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n THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 20. . 190. 11 CUAMP CLARK'S MAM SIDES Conspicuous Traits of the Minority Leader of the House. MSPE'S Formerly FOPMETTtY' n.if.sconaD m scofieid 15 iO DOUGIAS ST. i CHRISTMAS DISPLAY OF WOMEN'S FINE APPAREL We cordially invite you to visit us this week' whether you buy or to look, so you may know where useful and acceptable Christmas gifU can be found of the right style and of the right prices. HANDSOME FURS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS There is nothing more useful and appreciative than Furs, and the character of our Furs makes them unequaled worth. Genuine Kussian Squirrel Blouse Coats, both in natural and blended, made with large roll col lar and cuffs beautiful garments special hol iday price .... $75.00 Fine Near Seal Coats made with fine beaver or mink collar, in blouse or plain styles special holiday price $55.00 Beautiful plain Near Seal Coats, made in either blouse or double-breasted styles special hol iday prices $29.75 $35.00 $39.50 Beautiful, Genuine Lynx Sfts price range up from $45.00 $55.00 ni SG5.0O Handsome, Genuine Mink Sets, prices range up from $35.00 $45.00 and $55.00 Fine Fox Scarfs In Isabella and Sable and Mink Novelty Neck pieces, at $7.50 $10 $15 $10.50 Fine Novelty Neck Pieces in Squirrel, Jap Mink and Imi tation Lynx, at.. $5 $8.75 $12.50 and $15.00 Fine Muffs in all sizes to match. All neck pieces at very special prices. This exclusive house of Women's High Class wearing iftta iitl apparel is Justifying its repute as the recourse of the gift IfVtVyw seeker, who desires the distinction of giving appreciable 3 111 ? -m. in th. matter nf vnrletv and nrices we briefly mention what you can select. Silk Petticoats plain shades or fancy styles, at $5.00 $6.75 $10 $12.50 and up to $25.00 Skirts for street or dress wear at $7.50 $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 and up to $35.00 Chiffon Broadcloth Dresses and Mescaline Costumes at $25.00 $20.75 $35.00 and up The special Coat Sale (continues) at .....$15.00 $19.50 and $25.00 NOT AS IXEOCIOUS AS PAINTED A Llea with a HIpiMMlrome Hoar, Who Krur Bltra A Rminrirlt A4 salrer Lashes rw Ka gland Historians. v;jtT vim n , ,i Waists, plain tailored or dress styles, at $5.00 $G.75 $10.00 $15.00 and up to $-15 Silk Kimonos, at and . . . $3.05 $5.00 $S.75 $12.50 $15.00 Evening Coats, at $25.00 $29.75 $35.00 $45.00 and up to ; . .$85.00 Our great reduction sale of Tailored Suits continues Monday. 125.00 Suits for $15.00 $35.00 Suits for ; ..''.$22.50 $45.00 Suits for ............... f .$29.75 Saturday was the busiest coat day we have had this season, but for Monday's selling, we shall add hun dreds of new 'garments, and. if you have not already purchased your coat, then be sure to come Monday. FIGHT. ON TUBERCULOSIS Union Printers' Hospital at Colorado Sprinfc-t a Pioneer. MANY CUBES ARE MADE THERE Trade Partlralarl jr KaM-rptlhle to Coaaaaaatlva Standards Which TyaoaraphlPal t alon Pet for Better Labor Condition. Joseph La Fleur, secretary of Milwaukee Typographical union No. 23, writes in the Free Press of that city: The present effort of the R d Cross so ciety, and the splendid encouragement it la receiving- at the hand of the public, proves that all the people are Interested In the battle for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. All the people are Inter ested for the reason that all the people are liable to Infection. Tvberculos s eaiia torlums. "farms" and "camps" are nu merous and Increasing In number. Any Intelligent effort at the prevention of tu berculosis Is certain to meet with general approval. Among the wage-earners, tuberculosis Is prevalent, especially with tradesmen or clerks in sedentary occupations. No me chanlc is more liablo to this disease than Is the printer. For years tuberculosis has been common In this trade, and the printers have always been alert to ascer tain and adopt scientific means for the warding off and curing of the disease, fnlon printers conduct a home at Colorado Springs, and there is attached to this home a tuberculosis hospital. At present there are fifty patients in this hospital. The superintendent of the Cnson Printers' pome. In all of his repoits, flwell upon the number of cures tint result through the scientific treatment tr.d modern meth ods for the treatment cf t jberculosis In iae at the Vnlon Printers" home. Hun dreds of young men afflicted with the dread disease have gone to Colorado Springe, taken the course of treatment prescribed, and are now at work at the printers' trade, sound In body and ful- graphieal Jjnjoa.f eathy member )oontrlbuting IS cents a month to the tend.'- The Inter national Typographical union baa promoted many .measures for the benefit and welfare of its membership, but nope more praise wortaypr productive of rnore substantial results than the tThion Printers' home and its -hospital annex. - The home Is "managed by a board of trustees consisting of seven members. It is not long ago since the Idea pre vailed quite generally that consumption Is incurable, but today It is Just as generally known that such, is not the case, . Our family physicians tell us that they have noticed. In making examinations of dead people, that frequent scars on the lungs plainly indicate that the subject had at some time during his life been affected with lung disease, which had become en tirely healed. But according to the maxim, "An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure," It Is sixteen to one in favor of the pre vention, and It Is In the preventative that we are wisely bending the most of our energies. Dr. J. M. Beffel. an eminent local scien tist, asks: "Is child slavery the founda tion stone of consumption?" Then he answers the question: "It has a great deal to do with keeping the white plague afoot." May Wood Simons, connected with the local headquarters of the Red Cross so ciety In the GoldsmMh building, who has made an extended investigation and study of sweatshop conditions as to their being a possible means of fanning the spark of tuberculosis, finally concludes by asking: Really, isn't it a travesty upon our al leged Intelligence, prosperity. Independence and boasted civilisation that we muat de pend upon the labor of helpless. Innocent little children to be a great nation?" Com halt I While Planee. The International Typographical union is especially combatting the white plague along preventative lines. It la making a firm stand everywhere for good sanitary conditions In workshops: against the em ployment of children of tender age. and has also undertaken to teach its mem bers the Importance of physical and moral fleanllneas. Through Us school for-technical training. located In Chicago, the union aims to improve, not only from a mechanical standpoint, but to promote "shop deportment" as well. The international tuberculosis congress occasion, and Dr. Livingston Farrand, sec retary of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, regarded the printers' exhibit as "the best be had ever aeea." ' On November 30, when -the association opened its first public exhibition in New YorK, James Alexander Miller, A. M.. M D., president of the medical board of Beton hospital and chief of the tuberculosis clinic of Bellevue, was deeply Interested In the Typographical union's exhibit upon this oc casion. This learned gentleman expressed surprise at the printers' wonderful know! edge of the disease, and praised their ef forts and methods for stamping it out City Health Commissioner Partington of New York has determined to give all pos sible ' assistance to the printers of that city to bring about the "unionizing" of the sweatshops. "God helps those who help themselves," is a saying aa true as it Is old. And the people also help those who help them selves. This is proven by the great assist ance the printers have received from the public In their efforts to bring about union conditions in all printing offices, not only In Milwaukee, but throughout the entire country. It was at the urgent request of public spirited persons that the Interna tional Typographical union adopted the union label. Intended to serve as a distin guishing mark between printing offices run under union conditions and those run under sweatshop conditions. The magnificent Union Printers' home of Colorado Springs was built and is main tained by the International Typographical union of North America, and "its bounty is unpurchasable; Vs charity la without price." The tented colony la where the tuberculosis patients are treated. The buildings Just to the left of the tents were especially built for hospital purposes. The fields in t' e background are the pastures where graie "one of the finest dairy herds In the state of Colorado." The main build ing is the home proper. The whole Is sur rounded by beautiful trees, flower beds, driveways and walks. Besides conducting the home, the International Typographical union pays an old-age pension and main tains a burial fund for its deceased members. filling their mission as useful citliens. A few years ago the beard of trustees of (which held Its sessions in Washington from the Union Printers' home decided to es- j September S to October 13 of this year, tablUh a tent colony, and this experiment has proven a great success. The Union Printers' home is supported y the members of ths International Typo- showed what the civilised world is doing to stamp out tuberculosis. The Interna tional Typographical union presented one of ths most Interesting exhibits upon this APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR WOMEN AT BEATON'S rarfomss Toilet Waters. Toilet Article anil Creams. perfume Atomisers, at trom eoc to 5.00 Voublgast's Extract. Powders. Soap and Toi.ei Water in tie following odors: ieal, Coeur de Jsneite, La Kufca, Violet HouMgsnt. Iris Kiane Ideal and Coeur de .Until In :-ul fancy Lollies. . . S3-&0 Fiver's Kit met a. In fifteen odors at from 50o to 112.00 Coty's Extracts from 14.00 to (11.00 ftogrr & Qallett all the latest odors in fancy packages. ranging In trice from 60o to SIX. 00 Our Imported Perfumes this year are th largest and most complete ever o fried In the west. Maaionre Ooocs We have a large line of Scissors. Nail Kliea. Nail brush e. Cuticle Knives, Null Enamels, Nail Powders and Buffers Manicure 6cts pearl. Ivory ad ebony, tn plain til amnio caes, containing from I to IS plates; prices ranging lrwiu....Sl to BIS Traveling Beta One of the most useful articles for ladies in traveling One of the largest assortments In I tie city; ranging in price form SI to SI Out Flowers Remember, by placing your orders early you get the best at lec tions. Chocolates and Bon-Boas We are head quarters for Chocolate and Bon-Bons. Leave your ordera, aa w guarantee prompt delivery. We carry the fol lowing brands: Continental, our leader. 1 to i-lb. boxva, pvr lb., 80c s Hurler's. New Tork. 1 to S-lb. boxes, per lb., SOej Iowney's. 1 to S-lb. boxen, per lb., e; Johnston's. O'Brien's. Bones' Aile grettl's, ateneir's and Woodward's tn plain and fancy packages, from 300 to ft- 00 per box or basket. Barat Xaatar (roods A complete line. Miners All shapes and sty lea When downtown shopping, drop in for a dainty Lunchaoa or Hot Soda at our fountain. MEANEST HUSBAND ON RECORD Aaeaaatelr Paalahed for Searing His M lie Away frosa His Pockets. DeatooT) ra: On 15TM AND PARNA1YI Mrs. Maud Pepoon, wife of Henry Pepoon a fsrmer cn Blue Clay creek, Arkansas, t up one morning urfid at once proceeded to search her husband's pantaloons, us was her usual custom, but Instead of finding the usual collection of small change she grasped a giant bullfrog. j Her wild shriek awakrned her husband, who leaped from his bed. Intending to tell her It was ail a Joke, but she already had rushed out of the dour and into the adjoin ing woods, still screaming in her fright. Pepoon pursued her, and both might have been running yet had not tbelr wild flight beuh suddenly halted by a big black bear rushing furiously at thera from the oppo site dliectiim. The Pepoons whirled instantly and lushed for their dwelling, the bear still after them and gaining In the run. Just as they r.eired the clearing they no ticed that their house was on fire, prob ably due to overturning a kerosene lamp in their basty exit. In order to escape the bear both Jumped Into a well, from which they were rescued, more dead than alive, after neighbors shot the bear. The dwelling was burned to ashes. Pepoon is too excited to admit that he put tne frog In his pocket to break his wife of a bad habit. He, however, has coined a moral like this: "It's cheaper to let your wife search your pockets than to scare her with a bull frog." Chicago Inter Ocetn. Champ Clark 4s net nearly so- ferocious as the advertisements and advance notices would make Mm appear. He Is a clean shaven lion, with a hippodrome roar, and he never, never bites. He Is a good-hum ored lion, and love hi enemies, even when he roar at them on the occasion set apart for that pastime In the house of rep resentatives. Any Intelligent sheep will eagerly seek Mr. Clark company in that happy time when the Hon and the lamb hall dwell together in peace and amity. John, Sharp William, as minority leader In the house, was a veritable gad-fly. Where he lit he stung, and where he stung he hurt. He, butted venomously when In action, and the high, strident tones of hi voice raised In angry debate resembled nothing so much a the Cacophony result ing from the application of a rusty file to the dull teeth of a crosscut saw. Mr. Wil liams went into action like a swarm of angry hornets. It was a. case of sip! sing! and awsy. Mr. Clark emits a mellow roar at the head of a devoted adversary, tells a yarn, quotes Byron, says a good word for Thomas Jefferson, has a fling at Andrew Hamilton and takes his enemy to lunch. Champ Clark's reputation as a "ring- tailed roarer" has been carefully built up over the chautauqua circuits. Since he has become minority leader, paragraph like this have begun to go the round of the newspapers: "Tour town hall," said the traveling en tertainer, "1 an excellent one to speak In.' There Isn't the slightest echo, and my voice could be heard distinctly In the remotest corner of it." "Tes, sir," said the landlord cf the vil lage hotel, "there 'hasn't been a blamed thing the matter with tle acoustic of that hall linoe Champ Clark made a 'speech there one day last summer." For the sake of a stated amount jof good and lawful currency of the United States in hand paid, and a carriage to and from the depot. Champ Clark and old General Grosvenor of Ohio toured together more than once the chautauqua circuits, engaging- Homeric Combat,' for all who had the price and cared to come. The stage enmity between these two natural-born talker was carefully fostered during the debates In the house of representatives. The bold Numld- lan lion was never fiercer than these two appeared to the unitiated in their, mack heroic combats In the halls of congress. The press notices of these battles helped a lot when the lecture season opened and the managers came around to make con tracts. As He Really Is. Champ Clark, the chautauqua "attrac tion and Champ Clark, the man, are two verV different aorta of persons. His care fully built up imputation as a geyser of loud speech does him an Injustice. He is a man of wide reading and many .natural attainments.' , la, the political history of the United States he is thoroughly versed. Hi general knWleds'.of the public men of Oie early days of the republic cannot be outmatched by any member of the lower house of congress. ' His reading; lias been sound, apd Jt has been assimilated. He ha a go4 historical background. An irreprewsTble streak: of broad humor pre vent tiim from taking himself as seriously a many another of hi fellow-member witnout a tithe of his abilities, or bread general culture. Nearly all of Clark' speeches are re plete with apposite literary and classical allusions and quotations. .He does not drag them in by the scruff of the nock from Eartlett, but Introduces them naturally as tney occur to him while speaking. Hii nunior is pure homespun, and he rather affect the plain, blunt style of the man who blurts out what he has to say. One of Champ Clark's pvt bogles Is the history writers of New England.- He makes the broad, general charge against them that they steal the reputations of other men for the sons of the New Eng land states. Clark greatly admired thnt splendid old pair of statesmen, the late Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama. Speaking of Senator Morganone day last spring. Mr. Clark said: "Justly he muat be considered the father of the Isthmian canal, though I have no sort cf doubt. Judging the future by the past, that the New England scribes will filch from him that glory and confer It upon somebody from the northeast corner of the repub lic." In the closing days of the last ses sion Mr. Clark bestrode his favorite hobby again. The Xew Esglss School. "Some of thene day," he said, "I intend to make an entire speech here about Alex ander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, a a duty to the living and to the dead. The conspiracy, for It is nothing less, and the chief proponent of It is EUhu Root, sec retary of state, to pose Alexander Hamil ton as 'the father of the constitution," Is one of the most preposterous and impu dent fakes In history. 'I know how it will work. It is the New England school of book writers that does It. Somebody hints It and then somebody declares It, and the next you know It is dapped into the school books. That title, the father of the con stitution.' belong of right to James Mad lon. the great Virginian. These latter day Hamiltonians are endeavoring to filch from James Madison the glory of being the father of the constitution,' Just as Americu Vespuctus filched from the great Genoese navigator the glory of fixing his name on a newly discovered world. ' " "The facts of history are plain. James Madison went to the constitutional con- ART as Cftrislmas FHAMK.U riCTlRKS. Water Color Pictures In gilt frames, 11.00 up. Etchings in Oak frames, 1.00 up. Carbon Photographs In ebonj" frames, $1.50 up. PaFtel Landscapes and Fruit Pictures in gilt frames from $1.00 up. Oil Paintings in gold frames from $3.00 up. Mottoes in Tassepartout frames, 40c up. METAL FRAMES. Exquisite metal frames in gold, silver, copper and black iron for stamp size photographs and all sizes, at, from 50c up. WtsO FRAMES. Natural wood frames, veneered in Rosewood, Clrcasslon Walnut, Burl. Walnut, English Oak tn ovals and square shapes, single or double openings. IOTTERY. Antique line of Amphora and Yakahoe pottery and Art Crafts Wares at prices way below mar ket. ' CALENDARS. Omaha High School. Bellevue College, Brownell Hall. Council Bluffs High School, Creighton College and the Beautiful College Posters at 25c. 50c and $1.00. FRAMES. Gold frames, natural wood frames, enameled frames, floren - tine frames, gilt frames, ebon-lzed frames. 10c, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and up. In ovalB, square frames made to fit any size. Get your order in early. PVROGRAPHY. A Complete Fire Pen Outfit Ten Cents. This price only while they last. Please come on the run. Leathers for burning, designed wood for decorating, shapely boxes, stools, panels, pipe racks, tie racks, frames and an endless variety of novelties. PAINTERS' OUTFITS. 0!1 Paint outfits $3.00 up. Water Color outfltb from 50c up. Pastel outfits from 50c up. China Painters outfits from $5.00 up. The greatest Christmas line. , T The alteration Piano Sale includes all the new Upright Pianos, all the new Grand Pianos, all the new Player Pianos and Organs, all the used Pianos and Organs. The Christmas shopper is taking advantage of the Hosie Piano Sale. The great stock of fine Pianos, Player Tianos, Grand Pianos, Parlor Organs, Chapel Organs and Player Organs is' thrown on the market at prices which forces the buying. Just a little money down, a small amount every month, and your new -mahogany, oak or walnut Piano is paid for. When you can buy a $250, $275, $300, $325 Tiano for $139, $159, $187, $198, on $G monthly payments, it looks easy; it is easy and you can't resist it. Do you know the world's best? t They are the Kranich & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & Lane, Ilallet & Davis, Cable-Nelson, Burton, Cramer and Wescr Pianos. Player Pianos from $290 up. Parlor Organs $20 up. I A. I 1515 Douglas Street lit Wait Ada. Art Sualneaa Bgoatera, OMAHA PARTY TO TOURJDLD MEXICO Will Spend All of February In Sunny Climes. Low Rate. Including Traveling Ex. jMTiM-fc, and a Fine Trip. A delegation of Omaha people mm leave here February I in the private car "Ienza" for a thirty Uaye' tour of the republic of Mexico. The jarty will be under the auspice of the Western Tourtvt aaaociatiun. wao have taken aeveral partie from Onviha through Mexico in the iaet few yean. The com plete cost of the trip Is l-ju, ahiih Include every legitimate traveling- expense, rail road fare, berth, meals, etc. Exp.rienceJ gukle and interpreter all the way. It la a trip of a l!f time eui one that will La thor oughly enjoyed every minute arid each mile. A golden opportunity to pass the month of February under su htrn auuny skk-a There are only a few reservations left and those interested ahould apply at onoe. Rotk Island ticket office, or write to We tern Tourist association. Atlantic, la., for booklets an lnfortoatioa. vention with a plan of a constitution in hia pocket. ,It was aubmltted to the Virginia dele gation, with George 'Washington at it head. They agreed to it, and presented it as the Virginia plan.' Hamilton bad a plan, and somebody else had a plan, and the convention rejected the third plan, and. they adopted Madison's plan in all of It essential features, and be baa been ac claimed 'the father of the constitution' until quite recently.' " A Kooaevrlt Admirer. Mr. Clark confesses to a strong personal admiration for President Roosevelt. He. has never attempted to conceal this even in partisan debate on the floor of the house. His tolerant good humor is shown to per fection in his characterization of and atti tude toward Mr. Roosevelt. "Out in Mis souri." aald Clark one day, "there was a, lawyer who so frequently urged courts and Juries to take a 'reasonable view' that his saying passed into a proverb. That is ex actly whut should be done touching the president; but that Is precisely what has not been done as a rule. He is such a belligerent personage that his slightest word is a challenge to mortal combat, and he cannot express an opinion on any question under heaven, even on a subject so prosaic and threadbare aa the prospective state of the weather, without precipitating a row, his extreme admirers declaring that there never has been such a weather prophet ou earth since Adam and Eve were driven with flaming swords from Paradise, and his extreme enemies vociferating that he knows no more about the weather than does the ground hog. s'l'pon this issue there would be Joined a battle royal, full of sound and fury, sig nifying nothing. Colonel Roosevelt laughs to scorn the words of the great card.nul: Love thyse.f last; cherish those hearts that hato thee; Still In thy r.iht hand carry gentle p.-a e To silence envioua tongues. "Personally I like him. He has treated me well, and I have tried to treat him well. After the manner of strong men, he has prontiunced virtues and glaring faults of character. I have never abused him. I have never grown hysterical in admiration of him. When be la right, I support him cordially. When he Is wrong, I fight him tooth and nail. It seems to me that that is the way In which he would deBire to be treated." Friendship with Pettaa. During hia service !n Washington Champ Chirk ha delighted in Intellectual inW courto with soma of the ripe old minds of the senate. He crratljr admired titm-ral Ptttus, and during the lifetime of the ayed Alat an senator Faw him as often iir he cc uld. The two men attendoj whnt Clark culls "the only democratic Presbyterian church in Washingt n." Clark said once, "The general and I might have been not Improperly denominated as sons-in-law to that church. We attended with our wives, he habitually, I occasionally. Dr. Pitser. the pastor, came to rank as a sort of bifchop. To Illustrate the esteem in which he waa t.eld. once a little eiil. who was a member of bis church, was asked what St. Paul had said on a certain subject. She replied: I don't know what 8i. Paul said; what I want to know is what does Dr. Pitser say.' " Clark tells th;s Pettus anecdote: "He was endowed with rare powers of sarcasm and a saving feiise of humor. When he madtt his celebiated speech In reply to Etr.ator Bevertris:e. an exceptionally ex quisite piece of sareasm. wit, and humor, it happened that 1 was lecturing at Michi gan university. His speech was head lined and greatly exploited In the news papers. It Bet the country in a roar from sea to sea. The first time I was in the senate chamber after returning to Wash ington. I congratulated the general on the fame he had achieved. Solemn as a graven image, be replied: 'My speech on that oc casion was one of tne indiscretions of youth.' " Mr. Clark is proud of the fact that for tweoty-two years he held a record for be ing the youngest college president In the United States. He was placed at the head of the Marshall colltg( West Virginia, when he was 23 years old. Before he be came a congressman. Mr. Clark was not only a college president, but also a hired farm hand, a clerk in a country store, the editor or a country newspaper, and a coun try lawyer. New Tork Post. NIGHT SCENES IN HONGKONG Mgh I Bder (iarlah I.licbts Beneath the Mellow blow of Shaded Lamps. and Our Jinrikishas, which had rattle.1 and rolled along for miles over the paved streets of Hong Kong, suddenly drew to a halt in the darkness. My companions said to me: "If my friend the merchant is In I promise you a lively evening. If he isn't we might as well go back home." As le epeke he led ire jp the unlightrd stairway of the building, plain almost to the point of squalor outside, tenement like in appearance, with not a single thing to distinguish It from the oblong semi-Chinese, semi anything else structures in the long row. It didn't seem possible to me as we moved upward, groping our way along, that we could be approaching the living quarters of a wealthy Chinaman. Then 1 reflected that In China, as In Japan, there Is little enough outwardly to distinguish the homes of the rich from those of the poor. Hence it may come that the Jealousy which the poor harbor against the rich on the continent of Europe and in America Js neither so poignant nor so bitter here. I was reflecting whether the absence of the Jealousy that pushes the mastes upward and onward toward equality was blame worthy or praiseworthy when a patch of yellow light flof-ded tin- hallway and we found ourselves Inside the residence of our merchant. Oriental luxuries, rich and warm leak wood ser;-er.s supporting elaborate em broidcrM'B. lronwcHd furniture Inlaid with mother of pearl, marble t pped ebony cabi nets and stands displaying rare bits of.p.u tery Hud jade, spread their glories before us um er i subdued mellow light, all doubly rich and warm contrasted with the forlorn atmosphere without. The merchant, who proved a Jolly sort of fellow. In command of good English, greeted us warmly and laughed when h? heard what we w anted. Then he addressed a few words to his mother, an elderly Chinese woman, who was present. 6he looked at us curiously and nodded. There upon tin1 merchant bowed himself out of the room, saying that he would ba glaj to go with us and be our guide for the night if he could square things with his ' wives. They were three in number. ThJ.t, Judging by the length of his absence, mado his task three times as bard as it would" i have been If he had had but on. We entered our Jinrikishas at- last -and rolled away, coming at last to a halt in a long street, garish with many onioned lights, alive with crowds and resounding" with the crash of cymbals, the thump of tomtoms end the half -plaintive, half-mystic sob of the wind instruments that give ths music of the far east Its odd fascination and Its lure. The porches and the balco- I nles of the Kilded and carved tea houses thnt linnt tirtth nliina nt fh. (Knw,i,r... for block on block, each of them. con. tributing its own particular sort of clamor to the universal uproar, were crowded with nUa.nr. lmHn. r4,ln.u Jt u . V. .. . I- . may be called Chinese relsha. It was ths native city of Hong Kong enjoying Itself. We went Inside one of the larger build ings, past the altar of the Joss, his pic ture and his Incense, up the stairway to the ornate, light-floodd hall. Every tabla claimed Its feasters. Through the open ' doorways of some of the adjoining rooms I caught a view of twenty or thirty staid Chinese enjoying their dinner in privacy, some of them seated at the table, others reclined at full length on the divans, smok- ' ing opium. In other rooms other Parties . were amusing themselves by listening to the prattle of the professional entertain- . ers, pretty girls of 1 and over, looking re freshingly cool and immaculately clean on the broiling hot eight. In coats and panta- , loons of white silk. In the biggest apart ment of all there was going on at full swing a theatrical performance for a few of the privileged, the actors screeching in falsetto, truing through absurd postures and pantomime. The girl entertainers, silk-clad, be jeweled, followed by their "amahs' or waiting women, passed out of the tea house, en tered their sedan chairs and were carried away on the shoulder of coolies, the. amah keeping pace with them In the more pleblan Jinrikishas. Other girls took the places of the departed One guide ex plained that the most popular of this pro fessional class were sent for to entertain party after party, and that the night through they went from restaurant to res taurant, remaining an hour here and an -hour there, averaging In payment for their enu veiilUK penuwiiances iwui i i m . festival. I. K. Fiiedmaa in Chicago News. $A Bank Book for Christmas T V a i 1 . 1 r x - w i 1 t aw A ravings account orenea witn une uoiiar or moreMf, makes a most acceptable CHRISTMAS GIFT to wife', children, relatives or friends. If desired we willV4 Jjl mail book with your cards, bo that they will be received onj j Christmas morning. We especially solicit small accounts' on which we pay SIX PEll CENT interest,, ooinjoonded! r fa. W Assets, $2,300,000. Surplus, $55,000 U( r m W jr tasa aa mm b a g Omaha Loan & Building Association fS S. E. Corner 16th and Dodge Sis. K1( I Tra.M . Si a Geo. W. Lao mi a. Pres. G. M. Nattlnfler. Sac'y. and Traa.ft W. R. Adair, Aas't. Sacra tar y. A