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THE UMAllA DAILY HEE: "WEDNESDAY, FttHHUAUV 20, 1907. I; ii S I r I Tim Omaha Daily Uee roVNDKl HT EDWARD KOtlE'.VATEn. I' VICTOK ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflcs as second claaa matter. ! TERMS OF SfBBCRIPTION. Tally nee (without Sunday) one fear Idllr Hee and Sunday, one year - ! Sunday Bee. one year , .Saturday Bee. one year 1.60 I DELIVERED BT CARRIER. ! Ial1y Be (Including Pumlay), per week lie ) Ia1ly Bee I without Sundav), per week Kc ' Fvenlna- Hee (without Runtst t. tier week, la' Evening Bee (with Sumlay), per week JOo Address complaint of Irregularities tn delivery to City Circulation Department. orricEa. Omaha The Bee Build Inf. Houth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Ptreet. Chicago U40 Cnlty Building. New Kork 150J Home Ufe In. Bid. Washington 501 Fourteenth Ptreet. CORRESPONDENCE!. Communications relating- to newa and editorial matter should be aldreed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or poatal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-oent stamp received In payment pf mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dmig-laa County, aa: Charlea C. Rosewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly wnrfft Suva that har.ttlitl number of full 'and complete enple of The Dnllv, Morning, tEvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the 1 8O,0O IT 31,870 93,680 It 31,90 t 31,170 It 31.M0 4 (1,960 ' t( -...80,300 31360 fl 3100 1 80,600 ' ti 82.050 T 81,850 It...'. 81,640 . 1 89,900 .14 31,780 f 33,860 IS..... 31.700 10 33,040 It 31430 11 3170 ti so.soa II... 83,060 II 81,830 11 80,400 J 31460 14 81,730 SO 31,390 II 31.930" tl 31,630 IS 83,130 Total 883,483 Let unaold and returned copies. 0,134 i Net total .' 873,346 Dally average .......31,393 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, . General Manager. ' Subscribed In my presence and sworn 'to before me thla list day of January, 1807. I (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER,.. Notary Public. WHEJI OIT OF TOWN. Sabaerlbers leaving; the city tem porarily should hare The Bee mailed' to them. Address will be changed aa often aa requested. j Spring wheat plowing is In progress In Texas. So Is spring snow plowing in Montana. J According to the census bureau Wre are 2,000,000 goats, of the four pegged variety, in this country. California has decided to observe the contrary will stick to July 12. The shah of Persia left 600 widows, or about as many as there are mem- Jbers of the original Florodora sex- Uette. To our visiting newspaper editors: jllaka yourselves at home and don't be bashful about asking for anything you fon't see. A scientist d declares the worst Is .yet to come at Jamaica. It seems so. Alfred Austin is to write a poem about Itho earthquake. A Georgia man killed himself be cause be hated work. The average man who hates work satisfies himself by killing time. , I A dispute is in progress as to who gave tha "Rough Rlder3" their name. There is no question as to who gave them their offices. j The physicians who had President Castro of Venezuela on the operating table evidently did not remove his bump of belligerency.' If Lincoln cannot produce available Candidates for the new federal Judge ship, the Omaha bar will be willing to respond, to a requisition. . r . We take it for granted that the churth furniture trust which has just een organized will have a monopoly n the mission brand. The Panama canal problem might iuiycu tjuiumy ii ait mose ain ex- jcavators working ori the Thaw case could be transferred to the Isthmus. No advertiser has much" of a chance of getting his advertisement "next to fcure reading matter" In a New York paper so long as the Thaw trial con tinues. I The Mississippi Apple Growers' as sociation has recommended the apple blossom as the national flower. The girls of the valley, however, will cling to the orange blossom. . i . Carrie Nation says she Is going to leave Washington. If report's are true about the conduct of the British cuffragettes, Carrie would feel much at home In London. - very The gas company at last has Its per mit to erect a new gu holder in con junction with its plant. Some one 'should now turn the stopcock on the supply of gas In the city council. The suecessiou of big estates going through probate should remind our people that the office of county judge is one of the most Important positions they are called 'upon to fill from time to time. ' The lie is being passed freely both in tha Bailey Investigation In Texas and in the Oklahoma constitutional convention. Times have changed so that the man who wants to see a gun play under such circumstances has to go to New York. 1 .... ... . LIMITING HOURS IjF RAlLR'tAt) HEX. Senator LaFollette's hill regulating the hours of labor on railways en gaged In interstate commerce has been accepted by the house, with slight amendments, and Is now In confer ence, with every prospect that it will become a law before the expiration of the present session of congress. The measure was passed originally by the senate, without much opposition, but with a tacit understanding that the house would substitute a bill along similar lines offered by Congressman j Esch and recommended by the bouse committee. This was simply a part of a play of party leaders to deprive LaFollettff, who is not always In ac cord with his republican colleagues in the senate, of the credit for the legis lation. The house, however, refused to be used as ad Instrument for ex pressing the senate's spite, rejected the substitute and passed the senate bill practically as offered in the upper branch. The bill. In brief, provides that no employe In the operating department of a railway shall be allowed to work more than sixteen hours consecutively, except la rases of emergencies made unavoidable by wrecks, accidents or Interference with traffic by the ele ments. It also provides that no train man, after he has completed a run, Shall be required to go out again until he has had full eight hours rest. The house amended the measure to in clude operators and signal men, limited to nine hours a day, with eight hours' rest between duty shifts. A penalty of $500 Is provided for each violation of the law. The LaFollette measure practically follows the recommendations made by President Roosevelt, In letters written to the members of the committee In the last congressional campaign and referred to briefly in his message to the congress. It Is urged as one step toward relief from the multiplying ac cidents on- the railway6 of the coun try, many of which have been charged to overwork on the part of railway employes. Testimony offered in in vestigations Into the causes of railway wrecks show that physical torpor due to excessive hours of labor of railway workers is accountable in many cases for failure to use mechanical devices to prevent, accidents. Limiting the hours of work Is expected to diminish the danger of physical collapse. Railroad opposition to such a meas ure must be largely specious. The plea has been made that it Is almost. Impossible to secure the services of a sufficient number of competent train men to handle the business of the roads and that enforcement of the limit will compel them to increase the number of Inexperienced men In the train service. Supporters of the bill have replied that fresh men. even with limited experience, are preferable " to i tried employes on the verge of physical and nervous collapse frcAn overwork. The United States has won 'a bad pre eminence for the number of life de stroying railway accidents and if com pliance with the terms of the LaFol lette bill will reduce this annual slaughter It will be worth while. FPKAKiSQ ABOUT 7 HE WEATHER. We have It on the authority of Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, that there has been no change in the climate of the country since the year 1 and . that nothing in the range of Old Probs' vision zives warrant for a prediction that there ever will be any change in the climate in any part of the country. Hesitancy is natural In faking issue with Prof. Moore or disputing any of his assertions. He has the advantage In a number of ways. He has records, to start with, running back over a quarter of a century, and then be has a large appropriation every year to purchase thermometers, barometers, seismographs and all of the thingum abobs with unpronounceable names used for measuring the wind, comput ing the rainfall and counting the snow drops. An argument with him Is as futile aa King Canute's command to the tide to stand still. However, Prof. Moore may go on until doomsday making dally output of his little hieroglyphic-covered maps, his monthly meteorological summaries and his occasional tables about rain fall and other weather statistics with out convincing the country that cli mates do not change. Every blessed citizen of the republic has beard his father or his grandfather tell about the times he used to drive right over the fences, on top of the suow drifts ond how tunnels were dug through thel snow from the house to the barn,' and that. too. In localities where a sleigh Is now a novelty. And everybody knows. Prof. Moore to the contrary notwithstanding, that out here In the vest the plowing of the fields .has caused an increase in rainfall and that only last summer p. lot of Irrigation ditches down in Kansas were washed out by rain floods la a district that had not before had an Inch of. rain a year since the winter the woods were burned. By the same token, old set tler la Michigan and Wisconsin point to dusty-bottomed creeks that used to run brim full from rains before the forests were appropriated to satisfy the longings cf the Lumber trust. Flor ida will recall frout-ruined orchard groves that did not miss a crop for generations until a few years ago, when the climate changed. It is evident that Prof. Moore never sat. in a corner grocery story listening to that dissertation about the country getting colder all the time because the volcanic Urea which have kept the cen ter of the earth "het uo" since the first day are now cooling off. Prof. Moore may continue to issue his bulle tins from time to time assuring us. that the temperature for June or Jan uary Is "normal." but the country knows better. The country still pins Its faith to the oldest Inhabitant. THE DISVEXSART LAW REPEALED- South Carolina has derided to go out of the. liquor business, thus furnishing another demonstration of one of the many wrong ways of dealing with the traffic. For many years the state had a local option law, but in 1S93 Senator Tillman, then governor of the state, devised the dispensary scheme and se cured Its adoption by the state legis lature. Under that law a state board was created to purchase all liquor supplies for the state and resell to country boards at a profit of 6 per cent. This yielded a profit of about $150,000 annually to the state school fund, while the profits of the sales by county boards to the retailer amounted to other thousands which went to the county funds. Liquor - was Bold only between sunrise and sunset and none was allowed to be drunk on the 'prem ises where purchased. In theory the scheme appealed strongly, but proved a failure In prac tice. Whisky bought by the quart or half gallon was drunk by the quart or half gallon, and the number of bottle drunkards Increased at a rapid rate. Then graft crept in, producing numerous dispensary scandals. The people of the state, dissatisfied with the dispensary system, finally voted for Its abolition and the legislature has responded by repealing the law. Indi cations are that the legislature will pass a law to control the liquor traffic by high license and local option. Control of the liquor traffic, in South Carolina and elsewhere, Is either a direct issue or a matter of continual agitation, a conflict between theoreti cal and practical plans for minimizing a recognized evil without infringing personal liberty. South Carolina has been forced to realize that the dis pensary plan, In effect, resulted in uncontrolled traffic and that regula tion by high license, such as Nebraska provides in its Slocumb law. produces best results. TERMiy sh lX IHIJJM. The Fremont Tribune calls attention to a terminal tax problem . presented In -its own city, which Is put up to the members of the legislature, as follows: In the matter of terminal taxation of railroad property, which la being seriously considered by the legislature. It Is wortbj wnne to note a peculiar condition or things with reference to the Northwestern road In Fremont. Before the consolidation of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley and the Sioux City & Pacific rouds under tho name of the Chicago & Northwestern, the mileage returned for assessment In Fre mont was, for the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad,' 8.71 miles, and for the Sioux City & Pacific railroad .61 miles, making a. total mileage of 3.32 miles subject to taxation within the corporate limits of tills city. As a matter of fact, since the consolidated roads took on the dignified title of the Chicago & Northwest ern the mileage has ahrunk to 2.42 miles. The question Is, What has become of the missing nine-tenths of a mile? The county authorities cannot answer the conundrum and the state authorities have not yet been able to account for It. Business has so in creased during the four years since the consolidation of the roads' and so many trains have been run over the rails as to keep them hot and cause them to expand rather than to contract. The assessing powers ahould start a tracer after the lost property. The condition In Fremont is the i condition in nearly every city and vil lage in Nebraska, in greater or lesser degree, to the extent that the rail roads avoid paying taxes for city or village purposes . on the property within the corporate limits, under pre tense that it Is distributed over the entire mileage The Union Pacific, for example, used to pay city taxes in Omaha on the west half of its Missouri river bridge, but after the reorganization of the company, following the receivership, succeeded in prevailing on the State Board of Assessment to dump this structure, worth several hundred thousand dollars, into the assessment rolls as one-sixth of a mile of main line, paying taxes on about $15,000. Down In Lincoln, the Burlington railroad within the past two years has expended nearly $100,000 on improv ing Its passenger station and terminals. but It is a safe guess that not a cent has been added on this account to the taxes paid by the Burlington Into the city treasury of Lincoln. If any pri vate citizen had put $100,000 Into Im provements on his property in Lin coln he would have to pay city taxes the same as other' property owners. The railroads are opposing terminal taxation for the cities and villages be cause it would put an end to the "now-you-see-lt-and-now-you-don't" double shuffle, by which they are regularly escaping several hundred thousand dollars' of city taxes which they ought to pay and which they are making other property owners pay for them. Tbe school board has filled another vacancy created -by the removal-of a member to go into business in another state. School board vacancies from this cause have been altogether too common in Omaha. We ought by thlc time to have reached the point where permanent interests In the city and thorough Identification with the com munity were made prerequisite to as piration to a place in the management cf our public schools. The handsome endowment given to Crelghton university under the will of the late John A. Crelghton ought to make that institution one of the moit Important, educational centers. In the west. It will, of course, continue to have Its denominational character, but the doors have always been open wide to youth seeking knowledge, Irrespec tive of creed, and Us new resources should enable It to extend Its field of usefulness In every direction. Crelgh ton university should become even more than It Is now the greatest Catholic center of higher education In the western half of the continent. County option Is on the shelf In Nebraska tor at least two years. The county option bill, however, as pro posed In this state Is notoriously un fair, Its purpose being to give the pro hibitionists "two cracks at the liquor men Instead of one," which they now enjoy under the Slocumb high license law. The county option bill was never drawn on the "square deal" plan. The railroad lobbyists usually have two ways of accomplishing their Mids. They try to kill off legislation disas trous to their corporation employers whenever possible, and when they can not kill It off they try to procure enact ment In such form as to give grounds for attacking Its constitutionality In the courts. One member of the legislature has publicly vouched to the fact that he has not ridden on a railroad pass this year. It Is to be noted, however, that other members are showing no un quenchable zeal to put through an anti-pass law with an emergency clause, so as to make It go Into effect at once. It Is announced that the proposed inquiry to ascertain the exact value of railroad property In the United States will be postponed until the next con gress. By that time Mr. Harrlman may own all the roads and be in posi tion to give the required data, thus saving the necessity of a commission. The promise of the railroads that they will put In a 2-cent Interchange able mileage west of the Missouri ap parently goes without the emergency clause and on future business only. It contains no provision for converting to the 2-cent rate outstanding mileage already paid for at 2si cents. Among the disappointed people In Washington Just now are those who expected Mayor Schmltz of San Fran cisco to act like a freak or a fool dur ing his visit to the national capital. The census bureau reports that more than 7,000,000 telephones are now In use In the United States. Yes, and most of them have tho "Line's busy now, shall I call you?" attachment. A l.nrare Contract, Chicago News. Under the new Immigration law Presi dent Roosevelt may have to stand person ally on guard to keep Japanese coolies out of California. Extending; a II el pin a; Hand. Washington Post. Mr. Rockefeller's millions will help to educate the people, so that they may be able to understand what they read at Mr. Carnegte'a numerous libraries. Great Distributor of Cola. Minneapolis Journal. The Standard Oil haa . divided a little matter of (400,000.000 in dividends In the lust ten years. Isn't It a sham for the government to persecute such a benevolent organisation T 8b.ort-I.lved India-nation. Baltimore American. It is announced, aa usual, that a strict investigation will be made of tbe Larchmont dlsaater and anyone found responsible wilt be punished. But there Is the Blocum hor ror, with Its crimes still unwhlpped of Justice. Hard Blow for the Pullmans. Kansas City Journal. Probably the greatest sufferer from the discontinuance of free passes la the Pull man company. Very few of the thousands who received free railway transportation enjoyed any favors at the hands of 'the Pullmans. They paid for their bertha like other passengers. Riding without cost. they generally felt able to Indulge in the luxury of a bed. Cutting off the bulk of this travel has cut off many thousands of the Pullmans' revenue. In fact, hundreds of sleeping cars are hauled back and forth now that are little more than so many em ptles. Any commercial traveler will bear wltneas to thla. WILL FREIGHT HATES GO IPf Ominous Threats of Another Tara of tha Screw. 8t. Louis Qlobe-Democrat. The threat by many railroad chief that freight rates will be advanced may turn out to be true. Representatives of most of the trunk lines have be?n conferring In Chicago on that subject and further consultations are arranged for. The country la beginning to take these threats of ad vances a little more seriously than It did a few weeks ago, when James J. Hill first began to make them. Several reasons are assigned for the con templated pushing of rates upward. The advances In wage and in the cost of all aorta of material have reduced the net earnings of moat of the big roads. The groa Income Is at a high level, but the outgo has Increased to such an extent that tbe mar gin of profit la diminishing. Tha anti-railroad tulk In congress and the legislature Is creating an alarm which makrelt harder for the roads to borrow money to. mak needed Improvement than it was once. These are the leading reasons which iri given for the threats of advances in freight rate. Very likely the 2-cent-a-mlle pas senger fare bills which are before several legislatures, and which have passed one or two of them, have helped to Incite this movement by the roads to Increase their freight charges. The country would be sorry to see any thing addtd to the present transportation rates. Moreover, any addition of tliut sort would probably secure the Immediate at tention of the Interstate commerce com mUston unfler the new rate regulitlon act. The railway chiefs may be correct In say ing that the advance which are contem plated would add hundreds of millions to their gross Income. But they would also add to their outgo. The attacks. to which the roads would lay themselves open by this course would hamper them, and would diminish ths benefit which they expect to get. Peace between the road and the publio la needed in the interest of both partlea. Demagogic clamor against the corporation In and out of legislature ought to be discountenanced. Thl Is an excellent time for the road and for the publio to give some attention to the doc trine Of tha squara deal on both sides. mm or w.HiiiTot i.irr.. Minor Scene' and Incidents Sketched n the 8ot. The Deportment of Agriculture has Is sued a bulletin setting forth the good qualities of eucalyptus oil. about which little Information has been available here tofore. According to the bulletin the oil has been In use for about forty year, but only during the past ten years has It been employed aa medicine very extensively. Ita use Is now constantly Increasing a Its properties and medicinal value becomes better "known. The fact that It Is non pnlnonous and nonlrrltant makes It espe cially safe and valuable. As much o It aa a fourth of an ounce haa been taken Inlornally without Injury and it may be freely applied to the most delloate tissue. Notwithstanding the fact that It Is neither dangerously poisonous nor Irritating to the human system, It Is a very eftectlve antisep tic and disinfectant and has come to be used quite extensively for drenelng wounds, ulcers, and other diseased tissues. It enters Into the composition of several antiseptic preparations. The oil Is also a well known remedy for malarial and ether fevers ant Is unod in treating diseases of the htlr and skin and of the stomach, kidneys and bladder, and is especially valuable for af fections of the throat, bronchi and lungs. The question as to why the national salute consisted of twenty-one gun was, put to one of the classes at Washington preparing young men for the entrance examinations for West Point and ' An napolis, and. strange to say, not one of the emhryotlc generals or admirals "hit the will on tlu? head." The "coach, who know American his tory away down underneath, furnished the Washington Herald the Information that the national snlute, which is the In ternational salut-that Is. the salute given to a national flag la fixed by army regulations at twenty-one guns, and that the number appears to have been In con formity to the custom of foreign nations at the time when the number was so fixed. The first record of a national salute Is In army regulations of 1812, which was In conformity to the number of states com piling the union, then eighteen, but tn 1818, a new regulation was sriade Axing tho number at twenty-one. which was at that date the number of states In the union, and which was at the same tlms In accordance with the king's regulations (Great Britain), which fixed twenty-one guns to be fired ns a salute on the an niversary days of the birth, accession, and coronation of the king, the birth of the queen, the restoration of Charles II, and the gunpowder treason. At that date the national Salute In France was also fixed nt twenty-one guns, to be fired only on Corpus Christl Day and on the king's birthday. It is proper to remark, however, that the national salute of twenty-one guns at the present time appears to be, peculiar to tho United States and Great Britain, Inasmuch as the national salute of Franco la 101 guns; of Germany thirty-three guns, and that the superlative salute In the United States Is that on the Fourth of July of one: gun for each state In the union, and It Is called the salute to the union. A young newspaper man of Boston was sent to Washington to find what Impres sion has been made there by the Massachu setts legislature's petition ' for tariff rt vlBlon. He called on Speaker Cannon and said rather Jauntily! "I suppose, . Mr. Speaker, that congress can not resist the demands of all sort of cltlsens of Massa chusetts, Irrespective of politics, for im mediate tariff revision?" Uncle Joe gave his cigar a vicious nip. "Young man," said he, "this Is a constitutional government, praise God! Even the lowest tramp In thla country of the free and home of the brave haa the right to petition congress and have his petition read. The right of petition is one of the safeguards of our liberties; But, by Jehosaphat, sir, congress does not have to grant the prayers of every tramp. No, sir, not by a darn sight!" The visiting newspaper man hastened away. The gold coins of the United States will be changed some time during the coming year, for the first time In fifty years. The work of preparing the new designs ha been placed In the hands of a celebrated New York artist. President Roosevelt be lieves that the gold coins now In, use are Inartistic, and after discussing the matter with the treasury officials he took It up with the New Yorker In question. As a re sult, appropriate designs, artistic In effect and beautiful In workmanship, are about to be submitted for approval of the president. Under the law the president haa a good deal of authority In prescribing Just what figures or emblems shall appear on specie money. Congress has made certain limits tlons, however. It provides that the de signs on coins shall not be changed oftenor than once In a period of twenty-five years that on each coin there shall appear an emblem of liberty, the year of coinage, and the words "E Pluiibua Unutn." Beyond being bound by this general description the president may do as he likes. Senator Beverldge's speech In advocacy of his child labor bill beat all records for years In point of length. He consumed the greater part of four legislative days of the senate in Its delivery, and when printed It will fill about 800 pagea of the Congressional Record. Its unusual volumlnousneaa la due almoat entirely to the great number cf ex tracts from statistical and other data on the subject of child labor with which the hoocier senator buttressed his argument. The moat of these he laboriously read dur ing the ccurse of his speech, though num erous of them were submitted without read ing and will appear In their proper places in the printed speech. The young Indiana etateaman showed neither physical nor mental fatigue after he had flnUhed his remarkably long oratorical effort. A German journalist visiting In Wash ington, himself a man of stalwart propor tions, was rather Inclined to look with something like contempt on the many un dcralsed statesmen he law In the national legislature. But when Secretary Taft bore down upon him he gasped In wonder. They were Introduced and after a short chat the secretary departed. Just as he disappeared from the German's admiring gase the tow ering form of Congressman Sulloway hove Into view. The German looked at the New Hampshire man long and earnestly. "He !s' bigger than any man In his Imperial niajt aty's Uhlan guards," said the foreigner a tone of chagrin, "and I shall write one whole letter abcut him." Secretary Taft and Senator McLaurln met at a senate elevator, and the latter stepped back, saying with a smile: "After you. Mr. President." Mr. Taft replied with a laugh: "You are aoinewhat premature, senator. I may not get votee enough." "You can have mine," declared Mr. Mc Laurln. "Hut democratic votee do not count In a republican convention," argued the secretary, keeplmf uo the banter. The southerner anawered: "Maybe you do not know that when I want to I can turn a trick In MlHlippl republican politics," and Mr. Taft said: "Oh, ho!" Merely an Innocent Uyatander. Baltimore American. Persona who are dipoaed to make rude remark concerning tbe recent rlao in the price of oil are also dixpod to forget John D. Rockefeller' recent assertion that he has had nothing to do with the active management of the Standard Oil company for many years. JUTtKF.- TRIE GESUKMtl. Trlhnte to the Life Works of Omaha' rhllanlhronlat. Hon. John F. Flnerty In Chicago Citlten. We publish elsewhere an extended account of the death pf Count Crelghton of Omaha, Neb., taken from The Omaha Bee. The eulogy -of rather Dowllng. S. J.. rovers the benevolent career or the good man, but no mention was made of his Irish an cestry snd Ma prsctlcal sympathy with tha cause of Irish Independence. He always gave liberally Jo Ireland and was proud of being the eon of an Irlh father and mother. Tha latter were born In Ulwter Tyrone. If w remember aright and about ten years ago Count Crelghton visited Ire land and placed a monument In the old family graveyard to mark the last resting place of most of hia ancestors. Tha beauty of Ireland attracted Mm greatly and he never wearied of singing Its praises. The old man was the very soul of hospitality ns well aa benevolence. No repreaentatlve of Ireland ever visited Omaha without par taking before he left of Count Crelghton'a hoRpitallty. One of the most pleasant ban quets we have ever attended was that given by him In honor of William Redmond, M. P., In 1901. St. Joseph's hospital, his splendid founda tion. Is not a hospital, but a horns for the sick and afflicted. It Is beautifully fur nished, heated and lighted, and the aroma of flowers fills every room from the ground floor to the topmost story. Most hospitals are as cold 'and cheerless as charity la said to be, and the count preferred the word "benevolence" because It Is not so offen sive to the ears of the needy. Grest as were Ms .public benefactions, his private ones were greater still, and the number of people he saved from financial ruin will never be truly known. In auch cases he gave currency, rarely or never checks, so that there might be no record of his good works. Indeed, he was nature's true gentleman. In personal appearance Count Crelghton was about six feet high, weighed rather over 200 pounds, and was splendidly pro portioned. His hair, although bleached, was abundant, and he wore a mustache and chin beard of a soft, brilliant white. He carried himself like an old French mar shal, and bore, In both face and figure, a striking resemblance to Angela' ma jestic statue of Moses. Although he lived beyond the allotted time of man by five years. Count Crelgh ton did not carry around with him, up to less than a year ago, any of the usual evidences of physical decrepitude. He was straight, alert and graceful, with a full, manly voice and a fine manly stride. We are deeply sorry that so noble s figure. In every sense, has been removed from earthly scenes, but we feel that he has gone to a reward compared with which earthly honors and prosperity are but pass ing shadows. He has certainly left be hind htm no man of his race and faith who has done more for country, creed and humanity at large. PERSONAL NOTES. Justice Brewer of the United States su preme court Is the best speechmaker among the nine members of that distinguished body. New York Is to be converted to woman suffrage, the official announcement to this effect coming from Mrs. Catt. The length f the proposed campaign la not given, but probably will be more than a week. A newspaper woman of New York par aded the streets with her hand satchel open In the hope that somebody would steal it. A.t last somebody did so, and so she got a story through the simple process of becom ing accessory to theft. A Chicago woman waa coming, home from New York the other- evening and while In Albany, where there was a short stop, she went to a news stand and asked, the, at tendant foi "the funniest joke book" he had. The young man gravely handed her a report of the legislative proceeding. Ex-Senator Stewart of Nevada,, who re tired from public life two years ago a poor man, is reported to have, again won a fortune and this at the age of 80. He re sumed the practice of law on leaving the senate, but he did not make his new for tune there any more than his old fortunes. Fortunate speculations In mining stocks explains In both cases. Figures That Do Riot Lie After a most satisfactory season, we shall proceed now in short order to clean up the remnants in the broken line of Juvenile Suits We have 125 Sailor Suits ages 2i to 6 yearsj that sold for $3,50. $5.00 and $6.00 you can have your choice Wednesday for tjBsnaWBBsssnw Is' Mi?s this sale and you will regret-it. frowning, King & Co, R. S. WILCOX, Manager. Served Mim $125.00 It. C. M. Shelton writes us that a piano dealer in hia town wag asking him $400.00 for a piano until R. C M. ' received the description and terms of our pianos. As soon as the dealer saw these he dropped $125.00 in his price. This proves that people who buy pianos without see ing us are being taken advantage of. , . Now good readers how can you afford to trust a dealer who would ask you $125 more for a piano than he ought tot If he would deceive you in price he would de ceive you about the quality and character of the piano. Your only safety lies in buying from the UOSPE house, the only one-priced house in the West. We sell new Gilbert Pianos fox $145.00 We sell new Biddle Pianos for $165.00 We sell new Cramer Pianos for $190.00 We sell new Hinse Pianos for $200.00 - The largest 6tock of pianos in the West. A. H0SPE CO., 4ID 1 Ft'. "Are you an expert witness?" "I don't know yet." answered the m,n who was giving testimony, "I am consid ered an expert In my profelon, but a a witness I have yet to be tried out." W ash. Ingtun Star. "Say. that gold hrlok you sold me isn't worth a cent. "Dear, dear." responded the rontHrn.e man, with sympathy, " how the metal mar. ket doe fluctuate. Why, that brlrk whs worth a thousand to me. "Philadelphia Ledger. "He gave up drinking for her sake." "But I aaw him Imbibing only this morn ing. " 'Yes, now he's drinking for himself." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "George and Kate are going to ds mar ried." "Who told yowT "Nobody." "Then how do you know?" "I was there the other evening when George called, and I knew from the con fident peal he gave at the door bell that It was an engagement ring." Baltimore American. "I suppose you have made a profound atudy of political economy?" hum. "Even If you know all about It your self you can't explain It to other people so that they will understand It." Washington Star. "I went home corned last night." "And what 1td your wife do?'r "Oh, she beefed." Waahlngtin Times. "What are your favorite birds?" anke.l tha country poet of Miss Twlnk, the star of the one-stand Fly-By-Nlght company. And wltn her genius lit eyes thrilling his very soul, she murmured wistfully, "Jays '' Philadelphia Press. . .. Ascum You used to complain that your wife was constantly asking you for mon-'y. Peekham O! that wa when we were first married. All that's changed now. Ascum lesT . Peekham Yes: now t ask her for It when I can sum up the courage. Philadelphia frees. Physician There Is really nothing tha matter with your daughter. Mr. Urole. graft. She only fancies there Is. I should describe her case technically as one of auto-suggestion. Anxloua Parent I believe vou've tnieaaed It, doctor. She's fairly crasy to have me buy one or em. Chicago Tribune. "Yes." said the would-be author, "the editor sent my manuscript back, but he enclosed a nice note saying the rejection of the manuscript 'did not necessarily Imply lack of literary merit." ' "Oh! I guess he didn't read It. then." said his friend. Cathollo Standard and Times. "Why did you vote for that msn If you don't like him?" I want to glvw him a chance at publio life," answered Farmer Corntoaael. "It's only a question of time before they'll have him stealing In an Investigation." Wash ington Star. Miss Ann Teek Really, some of tha young girla nowadays are positively awful. The idea of a girl being engaged to two young men at the same time. It's just shameful! Miss Cutting Besides, you find It ag gravating also, don't you? Philadelphia Press. , MOTHER OOOSIS COHTINCED. Anna Marion Smith in St. Nicholas. Old King Cole was a merry old soul. Ana a merry oiu soul waa ne; He called for his pipe, and he called for nis Dowi, And he called for hia fiddlers three. Every tiddler had a fine fiddle. And a very nne ndale nad ne; (Twee-tweedle-dee, tweedle-dee, went the tiddlers three) Oh. there's none so rare as can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three! Good Queen Kate waa his royal mats. And a right royal mate was sne: She would frequently state that carousing tin late Was something that never should be. But every fiddler had such a fine fiddle Oh, sucn a fine fiddle had he That old King Cole, In hia timost soul. was aa restive as ha coin a De, r When thus spoke ahe to his majesty, He planted his crown on tignt. "We will wait," whispered he to tha fid 1lfra three " "Till the Queen has retired for the night." Every fiddler then tuned Up his fiddle. And tuned It aa true as could be; While old King Cole got his pipe and bowl And replenished them secretly, 8o gay they grew as the night hours flew,' He forgot how the time sped away; Till swift overhead he heard the Queen's tread As she sprang out of bed, when he hnr riedly said . They might finish the tutfe the next day. Every fiddler he had a fine fiddle, And a very fine fiddle hud he: Oh, 'twas not fair such a concert rare Should be ended so suddenly. 1513 DouHas Street X I C s j I ) t4BMai H