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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1912)
6 TIFF, BFE: OMAHA, SATTHDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912. 1 11 ?ablic Speakers Hail it as a Welcome Life Saver. PUTTING ON THE "LOCAL COLOR" A Sor- of n Storr MoTrs from Mir Original Throuith tlir n rhin llrrliiB llooms. ' nnnn tavtj AIT irro nniUfUTO ItIMIII tlllfV Pi II 11 II il I nH V niill iinot f f.2j.mhfan. If hi train Mot!d UWW V w - i " - - I t. e..t ft... I.I ltl. t.hlnP ImiI ' thls train lrm't even hesitate at ihe town I (you mention.' " After th tnftHni? vcam nir 1H earre. ' spomlent nuked ntor Delllver wherp h ! irol his lor. Ixlllver told hlrn he boi It from .Senator Stmie of Missouri and that Htone kvI It from Jim Klicrman rid that Slirrman nto It from Mark Twain "You nee.'" stilil the sly Iowa orator, "the tor' has til te h pedigree." And th Kor correspondent hadn't the 'Kutid' to claim hi own progeny. Job llrdcei, Hit of the New Vork bar lifted It on the road and he got the credit of It for quite u while In, the boltor platt matter sent out bj- the American PrfM Association, FlnalU' It Rot on the en purgntorltis Hot and then It wan captured or rrsctied bj London Tld Hit. The cor rmiKindcnt saw It lakt in that publlcu ttiui wh-n he wan In tha Hrltlsh capita' to write up the coronation of King George. It waa marked up to an Irish member of Parliament. All good stories tiavel. Thfy are cred ited to various well known men. The well known nro not it 1 way responsible The odd thing about the story that Ik th- basis of the foregoing Is lhat 11 should confront Its author wherever he went and that In only one. Instanro was hi; uuutcd aa the author and then he wa repre sented n-s having Just told It when II wax more than n year old. Verily, Boloinou was right. New York Telegraph. It Solomon had not 'slept with tho fathers' -Holy Writ style of snylng that a man was deadand had continued to ladle out Ills wisdom to the generation now tn biMlnt. or on vacation ho might till be writing or rewriting, of thinking if that paragraph somewhere In the first ehapter of Eccleslastes. towlt: "Thu hlng that hath been. It Is that shall be 1 There Is no new thing inder the sun." And Solomon wrote this when he had seen a whole lot. It waa at the clone of his splendid and eventful career as mon arch of Israel. If still living, and if he read the funny" departments of the publications, of the day-dalHe. weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies-he would probably add especially In Joke4 " Dearly beloved, as the minister fre quer.tly begins after the announcement of his text, this will not be a sermon, article or essay on the antiquity of any on Joke or bunch of Jokes, rearranged, reconstructed or refurbished and sold at schedule rates. It Is a story of n story. Its origin and travels and of It reappearance to the man who created It as lie made ptlgrlm ares up and down this verdant earth. A traveling correspondent of a really great newspaper was returning from a Journey that bed taken htm far from the home office. Ily some slip he had failed to connect with a through train on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. He boarded the next train, which waa soma irort of a local mix. up with a ohalr car attachment. The engineer was doing tils best to make good a lot of lost time. An Ebony Flash. The correspondent waa hungry, lie had traveled over the line many times and knw that there was nn eating house at the station not far ahead. In a moment of new-starvation ho hailed the sable whUkbroora wlelder. who was even then In ' state of gleeful anticipation of the time when he would reduce the funds of the lone occupant of the coach. "Does this train stop at Harvard'" gaaped the solitary traveler. "No, soli, he don't even hesitate.',' The answer waa u quick aa the powder -flaih that makes a snapshot saleabln. It was a hair-trigger return. Its originality waa not debatable. The ebony graftur didn't know It. but he started something that beat Puck's scheme of putting a irlrdlo round about the earth without, of course any expectation of beating Puck's proposed time. ThU story started ever 10 many year aco. The correspondent put his head against the toweled rest ot the chair and closed his eyes. The tienegamblan reply stuck In his brain llko n. feather In a bucket of tar. It appeared In the next Sunday Issue ot the correspondent's pa per. It hit tho town, and a big city It was as far back, as thatChicago, lief ore night the story wns read and told In hotels and clubs. Did you ever hear of Hilly Mason, a United $tatei senator from Illinois? lie was familiarly called Ullty before he put on the toga, and It sticks to him. He caught a good story quloker than the champion behind the bat. He knew such a story on sight, and when he repeated H you thought It was original with him. lfe.took this Senegamblan story as a fish takes the fly. Or as a woodpecker sur prises a worm, Tho story sot another send-off In a Washington newspaper. The paragraph began "Senator Bitty Mason of Illinois. COYOTE IS NOT A COWARD One Old Prulrlp Wolf Mtooil Off Twrnly-Flvr Fighting; llnus. The coyote, or prairie wolf, having ac quired a bad reputation for cowardlre and other unworthy qualities, tn hclrg rehabilitated as a flKhtlng animal In the far northwest, whom his warfare on sheep has led to the Institution, of "roy- 'ote drives." Itabblt drives are common jn the weit. Hundreds of nien turn nut and drive Jack rabbits Into a sort of cor rat where they nrn killed In grsst num bers. The success of the rabbit drives led many people to suppose that tho coy ote could be "rounded up" In tho sarno war, One experiment was tried In southern Idaho. Hundreds ot men and boys workod all day tn driving In the coyotes, which swarm all through tho region, and when they, the men and boys, had atl con verged at the corral they found Just ono coyoto tn It, and he got away. when the next great coyote drive took place better precautions were taken to prevent the animal" from "leaking" through tho lines. This drive was to the Powder Tllvrr valley, Itr eastern Ore gon. About ZA fanners, all thirsting, a It were, for the blood of the coyotes which had stolen their sheep, were mounted on horseback, and they took with them fifty dogs. They scoured the country and kept well together, and after good and well managed ride sixty coyotes were rounded UP In a field. There waa great excitement now, end some of tho younger and mora Inexperi enced men, thought they only had to put these sixty "cowardly" creatures to death In a heap. They soon found they wero mistaken. The coyotes made a grand and concerted rush for the compact, line of men, horsep and dogs that henirrt'd them In, and when thin rush warf over the punters found I hat, they had only nine wolves within the' Iqclosure. All the rest were roaming the plains of esit ofn Oregon at their own sweet wills, The hunters now turned their attention to those that were left, and, chiefly by the help ot the dogs, succeeded In put tins them to death, only one dog out ot the fifty, however, proved adequate, and he killed several ot tho nine. One of the coyotes was the most valiant fighter the hunters aver had seen. No while In the cloakroom today told a new!Kr.y woIf' " Br,"'-V .cou,d ,,ave fol,S't story." Then followed the Senegamblan reply, and of course, Senator Mason was the traveler to whom the -reply was made. Worked Over for fa. Thu correspondent Was hurried to Oal vesten, Tex. While waltlpg for his Johnnycake for breakfast he looked over a morning print of the city. Ho read that "nepresentatlve DsJley (he waa not then senator) arrived In tho city last night from Washington. Ho got here twelve hours sooner than he expected be cause his train did not "hesitate." Then the story as told by Representative Hal ley. what the porter of his car satd to htm, etc. The correspondent thought It was about time for him to rope the yarn before It went any further. He elaborated the yam and rushed It to a New Yotlt publl- caaon that waa then paying 5 cents "the word' for good original stories, A few weeks later he received a check for W and something over, enough to pay ex change. The story waa In the first person, slngu lar, and the writer's name was printed at the bottom. He looked at himself In ii mirror and his face reminded him ot Nomethtng he had heard about a certain little Jack Horner. He reckoned that lie had this story lashed to the mast at lost. Something happened In Philadelphia and he waa aent there tc unravel auch an un usual thing. It was tho day ot Mr. Hok'a publication ot that wonderful mix of high-brow fiction, layouts of lingerie and stories of famous people. The story of a colored porter of a Pullman sleeper," as related by Benator Depew, waa the Abou Ben Adhem of the page. The correspondent chanced to look at a calendar. It was the oay before New Vear. He sat down and wrote Ws wtfer I shall swear off tomorrow, not to drlnt anymore, for drink I never do, but never again to write a funny story. I can't run counter to Chauncey Depew. He has kidnaped my first-born, and there's no xise" "Whew It Waa r, A tew weeks later he waa in Detroit, be' ctty made famoua by M. Quad and Jlnyor Ptngreo. He ial in the Free Press; "Mr. . the well-known story writer and author of aeveral In dialect, got tq town latt night. He told ,the fol lowing to the reporter, and It Is worth telling, for It Is new. Coming Into tho -Jly on a Michigan Central train, he asked the colored b roomlet if the train mats any stops." Then followed the nory that be had started, and which had been credited to Senator ilSJon, ltcpre wntatlv Bailer and flawed try Chaun y Peew- ' Is IMS the correapondMt waa on the re with lot of Pfllbara who were UdkiMT for Mr Taf-t, One U tbem was HeHeUor Dolllver of. Iowa. If anybody yuUM tear a fWra Joe SflUefe book b4 h4 Its cobUM out as "off the bat" it waa DotHver. A lfct ttana tw mada at a erosa ro4 twn in lasHaaa. Introduction of rxsUvr' speech "Fellow citlieni, v witn more determination or with more Skill and to better effect. At one time twenty-five dogs were engaged In nn at tack upon this coyote, and such were the extraordinary swiftness of his movements and the sharpness of his teeth that he kept them all at bay. Tha men declared they got more excite ment out ot this raid ,on thn coyotes than they ever hsa obtained from any other hunt. Acting on the experience gathered In It. they nt onre organised Another drive and hope to do better next time. Cincinnati Enquirer, A LUCKY BUY The We bought under most fortunate conditions a big assortment of VELVET CORDS Old Fashioned English Corduroys Which practically everybody wore in the British Isles half a century ago, and no fabric is more "en vogue" today. ; SATURDAY, STARTING AT 10:00 A. M., Kilpatricks'will offer 850 Yards, Made and Dyed by the World's Best Makers Some years ygo a genius discovered a coin- 'J(5 inches wide, clear, inside the selvage; .' shades of brown, light and medium and dark; 2 shades of navy, never more popular than now; 1 Wisteria, the realjy fashionable shade; 1 Hunter's green (such as the English use follow ing the hounds); 2 black, abroad this year everyone wants one black skirt at least; 2 pure white, makes an exceedingly nobby suit splen did for children's coats; 2 Taupe elephant's breath battleship grey or stone color. A free seller at $1.00, for one day only, yard , FINAL WORDS On a clean up of about 1,250 yards of fancy Silks Foulards, Stripes, Plains, Odd Pieces and one of a kind colors Silks which sold at 7ae, 8i5c, $1.00 and a few $1.20, to end them on Saturday 44 Cents Yard One Special in Kids for Saturday At 10:00 A. Ml Also Perha"ps the most popular glove just now in the east is white with .'1 rows black stitching oi' white with self color; running a close second is black with white or with black stitching. 25 dozen pairs just in, worth $1.25, to create a little $SQn Dm enthusiasm will sell Saturday at...OwC Xo move of ours has awakened greater in terest with the mothers than the additions made in our Children's Section. Saturday, will sell coats for Children and Juniors of all ages, that is from 2 to 17 years worth up as high as $20 each, Saturday at 10 A. M., S8.75 each. Same Hour Same Place Hats for Children. All shapes, colors, sizes. Sonie were sold as high as $10.00. What we mean is that similar hats were sold by us as high as that. Many of them $5.00, $0.00 and $7.00, and some down as low as $3.50 Saturday ln American Dollar for Piek The Turkey Has Arrived Table spread in Center window places set for Ak-Sar-Beu XVIII, His Gracious Consort Queen Elizabeth. Geueral Welcome, Madame Prosperity, and dear liltle "Curly locks." Speaking of windows, hast seen the Sterling frames for sale on Saturday at $2.50 each. Bags in wondrous variety also in window $5.00 for Saturday and a great five's worth. Aprons for everybody Special sale Saturday $6.50 down aB low as 25 Cents Each position of remarkable beauty and plasticity and dubbed it Parisian Vegetable Ivory. This composition lends itself to the manufacture of every article used in Milady's Boudoir Brushes, Manicure Sets, Mirrors, Clocks, etc., practically indeed displacing Real Ivory. Now there's a difference in grades in this as in other things quality is always the first desideratum with us. Come in if you please let's show you , how different our wares arc exclusivo designs for monogram if you think of giving some article which needs marking get your order in now for fine work and prompt delivery. Mr. Koenig said mention the Brass Work we haven't time or space now except to say there '8 a beautiful display on the new square near Candy Section. y And That Reminds Us Mr. and Mrs. Cobb and their forces aro working late and early to provide for the Holi day trade. Candies shipped to all parts of the world wonderful Chocolates and Bon Bons "The Baldnff" kind found here only. THOS. KILPATRICK CO. home E?l lOIUITI IDE? I.f south lUlilll I UIXEi WW- OMAHA 20 Below Omaha Prices-Nof One Day But Every Day Low Prices on Useful Holiday Presents A Ilarhelor'n lief lrctlona. Wotntn rn smllo more nsturally than il iivy lli"ni il. Youiik man spsiu to think tha way to Ko through college Is to co tlirouich money. Kvery man Is an opn book to a ulrl fxcspt hr own brothor. mid he Isn't ontx because she doesn't think It worth her wtille to read him. Tolllnr ll's nets to be more of u hattlt than btllovlnc them. An easy way to fool n womsn Is for hr to want to be. The tlmo a tlrl wants to tell a si.rt Is when It Isn't so. wnat makes tho baby n voice sound so much like htn father's ts he says so. A man will lie about what irood time his wiiMi keeps quicker than auout any thlna else. One thlnjr every man cn toll about a woman crusRlnir a muddv street Is he ought not to mention It.-New York l'reea. The llootor Kurtv, ...i i .... ..... I fear, lie continually mumbles and muU torn to himself." "In It possible!" "Yes; ho mutters to himself, mid when you speau to rum no starvji nt you blankly." "h know what the trouble is." utld tin. doctor, smltlnif. "He's memorislnr sonm joatte worn, i oionir to the same lodge. ' Louisville Courier-Journal. TYoi should use a Bis; (SiVyour carpets ruf iiryou warn to kp uiei WcI-double their lm. 1 Ouiniile? No! Pape's Best for Bad Cold! Pint do) or l'ape'a Cold Compound j relieves all miner' from a cold ! or tlt grippe. It is a positive tact that a dose ot iap'a Cold Compound, taken ever)- two' nouM until tbree consecutive doses are taken, will nd the Qrippe and break up ttic most cerate com, cither n the head. oh wit. back, stomach, limbs or any part oi the body. . It promptly relievo the most mlstra Die neaaai-ue, uunntaa, noaa and nose sctufted up, feverUbneaa, tactile r, mre throat, runnlnc ct the nose, mucous ca taxrbal dlscharcs. eorectas, aUUneas and rhuematlo tulrif e. Take this wonderful Compound aj dl- rected, with the knowledge that there U nothlnr else In the world, whleh will cure your colA or end Grippe misery a promptly and without any other assist, ance or bad after-effects as a 3-cent parko ot Pape'r. Cold Compoqnd, which w Mil pufi, mwuci no sub stitute dtntaln no quinine liuloncs Get Our Rug Prices 9x12 Seamless Brussels at $8.50 9x12 Seamless Velvet at $12 9x12 Seamless Extra Velvet $16 9x12 Axminster Rugs at $16 See our large line of Body Brus sels and Wilton Rugs. Much be low Omaha prices. Full car good Kitchen Cabinets just received, complete with tops $8.50 Up For $13.50 Wo will sell you a set of six oak Dinipg Chairs, leather seats like cut. High grade Sowiug Machine, oak case, com- plete set of attachments- like cut . . . $14.00 Holiday. Line of Ladies' Desks and Music Gabinets, in all sixes. BOOKERS FOR EVERYBODY Special holiday line upholstorod .$11.00 Rockers, Turkish Imperial leather , Solid oak, G-foot Hound Table to match chairs. Furniture Prices Will Positively Advance Next Spring $9.75 j 1 1 urn mmJ In every home Tastes nice-acts aenUv wert afml that we would not be lure, j -AdvertUcment Everybody reads Bee want ads it I! J V