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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 24, WO. 15 1 MILLER, STEWART & BEATON 413-15-17 SOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET B '" hum it "' ssiI1b r TOMORROW We Have Decided to Close Ont This Season's Snrplus Wholesale Stock oi Rons The wholesale trade for this season is nearly over, and we find we still have thousands of rugs in our wholesale stock that must be ?old by the end of the season. Every pattern is this season's production, no old stock or job lots. Every rug is perfectly matched and properly made. It is the policy of this store to dispose, as nearly as possible, of all goods purchased for one season, at its close. Being large wholesale dealers we are required to purchase immense quantities of all the staple and desirable makes of rugs to obtain the lowest possible prices and meet the demands of our trade. Any surplus stock we may have left over we always dispose of at this season of the year at much less price than the strictly retail dealer can purchase the same goods at the mills. Tomorrow will be a day of great rejoicing. The day when the prudent buyer can more than realize their expectations. Glance at a few of the values we herewith quote: Many other sizes, not pricedoffered at similar reductions. $18.75 Brussels $16.00 Brussels $24.00 Brussels $20.00 Brussels $23.50 Brussels $26.00 Brussels $21.00 Brussels BRUSSELS RUGS Rug, 8x10-6, for Rug, 8-3x10-6, for Rug, 10-6x12, for Rug, 8-3x1 1:6, for Rug, 10-6xllr6, for . . . Rug, 11-3x12-9, for ... Rug, 10-6x10, for 311.10 .$10.00 $15.00 .$11.30 .$13.00 $15.60 $10.80 $16.00 $30.50 $33.00 $28.00 $23.00 $24.50 $32.75 Wilton Wilton Wilton Wilton Wilton Wilton Wilton Wilton WILTON VELVET RUGS Velvet Rug, 6x7-6, for Velvet Rug, 10-6x12-9, for .. Velvet Rug, 10-6x11-6, for . . Velvet Rug, 10-6x12-9, for . . Velvet Rug, 8-3x10-6, f or . . . Velvet Rug, 8-3x10-6, for . . . Velvet Rug, 8-3x11-4, for . . . Velvet Rug, 10-6x11, for $9. 1 5 S17.75 $17.40 $18.45 $12.30 $11.90 $15.10 $17.60 ROYAL WILTON RUGS 9x12 size, regular prices $65.00, $55.00, $42.50 all go at $27.95 WILTON VELVET RUGS $30.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 9x12, for $27.50 Wilton Velvet Rug, 9x12, for $25.00 Wilton Velvet Rug, 9x12, for $24.75 $18.95 $15.00 BODY BRUSSELS RUGS $31.00 Body Brussels Rug, 9x12, for $29.00 Body Brussels Rug, 8-3x10-6, for . . . $18.00 Body Brussels Rug, 6x9, for $22.50 $19.50 $14.00 BRUSSELS RUGS $22.50 Brussels Rug, 9x12, for $18.00 Brussels Rug, 9x12, for $15.00 Brussels Rug, 8-3x10-6, for $13.00 Brussels Rug, 9x11, for $16.50 .$11.90 .$10.75 AXMINSTER RUGS $35.00 Axminster Rug. 9x12, for . ; $30.00 Axmineter Rug. 9x13, for . $15.00 AxmlDSter Rug. 9x12, for $2.50 Axminster Rug, 27x54, for $4.50 Axminster Rug. 36x72. for . $16.00 Axmingter Rug, Cx9. for . S22.50 818.95 $15.95 81.55 82.60 512.00 European Impressions of a First-Tripper By v. Adolf Salt, Pastor Swedish bwuul iutberaa Church of Omaha. nv y m L J ' npWO artists may use the same materials and implements, yet produce two paintings that are as far apart as the poles. All clothes are made of the identical materials the differ ence lies in the manner the designers conceive and the tailors create them. "HIGH ART CLOTHES" are thought out and wrought out to differ from all other ready-to-wear garments not in exaggeration and eccentricity, but in the care and skill with which they are tailored and in the indescribably graceful effect they lend to the wearer. The best-equipped tailoring shops and the best-drilled tailoring or ganization in the country make "HIGH ART CLOTHES". Reputation is before them, experience is behind them and quality is in them. Sold throughout the United States by the best clothes shops. See that the label on the coat reads, "HIGH ART. - STROUSE & BROTHERS r Makers of "HIGH ART CLOTHING' BALTIMORE. MD. FOR SALI T ALL LEADINQ CLOTHUM Writ for FmO eW Wirtmr StyU AOmm s III. TRANGE contrasts that crowd Into a traveler', experience! To ruah from chattering, pleasure loving, clever Copenhagen to a "colony of merer or social Christianity at work" at Bethel In lb suburbs of the' German manufactur ing city of Bielefeld certainly meana va riety In travel. It waa hardjjr aa uncouth a contrast, though, aa when I had to rise that night on, the way to Bielefeld, t In the morning, and exchange a warm berth rock- jig you sweetly In the opposite direction from our childhood cradle for a cold day coach that seemed much drearier tnarf' tt actually was. Second class on expreas trains in Germany is equal to our first class day coaches, and German first class " just aa good plus another color In the pholstery, a white, occasionally immacu- o ECZEMA BEYOr D WORDS Whole Body a Mass of Raw, Tor turing Humor Hair All Fell Out and Ears Seemed Ready to Drop Off Clothing Would Stick to Bleeding Flesh Hoped Death Would End Fearful Suffering. CASE SEEMED HOPELESS BUT CUTICURA CURED HER "Words cannot describe the terrible) exwetna 1 suffered with. It broke out oa ray head and ken spreading until it uiy wuo. imkjt. i waa urooM solid maa of sores from bead to foot. 1 looked mora like a p:eiw of raw be than a human being. That pain ami agony I endured seemed mora thaa I could bear. Blood awl pus ooaed from the great sore oa my scalp, from under my finger nail, ana near ail over my btxiv. My ears were so crusted and swollen I was afraid they would break off. Every hair m my bead fed out. I could not ait down, for my clothes) would suck to the raw and bleeding ftnth, making m jrr out from the pain. My family doctor aid ail be oouid. but 1 got wore and worse. -Mr condition was awful. I did not think I could live, and wanted death to coma and end my frightful sufferings. " la this ooudiuoa my trtothar-iii-law berged rue to try the Cuticura Rem edua. I I would, but had no hop of recovery. But oh, what bksead re ba' I experienced after applying Cuti eura Ointment. It cooled the bleeding and m.hing flh and brought me the nrl real urep 1 had bad in wwia, It was as grau-ful aa ice to avoumicg tongue. I would batba witA, warm wau-r and Cuucura bap. then apply toe Ointment freely. 1 saM took Cuti cura Iiesoivent for the blood. In ft abort time Lie sores stopped running, the Bean began to heal, aad I knew I was to pt wed again. Then the hair r bead began to grow, and in ft abort time 1 was completely cured. 1 cannot praiaa Cuticura enough. I wiau I could Veil verybody wuo baa ersmna to uaa Cuticura. My eooditioa waa so terrible that what cured me cannot fad to cure anybody of Una awful disease. If any on doubts the truth of thia letter, tell them to write to ma. Mrs. Wm Hunt. Ii3 Thomaa bt.- Newark. S. J.. Sept. 28. 1908." Cwwa km Olsieisl umt anil 14 m rm i ara (k rnM. IV " Si 1 1 1 1 S IM I II lately clean tidy on the back of the seat, and last, but not least, a third higher ticket. "Americana and fools alone travel first class," they, say in Europe. Aa I was afraid that the synonym to American might be applied to me If I rode first class I chose the second purely out of self-respect and to help In raising the American stand ard over In Europe. American" always spells at discount . over there. But the American buys things above par. How they leva the American money! A few actually love American heiresses, too; but I under stand that these kind lovers of our rich, jaunty American girls esrfinol be held re sponsible for deserting the maidens of their own nation. American gold and. in these cases, superior American brains simply overwhelm the poor youths and old scape graces. Poor Romeos, victims of these pitiless American Gibson daughters, that are so romantic so unselfish and willing to sell all they have and are to make a titled duke or baron happy! If these luxuriating children of excessive wealth only knew happiness; but do. they? What a profound impression of true bliss you get on the contrary, when you come out to that marvellous colony of mercy and unselfish labor for the happiness of others. the unfortunates, the tempted, the wrecked, aa you see it at BetheL We may pehapa aay that the now aged Pastor Von Bodelschwlng's city of social Christianity la the most deeply conceived, beautifully organised and Influential Institution of. Its kind In all the world. From beginning to end It la a maracle. Almost every form of charity and of training for social Chris tianity work is represented there. It Is a training place for the male diaconate anw leads in that line as Kaiserworth on the Rhine for the deaconess calling. It has aa already large theological school. In tact, the institution la a wonderful uni versity of Christian love and education, one of the grandest possible proofs of the tri umphal power of Christian faith and love. Tou take the car from the center of the city of lilelefeld and In fifteen minutes you are at Bethel, really the edge of the city but Itself like a complete town covering the hills and valleys far as the eye can look. The founder is at present unable to work from age. It was my good fortune to meet him on one of the streets of the city. As he moved slowly along, the un fortunates came out from houses and In stitutions to kiss bis hand and to call him Father" In tones so evidently spontan eous that your heart thrilled at the sight. To me it waa a scene of indescribable beauty, infinitely surpassing all the Raphaels and Titlana of all the galleries I had labored through. This work, so con ceived, so executed, is the indispensable compliment of the church's preaching and worship, whether In Lutheran. Bielefeld. Roman, ome, or Greek, Moscow. The tiger fury and tiger hatred of Europe's proletariat will not lay down its ferocious class war by mere words, or by teaching only. The social crisis of the entire world is reaching a stage so acute that only the blind caa deny Ita awesome terrors. Ralph Waldo Emerson's optimistically con ceived beat world" philosophy seems a piece of stupid foolishness, when held op to the actual fact. Such men aa Von Bodelschwmg and others of his farseelng genius divine the needs of the times. Education doeanot solve the social prob lem. It never did. It never can. The world aeeda love. If it finds it not it will ase ita superior modern education aa the crashing sledge-hammer in the glorious museum oi modern culture and civilisation. It trespasses the programme of theee ar ticle to say aaore In this line, or I could and would. The suggestion seems to me a pertinent travel thought. Te travel meana to me to aee and te think. A traveller is mora than a photographing apparatus. After some quite trying train experiences. wet, wet Holland. Holland on a rainy 4ay, dawned on my eye through the gray Dutch mists. And now I understand a trifle bet ter the gray atmosphere of the Dutch school of old painters. It comes right from Holland and not only from the Imagina tion of those homely artists of homely, staid, and sensible Holland, as the bright lights of Swedish paintings finds its ex planation In the prismatic clearness of 8wedish atmosphere, and not from some mere artistic fancy. The canals smelt un commonly wet that day I was in The Hague. How can WUhelmlna escape rheu matism in her misty Dutch Venice? But there is no mist In the Dutch business man's head. A nation that refuses to have a national debt, also refuses to work for nothing. Tou pay your way along In Hol land. Those shrewd looking, unsenti mental, stubborn and good natured (they are both) Dutch can get your pennies, count on It. Holland does not seem to lie in alt the industrial agonies of other Eu ropean nations. They know how to thrive, that rich and prosperous little people. My time in The Hague was to brief, but the museum I had to see. Certainly an econ omical establishment for great art treas ures. That the Dutch can endure such a building for their master-works of art. I cannot understand, except on the ground of Dutch conservatism and Dutch fru gality. The palace, too, la an unpreten tious affair in a rather shut-in location. Holland doea not pride Itself on Parisian show, but on its native common-sense, thrift and ability to take care of Itself. How Germany would like to make that little kingdom a province of its own mighty, burdened land. There will be some rich Dutch blood split before that takes place. Tou And a peculiar qualnt nesa to this capital. The Hague. Some find shaded avenues give a homey effect to the small town metropolis. I expected to find, though, mora striking examples of old Dutch architecture. Alas, the prosy modern styles have forced many old struc tures away. Tou must go to towns and vlllagea now for these. Order, cleanliness and system mark The Hague as it doea most North European cities. If yon wish anything In brass, go to The Hague. The yellow metal glares at you all over the place, braas candlesticks, brass copa, brass tongs for the hearth, and in all forma. It is as characteristic for s The Hague as Roman pearls and scarfs "and cameos far Rome, coral in Naples, glaas and leather in Venice, wood carvings In Florence, and toys in Nuremberg. Only neyer forget your United States customs officers on the re turn. What a dismal night aa we left for the Hoek von Holland to go to London! A half hurricane blew nn fitfutiv . . j . - - . j .m u vur WUfl try. but with dogged Dutch steadiness, aa 4 a wail were pushing up against you. Morning dawned brightly aa we came- to port at Harwich and dear old England, pretty, arietocratio England, once more welcomed ua to her shores. The tale la truly a garden! I hope that powerful and Iraeclble -war lord" In Berlin does not get it Into his head to aend his Invincible into that garden spot of Europe. He ought to have some respect for his diplomatic Lon don uncle, it seems to me. London again, after si Boost four months' absence, 'twaa like coming home. Aa black and sooty aa ever, aa noisy and hurried aa beore, the ocean of humanity there surg ing mightily. 8U11 It waa a delight to come back, even if onlv to ma uu w k. decolonizing process once aeiaea the British empire, and Australia, Canaea, Jfew Zea land and tremendous India break Imw what will London then be? The clearing bouse of the empire and the world? After all I had beard on the Journey, these ques tions came to my mind as I paced the jammed streets of London once more. The only thing I revisited wss St P.nT. Truly, aa a church. I Ilka It far more than tne arcnitecturauy grander 8t Peter's in Rome. It has mysticism and a hase ot somber glory not la the Roman Domn- catbedral. How could a first-tripper In England pass by a little sleepy, lovely village called Stratford-on-Avon, where once upon a time tnere noated so gracefully a songful swan upon the peaceful waters of the stream, William Shakes Dear? Ha ould not nrf ne aid not. There are swans there still on the Avon. They float bv beautiful aid Trinity church as In dava of von. Tn & poetic nature, to anyone with imacinat.Ti tne btratford of today can easily be cone verted Into the old town of Shakespeare's time. His home is there, his school him church, his grave in the church, his daueh. tors bouse, and outside of the village Anne's cottage and the little seat In th cozy old room where the "thouaand-souled" lover wooed and woo Is there. I sat on the seat and actually felt the thrill! Th. a hole town lives on Shakespeare, talks bnakespeare, worships Shakesin and knows of nothing but Shakespeare. Best of all, that dear old guardian of one of tne rooms in bhakespeare's house, an i derly cultured lady of very fertile minrf gave me a raceful, conversational lectur ette on the bard that exceeded In literai-r value many a biography of the poet I have reao. what a ridiculous thing It is for many a professor to dream nut hi. demlcal Shakespeare and then plague the scnoiars with a labyrinth of Shakespeare messes and hypotheses that do you not a tnousandth aa much bood. from the view. point of literary valuation, as one hour wun a soul that feels and knows Shake speare as a product of old Stratford! We nave too much Shakespeare anatomy and iuo iime or Shakespeare's great souL If any doubt me, go to Stratford and breathe me air or the old bard of lnn si. old Chester, with Its crumbllne iiiMin. old Gothic cathedral andnclent houses of unique cngusn architecture Is vmi, . I visit before you rush to Liverpool, where an your Stratford poesy is smothered in smoxe and all your bard of Avon h fulness u choked at the sieht of tk. palling scenes of poverty that this wealthy cuy naroors. bouth EuroDean Km- a not have the tragic look the north r,.,. pean have. The Ideals of life are higher in tne orth European civilization. There- rore poverty seems like a rrainl.. edy. I was glad to see our vessel leave this cuy or strain and nain to carrv ... ., the glorious ocean away from the wail and oe oi a modern age of Industrialism. we me to cope with theee gigantic tasks! Money and education alone do not solve them. I There must be a character commensurate with (he primal Ideals of our Incomparably beautiful land of liberty to grapple with the unparallelled problems confronting us in a manner as they confront few, if any other nations. Our first secular need Is obedience to law. Just one little German experience more. One day. In Mains I waa Invited by the lieutenant mentioned In a previous let ter, to a round tn the barracks of Mainz. I waa Informed to take the ear to a certain point, but not knowing the difference be tween Kaateel and Kasteel-Malns I stepped off too soon and, of course, saw no lieu tenant there. Presently another officer came along. Saluting him as politely as I cculd I presumed to trespass on his mili tary majesty's time and asked him If he knew where lieutenant so and so lived. No, he did not. Then I told him my plight and said that I had expected to meet the gentleman here, aa he had directed me to stop off at the KastelL Like a flash and with German military precision he In stantly replied: "Then you must also re main here." (Da muesaen Sle auch bier blelben). The answer waa so obvious that for a moment I felt abashed. And off the man walked. How could a German officer fall to come to this exact spot of terra flrma, when he had said he would. That waa bis colleague's reasoning. He almost convinced me to remain on that vary spot, had I not Just then discovered that Kas tell and Kaatell-Malna were two different places In the region. - Laugh aa we will at thia unquestlonmg obedience, ' a vital ele ment of national welfare It is none the less fully as much aa our unlimited American'! liberty. But a rather aacrifice the older and richer culture of Europe, the glory of its art. its cathedrals and Its palaces, to enjoy the privilege of citizenship In a land of liberty which is the greatest political experiment the world has witnessed. A maturing experiment, such it is at present Everything Is comparatively new with us yet. To aid. in ever so humble a station. In bringing the experiment to the stage of absolute certainty Is a most noble oppor tunity, a crown of glory. To see America as a homogenous nation with liberty pre served day of inspiration to the happy age that shall witness it. If you are a true i American, why do you go to Europe? To love to come home again and to serve your land with still more Intelligent fidelity. No Machine is Skilful Enough to Cut Leather for, The Gotzian Health and Walk Easy Shoe.1 Handiwork brains in practised fingers 1 1. .1 sr . i t completes tne worn tor tms snoe. It is the result of fifty-four years of cumulative effort and experience. The shoe is comfortable, but unlike all other health shoes has "style." That's the whole story a shoe that makes you fashionably comfortable and comfortably fashionable. C, St. rm beet 156 All leathers. Ask your dealer. The C70M. MeVe Kid Backer. Attractive swing kuC Graceiul and atTiuh sod isde with oar "toil as a - f 1k tT7 Health and Walk Easy For Men and Voraen Sta "Gift Your SUp Thm Rising Infliction There is much to reflect on aa you turn homeward. Europe and America, what .virsi; we nave the land of liberty oounaiess are our resources. But have no ideal civilization vet. lt mention a few things. In the training our children, in the sancity of the mar riage tie, in obedience to law and In busi ness honesty, do we stand in advance of the north European civilization? I doubt Then since the last twenty or twenty-five years we have entered Into a stage which may mean a crisis. Formerly our civiliza tion waa Anglo-Saxon. or broadly speaking, at least Germanic. The south European type begins to recast this or iginal form. We are becoming a land of mixed types, as Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome were, instead of a homo genous nation. Developments are Infinitely more rapid in our age than in the times of the old world empires named. Can we stand this mixture of types? Aa infant la years, our beloved country has already problems, of the magnitude met with in ancient empires of five times our age What a grand type of dllaenahip Is needed Sh.rl.a- tn. B.ede.. , 'Little bov" asks the wall-meanin.' r- ! former, "is that your mamma over yonder with the beautiful set of furs?" "Yes. sir." answers the bright lad. "Well, do you know what poor animal it la that haa had to suffer In order that your mamma might have the furs with which she adorns herself so proudly?" "Tes. sir. My papa." Sanatorium Tills lafUtuUon Is the only oss la the central vest wlLb separata buildings situated la their own ODvIt grounds, vet entirely dis tinct and rendering it possible to classify cases, The one building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of noncontagious and n on mental diseases, no others be ing admitted. The other. Rest Cottage, being designed for and devoted to the exclusive treatsnaat of select mental cases, requiring for a time watchful care aad spe cial nursing. Removal Sale of Monuments Low Prices We mast move to our new plant at 17th and CnmHng streets soon, and to save cost of moving our monuments will make ex ceptionally LOW PRICES on our'enUre stock of the latest designs la cemetery work. It you can't call, write us for prices. 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