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VOL. XXXIX NO. 205.
OMAHA, tiSSTnBnty MOKNING, MAY 1910.
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J Duty of State in Relation to Its History
Addreii of John Lee Webster at the Meeting of the Mississippi Val
ley Historical Association at Iowa City, la., Thursday, May 26, 1910.
1STORT la as much a natural In
tlnct of the human mind as la
the belief In a spiritual over
ruling . providence. All races,
however barbarous or uncivil
ized or uncultured, have at-
H
ti'inpttd oni form of recorded -history.
Ionf befora the age of letters or the art of
writing . the tribes that wandered In olden
times upon the banks of the Nile, at
tempted the recording of history In hlero
alyples. The Astecs, sn ancient that no
man knows their beginning-, and who dis
appeared lit the face of a conquering race
. of people, attempted an unsubstantial form
' vl history by Inscription and tHe pyra
mids. In th mounds of North America
there were found historic evidences of pre
historic tribes of Indians, the fact of whose
I rlor existence would not have become
known to the ehnologlat and antiquarian
and the historian had they not attempted
to perpetuate in this rude manner their his
tory. I care not whether the people were red
or brown or white, Cept or Copt, they have
II striven to avoid a dark and mysterious
oblivion and to link their lives and history
with the eternity that was to come after
them.
History does not constat alone in the
frigid recital of cold facts. There is that In
history which appeals to the Imagination.
It la the romance Of the Uvea of men who
were engaged In the stirring events of the
period in which they lived. It Is the re
cital of the transactions and creations of
men and peoples and nations. It is the
condensation Into general declarations of
the materials found In the thousands of
biographies. For ages It has been the field
from which novelists have gathered the
material for their romances. Without the
history of England and .Scotland we would
have not had those beautiful pen pictures
that run through the historical novels of
that genius of Scotland, Sir Walter Scott,
romances which have furnished abundant
instruction and made millions of people
happy while reading them.
Without history we would not have our
common country. Without a familiarity
with the Magna Charta, and of the Kngllsh
Bill of Rights, and the liberty of the In
dividual man under the unwritten 'Kngllsh
constitution, Thomas Jefferson could not
have written the- Iteclaration of Independ
ence. Without that knowledge of the rights
of Englishmen which were trannpianted'tQ
the American colonies, Washington could
not have successfully carried on the war
of the revolution.
If history is so Important to the ex
istence of the state and of the nation, it Is
of more Importance to the individual,, for
in the end It is the individual man that
must suffer If the government is not what
he would wish It to be. As citizens of a
tate, or as cltlxena of the nation, every
Individual man that wishes well for him
self, and for the community, and for the
state and the nation, should take an Inter
est In seeing that the' state, as well as the
" nation shall collect 'and preserve the in
cidents and record of its history, so that
Some Things You Want to Know
Trouble in China I. The Anti-Foreign Riot -
The seriousness of the present artl-for-eign
agitation In China, recalling the
i Boxer rebellion of a decade ago, IS at-
tested by the fact that the United States
minister in Peking has mado a formal re
quest (or a naval vessel to bo sent up the
Yang-tse River to protect American in
terests. This, taken together with tho of
fer of Secretary Knox to aid the Chinese
government, brings the Chinese situation
again into general notice.
Tho center of the actual disturbances
has been Chaugsha, the capital of the
province of Human. Antl-forelgn rioters In
Changsha burned the settlements ' of the
Christian missions, and when the mission
aries took refuge in the governor's yamen,
or palace, the rioters also burned that
. building und wounded the governor. The
' trouble was stopped only when two British
gunboats steamed up the Yang-tse Kiang
. from Hankow, 200 mil? below. Hankow
and Changsha are the two great cities of
Central China, uud .they dominate the
4 Yang-te valley.
V 1 The Chinese empire Is so vast in area
and ao great in population that there is
always some disturbance somewhere in
China. It would be as manifestly unfair
to take the Changsha riots aa a basis for
a statement that there is a general anti'
foreign uprising in China aa It would be
to say that the recent street railway strike
In Philadelphia indicated a general con
dition of anarchy throughout tho United
States. i
But fortunately the Changsha riots do
not stand alone. The antl-forelgn feeling in
Canton, the metropolis of South China, baa
been Increasing steadily (or two years
mm past and la now almost aa intense aa it
i was a decade ago in the time of the Boxer
rebellion and the American boycott. The
present antl-forelgn agitation in Canton
began with popular dissatisfaction, caused
by the efforts of the Portugese government
tq encroach upon -Chines territory in de
Umlnatlng the boundaries of the Portugese
colony of Macao. This was aggravated
greatly when a Portugese on the British
steamship Patsban kicked a coolie to
death.
And now, aa the latest development, the
consuls of the various nations stationed at
j Nanking, on the lower Yang-tse, have re-
1 ported to the diplomatic corps at Peking
that tho situation in that section of China
very disquieting, and that there is
e"iJence of an organixed antl-dynastic and
ami-foreign movement.
Taken together, these reports Indicate
that antl-foreucn auttator n m&ktns
4 Jemselves felt in every section of China
except the northern provinces. It was in
these that the Boxer rebellion reached its
high tide, and it was In these that the
punishment dealt by the allied troops of
the great powers was severely felt. It
Is the hopelessness 'of resistance rather
than love for the foreigner which keeps the
M northern Chinese quiet.
The people of the upper Yang-tse valley
1 have suffered (or two years on account of
a rice (amine. They have been starving.
and the political notions of a starving
4 Cbtoaman do not differ essentially from
" ti0 revolutionary idea ot a starving whit
r.avlf,is uimiuii iur int .mneao io un
rt4 ny the viceroys, governors and
the generations which come after us, may,
from these archives, gather and profit by
the history of our times, as we have gath
ered knowledge and instruction from the
history of the age. that have gone be
fore us. .
State historical societies collect and pre
serve the historical incidents and records
which are the wells from which spring
forth the intellectual and spiritual growth
of our people, Just as sculpture and .art
are the culmination of historical sequences.
The Interests which these societies repre
sent are the foundation upon which the
states rest and the nation Is maintained.
A reverence for the valuable materials
gathered by these historical societies Is
one of the strongest moral Influenced that
can be inculcated in our people. Upon an
appreciation of what shall be gathered
there rests the spirit, the loyalty and the
patriotism of the generations. Historical
knowledge Is a positive force in moulding
public opinion and is now, as It ever has
been, the source of precedents of our
Institutions of Justice.
The older nations of the continent of
Europe, such as France, England, Germany
and Italy, lung since learned the wisdom
of bringing home to the understanding of
the common people an appreciation of the
memorable events In their national his
tories by means of works of art. The great
historic truths which the mind can take
In while the eye Is resting upon a dream
of beauty, either Jn the wonderful work
produced by the sculpter's chisel, or In
figure of beauty, dressed In robes of color
by the artist's brush, are lasting and per
suasive. It is a happier method of Instruc
tion than the wearisome labor of searching
through the storehouse of archives. Amer
ica, too, Is fast learning this method of
teaching history, and within the last few
years its history la being Immortalized In
marble and bronze and painting. The
national greatness of the republic is being
symbolized in memorials on lis public
buildings. Our monuments In figures or
bronze and In chiseled marble are dally re
minders of our achievements In war and In
peace.
Our state historical buildings should be
the best that architectural skill can fashion
and construct. Their adornments should be
the best that art and sculpture can produce
to symbolize and Immortalize the state's
history.
; Art Is as true a record of a , nation's
progress as a scroll, and pictorial impres
sions are oftentimes greater than the writ
ten word. The older civilization of the old
world Is represented In her priceless mas
terpieces, and such are more influential
upon the national spirit and character than
speeches and books.
I would hav'e the exterior of our state
historical buildings ornamented in sculp
tural conceptions of the stale's beginning,
of. Its progress in learning, and In science,
and in Its commercial development.
- Historical societies are treasure houses
of -history. Their interior walls should be
decorated, .with mural paintings, as is the
congresslon&I 'library,-' representing' tie" his
tory of the state. ' These buildings should
other publio officials should continue to
gather the taxes, which: are paid In rice,
and should continue to hold vast stores of
this tribute of rice for the uses of the gov
ernment when the people are starving.
The government ordered the cessation of
exports of rice from the province, but
foreign Influence was sufficiently powerful,
in tha Interest of trade, to cause several
postponements of this proposition. The
stock of rice was thus depleted by reason
of foreign commercial activity and foreign
political Influence.
The people have no direct means of at
tacking the government, but they have
found by experience that foreign govern
ments are quick to resent the destruction
of foreign property," and they know that
the foreign; powers will hold the govern
ment officials to strict accountability.
Therefore, it occurs to the Chinese mind
that the quickest way to get rid of an
objectionable official who Is stingy with
his stores of rice. Is to destroy foreign
property . in that official's Jurisdiction.
Hence the burning of missions and the at
tacks on the property of foreigners. Thus
far, the riots this year have been attacks
upon property only, and not upon life.
The danger is, however, that the latent
animosity tor all foreigners thus awakened
by purely local conditions cannot be
curbed " even by the leaders ot the
movement. It Is natural (or the Chinese,
iwhen - dissatisfied . with the government
administration, to give ear to the argu
ments of those agitators who. oppose the
continuation of the rule of the Manchu
dynasty. It is equally natural (or the
Manohus, which is to say the Imperial
government, to attempt to divert an antl
dynastlo movement Into an antl-forelgn
outbreak.
' The great Boxer rebellion began as an
organised movement (or the overthrow of
the Manchu dynasty. The late empress
dowager, as the head of the Manchus,
cleverly .captured the movement and
changed It 'Into an open war on foreigners
In behalf of the Imperial throne. The
disastrous results of tha Boxer rebellion,
Including the sacking of Peking and the
violation of the Forbidden City, worked a
change in the attitude of th Chinese mind
toward the western civilisation, but it did
not increase tha Chines regard for occi
dentals. Since th Boxer war hundreds of Chinese
newspapers have been established in all
parts ot the empire. Tha great majority
of these papers are violently radical and
they afford a vehicle for agitation never
before available In China. On account of
the wonderful growth of the Chines press,
it Is now possible for a political movement
to spread quickly over the entire empire.
This is a new and important element of
danger.
That the recent anti-foreign riots have
resulted in an antl-dynastic movement is
proved by th fact that a huge organisa
tion has been effected In the neighbor
hood of Nanking. The members of this
organisation are wearing a distinctive
badge, and they make their anti-Manchu
aim public by cutting' oft their queues.
The Chinese queue is the symbol ot sub
mission Inflicted upon the Chinese people
by their Manchu conquerors, and to cut
have bronxe entrance door representing
'Knowledge," "Wisdom" and "Memory" I
believe that a state historical society
building should be more than a store
house for a museum and a biding place
for archives. To the contrary they should
represent in bronxe. In sculpture and In art
all that makes for history. Interest, cul
ture, beauty, scholarship and higher civili
zation. We, of the western states, have had our
cavaliers and our Pilgrim fathers In our
pioneers. In the years to come we will
respect their memores and read the records
of their dally toils and hadshlps, as Vir
ginia now holds dear the traditions and
memories of the founders of Jamestown,
and as New England now reveres the mem
ories and records of the little band that
landed on her bleak shores 300 years ago.
Time was when the writers of history
occupied volumes in writing of the pioneers
who penetrated no farther westward than
a few hundred miles from the Atlantic
seaboard, and spent the rest of their time
In talking of battlefields, of the revolution
and the transactions of the colonial con
gress, seemingly having no appreciation
that the greut west was making history
faster than the Atluntlc coast states ever
made It, and that the future prosperity
and welfare of this country will untimateiy
depend upon the strength and mastery in
will of the people living In and westward
of the Mississippi valley. We might apply
to these old historians the language of an
English writer: "From of old, It was too
often to reproachfully observed of him,
that he dwelt with deproportionate fond
ness in senate houses, In battle fields, nay,
even In king's ante chambers; forgetting
that far away from such scenes, the
mighty tide of thought and action was
still rolling on its. wonderous course, In
gloom and brightness, and In Its thousand
remote valleys, a whole world of exis
tence, with or without an earthly sun of
happiness to warm It, with or without a
heavenly sun of holiness to purify ami
sanctify it, was blossoming and fading,
whether the 'famous victory' were won or
lost."
The west Is passing through a phase of
history to which can be found no parallel
except in the remote ages of the burled
past. Centuries upon centuries ago there
were empires which exlBt no longer. Cities
were bulldtd which, have been depopulated
and crumbled into decay. In those ancient
times there were people who spoke lan
guages that are no longer spoken and
which are known to us only as they are
taught by Unqulsts In colleges or universi
ties. We are In a. state of bewilderment
when we read of these ancient people whose
empires and kingdom and languages have
disappeared. We ask ourselves how could
these things transpire? -
It Is unthinkable to us that New York,
and Boston and Philadelphia at some fu
tuer time shou.d crumble into rulna; that
the United States government should fall
into decay; and that the -American people
should become extinct, and that a new
race of people, speaking a new language,
should In our stead, tread the soli - of the
American continent. Yet we know that
such a period of transition from one na
tion to another, and from one people to
another and from one language to an
other, has actually taken place in western
Asia and In southeastern Europe..
We, of the west, are today witnessing the
race disappearance of a . race of people.
The Indian tribes 'that once, possessed this
entire country have been driven to the
off the queue Is a sign of open and defiant
rebellion.
A few decades ago, antl-forelgn feeling
In China was directed against occidental
Institutions rather than against'lndlvlduals.
Railroads were torn up, telegraph lines
were destroyed, newspapers were tabooed,
electricity was under ' the ban, - and no
good-Chinese would use anything of occi
dental manufacture. Nowadays, the
Chinese government is building railroads,
Chinese merchants are Investing in Chines
companies for the purpose of railway ex
tension, the government owns a telegraph
system which is being extended with great
rapidity, newspapers appear in every town
and are served free with press dispatches
sent over the governmnt wires by govern
ment agents, Peking is lighted by elec
tricity and the coolie is smoking American
made cigarettes, . .
The Chinese have made up their minds,
apparently, to make use of the material
advantages of western civilization for the
purpose of competing on a more nearly
equal basis with the western nations. They
have before them the object lesson of the
striking success of Japan.
It must not be forgotten that th present
era of enlightenment In Japan had its be
ginning with a small band of revolutionists
who conspired to overthrow the shogun be
cause he had made treaties with the Amer
icans and other foreigners and to restore
to actual power the mikado, who would
drive the foreigners out ot Japan and
again seal up the porta of the country
against commerce with the despised bar
barians of the outer world. It was when
these young Japanese revolutionists felt
the force of foreign power at the bom
bardment ot Shlmonoseki that they realised
It would be Impossible to expel the foreign
ers. They then decided to learn all that
could be learned of western civilisation, to
superimpose that knowledge upon their
-Own civilization, and bpldly to undertake
competition with the powers of the west
ern world.
The greatest man among that group of
Japanese revolutionists met his death at
the hands of an assassin in Corea only a
few months ago, known to all the world
as Prince Ito, tbs mightiest empire builder
of the twentieth century. The shogun who
was overthrown by that revolution now
rides his bicycle about the streets ot Toklo
and his son, Prince Tokugawa, president ot
the Japanese House of Peers, a few weeks
ago, sat with Vice President Sherman and
held the gavel over the United States sen
ate. This mlraole of politics was accom
plished in less than forty years. And yet
tha Japanese do not love the foreigner.
China is In convulsions; the Chines ar
ripe for revolution; they are becoming
progressive; they are adopting the material
things of western civilisation, and they do
not love the foreigner. It the Chinese gov
ernment la not able to cope with th pres
ent agitation, it may be that the torch
which fired th Wesleyan mission house at
Changsha will kindle the (lames ot na
tional patriotism and will make China a
nation In deed and in truth.
ay tbidekio jr. XAsxur.
Tomorrow Trouble U Chi a a. Tor
alga Xaeroachmeat.
western frontiers, and we are the observers
of their gradual extinction. Hera In the
west we can see, and we ran feel, going on
around and about us, a transition In his
tory almost as remarkable and wonderful
as that of the preceding ages which I have
mentioned.- There Is In It a pathos that ap
peals to our sentimentality and a founda
tion for a romance In history which can
be furnished by no other continent.
But while to ua one race of people is be
coming extinct, there is a counterpart in
the beginning of the creation of a new
race of people, which Is the composite of all
races, and all classes who make up our
western population; an amalgamation of
Norwegians, of Swedes, of Danes, of Irish
men, of Germans, of Frenchmen and of
Englishmen into the new American man
of the west. In that new man may be
found the mental and physical character
istics of all these different peoples. In him
may be traces, of the nervous energy and
versatility of the Frenchman, of the pro
gressive push of the German, of the strong
will power of the Scotchman, and the con
quering spirit and energy of the English
man. As the Frenchman has superceded
the GaU as the Englishman has super
ceded the Briton, as the Anglo-Saxon has
peopled America this new man of the west
has already, succeeded our Puritan ances
tors. These new western men will exercise
a dominating Inf.uence In the government
of states and in the affairs of the nation.
The states of the west owe It to them
selves to preserve In the archives of their
historical societies the" traditions of ad
venture and the records of the conquests
of the prairies and the uplands and moun
tains by these daring and courageous pion
eers. They owe it to themselves to pre
serve in substantial form the historical ro
mance of the disappearance of one' race of
people before the advancing progress of
American civilization. The atates owe it
to themselves to collect and preserve in un
perlshable form all the material necessary
to convey to the people in the generations,
yes, even In the centuries to come, a com
prehensive understanding of what the wild
erness was -before the hand of man had
transformed it into a gralnery of wealth
and a garden of beauty, and what were the
racial characteristics of the people that are
to form the new composite man of the
great west. ; i '
ELGIN BUTTER BOARD MEETS
It Decide Hold the Market Stead r
ad Unchanged at Twentr
Klgst Cents.
ELGIN, 111., May 28. The weekly meet
ing of the Butter board was held today In
stead of Monday, the latter being a legal
holiday. Butter was steady at 28 cents.
Sales, 689,200 pounds.
"TP"
COHHENCING, TUESDAY,
Merchandise from the
Liquidation Sale of the
$1,000,000
the Hundley
Dry Goods
Co. st. jo-
seph,
Mo.
V'
Look
for the
k9
e
big ad in
Monday's
af te r n o on
papers for news
of this great mer
chandise disposal.
We are happy to say this is one of our most fortunate deals, for it has flooded the store with multitudes of bar
gains that will be sure to make for us hosts of friends and new patrons.
Spring and Summer Dry Goods of every nature, fulfill ing every requirement you may possibly huve, will be sold
for less than you'll believe possible.
Make a memorandum of the things you'll have to buy this summer, then come and tee how much this sale means to
you. Monday afternoon's Bee and News will give you the details in full. Look for it.
Sale Opens Promptly at 8:00 O'clock,
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EVOLUTION OF QUICK LUNCH
Old-Time Restaurant Man Talks on
Says that Are Gone.
SEES TRADE SLIPPING AWAY
rinlnttvelr Points to Steamlna- Col
fee I'rn Which .ovr Mtanda
Where Once Htnot the PHI
Hoi In Dma; More.
"No, sir, times ain't what they used to
be," sighed the old restaurant man, as he
punched the cash register absent-mindedly
and rang up a "No sale."
"Talk about evolution! Seems to me the
restaurant business has evoluted more than'
any other line of trade but It has gone the
wrong way for me and the men of my
type. People eat Just as much as they
ever did perhaps more, for nuney Is plenti
fulbut they don't confine their eating to
restaurants as they did In former years.
Time was when the busy clerk at noon
time, unable to spare time for lunch at
home, dashed Into the ne.irest restaurant,
seated himself on a high stool at the coun
ter, and for 15 cents got a slab of roast
beef, a cup of coffee, potatoes and pie. Uow
for the same luncheon he must pay 30 to
tO cents still more than that, If he hap
pens to fall Into one of tne hlgher-tom-d
places, and the chances are that he doesn't
go to a restaurant at all. More likely he
drops Into the corner drug store and orders
a cup of coffee, a bowl of soup and a
chicken sandwich.
"Drug stores serving sandwiches! Sounds
funny doesn't it? Yet that new ungle of the
feeding game Is a part of the evolution of
the restaurant. Some people say the Chris
tian Scientists and the osteopaths have
made Inroads upon the work of the pre
scription clerk. I am neither a scientist,
osteopath or druggist, so I am not good
authority on the whys and wherefores, but
casual observation has shown me that the
prescription business Isn't as brisk as It
used to be. The drug stores make Just as
much money, perhaps, they occupy loca
tions Just as good or better than ever be
fore, and they employ more help than
formerly but they keep the help busy
rpreading minced ham on daintily carved
bread, rather than in compounding drugs.
The old-time drug store devoted the greater
part of its space to shelfs on which stood
row after row of bottles bearing Latin In
scriptions. Now-a-days, the main part of
the drug store is In the mldddle of the
room, where a steaming-coffee urn and a
bread board and a soda fountain are housed
behind a counter of beautiful pnyx or some
other costly material. '
"Another thing that has changed the
Stock of
MERE FRACTION
Tuesday Morning, May 31st
IEMETT CGDIPMIY
Stor wilt torn open until t o'clock lo.morrow,
in 1 1 ."I""1": HfKIZZZ
restaurant man's luck Is the fact that the
old-time American plan hotel has given
away to the European plan house, where
cafe and rooms are distinct propositions.
The man In search of a quick lunch would
never think of going to an American plan
hotel, yet It cumn perfectly natural for
him to slide Into a European plan cafe. This
puts the hotels, originally supposed to eater
only to transients. In direct competition
with the quick lunch restaurant, which
depends largely upon the home people who
work down town in office buildings.
'"Clubs and Institutions of various kinds
are now taking o: more and more of the
restaurant life from time to time, and this
takes away from the higher cluss restaur
ant business. Where there was one club
with feeding attachment In Omaha a dozen
years ago, there Is now five or six, and
It Is becoming quite the fad in Omaha, as
well as all other larger cities, for the big
department stores to serve luncheon.
"You thing 1 am pessimistic, eh?
"No, sir, not a bit of it. I concede the
right of the restaurant man's competitors.
But, at the same time, I have the right to
talk as much as I like about evolution,
haven't I?"
Disease Lurks
in Prized Well
Carl Malm Has Water Tested, Find
V ing Out Thinjs He Didn't
KnoT?.
Carl R, Malm of 620 North Thirty-second
street thinks' he has a kick coming; but
he doesn't know Just yet whether the kick
Is coining to lilmsdf or Health tCommls
sloner Connell.
Mr. Malm wanted to have the water In
his well tested, since he took considerable
pride in the well as one of his most
valued possessions. So he took a sample
of the water to City Chemist Crowley.
Having analyzed the sample. Prof. Crow
ley considered It his duty to report the
finding to Dr. connell. The report was
anthing but favorable, and Dr. Connell
at once ordered that the. well be closed
and ho more water taken from it.
On receipt of the health commissioner's
order Mr. Malm sought Councilman Mc
Govern. who Innocently asked: "Why did
you take the sample to Prof. Crowley?
Didn't you know he is death on bud
water?"
Bnlldlnar Permit.
A. P. Llnder, 1813 Manderson, frame,
$1,600; Her Grand hotel, alterations and re
pairs, t7.M0; O. P. Shrum, 3fil8 Charle,
alterations, 11,500; Mildred Castlcton. Kit
North Thirty-ninth, frame, J1.200; Walkup
Real Estate Co.. 705 South Thlrtv-sixth,
frame, $2,500; E. B. Williams, 2733 Mt redith.
frame, $2,DO0.
u
o"rf.
"V . -v
1V
Middle
market by
ossd
may
rifice It is proposed to close out the entire
million dollar stock in one month's time. The
sale has been advertised by the receivers as onen
to the retailers beginning
BY SPECIAL AGREEMENT, AS PER TELEGRAM
HEREWITH, ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE WHERE
BY OUR BUYERS WERE GIVEN SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
FOR ADVANCE PURCHASES. THEY
ANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF NEW
OF ITS REAL WORTH.
WHERE IS OLD SHOEMAKER?
Passing; of a Once Necessary Factor in
Lift of Community.
MACHINERY DRIVES HIM AWAY
o More la III" lln-Tai-Tp Hear
inlnn from H.l In the Wall
llet wren Ilia lnn Town
II iillallna.
Yhst has become of the old-f ushloned
shoemaker-the round-shouldered, good
natui-eil fellow, who used to rap-n-tp-tp
disabled shoe leuther as he huddled In a
dark corner of some hole-in-the-wall, be
twern b g buildings?
Years ago you saw him on Farnam
street. Sixteenth street, Dongins street,
and other prominent downtown thorough
fares. Later you saw him on the side
streets. Now you seldom see him any
where. In his day, shoe repairs were made by
hand half solos, new heels, a patch, per
haps, possibly nil ber hreln, but whatever
It was, he could supply the demand. He
mado a living out of It. Sometimes he
made more, for ninny of his type were In
clined to be miserly, and more than one
story has been written into the news col
umns of the newspapers telilng of the find
ing of conlderalile hoards of money
buried undirnfath the diath bed of some
village cobbltr.
But along came machinery a few years
ugo machinery that proclaimed Its ability
to "make od nhoes new while you wait."
And 5 ou don't have to wait long, either,
for tho machinery, with a skiiled operator
bail; of it, tloos your work with lightning
rapidity.
ICnter machine exit old-time shoemaker.
He lias gone the way nf the good old
fash'oi ed doctor, who, besides dosing hi
patients with pills and syrups, threw in
good advice by way of full measure.
He has gono the way of t lie early day
school teacher who "boarded 'round al
ternately among the patrons of the school."
He has gone the way of the old-time
circuit rider whose Jurisdiction over you
extended from tho cradle to the grave, via
the pulpit. '
What the old-tlmd shoemaker Is doing
now, Is a mooted question. He may be
selling papers and shoe laces on the street
corntr, he may be truck farming in the
suburbs or, in some Instances, he may be
living without work, spending the accumu
lation of nickels, dimes and quarters
which came to him In dribs while ho sat
bended for year after year on a little
bench In a line hole-in-the-wall.
Re that as It may. ho has gone pushed
'aside by pros i ess In lis onward march.
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31st
Receiver's
Wholesle
Through the
liquidation of the
Hundley Dry Goods
Co. of St. Joseph. Mo.,
one of the largest, finest and
cleanest wholesale stocks in the
West is thrown on the
the receivers at a great sac
Tuesday, May 31st.
SECURED MANY THOUS-
MERCHANDISE AT A