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TI1E OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1002. 17 FRANCE'S FAMOUS PREMIER Character Sketch of Wldeck-Rouau, Hit Trials and Triumph. PEACEFULLY DISPOSED, BUT A FIGHTER Stoat Remarkable Frrnrhmta Maee Gambetta llnlda Hta Frleads bjr Stiff Forgetting or I)e-sertlaa- Thru. lWrs Marte Waldprk-Rousseau, prime Inlnlster of France, whtae administration baa Juat been endorsed by 5.000,000 votea j against a.oen.OOO, is easily the most re markable Frenchman since Gambetta, and has become a world figure of power and ilrnlflrance. Frenchmen, as a rule, do not understand biro, and a good third of them hate him In tense';. Potepjslug pre-eminently the in stincts that make for goad order and dill gent housekeeping, he has put the house hold of France to rights with a ruthleFS Dess and thoroughness almost Napoleonic. Hence his enemies and hence also his sup port from the business men and all con erratlve citizens of France. A dozen prime mlnlMr i have bad the same op portunity, as the system of centrsllied ad ministration exists today Just aa It was left by the first Napoleon. "Tea, the sword of Napoleon Is there," said an official In ex plaining It to me, "but It took a swords man to use It. Waldeck-Rousseau la a awordeman. That la the whole story." For the past dozen years or so General Boulanger has represented to the world the typical Frenchman, picturesque, thea trical and voluble. Waldeck-Rousseau Is Bone of these and so he ruled nearly two years before his countrymen realized how great and how strong a man he was. In stead of another man on a black horse to lead France to new conquests here was a quiet gentleman In a black coat, who ab horred conquests and had a strong pen chant for discovering talkative army offl eers. More than this, he does not look the typical Frenchman, being unusually tall, even by the English or American Standard, stiff and angular In appearance, rather diffident In his manner, shunning no toriety and attention. Once Had Artlatle Ambitions. Waldeck-Rousseau received his democ racy from his father, who was one of the founders of the short lived second repub lic, and his quiet determination from the people of Vendee, among whom he was born at Nantes, December 2, 1S44. At one time he thought of being an artist and be came quite proficient In water color paint ing, but soon abandoned this except aa a pastime and studied law. After' being admitted to the bar he became secretary to M. Dufret, then described as the first of French forensic orators. Then came the Franco-Prussian war. When Gambetta escaped from Paris lu a balloon and called for his "levee en masse," Waldeck-Rous-aoau volunteered and received a captain's commission, but never saw service. Like Renan and many another great Frenchman, Waldeck-Rousseau began his real career at Reuues, the ancient capital of Brittalny. He labored Inconspicuously before the court of appeals until a lucky chance, which he had the ability to grasp, made hia fortune. A leading mercbaut, M. Dreyfus Oonzales, had before all the courts of France the same case, concerning mari time rights. In which the greater part of his large fortune was Involved. His lawyer at Rennes retired and with some' misgiv ing the merchant sent the particulars of bis case to Waldeck-Rousseau. The mer chant kept stenographic reports of all his lawyer's speeches In the different courts. When he examined the pteas of hla Rennea advocate he waa amazed to find In them the clearest and most eloquent exposition of his case that had been made during the yeara of litigation. Shortly afterward Waldeck Rousseau, having interested himself In local politics, was chosen to represent Rennes In the Paris Chamber of Deputies, and Dreyfus-Gonzales, to the astonishment of the Paris bar, entrusted the legal man agement of all his affairs to the unknown Breton deputy. He succeeded no less a man than M. Orevy, who had relinquished hla law practice upon his election to the presidency. The appointment made some stir lu the legal and political world and gave Waldock-Rouaseau an Immediate standing In the chamber. Gambetta waa then president of the cham ber and the undisputed leader of French republicanism. He saw and admired qual- It lea In Waldeck-Rousseau which he him self larked and with his usual Impulsive ness almost at once admitted. the young deputy to his friendship and confidence. When, In 1SS0, Oambetta formed his, "grand ministry" he gave Waldeck-Rousseau the Department of the Interior, the most de sirable portfolio In; the cabinet from the point of view of patronage and political In fluence. But the "grand ministry" came to an end In two months and Its failure closed Cambetta'a political career. Only Waldeck-Rousseau wrung from him a per sonal success. The reputation he gained as an administrator and civil reformer Secured him the portfolio in the Jules Ferry cabinet of 186. Earned a.10,000 a Year at Law. When the Ferry cabinet fell, the longest In office except Waldeck-Rousseau's own, Waldeck retired from political life and de voted himself to law. He became leader of the Paris bar with a professional Income of about $00,000 a year. It remained for the political events growing out of the Dreyfus trial to bring him back to public life. At this political period tha premiership Of France was going begging. Cabinet after cabinet had been overthrown and the eountry seemed ripe for revolution. Even inconsequential persons like Count Bonl Castellane were for the moment exalted Into prominence by their comical attempt to upset the government by smashing President Loubet'a hat at a race course. The situation demanded a strong man, and by a happy inspiration the president called upon Waldeck-Rousseau. rhange waa almost Immediately apparent. Instead of a rablnet from one political group Waldeck Rouaaeau got other strong men wherever he could find them. MUlerand. the socialist, Oalltfet, an Irascible old martinet, with a silver stomach In place of the ons shot away In the Mexican war, were among those chosen. Their first Job was to get the Dreyfus case out of the way, which they did In a manner which by no means satis fied everybody, but with a finality that prevented further agitation. Then came two years of bard administrative work which makes no showing except In ulti mate resulta. One agitator after another was squelched. I remember being in Paris when Paul Deroulede was trying to make a General Boulanger of himself. In a rusty looking cab, so as to please the plain people, he waa riding up and down the boulevards, receiving cheers and gaining a conslderablo following. Waldeck-Rousseau thought him over during the consumption of one cigar ette and packed him over the frontier, where he still languishes. The administra tive sword Of Nap-leon waa coming Into play. The next official heads to fall Into the basket were thorn of high army officers who bad been paying more attention to politics than to drill. There was tremendous, uproar, but noth ing happened and the administrative ma chine ground on. The next adversary was a much more difficult one. Law of nellftloas Associations." Since Richelieu's day there has slways been a section of the church party In France that baa sought to mix religion and politics to the end of securing a priestly dictator ship. Here again the Napoleonic system was useful. When the great Corslcan re established Christianity In France he made an agreement or "concordat" with tho papacy by which no French bishops were to be apppolnted without the consent of tha French government. All French adminis trations had been Jealous of this preroga tive and the Vatican authorities In turn bad always tried to evade It. Feeling that Its control over the parochial clergy waa not sufficiently strong the Vatican encour aged the growth of religious orders In France which would be under the direct authority of Rome. These bad grown very strong and Waldeck-RoUBseau became con vlnced that they were meddling In politics with a view to overthrowing his govern ment. As a result came the famous law of Religious Associations which puts them all under the supervision of the govern ment. Again there was great uproar and the associations have posed as martyrs be fore the world. But the French people have endorsed Waldeck-Rousseau's course In the matter by five rotes to three. But the man himself, aside from his de termined use of the Napoleonic machine, accounts for his victory at the polls and the present stability of republican govern ment in France. In most of his official life he Is stiff and unbending and be holds hia friends chiefly by never forgetting them nor deserting them. But occasionally he can unbend, and Count Munster, the Ger man ambassador, was heard to exclaim at a reception, "I wleh my Imperial master might know him." His real hold, however, la not with those who appear in drawing rooms, but with the worklngman of the nation. With the aspirations of organized labor he baa always a strong and under standing sympathy. The story Is told that one day when he was first minister of the Interior, a number of carpenters called upon htm who wished to form association or guild for mutual benefit, but were unable to do so because they had no money. There was no public fund for the purpose, but Waldeck-Rousseau, struck with their plan, himself ad vanced the necessary amount. No papers were signed, no witnesses to the act were called, but the money was returned upon the day appointed. He was thus the father of the first worklngman's association for mutual benefit organized In France, a move ment that has now reached vast propor tions. Waldeck-Rousseau's connection with It has given him a hold with the masses which his political opponents have never been able to shake. "A Man Who Does Not Talk." Cartoonists make Waldeck-Rousseau's bead long and narrow with a heavy under Jaw and a generally wooden expresalon. Hla enemies describe "the hated Waldeck" as being metallically hard, and unsympa thetic. "He Is a man who does not talk," they say, and a Frenchman who Is not voluble Is surs to be Imperfectly un derstood by his fellow countrymen. Of his colleagues In the cabinet he asks advice and then alwaya follows his own Ideas. He la a great cigarette smoker and when there Is a great question on he ob scures himself In a cloud of smoke until he has thought It out. Once decided be retires Into an upstairs room, which Is arranged like a studio and amuses himself with water color painting, apparently as much absorbed In the little canvas before blm as be was a few moments before In the destinies of a nation. When be has time for longer recreation be goes fishing. Hts country house on the Seine above Paris almost overlooks the river. His principal outdoor companion is Tcho, a big Chinese dog, whom his master 'describes as "an excellent keeper of political secrets." Of the minister's private life the world knows little except that It Is blameless something not always possible to say of French public men In the past and now part of the better order of things In French politics. Urns. Waldack-Rousseau was a widow when bs married her twenty years ago. They have no children, else he might have been more like other Frenchmen, who are young again In their sons. Prophecy Is rarely safe for France or Frenchmen, .but so long ss Waldeck Rousseau rules the republic Is safe. With all his coldness he has kept alive the re publican fire he received In his early man hood from that thunderclap Gambetta. Beyond that he Is a strong man and a good houaekeeper, things pre-eminently desired by Frenchmen. n- RATS EAT Siteairas' EBectcsic Rat and Roach PasSo and die out of tha hous. Oo IngredUat dries tip their bodies, leaving ca odor. It is a safe end eure exterminator also of Mice, Water Bugs, Croton Bugs, Cockroaches and all other vermin, it has been in general use in houses, atores, hotels, factories, offices, public building, etc, for twenty-five years. Absolutely guaranteed. O A I ITI O M tttirtee and laaHatlaais are wartbUee, UAU I IUI'. UtUi aa ltA' tUilklCj UU MkU alu. U cauts a box at Druggists and Groosrs or teat direct by Express prepaid. STEARNS' ELECTRIC PA8TC CO.. Chloago, in. RELIGION AT COUNTY JAIL Sheriff Power Saje it Unit Be Free from Denominational Control. NO SECT TO HAVE PREFERENCE THERE Misa Magee May Teach There If Rha Likes, bat Not as a Representa tire of tha Woman's Chris tian Temperance Vnlon. Miss Nellie Ma gee of the City Mission may conduct religious services In the county Jail every Sunday It she wants to, but not as a representative of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. Such Is the understanding brought about by a confer ence between Sheriff Power and a special committee of the Woman's Christian Tem perance union yesterday. The conference lasted for more than an hour and after It was over the sheriff said: "We settled all there was to settle In three minutes, and talked about other things the remainder of the time. I told the women that so long as I am sheriff any good Christian will be allowed to con duct religious services In the jail, whether they represented the Woman's Christian Temperance union, the City Mission, the Young Woman's Christian association, the Salvation Army or merely themselves as Individuals. They told me that Miss Ma geo's work bad not been strictly In com pliance with the rules and regulations of their organization, and for that reason they did not want Miss Magee to hold Jail serv ices as the representative of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. I told them that they certainly had the right to say that Miss Magee should not be the rep resentative of their organization, but that Miss Magee could hold religious services In the Jail as an Individual or as the rep resentative of the City Mission. The whole thing looks to me like a tempest In a tea pot." What Caused the Trouble. It aeems that Mrs. Shtnrock, who Is the superintendent of Jail work for the Woman's ChrUtian Temperance union. Insists upon exercising authority over the work of Misa Magee In the west wing of the Jail so long as that work Is done In the name of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and that Miss Magee Is conscientiously, unable to work under Mrs. Shlnrock's direction. Mrs. Shinrock says that Miss Magee has been coaxing religion Into the prisoners In one end of the Jail by treating them to fruit and candy occasionally, and Miss Magee denies the soft Impeachment. Mrs. Shinrock says further that Miss Magee went to the Judge of the criminal court and asked to have the sentence of a pris oner shortened, which action Is without au thority in the ethical code of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, but Miss Ma gee deni-s this charge also. So it is that Mrs. Shinrock and Miss Magee cannot work in the same harness, and the prisoners la the county Jail will have to take their religious training partly under the author ity of the Woman's Christian Temperance union and partly under the authority of whatever organization Miss Magee will rep retent hrefter. RELIGIOIS. The Lutheran Mimsterlum, at Its recent session In Kaston, Pa., declared itself as unalterably opposed to Individual com munion cups. A subscription Is being taken in New Or leans for the erection of a memorial to Dr. B. M. Palmer, the eminent preacher, who died last week. For nearly twenty years the New Eng land Baptist train out of Boston has been one or tne institutions oi tne national Bap tist anniversaries There are now 663 organized Christian Science churches and societies. There has been an' Increase of eighty-one churches during the last year. John H. Converse of this city has dupli cated his gift of last year, fc!5,000, to help the general assembly of the Presbyterian church In Its evangelistic work. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn, who Ts in his (tint year, has declined to write an autobiography, but will describe the more Interesting episodes of his life In a forth coming book of reminiscences. The Greek Lent ts said to be terribly severe. After it the people are emaciated, showing the severe ordeal they have passed through. Th staple diet during the fast is bread washed down with reslnated wine. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., lives at Elmlng ton. one of the moat beautiful estates in Virginia. King Powhatan lived near hi home, and here It was, says tradition, that Smith. Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Secretary Rav of the Presbyterian board of aid for colleges thus enumerates the col leges In the United States: One hundred and five Baptist, stxty-alx Methodist, -torty- four congregational, tnirty-nine t-reaoy-terlan. There are also sixty-one Roman 15 fQ) M MS - S a m n i e Furniture Commencing Monday morning at 8:30 we will place on pale the entire sample line of Chattenden & Eastman. This sale will embrace nearly all the specialties in the furniture line, in parlor suit's, bed room suits and dining room suits; also ft very big lino of odd pieces. "While the line is very attractive we consider the price the big attraction of this sale as every piece of furniture in fhis sale will be found marked at half of regular value and people that are interested in buying up-to-date furniture for half of its original value should remember the early bird story. Bed Room Suits Some very handsome novelties In Mahogany Stands, worth from (15.00 to $25.00, tor 8.25 to 10.50 Iron Beds You will find about fifteen styles In brass and enamel beds, beautifully decorated, goods worth from $50.00 to $75.00, at 29.75 and 37.50 Some very handsome novelties In Twin Beds, worth from $37.60 to $75.00, found on sale at 21.00 to 37.50 Some very beautiful effects In Pompeii red, rose, green and white, worth from $10.00 to $30.00. Prices on these will bs 5.00 to 19.75 Special Odd Pieces Ws wish to call your attention to the fact that It Is Impossible for us to make a thorough description of each 'article advertised in this sale as we have too many numbers on sale, but If you are Interested In house furnishings do not put off coming Monday morning for values like these will not go begging for a buyer. Dining Room Tables In mahogany and golden oak, beautifully carved, wax finished, from 25.00 to 68.75 This Is Just 50 cents on the dollar. A line of Sideboards that we will place on sale In mahogany, golden oak, quarter-sawed oak and weath ered oak, some very handsome novel ties will be found In this line at prices from 18.75 to 71.50 Buffetts In golden oak and mahogany. These are all very high class goods, worth from $50.00 to $35.00, will be sold from 25.50 to 39.75 Dressers In golden oak, mahogany, blrd'a-eye maple and curly birch from 15.25 to 46.50 A very handsome line in chiffoniers in golden oak, mahogany and bird's eye maple from 12.25 to 45.00 Rockers about fifty styles to select from, golden oak, mahogany, leather, worth from $7.50 to $.0,00, will be found in this sale from 3.75 to 25.00 A beautiful selection In odd chairs, goods that will find ready sale at from $5.00 to $25.00, will be found In this sale at from 2.50 to 12.00 Morris Chairs In mahogany, golden oak, weathered oak, worth from $20 to $50, will be found in this .ale from 11-75 to 27 00 Parlor Suits Tou will find In this sale twelve very handsome suits in crotch mahog any, golden oak, curly birch with tapestry and velour coverings, at from $.16.00 to $1)0.00. Every suit la this sale Is worth double. ..... . . . r Aoout .u very nanasome dressers jj goiuen oaa ana manogany will sold from 12.75 to 48.75 Every piece Is worth double. I Library Tables about 25 to select from, mahogany, golden oak from 8.25 to 58.50 Some very handsome novelties In divans and parlor chairs, from 8.50 to 37.50 CURTAINS We will sell about 100 pair of fine lace curtains in Brussels, Irish Point and Dutchess. These goods will be found In 1, 2 and 3-palr lots, worth up to $10 a pair, at 14.98 About 50 pairs In high class curtains In Brussels, Irish Point and Duch esse, these goods are worth from $15 to $22.50 to be fonnd In this sale at $9.98 29c CARPETS AND RUGS We will place on sale 100 number brush door mats worth 75 cents, at 29 cents one to a customer. 29c 100 26x50 all wool Smyrna rugs, worth $2.50 and $2.75 ' I OK on sale Monday at I lleCw 25 4x7 Smyrnas on sale at 3-69 15 9x12 Tapestry, seamless rugs, all new patterns, worth $17.60 I ft flft In this sale (one to a customer), at lUsUU Special prices on all our full line of Wilton and Axmlnster rugs In room sizes that will Interest the closest cash buyer. V PORTIERS Your choice of 100 pairs of tapestry and rope portlers, also some very handsome effects In Orientals, worth from $7.60 to $10, la this sale at $4.98 Some very handsome effects In bord ered repps, silk damask borders, worth from J12.60 to $18.00, will bs found in the sale at $9.98 58X35 Jfl Jsm Catholic colleges, all for men: twenty-four Lutheran, fifteen Disciples, nine United Brethren and seven Episcopal, of which three are for women. Bishop Taylor of the Methodist church, who died on May 13 at Palo Alto. Cal., had for over half a century slept with his head pillowed upon a stone. He generally car ried the stone In a satchel, and always laid his head upon it at night wherever he was, thus literally carrying out the words of the hymn, "My Rest a Stone." A Balti more clergyman eaya that on one occasion the bishop visited him when the tempera ture was far below sero, and that the bishop slept In the room with all the win dows thrown up and with hia head on the stone. Thirty years ago In Japan the scriptures were printed secretly and copies were sent out only after dark. Those who were en gaged upon this work did it nt the rink of their lives. Now there la a Christian print ing company in Yokohama, issuing the scriptures not only In Japanese, but In various other Oriental languages. MOVE BEFORE II IS HOT. Fireworks for tfie Fourth Some Novelties Among the Old Favorites. Now doth the small boy. on patriotic fireworks with which It Is to be Illuminated mischief bent, salt his nickels and dimes during the review. The subjects of the set to make a crackerjack holiday of the natal piece, are to be chosen by president rtoose- day. Meanwhile the show windows, wttlt their growing plies of explosives, enchant bis eyo and sorely tax his patience. What sport la planned, what fun anticipated cannot be measured by ordinary rules. Toung America alone can gauge the joy ahead without a thought of the head next morning. It takes about $7,000,000 to do the pa triotic Job rightly. This for fireworks alone. It does not take Into account tb lee cream and tilcnlc exhilaration or the spiritual stimulus of the day. Insurance, grand displays at the expositions and In funeral and medicine bills are not to be the big cities, looks for quality Instead of elt. Hia selections are to be cabled to London, and the pieces are to be con structed at the English factory of the New York house. A large portion of the fire works for the coronation celebration Is to be furnished by a local concern that has sent out large shipments to Canada and other English provinces to be 'Bred' when Edward ts ostentatiously inducted Into hia high office. "The general public, having witnessed the thought of. They come In later. "This $7,000,000 spent for pyrotechnics on the Fourth," saya the New York Times, "rep resents only a portion of the amount spent for noise and Illuminations In the United States during the year. The people who live south of the old Mason and Dixon's line do not spend much money for fire works on .the Fourth. Their Fourth Is at Christmas time, when, the same authority estimates, at least $1,000,000 Is expended for fireworks. Fairs and expositions and carnivals snd private displays bring tho place kind, total amount paid for this purpose to about $8,200,000. The same merchant, whose fac tortes and agencies sre scattered In many countries in the new world and old, says that not leas than $22,000,000 Is burned on this terrestrial sphere each twelvemonth. There are national events In many lands that must be celebrated fittingly, and rock ets, bombs, plnwheels. "set" devices, crack ers and torpedoes have come to be Indis pensable sdjunrta on all the occasions. Other occurrences swell the demand for Quantity nowadays, a New York merchant said. No longer will the celebrants, even these In the country districts, bs content with a small assortment of old-fashioned works, such as ordiaary rockets, Roman candles and pin-wheels. They want more pretentious designs, like those exhibited on festal occasions In larger places. If they cannot stand the expense of all tbey would like to have they take the best as far as their money will go and are better satisfied than with a raft of fireworks of a common- "This more fastidious demand has caused the introduction of new devices. The inno vations have been many, but there are tew radical departures. . The most notable is a new electric effect. In this pyrotechnists have found at last a perfectly white, shim mering fire which takes ths plsce of and in many Instances Is more spproprlats than the yellow or gold. This Is some thing practically new and It comes about 20 per cent higher. It is now used in the fireworks. Affairs of stats, inaugurations productions or repreaentatlona or Niagara and coronations of the heads of govern- Falls, snd in this set piece, too, there have ments, visits of royalty to foreign parts, been other beautiful alterations. The piece expositions, fairs, carnivals and house and Is known as 'The Spirit of Niagara.' In lawn parties give ample excuse for burning the misty background, beneath and yet a money, until the grand total approximates (art of the falls. Is represented the figure $22,000,000 each yesr. "New York firms supply about three fourths of the fireworks used in the United States, and one of tbs local bouses has branches In several countries branches whoss orders are filled partly through fac tories in the locality and partly through the mala office In this city. Large ship ments are on ths way to wholesalers and Jobbers In all parts of the country for the Fourth of July trade. Few aales are to be made to tha consumer, however, until shout the third week In June. The battleship Illlnoia, which will represent the United Slates In tha naval parade at King Ed ward's coronation, when It left New York a of a graceful woman. With the new white effect this representation is said to be beautiful. "Firecrackers of the old staple variety are not to be so much In vogus in futurs. Although they wers mads so as to give a report as loud as a thlrtsen-lncb cannon, the celebrants demanded something new and better and got It. The merchant now offers what Is known aa a Mandarla cracker. The 'cracker' Is put up In bunches of from 10,000 to 60,000 each. These 'go oft' almost simultaneously and the effect. It is said, 'beggars description.' Formerly the great aarial bombs contained only a single charge. Now you can get a few weeks ago carried a large stock ef bomb that 1 1 made up of ss many as eight or ten smaller bombs a decided and popu lar Improvement, according to the dealers. There are also many novelties In aquatic fireworks this year. "Daylight fireworks are growing In popu larity. A new wrinkle is a aouvenlr with each piece. There are floating figures which, when their fire has gone out, drop a souvenir a small flag, a mlnature para sol or a tiny animal. This Is a recent ar rival from Japan. Japanese lanterns, by the wsy, sre higher this year than usual. About six weeks ago a ship carrying a whol4 cargo of these fancy paper shades, considered enough for the Fourth of July trade In eastern and central United States, went down in the Atlantic a short distance out of New York. It will be Impossible to get another shipment Into New York In time for the trade, and as ths supply Is very low, merchants say, it has been neces sary to hoist prices. "Not all fireworks ars sxploded 'for fun.' They are of great utility In the business world and In war. Uncle Sam buys large quantities of rockets, candles and bombs not for celebrations, for his patriotic citizens attend to them for blm. It is a business proposition with the government One New York firm la furnishing large quantities of special rockets for ' Uncle Sam rockets of a kind that few celebrants would feel able to purchase. They are what are known as 'sequence rockets.' They are shipped, hundreds -of them at a time, to the Philippines, where they are used largely by the outlying fort, for com municating with the commanders. The balls for these rockets are colorless and the signal man can adopt and apply his own colors. In this way, and by the use of a code, a vocabulary of 1,000 words csn be used. The signals can bs distinguished at a distance of twenty miles. Because of the pervading dampness in the islands great care must be taken la the transpor tation of these valuable fireworks. Each rocket is placed In a tin-lined case; six of these cases ais packed In a larger box, . which also Is tin-lined, and, as a still further precaution, the boxes are packed in a larger one of similar construction. Thus there is little chance of damage being done t'o the rockets before tbey are wanted tor use. The life-saving stations use spe cial rockets for signaling. "Soma of ths so-called 'legitimate' busi ness of the fireworks man Is transacted with persons other than ths agents of ths government. 'Ships that pass in the night' are able to hold long conversations with one another by the use of rockets and candles. A cods of night signsls haa been compiled, and by it any one of nearly 200 veaaela that sail the high aeaa can be dis tinguished by Its fireworks diapla.V It Is anything but pleasant to have a hot office In which to work during Jul and August. The time to remedy this Is now. There Is no building in Oronha so well constructed with reference to the com fort of its tenants in all kinds of weather as The Bee Building. The court, with It fountain Is not only a source of delight to the eye. but furnishes nerfoot vonin.n and the thick walla and southeast exposure make It an ideal summer offlcs butldlnn mere are not many vacant rooms in the building, but the movement In as out ci tne Dunamg nas leu a rew of the very choicest rooms at your disposal. List of vacant rooms in TheB ee E aildin. Ground Floor. Moot! Hi lffxil feet. Rental. , . . . . . par Monti alley. Tola la a Urge, Una: room, a : d the renui price tnoluaee beat. i.1 , wl.r and Janitor aervice. It baa au entrance both on The Bea u..uus -w-"i auo beveuieouin street Frtoe U First Floor. II ITU 101 1 There Is no Oner offlcs suits in Oiuaba than this ons. It ts located lust on lam riant nai,J of lbs great oiarbla alauway, auu baa unuaullr larse wluuowa looking upon the iro ut emraacu way ot ths uulldina It fruuts on rurnaiu al.eat. on. room U LUUt and m other exl. It has a burgiar-pruul vault, marble wamei- piece, haiawoud iluuis. and will ba irekioea 10 sun tenant . Prim IS ,. ,vr" " J i " u.au ok we main aiajrway on tile tret floor. It would lm a very ue.lrabl. otho. for r,,., ...,! ' .' uactor. Tum floor spate U ltxla leet jlT"t $suJ Third Floor. ROOM S08. This room Is 21x8 feet and U very conveniently located iisar tha elevator. A sign on in door can be readily seen la aiepLlnu oiX the eleva- u frl tMrJ HOOal aa. 'bia toota j, 17jt3a Uet w,jj dJvlded to suit uia ivuiu i iau-weuiariy aaapieu lor sums concern liveuuig the tenant. ierge floor eua.ee and is a uec.deu.v bua.um oillu. huvimr n ,nir. ,uT.t- , cuurt and windowa louk.ng out uon BcvenUfmu atiet. it bar a very large burglar-proof vault, hard aood fluora and la one of the cnolcaet oin- u ui uuuuiug , , Price fit Fourth Floor. UOOM oii 15x11 feet. TbJa room la next to the elevator and faces court. Ii m a uunifti-iiiuui rami auu ia wtu venuiaiea. Has food Mailt. Pliu tlT.i and lor Wis prica luruUnoa (iral-ciaaa accoaUiuu.uoue. Fifth Floor. I LITE C14. This Is a very large room, 17x43 feet. It faces west, but Is vet? ! light and well ventilated. It la very seldom that apace ot this site la of. I t.ied in The Bea building. It could be used to advantage by some firm I employing a large number of clerka, or requiring large floor apace aj ( wholesale Jeweler, or manutaclurer a agent, who would like to be In tire-proof ouilding, or It will be divided to eult the tenant Prlo 150. fti'OM Mil. This room faces the court and la 18x14 feet. It haa a burglar-proof vauii, anu u urar in. leinrupu oiuce anu on ine aame noor Wltn a number of grain Urnia, it would bo a particularly good room for nrm ooairing urai-oiuaa accommousiion r a groin .... 1 r.oe S20. Sixth Floor. gVlTB 610. Thla conalats of two rooms, both U'xlltt. raeh of them haa a large burglar-proof vault, have been newly decorated and a to ro. m where any business or profesalonal man may be comfortable. Price fur the two ,.. fil t R. C. PETERS & CO., Rental Arents. Ground Floor, Dec Buildinf