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VOL. AX XIX -No. h
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKNIXU, .IAXTAKY L 11)10.
SINULK (WY FIVE CKXTS.
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4 January Silk Clearance With Astonishing Bargain
Prices on Best Selling Lines
Those are the silk now In greatest kiip anl selling In stores at two and three times
Itennelt's prices for .Monday. Vou are absolutely certain to find something tlmt jnst stills you
lu these lots.
Tunc j Silks smV New Moires, in widest
i hnu-e colors: also white llabutnl
Wash Wlks surprisingly priced, ZHI
silks worth 76c yard, at mv
Paaa d Cygn and Messalinea, I'fan do Nynipli
anil banket weave sIIKh the most beautiful new
soft dress anil waist silks, In evening anil street
shades; also Moire. Wnsh Silks aAn
ami Mark Harmful; splendid 11.00
values, at
January Sale
ENVELOPES
No. 4 Baromai, package lo
No. 6 Commercial, box of L'fiO at flOo
No. 6 Connner.'lal, box of 250 at aSo
No. 6Vi Commercial, box of 250 at 88o
Memorandum iiooks, Bo, 100, ISO, B5o
and up.
irsVMwiJw.iwsaa
. li&akism
Big Clearance of Enamelware
Hundreds of nieces of fine enamel kitchen utensils to be harried
out Monday. All first quality ware, with prices less than half.
Blue and White Dish Pans, 17-quart size
Hr-lllng regularly for 98c; will be
Blue and White Merlin Kettles. 8-quart size
enamel covers: regular 98u quality
Covered Knameled Palls. 3-quart size
selling regularly at 58c; reduced to....
Covered Knameled Pulls, 4-quart size
selling regularly at 68c; reduced to
Knameled Coffee and Tea Pots, No. 9Vi slze
selling regularly at 72c: reduced to
Will not tarry one over. While I
these last, choice for. . 20 OFF
Monday's Best Inducements in the Grocery
Bennett's Golden Coffee,
lb 86o
And 80 stamps
Bennett's Challenge Cof
fee, lb 18o
And 10 stamps
Pure Ground Pepper, '4-
1b. can 100
And 6 stamps
Teas, asaorted, IB... 48c
And 50 stamps
Stollwerck's Cocoa, '4-
1b, can 30o
And 20 stamps
Diamond 8 Chili Hanre,
bottla ltc
And 10 stamps
Hartley's Pure Fruit
Jams, Jar .-. aoo
And 20 stamps
Paragon Kgg plums, 10c
cans, 4 cans for. . S5o
Hartley's Pure Orange
Marmalade 800
And 10 stamps
Seeded Raisins, pound
pkg lHHo
And 10 stamps
Bennett's Capitol Mines
MeaX 3 for 850
) And 10 stamps
Ckstile Toilet Soap, ten
cakes 8So
And 10 stamps
Golden Ragle Currants,
pound pkg 180
And 10 ai amps
Swansiluwn Codfish, 3
for 85o
And 10 atamps
Some Thing's -You Want to Know
World's
Today 80,000 .Sunday school scholars be
gin a new year of Bible study. They will
all study the same lessons, no matter what
luuguago they speak or to what denomina
tion they belong. The story" of how the
whole Protestant world has become united
tliroiiKli Its efforts to teach the Bible to
the. children of he nations constitutes one
T the mont intei estlng- chapters of reli
Alous history, and reminds one of the say-
tui. that "a little child shall lead thani."
Here the lion of religious controversy does
indeed lie down with the lamb of unity and
(Harlan strife is furgotti-n in Interde
nominational co-operation.
The' Interest In this year's Bible study
Mill b In l.shU'iitd by the fact that before
the year has run half Its course there
ill be hi ld in the city of Washington a
great triennial conclave of all the Sunday
si-hoot interests In the world. From the
ends of the tarth will come those who
have reports to make of things accom
plished and of tilings to be undertaken.
More than 2,000 delegates, representing the
Sunday school workers of the whole world,
will transact the business of the meeting
and carry back to the countries from
wh-mce they come - the inspirations they
Katlier and the lessons they learn. The
occasion will bu the meeting of the sixth
irl-nnlHl m-tlng of the World's Sunday
SclrKil association. It. will be the becond
lime that this great couv -ntion of conse
crated Christian workers has mtt ou Amer
ican soil, tlu olh.-r occasion being the
mctlug at St. Louis In 18t3. In 1-X it
nut at London. Its next meeting was at
. Jerusalem and It lust one at Koine in I'.Hft.
What ft Hug the l"l gates mu.it have
had when they stood In the Coliseum and
pralsvd Uod, by permission of Human au
thorities in the very place wlure once
those who believed as they belUve were
thiown Into the arena to be devour 'd by
"Aild beasts. When they meet In Wash
ington In MayNthere will be no Calvary.
Mount of TiansflKUratlon or Holy Scpul
ilur to widen to make pilgrimages; nor
I will there lie a Coliseum or catacombs or
tomb of thi apostle of the GenU'.cs, but
tTiere will be a welcome from a nation
which has more Christian people than any
other country on earth.
Already the preparations for this great
gathering of workers are under way. The
start was made by the World's Sunday
School Visitation, a great missionary tour
of the world by di-voul workers, who paid
il.elr own exp-nses and travelled to ra
mi ter nations to strengthen those there
engaged in the work, and to lead them to
pi ess on lo greater and better achieve
ments. Lack member paid his own fx
peraea. 1'ractlcally all of those who went
on this great world tour will attend the
Washington convention In May.
On of the moat interesting features of
th convention will be an exposition de
vote to Sunday school work. There will
range of 1
aft. I
Imported Bilks, worth 93.00 Novelty silk sin h
hs Crepe de Meteor, Cashmere ilc Sole, R2-lnch
bordered dress clilffon. silk Marqnis
etejt the most exquisite ever shown
by ub; for
Brass Goods Xaas Than Half 4 6 anil IiO-lncli fab
rics, stylish stripe and cheek combination, nl
ineh Homespuns, In all the newest shade
moat of them are I60 (roods frt.
some $2.00 qualities In the allowing; hUP
all at u'v
Office Supplies
Start the new year with. new office re
qulNites. ltennett'a feature strong values on
the wanted and much-needed lines.
JtliANK IMM)KS-Bound with leather backs
and priced lower than elsewhere.
100-page Journals and Ledgers 10
200-page Journals and Ledgers 25t5
300-page Journals and Ledgers 35
400-page Journals and Ledgers 49
600-page Journals and Ledgers. .. 81.40
CAKTKirS WKITISU FLUID.
Quart, 60s Pin 35 Pint 25
Box Letter Files. 25
Card Index Trays, with covers. . . .$1.25
Wire Letter Baskets 19
Postal Scales S9 $1.25 82.25
, Receipt Books Ec, 100 and 19c
Pencils American rencil Com.
Capitol, per doz S3o
Beats All, per dozen ICo
Plugraph. per dozen 930
Diaries for 1910, all sizes and prices.
49c
49c
25c
30c
30c
Knameled Coffee and Tea Pots, No. 11 H size JC
selling regularly at 78c: reduced to '
A Pew More Base Burners and Heaters.
Kitchen Ranges, all reduced. Well
known makes for 10w1'1
Spider's Tomato Soup,
large 80o
, And. 20 stamps
Iten's Soda or Oyster
Crackers, 18 lb. box,
at .... $1.15
Double Stamps on Gran
ulated Sugur.
Asparagus Sals
(Oo cans Itlchlleu As-,
paragus 30o
50c Batavia Asparagus,
at 30o
20c C. C. C. Asparagus,
at 16o
80c Thomaa French As
paragus 35o
Sunday School Convention
be thousands of Interesting exhibits of the
ways that are used to cultivate the spirit
of giving and to stimulate the splrll of
self denial, and all the other things, which
help to lead the child Into a fuller' un
demanding of the fundamentals of true
Flity and Christian living. It will be an
exposition absolutely devoid of commercial
ism, a mere labor of love on the part
of those who devise and maintain it.
. At the Borne convention all kinds of
Sunday school literature and music were
shown. There were no less than s-ixteen
different classes of exhibits. One of the
mtst interesting of all the exhibits, wan
a little "do withoutit" bus, intended for
the pocket of man, woman or child. Il
appealed in its silent way only for the
monoy Its owner was about to spend for
something he could as well do without.
Maybe it was only a cigar or a cup of
chocolate. This "do without it" bag, with
the spirit of self-denial it Inculcates, has
bi en a great support of the work in
England.
The development of the world Sitnday
school is a remarkable story of religious
activity. First an organization of a few
schools, then state-wide, then national, then
Ii'Urnallonal, and then world-wide, until
now thirty-seven countries and fifty-three
denominations are united by the great tie
of common Bible study. The movement
toward this world-wide co-operation has
proved successful, ut cause of the desire
tor a definite program of study, in which
all cuuld unite. The American Sunday
School I'niun was the first Important ex
pression of the larger desire for co-oper-atlon.
The New York Sunday School L'nlou
first expressed the desire for nations co
operation in 1P20. The American union lias
been one of the greatest of all the forces
at work for the upbuilding of the Sunday
aehuol in the I'nited Slates. The first
national Sunday school convention was
held lu New York in 1832. although there
had been severil interstate conventions be
fore that time.
In 1S72 the ii:itloiu.l convention broadened
into an iiiK-rnutlonal meeting, with Canada
participating, and here was begun I lie
work of preparing the world's Bible studv
In the shape of the International Sunday
school lessons.' The convention which
adopted Ibe International hs-on idea was
In-Ill at Indianapolis, and it is said that
much feeling entered Into the debate on
the subject.
The first international lessons wire pre
pared by a committee of twelve, five niln
islcis and f.vo laymen from the fulled'
States, and one minister and one layman
from Canada. It was to formulate a
seven-year Bible study course. Since then
there have been some changes in ' His
formation of the committee, and ajine in
its work, but on tin whole lis task today
Is not essentially different frutu what tt
was thirty-sevea years ag, . j ,. '
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PICTURES
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Towels
Toweling and Crash
Special bargains on these staple house
hold necessities. Read each item:
Hemmed SHic Huck Towels, red border.
each ; go
Hummed 12V4c Huck Towels, red borders.
each 8'feO
Hemmed 5c Huck Towels, 22x46 inches,
at ioo
Hemmed 19c Monde I.lnen Towels.. 15c
Pleached and Unbleached Turkish Towels.
25c kinds .'. 19o
Bleached and Unbleached Turkish Towels,
,35c kinds 840
Cotton Twill 7c Crash, yard Bo
Heavy Cotton Sc Crash (like linen)
yard 640
lS-lucli Union 8c Crash, yard 6H0
Bleached Linen 11 Ho Toweling, ysrd So
Bleached Barnsley 16o Toweling, yd. HHo
Bleached all linen 20c Toweling, yard lBo
100 S. & H.
The lessons which are to be studied this
year were not produced in haste. ICven
now, while the Sunday school scholar Is
studying the first lesson for 1910. those
for 1912 are being prepared, and th ise for
subsequent years arc being mapped out
by the great committees upon whose
shoulders fall the" duty of guiding the
world's thought in nibb? study. Kven as
far buck us 1U7, at the meeting of the
British and American sections of the In
ternational committee, it was decided that
the British committee should prepue a
cycle of lessons from l'.U2 lo 1!17, with the
11(12 lessons worked out In detail, and the
ones from lflui to 1417. inclusive, in broad
outline. The course for the 1910 lessons
was approved before that date, and the
American committee was asked to work
out the details of the 1911 lessons
The 1907 conference of the British and
American sections of international lesson
writers will result in the lessens of the
next few years being graded. On both
sides of the Atlantic It was found that
there was a demand for graded lessons,
ond resolutions were adopted looking to
that end, but it is not probable that these
will be introduced before 1912. The Ameri
can seetlon is elected by the International
association, and consists of fifteen mem
bers, who hold their position for six years,
or for one of the cycles of Sunday school
Bible study. Time of them are from
Canada and twelve fi'om the United States.
Twelya are ministers and three are lay
men, and they ure proportionately divided
among the leading Protestant churches
whicli use the International lessons.
The Bible must be covert d in six years,
with 2)8 lessons. There must be a tem
perance lesson every quarter and a num
ber of other special lessons. After the
committee has gone over the lessons for a
given year they are sent to the publishers
and lesson writers of the world, who arc
asktd for suggestions and criticisms look
ing to a revision. When Hie committed
meets the ensuing year tin be suggHstitms
and criticisms are examined curefu.ly. in
the preparation of the liiisons for 19W
there were about 12G sus.'Ustioiis, and they
ri'Miltid in the change or modification of
thirty-one themes. thirty-three golden
texts, tenty-two lesson assignments, nine
committal versts, and the substitution -of
six hseons for six that were eliminated.
The home department of Sunday school
work is of American origin, the creation
of Lr. W. A. Duncan of New York atate,
who established It in ISM. As only 'M per
cent of church members attend the regu
lar Sunday school services, the home de
partment ha a great field. Tills phase
of Sunday school work has grown with
great rapidity. Atlanta has a police home
department and Louisville one for trolley
employes.
WiU ail Uie great food that la dune
II l Is-
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h'ihuheuii i ma umaiaiJMgaiMBaaBaa
Our nil Ire line, consisting of
hnnd-colored Imported prints,
etchings., engravings, water col
ors, .carbons, etc
(Art Dept.. Second Floor!
2 Price
it
Winter Vnarterly Style Hook, including
15c Ladles' Home Journal Patter
1
Tomorrow the January Linen Sales licit in. Months and
months of prenarat ion are devoted to these events oue of the
most important on the store's calendar.
Way bock last summer we were searching Ktiropean centers
for the best offerings with this particular sale in view.
We believe it never was the good fortune for Omaha house
keepers to look upon n finer assemblage in this city.
Import iiiK linens direct saves for us, and you, all the in
between profits most dealers pay.
Tomorrow you see the culmination of our endeavors. The
stocks are here in all their crisp, iniimu'ulato snowiness. Beau
tiful table damask and napkins, towels, toweling; and fancy linens
of all sorts.
It's a sale of promising' bargains and the best time of the
year to replenish.
Damasks, Napkins
Rare economies in every item; all
good, substantial Unfits. Vou must see
them lo fully appreciate their goodnes.-i.
60-lnrli Bleached Damask, :ir.o quality,
yard 380
64-tnch Bleached Daniuhk, ,"0c quality.
yard 390
72-lnch Bleached Linen liaina.sk, 75i:
quality, yard 590
72-inch Bleached Linen Damask. $1.5
quality, yard -, sac
72-ini h Bleai'h.'il Uiu-n Double Damask.
$1.50 quality, yard $1.12
IS-incli All Linen Napkins, $1.23 quality
'dozen gi0
19-Inch All Linen Napkins. $1.39 ri;il-
ity. dozen $1.19
19-inch All Linen Napkins, $1.73 quallfv,
dozen 81.39
22-Inch All Linen Napkins, $2. 25 qualltv,
dozen 81.75
24-inch All Linen Napkins, $3.50 quality,
dozen 82.48
Fancy Linens
Thousands of pieces in the sale
hand made doylies, centers, tray
cloths, scarfs. IOiicU cloths, table
covers, etc., the chtiice
of the entire tnagnl- -ficent
stork
i Off
Green Trading Stamps With Capitol Coal
Monday only, with every ton of .Bennett's Capitol
Coal at $6.50, we will give 100 9. & H. Stamps.
Either personal or telephone rders accepted. Capitol
coal is a satisfactory coal. Burns up clean, lasts
longest and gives out most heat.
TIME SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
Hustlers Who Won Out in Latin
American Republics.
EACH MADE GOOD IN HIS OWN WAY
Tennessee l.oc omnt Ivr' Knginerr Who
Became a (general In Honduras
and a British Tar Who Was
.Made Admiral.
NRW YORK, Jan. 1. They had been dis
cussing the situation in Nlearagua. The
ex-consul had grown eloijU'-nt over the
misdeeds of Central American dictators.
Ills friend had mourned .the shooting of
Cannon and jUroce.
"I never knew those boys," said the ex
consul. "They seem to have been on the
right side, but they must have known the
game they were up against. Central
America is full of soldlers'of fortune, and
tlio natives have no sort of use for them.
Walker, the biggest filibuster of all, is
too recent a memory. '
"I've come in contact with scores of
them. They'd beg me to save their skins
w hen they'd made the country too hot to
hold them. Shiftless and uninteresting
vagabonds they were with the exception
of three, who were geniuses."
"That so?" queried his friend, who had
never been south of Sundy Hook. "I
thought that all adventurers were pic
turesiiue." "Distance throws a false glamor round
them. But, as I said before, 1 have met
three who were out of th ordinary run.
lid you ever hear of Lea Christmas, or
BUI Moore, or Kosterlitzky, the role?"
The other silently filled the ex-consul's
glass and handed him a fresh clgur. lie
knew that the story would be toldi what
ever answer he might make.
He Came from Tennessee.
"I'll begin with Lee Christmas. He and
I were raised in the same vllluge in Ten-
through the agency of the Sunday school,
which la really the reiruillng station of
the church, it seems strange that eccle
diasis could have tailed to gauge Its pos
slbilllUs to such mi extent as to try to
kill the movement, even ufler i. had
numbered 600.OM) followers under Its ban
ners, yet it is iess than loo years since no
less a religious authority than the arch
bishop of. Canterbury convoked u council
of bishops to consider wuys and means
to put an end to Sunday schools.
The first Sunday school, under Hubert
Raikes, had paid teachers, who received
a shilling a day tor their services. But
It was not many years before the Idea of
paid teachers was eliminated, and with
It the general objection that the Sunday
school tended to secularize the Sabbath.
It was long after the is ginning of the
Sunday schuol that any comprehensive
system of Bible study was outlined.
BY rKEOEKXCX J. XA8KIK.
Tomorrow AMEHC A Jg COAIT DE-
Broadcloths at Half
Imported Pliia and Fancy Effects
Embracing onr entire splendid stocks, worth p
to 93.50. Broadcloths ars always la fashion, hanoa
a half prica sals Is important to all womankind.
Thaaa aro rich to flniah and soft la tartar, with a
iqu tjompitmiBi oi ooiora.
$3.50 Broadcloths
$3.00 Broadcloths
$2.50 Broadcloths
$2.00 Broadcloths
$l.r0 Broadcloths
b'UATiaaa ana asTBauass f-nr children wear
-pretty fur fabrics, closely resembling;
real animal fuia ml bearskins; also
Astrakhans In green, blue anil red
regularly sold for $4.00 to $6.00, at, yd...
Pattern Cloths
Napkin to Match
.Very newest patterns in select Irish
linens, at almost one-third under ac
tual values.
2x2 yard CJoths. $2.75 values for 83.00
2x2 yard Cloths, $3.50 values for $8.50
2x3 yard Cloths. $1.25 values for $3.00
Kine $1.25 Napkins to match, pet
dozen 3.00
2x2 yard Cloths, $3.00 values for $3.85
2x2 JHrd Cloths, $:V.7o values for $3.00
2x3 yard Cloths, $4.50 values for 93.50
20-lnch iaidiins to match, $3.00
value, dozen 88.35
24-inch Napkins lo match, $4.50
value, dozen ' 93.50
2x2 yard Double Damask, $4.00 Cloths,
t 93.85
2x2 yard Double Damask, $5.00 Cloths,
at 94.OO
2x3 yard Double Damask, IG.00 Cloths,
t r 94.79
20-Inch Napkins to match, $4.00
- value, dozen 93.15
24-inch Napkins to match, $6.00
value 94.50
nessee. He'd had very little schooling and
was glad to get a Job on tho railroad as a
fireman. In lime ho became an engineer.
"But Lee wanted to see the world. He
grew tired of his Job und quit in the most
sensational way ever heard of on a Ten
nessee railroad. lie threw Hie throttle of
Ills engine wide open one fine day and let
her go full speed ahead. He tore past
stations and through towns for fifty milts
before he decided to stop. Then he Jumped
out of his cab and disappeared. I'll bs
Jiggered if I can tell you how he didn't
wreck the train on some open switch.
"The next place I heard of Lee Christ
mas was in Honduras. He drifted into
my office one day, the same reckless,
laughing devil lie had always been. Bui
he wasn't a railroad engineer then, not
by a lung shot. He was me power behind
the throne in the little republic.
"I pan see him now as In- t-at 011 a corner
of my desk and told me thp story. He'd
a cigarette hanging out of one corner
of his mouth like a Central American
and his face was tanned brown, but there
was the old Tennessee drawl in his voice.
"He'd had u rou:,'h lime of it at first,
fought on the losing side of six revolutions
and been wounded more than once. Bui
he'd attached himself to a winning candi
date at last and had come out at the top
of tho heap as Ucneral Leo Christmas,
chief military adviser to the president and
real ruler of tho country
Bill Moore's Nerve.
"The second adventurer 1 have in mind
Is Admiral Bill Moore of Salvador. During
the Boer war he wus in the Hritlhh navy
and carries a royal inedul for life saving
and two others for distinguished service.
"Promotion under his own flag seemed
to be a long distance ahead, and ut the
close of the war Bill quit and went to
Salvador. Theie he pulitd off the biei
! bluff 1 have ever heard of. 1 fussed in
a natty sun of white duck, with gold
braid on the shoulders, he made an early
afternoon call on the president.
" 'Belli' as 'ow you 'ave a revolution
011 your 'ands,' said Bill, 'Hl've come lo
lioffcr my services. Hl'm iladmiral Moore
of the British navy.'
"lie showed the life saving medal,
and explained in an offhand way that
It was the star of the Garter, lie hud
written the word 'Admiral' across bis
discharge papers, and stated that il was
his commission from the king.
"There wasn't a soul in the piesiiU-nt's
establishment who could read Knglish suf
ficiently well to dispute him. Bill was
placed in charge of the navy of Salvador,
which comprised three converted tramp
steamers of 1.500 tons each. He sailed
down the coast to attack the rebels.
"lie bombarded several small villages.
I -a ter, he landed a party of marines and
sailors, and placing himself at their bead,
he attacked the main body of revolu
tionists. He defeated them easily, and the
grateful president confirmed him in nls
position as commander In chief of the
navy, at a salsry of ir a month.
"Bill held down the Job successfully for
several years. But he grew tired of Central
America and returned to England a year
or so ago.
"Th third fellow, KosterliUky, 1 the
thrifty people.
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Great January Clearance (Th
All $25 Long
Bennett's take the initiative tomorrow- ami begin the .Jan
uary clearing sales with vigor by offering the splendid
Winter Coats that have been so greatly admired, at a ten
.1-11 i- .i mi. . . - ii - i....i.:
uoiiar iiiarKuowii. 1 ney are 111c laiMiion-
able full length garments, straight, line and ij)
pleated styles, in blacks and colors, just as
your fancy dictates. Commencing Monday ;
choice of any $25.00 coat in the house. ........
Lot Fancy Cloth Coats, in full lengths, heavy, warm, ser
viceable gnrnumts, worth $loX0 now. .. ....... ,$5,00
Here It Is The Choice of
the Stock Sale
Any Suit, Any
Coat, Any Dress,
Worth to $50
The choice of the stock sale that
offers bigger quantities of garments
and better styles than any of our pre
vious events. Without a single excep
tion the entire lines of tailored wool
garments, regardless of Its regular
price, be it $50.00, $45.00 or $35.00,
you get it now for $25.00.
Skinner Satin Lined
$25, and $29.50 Suits'
1950
Don't hesitate a
ute but coma
Monday. Every
of. these suits touches
highest pinnacle of tailored
suit style and quality that $26 or
$29.50 will buy ordinarily. There are
several hundred, all sizes And colors,
now $10.50.
Children's Coats
In the January Clearance.
All $5.00 Coats, 6 to 14-yr. sizes. $2.1)5
All $9.00 Coats, C to 14-yr. slr.es. $S.t0
All $13.50 Coats, 6 to 14-jr. sizes .$7.50
All $10.00 Coats, 2 to U-yr. sixes. $5.00
most remarkable man of the three, In my
opinion. 1 was In the Mexlian state of
Sonora, when he turned up there about
fifteen years ago. He might have dropped
from the sky for all that any one knew
ubout him.
"He spoke very little Spaui.sh and when
asked his name gave a barbarous com
bination of sounds that no Mexican could
be expected to pronounce. The gossip i f
the cantlnas decided that he' was a Rus
sian. For some reason every foreigner In
Mexico, who Is not American nor yet a
Spaniard nor a Frenchman is put down ua
a Russian. Kosterlitzky is sore about the
mistake to this very day, for I don't need
to tell you that a Pole would much rath -r
be called a thief or a murderer than a
Russian.
"He lost notinic in enlisting In the
loful rur.iles, c. force not unlike ihe French
Foreign Legion. It numbers In its ranks
men -from the four corners of tlin earth.
A recruh is asked no questions. His past
is his own affair.
"But Kosterlitzky was not an ordinary
swashbuckler. He showed such courage
and resourcefulness in tho first campaign
against the Yaqul Indians that he was at
once Jumped to the rank of captain. Five
ytars later he was chief of the rurales
of .Sonora.
"He was then able to give his talents
full play. Before Ills day the rurales were
brave but Inefficient, a lax body of adven
turers who did not know what the word
discipline meant. He drilled them and
licked them into shape, until they became
the most valuable fighting force in Mex
ico. It is alleged that he made a special
bid for the bad men ttf Texas and Arizona
as recruits. He wanted gun fighters who
would be afraid of neither Gor nor man.
Whatever they might have done across the
line, he promised them protection If they
would enlist under him.
"Whether true or not, this tory gave
his name a blnlster meaning along t!,e
frontier. It became a proverb among the
worst element. 'Dofwhat you please, then
Join Kosterlitzky. He won't give you
away."
Kosterlltskr's Pleasant War.
"'Kosterlitzky sprang Into prominence at
the time of the riots at Cananea several
years ago. The Mexican laborers at 'he
big copper camp struck for higher wages.
Property was destroyed and tin- lives of
Americans were menaced.
"The rurales were at the other end of
Sonora. and the urgent needs of the caso
caused the authorities to appeal to the
governor of Arizona for asalstance. He
responded by sending a detachment of the
rangers to Cananea. They wer instructed
not to fire on the strikers, but to wait for
Kosterlitzky.
"The latter arrived after a forced march
that bad tested the endurance of his men.
The rurales were drawn up on one side of
the plaza, the rangers on the other. The
Arizona boys were spoiling for a fight.
They thought they recognized some bad
men who had slipped through their ringers,
and It began to look as If they would at
tack their Mexican allies.
"Kosterlitzky alone prevented a clash.
He rode up and down th plaza, lie Jtlted
both sides, lis reminded them of the
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the
friendly relations existing between the
Fnited States and ' Mexico and warned
them of the results of a scrap. I saw hlin
myself, and his courage and coolness lu
a trying, situation we.ro superb.
"Later he marched against the strikers.
He gavtj them thirty minutes to disperse.
When tho end of that lime found them
still hcolding thair ground he ordered a
volley to be fired that killed nearly forty
men. There was no Cananea strike after
the last echoes had died away.
"Oh, yea, Kosterlitzky, the Polish ad
venturer from nowhere, is quite a flgur
lu Mexico. His career hssn't been quite
as meteoric as those of Christmas and
Bill Moore, but It has been built up on a
sounder basis. Ho's a man to be reckoned
with."
MOTHER CAT EOILS A PLOT
Brave Kffort to ave Lives of. (ou
dein neri Klttrus a
Success.
l.'r. James McDonough of 47 I'oitland
place, Montclair, N. J., lias a. cat, Lucy by
name, which understands tho human lan
guage. That was shown today by the
skill she displayed in saving her kittens
from being drowned. Wlllurd Bush of
Newark, who had drowned a previous lit
ter, went to tho doctor's office this morn
ing. Ir. McDonough told lilm Lucy had
more kittens, which she had secreted In
the haymow, and he wished lie would
drown them. Neither noticed tiie cat nan
lu the room. Shortly arterward the two
men went out driving. When they were
gone Lucy went to lli haymow, picked
up a kitten, climbed a picket fenco and
took her baby into the cellar of Wllilaiu
Tentzloff's home, next door. Mrs. Mo
Donough and Mrs. Tentzloff watched her
until sh hud moved all six kitten to a
Pile of old papers in tho Tentzloff coal bin.
An hour afterward the doctor and Bush
returned from their drive. Lucy met them
In the front yard, looked at Bush, arched
her back and spat savagely at him. When
the men had entered the office th cat
returned to the haymow to witness th
discomfiture of Bush. Her wait was In
vain, because Mrs. McDonough had told
the doctor of the removal of th kittens,
and said it would ba a sham to drown
then after Lucy had mad such a brave
effort for their lives. The doctor thought
so, too.
Lucy waited at the bam until sh grew
tired of Hie suspense. She went to the
homo tu find out what hud caused the
delay. The doctor called her to him and
petied her.
"Well, Lucy," he said, "If you really
want those kittens you may keep them.
Bring them right her In th offlc and
I'll give you a box and a warm bed
where they can be comfortable."
Lucy purred, rubbed herself against Me- '
Donough'a leg and then went out. In a
llttlo while sh returned with a black kit
ten In her moullu She did not cease hvr
trips until all six kittens were at the fet
of the doctor. Then she looked In Ms fa.ee
and meowed for I1I111 to carry out his pait
of the bargain, lie did it. New Yoik
World.
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