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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Hate of Nebraska. Douglas County, es.:
George B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publlahlna; company, being duly sworn,
ays that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of December. 19. waa as follows:
17 .....T70
II M.SO0
1 3,70
20 37.1S0
21 3a,MO
22 t7,010
21 87,040
24 1700
21 8S.4M
2 M.t30
27 37480
28 34.M0
29 40,730
20 a.oo
31 41.S30
Total l'lTiV4l2
Less unfold, and returned copies.. a.aaa
Net total ll!5'S?
oaily average .J?'?'491
OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my preaence and sworn to
efore ma this list day of December. 1908.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Sahsorlkcrs leaving; the city trna-poraurtln-
ehoald ksf Tka Bee
anajled o tatesa. Address will be
cfcauagraal as te a requested.
In the speakership race Fool bad
toth tht pole and the pull.
Our local weather man la already
doing bis best to make It 09 a record
am nshar.
This Is the aeaaon to test the tur
nacwa and the flues. Take no needless
fire risks.
"How soon?" Is quite ss important
as "How much?" In the Biclly relief
contributions.
There will be no mourning it winter
reports- some morning soon with its.
backbone broken.
Count Bonl and Prince Helie are
not listed among the French people
who saved 11,000,000 in the last year.
The weather man may hare the
consolation of knowing that the cold
wate cams up to his advance notices.
Nat Goodwin has given half of his
income and property to his wife, who
appears to be a sort of a Mrs. C. O. D.
Qoodwin.
"Keep In the middle of the road,"
ways the Galveston News.' That's
right, if you want to be run over, by
an automobile.
The dominant element of the demo
crats in the legislature at Lincoln
seems to have something like a steam
roller of its own.
New Jersey officials have started a
crusade against mosquitoes. About
June 1 the mosquitoes will begin a
war of retaliation.
A report says that all but four coun
tie in Kentucky are now dry. The
impression prevails that all Kentucky
is chronically dry.
It is reported that congress has 35,
000 bills before it. All of tis can
sympathise with congress at this
reason of the year.
It will be decidedly impolite for any
ono to say in connection with the pres
ent Nebraska legislature that there is
"something brewing."
.1
The marines have been ordered to
Hawaii. The Hawallans will now bs
able to tell their troubles to someone
besides the policemen.
Csstro says thst "honor and duty'
impel bim to return to Venezuela
Honor and duty have been added to
his vocabulary since be left Venezuela
The Chinese government is plan
ning a grsat system of railroads to
c6ver every province ot the empire.
China niUKi have a Har-Rl-Man in the
making.
i Speaker Pool is invited to see to it
that the legislative majority faithfully
fulfills all of its platform pledges.
But which plstform? Populist or
dsmocratlc? -
Colonel Bryan has joined the
Eagles. If there is any secret society
or fraternal organization that does not
count him in its membership list it
should speak out.
Pedestrians need not cross the street
to avoid the city hall tower, which the
experts Intiat is about to fall down.
The aame exin-rts have been having
the tower fall fur from five to ten
ears, but it steadfastly refuses to ac
t era as dale tksru.
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THE LIXfuLX HU 1 H IT A V.
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I ot imiui novt nan toiruuuceu iiif
bill to construct a Lincoln memorial
highway from the White bous'j In
Washington to the battlefield of Cr-t-
t.vRbiirg. A similar bill has been In-
jtroduced In the house by Rppresonta-
ni-n lie
was second assistant post
master general, and has been cordially
endorsed as a proper memorial to
Lincoln, in this, the centenary of his
birth.
The plans for the proposed high
way Include a paved roadway in the
center, with special paths on either
side for automobiles and other paths
for horsemen, the entire route to be
lined with shade trees and made as
attractive' as possible. It Is proposed
to have the different states participate
n the movement by planting their in
digenous trees along the route and in
making other improvements they may
decide upon. The highway would
traverse the District of Columbia,
Maryland. Delaware and a abort dis
tance in Pennsylvania. It would thus
connect the national capital with the
Improved roads all the states to the
north and. northeast of It and eventu
ally form the basis of a great inter
state system of Improved roads.
The measure appeals also in a sen
timental way, connecting as the road
would the national capital and the
great 'battlefield of the war where the
tide of success turned decisively for
the north and where President Lin
coln's immortal address was delivered.
If this were the only purpose to be
served by the construction of the pro
posed memorial highway, there would
be little public opposition to it, but
there are other features connected
with the plan that will cause much
discouragement to its advocates. It
is reported that Washington real
estate speculators are already aecur-
ng options on property along the pro
posed route with the evident purpose
of turning it over to the government
at a big advance In price if the legis
lation for the highway is approved by
congress. Again, there will doubtless
be strenuous objection to the federal
government entering upon any plan
of national highway construction for
fear of the pressure to secure the con
struction of roads at national expense
n other localities. It is probable
that congress would listen to a propo
sition to bear the expense of that por
tion of the proposed highway that
would lie In the District of Columbia,
if Delaware, Maryland and Pennsyl
vania were to unite to build the rest
of the road. All will agree that the
proposed highway would be a proper
memorial to the great civil war presi
dent, whom a reunited nation agrees
in honoring, though many will dissent
to the plan proposed of having its en
tire expense borne by the national gov
ernment. LICEXSKD TOOTH PVLhlSO.
Legislation designed to prevent
quackery and the practice of the pro
fessions by unskilled and Incompetent
persons is all well enough in its way,
but Minnesota has a law, which has
Just been upheld by the supreme
court, that appears to have carried
the proposed reform beyond the limit
of common sense. Under the Minne
sota euactment a practicing physician
may not legally draw the tooth of a
patient when such drawing seems re
quired, unless he holds a license as a
practicing dentist.
The effort that is being made, to
have that feature of the law repealed
at the coming session of the legisla
ture should succeed. It Is desirable,
of course, that proper restrictions
should be thrown around the practice
of dentistry, but it is simply absurd
to prohibit a regular physician from
pulling the tooth ot a patient, when,
as is often the case, an ulcerated tooth
may cause complications that would
hinder the cure of a more serious dis
ease. It would be lust as reasonable
for a physician to be prohibited from
shaving a man's head, in order to sew
up a wound, because he does not bold
a barber a license.
It is the duty of the physician to re
lieve suffering wherever he finds It,
and if it must be done by extracting
the tooth of the patient, no physician
will hesitate to perform the duty.
SAMTAltY H'HIPPIXG HJSl!'.
A Maryland sheriff has furnished an
Illuminating object lesson of the man
ner in which enlightenment and bar
barism rub elbows in that state. Mary
land still retains the whipping post for
wife beaters, recognized elsewhere as
a relic of barbarism that should have
at least disappeared in company with
the slave auction block, but the Mary
land sheriff is right up-to-date on mi
crobes, germs, infection and all the
modem sanitary teachings. He does
not object to applying the lash, under
orders of the court, but he Is a stick
ler for making public whippings san
itary. Before whipping a prisoner re
cently the sheriff at Frederick, Md.,
personally washed the man's back
with an antiseptic, to ward off dis
ease germs that might be lodged iu
the whip, and also supplied the vic
tim with a medicated gauze thirt as
one more bulwark against microbes.
After the beating, the welted back
was again washed with an antiseptic
and no risk run ot dirt slipping into
the lashed lines. The prisoner was
cautioned against trying to treat his
Injuries and was assured that the jail
physician would see to It that his
wounds were properly dressed with
due regard to all sanitary precautions.
Kven the most sensitive wife beater
could hardly fall to appreciate inch
considerate treatment.
The sheriff's discriminating care in
such cases may trad to a general re-
form in the whipping post methods
and possibly to an eventual disuse of
the barbaric lash as a punishment for
the barbaric crime of wife beating.
LKT THEM PASS AttOVXD.
One of the big co-operative business
associations of the country, which is
governed by a board of directors, serv
Ing without pay, of whom four or five
are chosen each year, has before it a
proposal to amend its bylaws to make
these honors pass around. To be more
specific, it is proposed to restrict the
election of directors so that not more
than two of the outgoing members
may be re-elected at one time, thus
insuring new blood in the managing
board and at the same time leaving
the way open for the retention of any.
one whose experience or services are
deemed specially valuable.
It seems to tia that this excellent
suggestion for distributing the honors
and responsibilities of such an asso
ciation is possible of much wider appli
cation. In our own locality this is
the period for the election of boards
of directors and governors of the vari
ous clubs and organizations instituted
to promote various phases of civic ac
tivity. These clubs and organisations
have their membership recruited from
volunteers who enlist out of pure pub
lic spirit and their whole aim is to ad
vance public objects. And yet, every
time a new election rolls in sight we
Bee a line-up for the perpetuation in
control of the element or clique that
happens to be entrenched in the offi
cial places. It is always a fight of the
"Ins" against the "outs," wherever
the "outs" have sand enough to put up
a fight, with the usual accompaniment
of charges of ring rule and talk about
a close corporation which dampens the
ardor of the rank and file membership
and often impedes the work in hand.
We believe we voice a prevailing
sentiment in saying that places on
these directories and boards of public
enterprise associations and clubs ought
to be passed around. The example
we have cited Indicates one feasible
way for bringing this about and de
serves serious consideration by the in
conspicuous people who want neither
self-glory nor patronage, but yet make
up the backbone of all our public en
terprise organisations.
Our anjlable democratic contem
porary at last trumps what The Bee
said more than a year ago with refer
ence to the unnecessary extravagance
of the state erecting a costly and sep
arate building to house the state his
torical library. For economical ad
ministrative purposes the historical
library should be joined with the state
library and both should have quarters
In the same building, or the name
wing, of a new capltol building along
with the supreme court, for which the
state library serves as a law library.
It Is not too late yet to retrace the
missteps so far made.
A Kentucky judge is biding in the
woods until the governor can send
troops to protect him while he pre
sides at a murder trial growing out of
a feud. Church societies, however,
still persist in sending their mission
aries to foreign lands.
A New York insurance man wrote
a note to his wife telling her that be
was going ,to commit suicide at noon
and made good on the hour. She
will at least have the consolation of
knowing that he did not lie to her.
The Omaha city council has a new
member to fill out an unexpired term
of four months. That ought not to
be too long for a councilman to be on
good behavior, even though he be a
democratic councilman.
Congress has recognized the new
government of Hayti. In matters ot
that kind congress has to act promptly
in order to recognize each Haytien
government before it is overthrown by
the next revolution.
Castro is said to have 'accumulated
$60,000,000 In nine years as president
of Venezuela. That job is almost as
lucrative as having a contract for the
construction of a public building In
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Taft has protested against the
organization of Taft clubs In the south
and elsewhere. The president-elect
Irt not disposed to take advantage of
the opportunities to build up "a per
sonal party. -
The kaiser announces that he will
not make his aual annual visit to
England thin year. He does not pro
pose to appear in the royal drawing
room of his uncle's court wearing a
muzzle.
The copy reader wrote heading,
"Alderman Takes a Bride," over a so
ciety Item In a Pittsburg paper, but
the intelligent proofreader naturally
changed it to "Alderman Takes a
Bribe."
"Confidence in good spring busir.oi
la general," says Dun's report. That's
the first harbinger that has been of
fered to counteract the recent meteor
ological consignment from Medicine
Hat.
Philadelphia physicians do not know
what to do with a girl ot that ilty
who has been sobbing constantly for
six weeks. Why not try the plan of
taking her to some other city?
"Billy" Bryan, popular Missouri
railroad conductor, hr retired after
forty years of service. Possibly his
namesake at Lincoln plans to equal
that running reco-d.
"Pear Mala Her letorlea."
New Vorw World,
liallleiliipa bombarding Uh goil o.Un
tliu klrcnii"ld ul disuo and stuixa'.iim
add
Imagine Watt Woald Happen.
Indianapolis News.
On the other hand, what Rhould we think
of China, if it were to show an Inclination
to butt In when our own administration
aw fit to make a change In the cabinet?
rtebaST for Ike Square Deal.
Bt. Louis Republic.
Following the refusal of the supreme
court to entertain the government's appeal
In the matter of that Landis fine ot 813,
OUO.QOO. the caae goes back to the court Of
appeals for the Seventh circuit to fix a
standard of penalties for rebating. In the
Interest of the square deal In the commer
cial world of the Vnitcd Stafrs the penal
ties enforced rhould be sufficient to break
up the practice.
From Senate to Cabinet.
New York Tribune.
The resignation of I'hllander C. Knox
from the United States senate In order to
enter the cabinet of President Taft will
break a usage which has bocome more and
more established In recent years. For
merly many senators became advisers of
presidents. But since 189 there have been
only two such transfers that of John O.
Carlisle Into Mr. Cleveland's cabinet In
1893. and of John Sherman Into Mr. Mc
Kinley's in 189".
Climax af a Traaredy.
Baltimore American.
Of course, the claims of the living come
first, but there Is something harrowing to
an Ineradicable lnsttnct of human nature
In the fact that Messina and the scenes
of the recent earthquake shock must be
bombarded by warships, so that the com
plete ruins of the place may make the
only possible burial of the dead. The finishing-
touch Is put to the whole dreadful
tragedy in thus making the ruins of their
homes the only graves of the unfortunate
victims.
Clorloua Mission for Fleet.
Philadelphia Record.
When President Roosevelt started our
fleet of battleships on their 'round-the-world
voyaae he could not have anticipated
that they would encounter an earthquake.
The Mediterranean convulsion gives them i
a great opportunity to show theii1 mettle
In making a fight agnlnst famine and
pestilence. They will not have to use their
guns. They will carry on their assault
with the aid of commissaries Instead of
cannon, and make the suffering Italians
more thankful than ever before that Chris
topher Columbus discovered America.
PREDICTING EARTHQUAKES.
A Realm of Prophecy Into Whlck
Science Seeks an Entrance.
New York Tribune.
Last week's catastrophe In the Mediter
ranean has revived a discussion of the
possibility of foretelling earthquakes. How
far any warning of such a disaster Is
likely to be heeded is perhaps open to ques
tion, but the feasibility of giving one ccr
talrly deserves consideration. With In
creasing knowledge concerning the causes
of seismic disturbance, perhaps a trust
worthy forecast will seme day be practic
able. The utmost that conservative geo
logists are willing to say today Is that cer
tain well defined regions are much more
susceptible than others, but to determine
Just when the forces at work will manifest
themselves Is another matter.
There Is also something like agreement
concerning the causes of earthquake. It
Is conceded that a great many of these
shocks ar ,tfue to strctses set up In the
crust of the earth. One group of experts
attribute the stresses to the generation of
vast quantities of steam by the leakage of
water into the heated Interior; another to
the thrinkage of the earth In consequence
of tadlatlon; still another to the transfer
ot material from one region to another,
and a fourth to astronomical Influence.
No one of the first three explanations of
the internal strain would afford much
help In fixing the time when an outbreak
might be expected, but the last would, if
It were correct.
The notion thai a tide in the molten In
terior of the globe la raised by the sun and
moon has long had a few adherents.
Among them was a Frenchman, Alexia
Perroy, who made a comparison between
the dates of 15.000 earthquakes and the oc
casions when the moon was In the right
position to exert the strongest pull. His
figures showed what seemed to be a
trifling preponderance (about 2hi per cent)
of favorable lunar dates over the unfavor
able ones. On limiting his study to south
ern Italy he found a slightly greater pro
portion. Unfortunately, however, a com
patriot of Perrey, Delaunay by name, fol
lowed up the Inquiry so as to Include 140 -
000 earthquakes, and found that the excess
of shocks when the moon was In the right
position over those when It was In th
wrong position "dwindled away to almost
nothing," according to Major Dutton.
Prof. T. A. Jaggar of the Masaachusettl
Institute of Technology, who has faith In
the doctrine referred to, calls attention to
the tact that the destruction of Messina
occurred on one of the earthquako dates
pre-announced by another geologist, Mr.
Frank A. Perret. The coincidence Is strik
ing, but should not bo interpreted hastily.
Seismologists may be led by it to re-examine
the evidence for and against the
lunar tide theory, but until It can be more
completely established than It was by M.
Delaunay the world will be Justified In
regarding it with skepticism, and In hop
ing that a better basis for forecasts will
yet be found.
Perhaps a usefuj clue has been afforded
by the well known Japanese student of
earthquakes. Dr. Omorl. He has expressed
the belief that great shocks are preceded
by minor ones in the region above the
eat of the disturbance. Of course. It
would be neorssary to distinguish between
tremors which possessed significance and
those which had none. However, If a way
could be found to do so and the atttaln
ment of the result does not seem alto
gether Impracticable the hint may lend to
safer system of prediction than any yet
suggested.
FOOD FOR A YEAR
Meats 3001b.
Milk 240 at.
Butter 100 lbs.
Kjutt 27 dos.
VtseUblei. 5001b.
This represents a fair ration for
a man tor one year.
But some people eat and eat and
yet grow thinner. This means a
defective digestion and unsuitable
food. A one-dollar bottl of
Scott's Emulsion
equals in nourishing properties
ten pounds of meat. Your
physician can tell you how it
does it.
Sens' this adcrtUeacnt t neither with Berne ot
aercr In which H apreer. your addict and (our
cent to cover roeUae. and we will tend you a
"Complete HutdyAtU of the Wot at" ti
SCOTT & BOWNE. 40 Purl tr KVw York
In Italy's earthquake tone would
mightily to the victories of peace.
ROt.M) ABOtT EW YORK.
Rlpalee oa the Carreat af Life la Ike
Metropolis.
A pathetic scene was witnessed on board
the Immigrant ship Italia. Inward bound. In
Mew York harbor, last Saturday morning.
Among Its steerage pansengera were 150
Sicilians, most of whom embarked at Mr a.
sin several days before the earthquake.
The disaster which had overtaken their
homo city was unknown to them; In fact,
no one on the ship heard of It until tho
harbor pilot brought the newspapers on
hoard. An effort was made to keep the
awful news from 'the Biclllajis until the
ship had been docked, but It waa useless.
Some of the papers with pictures of the
ruins reached th steerage. A crowd in
stantly gathered. A middleaged man worked
his way to tho center and his eyes lit on
the picture of the Church of the Souls,
in rurgatory, and above the picture he
saw the figures that told In English that
200.000 were dead. The man could not
make out what It all meant, for all the
pictures were of buildings that were ap
parently still standing, but when he saw
one of the pictures taken at the time of
the earthquake In 1906, he knew what it
all meant. ,
"Mother of God," he shouted In his native
tongue In his fremy of grief, "Messina Is
no more," and the others In the ateerage
from Messina and the towns In and near
the stricken sone took up the cry.
"Read to us," "See what the paper says."
"Let us hear the news," the Sicilians cried,
and a sailor from north of Italy, who could
read English went forward and took the
newspaper out of the hands of the men
and women who were struggling to get
the next view of this or that picture. He
read the details aloud, and when he had
finished tho Sicilians were In tear and
most of them bewailing the loss of friends
and kin at home. It was said that one man
had left a wife and six children tn Mes
sina. Another young man had left his
father and mother and eight alsters and
brothers. Another, a woman who came to
join her husband, left two children that
she and her husband were to send for as
soon as they had saved up enough money.
Nearly every passenger from Messina had
a similar story to tell, and among them all.
there waa not one who is able to get back
to Sicily, or even cable In order to learn
the fate of their relations. The Italia
sailed from Messina, December 17.
Downtown New York offices are being
simply ripped wide open by a bunch Of
Syrian fortune tellers, The sceresses are all
good looking girls, dressed in the gaudiest
of colors, hung with Jewels and rustling
with silk. So unlike the usual panhandler
do they seen that they get by the Cerberus
on the door without difficulty. Then, If
the man in charge will let them read
his palm, trouble begins. "I sees aomeslng,"
will say the seeress. "I no can tell whesser
good-a luck or much-a trouble, Let-a me
have ten doll', w'at you hold In you hand.
Zen I can-a read ze future."
Of course the city bred yap falls for It.
He digs Into his kick and the lady gets
a nice buy-ful ten-dollar bill. She planta
it in her capacious bosom, and goes on with
ths Juggling. By and by she finds his fate
In his palm tells him and begins to bow
herself out.
"Here hold on," the victim will yell
"Gimme back that ten-spot."
The pretty fortune teller shakes her head
a slow, knowing shake, "Nosalr," she will
declare. "You glve-a sat ten-a doll' to me.
You try to take it f'om me, and I ocream."
Ten chances to one the man won't make
a kick, for he hates to let the public know
that he has been credulous. He'd get the
money back If he had her arrested maybe
but all the papers in town would take one
rejoicing wallop at him through their funny
columns. And it's cheaper to go un
heralded and unsung than It Is to get the
money back and win a staff of minstrels
at the same time.
John O'Sulllvan. who has been with H.
B. Claflin for nearly forty years, takes a
very optimistic view of the business out
look for 1909.
"The 9's In American history have al
ways been characterized by prosperity,"
he says, "and If the tradition holds out
and surface Indications are correct, 1909
will be a corker,. Running over history
you will find the panic of '57 was suc
ceeded by the great boom of '39. In '49
gold waa found In California. Pikes Peak
was discovered in '9, and the mines of
Colorado opened. In '69 the era of recon
struction set In and the prosperity that
followed has never been equaled. In '79
came another readjustment of industrial
conditions, particularly In the south, and
great prosperity followed. In '89 came the
boom that collapsed In '93. In '99 the
opening up of the Klondike and the revival
of trade after the Spanish war brought
another boom. It looks as If history will
repeat Itself In 1909. I wonder what great
discovery beneficial to the commerce of
the country will be made?"
"I don't know," said James Butler, who
owns more grocery stores than any man In
America; "perhaps the government will
discover a way to Insure the business In
terests of the country, an era of peace.
That would be a blessing."
Every person who has tried to prove the
conditions amid which the least fortunate
part of a city's population live has been
met with the anecdote probably a fiction
and assuredly not typical of the benev
olent landlord who provided his tenants
with bath tubs which they used as ash
bins. Seventeen years ago the New York
association for Improving the Condition
of the Poor established the Center Market
baths, the first cheap public bath house
in the city. The association was assured
that It was wasting money; the people ot
the east side did not want to be clean and
would not use the baths In the first
twelve months about 60.000 of these people
paid their nickels and enjoyed their baths.
Now the city has taken up the matter,
and there are eight municipal baths that
have coat over 12,000,000, and nearly (1,000,
000 has been spent on flva more In Brook
lyn. The New York hotels and restaurants
are comparing record a to show which of
them opened the moat cold bottles on the
occasion of the dawn of the new year. The
figures vary all the way -from 5,000 down
to a beggarly 750 quarts, with an incidental
record of two gents and one lady who
gat away with twelve bottles at a sitting.
No arrests.
When Iniaglaatlon Fails,
Philadelphia Ledger.
The modern world, close-knit by cable,
telegraph, telephone and postal facilities,
and atlil more cloaely united by the touch
of nature that makc-s the whole world kin,
ia thrllltd and sympathizes when over
whelming and appalling disaster befalls a
densely populated portion of it; but for
tunately and mercifully, the human mind
Is not so constituted that It can compre
hend the mraning of the statistics of the
desolation wrought, the human misery,
transcending hunan speech, of such a sit
uation aa thut in the southern half of the
Italian pcnlnaula.
Be Good and Yoa'll Be l.oaely."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Those tesllesa Cubana muatn't count iOo
much on t lie jbsi iui- of the I'nited States
troopa (roil) tlx- Island. It wouldn't Ule
Ipu.; Iu bili'K tlx in ail baik usain.
is desired by alt of us, whether It ba In the matter ot
money, aluables or ourselves.
It It is a question of money, can you do better than
your money In a bank of the known strength and stability
of the First National Bank of Omaha?
If It ia ft question of jour valuables, why not use the
Safety Deposit
VAULTS
ot this bank?
Three hundred new boxes have Just been added to the
already large equipment. 100 of them rent for 13.00 ft
year each. Larger ones In proportion.
Ftf st National Bank of Omaha
Thirteenth and Farnam Sts.
Entrance to
Safety Deposit Y salts
Is on ltth street.
FKIISOIVAI. JfOTK. j
From 56 above on Sunday at 3 p. m.
to 10 below at 9 p. m. Tuesday "sorter
Indicates that the weather Is going some
in the Omaha banana belt.
Eleven wera killed In a riot due to at
tempting to suppress opium traffic In
China, which was simply quicker than
letting them have the stuff.
Mr. Carnegie la getting on slowly but
surely. The total of his $7,437,600 do
nations ths last year is about double his
estimated Income from the residue of his
fortune. Ha la now 71.
To live nearly 104 years with hardly a
day of sickness is the record cf Philip
Brushart of Burlington, Mich. Four weeks
ago this aged man was taken III, and
Christmas day ho was compelled to pass
hla frlst birthday since reaching manhood
in bad.
Carefully packed away In several trunks
Lillian Russell has all the love letters
that ever have been written to her and
lntenda to publish them some day, but
the reassuring statement in given out
that aha will suppresa the names of the
writers.
Caatro announces that he may live In
Berlin, although there seems no especially
pressing necessity that ho live anywhere.
It will cost the fleet about $150,000 tn
tolls to pass though the Sues canal, but
as an offset to thla. Just view the com
pletely shattered record.
A case of autointoxication, a disease
rare In medical history. Is being treated
at St. John's hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Frank Sheridan, 12 years old, ate food
containing sugar. The food did not di
gest, but turned largely Into alcohol. He
waa attacked by convulsions, but will re
cover. Sir Robert Hart, the veteran inspector
general of the Chinese customs, speaking
at a dinner In London recently, aatd that
once, .in Peking-, he eat out a banquet
that laated for seventeen consecutive
hours. There were 126 courses, and he
tasted them all. Mr. Ward, the American
envoy to China, who tried to secure an
interview with the emperor, Hleng-Fung,
in 1859, tells how he was entertained at
a dinner that lasted from noon one day
until 6 o'clock in the evening of the day
following.
SMILINO LINKS.
"Have you digested your good resolu
tions?" .
"No, but I think my little boy's goat
has. He waa eating my diary this morn
ing." Baltimore American.
The Servant You got cheatnd when you
bought that chlny vase. mum.
The Mlstrees How cheated?
The Servant Why, it's weak. It busted
all to smash the first time I d roped It.
Cleveland Leader.
"Have you ever been icrons-examJned
before?" inquired a lawyer of a witneen.
"Have I!" exclaimed the mnn. "Didn't
I Just toll you I was married T' Philadel
phia Inquirer. ,
City Editor What do you mean by nay
tng in this robbery story that "Brown
was knocked down and relieved of a hun
dred dollars? Were you ever robbed your
Belf? New Reporter No. sir.
City Editor that account for It. If
you'd been robbed you wouldn't describe
the loss of a hundred dollars as a lelief!
New York Herald.
"Remember," said the statesman. "I in
sider myself a servant of the people."
"Mebbe you do," replied Farmer Corn-
Friday and Saturday
20 per cent discount on all men's, boys' and children's
winter weight clothing.
You can save money in our furnishing goods depart
ment. We have finished our inventory and find a lot of
broken lines which we wish to close out.
They will not last long at the following prices :
All our 50c'neckwear except blacks and plain colors
and broken lines of 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 neckwear, 35c, three
for $1.00.
Broken lines of mufflers, one-half price.
$1.50 and $2.00 silk lined gloves Adler's make, $1.15.
50c fleece lined and cotton ribbed underwear, 35c.
Other broken lines of underwear, one-half price.
Stunning Shirts
Absolutely exclusive in patterning. Made of the
richest and most elegant Scotch madras, French percales
and other fine shirtings. Made coat style with cuffs attach
ed and detached. Pleated or plain bosoms. These shirts
sold for $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50, sale price, $1.15.
Lots of other bargains in all departments.
rowningsTCing
& Company
R. S. WILCOX, M2r.
tnssel; "but you mustn't expect to put cm
as much airs an soma of the hired mi-u
we've been inectln' up with." Washington
Star.
Aunt Mnranrla (at her city niece's wed
ding). What Is that Inscripshun, Silas, on
thai there butter plate?
'vnlcal Uncle Looks tn me llk "For
Butter or Worse. Harvard Lampoon.
He These (classes give me a very Intel
lectual aprarance. don't you tlilnkT
She Yes. Aren't they powerful Boat o
Transcript. "That vivacious Miss Couply certainly
makes the most ot tilings."
"What makes you think so?"
"Why, I called on her last night and
she hasn't taken down her holiday mistle
toe yet." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Phntogr.ipher Look pleasant, please.
Sitter Not on vonr tif.,' im.
send thin picture to my wife, who Is aw
on h long viKii. ami i uon t propose to
bring her hack. Judge.
ti.Ot n DREAM.
Out In a sunset sky,
Fair as fair rou'il be.
A little crimson cloud
Sailed on a turquoise sea.
The day had been full ot care.
Of duties dull, of pain
But that cloud adrift on Its turi;io;rc
Made life sweet with Joy again.
Man had been full of strife,
Souls had been ill at eaxe;
But that crimson cloud on its turquoise sa
Wafted the balm of peace.
Earth was sodden and cold.
Feet were heavy with mire.
But that crimson sail on the turquoise sea
Set heart and soul afire.
Trees stood forth all bare.
Fields lay drear and brown.
But that crimson sail on the turquoise s-a
In beauty rare looked down.
As with radiance it glowed
On that far-off western rim.
I watched It as I stood
Out In the twilight dim.
And it seemed I was drawn apart V
From all things sordid here.
And breathed In eestacy
A diviner atmosphere.
It la gone from the sunset skv.
That heantlfiil Inr.,...
With Us crimson sail, but still they live
in tne neart and soul of me.
Omaha.
-BAYOLL NE TRELK.
(Eatabltiihm! 1871)
An inhalation for
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Whooplng-Cough, Croup,
Coughs, Colds, Catarrh,
Bronchitis, Diphtheria,
Craaolena la a Moon to AsthnuHtoa.
Dots it est Mem mora (!. to brattk la
nmedr tor itirnvt of h brMthing orni Uita
to wvk u ramadr Into in sioiuca r
tlrenoleno cans bexaaM tb air, nadarad
tronglr astlMptlo, U ouriwt ot tb diawuod
nrlac wtln mrr branth. sltlaa Drole(4 nd
oonatant traatnoat. It is lnTsluabl to mot bars
with mall childru.
For Irritated thro it
thrf) la notliinc btitr
than CrMokene AnliMplio
TbroatTablut.
Send go In poataga
for a.rnpl hottJft.
ALL DRUOOISTft.
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