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entered them. Set apart and kept apart
like Cain or like a leper these negroes
Buffered cruelty from the results of race
prejudice. The situation was embit
tered by the fact that the same gov
ernment as educating them, the same
rules controlled them, they wore the
same uniform, recited the same leesons
to the same teachers, ate the same food
and received the.samo rank on radua
tion. But the color of the skin kept
them from the friendly slap on the back
and the sociable 'old man" style of in'
tsreourse enjoyed by the pale faces.
Several years of this sort of thing would
turn the ordinary white boy into a mid
night mischief dosr and assassin. That
it has not changed the natural sweet
ness and good temper of the negro is a
tribute to the depth of his toleration
and the breadth of his charity.
The testimony of the meu who foujnt
with the Ninth or Twenty-first cavalry
at Santiago establishes, what we already
know, that the blacks are good fighters.
The reports pay an additional tribute
to the generosity, cheerfulness and help
ful sympathy with the sick, wounded or
over-fatigued volunteers shown by the
black regulars. Many a white man who
confesses to a prejudice against the
negro says it was conquered when his
comrade offered half hiB shelter tent in
place of the one thrown aside in the
heat of the day and the weariness of the
march. The comradery refuged the
black men by the white, when both weie
well fed and sheltered, though the big
heart under the black skin was break
ing, was accepted in the tropics when
the black men without thought of racial
generosity compassionately offered it.
The black man will win the day, not by
any civil rights bill, or compulsory cour
tesy, but by pure strength of manhood
and inherent human love and willing
ness to Eerve his kind. The law can
not secure him that social welcome
which, so sure as the sun shines, he
would accord the whites if his were the
accomplished and superior race, but
when a black boy by force of character
and intellect has risen superior to his
environment and earned an appointment
to Anapolis or West Point, it will be
timely to remind the smart little white
boys who are already there that the
warm red blocd of black men flowed for
America on the Cuban battlefield, that
their ancestors fought for the union and
died for it, before they knew what it
was except by faith, and that the sons
of brave sires are apt to make good offi
cers and should be treated with respect.
The acerbity of the American temper
which Alatbcw Arnold noted and which
caused him to prescribe sweetness and
light in large doses is mitigated by that
portion of the United States represented
by dark faces, shining eyes and willing
hands. Foveity and content they bear
lightly like great souU or like children.
The humble menu of possum and sweet
potatoes, Christmas time, bright colors,
music, and all symbols of joy and light
inspire them. All the familiar aspects
of southern plantation life have been
sung ay some lyrical darkey until the
corn and pumpkins, roads, cabins, vines
and babies of the eouth are in literature
to stay. Doubtless our utensils and
vegetables and homps are as surceptible
of lyrical gilding as those possessed by
the darkies, but our race has not lifted
them out of the commonplace. When
the white race shall have emancipated
itself from prejudice, perhaps the real
contribution of the negroes to the na
tional life will be appreciated. When
we shall look upon the race with re
spect, their mastery of life, their
serenity, cheerfulness, dignity and
imagination will preach as Matbew Ar
nold did not of sweetness and light.
Old Crusty (angrily) Well, I wouldn't
talk like a fool, if I were you.
Mrs. Crusty (very serenely) No, you
wouldn't dear.
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Wonderful are the hats exhibited next week
for the first time. There is that artistic
grace in each that connoisseurs concede to all
that emanates from J. L. Brandeis & Son's
Pattern Rooms. All new. fascinating- crea
tions, that will greatly please you with t jeir
elegance and chic style. Our head trimmer
with her assistants, who have spent the past
month in New York, among the leading Fifth Avenue milliner' parlors, have jus
returned and we will display a hundred Pattern Hats from New
York and Paris and put them
ON SAbi AT $25.00
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trimmed in the very
latest style
$3-98, $5, $7.50
and $9.98
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LADIES' TRIflMED SAILORS
the Roosevelt Hat and Military Hat, all trimmed with ribbons, ready to wear, at
75 and 98c each
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SEW FALL TAILOR MADE SUITS AT EX
CEPTIONALLY LOW PRICES.
All our suits are made of the best quality covert
cloth, kerseys, cheviot and broadcloth, in tight fit
ting, reefer and novelty effects, also flounced skirts,
in black, tanB, browns, grays, blues, all thoroughly
finished and tailored, in four great groups, at
$9.98, $12.60, SIS, 4MO
SKIRTS
500 wool brilliantine
skirts in plain, figured
and striped, woith from
S3 to 85; on sale at 81.98
Silk ruffled taffeta skirts,
ruffled all the way up.
exceptional quality of
pure silk taffeta; on sale
at 819.00.
- CAPES
Fine all wool boucle
capes, 21 inches long,
lined throughout with
black silk, either plain or
thibet fur trimmed;
86.50 boucle capes at
83.08. Black kersey and
beaver cloth capes, trim
med and braided, at 81.50
COIvLARlTTKS
200 Astracban fur collarettes, silk lined, on spe
cial sale at 82.98 and 83.00. 20 fur Collarettes in a
combination of blue fox and imitation chinchilla
and electric seal, worth 815.00; on sale at 87 50.
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The very latest novelties in ladies' Jackets, broadcloth, kersey and boucle. value from 812.50
.to 820.00. Your choice Saturday at 89.98. Misses and children's jackets, imported French
boucle, mixed novelties, silk lined throughout, on special sale at 83.98 and 84.98.
When you visit Omaha make
our store jour meeting place,
your wash up place, jour lunch
room, make it your home for the
time being and feel at home. We
have everything readv for you at
eo expense to yourself.
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ages and check them for you free
of charge. Ask any of our floor
walkers to show you our recep
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room. When in Omaha io not
fail to give us a call.
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