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THK OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: DECEMBER 30, 190(5. A TL Douglas 611. Important Watch this space for announcement and particulars of . Thompson, Belden & Co 'a. January Clearing Sale. It will appear in the New Year's edition, January 1st, 1907. Our Show Windows ' Should be watched every day for the great bargains which will be offered in our January Clearing Sale. The savings will bo many and great. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS. HOWARD, CORNER the recommendations ft Secretary of State Galusha In hlx biennial report, which will be received from the printers probably ' Monday. Mr. Qalusha recommends th abolishing of the rssti funds at the various state -Institutions, tbe establishment of a. state rarehouse so the Board, of Purchase and Supplies can buy for the vatlous state ' Institutions st the same time at wholesale ' prices, the apportionment of J.1,500 for the purchase of legislative supplies Instead of $1,000 as now appropriated. He calls atten. tlon to some Instances of carelessness on ' the part of the State Board of Public! Lands and Building in the matter of let tins; contracts for buildings. The report goes on to say: "I would call the attention of the lr-glsla-' tore to the enactment or a law compelling the superintendents ft the several Institu tions to deposit all funds of every descrip tion that come Into their hands during their term of office with the state treas urer. In excess of $100. on ths first of ery month; said funds to be known as ' a ctal fund for the Institution creating the . Tie, this fund tp be paid out by warrant drawn by the auditor on the state treasurer after the vouchers have ,boen allowed at 2 properly signed by .the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. At ' present time there Is no law allowing' uch funds to be created and no au thority ever given by the state hoard. While these funds may have been honestly expended for the best Interests of the state, the system is wrong for the reason that the money is expended without the approval of the board and the only knowl edge that the Board of Public Lands and Buildings has of the transaction Is the report made to them by the superlntend rnts after the money has been paid out. It also leads tfi the purchase of merchan dise and Improvements In many cases without competition, and there Is no good business reason when the farm produce Is old tha receipts therefor should not be turned over to the state treasurer and credited to this special fund ftir the use of that Institution only. The reason I advocate giving to the several Institu tions an ampunt not to exceed $100, to bo a cash fund. Is to meet the emergencies that arlsa that would Inconvenience the several superintendents to have to file vouchers before these emergencies' could be adjusted, "As a member of the Board of Public Lands and Building I see where, the board has failed In many coses In letting contracts for public buildings, in not being . more careful In the specifications, to see that everything pertaining to' the comple tion of a building Is In the contract. For Instance, the Board of Public Lands and Buildings prior to this administration let ft. contract for cottage at Norfolk. Tbe ontract did not call for wire guards on the windows. These bad to be furnished before the building waa completed, and undoubtedly, we paid more than we would had they been In the original contract. An other building did not call for complete finishing of the walls, and, to leave them In first-class condition, will cost about $400 that should have been In the origins con tract." Douglas Against Tartar. ' Buck Taylor went to Omaha tonight and when he returns he will find a hostile Douglas delegation ready to thwart him In his ambition to become sergennt-at-arms of the house. With Saunders asking for the presidency of the senate and Dodge for the speakership, some of the outside counties thought It waa going too strong for tha big county to also ask for sergeant-at-urms, consequently several of the dele gations made it public tonight that Buck must be Informed that If he gets any sup port at all from the Douglas delegation It will be mighty little. During the day J. W. Armstrong, candi date for speaker, from Nemaha, opened up his headquarters and began an active can vass for the place, . Senator Saunders and Senator Gibson came In from Douglas county and began to work on the former's boom for president of tha senate. Union Paclflo Lobbyist Bob Clancy Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. . t . ...... Guarantee on Their Products. f "Ve warrant aud guarantee that all packages-of Poatum Cereal, Grape-Nuts and Eli jali's Manna hereafter sold by any jobber , or retailer cduiply wiCh the provisions of the National Pure Food Law, and are not and shall not be adulterated or mis-branded within ' . ' the meaning of said Act of Congress, approved ',' June 30, 190G, and entitled, "An act for pre venting the manufacture, sale and transporta tion of adulterated or mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and for regulating traffic therein for other pur poses." POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., C. W. Post, Chairman, Battle Creek, Mich. Dec. 12, 1906. Subscribed and worn to before me this ISth day ot December, 190A. BENJAMIN F. REID. Notary Public. My commission expires July 1. 1907. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they are not mis-branded. "We have always, since the beginning of our , business, printed a truthful statement on the package of the ingredients contained therein and we stand back of every package. Postum Cereal Grape-Nuts Elijah's Mantiu, Bee, I)rabr 19, 180. SIXTEENTH STREET. dropped Into town and put up at tha Lin coin to get in touch with the sltustlon or create one, while the fake reform lobbyist, Stonebraker, actively engaged hlmeelf with the legislators at the Llndell. Mr. Stone braker, however, announced ha did not In tend to look after any business before the legislature this winter. John Lewis, claim ing to represent the Equal Rights league, and some other things from Omaha, la here getting acquainted and mixing up with the new member. Tony Donohoo and a number of railroad Lconductors and employes met at the Wind sor this afternoon to discuss legislation which they will ask for, or to get prepared to resist leglslstlon unfavorable to them. They will work out a new fellow servant law which will give more protection to the employes. They will be In session probably several days. ' MUJIRS MUST WAIT (Continued irom First Page.) campaign. gainst tha the ex-premier In the rer; jonary press led to the supposition tha he had Irretrievably lost his sov fign'a good will. This apprehension has certainly been dispelled, no matter what may be ths final results. Count Wltte was very kindly received by the ctar and re mained In conversation with his majesty twenty minutes, and It Is said that the csar Invited htm to come again. The sub ject of the conversation remains a secret. It Is understood that It wss of a general charocter, which would seem to corrob orate the Idea that the emperor granted the audience rather as a mark of personal dis approval of tha outrageous press campaign, of which the ex-premlcr has been tha vic tim, than from political motives. It would be only natural that various questions of moment should be touched upon In the course, of the conversation. According to the Rech the chief topic waa the difficulty of concluding the negotiations with Japan. Another claim Is that It had to deal with reports concerning the recent scandals. DEAD NUMBER TWENTY-THREE Six More Members of tha Wreck Hear Dundee Die of .. Injuries. DUNDEE, Scotland, Dee. 81 The total number of deaths' caused by the collision between two trains near Arbroath last night waa today raised to nineteen. The fireman, of the wrecked express dlod to day after -having been pinned down nnder the engine cab eight hours. Two injured passengers also succumbed today as the result of exposure In the snow before being succored. ' William Black, M. P., for Banffshire, Scotland, whi was severely Injure'd, is making fair progress. The blinding snowstorm obscured both trains until they were actually on the point of colliding. Three more persons who sustained inju ries yesterday ar dead. This brings the total of deaths up to twenty-thre. Aber deen has been cut off since Thursday, but the demoralized Scottish train, service la being restored. LONDON, Dec. ffl.-The Board of Trad has appointed a commission to investigate the Arbroath railroad wreck. LOWER STREET RAILWAY FARES Cleveland Company Announces that It - Will Bell Seven Tickets for a '.' i CLEVELAND, Dec. 89 Tha Cleveland Electric Railway company. In an official statement that will appear tomorrow, will announce a reduction In fare from 9 cents for a single fare or eleven ticket for CO cents, as now sold, to seven ticket for 2ft cents, or practically a SH-cent fare. AMERICAN HOME MENACED Cbttacla Iscmiinff lericm! Cities of the East. i ill PROPORTION OF FAMILIES TO DWELISIGN errant Problem Casts Its Shadow Over- the Land rinrn of the Assessor, tbe Plumber, Ice Maa and Coal Mil, The question, "Is the American Home Becoming Obsolete?" propounded by ft writer In the Chlcngo Tribune, has no re lnt.'on to conditions In Omaha, where in dividual family homes are multiplying as fast as men and materials to fashion them ran be had. The question applies to large cities with peculiar emphasis and the facts submitted in support of the affirmative throw a strong light on the evolution of family life. In part the writer says: Today there Is one hoarding house keeper, one restaurateur, or one hotol keeper In every S.oro population In the United States. The number of persons em ployed In these various Institutions Im pinging upon the home life of the T'nlted States have Increased three and one-half times, while ,the population hns been doubling, snd At the present time there Is only one domestic servant to every ten j homes in the country. How universal Is the disposition of the American people to escape the responsi bilities of the home In Its old sense of one roof for one family has been suggested in the work of the census bureau In New Tork and Chicago. Fire Families to a nvrelllna. In the Manhattan borough of ui enter New Y-r:- the census of 1900 showed an overage of 4.8 families living In Its 80,fina dwellings, with only S2.K10 of these dwell ings having one family each, while 10.8SB had Pleven families and more each' Chicago, with an sverage of only l.t foml- lles to a dwelling, has Its 193.F96 dwellincB, of which 104.230 house one family only, and S48 dwellings that have eleven or more families In them. In each of these cities enormous Increase Is shown In the disposition of families to congregate In flat and apartment buildings, and there has been no question that this movement has for Its purpose the simpli fication of the responsibilities of a home. Philadelphia, with 1.1 families to each dwelling, Is the one big city of simple homes, yet showing a diminishing number of these in proportion to population each decade. In considering the deserting of the Amer ican home the fact stands out that the typical family Is the ono responsible for the condition. Extremes Make Tto Change n Homes. There are few examples of the wealthy family, owning Its establishment, desert ing In favor of the apartmpnt building. The families that hovel In the slum dis tricts of the. great cities are not changing. In the homes of the wealthy there Is no stress of burdens In maintaining the family mansion: In the hovel the family finds Its cheapest abode. Thus the respectable middle class of society, upon which nil society counts for Its equilibrium. Is the discontented class which Is deserting home for the boarding table. Tet from the census of I860 the Amer ican family has shown a steady decrease In the number of person to the household group. In the order of the census, report thlB average of the American family las 150. 190. 1870. 1R90. 19Tt. 6.66 6.28 5.00 5.04 4.S3 4.7 . In snlte of these figures or perhaps be cause of them the first question of the servant girl seeking employment as do mestlc is, "How many are there In the family T" Influence of the Servant Problem. Is the "servant problem" of the country driving the American family to tho hotel, the restaurant and the boarding houseT Time long has been In which it has been nn accepted fact that the boarding house, restaurant and hotel have been driving hordes of bachelors Into homes of their own. The cheerless existence of the bach elor In the best of these hostelrles long ha called for a more or less xtrong general sympathy. The average bachelor, exchang ing the life of the boarder for the life of the married man, in smoking jacket and slippers nt his own fireside, long has been tho encouraged and encouraging social fac tor In civilised existence. There have been few suggestions of sentimental change ' from this accepted attitude anywhere in the literature of the country. Yet nil sud denly the statistician comes forward with columns of figures and percentage tables to show, according to statistic, that tho rheerles bachelor has been Jumping from his cheerless frying pan Into a still more choorless fire. With his wife and his chil dren he has been deserting the home ond eo!ng back to the life of the boarder! Statistician Blames It on Domestics. The statistician ha made the point and charged It that the ervant girl problem la the one first possible cause of this hegiri from the home. I. M. Rublnow of the De partment of Agriculture at Washington be lieves tha premise. Such proof as may be In comr-arlsons has been suggested In the fact that In Russia, where a servant girl may be hired for $3 a month, to be on household duty twenty-four hours a day for every day In the week, the boarding house Is scarcely known. In sharp distinc tion from this condition In Russia, too, is tha fact that In the United States the ten dency for yeuvs has been for an Increasing scale of wages for domestic service and the most exacting restrictions on the part of the servitor as to hour and the nature of the work required. Only Os Home In Ten Ha Domestics. Under all these exactions of wage In crease, shortening of hours, and exemption from certain heavy household duties th difficulties of tho servant girl problem are plain enough a bearing upon the family purse. But a train of other difficulties la suggested In th fact that only one home In ten In the Untted Bute employs a do mestic at all. Surely more than one home In ten In tho United States can afford to waive the cost Horn in favor of employing a servant. But tha fact that no mora than one home In ten has a domestic points Inevitably to the fact that other difficulties In the servant girl problem are weighing heavily upon the economy of the home as an Institution, And, coupled with this, th striking in crcaso of hotels, restaurants and boarding nouses in proportion to the Increase of pop ulation points to the Inescapable fact that the Amorican family U deserting th hn'ro In favor of th boarding place. Chicago' own estimated figures bearing upon th condition of the servant girl prob lem and one of its causes may be shown In the occupations of Chicago's woman kind. Approximately there are dDO.OtO fe males In the city who are above the school age limitation, which would allow of their entry Into any employment. In all the lines of occupation open to women In ths city there are 170,0110 employes. Yet under th strict classification of a "domestic" in household service hardly 40,000 of them are domeMlcs. Can't Sapplr Demand for Servants. Forty thousand domestics In the houte hold sense and 19.Ct0 women In all tlir other callings that are op. n to them In Vhlcago become significant when it Is considered that so fef of this 13C.OuO ar to be classed as export -lielp la their iUce of smpluy- hient. Five dollars a week for a rapabl maid ot all work In a home Is not exorbi tant at the present time, while the female stenographer, clerks, salespeople and offlco employee who donot receive more than $6 are legion. Out of this K, too, cotne car fares, luncheons downtown, and the cost of table board at home, nun of which bears upon the domestic In tha ordinary household. In these facts and figures may be found the Impelling something which In Its appeal to womankind Is making the "swrvant prob lem" for the country and forcing the aban donment of the American home life In favor of the boarding table in hotel, res taurant or boarding house . "Servant problem," as descriptive phrase ology In America, carries with it much of the problem of the situation. The word servant is repugnant In the ear of the do mestic as a first emphatic proposition. In the cas of ths foreign born Immigrant who enters a household unacquainted with the English language and with American Cus toms and prejudices, the term haa little significance. Dut the foreigner In the T'nlted Statea is an apt pupil, with ready instructors at elbow and the "green" do mestic of last January may be a ripened scholar before the succeeding summer I done. To the extent that male workers In the last generation have been able to command shorter hours, the wages of acknowledged specialist In all lines, and to make th! maximum of time their own, free of supervision of employers, so these advan tage havs appealed to women who must earn their own bread. In the social rela tions of the sexes it has meant little If the man working eight hours a day has seven hours of leisure when the woman is tied to fourteen or fifteen hours' work, per haps seven days In the week. Under these conditions woman has ben seeking shorter hours. In this aearch she has found the office, factory and store more promising of the end, while In domestic service she can expect nothing. And when In view of these long hours there attaches the stigma of "servant" to her position she is In revolt. Recognising this condition of revolt, the American home seams to be in the transi tion stage of existence. Some of the causes leading to this condi tion of the domestic are traceable to the Influences of the household. Where a man is employed for a certain wage In cash and a possible offer of "board and lodging" as the further Inducement to securing his services, one of the first things occurring to him would be to ask, What kind of board and lodglngT Insist on Making Her t noomfortahle. But In the case of tbe domestic, where the Items of board and lodging are Indis pensably connected with her position, no such question is permissible It Is taken for granted In general that the domestic will take her meals in the kitchen from the residue of the family meals, that she will accept the least desirable bedroom in the house, that she will be forbidden the use of the family bath tub, possibly In favor of the laundry tub In the basement, and that whatever "company" she may receive under frowning tolerance will be enter tained in' the kitchen. Out of such arbitrary rulings of the despotic mistress of tha home the domestic gradually has become pessimistic. There Is a reflection of the attitude of tbe house hold In the frequent wording of the "Do mestlo Help Wanted" advertisement. In which one may find tha promise of "a good home" in addition to the wage bar gain which may be struck. And out of this concession of the employer a still further cynicism has come to the domestic in the discovery that most of these con cessions of the employer mean that aha shall take lower wage for her service. Ilebels at Doubtful Concession. . It must be seen that this kind of con cession is not attractive. The one saving grace of domestic service has been in tha fact that, all things considered, the ser vant was better paid than the factory girl or the shop girl. But If her bettor conditions of living are only to be obtained nt the exptns of poorer pay, she nat urally rebels. Even the woman of foreign birth and training Is coming to this country today determined to nvold domestic service If she ran find another field for self-support. She Is accepting domestic service bb a necessity, not from choice. With her loscate view of this country as one prom- i ls'.ng social equality, she feels the sting of social inferiority accompanying domestic service as keenly In proportion as doe the native white woman of the United States. While In the decade between 1W0 and 1900 there were 1,500,000 women Immigrant Into this country, with tens of thousands en tering domestic service, the exodus of women In that ten-year period more than counterbalanced the influx. Out ot the 6,319,397 women employed In gainful occu pation in the United State In the last census year, only 1.ZS3.7S3 were In the class of servants and waitresses. Decreasing Proportion of Servants, How the decreasing number . of homes and the opportunities of other Melds of em ployment are taking tbe working woman from the position of domestic may . be shown In census figures. The decreasing percentage of women employed a domes- tics since 1870 are: Totil Number of Women Serv's and Walt's- Kmploved. Number. Per Ot. 1P70 l.W.:S 873. 73S 47 5S JHH) 2.H47.1(i7 Jhil) 73 34. M 1K) 4UI6.M3 1,21,R) W W IftiiO 5.319.SW 1.28,7i3 84.13 Yet this table as shown doe not dis criminate between the waitresses employed ! In hntata flrut rMtAnrsnts and those in household service. The whole drift of figures and conditions, summed up. Is that the middle class home In Its otd sense Is passing m America passing for the reason that at a time when the mistress of the home naturally Is more than ever financially able and socially In clined to afford release from household cares and Imprisonment, she is finding the possibility of competent domestic help more and more discouraging every year. DEATH RECORD. Henry 12. Timyke. ORAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 2J.-I Spe cial.) Henry K. Tlmpke, a Nebraska pio neer, died at his home In the southwestern part ot th city yesterday, at th ad vanced age of DO years. His wife and eight children remuln. He waa a native of Schleswig-Holstein, Oermany. H emi grated to America in 1&4D, located at Davenport, !. later moved to South Bend, j Neb., then.' to Omaha, where h entered the employ of the government in the trans plains freighting business, per ox team, making th trip from Omaha to Denver. In 1861 he bought the Fred Hedde home stead southwest of the city, was married In lltS to Miss Obermlller of Omaha, and has since made his home on the old home stead ever since.. Esra Meeker's Sister. SPOKANE, Wash.. Deo. 29. 8pcclal.) "Grandma" Meeker, W years ot ag-, sister of Ezra Mcker, tiio pioneer, who la now driving an ox team back over th old wagin trail which he traversed f.fty-four year ago, on his way from Indianapolis, Ind., to the Pacific ocean. Is dead ut tht home of her son, Aaron Meeker, near Riv erside, Wash., southwest of Spokane. She was a native of Indiana, and has relatives In various parts of that state, as well as the Dskotas. Minnesota. Wisconsin, Illi nois, Iowa, Ohio snd Texas. 8he came west before the outbreak nt the civil war and with her brother and family was promi nently Identified with th cvrly hlstury of Oresou and Washington. SIM REPLIES TO CRITIC Searetarj of Treainry Denies that lis Aided Stock Gamblers, RELIEF TO LEGITIMATE BUSINESS rian of Withdrawing: Money and Later Depositing; Incidentally Helped Balls, bat Harmed Bear. WASHINGTON, Dec. .-In a letter to a correspondent In Nashville, Tenn., Secre tary ShAw repudiates the suggestion that the United States treasury ever has come to the relief of the stock gambler The correspondent, whose nnme is withheld, in sists that such relief as has been given gamblers and money sharks Is the rMl cause of high money In New York. The correspondence was made public at the Treasury department today. The letter from the secretary reads. In part: Tour letter Is so. courteous and voices so accurately the views of many well Inten. tloned people that I nni constrained to answer It somewhat at length. You seem to proceed on the theory that the monetary stringency is caused soielv by stock gambling. In this you are In error. Some people gamble In stocks, some in cotton, others In wheat, corn, pork, or lard, and some In land. When times are good people will speculate In anything and everything that possesses a market value. The proportion of speculation, ns compared with necessary and legitimate business Is very small, howevef. and Is pmbahlv no larger in New York than in Nashville. Tenn., where you reside, cr in Denlson, la., where I live. The best estimates I can get place th amount of speculative transac tions In New York City at from Vi to 6 per cent of the aggregate. Bnlla Aided, Itenra Harmed. The treasury has never come to the relief of stock gamblers nnd probably never will, though the relief which the treasury grants frequently aids those who gamble on th bull side of the markets, but it Is equally harmful to those who sramble on the bear aide. Both bulls and bears Importune the secretary of the treasury, but. the real business situation Is the sole consideration. If you will stop to consider you will realise that more money Is needed when the crops are being marketed, when factories nre filling their warehouses, than when crops are growing and business men are enjoying their vacations. There are more than 15.0f banks In tho United States. These are independent, one of the other, nnd each Is trying to make dividends. Pew of them in mldsummei make provision for the fall. They tlm their loans to meet their ohllgstlons and take their chances. During the dull season of 1906 the secretary of the treasury with drew $16,000,000 of the people's money and locked It w. This would have been a crime If he were not wtlline: to release it now when it is needed. By appropriate use of the money In the vaults of the treas ury I have facilitated the Importation of UOO.nOO.Ou) of gold within the last nine months and have released or arranired for the release of SBO.OOO.fflO more. This was done, ss I say, for the purpose of aiding legitimate business, though It has helped the bull side of the market as much as It has damaged the bear side. I care as little for either of these considerations as do you, but I am interested In the business Inter est. Bin- Demands for Money. Money Is scarce and some business houses with International credit nre now paying 7 per ceht for money with which to do their regular business. If money could be so. cured anywhere beneath the sky for less they would know It and borrow It. It is for the relief of business that the treasury has restored to the channels of trade the money which It withdrew when the peopln had no use for It except for speculation. It was then wanted for speculation, and 1 withdrew it. It Is now needed for busi ness, and I restore It. The last $10,000.no deposit went almost exclusively to the cotton producing states and the exceptions went to cotton buying cities. WORSE THAN ISLAM (Continued from First Page.) Where one blackball excludes, and before tho sun was high all the seventeen had somehow been selected without a dlssent- dent voice. After working side by side for hair a lifetime men get to know the stuff that each Is made of. Brigand Restored to CltUeashlp. When the election was over a matter of business still remained before the meeting. One of the young villagers had gone astray and become an outcast. I could not dis cover exactly for what reason, but cer tainly It was not political. He had taken to common brigandage In the forests, and such brigands are killed at sight up and down the valley, as often happens. 'In consequence he -had been ex cluded from the village commune, had lost his rights of property, heritage and vote and was living the life of a hare or wolf upon the hills. He had now sent a letter of penitence to th head of the village. Imploring to be received back into the fold. Amid dead silence. In notable contrast to ih previous shouting and gesticulation, the letter was rend aloud. The writer admitted his errors and ex pressed his heartfelt contrition in simple and unaffected words. He only asked for another chance, and hta petition moved all hearts, for to forgive Is human. Aftsr brief debate It was agreed that his repentance was sincere and he was for mally readmitted Into the community. Then with a pleasant feeling of good will toward men the meeting dispersed and I stood about In groups waiting for two wedding processions that Wer to pass that way. For now the vintage Is over, the maize Is dried, the tobacco Is gathered, and young men and maidens go marrying in buffalo cars before the advent fast cuts merriment short. 'Passive Reslstaoee' Program, Returning to the elections, I must lust mention that further tip the valley I a village Where they have refused to hold any election at all. "Last aprlng," they say, "we had en election. We helped to send members to the Duma. 'They were good members, they did whit they could, but the Duma was dis solved by the Russian government, the members were exposed to all manners of dancer and persecution. Some were im prisoned, some sent to Siberia, some assas sinated by the Black Hundred, which calls Itself the loyal party. "We have had enough of that. We will not expose any more ot our friends to risks so terrible. If that Is the meaning of a duir.a we prefer to be without one and let the foreign tyranny at St. Petersburg do Its worst. It Is a fine example of passive resistance, for you may bring your horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. So this Sunday morning a village green stands empty, and autocracy will have to learn a new lesson In constitutional law befur the village votes. Yet If ever taxation Justified a demand 1 for suffrage It la In these villages. The peasant whom I watched at the election r,ave !.60Q scraped off their Income by tha government year by year to maintain th bureaucracy, to pay for enterprises like the Japanese war, and to supply the Inter est on the French and English loans. If they cannot pay they are flogged and old up. But they generally pay; for th valley 1 fairly rich. "Your taxes ought to be twice a high," aid, th late governor of th province, thouy-h the sole object of a peasant's life srer to fed th officials In St. Petersburg. But when he was shortly afterward as sassinated I doubt if even an epitaph cuuld describe his as universally lamented. H. W. NEVINSON. Now Is ths time to nukt your want known throbs Th Be Want Ad (. fo) rEE1 rs) f fe? rs) 9 Great January Is 0 N ENTIRE New Stock of Cloaks, Suits, Skirts, Waists, A Cravenette Wraps, Gowns SACRIFICED, Regardless of Cost. y Everything n One-Hall OIL Nothing Reserved. No Alterations Made During This Sale. nS. FREDRICK AUTHORITIES ON STYLE 1517 Farnam Street Ljte3 ln'ilini'n'tmi3 sWhhmsS ZZIa''') CZZj FRENCH CHURCII ACT PASSED Ctoate Approves Separation law at it (ame from the Deputies. NOW READY FOR PRESIDENTS SIGNATURE Attempt . to Have It llecom tnitted and Refrained Alonsj Lines of Drasll Lnnr Falls. PARIS, Dec. 29. A motion to recommit the church and separation act, with in struction to reframe the meusura on the lines of the Brazilian church and jtate separation law, which the Vatlcun accepted, waa defeated In the Senate today, Every effort to amend tho act having been defeated, the measure was finally passed exactly as It came from the Cham ber of Deputies, 190 to 100. Th bill only require the signature of President Fallerles. As that is assured. It is now virtually a law. The bill passed by the French Senate Is as follows: Article 1 Independently of tho associa tions contemuluted by the law of December t, !!, public worxhlp can be held by means or associations under tne law 01 juiy l, linil, as well as In virtue of the public meet ing law of June 30, lsSl, under lndlvlduul Initiative. Article a-Even In default of the cultural asHix'latloiis provided for by the law of uecemocr V, lb. tne uvage or emnces in tended for worship, as well ns the furni ture contained therein, shall remain at the disposition cf the faithful and of the clergy for the practice of their religion. The free usage of the churches may be c conied either to associations formed. under the law cf July 1, ln, or to clergy deslR nated under the declarations prescribed by article xxv of the law of December 9. 19x"i. This usnse, however, shall be marie under the conditions stated in article x lit of the last mentioned law by means of an admin istrative act, either by the prefect for the property placed under sequester when such property belongs to the state or de partments, or by the mayor when it be longs to the communes. The above men tioned regulations will apply to edifices in tended for aorshlp which, having belonged to ecclesiastical establishment, will have been assigned by decree to charitable In stitutions under article vili of the law of December 8. 1SC. Article S With the promulgation of the present law the state, the departments and the communes will recover the free u of the episcopal mansions, presbyteries, semi naries, etc., which are their property, and the use of which has not been claimed by en association formed Under the law of December 9, 1905. Article 4 The property of ecclesiastical establishments not claimed by associations constituted under the law of December 8, Ii5, will be aJMlgniHl, on the promulgation of this act, to churitablo Institutions as provided by article lx of said law wlthitit prejudice to assignments which may be made under articles vll and vill concerning property not dedicated t public worship. Article 5 At the expiration of one month after the enactment of the present law allowances made under the lsw of De cember 8. llX, to the clergy who hnve failed to carry out the requirements of that law will )H9 suppressed. The failure of members of the clergy to fill the require ments of the law will in each case be dn termlned by a Joint decision of the minister of Justice and the minister of finance. Article 6 All the provisions of the law of December 8, 1905, will remain In full force insofar as they are not In contradic tion with the present act. Pop Preparing; Slew Document. ROME, Dec. 29. The pope 1 preparing a new document In the matter of the diffi culty with France. It has not yet been decided whether thla communication will be In the form of a letter to Cardinal Richard or an allocution to the sacred col lege. Neither has the time of the publica tion been determined, but It probably will be Issued after the application of the law passed by the French senate today. IltKI.A.VD AMWKH LE MAT1 Prelate says Pari Paper Deliberately Perverted HI Remark. ST. PA I'D, Minn., Dec. 29. Referring to the report spread through Franc by Da Matin ot Paris, to th effect that in his discourse of last Sunday, he had con demned the present attltud of the pup and tha French hierarchy In reference to the law of separation and associations of worship. Archbishop Ireland tonight made this statement to the Associated Press: De Mall is an sntl-Cathollc paper and Is willing to defend the action of the gov ernment, even by the perversion of farts It was somewhut a vindication of ihat action to quote an American prelate a favoring It. De Matin has unwittingly served the cause of truth. My discourse, last Sunday, condemns unresi-rvelly tho anaoi lalioiis of worship as proposed by the French government, and shows that the pope snu xne msriops were compelled by prmc-lpl to rejcl such associations. No other recourse, 1 said, wss oprn to the church In France than th t on r iii project of thos associations at whatever aaciince, and an appeal to the pwiple ot Muvr. ii n worn 1,1 uiime ior the ou-rgy una t ailiolli s of France seuined to be pi.iin.ii, n was mat nerelororr, tliroush a degree of passivity and auplneness and a m. . ui unini ciKi.mnaiioii aim union in-y nan allowed Ui elt-( loril urns to send to tne chamtK'r a majority of radical and Irreligious lueiubtra. Aiui catholic, lu Clearance Sale n On Coats, Opera n and Furs, to' be must be sold. J BERBER & CO. n France have received a lesson and wa confidently expect that they will heed it and rally around their RltHrs and hearth stones With sufficient courage and united effort to lnsuie the triumph of Justlu and religion. It Is easy to jugele with words and give the name of common law to rank oppres sion. As tne pope has snld, emphatically! "lA't us have separation of the church fro.n the state In France, but let u have It n It Is had In the I nlted States.". I may add: 1't us have In France assoclst on or corporations for the holding of religious property, but let us have them as we have them In the I'nlted States, where, the law respocts the vital principles of the ('hurch, docs not subject It to slate absolution, but allows It to live nnd work according to it recognised constitution. HUSTON, Dec. 29. Matthew Cummin, national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, today sent the following cabltK gram to Pope Plus X: Ancient Order of Hibernians, representing more than 23n,OtW Irlh C?athollcs in America, express deepest Indignation at ntrocltle ot French government and send sincere sym- painy. ACTIVITY IN POPCORN BELT One County In lows Produce Half ttsn Country' Supply nnd Then Bom. Nearly half of the popcorn consumed In the United States is raised in the small county of Sac, in the northwestern portion of Iowa. There It has been found that the soli Is particularly adapted to It cul tivation. Before the show and the street corner merchant took It up, the hot buttered popcorn wasn't very much In Uomand. It cultivation wits restricted to a tevr stalk on th farm that met the home demand. A small quantity might be bought at th store, but It waa high In price and th sales were few. The breakfast food manufacturers ar now the largest consumers of popcorn IS the market. Nearly half of the ready t) serve foods have a considerable percentac of popcorn. One brand is practically all popcorn. The popcorn belt Is Invaded each spring by the agents of Chicago and New York firms, which contract with the raiser to take over his entire crop. Th'. method of handling the harvest makes the grower an assured market at a remunerative price, and for several years the average price paid has been 80 cents per 100 pounds. The average yield Is about 1.000 pound to the acre. Th corn require less car and watchfulnes than th Indian variety, and even on $100 land there I good profit In it more than In wheat, corn or oat. An Iowa authority says that tha total yield uf Sac and Ida counties, which com pose the popcorn belt, will reach 15,000,000 pounds, and If It were all popped befor being shipped It would require 2,000 train loads of twenty cars each. Popcorn haa the advantage of other mem. bers of the corn family in that It alwaya" rlpena before tha early frost can get 4 chance at It, and the drouth doesn't hurt It much. Tha Job of picking and husking Is not a pleasant one, owing to the sharp ness of the grain ends, but expert picker can make 16 a day, at th usual rata of IS cent per 100 pound. The discovery of the Iowa popcorn belt came about by accident. About twenty five years ago an eccentric Yankee who had located n Sac county, near Odebolt, decided to break away from the old tradi tions, and Instead of diversifying his crop to plant them to one thing only. He tried wheat one year and failed to make any money. For two years thareafter ha planted ell of his 300 acrea to potatoes, and every body laughed. When a few years later he planted It all to popcorn a big shout of merriment went up, qut when In tha fall the Yankee marketed hta entire crop at a big profit nobody even smiled. Tha next year a neighbor followed his example. Colton. th popcorn man, bought his crop on the ground and that year had .mora popcorn than any ten men In the United State. He had the market cornered, and h got the price he named. Then he tried to beat th Chicago Board of Trade and dropped out of lght. HI neighbor grad ually took up th Idea, and today they ft rich returns for their trouble. New York Sun. Greatest American Operation. The remarkable experience of Miss Bum mers of IJncoln, Neb., twho five weeks after she had been operated upon for apptndl cltls submitted to a second operation, which revealed the fact that a towel had bi-eti sewed up in the abdominal cavity, was tl.u ubjert of conversation at a recent Informal meeting of physicians. "Old thing," said a veteran surgeon t th young men. "A old as the story of the greatest American operation." "What was that?" "Dancing Michigan." New York Tribune. Those fine shoe for boys and g rls will be cheap at 26 per cent off. You may se lect from the antlr tock notl.lng r aerved. ttenson ft Thorn. 1114 Duu. !