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Fhe Omaha S Bee. 9 PART III. g UNDAY PAGES 21 TO 28. g ESTABLISHED .TUNE 10, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOUSING, MARCH 27, 1904. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. EASTER BIRD OF THE WORLD Doubtless There Are Oiheri, but Bone Jut ai Good. WONDER STORY OF THE AMERICAN HEN Beat the Country's Hold and Silver Mines and tackles at the Wheat Crop Aa Gtlraardtiar y Stady. The mightiest Eaater gift of the let U the Easter sift that the American hen has presented to the United States. If the government Were to decide to color tip all the eggs that are being laid by her In one day, to p-esent to the children of the country, the whole regular army couldn't d the work unless each soldier could manage to color 700 egga, which la a pretty big contract. As the country will consume not one day's, but several days', laying of eggs, the standing army would be literally over whelmed, hlddsn, crushed by the work of the hen. Her work produces enough eggs In any two days to give one to every human being from Alaska to Porto Rico, not leaving out the Eskimos of Bering Straits. Forty-two and one-half millions of egga a day la her average now. That gigantic one day's work weighs 1.6M tons almost as much aa the tonnage of a United States cruiser like the Atlanta. While Industrial combinations and finan cial operations have filled the air with their clamorous processes, the hen has scratched along In humble privacy, and has beaten even the record of King Wheat; for the value of her modest specialty has turned out to be greater than the whole value of the whole wheat crop of twertty-elght states and territories In one year. The gold and silver mines of the country aren't worth mentioning In compart-on with the simple bird. Only once In fifty years has the value of the gold and silver of the United States beaten the value of Its eggs. - Figures cannot give any Idea of the enor mous value of this American citizen, for the figures are too big to bring delight or understanding to any one except a be nighted and violent statistician. For In stance, what does 233.S9S.n05 meanT Tet that Is the number of chickens of laving age In the United States, according to the last census, which enumerated them as well as the rest ef us. The value in dollars of that noble ag gregation of laying talent was $70,000,000. A Marvel ef Eggs. ' The wonderful flock of birds laid more than one and one-quarter billion dozens of eggs in one year. This Isn't a dream not eQk that kind of a dream which begins "it Is estimated." For these figures are not "estimated." They ere exact statistics collected through the various departments of the government day by day as the eggs were put on the market. That would entitle every man, woman and child in the country, from the Paclflo to the Atlantic, and from Canada to-Mexlco, to 203 eggs In the year. Uncle Sam has figured up not only ail the hens of laying age, but all tha poultry of all ages In the country,' not scorning" either the broilers or the Metbusalehs that pour Into the market after a well spent and long life to pose on the stalls as spring chickens. As the result of his count .he finds that the poultry of the United States numbers more than a quarter of a billion, 2S0.6iil.593, to be exact, and the value Is $85,800,000 enough to give every inhabitant of this country a little more than $1.13 aa his share If they were sold for the account of the public. Going back to the hens of egg-laying age alone, and leaving out the tender Infants that are only consumers and not producers. Uncle Sam's men And that these Industrious and nnnstrlklng workers have produced al most $137,000,000 In the form of marketable progeny and a little mere than $144,000,000 worth of eggs. The exact total of their production in dollars is $281,171,147. And that, on the original valuation of the "plant" of $70,000,000, means that the Amer ican hen has simply knocked into a cocked bat the Income-producing capacity of trusts, mines, manufacturing combinations, Wall eet and any except the wildest freaks of speculative stock, for the income produced by the hen Is 400 per cent on the original In vestment, with a little bagatelle ef $1,178,247 left over for pin money. The Beast and tne Hen. If a person could get a blrdseye view of the shipping ports of this country at any day in the year he would See droves of cattle, horses and mules go thundering up gangplanks and being hauled in slings up the sides ef ships. Steers and cows by the thousands stream into ships at wharves in Boston. New York and Baltimore. Mules and horses in unending precession, day after day, go Into ships, in all the ports clean around the coast from Portland, Me., to Galveston, Tex. And still more herds go Into still more ships otTthe Pacific shores. Criss-crossing each other, north, east, west and south, all over the continent, rush trains filled with them, not only day after day, but unendingly through the day and the night, With never a Sunday, never a holiday to give the whirling wheels and the singing rails a moment's rest Hogs and sheep and mules and oows and steers and horsescount them, watoh them tramping, rushing to the sea, and then turn to figures gathered by the census and Treasury departments and find that all that Jostling, never-ceasing stream of great brutes from millions of acres of pas ture, does not amount In value to one-quar ter of the value of the eggs laid by the little hen. And If you add the value of the hen herself to the value of the egga. that whole aggregation of horns and hoofs, all these tons of flesh, do not amount in value to one-eighth of what fowl and egg are worth. Now sweep your eye over the vast extent of continent from the great ranches under the Rocky mountains, over the plains of Texas, over the domain of railroad and s'aughter houses from Omaha to Chicago. Tae In with It the Immense city of Chi cago list If, with Its duchies and principal ities of stock yards and abattoirs and fac tories and laboratories and warehouse and shops and railroad yards and wharves and refrigerating plants all devoted to selling (ha living beaut and converting him to a thousand uses, bide, horns, hoof, tul low and meat ' Take In the roads that bear miles oa miles of cars full of tliat product; ware houses scattered along a thousand miles of land: warehouses fronting every navigable nook on the oceans; refrigerator ships tha are monsters, all stuffed full as they can hold; watch thera tear through the seas .tfrcT the world, flooding tha ports from Lon- don 1 1 Stnvinnrfr Tha Ben Beats. And then please go rvwk to the dun colored cackler that roosts In tiny ram altackle housrs and drops her golden egg lulo any old box that the farmer happens to have picked up; and behold! all the ton cuiatd. and frcsa aui Baited beef; all the tallow; all the baron tend hams; all the cunned and saltid and fresh pork; all the sausagos and the sausage meat; yes, and all the casings for thiwe sausages and the hundrrd "fixings" that are exported as the result of the mad hustle, hustle, hustle, across the continents of locomotive and car, and exported by a hundred different lines of ships, -do not come within 130,000 tons of the weight of the eggs laid during tho year in the United States. For the weight of all those animal prod ucts Is "only" 846,fc60 tons; and the weight Of the 1,250,000,000 doxens of eggs, at the average weight of eight to the pound. Is 970,363 tons. That would extinguish the entire United State navy from the Kearsarge and. Ala bama down to the tiniest torpedo boat. If all the yolk were to be hurled down oa it at once there wouldn't be a rivet left. V And In dollars those eggs equal 67 per cent of the entire Income produced by all the exports of all the meat products, from the pig's tail to the sirloin steak. Add the value of the poultry to the eggs, and the meat products are beaten. ' Now throw in the remote animal products that are exported annually hoofs, horns, bristles, bones and even glue; add wool and things made out ef wool: theiS add every kind of leather; pile on it all even the exported boots and shoes and with all those allies, the mass can beat the poultry and poultry products by only $15,000,000. Wool Isn't "I.n It." Not so many years ago' in the midst of a battle over tariffs, the whole country was shaken by the fight over wool; and It was well worth while, for the wool product amounts to $48,750,000 annually. But the poultry sold In a year beats that by $91,000,000, and the eggs beat It by $98, 600,000 And all the world's animal products that have, In turn, come to these shores, from goats herded In Morocco and Swltxerland tn leather from every place where leather can be obtained, including even gloves made from that leather, Including, too, a,ll tho cheeses from every land, even China they aggregate $127,909,653 In value, less than half the value of chicken and egg. It is almost sad to think of the argonauts snd all their strivings and battles and pas slonannd of tho Alaskan adventurers, with their' Klondlke.s and Nomes, their ripping open of the frozen north Itself, their war against Ice and blizzard and wilderness for gold, when we .study the little seven-pound, hen and discover that all the gold and sil ver that engineers and miners and sluices and dynamite and thundering stamp mills have wrested from a whole continent do not equal in combined value, year by year, the value of the tiny, white oval that is gathered in aprons and baskets every morning in every hamlet, without a single adventure that Is worth the telling. Only n one year that of 1900 since rec ords were kept by the government, has It happened that the American mines could beat the hen. In that exceptional year the precious metals were ahead by $9,500,000. The Galleon and the Chicken. Even in the ages of gold, when galleon after galleon bore it from Africa and the golden Ameriaas, when buccaneers built pirate--cities from the spoils, when the rich of the earth counted their wealth not by ounces, but by ingots and bars even then all the gold and silver that the whole world could produce, from hemisphere to hemisphere, never came up la value to the combined value of the poultry and eggs of the United States in the year past Since America was discovered there have been only two years 1838 and 1899 when the poultry and the poultry products fell below the work of all the mines of all the wor!d combined. In the former, the mines out did the hen by almost $6,000,000. In the lat ter year, a perfect wonder of a year for gold and silver output, almost $26,000,000 marked the excess over the value of the poultry products. Of course, the hen could pay for a whole war with ber peaceful Industry in a year. More than that, she helped to feed an army throughout one recent bitter war that shook a continent. That was in South Africa. Newspapers and magazines . and books were full of the battles, but nobody mentioned that, all the time, the chickens of Missouri were feeding the British army where it lay ln""battle array. They fed It with crystallized eggs, and the more Tommy Atkins ate the more the Missouri hen laid. And yet the state of Missouri holds only sixth place among the American states In point of egg production. Ohio is first In them. Missouri leads in chickens and Ohio has to take third place In that respect. Ohio's leadership In eggs Is In point of value In dollars.' In the number of dozens Iowa Is the leader of them ail, but It holds only second place In number of chick ens owned. Nevada, truculent old Nevada, hasn't quite gotten down to the chicken yet. It has lens thsn any other state. But It got the highest price for its eggs. for during the year ita average was 30 8-10 cents a dozen. Scarcity of eggs does not explain high prices always, for Montsna leads eleven other states In egg production and yet got the second highest average nrlce. 20 6-10 cents a dozen. Eggs were cheapest In Texas, where they cost 7 7-10 cents a dozen on an average. A Passle for Ears; Eaters. And now cornea a puzzle for the house wife. Uncle Sam has figured out exactly what the average price a dozen has been for a year and he finds that It was 11 15-100 cents a dozen. Then why, ok, why, are eggs so high when you buy them to eat? Uncle Sara and all his men respectfully decline to answer. The census bureau and the Treasury department and the secretary of the Interior all give it up. And now to wind up the big wonder story of the American hen and her true blue American egg, here is a little wonder story. It Is about Alaska. The census man went into Alaska and found all the hens. It was a hard Job to And them, but not a bit hard to count the total, for there were only 17 fowls In all Alaska on June 1, 1900. A man could have put all the hens of that oountry Into a cart and carried thera with ease. Their combined value was $lii6. But that little pocket edition of hennery, with Its little toy shop capital, produced a total Income In one year of $539 $360 for eggs and 1T for chickens. Eggs were high there. They averaged 43 cents a dozen. The chickens that were hatched and sold averageed $1.01 each. It was a nice little business, beating " most banks In point of percentage of Income. The rabbit Is the great Easter beast of ooets and artists, but the American hen has made good her claim to be considered the Easter bird of the world. Shipbuilding Statistics. Aeeordlne to published statistics of last year's shipbuilding, the number of vessels launched in the whole world was 2.441. with t tonnage of 2.679 531 and an Indicated horse power of 2.3&2.4XS. More thsn half the new tonnage of log was produced within the United Kingdom. With tn exception of the United States, no foreign country Uum-hed an aggregate tounage equal to the Clyde aloiie, which built during the X77 yawl M Aau l.m. EASTER BAD FOR PURSES Time of Hear Expenditures at Well ai Daj of R joking. CHANGES IN METHODS OF CELEBRATION Bnalnesa In Many Uaes Greatly Stimulated by Advent of Easter tide and Special Plana Always Are Kecessary. Easter Is the great time of rejoicing tn the church year, for it Is the anniversary of that day on which the phophecles of scripture were fulfilled. Modern people show their elation In the purchase and dis play of the masterpieces of the hat and frock artists, and in buying large amounts of -confectionery snd edible and non- edlble novelties,, chicks and rabbits, the sending of gay Easter cards, and of presents from the Jewelers and the notion counters, and In showing In home and church of beautiful flowers. These manifestations of proper Joy an nually make busy a large number of bust nous men and their employes during a few weeks prior to Easter, and Insure the business through the whole yeai4 of almost all the other wage earners, in an attempt to get together the price of the Easter bonnnet. Most famous Is Easter day for the bonnet walk. The other portions of the celebra tion are a high seat behind a theater poet when compared. The hat Is the day. The new dresses, shoes, ribbons, trinkets and the things that "hubby" wears are merely the tinfoil about the stems In the But- tonalres. The returns of this anniversary were originally regulated by the calendar of Judea, in which the months were con terminous with the revolutions of the moon. After tne discovery oi m uumm, however, this custom gradually became obselete and the time or the milliner s spring opening came to govern the festival. Grave Discussions In Chnrrh. Tho Christians of Jerusalem were ac customed to hold the feast of Easter on the same day with tha Jewish passover and when the great festival began to put up at the sign of the ostrich feather, the difference In practice in this particular, led to grave dissensions between the church. east and west. The picture hat had neve penetrated east of Suez. The matter was settled at the peace of Ntcaca, and mis sionary milliners with pattern bats wero sent to the bentghted who had never known ambition more delicate man 10 wear their own hair." The Paris won der workers began to prepare for Easter about six months ahead, so that the day should come on time. Gentle womanhood, however, would be wronged if the populace should get the idea that the bonnet is worn as an oflerlng to personal vanity ana to public opinion (of other pew holders). No, It Is for luck. That is the real reason, tha wearing of something new on Easter day means luck to the wearer throughout the year, and as all really nice people go to church Easter Sunday; it toiiows as a coincidence, merely, that the pretty top heavy, rainbow remnants are there dis played, ... I urn BCII mw - rarls Is of course the lawMn bonnets and the artists there create the styles for each year. . These are then sent to New Tork and other centers of civilization. The mil linery houses In, these place then prepare the pattern hats. These are ready, about six or seven weeks before Easter, ana about this time the millinery buyers from all over the country assemble and select their pattern hats. Copies of these are then prepared and about ten days before Easter the "opening" comes and the pubiio Is Invited to worship at $84 per. Every mil linery establishment In the city employs extra hands from three to six weeks before Easter and during the last ten days the force of begullers Is sometimes almost doubled. The millinery Jobbers, of course. have their busy time much earlier than the retail shops. The out-of-town milliners were crowding here four or five weeks ago, but now the Jobbers' season Is nearly over. Eaater uaturaay is mo great may in millinery, as in all the other holiday lines, and from opening time until late at night the millinery departments) and the shops are crowded by more or less frantic women who fear they may not be able to get their headdresses. No one In the business could be found who was willing to say what the hew hats bought in Omaha during these two weeks amount to In value. It Is, how ever, a very large sum, as It Is easier to find $50 creations than "something neat" for $5. The patterns this year are truly gorgeous and give a wide range for the personal equation. Gowns Nest la Valne. Gowns probably come next tn the value of Easter business. The wsres of the dress constructor and the tailor-made maker, however, are of secondary Importance. If a choice must be made, an old gown gets the fondling whisk broom. There Is a class of women, of course, who have new dresses all the time, and these make no particular point of the dress parade on Easter morn ing. The most modish dressmakers, there fore, are careful to refer to their spring openings and not to an Easter opening. But the result Is about the same. But tn the shops of the leas pretentious clothes architects Easter la a serious business. People who have not more than one or two spring frocks rather desire to wear one of them Easter. Of course this Is not perhaps Just ths proper thing now "really, going out, you know" but some people like 'to observe old customs. Most Ideals tn cloth are Of Pari a The monarchs of the profes sion each year create various dresses which they hope will become the fashion. About the middle of February the show opens. Americans are granted the first sight of these gems, both because they have further to go to get back for the spring work, and also because they have dollars. Tha English hsve the second turn. The modlsts either get their models In Parts or from the New Tork houses which got thera there. Pattern dresses sre msde and sold and about two weeks before Eas ter comes the spring opening. As a very modest gown from any dressmaker costs at least $40, and usually much more, the spring (Easter) gown business of Omaha gets Into real money. All Uaes Affected. One new piece of clothes shows up the wrinkles and stains In all the others. So that all the other departments of women's wear de more or less extra business. The ribbon counters, the parasol department, the gloves and the fancy hose are largely In demand, both to complete the toilets of the buyers and also as presents to friends. "Such pretty, delicate shades, '' etc., Is the password. Among women dresses such aa these bow would a dingy man creature look clothed in the kneed and wrinkled tweeds of winter time? So father la sent to the tailors or the clothing store to rent. "We count the Easter rush the busy time of the year," said Fred Paffenrath "It Is really a pity that the church au thorities did aot have the tailors la mind when thry set the date for Easter. When It conies late in April we do a splendid business, as do also the dealers In all va rieties of clothing, but when we have an Easter like this one, we are not so pleased. It Is a little early for spring suit. Almost every other man who comes in during the month before Easter sny: 'Now, of course, you will have this for nic for EnsterT" March 21 is the opening of spring, but we tailors count Easter as the rent opening of spring work. The rush begins abbut two weeks before, and Is the busiest season of the year. This business Is rather from the more modest dressers, who do not have more than one spring suit. I think they wish to be well dressed because of the show the women folks are to make, and also there is a long line of personal vanity. Easter business .brings a lot of money to the tailors." Same with Clothing; Stores. The clothing stores tell the same story. Warmer weather of course Is the principal reason for hew clothes, but Easter brings the business in a rush during tjwo or three weeks. The men's furnishing houses profit much by Easter. Martin Meyer places the in creased business for the week before and the week after Easter at 30 per cent. There Is a distinct line of Easter neckwear. The delicate shades then first appear and the young man who Is bent on making an im pression in certain quarters buys a four-ln-hand, an Ascot or an English square, that Is one long, sweet daBh of untamed color. At Easter time men buy ties costing $1.50 and Xi who later in the season do not pay more than four bits for their scarf-pin holders. The same thing Is true of hose and gloves, for the furnisher first displays the light and delicately colored articles nt this time. The traveling men come through In January and the dealer must then select what he will have for his Easter lines. There are no particular novelties this spring. The cultivating of neckwear has become such a science that no new forms seem possible, and the producer has to turn his attention to more delicate and pleasing colors. Shoe and Hat Men Go On. The shoe man and the hat man also come In for the general distribution of the winter's surplus. Of course these articles are bought throughout the spring time, but the modish men and women wish to make both ends meet to go with the personal landscape presented between the ends, and so there Is a notlcable rush at tho hat ters and the shoe merchant's. Weather, of course, makes a very large difference In this Easter business. Cold weather drives a man back into his win ter suit and rainy weather keeps people at home. Both have a very depressing ef fect on the sale of the bright and delicate things which are supposed to fit the Easter time. So the dealers are willing enough to contribute to the antl-raln fund. While the real egg Is not such an Easter tar as It used to be, still it plays a very good role. The produce merchants notice the Easter boom tn egg consumption very quickly. The retailers are loading up for the egg dyeing and order numerous extra crates of eggs. ,The drug stores do a nice little business on Easter dyes, selling probably a fourth of their yearly amount during these ten days. While Easter Is not essentially an eajlng festival, still it calls for a good dinner, so the grocers and other provision handlers get a little boom for their ledgers. . The stationer is another dealer who does Important Easter business. At this time numerous invitation cards and notes are sent about and the Easter card flourishes. The stationer in addition now handles many of tho novelties which the confectioner dls plays. These were not bought earlier than four years ago. The cards and other EaBter wares are bought shortly after the Christmas holidays and are put on sale three weeks before Easter. This is be on use so many are sent to Europe. The Sunday schools are also early and large buyers. They place orders for six, or inen Raster cards. These they place early in order to get them of one sort. New styles In writing paper appear In the spring time, but there is no particu lar Easter trade In these. Books are in demand for presents. The preference Is for small volumes, finely bound In white i.(w and dealing with religious topics. The stationers have been busy with this extra business since some time last wees:. Confectioners Are Bosy. Amnnv h eonf ectloners Easter has been a busy time only during a few years. Even ,,.. var nn it did not mean very much additional business, but the amount of con- ... t . 1. . - In. fectlonery and novelties now uuum creasing so fast that Easter is second only to the Christmas holidays and is gaining very fast. It la not Impossible that the confectioners may some time do an equal i,,,i... Christmas has the advantage In the amount of real candy eaten. Easter Is a time for the real stuffed chicks ana Buslines, the cotton and paper mache Imi tations and similar wares. A few veers ago these were confined to a few candy eggs and rabbits. Now the nnv.itiM ere Increasing in size, variety and costliness each year. Japan and Ger many make moat of these things. The German merchants In the east, It Is s&ld, are responsible for the custom, for they Imported a lew things or tne sort tor tne use of their friends and patrons and the custom has spread across the country. The cotton chicks and similar things come from the Orient and tha paper mache and plaster work from the other direction. Flowers to Top Things Off. With tha florists Easter la tha huiv tlma of the year. Last August they began their careful tending or tne duids wnich were to furnish the Easter plants. . This Is the hard part of the florists' business, to get the buds at Just the right time. A few days too late and a heavy loss would come In lillea. Christmas Is second in the florists' year and Valentine's day and Memorial day are the two other busy occasions. The Bermuda and the Japanese lilies are the favorites. The latter Is newer to the mar ket and an attempt has been made to crowd out the Bermuda. The Jap lily can not be forced aa can tne other, ana for this reason is out of the running for an aarlv F.aater Aa la this, but la hatter than the Bermuda for a late season. Eaater business is largely In potted plants lilies, hyacinths, cineraria and similar Bowers. Cold or ralnv weather is a disaster. Of a fine afternoon many a woman strolls Into the florists ana taxes nome some potted plant, but if the days are bad she stays at homa. The flower pursers complain that the stores do not buy flowers aa they used to do.- In the old days every merchant had a few lilies in his windows, but this cus tom has almost died out. The out-of-town oritara hum to the florist about ten dava before Easter. The Catholic churches come earlier for their nowers man tne Prot estants, because their services require them sooner. From Wednesday to Batur ri.v tilaht la the busy time. Tha money which comes In from Easter business, while it is large in amount, is not perhaps as much profit as that from routine business. The bulb stock is ery expensive and in ad dition taxes uuen luuiui eueauoa. KINDLY TIP LED TO FAME Character 8'ietob of Bight Rev. Patrick J. Byao, Aichbithop of Philade'.ph a. AMBITION SPURRED BY DANIEL 0'CONNELL Education and Progress In Ills t hosea Field of Labor Stories and Aaerdotea with a tier leal Flavor. (Copyright, 1904, by Guy T. Vlsknlskkl.) Archbishop 'Patrick J. Ryan of Philadel phia, who is being continually referred to as "the next American cardinal," got his ambition to be somebody In the world from pat on the head and a few words said to him by Daniel O'Cofmell. the famous Irish agitator, known In history as the Emancipator." in 1S44 "Paddy" Ryan whs 13 years old and a student in Carlo w college. Ireland. In that year Daniel O'Connell visited tho college and the students were called upon to declaim for his entertainment. The great man sat through the speeches, ap parently paying no attention to them, .as far as outward sign was concerned, until a lad, marked chiefly by a thick shock of fiery hair, mounted tho rostrum and began to speak. Then Mr. O'Connell came out of his shell, his whole attitude changed, and he gave earnest ear to what the boy hud to say from beginning to end. He did more, As the student was start ing to tep down from the platform', the great orator. In an excess of enthusiasm, walked over to him, placed his hnnd on the shock of red hair, and said: "My boy, mind your tongue; It will some day make you famous. Don't neglect It; It Is your talent." That was all. but it stuck to "Paddy"' Ryan's mind. Like other boys of the time, he had made a hero of O'Connell, and he could not get away from the prophecy, which O'Connell forgot about next day; so at last he told himself that, although he was set aside by his family 4o be a priest, he would still try to be what his Idol said he could be If he only would an orator. Grit Wins Oat. Three years later, Just a few months before O'Connell's death In Genoa, he was billed to speak In a town near Thurles, young Ryan's birthplace. When the doon were thrown open a red-headed boy pre sented himself and started to walk through. 'Hey!" yelled the doorkeeper, "you can't get in without a ticket." "But I want to hear Daniel O'Connell," protested the lad. "Then buy a ticket," said the man. "I haven't any money," oonfessed the lad. The man laughed. "Then," he said, "you'll not hear Daniol O'Connell speak this night." But the boy would not be discouraged. Ho sought out the stage entrance. "1 want you to tell Mr. O'Connell that ratrlck Ryan would like to speak to him," he said to the attendant. "And who's Patrick Ryan?" asked that worthy. 1 am," replied the boy, "and I want you to take My name In to him and tell him I'd like to speak with him for a moment." The man laughed Juat as heartily as the other one had. He also said much abput the boy's audacity in - thinking he could gain audience with such, a -distinguished person as tha "Emancipator," and he did not neglect to make other personal re marks about what Cardinal Gibbons haa called "Archbishop Ryan's red bat that na ture gave to him." But "Paddy" Ryan would not be laughod down. He bad a tongue Daniel O'Connell said it was his talent he wanted to see Daniel O'Connell, and he talked and argued and Joked and bantered with the man until Anally the fellow, becoming Impressed with the pleader's earnestness, took In his name. A few minutes later Daniel O'Connell stood before the boy. "Well?" he said. "Mr. O'Connell," asked the youth, "don't you remember me?" The "Emancipator" took a good look. "Why, bless ma!" he said "you're the boy whom I pralaed at Carlew college for speaking so well. What are you doing here?" "The boy told him. "So you want to hear mo apeak?" said O'Connell. ,WelI, you shall. But first tell me what are you doing now." "I am studying to be a priest," was the reply. "Good," answered the agitator. "Keep it up, and don't neglect your tongue. You will make your mark when you have en tered the church. Come." And so Patrick J. Ryan got to hear his Idol from an advantageous seat on the stage, the great man had once again proph esied he would make his mark as an orator and the boy's ambition, awakened three years before, had received fresh Impetus. Civil War Incidents. ; The civil war had begun. Thousands of Ireland's best fighting men, forced to America In the late '40s and the' '60s by famine and obnoxious legislation, were flocking to the standard of the union. Whole regiments were being formed of them. Among the Irish volunteers In St Louis was a young priest. Father Patrick J. Ryan, who bad eorae to America in DS62, and been ordained the following year in tho Missouri metropolis. His services were accepted as chaplufh and he was assigned to a military prison. By this time Father Ryan had begun to Justify Daniel OlCounell's prophesy. His sermons, from the time of his ordination, had attracted attention. "They are differ ent," said the people, and they went In Increasing numbers to hear the priest who "could touch the heartstrings, was not afraid to tell a witty story in an inimitable brogue, and in the next Instant draw a picture that would bring tears." So Chaplain Ryan went among tho sol diers In the prison aa he had gone among the people In the slums of St. flouts. He msde those who were wounded laugh even In and at their pain by hla wit; he cheered up others with droll stories; he kept the whole prison as cheerful aa any prison ran be by means of his tongue; and there are men In the south today who will tell you stories that they heard from ths Hps of Chaplain Ryan when they were hostages of Uncle Sara between1 the years 186'.-66. In his, work Chaplain Ryan came in contact with men of all sorts of religious beliefs and creeds Never a radical he came to understand how men could Seel differently on the subject of religion and still be sincere, and so when he was mus tered out ef the army he returned to his pulpit, his sermons were marked not only for their eloquence and wit aa before, but for their liberal views as well. As a result. Father Ryan's name soon became known to Protestants, and before long his peaking acquaintance with men q other faiths wss as large ss with his own, and good Presbyterians wtr repeating and laughing at hi latest stories every hit a heartily as the moet pronounced Cath olic in his congregation. Thus things drifted on. Father Ryan win ning the respect and regard of all creeds, to the year 1S72, when the priest's eloquence brought him his first ecclesiastical reward that of coadjutor Ms-hop of St. Louis. The promotion was fuel for his oratorical fires. For the next twelve years whenever he preached or spoke In public thousands, rep resenting all sects, crowded to hear him, and went away to tell his stories and to discuss the liberal views which he had ex pounded, s It was the broad attitude he took as co adjutor bishop that first caused Pope Leo to hear of Bishop Ryan. The late pope, a everybody knows, was liberal In his views, and here was a church dignitary who had won the respect of a largo body of Protestants and broken down much prejudice against the church. So Leo sent for lilsbop Ryan, received him In the Vati can, and. In recognition of hjs work, which had been almost solely that nf a speaker, gave him the honorary title of archbishop of Salami. This occurred In the same year that Archbishop Wood of rhilndclphln died. Archbishop Wood had been ultra-conservative. Among other things he would not let a member of the Grand Army of the Re public be burled In a Cathollo cemetery. Tie held that the Orsiul Army of the Republic was a secret society; he was opposed to all mnh organizations, and h would have no rites other than those of the church nt the grave. As a result, In rhlladelphli. the leading Protestant city tn America, the city of the most pronounced anti-Catholic riots of 1844, when eight churches were burned snd ninny people killed, the progress of the Catholic church was by no means what leading Catholics desired. Transferred t Philadelphia. Upon the death of Archbishop Wood the church began looking around for his suc cessor. It did not take It long to dis cover that Bishop Ryan was the only man in sight who was fitted for tho post. A man was wanted who would soften the widespread hostility against the church; he would have to be something of a diplomat, and a man who could use his tongue well. Bishop Ryan, by means of his wit and his liberality, had won a host of Protestant friends In St. Louis; his policy had received the pope's stamp of approval; he was the man for the place. So Patrick J. Ryan, coadjutor, bishop of the archdiocese of St. Louts, became sec ond archbishop of the lately created arch diocese of Philadelphia, Hla first act caused the town to gasp. A Grand Army of the Republic man, a Catholic, died, and, in fear and trembling, the members of the dead man's lodge presented themselves before the arch bishop and asked If they might bury their comrade in a Catholic cemetery. He not only gave his permission, but he put on his chaplain's uniform, preached the sermon and ed the way to the arava. And the veterans, forgetting that they were in church, and the solemnity of the occasion, cheered their new-found com rade in arms. Old Prejudices Banished. ThO One act. slltnIam.nl.A .Kw a AMa sermons revealing the speaker's toler ance, oratorical powers and overflowing humor, broka down "much of -'the old prejudice, and before long the archbishop Was addressins: meetina-a rallln... otherwise, not under Cathollo auspices. ' oi mem itev. Dr. Henry C. Mo- Cook of the famous no-ht and Philadelphia's leading Presbyterian '""""'"i waiaea across the platform to say that he, too, had been a rhr,ii i the civil war. Now, whenever Dr. Mc- a Arcnuiahop Ryan attend ban quets at the Union leaeue of ki.i. .. are members, they always see to it that Vta. .ia . J j . " fc an B,ae oy side, and each in his sermons frequently statea that "my good frhuid. Dr. McCook." or "my warm friend, Archbishop Ryan, declares." As with the clergy, so with the laity the archbishop's tongue prevailed there, in one way or another. "Your grace." said Tfnn w. v - i;jib ALSO- veagn, when he was counsel of the Penn sylvania railroad. "Mr. Hhrt- president, who always travels with his vwuTC win undoubtedly get you passes over all the railroads In the United States, If in return you will give him a pass to paradise." " "Ah," replied the airGhhf Iri4in miiall.. Si v would do so if it were not for separating him from his counsel." " The archhlahnn'a j,. . . - uiuue nim two Influential-frlends. and it is typical of the way in which he has ur,t tm.ii. . - miAutiiijaia, in good humor for twenty-four years. Growth of tha Dloeeae. At the same time ha haa .i. .... the church. When he assumed charge of the archdiocese it had 260,000 Cathollo fami lies; now it has double the number. He has built. Just outslda at pmiuh.,, v,,.. second largest Augustlnlan monastery in that tvnM 1.. a. . mittfBi is in Bpuin. He has erected a protectory fnr k- ... - several large hospitals, and with the 1260,000 collected as a gift (tor him on his recent golden Jubllaa ,i.ii. refused to aocept, he has started building U Wl ! 11 ft. The archbishop was once asked how be raised all the money for his various enter prises. "Why," he replied, "r i.,.t people and somehow they give." It was Just his talking that ended Phila- deiphia a great street 121.11 W II V SittllA I This leading ciUzen and that had tried' wiwoui success, to get the strike leaders to arbitrate. A big bribe had .failed to move them. Riot and disorder grew apace The city's business was paralyzed. Then somebody thought ef Archbishop Ryan- he was approached und consented to sea, what he oould do. He went to the place where the leaders were ufcsemDiea. He Introduced himself then said he guessed It wouldn't hurt II they'd talk over the situation a little Ii turned out that the archbishop did aboul all the talking. He got the men with hln at the start by a funnv sinrv ,.! v..,, them by the flashes of wit with ,v.i.u ... Interspersed his argument. An hour or so laier wnen ne left the meeting he carried with him the word of the leaders that they wouia aroi irate mcir claims. The next an Philadelphia was a peaceful town in . street cars were running as usual on every line. "My boy. mind your tongue; It w Ill some day make you famous." His fel low churchmen declare that If Arch Bishop Ryan gets the red hat, ai many of thera think he will, it wll largely be because of his wonderful eloquence and his attitude on rh,,r, h ters which he expressed, parable fashion, soma few years ago when be was asked where he stood In a lunnouii .ir between Cardinal Gibbons, extreme liberal. and the late Arcnuiahop Corrigan, ultra conservative: "As archbishop of Philadelphia. I natur ally stand hair way between New York ana Daiu more. uli . viOtt.iMiaii.lvi. NOVELTIES FOR EASTER DAY Faon for tha Festival Ears Taken a Frtctical Turn SOLEMN OR SUGARY SENTIMENT TABOOED Chicks and Rabbits, Bests and Gf(l, Have Nearly Replaced tho Cards that lard to Bo tho Thing. Easter Joys be your today hen the skies shall lighten. When the night bath passed away. And the dawn shall brighten. niosMonis, fragrant, fresh and sweet. Wooed by breezes vernal, Pp:lng to kiss the rlerced feet Of the Lord Ktetnal. Little cards and big cards bearing sentl merits like this are covering the counters of the book stores and Jtat'-oners. Bu they are not fhe objects most sought for Easter favors, according to the salespeople. The big American pur.Ho, with its funny sense of humor, prefers the cute to ths artistic; the ridiculous to the sublime, say the close observers who count the" change. Tiny chicks in grotesque attire find greater favor than dainty cards with - sprays of flowers and tender verse. The latter might as well be kept on the shelf, were It not for Sunday school teachers and maiden aunts and the like. "The kids pass them up," avers the salesman. Many novelties enliven the boards this season, and Just now, a week before Easter, the shop windows are full of thera. Most Interesting of all, perhaps, are ths itutTed ducklings and chicks, ail being "real but the insides." Curlnualv mnnrh these, a well as many other of the Easter oods, are made In Japan by the Japanese, laster Rpeaks eminently of nnara: Inat now. It may be reflected, Japan is speaking earnestly for war In fact, has done some thing more than mere words. Birds Vie with Bonnets. . , But the feathery little -birds, ureal.. aA lifelike, are attracting ths most attention this year. One window has several of ths uny ducks floating on a miniature pond. Bl town aoout by an electrlo fan, they ap ar to be swlmmine-. These things and the multitudes of other fa vors, books and bonbons, that enrich the market, share Interest with Easter othos and Kaater bonnets. Of course. Is the children who love the chick. m and rabbit reminiscences the most. Their leasure of the day is quite as complete Ith these as is the satisfaction of thai forbears in their fine raiment- It mav ha more Innocent: certainly It laa rnativ but then Easter Is a day for allowances, . nas peen decreed. The clown chick, yellow with red ran mnjt funny collars, made hla appearance a year ago, but was a little slow In getting ac quainted. This year more people like him better and he Is in demand. A tiny dudo :ni0K, wltn a high hat. talk In a- on, . telephone, " is another noveltv that h.. caught on. Still further In the poultry Una fh. .m.n. eat chicks that over were, less than an Inch nign, . are, - very ... well received. Stuck on Uny cards and, sold for S cents, many havs been disposed of. Rabbits, too. have beer' treated likewise and share popularity with the chicks. A mechanical contrivance, wharehv n-.'- Rabblt does a continuous performanra aat. ing carrots, is another new proposition that has made a hit. Other little furry rabbits are hollow and may be filled with sweets. come Dear offerings in their paws. A hen that lays an egg by pressing on its head Is another laughmaker. A spring and a mighty craw do the work. Storks, thrushes, doves, blliatava mwA other birds and animals have been called in to neip out the barnyard fowl and tho timid hare. Thov are moatlv nan ...w. and some have surprises lurking about mem somewhere. Others are on duty for ueauiy s aaxe alone. Kga-s and Rests. Nests of green grass, to ha flttaH ui, candy eggs; miniature renllcna of mark. baskets and fruit baskets, etc. tempt ono 10 Duy rrom their cuteness. Caniiv la a- attribute all around and much of it will be sold. Artificial eggs havs more va rieties than there are feathara in v,. biggest roosters that ever walked. All srs supposed to hold toothsome contents. iaaborato care has been laaueit in work ing out some of the Japanese Ideas mother hen and her family, ths rabbit wheeling Its babies before it, and the like. ine greater the detail the more costly. Very few, however, are hlsrher thin hair . dollar. The stuffed birds are only 40 cents. uainty nooks, costing from 25 cents up nd religious In sentiment, an r,.n.i posters symbolical of tha day have como forth in great numbers. Special boxes for candles have appeared, and In the con fectioners' and stationers' there Is no Anuh but that Easter Is nearly due. To be sure many of the ancient horrnra in pasteboard and caudv Inka h they are growing very dusty. Although ths tendency is slightly for the better In this line, Uie old cards, with the relief nna ethical significance of the day expressed. are gradually losing favor. Stocks that have been on hand for years are displayed sgaln, with few new additions, save In tho lighter vein. "It's humor an novelty that the Amer. lean people want," said a shopkeeper. "They desire to see something new and clever or that will make them laugh. Ths real meaning of Kaater they .prefsr to realize In some other way than as ex ploited In many-colored and peculiar looking creations of paper form and color." MOTHER HAD BEENx THERE Recognised the Outward Signs of tho ' Kasclaatlag laogglo la SIelli lag; Times. "Gladys," Bald Mrs. Beenthere, with a pained expression, "I'm shocked." "Why, what about, mother?" Innocently Inquired her fair young daughter. "What about? Tou know perfectly well what about. When you started out sleigh ing I told you distinctly not to let that young man kiss you, put his arm around you or even hold your hands. And he haa done all these things. Oh, Gladys! Gladys!" A blush burned Uladys' cheeks, but what could the poor girl du? "Mother," she bravely said, "tell me how you know these things." "Certainly," said Mrs. Beenthere, ma ternal grief giving way to the logician's pride. "First, there Is no powder on your upper Hp. His moustache did that Sec ondly, the back of bis collar was marked by a streak of block, shewing conclusively that be had ths Jlnes around his neck. There's snow all over your Jacket except a narrow strip around your waist. Then you wore no gloves, snd your hands srs perfectly soft and warm not chafped s bit." Naw York Press.
