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VOL. XXXVII NO. 8.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORN1XU, AUGUST 11, 1007.
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Another Rousing Sale of Ladies' Wool Suits (or Monday
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WARE. It's a (act thai no competition can question, that we show more exclusive dinner ware patterns and a greater
stock ol dinner ware sets than any rompclitor west of .Chicago. These dinner sets represent the lincst potteries In the world. The lad
that we have far and away the best ol the dinner ware business ol Omsha or the state Is emphatic prool that our prices are right.
Doilies, scarfs and centers at astonishing
low prices. Space will not permit us to give
a full list of price reductions.
12 L-c Doilies ....7Hc
25c Doilies 10c
35c Doilies ..... ,19(
50c Doilies 25(
25c Dresser Scarfs. .J2H
60c Dresser Scarfs . ..25
85c Dresser Scarfs . ..48
$1.75 Dresser Scarfs. . 08
35c Prawnwork Squares, lttc
50c Drawnwork Squares 2.V
85c Drawnwork Squares fVOc
$1.50 Lace Centers. . .QS
12 Inch Bleached Satin Dam
ask, regular $1.25, at, per
yard 75
72 tind 81 Inch Bleached
Satin Damask, rcgtilstr
$1.75. per yard . .jJU.25
24 inch Bleached Damask
Napkins, (odd) no cloths
to match, worth $3.50, per
en $2.50
White Goods, check Dimity
and Nainsook, worth 15c
and I'Vjc, per yard . fX4
Check Oreand.v. silk Mull
and dotted Swiss, worth U
25c, per yard Ci
LADIES
A sale of exceptional Interest made so be- c
cause I extraordinary bargains. Bar- D
gains that cannot be matched quality con- jj
sidcred. ' rj
TABLE NO. 1. Drawers, made of good jj
quality muslin cambric, finished in tucks, q
at 19 C
TABLE NO. 2. Gowns, Corset Covers and J
Drawers, made of fine cambric and batiste C
lace nud embroidery trimmed, garment is j
worth 98c, sale price 48(5 C
TABLE NO. 3. downs, ' Skirts, .Corset 0
Covers and Drawers, mado of fino Nain- p
sook, handsomely trimmed in embroidery D
ami lace wortli up to $1.50, sale price G9c R
SPECIAL . TABLES at 98i? $1.48 c
$1.95 nd $2.48. g
MONDAY MORNING Second Floor g
ft
Every Dinner Set
in Stock on Sale.
Positively No
Reserve.
A Full Set at a
Sensationally
Cut Price.
Ilaviland China.
The price on these beautiful
goods will have to advance. If
yqu contemplate purchasing a
high grade Ilaviland set look
over our patterns and prices for
the coming week. All open stock,
buy what you want of it.
Ilaviland Sets at $67.50, $59.00,
$48.50, $39.50, $32.00 J r 90
and CD
112 Piece Sets In Kngllsh Seml-Forcelain, pretty green fir Q
edge, 812.00 value, per set pv.co
BO pieces Vodrey Senil-Forcelain, Rood shape and pretty CO flfl
decoration, per set T'wo
100 pieces American Porcelain sets, three different pat- CJ (1Q
terns, I10.B8 values, this Bale, per set Df.uJ
Handsomely decorated (Royal Australn Clitna Sets) C11 4Q
118.00 values, full 100 pieces, per set Yii'
The Menton, a pretty neat blue pattern, full gold treatment on
Johnson Bros. beBt English Porcelain, a $20.00 value (t
In this sale, full 100 pieces, per set p .x.us
The Coronet, a beautiful French China set, good shape, neat
pretty decorations, stippled In gold, full luu pieces, filial OQ
823. UU value, special, per set p.a,"JO
J. I'ouyat China Sets, finest China made, twelve of (f
these sets to sell, $35.00 values, for this sale . . . .r"-"-v'vr
The 10(1 win M. Knowles Porcelain, the finest American Porcelain
miiile, we control It for Omaha, full 100 piece sets C2 AfW
In white, per set pVJ .V7
Full 100 piece sets In pretty green and pink border 4 A QQ
patterns, per set .r.a.V.c0
Fine delicate rose bud border pattern, full gold traced, 0 - O HQ
$ I S.IK) value, per Bet Jl.JO
Pretty blue pattern, the one that leads all the B"1 f QQ
American blues, full 100 pieces, per set pxv.JO
Liberal Discount
on All Pieces
from Open Stock
Patterns.
Sixty Different
Sets to Choose
From.
Syracuse and Iro
quis China
American China with Ilaviland
decorations and shapes, see
wonderful values this week at
$14.38, $19.35, $21.50, 1C&00
$22.00 and tJ-
This will far excell all former
dinner ware sales. Make your
selections early in the week
while stocks are complete.
Lawn Swings
Large four fjj TS O i
papfenger Jffc -Wv fl
lawn swings, - 13
to close out
Built ol Maple and Bolted
AUGUST SALES IN PICTURES
Our August Sales are immense great values, at remnrkalde prices.
Shadow Box Pictures Trained with Porcelain Plates of yueeu Iouls, The
AfiKcllus, The Gleaner, advertised In inatca7.lnes and papers fT9S
hy Furniture Houses as u $2S.0t) value, our price, J
Monday
Everv one perfect, making a fine parlor picture.
Picture framing our leading speciality, right prices, biggest variety
fjJ ffi of mouldings and frames
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BENNETT S BIG GROCERY
Special List of Bargains In the
FOR. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Demonstration All Week in Chin. Section
CONOMY JARS
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Buy your winter coal XOW. We give double Green Trading Stamps on coal during August. S S r " 9 ' a r . "1 r3
Prices a follows: S ILddO S TUlt Sft K S
BENNETT'S CAPITOL COAL the best soft coal that's mined rfl rG . Ci S
Lump $6.50 Nut 96.25
A Great Summer Thirst Quencher
Bennett's Alamo Coal, Arkansas hard, better than Pennsylvania, tou S9.00 f KJ n x.
Spadi, or semi-anthracite SS.50 rQ KJ "Cory eciion,
Full Wrights; Quick Deliveries; Good Drivers. H H i lb. can
10c
KODAKS, CAMKKAH AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
The most attractive display of Photo Accessories in
Omaha. Everything strictly new and rightly priced.
Developing and Finishing Bring your pictures to us
don't risk spoiling them by imperfect development. We
guarantee the best results.
Southeast Corner, Main Floor
Hardware & Housefurnishings
I BIG SALE OF GENUINE AND
WORLD-FAMED STRANSKY WARE
S THE BEST WARE MADE AT
N I FCC TMJU LVHHPCJIP PD-FC
Oarbage Cans, up from $1.19
3 And Double Green Trading
1 Stamps.
n Bath Sprays, all prices from
jg 7.50 down to 69
rO Extra . good Clothes . Lines
a at,.... ..20
:V And 20 Green Trading Stamps
3 Mop Sticks 10
3 And 10 Green Trading Stamps
H Wash BqUers, up from Q6
H And 40 Green Trading Stamps
Whisk Brooms, extra
quality 10
And 10 Green Trading
Stamps
Galvanized Wash Tubs,
69c, 79c and S9
And 40 Green Trading
Stamps
Clothes Wringers, all prices
up from 81.05
Every one guaranteed from
1 to 5 years, and 50 Green
Trading Stamps with each.
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N HAMMOCKS
A.ny $2.50 Hammock, all colors, with balance,
wide spreaders, complete with hooks,
at
1.79
best Products. Always Fresh.
Pride of Bennett's Flour, per sack, $1.40
And 50 Green Trading Stamps.
Uennett's Golden Cgffee, per pound 26c
And 30 Green Trading Stamps
Teas, B. F. Japan, Oolong, English Break
fust, Gunpowder, per pound 48c
And 40 Green Trading stamps.
Bennett's Capitol Baking Powder, pound
can for 24c
And 30 Green Trading Stamps.
Blood of Grape .Juice, pint bottle . . . ,25c
And 20 Green Trading Stamps.
Blood of Grape Juice, quart bottle 50c
And 40 Green Trading Stamps.
Jos. Tetley & Co.'s India and Ceylon
Teas, Green Label Brand, pound 60c
And 40 Green Trading Stamps.
Green Label Brand, half pound tin 30c
-And 20 Green Trading Stamps.
Green Label Brand, quarter pound tin 15c
And 10 Green Trading Stamps.
Diamond S Chile Sauce, per bottle . .25c
And 20 Green Trading Stamps.
Worcester Table Salt, two sacks 10c
And 10 Green Trading Stamps.
Granulated Sugur, Double Cireeu Trudlng Stamps
20c cans Jersey Sweet Potatoes, ..lJSVC
Gallon cans Muscat Grapes, 40c
15c package Seedless Kaisins, pkg...lOc
I CanaT Grocery section ut
i 10c llateM. pound.... So Qj
25c N'loo Juicy I.em ins,
per dozen 15o
g The Fall Quarterly ol the Ladies' Dome Journal just Received, Great and Splendid, Price 20c, Contains a Coupon Good for One 15c Pattern, GET IT. g
FIGHT ON THE BLACKMAILERS
New York Police Try to Break Up For.
eign Criminal Societies,
VICTIMS FEAR TO PE0SECUTE
VtKMDCe of Black Hand So 1rrlbl
V llaraM-a Uamtl m Grow Damk
Mkfi Tkey Ascend tkc
Stud.
KiiW TORK. Aug. 10.-(Speclal.)-One of
the mint serious problems that face the
Now York police department Is the sup
pression of blackmail and extortion. The
number of cue reported to the pollco an
nually In the last few years ha Increased
with a rapidity out of all proportion to
the Increase in population.
The New York police records show that
In 1901 soven persons were arrested for
blackmail, twenty-one for extortion, one
for attempted extortion and one for kid
naping. In J eighteen persons were
arrested for NaAmail. twenty-seven for
extortion, tweoty-flve for attempted extor
tion and twenty-seven for kidnaping. In
the same period the arrests for homicide
jumped from 4f to M7.
A high official of the United Btates Secret
Bervlce force suggested the other day an
Interesting explanation of the Increase in
the number of extortion cases. It Is well
known that criminal Italians, chiefly men
who have been members of the notorious
Mafia in Sicily or the Camorra In Naples,
re behind many of the attempts that are
made to extort money In this city. The
secret service official gave It as his opinion
that part of the sam gang of cutthroats
who were responsible for the barrel mur
der In 1908 are behind most of the Black
Hand attempts that are being made now.
The' Black Hand alone has made necessary
the establishment of a separate bureau ct
Italian detectives at police headquarters.
This bureau, which is in charge of Lieuten
ant Petroslno, has offices of its own on
Lafayette street.
All Try to Save Aaasaela.
When a Mafloso in Sicily slays a man
the friends of the murderer and the mur
dered alike have but one Idea that of
saving the assassin. They don't want to
go to law for redress. The man who Is
murderously attacked. If he can speak, will
say: "If I die they'll bury me; If I live
I'll strike you dead." meaning that he
would settle his own scores without any
assistance from the courts. That spirit has
been transplanted In the branch organisa
tions that have sprung up In this city, and
It Is the greatest obatac' with which the
police have to contend.
The Black Hand criminals do not con
fine their threats to witnesses alone. Judge
Robert Cortess of Paterson, N. J., was
fearless In his crusade againnt the extor
tionists In that city. He had received a
number of warning letters and on February
8 lant an express package was delivered at
his office. He opened it and was killed by
the explosion which followed. His son also
was seriously Injured by the Infernal ma
chine. District Attorney David E. Boone
of Hammond, Ind., was threatened with
death time and again when he was prose
cuting Black Handers.
"Your doom may not come today: It
may not come tomorrow," said the letters,
"but as true as you live and God rules
you must suffer. If we can't get you we
will get your loved ones."
Threats of the same kind are being re
ceived continuully by District Attorney
Jerome and Police Commissioner Bingham.
It has got to be such a common occurrence
with them that they pass over most of the
letters without reading them.
Veasrsnce on Fellow Members.
It Is, however, In punishing members of
their own band that the vengeance of the
Italian blackmailing orgnnlzatlon is most
dreadful. Murder after murder has turned
up in the Italian quarters of this city in
which It la next to impossible to establish a
motive. On the body may be some mark
or kntfe wound which will indicate to the
Initiated that the murdered man died to
satisfy the vengeance of his fellow crim
inals. This was the care In the murder of
Benedetto Madonla the barrel murder-
ana in me muraer or uuiscppe . mania i
and the peddler, Meyer AVelsbard, sup- J
posedly by the same gang. Catania had a
habit of getting drunk and talking too
much. He was found dead In a sack
near his home In Brooklyn. Welsbard had
learned more than it was good for him to
know. He was found dead on an Kast
Side street. All three Welsbard. Catania
and Madonla were killed by the same pe
culiar daggr thrusts through the neck.
The secret service have another Instance
which they always cite to Illustrate the
punishment which this organization metes
out to one of Its backsliding members.
Bmck in the earty 90s Antonio Flacomlo,
a member of a Mafia counterfeiting gang,
was suspected of having given up some
of the band's secrets. At a meeting of
the band In a restaurant ' near Eighth
street. Flacnmlo's death was decided upon,
and two men, one of them Vlncenso Cara
sello, were selected as the executioners.
Flaoomlo had been Carasello's pal from
boyhood and at the last moment Carasello
weakened and declared that he would
sooner kill himself. On the night after the
meeting Flacomlo was seen to leave the
restaurant In Third avenue arm In arm
with another Italian. At Eighth street
and Fourth avenue Flacomlo s companion
slipped a long knife from under his coat
and plunged It into Flacomio's heart. Then
he d1isapieared around a corner before the
crowd In the street had recovered from its
friant.
That night a few minutes after the mur
der three Italians entered the New Eng
land hotel at 30 Bowery. Two of them en
gaged a room for the night and paid for It.
In the morning the third man was found
dead In bed with the gas turned on. He
hod evidently committed suicide. This man
was Carasello.
The Camorra In America
In the branches of the Camorra In this
country, as in Italy, there are three grade
of criminals. First comes the ruling power
known as the Cainorrista. They are the
wise heads or councillors. Next come the
executioners, and finally the youth who are
being trained to crime. The men who are
elected to the grade of executioners hope
some day to become members of the Cam or
ris! a class. At council meetings when some
person is sentenced to death there Is of ti n
rivalry between the executioners for ti.e
Job. The executioner who Is selected Is al
ways Introduced to the council by one of
the members with the words: "Recognlre
the man." The executioner takes an oath In'
which lie declares he will have no relations
with the police department, will show fidel
ity to his associates and will betray none
of their secrets. The members of the Cam
orra take the oath over crossed knives and
with some of their own blood on their
hands.
An oath also binds together the members
of the Mafia bands. In these bands also
there Is a council. Often witnesses who are
to appear against the band In a court of
law are summoned before the council and
formally warned under threats of assassi
nation. There are some cases in which the
Mafia has compelled men to become num
bers of the organization when these men
had got -hold of some of the secrets of the
band. With them It was a case of Joining
or being put to death.
Armenian Society.
The Hunchakist society, or rather that
branch of It which has been engaged In
blackmailing wealthy Armenian merchants
In this city, had until the recent murder in
Union square, escaped the attention of the
police because of the terror which it In
spired in the minds 'of Its victims. It has
been operating In this city for a yaar or
more, but the men who were marked by It
had been so fearful of their lives that they
had not even dared to complain to the po
lice. The most of the murders which are
attributed to SJils society had been com
mitted in foreign countries and were known
only to Armenians In this city. Since the
murder of Hovhannes Taxshanjlan. the
wealthy rug merchant, the killing of Father
Caspar Vatarlan in a West Thirty-seventh
street(house three months ago has assumed
a new light. The police believe now that
the prist was strangled and packed away In
a trunk at the instance of blackmailer who
wanted to make this crime a warning.
The Armenian method of extorting
money la one of the most skillful prac
ticed by foreign blackmailers. The
Armenians operate under the guise of
patriotism and uss fanatics such as
TavshanJIsn's murderer to commit the
actual crimes. These fanatic always are
under the Impression that they ax ren
dering a service to their stricken coun
try. Unlike the other criminal bands
which operate in New York, the Hunchak
ist ha branches all over the world.
Cyprus and Pari are the headquarters
of the two factions. The society wa
started in 1886 in Athens by Armenian
patriots who planned a revolution to free
their country from the tyranny of the
sultan. The society ha secretly sup
plied the young men of Armenia vlt:i
arms. Members of the old llunchaklut
society declare that there Is an irrecon
cilable gulf between them and the branch
which Is accused of having plotted fhe
murder of the rug merchant.
The Hunchaklsts go gunning only after
big game. Demand were made on at
least four merchants in this city for
contributions of J2u,O0O each to the cause.
It was only a short time after these de
mands were made that Aplk Ounjlan wis
murdered in Constantinople. He ga"j
freely to Armenian charities, but had re
fused to contribute to the Hunchakist
because he had believed a revolution vah
hopeless and because he also suspected
that the money was being squandered by
the leaders.
Kxtortloa In t'klnatowa.
In Chi natown the police are running up
agalnnt Instances of extortion all the
time. The attempt by certain menb'im
of the Hip Sing Tong, the alleged China
town reformers, to corner all of the
gambling graft In the district led to the
little shooting bees that have been hell
In Doyers and Pell streets with markc-d
regularity for the lunt year or more. The
I .ii oiiig iuni, unuer ine leaaersmu or
i Mock Duck, one of the worst Chlnamon
In town, allied themselves with the Pant
hurst society and then proceeded to poie
as the watchdogs' against gambling In
Chinatown. That was too much for I he
On Leong Tongs and the gun play began.
In the last year six or seven Chinamen
have been killed In these lights, which
usually break out in broad daylight. The
prisoners have been dragged through tno
Impotent . American courts without a sin
gle conviction up to this time and tha
Chinese court, which administers an out
lawed Justice of Its own and Is more
powerful than any American court, finally
took the matter in hand, but wa unable
to accomplish anything. In thfe mean
time commercial Chinatown has been
knocked out. The restaurants, the shops
and the theaters have lost money. The
police are almost helpless In these fights.
The Chinamen pop out of areaways like
so many rats, blaze away and then dis
appear. The police when they make the
rounds later find the most Ignorant lot
imaginable. Nobody know even that
there ha been a shooting, let alone any
thing about the murdered man.
Among the Oreeks there Is an organisa
tion which collects tribute from tbe
pushcart peddlers. Only a few day ago a
riot broke out among a group of Greek
pushcart men at the Manhattan entrance
to the Brooklyn bridge, but the pedlera
had nothing to say to the police. The
blackmail levied by this organization Is
based on threats to have the pushcart
licenses revoked. It Is the cheapest of
all foreign extortion games.
Blackmail .earer Home.
Blackmail affords a rich Acid for some of
New York's clever Wall street crooks.
Traffic of this sort has flourished for years
and, so far a the police records show,
there has been no marked Increase. One
of the favorite .Wall street methods is to
approach a financier with a proposed mag
azine or newspaper article. The black
mailer may have been shadowing the Wall
street man for days until he has hit upon
some Incident that the financier wouldn't
care to have appear In print. Sometimes
he has got his Information from enemies
of the financier. The blackmailer sends In
his card, probubly with the note that he
Is about to submit for publication a maga
zine article which he would like to have
the financier approve. The Wall street man
reads the article, sees tho point and sug
gests that he would like to have it him
self. Then out comes his check book.
Of course,' In. almost every one, of these
cases the article would never see daylight
If It was submitted to a magazine or news
paper, but that Is something Wall street's
bl men have to learn.
Then there Is the blackmail game among
lawyers. That is undoubtedly the most dif
ficult of all for the district attorney's
office to handle. Suits for divorce and
breach of promise are begun for the sole
purpose of' shaking down the victims, but
everything has the appearance of regu
larity and the district attorney is able to
do nothing. There was one law firm In
this city which was notorious for the power
which it possessed over Influential men he
cause of the Information of a personal
nature that had been brought to it. Any
number of strike suit are bobbing up In
the courts dally, but the officers of the
law are compelled to let them run their
course. '
Poor Waes.
John B. Unnon, treasurer of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, delivered recently
In IWoomlnton an address on strikes.
Turning to the auuslng features of the
strike question.' Mr. I.ennun said:
"I remember a strike of bobbin bovs.
Thse hoys conrii cted their fluht well
even brilliantly. Thus the day they turned
out they posted In the spinning; room of
their employers mill a great placard In
scribed with the words:
" 'The wages of sin Is death, but the
wages of the bobbin boys is woise." 'New
York Tribune.
Ik tkeese.
"The late General Thomas H. Ruger,"
said a prominent army ottlcer. "was. like
many of hi brother officers, an authority
on good cooking, but he detested strong
cheese. At a dinner he said that a very
rank cheese was once left at his head
quarters to be called for. and after It had
remained unclaimed for two days he posted
up this notice:
" 'If the cheese sent here addressed to
Private Jones Is not railed for In two day
it will if ahol.' "Harper Weekly,
FIND ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT
JTomb Near Coptic Monastery Proves
Eich in Contents.
INVALUABLE TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Twenty-Five Leave of Apocryphal
Hayings of Christ Discovered
Translation of the
Gospel.
CAIRO, Aug. 10. (Sieclal.)-The latest
of tile many discoveries by archaeologists
In Kgypt occurred some months ago at
1-Mfu In upper Kgypt, near the site of an
old Coptic monastery. A native clearing
his ground of stones accidentally laid bare
a small tomb-like receptacle. In this he
found a number of parchment manuscripts
bound In thick papyrus covers. He so!d
them to an Arab dealer for a few dollars
and tho Arab In return so! 1 them to a
Copt for t'J,5O0.
The news had by this time gone abroad,
and representatives of the foreign museums
made energetic efforts to capture the manu
scripts. The good fortune of securing them
fell to Mr. De Rustafjaell, F. R. O. 8.,
the well known traveler and explorer.
Since the discovery, however, a great uni
versity has been trying to obtain posses
sion. The manuscripts, he says, had already
been identified as unique Coptic anil Greek
ecclesiastical manuscripts of the ninth to
eleventh centuries of greut archaeological
Importance, and about a dozen rolls of
sixth century Greek papyri. Among them
are twenty-five leaves ot the apocryphal
sayings of Christ In a Coptic translation
of a lost Greek original, of which pre
viously only thirteen leaves were known
twelve In the National Gallery at Paris
and one in Berlin.
Find' Ancient Gospels.
The discovery also comprised parte of
the Gospels of St. Matthew. 81. Mark and
Bt. Luke In Greek anil Coptic, the Apo
calypse of St. John In Coptic, tho history
of miracles by Cosmos and Damleu (dated
sixth century), a sermon by Bt. I'lsen
thofs in Coptic (this copy lielng unique), a
sermon by St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem
(A. D. 361 -SW.) on the sacred cross, In
Coptic, from an existing Orek original
(this Is tlii only complete edition) and a
unique manuscript in the Nubian langunge
dealing with the life of W. Menos and the
canons of the Nlrean council, inly frag
ments of manuscripts In the Nubian Ian
guage have been discovered hitherto. There
are very few scholars in the language and
scarcely any published literature. Hence
the present volume, which is In an excel
lent state of preservation, 1 of first rate
importance.
From a dedication in on of the manu
script the monastery, on the site of which
they were discovered, Is proved to have
been named "St. Mercury of the Mount of
Kdfu," and one of the volumes Is a his
tory of the martyrdom of St. Marcurlos.
A modern Coptic monastery stands near
the site, but the name of the older founda
tion had been entirely lost until this discovery.
Kgypt has also yielded another find to
Mr. De Rustafjacll's researches. In the
desert In upper Kgypt, on the left bank of
the Nile, tie found among the remain of
paleolithic flint factories, a number of cruda
and weather beaten limestone vessels re- 1
sembllng troughs and pots, like Ironstone
concretions. He holds them to be of the
paleolithic age. They are certainly older
than the neolithic age, which covered a
considerable period In Egypt before the ad
vent of the first dynasty, in B. C. 400. Mr.
De Kustafjaell thinks It difficult to over-"
estimate tho Importance of this discovery
In connection with' the history of civiliza
tion In general, and the evolution of pot
tery In particular.
Teuchlna- French In Rgypt.
According to all accounts received her
the French nation Is not pleased with Sir
Kdward Grey's explanation of hi policy
regarding French suhoola, In the Lambert
case, as well as In many other cases, it
Is claimed that the policy of Sir Edward
Grey has been against these schools which
Kngland has promised to respect. The
claim is even made that the teaching of
French In Kgypt is not only a moral force,
but an Instrument of economic action which
ennnot be abandoned. France, it is claimed,
h;:s millions and millions of dollars in
vested In Egypt and that country ha
never promised to disregard all moral and
material Interests. It agreement In lfrH
Is said by those best posted upon the sub
ject to be confined simply to the abandon
ment of an all ' antt-Kngllti policy In
Kgypt. It has scrupulously observed It,
but In the economic as well as In the Intel
lectual field. It is claimed that It lias yielded
nothing. The feeling among the French
residents here, and there is a large French
colony in Kgypt, handed down from the
days when Ie I-sseps built the Sues canal.
Is that the present government ha gone
to the extreme In Its efforts to make Kgypt
pro-British. It Is openly asserted here
that Lord Cromer, stern and severe as he
was. would never have been guilty of
making borne of the mistakes which hav
been made recently In connection with tb
occupation of Kyypt.
f'orurob Ureal. fast Food.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agri
culture lias discovered that coffee, oat
hulls and ground corncobs figure In the
comiioKltion of certain a lent foods. Most
coiisumeis have suspected the existence of
bran and excelsior, but corncobs are a
new element perhaps they are put in
to prevent the diet from 1 ing too con-cMrat-d.
on tile aine princtplH that stock
raisers add a Judicious mixture of corn
stalks or olher "roughage." to the oat
and corn fed to their calU. ludlaiiapolia
Star,