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Greatest Salo White China for
Dnrnr.-ilinc Evnr Hnld in Omaha
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Saturday Evening
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Thousands of nieces of all sizes and colors will bp sold at
.greatly reduced prices to make room for our great new stock.
Included in this sale are jugs, olive, pickle, relish dishes,
tea cups, ases, nappies, etc. This is all perfect ware from
Franco ami Austria..
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7 to 9
Formerly the Bennett Company
Saturday This Great Store Holds Forth Wonderful Opportunities For Decisive Savings
-on Reliable Merchandise-
One of the Greatest Suit and Oveacoat Values Ever
Offered to the Men of Omaha, Saturday . .
$
Another of Orkin Bros. Remarkable
Money Saving Clothes Sales
AUCDIAJITrC In tlli8 Great Sale All wool, black kor
yibllVvfll V soy silk velvet, colors brown or gray
nlixtures, convertible storm collars. Popular double faced fabrics,
self colors and ev'cry wanted style. A gront .bargain when sold
at $18 and $20. Our price for Saturday only $11.75
SUIT Suits in pure through and through worsted, all wool,
111 1 V sim proof sorgo and all wool cassimero and cheviot.
Made in 2 and 3-button models,
single or double breasted. We
includo in this offering one
. hundred Norfolk suits, all new
, models, just arrived, in gray,
brown or homespun effects,
tho average store this grade
suits would sell for more than $18
and $20. Our Saturday price. . . .
In Our Greater Boys' Clothing
Department Balcony
SUITS
In order to acquaint you with our greatly enlarged boys' cloth
ing section, now location balcony, main floor, wo offor extra spe
cial for Saturday ono of tho strongest boys' suits and overcoat
values ever attempted by auy store in Omaha.
For this groat salo wo have soleetod from our regular
stock 5f0 jaunty suits, double breasted or Norfolk-
styles, splendid all wool, heavy serge or fancy choviots, sizes to
3 7 yoars, regular values $7.50 and
overcoats ::::
heavy warm gray, tan or oxford of-
fects; mnuy with astrachan collars, othors
plain with convertible storm collars, sizes
to 17 yoars. Nono of thoso worth lesa than
$7.50 nnd up to $10; Saturday at
SJ95
EXTRA SATURDAY MEN'S $2
SAMPLE HATS ONLY.
88c
Soft bats in gray, brown, tan, steel, oxford and black.
None sold for less than $2 and $3. Marked
at this price for quiok clearance; Saturday
special at . . . .. . .
88
Women's Underwear and Hosiery
Women's 35c Cotton Fleece
Lined Vesta and Pants Saturday
special, por garment 19?
Women's 65c fine White Cot
ton Lined Vests and Pan's Itog
ular and extra Blzes, Saturday apo
dal, per pair 45d
Women's $1.25" and $L75
Sample Vesta and rants Cotton
and wool, Saturday special, per
garment 80d
Women's 69c Cotton Fleece
Lined Union Suits White and
cream, Saturday special, per gar
ment 30d
Women's $1.25 White Cot-
ton Union HultH Fleeco llnod,
Saturday special, garment, 75
Women's $2.50 White , or
Natural Wool Union Suits Sat
urday special, garment, 1.30
Women's $2.50 to $3 Fino
Wool or Mercerized Union Suits
Saturday special, garment SI. 08
Women's 17c Black Cotton
Hose Full seamless, good weight,
Saturday special, por pair. . . .gi
Women's 25c Black Cotton
Hoso Fleeco lined, seamless,
ribbed top, Saturday special, per
Pair 15
SATURDAY
A Chance to Buy Your Winter Shoes at
,a Big Reduction Final Cleanup
R.&D. SHOE STOCK ""
at HALF PRICE
n
Men's $3-$3.50 Shoes, $1.95
$195
A, big assortment in most
leathers and all sizoB. But
ton, lace and blucjior. Sat
urday special at
Men's $4 and $4.50 Shoes, $2.39
Gunmotal. calfskin, velour calf, tan llussla,
vlcl kid and patent colt: laco, but
ton and blucher models; wolt
Boles; all new fall styles in this
lot at. s.4.... .'
$2
39
Women's $3 and $3.50 Shoes, $1.89
All latest fall models; button and blucher
styles in gunmotal, calf, patent
colt, tan calf, vlcl kid and Vonlco
kldskln; Cuban military and low
heels; all bIzcb Saturday special
and bli
$1
ix can; uui-
$169
Bovi' S2.50 and $2.75 Shoes, $1.89
Gunmotal, calfskin, volour nnd box calf; but
ton and bluchor styles;
slits up to 5 V& .
Saturday special,
at
Women's $4 and $4.50 Shoes, S2.39
All high grade footwear, patents, gunmetals,
ton kid andt black volvets; but
ton, loco and blucher; now heol
and too effects; all slies Satur
day spoclal, per pair ,
J239
Women's Crochet Slippers
All, colors. Saturday wo make
a special price on these slip,
pera at, per a q
pair 47 C
Girls' $2.75 Shoes, $1.39
Button and laco In vie. kid, gun
metal, calfskin and patent colt;
good soles, neat d1 OQ
lasts, Sat. spec, pr. A 07
Women's $1.50 Felt Juliets
Hand turned loathnr soles; fur
.rlmmed, all sizes Saturday
special, QQ
pr pair OOC
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EXTRA for SATURDAY BOYS' 75c JAA
KNICKERBOCKER PANTS jt f 3b
Another great offer from
Our Newly Enlarged
Boys Clothing Section
that Parents Cannnot
Afford to OvarlooK.
Strong, heavy, tight woven enssimcro and
neat pattorns made up for m jaw
rough usage by sturdy boys JM IlBQ
rrom r to J.0 yonrfr, euuur- hjj
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HABERDASHERY of the BETTER SORT
Specially Priced for Saturday
Men's Ooumbia Shirts
, Plain or jilalted, Saturday only,
.each . . . - ' SOd
Men's 50c and 75c Neckwear
Kour-ln-hnndn, ull patterns, Sat
urday special, oach U5d
Men's 75c Outing Plannol-
Icllw Night Itobcs Saturday spe
cial, each 50J
Men's $1.25 Fine Flanollette
PiiJanuiH Saturday spoclal, nt
each 08 tv
Men's $1.50 Hoavy Capo
l)rcH Gloves Saturday spoclol,
per pair 08d
Men's 75c Lined Work
filnveN Saturday special, per
Pftlr . .., 35i
Mon's 75c Heavy Velour
"nuntlct OIovch, Saturday apo
dal, por pair . 35J
Men's 35c Fine Quality Sus-
ponders Imported webbing, Sat
urday special, oach 21
Men's 25o Boston Garters
Saturday Bpcolal, per pair,
Men's Gray Flannel' Shirts
Military collar, Saturday speclui,
each S1.5J5
- UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN -
Values that are truly remarkable an opportunity of rare oocurance to supply winter needs at great savings
Men's $2 to $3.50 Fine Wool
and Mercerized Underwear
Saturday special, por gar
ment $1.19
Men's $1.25 Union Suits Cot
ton fleece lined, closed crotch,
ecru, Saturday special, per gar
ment 89c
Men's Heavy Fleece Lined
Shirts and Drawers Ribbed
cotton, Saturday special, per
garment 45c
Boys' and Girls' 60c Fleece
Lined Suits White or gray,
Saturday special, per garment,
each , 39c
Men's Sample Union Suits
In mercerized, wool, silk and
wool and all wool; regular
$3.50, $4.50, $5.50, $0.50 and
$7.50; a wonderful Saturday
special, por garment. .$2.59
Men's 17c Black and Colored
Seamless Hose Saturday spe
cial, per pair 8c
Men's 35c Shawknit Cashmere
Hose Slightly imperfect, Sat
urday special, pair 17(5
Children's 35c Union Snits
Fleeco lined, drop seats, Satur
day spooial, por garmont, 19c
Children's 25c Black Cotton
Hose Ribbed, seamlesH, Satur
day special, per pair. .12MsC
Men's $1.50 to $1.75 Fino Sam
pie Wool Underwear Satur
day special, por garment, 89c
Boys' and Girls' 25o and 35o
Black Cotton and Mercerizod
Hose Slightly imperfect, Sat
urday special, 3 pairs for 50c
or por pair 17c
EXPLORING ADISMAL SWAMP
Vast Sombre Tract of Foreit and
Water in Virginia.
FAMOUS DITCH DRY AS BONE
Jlaunt of lliu Bear and the Wild
Cat, of Cypress And Snakes
Haunting Silence on Lake
Drnmmond.
We were In Norfolk, Vi., on our way
to (ho Dmal Swain p. Ths Dismal
Swamp 1 a habit. Oo there once
and you are doomed to perpetual
trtpa. It lias a fatal fascination. We
wont In first two years ago, from
Norfolk up to the Dismal Swamp canal,
which extends from the south branch of
the Elisabeth river through the swamp
to Elizabeth City on Albemarle sound,
In Houth Carolina. I-ake Drummoml,
The take of the Dismal Swamp" that
Tom Moore sang- about, lies to the west
of tills canal, and Is reached, by a
feeder' deep tnouyh for small motor
boats. But this time we decided to reach
Lake Drummond by tho Washington
ditch, surveyed by George Washington
back In the etghtoenth century, and ex
tending from a point seven miles south
of Suffolk, Va,, due east rive miles, to
the west shore of tho lake. It Is a nar-
rowwaterway, not over fifteen feet wide,
through the silent heart of tho great
swamp Jungle, long since abandoned to
any use but that of transportation for
hunters. We had paddled up It two
years ago, In spring, fascinated by Its
silent mystery. Now we were going to
travel Its ent'ro length, using It as a
portal to the swamp.
When morning came wa bought a f I re
gallon bottle of spring water, bread, but
ter, eggB, food of nil sorts, loaded them
and our tent and blankets and camp kit
on a wagon and drove seven miles ecfuth
through the cotton fields and peanut
plantations till we saw the level wall of
pines and gum trees to the left, marking
the edge of the Dismal Swamp. Then
we turned In through a field, bumped
down sloping, sandy land and reached
the Washington ditch, It was dry as a
bone" There were ull the boats, and
I cypress log, dug-out canoes, lying on
the oozy bottom. Thsr was the black
ditch, stretching like a sunken road
straight Into the dark mystery of the
gums and cypress, and there were we,
with a ten and a five-gallon bottle of
water and blankets and 100 pounds ot
other stuff, five mites from our camp
ing place!
"The Dismal Swamp has no business to
dry up!" cried my companions. "It's con
trary to all tradition!"
'Why didn't somebody In Suffolk tell
us?" I walled.
"Ah didn't know," said our nigger
driver. "Don't nobody go In hire rouoh
but swampers. It's too full o' snakes."
Just then u swamper com along, a
negro with his two sons,, all tbreo with
guns on their shoulders, old mucxle
loaders. They volunteered the Informa
tion that the swamp was dryer than It
' hud been for twonty-slx years, and that
j we could walk In all the way to Lake
i Drummond. They were bound there
, themselves, looking for bears and wild
! cats. A party of hunters hod chased
"a wildcat a mile Into the swamp the
I night before
j Did you ever walk five miles In sit
Inches of swamp oose, with cypress
roots every two fret along the way and
seventy-five pounds on your uaok, and
the surrounding vegetation so thick that
there Isn't a breath of air stirring to
cool you and no water to drink? There
are more amusing pastimes. There was
no wator In tho dltoh all tho way In to
I-ake Drummond. We could, Indesd,
have walked anywhore In the swamp,
except for tho tangle of giant reeds
and tearing cat briers. Uxoept for the
cries of the yellow-hammets, thorp was
not a sound of bird life at this season.
I( thero were any bears, they heard us
Coming and fled. The old swamper
plodded ahead and told stories of the
swamp, and wo plodded on behind, our
eyes on the muck watching for treacher
ous roots, our hot packs galling us.
Buddenty the light broke In front, and
wo pushed through a ten-foot jungle
of reeds, llko small bamboo, nnd stood on
the shore of Lake Drummond, The water
was so low that there was a beach 20)
yards In breadth out to the water, a
beach not of swamp muck, but, of clear,
gray ocean tand. The Dismal Swamp
was formed by the elevation of the old
ocean bed, so level that It could not
drain, and centuries of leaf mold havo
put ten feet of muck on top of It. A
deprusslon In the bed made Iako Drum
mond, and it has remained clear bottom,
not even a water Illy or pickerel weed
growing there. Wo dumped our packs,
on the sand and gased about us.
It Is the inaglo of the Lake Drummond
which takes you back Into the swamp,
even If you protest it is bears or black
bass or wildcats. There Is no spot Ilk
It anywhere An almost circular sheet
ot mahogany-colored water, four miles
across, In the heart of the primeval
wilderness, wltliou. a single landmark
or elevation of nny sort to break the
even green sky line of forest trees and
pendant, vines, without a sound savo the
Wind and the whlstlo of teat ducks, with
out a boat on Its surfuCe, It would lii
haunting enough did It not possess It
final wonder of cypress trees.
Forest of Cypress,
Around the entire shore tine lies u fifty-foot-deep
border of gray cypress roots
and "knees" and mighty trunks Ilk a
gigantic clrclo of bleached mastodon
bones. Th swamp cypress develops
shoots from Its roots, which feed It air,
and these shoots are called kriucs. On
tho big trees they grow lx foet long,
are curved nnd taper to u point. Kx
IKisod for 100 years to the water and sun,
as thay liuve beon around the border of
Lake Drummond, and they bnoome ex
nctly llko mammoth gray tusks. Many
Of the cypress trunks ure olKht feet In
diameter. The trees wore felled more than
100 years ago, but you can still chop off
great chunks of marvelously hot-burning
firewood, Mnny of the cypresses, how
ever, were not felled, Supported above
the water on pavilion tents of roots (ono
tree you pan push a cunott under be
tween roots), they bear their shreds of
dellcatp folia; fifty foet oliovo tho Inko
gray ghosts of fomsts dead and gone,
tho oldest looking trees In tho world.
They sentinel the shoro much shorter
than their fnrcnt brothers, but Infinitely
more aged, Unreal, phantom, mysterious.
When you sun them ty moonlight, rising
above the white mint on tho water, not
a sound In the world but the mournful
hoot of an owl and the passing of InvlsU
bis ducks overhead, you reallko why peo
pie go back to the Dismal Swamp.
The swamp Is full of beats, but until
tho leaves fall In November you cannot
eo them, for they cun hoar you first.
They sit in tho black gum trees, eating
the gum berries. Thirty wero killed In
the swamp Inst November, running as
high as 300 pounds. Wo found the trucks
of several In tho mud along the shore,
many deer prints and Innumerable "coon
tracks, llko tho print of tiny, shrivelled
hubles' feet. Mnk tracks, too, w.ero
abundant. Hut our weapons consisted
(to the amazement of tho swampers) only
of cameras, and our 'only prey was a
water moccasin, which u-s tnrnirfiv
sheddlng his skin on the beach. Uoston
Transcript.
Jlrr Cherished Secret-.
Uttlo Jack, aged S. was Accompanied,
by his mother on a trip to tho olty,
When thn conductor camo around to
collnct tho furi'H ho asked the usual
miestlou; .
"How old is the boy?" '
After being Informed the correct age,
Which did not require a fare, the con
ductor passed on to the next person.
The lad eat qutto still, apparently
pondering over something: then, con
cluding that full Information had not
been given, ho callod loudly to tho con
ductor at the other end of the car:
"Arid mother's ."-IlBrper'a Haie.