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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1909)
TILFj OMAHA SUNDAY HEK: OCTOBER 31, 1909. f3 D U H A il A A il i t. ft I A Ml 11 A A K 11 HH A A A A Jl A A OTTI MILLER, STEWART . BEATON Sate f Brass and Iron Beds Tomorrow HIT0 riT mm A 5-'" . ........ f Bcgnlfc? Fries, $13.60 Brans trim mod I roii brd, Ilka Illustration, man ufactured liy Kimball & Chappell. size of pillars 1 1 16-in., manga ami 6-16-n. firass top rod, S In. Brass spindle and door knob mourns ana vm, Height of head M-ln., foot 40-ln.. finished In cream color SeiUr.g prloe $7.00 ag-ula Prion, flg.BO Bum trimmed Iron bed, l'.ke Illustration, manu factured by Kimball & Chappell. Blze of plhars 2-la, filling- S-ln. tube rod -ln., brawn mushroom top. Ileichtb of head Slft-ln., foot 38-ln. rmisnca in cream coloi Selling price $10.00 Baralar Price, $20.00 Bia-m trimmed Iron bed, like illustration, manu factured by Kimball & Chappell. Size of pillars 2-ln., fillings and H-in. Iron top rod 1 1-16-ln. Brnsa mushroom tops, with clustered fill ings. Height of head 68-in., foot sit-in. f inished in cream color Selling price $10.50 We secured by prompt action and ready cash one of the greatest furniture bar gains of this season. We purchased at about half regular price the entire sample stock of KIMBALL & CHAPPELL,- conceded to be the best manufacturers of brass and iron beds. These poods are now on display at our store in the new basement show room, recently remodeled for this purpose. The stock consists of two carloads of the most desirable styles made. The prices are nearly one-half regular. The few we herewith quote are but an index to the genuine values offered. Sale begins tomorrow at 8 A. M. $18.50 White Iron Bed, full size $10.00 $13.50 Vernis Martin Bed, full size. v . . .$7.50 $20.00 White Iron Bed, full size $12.00 $16.50 White Iron Bed, full size . . .' $9.90 $25.00 WThite Iron Bed, size. $15.50 $20.00 Tiite Iron Bed, size $12.50 $13.50 Vernis Martin Bed, size $7.50 $21.00 Vernis Martin Bed, size $12.50 $19.00 White Iron Bed, size $11.50 Bed Springs We herewith quote prices of the different styles of Bed Springs: Wood frame, woven wire bed springs .'$1.75 Wood frame woven wire supported bed, springs. .$2.75 Iron frame woven wire bed springs $3.50 Iron frame national weave bed springs $4.50 Iron frame, braced coil springs . . . . $6.00 We offer a large stock of Mattresses at Extra Good Values. Star Felt brand of mattresses, full size $6.75 White cotton mattresses, full size $7.00 Acme felt mattresses, full size $9.00 Ideal imperial edge felt mattresses, full size. .. .$10.00 Perfection felt mattress ........... .$14.00 Imperial perfection felt $16.50 Silk floss, 6-inch box, full size, 30-lb. linen tick mattress, for $17.00 Box Springs Constructed with 90 springs and No. 1 lumber, best Italian hemp twine, best of burlap, with a No. 1 quality of felt top. 'or $15.00 Light weight hair mattress to fit box springs $10.00 Same style box spring and mattress made up In linen ticking . .$30 Pillows range In price from $2.00 per pair in feathers to $7.50 per pair in the best quality of No. 1 white down. " rill h i I -J- 1 . II Regular Price, $11.50 Brass trimmed iron bed, like illustra tion made by Kimball & Chap pell, 1 6-16-in. continuous post, ladder rod -in. Brass filling rods Vj-ln. Finished In cream PcTf.e.n.:.nf... $8.00 1 fnT Regular Price, $15.00 All steel bedstead, with continuous post, 1 5-16-ln. diameter, filling and -in. Grouped ladder rods, helghth of head 8-in., foot 4 2-ln., finished in cream color Selling price TTTTfr? v Brass bed,- like illustration, 2-in. post, 6 -in. ladder rods, In. cross rods, with patent rail construction and absolute guar antee not to rattle ' r aa Selling price . .tfld.UU HENRY M. STANLEY IN OMAHA Great Traveler Tells of the Time in His Autobiography. F0UUD LITE NOT AT ALL PBOSAIC Plenty of Experiences In This Then Little Western Town to Salvo the Ennui of Doll Care. Henry M. Stanley's autoblgraphy, edited by Mrs. Stanley has been published and makes a book of great interest. Especially will It so strike Omaha people who have a care for the human Interest and the things that have gone before and helped make up the vivacity of the life which old timers say was worth living; within this Cate City to the west. Stanley takes his readers into his confi dence far enough to impart to them the little secret that It was here In Omaha where he took his first excessive quaff at the nectar of the gods and experienced that yearning for the fleshpots of Egypt which a few other men who have coin, and gone or even stayed In Omaha may have felt. The story Is a good one and that part of it which refers to tils residence and ex periences in Omaha la reproduced here: In April, 1S65, the war was ended and Stanley left the navy. Then, for a twelve month, his diary gives only such glimpses of him as an occasional name of a place with date. "St. Joseph, Missouri across the plains Indians Salt Lake City Denver Black Hawk-Omaha." Apparently through this time he was Impelled by an overflowing vouttiful enericv. and an Innate love of novelty and adventure. In his later years he told how, in his early days, his exhuberant vigor was such, that when a horse stood across his path his Impulse was, not to go round, but jump over Itt And he had a keen relish for the sights and novelties, the many-colored life of the west. So he went light heartedly on his way, For to admire and for to see. For to beholdthe world so wide. Did Ne-Wepaper Work. Through this period he seems to have done more or less newspaper correspon dence, and to have tended towards that as a profession. Here belongs an episode which Is told in one of the autobiographic fragments, the reckless frolic of boys re counted with the sobriety of age. "Being connected with the press my ac quaintance was sought by some theatrical people in Omaha, at which, being young and foolish, I was much gratified. After a benefit performance, which I was prin cipally the means of getting up for them, I slipped with them, and for the first time I drank so much wine that I tasted the Joys and miseries of intoxication. My im pression will not be forgotten, for though the faculty of self-restraint was helpless, the brain was not so clouded that I did not Know what I was about. I was so conscious of an Irrepressible hilarity, which provoked me to fling decorum to the winds, and of being overwhelmingly affectionate to my boon companions. Surpassed Kven Hoarla. "The women of the party appeared more beautiful than hourls, especially one for whom I felt eostatlo tenderness. When we had supped and drank and exhausted our best stories, about 2 o'clock in the morning, we agreed to separate, the ladles to their own homes, but we men to a frolic, or lark. In the open. The effect of wine was at Its highest. We sallied out, singing 'We Won't Go Home 'Till Morning.' I was soon conscious that my A Meat Shoe For NeaH Men mmiiiim Real style and genuine comfort go together to the man who buys "Wolfe's-Columbus" Shoes. These shoes are more than merely a foot cover ing. They have ample room for real foot comfort, but the lines of the last also spell neatness and beauty. WOLFE'S-COLUMBUS' SHOES For Men are not slighted in wearing quality. Shoemaking - stall and honest values have given them nrst place a better shoe than you can buy for more money. We guarantee tbem Uood wear or a new pair. ALL DEALERS SELL THEM Th VoU Brag, Sbo C. Colamlxam, 0Uo tread was different, that the sidewalk re minded me of a ship In a gale, the lamp posts were not perpendicular, and leaned perilously over, which made me babble about the singular waywardness and want of uprightness In houses and lamp-posts and awning columns, and the curious elasticity of the usually firm earth. I wished to halt and meditate about this sudden change 6f things in general. Scraps of marine songs about the 'briny ocean,' 'Brave Sailor Boys,' and 'Good Ships Be on Her Waters' were suggested to me by the rocking ground, and burst in fluent song from my Hps. A noisier set than we became. It is scarcely possible to imagine. Wonder Were Not Shot "I wonder now that we were not shot at, for the Omaha people were not very re markable for forbearance when angered, and a charge of small shot would have bee"n no more than we each of us well de served. But some oue suggested that vengeful men were after us, and that was enough to send us scampering, each to his home, at 4 o'clock in the rooming. I reached my place without accident, and without meeting a single constable; and, plunging into bed, I fell into a deep sleep. My first waking made me aware of a rack ing headache, and a deep conviction that I had behaved disgracefully. "I was enriched, however, by an exper ience that has lasted all my life, for I then vowed that this should be the last time I would have to condemn myself for a scan dalous act of ths kind. 'What an egreg ious fool I have been! Hang N and all his gang!' was my thought for many a day." Like David Copperfleld's first supper party, one Buch lesson was enough for a man who was to do a man's part; he never again fell under Circe's spell. But the hunger for robust exploit was there, and he had found a companion of kindred tastes. With W. H. Cook. In May, 1S6, he started for Denver. "We bought some planking and tools, and, in a few hours, constructed a flat-bottomed boat. Having furnished It with provisions and arms against the Indians, , towards evening we floated down the Piatt, river. After twice upsetting and many adventures and nar row escapes we reached the Missouri river." From Omaha they traveled to Bos ton, where in July, 1806, they took a sail ing ship for Smyrna. As Special Correspondent. Stanley writes: "My first entry into Journalistic lite as a selected 'special' was at St Louis, after my return from Asia Minor. Hitherto I had only been an at tache, or supernumerary, as it were, whose communications had been accepted and most handsomely rewarded, when, as dur ing the two bombardments of Fort Fisher, they described events of great publlo. In terest. I was now instructed to 'write up northwestern Missouri, and Kansas, and Nebraska. In 1887 I was delegated to Join General Hancock's expedition against the Kiowaa and Comanches.t and soon after the termination of a bloodless campaign, was asked to accompany the peace commission to the Indians." These two expeditions be reported In a series of letters to the Missouri Democrat, which in 1895 he made Into the first of two volumes, "My Early Travels and Adven tures." It Is the graphlo story of a sig nificant and momentous contact of civil isation with savagery. Two years after the close of the civil war, the tide of set tlers was swiftly advancing over the great prairies of the wesL The Union Pacific railroad was being pushed forward at the rate of four miles a day. Th. Powder liver military road was being constructed to Montana, and forts erected along Its line, through the best and most reliable hunting grounds of the Sioux, and without their consent The Indians throughout a wide region were thrown Into a ferment, and there were outbreaks against lh white settlers. In March a force was sent out under General Hancock, which Stan ley accompanied, with the general expecta tion of severe fighting. But General Hanoock soon imparted to Stanley his views and purposes which were to feel the temper of the Indians, to see who were guilty and who were not; to learn which tribes were friendly disposed; to separate them from the tribes bent on war; to make treaties wherever practi cable, and to post more troops on certain roads. General War imminent. In a march of 4&0 miles he practically accomplished this plan. The hostile Sioux and Cheyennes were detached from the allies, the Klowas, arapahoea and Coman ches, and whan the hostlles stole away from the conference and began outrages on the settlers they were punished by the destruction of their villages. But after Hancock's return the plains still seethed with menace and occasional outbreaks and a general Indian war seemed Imminent In July congress met the emergency by the appointment and. dispatch of a peace commission. At its head was General Sherman with a group of distinguished officers, two chief Indian commissioners and Senator Henderson of Missouri. Sher man, after some very effective speeches to the Indians, left the further work to the other peace commissioners, who traveled far and wide over the plains for 2,000 miles. They met the principal tribes in council and made a series of treaties, which with the distribution of presentsand the general view impressed upon the Indians in ad dresses, frank, friendly and truthful, brought about a general pacification. In Stanley's picturesque story of all this, perhaps the most striking feature la the speeches of the Indian chiefs as they set forth the feelings and wishes of their peo ple. Said old Santanta: "I love the land and the buffalo and will not part with them. I don't want any of those medicine houses built in the country; I want the papooses brought up exactly as I am. I have word that you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle there. I love to roam over the wide prairie, and, when I do It, I feel free and happy; but when we settle down we grow pale and die." Speeches Impel Sympathy. "Few," writes Stanley, "can read the speeches of the Indian chiefs without feel, lug deep sympathy for them; they move us by their pathos and mournful dignity. But they were asking the Impossible. The half of a continent could not be kept as a buffalo pasture and hunting ground." Re viewing the situation many years later, he pronounces that the decline and disappear ance of the IndlanB has been primarily due, not to the wrongs by the whites,' but to their innate savagery, their mutual slaugh ter, the ravages of disease, stimulated by unsanitary conditions; and, especially, the' increased destructlveness of their inter tribal wars, after they had obtained fire arms from the whites. His account of the complaluts laid before the commissioners shows that they were real and many wrongs on the part of the whites. To one story of a wanton murder, and the com ment. "Those things 1 tell you to show you that the pale faces have done wrong as well as the Indians," that stout old veteran of the plains, General Harney, replied: "That's so, the Indians are a great deal better than we are." v Spirit of CoiumilMlon. But of the broad purpose of the govern ment, and the spirit in which the com mission acted, Stanley writes: "These let ters describe the great efforts made by the Vnlted States government to save the unfortunate Indians from the consequences of their own rath acts. The speeches of General Uancack and General Sherman and the peace commissioners faithfully reflect the sentiment of the most cultivated Amer cans towards them, and are genuine ex hortations to the Indians to stand aside from the overwhelming wave of white hu manity which Is reslstloasly rolling towards the Pacific, and to take refuge on the res- i El fin :' ''tV;t;: THOSE "tailor ish" fads that the young man of the period craves in his dress will he find them at the average tailor's?- Of course not. Why? Because the average tailor's knowledge of style is bounded by the four walls of his shop. J"HIGH ART" CLOTHES bring to you die freshest fashions from both sides of the water the newest style ideas of the arbiters of the mode abroad, to gether with the, mature preferences of the best-dressed Amer icans of means and taste. If correct style and genuine good form count with you, "HIGH ART CLOTHES" express them with fidelity. Sold by the Best clothiers throughout the United States. STROUSE & BROTHERS Mker. of "HIGH ART CLOTHING" I BALTIMORE. MD. ,' TOR SALE BY ALL LEADING CLOTHIERS ' Writ for Fall and WinUr StyU Album V V V y y V V V V H V V M V V V V V i u mm i v u u vfS ervations, where they will be fed, clothed, protected and educated in the arts of In dustry and Christian and civilized princi ples." The replies of the Indian chiefs no less faithfully reflect their proud con tempt of danger, and betray, In many in stances, a consciousness of the Bad destiny awaiting them. In all this, Stanley was unconsciously acquiring a preliminary lesson In dealing with savage races. The tone in which Sher man, Henderson and Commissioner Taylor spoke to-the Indians, now as to 'warriors, now as to children, gave hints, which, later, Stanley put to good use. And now the experience of the Indian suggests s parallel with that of the Congo natives as each met the whites. The wise and gen-, erous purposes of men like Sherman and Taylor, as afterwards of ' Stanley, were woefuly impeded in their execution by the less fine temper of their subordinates. And now, from the west Stanley goes to the east. The point of departure Is given in the journal. The Blot on Hie Past. "Haven't you anything to confess to me before It is too late?" she asked. "Remem ber that It will be much better for us to part even now than it will be after to morrow. Think. Isn't there in your past something that you have hidden from me?. Don't be afraid to confess it. I will for give you If it is not too terrible, and then we can begin our married life with no shadow to darken the pathway before us." "Well, Bessie," he replied, as he avoided looking Into her eyes, "there is something. I am going to throw myself upon your mercy. Don't judge me too severely. Have pity. I once carried on a stamp flirtation with a girl for two months." Chicago Record- Herald. LEANING TREES POINT WAY Canadian Guide Tells the Secret of His Craft in Journeys Through Wilderness. A famous Canadian guide of whom his friend assert that you could take him up to a balloon blindfolded and drop him into the middle of the wilderness and he would find his way out was asked by a New York hunter not long ago how he did it. "Is it true," said the New York man, "that you can find your way back to camp every time and In the atraightest line pos sible?" "That's what they say," admitted the old guide. "And," he added half apolo getically, "I should be ashamed of myself If It wasn't pretty close to the truth." "How do you do It?" "Well, sometimes I know pretty well J wnere x am i mean, in a general way and I feel the direction of the camp or whatever place it to I want to reach. You know that Is an entirely different proposi tion from merely getting out of a forest or a section of country. The man who doesn't know where he or anything else is can always follow the streams and get somewhere some time If he holds out long enough. "But that is a different matter from taking an objective point, even an Imagin ary one, and then going straight through the wilderness to that point. Perhaps not many guides themselves can do that with absolute success, though it seems a very simple thing to me." . "Do you mean that you can hold a per fectly straight course through thick woods) and across broken country without a com pass or sunlight to guide you?" "As straight a course as one would nature ally follow in such country." "What Is your guide, the moss or growth of the shaded side of tree trunks?" "No. That's not to be depended on. Some times the dampness collects on the north side of a tree, sometimes on the east side sometimes on another slant You can't depend on It, for It may be one thing la one ravine and just the opposite where cur rents of air and relative positions of tree and of water are reversed. "But there is one thing which In any, general stretch of country Is Infallible, That Is the Inclination of the trees. Every section has its prevailing wind. If you know what is the prevailing wind of tha region where you are It seems to me that anybody with half an eye ought to be able to take a Btralght course and hold it "Of course you won't find the trees la thick woods bending at a decided angle aa you will find those on exposed ground. But if you observe carefully you will detect enough variation from a straight perpen dicular to keep you going true. That's the secret of my sense of direction, and It's a Becret everv man in tha wonitn ran share." -' Obeying Orders. 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