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T7IE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 2. 100G. 5 Appreciate The DT'VDKH. Neb.. Nov. r.-To the Krtllor cf The Hit: At thw last riil.r meeting of th Dundi Wntmn's c luT the future policy of The Pee In eliminating frf.tn Its pages nil obnoxious advertisements and presenting to the city of Onwhu a (loan family piinr was generally ri-used. anJ the action of the editor most li"irtlly com mended and approved. We congratulate you upon this advance' movement In the right direction. Most sincerely yours, MAZIK Al.WYX KI.Si.N. 1'1JKENi'E r. lkavitt. IVmim'ttee. OMAHA, Nov. 11. To the INIitor of Tl, TJee: Pirmlt me to express to ynu rny appreciation of the position taken by ymir Valuable rP r in eliminating the ohjec. tlonable advertising matter from" the col umns of TJie Bee. I understand that such a decision coMs NK.nsio nun. Kit diiwa. The ecclesiastical boss la the enemy's best ervant. A HtU warm cheer docii more than a lot of cold cash. Th mOFt empty life is the one that think only of Itself. FnJtb In Clod is nothing without f'llow- lilp with man. He who Ii not rich, having nothing, will Dot be rich having all. People who tow no Joy are Mist to com plain when they reap none. Many a good deed ha died in intention for lack of a lit tie appreciation. Large Ideas of spirituality cannot take the place of definite Ideas of right. There are a mlllkm wiy of spelling love and none of them confined to letters. A good deal of religious food is spoiling because It is being used for furniture. The greatest good is that which leads us to know the greatness of true goodness. The creed of a church must be a step to the divine and not a substitute for It. Many a man has found the rcul riches of life by looking into the faces of the poor. Whatever Is gained at the cost of char acter gets on the wrong side of the ledger. It is not the sign of the cross, but the spirit of the cross, that makes true re ligion. You are sure to be disappointed In the Inventory of your blessings If yeu count only yotir gains. 'The j-eople whose sensibilities ate all on top of the skin always are pushing Into the thick of trouble. Chicago Tribune. SKCl'LAR SHOT AT TIIK PI LIMT. Washington Post: A New Jersey minister ajked for a raleo In salary on account ot 'the added expense of a typewriter." The deacon raised a row about It. until the pastor meekly explained that he had mar ried her. Kansas City Star: In Baltlmoie last Sun day, Mrs. Susan Askay attended Metho dist church by way of celebrating her lolst birthday, and gavo a testimony of her llfo Interest in the cause of Christianity. Per sons who may be skeptical on the ques tion of a future existence have probably not failed to observe that, at least, re ligion does not tend to shorten the time In tills world of persons who practice it. Chicago Chronicle: There has been no time since Dr. Crapsey has entertained heterodox opinions respecting certain doc trines of tho Kplscopallan church that he oould not have had full liberty to pro mulgate thowe doctrines simply by resign ing from that church; It has been the case with Dr. Crapsey, however, as it ha been with several other clergymen, that he wanted to remain In a church whose doc trine he repudiated and to teach doc trines which the church repudiates. Tiii. Phase of intellectual dishonesty is one of the niort surprising and discouraging in modern religion. Springfield Republican: Tho Agllpay schism In the Roman Catholic church in tho Philippines worried the church prelates at one time, espcclully when there was some doubt as to whellv r the church edi fices that the Agllpay followers had taken jiocaslon of would be restored. There wss originally a request that tlie govern.i..-uv evict the AKllpayit s from the property of the Catholic church, but Mr. Taft was too wise to proceed In such R way. He avoided Identifying the government with one side or the other by Insisting that the queetion of the ownership of the church property should be left to the courts. 1 ho decision now handed down by the Philip pine supreme court ngulnst Agllpay and his followers will gratify the Roman Catho lic hierarchy: and every one else, except the schismatics, will be. gratified because the court was ununlmoua. RAILROAD KAHHIXK". Grosa and et Recelnta tuerlenp All Monads. Fhiladeliila Record. Tha most striking fart In th statistics of railway earnings Just issued by the Inter state Commerce commission is that the growth of business is now outrunning ex penses, swelled as the are by rising prices and wages, and the i et earnings are In creasing at a rate exceeding the gross. The lucreaso in grows earnings for the last fiscal year over the year before Is greater than the Increase In any previous year, ami this increase Is added to the almost unbrolt. n aeries of nnual (ncresses that covers a de cade. This increase In gross earnings is 10 per cent, and what is more remarkable Is that tho Increase in tiet earnings 'v" 11 per cent, gr-atur than the Increase in gro and greater than the Increase 1n net cf any previous year. ' The yeara lucrai;7in net earnings was WT.oofi.OK'. Rut dividends were only tM.ntrt.fvo greater tlian tho year berore. It ha been a striking feature of our recent railnwd financial history that all the earnings were not distributed aiiusi the shareholders, hlch would have made the managers Kp ular. aud have promoted speculation by booming sleeks. A large portion of the net earnirgs has been applied t Improving the roads and increasing their equipment and Increasing the value of the properties. 4f '. V, ) 5e Ly'.v tvo-tit'ft Hifttculss are uiihecoiiiini;. For a trifle extra you can li;ivp our Invisible Double Vision Lenses, ground iu one siugle itve of glass. Xo cement to flake. Huteson Optical Co. Agent for the Eastman Kodak. ractorr as th rrauUea. Ipactacl, U aeeded, $1.00 up. 213 BOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET. X.0T0T OMASA II4TTL1 Bees Course ;mi money, fur A w hit" at ! a;, hut j-m'i iM!r. !s one of great moral value t- this city and Itt every home white your puf-r I re-id. lteive m. your r-sr-ftr ully. CHATtLES P. rVHANTUN. t'OTWVIL ULl'FFH WOMAN 6 CHRIS TIAN" TUMPEUANf'E UNION. Nov. Z. To the 1-Mltor of The Pee: As your paer is extensively circulated In our city, we arc pbwscd to note your decision to ex elude fmm the columns of The Fee fell objei tionabb- advertising matter. Our tinioTi In regular meeting today ti!ed n resolution unanimously commend ing you for the position tnken and desired that tlieir appreciation and th'Ark be thus expressed to you. Sincerely your?. MRP. O. ii. Ol.WIAM. iTeSideiit. MR!. L. B. 11A1RD. Secretary. PF.RMISII, tl) OTHERWISE. Pittsburg will have to hurry some to catch up with San Francisco a a graft paradise. A New Torker who drpped four fl-wr without being Set Inuelv jarred shed copious tears, for the wreck of a pair of new sus penders. Out of the wreck on the Southern iail road comes a statement of doubtful com fort for friends. The victims did not know what hit them. Mr. Caruso could well afford to pay that measly fine of S10 with one of his celebrated M.oon note, but refrained lest the tender would embarrass the court in making change. I'nder ordinary circumstances the father of forty-three children would command sympathy Instead of a court penally. But they do things differently In V tali oc casionally. Recent ' activity againft li lists lias squeezed J,j.,uun.Ofm of water out of Stand ard Oil stocks. Young Rockefeller has some wanant for liis preaching on the charms of poverty. Governor Magoon wants considerable new blood to pump Into Culm's system. Fu- trlot anxious for a wirjter season in the tropics are welcome to respond to the cry of distress. The old Lincoln cor which reposed for years In the Junk division of the Fnlon Pacllla shop yard's in Omaha is now going the rounds of the country and drawing considerable money Into the pockets of the owners. While a Cleveland Judge Was considering the sttnlty of a man accused of marrying five women, without wnltlng for the neces sary legal formalities, the victim cleverly Justified himself, in ids own mind, by quoting a recent book advocating trial mar riages. Nevertheless, he went over the penitentiary pike. It Is difficult for the puritan spirit to atorb a hit of d-licate humor. The 11 hrarv K. .u r.l .. , v ' ui t .vntsaacuusciis town ex- eluded from the library shelves one of Mark Twain s books becaui It contained an etching showing A.lam and Eve under the tree of knowledge with Lve In the aet of handing Adam a lemon. UOM KTIC Pl.K ASA TIUKS. hMis Goodli-aou't you admire my new fory Toney y" t m-rr, me "Marry you for your mouev! I wouldn't SianVh-Y ,or y;lw: Yuu " Dealer. ou? -cievcland Plain Caller Isn't your mother In, Kthel Lt liel-No. nmam; she's downtown, t alter Sliupiung? Kllicl-oi,. no. J d,llV, llK hp , j time for that. 8he said she wss going to Ledger U0 llli"es Uo necJ J-l'hiladclpliia "So you re In love with that penniless youngster, eh?" said her father, sternh. -iw. I prn-iosc In cure you of that.'' "Hut you can't," retorted the willful young girl. -I'm determined to many him." "Kxactlyl That's what I propose Ui let you do. " Haltlniure American. "It makes me smile now," said Miss Auteek, "when I tnlnk how much afraid or the dark 1 was when I whs very small." "o: well.", spiled Miss Knox, "It wasn't so becoming to you men as it Is now. lty the way, did you ever try facial mas sage? "Philadelphia Press. "How do you keep your husband from g.ilng to the club." inquired the bride wiio was Just emerging from the hunevmoon. "I'insy." replied the seasoned mat rem. "I keep n club for lilm at hoitie." Ch-veiaiid Plain Dealer. "Yer lookin' very mournful these davs. Mrs. FUrrcn," remarked Mrs. McGetil gan. "An' no wonder." replied Mrs. Fairen. "shure. there hasn't been a funeral In Im parls)! to liven wan up for a month or more." Indianapolis News. Having carefully nurtured an orange tree, tho Agricultural department plucked the fru't and fuund It to be it ! mini. Who dared to hand I nch- pi in one of there?" wua the Inslint Inquire. Naturally. suf:. 'on fell upon Wisard Ilurbatik.- Philadelphia Led a r. M-'AHIMJ Til K I, AST UtiK. Alice Caiey. Oh don't be sorrowful, darlli.s' And don't be sorrowful, prv' Tuklng the year together, my dear There Isn't more night than day. 'Tls rainy weather, my darling: 'lime's wavvs they heavily run Hut taking the year totr.er, my dear There isn't n.oie cloud thnn sun. ' We are old folks now. mv darling Our heads they are growing gra ; But taking the year nil roup I. my dear You will alwas find the May. We have had our May. my darling. And our roses, long ago;" And the time of ear is coming, my dear. For the silent iiignt and the snow. And God is God. my darling of night ss well as of day: i And we fee and know that e can go Wherever He leads the way. Ave, Cod of the night, mv darling Of the idght of d-th so grim: The gale turn Lads out of lue good wife, Is the gate that leads to Him. Sho-Not Invisible Lenses ROOSEVELT. AT ISTHMUS How lbs resident Wi Eeta fjd it tfc riDiua Caaal Wens. RECEPTION BY PRESIDENT AMODER Precedent F.sta ll Used of President f the tailed Mates Katerlna the Territory of Another (Teranteat. J hen Hi Excellency, Theodora Roore- velt, twenty-sixth president of the I'nitd State of America, landed at Cristobal he made the first presidential visit to non contiguous I'nited States territory. When he entered the city of Panama, the geo graphic capital of the western continent, he made the first presidential visit to a foreign nation. Never before baa a president of the I'nited States trod upon foreign soil, and this step revolutionizes the possibilities of a president's movements. Henceforth, tic' president may travel all over the world and visit all the rulers and shrines of history. There Is no reason why the president of the greatest republic should be Imprisoned within his own dominion llko the pope of Rome: and there Is every reason why he should enjoy the liberty to go out Into ths world, meet the various executives and thereby draw the nations closer together Into a fabric of international felicity and peace. He has dnred to break a ustom that might grow like fetters upon t lie na tional executive, and has prevented hnt might detrimentally affect the future of the nation ub does superstition the man. November li at 12 m.. there were seen three battleships over tho horizon of the i Atlantic, ploughing their way Into Lemon bay as the Kmcke rolled high front their staeks. Hy 2 o'clock the Louisiana uli president's ship) was well In the harbor, and as it bcK'an to drop anchor twenty-one guns boomed the jiresldent's rtlute from tho shore batteries, on the morning of the l'th the president was to land at Cilstibal and the populace made ready upon pier 11 to receive bin. Marines were drawn up upon tnc pier una the isthmian CanAI Com- mission band i layed several airs. 'I lie peo. pie, however, did hot expect the pres d -at to arrive until after the salute of the Louisiana, which boat ai pouring out fire from both sides." However, before the si lute was completed a figure in white duck and a Panama, hat appeared upon the plat form, which was Immediately recognized to be the president, and great cheering fol lowed. Ho was full oT smiles as he was escorted to the special train by Captain Shanton. chief of the canal zone police (a Roosevelt Rough Rider.) The troops upon the pier were reviewed by the president, and he also listened to and congratulated the Anirlcun school children who sang "America," as they waved the national flag. Tho train stood by for about a half mi hour, a waiting; the arrival or President and Mrs. Amador of the Panamanian republic. Messrs. Shonts and wire. Stephens and wife, and Mr. Hlshop, secretary to the commission, had already arrived, and when the president and Mrs. Amador arrived the train pulled out for the trip across the Isthmus (or continent.) It was about 8 o'clock when the train pulled out, nmld a drUxlIng rain, such as Is very typical In the rainy s- ason. As the train hurled on Engineer Stephens kept very busy answer ing questions that were hurled at him by the president In gatllng gun speed, and pointed out the various Important points along tho canal from the observation car, La France. The first stop was made at Gatun. where a crowd had gathered around the car in spite of the rain and diet red loudly. Puna manlan and Jamaican children were lined up here ns they were at the other towns, waiving American Mags and singing tiio national hymn. Ilohio, Frejoles, Tabernilhi, Corgona. La Cascades. Empire and Oilcbra were the other stopping places and the program was ouite the same at eeh point. When the children finished their song the president congratulated them and the train moved on, amid cheer. At Culebra. and Umpire there was considerable blowing of whistles. W. G. Rierd. general manasrer of the Panama railroad, rode In the cab of the engine as an extra precaution to prevent accident, am! when the president arrived ot A neon he hiok hands with the i engineer and congratulated Mr. Hlerd upon his magnificent management, thanking 1dm Tor the extra precaution. president arid Mrs. Amudor left tha train at Aucon and the party proceed, d to Iji lloca. the Pacific end of the canal, where the tug Bolivar was taken out Into the bay, a,iuld the blowing of whistles and cheering from sttllora. Several large boats were out In the buy and as tho tug passed by they Baluted with cheer after cheer, to which the president-responded by a wave of the hat. It had begun to drizzle quite heavily and everybody came to the center ot the boit. The president, giving the chain to the women, sat on the hatchway. After we got out several miles the tug rounded a German boat and went back Into post, where the presidential party stuped for luncheon at the 1a Hoeu mess. At t.to the train bft for Anion, from wiuru the party was driven to the Aucon hospital and heme to Hotel Tlvoll. The Tivoli is a Urge, new I. C. C. hotel, which lias been formally opened for the president, j At 3 o'clock the otficlala of the I"auama. government were received by the president and at 'i.'M the procession started for the Cathedral plaaa. The president of the I'nited States and the president of the Re- i public of Panama rode together. Mr. Ruose- veil sitting on the light, and were escirted by mounted Panamanian citizens in Khaki I uniform. Cheer came from all side as the presidents liowed right and left. Arriving at the Plata at 4 o'clock. Presi ; di'iu Amudor addressed President Roose ! velt with words of welcome, to which ; Mr. Roosevelt replied. He reiterated Mr. Iloet's speech as his sentiment and ad monishing the people of the right of law and order declaied In substance that gov ernment by revolution is nn government at nil. The t xaet words of the president will be common property before this reaches the press, so I shall not Insert them. Aftir the addresses there was a parade of Sehool children, passing In front of the platform, singing the Pana manian hymn. In the evening president Roosexelt a as entertained by President Amador at the palace and fireworks were viewed from the balcony out in the boy. November H the piesldeut went through the Culebra cut from Pedro Miguel to I Has Obispo, a distance of about ten miles, covering all the possible trackage which would not interfere with the woik. It 1 rained considerably all day and the real DENTISTRY PAINLES8NB9S, CLEANLINESS, RELIABILITY, MODERATE PRICES, Arg tha Leading Feature of My Protle0. rilling. fVM t'. DR. FICKES, D'MTK' Phot Doug la 537. 33S B Bldg. Jlflicultlts of the wotii ere made very splMirent. November IT the president Inspected the slsht of the great Gatun dam. which l con sidered to be the next greatest feat to the (xcavallon of Culebra cut. This dam will form a lake which will cover about one half of the distance across the Isthmus and provide against a great deal of dlgg.ng Here the president was shown the kite cf the locks; also the site of the great dam which will, in fact, bo an artificial hill a half mile wide and a mile long. This hill will form a great artlflclal lake, which may appropriately be called Lake Roose velt, afier Its maker. We call the highest mountain on the continent which was made by the hand of .God, Mount McKlnley; why not call the greatest lake made by the hand of man Lake Roeiseevlt? On the evening of the l?th the president received formally the employee of the Isth mian Canal commission upon ller 11, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Immediately after the reecptlon the presi dential party left for the Louisiana and as the three battleships raised anchor and be gan to moor their way out Into the deep the epoch-making visit of the president cumn to a close. Is was a triumphant trip from all standpoints and particularly from the fact that Mr. Roosevelt had his own way; for his natural desire to know all ard see all did not leave hlui oil the Isthmus, and all through his visit he had shown the linKsslbllily of the commission to harness him. Ills visit here shall give the Amer ican people great confidence In his utter ances with regard to oanal affairs and faith in his crdravurs to. sjeceeef ully carry this great undertaking through. Although, in the lipht of engineering im provements and progress In the last thirty I Vou r-a IIia l.nil.lit.o- ! ..c,l j,9 'gM as great a f0Rt RB the bllUuing of the -Panama railroad In the early six ties, in which undertaking there was sacri ficed more life than in many wars, for It is conservatively said that each cross-tie represents a Iium.hu body, which was sacri ficed for Its construction. Although the building of the stone r.wd across the Isthmus, from Potto Hello to old Panama in the sixteenth century, may be i ili.l tm ft at ill en 1 r iinilrr tak, ,f cwer the facilities ., engineering- and medical knowledge of th- t day and today. Yet If we were to ap'ily the same implements of labor, the pick and Rprule. instead of the modern steam shovel and steuni car, the under taking would be a, thousand times greater than that of the former two. This goes to show how the burden of the liaaid of maji has been alleviated by invention. The existence of tiiese foreruur.eis o I commerce go to show the great necessity for a water channel, which was recognised 409 years ago by Christopher Columbus when he made three unsuccessful attempts to sail around the world and reach the Kast Indies. Civilization has swept around the globe, but the aim of Columbus has not yet been accomplished, and only after the Panama canal Is completed can the peoples of the old world sail directly west to the "East Indies. Four centuries have passed since Christopher Columbus had endeavoted in vain t find an outlet to the west. Acci dentally he had discovered a new world: this new continent nursed into greatness a republic, and this great republic produced a great man, who will solve the question. VICTOR H. DC HAS. Cristobal, Panama, November, K), WATCH LS Frenxer, 55th and Dodge. THE SADDEST WAR STORY Declared to Be that of the Return ing Soldier Killed by Hla Father. ' "The saddest war story that ever oc curred has never been fully told so far as I know," said a man who followed l.ce to the surrender at Appomattox. "I believe that Mrs. Chestnut In her 'Diary from Dixie' niude a brief mention of the ineldent. "I had forgotten It until I reud the book. Then It came back to me as I heard It from t ne who was at the f uncial. The man who told it died twenty years ago. "The soldier had enlisted in Georgia from his home where his father remained undisturbed during t lie struggle. Tho young man hud fought through the war without a scratch, save a slight wound which had left him ulightly d-af. Till arrilctlon he hud never referred to in any of his letters. "After the surrender he communicated with his father, saying he would reach home on or about a certain date. Travel then was uncertain and he was not positive as to when he would arrive. "His father prepared to receive him. Believing that Ids son would come as promised, he arranged a spread such us the condition of his mirroundings et timt time would permit. He had brought out his l st plate that had been secreted for a long time, and with gold which had been exhumed he bought such delicacies ami nubklantialrf as the southern market at that tiniH afforded. "Asj many of the old time neighbors as were living In the vicinity wet Invited to the home-coming ef the returning sol-j uier. l ne cx-e.onicucraie armeu on ine old plantation the night before the earliest date he had mentioned in his last letter. It waa Inte und his father and the family had retired. "The only creature on the old place that seemed to be awake was a dog. As the soldier entered the gate of the grounds tho dog begun barking. Ti. K..U.-1 ai ou.eJ the owner of the manor. The country tat overrun at the moJer" hih "P'"' 'h!ch '" "1T tlme with stragglers, some of whom had not i tl,e old l'le blnck Powder, even ns h.s-ttatcd to commit burglary. -rh r-.ti.er ,,r th, -iin-iii,,. bov ro.e. He- stood ill his d. airway ..!th hi shotgun u 1 1 1 1 challenged the approaching stranger, as he supp feed. "'1 hn yuutig man being d- af made no re ply, but continued on Ins way. The man in the doorway raised his gun and fired. The strungcr fell dead. "The father summoned his family and the f-w- lemuliilng scrvujits of the plantation. An investigation was held and the tragic truth will, rc-VEUled. "The fatln-r. of course, was inconsolable, lie returned to his house while the Servians carried ttw- lift less form of his boy to the liome that had been awaiting Ids coming. "The luxt day the Invited guests began to arrive. The father bad given orders that the tragedy should not be mentioned until he himself told It. "1 do not r cull mhat explanation was muile to the guests aa to the absence of him whom they were to honor. But after the repast they were told, and then they filed past the dead. "Tho body w as a rapped In the flag for which the brave young man had fought. The community was uued to funerals. Every private burial ground had a giave made by the unhappy war. Hut ihj funeial Ilia; this had ever taken place In the viclnlt and I doubt if it ever ha. I a couigerpait In any state, north or south. I hope not." New York Sun. Kleellnn tssirti kla)ea. LC6 A NO ELKS. Cal . Dec. I -A to weeks' postponement of the Injunction suit brought to restra'n the secretary of slate from filing the official vole of I he unnena tion rleetion waa granted yesterday by tha superior court. The reason for the poet puneiiieiit was that Attorney Geuernl Wrl.h was not rmdy to file a demurrer for the secretary of etate. As a result the racing keason. whieh opened on Thanksgiving av. will proli-tbly continue without attempt i-.t Interruption until Sutt paik, ia l-'f-vlir a. clared a uart f Una city. WHERE DEATH LIES IN WAIT Saoksieu Fuwdtr Mills tlis Uost Can rtroui of Pnildinci CEASELESS CARE THE PPlCE OF LIFE I Only One Man Allowed In the Uan Cotton Dri'lna; Hnase lie Wears Rubber Shoes and Rarely Smiles. Working In a smokeless powd'r mill Is like sitting on the lid of Vesuvius, onlj more dangerous. The volcano grumbles and rumbles and quakes, giving ample warning before belch ing forth Its torrents of fire and lava. But the powder mill la like a g'gantlc bomb filled with human creatures, loaded with tons upon tons of nltro-glycerine and gun cotton, primed and ready to explode from a score of known and unknown reasons. Sometimes when a danger house blows tip, tearing men within to atoms, rending the building Into matchstlcks and gouging a gaping hole thirty feet across Into rucks and gravel. It Is impossible to tell even What caused the accident. Other times the dlsuster is traceable to the carelessness or disobedience of an employe. Occasionally the catastrophe Is due to an unavoidable accidet.t like the mero stubbing of a toe. Whatever the cause, when the crash comes It is the most Inconceivably fright ful ordeal to which the human nervous system can 11 subjected. How human creatures can he Induced to take the risks of working In such n earthly Inferno, ready to burst on the Ins-tant In all Its horror, may seem past understand ing: still thousands upon thousands of men work In these mills scittered through out the I'nited Ptates. The guncoUon drying house, containing as much as five tons of the frltthtful ex plosive, a half teanpoonf ul of which would be enough to blow you Into smithereens, stand.-" Isolated on pillars above a marsh 4 yards from the nearest building. Kver-Preseiit VIrii. Nothing except the portentois woid "Danger," point. d in big black letters over tho entrance, distinguishes this house from the other structures, yet as yon gaze at Its very isolation you upproach with deep respect. Only one person is permitted In this house an Italian a. medium-sized, chunky man he Is, dark mid swarthy, with black eyes and n blncker mustache. He Is a man of years of expei ience, so trained to caution tiiat it has become a habit exer cised like second nature. The man in churae will not permit you inside this house, no matter how favored a visitor you may be. The most he- will do is to open the door of one of the dry ing rooms to give you a peep within. lie Is tvairicil and has five children. No. he isn't afraid. If he were he would not work where he Is working. He knows, of course, that if lie violates any of certain rules he and his house are going to leave together, but he has no Intention of violating precaution. He never has been blown up yet and he does not intend to be. Even his family has reaped worrying about him. You notice he is wearing rubber soled tennis shoes, wherein he walks silent and ghostlike. As lie opens the door of one of the drying rooms, heated to a tem perature of HO degrees, a breath of hot air from within strikes you. Y'ou soe what appears to be chunks and slabs and wads of a dirty white blot ting paper heaped In metal pans two by three feet and set in a series of spa clous racks llko so many big pigeonholes. Kven now there is nothing In the appear- j nce of ),ie "tu t,J prevent you from throwing it out of your way as If It were an old piece of paper, and yost wonder afterward whether after all this seeming i rubbish can be the dreaded explosive, a mere fifty ismnds of which c-ntild send an l8.Xi ton Dreadnought to the bottom. "Tonch Me ot." Yrt the sllchtest sudden jar against even a pinch of this insignificant appearing sub stance and there would be n flash and n crash that would shake the earth for nilh-s around, and nothing but u pall of smoke drifting skyward would remain of house or man. The slightest grain of Fand underfoot to cause friction against dust invisible to the naked eye or a mere spaik. knocked perhaps from the head of a carpet tack, and the house and man would be annihi lated. A spark of static electricity of the sort with which you can liRht a gas Jet by n spark leaping from the knuckle of a finger after sliding your feet across a carpet, and . 5'ou would have vanished trncelessly, blown Into atoms too small to find with a micro scope. Owing to this deadly sensitiveness, every precaution for safety is taken by the man In this building. The Moors are covered with rubber sheets fastened by brass headed tacks to prevent danger of sparks. Dustpans and utensils are of brass or copper. When the panfule of cotton are trans ported In or out of the place the Moors are covered with sheets of canvas to be re. moved and shaken clear of possible dust outside the building. Twice a day the floor are scrupulously brushed. In short, every I nceivame precaution is i.m to p.eveni j catastropne. I w nai w mis ei-ioaeiess powaer .- it is me ciecmc.iy nas superseaea gas. anu wnicn U'J " "'"V tlle " 'or 'porting purposes, but is used exclusively for the shoulder arms of the army and the navy as well as for the machine guns, the rapid Ac old soldier writes about AR10SA Coffee: "Your,coffee is the best and riche&t coffee I ever drank since Cleft the service, from p '61 until I received your coffee yesterday . A soldier knows coffee by the Ute, and the way it make him (eel. and would sooner go will tout Lis bread than without hi coffee. ArWUeV AR10SA was th first roasted, packaged coffee, packaged for The coming week is exposition week and all our holiday goods are ready for your inspection. We advise our friends and pa trons to come this week as we will be better able to take care of you than in the last few days of the Christmas rush. We have everything for wardrobe of man or boy ' Here are a few suggestions: Sweaters Hosiery Neckwear Gloves Jewelry Overcoats Shirts Suits rowning, King R. S. Wilcox. Mgr. fire gun and the huge riftes on the decks of our battleships and within tho works of our fortiricntton. Harmless' In Certain Ways. Practically it is nothing but a mixture or gtmootton and alcohol and ether, or ace tone, or elso ac-etone with guncotton and nitroglycerine the two strongest explosives known and. blended into a new oompoifd which is at lest double as strong as the common black owder, explodes without giving off smoke, and, once linisheel. not merely loses the dangerous characteristic or its dreaded Ingredients, but Is so safe that you might give a hatful of the powder intended for tho sixteen-lncli Bandy Hook gun to a baby to play with. lie might iNiutid It with a hammer to his heart's content, or you yourself might place it on an anvil and bring a forty pound sledge down on it. It would merely suuasli like so much soap or putty. So concussion-proof is this puwdt r that you might drop a house on a heap of tllty tons of It and It would not explode. So proof Is It againt explosion by lire that you might place a stick of cannon powder on a saucer in your bedroom, light It with a match and go to bod by a flickering, slzilinu; light, as burning fat. In short, you simply cannot explode this powder unless you go to the trouble of confining it. and . even then you can x plodo It only by using a fulminate of mer cury detonator. The quickest way to piotnre smokeless powder is to dismiss all Ideas of the or dinary black gunpowder so familiar to everyone. The color of the modern iowiicr Is not black, but the rhade of dark amlier. In the sense of a powder being a finely divided solid, smokeless powder Is no powder at all. It consists of a waxlike composition, the siie tif tho grains vary ing according to t lie calibre of the guns for which they are designed. Tor use in revolvers, rifles and sporting guns the grains resemble the tiny per forated glass beads of the sort used in old-time needlework. For the machine guns, the rapid fire guns and the heavy rides of battleship and forts, the grains are cylindrical In shape, varying in sue from a Uiird of an inch in diamter and half an Inch In length to three-four! h of an Inch In diameter and about two Inches In length each grain, in order to increase the area exposed to Ignition, being per- proper tion of ciynurreri, roasted aod the ores o( each berry sealed with a coating of fresh eggs and pure sugar, to hold the goodne in and make the coffee settle clear and quickly. Better than "fresh roast." Warming a litde develops the (Uvor and makes the grinding easy. Our enormous coffee business, exceeding the next (our Lsfcest I firm in the world together, reduces out v if i n a rt i Lounging and Bath Robes Smoking Jackets Collar and Cuif Doxes Fancy Suspenders Suit Casts and Dags Handkerchiefs Underwear Umbrellas and Canes (Si Co, fornted equldlBtantly and longitudinally with from one to six holes, big a knitting needles, depending upon tha slue of the grain. A pph ton's Magagine. POVERTY AFFIDAVIT MADE I'len of Inability to Hay r ise Ualn Itelease of Ttanrston t'ooaty Man. William L. Johnson was released from the Douglas county Jail Friday evening under a poverty uffiduvit, being unablo to pay the tine lf ll'Hl assessed against him by the I'nited Blates court for unlawfully cut ling timber on Illackbird Island, Thurston county, a pari of tho Omaha Indian reservation. Johnson was convicted early lust spring with one George i'lillllps iu the federal court fur the offense, and each was fined li0. to stand committed to the Douglas county Jail until the same was paid. Sen tence was suspended for several weeks to enable the convicted men to raise tho money. Phiillps paid out. but Johnson did not, end was sulwequrntly arrested and locked up for neglect in paying the fin. He hs been In Jail for nbout three months and la Just released on a poverty affidavit. PIATTI INSTEAD OF MOORHEAD Only tunnae In Kiigllsh's Slate aa Announced by The Bee Weeks Aaro. County Attorney-elect James K English announced his list of deputies Saturday morning. They are George A. Miigney, Al fred G. F.Ilick. Louis J. Piattl and Will J. Coud. Frank H. Oood of South Omaha la to be the new messenger and Miss Anna Prusha the stenographer. The list of deputies, with the exception of Mr. PlattI, Is the same as Was an nounced In The Bee two or three week ago. At that lime It wo reported on place would go to Harley Q. Moorhead, who was a candidate for the legislatut and who led the delegation at the poll. Mr. PlattI Is one of the leader of th Dahlmun Democracy. All fo-ir of tho deputies are from Omaha, the uppolntnient being- made from her J with the understanding South Omaha waa to have the messenger and the stenogra ph! i 76 rjl ToTOKTirT TflC BoCT A(jrjn$T rMHUETrltY SCLD IM SEALCD FACXMTS ckly- rex YOU K&TECTiefl Wife a. V7 an 9 rv. fcj L average cost per pound, and enables us to give you better coffee for your money than you can buy in any otlier way. There are more packages of ARUOSA sold in the United States than all the other Coffee packages combined. If your gtocer wifl not supply, write to JXBUCKJ.E BROS.. tWYariVQav