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Sunday Bee PAHT II. EDITORIAL SECTIOII PACES 1 TO 6. Cms Into th Horn THE OMAHA DEE Best tiT. West VOL. XXX VI 1 XO. 2H. -OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINCJ, -DKCEMBEK 129, 1007. SINGLE COrY FIVE CENTS. STORE CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY Now Year's Day The Omaha Our Inventory Sales will be poshed with excessive bargain vi or Monday, preparatory to store be ing shaped . up for our great January White Car nival Hold oil on your "White Purchases" 'till we ann6unce our sales extraordinary, v Six Attractive Specials from Six Attractive Counters FAXCV TOftCHOX LACKS, Insertions ,nd hrfgrn to match, from one to four Inchon wide, worth up to 10c a yard, at JC 18-lnch Corset Cover Embroid ery, worth up to 35c a yard, at, ' 15 Fancy mesh and chiffon. Veiling. In all colors, worth up to 25c a yard, at. .5 Black spangle and cut Jet trimmings, from two to , six Inches wide, worth up to $2 yard, at 8 Fancy Stamped Pillow Tops, worth 50c, fof. . 19 6-Inch all silk fancy plaid Rib bon, worth up to $1.00 yard, at, yard . .19j TWENTY 0FF NICKEL WARE AND HOLIDAY BRASS AND COPPER WARE AND SKATES DRESS GOODS COLORED AND CHOICE DLACK GOODS AT ABOUT HALF PRICE SULKS FLAIN OR. FANCIES TAFFETAS, ETC. AT ABOUT HALF PRICE One-lot elegant plaid or striped effects, worth to $.', fancy cheviot serges, broadcloths, Q C etc., nearly every shade, Monday J 54 and 50 inch Novelty Suitings, beautiful col ors, elegant weights, choicest styles, CQ worth $1.00 to $123, Monday DUQ Swell exclusive novelties, bought by our own buyer in Europe, elegant French styles, bord ered chiffons, all over designs, striped fabrics, ""the most exquisite collection of all foreign ma terials for fancy evening gowns, mostly 4(-in. to GO-in. wide regular price up to' $8.50 per yard, Monday : I. In many Instances w offer drsss patterns, not' mora than ssvsn to eight yards of on dsslgn in thla aala. Choicest all wool Waistings, exquisite styles; stripes or plaid effects, offered usually, 4 Q at $1.00, Monday fOC One lot of fancy Silks, fancy Crepe do Chines, plaid Taffetas, worth $1.25, fine qualities of Peau de Cygnes, plain colors, lengths of black silks, plain taffetas, 27-inch and 19 Inches wjde, thla entire lot 59c Inventory Bargains Sales in Linings Wtsh Goods FlanneJoMes Cloaklngs. Etc. MEN'S FURNISHINGS Suspenders at Half Price. Every Style and Idea In cluded. Men's Neckwear at One Third to One-Half Off. Men's Holiday Half Hose at Almost Half Price. Men's Reefers and Mufflers Greatly Reduced. S Fine Tailored Suits ?i EXACTLY HALF FORMER. PRICES. High grade suits of broadcloth, in all new colors, and the latest mid-winter styles. 191? .147s 12L $69.50 suits, 2,75 $59.50 'suits : . $4.50 suits for. . .-. . . ;"24LS $39.50 suits for $29.50 suits for. $25.00 suits., for : . Bnroa, CoOJS FJrS 87 Caracul 25-inch and Sw-inch walking coats and 52-inch au$o coStsone half price. VT, ONEHALF PRICE $25.00 coats 9.75 $15.00 coats- J $19.50 coats for- 12.50 Three Hundred Fifty Kersey and Broadcloth Coats $15.00 coats' I $.19.50 coats I $25.00 coats-. for 9.75 for 12.75 for -14.75 Furs, Scarfs, Throws -i Tics ' ' ' $4.95 Furs for . . .'$$.48 $7.48 Furs for $3.99 - $10.00 Furs for-........ $5.00 BIG FURNITURE, RUG and LACE CURTAIN SALES Lots of Things at Prices Impossible to Duplicate "vrinri mTUVri H-V-" r 1 'It'"''' , If Quarter sawed Oak Dresser, polished French beveled Elatemitv ror llxlo inches , ' ,'ui'r rtt liVT Tili fi ar - TWENTY.FIVE ENTIRE STOCK 1 Solid Oak Chiffoniers with 12x20 French plate mirror, case is 19 inches deep by 33 inches long. The only thing cheap about this Chiffonier is the price. It is made of solid oak and strong and substantially put O 29 together. Our , J4 price, only . OFF ON OUR OF BRASS BEDS Monday and Tuesday Special Values in China Closets and Buffets - LACE CURTAINS Bonne Femme Curtains with long, full flounce at bottom, trim med with large Battenberg me dalions, 40, 50 and 60 inches wide, only one to a window. Sell from $00 to $12.50 each, in two lots for Monday's Special: All Curtains selling up to $5.00, at $2.75 All Curtains selling up to $12.50, at $4.95 GREAT RUG SALE Big Reductions on R.oom 4?ize ' 9x12, Sample Rugs Brussels Ruga, room size (9x12), In floral or- conventional patterns, all colors, tan, red, or green, sell for 118.50, Monday, at AxmlnBter and Wilton Velvet room size Rugs, (9x12), in artistic designs, rich shades of tan, green or red, worth up to $30.00, Monday, Jg y j 12.75 Come early and make your se lections while we have a big variety.: ..... ,j COAL! COAL! We deliver Capitol Coal Colorado!, Golden Ash, Illi nois, Iowa, Missouri and Cherokee Coals to points -in South Omaha, Dundee, Ben son and Florence in addition to Omaha. CAPITOL COAL, once tried always used, p.r tm$7.00 Sample Sacks 30c Green Trading Stamps with all coal. E- Sale Shoes, Slippers Pink. Blue. Red. White and Lavender. Kid and Calfskin . . . Ilrown and black Castor Hurtle, pntrnt lrathrr and vici kid, Thro ties pumps, Gibson tirs, sailor tics and strap slippers; all included in this mile. $4.00 dainty pink, blue and white calf skin and brown and black Castor suede Gibson ties, hand turned soles, S3.00 $3.00 patent leather Theo ties and Pumps, hand turn ed soles, Cuban and French heels .3.29 $2.50 velvet kid and patent vlci kid, three and four strap slippers, hand turned soles, Cuban and French heels $1.80 $2.00 blue and white sea Island pumps and Gibson ties, hand turned soles, Cuban heels $1.59 Nee Window Display Harnry St. Window. BENNETT'S BIG GROCERY MONDAY'S SPECIALS. EXTRA VALUES. HEW TEAK'S LIST. Bennett's Best Coffee, 3 lbs. $1.00 And 100 Green Trading Stamps. Bennett's Best Coffee, pound 330 And 30 Oreen Trading Stamps. Bennett's Kxcelsior Flour, per sack $1.65 And 60 Green Trading; Stamps. New Table Layer Raisins, per pound 200, 150 and lSHo Diamond C Soap, nine bars ..850 Bennett's Capitol Baking Powder, pound can for Mo And 40 Green Trading Stamps. Sweet California Naval Oranges, dozen 45c, 250., 20o and 15o Finest Quality Hw Huts. English Walnuts, Mixed Pecans, Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, pound ....850 10 Green Trading; St'ps. New Nuts. English Wal nuts. Mixed Pecans, Bra Ells, Filberts, pound .SOo Dr. Price's Food, 4 pkgs. . . . . .950 Basket Fired Japan Tea, pound 380 And 40 Green Trading Stamps. 'Australia tftalslns, pound 16 . And 10 Green Trading Stampa New Conking Raisins, pound 10c New Cleaned Currants, pound 100 Table Raisins, new, pound 20c, Uic, and lSHo Olives, large Imported, pint . . S5o And 10 Green Trading Stamps. Diamond S Preserves, large iar 88o And 20 Green Trailing Stamps. Menier's Chocolate Powder, can 85o And 20 Green Trading Stamps. Australian Valencia Raisins, per pound 15o And 10 Green Trading Stamps. Blood of Grape Juice, pint bottle for 9So 40 Green Trading St'ps. New York Full Cresm Cheese, pound S3o 20 Green TradlngSfps. Fresh Roasted Peanuts. per quart So Bennett's Capitol Mince meat, 3 pkgs. for , . . .flSo 10 Green Trading St'ps. Granulated Sugar, Doublu Green Trading Stamps. , Lincoln Butterine, two pounds 37o Anl"10 Oreen Trading HtHnips. Jersey Butterine, two pound 36o And 10 Oreen Trading Slumps. CORSETS All r e 1 i n 1) 1 o brands, some of them are regular $2.50 goods, in cluding ever y style; long hip, short hip, Miigh bust, v i t h or without hose supporters, a 1 1 colors, Monday 1 1 25c ALL 1903 FANCY CALENDARS WILL BE CLOSED OUT; MONDAY REGARDLESS OF PRICE CLOSING OUT LEADING COPYRIGHT BOOKS AT 49c WANT 10-RNOW'SOHETBINE? Want to Write a Paper or to Make a Speech? ' ' ' UNCLE SAM WILL FIX IT FOR YOU Her' Geret Barcmn Which Will Pmt Vol oh the Trmok of Almost Any Infortnotloa 4 (ar Nothing. WASHINGTON. Dec. 26,-Openlng Into one of tho corridors' of the Congressional library there Is a wide door over which the following; Inscription might well be placed:. "National Bureau of Informa tion." If there Is anything you want very much to know., write to the man behind that door. Pretty soon you will receive neat type written note telling you what hooks have been published on the subject of your In quiry. W may even answer the question outright. In view of the fact that the man and his . assistants are already besieged with people wlio want to know things. It may not be a good turn to them If the news of their helpfulness Is passed along. Hut the work they do Is so astonishing that It simply demands description. Th man behind the door 4s A., P. C. Griffin, 'and his title Is long as his name. Jle Is chief of the division of bibliography. Though ills name and his title are long, his memory is longer still. The reporter asked him offhand for the best authority on half a doaen absurdly incongruous top ics. It was . f urnlsbed us promptly as if Vr. Qrlffln had been a slot machine of out of ths way Information. When the reporter marveled Mr. Orlflln dug up a list, a' partial one. of the topics on which the American people have hun gered tho last year for Information. These Inquiries come from every nook ana cor ner of the land. ' Who Ask and What. Writers, lawyers, politicians lecturers, editors, teachers, club women, students, merchants, people of all occupations . and. of all conditions, write to the library fr Information on all probabe subjects and, as It seems, on a good many ' of those which seem Improbable. Turning over a few letters on tha chiefs desk there was found this group of Inquiries: For sources of Information about the slave Insurrec tion In Banta Domingo In 1791-1733; lor the names of Arms engaged In the manufacture of excelsior In certain states: for material ' to assist In the preparation of a biographi cal sketch; for Information on the . best way of catching mink. Tha last request was from a southern trapper and waa answered specifically, al I though It Is not strictly In line with the work of tha bureau. Of course, the ex celsior Inquiry was turned down. The library does .not distribute Information sq much aa It tells where loCnd Informa tion. ' . These' Inquiries come by the thousand. About 10.WO of them came last yer by mall and these formed only a small ,mrt of the total. Of course the library Is primarily to serve the members of congress, and while that body 1 In session. Mr. Qrlffln and his as sistants ar constantly digging up facts and authorities for use In debate or In the committee room. At all times of the year, but especially during ths session of con gress, the division of . bibliography -la con stantly called upon not only by letter, 'but by telephone 'and personal application for literary steering. , Every bit of this service is freely given. It Is. the right of every American with a serious purpose behind the request to ask the aid of the library In getting facts upon any subject. We may be forgiven If we prod the national blrj into giving at least a mild screech of pride, for this Is the only coun try where such aid Is given. AndTne IV brary at Washington is the only one In AmerlcaS where the country at large le served In thla way. Examples of the Service. For Instance, among hundreds of cases take theaa few: To one of the justices of Rhode Island was furnished a memoran dum on land tenure In East Greenwich. A member of the Virginia legislature sent an inquiry for matter ranging from the at titude of Massachusetts on nullification to the .anti-slavery views held by southerners before the war. The material was at once assembled for him. The Helglan m!nlnter applied for material on American railways. Dr. Lyman Abbott got Information about education in the aouth. A member of the State Banking commission of Rhode Island was supplied with references on the banking laws of this and of other countries. As for the subjects upon which the people at large consult the library their number Is as tonishing. Here are a few of them: Acetylene gas. Russel A. Alger, ancient roada and vehicles. Angora gouts, artistic Iron work, assaying, balanct of trade. Balzac, bee keeping, black letter type, blue books, Boston tea party, Barbara Krletchte, cremation, church liturgy, care of dogs, casting of lots, construction ojf passenger cars, conversation of Napoleon III. at Chlslehurst, costumes worn in California In 1853, eagle stones, empirical formulae, export duties, feeble minded children, fossil horses, German university life, guano Islands, great men whs were not studious In youth, gifts of Mr. CarnegV, Incrusta tion of boilers, home missions. Japanese gardens, Jewish fiction, kites, Lemuel Rob erts, manufacturers of plush, Mormon re bellion, monuments of .the Abrursi, manu facture of shoes, Napoleon's lust works, moonshiners, petrified forests, ostrich farm ing, personality, partial payments, person 1 appearance of George Washington, oysti culture, poetry of civil war, port changes, prominent Jews of America, ready reckon ers, whereabouts of General Grant July 22-25. 1S70. Some Inquiries are made so often that the library has printed lists of books, of arti cles and of references to the subjects dealt with. For Inntanie, there are printed lists relating to child lubor. to government regu lation of Insurance, to railways, to t.usts, to ship subsidies, to tariffs of foreign coun tries, to municipal ownership. Thousands of copies of these IUU have been printed In order to supply the demand for them. In addition the library has fur nished typewritten copies of about 200 other lists less In demand. If all this work doesn't entitle the division of bibliography to be called the national bureau of Information, then there's n use trying. , With llnt Gurs,' Modern science seems to spend Its t'tiie undoing its own efforts. Take, for in stance, so-called burglar proof safes. The up-to-date burglar soon found that by means of compreiised oxygen and scety kene gas he could produce a tiante so hot that the steel doors of a safe would fund In It like lead in an ordinary gas Jet. In addition the accessories required sre of a handy stss, and there Is no noise. Observa tion is all the safe breaker bss to avoid. Now It Is suggested manufacturers should add a simple, apparatus to 'the materials used in making safes which would liberate certain chemicals, rendering It dangerous or even fatal to tamper with the walls or door. No doubt in time the scientific burglar will find a means of overcoming this, but for a little wrTTle, at leant, protection can be iihtalned against the scientific cracksman. Vearson's Weekly. ( LIST TO A PAEAN ON PORK Happy Life of Knnaas Hoys Set to Maslq. by A Tupclui Tron-bldmr. When It comes down to writing broad agricultural epics there Is nobody in the country who can approach within a mile of that benevolent Iowan, the Hon. James Wilson, alias Tama Jim, the farmer's friend. In the more limited field of bucolic hymnody, however, Old Alfalfa Coburn, head of'tltfc- Kansas State Department of Agriculture, Is without a peer. Old Alfalfa has once more cinched his grip on fame and the affections o( the Sunflower state by Issuing a circular on the Kansas hog, which as a paean of pork and for its gen eral all-around excellence as a tribute to Kansas and an Intimation of the. merits of F. D. Coburo would be hard to beat. Hark how lie blends the subjects of his song: The state which he has done so much to make famous, the hog and alfalfa which but to allude to la to remind all Kansans (hat Farmer Coburn has been Its most In defatigable promoter: "In Kansas he (the hog) finds his fa Tored zone his eldorado. For Kansas la a corn orchard packed with grasses and fragrant with 'the bloom of alfalfa, the greatest forage plant vouchsafed by Prov idence to men growing here In a pro fusion elsewhere unknown. Hence It Is that Kansas possesses more of these latest model selrfubrlcating mortgage removers than all New England and fifteen other states and territories added." Isn't Old Alfalfa an artist? Listen to more: , "There is probably no other territory of the same area as Kansas where the con ditions of climate, soil, food and care are more congnlal to the hog'a health and wholesome development, and he Is nowhere found i(o developed except among and by a high order of people. High class swine are unknown and impossible among a low class people." Another delicate compliment to his ador ing constituency, flattery to Its soul. No wonder the Kansans love Coburn, for Co burn loves them. "The Kansas hog, In iis sphere typifying the good, the true and the beautiful. Is a Joy. and like the utate that lends him as a solace to humanity, is in but the morning of his career. His one passport, every where demanded and always sufficient for entree to presidents, potentates or peasants, is 'Kansas' on the rind." , Talk about your Virginia hams! What song was ever poured over them like Old Alfalfa's praise of the pork products of Kansas? His ode Is enough to make one forswear other bacon forever. Happy the statewhtch has such happy hogs whose life is ecstatic and whose death a boon set en music by a Coburn. New York Sun. BUSINESS DRESS OF SENATORS Hard to Tell a Solon from a Stock Broker Now. GL0EY OF A FORMER DAY IS GONE F.rn of Flowing; Frock Coats njid Black String; Ties Has Gone By A Sprinkling- of Sack Salts. . Signal i'ampmmr to Rrsnat. PITTSBURG, Dec. 28. The Union Switch and Signal company has ordered employes to report for work January, 2. The plant was closed December 20 and had not been expected to reopen until January Ku. TI.e company has closed a i2u.000.0ou contract wttn the Pennsylvania railroad for equip ment of tb New York tunnel and has also received a, laxge order from the Uaxrimao lines. WASHINGTON, Dec. ffl.-Not so very long ago almost anybody could spot a sen ator at sight. There was-something unmis takably legislative about tho extra long frock coat, generally unbuttoned, the ex pansive shirt front, generally rumpled, tho little black tie, generally shoestring brand, and the big soft black hat. But new and sometimes strange seed has come up lt recent senatorial crops, until nowadays It takes a good guesser to tell a aolon from a stock broker. The thirteen new senators seem to have little personal use for the ojdtjadltlons of dress: No flowing frock wluiample skirts for them. As a rule their visible shirt fronts are limited In area. As for black string ties, they are scarcer among the new senators than hair Is on top of the vice president's head. If the string tie has to depend on the new sen- i ators for resurrection it will remain as dead as the dodo bird, - It Is true that the shirt front of the honorable and vociferous Jeff Davis from Arkansas does obtrude somewhat upon the startled gase, but it Is soon overshadowed by other And more salient points about the gentleman. Davis Behind Tillman. Mr. Davis Is seated behind Tillman on the floor of .the senate. In his speech the other day his maiden speech, whioti flowered too soon he stamped the new green carpet Into holes; he pounded his desk till he jiggled his notes Into hopeless confusion; he roared himself purple in the face and flung the Bise of his own family (one wife and eight sweet children) into the face of the president, who. he under stood, "has only five at home.'; But stomp his hardest and assume his most apoplectic hue, he still was behind Tillman literally and oratorlcaily behind him. Davis, father of eight, wears a gray suit, the coat which is ample enough to wrap at least half his babies bunting in. For the senator from Arkansas Is a big man amldshlp, even If but there! Let him rest, purple and panting, where, like a broken lily (Lllium tigrlnum) he lies be hind Tillman. Among the dark clad senators his gray suit Is rather conspicuous. But then any thing as big aa It necessarily is would ltaturally be noticeable. The mind can only experience sensation or gratitude that his suit Is not purple, for Instance, like his face; or green, perhaps, like but again let him rest. He needs It. Tillman ia m Frock Coat. As for Tillman himself, after years of sagging, dusty sack coats with bulging pockets, he is quite glorious now In a long frock coat adorned as to the lapel with satin. As a .matter of fact, Tillman and Piatt could swap coats If there were any way of shrinking Tillman's or stretching Vlatt's. Even though the likeness goes only coat deep. It Is atartling enough to those who remember Tillman's early ap pearance In the senate." ' - " There Is one Item of his dress which still is peculiar to htm. fie carried his watch In the right hand pocket of his waistcoat. Most men carry the watch in the left pocket, but as the South Carolina Are eater has lost his left eye he carries his watch on the right side. , La Follette, the other caterer to the gal-, lerles, has been somewhat consplclous of late by decorating his already effulgent person with a yellow chrysanthemum. Not a large one built on the lines of his own high piled head, but a plain specimen of moderate dimensions. Nothing, bow ever, could be yellower. At least nothing In the vegetable world. Davis Is not the only new senator to wear colors. Simon Guggenheim of Colorado wears a dark business suit of Irreproach able cut. The cutaway coat la about six shades darker than that which clothes the apopuectlo Arkansan and calls for abriut half as much goods, the Colorado man be ing rather spare than otherwise. He wears a light cloth waistcoat and a four-in-hand tie. OoKKenbelm and Smoot. Senator Guggenheim sticks to his seat more closely than almost any other man In the chamber, unless It Is Reed Smoot. iAit while Smoot (In dark business suit and red te) seems to be much occupied with papers and writing, Guggenheim puts In his time listening. One would say that he was bent on gett ing the hang of things, and that inside of two months he will have acquired a better knowledge of how the senate is conducted that could penetrate the Davis conscious ness In two years. But appearances may be misleading. Borah is another new man who Impresses the gallery observer as not only quiet and dignified, but also alert and observant. He wears a good looking black cutaway suit and has noticeably well shaped feet. His head also happens to be well haped, and the man who made a name In Idaho is likely to continue to be pointed out in the senate even after the Haywood trial has faded from the public mind. The second seat from Borah is occupied by Jonathan Bourne, Jr.; of. Oregon. He wears eyeglasses rather' of tener than most of the senators, that body being really re markable for the absence of spectacled members. Of course, many of them put on glasses for reading and writing, but at other times one can glance along tha rows without getting a single gleam of specta cles. Senator Bourne wears a long cutaway suit of dark brown mixture. Its most con spicuous feature is the large flaps on the coat pockets. They give the gentleman an air of being locked und padlocked, of hav ing taken a reef In his communications, of having all the 16,006.000 conspiracy stories stowed away and the flaps pulled down and safnty-plnned on the outside. Beveriage In Sack Salt. In his new seat on the center aisle, the seat last occupied by Spooner, the grand young man of Indiana 1. mellowly con spicuous in a double-breasted blue sack coat and a pensive air. On the first days of the session he appeared In a truly noble frock coat, appropriate alike to the ex pression of . domestic and of legislative achievement "bellttlng a husband and a senator. But sine then he has worn the sack suit. Under the Beveridge desk there is a nice fat. long footstool built on the lines of an overgrown dachshund. Upon this the "grand young man" perches his well-shod feat and abandons himself to the rapt con templation .df the same. His seems to be the only senatorial 'footstool and With Its' aid he achieves 'what appears to be a most comfortable, if ' somewhat angular, atti tude. --.' '.Allison, in his familiar seat next to the one chosen ' by Beveridge, Is another of tho few who wear sack coats. His is a dark mixture and his tie Is a dark bow tie. Culberson of Texas, tha democratic leader, also wears a dark mixture sack suit and dark bow. But, though slender, he fills, out his clothes better than docs the rather wasted figure of the senator from Iowa. There are no more carefully pressed trousers in the chamber than those, of Culberson, yet he Is a man whom It Is im possible to picture as taking- undue con cern about hi - appearance beyond the necessity of absolute neatness. Lodge ta Well Groomed. Lodge Is one of the best groomed men In the senate. He gives one the impression of a race horse on edge with training. Slender, nervous, intense, you can feel the curb pull whenever his patlenco Is taxed and that perhaps is not seldom. He wears a cutaway business suit of a dark mixture, with sometimes an ascot, sometimes a four In hand tie. ' It is a common habit with many of tho senators to store one or both hands In tueir pockets until called for. Tillman, for in stance, pushes back his flowing frock coat into good slsed wings and thrusts his hands deep Into his trouser's pockets whenever he stands talking with any one. Lodge instead pushes back his coat and plants his left hand he has long, slender, nervous hands far, back on hhilde, lingers backward. It is a characteristic attitude. To Dolliver of Iowa must be awarded the distinction of wearing the most volum inous frock coat In the s..,ute. He Is a big man; though like many other legislators he has the politician's stoop. But his very long and very full coat Is big even for a big man. . It Is much more voluminous, for Instance, than Is Heybum's, though Heybun Is a Dig man, too. Henator l unom wears a frock coat, but it doesn't contain much more than enough goods to make a mere patch on the. Dolliver garment. Foraker Is another wearer of the frock coat. And with It, at least at times, he dons a militant red tie. What Joe Bailer Wears. Of course. Bailey of Texas wears a frock coat. His tie loflks suspiciously iin if he did not have to waste golden moments tying It. But ready mades are by no means so uncommon In the legislative halls as the string ties have become. Senator Aldrlch wears black, so does Kean of New Jersey and fifty other Sena tors, Including Depew, who Is always ac companied outside the capitol by his silk hat. The vice president, by the way, has been sheltering his somewhat aparcely thatched crown oven these winter days under a Fedora of a light fawn color, un mistakably suggestive of youth and spring and the general exuberance befitting blm who aspires to succeed the present six cylinder occupant of the White House. tho world tho owners do not siiy it is but It certainly Is tho biggest to tie found In this vicinity, and few persons, compara tively speaking, huvo ever seen a bigger one. To be exact, it is two'coal piles and part of a third. The only reason it is not In one pile is that the limit of stmidarrt coal handling machinery was reached be fore half of the coul was piled up, and the company simply had to start u second Pile. . A million dollars' worth of coal Is not ' as Interesting to look at as a million dol lars' worth of dlumonds would he, per haps, but It occupies a whole lot more of the landscape and Is worth JimtSjis mud! In real money. Roughly estimated, each of the two big piles that form the basis of ths Edison's company 200.000 tons Is about the slse of a full city block und about us high aa a four-story houso with a man sard roof. New York Herald. COAL PILES WORTH MILLIONS F.aoagh Aathraclto Stored at Shady, side, N. J., to iMt a Family Ten Thonsaad Years. Did you ever see a million dollars' worth of coal? If not, take a trip to Shadyside, N. J... some day an(K feast your eyes on HX,V tons of anthrclte that the New York Edison company baa stored up there acajiut a rainy day. Perhaps It Isn't tho biggest coal pile In ANOTHER MESSAGE OF GARCIA A Gennlne One from Mini Comes Ont of the Desert of Arlsona. Another Garcia message, this time "A Message from Onrela," instead of to him, cornea out of the desert of Arizona. It is a message from the dead, and the man who sends it was a hero who gave his Ufa to save thoNo of others. The man was dark skinned, and if he ftpoke any Knffllsh at all It was done brokenly. He probably drank more or less red liquor, and he cer tainly smoked many cigarettes, for he was a Mexican. !y his Intimates he was well liked, but to most of tha railroad men in thut purl of tho country ho wus only a "greaser," with all the thoughtless con tempt wrapped up In that biting epithet Intended by those who applied it to Mm. Jefus Garcia was the engineer of a min ing railway train, and one day about a. week ago he discovered that his train was on Are. It was standing at the time near the station in a llttlo Arizona town wlilt a name one rarely hears this far eaut. Two cars of powder for the mines were on the train, and the engineer knw that it was but a question of a few mhiteg be fore It would explode and in ull probability kill scores of human beings. Klther of two things could be done desert the throttle and save his own life or try to save the lives of the people In the town ut the al most certain cost of his own. He chose the heroic course, and calling on tho reai of his crew to Jump, which they did, he pulled the throttle wide open and duHhed for the r-pon fount ry. When the inevitable explosion came the train was so fur from the town that no one there was hurt, but th hero with the dark skin who came from the land of tomorrow was blown to atoms. The grateful people of the town cannot even deposit his body In a grave, but they will erect a monument as a lasting reminder of the splendid sacrifice. The message of Garcia is thut courage, truth, honor and virtue are not the exclu sive attributes of men of one race or color; that this divine humanity of ours takes no account of the accidents of race or tho geography of nativity, hut that It Is found wherever there are men to ruspond to the call of duty. The message of Garcia Is that any blood shed for duty is the red badge of earth's noblett courage. Thut is a message worth dying to send, though the loss of a single heroic life iike that is the costliest toll that could be exacted. Kansas City Journal. If you have anthing to trade adverCit; It In the ror Kxchange Columns of The Ue Want Ad Pages.