THE OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: DECEitfBUR 15, 1907.
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Charlea C. Rosewater, general manager
Of The Roe Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of November, 19u7, was
as follows:
1 37,000 16 87,430
t 3730 IT 80,450
1 38,600 Jt 38,180
37,920 It 37,430
1 3980 20 37,090
89,690 II 36,970
7 37,330 21 37,300
3740 21 37,380
t 37,890 24 4 36,100
10 36,900 vgS 37,690
11..... 87,630 26 37,090
12 37,730 27 37,340
12 37,380 it 36,940
14 37,360 29 39,690
18 37,600 20 37,690
Total , 1,133,430
Leas unsold and returned copies. 10,188
Net Total 1,113,969
Dally average 37,108
C1JA.KLK3 C. ROSEWATER,
Oeneral Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 2d day of December, 1907.
ROBERT HUNTER,
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WHEJT OUT OP TOWN.
Sabacribcrs leaving the city tem
porarily ahoald have The Bee
nailed to them. Addreaa will he
changed as often as requested.
Speaker Cannon Is not a prohibi
tionist by a long shot, but he fairly
revels In throwing cold water.
Statistics show that 46 per cent of
. the Yale freshmen use tobacco. The
others probably use cigarettes.
Colonel Bryan runs as well as ever,
but they seem to have lengthened the
distance between the bases on him.
Senator Tillman Is showing extreme
fondness for Senator Gore of Okla
homa. Probably attracted by the
name.
Reports that all 1b quiet at Ooldfleld
must not be accepted too literally.
Funston Is there with his vocal organs
in fine condition.
It Is unfair to Hon. Champ Clark to
recall the fact that he used to practice
law, at Wichita, Kan. Champ is try
ing to live It down.
"I am the servant of the people,"
Bald Speaker Cannon In addressing the
house. He does boss things a good
deal like a servant.
They call them "aisle managers" in
stead of "floor walkers" In the big de
partment stores. The salesmen call
them the same old names.
The new mayor of Boston was
formerly postmaster of. that city. Bos
ton can always be counted upon to
stand by a man of letters.
Democrats are now placing reliance
upon "Pronounced Sentiment." About
a year from now they will be placing
the blame on "Oeneral Apathy."
The Knox boom flounders ashore
agaiu every time It Is launched. Mr.
Knox never thrives on water, and his
boom could not be expected to do so.
It was natural for those Denver
folks to think they could buy a na
tional convention. Most of the polit
ical affairs of Colorado are run on that
basis.
"What Is meant by ' a bank's re
serve" asks a correspondent. Best
way to find out Is to try. to borrow
money from a bank without gilt-edged
security.
They have found a prehistoric mas
todon ud in Montana with a Jawbone
that weighs 100 pounds. Simply
proves that there were congressmen In
those diDB.
'Gus Thomas,, the playwright, la said
to be slated to make the speech nom
inating Bryan at the Denver conven
tion. Thomas simply shines when
dealing with material for light comedy.
"General Funston is always on hand
when there Is a prospect of trouble,"
says the Denver Republican. Funs
ton doubtless will attend the demo
cratic national convention In Denver
next July.
The New York Commercial says that
$150,000 worth of American pianos
and $50,000 worth of phonographs
have been shipped to China this year.
Apparently the Chinese will submit to
anything from America. '
"No other foreigner was ever so
rarmly welcomed at Moscow," saya a
Bt. Petersburg correspondent in telling
of Secretary Taft'a visit. That's
hardly true. They set the town afire
heu Napoleon vlalted Moscow,
D!vFOR.vrTr in food laws.
One paragraph of the president's
message to congress contains a sugges
tlon that must be acted upon by the
legislatures of the different states. If
any beneficial result la to come from
the enforcement of the pure food law
passed by the last congress. Since the
enactment of the measure there has
been much dispute and discussion con
cernlng some of Its provisions, particu
larly with the definitions of certain
standards. This was to have been ex
pected, aa there Is always a difference
of opinion among experts as to what
are adulterants and what are not and
what may be used with benefit Instead
of Injury. Aside from this difference,
however, the real good to be derived
from the law depends upon the co-operation
of the state and federal authori
ties In the matter of Its enforcement.
On that point, the president said:
The pure food law was opposed so vio
lently that Its passage was delayed for a
decade; yet It has worked unmixed and im
mediate good. Incidentally, in the
passage of the pure food law the action of
the various state food and dairy commis
sioners showed in striking fashion how
much 'good for the whole people results
from the hearty co-operation of the state
and federal officials in securing a given re
form. There must be the closest
co-operation between the state and na
tional governments in administering these
laws.
The most serious obstacle to the
proper enforcement of the law, to the
end that consumers may be protected
against unscrupulous manufacturers,
Is found in the conflict of opinion
among state food commissioners. In
some of the states the food commis
sioners have set up wholly impossible
standards, much more exacting than
those established by the federal law,
while In other states the commissioners
have adopted regulations so lenient
that they offer encouragement to local
manufacturers to evade the law and
render nugatory any attempt to en
force, within the state, the provisions
of the federal law. The national can
be made effective only by state aid and
co-operation. There should be no ob
jection and little difficulty in securing
the acceptance by state legislatures of
the standards established by the fed
eral authorities. With that accom
plished, the matter of enforcement Is
comparatively easy. The people have
faith in the national pure food law.
They appreciate the guaranty of purity
It has given them and are anxious that
the same guaranty be applied to goods
that do not come under the interstate
commerce provisions of the federal
law. The president has pointed the
way, which legislatures should follow,
to secure honest and effective enforce
ment of a most commendable measure.
MOSQVlTOKi AFD MALARIA.
Medical experts and scientific inves
tigators persist in upsetting estab
lished and cherished beliefs in the
causes of certain diseases and the cure
for them. The International Sanitary
Congress, in session at the City of
Mexico, has just made the formal an
nouncement that the world has been
all wrong In Its notions about malarial
fever and its causes. Since the days
when the first case of "fever and ague"
became pronounced the public has la
bored under the impression that ma
laria Is a disease caused by residence
in a location made unhealthy by the
vicinity of swampy ground or stagnant
water. Now, according to the Mexico
conference, water baB nothing to do
with malaria, but the disease is caused
entirely by mosquitoes.
This new pronouncement will proba
bly add fuel to the discussion over the
claim of scientists, first made some
haif-dosen years ago, that yellow fever
was not a contagion, but was caused
entirely by mosquito bites. The au
thorities at Havana, Panama and New
Orleans went on this theory and
cleaned up those cities thoroughly, fill
ing the swamp lands and water holes,
thus destroying the breeding places of
the mosquitoes. The result was the
disappearance of yellow fever, except
in isolated cases. Expert opinion is
still divided, however. While some of
the scientists Insist that malaria is a
disease resulting from a specific poison
injected Into the human body by a
mosquito, others contend with equal
enthusiasm that the cleaning up of the
ponds and water holes has purified the
air and banished the malaria germs.
While the debate Is certain to go on
for some time, the lesson taught by
the experiments Is that proper sanita
tion in cities reduces the virulence of
two pests, malaria and mosquitoes.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS AM THE COURTS.
Judges of the courts In different
sections of the country apparently are
acquiring the habit of rushing in where
more discreet men dare not tread and
are passing out all sorts of decisions
In an effort to ascertain and define the
rights of women. On the heels of a
decision by a 'Pennsylvania Judge that
a wife should, not rifle her husband's
pockets, a New York Jurist handed
down an opinion to the effect that a
woman could wear her picture hat in a
theater If she wished and could use
force to prevent her being deprived of
the privilege. Now comes an amazing
decision from a Boston Judge to the
effect that a woman has a perfect right
to ride in the section of the street car
reserved for smokers, whether she
smokes or not, and that the company is
liable for damages it she Is ejected.
In the Boston case, the conductor
warned the woman that she was get
ting into the section reserved for smok
ers. She gave no heed to his sugges
tion that she Uke a seat farther for
ward and when be remonstrated again
she told him to mind his own business.
He conceived It his buslnesao compel
the passenger to Uke another seat. He
did so and aha brought suit for daw-
ages and secured a verdict for $1,000,
which the company was compelled to
pay, the court holding that street car
rules did not apply to women, except In
the matter of requiring them to pay
fare.
The astonishing part of the situation
Is that Judges should rule on such mat
ters at all. It requires no Judge come
from a law school and a long ex
perlence In practice to tell us that
women have rights. The women have
already disseminated ample informa
tion on that subject. Of course, they
may ride In the smoking cars, If they
wish, and they will wish it if they get
the impression that these cars are re
served as a special privilege to mere
man. They will wear hats In the thea
ters. If their hair Is not done Just to
suit them, and they will go through the
husband's pockets, as a matter of right.
curiosity and habit. It Is needless for
the courts to attempt to define women's
rights. They have all of them, and If
thejr see any new ones they want they
will take them.
ECONOMIC LAWS.
Economic laws are as certain and In
variable In their operation upon like
conditions as are the laws of physical
science. New elements may be intro
duced bo as to interfere with the free
play of economic forces or to obscure
the action of economic factors, but the
tendencies of economic movements in
the progress of industrial evolution
constantly aim in one direction. The
laws of reaction and compensation ap
ply in economics In the same way as In
chemistry, medicine or biology and the
natural tendency Is toward a self-readjustment
by which every economic
disease works toward its own cure.
While to the thoughtful student
these assertions are almost truisms,
they are too apt to be forgotten or
overlooked by the less thoughtful In
times of industrial stress. Their appli
cation to present Industrial complica
tions is that while restoration of com
mercial and financial health may be
hastened or retarded by good or bad
legislation, while the patient may be
relieved or aggravated by sensible or
by foolish individual conduct, the cer
tain outcome is for things to right
themselves by rearrangement In con
formity with the operation of economic
laws.
That does not mean that we should
sit Idly by without attempting to help
ourselves to economic health by what
ever means are within our reach, but
It means that In attempting to help
ourselves we must do so along rational
lines, heeding the lessons of past expe
rience rather than Indulging in wild
experiments running counter to all the
teachings of history. Industrial de
velopment of the rich resources In the
United States cannot in the nature of
things, at the worst, be more than tem
porarily checked. A little time and
patience and a helpful lift here and
there, and the undisturbed operation
of economic laws, will find the wheels
of Industry moving smoothly, although
perhaps at not quite the break-neck
speed previously attained.
THKPrPSrCVTICN OF STOESSEL,
The capacity of the Russian bureau
crats for finding and prodding into
political hornets' nests is being demon
strated anew by the determined effort
they are now making to convict Gen
eral Stoessel of a charge of cowardice
In his surrender of Port Arthur.' The
trial Is furnishing another light on the
conditions that prevailed In the Rus
sian army and gives new explanations
of how Japan won the war against an
apparently all-powerful foe. With the
end of the Russo-Jap war, Stoessel
was hailed ' by the hero-worshiping
world as the one great general pro
duced by Russia during the conflict,
and his defense of Port Arthur was
credited in military circles with being
the one' notable achievement on a rec
ord of universal disaster. With his
half-clad and half-starved men dying
by the thousands from exposure, with
the enemy's guns dropping shells like
hall Into the heart of the city, Stoessel
held out for months, to the wonder
and admiration of the world, and sur
rendered only when, In the language
of his message to the czar, "We have
doue everything within human limits."
The German emperor sent an impul
sive telegram of congratulation and
admiring friends in Russia and else
where presented the defender with a
golden sword.
But Stoessel lost, and that seems to
be the only excuse found by the Rus
sian bureaucracy In charging him with
cowardice and placing him on trial for
his life. It Is perhaps true that the
war may have been prolonged and the'
result changed had Stoessel been able
to hold out a few months longer. With
the fall of Port Arthur General Nogl'a
army was hurried north to Join Oyama
and encompass the final defeat of the
Russian forces north of Mukden. In
his defense General Stoessel cites the
fact that his army was without rations
and that the Japanese had completed
mining operations by which they
would have been able, In a few days,
to destroy the entire town. This testi
mony la supported by Japanese offi
cials. In that emergency it must be
to Stoessel's credit that he took the
broad view of the situation and sur
rendered a hopeless defense in order
to save wanton and unnecessary de
struction of Uvea and property. By
holding out as long as he did Stoessel
rendered his country an inestimable
service for which he deserves a very
different return from what he la get
ting. Back of the trial of Stoessel is
doubtless the desire of the bureaucracy
to find a scapegoat upon which the
blame for the reverses at arms may be
placed. The Russian defeat at Port
Arthur and in the field, it Is now gen
erally admitted, was due very largely
to the fact that grand dukes and Im
perial pets had lined their pockets
with the gold that had been appropri
ated to buy clothing, food and ammu
nition for troops in the field and
trenches. They starved the troops, al
lowed them to go naked and furnished
bogus ammunition or none at all, when
It was desperately needed. The con
viction of Stoessel would furnish them
an excuse for the failure of the war
and divert attention from their own
looting. Under such circumstances
there should be less wonder among
Russian rulers over the lack of loyalty
In the Russian army.
EXCLUSION OF AMAT1C8.
Through Canadian sources an
nouncement is made that Canada, the
United States and Japan have agreed
upon a plan for restricting Japanese
immigration to this country and Can
ada. The report comes from the
Canadian minister of labor, who has
been In Toklo for several months con
ducting negotiations. His report to
his government is that a satisfactory
agreement has been reached and that
the three governments named are par
ties to it While it is known that Sec
retary Root of the State department
at Washington has had this matter In
hand, no report has been made of any
conclusion. The Canadian report, if
correct, indicates the final settlement
of one of the troublesome problems
before the administration and con
gress. This government's attitude on the
Japanese Immigration question is far
from enviable. Under former treaties
the United States accepts Japan as a
"favored" nation and is bound thereby
to treat Japanese citizens with all the
privileges shown to citizens of other
foreign countries. The Japanese have
expressed their willingness to comply1
with any restrictive Immigration laws
that may be applied to other countries,
but they object to being singled out
and being made the objects of an In
vidious distinction. It must be ad
mitted that the Japanese have the
better of the argument on this proposi
tion. Local conditions on the Pacific
coast are such, however, that It would
be unwise and unsafe, for both this
government and that of Japan, to
open the gates for unrestricted Japa
nese Immigration to this country. The
condition presents a rather compli
cated problem, but it is intimated that
Japan is prepared to offer a satisfac
tory solution of ft. The proud Nlp-
pons purpose, according to report, to
regulate the matter to the satisfaction
of the United States and Canada if
they are allowed to take the initiative.
While' they would object to laws
passed by congress or the Dominion
Parliament excluding Japanese Immi
grants, they will undertake to prevent
more Japanese laborers from coming
to America. If the Japanese laborers
are not allowed to come to American
shores, laws prohibiting them from
coming would be unnecessary. The plan
allows Japan to keep its honor and its
laborers at the same time. Such an
agreement 6hould be entirely satisfac
tory to the United States.
"Let the tariff on wood pulp and
paper remain and the more newspa
pers killed the merrier," says Con
gressman Sereno E. Payne of New
York, chairman of the house commit
tee on ways and means. Mr. Payne's
chief distinction lies in the fact that
he is recognized by the speaker every
day to make the motion to adjourn.
Japan and the United States are
said to have reached a satisfactory
agreement In the matter of restricting
Japanese immigration to this country.
In that event Captain Hobson's war
with Japan will have to be one of ag
gression and conquest instead of de
fense. Governor Johnson made a speech at
the Gridiron dinner at Washington
which baa marked him as a man of un
usual ability and power. Eastern pa
pers are busy telling about his quali
fications for the presidency. He seems
to have all of the right kind of qual
ifications, except the political.
Senator Culberson has Introduced a
bill prohibiting the contribution of
money, "or things of value," to the
political funds of national parties. The
speeches of the spellbinders and the
campaign literature will not come un
der either head.
Colonel Bryan makes it plain that
be harbors no resentment against the
democrats who opposed him In 1896
and 1900. If they will confess their
error and get In line he will allow
them to Bupport him next year.
Oat In the Open.
Bt. Ioui Globe-Democrat.
Associate Justice Brewer will have to
withdraw his remark about President
Roosuvelt playing a game of hide and seek.
The president has emerged.
Time fur Another Sob.
Minneapolis Journal.
Vncle Sam Is trying to stoD the nractlce
or atarvlna and torturlna cattle on th
way to market. We again tremble for the
widows ana orpnans noiaing u at railroad
stock.
Not Teariag His Hair.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The statement that Philander C. Knox of
Pennsylvania la tearing his hair over the
presidential outlook Is false. Mr. Knox
has no more hair than a billiard ball has
whiskers.
Tools ol Destruction.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The best gift for a boy, according to the
society for the promotion of Industrial edu
cation, Is a box of carpenter's tools. A box
of tools for a boy la all right In a borne
where the furniture la lee hard te saw.
WAUH WORKERS' INJURIES.
One of the Tltal Topic Dlwaased by
President Rooeevelt.
Chicago News.
Compensation to wage workers for In
juries suffe.-ed In Industry was one of the
vital topics olscusaed by President Roose
velt in his annual message. As to the point
thus far reached in legislation on this sub'
Ject In the United States the president had
to present an apology for his countrymen
He pointed out that In both federal and
state enactments legislative bodies, with
few exceptions, have scarcely gone further
than the repeal of the fellow-servant doc
trine of the old common law rule of lia
bility. "In some of our states." said the
president, "even this slight modification cf
a completely outgrown principle has not
yet been secured." Illinois is one of these
states.
At the main session of the present gen
eral assembly a bill for an employer's lia
bility law passed the house. It provided
that when the carelessness or neglect of
a fellow employe contributed toward an ac
cident suffered by a workman this "con
trlbutory negligence" should not be held
by the courts to bar the Injured person
from collecting damages from his employer,
But this measure, though similar to the
statutes existing In man of the leading
Industrial states, did not come up at all
In the senate.
The fellow-servant law was made by de
clslons of the Judges of England several
centuries ago, In an era when the number
of employes under each efViployer ordinarily
was small. It became a fixed part of that
collection of rulings called the common law
tnd In this way It was handed down to the
English speaking peoples In whose courts
the common law Is In forco unless super
ceded by statutes. But now nearly every
Industry hr.s become a complex process,
with many employes working In unison,
Under these conditions tho application of
the fellow-servant doctrine usually shuts
out the injured workman from compensa
tion for any accident reducing or devtroy
ing his efficiency as a wage earner.'
In Great Britain, the home of the com
mon law, which lias such power In the
United States, In New Zealand, Australia,
the Caps of Good Hope and Hiltlsli Colum
bia, this antiquated fellow-servant doctrine
has been abandoned. In place of It statutes
have been enacted embodying the principle
that since the employer serves the public
"of his own responsibility and for his own
profit," as President Roosevelt well says,
there should be placed on him the entire
trade risk. The employer, of course, there
by Is led to put the cost of accidents Into
the price of his products, and thus thou
sands of consumers, Instead of a few
stricken workmen pay It.
One of the purposes for which President
Roosevelt urged congress to enact legisla
tion providing compensation for injured
federal employes was to "serve as a stlm
ulua to the various states to perfect their
legislation In this regard." The effect upon
Illinois legislators of congressional action
of the kind Indicated by the president
should be Informing and Stimulating.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
If you must do It, hum In a low key,
"Every Day'll Be Sunday By and By."
The artistic Instinct of New York, ac
customed to ochre and terra cotta tones,
revolts at a splotch of Sunday blue.
' Walter Wellman has turned away from
pole hunting for the season and is busily
pushing a pencil or typewriter in Wash'
Lngton.
Answering the question, "What's the
matter with Philadelphia?" the Publlo
Ledger says: "Philadelphia lives on fried
scrapple and broiled tripe." Isn't that
matter enough?
Davy Jones' locker on the great lakes
gathered In 136 sailors and twenty-two
large vessels this season. Compared with
land cemeteries the inland seas, would send
an undertaker hungry to bed.
The possibility of New Yorkers growing
wings may force Chloago to take lake
water or imitation buttermilk on Sunday.
With New York and Chicago clad In
ascension robes, then surely Is the country
safe.
M. Alexandre Ular, editor of Le Petit
Journal of Paris, after viewing the great
white way, says New York women "do
not know how to wear their gowns grace
fully." M. Ular la not lecturing before
the women's clubs of the metropolis.
A Massachusetts woman tied her hus
band to the kitchen door so he would not
bother her In her housework. The result
of the experiment will be submitted to
the State Federation of Housekeepers at
the annual meeting. A live exhibit goes
with the report.
Receivers of the defunct Milwaukee Ave
nue Stale bank of Chicago, supposed to
have been' looted by Banker Stensland,
have paid dollar for dollar to depositors
and report a surplus of $173,935. Stens
land Is doing his plane duty in the car
penter shop at the Jollet penitentiary. The
record all around is unique.
Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, father
of the duchess of Manchester, has fore
closed his mortgage on his son-in-law's
castle in Ireland and turned him loose
on a cold, unfeeling world, with Christmas
coming on. The possibility of the duke
being forced to work for a living has
no terrors for Pop Zimmerman. Pop has
been worked to the limit.
A New York man who happened to have
a large bunch of money was sued for f'JO,-
OuO by a woman whom he hud kissed with
out permission. The defendant testified
he found the plaintiff emitting sobs that
thrilled his heart and In a spell of neigh
borly gallantry he kissed her tears away.
Tho court thought the result Justified the
act, and the woman got experience Instuud
of money.
Roosevelt's Corporation Policy.
Review of Reviews.
President Roosevelt does not at all be
lieve In smashing large corporations or
Industrial corporations. He recognises the
tendencies of modern business. Ha has
frequently expressed hlmsolf as simply de
siring the proper public regulation of great
Interests for the sake of the general wel
fare. Mr. Roosevelt's views are very differ
ent from those of Mr. Bryan regarding cor
porations. Mr. Bryan Is hostile toward a
corporation If It Is large. Mr. Roosevelt
is hostile to It only if It Is actually harm
ing the business community by Its methods.
Mr. Roosevelt believes the present laws to
be di fectlve In that they put the honest
corporation In danger of being prosecuted,
even when Its methods are beneficial rather
than harmful. .
Pull Better Than Anreatrr.
Baltimore American.
The ancestry of the late king of Sweden
Is a practical Illustration of the pungent
saying: "The first king was a fortunate
soldier. He who serves his country has no
need of ancestors." .Ancestry does not
count so much in this practical age aa re
sults, and he who can bring results about,
be be king or peasant, Is the man of the
hour.
Get Rlnt on This.
New York Tribune.
While various forma of the name of the
new king of Sweden are In circulation.- It
may be appropriate to observe that he him
self calls himself Ousts Adolf, while, if it
seems desirable to Anglicise or otherwise
alter It. nothing could be more fitting than
tu hleterio Ouauvua A.dolbus.
Something fior Mottling
Yes 3100 for $50
YOUR GAINOUR LOSS
A Hospe Co.'s Special Christinas Offering Saves You
100 Per Cent, on Every Dollar You Pay as First Payment
on Your New Piano.
No one has ever made this stupendous sacrifice. You get
actual dollars. "Why? Because the price remains un
changed, the lowest one price prevailing with this house is
the price made and this Christmas offer saves you $50 actual
money.
Read this; reflect! Can you pass this up, competition
can't touch it.
Every dollar you pay as a first payment on a new Piano
will be credited as double pay, according to the class at
designated.
If down payment is $10 we receipt for $20.
If down payment is $15 we receipt for $30.
If down payment is $20 we receipt for $40.
If down payment is $25 we receipt for $50.
Balance Cash or Easy Payments.
If down payment is $25 we receipt for $50.
If down payment is $30 we receipt for $C0.
If down payment is $35 we receipt for $70.
Balance Cash or Easy Payments.
If down payment is $30 we receipt for $60.
If down payment is $35 we receipt for $70.
If down payment is $40 we receipt for $80.
If down payment is $50 we receipt for $100.
Balance Cash or Easy PajTnents.
Class A
Pianos $200
or Under
Class B
Pianos $300
or Under
Class C
Pianos $325
or Higher
AVe will give you ample time to make your first pay
ment equal to the largest amount in your class.
Pianos! Pianos! Pianos!
New Pianos, made to sell for $225, we sell for .$145
New Pianos, made to sell for $250 and $275, we sell at 190
New Pianos, made to sell for $325 and $350, we sell at
, And so the savings are possible. We are one price, we don't
pay commissions. Every possible protection and saving is
made for you.
Nearly 500 Pianos to select from. Come now for the
Christmas Piano. $10 sends one home.
A..H0SPE&C0.. 151sSlAS
. We Do Expert Piano Tuning and Repairing
' 8 iR M bS S Biol L ED DOWN.
NO one ever gained force by butting on
frills.
Tour estimate of others Is often a verdict
on yourself.
You can measure any creed by its fruits
In character.
He who does what he can can soon do
what he would.
Some mistake converting sin's profits for
seal against sin.
The power of foes without depends on
the fears within.
Sacred things are those things that serve
life In a worthy way.
Tou cannot win men from glistening sin
by a gloomy salvation.
The venomous tongue cannot cover its
guilt by cslllng It candor.
The abuse of worship as an end does not
prevent Its value as a help.
There is not a little comfort In remem
bering that the man who poses as an angel
goes to Join them shortly.
The man who tries to preserve his vir
tues by putting them In a vault always
augments his vices by circulating them.
Some men think they are full of faith
because they are so fearful that the Om
nipotent cannot take care of Himself.
Chicago Tribune.
SECl'LAll SHOTS AT THE PII.PIT
Baltimore American: Now John Milton's
famous Bible is pronounced a fraud and
Its autographs of the poet and his wife
forgeries. Will not any traditions be left
standing among the devastations of this
microscopically Investigating age?
Chicago Record-Herald: One of the
preachers says that to feel like swearing Is
as much a sin as swearing, lie neglects
to explain how people may keep from feel
ing like swearing when they pound their
thumbs and when their feet aie stepped
on In crowded cars.
New York Tribune: A minister at Pat-
... .i t.mi j anil ml.
erson, IS. J., cans inn mmiiniu. ant.
vertlslng boardings which line the rail
roads and highways of that state "the
abomination of desolation." The phrase Is
not a bit too stronp. but perhaps "abom
ination of exploitation" would be more ex
actly expressive.
Boston Transcript: AVbo Bays that the
west Is a new country, lacking the set
tled habits of the east? One Bunday re-
cently at me rum """i'"1
of Burlington, la., Rev. William Palter,
P. P., who preached on the With anniver
sary of his birth, recalled that he had not
only been pastor or that cnurcn ror aixiy
two consecutive years, but that he had
lived In one house for fifty-five years. This
he built on the highlands up from the river
at a time when his neighbors told him he
was going too far out Into the country.
On his way out from Massachusetts, when
a young man, he passed a Sunday In Mil
waukee. There Rev. Stephen Peet, who
entertained him, said that Iowa consisted
of a narrow strip of good land along the
Mississippi, but that beyond this were use
less prairies and the American desert.
Hats Off to Yonr I'nrle.
Chicago Newa.
Uncle Sam, being a humane old gentle
man, Is going to put a stop to the practice
of starving cattle while they are being
shipped to market. I'nclo Sam makes us
prouder of him all the time.
It Pays to Duy the Dest, and the DEOT COAL Is
SHERIDAM
Mined in Wyoming, Clean, Hot, Lasting 57.50
VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1214 Farmm. TcL dug. 12)
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"What do you think.' "deorge?" began
Mrs. Stiles, "I dreamed last night that I
was iii a box party at the opera and"
"Ah!" exclulmed her, husband, "that ex
plains why you were talking so loud In
your sloep." Philadelphia Press.
Nan This Is one of my latest photo
graphs, but I don't like it a bit. It hasn't
my best expression.
Fan Perhaps, dear, you didn't have your
best complexion on. Chicago Tribune.
Mr. McSosh The doctor said we were to
take whlBky ami quinine for our colds.
Mrs. McHosh But I can't bear whisky.
Mr. McSosh And I can't sland quinine.
Let's divide tho doses. Cleveland Leader.
"I suppose you are going to buy your
wife a very handsome Christmas gift? '
"I don't know what to do about it," an
swered Mr. Meekton. "If I deplete the
family funds to buy Henrietta something
worthy of her 1 deprive her of the pleasure
of spending the money." Washington Star.
"So your daughter Intends to pursue her
studies abroad?"
"Yes," replied the self-made man, "sh
pretends she does; but between me and you,
I don't believe she stands the least show of
overtakln' 'em." Chicago Kocord Herald.
"No," gTumbled Mrs. Casey, "I know I'm
bail timpered tlie-nlglit, but my feet are
bother'rln me. a grate dale."
"! ye must bo gettln' nervous," said
Casey.
"I'm not gettln' nervous, It's Jusht me
feet both'rln' me."
"Aye! yer feet. If ye wasn't nervous yo
wouldn't let ulch llttlo things bother ye.
Philadelphia Press.
Miss Prim He stole a kiss. You see, he
was so quick I didn't realize what he was
about
Miss Wise Of course you didn't ilka It
at all.
Miss Prim Well, I tell you, he'll never
steal another.
Miss Wise No, of course not; you'll give
them to him after this. Baltimore Ameri
can. "I wonder why the snakes a man sees
when he's been drinking rnultiolv so f sst ?"
"I HiimxiHe because the kind of snakes he
sees aij adders." Baltimore American.
"I wonder why It takes pay day so long
to corns 'round," growled the first clerk.
"It really doesn't," replied the other, "It
only seems long when you're short and the
shorter you are the longer It seems."
Philadelphia press.
"Mrs. Jinks no longer In society T .How
Ktfange!"
"It's her own fault. She would be a fad
dist, pevoted to home and husband and
that sort of thing."
"Still. I don't see "
"Mv dear. I haven't told the worst. She
had a baby Just at the height of the bridge
season."
"Well, well." Philadelphia Ledger.
to the m:v uolu coin.
Vonr V. ,,1 Tim..
pon't think, dear Coin, because your
eni xorm.
lias raised a storm,
Our ardent love for you Is growing cold
Or faith less bold.
Although your lust Inscription make a stir,
I'ray don't Infer
Tho public means to ostracise you now.
We si 111 avow
In you wo trust, whatever be your brandl
And with glad hand
We welcome you. Come, let your preeenca
fill
Our purse and till.
In whatsoever guise you may appear
You still are dear.
We love and hate and live and die for yoa.
Constant and true.
Kings yield to you, and nations wait youi
world,
And heed when heard.
Take any form, but stay. Your absence,
brings
Our sharpest stings.
Though muttolttts, the scepter still you
hold.
Just aa of old.