4 THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MARCH 4. 1911. L: I h l:f" if These Are All New, Medium Weight Spring Suits. Brandeii tld Ltore, Main Floor. mmm. at laiiai m iiiiih- wmummmmm'niMm.mrmtwtmmmmMimr Buy Your Spring Suit at This Sale! You Can Easily Save $5 or Ilore Saturday We Will Sell the Entire Mew Ywli Wholesale Stock 9 ill IIS AT PRICES ONE-THIRD LOWER THAN YOU CAN GET THEM ONE MONTR LATER A Sale of Vital Interest to Every Man j Young Man in Omaha This sale again demonstrates the tremendous power of Brandeis cash in the New York clothes market. It is bringing to Omaha men an immense wholesale stock of high quality spring suits which will be sold so far below their value that no man or young man in Omaha who reads this announcement can afford to overlook it. For the man who needs a suit now for business wear before the hot weather and for the man who wants a strictly good suit at lower than medium price, this sale is the RIGHT SALE AT JUST THE TIME IT IS NEEDED. MEN'S GOOD SPRING SUITS From the New York Wholesale Stock Up-to-date suits iu all sizes for men and young men. They are positively all pure worsted materials in patterns that are strictly new this spring. Very well made and just the thing for present wear. WORTH UP TO $10 AND $12.50 .MEN'S STYLISH. SPRING SUITS From the New York Wholesale Stock Here are business suits that have real class. They are made of pure worsteds and all wool suitings cut in the most approved style and will make excellent suits for months to come. WORTH UP TO $20 AND $25. All (he Men's Odd Trousers from the New York Stock j .There were hundreds of men's odd trousers in this stock and we bought them all at a great bargain, hcores ot patterns all sizes tor men and young men. ACTUALLY MADE TO SELL AT $3.00 AND $3.60 A PAIR, at. ..... , IS ON SALE SATURDAY at' BRANDEIS STORES KtU FANCY VESTS and WHITE VESTS trfiffiS? Havel you seen the window display that thousands of men have stopped to admire? Hundreds of fancy vests of the richest, most fashionable materials. TV Patterns that are worn by the best dressed men everywhere; Vests "lftdT that are readily worth up to $2.50 and $3.50 each, at. .V Separate Kntiauoe , to Men's Slice Dept. on Kith Street North of Douglas 0 D Take Advantage of This lig Final Clean-up Saturday. New Sprint FOOTWEAR FOR MEN Brandeis Stores shows the styles that are new in shoes that are depend able. Tan shoes in low top button or blucher laee also the new Oxfords with high toes, short vamps and mili tary heels. Prices are lower here than at exclusive shoe stores. A Special in Men's Shoes New lots of gun metal blucher or but ton shoes also tan calf, dr) C Goodyear welt sewed, at. t-Pe-ZO MEN'S HATS Soft or Derby Styles at $1.00 2,4 00 Men's Hats from a New York Commission House, at leas than regular price. All new spring styles (t values to $3.00, at. P-I The famous John B Stet son Soft and Stiff Hats a complete line of spring styles, at $3.50 The celebrated English Derbies best Eng lish hat made, at $2.50 Mallory Cravenette Hats, at S3. OO Brandeis Special Soft and Stiff Hats, $3.00 $5 and $6 Suit Cases, $3.50 Think of It 160 full leather suit Cases, sole leather corners, brass lock and catches, linen lined with shirt folds values up to 16 00, at $3.50 Balance of the Albert Cahn and New York Wholesale Stock MEN'S FINE Furnishings At the Most Unusual Bargains All the Men's $1.50 Negligee and Golf Shirts, at 69c All the Men's 75c and $1.00 Negligee and Outing Shirts, at 39c All the Men's $2.00 Negligee and Out ing Shirts, at 98c All the Men's $2.00 and $2.50 High Grade Shirts, at $1.49 All the Men's Pongee Pyjamas, worth up to $5.00, at. . .$1.50 and $2.50 All the Men's Lisle and Silk Hose Slightly imperfect, worth up to 50c a pair, at 15c and 21c All the Men's 25c and 35c Suspenders, at, pair 17iiU All the Men's $2.50 Lisle Union Suits, at ..$1.25 All the Men's Silk Neckwear o0c and 75c values, at 25c Specials in the Basement All the Men's Lisle Underwear shirts and drawers, broken lots from the two stocks, worth up to fl.00 a garment, nn at 29c Men's Negligee and Golf Shirts, worth o r up to $1.00, at O jC BRANDEIS STORES DOUBLE SUICIDE AT BLUFFS Kan and Woman Fonnd Dead at the Former'! Home. BOTH TAKE CARBOLIC ACID Bodies Are Feeaa 4fer Ht1b Btfi Deaa far at Least Three Deri,' According te the I a elealloas. A tout ot death In carbolic acid ended the Uvea qf Christ Chrlstensen and an un identified woman at hla cottage, 1310 Twenty-second avenue. Council Bluffs. The bodies of the pair were found late Friday afternoon by curious neighbors. Chrlstensen and the woman have been dead for no leas than three day a, according to the Indications discovered In the in vestigation of the caao by -Coroner Cutler. The tragedy uncovered by the discovery of the bodies exposes a side of the life of the dead man unknown to his neighbors. Chrlstensen had been employed for many years on the Illinois Central aa a laborer. He lived alone and was apparently always sober and Industreus. He was never mar ried so far aa can be learned from those who knew him. Partially dressed, the bodlea were found In lb bedroom, aide by aide. The llpa of both were burned by the acid which evi dently caused death. No rnarka of violence are discernible. A half pint bottle of carbolic acid, half emptied, atood by the bed. Both died ap parently without a struggle. No note were left behind and there waa nothing among the effects of the dead man to Indicate the Identity of the woman. Chrlstensen waa about 66 yeara old; hla companion about 46. No relatives live In Council Bluffa. A brother la believed to be living In Atlantic, la. None of thoae who knew Chrlateneen have been able to Identify the woman. ages. They seem to be able to believe anything, provided only that its untruth Is sufficiently obvious to common sense and to common experience. . and to near and demonstrable explanations they pre fer those that are remote and supported by no evidence. It la from such com munities aa that which sent crowds cred ulous and awed to visit the Shipley girl tha there cornea every - month or two a story of witchcraft, following exactly the old lines and reviving memories of pins stuck' into waxen Images, of the chanted Incantation, of the ' overlooking" that kills or tortures of black cata and rides on broomsticks. These things are not merely , amusing; pn the contrary, they reveal on a large scale an almost appalling arrest of devel opment or a quite appalling progress of degradation. The case of these people Is not that of the not very remote ancestora of all, who believed precisely the name things. Anybody has a right to accept theories current in his time that are sup ported by the weight of authority, when known facta do not conflict with them; It Is a different matter to Ignore all the knowledge of one's own age. New York Times. BLUNDER STARTS TROUBLE Misinterpreted Cipher Message Re sponsible for Sendlnai the Maine to Havana. DETAILS OF THE SHAKEDOWN (Continued from First Page.) STILL IN THE DARK AGES Saaerstltloa and Cariosity Linked In MeKeosnort'a Pathetic Spectacle. That one girl or one family In McKeee port or anywehere elae should be denaely Ignorant, grossly auperatitloua and dread fully weak of mind la pathetlo and more or leaa lamentable, but It la In Itself of no great coasequenoe or significance, since the phenomenon might easily be due to special. Individual misfortunes and prove little or nothing In regard to social and Intellectual conditions In the country, or evea la that part of the country. There la. however. If not exactly cauae for de spair or deep alarm, at least more than excuse for discouragement. In the fact that many hundreds the dispatches say thou sandsof people In and around McKeea port should take with a large degree ot seriousness the Illusions, delusions and hallucinations of the Shipley girl, should make the house where aha lay In self sug tested trance the object of an exalted pilgrimage, and should gravely discuss her theories and exportatlona. not as. the usual symptoms of a familiar form of menial derangement, but as manifestations of the supernatural, rellgloua or magic, according to the point of benighted view. That hints no, ahouta the Imperfection of our civilisation, the Inadequacy of our educational system, and the persistence among ua, here and there, of great groups of people who are still living In the dark Probably very tew know that the Maine had been hurried to Havana because ot a misinterpreted cipher message. John R. Caldwell, who had been in charge of the Havana bureau, and whom I relieved, told me that several days prior to my arrival he had made requisition upon the office for a revolver. There had come atrenuoua times In the Cuban capital, riots had been frequent, the lives of foreigners, particu larly those of Americans, had been more than once placed in Jeopardy and the time had come when correspondents felt the need of firearms to protect their lives. The revolver sent to Mr. Caldwell was smuggled to him by a passenger on the steamship Olivette, to whom the weapon had been entrusted by an agent of the paper In Tampa. By some oversight no cartridges had been sent with It. an l it being Impossi ble to secure any In Ildvara. the corre spondent cabled to New York, "Camera received, but no plates; send by next boat." Through some strange error on the part of the one who received It the cryptogram wss construed to be a cipher and waa translated to read that an attempt hud been made on the life of General FiUhugh I.ee. American consul general in Havana. Thia misinformation went to Washington and reached there after the Havana cable had closed. Karly the next day Mr. Cald well received from the Herald the following cryptogram: "Send story and plcturea or dered on food supplies; e want it for main sheet." lly applying the cipher key. the first sentence wss readily translated to read: "A United States warship has been ordered to Havana." The second evidently conveyed some hint which w.is beyond the limitation of the code, but the word "main" gave the clew. Meeting General I.e at breakftist that morning. Mr. Pldell quietly Informed him that the Maine was on ita way to Havana The general was Incredulous. No warship, lie assured the correspondent, would be sent to Havana unless he requested it. Harper's Weekly. To Ittaaolve (he I a leu of stomach, liver and kidney troubles and cure bllllousness and malaria, take FJectrlc Bittera. Guaranteed, too. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Mr. Woodard or Mr. Thomas who reached out and took the envelope; they aat close together and I turned my head partly away; I felt guilty. I never collected nor was I ever solicited to collect by any other postmaster before. "Shortly after Mr. Thomas became post master we had an election, and he came to me with about the Bame kind of a hard luck story as I have already related being assessed heavily, etc. I Went among the boys Connoran, Kalteler, Burmelster. Westerdahl and we raised, I think, $43. The postmaster told me when I made the rounds to enclose It in an envolppe and place it on hia desk; that ha would get it, if he should be out. He got it all right, for he thanked me afterward when I waa In hla office. "Mr. Thomas, whenever occasion pre sented Itself, Impressed upon me his stand-In with the department, and the way he displaced oldtlmers In the office, I was led to believe him. A Job Is worth more to me now than it was twenty-five years ago. When the Shotwell charges were preferred against Mr. Thomas last fall, I mentioned the matter to him, one day, when I waa In his office with aome official papers. "Nothing; to It at All." " 'Nothing to It. I am going down to Washington in a few days and you will never hear of the charges again.' "He did leave in a few daya to attend the national convention of First-Class Postmasters, I think, at Richmond, Vs., and on hia return I asked him If he had the chargea pigeon-holed. " 'Nothing to It,' he replied. . "He Impressed on me, when occasion offered, with the pull he had with the two senators and also with Dr. Grandfleld. "Two or three days ago, I think the day he returned from the postmasters' conven tion at Lincoln, the postmaster called me to his office. He said he had a letter from the department in regard to registered mall at the new union postal station. I knew what it was, because I learned It through the Dally Bulletin. Never before did he talk to me regarding arrangements at the new station. Tills calling ma down to his office had another motive. He asked me if I had seen his letter in the paper in reply to Tlllotson. " 'What do you think about It? he asked. "1 replied that I did not think much about it, but I did think It poor Judgment on his part to stir this matter up. " 'Who do you think.' he asked, 'has put this thing up; who has been talking?' "1 said that 1 didn't know; that the only man who had said anything to me was Connoran; that he remarked to me the other evening, 'Btay by your friends; be careful who you talk to.' 1 told him I always stood by my friends. tails Urn on the Carpet. "Well, It was only a few mlnutss when I was over In the city division, 1 saw both Burger and Connoran headed for the post master's office. 1 learned later that both were on the carpet in the postmasters office "About an hour later Mr. Thomas called ma over the office 'phone, and stated that he wanted me to go with him to the new station In the morning to look over things there. He never said anything to ma about the new station. Ignoring me entirely; I thought he had an ax to grind. However, 1 replied that I would go witn him In the morning about I or St. "Next morning, Tuesday, list, at 1.30, we Jumped on 'Whits Wings' and rode to the new station; just walked through It, that was all. " 'Let's go over to the B. M. station, I want to talk to you.' "We went across the railroad tracks and through the fence. Aa we were going Into the depot I met Joe Mik, an old acquaint ance, and I stopped and talked with him a minute. Entering the station, Mr. Thomas, looking down the long waiting room, said we will go back to the far corner, where no one will hear ua. 'Billy. I admit I have not treated you Just right, but I want you to forget It, and I want to apologize to you now for the manner in which I talked to you about that registered package.' This was a case In which he ordered me to disregard the P. L. 4 R. or, aa he said at the time, 'If you don't I will put some one In your place who will.' If particulars as to this episode are necessary, I can furnish them, and call on Miss bunder and Mr. Woodard, who witnessed my humiliation and Intimi dation. " 'Now, you are In It pretty deep, too,' he said. 1 " 'I'm afraid I am,' I replied. "He then said, 'The only thing for you to do la to deny that you ever solicited money; that you ever got a cent from any one.' " 'How about the other boys?' I asked. Fix I p a Defense. "He said that they would be all right, and that he was surprised that Burger had gone back on him, and that he would fix up a Job on him. " 'Now, I am your attorney,' he said. 'I will have a man come up to the office to see you. You have aome property at Twenty-fifth and Camden avenue that a certain party Is anxious to get hold of. This man will coma in and approarfi you about this property. This man's name la , and you probably know him. While you two are talking about the lot deal I will come along, call you to one side, offer you some money; you are to refuse It, repulse me, as it were, appear indig nant. I will move off, alowly, mumbling something like, "I'll get hla goat," loud enough for to hear it." "Thia part of the program waa carried out. In rehearsal, that afternoon, i about 3:30, February 21. Now, this sketch was supposed to have been pulled off on Mon day, November 7, and Mr. Thomas waa Im personating Mr. Burger. "I waa to deny positively that I ever re ceived a cent from Mr. Connoran; he was to have been made out a liar. , 'Billy,' Mr. Thomas said, 'I want you to stay with me; and I swear to heaven (here he raised hla hand) if you will stay with me, I wilt be your best friend from now on.' "I felt sorry for him. He begged me not to say a word about the talk we had out at his house. I felt bad, to say the least. It was hard, pleading aa he was, not to betray him. I gave him no positive as surance, no hand shaking nor pledges. W'e then left the depot and returned to the postofflce. Tell the Whole Troth. I got to thinking the matter over; In fact, gave it mors serious thought than I had before, although I was worried, more rn my family account. I was in the vault of the registry division looking up some records when Mr. Woodard came in. I told him 1 had bad a talk with Mr. Thomas and I began to realise the seriousness of the ease and that the more I thought It over the more It looked as though they were going to make me a scape-goat of the whole thing, and that after thinking the whole natter over, I was going to tall the whole truth and throw myself on the mercy of the court. "Mr. Woodard replied, 'Will, that's my religion; the truth never hurts anyone.' 'I felt relieved after that. I had talked to no one before, but after thia ahort talk with Mr. Woodard I tell you I felt a great load had been taken off my conscience. 'That afternoon I called upon Captain Palmer in reference to some fire Ineurance. We talked a moment or ao then thia poat- offlce trouble came up; I told him that I was deeply Involved, but that I proposed to tell the truth and he told me that waa right, to stick right to the truth and no harm would come to me. "I have never been arrested, never know ingly violated a law; been a resident of this city for over forty years. When I have anything of a legal nature I consult Tom Blackburn. When Tllllotson's charges were made publlo I went to him. showed him the law and told him what I had done, and at whose request I had done it, and asked him what I should do. ''Stand pat; don't perjure yourself,' he said. He said the case would probably not come up for some time, but he would leave for Florida the next day, but would be back in time to look after my Interests If his services would be necersary. No Trouble with Former Postmasters. I have never had any trouble with for mer postmasters, and have served under Clarkson, Martin, Crow, Palmer and now Thomas, a period of over seventeen years. W hen Euclid Martin (he was a democrat) became postmaster, he did not endorse my promotion to superintendent of the registry division. This was because of my politics. I wss placed in that position by postofflce Inspectors from Washington, who were here Investigating the affairs of the office. When he learned that he could not dis place me, he called me Into his office, and there told me that when he came into the office he had determined to fire Mr. Burmelster and myself the former on account of being cranky, and me be cause I waa too rank a republican. (You will understand probably why he had It In for me when I tell you we both served together for four years on the Board of Education and we were eternally scrap ping.) 'But.' he said, 'since I have learned more of you, that you are attentive to your duties and efficient. I have de termined to retain you in the service, and now that you are superintendent of the registry division, I want you to dig it out of the rut It is in and get it to running smooth.' Mr. Martin, while he was post master and after be went out of the office, was always vvery friendly to me, and, I believe, were I to ask him for it. he would give me a letter of commendation for any position I might seek. That is the only postmaster I ever had any worda with, and I do not consider that little spat. Ilka a lovo spat, of any consequence." Workman Crushed by a Falling Beam Steamfitter Taken to St. Joseph Hos pital Suffering; from Internal In juries Which May Ba Fatal. A beam hurling down from an upper story of the Fairmont creamery building atruck and crushed Peter J. Wind, a steam fitter at work In the basement Friday morning. ' The Injured man, unconacloua from his hurta, was removed to St. Joseph hospital by the police ambulance. He was found to be suffering from severe Internal In juries and a fracture of the right leg. He may recover. Wind has been living at the Bailey house. TROUBLES OF MUSIC MAKERS Players on Various Instruments Mingle Pain with Their Melodies. usually prolonged. Others insist that the peculiarly melancholy quality of the tone produced and the Invariable character ot the music written for the oboe are respon. slble for any peculiarities displayed by Its executants. After thia somewhat grewsoms recital It Is' cheering to know that one Instru ment, at least, can be counted on to bring health and longevity to those who practice it. This Is the flute. Doctors recommend it for incipient consumptives, as the op eration of playing the Instrument Involves the precise motion of the lungs of most benefit to the consumptive; that Is, full Inspiration, not too full or strained; fol lowed by alow and gentle delivery of thn breath. Washington 8tar. CANVASS OF TEACHERS' VOTES Have Been Giving; Their t holer by Mall for Place for Nest Teach ers' Convention. A canvaaa of the votea of about l.M0 members of the State Teachers' associa tion will be made at Columbua Saturday. For the first time the teachers themselves are voting by mall when end where the next convention shall be held. Dr. W. M. Davldeon, superintendent of the Omaha schools, and Will A. Campbell, manager of the Publicity bureau of the Commercial club, aa well as representatives from other cities will be present when the votes art counted. The Commercial club already has spent several hundred dollars In trying to brl.-.g the next convention to Omaha. In case the convention she-old coma to Omaha It will mean about S.buO visitors la the ally. When Ignaz Paderewskl laat toured tills country he was forced to abandon a number of concerts toward the close of his season because of muscular rheumatism in both hands, brought on by excessive plnno playing. Pianist's cramp Is more painful than writer's cramp and Is the bnne of all virtuosos. It is caused by the constant contraction and expansion of the muscles controlling the fingers. It becomes chronic when not guarded against and many a promising virtuoso's career has been blighted In this way. The only remedy Is to rest the overtaxed muscles and then work them up gradually to meet the strain of constant playing. All concert pianists are subject to split finger tips. The constant stroke of the balls of the fingers on the hard Ivory makes the flesh so delicate and tender that frequently playing becomes scuts agony. Rome pianists suffer more than others from delicate finger tips. Lhevlnne, the gigantic Russian player, who can extract as much tone from his Instrument as any other living player, has finger tips that ars like cushions. But they are exquisitely sensitive snd continually breaking open. Violinists suffer a great deal of phys ical Inconvenience. Most of us have an idea that the violin is held against the neck snd shoulder by the player's left hand, which grasps the arm of the In strument. All great violin teachers in sist that the left hand be entirely free, and to achieve thia the violin Is actually held by the player's chin. To achieve this his head Is held In a distorted po sition, and this, working against the elevation of the left arm and shoulder, cause compression of the heart and lungs and curvature of the spine. Performers on wind instruments suffer many Inconveniences, and In some instances, their woik leads to permanent physical disability. Bulbar paralysis from con tinued uee of the tongue and Hps is an ever present danger. Doctors have a fear aome name for the commonest result of wind playing. In plain language. It la over dlstentlon of the lunga. Thia stretching of the lungs from constantly heavy Inflation leads to engorgement of the blood In the right cavities ot the heart, and this producea dilation of the heart and hy pertrophy. V.-,ua! peculiarities of oboe players sra traditional in the orchestral world. In spite f the fM that most oboe players are normal. Rome explain that the oboe player U mentally t "acted by the fact that he Is forced to fc'ow through sn exceedingly small epert'.'M and the expiration Is un lit rtua and Deaths. Blrtha Frank and Wllia Btrawn, J70I Rugglea street, girl; Fred and Helen Hchllffkl. 1629 Ohio street, girl; John anil Marie Hherman, 3493 Ames avenue, girl; William and Mattie Currie, 2' UJ pierc street, boy; George and Grace Forst, 23ul Clark street, boy; Henry and Sarah Reth kop, 2218 Charles street, fcirl; Edward anil Hazel Crelghton, 11 South Thirty-fourth street, boy; L. and V. Tremayne, 2018 Dav enport atreet, girl; Henry and Anna Bw'og- tek, l!-4 South Eleventh street, boy; Malm and Florence O'Nell. 1HU2 Cass strwt, bev; Harvey and Florence Alexander, North Twenty-first stieet, boy; J. K. and Myrtle Burrell, 7o4 North Sixteenth street, boy. Deaths Margaret Frank, 43, 1M12 Parker gtre"t; W. Heucllff, 62, DoukIhs county hospital; Mary K. Fanning, 67, 1739 Park avenue; Marttaret Novak, V SoUtu Eighteenth street; John O Neal, 48, Douglas county hospital, Import", .', Omulia Gen- CATARRH A SYSTEMIC BLOOD DISEASE Catarrh is not merely an affection of the mucous membranes; it is a deep-seated blood disease in which the entire circulation and greater part of the system are involved. It is more commonly manifested in the head, nose and throat, because of the sensi tive nature of these membranes, and also because they are more easily reached by irritating influences from the outside. The symptoma of Ca. tarrh, such as a tight feeling In the head, nose stopped up, throat clogjred and dry, hacking cough, etc., ahow that the tiny blood vessels of the mu cous membranes are badly congested and inflamed from the impurities in the circulation. To cure Catarrh per manently the blood must be purified end the system cleansed of all un healthy matter. Nothing equals S. S. S. for this purpose. It attacks tne disease at its head, goes down to the bottom of the troubl and makes acompleto and lasting cure by PURIFYING the blood. Then the inflamed membranes begin to heal, the head is cleared, breathing becomes natural and easy, the throat is no longer clogged, and every tin pleasant symptom of the disease dis appears. S.S.S. is the greatest of all blood purifiers, and for this reason is the most certain cure for Catarrh. Book on Catarrh and medical advice free to all who write. iu win memo co, AUeau,