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Reorganization Sale of GLOVES
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DETERMINED effort to clean our shelves of "all odd lots of broken
assortments of women's and children's glovos and mittens.
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Broken assortment of women's long or
IIB b,ncK and colors, formerly $1.50, $1."5 to $2.50, at. . .
lm 78c, 98c and $1.25 Gloves, 65c
v omens 1 and 2-clasp gloves; mocha, capo and lambskin,
also long washable Duplex gloves, formorly 7Sc, 08c n r
d $i.2b ; 65c
r50c to COc Gloves, :i:jc
Cashmere, Chamolsetto and
Duplex gloves, long or short,
white, black and colors, for
merly ouc to oc, saio O O
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price, pair
-"c to 5c Gloves, 15c
Women's and c h 1 1 d r e n's
gloves and mittens, wool cha
molsotte and golf, also rough
rider gloves, formorly f r
25c to 35c, pair.
BURGESS-NASH CO.
SUCCESSORS TO ORKIN BROTHERS
Saturday Will Be the Last Day of
This Great Reorganization Sale
AND for a fitting climax every effort has been put forth to mako it the banner day of tho entire ovent.
Every section of this storo will contribute splendid values the kind of merchandise- now In greatest
demand at prices that are most attractive. Saturd ay will ho featured as Iloady-to-Wcnr-D.iy.
Reorganization Sale of MILLINERY
A FINAL sweep of nil sensonnblo millinery
an offprlnc tn clonn tin our stock In the ono
Thrnn prnuna!
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Trimmed
Huts
Formerly In
tho sale at
$1.09, sale
price
Sj
Trimmed
lints
Formerly In
tho salo at
$3.75, salo
prlco
I $21
Trimmed
lints
Formorly In
tho salo at
$5.89, salo
prlco
Now Gaby Turbans
lllack Silk Velvet Gaby Turbans, very spo
clal for Sat'
urday, at . .
..$2.50 ,.$1.50
NOW FOR A GREAT REORGANIZATION SALE SATURDAY OF
WOMEN'S TAILORED COATS
'"pfiE importance of this clear-away of correct coats cannot bo overestimated; most every coat need
J- is embraced in this big assortment coats for street wear, afternoon, evoning, automobile, otc.
and every garment measures fully up to the highest standard of quality and is authentic in style.
HUNDREDS of thrift-wise buyers will find in this salo tho very coat that they havo been contem
plating and will bo among tho throng of shrowd shoppers who, realizing tho importanco of this
ovent, will bo here early Saturday morning to participate in tho great values.
Women's Coats
Formerly $15.00,
$20.00, $22.50 and
$25.00, choice
$050
YjERE is without doubt a most
O. unusual offering; the noats are
all late models, the sort in greatest
demand right now. .
The materials are Porsiana,
Duvetyne, Broadcloth, Chin
chilla, Caracul, Bouoles Fanoy
Mixtures, etc;
Many of them aro lined throughout with
guaranteed satin, splendid assortment of
colors and patterns; all sizes for women
and misses; -your 'choice at 89.50
Women's Coats
Formerly $30.00,
$35.00, $45.00 and to
,$65.00, choice
$17Q
AT this prico wc offer you choice
from our entire stock of exqui
site evening wraps, street and auto
mobile coats, a charming collection.
Tho materials aro fur effects,
velours, sealettos, mole, Buda
pest, Arabian lamb, imported
mixtures, broadcloths, etc.
Many of them aro exclusive and Indi
vidual modols, whilo othors aro copies of
Bomo of tho most favored imported gar
ments; choice of tho group for. .817,50
jjBurgess-Nash Co. 16th and Harney.;
-Burgess-Nash Co. 16th and Harney.;
BRIEF CITI :NEWS
FORGED MSS. "OF POET BURNS
Have Xoot Print It N'ow Beacon Pre?.
lilt Ins.? Yea. ronn Mutual, Gould.
Eleotrio Bupplle Burgess-Oranden Co.
Tldellty Storage and Van Co. D, .1BIH
Bnrn'c Celebration, January 22. Swed
ish hall, Sixteenth and ChtcaKO Htreets.
State Bank of OmiHt 4 per cent paid
on time deposits; 3 per cent nald on sav
ings accounts. AH deposits In this bank
are protected by tho depositors' guaran
tee fund of the slate of Nebraska
Laborer Steals Baoon J. Y. Cooper,
laborer, 2713 South Ninth street, was ar
rested for the theft of five slabs of
bacon from a Union Pacific car several
nights ago. Cooper uncovered the meat
where he had ditched It under a pile of
lumber noai the ball park.
Young- Men Start Mew Fund Members ,
of tho Young Men s Christian association
have started a fund to help the educa
tional department of the association de
fray the expense of teaching foreigners
to speak, read and write English.
The Peters Trust company confines
Itself solely to trusteo and Investment
business and is therefore not affected by
i he ups and downs of finance. It Is ad-
antageous to estates of whatsoever slzo
to havo It named as executor or trustee.
Thieves Steal Tools Fred Frldcn
borger, carpenter, living nt 1513 Chicago
street. Informs tho authorities that a kit
of tools belonging to htm wcro stolen
from a new building at Nineteenth and
Dodge streets some Umo Thursday after
noon. (
Silk Thief Uets Thirty Days Antonio
flaiela, laborer, was arrested by Officer
Carney, who discovered that Garcia luul
stolen three bolts of silk valued ut $13
from the Burgess-Nash store Garcia,
had the silk under his coat when tnken.
He was sentenced to thirty days In Jail.
Thieves Steal Plumbing- Mrs. A. Dll
lard. 501 South Twenty-fourth avenue,
who owns a houeo adjoining her home,
has notified the police that Wednesday
night thieves stole the water meter from
the vacant houso and on Thursday night
removed all the plumbing.
Train to Bun raster Beginning Sun
day tho Northwestern will shorten the
running time of its Omaha-Chicago spe
cial eleven minutes between hero and
Chicago. The train will continue to
leave Omaha at 0 o'clock p, m.. but will
reach Chlcngo at 7:31 instead of 7:13
o'clock In the morning. Hereafter this
train .will bo equipped with all steel
sleepers.
Knights to Oo to David City Omaha
Knights of Columbus to the number of
ICO will go to David City Sunday to at
tend the state meeting of the order. The
Omaha delegation will leave the city over
the Burlington's No. 1 at 6:30 o'clock in
the morning. Lincoln will be tho gather
ing point for tho knights and from there
a special train for their accommodation
will bo run to David City.
Spiritualists Elect Officers At the
annual meeting of tho FlrHt Progressive
Spiritualist church held In Mackle's ball,
IMG Harne; street Thursday night, the
following officers were olocted for the
ensuing year: President, Dr. F. A,
Thomar; vice president, F. C. Allen; sec
retary, Mrs. F, C. Allen; treasurer, John
Baer; trustees, George, Mackle, Mrs. M.
K. Mackey, Mrs. C. U. Cooper, Mrs. J.
Baer. Mrs Zuellom; pastor, Dr. F. A.
Thomas. Meetings are held every Tues
day and Sunday at 8 p. m at Mackle's
haJi.
Kennedy Collection in New York
Library CoBts $20,000.
PEN WORK OF "ANTIQUE" SMITH
Clerer Work of Peitmnn In Collu
sion with Scotch IlooUsellcr
Fight Over Fnkc Documents.
While Scotland will soon receive,
throuRh tho generosity of John Qribbcl
of Philadelphia, the famous Glenrlddejl
manuscripts of Uobcrt Burns, which were
sold last summer by the Athenaeum li
brary of Liverpool, It may bo interesting J
by way of contrast to call attention to
the fact that New York City possesses,
In tho Now York public library, what has .
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markablo collection of forged Burns man
uscripts in the world.
The collection consists of 155 letters,
poems and extracts from poems In the
familiar style of the poet's handwriting.
Thoy form but a small part of s phe
nomena) series of forgeries executed by
n clever Scottish penman known as
'Antique" Smith more than twenty-five
years ago.
Beforo the forgeries were discovered
hundreds of letters, not only of Burns,
but of Thackeray, Scott and personages
of a much earlier period, Including Crom-
well, Mary Queen of Scots, Elisabeth,
Charles I, John Knox find others, had
been sold to many collectors In Kurope,
Canada and the United States end ac
cepted as genuine.
The collection of Burns forgeries In
the New York public, library was pur
chased in U90 by tho late John S. Ken
nedy and presented by him to the Lenox
library, of which he was president. They
wer bought from James Stlllle, a well
known book dealer of Edinburgh, and the
price paid was repotted to have been
about $CO,0rt. Tho manuscripts were pro
nounced absolutely genuine by Mr. Stll
lle, who had enjoyed a long reputation
as an expert. Other expert students of
manuscripts also vouched for their au
thenticity, and the fact that Mr. Ken
nedy, who was also regarded as an au
thority on the autographic material of
tho poet of his native land, was deceived
furnishes additional proof of the excel
lence of "Antique" Smith's forgeries.
Mr. Kennedy's batch of manuscripts
arrived in this city late In WO, and In
December were placed on exhibition in
tho Lenox library.
Mention is then made of some of the
more Important pieces and It was stated
that most of them were written on ex
cise paper, being In an excellent state of
preservation and were being catalogued
by Dr. Moore. For years Dr. Mooro was
the librarian of the Lenox library nnd he
also was an acknowledged authority of
early manuscripts and rare books.
In addition to this gift to the Lenox
library Mr. Kennedy has also presented
a lot of Burns manuscripts to his native
city of Edinburgh. Like the others they
had been purchased from Mr. Stlllle ami
ut the time of the discover of the for
geries in 1S92 Mr. Kennedy had contracted
to buy another batch of Burns letters
which were intended for Edinburgh, (n
this case, however, he Insisted that the
manuscripts be submitted to the experts
In the British museum and they dls
credited every one of them.
It took some time for Mr Kennedy to
admit that he had been duped, for in an
Interview published In Tho New York
Times on December 3, 1S92, Mr. Kennedy
stated that ho believed his manuscripts
wcro all genulno as they had been passed
on by experts. When tho truth was
demonstrated beyond all question of
doubt Mr. Kennedy Instituted suit against
(he Scotch book dealer, but tho latter
died beforo tho case got before tho courts
nnd It was dismissed. The manuscripts,
which had been sent to Edinburgh for uoe
In the suit were then brought back to
New York and deposited In tho library
where they were allowed to be forgotten.
They are still preserved, well bound In
a large volume, and are available for In
spection, but when they were asked for
last week Wilberforce Eames, librarian
of the manuscript department, expressed
some surprise that their existence was
stilt remembered.
Among the choicest of these Burns fo-
gerjes are copies In the poet's handwrit
ing of his poems, "Scots who, hae wl'
Wallace Bled." "Mary Morrison," "John
Anderson My Jo." "Willie Brew'd a
Peck o' Maut," and a sonnet "to tho
memory of my friend Robert Hlddell,
Esq.," as sent to the Dumfries Journal
In 1761. It Is Interesting to note that 'he
orlg'nal nnd authentic copy of this son
net is in the valuable Olenrlddell collec
tion which was lately purchased by Mr.
Grlbbel.
The publication of two of these forged
documents In Scotland about the same
time occasioned tho discovery of the
fraud. One was the publication of a
poem. "The Poor Map's Prayer," as
cribed to Burns. Some antiquarian in
1'terary loro called attention to tho fact
that tho identical poem, of nineteen
verses, first appeared In tho London
Magazine In 17C8, addressed to the earl
of Chatham. Had Burns written it his
fame as a poet would havo begun' at the
tender ago of 7 years.
SlRiird tar Letter t'urloual)-.
The second source of doubt was aroused
by the publication In the Cumnock Ex
press of Ayrshire In August. 1892, of a
letter written to "John Hill, weaver," of
Cumnock, It Is a brief letter of condo
lence and Is signed "Robert Burns," an
unusual signature, at tho poet abbre
viated his name to "Itobt." iu nearly al"
of his signed letters. Students of Burns
took up the matter, and It was ascer
tained that no such person as John Hill
ever lived. Tho Identity of other per
sons to whom many of the forged letters
were addressed was sought, with the re
sult that thoy turned out to be myth
leal friends of the poet Some of these
letters addressed to persons who never
existed are in the Kennedy collections
in the public library.
As an extra attestation of their Identity,
scores of the letters woro (Indorsed by
James Hogg, the Scottish poet, popularly
known ns the Ettrick Hhepherd. Nearly
all of the documents In the public library
aro sn Indorsed. After the bursting of
the bubble. It was pointed out, quite
naturally, that James Hogg had never
before been regarded as an expert on
handwriting, and It was called singular
that, despite his Indorsement on many
otherwise valuable and Interesting letters
and poems of Burns, he made no use of
them In his edition of Burns' works.
Another strange letter In tno Kennedy
collection, wiiloh shows the versatility of
"Antique" Smith in forging us well as
creating literary history, Is addressed to
William Livingston of Kilmarnock, ask
ing him to collect a debt of (10, which ho
had loaned to James Clark, schoolmaster
at Moffat, ten years before. The letter
is dated 1790.
When this curious letter was Investi
gated it was readily found that among tho
published letters of Burns to James Clark
was ono acknowledging tho receipt of
money as part payment of a loan. Had
the loan been mado in 1780, as tho forged
letter Indicates, it must have been done
when the poet was SI years of age, and
the history of Burns conclusively shows
ut that time he did not havo 10 or 10s to
loan to any ono. Beforo tho sale of the
letter to Mr. Kennedy the absurdity had
been pointed out to Mr. Stllle. Ha In
sisted upon Its authenticity, although de
clining to tell how he got tho manu
script.
Mr. Stllln's reputation, which for years
had been above question as a dealor In
old books and autographs, accounted, iu
large measure, for tho Implicit faith
placed upon his guaranteo, but his re
fusal to tell where ho obtained many of
these choice Burns letters, In addition to
his apparently inexhaustible sourco of
supply, began to excite suspicion several
months before the method of the forgeries
wns fully established.
It was then clearly seen that he had
been working In collusion with Smith,
the creator of tho forgeries. Tho history
of this rcmarkablo fabricator of cele
brated autographs Is a simple one. He
was a clerk In tho office of an old-time
lawyer of Edinburgh by tho name of
Ferrler, whoi-o father had done consid
erable business for Walter Scott. In the
lawyer's office wero a number of old doc
uments which wore considered of no
value. One day they wero cleaned out
and Smith was told to destroy them. Be
ing of a curious turn of mind he took
them home. Several letters from Scott
anj others of morn or less fame were
discovered and Smith had no difficulty
In selling them for a good price. He
saw that tho market for material of that
character was steady, but the supply was
small. Nothing daunted, he resolved to
enhance tho .supply, nnd old book dealers
recalled, after tho discovery, how the
quiet man frequently pored over tho old
tomes In their shops and was always
ready to buy without haggling over tho
price, ancient English books. The plain
fly leaves in these books gavo him his old
paper for his forgeries, and In looking
over the collection In the public library
It will be noticed that tho great majority
are written on but a single sheet of
paper, His did his work In a little one
story house on the outskirts of Edin
burgh. Ills namo was Archibald How
land Smith, but ho was better known
through his apparent fondness for early
English editions as "Antique" Smith. Ho
was arrested and tried fjr forgery, but
escaped with the light sentence of one
year.
The public library Is not the only one
that has harbored these clever forgeries.
From the magnitude, of tho Kennedy pur
chase and the fact that It was kept In
tact It was easy when the fraud was de
tected to hrwnd them us spurious, but
doubtless hundreds of Burns letters as
well as autographs of other notables aro
treasured today by publlo and prlvato
collectors us genuine, while being noth
ing bettor than curious examples of the
ability of a clever penman to deceive
members of the great fraternity of col
lectors. New York Times.
Visit of Burglars
Brings the Police,
Who Start Things
1 don't know what this world Is com
ing to,", tcurfully rumarked a man taken
last night when .May Noblo's flat nt 1S23
Leavenworth street was raided as a "dis
orderly houso" by tho police. "Take this
Joint for Instance. It was going ulong
all right and tho authorities wero bliss
fully Ignorant of Its existence, when
along comes a low-down burglar with no
rcgarj for peoplo's feelings and attracts
attention by robbing tho place, and It
gets rulded."
Tho man's lament wus correct. Tho po
llco say they did not know of tho exist
ence of the flat until a burglar got In
and robbed the Noble woman of several
diamond rings and gold ornaments. Uhe
reported tho theft to tha police, and
whllo one detail of officers searched for
tho thieves another came up to tho placo
and raided It,
Miss Noble, Marie Walker, Mary Turner
and Dorothy Pahan wcro arrested and
sovcral men wero also taken. The men,
however, woro released immediately, but
tho women wero locked up.
Morris Holpern, sucpor of a lodging
houso at 614 North Sixteenth street, was
arrested by Sergeants Dillon nnd Russell
for keeping a disorderly resort.
May Noble pleaded guilty to the charge
and was fined $25 and costs by Judgo
Foster, with a promise, of a Jail sentence,
for a repetition of tho offense. Two of
the Inmates were fined J15 and costs nnd
tho others (10 nnd costs. Morris Halpern,
511 North Sixteenth street, will bo glvau
a hearing next Tuesday.
Students Decide to
Abolish Dance Club
to Defeat Machine
Student poi'.tlcs at the Central High
school tins become so strongly flavored
with machlno rule, according to somo of
tho students Interested, that a big ma
jority of the Cadet Officors' club voted
yesterday to disband that organization,
rather than allow tho "machlno" candi
date to win out over two untl-machlno
candidates whoso backers could not got
together except on tho question of disor
ganizing. The Board of Educntton had lust granted
the cadet officers permission to contlnuo
their club, provided all monoy raised by
It ou tho annual dance should bo put
Into the regimental fund. As tho machlno
had already tnado Itself an alleged nui
sance by picking most of ilio plums here
tofore available, tho opposition candidates
agrctd to dissolution when they found
neither would withdraw to glvo the
other a majority In tho cloctlon. The ro
suit was that a motion to discontinue the
club was passed by a vote of 23 to 13.
It Is understood that the three cadets
who would have been candidates for the
presidency of the club were Arno Truel
son. a member of the Lnral club, and
said to bo tho cholco of tho "machlno,"
Clay Bclsel, and Edward Baumann. The
backers of tho latter two voted, for tho,
dissolution of the club, when It was
found that neither could bo elected against
tho third candidate, whoso backers r
said practically to control tho politics at
tho Central High school.-
As a result of tho action of tho cadet
officers, no military hop can bo givon,
under the name of tho nchool, although
It Is oxpoctcd a subscription dnnce with
nil tho features of tho former may b
given by Individual cadet officers.
SOUTH OMAHA DEBATERS
WIN FROM LINCOLN HIGH
Tho second ilconnng team of the South.
Omaha High school won a unanimous de
cision over the first debating team of tha
Lincoln High school In a debato which
took placo yesterday afternoon in tin'
South Omaha High school auditorium.
Tho trust, question, which Is being de
buted In thu Stato High School Dcbatu.i
league was tho subject. Regulation -of
tho trusts was upheld by Carl Bcal, Karl
Leo and Frank Faux of South Omaha,
whllo Aaron Scblers. Ozro Woods and'
Earl Jeffrey of Lincoln put forth some
good argument In defense of tho dissolu
tion. Tho visiting team brought with thorn
lllpou Kin as alternato and . also V.
Schanafclt, tlie Lincoln debating coach.
Mr. Schunatelt was chairman of the de
bate which was well attended by students
of the high school.
Tho Judges of the debate were: Attor
ney J. JS, Bednar of South Omaha, Attor
ney Matthews of Omaha and Father Tul
mugo of Crelghton university.
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