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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1913)
8 B THJS UJSLAHA SUNDAY BEE: At GTST 17, 1913. T3it of Hollanffiii the Mississippi Valley" It's Qualify Goods at Saving Prices That's Bringing the Crowds Here in Our August Clearing Sales, Thla might readily bo taken for a Dutch lanncape, as It has the traditional Holland trademark of an ancient wind mill, but it la really a bit of the icenery In the Mississippi valley. Tho Bee's staff photographer wandered for a ten-day trip atone tho roads bctweon Omaha and the Father of Waters and thla la ono of the pictures he gathered on the way. It Is the mill of Kdward Enters at Benronvllle Poatofflce, Paso county, 111., and has been In operation for slxty-seVen years. The sails of tho old mill still whirl In tho wind, whtlo tho slowly turning bubrs grind the urlats for the farmers In th neighborhood. No fancy patent flour for them, cut between the whizzing rollers of a modern mill; just the xood old kind their fathers and mothers knew. POINTED PAItAIlAGUAPS. 1 Tet woll-groomcd men may lack horse sense. More than a bravo cook Is needed to nmlto a rabbit quail. Poverty keeps lots of us from making a fool of ourselves. . Yo, Cordelia, a lawn dress Is appro prlato for a Brass wl4ow. It's easier to Invent a windmill than tt Is to raise the wind. Th woman who marries a mtn to re form him has no tlrno to wasto Improv ing her complexions Chicago News. EVEN GO A-BDTTOH FISHING? Mississippi River Yields a Vast Crop Every Year. INDUSTRY WELL UP IN MILLIONS BETTER PIANIS FOI LESS MONEY AT HOSPE'S Ws have take la sxeSiaaga aa usumUt large k&asber t tk 5illr gnuu Makis yteantto ot fc worU's Jarg aa4 best tae terto. Ws kTHt ths itm for o r tlr, m ws are aaktoff rleM,a U ot tfessa. tbt Wy MUk't Vwi loaf M Kimball 1513-1515 $125 fl p? wMk Cramer Oak c&as, vary little used $130 91 par wMk HOSPE Tin maaoff asr oase, good aa new $175 91.33 per week. Kallet & Davis Xahosranx case, eaa&ot be tola fsosa $225 ?L80 per week. MBasela Called Upon ly Manufno- (arers to OItc'Vm Their1 Shell CoHla for Necessary Uses, Xn Wash doods Section. Closing Out Sum mer Goods Open ing up Fall Goods 25c gonuino Lorraine Tissues, nt 12Ho All 16c and 18c Batistes and Bulgarian Prints at...l3c All our 39c silk and mercerized goods nt SJSo Alt our $1.50 Ratlnos 08c All our 2Ec Costumo Crepes, 18c All our 2Gc Plisse, plain or printed, at .18c All our plain and printed Volha 40-ln. wide, that sold at 38c, for zrzrw qoods just nt COO piece of Anderson's 32-inch Olnghams, at IBo 3S0 pieces of William Anderson's Kenulne Scotch Zephyrs; worth 36o and 38c, ft yard 3Bo Andernon's Scotch Percale Shirt ing designs J5 Anderson's Scotch Madras, BOo, 38o and Itoumanian Taffetas; fino cloth, looks like $1.00 8ltk Taffetnw; beautifully colored printing, 80o New Ratines, fllk, plain colors; Iridescent and othor kinds 860, 38o, 60c, 76c and $1.00 a yard Samples of all goods free on application. Mall orders receive special attention Four Specials In the SILK DEPARTMENT Staple Silks of finest quality at bargain prices seldom equaled, even in an August clearance. Russian blues, American $2.00 Crepo Meteora 44 in. wide, in a full line of colors, an oxcollent bargain at, a yard $1.48 $1.25 Crepe de Chine 40 ins. wide, both black and colors, on sale Monday, at 98c $1.25 Oharmeuse Messalino Guaranteed, all the new fall shades, electric and blues, beauty, Copenhagen, burnt orange, emerald, green, otc.; also black 'and white, full 36 ins. wide, at, yd., 88c 75c and $1.00 Tub Silks Broad assortment of ohoice patterns in both stripes and figures, all in two big lots at 48c and 68c FINAL CLEARING SALE i i.. an Sixty per cent of the buttons used In the United States are taken from the Mis sissippi river, principally along the sfc (Ion of tho ercat river between Fort Mad ison, la., and Sabula, la., a dlstanco ot 200 miles In length. Of course, the but ton are not ready to go upon tho grown of the American woman nor upon tho dress vest of tho American man when they are taken from the waters of the Mississippi, but tho necessary material for the making ot those buttons which are greatest In demand In this country Is found there. This material Is the fresh water mussel, from which are made peart buttons. Some Interesting facta concerning the pearl button Industry of the Mississippi river are contained In publication by the bureau ot fisheries, one ot the divi sions forming the department presided .over by Secretary William C. nedtleld ot- llrooklyn. Tle bulletin of the bureau gives a history of the pearl button In. dustry of this country, and brings to light a good many Interesting details concern ing the dredging, manufacturing sod com pletlon of buttons. Tho output of fMarl button factories of this country annually amounts to more than 15,000,000 gross, arid has a value ot oyer HW0.080. These figures are annually becoming larger. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, formerly assistant chl ot the bureau ot fisheries, xrho was promoted to head that bureau when Mr. Redfleld took charge ot . the .Department of Commerce, haw thoroughly Inves'.vUd this subject and he la tho author of the bureau's publica tion dealing with the pearl button In dustry. The business of making buttons from the shells of our natlvo fresh water mus sets ot Is ot quite recent origin, having began In the year 1891. 'It was made pos slb!e by tho high duty on Imported but tons Imposed by the tariff bill ot 1S90. J. F. Boepple, who had for many years been engaged at Hamburg, Oermany. In the manufacture of oeorl buttons from ! fresh water mussels, was the first person I to start the manufacture ot them In this country. He selected a site tor his busi ness In the vicinity of Muscatine, la., on account of an abundance of suitable mus. ! sels there. Muscatine has since grown to be the principal center ot tho button In dustry. A (loud Business, After Mr. Boepple had conclusively shown that- tho manufacture ot buttons from fresh water mussets was a good business, others proceeded to establish works along the Mississippi and It trib utaries, until In 1SS3 there were twenty-, one communities In Iowa and Illinois In which buttons wero made, and thlrty-slx factories. Button making has now be come one ot the principal businesses along; the Mississippi and gives employment to a large number of people. Jt also sup ports a very Important fishery, at which hundreds of persona make a living. An other Important feature of the Munis- slppt river button Industry Is the trans formation of a hitherto useless product 1 Into a valuable commodity, which Is , placed on th market at reasonable prices, i Of the 400 or more varieties ot mussels found In the Mississippi, only a few are adapted to buttonmaklng. The require ments of k shell, from the'button-maker's standpoint, are sufficient thickness. uniform color of the surface and various siraia or toe sueu, and a degree of toughness that will withstand tho neces sary treatment without cracking or splitting. The preferred color is white, uui crcam-coiorea snciis are also em ployed, i Tho most important mussel used in button-making Is known to the fisher men as the "nlggerhead." It has the gen erai shape or the round clant and Is characterised by a very thick and heavy shell, with a black . or dark brown out side skin and a glistening white interior, ine atter color Being uniform through tifi thickness of the shell. Other species however, nro utilised. The principal opes, In the vernacular of the region, oro tho "sand shell," the "mucket," the "deer-horn," and "butterfly," the "blue point" and tho "pocketbook." Many of the persons engaged In mus sel fishing depend upon this business for their livelihood and follow it the year round. Others, however, seek mussels only when their regular work Is sus pended, so In the winter months the ranks ot the regular mussel fishermen are considerably augmented by sawmill hands, farm hands and others. The cheapness of the apparatus required to take tho mussels from their beds, the comparative ease with which this Is done and the little experience required, makes mussel fishing very attractive to many men, as they, are readily able to get their catoh totiwarket and dls'poso of it. receiving cash In payment. Sometimes these ' mussel fishermen make as high aa $34 per week. The average earning Is about 810 per week. Methods of Flaking. Mussels are obtained with various kind of apparatus. Those which have been or are now in use are the hand-rake, the tongs, the rake hauled by means of a windlass, tho dredge operated by steam and the bar with hooks. The last named, a very ingenious contrivance, came Into Lie In 1897 and "lias largely superseded the other appliances. It consists ot a circular bar, six to eight feet long, with from thirty to fifty-four pronged wire hooks attached at regular Intervals. In strings of two or three hooka. This ap paratus, which Is used from a small boat and is hauled over the bottom by means of ii rope, depends for Its action on the habits ot tho mussels. The mussels rest on the bottom of tho river or partly buried In the mud or sand with the free margin of their shells turned up at stream and with their shells separated to admit the water, laden with oxygen and food. When touched they quldkly close their shells, and If a for eign body Is Interposed between the valves. It Is tightly grasped and retained. Any one who has not witnessed the use ot this apparatus can scarcely reallis how remarkably effective It Is. When the beds of mussels are compact, one man can take 800 to 1.000 pounds of "nig gerheads" In a day. Even when the Ice forms upon tho river this docs not hin der the fishermen. , After the mussel are taken from the river they are shelled by the fishermen Just as you would shuck oysters or clams, A good many of them ara ahlnnod to button factories located In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Those that are not shipped east are sent to the lactones located In tho vicinity of Mus catine and the other towns bordering on the Mississippi. According to the last reports of the census bureau upon the pearl button industry, most of these but tons were manufactured In New York. Iowa, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Work In Factories. The principal work at the button fac tories Is done by machinery. Preparatory to being used, the mussel shells, as pur chased from the fishermen, are sorted Into slses. Another prellm.nary step is the soaking or the sorted shells in bar rels of fresh water for from three to six days to render them less brittle. The next step Is the cutting or sawing of the rough blanks. The shells are usually held with special pliers while relng cut; these grasp IN DOMESTIC Striped Voiles, good colors; 18c values, at 10c Silk finished TafXoU; neat stripes; 2Gc valuo 18c Fancy Kimono Grope; good colors; 18c value 10o Lawns, good patterns and col ors; values- to 12 c, at Bo Poplins, plain and striped; 26c value .lBc Percales, light and dark colors; 30 in. wide, 12 c value, 7ic Sllkollnea; 30 In. wldo, good patterns; 12 c value... 10c Fancy Jacquards, good colors; 25c value lBc Ginghams, browns and blues, 7c values Be 32-in, lmportod Dress Ging hams; 18c values . ...12&c 36-in. Curtain Scrim; fancy borders; 18c values. . . Prints, black and white checks; 6c values 44o Bleached Shaker Flannel; 10c value 8c Cheviots, for shirting; neat stripes; 12-c values ...10c V . Summer Furniture at Cost A big two-day sale Satur day and Monday Fiber Porch Furniture Rockers, Chairs, Settteos, Tables, Flower Bas kets, Fern Stands, Etc., Etc. very best qualities, One-Third Less Than Regular. awn or Voxob. Swings Six foot, ,: Inch, felt mattress, finest steel frame couch, with springs and ad justable head rest; tubular stoel frame; IU.Q0 value, at . ...5C7S Wooden yoroh Swing with chain; fumed oak or green, on sale J-ft. size, t.B0t -tU Blze, 93.00. Others even cheaper; many other rousing, specials In this big one day sal a. 5 U M M E R D R E S S E S s u M M E R D R E S S E S Every summer garment in stock, including all reg ular lines and several wonderfully opportune purchases from overstocked manufacturers, marked at prices which are really less than value of materials. Extraordinary Special Bargains for Monday for choice of Women's and- ST 95J Misses' Summer Dresses, made -Tfcf 95 r for Summer Dresses made to - $2.95 s?u at from 7-50 to $10-' n $2.95 sizes women's and misses'. . . j $3.95 $5.95 - fm,C for choice of a splendid assort $3 95 men f heautiful Summer L Dresses, worth $10.00 to $15.00. . m( ov choice of a big lot of fresh jl . y Hi Linen Suits that would sell reg- L ularly at $12.50 to $20.00. . ts-r r( 0T stylh Linen Coats that $3.95 sold regularly at from $7.50 to K$3.95 $1.50 House Dresses 79c 75c Children's Eompers 35c Crown Jewel Tailored Suits Such quality and beauty as you'll usually find priced at at least $35.00. $25 The most beautiful designs & choicest colorings and fab rics shown any- l where at price. Handsome One-Piece Dresses A big advance showing of the now beauties more popular than ever this sea son; prices from.. ..$14.95, $19.50, $25.00 UP Clearance of White Goods Moiro brocaded White Goods, imported, 40 inches wide; $1.25 values, yard. 85 d Imitation Ramie, nil cotton, splendid assortment of colors; worth 50c a yard, at. . .25d Auto Cloth, 30 inches wide, linen finish, snow white; worth 25c a yard, at. . .15d Manchester Repps and English Piquos for skirting; worth up to 50c a yard, at. . . S8 Sheer white goods in now cloth, voiles, etc., worth up to 50c, yard 256 Pure linen, natural color. Auto mobile Suiting, yard wide; 75c a yard, at 5Q IN DOMESTIC ROOM Tollers 9-4 unbleached sheet ing; 24c values 19o Lockwood 9-4 bleached Sheet ing; 28c values 24c Roachdale 9-4 bleached Sheet ing; 25c values -..Sic West Wind 36-in. bleached Muslin; 7 valuo ....5&c Farmers Choice half-bleached Muslin 36 inches wide; 9o valuo .7&o Unbleached Muslin, 36 inches wide; 7c value . . ., 5c Made Sheets, 72x90, good mus lin; 50o value 33o Tioga 72x99 Made Sheets, 59o value 48c Pillow Cases, 42x36, good mus lin; 12 V&c values 10c 58-inch Bleached Table Da mask; 39c value 25c Rubdry Towels; regular 39c size, for .. 3Bo Washable Sheets, 81x90, $d,10 val ues, for 85o 27-ln. Puritan Diaper Cloth, 27-ln. bolt 10 yards; $1,10 valuo. ...8So Oood size Turkish or Stack Towels; 12Ho values loo High Grade Linen Specials Monday Heavy weight 72-in. Satin Damask, pure linen; worth $2.00 yard, $1.00 Heavy weight 72-inch Double Damask, dotf bleached; worth $2.25 a yard, at $1.50 Piire linen hemmed Huck Towels, full size; worth 50o each, at 25c Hemmed Huck Towels, plain or colored borders; 15c values, each . . .10c Celebrated "Rub Dry" Bath Towel; extra large sizo; worth 50c each, at 35 Good size Oriental Turkish Towels hemmed or fringed; worth 39c each, at 25J PUT UP YOUR PEACHES NOW ! Ths Oatlook Is Short Crop and Xlghsr Prioes. Our second oar will be opened Monday morning. These are Extra Fancy California Klberta ft An Freestones; nothing finer. Monday, per orate WWW 91 lbs. Best Sr&nalated a agar for 81.00 No strings; all you want; mall and tele phone orders filled. 48-lb. sacks best high grade' Diamond 11 Flour; nothing ttnsr for, bread, plea or cakes, sack .....91.00 10 bars Beat-'Em-All. Dlsmond C or Lenox Soap for 3So 10 lbs. best white or yellow Cornmeal 17 Ho Advo Jell, Jello or Jelly con, pkg. -7Ho 8 cans oil or mustard Sardines for OSo The best domestic Maca roni. Vermicelli or Spa ghetti, pkg. 7Ho Tall cans Alaska Sal mon for 100 Large bottles Worcester Biuce, pure tomato Catsup, assorted Pick les or Mustard, per bottle -v BVo Q rape-Nuts, pkg. . . . . 100 E-C Corn Flakes, per Pkg. So Teast Foam, pkg. . ...3o Carnation, Pot. Colum bia or Every Day Milk. lt-os. cans 8V&0 MoUaren'a Peanut But ter, per lb latto Golden Santos Coffee, per lb aoo Bead SCeydens' Big Bat ter Special for Monday. 10,000 Z,bs. Best Ho. 1 Creamery Batter; BOtUng finer sasds Monday OS. per lb fcOu VXOBTABLES. Tola Is the place to get what you want, and at the prloe. Sweet Corn, per dos. lOo New Potatoes, pock OSo Tomatoes. ripe and fancy, 2 lbs. lOo Beets or Carrots, 4 bunches for c Green Peppers. S for Bo Summer Squash, 2 for Bo Head Lettuce, fancy, head 7Ho-Bo Beans, fancy wax or greon, lb 7Vo Cucumbers, large, each at ,7Ho-6o Celery. 3 stalks for loo Lemons, large, juloy, per dor. B5O-400 O"laloupes fancy, each at 80-7HO-1GO Apples, good cooking, per peck 300-lBo Clearance Bargains EMBROIDERIES and LACES 30c Embroideries 12 High grade Nainsook and Cambric Em broideries and Edges; 12 and IS inches wide; also Wide Bands, Galloons and Insertings. 60c Fiouncings and Corset Corer Embroid eries, at iSiio 60c Fiouncings and Cbrset Covers. .. ,2ttc $1.00, 45-in. Fiouncings and 27-inch Baby Fiouncings, at 40c AUovor Embroideries. ....... .50o St. Gaul Fiouncings. full 46 inches 11.60 $2.60 wide, nt a yard ". . . , 08c S3. 60 Dress Fiouncings; 46 inches wide, nt, a yard $1.40 Loom End Embroideries; big assortment in 3 special lots, at 3 He, 0c and 7Ho $1 Sliadow Laces, 40c Beautiful fiounc ings, 18 inches wide, in soft, dainty de signs worth regularly up to $ 1.00 a yard. 20c Wash Laces at lOfl ,V Ide cotton Lace Bands, soft Shadow auu muui, uwou liiuuy cuges nag Insertions; regular values to 26c yard 10c iuc cotton uiuny Lace. 10c Zion City Lace. . . . 10c Point do Paris Lace 3cS Closing Out All Summer Hardware at Prices Below Factory Cost RUBBER HOSE AU of our cbp rubber hose has been sold. h following Urk grafts numbsrs should interest you at taas rery low iirloisv, lBo "Buck" -ply, tf-ln.. at 9o lBo "Buck" 6-ply, -ln., at lOo 16c "Liberty" 7-ply, In., at lOo 16o "Liberty" 7ply, ; In., at .....Ho 16c "Wlxom" 7-ply red hose, H-ln., at.... lie. 17c "Wlxom" 7-ply red hose, ft -In., at.. lao 18c U-in., molded hose, the best hose made, Ho 20c fi-ln. molded hose, the best hoso made, 15o 76c wooden hoso reel at 59o 81.76 Iron hose reels at S1.30 82.26 Iron hose reels at ti.60 45o genuine Boston Gem hose notzlea 29o 66c solid brass fountain lawn sprays 33o Any else and style Borsen Door In the bouse, worth up to $1.78, at 90o Try HAYDEN'S First BSFXIQEBATOS PASTS 25c Bite heavy galvanized refrigerator pans, 15c 35c size heavy galvanised refrigerator pans, 19o , 40c size heavy galvanized refrigerator pans, 2So 40c size heavy galvanized sprinklers ao 66c and 60c sizes heavy galvanized sprinklers at 39o 76c 80c, and 90c heavy galvanized Bpiinklens at 49o Water Coolars, all sizes M Off. Any size and style plain boarlng lawn mower, worth up to $3.75, 8U8 'Any slzo or style 4-blade lawn mower or 6-blade Champion lawn mower, worth up to f 8.80, S4J8 Ovena for Oas or Gaso line Btovea 11.60 ovena, special Mon day at S1.19 81.75 ovens, special Mon day at 91.09 82.25 ovens, special Mon day at - 91.09 88.26 ovens, special Mon day at .....8S.O Many other bargains noo numerous to mention. the circumference ot the shell and en able cutters to retain It fast while hold ing the shell at right angles to saw. Borne sawyers have Ue hand gloved or mlttened, and use no pliers ot pincers. At tho more extensive ilants a fine jet of water plays on the shell as the saw re volves In order to prevent th formation of dust and to keep the shell coot. These blanks are cut Into different sizes, ac cording to the else button which ara de sired. As they are cut by the saws they drop Into a box beneath. The next otcp la- the dressing or grind ing of the back ot the blank, to remove the skin and make an even surface. To accomplish this each blank has to b held with the finger against a revolving wheeL Turning or facing Is the next step. This process gives to the front of the button Its form, including the central depression. Then cornea ths drilling ot two or four holes for the thread. The button Is now complete with the exception of the polish ing process. This brings out the natural luster which has been lost In grinding and which gives to these buttons their chief valift. A recent estimate of the quantity of mussels utilized in button making Is placed at about 40,000 tons annually, hav ing a cost value of approximately 8400, W. In IBM; according to the bureau of fisheries figures, tha quantity was 7,t00 tons, having a coat value of 8T2.000, show ing that tho business of pearl button making Eagle. is rapidly increasing. Brooklyn Concert Etiquette, James N nuke. In his Fifth avenbn manslou of white marble the most beau tiful town house In America gives, dur ing the season, concerts of Incredible magnificence. Mr. Dukr. at a concert where Amato had sung and'Tsaye had played, parried a comr-Ilment with a Joke. This Joke concerned one's concert deportment, of which Mr. Duke said: "If you can't manage to look rapt dur ing an aria or a violin solo at a concert, tho next best thing is to look daggers at snyono else who doesn't look rapt" Washington Star. The Ills Pathetic Tale, tramp looked shrewdly at Miss Wary, and she returned his gaze with equal shrewdness; but her expression did not soften In the lease "You see. It's liko this, ma'am. Six months ago 1 had a home of my own. but I rrrada an unfortunate mar riage. My wife's temper was such that it kept me in hot water ill tho time." ."IPm." said Miss War, dryly. "It's v pity there couldn't have been a little soap with it. Only six months ago, aid you rayr'-Llpptncotl's Magazine. Compressed Everything. An Engllih physician, being annoyed by the talk of a pedantic, self-conceitcu bore until he could stand It no longer, remarked: "My friend, you and I know all that Is to be known," "How Is thatT" asked the bore, highly pleated. "Why," said the doctor, "you know everything except that you are a fool and I know that.' Boston Transcript