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Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
.ENNEITN
.EVsTthlng tOi Everybody -
Store Closed Monday. You must
Do TWo Days Shopping Saturday
Prices Christmas Goods Are LoWer You WM Be Served Quickly Her

Many stocks are too arge-we must force the selling It is
simply to the late Joined
Holiday displays
palnabe delayed delivery.
So visit to Benefits pleasant
surprise for have through
tables
will surely them this
basement and through the entire torhe bargains
will want in department
Articles considered beyond purse within
easy reach The friend wanted good present
finally decided
70 tts
be al
Christmas. Two days shopping n
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Full cream cheese and 10
stamps, per lb.,..... .2oc
2 cans hulled beans with
chicken and 80 sips, 25c
3 pkgs. Benefits Capitol
mincemeat a. 10 sips, 25o
2 cans Country Gentleman
corn and 10 stamps. .25o
2 cans Bennetts Capitol
whole tomatoes and 10
stamps ........,,,, ACC
2 pkgs. seeded raisins and
10 stamps ,.....,... goo
Medium bottle GaillRrd'S
olive oil and so sips, 45o
65c bottle Dalidets mar
aschino cherries, ,.. $50
Batavia asparagus tips and
10 stamps, can. 25o
2 cans BENEFITS Capitol
sifted early June peas and
10 stamps for....... .25o
Snider's salad dressing ana
10 stamps, per bottle, 26o
Diamond Crystal table salt
and 10 stamps, sack. 100
40c bottle Queen olives
stuffed with olives or al
n onds .............. SOC
Cane and maple butter and
20 stamps, jar. ...,..2 25o
2 cans shrimp and 10
stamps ...... ....... .2bo
Candied peel, assorted, and
10 stamps, per Id. ..,,,2 25o
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

We are headquarters Tor
FRESH COUNTRY BUT
TER--Tho lb., acc, 2ec,
900, $40 and. ....... $40
24-lb. sack queen of Pan
try" pastry flour and 40
stamps ...,........, SA'1o
Benefits Excelsior flour
special offer of a sack
at ..,... ..,... 'pi'oS
Bennett's best coffee and 90
stamps, per lb. 3bc
3 lbs. BENEFITS best coffee
and go stamps. s.... .$l.oo
Assorted teas and 70
stamps. per lb........6 .6sc
Assorted teas and 60
stamps, per lb.......4s 4so
Tea siftings and 10 stamps,
per lb...,............15o
Sweet cider. gallon 25c
40c jar olives stuffed with
almonds ........... SOC
Snider's chile sauce and 10
stamps, bottle. ..... 25o
DOUBLE STAMPS ON ALL
KINDS OF BUTTERINE.
Benefits Capitol extracts
and 20 stan ps, bottle. 18o
2-lb. pkgs. Benefits Capitol
oats and pancake flour
and 10 stamps. lOc
Virginia Swiss cheese and
10 stamps, per lb......25o
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
are Christmas Bargains in the Boys Store

Very elaborately trimmed Indian
play suits in sizes from to 12
years inclusive, S1.00 and $3.50.
Boys nObby felt hats in tele-
scope styles; all colors, $1.0O,
$1.25 and $3.50 each.
all sizes, 75c, $1.25, $3.50.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Other Wanted Mems Furnishings

3-piece combination sets; silk
hose, tie and handkerchiefs to
match in Christmas boxes; $3.50
and $2.00.
apiece combination sets; silk
hose and tie to match, $1.OO and
$3.50.
3-piece combination sets; sus-
penders, arm bands and garters
to match in Christmas boxes, soc
and 75c.
Fancy suspenders in Christmas
boxes, soc, 75c and $1.00.
Guaranteed Shawknit hose--four
pairs in a fancy Christmas box,
$1.O0.
soc silk hose with Isle heels
and toes, 35c the pair.
Extra heavy silk hose, soc to
$1.25.
Night robes and pajamas pur-
chased for Christmas gift-giving,
800 to S2.00.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Children's all wool rompers in
fast plain blue and gray colors,
regular $1.O0 values at 75c.
Knitted toques, fur lined and
fur caps; all sizes and styles at
25c to $1.75.
Boys pajamas, pretty colors and
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Women's Hosiery for Gifts

Women's silk hose with Isle tops and
soles; an extra heavy quality full regu-
lar made, fast black, S1.5O the pair.
Women's 14-inch silk boot hose with
lsle garter tops, fun seamless and fast
black, all sizes, SOC the pair.
Women's full regular made fast black
mercerized hose that looks like silk and
feels like silk but wears much better
S5c the pair or three pairs for S1OO.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Fancy Sunklst navel or
anges, sweet and juicy,
at, per dozen
25c values, for. .2Oc
35c values, for. .25C
40c values, for. 300
45c values, for. .35c
Ten s. & II. Green
Trading Stamps with each
dozen.
3 large punches lettuce
Tor .,..,,,.... .1OC
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Christmas Candies

soc hand rolled and hand dipped
chocolates, assorted flavors. 29o 10.
csc shelled English walnuts, soc 10
2bC Yankee peanut brittle, $50 H.
nuts, 100. Special prices on all
Christmas mixed candles,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Fancy $500 night robes are
specially priced for Saturday at
$40.
Fine Jersey sweaters in navy,
grey and maroon, 79c to $500.
Mems and boys wool sweater
coats, all colors, $1.00 to $4.00.
High grade coat shirts in all
the newest colorings and patterns,
maze of best percales and madras,
$1.00, $3.50 and $500. ~.
English seal fur caps for Christ
mas gifts, $500, $3.50 and $500
each.
Mems wool caps with fur lin
ing, soc to $1.50. , 60
All the new shapes in mems
soft and stiff hats at $500, $2.5O
and $3.00--which is considerably
less than you will pay in any other
store for hats of the same grade.
Mems imported beaver hats at
$500 to $3.50.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23

Choice mixed nuts, ID. 15c
Extra fancy English wal
nuts, per ID. zoe
Fancy dates, per b., 1Oc
California Mission figs,
something new, lib.
brick for. zoe
Seven Crown figs, h., zoe
3 large Florida grape
Irult ...s ... 2Oc
2 quarts Cape Cod cram
berries .25C
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Foot Stools

$1.75, weathered oak
foot stools with uphol-
stored leather tops, full
nine inches high and
measuring 1OkX14A inch
at the top, will be placed
on sale for Saturday only
at s6c each.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Pure Food Extras

Don't forget that there is extra days shopping
to do this week. for the store will be closed all day
next Monday on account of Christmas.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
How Long Has 1t Been
Since You GaVe Your Wife
a Box of Perfume?

Saturday we will dispose of
all of our boxed perfumes at a
third less than the regular prices.
this means you get a S1.OO box for
67c, a 75c box for SOC and soc box
for 34c.
Other Specials Are
75c Azurea toilet water at. .... Csc
$3.50 La Trefle and Azurea toilet
water at. ................ 80
S2.00, apiece manicure sets at $1.09
75c buffers at............ at 30c
Powder and jewel cases, worth up to
$3.50, while they last. 80. 1s Off
$1.00 rosewood back clothes brushes
Tor .......-. ...........,. 7Oc
$3.50 Pyrolin hair brushes -. zoe
Large 15c chamois skin. ......1 1Oc
$500 natural ebony military brushes
lot s...'.''' SS.2b
S1.00 Azurea and La Trefle face
powder Soc
SOC Pebeco tooth paste ..... SOC
Isabells soc face powder. 80. .30c
15c bottle Antichap. ap..........12c
Ponds Csc vanishing cream. 80. .10c
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
Handkerchief Special Val
ueS from Among Hundreds

Women's hand embroidered pure Irish
linen handkerchiefs, l5c each.
Women's pure Irish linen handkerchiefs
in all of the newest and most wanted de-
signs, a regular soc quality at Csc each
or three for Sl00.
Mems extra heavy pure Irish linen
handkerchiefs with neatly embroidered
initials--an unusual bargain at 12l5c each.
Mems pure Irish linen handkerchiefs
of very superior grade, have neatly
embroidered initials, Csc each or s1.40 the
box of six.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
THE NEED OF A SUBWAY.

IT n hundreds of cases risks of injury or death are taken any day
during the hours OF busiest travel at Broad and Market streets,
the second busiest travel centre in the United States. There
are four policemen at the Four Corners, and they have been trained
in the handling of street traffic, but their presence is not an insur
ance against accident. A Public Service employee hags the cars
across the crossing in a systematic way, alternately giving the cars
On each street the right of way, but neither the policemen nor the
Public Service Company can restrain the needless or venturesome
or heUildered pedestrian. Holding up crowds of people while pro
eessiOns of cars pass the corners is always a risky performance when
there 10 nothing 10 prevent individuals from rushing in front of cars
and being caught by cars passing in the opposite direction. The
holdup ar the crossing is also a loss of time TO May people bent on
business engagements or catching railroad trains. The congestion
at the -Four Corners makes a serious loss of time in street transpor-
tation. And there is only one way to remedy this intolerable condi-
tion that becomes worse as the city grows in population aud traffic,
and that remedy is a subway, Some mistaken business and prop
erty interests object for selfish reasons. 1t may be recalled that the
business men on Sixth avenue, New York, kicked vigorously against
the building of an elevated road in the belief that the people travel.
ing on it would not patronize their stores. They saw their blunder
when they found that the road had made the avenue the great shop
ping centre in Manhattan.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
xxxTy--HARp CONSISTENCY.

Like the person whose fingers are ex-
tremely stiff is he who's palms are a
a very hard consistency.
But, in addition to the obstinacy
characteristic of stiff fingered folk
there must be added to him of the hard
palm an unconquerable desire to be
up and doing"
He will crave for work even If there
is no useful purpose to be attained by
1t. To him work is as essential as
recreation is TO others.
With q big, stiff thumb such a per-
son Is an i~nexorable taskmaster. He
can't for the world of him understand
why everybody else shouldn't be just
as indefatigable as he.
Conformably with the obstinate ma
ture of hard-handed people they will
be found to be conservative. They do
not seem to possess the mental elias
ITCHY requisite for adapting themselves
to new conditions.
Later when we come to consider the
mounts we shall see how important
a role Consistency" plays. particu-
larly hard consistency, which rarely is
desirable and often becomes o menace
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07

The People s Rostrum


the theme was exaggerated, that such
narrow people no longer existed, but
10, and behold! A parson in Long
Island is tried by his congregation on
a serious charge. He said ''pish, tush"
at a bowling match when one of the
howlers failed TO make the expected
strike, and. of course, the congregation
was shocked.
Now ''pisf, tush" is indeed a wicked
thing to say, and we do not wonder
that the congregation was up in arms
against the pastor. He was further
criticised for attending bowling
matches; such things are not for par
sons evidently.
What | cannot understand Is this:
Why, if a bowling match is not wicked
for a layman is it wicked for a parson?
1t seems to me that a parson is better
equipped to withstand all sorts of
temptations. and his presence in any
place that is not altogether in accord
with the ideas of tn deacons is less
dangerous to his morals than to the
morals of the laynan.
Until Christians will become broad
and tolerant Christianity will not at
tain to it's full power. Christianity as l
understand it is d religion of faith and
tolerance. Christians. such as are
found in this Long Island church, are
narrow, ignorant and biggoted.
ALEXANDER HOPE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
Why the M~inisterluI Changes.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
] wonder if the time will ever
when our Methodist brethren will get
rid of the old-fashioned idea of maxi
ing ministerial changes at every on
ference.
OF course. change about may be
d good plan in many a Line of work,
and that particular corner of the
vineyard cultivated by the Methodists
may have been suited to this custom
in the old days when the circuit rider
was in the saddle. For aught l know
the change about" idea is an evolution
of the rider"
But, while this plan may work in GER
ain fields of human endeavor ! doubt
very much its advantage in religious
work. 1t must be rather tiresome, TO
say the least, for a man of talent and
ability to see a spiritual crop that he
has harvested go to waste in the hands
of someone else. The man who ''hus-
banded the golden grain" should en-
JOY it as long as he lives.
l know that some Methodist minis
ters are kept in their old pulpits for
many a year, but they are the excep-
ton and not the rule. Even they have
the Damocles sword of change ever
dangling e their heads. L.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
The .snIbeard, ballot.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
The sample of ballot that the public
would be forced to use under the
proposed Geran law looks more lie a
proof-sheet of a city directory Of a
small town than a voting ballot.
What on earth would the average
u~neducated voter do with such a mass
of names and political parties as APP
pear on the ballot He would be hope
lessly at sea and would not know how
to vote. The present ballot is culnber-
some and hard enough for all but the
most intelligent voters to properly
mark and cast.
With the billboard ballot necessary
under the Geran law thousands of bal
lots would be spoiled by Illegal mark
ing on election days. And If voting
machines are ever going to come into
general use, how on earth would such
a mass of names as appears IN the
sample ballot be handled on the ma
chine? CURIOUS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
poLYDORE QUESTION BOX.

Question: have a star-like looking
figure on the feshy part of the palm
just beneath the index finger. There
is a line running from this star TO the
line which forms a semi-cixcle at the
base of wha you have called Mount
of Venus" or ball of the hand" /
have often wondered whether there Is
any meaning in these markings. Will
you please tell?
Answer-It affords me a more than
usual degree of pleasure 70 answer the
foregoing question, as the markings
you refer to are regarded as extreme
ly favorable in palmistry.
The line rising from the line en-
! circling the ball OF the band is In
dicative of a very high ambition The
reason it is read as significant OF am
bition is because 1t run to the So
called Mount of Jupiter (the tieshy
protuberance at the base of the index
finger), which stands for ambition and
desire for leadership.
The star on that mount speaks of the
fullest realization of yolr dreams of
ambition.
This is not to b. understood as being
a sort of prescience of a future event.
as il seen with a prophetic eye. 1t is
merely natures way of telling in her
own peculiar sign language that you
possess all the qualifications that make
for success. For a star pn the Mount
of Jupiter is the hierossyphic which,
as palnistry has discovered, gives as
surance of the presence of every trait
which is indispensable to the carrying
out of ambitious projects.
If nothing happens to mar so desir-
able a combination of qualities as you
undoubtedly possess you are Justly
entitled to sincere congratulations.
And the congratulations are not due
so much to the prognostAcated success
which make that success possible.
For, TO attain the goal of your an1bi-
ton. you must have not only a Axe
purpose which nothing can shake, but
must also be equipped with good health
and exceptionally strong mental visor.
You must also have sufficient imasi-
nation to foresee and resourcefulnesx
10 Hedu Oil opStdCieS LHdL Will I'm
doubtedly present themselves.
And that you are gifted with the
ability to organize and rule men and
to govern situations is also a foresons
conclusion.
All these traits are no doubt indi-
Gated by markings in your hand. But
the star is q sort Of summary Of them
all.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
Expert Testimony a Farce.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
While 1t is not at all new, l read
last week Of a trial in which a man
accused of committing murder is put
ting forth expert testimony to prove
his insanity. Nothing is more f~arcical
to my mind in our judicial proceedings
than the testimony given by experts.
The experts hired by the Sta.e say
one thing and the experts hired by the
defendant, Of course, say another
thing. In cases where the defendant
is rich and can hire a lot of exper.
testimony the State must necessarily
hire a lot Of testimony to combat it,
with the result that there is a long
Drawn out judicial wrangle with quib-
bling pro and con. the burden Of the
expense, Of course being on the tax
payer.
That his whole thing is a farce is
evidenced by the fac that the expert
who says one thing at one time says
the opposite when he is hirel by the
other side, as witness the Thaw trial
All these trials only serve 10 de3rals4
the American peoples respect for law
and justice as it is administered.
Would it not be a sensible plan to
have q permanent lunacy commission
paid by the State to decide all such
cases? In Justice TO the taxpayer, and
particularly to the accused, this ought
to be done. A rich man can buy
enough expert testimony to convince
almost any jury, while no o % mau
under the present system can take ad-
vantage Of the same legal privilege.
What would have happened to Thaw
in all probability if he had been UNI
able 10 hire all that splendid ARA OF
expert testimony?
I do @ wish to be misunderstood.
Since the courts decided SO | agree
that he may have been insane, bat
look at the money it cost him to prove
it. Dr.. Sanders, the great German
criminologist. says that out of every
100 insane persons brought for trial the
mental condition of only 90 per cent.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
THIRTEEN WEEKS TO GET THE HANG OF IT:

IT T has been remarked that since the Constitution of this State
Ii was adopted in 1914 there was no bill introduced in the Legis-
lature which required the pruning and patching that have been
demanded for the Record Geran bill, which has been wrestled with
for thirteen weeks in private and public conferences and is not yet
in shape to be voted on. Yesterday the Senate passed a number of
important bills relating to the schools of the State with very little
discussion and with a bare quorum present. There was brief and
languid debate. These bills had received no previous consideration
in and out of the Legislature and we're unnoticed by the Governor,
On Tuesday and Wednesday the Senate committee on elections
spent the two entire days correcting the blunders in the Record
seran bill. The entire session thus far and the entire attention
of the State administration during the session have virtually
been devoted to the Record Ceran bill. and on Monday night the
session will enter upon its fourteenth week. The natural impress
sion held by the dsinterested outsider is that there is something
wrong, either in the bill or in the Legislature. or in the State az
ministration, when it takes thirteen weeks to get the hang of a
single act of legislation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
THE PROPOSED PUBLIC SCHOOL REFORMS.

HF the pending school reform bills shall be passed by the
II Legislature something like real reform will be effected in
public school administration in this State, and reform has long
been needed. The cost of the schools is enormous, and they do not
get the benefit of all the expenditure. Investigation has shown that
there is all kinds of graft in the school districts and that many
thousands of dollars are annually misappropriated or stolen. Be
sides this thRvery there are unnecessary expenses, costly blunder
ing and improper methods, due to lack of intelligence by local
school boards. The law cannot put brains into the heads of school
commissioners, but it can hold them up strictly to their official re
possibilities. In matters such as schoolhouse construction, text
hooks and other like essentials the local board can be regulated
by a higher and betterinstructed authority. There is no question
in this State of Importance equal to the public school system of the
State, and it is extraordinary that the two dozen reform bills intro
duced in the Legislature by the school district investigating com
nittee should receive the Indifferent attention given to them at
Trenton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
Just q Line
About Men
You Know

Captain Michael Ryan, of the First
Precinct Police Station. has part of his
office fitted up with relics that would
make some wise gamblers" sit up and
take notice. In one corner he has ar
ranged the paraphernalia taken from
gambling houses and prisoners.
All these are arranged so that a per-
son can easily see how readily they can
be separated from their money with
devices which on the surface look to De
honest. The dice he has taken the
trouble to have sawed through so that
one can see how they are loaded
Other dice are shown to have only
three numbers on them where there
should be six.
The captain calls this his ''rogues
gallery" He rarely allows anyone about
when he's not there, for he fears the
souvenir collectors.
Among the members of the Essex
county bar who once chased the festive
item in the local newspaper field are
Judge Thomas A. Davis, former Judge
Frederick F. Guild, Joseph A.. Beecher,
Frank NJ. McDermit, Daniel Dugan,
Meyer Kussy, William A. Lord and
Paul W. Roder. Some of them still
have q deep love for the field,
Fred L. Salmon, criminal court stem
ographer, is responsible for the state
ment that the really good stenographer
is the one who can read imperfect notes.
Salmon went on to explain that, no
matter how rapidly a s~tenographer can
write, he cannot make perfect notes and
keep pace with the average lawyer in
court proceedings.
For this reason many of the short
characters are made hurriedly and
imperfectly, and it is the man who can
read the imperfect notes that is d really
good stenographer.
IT may interest many TO know that
police headquarters now is about the
busiest place in town. The men realize
in a short time there will be a call
for candidates for a new captain. and
many are fitting themselves for the
civil service examination. Each de-
teetive sergeant has ambitions an is
eagerly perusing the dictionary to bet
ter his spelling and reading many of
the popular mick Carter and "Dia-
Dick detective stories to aequaint
himself with the up-to-date sleuths.
It's great to watch the men practise
writing, for man are now endeavoring
to cultivate the vertical system.
Last week a man was arraigned as
a yagrant before Judge Herr at the
Precinct Police Court. Asked
for his name, he answered Mark AM
where do you live" asked the judga.
Tin the mansion of aching hearts" he
answered. whereupon the Judge ordered
him back TO d cell and telephoned TO
DIT. Clark.
Victor Berger and Mayor Seidel. Of
Milwaukee, We're in a concert hall one
evening. They had been together for
while when suddenly the congress-
man missed the mayor.
Berger called u waiter ana said: Get
Seidel, will your"
The waiter returned with one filed
with the best kind of Pilsner, Berger
didn't send it back.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
HuRopE's $500, 600 REMBRANDT O AMERICA

c. O much has been printed about the now famous Rembrandt
picture, THE Mill" recently sold in England to an unknown
American purchaser for 100000, that when the canvas
reaches this side of the Atlantic there will be an eager desire to
see it. A picture rated to be worth half a million dollars may be
said TO be well worth seeing There was only one Rembrandt, as
there was only one Frans Halls, whose masterpieces command
fabulous prices, and the lapse of time has raised the value of their
brushwork until only multiImilionaires can buy the best produc-
lions, and at such prices that even governments can hardly con-
pete. Fortunately, we have the multi milionaires, and s. the great
masters are coming our way, and are most welcome. In time "The
Mill" will find a permanent place in an American public museum,
where so many of the masterpieces of Europe have been placed.