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4 HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8. 1008. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSBWATER VICTOR ROBE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflce aa second claaa matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Dally P (without Sunday), one year.. 14. no Dally Bee and Sunday, on year b (0 Bundav Bee. one year 1M (Saturday Bee., one year l.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Pe (Including Sunday), per week.lSe Dally Be (without Sunday), per week.. 10a Evening Be (without Sunday), per week 6a Evening- Bee (with Sunday), per wek...luo Address all complaint of Irrec-ulartclei In delivery to City Circulation, Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Cltr Hall Building. Council Bluffs IS Beott Street. Chicago 1M0 University Building. New York IMS Homa Life Insurance building. Washington T2S Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratloni relating to newa and edl torlal matter ahould be addressed, Omaha Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, axnreea or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stajnps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checka. except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.: Oeorge B. Txschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Pally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1807, was aa follows: 1 38,400 17 30,840 2 37,150 11 36,680 I 87,370 19 M.MO 4 37,30 20 36,580 E 37,880 21 88,350 8 38,880 22 38.300 7 37,090 21 38,400 1 38,800 24 38,890 38,930 25 36,600 10 37,090 24 38,880 11 37,000 27 38,090 12 38,740 2 38,380 13 37,630 29 35,800 14 38,610 80....,' 38,119 15 86,950 II 38,510 16 36,860 Totals 1,133,980 Lesa unsold and returned copies. 9,204 Net total 1,139,779 Dally average 38,444 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of January, 1908. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. WHEN OCT Or TOWN. afcacrifcera leavlaar the city teni porarlly akonld have Tko Mailed to taesa. Address will ke caaased as eftea aa reqaeeted. Democratic harmony la this vicinity Is surpassed only by republican har mony. Matrimony is always a valid excuse for the resignation of a public school teacher. The political banquet Is fast crowd ins the old-fashioned political barbe cue off the map. Mayor "Jim" declares he does not care to shine in society unless he picks the society. A California architect says he sees 1C 0-story buildings ahead. He should take something for it at once. "Is there any cure for lockjaw?" asks a Chicago physician. Well, a po litical career till cure It If anything will. The record falls to show that any saloons have closed their doors on ac count of the Increase In water wagon patronage. Mighty few cashiers' checks still floating around in Omaha. That's more than a lot of other cities can say for themselves. Tom Lawson's plan for a third po litical party has received the hearty support of all but about 85,000,000 American people. A scientist has discovered that the grip germ has barbs. Every grip vic tim knows that, and knows also that the barbs are red hot. For some inscrutable reason the auto scorchers do not appear to be so eager to test the speed limit In winter as they are in summer. Under Its new consolidation Pitts burg has fifty-eight wards and 113 councllmen. No enemy of the city could wish it a harder fate. "Foraker has Senator Dick for an ally in his anti-administration fight," says the New York World. And, be sides that, he has other handicaps. Omaha would like to entertain the coming republican state convention. It is quite able, too, to take care of the coming democratic state convention. The Jacksonian feast is pronounced a grand success, but so was the Dahl tnan Democracy dinner. Honors are easy and competition as brisk as ever. Shanghai has passed an ordinance allowing motor cars to run through lta streets at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Shanghai has struck a Yankee gait. "Keep your eye on Governor John son of Minnesota," says the Baltimore News. There is nothing in Governor Johnson's official or private life to war rant the Insinuation that he needs such close watching as all that. A cow reared at the Wisconsin Ag ricultural college has a record for pro ducing the raw material for 1,200 pounds of butter In one year. This would seem to be an argument in favor of sending cows to college. Governor Cummins and former Gov ernor Shaw, after a serious conference, have agreed to let the republicans of Iowa, by their representatives in con vention, select the delegates to the re publican national convention. A FAR-RE ACH1XO DtClSlOJ. The decision of the United States supreme court in the employer's lia bility cases ia one of the most Import ant and far-reaching handed down by that tribunal in recent years. The ul timatum of the court Is that in this legislation congress exceeded the au thority vested In it by the constitu tion. On one point the court seems to have been much divided, namely, whether the act would hold as to employes ac tually engaged in Interstate commerce, even though it could not be made to apply to other employes engaged In work entirely disconnected from in terstate commerce. Five of the nine Judges, however, have agreed that the act must be regarded as a whole and that It is void in its entirety because its main purpose goes outside of the constitutional powers of congress. Only one judge out of the nine has gone on record squarely in favor of upholding the law in its fullest scope and of recognizing authority in congress to legislate generally for the regulation of interstate commerce carriers in all their varied relations to the public and to their employes. The position taken by the supreme court adverse to the employer's li ability act tends to check all proposals for congressional legislation under the interstate commerce clause designed to supersede state control of railroad op erations within state boundaries. What gave these cases unusual significance was the possibilities of extending fed eral control over all aspects of trans portation that would follow judicial recognition of the authority claimed by congress. Many railroad officers and some hjgh standing attorneys professed to see an opportunity to read into the in terstate commerce clause of the con stitution sufficient power to give the federal government exclusive Jurisdic tion over all common carriers. From this hope for a measure of relief from divergent legislation of forty-six states through refuge in congress they are now cut off. It should, of course, be remembered that the point at issue in the em ployer's liability cases does not neces sarily go beyond the relation's of the railroads to their employes, and it Is possible, notwithstanding this decision, that authority may be found in this and other sections of the constitution to widen greatly the scope of congres sional authority over Interstate trans portation companies, as compared with what has already been done by con gress In this direction. But it is more likely that for the present, at least, the railroad problem will have to be treated co-ordinately by both federal and state law-makers and uniformity of regulations secured, so far as is desired, by co-operation rather than by substitution of congressional for state legislation. RECIPROCITY WITH FllAXCE. Standpatters who have been voicing their indignation over the action of the president and the State department In negotiating a new trado treaty with Germany will find source of a new grievance in the announcement just made of the conclusion of a practical commercial agreement between France and the United States. The matter has been pending for some months and the completion of the proposed agreement Is accepted in business circles as a guaranty of largely increased trade with France. By the terms of the compact, the United States Is to make a reduction of 20 per cent of the duty on French champagnes and certain other wine products and France to apply Its mini mum tariff rate to Porto Rico coffee and to remove some objectionable re strictions heretofore Imposed against American meats. The French govern ment is also to place Its minimum tariff on American cottonseed oil and Its products. It Is estimated that as a re sult of these concessions tho export of American products to France will be Increased by many millions annually, enlarging the field that has already been opened by the terms of recent tariff agreement with Germany. A fljsht will doubtless be made against the measure, but as the agree ment was negotiated by the president under authority of the Dlngley act, it Is doubtful that any opposition can stop it at this stage. GOLD OVTPVT AXD FEDtRAL FISAbCK. According to the preliminary report of the director of the mint, there was a decline of about 15,000,000 in the amount of gold production In the United States for the year 1907, as compared with the yield In 1906. The final official figures may show that this falling off Is not quite so large, but it will come as a surprise to the country that there was any reduction. This is the first decline in gold production In the country for many years. The di rector states that the reduced output Is due partly to labor troubles and partly to a lack of smelter facilities. The production for the year Is just a little less than 190,000,000, Colorado and Alaska leading, although both showed a slight decline from the 1906 record. These figures have a special interest Just now in their relation to national finances. Ordinarily, federal expenses exceed receipts in the first three months of each fiscal year, while a surplus usually marks operations of each month for the rest of the year. The present fiscal year, ending next June, has shown deficits for both quar ters thus far, the total deficit being about $10,000,000 on January 1, due principally to the use of some 150,000, 000 of current revenues to meet ex penses at Panama. Secretary Cortel- you wanted to pay the expenses of ca nal construction out of current reve nues, but was compelled to abandon It by money market conditions, which made it necessary to issue canal bonds as a basis for additional bank note cir culation. The financial stringency also caused a decrease in imports, thus re ducing the revenues below normal. In spite of these untoward circumstances, government expert3 predict that the end of the fiscal year will find a hand some balance in the treasury. While the American gold yield will show a slight decline for the year, the gain In South Africa was more than enough to offset the losses in this country, so that the world's gold pro duction for 1907 will make a new record. WlSCOXSll! DEMOCRATS. While our democratic friends like to talk of their party as the party of the people and to profess undying faith in the voice of the rank and file, the democrats up In Wisconsin are giving an exhibition which shows that this sort of talk is for effect only. Wis consin has a primary law which, un like the Nebraska law, provides for the election by direct vote of all national convention delegates. The primary in Wisconsin is to take place some time in April for all parties alike and the procedure is prescribed In detail by the statute. But the democrats In the Badger state do not propose to fol low the primary law at all, but to con tinue to choose their delegates to the national convention in the old way, with the primary as merely a ratifica tion meeting. Wisconsin democrats will meet In state convention at Milwaukee on Feb ruary 13. The convention is called to select candidates for delegates-at-large to go before the primaries in the spring, while the delegates from the various congressional districts selected at district caucuses win be submitted to the state convention for approval. In a word, the convention held two months in advance of the regular pri mary will put up a ticket. Including candidates for both the state-at-large and each congressional district, and label it as the only regular authorita tive democratic aggregation. When the time for the primary rolls around no other democratic candidates, except the official slate, will venture to file their names, or if anyone has the hard ihood to do so he would have only his trouble for his pains. It goes without saying that Wiscon sin democrats who are managing the machine are good Bryan democrats, although they do not seem to like the direct primary system. But the call is actually out for a democratic state convention in Wisconsin, a state where they supposed they had by law abol ished conventions forever. The movement to consolidate city and county offices, which duplicate one another's work, Is sure to go on in Omaha and Douglas county. The offices of county and city treasurer have been merged, and also the offices of county assessor and city tax com missioner, and a start made at the merger of the auditing departments of the city and county. The chances are that before we get through several other similar consolidations will be brought about. The taxpayers now-a-days are guided more by the same con siderations of efficiency and economy as are private business corporations. Nebraska democrats never nomi nated a ticket by direct vote until the republicans forced them to do so. Even In the last legislature most of the votes recorded against the direct primary law were recorded by the democrats. The democrats are always champions of reform for the other fellow. The Bank of England has reduced its discount rate, the United States has quit bidding for gold in the London market and striking improvement is reported in the financial condition in Germany. The panic will have to be referred to now only in the past tense. District Attorney Jerome has de clined all dinner engagements for the month, In order that he may give his entire time to the Thaw trial. The Thaws need not be worried, however, until they hear that Jerome has laid in an extra eupply of cigarettes. "We want," says Governor Johnson of Minnesota, "a platform made out of principles, broad and sound, which will express the sentiments and feelings of the great body of our citizens." In other words, what is wanted Is a repub lican platform. County Judge Leslie is breaking the record in the matter of turning back surplus fees from his office Into the county treasury. The contrast with bis predecessors in the county judge's office is strongly emphasized by the difference. President Roosevelt has referred to Admiral Dewey as "the man who re flected greater glory on this country than any man now living." The presi dent la so busy that he cannot keep Senator Beverldge in mind all the time. A statistician says that the con sumption of coal in America makes three trillion pounds of gas every year. This gives the congress record a close run for first money. "Let us keep our Christmas spirits," says the Atlanta Constitution. Under the operation of the new law in Georgia you may keep them, but you can't sell them. DRAFTS fl XATIRAI. nFJOlHCTH. 1 early Oatpat of Metals aad Minerals la the Inlted States. New York Sun. The value of the yearly output of metals and minerals In the 1'nlted States has been multiplied by ten during the last gen eration. Tho record stands: 170 $?l.n.d.!4 19") $1.1OT.0.2 1W 3M.934.2HS. 16 1.IWS.877.1S) 1W 6,476,3(M 1907 3,lWO.0W,OlW Estimated. During this time our gold output has about doubled; our sliver output somewhat more than doubled; our coal, measured In tons, hag been multiplied by fifteen; our petroleum output, In gallons. Is nearly thirty times what It was In 18?0; our pro duction of pig Iron has Increased from 1.700,000 tons In 1870 to about 3S,00O,0P0 tons at the present time, and our coprer output has grown from the paltry 12.00 tons of 1S70 to about 350.000 tons last year. Owing to the closing down of mines during the year the output of copper waa about one-sixth less than It wa In the year 1906. This C,000,000,0no extraction Includes stones used for a variety of purposes; clay for brick, tiles, piping and pottery; lime, cement, slate, phosphate, rock salt, and sand for building and other purposes. These represent a value of several hundred mill ions of dollars. It Includes natural gaa of a value of some tW.OOO.OOO. and a long list of metallic and non-metallic substances having commercial use and value. Some of these materials are merely changed to other than their original form and others are consumed. Whether measured In billions of dollars or In millions of tons, they represent a heap of stuff. No record of our total national wealth waa made until 1850. The total valuation of real and per sonal property In the Inlted States at that time was a little more than 7,000.000,000. From such figures as are reported for the year 1800 It Is a fair guess that we now dig out of the earth every year materials whoso total value Is equal to the entire wealth of the country a hundred yeara ago. We are undoubtedly drawing heavily on our natural resources, but there will still be something left one or two hundred years hence. TAFT AXD FORAKER. Ohio's Senior Senator Led Astray by "Fool Friends." Chicago Tribune. The Ohio friends of Secretary Taft court a popular verdict ae to the merits of their candidate. Senator Forakers friends do not. They do not relish the decision of the State Central committee to give the republican voters an oppor tunity to declare In the election of dele gates to the state convention which of the Ohio candidates for the presidential nomination they prefer. Instead of direct primaries the friends of the senator would rather have the old fashioned kind. They are dear to the practical politicians, because their adroit or violent methods of running the primarlea are more potent In electing delegates than the wishes of the voters. It In surprising that Senator FnrnJcer should have allowed his friends to take) the stand they have. Ho is a fearless man. H has proved It by opposing the administration when he knew he would be defeated. He Is not afraid to be In the minority when he la convinced that he Is In the right. Ho cannot be afraid to submit his presidential aspirations to the impartial vote of the republicans of Ohio, who have repeatedly conferred high offices upon him. He la suffering from rool friends" whom he ourht to disown. The direct primary ordered bv the state central committee will only govern the election of delegates to the state conven tion, which will choose the four delegates-at-large. The congressional committees may or may not follow the example set them. Whatever they may do the public will be given next month some interesting Information as to the popularity of Messrs. Taft and Foraker In their own state. The secretary's friends arc not afraid to truat the people. Why should Senator Foraker'a friends be unwilling to do so? Omaha Yellovr Journalism. Wood River Sunbeam. There is a newspaper In Omaha that up holds Journalism of tho most yellow stripe. A sample of their work was shown when they sent a special correspondent to the Olsen farm near Rosalie to get an account of the disappearance of the Olsen child. The special correspondent failed, to get In touch with the facta In the case, and In order that his paper might create a sensa tion, made up a story of his own wherein the tale of finding the child's tongue and othor falsehoods came forth from the de praved mind of the writer. And the paper published It. They have aince found that It was an untruth from start to finish, yet that same man, formerly a bucket-shop bunco man at Shelton, later a prize fight promoter on No-Man's land near Omaha, and now a so-called newspaperman. Is still In their employ. They ought to have fired him. Aa long as they keep such men on their staff the paper will be a disgrace to decent Journalism In Nebraska. Weakening; of Skilled Labor. Detroit Free Press. An analysis of the report Issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor, made by experts, supports the statement that the labor of this country has been unmistakably Impaired, because mors cap ital was required per wage earner, a larger superintending force was required for the same number of workers, and atlll the net value of the product shows a decrease. These Htatements are not made In a tone of criticism. It Is quite possible that the first word to the effect that they describe a real condition will come from the wage-earner hlmxtlf, al though he may ascribe various causes for it. It seems to be human nature to grow slouchy and arrogant In the face of plenty and only do his best work when adversity Is pending. Good Sign of the Times. Philadelphia Record. Substantial evidence that financial mat ters are resuming normal conditions is af forded by the Hank of England's reduction of the discount rate of from 7 to 6 per cent. Seven was fixed when our affairs were most threatening and Kuropc had troubles of its own. Six is a high rate, but it was Inevitable that the reduction should be gradual; seven had not been fixed before since 1873, and the important thing about the present change Is not its amount, but Its direction. Treatment for Delusion. Buffalo Kxprcsg. Mr. Bryan told a Texas audience that It had heard a speaker "who on two dif ferent occasions cherished the delusion that he was going to be a real live presi dent, and who feels the disease coming on again." Mr. Bryan should not worry. The American people have shown twice that they know how to treat the delusion. Who Para the Printer f Washington IleraM. Chancellor Day'a book la being presented to congressmen free of charge. Perhaps the chancellor la seeking revenge upon some unknown member who has been send ing him the Congressional Record. Better Hike for Tall Timber. Plttaburg Dispatch. Perhaps after a few more experiences the corporation magnates with a dlapoal tlon to discredit regulatory proceedings will learn that Attorney Ueneral Bona parte Is loaded for bear. TUTS OF WASHIXGTO LIFE. Minor Scene aad Inrldeats Sketehed on the Snot. . Wanhlngtonlans have a larger share and a greater variety of the grip this season than ever before. Iresent or previous condition afford no barrier to Its reach. All circles, to the number of 20.000, are afflicted. Even the newspaper corn, usually Immune to common scourges, has been hit In relays, above and below the belt. One victim on the Washington Herald relieves his mind and momentarily soothes his bodily Ills In this strenuous fashion: "Ugh! The grip Is 'a monster of so hid eous mien' that It would take the poppy Inaplred pen of a de Quincey to do It Jus tice; and even that pen would probably have to be reinforced with the melancholy if Poe and the horror of Dante. First, you are hot, and then you are cold; then you are cold Inside and hot outside, and then tho temperatures get all mixed up until your knees get weak, your head aches, you have neuralgia of the face and a pain In the back. It hurts you when you breathe, and It hurts you worse when you don't; you feel bad when you lie In bed, and like a craxy man when you get up. Kindly peoplo ask you what they can do for you, and weakly you reply, 'Nothing,' when If the grip had left you sufficient courage you would Instead beg them to get an ax and put you out of your misery." The largest concrete bridge In the world has Just received the finishing touches at Washington. The Connecticut avenue bridge, as it Is known, spans the' deep gorge of Rock Creek, not fifteen minutes by trolley from the center of the city. The structure Is remarkable for several reasons. In the first place It la built en tirely of concrete without being reinforced with steel. It Is 1,421 feet long, with a 62 foot road way and a walk on either side. The floor of the bridge Is 136 feet above the ground. There are several 150 foot arches and two narrow ones of 83 feet. Work was begun about seven years ago on the foundations, though the plans had already taken about two years to com plete. The work halted owing to the failure of congress to appropriate enough money to complete It. But about three years ago the necessary bills went through and a really beautiful bridge Is now the result. The cost was a million dollars. In tho days when Sonatorlal Washington told stories. Vest of Missouri was the king of the senate cloak room, and Don Cam eron was his lay figure. They rig Jokes on new men In the cloak rooms, and the last thing they do Is to construct serious laws there. The senators who spend most of their time scenting their own cloaks and those of their fellows with tobacco smoke are not often consulted on especially serious matters: they constitute the "army" of the flag, and follow their leaders. When a real bill la to be prepared, says Harper's Weekly, It will not be thrashed out amid the chaff of the cloak room, but In some committee room. "When George F. Ed munds and Thurman wanted to draft a bill or an amendment, Edmunds used to rise In his place and blow his nose. Then he'd walk out of the chamber. Soon afterward Thurman would walk out at another door. They'd meet down in the Judiciary com mittee room, and there the business would be done. The senators or visitors who talk about legislation In the cloak room talk so much about It that they never find time to put down any thoughts, If they really have any, on paper." Midshipmen and marriage are Interest ing the Navy department at present con siderably. In the last three yeara mora than one midshipman has been dismissed from the service for marrying before he has been graduated from Annapolis. Also there have been increasingly numerous re quests to the Navy department from passed midshipmen asking permission to marry. The department has ben so far lenient with Cupid and has granted most of these re quests. A quiet investigation of the effect of such marriages has, however, been car ried on, and the result of this has satisfied the Navy department that a passed mid shipman has no business to marry unless he "marries money" or has It himself. Henceforth, It la believed the. department will refuse the requests of most of the passed midshipmen unless they can show that they have ample means to support themselves, their wives and additions to their families. The commanding officer of the marine corps, in Washington, announces that it la enlisted to lta full strength. And thereby hangs the whole tale of the difficulties attending the recruiting officer. If the hard times should continue a few months longer there Is no doubt that the army would have full ranks, although It is 20,000 men, or one-third short of lta authorised strength now, the Infantry, field artillery and coast artillery being Just about at half strength. It seems certain that the pay of the private soldier must be In creased If an army is to be maintained under normal conditions but auch an in crease would not guarantee full ranks. The navy, with opportunities for en lltrted men to reach a pay of PM a month, with board and clothes, has lta enlist ment difficulties. The chief trouble seems to be that the average American has no taste for military service In times of peace. When times are hard he hustles for the marine corps first, because It Is a com paratively easy service with world-wide travel thrown in. If times continue bard he fills up the army. Senator "Bob" Taylor of Tennessee, raconteur, violin virtuoso, and hereditary statesman, is often the center of a group of politicians and good fellows in the lobby of the Ebbitt House these recess nights. And he rarely gets away without telling one or ninro of the storlea which have helptd to make him famous. "When I was governor of Tennessee," he said tho other evening, during one of these conversations, as Eugene Field would say, "I received a letter from an inmate of the state penitentiary of Missouri. 'My dear cousin,' it ran, "It ain't flttln' fer one uv your klnfolks to be In the pen, an' I wlHh't you'd git me out ef you kin.' It was signed 'liob Taylor,' which looked as If the writer ought to be mighty close kin. "I sent It to the governor of Missouri with the following Indorsement: 'I wish. If you can conscientiously do so, that you would turn this fellow loose, and If ever any of your relatives get In the Tennesse penitentiary I'll return the favor.' "I heard later," concluded the Senator, "that Bob had gained hla freedom, but whether through my efforts I have never learned. And he hasn't thanked me yet." Vice President Fairbanks' desk In the senate chamber Is always as neatly ar ranged aa the top bureau drawer of a fn Ullous young woman. A dozen times a day, while he listens to the oratorical efforts of various senators, or the monot onous reading of bill titles, he abstractedly yet methodically arranges that deck. Each pad of memoranda slips has Its appointed place and eacli pen and blotter Is laid In geometrical relation to the other things on the d. k. His gavel always Ilea at his left, hand, In proper position for immediate ue when the degree of "audible ei-Tea.-tlon In the chamber" becomes too large. Orchard & Wilhelm qiq.16.IS South ICth St. OUR JANUARY FURNITURE SALE Is attracting unusual attention, and it should, for we have gathered together a multitude of bargains of new, this sen son's patterns, selected with the utmost care at a time when the manufacturer was winding up his season's business. This together with the recent financial flurry placed these goods in our possession at about half manufacturers' regular prices. Come here for your furniture .1 J uuceu pneps. t A Hint of the Bargains to Be Found Here: $14.00 "Weathered Oak Desk. .January sale $9.75 $10.00 Golden Oak Desk. .January Sale $6.50 $22.00 Mahogany Desk, .January sale $15.50 $11.00 Mahogany Music Cabinet, January sale $8.25 $14.00 Bookcase, with desk drawer, .January sale. . . . .$9.00 $9.50 Weathered Oak Arm Chair, Spanish leather seat and back $6.75 $13.50 "Weathered Oak Arm Iocker, loose Spanish leather cushion seat, January sale $8.75 $22.00 Weathered Oak Sleepy Hollow Itocker, Span ish leather, January sale $14.50 $30.00 Leather Turkish Rocker, January sale $22.75 $27.00 Solid Mahogany Rocker, January sale $19.75 $24.00 Mahogany Finished Divan, January sale $16.00 $72.00 Mahogany Davenport, January sale $49.50 $110.00 Three-piece Parlor Suite, January sale $81.50 $60.00 Mahogany Dresser, January sale $42.00 $52.00 Mahogany Chiffonier, January sale $38.00 $42.00 Golden Oak Dresser, January sale $29.50 $40.00 Golden Oak Cliiffonicr, January sale $27.50 $33.00 Bird's-eye Maple Dresser, January sale $22.00 FER0'AI, OTES. It Is announced that the Prince de Sagan will sue the Count de Castellane for dam ages of 10 cents. Why not thirty? A Connecticut man has lived for some months on skim milk and bread, but with holds explanation as to why he lives that way or any other. A college president declared that men principals of schools are "sissies." As he was addressing a gathering of them and wasn't thrown out, there may be something in the theory. J. E. Tawney, father of Congressman Tawney, chairman of the committee on appropriations, has Just died at Cedar Bluffs, Neb, Mr. Tawney owned the farm upon which the battle of Gettysburg was fought. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the New York Bar association on January 24 and 25. Mr. Bryce will speak on "Tho Methods and Conditions of Legislation." Joseph H. Choate will deliver his annual address as president of the association. JudVro Phillips of the federal court of ap peals, according to a dispatch from St. Louis, says that "It Ik a matter of common notoriety that a very large percentage of the frightful disasters on railroads Is at tributable to Inattention of those in charge of the operation of trains to explicit rules and orders of the managing officers." A Fairbanks club Is being formed in Chi cago, and all parsons, to be eligible to membership, must be six feet and over. Charles Warron Fairbanks ia six feet four and a half Inches In height. The organis ers of the unique club feel that his candi dacy should therefore be popular with tall men. The Fairbanks tall hat and the Fair banks frock coat will be worn as Insignia of rank. I.AIGHING I.IXF.ft. Winter had been reproached for holding aloof. "The fact la," he explained, "I enjoyed so greatly my sojourn among you last May and June that I'm Inclined to regard It as a precedent." Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Stoplate I wonder If Miss Tersleep meant anything by It? Mr. Soandso By what? Mr. Stoplate Well, when I waa calling on her the other night. I said that I could sit forever and listen to the music of her voice. And after that she let me do all the talking. Houston Post. Miss Knox She's being treated by one of those complexion specialists. I wouldn't let anybody make that experi ment with my face. Miss Cutting Why not? He certainly couldn't make 4t any worse. Philadelphia Catholic Standard. "Republics," said the dlaappointed statesman, "are ungrateful." "Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, "It's so hard to tell a patriot from an of ficeseeker that I don't blame a republic for gettin' kind o' auspicious." Washing ton Star. "Hey, there! Tou can't shoot ducks on that pond It's poeted!" "I know It," replied the hunter, "and If I'd been poeted I wouldn't have tried It. All I've killed la one cow, three tame geese and a hound dog." Atlirnta Consti tution. "Where's your nephew?" , "He'a out In one of the western mining camps." "How'a he doing?" "He writes that he's putting lots of money In circulation. He runs a roulette wheel." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I notice where the marriageable girls In Hungary, backed by their fathers, are Ki'ownincj, Ming $k Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS For the Boys PECIALS FOR THIS WEEK: Knee Pants, ages 3 to 16, that sold up to $1.50, now 55c Boys' Knickerbockers, ages 3 to 16, worth , up to $2.00, now $1.00 Juvenile Sweaters in sizes 20 to 26, for the little fellows, worth up to $1.75, now 1 Fancy "Tarns," worth up to $4.00, now $1.00 Girls' Skating "Tams," worth up to 75e, now....35? 15th and Douglas Streets I s R, S. WILCOX, Mar. and profit by the greatly re- L ' M objecting to buying husbands with a dowry." "Yes, they want to Introduce the cus tom Instead of this country, where tin brides are given away." Baltimore Amer ican. LEAP TEAR. Baltimore American. 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