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Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
FIRE RECORD.
Dining Room Table Plant.

FINDLAY. o., Feb 2s.-Fire originating
from an unknown cause destroyed the en-
tire plant Of the Findlay Table Manufact-
uring company this morning. causing a
loss OF SIS. 900, with insurance OF $50, 900.
The company manufactured fine dining
room tables exclusively. and was one OF
the largest Industries of its kind in thu
country. AS a result OF the fire 100 men
are thrown out Of employment.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
Breweries start Up After strike.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 23.-while the strike
OF $500 employees of the breweries of Gin
cinnatt, C~ovington and Newport has been
completes, Ii Is announced tonight that the
Will run tomorrow with h full
force, three Others with more than half
their usual force and possibly others with
small forces. All of the engineers of the
Germania agreed to stand by the contract
of the Engineers union with the pro-
prietors and disregard the demands Of the
United Brewery Workmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
Judge w. H. DewoIf.

VINCENNES, Ind, Feb. 2S.-Judge w.
H. Dewolf. aged 20 years. died suddenly
today at his home here Of grip. He was
past noble grand of the grand lodge of
odd Fellows of Indiana, and was many
years attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad company.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
First white woman in WISCONSIN.

PRAIRIE DU CHEN. Wis, Feb. "a
Mrs. Louisa de Champ. the first white
woman born in Wisconsin. died here to-
day. She was 10l years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
Rev. Brother Clement.

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 2S.-Rev. Brother Glenn
emit. who has been a member Of the Order
Of Christian Brothers for the last thir-
ty-five years, died today of pneumonia.
Brother Clement was born in Germany
In 1888 and stood high as In educator.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24

LIMA. o.. Feb. 23.-Ffre tonight de-
stroyed the Lima Steel Casting company's
plant. The loss is $50, 1000; insurance. $685.
900.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
washington On the Roll.

On December 2. 1854. George Washington
received the freedom Of the city for most
nIustrious services" The document was
Inclosed in a gold boz. AID spoke OF the late
commander-in-chie As entitled to the re-
spect, gratitude and applause OF every
heart which is truly American" Five
years later Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who
came to this country with Lafayette and
served as an engineer in the American
army and later drew the plan Of the city
Of Washington. was made a freeman.
The other names on the list are HOratio
Gates. Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton,
Isaac Hull. Jacob Jones, Stephen Decatur,
william Bainbridge, James lawrence. Com
modore Oliver II. Perry, Thomas Melon
ough. Jacob Brown. Alexander Macomb,
Charles Stewart. Andrew Jackson. George
Washington, Marquis de lafayette. Martin
Van Buren,. Daniel T.. Paterson, General
Winfield Scott Zachary Taylor, Matthew c.
Perry, Frederick Jerome. q common sea-
man, who had displayed great heroism In
q ShipWTeek and saved many liVeai David
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24

James smead has the edge over them all
in style. for in this he is the most unique.
James is not content to set his Parker
evenly NJ to his shoulder the way It was
built to be-, but he always twists 1t In. SO
that the left barrel Is considerably higher
than the right one. while the stock lies
over on q slant. smead has a very easy
position at bat, however. and does the busi-
ness. He is another strong first barrel
man.
g.. W. Loomis is another shooter whose
chief characteristic is great enthusiasm
Loomis is in the game for love Of 1t, and
maybe this is one reason why he Is such g
leader at the sport. He stands very ereci
and holds his gun loosely, caressingly,
Whenever he approaches the line. however
his opponents remember how he was runner
up for the cup in the Grand American handi'
cap two years ago. There was q field OF 2a
men on that particular occasion and In thu
run-up Loomis shot forty-seven straighi
birds from the start. He drops his guI
a little after sighting 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24
Never Leads His Bird.

W. p. Mcfarland enjoys the distinction OF
being the only man who never leads EN-
Shooters usually get the direction Of their
quarry and then aim from six to ten feet
ahead OF 1t. shooting them from a sta
tionary gun. so that the charge will meet
the pigeon at the junction Of the two lines
OF flight. Not so Mcfarland. He keeps
bis gun always on the bird and thus shoots
from a moving muzzle. and kills. too. His
system Is a puzzle 70 others, for no one else
can do 1t successfully. So widely known
has this Characteristic become that at many
shoots Mcfarland is registered up as
Never Lead EN-" and his name appears
thus in the prints. He has an easy posi-
tion and is one OF the best game shots here,
with two good barrels always At command.
Tom Kimban is the scientific shooter OF
the bevy. He has redueedV WEI teafuFN q
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24

Colonel J. J. Dickey is the Oldest shot in
Omaha today. TIL colonel carries his well
known martial demeanor and bearing into
his ~favorite sport. He stands very erect
and holds his gun freely. with the loose
grace OF strength and long practice. He
uses a Parker gun and favors his first barrel
somewhat, although he Is not at all back
ward with his second II Il is needed.
Paul Gallagher furnishes the colonel's op-
posite. being the youngest gunner OF them
all. He is not more than 10 years of age,
but is nevertheless a good shot and he
handles one OF the finest weapons in the
city. 1t is an imported gun which Gallagher
brought with him from Europe last year
and It cost 5000. Paul Is q very earnest
shooter. who works hard every minute and
plays his gun with = tight grip. He relies
almost altogether on his first barrel to
make his bird.
BILLY" Townsend, the old veteran. is the
smallest gunner in the bunch. Billy may
weigh more than a hundred pounds, bui
he does not look II, and he is also the
shortest man WHO follows the explosive
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-24

Police and soldiers are stationed at every
sorner to preserve order and prevent aeci-
ients. Many street cars are double-decked
and hauled by mules, a novel spectacle 10
the American. One can md amusement
Tor hours In simply standing upon the
street corners watching the poems carrying
huge loads upon their backs. taking the
place OF our express and dray wagons. A
peon toted our trunk. weighing 300 pounds.
on his back ali the way from the depot to
the hotel for the pittance Of is cents.
Sunday we visited the old cathedral. op-
posits the plaza. This immense structure
81 ancient design was erected some zoo
years ago by the Spaniards. All Of ST
Agnes church might be set inside and not
oil more than half the building. We also
attended service at Guadalupe. where ira
ntOn says the Virgin appeared once 70 {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Convict Farming Unprofitable.

Although Mississippi does well enough in raising cotton on farms worked by convicts, yet Alabama at length admits that convict farming is improbable on the big farm on the Tallapoosa river, and the farm has been, or soon will be, otherwise dis posed of It is for rent.
 Between floods in the Tallapoosa and drouths over the entire district the state has not done well in the farming business. It is doubtful in- deed if the authorities can show any balance at all that came from the Tallapoosa farm. Mississippi may make money in farming operations, but Alabama has not been able to duplicate her convict farming efforts, and the convicts kept on the farm are to be let to the lumber and the turpentine operators, who stand ready to take all they can get.
 No harm will therefore come to the state, and the change is but part of the reorganization of the convict service, from which greater returns are expected, and also greater care and sanitation in the convict camps. The keeping of 2,000 convicts, more or less, is not a light problem, and Governor Jelks is plainly giving the subject careful attention. Before he completes the task in hand it is plain he proposes to secure better results in every respects. The old farm Is to be rented because it did not yield sat isfactory returns, and the convicts at une mines are to be taken out of the hands of the operators because the death rate has been too high-at least five times too high. Governor Jelks bids fair to be known both as a bus mess and as a humane governor, a combination and consummation de- voutly to be wished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
REEDS LIFE IN NEW YORK.

New York Cor. in Philadelphia Press.
 MT Reeds brief life as citizen of New York was doubtless in many respects the happiest of his manhood. He was fond of saying that, after all, the dreamy and TO- mantle days of the college are likely to be the happiest of ones life, since then there are no suspicious, little knowledge of mems weakness or the desperate in- roads upon friendship which ambition or avarice can make. He was intensely in- terested in the wonderful material activ ity of New York, involving as it does very great intellectual power. Intellectual processes of every kind were always fascinating to MT. Reed and the ability which consummated great things charm ed him far more than did the things that had been accomplished. It was a marvel to him that men could play upon the delicate, far-stretching chards of finance without producing constant oiscord. The swift, magnificent grasp of opportunities or even the creation of them by those who have combined greatly in the world of industry or of transportation was constant attraction for MT. Reed, al- though he fully understood that this was a work which was denied one of his in- tellectual power. He would have been glad had he known how to be a man of action. He knew he was no more than a legal critic. He was not acquisitive, and it was only late in life that he had any clear perception of the qualification which independence in a pecuniary sense gives It has been said of him that he came to l New York because he was tired of being poor" but that does not accurately ex- | press the purposes of the temptations which brought MT. Reed here. He was a little tired of the friction, the jealousies and some of the benumbing influences that are in the train of great political ambition. He had seen all he cared to see, at least as a participant, in the diplo- macies and disciplining and organization of politics. He coveted an association where he could meet men of high intel lectual power and apart from the super ficial atmosphere of perfunctory courtesy which is characteristic of much of Wash ington life
 He found exactly what he sought in this city He was content and, therefore happy here. He could not have gained & pre-eminent place at the bar of New York, for, while he was a good lawyer, he was not great one when he began practice here, but he was sure of profess sional employment that would be congen- ial,. of an income from which much could be saved and of the companionship of his much loved books and of those whom he called living books, who were the men of great achievements w--.l whom he found associations, not as a rival, but as a much welcomed equal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
IN HOTEL LoBBIBs.
Meklnley,e Popularity.

..TheTe is no doubt but that Mckinley had won the hearts of the southern peo- r1e at the time of his death" said a eitl- zen yesterday.
 This fact was proven by a little incl dent at one of the theatres last week. A man was singing some Illustrated songs-that is to say, as he sang pictures Illustrating the song were thrown on the stage curtain from a lantern in the gal lery. One of the songs was Every Race Hss a Flag But the Coon While singing 1t. pictures of various national flags were shown, including those of all the princi- al countries. As the flag of Germany or Scotland or Ireland was shown there would be applause, and the number of persons in the audience who were de- scendod from each country could be told by its volume.
 Finally a picture of Mckinley was thrown On the screen and the applause was deafening. It was hearty. spontane- ous and genuine, showing that Mckinley as truly popular with the people of Bir- mingham, at least I think this is true of the entire south. Birmingham is cosmopolitan city. and probably nlne- tenths of that audience were democrats. yet they were enthusiastic over McKin- ley. He first won the hearts of the south- erners by proposing that tho national government should care for the graves of the confederates. Southern pride would not allow this. but still the southern heart was touched. as 1t always is by an act of generosity and McKinley's great popularity in the south is largely due to this He was undoubtedly a man of much tact. and there are many other things W hich might be said to explain why he is the frst republican President to be loved by the southerners."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Ivnhold and nrInklnn Water.

Dr. A. Siebert of the New York Polyclinic discusses in a recent num- Der of the New York Medical Jour nal the relations of typhoid fever and drinking water, employing many illus trations and numerous statistics gath cred from trustworthy sources.
 He shows to begin with that ty- phoid Is not confined to any particu- lar months-that all months are pro- ductive of typhoid patients. He shows, too, that typhoid infection takes place, as a rule, two weeks before it is recognized. He then proceeds to show by a variety of facts and figures that the common chief carrier of ty- phoid infection, both here and abroad, is the drinking water
 It is difficult in a short article to summarize the typhoid statistics that Dr. Siebert presents, but in substance he shows that towns that have pure water supplies have low typhoid mor- tality rates-one a year, say, in 5000 In 1891, in Chicago, one in every 45O died of typhoid fever, but as the wa ter supply was bettered the mortality was reduced. It stood in 1900 at one in every 5000 Between 1843 and 1853 the rate in Berlin was to 900 inhabitants; 1t is now to about 50,- 900, on account of the installation of new waterworks with Altering plants. The like effects of filter-beds Is shown in Hamburg, Hanover, Breslan and Madgeburg. The mortality in Ham. burg is but 1 in 60,000. We need not follow farther Dr. Siebert's facts and figures. His conclusions are as fol- lows:
 1. That all rivers, creeks, brooks and lakes in populated districts of the United States and Germany, have long since become permanently infect ed by the typhoid bacillus"
 2. The chief carrier of the typhoid germs into the human system "is the drinking water of cities and towns"
 8. All cities and towns which are  compelled to take their drinking wa ter from lakes, rivers or brooks ''are in duty bound to clean the same by central sand filtration at the water works"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Colonel John On Birmingham.

Col l.. w. John of Birmingham, who has been visiting his old home in Wales. is about to return to the home of his a delightful visit abroad, but that he will be rejoiced to get back to Alabama.
 Colonel John received an ovation at Pontypridd. There was a large gathering in his honor at the Pontypridd Liberal club a month ago. The Chronicle of that town devotes a column and half of it's space to an account of the meeting and Colonel Johns speech and in an editorial had this to say:
 'The visit of Colonel Llewelyn John to Pontypridd, after an absence of many years, is of more than passing interest, his address at the Liberal club on Wednesday night proving an instructive comparison between the development of the old world and the new. The colonel left Pontypridd thirty-flve years ago, and after visiting many parts of the United States, eventually settled down at Br- mingham. Ala, about 1880. At that time it was a cotton village, with a sparse population Today it is one of the, finest towns in the United States, having a population of 15oOOO, and equipped in every way as a modern city. Electric cars run through its streets, 1t Is elec- tricaly lighted. is in connection with fif- teen railroads to extend its commerce; churches. chapeis, theatres, handsome municipal buildings have sprung up, and 1t may be said to be at once an industrial and artistic centre.''
 Another Welsh paper, the Western Mail, gives an elaborate report of a com plimentary concert in honor of Colonel John, Still another paper publishes an interview in which the colonel speaks of "Birminghan's 150O00 population" and tells of "14,OOOOOO tons of coal mined an- nually' in the Birmingham district Colo mel John is one of the most popular men who has ever lived in Jefferson county and no one has a greater gift of elo- quence in telling the world about the re- sources of this section. He will meet with an enthusiastic welcome when he comes back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Fashions Never Return.

''The man or woman, 1t is sain. who ruts clothes away will see them come back into fashion if he or she waits long enough" remarked man in the lobby. At least this is popularly supposed to be the case, but it is really not so. Tor in- stance, where is the poke bonnet and when is 1t coming back Into fashion? Probably never. It is the most essentially feminine thing I know of, and no man could over resist a woman in a poke bon~ net; bu. venture to say 1t will never come into use again.
 "There may come q time when women will wear hats with some of the features of the poke bonnet, but a marked style once gone by Is never revived exactly as 1t was. No woman who ever took out her wedding gown from its camphor-sccnted box and glanced 1t over would be willing at any subsequent period of her fife to wear 1t to an entertainment. It Is passe, and so is every article of wearing ap- parel which is once sighted by the god dess of fashion. It is no use to save your clothes, whether they have ever been worn or not. They will never be again in fashion. Tailors and dressmakers know a thing or two, and there will always be some little quirk or curve which bars an antique from masquerading as something up-to-date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
Who Owns the Air?

One R. W. Smith of New Jersey has started a movement that may re- solve itself into an air trust, for all things in New Jersey drift in the trust direction. MT. Smith-R. w. Smith, to be more definite-owned a piece of land, and a telephone com pany attempted to stretch a wire across that land, holding in it's cor porate and alleged mind that the air is free, and it proceeded to do as it intended to do. MT. Smith went to law about it. He took the New ter sey law on it, in other words, and the result was that he was declared the owner of the air above that soil really an old common law rule of law. So far as we know the title to the stars above that land was not adjudi- cated in New Jersey.
 The New Jersey decision Is far reaching. It affects Santos-Dumont and his flying machines. He can sail over no land legally except those pieces over which he had secured a right of way. And so with the man who burns soft coal, or keeps a tan yard. The one can drop no soot in the air except by permission of the landowner on the earth, and the other cannot perfume that air except by like consent and authority. Smith, in other words, owns a given strip ex. tending from the center of the earth to the moon at least.
 This renders an air trust feasible, practicable and even profitable, for profits are the end and aim of all trusts. The trust that buys the air of city or county certainly has Q commodity that will in time become very valuable-that can even now be turned to account. It can levy tolls upon the telegraph and telephone companies, upon the railroads that in 1uriously affect the air either by soo' or shrill whistles; upon the factories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15
ANDREW CARNEGIE BACK
 HOME RESTORED IN HEALTH

was immediately driven to his new house, at Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street.
 One of the first questions Mir. Carnegie asked the reporters was, How is the supply of coal in New York;"
 When told that there was a scarcity he vent on:
 That is pity. If New York allows rituminoEs coal to get a foothold the city will lose one Of her most Important claims to pre-eminence among the worlds great cities, her pure atmosphere. Only one who like myself has spent the greater part of his life in a city like Pittsburg can speak advisedIy of the evils of soft ocaI No ouretive legislation can do away with them. Why, in London they have a most stringent smoke law. but lay in London two weeks and never saw the sun. If anthracite cannot be had we must face the evil. but hope it will not come to that"
 Mir. Carnegie then remarked that he was glad to see that Corenlius Vanderbilt was better
 He is a worthy son of worthy sire. and the country cannot afford to lose young men of his capabilities" he said.
 MT. Carnegie was then asked what he thought of President Roosevelt's mes- sage.
 The President, he said, had wisely ohos- en middle course. He thought the trusts necessary creations.
 Tt is for the notion to spank the had ones. putting it plainly" he said, "and to look out for the good ones. All trusts are not bad, neither are all trusts good. Attorney General Knox was shown that there are laws in existence which can cor rect abuses, and has pointed out some examples. It is the part of wisdom not to hurry matters, but let them devoIep so that the trust situation can be more ac- curaely gauged as we see more of them"
 Speaking of foreign commerce. he said:
 Foreign commerce is a braggart The home commerce Is much more important. We consume 96 per cent of our products. Two Americans are advantaged where there is an exchange of commodities at home. But If you send the commodity abroad advantages accrues to only one American"
 DSioie HIS Wlle Hlterrupteu the lnter- view, to prevent him from becoming fa- tigued, he was asked about King Ed- wards visit to Skibo Castle, and the democratic time they are said to have had together while there. He remarked that, as King Edward came as guest to his home, there was nothing else for him to do but have a democratic time. He added that King Edward was a good friend of the United States.
 Before he went to his stateroom, MT. Carnegie good naturedly acceded to the importunities of the newspaper photo- graphers for an opportunity to take his picture. He sat patiently while several pictures were taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-15

sporting editor of the Montgomery Ad- vertiser, is at the Morris
 J. + Clarke of Louisville is at the Metropolitan.
 P. J. Boggan of New York is at the Metropolitan.
 c. W. Morgan of Atlanta is registered at the Metropolitan.
 E. P. Loveman of Tuscaloosa Is at the Morris
 R. c. scruggs of New Orleans is at the Metropolitan.
 W. ". Simpson of Augusta Ga, Is the Metropolitan.
 Gerald Ware of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 W. W. Screws, IT,, sporting editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, and w. J. Armstrong. sporting editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. are at the Nor ris