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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JAXUAHT 8, 1910. lllUUIJ 1ILL11LU Jl JUB1VLHJ ! commodate later arrivals. The enrollment Hooligani Howl Down Liberals Who Seek to Answer Balfour. ALARMIST TALK ANSWERED Chancellor f.lord-Geore ay Coia try' aIlBalneaa la on laereaaf ( War Talk la Called Jlaajolam. IJNDON, Jan. T. Serious disturbances azain marked many of the meetings of the campaign tonight. "The earl of Donough more and Lord Cheylosmore, In attempting to ai'.dret-s a conservative meeting; at Coventry, found that the hall had been captured beforehand by the radicals, who howled .ill the speakers down. The meet ing broke up In disorder. A similar fate overtook Lord . Rotnnchlld at Wolverton, whore a crowd of radical Hooligans rushed the doors. Lord Rothschild stood for a long time facing the deafening- boning- and cheering, but was obliged to content him self by addressing the reporters. Sir William Bull, member of the House of Commons for Hammersmith, while ep'uklng before the electors of that con stltuency was rudely heckled by a man In the crowd. He threatened to punch the man's head. "Come on," shouted the man. Sir William forthwith desoended and the crowd formed a ring. A standup fight enxur-d until the police separated the com batants. tlr William, speaking- of the affair, said he was none the worse for the encounter. "There has been a deal of unfair radical rowdyism lately," he said. "This affair may clear the air, as Englishmen like a fair fight and no fouling." Balfour Criticised. Premier Asqulth, David Lloyd-Qeorge, ex-chancellor of the exchequer; John Burns, president of the local government board, and other members of the govern ment, occupied tonight In denouncing A. J. Balfour's alarmist references to Germany and refuting his accusations of the unpre paredness of the navy. Chancellor Lloyd-George, who received an ovation at Peckham, a district In London, described Mr. Balfour's speech as the last resort of a thoroughly desperate man who saw his cause was lost. Mr. Balfour had Indulged In plucking the German eagle's tall feathers and tall twisting had become a discreditable practice, he said,- even In America. Ha was sorry to see the leader of a treat party, and an ex-premier, re duced to the extremity of following In the footsteps of the most discredited type of politician In the United Stales. Such talk was dangerous to the world's peace and a disgrace to British politics. Flararea Favorable. Great Britain, the chancellor went on, had warred with almost every country, but never with Germany. On the contrary, it had generally had Germany fight side by side with It. During the last decade Great Britain had built nearly double the number of battleships constructed by Germany, but if the ratio were lnversed he would not be afraid, because Great Britain had the men behind the guns. .... "But," he added, "we will continue to build warships faster than Germany." With reference to the effect of the budget upon trade, the chancellor took the unusual course of prematurely announcing to the meeting the returns of the Board of Trade for December. They showed an Increase In exports over December, 1906, amounting to 8-10,000. The biggest year BrlUsh trade ever saw was 1107, and the chancellor pointed out that trade for the last month was better than In December, 1907, by $6, 000,000 and over In exports, and If they took both exports and Imports, It was bet ter by 123,000,000. Furthermore, the Increase In imports was not in manufactured goods, but In raw material and food. It looked as though the coming year would be the big gest that British trade from the foundation of the empire ever had experienced. . . .. I learners- iourt to upen. CEDAR FALLS, la., Jan. 7. (Special.) The State Teachers' college will reopen after the holiday recess Thursday morning, at the usual hour. The term will close March 15. Students have been arriving on very train during the last twenty-four will be heavy. Golden Shower in Cincinnati Street Bursting of Bag Containing Fire Hundred Doable Eagles Almost Canses Panic. CINCINNATI, Jan. 7. A golden shower of 500 $J0 gold pieces sent a frantlo mob of men, women and children grovelling in the heavy snow of a downtown street late this evening. An express messenger of the sub treasury had almost reached his destina tion when the bag' slipped and the heavy double eagles tore through the canvas and poured in a glittering stream into the street. A crowd gathered and engaged In a wild search for the holes In the snow which marked where the treasure lay. The crowd was driven away by the police, bat not before several of the gold pieces had disappeared. ECKERT JOINS HAWLEY FORCES Southerner Will Be Vle President and Superintendent of Operation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-C. II. Eckert, vice president and general manager of the Southern railway, has tendered his resig nation to take effect January 15, m order to accept an official position with another railroad company. NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Charles H. Eckert, who resigned today as vice president and general manager of the Southern railway, will become vice president and superin tendent of operation of the"1 following rail roads: Chicago A Alton, Toledo, St. Louis & Western; Minneapolis & St. Louis and Iowa Central, which are known as the Hawley raljroads. His headquarters will be in Chicago. Guard the health of your family by. keep ing at hand a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has no equal for cough', colds and croup. Announcements of the Theaters. Miss Marie Booth Russell, who is the leading woman in the Mantell company, is not only a beautiful woman, but an ac complished linguist and a musician of ability. MIbs Russell first took up the study of music as an aid to her work In the heavy Shakespearean roles, which she has been playing for a number of years; such progress did she make that she finally took up music as a serious calling. Mr. Mantell will play "Macbeth" Monday, "Hamlot" Tuesday, "Romeo and Juliet" Wednesday matinee and "King Lear" on Wednesday night. Another week with the regular established dally habit of packing' the house to ca pacity to be credited to the current bill will be brought to close at the Orpheum today. A matinee at 2:16 today and tonight the extremely early curtain of 8:10 sharp, with the beautiful Mile. Bland first on the pro gram, and late arrivals not ushered to their seats while her act Is In progress. - Next week, commencing Sunday matinee, the Gayety will have one of the favorite attractions in Al Reeves' "Beauty Show." This season he has surpassed all previous efforts and has surrounded himself with the most elaborate and costly productions he has ever "owned in his managerial life time. This is the seventeenth annual tour of Al Reeves' "Beauty Show." Starting Monday thera will be a ladles' matinee dally. De Wolf Hopper will come to the Boyd theater on January 13 only one night with his uew song comedy, '"A Matinee Idol." The leading light opera singer of the world, Frltxl Scheff, will be the attraction at the Boyd theater for two nights, start ing next Friday, In the new Henry Blossom Victor Herbert comic opera, "The Prlmma Donna." The opera comes here from a long run at the Knickerbocker theater in New York City. Waltham Watches Guaranteed or Not Guaranteed The Waltham Watch Company will guarantee in the broadest possible way any Waltham Watch bought from a reputable jeweler, but it will not guar antee a watch purchased by mail from the catalogue of any mail order house. When you get a watch from a jeweler, he sees that it is going right at first, because he knows how to touch it up; but even so, if your watch fails later in any way, we will make it good, pro vided only that it has been bought from a reputable dealer. We cannot guar antee any of our wutches that may have been bought f rom . mail order houses. We do not sell to them. Any mail order house advertising Waltham Watches in their catalogues know when they do it that they can only get them by underground methods. Waltham Watch Company Waltham Mass. N. B. When buying a watch .always ask your jeweler for a Waltham adjusted to temperature and position. S-ataareflay s ii SENSATIONAL SUIT SELLING Crowds in most places these days, but at KilpatricKs VERITABLY SENSATIONAL And here's a reason for more excitement Saturday: THREE SPECIALS IN ONE DIVISION Ail together and everything marked plainly so that there can be no doubt about the money saving. Every high class suit, dress or costume which sold formerly at $50.00 and up. Handsomely trimmed and tailored suits, one-piece creations, wool dresses, beau tiful silk costumes $50.00, $65.00, $75.00, $85.00 and even $100.0 formerly Saturday, unrestricted choice, $25.00 at KILPATRIOK'S. Fur Selling 2 lot of Scarfs Martin, Fox, Beaver, etc., sold up to f 10.00, at $2.50 Saturday at Kilpatrick'a. Next Brook Mink, Lynx, Squirrels, Mar ten, sold up to $18.00, at $5.00 Sat urday at Kilpatrick's. 0 Fur Coats to clear out 8 are Caracul, 8 Electric Seal, 1 Squirrel, 1 Wool Seal and 1 Astrakhan, formerly sold up to $75.00, at $25.00 ' Saturday. 15 Evening Coata and Capes in Tints, Broadcloth, Satin and Velvet, sold up to Saturday Underwear Doings Incidentally did you ever know a more op portune timet Men! You will get the dollar grade shirts and drawers on Saturday at G9c. Men! Heavy wool flat and ribbed shirts and drawers, which sold up to $1.50, on Saturday at 98c. ' 'Men! The fine grades worsted and the soft wools shirts and drawers, which sold up to $2.00 on sale Saturday $1.29. Men! Here are union suits proper in fit, finish and weight $1.50 grades $1.15; $2.00 grades $1.59; $2.50 grades $1.95; $3.00 grades $2.29; $5.00 grades $3.75. Your guarantee is that these doin's are at KILPATRIOK'S And just for a flyer we'll clean up a lot of sleeve buttons, scarf pins, fobs, etc., sold up to $1.50; on sale Saturday 25c. And there'll be oodles of other good things for Men only. Women's Comfort Bringers for Cold Days Heavy fleeced vests and pants on Satur day at 25c. Wool mixed vests and pants on Saturday at 59c. Fine wool and worsted vests and pants on Saturday at 78c. Duofold, Vega silk,, etc., vests and pants on Saturday 98c. Suits of fine fleece on Saturday 78c. Out sizes, in wool on Saturday $1.69. The fine Australian wool, Saturday $2.39. And the $4.50 Sterling-Saturday $3.69. Children's Underwear for Saturday 15c for small sizes and all that sold up to 40c for a quarter and 48c for what sold up to $1.25. And Now Let's Hare Very Careful Attention At the new section on Second Floor. Just a few small conts left, ages 2, 3 and 4; formerly $8.75 Saturday 4.98 each. Eight coats left, were $12.50-Saturday 6.98 each. Children's drawers, 1 to 12 years fine cam bric, tucked and hemstitched, values would be 20c Saturday, 10c. Others at 25c, 39c and 50c all great bargains. Children's gowns cambric, high or low neck 85c, 75c and 50c. Take any felt bonnet at 98c Saturday some were $5.00. Never Such Undermuslin Business Ladies' Gowns. Saturday $1.98 $1.49 down to 98 White Petticoats, an unusual bargain at $1; deep em broidered flounce $1.95 for a splendid Petticoat, Cambric top, ten rows of embroidery. Insertion and flounce, French hand embroidered chemise at 79 All the fine, French hand made underwear reduced. Silk Skirts, blacks and colors, formerly $6, Sat, $3.98 Those that were sold up to $10, at $5.98 Main Floor Ladles' . Silk Mufflers, all colors, 50 worth up to $1.25. 50.OO. at $10.00 Saturday at KIN Patrick's. You are warned if Interested Store opens at 8 o'clock, and you must come early or stand the risk of disappointment. Odds in Handkerchiefs, formerly 25c, Saturday ....t Formerly 35c, Saturday 2"t Formerly 60c, Saturday It'V all leather goods 20 off. All china & cut glass 20 oft Broken sets at the lace section German Vals.. linen torchon, etc., worth up to 18c, at jq At the Linen Section Never in our experience has there been such a rush and a crush of dellghted buyers. We are not going to quote a single price. Every mother's son and daughter in the department busy as bees trying to get order from confusion for Saturday's sale. We promise you you'll have no difficulty in seeing the great reduction In nap kins, damasks, cloths, bed spreads, etc. At Dress Goods Department Some great specials being prepared for Monday Watch for Sunday's papers. The Silk Counters are covered with specials so striking the values, so rushing the business, that we have been unable to re store perfect order since sale started. Adding new spe cials every day. Just one item let us quote for Sat urday 350 yards full yard wide black taffeta; heavy, lustrous, worth fully $1.50, Saturday $1.08 Remember every yard of silk bears the Kilpatrick guar antee, special sale or not. If You Need Gloves for ladies or children you should not fall to get them on Saturday. There'll be a marked change In the prices very soon, and you'll be glad we reminded you 6 spe cial lots we hope to close out Saturday. You cannot miss them if you come in, front square, uear door. And now we have a favor to ask Terriflo business, severe storms, low temperatures, all conspire to swamp our delivery department. Scores of packages bought Monday not delivered as we write this Be patient with us, please. We are making every effort. By Saturday night we'll see daylight Help us by taking small pack ages with you. You have always been so kind and con siderate with us that we hesitate to ask further favors at your hands. 1 THOMAS KILPATRICK CO. WWJ WJH'Hi RVf Some Things You Want to Know Turbulent Central America Nicaragua, Land of Blasted Hopes With, the greatest canal on the globe almost ready to Become a reality, Nicara gua thought it wa destined to be one of the favored itpots of the world. . It thought itself the "Western Bosphorus," and con sidered that It was only a question of time until the commerce of the oceans would pass through Its borders via the Nicara guan canal. The United States had decided upon an interoceanic canal, all parties were pledged to it, and indeed both houses of congress had at one time or another voted for l(. Nicaragua was in high hopes, and Hannibal selling the public places In Rome, while yet without its walls found a coun terpart in the spirit of speculation that possessed the Nlcaraguans. But in a mo ment all was changed. Senator Ilanna took up the cudgels for Panama, the sen ate turned to that route, the house fol lowed and Nicaragua became the land of blasted hopes. Down there they still be lieve that the monumental mistake of history was made, . when Panama was chosen. Nominally Nicaragua is a republic, where the will of the people should be supreme. Its constitution reads as smooth as our own, but only the letter and not the spirit prevails. Every man is supposed to have the right of suffrage, yet there is another provision, which sets forth that no soldier In the army shall vote. And the president has the right to enlist whom he will. Result; when there is a close elec tion thousands of the opposition are tem porarily enlisted in the army. It is said that in ' one election more than 7,000 op ponents of Zelaya were enlisted, wnue all his friends were omitted from the recruits. This Is the way the laws and con stitutions of Central America are inter preted, and it is such abuses that are largely responsible for the constant tur moil there. Nicaragua has a most unique plan of presidential succession in times of peace. The names of five senators are written upon slips of paper, placed in as many envelopes, shuffled, and three of the envelope are drawn out and flied away In the state archives. The other two are destroyed without their contents being known. When there is a vacancy in trie presidency the duly constituted authori ties open, the first envelope and the sen ator whose name Is written thereon be comes president. Here we see how the people distrust their own associates. The name of the heir apparent must be kept a profound secret lest he or his friends seek to hasten the succession. Nicaragua Is not noted for a high aver age of intelligence among u pontic. Those at the head of affairs are usually well educated, and there 1b also culture among the well-to-do classes of the coun try, but the rank and file are merely ignorant, unlettered tropical people. They are "dumb driven cattle" who lend them selves readily to the purposes of the dema gogue. They are nearly always against the government, because they so often feel the law's restraining hand. Some idea of the prevalence of ignorance may be had from a report made by the head of the depart ment of education who states that In Uranada and Leon, the most highly civi lised cities of the country, only 30 per cent of the children are enrolled in the schools. He concludes that only one seventh of the children of Nicaragua learn to read and write. The majority of the people live In adobe houses covered with tiles or with thatched roofs. Uusually there is no floor in the rural home, and if there Is a ceiling It is only a sheet of white cloth tacked up to hide the ugliness of the ur.derroof. Beds without Distresses, rooms without windows, cooking without stove and grindtug with old-fashioned Indian millstones are still the rule rather than the exception. The clothing of the average Nlcaraguan lb extremely simple. Among the poorer classes the boys run in the Adamlc garb worn before Eve invented her palm-leaf apron. The girls wear little slips made from a single piece of muslin. The ordi nary clothing of the men consists of a palm-leaf hat, a shirt and a pair of trous ers. All go barefooted except the Indiana, who wear sandals. The women wear a chemise, a cotton skirt and a kind of light shawl. Those of high caste imitate Euro pean ways. Labor is plentiful in numbers, but short in quality. It is said that the average laborer wants to be treated as a nabob or hidalgo. Among the poorer classes baptism is considered a more sacred rite than marriage. As a rule the Nlcaraguans are polite, honest and fun-loving. Their speech abounds in compliments, and their hospi tality is such that the stranger is always received with courtesy. The best the house affords, though it may be nothing more than a cup of coffee and a small cake, is placed at his disposal. The Indians, though for --centuries treated with cruelty by the Spaniards, have not been soured by mis use and still go their way with much song and laughter. They are quick to coin words and characterize people according lo their occupation. When the first engineer ing party on the Nlcaraguan canal estab lished itself at Kivas the wife of the en gineer in charge accompanied It. Later she received a letter which had no ad dress other than "La Canalera" literally the woman of the canal. Honesty Is a marked characteristic of the average low caste Nlcaraguan. In the little stores the customers often wait upon themselves. Sometimes the storekeepers have their cigars and cigarettes where the passerby may get them and drop the price in a cup by the side of the box. Even the beggar will not touch this unguarded cup. Cock-fighting is the principal pastime of the people. Some of the Nlcaraguans wear their hair trimmed close except for a little circle on top of the head. The barber cuts a cocounut in half, fits It on the head like a cap, then trims away all the hair not covered by the shell. The ant life of Nicaragua is most Inter esting. There is one species that are agri culturists of a high order. One sees them carrying little green leaves toward their homes and then going back for more. It was long presumed that the ants used these leaves for food, but Investigation showed that the young ones chew them up finely and then, in combination with an other 'substance, use them as a compost in which to grow a kind of tiny mushroom which constitutes food for the ants when they are shut Indoors by the rain. The evidence of this is so positive as to admit of no charge of nature faking. Ants of another species are great foragers and travel in hordes on their expedition. When they come to a brook that is spanned by a single twig they are not willing to wait until they can pass over in single file, Some of their number crawl out un the twig and by clinging to Its sides widen the natural causeway with their bodies. Then the road is made wide enough fur columns of fours and eights, and the delay of single filing a vast army across Is obviated. Perhaps it does not take reason ing to arrive at the conclusion that columns of fours can cross a place morequlckly than a single file, but It is so close to reasoning that it Is hard to differentiate it from that mental ope-ationu. Nicaragua has practically the same area as the slate of New York and its popula tion is about equal to that of the city of Baltimore. Flvy-sixths of the Inhabitants live on the western or Pacific coast. The principal port on the Paciflo side Is Corlnto, which has about 2,000 Inhabitants. The principal town on the east side is Blueflelds which is about 1.186 miles from New Orleans. Nicaragua has one railroad which runs from Corlnto to Managua and from there to Oranada on Lake Nicaragua, the largest Inland body of water In that part of the world last year. Nicaragua bought from the United States, textiles, clothing, machinery, etc., to the amount of $1,300,000, and sold to this country, bananas, coffee, rubber, mahogany, cattle, hides, etc., to the amount of $1,000,000. On the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua there are seventeen recognised race-types, the product of the mixture of Chinese, negross, Indians and whites. In the Interior there are almost as many varieties of political parties, divided by distinctions hardly less exquisite than those which separate the various races on the coast. The Issue on which these parties differ Is, at bottom, the matter of the church. In Nicaragua there exists a religious question almost exactly parallel to that which still troubles the peace of France. This situation is prob ably due to a considerable extent to that close sympathy and quick response which Central America manifests towards all things French. In spite of the geographical proximity of the United States, its Influ ence in Latin America Is far less definite than that of France. It Is to Paris that Central America looks for new ideas. It is French policies that Central American statesmen study and imitate. Much that the American publicist finds difficult to understand in Central American affairs may be explained by referring to contem porary movements In France. BY FUEDEBIO J. HABKZZT. Tomorrow Turbulent Central America. Rivalry of Leon and Oranada. New city Official. CEDAR, FALLS, la., Jan. 7.-(Speclal.)-Mayor Pfelffer has today appointed Clark H. Streeter to the position of water com missioner, sewer commissioner and city en gineer. Mr. Streeter was for several years city engineer and has done very satisfac tory work. By the death of M. Hammond the position of water commissioner Is va cant, and Mr. Streeter la to fill the unex pired term. He is now in Chicago, but has signified his acceptance, and that he will be here January 15 to establish his office in the olty hall and assume the duties. I To Dissolve the Union of stomach, liver and kidney troubles and cure biliousness and malaria, take Electric Bitters. Guaranteed. 50c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Pointed Paragraphs. How loafers grate upon the nerves of a busy person! Most of a man's friends are of the long distance variety. Of course, a man can't help admiring a fashionable attired woman unless he Days the freight. Hope is a magic lantern which often shows impossible pictures. Every Urn w see a sponge it reminds us of some men we know. A peach of a girl always hopes the right young man will pick her. It takes a lot of courage to enable a woman to admit that she is growing old. Some men boast of their luck because none of their relations ever visit them. People who take pains to tell the truth on all occasions have but few friends. What a glorlus country this would be to live in if turkeys were a easily raised as cats! once there was a cook who stayed in one filace for more than six months. She was ' n a hospital paralyzed. The only reason we care to be a million aire Is for the purpose of Inducing bill col lectors to cut our acquaintance. Chicago News. Big Results from Little Bee Want Ads. Mysterious Tunnel Leads Toward Vaults of Bank NEW YORK, Jan. 7 In seeking a man reported by his relatives as missing, the police this afternoon, discovered a tunnel which led from the cellar of the tenement In which he lived in Ludlow street the center of the lower east side across the street and In the direction of a Jewelry store and the East Side Branch of the Fourteenth Street bank, where many thous ands of dollars were Btored In vaults. Isidore Garbus reported that his brother-in-law, Isaac Flnkelsteln, was missing, that the last he saw of him was yesterday when they went Into the cellar together to get wood. On questioning Flnkelsteln's wife, the police learned that she believed he had been crushed in a caveln of the cellar. This led to the clearing away of a pile of boxes that revealed the tunnel opening. With a lantern a detective followed the tunnel under the building walls and past the center of the street, but returned, fear ing a caveln. Work was started from the street surface down to the tunnel. Garbus, the brother-in-law, was arrested. The vaults of the East Side branch of the Fourteenth Street bank contain deposits of $10,000,000 and the safe of a jewelry shop next door contained $O,Q00 worth of diamonds and Jewelry. Digging continued all afternoon and all night with crowds of curious In attendance. The work went slowly both because of the depth of the excavation and the neces sity for caution. At a point beyond the first obstruction, a fork in the tunnel was found one branch leading for the bank vault an, the other for the Jewelry shop. In all, W diggers had uncovered about fifty feel o'i burrowing with no trace of the body rinkelsteln late tonight. There is some doubt whether he is In the tunnel, for It is pointed out that the home entrance to It was barricaded from the outside. On the other hnnd, the police contend, a confeder ate could have made the barricade. o. Manufacturers and Dealers fra n De nn We have on hand at Chicago and in transit via Peoria and St. Louis, a large supply of fuel, and can make quick delivery to all intermediate points and points West. Telegraph or Telephone, oIsen-Doan Coal Co. Phones Harrison 4810-481 1-4012 FISHER BLOC, CHICAGO ft