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TITF, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: Jt.'LT 1. 100(5. Tim Omaiia Sunday m fc. rtOSEWATLR KM TOR. Entered st clasa matter. Omaha Pistffico as second terms of Brps ntfrioN. Pally fcee (without Sunday), on nr lW Dally Hei and fuixWj. on year ui 6undny U-e. nm vr Saturday Bee, on year MiMVEHEl) BY CARRIER. Plly pee (Including Biinday), pet week.He Dally Pee (without 8unnM), per week.lZc BAenlng Bee, (Without bumiay), per week. Evening Bee (with Sunday), lr week..lCW Sunday Ree, .er copy ,. K! Address complxlnt of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. ornt'KB. Omaha Tha Bra Vulldlng. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council blunt 10 Pearl Street. Chicago lm I'nlty Kulldlng. New York II Untni Life In Rulldlng. Washlngtorv-601 Fourteenth PtreeU CORRESPONDENCE. Communiratlona relating to newt and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Baa, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, etprese or postal order Itavahla tn The Mm Vuhllaliln t'limMUIV. Only l-eent stamps received aa payment of mall accounts. Personal check, exempt on Omaha or enstern exchanges, . TUB BEE PUBLISHING not accented. COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: C. O. Rosewater, general manage Of The Bee Publishing company, nelng duly worn, aaya that the Actual number of full and oompleta copies of Th Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed diirli.g tba month of June, 106, was aa follows: i at,TM 16 88,400 17 80,800 It 31,b0 19 ai.eio 20 Sfl.000 21 3140 22 31,860 2t 83,370 24 30,340 16 31,733 ti 31,1001 27 31,50 28 31,780 l 31,700 30 33.3E0 I. 39,610 I S0.TSO tl.680 t ai8o 38,070 T M.010 I. 81,900 I. Sa,4io 10. 30,680 11.. ....... 83,300 it ai.eao It..... il,810 14 .... tl.MO 15 '.. 6170 Total 964,150 Lesa unsold eoptes 10,496 Net total sales 643,654 Pally average ... i ............... . 31,456 C. C HOSEWATEB, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my aresenee and sworn to before me tbla 30th day of June, 10. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE, Notary Public. WHGM OtT OP TOWH. Subscribers leaving the city tern porarlly should Too Be mailed to them. Addreaa will It changed aftea aa reaseeted. OyBter Bay will place on the map. soon reflumo Its Thia session of congress cannot be called an Idle one la any event. Now that the rate bill is a law, the courta may prepare for a little extra work. The program for the Bryan horn' coming reception awaits the O. K. of the etar performer. Shaky stock quotations on Wall street emphasise the comparative worth ot real estate as an investment. A new military mutiny In Turkey calls attention to the fact that absolu tism la trembling in more than one country. Having escaped from Des Moines with its life, the Omaha base ball team will now proceed to offer the Pueblo Indians as a sacrifice of rejoicing. If Governor Ma noon succeeds in per fecting a political compromise in Pan ama he should be given a chance to work next on the Iowa situation. Senator Tillman's opinion of law yers is a Serious reflection upon the members of the South Carolina bar who have come Into contact with the pitchfork statesman. Senator Dick's resolution calling for American control of the Isle of Pines will fortunately come up In De cember, when warm blood is less as sertive than in June. Persons convicted of securing ille gal concessions at Kansas City are Justified in making any kind of a dila tory plea which will keep them out of Jail during the dog days. John Mitchell's decision to support the Arkansas law rather than the trade agreement with mine operators may surprise some people, but it is quite in keeping with his record. A prison sentence on Toledo Ice men resulted In a reduction of 13 a ton in the price of ice In that town. Where fines have been imposed In other rases the consumers have usually footed the bills In higher prices. Lieutenant Hobson's expressed fear that Japan and America will go to war may indicate a desire on his part to resume his naval career after gaining laurels in congress but the tight Is too remote to warrant him in resign ing his seat just yet. Congress has passed appropriations footing up 1900.000,000. an evidence that this country has grown la a few years from what Tom Reed called "a billion dollar country" to what Uncle Joe Cannon will very likely designate aa "a two-bllllon dollar country." Up to the present the dealers in fire worm ana tne small Doy nave re strained themselves well within the limit of the law. If they ran Just be kept within bounds for a couple of days longer, Omaha will really enjoy another safe and sane Fourth of July. One ot the boat reasons for antici pating republican success in Nebraska at the coming election is the fact that hogs are selling at South Omaha for mors than one dollar a hundred above the price of a year ago. This with an increase in marketing of over 10 per cent. Such prosperity as this does not breed discontent with the . policies of the party that aaade it possible. While President Roosevelt and the two hotiaps of congress have been grappling with many Important prob lems 'and solving some- of them In whole or in part, It must not be for gotten that there are still big and Im portant questions ahead. The enactment of the railroad rate regulation law Is a great step forward along the path of national control of corporations engaged In interstate commerce, but the last word has by no means been said as to national rail way regulation. The operation of the new law is sure to develop Its strong and Its weak points, sure to disclose loop-holes through which obstreper ous railroad officials might crawl If they chose to try And to call for further legislation to perfect it and make it workable in all Its parts. The vigorous enforcement of the anti trust laws promises to curb the most odious capitalistic monopolies, hut the numerous Investigations, throwing the search-light of publicity upon trade combinations, are uncover ing abuses which can be effectively remedied only by new laws that apply by compulsion to all alike allowing no one an undue. advantage over his com petitor. The question of dealing with the trusts and industrial combines promises to demand more attention In the immediate future than it has in the past. Closely allied with combinations of capital are combinations of labor, which open up the whole field of the relations between the wage worker and his employer. That the greatest wisdom will be needed to see that these relations are properly adjusted with strict regard to the Just rights of each will require wisdom and judg ment based upon broad experience. Another Industrial question ahead of us la that of tariff revision for which a stronger demand is sure soon to be felt. The principle of protection to home industry and home labor is accepted as a thoroughly established part of American policy, but the re arrangement Of the schedules when ever It comes will Involve all the local interests affected one way or the other by the tariff system. For the west, In particular, several other big questions loom up on the horizon. The management and dispo sition of the public lands and espe cially those unsuitable for cultivation and suitable only for live stock graz ing Is of the most vital moment to a large number of our own people. Closely akin Is the successful develop ment of the various irrigation projects now in the way and the extension of the national irrigation system to the further reclamation of tracts of land waiting only for water already within reach to make them habitable and productive. Affecting the same agri cultural and live stock interests, too, Is the question of national Inspection and regulation of live stock slaughter ing and the preparation of meat and ood products generally which has Just had the center of the legislative stage and which is not yet off the boards. All these questions are Internal questions apart and aside from the Important matters constantly growing out of our foreign relations and our acquisition of insular possessions across the seas. All of these are sure to press from time to time for further legislative consideration. The present pertinency of stress upon the big questions lies in the fact that the people of Nebraska are Just taking the initial steps to select the representative who Is to voice their views for six years In the upper house of- the national legisla ture. To pass Intelligently for them upon all these far reaching problems requires something more than a man of one idea. If Nebraska is to contribute toward their solution, the state must send to the United States senate a man in touch not only with one of these questions, but with the greater num ber of them, if not all of them. Ne braska can be either a factor In shap ing national legislation or simply spectator answering to the roll call. It la for the people of Nebraska, and especially the republicans, to say which part they want their state to play at Washington. The exploit of the French automo bile expert who has just covered 360 miles In 346 minutes, while It shows a speed that ought not to be generally permitted, is full of suggestion of the contrast-between the condition of pub 11c highways in this country and some European countries. The public road which rendered such speed possible is infinitely more Important because o its benefits to other classes and partlc ularly to tillers of the soli. In the matter ot railroad transpor tatlon remarkable results have been achieved here, but In the means of transit between the agricultural pro ducer and the railroad station we are correspondingly behind the times and the results in other progressive coun tries. It is a fact that, on account o the neglected condition of the Ordinary country highway, it frequently cost almost as much to transport freigh five or ten miles to and from the farm aa that many hundred miles by rail road. The very necessities of the wester farmer are compelling more vital in terest in country road building. Rural malt delivery, the bicyne, the automo bile, the rise of farm land values In evltably enforce the economic point presented by this phase ot the trans portation question. It is suspicion that there is so general a disposition to reform existing road laws which are antiquated and in part actually feudal and to introduce the beat modern methods. Radical change are neces sary, and la Missouri as 4 other nearby states sre already being made with most gratifying results. . There Is no mystery about the cor rect principles of road building, for they have been abundantly' demon strated In the old countries end are well known or are easily ascertainable everywhere. Many difficulties did ex ist In applying them hi the early dajs in the new western states, but under present renditions the only obstacle Is to aroufo public sentiment to the Im portance of the improvement. Very much in this direction Is lately being one In farmers' institutes and asso- iatlons and through the Agricultural colleges and experiment stations, but It jet remains to bring the available resources to bear in a practical way. THE THAW-WH1TK SEXSATIOX. AH that Is morbid, prurient and sen mentally abnormal Is excited and at tracted by the sensational roof garden murder in New York. The criminal culmination itself, the chief figures in the scene and the long train of antece dents are pre-eminently typical ot n morbid phase of luxurious lite and a startling suggestion of tendencies which, though understood by special students, often escape the attention ot the average observer. The disclosures directly or remotely connected with the affair tell a story of confirmed moral degeneracy surrounded, in whatever direction the curtain is lifted, with the atmosphere of scandal and debauchery, out of which noth- ng but evil could come and of which the brutal climax is only the natural and necessary consequence. On one side such a denouement is especially deplorable, for under yel low newspaper exploitation It oper ates as a malign advertisement, reach- ng susceptible and weak natures that might otherwise escape and being a stimulus to the depraved and vicious. Nor would It be possible by any treat ment altogether to neutralize its In fluence In this direction. But it should be remembered, and veracious representation of the subject will show nd should emphasize the fact, that the revolting phase of life thus thrown into bad eminence Is nevertheless an exceptional and minor phase, and that the Harry Thaws, the Nesbits and the Whites are rare departures from the normal and notorious chiefly because of their rarity. Monte Carlo gambling exploits, wife desertion and now murder have made 'the Pittsburg millionaire" a reproach n current sensational publications. Yet the rapid or unexpected acquisi tion of colossal wealth has not turned the heads or broken the morals of the representative American rich men, and we do not hear of the Pittsburg homes in which the domestic virtues and the honorable precepts of right living are exemplified simply because, being the rule and not the exception, they are not material for sensation mongerlng Scandal feeds on the abnormal, the strange, the forbidden. With the Judicial exposition of the details ot this mess of moral morbid ity will come an unwelcome trial of the stamina of the community, as in the Stokes-FIsk case thirty years ago, and the exigency calls for the exercise of the good sense and caution of all sane and wholesome men and women. svrnciKxT crop Moxer Notwithstanding the practically as sured prospect of a great crop through out the agricultural region, no serious deficiency of funds is anticipated be yond what the resources of the west can supply. A large amount of cur- rncy from the east will, of course, be calfvl for during a considerable part of the crop moving period, but the eastern financial papers agree that the demand will be satisfactorily met in spite ot the pressure from extremely expanded Industry and general bus! ness, and the financial exigency caused by the San Francisco disaster. " While the temporary currency call on the east for crop movement reaches a big aggregate, it is constantly dimin ishing and is immensely smaller than it was only a decade or two ago rela tively to the bulk and value of the crop to be moved. This in large part is due to the growth of the surplus funds and credit of the west. Throughout the western grain producing states the farmers are on a more Independent basis, not being forced by dehts to hurried marketing and having ampler storage facilities of their own. The available surplus, too. Is signally re flected In the Increase of western bank ing capital and resources. So rapidly has it grown during the last few years of unprecedented production and good prices that no small part of it is held as a credit in tne great money centers to be called home for temporary harvest and market use. The special requirements in the east under existing and recent financial conditions necesbarlly affect the west ern money situation, but in a far less direct and serious way. The extra ordinary reinforcement ot some 370,- 000,000 gold imported to help in the San Francisco emergency has been an important alleviating circumstance, lint country bankers throughout the grain reglou from the Canadian bound ary to the gulf, where harvest money demand is first felt, never were in stronger position than they report themselves to be today, nor were the Interests v.hlch they Immediately serve ever more favorably circumstanced as a harvest was fairly beginning. So far, therefore, as the financial aspect is concerned the immense crop now to be harvested wilt move to mar ket under the most advantageous con ditions for the producer, to whose re sources an Incalculable net hoard will be addea as tne result ot tnia year s abundant yield and good prices, which will still further reduce the future re quireoteat for eastern accommodation for crop movement, and the time can not be far distant when the west will In general be as distinctly a creditor community as It not long aeo was a debtor communltv. THE VACATtDS HAH1T. There Is no question but what the vacation habit Is slowly but surely get ting a firmer hold nnon the American people. The Idea that there should be some periodical interruption of the everyday work by way of diversion and recreation Is becoming more wide spread, and while there are, doubtless, thousands upon thousands of people who never get a vacation a all except in the form of enforced Idleness, yet the number is constantly Increasing who are able to devote a week or two weeks during the summer months to rest or change. Whether a vacation Is put to a good use or a bad use, and Is thus profitable or unprofitable as an Investment ot the time devoted to It, depends largely upon the circumstances in each indi vidual case. Many vacations are doubtless taken for which the person concerned would be better off in every way had he kept at his work, but for the large majority the vacation is a rejuvenation and a stimulation. This Is especially true for Americans as compared with people of other coun tries because of the greater concentra tion of energy and more rapid pace set by the American people in their dally vocations. The Vacation habit Is here to Stay. No one would repress it if he could. But what is needed is to make people realize that their vacation has a pur pose and should be directed along lines that will make that purpose prac tical so each will return to home, office or factory better prepared to assume the performances of his or her duties than before. RAlLROAti BVlLDtSO EXPAltSlO. It Is a significant circumstance that the current year, which marks tne climax of the popular agitation ror public control of railroads by the en actment of the memorable measure now before the president for signature, Is also notable for the greatest expan sion In railroad construction in almost two decades, exceeding even the record of 1905. when 6,000 miles of new road waa built. What Is even more Significant is the fact, disclosed by the official figures now given out, that the contracts for steel rails for 1907 de livery exceed by far the tonnage to be used during the current season. And new construction, as well aa relaying of old track, would have been more ex tonalve this vear if the steel mills could have furnished the materials. The national movement tor regula tion and restraint of the carrier cor porations as to their charges, services and responsibilities under the law was in full progress and Its general result at least highly probable a year ago when the construction and improve ment plans now being executed were formed, while the larger commitments for next year's operations were entered into in Dlaln view of the broadened scope of public authority and lntensl fled energy in law enforcement. These indisputable facts obviously do not consist wi,th any theory that notable Droeress in public control spells disaster for transportation cor porations, even In the minds ot those who, being identified with their owner ship and management, have opposed the popular" movement. These Vast preparations merely reflect tho confi dence and anticipations of the clearest and keenest Intellects In the world ot affairs with the best opportunities for seeing things exactly as they really are and are likely to be. I Omaha business men Bhould lose no opportunity to cultivate the new fields being opened to commerce in the west. The opening of Indian reservations to settlement and the bringing under cultivation of vast sections of arid land by means ot irrigation Is extending the market at our doors, and we must be prepared to sell to these new custom ers. Senator Benson wasn't very long in the senate, and will not likely stay great while, but he has no occasion to comnlaln of the treatment accorded him. Neither has the messenger ap pointed for his committee, who will receive $1,400 for his work JuBt the same as if he had really served. Judge Llndsey ought to find some way to accept that Rockefeller dona tion. If the children ot the country are as badly In need ot soap and salva tlon as the Juvenile court devotees In sist, they surely ought not to inquire it the money has the odor ot gasoline BBBaBBBBaaBaBBaBBSBBBBBasaaaasaBasaawsBBBBB With the Kansas campaign formally opened, less will be heard of the bumper wheat crop, as a part ot the people will be busy telling the others how unfortunate they are. Aad So Solemn, Tol New York Evening Post. 'Whatsoexer a nmn soweth, that shall h also reap." A funny old book the Bible, la. to be sure! ('at Hela It, Vol Know. New York World. Soma Americana are tn open a big de partment store In London. The Britoni are deatined to underxtand bargaln-rueh Jvkes at least. A Finishing Toirh. Washington Btar. It the Missouri doctrine that a trust, be ing a violator of the law, has no standln In court is finally affirmed,, there will, be little difficulty in solving the monopoly problem. laefal laatovatlaa. Chicago News. Eventually It may become the custom to precede the reading of the Declaration of Independence oa the national holiday with a lecture explaining what preventive) treat ment to against tetaaua prma HONOR tn KAIl.t RK. Trlbatea in the F.tperlmeater with tlaald Ale. Pittsburg DlepHtch. The death Of Charles B. Trlpier, the perlmenter with liquid air, brings out a point in connection with his career which ought to surround Ms rnem&ry with more honor than Is duo to Ms sclcntlAo achieve ments. Mr. Trlpler a demonstrations with lique fied air wcro so marvelous as to arouse high expectations of startling revolutions. both as to power and refrigeration. lid was himself a firm believer In those pos- ibilitlea and a company was organised to exploit them. But the commercial aspert of the invention proved a failure, simply because the cost of compressing and lique fying air Exceeded Its commercial Value. When this waa made plain two promoters of national repute who were in charge of the company skillfully slid out of it. It is probable that Mr. Trlpier could have followed their example. But he refused to do so. Whether from obstinate faith In the commercial value of his Invention or from purs integrity it Is stated by Ms friends that he used all his personal means In paying oft the obligations of the defunct company. When his resources were ex hausted his wife gave up the greater share of her fortune for the same purpose. Both have died, comparatively poor, but with the comfortable knowledge of unstained honor. It may be questioned whether a judgment elear from the pecuniary Standards ot this world will not recognise In that record a greater life achievement than if the in ventor had effected a oommerolal revolu tion and accrued countless millions as his share of the success. CONDITIO OF SUCCESS. Obstacle to Improved Municipal Gov- eromei.t in America. Minneapolis Journal. M. E. Ingalls, who went abroad with the commission which -undertook tha Investiga tion of municipal ownership in England, appears to have fallen into the unfortunate habit so common to Investigators of stat ing his conclusions before he gives his evi dence. He notes the success of a great many municipal experiments In Great Britain, but Immediately adds that the cause of their success is the willingness of many first-rate men to devote themselves to clvlo affairs, is not onen to America. The fact that Mr. Ingalls Was willing to go abroad at hia awn expense and spend sev eral months of toilsome adventures In municipal slaughter houses, gas works and electric light plants somewhat discounts his own conclusions. Mr. Ingalls Is a first class man. The difficulty In America will not be to find nrst-class men who will undertake municipal labors. The difficulty will be to bring about In the cities political condi tions which wilt encourage such men to hope for success In their endeavors. The English and Scotch cities fortunately found better than average conditions, of success open before them. They had no politics, practically. In their city administrations. They did not allow their local campaigna to become the tall to some Parliamentary kite. They never accepted tha theory that a man who was liberal In national politics might not work side by side with a con servative on a local board. We see how It Is In American dtleS. We have our absurd system of repub lican and democratic tickets opposing each other all the way from president to alder man. The organisation encourages this sort of humbug because it tends to keep always the earns crowd In power. In or der to smash a ring or oust a gang of grafters the. American voter must put up a big noise. He must vote "Independent." He must stand the accusation of "desert ing" Ms party. He knows this IS a bur lesque treason put up to scare him, but still the burden Is on Mm and he Is the man who la called upon to "explain," In stead nf the grafter he Is trying to down. Thia condition Is unnatural' and cannot always exist. The people Of Philadelphia stood It for a long time until they found that the machine had sold them body and soul to the, Gas trust and the traction corrfMne. When they rebelled they rebelled hard. They formed a city party which takes In repuhllosns, democrats and pro hibitionists. It is a great success because it Is logical. It agrees with the common sense of the people and they support It. It does not Interfere with their dividing Into other grours on national Issues. It fills the bill. It la what every city In the country needs and must have before mu nicipal ownership can be undertaken with any hope of success. When that la at tained the American people are Just as cspable of running their own street cars, gas plants and eleetrio light works as the English and Scotch have proved themselves to be. Vlptoey for Iaik and Publicity. Louisville Courier Journal. Push has made American men what they are today. It Is the great American spirit condensed Into a monosyllable. Hand In hand with push goes publicity as a motive power toward success. The (wo are ao close that It Is difficult to know them apart. The man of push la a champion of pub licity. If he has a good thing he wishes the publlo to know about It. If he has goods to aell there must be push and pub licity If he would convert those goods Into Income. What Is the use of having the goods to sell if no one knows of them? How are the buyera to be found? Push and publicity will provide the articles to be sold anil the persons to buy them. Push and publicity are the antldoea of stagnation and starvation. A Comfortlnar Statement. Boston Globe. The bald may be comforted In some de gree by the statement Just made by a high medical authority that baldness la more common among Intellectual persona than among any others. It Is of frequent occur rence among all who are subjected to In tense mental strain and It may occur com paratively early. With the Increase of civilisation tialdneas has become more and more common and one scientist goea so far as to say that since woman haa de veloped broader and deeper intellectual In terests she has lost much of the strength and wealth of her "crowning glory." Bald ness has become progressively more fre quent In women In the last century or more. Fsaeatlal Qoall Acatloaa. New York Run. The house has done well to reject the proposed educational test In the Immlg'a tlon bill. Physical strength, freedom front disease. Industry, ambition and a decent record these are the qualifications that should be required ot Immigrants. The ability to read Is no proof of the moral or economic value of the reader. An Advance Farewell. HrookVit Kgle. To those who are to die by fire and bullet on Wednesday ot next week and there will t scores of them we bid farewell, and wish that they might perish In a worthier causa than that of perpetuating the present way of celebrating the Fourth, of July. Time for Observation. Washington Post WMie others are debating the proposition that the world Is growing better, tba June bridegroom will soon begin to wonder when Improvement La tlm wlXe'a oookiag will be noticeable. Ippiswifnint J$p- This Watch $14 Fully Guaranteed SF.ftMOS BOILED DOWK. The highest service Is that which raises others. A little help Is worth a lot of talk about happiness. New paths are. the best penanoe for old wanderings. In many a burden Is hidden tha blessing of strength. Poverty cannot be Cured by making char ity a pastime. Tou do not have to empty your head to fill your heart. Ha never says anything who never bas anything to say. Meekness Is the secret of tha mainten ance of mastery. Tha only way to keep kindness is to keep It In circulation. You cannot reach the divine by climbing tif on your dignity. No man ever aucceeded In preaching truth by acting a lie. People who are self-satisfied are not al ways of a contented mind. Some men seem to think that repenting of borrowing pays the debt. The power of the preacher Is In Inverse ratio to his professionalism. They who do their own work Well do not need to apeak lit of another's. If you i are pickling all your pleasures they only may make heaven seem sour. Many a man thinks that he Is righting Ms wrongs when he only Is revenging them. Men who are too tired to think are always ready to believe that Intelligence la a atn. If all the rest of the world seems crooked It Is a sure sign that you need to set your self straight. Some people think that they are philoso phers because they can laugh at another man's misery. It takes faith In the depraved as well as In the divine to fashion this Old world to the heavenly Ideal. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AM) OTHERWISE. The "wages of sin" are often paid on the installment plan, sometimes In a lump urn, but they are paid just the same. The joys of Chicago as a aummef resort are seriously marred this season by want of cohfldencs in home-made sausages. The Toledo Judge who sentenced Ice mag nates to the workhouse has In his person the making of a genuine trust buster. Unprofessional who flutter "behind the scenes" In theaters do not present Im posing figures when tho limelight Is turned on suddenly. "The Greater Pittphurg" Would look bet ter at a distance If Ita millionaires re frained from breaking Into the front page ot newspapers. Who aaya the world isn't getting better? Here la a Pennsylvania philanthropist who proposes to devote Ms fortune to the found ing of homes for people troubled with the Ice cream haiiit. American apectators at the crowning event In Norway had their curiosity satis fied by visiting a place named Hell on the may. They found the temperature com fortable and came away with their fears banished. An eminent French Surgeon declares that most cases diagnosed aa appendicitis are nothing more than mucomenibraneoue ty phlocolitis. Thia is comforting, but It will hardly - satisfy those who were forcibly separated from their welner. The perfection of literary rot is reached by a woman writer In a July magaitne who makes a minister, charged with making moonshine whisky, exclaim, "A lie told to revenue officers Is music In .the ears of God." What blasphemy that Is! In a college address, recently, Senator El kins of West Virginia spoke of the ease with which wealth is accumulated and the difficulties attending Its distribution. If the senator will watch the distinguished lawyers In the case and observe the melt ing of the Thaw millions, he will bo able, next time, to Illuminate his subject with expert testimony. Good Pianos Cheap 31.64 g rC a Week A Week 1f ) At Hospe's One Price Store To sell quick and for comparlson'a Bake wa have decided to place on the market a big lot of good planoa (new ones and used pianos;, to give tha piano buyer an even chance to choose between buying a good plane cheap or a cheap plane. It's up to you to tnv eeilgato and take your own judgment when purchasing. Vou don't require a friend or teacher to help you aelee.t One price la our rule; no commissions paid to anyone, and our guarantee la tha best. You are aafe In buying your piano of the . Hospa Co. Over M.Oud people have bought their instruments of na In the last thirty two yews, and pianos sold by Hoepe In 174 are still in use. But they cost more money than what we offer you today. Hart) to beat is thia lott One Ft. W. Bradbury Piano, 18 cash, ft per month. ' One R. W. Sohmer Piano, toi- St down and 18 per month. One Rosewood Vose Bona Piano, 1126. IS caah and U per month. One large Herltcb Pla.no, 1140. IS caah and 14 per month. ' Six brand new Upright Planoa, only $1 90 each. Cash IS and IS per month. These new pianos are regularly sold from 1 10 to X3uX You save front 0 -Twelv new planoa. ranging In prices from ttf. W, tZB, I2S0, I27B, worth 6100 more than tba price we ask, to be sol I for '-t-'-ii or smaJl payment. Iteinember we have the high grade Knaba, Kiacksh at biatk, Kimball, Krakauer and other celebrated pianos, Whlob wa sell aa low aa U,e factory r talla them for. Come early to get first oholco. All Instruments marked tn plala figures. Good Parlor Organs for 116, 13, $26, ju and las. A. H0SPE COMPANY 1513 Douglas St. Om&hiL, Neb. Yea Never Regret Purchase at Our Store W sUgaWBSfflgaV g A Ms1 1 tSOlMSilUiSVXiBT. t DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY My Credit Plan paves the way to better things. The way to purchase luxurious ar ticles, regardleas ot yotir income. I extend credit of high character like all co Deems deal ing in commodities of great value. This Ring $20 $1.50 A WEEK A Dollar or Two a Week Will Do. 0maha;s LEAKING JLVDLER sS-T BEtTLArl SHOTS AT TUB Pt'LPlT. Indianapolis News: A Pennsylvania clergyman has asserted that George Wash ington never won a battle, but the news comes too late to bring any comfort to the British. Washington Post: A Pennsylvania minis ter haa attacked George Washington's record as a soldier, statesman and citizen. We withhold his nam from a desire to cheat him of the advertising he desires, and for the further reason that the list of muck-rakers Is already large enough. Philadelphia Record: A few years ago there was a minister in Wilmington named Ellwood who preached a sermon that In cited one of the most barbarous lynohings that has disgraced tha country. He has gone to Leavenworth, Kan., where he haa succeeded In two instances In attracting attention to himself. He haa written to the two candidates for governor demand ing that they declare themselves In favor of Capital punishment, and Incidentally de manding that Governor Hoch hang fifty murderers now under conviction. The gov ernor la opposed to capital punishment altd will sign no death warrants. On the score board of last Sunday's ball game in Leaven worth there was this seductive Invitation to attend divine worship: "If you ate a fan go fb the Presbyterian church tonight and hear the Rev. Dr. Ellwood line out a tew hot ones." ' DOMESTIC PL.UASASTR1ES. "Of course you remember the adage, 'Faint heart ne'er won fair Isdy.' " "That wa written by aome old fossil. 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