the
Idea that a voice showing that the room
was occupied would be all that was neces
sary to show the caller his mistake. -
Instead, to the American's amassment,
the short and stocky Intruder with one
step hud reached the bed and grabbed him.
Till this time there had been no word
uttered save the awakened man's ques
tion. The next Instant, naturally, the
American was out of bed, dragging the
bedclothes with him, and had grappled
with his assailant, backing him against
the wall with a much louder demand to
know "What la It ?'
"Oh-h-hr tamo tha moaning; vhiulng
voice of the landlady through the opsa
door, "my husband la drunk."
With no more ceremony than the oc
caslon demanded the drunken husband of
the landlady was ejected from the roomf
and the Incident seemed to be ended. Not
at all. At most the bedclothes had been
straightened out and an attempt made
to lock the door when amid sounds of a
struggle on the stairs came the landlady's
voice crying, "Olvd mo that gun; give max
that gun!"
"I won't!" answered the husband. 'Til
kill the d-d Russian! I'll kill hira,
say I I've got a cartridge In the gun and
rra going to kill him. Let me go!"
The landlord was craxy, murderously,
drunk. While the struggle was on tha
English woman whom wo will call Mrs,
C, fearing lest murder be done and lest
her sleeping children next be tho objects
of the drunken man's rage, had slipped
past him and rushed to the police statloa;
around the corner, returning with an ln.
s pec tor of police. Then came to the sur-'
face the real beauty of tho English law,
the significance of the proud refrain, "Tho
Englishman's home is his castle."
Hhould the Inspector touch the man . of,
his gun? He would not, notwithstanding
he did enter the house as far aa the foot
of the stairway. Mrs. C. had opened tho
door for him or he would not have crossed
the threshold. He declined to arrest tha
man or to take the gun, saying blandly
that the man was "In his own house."'
The fact that the man had threatened
murder with the gun In his hand made no
difference to this representative of the law
of free England and he declined absolutely
to Interfere In apite of the protests of
Mrs. C. and the American and a renewed
reminder that an Irresponsible man threat
ened murder at midnight. .
The Inspector compromised at last by
taking away what the landlady told him'
were all her husband's cartridges. Tho
drunkard, sobered Just enough by the of-
fleer's presence to say that all tho lodger
could get out of the house at that hour
If they didn't like It and to repeat In tha
inspector's face that he would "have no
d d Russians In his house" and would
"kill this one," finally stumbled down tho
basement stairs and fell asleep. What
put Into his head the notion that tho
American visitor was a Russian nobody
found out.
The exigencies of ttmo and travel mads
It Impracticable for the American to under
take either a proeecutlon of tbo landlord
or an Inquiry, regarding tho conduct and
duties of tho police Inspector, but Mrs. C.
was not disposed to let the matter drop so
easily, and with a member of Parliament
set measures In motion to carry It further.
Caaaed Whale Moat.
Already quite a trade Is dona with Japan
In canned and salted whale meat. Tho
new Idea Is to start a campaign to edu
cate the people of the European raoe oil
the undoubted merits of the new diet. Sam
ples of canned whale meat havo been dis
tributed from the headquarters of the
whaling company, and all of those who
have tried it say that the meat Is exceed
ingly palatable, being much tenderer than
beef, and greatly resembling It In taste.
At present tons and tons of whale flesh
are used in the manufacture of fertilisers,'
which are one of the most valuable by-
products of the industry, but It tskes threo
tons of flesh to make one of furtillsar, and
this latter Is sold at the rate of t cents
per pound. National Food Magaslna
Boo Want Adds are business booster
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