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I 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1007, The Omaha Daily Bee, FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSBWATKR. VICTOlt ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha Postofllc. aa aecond class matter. TERMS OF 6LU8CRUTION: Pally Hen (without Sunday), one year.. U ) Dully lie and Humlay, ne year "0 Sunday He, an year I!1 Hutuiday one year 1.60 DELIVERED BT CARRIKR: Dally Pee (Including Sunday), per week.lBe Daily He. (without Sunday), per ww..!Qo Evening Pee (without Sunday), per werk tiq Evening Be (with Punday). per wek....luo Address all complaints of irresrularittes In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Fee Hulldlng. Pouth Omaha City Hall Building. Couitrll Bluffs 15 Hrott Street. t'hloato 140 t'nlverstty building. New fork 153 Home 'Jlte Ineuranca Mulldlnr. WaahTniton-TZ; Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Cammunlratlona relating to newe and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha ' Bea, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit tiy draft, express or postal order payable to The Ilea Fuhllslilng Company. Only it-cent atampa received In paymnnt of mail accounts. Personal checks, except an Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CXRCULATIOM. Elate of Nebraska. Douglaa County? a.r I'taarUa C. ItOHewater, general "manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly ivorit, saya that the actual number of full and complete coplea of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday bee printed curing tha month of November, 1907, waa a follow: 87,000 J-.,. 37,830 I.. BG.600 4 87,820 1 39,880 ........... 3,90 t 87,330 1 3740 .... 87,890 It 39,000 11 37,630 11 87,730 It 87,380 14 37,360 1 37,600 87.430 36,420 38,180 37,430 37,090 38,970 11. 22. '.3P0 t 37,380 ?4. ......... 38,100 15 37,890 2 37,090 il 37,340 !..... 36,140 39,890 10 37,690 , Total v 1,133,430 feta unsold and returned copies, lofiea Net Total 1,113,369 Dally average 37,108 CHARLES C. ROPE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this Id day of December, 1W7. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public whejt oiyr or town. abserlbers IcaflBsj the city tens ' fiarmrlly akoald kare Tk Bee) ' BsUl them. Addreaa will b ' tavKasa aa ftest as reqneatesl. Tho ralue of an asset currency de pends yery largely -upon the value of the aesetB. , II you have deferred your Christmas shopping until it is too late to avoid th rush, get into it. X If you failed to do your shopping early, t lt not yet too late to do it be fore the danger point In the rush is reached. . A Chicago physician is going to try to live on peanuts for sixty days. Plenty of politicians have proved that it can be done. - Every mine , horror is a protest against lax enforcement of even poor laws for the protection of men who ork under the ground. There are 27,000 men in New York who will vote that marriage is not a failure. Statistics show that their wives are supporting them. The ciar has started another cam paign against Vfn freedom of the Rus sia press. Sowing dragon's teeth is a favorite paBtlme of the ciar. ' The Cuban masons have refused to return to work, although all their de mands have been granted. The Cu ban masons are odd fellows. ' Pollard of Nebraska is the seventh man and the only farmer on the house committee on agriculture. This means that he will have plenty of work to do V' Not a Nebraskan landed a chairman-' ship in Uncle Joe's distribution of com mittee honors. .Wonder if that Taft resolution had anything to do with this? Members of the house at Washing ton are forgetting their dignity. When fist fights are pulled off on the floor the house ia as disorderly as the lenate. - Other presidential aspirants in the republican party must feel relieved Senator Piatt insists that he will sup port none but Cortelyou for the nomr nation. "It will be Taft and Bryan this time next year," says the Nashville Danner. Oh, no. At this time next year It will be Taft. Bryun will be dropped In November. Maybe the South Dakota senators can divide the patronage on the same basis that De Armond and Williams settled the minority committee ap oointments. Rev. in Hicks ought to explain what became of all those blizzards and snowstorms that were scheduled for the Missouri valley country in the first weeka of December. s "Mr. Bryan has never had the temerity to say the southern people ire right on the negro question," com plains a Nashville paper. Mr. Bryan baa a reputation for veracity. The second edition of the new $20 gold piece la said to be a great im provement. Its surface is flatter and a pile of coins will stack up easily. You can prove this by experiments. Lp to the present there is no indi cation of a lower level of prices for farm products, at least. This means tbat Nrbrarka is not seriously suffer in? from the contraction of business thrtauued, THE CtCCntCKtD iLAVQFTtn. The most scathing arraignment of railway management yet made is of fered by D. Lb Cease, editor of the Trainmen's Journal, in discussing the never-abating horror of railway wrecks in which this country' has achieved an unenviable distinction. The Interstate Commerce bulletins, Is sued quarterly, furnish accumulating proof that no improvement worth men tion la being made in reducing the number of railway accidents. Mr. Cease charges direct that the casualty list Is abnormally large because the railroads have neglected precautionary measures. The article In the Trainmen's Jour nal is particularly Interesting because it viewa the situation from the stand point of the working railroad man, the engineers, brakemen, track walkers and trainmen. These employes, fa miliar, by the very nature of their oc cupations, with tha roadbed, equip ment and general operating facilities, have no hesitancy in placing the blame for increasing accidents upon the in attention of railway managers to pre cautionary measures. Track main tenance, according to Mr. Cease, is a lost art. While 100-pound rails have been used for years, ties are no larger and no stronger than when seventy pound rails were the maximum. En gines and cars have been doubled In weight and the speed increased 100 per cent, while few additional appli ances for safety have been adopted. On many roads the section foreman is not allowed to decide when a worth less tie shall be replaced, but must await the orders of an Inspector, who may not visit the section for months at time. Thousands of miles of track are not patrolled, because of Insuffi cient forces. Mr. Cease asserts tbat freight trains often have but two brakesmen, while the train may be nearly a mile long, and that the en tire, operating service of the roads is undermanned. In explanation he says: ' The American railway managers are, aa a rule, practical railway men. They are capable and understand their business, and it la not entirely their fault that affairs are as they are. It la the fault of the financial system that demands dividends first, for If the manager cannot get finan cial returns that experts theoretically show the boards of directors they ought to get, they will be sidetracked to make room for the men who think they can. Tho railroads have made fhoney. They ought to be made to use some of it in practices and appli ances that promise safety In train opera tion and the minimising of railway disaster. Severe aa Is this censure of railway managers, the fault for existing condi tions lies largely with the public. Con gress and the state legislatures have power to secure safety for the travel ing publlo and the railway employes, and this safety will come when public opinion 'demands it. KIDOELST OX CURRENCr DEFECTS. The annual report of Comptroller of the Currency Ridgeley is of more than ordinary public interest this year, be cause of ' its' recommendations for the cure of currency ,111s. The .comptrol ler reviews the specific defects of the existing system, but does not agree with many students of finance In his suggestion of remedies. In the opinion of the comptroller, one of the most objectionable defects in the existing currency system la the manner of handling reserves. He ob jects to the plan which "piles, reserve on reserve in central reserve cities, without requiring a sufficient amount of actual cash on hand." The result la that when an emergency comes these reserves are not reserves at all, because they may in a day become unavailable. This reserve system Is declared a source of weakness rather than of strength when there Is a finan cial disturbance or an impairment of confidence. Frequently, this condition may cause a panic among the banks before there Is any marked uneasiness among the depositors. To remove this defect the comptrol ler seconds the creation of a central bank to hold the ultimate reserves of the country, a bank of banks, the Etock of which should be held by the banks of the country, with the govern ment represented as a stockholder and active director. The, government would use the central bank aa ita agent in handling its loans and keep ing its deposits. The bank would have branches In reserve and eubtreas- ury cities, but would do no original commercial or discount business. It would deal with the government and with other banks and not with the people direct. While it is not probable that any action will be taken by the present congress along this line, the question raised is one of great importance worthy of general discussion. Such a central bank Is a part of the financial system of most of the great nations and has worked satisfactorily, ' as ap plied in practice, co-ordinating the banks with the government in fiscal affairs. Perhaps the strongest' argu ruent for the plan ia the certainty that It would give the public renewed con fidence in the national banking system as a whole, aa it would place an im portant part of the banking function, the regulation of reserves and deposits, directly under government control. The second remedial suggestion made by the comptroller relates to the issue of asset currency, which he makes conditional on the establish ment of the central bank, to have aole control of such issue. A mere emer gency circulation la opposed on the ground that a credit issue should be protected by reserves and supple mented by a graduated tax to force early retirement. The comptroller's contribution to the discussion of cur rency reforms but serves to strengthen the Imprcsplon that public soatlmont is still chaotic and little legislation may be expected upon the subject at tbls session of congress. TOT MA KJltQ. America is the greatest toy market In the world, even if it has to go away from home to secure its supply of these gladdeners of childish hearts at Christmas time. , A recent consular bureau report shows that this nation annually purchases nearly $10,000,000 worth of toys from Oermany alone and lends the chief support to the toy makers of the world. Toy manufac ture la one of Germany's greatest re sources, furnishing employment to more than 1,000,000 people. The one town of Sonnenberg, with a population of 15,000, produces about 45 per cent of the toys that come to America. The consular agent furnishing the data on German toy-making urges that the toy Industry is being neglected in this country and Insists that It could be developed with great profit. Some progress has been made in the last few years, but it haa not been sufficient to, attract considerable attention, either here or abroad. By the very nature of things most of work on ordinary toys must be done by hand, and Amer icans have neither the time nor the patience for this kind of effort. The German toys are made very largely In the homes, whole families working during the yeur in the manufacture of dolls and small toys. The pay Is usually a mere pittance, the earnings of an entire family of five or six per sona amounting to not more than 3 or, $4 a week. The work calls for great patience and attention to minute detail, two essentials noticeably lack ing among American workmen, partic ularly on work tbat is done in the homes. The only marked progress made by Americans in toy manufacture has been In the invention of machinery for the work, certain patented forms of which even the Germans have been forced to buy in order to keep abreast of American rivals. In the machine made toys the United States may achieve some prominence, but in the intricate and patience-demanding hand work there will be no immediate attempt to rob the Germans of their present supremacy. ON THIX ICE. The reform movement in Omaha Is rapidly nearlng the danger point, and unless wiser council is taken than has lately prevailed Omaha will not only be made a laughing stock, but will be put In such position as to sustain seri ous loss. An indication of this condi tion is found in the fining of .a bag gageman who hauled trunks to the depot on Sunday. It is not alleged that the sanctity of a holy day or the rest and quiet of a religious neighbor hood was in any wise disturbed by this unseemly proceeding. It Is merely set up that the work was unnecessary. The person owning the baggage might have left the city on Saturday or post poned his departure Until Monday, in order that the majesty of the law would be left untouched in its. dignity. A few more such Instances and there will hi no hauling of bVggage on Sunday, for- all who can will make their arrangements to depart before the dawning of that day which the sealots 'are now trying to make one' of puritanical terror. Isn't It about time that the folly which has prevailed here for so long was abandoned and com mon sense given am opportunity? Omaha has suffered much in times past through ill-advised efforts at so cial changes, but none Is likely to prove so costly as the present conflict between the saloon men and the Antl Saloon league. The application of the jury law to Douglas county is proving even more difficult than it was at first expected. It is another evidence of the impossfM billty of closely fitting the law to a rural community and a metropolitan city at the same time. The experts will have to try at least once more be fore, they get a Jury law that will be thoroughly practical and satisfactory all round. State Treasurer Brian has Issued to th county treasurers of the state the opinion of the attorney general on points in connection with the state de pository lawj which Is of much inter est to the public as well. The care of the public moneys is well provided for under this act and the administration of office is easy if Ita provisions are observed. The London Times says that the sending of the battleships to the Pa cific i movement, "the full sig nificance of which will be understood only by posterity." The Times Is mis taken. Richmond Pearson llobson and the New York Sun understand the full significance of the movement right now. A local theaterhas devised a scheme for checking half-smoked cigars to ac commodate Its patrons. Now it the street railway company can' only devise some plan along similar lines that will prevent the economic gent from bring ing a smoldering piece of rope into a crowded car, we will & bless the in vention. Admiral Rojestvenuky declares that the men of Abe American fleet are not as efficient aa fighters or sen men as the Japanese. Rojestvensky la an ad mitted authority on the efficiency of the Japanese navy. Jamea Hazen Hyde says he will give $1,000,000 if the state of New York will drop proceeding agalnbt him. Hyde ought to come home from Paris and stand trial. He ought to know that no man with that much money Hands any danger of being convicted In New York. It is announced that Count Stern berg carries a gnn during the sessions of the Austrian Parliament and threat ens to shoot any colleague who dis putes his word. Representative Wil liams and De Armond are crude in their methods. Irrigation contests in Nebraska are sufficiently novel to attract attention, but the fact Is that Nebraska has long been well to the front on the practice of irrigation and the amount of land under ditch In the state' is increasing every year. - A Florida congressman has offered a bin providing for the sale of the Philippines. Except that no one la going to buy the islands and the United States is not going to sell them. the blll meets the emergency in every particular. . The city treasurer of Quebec admits that he has been stealing for eighteen years and has taken $185,000 of the public money. Such modesty Is un usual In a professional thief. A Mockery Law. Chicago Record-Herald. Out In Omaha it is considered a misde meanor to lng In a church choir on Sun day. MaKing a Sunday closing law ridicu lous ia always easy If tha Is tha onry purpose of the reopla In authority. x . The Dead I. In. Washington Herald About tho only thing we " are able to gather from reading southern criticism of Senator Davis speech Is that they will surely get up another war' If the news papers, of other sections do not Immedi ately cease designating him "Jefferson Davis II." Forsjrive and Forget. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. Bryan's wHlingnesa to forgive tha gold democrats Is Interest!., though In view of the fact that their votes may come handy next year scarcely surprising. As tho event proved tbat they were in the rlfrht the unore pivotal question may be whether they will forgive him. Caaspalms PalU . the Treaaary. Philadelphia Record. If tha government should pay the cost of political campaigns, aa President Roose velt recommends, new parties would-spring up in the land like mushrooms. This pe cuniary encouragement of parties might possibly be advisable if there were hot quite too many of them already. ladaatrlal Pasa. Philadelphia Record. A pretty accurate measure of the forca ef Industrial push is afforded by the produc tion and Consumption of coal. The T'hlted States have now a decisive lead, followed in turn by Great Britain, Oermany and France. We mine more coal, consume more in the aggregate, and more per head than the people of any other country. Preservation of Pie. Minneapolis Journal. Of all tha recommendations of President Roosevelt in his message, the one that wilt be the last taken up by congress will be that to place tha fourth-class postmas ters under the civil service regulations. The congressmen have lost jrnuch of late, but they are net going to lVt the fourth class postmasters get away from them. Old Troth Rebnrnlahed. Baltimore American. The records of Yale vindicate the simple life by showing that the rich students are the poor scholars. The amount of scholar ship declines In proportion to the sum of luxury. There in no getting over the stern natural law that only a favored few are gifted with the character which Is best developed by prosperity. College statistics do not alter the tradition that it IS the poor boy, working his way, who haa had the most Influence In shaping the destinies of the nation. Private Pension urabblnsr. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. It was generally understood, when the "old age" pension law was passed, puttlhg on tho pension list practically the whole remnant of the army which fought for the union, that there would be no further oc casion for private pension bills. Indeed, one of the chief arguments urged In favor of the bill was that the "prlvnte bill" would no longer obstruct the public busi ness of congnss. But in the first week of the session just begun, out of a total of 7.544 bills intrduced, all but ,a few doien were private pension bills. It really seems as if congressmen might somehow be shamed into a little less complaisaney to ward pension grabbers; especially aa the beneficiaries of these prlvato bills are usu ally men and women whose claims upon the country could not stand the investiga tions of the pension bureau. POLITICAL DKIKT. Another democratic "harmony" dinner la due In Washington. An admiring prophet announces that CoWSiel Bryan will live to he 81 years old. which signifies eight more runs for the White House. In seeking a well-heeled running mate for Mr. Bryan the Anger of destiny Is pointing toward ex-Uovernor Doyglus, the shoe man of Massachusetts. ' It democratic congressmen come to blows over the petty spolj of committee assign, ments, what would Jiuppcn if the party controlled the presidential pie counter? A St. Louis alderman, on trlul for graft ing, displayed on the witness stand such astonishing foi get fulness that the jury bunded him a five-year sentence so that he might collect his thoughts In peace. Tho republican committee of Kansas meets December 27 for he purpose of selecting a convention date. Sentiment of the state Is strong for Secretary Taft and a 'declaration to that effect Is likely to be made by the committee. Muyor Johnson of Cleveland has finally won hia seven-year light with the Cleve land Electric Railway company, the com pany agreeing to sell to a holding corpora tion, the value of Its properly to be deter mined by appraisers. With the water soueexed out. Mayor Johnson believes that Cleveland will get cheaper street car fares and better service, and that the company will make all the money it ought to make. One of the famous democratic harmony dinnera was pulled off at the Hoffman House, New York,. Friday of last week. It was the real thing. The words. "Ingrate," "pauper," "He" and other equally peaceful terms were bandied back and forth. It all happened after the food had been con sumed and the wlna bottles began to come in by pairs and threes. Someone proposed a toaat to David B. Hill, "our next presi dent, an honest man." Trouble began on the spot. Thu blows wr the hot air variety. t OTHKR l.AMU THAN Ot It. How long enn nations maintain the present pace In naval construction? The question' Is one ef serious concern to the people who In one way or another furnish the sinews of e' power In times of peace as well as war. Although the doors of The Hague peace conference were reso lutely closed aealnut armament restric tion the question, like Banquo's ghost, It will not down. It Is a skeleton whose wired bonoa rattle ominously In the depleted treasury closets of nations, making In creasingly difllcult the raising of revenue for steadily growing budgets. In the last seven years England's naval expenses In creased 34 per cent, Germany's 73 per cent, Japan's 9i per cent and that of France only I per cent. For two years past the naval expenditures of the -United Stater were $100.0oo, and ,102,000,000, respectively. This year's program, If sustained by con gress, calls for WO.OOO.OOO. The policy ol England heretofore haa been a fleet equal to the combined fleets of the next two ranking powers. But England has materi ally diminished Its "fplendld Isolation" by treaties with neighboring powers, par ticularly France, 'rendering less urgent the po'ley of constructing two warships to one of rival powers. That this feeling pre vails is evident from the remarks of Rich ard Burdon ,Haldane, secretary of state for war.. "In the future," he aa'id, "Great Britain might find It Impossible to rely so completely and absolutely on the navy," admitting tho ever Increasing difficulty of "maintaining tha two-power naval stand ard agwinst Germany and the I'nltcd States, whose combined population was ap proaching 10, TOO, 000. "France Is steadily dropping out of fhe tSee of naval con struction, contenting Itself with renewals while loaning 'on tho arm of Its new ally across the channe. nevenue exhaustion will soon force a change In Germany's program, and a similar change In the United States Is a near possibility. Published extracts from the diary ef Eugene B. Folltyosky, chief naval con structor of the ill-fated Russian fleet, sunk In the Pea of Japan, throws a gloomy llpht on the conditions whioh foretold th disaster. Polltvosky went down' with Admiral- Rojestvensky's flagship. . The diary waa mailed to his .wife from different ports at which the fleet stopped. He tells of tha mechanical mishaps which kept his corps of machinists busy, day and night. Repairs, aa well as coaling, had to be donq at sea, for there was not a friendly port between the Baltic and Japan seas. The crews of some ships 'were often on the verge of mutiny, and on none could strict discipline be preserved. 'In February there Is this sinister Item In the diary: "A transport, the Malay, Ih largely loaded with lunatics: It 'As about to return to Russia with lunatics, drunkards. Invalids and men deported for crimes. The crew are all hard; cases, beachcombers and the like, picked up in Madagascar ports. All tho officers carry loaded revolvers; a mutiny breads out among the lunatics and other prisoners, then among the crew; the officers suppress it with much slaughter." The offlcera, realizing that only a shame ful defeat , was. to be expected on the day of battle, neglected their duties, gambled for high stakes and drank deep. When tho Germans among them, celebrated "the kaiser's birthday "they drank so much that they remained drunk two days," wrote poor Polltvosky. On the long voyage the ships' bottoms became almost Incredibly foul. "We shall arrive In the east with dirty ships and tho Japanese will meet us with clean ores," waa act down despon dently in the diary. Polltvosky, to Illus trate the Ignorance of the officers, writes in one place "Yesterday I heard a wordy quarrel among the lieutenants about how many stokeholes and boilers there are in this flagship." On the eve of battle Ita officers sat long at table drinking and singing. The following day nearly 1,000 of ficers and 13.000 men perished by shot and sttell and drowning. There Is something doing In Ireland this winter which Is put down as a serious an noyance to the party In power. In those sections of the Island where the landlords turned their tenants adrift, demolished their homes and oonverted farms Into grazing lands, the people are boycotting tho herders and managers of the estates, cattle are stampeded, and other offenses agulnvt man and beast committed. In some respects the present agrarian dis turbance is a mild echo of the land war of the '80s. Irish political leaders appear in different, refusing or falling to check the disturbance. Anti-home rulers are press ing for renewal of coercion acts and drum head trials. So far prosecutions have not been very successful, Juries as a rule re fusing to convict. " Bark of tho present outbreak Js the deeprootcd demand for "the land for the people." The land act of four years ago works satisfactorily where ap plied, but its application is not general. Although purchasers have agreed to pay piicea regarded as liberal, a great numher of landlords refuse to Bell on any terms, and the government cannot compel them. At the lRst session of Parliament .ttuf com mons passed a bill authorizing the govern ment to condemn, for state reasons, the estate of pord Clanrkarde, near Galwoy, but the houne of lords amendod the bill to death. Unable by lawful means to se cure and cultivate the soil the extremists evidently Intend to make life uncomforta ble for tho managers and unprofitable for the landlords. It is a rude method of re. prisal, but it is by such rude, lawless means that the Irish people heretofore have secured relief and purchased title to property of which their forbears were despoiled by British freebooters in cen turies past. China Is menaced with a new peril. Her railroads have begun to pay. Not since mummies were burned for fuel on the Nile railway haa the orient been so seriously invaded. Henceforth it Is farewell to the idyllic peucu of the Chinese ruiallsm. the sons of heaven hud refused to ride, be hind the profane Iron horse of the foreign devils, they might have defended their land from innovation' lo the lam. Now there In nothing for It but to submit to having their rice tlelds cut up by the steel rails. But one peculiar opportunity remains for them to save tho credit of their country by making their railroads picturesque. If they succeed In doing this, they can be written down once mortt as having achieved a com plete novelty. Tho train should furnish a brand new motive for that patiently elab orated oriental art bamboo passenger coaches, decorated with choice panel paint ings, pagodas turned to account aa switch towers and locomotive designs, symbolic of the national dragon having Its tail twisted by a European power. Correspondents of lndon papers, writing of tho return to various countries of so many tliouisands of laborers from America, give different reasons for the emigration. "The Pall Mall Gazette." In a dispatch from Budapest, says: "The great majority of those returned emphatically asserted their ability to obtain a better livelihood In Hungary than In America. Now comes tho news that two other batches of emi grants are expected, one of tha vessels bringing no fewer Ihttn 1.30O home to the lund, while the second brings nearer 2.000 to Hungary. From America one hsars that all this Is unskilled labor, and & unskilled that it cannot be taught. Nevertheless, there still remain some l.tuO.OuO Hungarians in America, that the exodus from Hungary Is as large aa ever. linjcarv needs badly agricultural lub-jr." Oriental them, if stil lundecided what to give. . HKKK AUK A FKW OF THEM. 122.00 IlelotichlBtau, 2-9x3-9, reduced to S10.10 122.00 Belouchlstan, 3-5x3, reduced to $10.10 $20.00 Belouchtstan. 3-8x4-2, reduced to MIG.IO $26.00 Belouchlstan. 3-4x5-10, Reduced to 58ii0.50 $25.00 IlolouchlBtan, 2-10x4-10, reduced to $110.50 $25.00 Belouchlstan. 3-1x4-6, reduced to $20.50 $30.00 Belouchlstan, 3-2x4-5, reduced to S22.50 $28.00 Belouchlstan, 4x5-4, reduced to 822.50 $30.00 BelouchlBtan, 6x3-7, reduced to $25.00 $30.00 Belouchlstan, 4-10x2-9, reduced to ....$25.00 $30.00 Belouchlstan, 4-7x3-3, reduced to S25.00 $32.00 Belouchtstan. 3-1x5-5,- reduced to $'37.50 $26.00 Kafiack, 3-2x5-4, reduced to $22.00 $26.00 Kasack, 3-3x4-7, reduced to $22.00 $27.50 Kazack, 3-3x5-5, reduced to $211.50 $10.50 Ganjl. 3-2x4, reduced to k fllZX 50 $23.00 OanJI. 3-3x5-8, reduced to SlflftO $26.00 Ganjl, 3-3x4-7, reduced to.."i $22.00 Orchard & WSlhelm 414-1613 South Sixteenth SOW WATCH TUB I. A B F.I,. Telia Whether the Boose la Straight r Crooked. New York Times. Under the new government ruling whisky, hereafter, Is to be "one run of the still which has been allowed to age sufficiently; not rectified." No other lkiuor can be legally labeled "straight whisky." "Blended whisky" will not longer be any dubious compound dealers chooso to handle, and the unenlightened and tinregenerated mul titude to drink. The term will be used legally only to describe "two different runs of the same kind from the same still, but of different ages." "Compound" and "Imitation" whisky will be on the market, and obtainable at drink ing bars, but, under the law, tbey must be honestly and plainly labeled. The rul ing of Attorney General Bonaparte has ef fectively answered the disputed question, "What Is whisky?" Anybody who does not know what whisky Is, hereafter. Is Inexcusably Ignorant. It he deals In whisky his. Ignorance will not protect hlra In any infringement ot the law. LAUGHING lil.NES, First Ansel Why Is It' that St. Peter has kept the Job as doorkeeper for so many years? Second Angel He's still hoping for a chance to get at the fellow who robbed him to pay Paul. Houston Post. "He has a wealthy relative, hasn't he?" "Yea, and she delights in keeping him poor." ."Keeping him poor?" "Yes, she gave him an auto on his birth day." Houston Post. "Who Is that youngster?" asked the caller. "O! he's only our new office boy," said the merchant. "Ah! his face seemed familiar." "Very likely, but his manner la more so." Philadelphia Press. "Think of what the historians will say art out you," said the Idealist. "Nonsense," answered Senator fiorphum, bUKily. "I don't want any historian. What I want Is a press agent." Washington Star. Mrs. Gaswell (making a call) Ah, I see you have here a volume of poems. I'm Browning, Ming & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS FOUR DAYS TO CHRISTMAS As the Christmas festival draws near the question comes up daily as to what to give him. HERE'S tlie ANSWER: House Coats. $5 to $15. Bath Robes. $2.50 to $50. Mulders, $1 to $5. Scarfs, 50c to $4.50. Suit Cases and Hand Dags. $5 to $35. Suspenders, 50c to $2.50. Umbrellas, $1 to $10. Walking Sticks, $1 to $5. Gloves, $1 to $25. One of our Merchandise Certificates will simplify the whole matter, if you don't know the size or -color or stylo of whatever you would choose. Let the recipient make his own selectiorin. 15th and Douglas Streets tl R. S. VV1LCOX, Mgr. x i FOR THAT CHILLY FEELING USE n n rra U 111 Best Wyoming, Clean, Hat and Lasting, $7.50 VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1214 Farmm. Tel. Doui 127 Rug Sale To seekers after beauti ful Christmas gifts, this is a golden opportunity. Be ginning tomorrow, big re ductions on our small and medium sized ftugs. Our methods of buying enable us to mark all our Hugs at a surprisingly low figure, but here are still further reductions for tho holi days. Don't faiL to see ashamei to confess if, Mrs. HlnUnuis, but I never could appreciate blank v rse. lra. lilghmus Why or that's a cata logue, Mrs. Uaswcll. Chicago Tribune. "Hryan," said the emotional staiesman, "hnntrs over his party like a upecter." "No," was the reply. 'He's not a specter. Ita la an expecter." Baltimore American, "What I llkn about Spendum is that ha treats everyone alike," "That hasn't been my experience with him." "It hasn't?" "No. lst nlsht he was out with a party of us, and when he asked what we'd have we each took something different." Cleve land Pluin LieaUr. - r JUtClt THANHS. v Judge. 6he sat behind me at the play J 1 knew her not at all. Hut la a coy and carleaa way She let her hatpins fall lieiiealh the seat between my feet. Of course I had to crawl. And as I hsnded them to her (Ah, happy linger touch!) ' She sahl to me, she said, bald she, "Oh, thank you very much I" She stood beside me In the car. And we were strangers (Julia. 1 wasn't going very far, And bo I thought I might Give up my seal to resi lier feet, (Now, wasn't that polite?) As from the overhanging strap She loosed her t'rantio clutch. She said to mt, she said, said she, "Oh, thank you very much!" She passed me on the avenuo, As promenaders pans. Her dtiinty kerchief, dotted blue And alry-llttht as gas, She dropped behind. 1 strove to find. And found It, for the lass. And as I placed It In her hand. Profaned with gu'.ter smutch, Shu aatd to me, shu said, suld aha, "Oh, thank you very much!" Now, this was not one woman lone, But these were ladles three; And many moro from zone to xone Have thus been served by me And other men who re helpful when They cannot help but be. And ever -thus we get their thank (It surely beats the Dutch), They always say them this-a-way, "Oh, thank you very much!" yjyf 15th and Douglas ' Streets "fl (ruf jvl hi ML f