V" L Tim OMAHA! SUNDAY BEEi TCL? 1867' Tim Omaha Sunday Beb , , , KOVNDfcD BT EDWATlO BOSK WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR, EnUn4 at Omkht poatoffice as second elaaa miner. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday). one year.. II J0 loll Bee and Sunday, ona year J Vundsy Bee, one year jj sjelurday Bee, ona year 1 DELIVERED 1)1 CARJR1ER. Datlv Bee (including Sunday), Pr "J"JJ Daily Bp (without Sunday), par week...lo Evening Bra (without Sunday). Pr ! a.vening Ba (with Bundey), per week. Addrewa all cotnplalnU cf irregularltlee in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Om aba -The Bee BuMdlng. KoMth Omaha-City Hall Building. Council Bluffs li Boott Street. Chicago 1440 Unity Building. New York 1G0S Home I,lfe Insurance Blag. Washington Ml fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE-. Communlcatlone relating to news and edi torial matter al'ould be addressed, Oman Boa, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamp received In payment ot mall arcounle. persona', checks, except on Omaha or esstern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, aa: Charles C. Roaewaler, general manager ef The Bee Publishing Company, bolng duly aworn. aaya that the actual number f full aod complete copies of The Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during the month pf June, 1907. was aa follow: 1 38.130 IT . B,480 SS.SOO II M,4 I , Se,3 It 84,460 4 44,440 tO 84.J10 t g,410 88,810 ....... se,sie is, ae,eio T,.,. ... 84,830 t 85,788 6,B00 SI 36,800 t ....... . 80,400 IS 88,880 It 36,440 2 88,850 11 36,830 27 34,470 II 88,880 21 34,470 It 34,440 29... 34,340 14 34,980 10 39,450 II 8T.170 II 39,300 Total: . .1,044,880 Less unsold and returned coplea. . 10,389 Nat tout 1,083X31 Daily averse 33,187 CHARLES C. ROREWATBR, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thla let day of July. 190?. ISeal) M, B. HUNUATE, , . ' Notary Public f WHIR OUT or TOWN, Sabecrlbere leaving; ha city tem porarily' ahoala hay The Be sailed ta them. AddreM will ba changed eftea aa requested. July need not try to make up for all the beat missed in May and Juna. The Jlttla green bug nan evidently served its usefulness and had Its day. Whatever the railroads think, about It. i cents seems far enough to the passenger. Judge Landis might have varied the program by asking Mr. Rockefeller to make a noise like a rebate. . J acta kindly announces that It has no objection to' allowing Uncle Sam's battleships playroom . In the Paclflo ocean. That Washington weather bureau official who declares that too much sunshine is harmful must be a bull in the corn market. The local messenger boy who was robbed of 10 cents and a telegram Is congratulating himself that the robber did not take his novel. Sir James Barr of Liverpool ex presses alarm because the British head is growing smaller every year. Of all things a swelled head la an abomina tion. Some one has referred in print to our old friend, Richard L. Metcalf, as "the real editor of Mr. Bryan'a Com moner." What has Mr." Bryan to aay to this? A story is going the rounds that a man who refused to give bis name lost $1,000,000 at faro in Pittsburg. It ia possible that John W, Gates travels occasionally Incog. It might eav the expense of sending thw battleships around the Horn if the government should get Harry Orchard to the task ot patrolling the Paclflo and keeping out the Japanese invad ers. 1 "Roosevelt ! fr and away the most popular man in this country," says John W. Gateg. There are other mil Uonaires who wonld agree with Gates if they were certain of the "far and, away" part. Tgls talk of a duel between Senator Tillman and Senator Dolllver ahould not alarm their friends. Both sena tors are doing the lecture circuit and appreciate the box office value of real press agent work. Japan expresses a desire to show friendliness for the United States la tome effective manner. Japan can do 11 by calling off all war talk until the officials at Wabhington return from their summer vacations. William H. Newman of the New York Central ia a director of 119 cor porations. His nearest competitor la Chauncey M. Depew, who ia a director in elxtyfour corporations, not count ing the United States aenate. It ia no reflection on the healthful r.es of Texas that many life Insurance companies are leaving that state. The location seema to be very healthful for. everybody except life insurance folks who cannot gwallow Texaa lawa. Suppose the railroads net oaly sab mit to the 2 -cent (are laws enacted la the various western states, but also put In a 2 -cent interstate rate without losing money by the change where would that leave Governor Hughes ot JIcw Tork with bla I -cent far veto? time CQMFAST LAW-DtriAVCK. All v the . expres4 companies doing tuBineas In Nebraska bave undertaken by concerted action to ignore the rate reduction legislation enacted by the last slate legislature, which has just gone into effect, and to defy all author ity over tbem vested in the State Rail way commission. This is not an en tirely unexpected play on the part of the express companies and it will prob ably lead to a sharp conflict in the courts to determine whether this class of corporations is or is not subject to state regulation, so far as their busi ness within state boundaries is con cerned. The attitude of law defiance as sumed by the express companies Is more readily understood in the light of their origin and present makeup. These express, companies are simply rings within the railroad ring the railroads in disguise. For the most part they represent nothing but con tracts with railroad companies for ex clusive rights to do business over their respective systems, capitalized into millions and owned either outright by the railroads or under cover by the men who control the railroada. Some times the game has been played from the oUxer end so that the expresa com pany owns the stock in the railroad and in that way pours the profits into the game hands. By way of illustration, official re ports show that the Union Pacific owns 2,400,000 of the $((,000,000 of stock authorised tor. the Pacific Express company, while the remainder of the stock is held by two other railroads. In a recent public address, disclaiming responsibility for the Boston & Maine merger. Henry M. Whitney ex plained that the railroad stock stand ing in his name was held by him merely as a director of the American Express company, "who are the largest stockholders in the Boston ft Maine railroad." Official rosters show that Levi C. Weir is president of the Adams Express company and James C. Fargo president of the American Express company, and both are managing di rectors of the United States Express company, of which Senator Thomas C. Piatt i president. The Wells-Fargo Express company likewise is officered by directors of the Southern Pacific railroad in the game manner as is the Paclflo Express company by the officers of the Union Pacific, who are identical with those of the Southern Pacific. The methods by which the express companies do business with the rail road companies confirm the assertion that they fire "in and in" with one an other. Express companies are sup posed to pay over to the railroad com panies for hauling their ears and op eratives a fixed proportion of the re ceipts rather than any fixed charge per car or any fixed price per hundred weight. ' A law reducing express charges, therefore, reduces pro rata the amounts payable by the express companies to tfie railroada and glvea them a mutual interest In maintaining high rates and maximum receipts. Re fusal 6n the part of the express com panies, therefore, to conform to the new laws is simply refusal on the part of the railroad companies in a varied form. The issue raised by the express com panies is the game issue involved by other rate regulation lawa and will bave to be fought out in the same way. K1SQ OF THE BAlfDITS. It Is America's turn to laugh over the latest news from Morocco. The outside world bad a lot of fun at our expense in 1904, when Ralsuli, a clever Merrocoan and recognized bead of the Bandit trust, gobbled up and held .tor ransom one Ion Perdlcarls, who showed American naturalization papers. Rai gull has an eye for dramatic effects that would be worth a fortune to Clyde Fitch, George Cohan or Hal Reld. Every move be makes is planned to produce a thriller. Old man Perdi carls has been living in Tangier for years, waiting to be kidnaped. Ralsuli waited until the republican national convention of 1904 was ready to con vene, with nothing in sight but a rati fication meeting. He pinched Perdl carls, carried blm off to the desert, demanded a ransom and drew the famous "Perdlcarls alive or Ralsuli dead" telegram from Secretary of State Hay that injected the only thrill into the republlcm convention. The case was adjusted. Perdlcarls took the lec ture platform and Ralsuli was made prefect ot police. Now Ralsuli baa pulled off (another dramatic coup. He got into bad fa.or with the Morocco authorities some time ago and had to' take to the tall timber. Of late he has been sending In word that he wanted to reform and intimated that be would come to Amer ica to grow up with the country. Cald General Sir Harry MacLean, a British officer who is commander ot the body guard of the sultan of Morocco, swal-. lowed RaUull'g bait and met him by appointment, carrying gifts from the sultan and an Invitation to Ralsuli to get back on the reservation and take his regular rations. Ralsuli promptly made MacLean a prisoner and gave notice, to the sultaa that MacLean would be restored to bis former field of usefulness as soon as the sultan should rebuild Ralsull's bouse at Zlnat. give him $209,000 for spending money and appoint him prefect of police and gov ernor of Tangier and of Fans. Refusal to comply with tbese modest demands would be the signal tor eeadtac Mao Lean back piecemeal, an ear or two at a time, for a starter. Of course this threatena to produce another crop of "international compli cations." MacLean still holds ailed gate to England, while France and Spain will be drawn into the mens by teoson of their responsibility, under the terms ot the Algeciras treaty, for the policing of Morocco. This makes Raisull'a latest achievement all the more notable. A man who can Involve four countries in trouble over a little highwayman's exploit is no ordinary bandit of the magazine writer's brand. He is something of a genius who might have made a remarkable record if he had gone in for oil or railroad con solidation or any other form of ban ditry of the modern day. He will be worth while watching and America can enjoy It all the more, being in the gallery this time instead ot on the stage.. , FAiRntsa a wd risrssE. Looking through a telescope at the long-drawn murder trial in Idaho, an eastern reviewer of current events de clares that "Idaho is conducting a perfectly fair trial, which ought to shame a good many people who in dulged in wild talk only a few weeks ago," and supports'the declaration by tbese further assertions: Equally satisfactory la If that both prosecution and defense have formally expressed themselves as satisfied with (be Jury, a body of men who, for mature stability, sturdy common sense and lm perviousness to passion, command thonv selves to the country which la watching the trial. Both aides are ao committed both by prolonged scrutiny of the Jury and formal approval of it that whatever the outcome there can ba no questioning the verdict All of which reads very fine, but does not follow by any accepted rules of logic. It is possible that the trial In progress in Idaho is being conducted in a perfectly fair manner to all con cerned, with no other object than to get at the facts so as to punish the guilty aud vindicate the innocent, but a fair judgment on this is difficult, if not Impossible, by any long-range ob server relying wholly upon reports of press and special newspaper corre spondents. Certainly no formal ex pression of satisfaction by both prose cution and defense in itself stamps a judicial trial as perfectly fair. Everyone knows that while a case is up for hearing, the attorneys on both sides regularly make it a practice to Jolly the Jurymen for no other pur pose than to curry their favor. When arguing for bis client, the lawyer never talked to a Jury more intelligent, more unbiased, more disinterested, or more possessed of his implicit confidence. That Is a legitimate exhibition of the lawyer's finesse. Let him lose hla pase, however, and hie opinion of the jury quickly changes if he does not discover that he knew from the start that the Jury waa prejudiced and wrong-headed. Fairness Is largely a comparative attribute depending entirely on the point of view. In matters of court proceedings, it also depends greatly whether on is talking before or after the verdict OITJK9 names to farms. A new law passed by the Missouri legislature encourages the naming of farms and protects the use ot names adopted. It provides that upon the payment of a fee of $1 to the clerk of the county court the farmer in any county may secure a certificate setting forth the name and location of the farm and the name of the owner, and that when such name is properly reg istered it cannot be used as a designa tion for any other farm In guch county. There Is more than a genllmental value to this legislation. The products of the dairy, orchard or stables of a farm may command a commercial pre mium after a reputation has been es tablished. A distinctive name for an estate is much to be preferred to the present system, of designation by sec tion, township and range numbers. "The. Maple Grove" farm is more at tractive and more intelligible than 'the east half of the southeast ouarter. etc." The southern farmer has fol lowed this plan for years, but in the north, while the farmer gives names to the roads, to bis horses, doss, cat tle, chickens and children, the farm has no individuality, no distinctive designation. Why not name the farms? OKLAHOMA IS WAR FAIHT. It Oklahoma and the Indian Terri tory do not secede from the union and send an army of b a d men against the city ot Washington, it will be because the people of those territories bave greater powers of self-repression than baa been attributed to them. It may tave been all right for the Washington authorities to question the merits ot the constitution framed for the pro posed new state and to withhold con firmation, pending investigation and inquiry, but the latest affront offered would call for more radical form of re sentmenL A new federal census is to be taken of the two territories and oue of the misguided and misinformed officials of the census bureau has decreed that no women clerks of the department will' be assigned to the territories, because Oklahoma Is a new country and too wild and woolly for the department girls. This official be lievea, or profesaes to believe, that the census bureau girls would be subjected to too many hardships, and possible indignities. It detailed to aid In taking the new Oklahoma census. Oklahoma has a score or more beau tiful cities, with a society as good as that ot Dupont circle or Massachusetts avenue. - Oklahoma City, Guthrie, Muacogee and other cities in the terri tories bave splendid hotels, paved etreete, eluctrlo lights and all the necec aariee and conveniences of advanced civilization. The inhabitants of the territories are drawn from every state la the. ttaloa. Tbe larae ara aetUsd by men and women carving out their fortunes in the new country. The peo ple are honest, Industrious, wholesome and decent and the employes ot the census or any other department in Washington would be benefited rather than Injured by association with them. It would be perfectly safe, proper and perhaps advantageous to send the cen sus bnreau girls to Oklahoma, but we suggest that it would be far more advisable for the government to send to the territory the official responsible for the order reflecting upon the gal lantry of the Oklahoma men. peace oir the rACinc. President Roosevelt's decision to send a large fleet of battleships to re inforce the naval squadron on the Pa cific Is not to be taken as a war move, although prompted by the persistent talk of war with Japan. No one fa miliar with world conditions, particu larly with the situation of affairs In Japan, the game little bantam of tbe orient, will give serious consideration to the expressed and reiterated predic tions that this country and Japan must at an early day engage in a conflict for the control of the Pacific. Japan Is not seeking war, Is not prepared for it and lta statesmen are wis enough in their day to appreciate the hope lessness of a conflict with America. The international fuss over mistreat ment at San Francisco has naturally tried the temper ot the Japa and has given them material for a display of jingoism, but It does not constitute a cause of war and ny conflict that may arise between this country and Japan will be due to other causes. The hysterical literature on the Japanese question, however, has served to emphasize the s(ate of military un preparedness that marks Uncle Sam's position on the Pacific coast. In the event of hostilities between Japan and this country, the Japs might try to swoop down on the Philippines and take possession, ot Hawaii, using both countries as a base ot operations against tbe almost defenseless towns and cities of the Pacific coast and In flict terrible damage before the United States could get into action. This has been on of, tbe vulnerable points in tile American naval policy for years. We have alwaya acted aa though we expected trouble on the Atlantic and bave kept that ocean well spotted with American fighting ships, while appar ently ignoring or-neglecting the fact that a European war, It this country must engage in one, would naturally be fought on the Pacific. The transfer ot a portion of the fighting force of the navy to the Paclflo squadron is a recognition of the fact that the ad ministration appreciates the respon sibilities of being a world power and the necessity of being ready for assault from any quarter. The reinforcement ot the Paclflo squadron will doubtless be followed by a strengthening of the defenses of Paclflo coast cities and tbe proper fortification ot Manila and Honolulu. The great commercial battles of the future must be fought on the Pacific and America will bave to win its new victories in that line in the orient. While the United States is in no more danger ot an attack from Japan at this time than It is from an attack by Canada or Cuba, the adminis tration will be commended for taking precautions against trouble via the Pacific. . An Ohio mayor has vetoed an ordi nance increasing his salary from $1,100 to $1,800 a year, asserting that be does not earn the money and there fore ia cot entitled to it. That Chi cago physician who asserts that the world Is rapidly going insane should investigate. The declaration ot President Wood- row Wil6on of Princeton university in favor of imprisoning wealthy officials of law-breaking corporations la likely to cause Harper'a Weekly to expunge bis name from its list of ellgibles for the democratic) presidential nomina tion. Up to tiio hour of going to press no protest iias been filed by the city of Lincoln against Governor Sheldon taking an Ak-Sar-Ben degree, but it formal remonstrance may be expeeted by special delivery any minute up to the administering ot the sacred rites. Colonel Bryan's Commoner haa dis covered "that democratic prospects instead of being gloomy are bright and growing brighter." They will have to grow still some to make tbe democratic presidential nomination a prize worth competing for. ' Wonder how much ot that $24, 000,000 dividend distribution of tbe Adams Express company would bave been held out if the law reducing rates 25 per cent on shipment! by expresa between points in Nebraska were en forced. Former Senator Peffer of Kansas claims to bave formulated tbe first railway rate bill offered In congress. Perhaps, but no one is going to wade through all those bills Peffer offered in order to confirm or disprove bis claim. Every saloon in Los Angeles was closed during the funeral of Francis Murphy. 'o greater tribute could bave been paid to the man who de voted bis life to aa unrelenting yet nn fanatical fight against intemperance. Eugene Scbmits announces that be will be a candidate for re election as mayor of San Francisco and that he believes tbe labor organizations will stand together la hie support. ScnmiU Is do for a rude awakealag. Labr organizations In Baa Francisco and elsewhere are usually united for their common good, but they hare not yet shown any disposition to rally to the support of crooks or crlmlnsls. Toatponementa Won't Go. Washington Herald. The president Is willing- that some of his policiea go over as unfinished business, but he Is rot willing to see them remain In any such condition. Mavcrlcka Braaaed. Washlnglcin Star. Definitions of the word "democrat" are numerous but unsatisfactory. A democrat seems to be almost anybody noV a prohibi tionist who la opposed to the republican party. Tbe Millenium. Baltimore American. When the poor and the rich get the same Justice In the courts of nations, the fool and philosopher will drink from the same cup, eat from the same plate and Bleep In the same bed. . A Prophet Who Knows. Kansas City Tlmea. Although the Pennsylvania democrats refused to Indorse him, Colonel Bryan Is so optimist to in temperament that he would accept the nomination even with a prospeot of not carrying Pennsylvania. Vacla Sama an Ills Melon. New Tork Tribune. In reply to numerous correspondents we would aay that although there la a surplus ef ST,OOft,000 In lta treasury ths Uncle Sam Mutual Benefit company will not Imitate the Adams Express company by catting a melon. Simple, hut' Effective). Portland Oregonlan. Multitudes of men wheraver the English language la apoken will have teara of grat itude or Francla Murphy, who, by per suaalon, Induced them to give up strong drink. His waa a simple method, old as the world, but effective. The Limit. Brooklyn Eagle. Woman's inhumanity to woman Is almoat universal. Two hundred Mississippi mem- hbers of the gentler sex have signed a peti tion asking clemency for Mrs. Blrdsong, who merely murdered a man In cold blood. Frotection for erring husbands la what they seem to Insist on. , Army Officers and Their Oratory. Philadelphia Record. Every army officer who makes a speech has to make another explaining the first. But General J. Franklin Bell haa come out of hla explanations with flying colors. He aid tHe other day thnt there was a feeling In ths army that there was something wrong. At once the War department de sired to know whether he made the re marks attributed to him and If ao what ha meant by them. . Instead of the usual ex planation that the newspapers lied, he admitted making the statement and said that what ha meant waa that the pay waa too low and there were not enough officers. General Ball will not be court martialed. ACCIDENT PUBLICITY. Pelley of the Overlaad Iloata Coat mends Pobllp Approval, New York Tribune. Following up the original suggestion ef Mr. Kruttschnltt Mr. Harrlman has Initi ated a system of publicity under which full reports about all aocldenta on the Union Pacific, Southern Paclflo and Ore gon lines will ba given to the press, and Investigations of mlahapa will ba conducted In co-operation with, outsiders who may attend the hearings held by the railroad officials and make formal reports of such character aa they ate fit. Mr. Harrlman'g adoption of thla plan deaervlea commenda tion, for, even though Its value aa a means of reducing the number of railway acci dents remains to ba proved, It will surely help to bring about a better understand ing between railroad officials and the pub lic And this is an Important thing, for mutual confidence and respect between managers and travelers are indispensa ble to thoroughly successful railroad oper ation. At prnt minor employes era encour aged In laxity by the expectation that their carelessness will be known only to a few superiors and that it will be leniently pun ished. On the other hand, managers and superintendents often suffer somewhat un justly from publlo censure, which ought in many cases to be directed toward an un faithful subordinate. If all parties con cerned in a railway accident can have ths whole truth told to thein and about them, discipline and ayatem will improve with time. Man cannot, ba made perfect by the fear of public opinion, and not until the human factor is wholly eliminated from engine driving, switch setting, and track construction will accidents cease. But there are ways ot reducing their num ber toward the impossible sero, and the Kruttschnltt system will probably prove to ba one of these. PROUIQIOVB Gl'LLIBILITY, Prise Medal "Easy Mark'! Foand la Ohio. Washington Post. ' Ha is the biggest sucker ever born," aa he waa described by ona of his despollers. He lost something like 1100,000 In bunko games In New York, and how he did it was told in a magistrate's court In Pitts burg. The "sucker" was C. C. Davis, who is described as "a millionaire banker and oil operator of Marietta, O." Davis testi fied "that he was first approached by Ranger and John' E. Curry of Marietta last September. They told him that Thomp aon waa the dealer in a faro game In New York, and wanted to get even with th syndicate which employed him. Davis was Induoed to take 15,000 to New York, and waa to play la the game with the money. Thompson, it was agreed, would deal the carda ao that Davla wonld win 1100,000." The first night after Davla arrived in New York ha lost $3.0C. The gamblers explained that a mistake had been made, and that seems to have satlafled Davis, and on October 20 be went against tbe game again with ,135.000, and, mlrsblle dlotu! he lost again. But all that did not shake the confidence of thla Ohio mil lionaire. Braced up with faith sublime, ha chartered a train the next morning from New York to Marietta, and, securing 12,000 more, he rushed back to New York de termined to win this time. Needless to aay, ha didn't win a cent, but was naatly eeparated from each and every one of those 126.000. The magistrate who heard the evi dence deferred a decision for acme days. but it Is presumed that ha will dismiss the caaa for lack of Jurisdiction. A Pitts burg magistrate has no authority to punish rascals for swindling in New York. The most astounding phase of this affair la the fact that a successful business men, cna who had demonstrated bis capacity by ac cumulating a fortune In trade and banking, could ba Induced to play the fool as Davis did. His belief that the cards war to ba dealt ao as to make him winner of 1100.000, and his continued losing, his wild dash to Ohio by special train to get 125,. COO more alt this is a tale of such pro dtgloua gullibility as would seem to have turn possible place In the mental equipment of a ma a of demonstrated capacity te mak a fortune try legtUmata bualoeaa. method. Diamonds IVtP ) close.vx i l(Zft A EXAMINATION VV, I J J f Of my credit plan and of the 1 ' Fy ft I diamond market will prove that lyA' 1 p f you can buy a diamond on the y 1 '"'FSlI "Dollar-a Week Plan" now and I fT- iImi eet tnem for much less than the " 'Tl," J U ao-called "Spot Cash Prices." I 1 Diamonds are the Ideal gifts and 'ji'' V 1 desired by every one. Here is the hjj opportunity of becoming the pos- j Vl eessor of a diamond without feeing V" ' its cost. Each month sees an in- IV crease in value. 1 Ji IERMO.V1 BOILED DOWN. A good many resolutions die of heart failure. A big shingle often hides a mighty small business. No man possesses more religion than ha practices. When fear gets into the pulpit faith goes out of the pews. Smiles help, but it often takes sweat and tears to keep life sunshiny. Some are more anxloua to forget their aina than to have them forgiven. Many a man la ahouting his convictions to drown the voice of conscience. You cannot enjoy riches until your hap piness Is Independent of them. A little learning is dangerous If you are planning to get to heaven by degrees. The saddest people in this world are those who seem to have no sorrows to face. The long look within ourselves will "cure us of a lot of Impatience with other folks. When you pray for the removal of a mountain yeu had better say amen with a steam shovel. The last person to enter heaven will be the ona whose religion has all been in the first person singular. We often talk a good deal about the aal vatioa of souls In order' icr escap service for the salvation of society. Do not think that you have put an extra rim on your erown whan you have paid to centa for a to-cant supper at the church. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Anyhow, the valor of Young America atood the annual test fairly well. Old Bol was slow in breaking Into the game, but he la getting tnere just tna same. Howard Gould's wife persists In telling a dlvoroe court that she love Howard's money better than his company. Dan Hanna, son of Mark, haa coughed up (300,00 for three dlvorcea. Dan is deter mined to get the experience It It takes his pile. The Impression Is gaining ground in Ths Hague oonference that dumdum bullets are not eligible for a Carnegie medal as peace preservers. As an honorary member of the Amer ican Humorists' association Mr. Rockefeller waa in duty bound to give the prooess server a merry run for his money. Twenty-foot sharks and ten horse "power mackerels open up the midsummer catch of fish stories with a rush. If the Florida tarpons and California tunas will now come in, the veracity of marine' nature fakera will be put beyond reach. , A New York girl committed sulolda whan she saw the face of the man whose adver tisement lor a bride caught her. Advertis ing men owe it to the gentler sex to more carefully scrutinise the mugs of those seek ing wives In the byways ef publicity. A proud though poor Missouri farmer disputed the right of a motorist to ths whole road and was Invited to go to. He did. He went to the motorist and In 'staen minutes changed the motorist's face so that his mother-in-law didn't know him. Missouri farmers may have alfalfa on their backs, but thay get there just the same. If ona wlahea to understand how feeble and futile are the efforts of pature writers, let him or her from a ridge feast tha ayes en rural eharma of Douglas county in July garb. For miles in every direction the ar. tisane of nature's workahop and a shim mering sun are developing acenes of sur passing charm and transmuting the seed time of yeaterday Into tha harvest ef to morrow. As a spectacle the eolors ef ths country challenge pen or brush. ECONOMY! SATISFACTION! Thesa two words express th desire of every man in search of a piano. Com to the Hospe store. There you will find both, No matter where else you go, no matter If you Inspected the stock and the prices In every piano house In America you could not find better opportunities for the purchase of a safe, economical, satis factory piano than these offered In Omaha's big musie store. That Is a broad assertion. Is It not? But we stand ready to back It up as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Read about the spools! features of the Hospe plan of operating and then stop moment and think. Your discretion will tell you that no better place for the pur chase of a piano oauld be found. Hera are some of the thing wo do: Buy every piano fro 10 the factories at pot caah and sell It for one price under the Hospe equitable One Price, Ve Oo mission nam. Gather under one roof as great a variety and as high class planes as raa ho found anywhere lo the Vnlted States. , A. HOSPE CO., Wo da txptri FUn on Credit DOMESTIC PLE44 4XTRIF. ftella Did he pop the question? Bella Only "Is It hot enough for you New York Bun. "Blr, I have coma to ask you for your daughter's hand." "Well, young man, how much are you firepared to put into it a month If I give I to you?" Baltimore American. "And you will give us your blessing?" asked the 1 eloping bride, returned to the parental roof. "Freely," replied Hie old man; "no trouble about the blessing, but board and lodging will be at regular rates." Phila delphia ledger. , Grace And did you ever propose to a girl In a canoe? Kred Yes; and I'll never Ao It again. The girl Jumped at my proposal and upset the boat. Harper's Weekly. "Paw, why does a man have to buy a license when he wanta to get married? "Because, my son, the lawmakers lone; ago recognised the general principle that it is eauier to make a man give up hie coin when he wants to marry somebody than it is at any other period ot his Ufa." Chicago Tribune. "Well, well!" "What now?" ' . "It la eatlmated that the sun will be able to supply the present amount of heat for at least 80,000,000 years." - "Shucks! And I waa figuring on a latua in October." Washington Herald. "Reallv." said the coy girl. "I thin I'm entitled to a Carnegie medal.- I saved. a life the other evening." 'The ideal" exclaimed her friend. "Wboee?" , "Jack Hansom's; he said he ooulda't. live without me." Philadelphia Press, "How did your wife like that new hat you got her? "She was speechless with delight." "8av where can I get one Ilka It for mine?" Two farmers were standing on the road aide talking over town topica, when Silas aid J , , . . M "I hear Mre. Jones saved her husband from a drunkard's grave." Hiram Inquired, rDon't aayi why, how did she do It?" , m , fSlas 8ue bad him cremated. Jud go s Library. AS A L1TTLH CHILD. Baltimore Bun. As a little child they are leading him, For Ma hair la white and his eyes are dimj . . , , As a little child he is whispering low To the phantom frlenda of long agoj Aa a little child he Is wandering back In fancy over the golden track; , In the yeara that were and the days that fled He la dreaming the dream of the dream less dead I As a little child they muat humor him. When the hair la white and the eyes are dim. . Ah, do not Jeei at his peevish waya That try one's patience through dreary daya He's living ovsr tha life he knew In boyhood's valley of gold and blue; As a little child on a mother's breast. Ills heart is weary; ha waata to reall As a little child he must have his way. In this thought of youth and his dream ot play; He haa forgotten hla time and plaee And Uvea in the joy of an olden grace As a little child In the rhl)dheart spall Ha hears the chime , of the fairy ball. And thinks he Is young aa a boy eU In the rosy weather and country lane! As a little child, with his hand In theirs. They lead him forth aa hla fancy faresi His hair is white and his form .is bent. And his volee is soft aa a sacrament. When he call a the namea that are oa tTae tomb A a if they were sweet In the living hloomi He haa forgotten, he dons not kjiow He ian't a child ef long agol i Second childhood they pall It. Yea! Old heart grown 'young in tha dream of Play; Feeble tootatep and palsied hand Are lost in the vision of childhood lanAI He hardly aees and ha seldom hears, But ever the voices of vanished years Are singing aweet aa they aang of old In the rutes of youth and the fields 0 gold I f Bar customers the commisaion, tester's ' profit by not offering oommisslon. Mark each piano at the lowest eat cash price In plain figures. . Allow the privilege ef buying oa time at small monthly Installments, the only charge for the accomodation being a small I tu te reel per annum. Make our plan of selling so simple and straight forward that a child uattonded can get as great a value aa tha expert a musician. Do not be deceived Into believing one can do as well for you as the store. We mention a few of th sp makes for which we are factory di ulers: XBAXAtrxm, soaAirxcH a back BALI BUSK k fcaJfa. aTEXUsOsT, X.XT da via, OABi.B-aTa1.ao3r, tob, warraiT, kxxsb ncra? CBAMSB, Bto S to- Beautiful, new upright grand till. If yeu cannot call, write a convenience. 1513 Dough) V'1 TonlnJ anal Ibf.Irlo Hr 1 av