THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 11, 100a
Tim Omaiia Sunday Brj
FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSKWATER.
VICTOR ROBE WATER, EDITOR.
Entered nt Omaht poatofrice si second
class matter
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Dally Fee (without Sunday), one year. .$4 .W
Daily Uea and Hunilaj', on year 0
buiiilny lit, one year 60
Saturday Hee.. one year
DEUVKRED BT CARRIER.
Dally He (Including Sunday), F' wee.. loo
lHlly Bee (without Sunrtavi, per week..liM
1- venlng Bert (without Sunday), per week 6o
Evening Dee (with 8uncln , per week..l'c
Address complaints of irregularities in de
livery to City Circulating Department.
OFFICES.
Omaha The Bee building.
Pnnth Omaha City Hal! building.
Council Rluffs 10 Pearl street.
Chloago1640 Unity building.
New Vork-lPnS Home Lire In, building.
Washington 601 Fourteenth street.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communications relating to news and edi
torial matter should be addressed: Omaha,
Bee, Editorial Department.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft, express or postal order
payable to The Bee Publishing rompany.
Only J-cent stamps received aa payment of
mall accounts. Personal checks, except on
Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted.
THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
Charles ('. Rosewater, general manager of
The Bee Publishing conipiinv, being duly
sworn, nays that the actual number of full
and complete cnples of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Be printed during the
iiiumn oi uvtooer, woo, was as iouuw
1 30,680
17 30.830
IS 30,930
If 31,390
1 30,800
1 30,800
30,730
1 30,760
31.760
T 30,300
30,670
30,690
10 30,730
11 30,990
IX 30,790
It. 31.080
14.. 30,200
1 81,480
tO 31,030
Jl 31,900
30,850
ft 30,8'iO
14 30,830
15 31,970
it 31,410
17 81,740
tl 30,670
tt 81,900
SO 31,110
tl 31,110
It... 33,000
Total 961,330
Less unsold copies., 11,033
Net total sales 960,397
Dally average 30,838
C. C. ROSEWATER.
Oener.tl Manager.
Subscribed In my presence nnd sworn to
before me this 1st day of November, 1XJ.
(Seal.) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public.
WI1E1 OCT OF TO WW.
Subscribers leaving? the elty tem
porarily should have The Be
mailed to than. Address will he
changed as oftea as reaeated.
Whirlwind campaigns in Nebraska
seem to raise nothing but dust.
Anxious Inquirer Is informed that
Governor Mickey's term of ofllce ex
pires the first Thursday In January
next
Young medics at Iowa university
injured In a class rush are doubtless
the first of their kind to prepare
"clinics" for their own uso.
If Russian revolutionists capture a
few more government rifles and ma
chine guns the czar may be forced to
depend on dynamite for his power.
I
President Hoosevelt and Secretary
Taft are both away from Washington
at the same time, but there Is no immi
nent danger of the lid blowing off in
their absence.
Proof that a former police spy con
verted to revolution was responsible
for the Blalystok massacre raises
grave doubt as to the genuineness of
his conversion.
In attributing to the president a. feel
ing of distress over the result in New
York. Colonel Bryan more likely only
reflects his own feelings over the re
sult In Nebraska.
Reports from Fort Reno indicate
that the president should have ordered
the contumacious troopers, dishonor
ably discharged in a body, to be dis
persed as well as disbanded.
The new foot ball rules may not do
all that tt claimed for them, but the
average reader opens his Sunday
morning paper with lest apprehension
than he did this time last year.
Perhaps Colonel Bryan wat wise
after all in refusing to come to the de
fense of the chairman of the Nebraska
statfe democratic committee, even
though he la his brother-in-law.
Fortunately or unfortunately, vte
will have to wait a whole year to find
out how much "standing by Roose
velt" the democrats do, who succeeded
in being elected to congress on that
promise. .
Waiving for a moment the question
of the exact language used by General
Grant to President Johnson, all will
admit it had the desired effect and
that the circumstances scarcely called
for moderation.
Reports from trade centers show
that the chief drag on business is the
difficulty of securing enough men for
the work in hand. While this la un
pleasant. It is far better than not hav
ing enough work for the men.
The Indictment of contractors for
furnishing defective supplies to the
government Is a step in the right di
rection, but, luckily for some people,
the statute of limitations has expired
on the matter of horses and beef sold
to Indians.
In the light of the Long Beach ac
cident California would be Justified In
passing a law requiring architects and
contractors to be "on the work" at
all times. Anxiety for their own
safety might overcome the Inclination
to "tctmp" their work.
i
The insurance commissioner of
Kentucky who beat an Injunction by
completing tbe act at Issue before pa
pers were served upon him Is ahead
of the court for a moment, but the
Judicial department, "having the last
guess," may be dopeadod upon to win
la the end. ,
THIS OJVtr 0(J0D RAILROAD.
To protect its title as "the only
good railroad" in Nebraska, the Chi
cago & Northwestern has Issued a bul
letin intended to exculpate it from
classification with the other tax-shirking
railroads. The occasion Is ap
parently the recent Intimation that its
failure to Join the Burlington and
Union Pacific in fighting off their taxes
was due to no difference in position
on the part of the law officers of the
Northwestern, but chiefly to the fact
that the taxes, which it might have
disputed, would in few counties exceed
the $2,000 limit required to give fed
eral Jurisdiction and thus leave too
small a stake to fight for.
For unrestrained effrontery this bul
letin is quite on a par with some of
the famous misstatements which the
combined Nebraska roads published
broadcast a few years ago to convince
the people that the railroads were ac
tually paying more taxes then than
they ought In Justice to pay. The ex
hibit consists of four rows of figures
purporting to represent (1) the taxes
actually paid by the Northwestern In
thirty-two Nebraska counties which
that road traverses; (t) what the
company first offered to pay; (8) the
amount it had attempted to scale
down, and finally (4), the old tax paid
before the new revenue law went into
effect. In point of fact the Northwest
ern road never made any offer what
ever to compromise its taxes, although
It protested before the State board
against any Increased assessment, and
what is given as Its first offer is, doubt
less, what Its taxes would have been
had the board accepted the assessment
that road professed to be willing to
make for Itself.
According to reliable Information
representatives of the Northwestern in
conference with representatives of the
Burlington and Union Pacific, agreed
upon the injunction plan of action to
beat off the taxes, but before the issue
came to be made the Northwestern re
ceded and paid the full amount as
sessed against Its property to the sev
eral county "treasurers. The other
roads mado tenders deducting approx
imately an average of 25 per cent, and
this difference of 25 per cent, bat fur
nished the basis of the litigation In
court. Taking the Northwestern's
own showing of taxes paid and figur
ing on the same percentage, only ten
of the thirty-two counties appear
where more than $2,000 would have
been at Issue and, figuring at 20 per
cent, only six where the amount of
$2,000 would have been exceeded.
The dead give-away of the North
western's defense bulletin Is In the
column showing the taxes It paid the
year before the new revenue law be
came operative. The total here is
$181,992.46, whereas the footing in
Its column headed "First Offer" is
only $155,460.65. In other words,
"the only good railroad" In Nebraska
wanted the State board to fix its as
sessment under the new law so that It
should pay $26,000 less taxes than It
had paid under the old law, and now
wants, the people to award It a hero
medal because It did not go Into court
to enforce this preposterous demand.
The railroad that would have the
audacity to ask the State board actu
ally to. reduce its notoriously too low
taxes would not hesitate to appeal to
the courts to protect it In Its tax
shirking if there were any possibility
of making that appeal effective.
TRK ORJLXT DICTATORSHIP TARN
It was natural that the So
ciety of the Army of the Ten
nessee should officially express Its con
demnation of the story that not long
after the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln General Grant contemplated
assumption of a military dictatorship
and threatened President Johnson if
he violated the parole accepted by
Grant from General Leo and other
conspicuous confederate officers at
the Appomattox surrender. But at a
matter of fact the story is so absurd
in Itself, bo utterly unfounded and
contradicted by history, that public
condemnation it really superfluous.
No circumstances of the civil war
are more completely known than those
relating to Grant's conduct at the Bur
render and afterward" regarding it,
and they preclude the possibility of
slightest truth in the dictatorship
story. One of the explicit conditions
of Lee's surrender, by which Grant
acting within his authority bound the
United States government, was that
confederate ofBoera and soldiers were
not to be molested so long as they ob
served their parole. That the shallow
and inconsistent Johnson did medi
tate but never overtly attempted ac
tion In violation of the military con
vention la well known, at also that
Grant, like the honest and chivalrous
man and soldier that he was, upon
the first suggestion thereof by John
son bluntly protested against It. There
Is not one scintilla of evidence that
the matter was carried further, but
an overwhelming mass of official and
other proof that it wat dropped Jy
Johnson, not from fear of a Grant dic
tatorship, but for a multitude of other
good and sufficient reasons.
The story, Indeed, is simply one of a
myriad of preposterous yarns spun out
of imagination in exciting times. Of
all the generals of the civil war Grant
was the very last to whom the Idea of
dictatorship could have been possible.
There Is, Indeed, evidence that during
the early stages of the war McClellan
entertained the Idea, and that one
time or another others inside and out
side of the military service seriously
considered it; but Grant never, least
of all after the war had been fought
out and peace was at hand. Of all
military leaders he was Invariably the
most scrupulous In observing the line
of civil authority, going so far as to
antagonist and repudiate the action of
his dearest friend. General Sherman,
when the latte thoughtlessly trans
gressed that line on a memorable oc
casion. Tbe character of Ulysses S. Grant
Is too certainly fixed In history to be
affected In the slightest by such a
yarn, even if its entire falsity were
not demonstrated as It Is by over
whelming positive proof.
A DOUBLE STAXVAHD rROFHET.
If Colonel Bryan could repress an
Ironical smile when he had completed
his election statement, claiming demo
cratic victory throughout the country
In the teeth of the returns, his sense
of the humorous Is less keen than
that of hit readers. Yet It Is. after
all, only the latest illustration of his
faculty of seeing things as they are
not, or his propensity of putting
things in that light, which - has en
abled him to Interpret each succes
sive democratic Waterloo during a
decade as the harbinger of on-coming
but ever deferred triumph.
Thus the colonel professes elation
over the great republican majority of
some sixty votes in the national house
as the sign that "the democrats will
probably control tbe congress to be
elected In 1908," notwithstanding the
rule for three-quarters of a century,
with rvre exceptions, has been that
the opposition party gains a majority
In the congressional election midway
In a presidential term, and that noth
ing but excess of folly, incompetence
and 111-dolng can ordinarily prevent
this result.
By a like process of Inverse reason
ing he puts Iowa down as "a doubt
ful state two years hence" because
Governor Cummins, though re-elected
by over 20,000 plurality, was cut by
tens of thousands of republicans on
purely factional grounds, though two
years ago, when the democrats lost
Missouri, the colonel was still able to
console himself with the probabilities
of some other time.
But It Is to the New York reoult,
naturally, that the Nebraska states
man, because of the perplexities of
his relations, makes the most gro
tesque application of his double
standard of Interpretation and parti
san logic. If there has been "a sig
nal democratic victory" in that state,
as he claims, then on anybody's logic
but his own the Hearst movement,
with Hearst at the head of it. would
seem to be demanded in the test two
yeart hence, and Mr. Bryan singularly
neglects to note the fact that Hearst
came Incomparably nearer to carrying
the state than he himself ever did.
Yet the colonel refrainB from placing
William Randolph Hearst in nomina
tion for the presidency, conceding In
gingerly phrase only that he "is In a
position to do valiant work In secur
ing ft national triumph for progressive
democratic Ideas."
With the government, national and
Btate, thus confirmed In republican
control, and with the colonel accord
ing to his formal outgivings entranced
as usual at such Junctures with the
omens of democratic triumph "two
yeart hence," we In turn would be un
gracloua If we failed to congratulate
hlra on the prospect of another good
Chautauqua season.
. LOOK1XQ IXTO HARRIMAS COMBINE-
The announcement that the Inter
state Commerce commission will pros
ecute a thorough investigation of tbe
Harrlman combination of great rail
road systems follows quickly the sen
sational seiture of the Illinois Cen
tral. Two points vital to public inter
est, the question of transcontinental
competition and the question of gulf
route competition, seem to be critic
ally involved in the gigantic scheme
suggested by Harrlman'a name.
The first, even if unaccompanied by
the other, involving merger under a
single dominating Interest of the
Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific
and the Oregon Short Line, has chal
lenged increasing public attention as
subversive of the idea of lawful com'
petition which was the basis of the su
preme court decision dissolving the
Hill merger of the Great Northern,
the Northern Pacific and the Burling'
ton systems. It It true that in some
respects, as rates, Interchange of traf
fic, etc., the effect of common control
remains In the Hill combination even
though the formal merger has been
Judicially nullified. The central pur
pose of the new railroad regulation
law wat to subject all those questions
to efficient control under public au
thority, and it has been no secret that
this was to be undertaken , by the In
terstate Commerce commission aa to
both the Hill and the Harrlman trans
continental combines as soon as the
subject could be reached.
The commission evidently regards
as more serious the development
of autocratic railroad management
whereby the Interior of the continent
would be at the mercy of those who
are interested in neutralizing the nat
ural advantages of the north and
south route to the gulf, especially In
view of Ita Immensely enhanced com
petltlve force when the Panama canal
shall be completed. If the Illinois
Central can be seized by the trans
continental combine, no connection
with the gulf can stand, and It would
still dictate rates absolutely when
gulf porta become practically Pacific
ports.
In short, the seizure. f north and
south lines in the lntwest of the great
monopolizing east and west combines
not only threatens to destroy the great
advantages which the west has al
ready realized through development o
gulf route competition, but also to nul
Ufy so far aa the public is concerned
the far greater advantages for which
hundreds of millions are being poured
out to build the Isthmian canal.
Obviously, the concentration of the
means of transportation In a few
hands la confronting public authority
with close approach of decisive tests
of supremacy. In the light of these
developments the power to fix trans
portation rates has now been con
ferred by law on the commission not
a moment too soon. The public will
not tolerate the prospect of being de
prived of the inherent right to the
economy of the the gulf route before
or after completion of the canal by
reason of Its shorter distance and
lower cost of service for the purpose
of enabling any road or combine of
roads to maintain extortionate levies
on the wealth of the country. And
the action of the commission Is to be
taken as a significant move on behalf
of public Interest In this far-reaching
controversy.
0R0W1XO GOLD STUCK.
The authorities differ widely among
themselves as to the degree of the
Sect of Increased gold production
upon business and Industry, but are In
substantial agreement that in a gen
eral way it is a potential stimulating
nQuence. It harmonises with com
mon Bense that so Immense an in
crement as the $400,000,000 which
now annually added to the world's
stock of gold, notwithstanding a large
proportion of it is diverted to the arts,
will naturally expand the basis of
redlt, correspondingly enhancing the
temptation and opportunity for multi
plying business transactions.
The material advance of prices, al
though on the average not so great as
Is popularly fancied, Is a corroborative
circumstance more than a mere coin
cidence of the gold increase. The ad
vance Is general and firmly main
tained, without the slightest sign of
falling consumption which almost in
variably accompanies exceptional arti
ficial price.
The important point that Is empha
sized in this connection Is that the
limit of the world" gold production Is'
as yet far from reached, and the
strong probability that the annual
amount, vast as It already Is, will
probably continue steadily to increase,
at least for an Indefinite series of
years. The Inference Is that while
overstrain of speculation and credit
will of course bring the penalty of re
action and liquidation, the growing
gold stock constitutes in some meas
ure a reserve to moderate the severity
of the penalty and hasten the time of
recovery.
OVKRSTSPPIXO THE LIMIT.
Something in the nature of a stu
dent insurrection on a small scale has
been precipitated at the University of
Nebraska by the attempt of the univer
sity authorities to enforce a rule dis
approving and prohibiting the resi
dence of men and women students in
the same lodging houses.
If the university maintained dormi
tories for ita students it could readily
and without question enforce regula
tions for the separation of the sexes
by refusing to admit men or women
into buildings reserved for the accom
modation of one class or the other.
If the university authorities would go
so far as to establish an Inspection of
student lodging houses as to their san
itary or unsanitary condition, their
safety against fire, the healthfulness
of the food they supply, and publish
an . official list of these boarding
houses, graded according to these
tests, they would be doing a real serv
ice, although each student would still
be free to act on this Information as
he saw fit. The university might even
withhold official approval from men's
boarding houses that admit women, or
vice versa, hut to enforce such a black
list by imposing penalties on the stu
dents would not only be going beyond
Its Jurisdiction, but would doubtless
Incur legal liability for resulting dam
ages. It must strike all fair-minded peo
ple, however, that when the university
undertakes to say where and how stu
dents shall live outside of the campus
and to threaten expulsion for refusal
to recognize the authority to do so, it
Is overstepping the limit. Our State
university is supported from the pro
ceeds of public taxes and an endow
ment expressly consecrated to the
higher education of all our youth.
The university may properly fix stand
ards of admission and require orderly
behavior, as well as satisfactory
scholarship, but beyond this to deny
its facilities for education to a student
because he insists on choosing his own
boarding house imposes a dlscrlmina-
Northwestern's
The Northwestern railroad has Just Is
sued a table showing that In fifteen out
of the 'thirty-two counties In Nebraska
through which tbe road runs the difference
between the taxation aa It was finally
fixed by the state and the valuation aa
their officers asked that it be fixes would
make the amount In dlapute more than
(2,000 In case the road had carried tbe mat
ter into court The table is as follows, th
County
Dodge Washington ...
IxjugUs
stadUun
Boone ..,
Pierce ..
Knox ...
Anlriope
Brown
be ward .
Fillmore
Thayer .
Butlor ..
polk ...
Hamilton
Adams ...
Dm master
Nuckolls .
Cherry ...
Colfax ...
Cuming ..
Rock
Sheridan
Totals.
tlon never Intended by the founders of
the Institution and unwarranted by
law.
President James of the University
of Illinois has Issued an open letter to
the trustees of Andover Theological
seminary, who are said to be discuss
ing the advisability of re-locating that
famous institution, urging them to
choose a site In Immediate proximity
to one of the great state universities
of the Mississippi valley. Some very
strong arguments are presented In
support of this plea based on the mu
tual advantages that would accrue,
and taking the University of Illinois
as the example. What can be said for
the location close to the University of
Illinois could, of course, be said for a
similar location close to the University
of Nebraska, or the university of any
of the Mississippi valley states. The
really potent reason Is that the center
of population has been traveling stead
ily away from New England and that
If It is to cut its traditional ties to be
In the line of progress Andover Theo
logical must follow Horace Greeley's
advice to "go west."
The battle of the ballots seems to
have bo overshadowed the scramble
for proxies In the big New York Life
companies that the insurance contest
has failed to attract the attention It
otherwise would. It Is to be noted
that the officers In charge, whose ad
ministrations depend upon a vote of
confidence by the stockholders, are ho
longer manifesting fear or trepidation.
The position taken by a federal at
torney In Utah that the government
should not be bound by the "blunders"
of Its employes should be established
In law, If not already so established,
as the "blunders" are too often made
at the suggestion of political wire
pullers having the other end of the
deal.
Boost for Better Thenght.
St. Louis Republic.
If thoughts are but the products of our
food won't the enforcement of the pure
food law help our thinking?
A Cheerlnsr Prospect.
Washing-ton Post.
Thanksgiving Is Just about far enough
from election day to give us all a chance
to make up our minds that tt might have
been worse.
What Harrlman Is Doing-.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There are people who believe E. H. Harrl
man Is now doing more than all other forces
combined to advance the principle of gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
Comrade Problems.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Secretary Bonaparte wants to know how
to reduce the number of rich men in this
country. A large majority of us, on the
other hand, would like to find out how to
reduce the number of poor men who are
compelled to pay grocery bills.
.There Are Others.
Cincinnati Enquire-.
The TJtes may have cause for dissatisfac
tion, but they are not the only Indians who
have had the worst of It In dealing with
white men. The country cannot afford,
though, to have the old style of Indian
warfare reopened for their sake.
So Rest for the Trusts.
Baltimore American.
Trusts no longer enjoy a period of rest
after a campaign Is over. Time was when
the only attacks made upon them were In
campaigns, and they were only verbal at
tacks. Now the firing Is kept up all the
year round and no blank cartridges are
used.
PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE,
The weather man Is a peach. Indian
summer matches his complexion.
ine ice irusi or rmiadelphla scored a
dividend of 20 per cent and a bunch of In
dictments. Missouri's "mysterious stranger" is off
again. Good company was too much for
him. His affliction Is hereditary.
As soon aa the Pullman company an.
nounced a surplus of $28,000,000, Texas
started to force a reduction of sleeping
car rates.
Experts say thai running promotes health
and long life. Those who ran end failed to
reach the goal are welcome to the idea as
a consolation prize.
The trip of President Roosevelt to
Panama gives executive precedents a se
vere Jolt. But his pre-eminence as a
precedent smasher will not be firmly es
tablished until his bout with third term
twenty months b."-.oe.
A woman raormer In Pennsylvania
shouts, "We muet clear the house of
father's cigar." By any and every means,
especially If the cigars are of the vintage
of last Christmas. The home must and
shall be preserved untainted.
- The Steel trust soooped In $38,000,000 In
earnings for the quarter ending September
90, and handed out the customary dividends
In addition to swelling the surplus. People
who scoffed at the shares of the company
when on the bargain counter three years
ago wouldn't dodge an automatio kicker
now If It came their way.
Defense Bulletin
first column of figures showing the taxation
oollected under the valuation fixed by the
board, the second showing what It would
have been under the valuation asked by
the road, the third showing tbe difference,
and the fourth showing the taxes paid
under the old revenue law. The company.
It will be remembered, paid the tax aa
levied without a protest.
Tax Paid. First Offer. Difference. Old Tax.
..111.210 41 1,614 S..U $ t.MT.oJ
.. 6i3.a 4UM.18 l.Ve.04 i.788.26
.. .3ue.M l.eKT.? 1.H7.W Mo.es
.. l.7:.Mi !!. I.ZM.13 l.lSKt.27
.. 1 9.3 IS l,7cl i JU.2 IM'JVl
... S.CD6 IS l.iuO.m 1.554.M 1.3.4 44
,.. l,7oE7 1U.)4S .1.641.14 4.874.77
.. 6,317 06 4 2b6.7t l.unl.30 4.7L2.44
.. 10.213 42 ' 6.8M61 133181 7.4"4 fcj
.. fc.3tu.03 IS.V.HU 1.326IN1 I,4i6.s6
.. 14.6.3 34 liiK t.010 33 I0.6o Si
.. S.u-3 82 6.619 38 i.S44 &4 4,4ol 64
... 14.lO.isi .4!.M i.tub.M t.64.20
.. 7.0MM4 .v!!.M 2.W-. 4.S
.. T.449.M ft.oa.2J . t42.73 .7.!
... f.l.4 4.1-3 64 1.V77.M 6.6HI 63
.. S,1W.20 1137 47 1.1M71 i.lHu.ue
.. 1.3U.&4 "Hafl 416 12 l.BlS.Ut
.. U,t660 I.X7.M 4.4i:.la 13.&o4 1
lt6S 135.10 4 43 160 81
,.. 1.775 61 tUW 1.24U.66 I46i6
,.. 6,7-4 f,2 1.S64 81 6.'2 7
... l.B.U ll l,Z'2-6 , l,4ii6 !
... 1.33o.6 877.34 468.30 l.'A4.ir7
,.. S.4!3 t7.u6 1.131 03 ls.il 63
... 4 26510 4,143. V? I.1W.' iXA 37
... t.m 81 226 H4 1.6-&.77 6.t2. h
... !4.7v2'.0 14.U27 8s 1,7:4 6 14 16 26
... It3 35 3 642 67 1,2.4. 7 1. 621 44
,.. 6 24 16 I.ol.!i6 1.742 21 i 2'J M
... 6 3S6M 1646 34 1.72 TO J. 42 63
,.. MJ6.10( 174.74 I. SIV 34 .167
...i-i. 4ti. w iu4tt. ;.u.w fia.fri.u
November Is the Month' in Which
to Buy 0l Piano '
The days are short and the evenings long. There
is more life and vigor than in any other season of tho
year. There are more fireside gatherings and a closer
and better relationship in tho family is cultivated. A
piano in the home adorns, enlivens, entertains and edu
cates, touching every member of tho family. The (study
of musio in the public shools is compulsory. Educa
tors have long since agreed that musio is essential and
should be taken up with the children as quickly aa the j
study of reading and mathematics. Besides, in no other X"
study is there more real pleasure and joy to the student,
the family and guests than there is in the study of music t
Even in the family where there are no children and
no one who can play the piano, the old folks are buying
Angelus Pianos.
THE HOSPE PLAN
sells Pianos of tho best quality and character at the most
economical figures. Many a clever shopper that has fig
ured in tho eastern cities, has come to us and bought
pianos, proving our oft repeated statement, that we do
save you money on Pianos. This month we are able to
ofer some inoro special proposilions. There are many
. GOOD THINGS IN USED STOCK
Used Ilinze Pianos, $145; used Cramer Piano, $175;
used Whitney Piano, $225; used Kimball Piano, $235 and
ten other bargains.
GREAT THINGS IN NEW PIANOS
$125 buys a fine new up-to-date piano in mahogany
finish.
$10 will send any one of these home, $6, $7 or $8 a
a month will settle them for you. Its worth a very special
effort to secure one of these special bargains. It costs
" nothing to make the investigation. We invite you to
come at once. ,
AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT
The Knabe, Kranich & Bach, the Kimball, the Bush
Hone, the ,Cable-Nelson the best pianos, are found, "'
at the'
.A. HOSPE CO.
1513 DOUGLAS ST.
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
He who cannot dream cannot do.
Faith Is ever prophetic of facts.
Pain Is the price of all deep pleasure.
Joy la gold picked up In the path of help
fulness. The church service that dregs will not
draw men.
Our borrowed trappings account for half
of our trippings.
Where might seems to make right It Is
but making ruin.
The heart that sees goea always before
the hand that obtains.
People of many deficiencies always talk
about their difficulties.
Too many think of religion as sowing
wind and reaping wings.
The bars that bind men most effectively
are within and not without.
It la not a religious use of the Imagination
to have an Imaginary religion.
A lie Is the acute form and hypocrisy the
chronic form of the same disease.
Something great has died In him whose
heart cannot be fired by herolo sacrifice.
It Is easy to appreciate the points of a
sermon when they are sticking the other
fellow.
The worst thing about the sowing of wild
oats Is that they take root In other people's
fields. Chicago Tribune.
3ECTLAR SHOTS AT THE PIXPIT.
Chicago Inter Ocean: With a Methodist
minister for Its governor, Colorado will he
able to prove. If It feels so inclined, that
It ha always been more moral than It
seemed.
Washington Post: Having announced to
his Bible class that God does not regard
the drinking of a glass of beer as a sin,
young Mr. Rockefeller might Increase the
enthusiasm by Inviting the boys out to have
one with htm. ,
Boston Transcript: Rev. Dr. S. Parkes
Cadman of Brooklyn delivered a lecture In
that borough the other evening In w-hlch
he said: "We boast of .our culture, and
Boston Is always spoken of as a city of
culture, but the best thing In Boston Is the
6 o'clock train to New York." That allu
lon was a Dlaa-Iarlsm. One of the , Ne
braska mayors who came on to wolcomf
Bryan said that the best thing about New
York was the express train for Omaha
Modern Society: A clergyman was rail
ing against divorce. "We ourht to have the
divorce law that was enforced In ancient
Greece," he said. "If that old Greek clause
was tacked to every separation I am per
funded that divorces would fall off 60 to 7"
per cent. This law was that when a man
got a divorce he could not uuder aiy clr.
cumstances marry another woman younger
than his ex-wife. An Innocent law, a brief
law tint much to look at. but how many
divorce suits would be- nipped In the bud
If all husbands knew that after ttw- separa
tion they could not marry younger women
than the wives they had cast off?"
Browning, Eing & Co
OIIICINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Of IALP SIZES W CLOTimO.
AinioinieeiRient!
"We wish to announce that our lines of 6moklng
jackets, house coats, lounging coats and bath robes
for the holidays are now complete.
"We would advise that you make your selection
now while you can get the 6ize-and just the color
that you want.
For a 6mall deposit we will lay away anything
you may select and deliver whenever you may wislu
We extend a cordial invitation to have you look
at our showing of these goods, whether you wish to
purchase or not.
Filteenth and
Douglas Sis. (r
rremawa at SXaa trt KEW
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"You're a peach!" he cried enthusias
tically. "H'm! Miss Chellus seems to think so,
too," replied the pretty girl. "I overheard
her say I looked well preKerved."
"Well, well, wouldn t that Jar ' youf"
rniiaaeipnja tress.
"Why," her husband asked, "don't ymt
think we can afford to associate with the
Ferguses? They seem to be nice people."
"William! He tends to his own furnace."
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Oh, George, dear, papa has forgiven us
for running away! He wants to see us."
"Confound it, I hoped he'd never forgive
us! Now he'll want to borrow some more
money." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
T 1T
"Dld you bring your reference with youT'r
"No, mum. Did your Brooklyn Life.
"I always try to practice charity," said
Miss Passay. "My motto Is, 'Do unto all
men as you would have them do unto
you.' " 1
"Gracious!" exclaimed Miss Pert, "you
don't really kiss Uiem, do you?" Philadel
phia Press.
"I did think," said Peckham. "that after
I was married I might have my own way
once in a while."
O!" replied Meekley, "you poor, mis
guided man!"
"Not me. I'm a Mrs.-gulded man.' In
dianapolis News.
"Parthenope, dear," whispered the host
ess, "won't you please sing something?"
"What for, auntie?" asked the young
woman.
"Why, these people are getting Impa
tient for their dinner, and It won't be
ready for nearly an hour yet."
Bo Mis I'arthanope, like her ancient pro
totype, proceeded to sing the guests' appe
tites away. Chicago Tribune.
"I'm afraid you don't like me very well.
Johnnie." said the young man who thought'
be was interesting to jonnnies sister.
Johnnie ehook his head.
"I ain't down on you," he replied. Tn
only eorry for you cause you am t wise.
If vou'd nut less money on sis an' more
on me you'd stand a blame sight better
chance with her. Bee? Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
THE MIST.
Ames C. Cheney In Putnam's Monthly.
O fall I fold
The hill, the wold,
In closely clinging, cool embraces;
1 bathe the lifted flower-faces,
I spread th lawn with faery laces
And show alt Nature fllmy-stoled.
I form 1 float.
A wralth-Uke boat.
Among the mere-aide's long, lush grasses!
In torn and frlngy-flutterlng masses,
1 glide down the birchen passes
A gray old Lar In tattered ooat.
I wlnd-J-I wreathe
A lattice breathe
Between its bars presage the morning
Btir Beauty with a fine, faint warning
Deave pearls, her mignonette adorning
Then steal down vines to the beds b
neath. I creep I crawl
Ry lichened wall.
In through a mournful iron grating.
To where the Dead lie stilly waiting;
As one that is blind, each graven slating
I trace for the name where my teara
shall fall.
OMAHA
NEB.
i
YOHIt W
I
