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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05
wool DRESS O

WOOL DRESS GOODS.
In the wool dress goods department you
Will ind a large line OF goods brought in
from the High Grade Dress Goods Depart
ment TO be closed out quick. You will find
In these goods $3.50 figured mohairs made in
England, black only; $1.9S goling cloth. So
rainy day skirts; $3.50 extra heavy cheviots,
S1.2 50-inc Secillians in black and colors,
Woo French plaids, and other suitings con-
notified mixtures. These goods run I'm
value from sf09 tu-S3.09a yard. You can
buy them Monday in 3 lots at, a yard, 4Sc,
69c and 15c. There are goods in this lot as
fine as any shown in any department, ex-
oept there are not a full line of colors.
There are 10 of colors.
We ave other dress goods, ranging in
price from DC to 39c per ~yard-they are
worth from 2 to 3 times of what We ask
SILKS.
A handsome tafreta In black and In 90
goods are sold at 75c I'm any silk depart
ment Of the United States. Monday they
will be on sale at, a yard, 49c. We have re
ferent manufacturers ODDS and ends.
They are the newest and up-to-date goods,
ably $ or s colOrs of each. They are goods
that would retail over the counter for $50
a yard-we win close them
Monday at, a yard, 59c, 4sc, lN0
We have other silks from l5c to Sc a
yard. Other specials on silks.
COTTON DRESS GOODS.
Large line Of cotton dress nj.
goods-15c plaids for ................ USC
Imitation French flannel IS inches wide.
regular 2c goods. all VIII go 0An
at a yaru IN
Genuine Eclipse flannel, 15c n3A
and Ice goods for ...............SFC
25c Albatross w%alstings for IL
loo, l2l5c, lOc and .....,.......-...... ~
Ice and 19c percales, light e
eoiors' LOT ''''''"'"'.'.s.'."~'''"""OO
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05
Furniture Sale


and sale ever held in Omaha. We secured
for spot cash over SIS. 900 Of finest furniture
from the biggest and best factories Of Wis
cOnsin and Michigan. This includes the
line of samples and their surplus stocks at
from Ia to Y the regular prices. You
never had such a chance to buy highest
quality, newest design. best finished furni-
ture at such astonishingly low prices. See
the elegant rockers in rich golden oak, every
kind, every shape at from Ia to * on regu-
lar price. Corner chairs and all odd pieces
for parlor and sitting room at greatly re-
duced prices.
In kitchen and dining room furniture you
will ind most complete assortments In
this great sale. Cabinets, chairs, tables,
sideboards at newest designs on sale at big
reductions from the usual price.
In metal beds and bedroom furniture OF
every description we are displaying the
choicest and most varied stocks ever put
on sale. The design and finish of these
goods is most artistic.
You can buy S-piece parlor suites worth
S27. 90 in this sale at $500. 5-piece parlor
suites worth 5000 in this sale at s21OO.
$500 Morris chairs in this sale at $3.50.
$500 couches in best velours in this sale at
1895. $500 couches in best velours in this
sale at $500. S14.OO eouches in best velours
in this sale at $500. $4,000 leather couches
in this sale at s1s.75. Get Hayden Bros
prices on once furniture
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05
The Leading Dress Goods House of
the West.

In this department can 10 found everything in High Grade Dress Goods from
SOC $40 per yard. PTtesuyse CLEANLINESS, vones Ind tailor surings in blacks, are the
best in the world. Lupms vones Examines m tailor sutngs md cheviot, in
nd coIrs, are ony surpassed by Prtslys We are showing over 10000
Of dres goods. waiungs etc, AM we buy direct hOm The manufactures
and our prices therfOre are from 25 to 80 per cent cheaper thar any other house in
this western country.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05

Knowing the big AksarBen rshw would run down stocks we had our eastern buyers keep a
lookout for desirable purchases and gave thma heh hand as to quantities A a r@uIt
we can announce the receipt of
Thousands Of Cases Of Choice Dry Goods OF All
Kinds, CIOaks, Suits, Underwear, and SsveraI Carloads
of Furniture.

which will go on sale beginning Monday Most of the dry goods from thse big purchases VIII
be in the bargain room. The oaks md suits on the second floor the underwear on the main
floor and the furniture will be displayed don our three big furniture floors
You Never Saw Such Gigantic Bargains, Such Vast AssOrtments, Such
SensatiOnaIIy Low Prices as ~Eaydsn's Now Otter You.
All the extra clerks hed for AksarBen week, hayebe retained to wait on you promptly
The goods are arranged Ito make selections Easy and satisfactory. Mail orders fnd, where any
foods are left when order is received.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05

Just that little word winslow means the
best taffeta silk on earth, S1.O0.
Elegant silks, worth 75c, $1.0O and SLIPS.
for 4sc-100 pieces OF fine black swivel and
brocher novelties. tamano and the new
eligete silks; these comprise some Of the
newest and richest Of this seasons novel;
ties, we offer these elegant silks for this
week, 49c.
Tsffets ekaf-a Japanese taffeta for lin
ines, all silk. all c%oiors. 3sc.
Who ever heard of fine black ~taffetas be-
ing sold at such prices. This surely is the
greatest sale Of black ~tafetas ever held.
Black %taffeta. 1s-in. wide, worth soc. for
ssc; black t~afeta. 2O-in. wide, worth 100,
for 57hc. Black tafeta. 27-in. wide. worth,
$3.50, for Toe. Raglan t%affeta, 27-in.
wide. worth $500. for csc. Black ~taffeta,
26-in. wide. worth SLIPS. for 69c.
Black %taffeta. Se-in. wide. worth $3.50. for
s5c.
Black taffeta. ss-in. wide. worth $500.
for csc.
Black tareta. ss-in. wide, worth $3.50.
for s1.2O.
We offer 10 pieces Of the celebrated 54-in.
wide black ~taffeta, this is all silk and COM
monty sells for $500. on sale here, for only
S1.5O.
You should certainly buy your silk dress
during this sale. we can save you money
and give you the best silk that you can
buy.
Black peau de sole, 2O-in.. worth s1.OO
for SIC.
Black peau de sole. 2l-in.. worth $500
for CSC.
MAIL ORDERS flled-we prefer to HI
cannot give you an idea of the great meri
In selection, and If not satisfactory we r
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05

MAILo ORDERS hned-we prefer to have you send in for the goods, as samples
in selection, md If not satisfactory We refund your money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
THE ADVERTISER IS
 HIS POLITICAL BIBLE.

T notice that you wish to compliment some of the longest readers of The Ad- vertise; You will excuse me for calling attention to a man who is too modest to speak of himself. refer to Col. Wal ter K. Dawson of Camp hill. Ala Col onel Dawson is one of our most dis tirguisnt and useful citizens. He is a large land owner in easy circumstances. anu 2 Christian gentleman; full Of en- terpriSc aad beueVolence. He is a mem Der of the Baptist Church.
 "Colcnl Lawson is q sol of Gen. L.. G. Dawson. who swore by The Adver- tiser. in matter.i political Young Daw- son began to r, ad The Advertiser in his fathers home in the hfties. In lS'! he became subscriber. in his own name. and with the exception Of d short skip or two has been d subscriber ever since. He is now in his ihth year He is the most intense Advertiser admrer that l have ever known. The Advertiser has up to now. He fought now-nothingism and The Mail with all the energy of his nature. II, fought N ats and Judge in their campaign for Congress and voted for Dowdell of Lafayette. He fought fo' Yancey and secession. and was for whi,1 ma. rule in .he fearful period Iof reconstruction. He opposed the Ali ance movement in every shape, and on all of the ground and under every name. He has stood against the Third Party and every other party except the straight age of silver and was a Gold Standard Democrat in spite of all that the major ity in our section could say. lie opposed Jos. Y. Johnston for Gove-n0:. and WIS in favor of the Constitutional Conven- ton and voted for the new Constitution, He stands opposed to the Johnston and Shelley combination.
 Camp Hill, Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05

The office was reached by an outside stairway and gallery on the Lawrence Sti eet side. The editor oince was the front room upstairs at the corner. The printing department occupied several of tne rear rooms.
 In 1si0 Mir. John Thomas Walsh, a Catholic Irishman, and d gentleman of many varied accomplishments. became tho principal editor of me AdE,rtlser, hip partner, MT. Belser. being often abs sent attending the courts of the judicial circuit to which Montgomery county then belonged. The tirm name now was belser & walsh. Eighteen hundred and forty Was the year of that most mtIn- orable struggle between the N hig and the Dsmocratic parties for th,. control of thd Governm.nt. William Henry iiAfri- son and John Tyler were the Whig can dlddtes for the Presidency and Nice-Pres ioency. Martin Van buren and Richard M. Johnson were the Democratic candi- dates. IL Was an ardent pohtical cam paign. Nothing like 1t has ever been seen in Alabama since thLt tune. Inc ', his newspaper Ot MontEJnsI,, at thai
 time was l he Alabama Journal cdIteu oy Joseph J: Hutchiasnn. .t law plrt ltr or Henry w. hIliard. who WAS Uh- or the leaders of the N nig Party in Ala
 hama. MT Hillard wrote many political
 articles for The Journal during this eampaign: These two men, hi!liard and hutchinson, contributed largely by tongue and pen to the victory won by the Wings in Montgomery that year Both were able writers and brilliant or ators. MT. Walsh of The Advertiser was
 no speaker. but he won great reputation for himself by his splendid editorial ar ticles in defence of Democratic princi- pies and policies. Throughout the sum- mer and autumn of 1Si0 the editors of
 these two rival newspapers, The Journal
 and The Advertiser. argued. discussed protested. squabbled, and fought-with
 their pens During this remarkable cam paign both newspapers sent out supple
 mentary campaign weeklies. The Demo- cratic sheet issued from The Advertiser office was called The Locufoco,' edited by Perez Coleman. Esq. a lawyer with
 out clients. but an intense Democrat
 withal The Alabama Journals campaign paper was styled The Light of the Log
 Cabin The editor was William Harri- son Ogburne. Esq. who also was d young lawyer without clents) and a plantt: besides.
 Nh. walsh had an unfortunate habit of snifting loudly when he talked. if he
 was the least bit excited. The unregen- crate Wings of M Montgomery who could
 not endure his punsent gibes and fieers at the Log Cabin Coon skin and Hard Cide: arguments of the Whig:, gave him.
 with reference to this disagreeable habit of su!AinS, the nick name of "Snufty
 Billy" albeit his name was not William
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05

ing my subscription The proprietors of tho paper at that time were Brittan and Blue. The office was on the east side of Perry Street between Dexter Avenue and Monroe Street, in d building which had been erected few years before. as rival of the old Rialto. higher up on Perry Street. on the same side. The Carroll House. as it was called in honor of Gen. James G. Carroll, a popular cit izea of Montgomery dt that time. was not a prosperous venture, and the prop erty in 1853 had been either leased or purchased by The Advertiser people When l visited the office in the summer of lS51, Mat Blue, one of the owners. conducted me through the establishment of which he naturally felt proud. There was at that time q pretty complete joh printing departments and book bindery conected with the business Here for the first time l saw q power press in opera ton.
 If there has ever been any break in my subscription to The Advertiser since my name was first placed on it's books 1 do not remember it. For some short interval perhaps since the close of the war it is possible that my name does not appear on the books. If this is so. 1t ia explained by the fact that for some time, for the sake of convenience. l was d subscriber through q news aGency in Tuscaloosd
 '.I have been greatly indeb bted to The Advertiser during nearly the whole or 2
 life which has just now passed the Psalmists bourn of three score and ten, In its pages I have read. with proper feelings of pride. of the gradual growth of my native place from small town
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
FLORENCE-SHEFFIELD
(Continued from Page Eleven.)

community within itself. happy and con- tented
 Several other large mines are operated fin tho Russellville district, but the Sloss- Snameld Company's Is the most repre- sentative and modern in equipment. Ev- erything possible is done with steam, and tho cost of production Is mnlmlzed ny this means. together with the eXperl- ence of the past twelve years since the mines were first opened by Colonel Enoch Ensley and associates. who were rioneer5 in the development of the iron industry in North Alabama These mines were shut down when the furnaces were blown cut during the panic Of 93 because there was no demand for ore and the price had dropped below the cost or pro- ductoh. Then again the mines were largely operated Dy day labor instead of the new and improved machinery noM used, and the cost of operating, besides serious delays on account of the ralny seasons and the lack of water supply during the successive droughts, have all been overcome by scientific engineering projects.
 The ore in the Russellville district as says from 4S to 5S per cent. metallic iron, as against an average of d6 per cent. to 3S per cent. for the red ore of the Birmingham district. The ores of kussellville and West Point are consid- cred as rich and compare favorably with the Pennsylvania and Ohio brown ores.
 Coke Supply.
 The coke used in the Sloss-Shefield dis trict comes from Stonega, Va. and the N arrior Coal fields of Alabama. The Virginia coke is more expensive on ac- count of the freight which is $l.Io Der ton against 60 cents per ton from the Alabama mines. The ' virginia coke is better .nan the Alabama eoNe from bloss- burK anu Brookside, but when the Sloss- SheneIu Company puts in operation It's new eight foot vein near Little Warrior riVer anu the coke ovens now being Dullt are operated they will be able 10 make coke equally aS fine as the Stonega coke Tor $-.-U anu SZ.25 per ton laid down here against $o,oU now paid for the Virginia ovens wlu be brought over the Northern Ala odma kdiirOad on the brancn now being built by the Southern Railway from Parish 10 connect With the BIT mingham southern Railway. The coke supply has been a serious problem in the lt..ncssee alley heretofore on account of the prices, quality and quantity but titld furnaces have made iron as cheap 1T not cheaper than the Birmingham dis trict on account of high grade ores rich CT in metallic iron which required less coke. The new Sloss- Sheffield mines ana coke ovens now being built are probably the most important development of the kind in the State. The company recent ly made an exchange with the State of Alabama for a lot of the University Coal Lands, which has consolidated and uni- ted its coal and coke interests. This coal supply is low in sulphur and will make as high grade coke as can be produced | in the South. The future coal and coke supply Of the Tennessee Valley is no l longer serious problem, but is coming nearer solution each year. Coal de- positS are found all along the Northern ! Alabama Railway and a vein of coal has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
ON OF THE OLDEST AND BEST
 NEWSPAPERS IN ALABAMA.

T am sure that there are many per sons in Alabama now living, who com menced reading your paper long before myself, and hence I only write, while this matter is under discussion, to show my early and late connection with the paper. came to Ashvile on the Sth day of January. 1856. and soon thereafter l think within that year. I subscribed for the weekly. 1 continued to take the
 weekly until some time in the fall season of the year 1860, when l subscribed for the daily. I continued to take the daily until some time in the fall season of the year 1oGl. when I turned my atten-- ton to matters in no way connected with my chosen profession. and con- tinued in this business. reaching my home and office again on the 4th day of August, 1865. So soon as could get money enough l again took the Weekly Advertiser. This I continued up to some time in the early seventies. when I again become a subscriber to the daily, and pretty much since that time I have sub scribed for and read the daily. It may be away back in the early eighties that only read the weekly, but 1t is my recollection now that after I commenced taking the daily in the early seventies that I have ever since been keeping it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
ONE OF THE OLDEST
 RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA

Mrs Mary E. Stone, the subject of this sketch, and widow of the late Chief Justice Geo. w. Stone, was born in
 Claiborne Monroe County. AR. Decem- her 9i. lSli She was the daughter of Pascal and Elizabeth Phillips Harrison, Her girlhood was spent in Iowndes County. On the lst of May. 1898, she married Dr. James Burr Lathrop. promising young physician from Massa- chuSt tt. They lived few years Tn Alabama then moved to Grand Lake, on the Mississippi River. After the lapse of a yea, they went 10 Camden Ark:. and remained there until his death, which occurred February 2, 1850. She then re- turned to Alabama, liking with her moth CT in Lowndes County until her marriage with Captain Nathaniel H. Wright Oone of the best of mem, June 9. 1855. He died October II, 1883. On the Sth of Eco ruary. lS6G she married George w
 Stone. Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama. For twentyeight years they lived happilytii together. but on March H. 1891. he fell asleep, leaving behind him the record of an unblemished life and testifyinR his unfaltering faith In our Savior. Since his death she has resided with her daughter. Mrs. F.. T. LtdNard
 During all the HicissltudeT of her life she has always been the same true-hearted. earnest woman. uhselfish to a fault and eminently charitable in word as well as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05

that, at the early age of years. l was able to read q newspaper and enjoy the reading. let me say, by way of expianar ton, that l was sent to school before | which 1 learned my letters was small office of one room that stood sheer on the southwest corner of Washington ana Perry Streets. where now stands the Masonic Temple. This place was only a few yards from my fathers home on the south side of Washington Street. be tween Court and Perry. The name or the good dame who kept this school has long since faded from my memory me next year. 1sS4, l was a pupil of Miss Willers (or Willard who kept a school for little boys and girls on the west side of Court Street near the foot or ing occupied by the Montgomery Branch of the Bank of the State of Alabama. In 1885 was a pupil of MT. and Mrs: Peter Maner. who lived % ana Kept sns scnool which. thins. is still standing at the southeast corner of Clayton and Sayre Streets; but Sayre Street at that tima was only a road leading southwardly careful instruction of Mrs. Maher l learned to read we'll
 When MT, Chids retired from The Advertiser, which event must have taken place some time in 1S37. Marcellus Far msr became joint proprietor with Mr. Belser of the paper, MT. Belse' contin- uins to be the editor. l rem .iber but little about MT. Farmer. He ds a grave and silent man. not at g. inclined to pet the- three little boys 10 frequented the office for the purpoS of reading the news. Unlike Mir. Chil6 :, he was a tall. gaunt man. untidy of dress and sallow of face. Mr. Blues cord says that he was New Yorker. he certainly looked more like dirt-eat'ng cracker from the clay hills of Georgia. About this time the office of The Advertiser was re- moved from the Pond Building to the second story of the brick building which still stands on the northwest corner of Dexter Avenue and Lawrence Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05

Green grow the rushes o, On the banks or Allan water! Being solicited to sing again he sang song which at that time Was much in vogue, Let the toast be dear woman. MT. Walsh was de- vout Catholic. Many time in my hoy hood have seen him kneeling and say ing his prayers in the little wooden Catbolic Church, which stood exactly on the corner of Adams and Lawrence Street'. where the priests residence Is Church.
 During this never forgotten campaign of 1si0 I read all these Montgomery newspapers diligently. and. as I was only years of age then, I probably got more so-called facts into my head than my brain could we'll assimiate; but did learn in general way something of the Important policies supported by the Wings and antagonizcd by the Demo- eerats. namely, high tariff for protec- ton of American manufactures. a Ma tional Bank with branches in different parts of the country. and the expend- ture of money by the Federal Govern ment in aid of internal improvements.
 "I read The Advertiser after this dur ing all the time of my boyhood and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
Opelika, Ala.
DIR. WALTER c. JACKSON.
 HIS LIFE AND WORK

A1S LIFE ANU WORK.
 Dr. Walter Clarke Jackson Is a native Of the portion of Fillmore County, which was formerly a part of Autauga County. Ala. The date of his birth was July IA, 1S2i. His birthplace is 'Ellersley,' for a long while the home of his uncle. Major Boiling Hall. who. during different terms, was Autauga's Representative in the sons grandfather, Hon. James Jackson. was member of the Convention of 1S19. which framed the first Constitution for the State of Alabama His other grand father, Hon. Boiling Hall. represented, in Congress, ono of the districts of Geor- gia. Subsequently, Mir. Hall removed to Alabama. Dr. Jacksons father was MT. Absolom Jackson. an esteemed citizen of Crawford Motley Jackson. in 1851 Speaker of the House of Representatives of Ala bama. was an uncle of pr. Jackson. In 1851 Dr. Jackson completed the medical course in the University of Pennsylva- mia. and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In lS5c he located in Mont gomery, and from that year has been reg ularly engaged in the practice of medi- whole time of the var of ls6l-65, Dr. Jackson, as did other physicians of Mont gomery. attended sick and wounded Con- federates in hospitals then here. Previ- ous to the war Dr. Jackson was mem Der of the Alabama State Medical Asso- ciatfon. In 1868 a number of former mem- bers including pr. Jackson, met in Sel- ma and reorganized the Association. Dur ing series of terms Dr. Jackson was Treasurer of the Association. For one year he was President of the Medical and Surgical Society of Montgomery. Df. Jackson is one of the ten original members of the Social Medical Club of Montgomery: which was organized in 1872, and which continues to hold its fortnightly meetings in the fall, winter and spring.