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LOT 1 Beautiful sets of Russian lynx, large rug muff and
Russian shawl to match; worth $15.00 price for Saturday,
only $7.50
LOT 2 Canadian marten sets, rug muff and large neck
pieces; worth $15.00 our price $10.00
LOT 3 Marmot sets, rug muff, animal shape, five heads
and tails, Russian pelerine neck piece; regular price $20.00
-Saturday .'..'.$12.50
LOT 4 Beautiful black Canadian marten set, new shapes,
collar with six tails on back, wide shoulder, large open rug
muff, 12 tails, shirred lining; worth $25.00 price for one
day :...........! $17.50
LOT 5 Black Japanese lynx sets;, worth $35.00 and $40.00
in que lot Saturday $25.00
LOT 6500 Jap mink sets; all specially priced at bargain
prices. '
' This is the great opportunity to buy Christmas presents.
Make a small payment and we will keep them until called
for.
G. E. SHUKERT
401 SoulK 15th Street
IOWA'S PIONEER LAWYER
Becollectioni of Judge James Grant,
"A Model American."
HAWKEYE FOR HALT CENTURY
Participant la the Maklnar of Terri
tory aad State Dlatlaaalalied
Lawyer aad Hallroad
r resident.
.CHINESE TONGS RED HOT
Itomanro nit It AtJnoaphere of Classic
Tragedy Starts Trouble la ' .
. Bam fTHici ico.
The tong war now being waged. In San
tale of the Montaguea and Capulets. Two
clans In our Oriental quarter, ."both alike
In dignity." the Yeee and' pn Yloks.. h'nd
treated each other with something of high
disdain; but In the hear of a, maiden of
the Yeea there was ' a tender sentiment
.id - . . n , v, - r -,..,.
and this being reciprocal, the two fled to
gether, while the families stayed behind
to shed each other's blood. All the yel
low Tybalts and Mercutios, Bonvollos and
I'arlHpg are out of their dark Alleys and.
m In Vmmnu th... a r A wmtnHa v.n
r. and received which, though not as "wide
an church doors" or "deen as wella.'i. tri
InileeA 'nmicrh1" TnrtRV tha Veea sr.
falling; tomorrow the On Ticks are gath
ered to their fathers. Will the slant
eyed Romeo and the little-footed Juliet
continue the tragedy to the accepted end
and bring on a family reconciliation over
their common tomb? Or will tho war not
cease until all the long-queued Montagues
and Capulets are passed from nature to
etornlty or held In durance vile.
It Is an ancient tale, that Is being
enacted, here, as In the Verona, of the
play. Its plot may have been old to the
Romans; It may- have been familiar to
the Phoenicians and Its skeins, may have
been entangled with the romances of the
Nile. The feud of rival families, the lovos
that should have ' softened it, the anger
and the clash and the catastrophe these
have been the setting of tragedies as old
as the human race itself. San Francisco
Chronicle.
If you have anything to sell or trade
nd want qluck action, advertise tt In Tht
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Waltham Watches
Mail Order Houses
A mail order house in Chicago or.
some other city may be able to sell you
anything from a paper of pins to a
house and lot, simply by referring you
to their catalogues, but they v can't sell
you a good watch that way. Watche9
are very delicate machines that may be
x put out of order in a dozen ways after
leaving the factory. A jeweler knows
how to put the watch into shape, and he
won't sell one without doing it. Mail
, order houses do not want to bother with
that, and, as a matter of fact, they can
not if they would. Waltham Watches
are the best in the, world, but whether
you buy a Waltham or some other kind,
go to a jeweler, tell him what you want,
and he will sell you a Match in good
running order. Do not make the mis
take of trying to buy by mail from any
catalogue; you won't know what you
are getting if you do.
'Waltham Watch Company
Waltham, Mass.
N. B. When buying a watch
always ask your jeweler for a Waltham
adjusted to temperature and position.
"James Grant, a model American," a
pioneer of the legal profession in Iowa,
"one of the most sterling, worthy, helpful,
interesting and delightful characters that
ever ornamented the profession of law, cr
blessed any commonwealth by his work
and labors."
These glowing, appreciative words intro
duces a character sketch of Judge Grant
In a late Issue of the Qreen Bag. Judse
John F. Dillon supplied the Inspiration for
the sketch of his old-time but departed
friend, to whom he paid this hearty tribute
In the dedication of his second volume of
"Circuit Court Roports:" "For five snd
thirty years we have lived In the same
town,-and during the latter half of that
period much of my time was spent In your
library.' It gives me pleasure to avail my
self of a graceful usage to record my high
regard for you as a lawyer and a citizen,
and my sincere attachment to you as a
friend."
The formative period of the west brought
to the front the best qualities of men of
every vocations Courage, backed by brain
and brawn, was a prime requisite for the
primitive conditions of pioneer days. Pro
fessions were Incidental of winning a liv
ing from the soil. When settlements spring
up and towns took shape, men of profes
sional training, tested In the crucible of
hardship and privation, were by character
and ' training, fitted to give direction to
pioneer Ideas and shape the destinies' of
cities and states. Judge Grant, accord
ing to his blogrnpher, loomed large In thin
class of men. A pioneer of Iowa when
settlements west of the Mississippi river
were mighty scarce, he saw the region or
ganized Into a territory, participated In the
making of Its laws, assisted In Its de
velopment Into a state, helped to draft the
constitution, served six years as Judge
In the days of Judicial circuit riding, was
one 'of the early presidents of the Rock
Island railroad, ' and left a record as a
lawyer second to none In the galaxy of
distinguished pioneers of the Hawkeyo
state.
Bound for the Northwest.
Judge, Grant was. a .North .. Carolinian,
born December 12, 1812. He graduated from
the University of Chapel Hill, high up in
the class of 1331, and especially dis
tinguished In mathematics and the classics.
At 21, delicate health and an aversion for
slavery, caused him to set out on horse
back for the northwest, with Chicago In
his mind's eye. Here he landed ajt the
end of eighty days and was licensed to
practice law In a community of 600 In
habitants and a future. That was In 1834.
The "Justly celebrated" lake breeie was
doing business In those early days and
playing havoo with delicate constitutions.
Toung Grant was obliged to move back
Into the high lands and dry lands, crossing
the Mississippi In 1838, and settled down as
a farmer near (What Is now Davenport.
Shortly afterward Davenport was born.
and Grant moved nto the young town that
waa destined to be the scene of his labors
for the next half century.
It waa part of his plan of life, says the
biographer, to posses all the Implements
of his profession and to have them easily
at hand. He seemed to realize that truth
of 8hars wood's maxim, that the lawyer's
dlfficu'.ty "Is not so much to know" the
law . as where to find It. Therefore he
commenced to accumulate" law books end
In the course of time possessed the largest
and most satisfactory library In the state
of Iowa. It was Indeed the largest law 11
brary In the northwest and contained more
than 8,000 volumes, which were accumulated
at an expense, since most of the volumes
were extremely rare, of something like F,0,-
000. This library waa offered to the prac
tising attorneys of Its owner's acqalntance,
and many of them freely consulted his books
when working up cases against him. Con
cerning this library, Judge Dillon relates
the following Interesting fact:
When the legislature required a term of
the supreme court of the state to be held
twice a yeer at Davenport, It was made a
condition that It should be without cost to
the state, a species of economy, by the
way, which Ms nothing to recommend tt.
The better to accommodate the court and
the bar. Judge Grant fitted up a room for
the use of the court above his library, and
set it apart for them for several years.
neither teceivlng nor expecting compensa
tion. The Judges and bar of the state can
not nut feej how -much they are Indebted
to him for access to a library which was
until recently the only one In the state at
all complete."
Worker and Helper.
He was a great and systematic worker.
It waa his habit to rise early, sometimes
as early as 4 o'clock, and he waa often
found, by members of his household, delv
ing into books by candle light. The wonder
Is that he had time to study so many things
and become thorough in them. It Is surely
greet task for any man to master the
profession of law, but he became, as we
shall presently see, a master of railroad
ing and mining and smelting also. He
was not and experimenter In anything, but
he was a schooled and graduated expert
In law, metallurgy and railroading.
One would think that his time was all
devoted to work, but It was not so. Under
the roof of his Davenport home, after the
war, he had a household 'such as has
seldom been seen In this or any other
country- The following account of It was
given ' by his nephew, Hon. Wltaker M.
Grant: "When I went to his house In 1868,
the family consisted of himself and wife,
his mother-in-law, three of his wife's
nephews and nieces and two of his owa; I
made three. Within a year he had three
more of his own and one of his wife's and
besides these he had three more of his own
off at school, who some part of that time
were at the house." All of these nephews
and nieces were under age, and the eldest
was 17. Judge Grant had surely assumed
a great task in undertaking to care lor
and educate these children. He had, to
be exact, twenty-four nephews and nieces
In the south, and his offer was to each
and every one of them that he would
transplant them at his own expense and
provide for them amply If they would
emigrate to the west. Twelve of them
accepted his offer. He waa not a rich man
at that time, and his fortune did not
exceed 175,000 when he undertook this
prodigious work of kinship and hu
.inanity. He threw himself, . however.
with his accustomed zeal and thor
oughness into the duties of pater famillas
for all his nephewB and nieces
who had accepted his offer to come to
the golden west pnd grow up with It. He
laid down certain hard and fast rules by
which they were to be governed, and he
would tolerate no departure from those
rules. One of those rules was that the
children were all to be In bed at 10 o'clock
at night; another more Important one was
that they were to render an account to
him of the expenditures of all the money
be advanced to them. He had do patience
with deception or duplicity of any kind.
It Is highly profitable to note that his
demand upon blmaell waa for. the truth
on all occasions, enabling him to become
an expert In detecting an error or false
hood In other people. That Is one of the
secrets of a great lawyer.
Quaint .Notions.
It was one of his Ideas In hygiene that
fruit should not be eaten after nightfall, and
therefore he commanded the occupants of
his household to observe this rule. The
Idea provoked a great deal of merriment
among the youngsters, who thereupon took
delight In concealing apples In their beds
and eating them Immediately before going
to sleep. On one occasion, the Judge had
his suspicions aroused that his orders were
not being obeyed in this particular and he
unexpectedly burst Into the room
while several of the children were
about to go to sleep. They gasped
at his appearance and tried to conceal
among the bedclothes the apples they
were eating. They were fairly caught, but
he Judge suppressed a broad grin, and
left the room Immediately, saying, "I ad
vise you to keep the rest of them until
breakfast."
In all essential things he was adamant:
In things desirable, but not vital he had
the softness and sweetness of a rose.
A Student at Sixty.
Of three nephews bearing his name, the
favorite wns James B. Grant, one of the
governors of Colorado, and founder of the
Grant Smelting company, which In yeara
past controlled the Omaha smelting plant.
The Judge educated this nephew as a min
ing engineer at Cornell and Freiburg, Ger
many, staked him in several mining pros
pects that fal'ed. and furnished the capital,
some 140,000, with which James opened the
first smelter In Leodvllle and made a for
tune for both. An extraordinary circum- ;
stance In his life was that when he was
past the age of sixty years he went to the
Boston Institute of Technology and took a
course In metallurgy, placing himself on
an equal footing with the other students
and reciting with them. This tequlred, of
course, several months. Afterward, when
one of . his-friends . inquired why he did
this extraordinary thing, ho stated that In
the course of his dealings with his nephew,
James B. Grant, while they were operating
a smelting property at or near Lcadvllle
that gentleman politely Informed him that
he knew little or nothing about that busi
ness and that It would be to their Joint
Interests if he would" return to Davenport
and devote himself to his chosen occupa
tion of practicing law. He said he could
not stand to have any nephew of his say
that he did not know all about any busi
ness In which he was engaged.
Public Activities.
In 1841, after ho had removed to Iowa,
ho was elected a member of the house of
representatives of the Fourth Iowa terri
torial legislative assembly, and in. 844 he
was elected delegate for Scott county to
the first constitutional convention, and In
1864 he was the sole representative of that
county to the second constitutional conven
tion of the territory, and It is hardly neces
sary to say that in both conventions he
rendered noteworthy services He was ap
pointed by Governor Chambers of Iowa,
against his protest, prosecuting attorney,
and In the year 1847, after, the adoption of
the constitution under which Iowa was ad
mitted Into the union, he was elected a
Judge of the district court of Iowa and
served during his term of five years, de
clining a re-election. His last appearance
upon the stage of life as a legislator-was
In 1SB2, when he was speaker of the Iowa
legislature. He had now tasted all the
sweets of official position, and being full
of the expanding energy of his day and
generation, and realizing the great de
mands of the time In the great west, he
set himself to do a much greater and more
enduring, work as a man. He returned to
the practice of his profession, giving spe
cial attention to railroad cases. He also
became personally and financially Inter
ested In railroad enterprises, and waa the
first president of the Chicago & Rock
Island Railroad company.
From that date, during some twenty odd
years, he devoted himself with unremitting
energy to his professional and business
matters, and had at one time the largest
praotice of any man in the United States,
perhaps, btfo e the supreme court at Wash'
lngton. He made at one time In a railroad
case a fee exceeding $100,000.
Wise Saws and Maying;.
No record of Judge Grant's career Would
be reliable or honest which did not take
account of some of the Infirmities of his
chaiacter. The very celerity of his-mental
operations made him sometimes intolerant
of dullness or sloth In others. He was full
of wlBe saws and sayings and tried to con
fine his life to them, but temptation often
beset him. One of his main maxims was
that "civility and politeness cost nothing,
and pass current In all the markets of the
world," which he often quoted in his office
and at home. Another one of his firm be
liefs was that cheerfulness and good humor
should always go with a good appetite to
the family table. He insisted that there
should be good humor and merriment al
ways In his family at meal times. Never
theless, he could not always control his
temper, and on one occasion, when his
nephew, Whit M. Grant, was found by him
having a hot altercation with a man, he
called the young man aside after the affair
waa. over and said: "Son, a soft answer
turneth away wrath. You should not have
scolded that man, but let him think he was
having his own way." A few days after
that the man with whom the nephew had
had the altercation came back and had an
angry dispute with the Judge about the
same subject-matter. Judge Grant lost his
temper completely and knocked him down.
whereupon the nephew, who could not re.
slst the temptation to have a laugh at his
uncle's expense, approached him and said
"Uncle, why didn't you try the soft answer
on him?" The Judge immediately regained
his composure and laughed, saying, "Yes,
yes, l should have done so." He was a
constant reader of the Bible and often
quoted It, but, like most other men, he
was not quite able to live up to Its pre
cepts, i
In the year 1SS0, realizing the commence
ment of the decline of his powers, Judge
Grant moved to California, taking up real
dence in Oakland, where he passed away,
March 14, 1891, in his seventy-eighth year,
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foot rest. Is of choice quality, dark green
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SHARKS ATTACK ONLY DEAP
Heat. Tmjredy at Slnarapore
nounced an Exaggeration.
Pro-
The destruction of the steamship La
Seyne near Singapore last week calls up
In the mind speculation as to the ability of
anyone to prove, to actually demonstrate
by first-hand evidence, that a shark was
ever known to force the fighting, so to
speak, and attack a living man In the
water. There is a good deal to say on both
sides.
The disaster to La Seyne, In whatever
light It Is viewed, can be contemplated only
with a sensation of horror. The picture In
the mind Is vividly dreadful. On one hand
we have the Frenchman steering to the
northward, bound Into Singapore from some
port south of the line, on or near which
the accident occurred.
It was one of the units of the great Mas
sagerles Marltlmes de France, perhaps the
most Important of all the ocean lines un
der the tricolor. It was In the Straits of
Rhlo, in the archipelago of that name. The
hour was 4 in the morning, which, on the
equator, would indicate the darkness of
midnight.
All suddenly, out oT the blackness, arose
the Iron hull of the British steamship
Onda, which, having left Singapore at
midnight, was hugging the Blntang shore,
thundering on Into the south; and In the
dark it stepped on the Seyene as a man
would step on a mouse that ran athwart
him. That was all there Waa to the trag
edy, for in two minutes the Frenchman
filled and foundered, leaving its human
cargo battling with death on the surface.
That Is, those who were not sucked down
Into the warm whirlpool that spun and
wriggled above the sinking ship.
Then came the tales of the sea monsters
that were cruising about, with a weather
eye lifted for dainties of any description;
here was a feast ready nrensred. and from
all the cardinal points came tha sharks, in
seas that are famous for their ferocious
citizens. We are told that In the attack
men fought furiously In defense of the
women, fought till they themselves van
ished In tho lambent fires of phosphorus
that sleep in the tropical sea, the lithe
bodies of their murderers .twisting and
darting among their victims.
Reports arrived that nearly 100 persons
lost their lives through tbe sharks, which,
If true, would summon vlBlons of the hor
rors of foundering Blave ships In the West
Indies a century ago. Rut, looked at coldly,
who Is It that has actually seen a shark
bite a living man? Plenty of examples of
dead bodies being consumed by sharks
may be cited. But the shark. In spite of
his reputation and the sinister sound of his
very name, is somewhat of a coward, like
his distant land relative, the grizzly bear.
The late Hermann Oelrlchs of New York,
probably one of the beet amateur swim
mers In the world, made a standing offer
of a large sum of money that would be
paid to anyone who could testify and sub
stantiate his statement that he had seen a
shark bite a living, strugKlIng man. Mr.
Oelrlchs always insisted that sharks had
never been seen to attack a swimming
person or one still alive; and his reward
for the man who could prove he had wit
nessed such- a spectacle held good In any
part of the world. This reward was never
paid, for the reason that no one could
prove that he had seen the Incident. On
Investigation the claimant for the reward
invariably fell back on the statement of
some one else when It narrowed down to
proof. ' "I was told so by an eyewitness,"
was the customary conclusion.
Of course this does not prove that no
shark has ever attacked a living man. On
the contrary, where the most wolfish of the
tribe most do congregate. It is much more
than probable that proofs could be ob
tained by eye witnesses, if sufficient
trouble were taken. Otherwise why Is It
that diving for shillings at Hues and Port
Said should have been forbidden? Port
Said, Port Jackson, at Sydney, Australia,
and the waters around Singapore are prob
ably the most dangerous localities for
sharks. When steamships passing through
the Suei canal reached Port Bald In the
past young Arabs would come up over the
side and offer to dive overboard for silver
coins, or to swim under the ship and come
up on the other side, which was a much
more perilous undertaking.
Nassau, In the Bahamas, is another spot
which, while not comparable with the other
localities in its baneful repute. Is yet looked
upon, especially by the local population,
with every manifestation of dread. The
sponge fishermen and others who do busi
ness in the adjacent water .are, .always
willing to talk about the "harbofmaViter,"
the giant shark, usually a hammerhead,
that guards the bar and never Bleeps. And
In truth you can frequently see down In
the transparent water the broad back of
some one of the tribe sauntering sullonly
about Just above the floor of the harbor.
No authentic case has ever been run down
in the Bahamas, however, In which a man
lost his life or even any blood through tho
medium of a shark's teeth. New York
Herald.
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