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TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 27, 1007. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Bek FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Knterefi at Omaha postomoe second Class matter. TERMS OF fUTtBCRIPTION. Fsfly Be (without Sunday) on yrar...lJW .'any nn1 Runilny, one year Fonday Hee. one vr f 5? nun-Jay Hee. o aiura.iy nee, one yenr IiEUVERF.D BT CARRIER Pally Pre .Including Runrtay). rr week. Jjc Evening Kee (without Piinday). rr w,,'K-,Ji2 ' Evening Bee (with Sunday), per wfk;-- '" Addrees romplnlnta of Irrerularmes un livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. . South Omaha City Hull Building. Council Bluff 10 Penrl Street. Chlraao 1f,o t'nlty Building. New York 15o Home IJfe ln. rlullding. Washington 501 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial rmtter should he Addressed: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, rxrre or portal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Comrany. Only 2-cent atampa received In payment or mall accounta. Personal check"1, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCUI-ATION. B'afe of Nebraska, Douglas County, : Charlc C. Roaewater. general fn""8 of The Be Publishing company, hel in duly worn, aaya that the octual number of full and complete roplea of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tne noma or jjecember, vm. was as 1 1,870 17 33,870 II ;.. 31,760 lt 31,760 0.' 38,670 H 31,630 1 30,BO S 81,610 31,710 31,700 t 31.890 T 31,880 33,080 1 30,630 10 81,750 11 33,180 It 33,000 11 31,680 14 81,690 II 33,170 It 31,900 M 30,850 14 31,710 25 31,630 2e w.iao 17 81,770 It 31,610 it 31.880 10 30,800 II 31,810 II 30,400 i i Total. i .888,380 Leaa unsold and returned copies.. 8,341 Net total 873,149 Dally average 31,391 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this list day of December, 106. (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Public WHEN OIT OF TOWS, abacrlbers leav-lnsi the clir tern yorarlly should have The Be nailed ta them. Address will be chaaaed as oftea as requested. The king of Spain has a new minis try whoae names are familiar to all smokers of Imported cigars. Everything in Kingston, even Gov ernor Swettenham's conceit, seems to have been shaken by the earthquake. - It is about a tie between Secretary Root and Secretary Shaw as to which la the most traveled member of the cabinet. ' i The Kansas legislature has passed a bill restricting circus and theatrical performances. Those Kansans must be Jealous of competition. Secretary Shaw says he Bees no reason to call on the banks for money. The secretary apparently persists in being different from other men. Benjamin Ryan Tillman is not the only United States senator from South Carolina, even If you cannot recall the name of the other one, off-hand. California produced 86,547 short tons of coal last year and the chances are that the retail dealer there deliv ered the same kind of tons to his pa trons. A fight to the death Is being made against a continuance of the charter of the parent company of the Great Northern, the purpose being to leave Mr. Hill's merger an orphan. Metal merchants are appealing to Secretary Bonaparte to prevent the formation of a new copper trust. Tom Lawson will naturally feel hurt that the appeal Is not made to him. A Massachusetts man claims to have discovered that pea soup is the elixir of life. Kansans will probably continue to pin their faith to the beer that is sold in their state in plug form, like tobacco. It Is not exactly clear whether John P. Stevens' decision to remain at the bead of the Panama canal enterprise It due to blr loyalty or to the failure of some New York corporation to offer him more money. " Senator Tillman has been unani mously re-elected. This must be a real disappointment to Senator Jeff ' Davis of Arkansas, who has given bints of an ambition to be the leading trouble maker of the senate after March 4. The wife of Senator T. C. Piatt has filed suits asainst two Washington newspaper! to recover damages ag gregating $500,000 for alleged libelous defamation of character. Here ia a chance for Omaha to get a little more free advertising through another erup tion of Mae C. Wood. Our old friend, Mary Elizabeth Lease, is trying to resurrect her former popularity by blossoming out as a champion of woman's suffrage. Mrs. Lease Is not sure which she wants worse William Jennings Bryan in the presidential chair or a ticket of ad mission for herself to a Toting booth. r-r It Is rumored Governor wettenham of Jamaica would Ilk? to be let down easy by being transferred to some other position. It would hardly be safe for him, however, to submit the selection of his next position to popu lar Tote either in Jamaica or in the United States, or in his own native land of Great Britain. THE MINNESOTA OUSTER CAtt- The Issues raised by the suit In Minnesota to Told the charter under which the Great Northern and Its sub toiporations are operating concern the tap-root questions of railroad control. The ostensible occasion Is taxation In Minnesota, where, as In other states, the roads have fought tooth and nail and successfully to avoid paying their fair share of the public burden. But the essence of the prosecution la a test of power between the carrier corpora- tIon8 8nd tne state, whether they shall be compelled to submit to explicit pro visions of law for the protection of public interest against fictitious capi talization. The case Is a typical one, for the original corporation, chartered with the usual powers for conducting trans portation, has long since ceased to do so directly, and become an agency merely for holding stocks of other railroad companies or a convenience for manipulating them. In these ma nipulations, of which the effect and purpose in large part are charged to be stock watering, the Hill roads have also persistently ylolated the law which requires propoted capital stock in creases to be first submitted to and approved by the state railway com mission. Even had there been no stock water ing and every dollar of the new issues had verily been honestly invested in beneficial ways, the paramount fact Btill remains that the law prescribed how the stock should be legally au thorized. That law was for the needed protection of the public to prevent exaction of rates on a fictitious and fraudulent basis of capitalization. Yet the great railroad company proceeded throughout as if it had been above the law. This Is the crowning and charac teristic offense of carrier corporations against which the public has finally resolved to try out conclusions. The Minnesota case is more note worthy at this time because it marks practical approach to settlement of the crucial question of valuation of trans portation property as one of the great factors in determining rates. The achievements accomplished by the movement for public control arc in deed to be considered In a broad view as only leading up to that question. The national government has but Just now clothed the Interstate Commerce commission with power to fix and enforce "reasonable" rates, and the several states either haTe already done or will do the same. But rates must be held reasonable or unreasonable with reference to the investment on which the public is charged to pay a profit, precisely the point now raised in Minnesota. But every advance in state or na tional Jurisdiction towards subjecting the corporations to obedience to law is thus a gain and a preparation for the settlement of the conclusive issue, which Is already in sight, of the true valuation of the carrier properties as a basis of transportation charges as well as of taxation. ALCOHOL ON THE FARM. It was well understood that the measure passed at the last session of congress exempting denatured alcohol from the internal revenue tax only broke the ice and that further legisla tion would bo required.- The law was a notable step in advance, but the pro posal already agreed upon by the house ways and means committee promises another step almost as im portant by providing for distillation on the farm or at the small local plant. Under the present law the denatured alcohol must be produced under the same conditions as distilled beverage Fplilts, bo that manufacture is practi cally tonfiued to the large distilleries and subject to the expense of the required distillery warehouse and bonded denaturing warehouse. As a further serious difficulty, a Tast amount of farm material, rich in alco hol, cannot be utilized at all when Manufacture la thus restricted. Ag ricultural interests, therefore, have been calling strongly for legislation to remove these obstacles. The whole matter was studied by the Treasury department commission, which had to prepare regulations un der the new law, and its report last fall acknowledged the necessity of ex tending the system by the same meth ods which in Germany have enabled thov.Eands of farmers and small distil lers to manufacture alcohol at mini mum cost for their own use or for sale in the neighborhood. It was felt, however, that caution roust be used acalnst possible frauds, since the change required in our methods would be so radical, and since in any event the extension of ' the use of alcohol as an agent for heat, light and power must be gradual. But the briet experience under the rew law, imperfect as it is admitted to be, demonstrates the almost illim itable possibilities of alcohol when cheapened for practical use, although the ovcrsangulne hopes of Immediate results have not been realised. Two facts among many that might be cited bring out this point very forcibly. The first large shipment of denatured alco hol under the new law, consisting of 8,000 barrels, is said to have just left the Peoria distilleries at a cost on track, exclusive of barrels, of 29 cents a gallon, whereas it was expected at the time the law passed that the cost would be at least 38 to 40 cents. The tax alone before the exemption would have been $2.08 a gallon. But con temporaneously with this shipment a new price list is Issued by the manu facturers of wood alcohol, one of the chief competing agents, cutting prices almost in the middle. These are only first fruits, but they open up a far-reaching prospect. The amendment proposes Btill further to popularlie and cheapen manufacture by bringing it directly home to farmers who in the aggregate should not only be the largest con sumers of the finished product, but have at their disposal an unlimited supply of the raw materials. What this means in the matter of power alone to agricultural Industry, In which machinery Is becoming more vital every day, is scarcely to be estimated. CHILD LAHUR A fit) LEGISLATION. At this time, when the movement to restrict the employment of children in industrial undertakings is well under way, the federal census bureau has published a report full of valuable data upon this subject. A careful analysis of the census figures, on their face almost startling, is, however, re assuring as to the extent of this evil. The census bureau statistics show that in 1900 there were 1,760,178 chil dren in the United States between the ages of 10 and IS years employed In breadwtnning pursuits. Of these 72 per cent were boys and J 8 per cent girls. While this total seems large, CTen in a population of approximately 80,000,000, the apparent danger is materially lessened by the exhibit that 1.054,446 of these Juvenile bread winners are employed on the farms of the nation, doing the milking, gar dening and other chores that naturally fall to the lot of the farmers' children and in no way interfering with their education. A further elimination comes in the showing that 138,035 of the child breadwinners are employed in domestic pursuits. This leaves, in round numbers, about 600,000 chil dren under 15 years of age employed in factories or other industrial con cerns. The conditions under which children are employed in the cotton mills and factories of New England and the south and in some of the coal mines of Pennsylvania are undoubtedly de plorable, and it is on this account that the agitation for child labor legisla tion throughout the country is gen erally supported. That remedial legis lation Is needed to relieve children thus employed there is no room for argument, but the authoritative figures at hand seem to establish clearly that the evils of the child labor system have been greatly exaggerated. " In dealing with the child labor ques- ftlon the distinction must be drawn between "gainful" and "harmful" oc cupations. No one will contend that the farmer's children are injured by their share of the dally work of the home or that the town or city boy who finds morning, evening and vaca tion day employment of honorable character and thus early learns the duties and pleasures of being a bread winner is necessarily hurt in character or usefulness. Restrictive laws are needed to reduce the number of child laborers in eastern and southern mills, mines and factories, where the condi tion of the youthful workers in many instances amounts to practical slavery, but the only demand of this character in the west is for legislation preventive of such abuses for the future. In nearly all the western states each child is guaranteed a good education by the operation of compulsory school laws. and with the help of a few precau tionary measures the possibility of serious child labor evils can be effec tually warded off. SHALL MEN WEAR BLOOMERSt Compliance with the edicts of the Custom Tailors' association, now in annual convention in Chicago, will make the chic masculine who follows the 1907 styles es much a thins of beauty, so far as apparel is concerned, as the members of the senior class of a female seminary at the June com mencement time. The order has gone forth booking the somber, funereal garments of the dandy of 1905-6 for oblivion and the warm number for the coming spring, at least so the tailors say, must wear waistcoats, trousers and other things of the hue of the rainbow, a latitude in color belnz al lowed that would enable the ex tremest to make the clothes of Joseph of Biblical renown look like the uni form of the chief pall bearer. According to official advices, the movement is nothing short of revolu tionary. The "peg top" trousers must go and in their place the up-to-date man will wear a garment that will give him the appearance of a dirigible balloon all inflated for the trial trip. The coats will retain some thing of their original form and color, 1 but will be shortened so that the well- dressed man will not be compelled to hold them up daintily when crossing a muddy street. But the real glory of the new-styled apparel will be found in the vests. These will dazzle the rays of the noonday sun and Wil lie may use all of -the colors of the three-sheet poster if he wishes, stripes, j plaids, polka dots, pea green, blue and crimson being authorized by the sar torial experts, in original splendor or prismatic blends to suit the wishes of the wearer. The association, has obligingly refrained from issuing in structions as to the new brands of ties and hose, probably feeling that the man who would adopt the other de creed changes would do his worst any way in the matter of neckwear and pedal adornment. It is unfortunately too early to pre dict the extent to which the ukase of the tailors will be accepted and fol lowed by male devotees of freak fasi tons, but the chances are that the New York and Newport contingents will promptly salaam to the decree of the scissor experts. The styles may make their way westward, in which case, In all kindness, we may hope the police authorities will take the precaution of compelling a rigid enforcement of the law against gun toting. TUB S LOCI MB LAW. The biennial frenzy to modify the Slocumb law regulating the sale of liquor In Nebraska seems to be setting a new high water mark at Lincoln. Those who make these periodic as saults upon this statute, to make either its provisions more stringent or less onerous on the liquor dealers, overlook the fact that the Slocumb law was en acted more than twenty-five years ago and has remained practically un changed ever since, giving Nebraska one of the best systems of regulating the liquor traffic to be found any where. When this law was enacted In 1881 Nebraska stood forth among the pioneers of high license states. A mini mum license fee of $500 in small cities and towns and of $1,000 in the larger cities at. once placed a high fence around the business and brought the sale of liquor under police surveil lance, at the same time making it a source of revenue and relieving to that extent the owners of other taxable property. What is more to the point, the Slo cumb law establishes complete local option in Nebraska. It makes it Im possible to thrust the liquor traffic upon any community in this state whose people by a majority vote have declared against It, and requires com munities that wish to license liquor dealers to say so outright before the licenses can be legally issued. It thus makes the rule enforced In each com munity conform to the sentiment of that community, a condition certainly far preferable to prohibition or any similar plan which, irrespective of the wishes of the people, outlaws the liquor traffic even where they demand it. The Slocumb law, moreover, fur nishes ample safeguards against illicit liquor traffic and severe penalties for liquor dealers who fall to live up to its requirements. It has not only stood the test of time and of experience In Nebraska, but it has formed the groundwork of similar legislation in several other Btates. It Is a great re form law, along practical lines, and no better scheme of liquor traffic regu lation has been devised or put In force anywhere. THE SHIPPERS1 VIEW OF COMPETITION. The testimony which shippers are piling up before the Interstate Com merce commission since the resump tion of Inquiry into the Harriman merger bluntly contradicts the spe cious theory advanced by the big mer ger men that consolidation of com peting roads does not impair competi tion between them. With suggestive unanimity, men In business who have actual freight dealings totally fall to find in their experience the blessings which the consolidated traffic man agers have depicted. On the con trary, the consolidation was followed by disappearance of rivalry in services and rates and the marked deteriora tion of service has been hurtful to the general business and publlo interest. In short, by this testimony the result is specifically shown to be precisely what might naturally be expected from elimination of competition. No doubt the ambition, the activity and the ability of agents and employes of a merged system Tary, but this is not competition in the genuine sense. The yery ground is cut from under that defense by the mere fact that sin gle ownership has been substituted for diversely interested ownership. The conditions under which employes strive for business are reversed be cause power over services and ratea is not in their hands and the motive in control is to prevent competition in them. WOULD MORE PAT STOP DESERTIONS? In urging the passage of a bill, now pending In congress, for increased pay for the officers and enlisted men of the army, advocates of the measure are using the argument that such leg islation would lessen the number of desertions, which last year reached a total of 7 per cent of the enlisted men. Attention la called to the fact that no law has been enacted since 1870 af fecting the pay of the army, while in that time the pay of skilled laborers has been increased from 60 to 100 per cent. The pay of enlisted men In the army Is notoriously small and has not kept pace with the Increase in pay of men and workmen in civil life, while the cost of living, clothing and sup plies bought by them has increased, but' it does not follow that desertions are due mainly to this cause. It is desirable, also, that the personnel of the army should be of a high standard, but it ia doubted if substantial im provement in this direction would be found In a law increasing -the pay of the soldier. The fact Is that the American sol dier in the ranks is a volunteer and not a professional. The flower of American manhood is always eager to respond to the call to arms in time of danger, ready to fight for the flag at home or abroad, without thought of the compensation for his services. The American is a soldier when there is fighting to be done, but bis enthusiasm flags and falls when the peace protocol is signed. His restless, energetic na ture revolts against the dull routine of barracks life and he seeks release by desertion, if no other 'courBe is open The soldier of the regular army may be entitled to larger pay, but granting it will not in itself in times of peace stop desertions among the young men the men who find contentment only in fighting or working. According to an interview of Mr. Shonts, Panama Is now a healthy place, where he would feel Just as safe from disease as In Texas. It Is to be noted, however, that Mr. Shonts prefers to live in New York, and that even during his official connection with the canal commission he never made but three or four visits of a few days at a time to the canal tone. New York has passed a law making local application of the national pure food law, so far as It relates to drugs, the purpose being to prevent manufac turers from unloading upon New York patrons the drugs that could not be sent into other states under the in spection provisions affecting Interstate commerce. Similar action should be taken by every etate in which there are factories whose products are sold for food or medicine. Neglect of such precautionary legislation will furnish an opportunity for manufacturers to unload their adulterated goods upon the home consumers, reserving their products that comply with the require ments of the pure food law for ship ment into other states. The resolution introduced into con gress making pertinent inquiry why so many naval officers should be ac tively engaged in promoting legislation at the national capital instead of at tending to business at their posts of duty suggests similar inquiries by some of our state legislatures with re spect to officers of state institutions constantly besieging them for larger appropriations. The schedule of property of the estate of the late Marshall Field, made public last week, discloses generous holdings in high sounding mining stocks listed at nominal values. It as shrewd, a business man as Marshall Field will load up with mining stock chromos, less experienced victims have at least a shadow of excuse. The reference made by Ellen Terry to the "civilized parts of the United States" would strike nearer the bull's eye if she were not booked to spend so much time in New York City, where the populace divides its time in the search for amusement between Caruso and Harry Thaw. , Democratic senators at Washington are said to be far from pleased at the return of Bailey from Texas to their midst. Men who insist on membership in the United States senate should reconcile themselves to the fact that they are not always able to pick their company. , Governor Sheldon has been in office now for more than three weeks, but has made only three appointments. He will have to move faster than that or all the sod in the front yard of the executive mansion will be worn out by the trampling. Representative Hearst Is being cen sured because he has appeared in his seat In congress but once in many months. Yet, if he Is approximately as bad as he is painted, he may be doing his constituents the best service by keeping away. "The house Is now the greatest con servative legislative body of the coun try," says Speaker Cannon, and those who may question the assertion will be asked to read the reports of the senate proceedings for proof. A Fair Exchange. ' Washington Herald. If congressmen and senators will sign a bond not to lecture and write for the magazines, the country will consider the raise in salary a fine Investment. Pipe Dream Partnership. Portland Oregonlan. Mr. Carnegie's phrase, "the people, my partners," Bounds well, but the Idea pre vails somewhat extensively that the part nership Is one In which the little Ashes In the financial pool have a very small chance at the loaves. A Trade War Too Costly. New York Tribune. Germany' exports to the United Btates increased nearly 127,000,000 In value In the calendar year l'Jofi. That fact alone should make a "trade war" with this country an absurdity from the German as well as the American point of view. Everythlaar Works for the Promoter. Bt. Loula Republic. Further evidence that we are fast har nessing forces of nature comes with the report that the Ilawallans are making their active volcano work by forcing flowing lava to, build a breakwater. After taming the earthquake we may Invent a real useful ness for that busy element. They Need a Surgical Operation. Baltimore American. Borne of the officials In Washington seem to belong to that class of people who take pride In the fact that they do not be lieve anything they ace In the news papers. Consequently, they always come limping In at the tall end of the proces sion, and, like Blgnor Benedict, while they keep on talking nobody heeds them. Is it Worth the Moneyf Philadelphia Record. In the separation agreed upon between the Marlboroughs it la stipulated that In consideration of the payment of a yearly stipend of 1100,000 the duchess retains a kind of quit rent right to the title and permission to wear the ducal Jewels. There is a divided arrangement for the turn about possession of tne children. It costs to be a duchess. Ia the miserable game worth the playing? y A Day of Trlnmph. New York Bun. January IS will shin in th annals of Iowa as Button day. Every person of good will fastened to hi coat or her shirt waist a button with the strange device, "Les Jdoines Ioes Things." Button day Is also known as Boosting day.i. The thing which Pes Moines is resolved to do Is to become a cliy of 150,000 inhabitants without further notice. From 11 to 11:10 a. m. business was suspended. Everybody was buying buttons. Thursday th young women of th city "agreed to boycott all th young men who do not loosen up Sat urday and buy a button." The young men "loosened up." Both bouse of th legl lature adjourned for ten minutes and lis tened to "boosting" speeches. A day of triumph for Ues Moines. Probably Button day will be made a legal holiday. DIAMONDS WIN HEARTS A DIAMOND FOR A VALENTINE The most pleasing Valentine you can give is a DIAMOND. Take advantage of my liberal credit system. YOUR Credit Is Good Investigate $50.00 I $2.00aWcck $75.00 $2.50 a Week Easy to Buy A. MARIDELBERG, OMAHA'S GIFT SHOP. SKCILAR a HOTS AT THE PILPIT. Washington Post: A St. Louis preacher oys the curse of the drummer Is pro fanity, and that most of them go swearing from one end of the country to the other. Perhaps If he had a dog or two sicked on him every day, he would contract the habit, too. Philadelphia Record: The clergy and the teachers of ethics have an almost hopeless task. Just as they seem to have elevated the moral standards of the community something comes along and undoes all they have accomplished. The Thaw trial has Just opened in New York. Minneapolis Journal: Billy Sunday an nounced at Worthlngton, Minn., that he was there to fight sin until hell froze over, and then chase the devil across the ice. Willie Is some on skates when he gets his language under him. How would you llko to be converted to a holy life by such a well-rounded hobo? , x Baltimore American: A minister In Mas sachusetts has started a reform of the most realistic kind. Rather than have church fair held to raise funds for the Increase of his salary, he has gone to work on week day in a foundry. He prob ably is the first man with bravery enough tp take an active stand against the time honored establishment of church fairs, and many of his sex will secretly hail It as courage of the heroic type. Boston Transcript: In a series of revival services In a western church one of the star performer Is that of a whistling chorus of sixty boys from the Sunday schools who can whistle gospel tunea "to beat the band," and some people are shocked at this lack of regard for things and themes religious. But why not? Why Itm't it as well to whistle a gospel hymn as to render its musio upon some man made Instrument, and why Isn't the whistled tune as likely to catch the ear and the heart of some other boy as Is the music In any other! form? Whistling the gospel message about the street Isn't such a bad Idea, when you come to think of It. PGRDOAL A.M OT1IKKWISK. The real test of the pure food law will come when the inspector start to label railroad station sandwiches. Perhaps that British governor can under stand a Joke, but to most people his talent In that respect will have to be shown. Biographies of newly-elected senator con vey the Impression that the first step on the road to success is to be born bare footed. The social season In New York will not be as brilliant as anticipated, owing to the limited number of ticket holders to the Thaw trial. When the merry monarch of Jamaica bumps against the official boot his Impres sions of the contact will contribute to the gaiety of nations. By the time the insurance ballot counters get through with their S a day Job, It Is doubtful if the policyholder will know which ticket they voted. With a total of 8.8S3 Indictments on hand, Mr. Rockefeller can afford to decorate his den with the most unique assortment of legal souvenirs on record. it nnt the state 40.000 and the defense $U3,0u0 to reach a hung Jury In the Shea case in Chicago. Mr. Shea's supporter re joiced much over the outcome until the bill sal presented. Then mirth took wings and a hasty adjournment wa had. Tha mutual aggregation of Carnegie heroes Is much dlnturbed over the unherolc conduct of a beneficiary. A widow of 19, whose husband won a medal and $1,000 at the sacrifice of his life, blew In the money and eloped with a married man. You Can't Buy a Better Piano Than the Kimball at $35,500 The Kimball Piano represent wonderful skill, experience and cara In piano making. Many good Judges believe it to be as good aa any piano made Of course, any one might say the aame thing about any piano. If so easy to make blgb claims and descriptions read so much alike that the best (?) piano is often found on paper only. But we want you to judge the Kimball Piano, not by what we say, but by thu piano Itself the 1906-07 Kimball, put them to any test or to any examination you please. Let the iuot experienced expert critics ex amine them for you. Compare them in appearance, In tone, In action, with any piano you know of; that's the only way to know the merits ot the Klmbnll. And that's the way we want the Kimball Judged. We know what a fine piano the Kimball Island there are 160,000 bona fide satisfied buyers of the Kimball, and they will attest to what we say. We sell a new Kimball at $355. You certainly want to see the new ' Kimball before spending money for a plauo. It will be to your Interest to do so. The Kimball is sold on terms as low as $10 cash and f 10 monthly. Come In and talk It over. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas St. vy i i I GIVE Easy to Pay 1522 Farnam Street. SEIIMONS BOII.KU DOWS, Every deed is born of some creed. The aimless life always hit misery. Faith cannot be forced by an appeal to fear. There are no prises to those who always are prudent A divine discontent alone can lead t perfect content. He who kills time is a thief as well u a murderer. A man may hide his sins, but . ha cannot hide his sinfulness. It I a much a duty to guide your love a to govern your hate. Your money loses Its power to help when it gets into your heart. The everlasting sermon seldom lends any to the everlasting salvation. Some heaven in the heart is the essential passport to heaven as a home. The man who pats you on the bnck not always Is pushing you forward. It is a great thing to move men, hut it may be a greater thing to be moved. There's a good deal of difference between social prominence and personal eminence. Bom folks always pray, "Forgive us our debts" Just before the offering is taken. If you cannot say No to many trifle you will never say Yes to any great triumph. A oon a a lazy man finds out what It costs to be a sun he goes Into the cloud business. The law that brings good fruit from good seed must bring pain and loss from evil sowing. Chicago Tribune. DOM K 11C n.KASAMIllKS. "The stag party old Moneybags gave, I umlei'Htantl, whs a very "loud' affair." "I should say It was. The guests were bursting with laughter and th hoxt Ex ploding with rage." llaltlmore American. "How are you getting on with your suit at Miss Roxley's?'' asked Dudley. "Kf.lwnrlWI liiwt now." refilled Nprvv. "Hut her father kicks you out every time you call, doesn't he?" "Yes. but he doesn't kick a hard a he used to." Philadelphia Press. "Yes." said the sentimental youth, 'there is no doubt of her devotion. She treasure all my letters." "That," said Miss Cayenne, "may be de votion. And then again it may be fore sight." Washington Star. "There seems to be a great lack of unani mity In your family, Mr. t'omeup." "No, sir, that ain't the trouble, hut wa don't appear to be able to git together In anything." Baltimore American. Gayley You haven't hnd occasion to ac oune me of playing poker for two year. Airs. Gavley Three years, my dear. Uayley How do you know It's three years? Mrs. Gayley BecauHe I've worn this dress that long, and I got It the lust time I caught you. Catholic Standard and Times. IS A FRIKXm.Y SOKT OF WAV, James Whltcomb Riley. When a mun alnt got a cent, and he' feeling kind o' blue. An' the clouds hang dark an heavy, an won't let th sunahlne through. It's a great thing. U, my brethren, for a fellar Just to lay His hand upon your shouldor in a friendly sort o' wayl It makes a man feel curious; It makes the teardrops start, An' you sort o' feel a flutter in th region of the heart; You can look up and meet hi eyes; you don't know what to say When his hand la on your shouldr la a friendly sort o' wayl O. the world's ti curious compound, with its honey and lis gall. With ltii can) and bitter crosses, but a good worl' after all; An" a good Gui muni have made It least ways, that is what I say. When a hand is on my shoulder la a friendly sort o' way. $25.00 $1.00 a Week
