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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 3, 1907. B ' 1 U U 1 ? .1 i The Omaha Sunday Deb FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaht poetofflc a second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. raI1y Fee (without Kundav) one year...H0o 1'alljr be and Bumlay, one year Sundav Bee, one year I Saturday Hoe, one year 160 DELIVERED 'BY CARRIER. Dally Ftee (Including Sunday), per weok..!5c Dally Rex (without Sunday), per WMk...Kc Evening R-e (without Sunday), per week, to Evening Ree (with Sunday) per week. ...10c Address corapalnt of Irregularities in de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha City Hail Building. Council Bluffs 10 Fearl Street Chlcag IhM) Unity Building. New York lu Home Life In. Building. Washington 6il Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. ComunicAtlons relating to new and edi torial matter ehould be addressed: Omaiia Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, pay.ible to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: Charles C. Rose water, general manager of The Ree Publishing company, being duly worn, says JXat the actual number of full end compleWoples of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1M, was as follows: 1 30,900 17 41,970 t 33,680 IS 31,990 S 81,970 1 31.760 4 81,960 10 30,300 1 31,860 SI 31,900 ,. 30,600 22 33,050 7 31,980 it 81,640 33,300 14 31,780 33,360 25 31.700 10 33,040 2 31,830 11 31,870 17 30,500 12 33,050 28 81,830 IS 30,400 29 31,663 14 31,730 SO 31,390 It 31,930 SI 31,630 16 33,180 Total 983,480 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,134 Net total 973,346 Dally average 31,301 CHARLES C. ROSRWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Slst day of January, 1907. 8eal ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHE1 Ol'T OF TOWS. Babscrlbers leavta the eity tem porarily should have The Ree sailed to them. Address will be chanced as often as requested. We will now settle down to six more weeks of winter and twice six more weeks of tbe legislature. Dr. Wiley says "oysters are worth less after they have been frozen." So are men, for that matter. An English writer who has never visited Chicago says Budapest has the filthiest streets in the world. Speaker Cannon says he can see no need of a revision of the tariff. The speaker should consult an ocnllst. Carrie Nation has left Washington in disgust, having found it impossible to divert attention from the senate. ' A Chicago scientist says this severe weather Is caused by the spots on the sun. Someone should 'knock them off. Two local concerns are advertising leductlons In thermometers. They seem to be going down all over the west. Carrie Nation has been refused ad mission to the White House. The White House mirrors are of great value. Senator Perkins of California In sists that war with Japan Is inevitable. It may be averted by allowing Cali fornia to secede. Office seekers who are kicking their heels on Governor Sheldon's front doorstep may as well keep warm that way as any other. William Allen White says "Roose velt will never be found out." ' It's a safe wager that he will be when Sen ator Foraker calls. Senator Dryden is to be allowed to talk to the New Jersey legislators, but his opponents Insist' that he must keep his money muazlcd. nBBBBsmnBBBBBBBBBBnaBSnnnnnnn A magazine that can stand Bryan and Beverldge's ammunition for two years without exploding ought to be able to stand anything. The health officer of Atlantic City says the kissing promotes the spread of grip. A, kiBs without a proper gnp is seldom satisfactory. Senator Hale says there Is "too much oratory in the senate." Substi tution of "talk" for "oratory" would make bis statement stronger. By starting a presidential boom for Senator Beveridge, the Chicago Even ing Post refutes the assertion that American humor is dying out The mint crop In Japan Is said to be three feet high. Colonel Henry Watterson's departure from Pari for Tokio may be expected at any time. Mr. Hill and MrTTlaTrlman have apparently overlooked the chance to hold the fire In the Baldwin locomo tive plant responsible for tbe car shortage. The French senate has refused to pass a house bill taxing pianos. Insist ing that the law would be a blow at art That argument will not hold good In some countries. Colonel Bryan has printed in full in his weekly newspaper "The Prince of Peacei An Address Delivered on Va rious Occasions." Colonel Bryan must be ready to withdraw this particular address from his repertoire. ATfSVRD WAR RVMORS. It was not to be expected that the Important negotiations pending be tween the American and. Japanese gov ernments could go through without the interposition of meddlers and mischief-makers. The sensational newspaper rumors, however, of a war like turn of affairs and imputations of inflammatory utterances to Secretary Root and to the Japanese minister of foreign affairs are absurd on their face and hardly need the formal denials they have received. The negotiations are of the highest importance, looking to a solid settle ment of the relations between the two countries. The sole irritating question arises out of the San Francisco school regulations, a purely local matter, and our government has moved promptly to have the rights of Japanese chil dren there defined in the only prac tical way, namelyi by submitting the case to the courts. Their decision, whatever it may be, will clear the way for practical adjustment. In the meantime the two governments have wisely gone on in search for an abid ing and conclusive basis of agreement as regards not only the school, but also Japanese coolie immigration and other questions. But all these exchanges have gone forward in the spirit of most assured friendship. The two nations stand to wards each other on present and tra ditional terms of special confidence and comity. It is an ill service for pub lic men, and especially members of congress, in tho spirit of local preju dice, to magnify and distort mere ex ceptional irritating circumstances be cause reckless rumor mongers are al ways ready to superadd sensational and outright fabrication, as has been done by current stories of war prepa rations in the Pacific. There are altogether only 60,000 Japanese among our population of 80,- 000,000 Americans, a number com paratively eo trivial that insuper able difficulty In their relations Is in conceivable. But because the two na tions are so friendly and are mutually so profoundly Interested In preserving and strengthening their friendship Is Uie very reason why both governments have been moved to make the first local irritation in the school matter the occasion for thorough settlement. And there is not the slightest ground for apprehension that such a result will not be duly reached In spite of the worst that sensationalists and mis chief-makers can do. GET THE DELEGATION TOGETHER' The members of the Douglas dele gation in the legislature ought to get together for more harmonious action, especially on measures involving the Interests of Omaha and Douglas county. On some bills before the leg islature the members from this county will doubtless be at variance the same as members from other counties, but on the main propositions affecting the welfare of business interests here or the simplification or reorganization of city and county governments they ought to be of one mind. Unanimity of purpose, however, Is not all that Is needed to put legisla tion through. Harmony of action and agreement on method are just as Im portant. It is highly imperative that we have team work from our senators and representatives, rather than Indi vidual play. The delegation has so far avoided any spectacle of dissen sion, and it la to be hoped it will not spoil the record during the' remaining weeks pf the session, yet it is positive results that count in the long run, and if the delegation from Douglas county Js to achieve results in the legislature it will have to get together without further waste of time. TRAFFIC AKD NEW CONSTRUCTION. . The significant statement is made on what passes in financial circles as the highest authority that 75 per cent of all the railroad financing for this year has been provided for, and detailed lists are published showing such oper ations aggregating over 1600,000,000, They Include the provisions made by the Hill lines for $153,000,000, by the Harrlman lines for $100,000,000, by the Milwaukee for $100,000,000 and by many other roads for amounts ranging down to a few millions, some of them by the sale of short-time notes. Not in every case, however, do tbe arrangements contemplate the ex penditure of the full amount within the year. The total, it It could he expended, would still fall far short of the nec essary "new construction and equip ment which the accepted authorities have asserted to be necessary to ac commodate traffic. J. J. Hill recently estimated that fully 16,000 miles, re quiring $1,200,000,000 a year for tbe next five years, would only meet the growth of business. If every dollar of the funds authorized and provided for by all the roads could be transmuted into new tracks, terminals and rolling stock within twelve months it would be only one-half the figure set by Mr. Hill. The financial limitations are not the only serious conditions. New construc tion Is also restrained by the supply of materials. Practically every ton of steel rails, every freight car and every locomotive that the mills and 'shops can turn out within the year have been already contracted for, and the orders might have been doubled if there had been possibility of filling them. There is also shortage of labor. Meantime there is no sign of sub sidence of the deluge of freight and travel. Pressure of tonnage is re ported from every quarter of the coun try, and actual industrial engagements indicate that it will continue at least for many months. Altogether, the transportation companies have been slow awakening to the situation, and It is obvious that they have a grave task before them. HA T3 OFF TO ROOT, We doff our hats to Root Not this time to the Hon. Etihu Root secretary of state, but to the Hon. Jesse L. Root, state senator from Cass county. . The Hon. Jesse L, Root is author, sponsor and introducer of a bill re corded in the archives of the state sen ate as Senate File No. 14, entitled "A Bill for an act to jrpeal sections 569c 569d and 569e of the criminal code of the state of Nebraska." It developed, however, that this bill as introduced contained a serious error and to correct it an amendment has been proposed which has been printed nnder like title and reads as follows:' Amend tbe title by striking out the' mall "s" In the word "stale" and Insert In lieu thereof a capital "8." By the terms of the contract made with the legislative printers the pro duction of this amendment as a gem of the printing craft costs the taxpayers of Nebraska $1.46. But what care we for $1.46 when the dignity and prestige of the great State of Nebraska is at stake and the purpose Is to spell the state with a big "s" In stead of a little "s." The sovereignty of the state must be maintained and defended at what ever cost. Hats off to Root. KXCOURAGiyG POSTAL FRAVDS' Postal authorities at Washington have become a routed over a bill passed by the house and now pending in the senate which, they claim, would have the effect of nullifying much of the good work done In the last few years toward eliminating the get-rlch-qulck concerns and other shady enterprises using the malls to defraud the public. The . bill, which went through the house without attracting any attention, provides that after a hearing before the Postoftlce department fifteen days must elapse before a fraud order may be issued against any party complained of and that, if the defendant wishes, he may take the case to a civil court for trial, subject to the ordinary rules of practice. Under existing law, the postmaster general may, when convinced that any concern or individual is using the mails for purposes of fraud, instruct the postmaster at the home office to withhold the mall of the offending con cern, returning it to the sender, when known, or to the dead letter office. This power is a large one, it is true, but the law has been in force many years and nothing in the record shows that it has been seriously abused or that any legitimate concern has been injured by its operation. It was tbe chief instrument employed in breaking up tbe Franklin syndicate, Ryan's turf swindle, the St. Louis concerns that had Senator Burton in their employ and scores of other swindling outfits throughout the country. So effective has been the operation of the law that most of these concerns have been re tired from business or compelled to use other methods of communicating with their victims. The enactment of the pending meas ure would undoubtedly furnish an op portunity for 'the fraudulent concerns to resume. It would make .the stop page of a fraud possible only after a long legal process, Involving postpone ments and other technical forms of de lay, during which the harvest of vic tims woujd proceed. It would substi tute a lawsuit for prompt administra tive action. As these swindling con cerns change names and methods In a night, prompt action is necessary for their punishment upon discovery of their guilt. In the last five years 2,470 fraud orders have been issued by the Postofflce department. Of these but thirty cases have been appealed to the courts, and in no Instance has the Postofflce department been reversed. The record refutes the charge made by the champions of the pending meas ure that tbe postmaster general's power under the existing law has been abused. It would seen), also, to fur nish an unanswerable argument against any far-reaching change In the existing law and practice on the fraud order subject ' MISDIRECTED STMPATRY. The New York Times waxes Indignant that western stockmen are not punish able by law tor allowing their cattle to freeie to death on tbe ranges during tbe blizzards and snowstorms. Re ferring to the loss in recent snow storms of live stock valued at $1,000, 000, it says: "This cruel slaughter can hardly be ascribed to the weather at all, for the stockmen know that such storms are among the probabili ties of every winter, and if they do not prepare for them by providing food and shelter for emergency use it is simply because they have found that It is, or hope that it, will be, more profitable to let the cattle take their chances on the open plains. It would be bard to figure out why a western cattleman goes unpunished when he lets his stock starve and freete while an eastern farmer who does the same thing on a much smaller scale is de spised by all bis neighbors and finds himself promptly in court, confronted by fine and imprisonment." Difficulty naturally attends the task of explaining to a New York man the difference between the farmer of tbe east, who has his bunch of a dozen steers and heifers pastured on the "bark forty," and the western cattle man, whose thousands of cattle roam from Jackson's Hole to the Wind river, scattered over a range of territory In which New England would only make a "settlement He will ba slow to understand that all the barns in Penn sylvania and New York would hardly hold the stock that carries the brand of one big concern on the open ranges. He does not realise that the hay crop which he would have stored for storm emergencies would call tor the ser vices of an army of gleaners and would have to be drawn largely from states hundreds of , miles from the range country, ne does not know the range, the range steer, the range man or anything that appertains to the cat tle business as conducted in tbe west His knowledge of the cattle business bears the stall-fed brand. The range steer is a product ot the open, a skirmisher for forage and un familiar with the water trough, the silo tank and the fodder grinder. It is possible the steer might spurn these products of an effete civilization If it were possible to introduce them in the range country. It Is possible, too, that tho range steer, if he could know that he was destined for slaughter, would prefer to sleep his life out in a soft snow bank rather than be yanked across the continent in a crowded car, only to be bit in the head with a butcher's axe. Sympathy for the range steer and resentment at the heartless cattlemen are both largely misplaced. POPULATION AKD WEALTH. The completed estimates of the cen sus bureau fix the population of the United States at the close of 1904 at 81,752,000, or an increase since the civil war ot 22 per cent per decade. At the same rate of increase the total will reach 170,000,000 by the close of the present generation, or, making considerable deduction of rate, it will fully double by 1940. The figures re cently given out by the bureau show that the production of wealth is going forward at a more rapid . rate of in crease than that of population, the total in 1904 standing at $106,000, 000,000, or a net Increase within two decades more than equal to the total wealth of the country before the civil war. It is only by reference to such facts that some, of the questions of tbe era upon which we have already well en tered can be appreciated. The very rapidity ot population and wealth growth has tended to deceive those who are in tbe midst of it and it is only as practical difficulties press for attention that the full extent of changed conditions is disclosed. It Is, however, obvious from tbe outlook that that class of vital questions which President Roosevelt has had the cour age and force to push to the front in public attention was not, seriously taken up one moment too soon. The taking over of wealth under corporate forms and its concentration in the con trol ot vast organizations had gone so far", already in a multitude of cases evading or setting at naught public authority, that ' orderly and progres sive reform might have become im possible It the work had been delayed only a short time. Government has thus been aroused to the necessity of providing for changes that amount to a veritable revolution in the industrial and social life of the people. It is not so much a question ot general principles or constitutional axioms. But the rela tions of the mass of the people, their employments, their exchanges, the control and employment ot wealth especially as modled by corporate forms, have clearly outgrown old leg islative arrangements sufficient In their day, and even found In them re straints and obstructions. It Is in finitely better to attack in time the problem ot conforming the govern ment to the public necessities, al though the natural tendency is to let things drift. The movement in which President Roosevelt has broken the way must go on, tor the forces with which it deals will not wait. In the light of the facts presented by the census bureau it 1b safe to say that our popu lation will within two presidential terms increase 15,000,000 and our wealth $20,000,000,000, and the pres sure for relief from corporation abuses and outworn legal forms and adjustments, unless duly met will grow many fold. The hopeful fact Is that the mass of the people are be coming conscious of tho true emer gency and are educating themselves to meet it and effectively demanding that their representatives in every de partment ,of government shall carry out their will. Here is a hunch for republican mem bers of the legislature who are inter ested In federal patronage for them selves or their friends; It Is quite within the range ot possibilities that Nebraska may be a pivotal state in the next presidential election and should Nebraska elect Bryan as a consequence of llladvlsed legislation driving any number of voters Into the democratic party, there will be no federal patron age for republicans to divide. Unless Justice Moody disposes of bis holdings in Union Pacific stock he will be deprived forever of the privi lege ot listening to the entrancing oratory of John N. Baldwin when en listed in behalf of Mr. Harriman's parent corporation. Automobile manufacturers declare that they' cannot keep pace with the Remand tor self-propelling vehicles. Under these conditions It is not sur prising to hear complaints that tbelr auto cars do not always keep pace with the promises made for them. An eastern current toplc'weckly de clares that the elections during the last fortnight of United Stat sen ators "have been of peculiar Interest because of the number of well known men who have been chosen to succeed themselves for six years." It might have noted another peculiar Interest because of the number ot Ill-famed senators who have been chosen to re tire to the obscurity of private life. Some of the railroad magnates are now trying to explain the Inadequacy of their facilities to meet demands on the score of "too much prosperity." None of them, however, are ready to exchange the prosperity surplus for a prosperity deficit. William Alden Smith, the new United States senator from Michigan, is a drummer, and Senator-elect Tay lor ot Tennessee is a fldller. This is encouraging for Mr. Tillman, It he wants to reorganize his senatorial minstrels. Dr. Wiley is the latest man slated to succeed "Tama Jim" Wilson as secre tary of agriculture. It is about time for a reunion of the men who have succeeded Mr. Wilson since March 4, 1907. New York promises to Increase the carrying capacity of her street rail ways by five-fold. It is not explained how they will find room for that many more Straps. Mayor "Jim" says they were not prize fights, but simply boxing con tests. A prize fight In a cowboy coun try leaves only one man to tell tbe tale. Costly Rivalry. Chicago Record-Herald. Germany Is preparing to build several 25,000-ton battleships. England will, of course, reply at once with an order for as C . ri r.r . o . i - limity A9,uv-iuil liKHLina vueaeiB, Ancient History In Official Form. Baltimore American. , Many of the assertions In the report of the Interstate Commerce commission with reference to the Standard Oil company do not belong to the category of startling revelations. On Old Faithful Remains. Indianapolis News. In view of the fact that there has been such a material shrinkage In other cam paign contributions, the house presumably felt justified in calling on the government for a $238,000 contribution In the form ot garden' seeds for campaign purposes. . Dlstnrblnar tbe Peso. Baltimore American. Just when 'mankind had learned to eon sole itself with the reflection that sufficient unto the day Is the evil thereof, the United States weather man comes along with his declaration that the weather bureau win. soon be able to predict the weather a year In advance. Cnbnn Patriotism. , New York Sun. ' That Cuban patriot who was going to rebel If he had to lose his job as a mayor, but buried the hatchet when $100 a month as road inspector, was given to him, should not be misunderstood. Money Is nothing to him. Official place Is nothing to him. Ho Is sensitive. He wishes hi merits to be appreciated. DO LAWYERS NEED THE MONEY? . Taking Retainers Which Arrays Them Aaralnst Public Interests. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ex-Governor Higglns of New York said In an address to tbe State Bar association: "I want to say it will be a sorry day for this country when the leaders of the American bar are to be deemed unqualified for publlo service. Such men ought never to take a retainer which arrays them against the publlo interest. A man that engages In practice that . Involves such antagonism Is a traitor to the interests ot the people and commits treason." ' Is not a lawyer already In publlo service, theoretically at least? Lawyers are officers of the court, and they are licensed by the state after a suitable examination made In pursuance of law. They are not paid by the state except for special services ren dered, but they are In a sense In the public service. Btlll It Is an open secret that many law yers devote themselves almost exclusively to defeating the proper execution of the laws. Somebody has did used the Idea that they are sworn to do the beat they can for their clients, but this Is a mere supersti tion. They take no such oath, and it is against publlo policy that they should 'do anything unlawful to further the Interests of those whom they represent. When It Is said that a lawyer should not take a retainer which arrays him against the publlo interest, a principle Is laid down which Js difficult of application. What some consider against the publlo Interest others might think highly favorable to It. The statement, however, is absolutely cor rect, and when a lawyer Is offered a re tainer to do what to clearly and unmistak ably opposed to the publlo Interest, It Is his duty to refuse. He may need the money, but he Is In the public service, and ought not to take a bribe. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE tMJI.FTT. Washington Tost; Bishop J. W. Hamilton of the Methodist church was In the Ban Franclseo earthquake and also In that at Kingston. Having been called upon to set- tie a number of church rows, he doesn't mind a tittle thing like an earthquake. Chicago Chronicle: It Is disagreeable to have to say anything complimentary about socialists, but It Is Impossible not to com mend the socialists In the Wisconsin legis lature who havs taken up arms against legislative chsplalns. They complain that the chaplain of the lower bouse lately took up twenty minute of precious time In giv ing the Almighty his views concerning the legislation pending la the body. As the socialists are not alone in this matter, It is to be hoped that the chaplain will be abolished and the solons compelled to pray at home, where they can pray as long as they wish. Boston Transcript: Tbe minister of the Highland Congregational eburch of Lowell has Introduced a substitute for the prayer meeting, known as "church nigbt." with aa appeal to a larger audience than the tra ditional weekly evening service, for three quarters ot an hour each Friday evening devotional exercises ere held, somewhat specialised In form. The next three-quarters of an hour la given to the committee work of the church, to the choir rehearsal and to ether business that needs attention. Persons not thus employed In any of these ways ar known as the social fellowship committee, aud they get In readiness for the third of tbe periods Into which ths evening Is divided, which arrives at t:lS, when light refreshments are served. It Is said that the attendance has Increased materially under this plan, which was de vised by Rev. A. 8. Dunnels. and that both young and old look forward to "church night" with plsaaaal anUci Diamonds Win Hearts . Wia Hearts MP ; Give a Diamond s75 QO $2.50 a Week. An absolutely p e r t e o t white gem. Guaranteed to be exactly as represented. Actually valued at $100 In other stores. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD L RHANDELBERG OMAHA'S GIFT SHOP SERMONS BOILED DOWN. No man ever did his duty standing on his dignity. The finger of scorn never Is on the help ing hand. Soul culture Is a matter of spiritual oom panlonshlpi He who has no faith In goodness has no experience of It Character Is the only absolutely Indis pensable . capital. Men are always weary until they take up some worthy task. Knocking the saints will not open the doors of paradise. Our goods do us no good until we try to do good with them. Men who elope with a single Idea never get wedded to truth. He who does not fight his appqtlt must forego his aspirations. On of the great mistake of this age has been the substitution of the churoh as an institution for the church as an Inspiration. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. With an uncommon record of disaster and human slaughter, January earned its repose In the cemetery of time. Bt. Louts grocers propose to start a co operative bakery to head off the Breatl trust. Both sides will knead the dough. A Texas prophet throws a hammer at Medicine Hat by predicting that a hot wave will blister the world In a few days, AH hall the thirteen hoodoo. A shame less polygamlst was caught redbanded with wife No. 13 at Toledo, O., and given a sen tence t six years In the penitentiary. The marked activity In religious revivals would be productive of more enduring re sult If communication with New York's criminal court could be severed for about sixty days. . The saddest spectacle ever put up to the "Old Kentucky Home" was aa even hun dred barrels of booze gathered up by the Ohio river flood and gleefully floated to ward the gulf. It Is calculated that the estate of tbe lata Marshall Field will yield a yearly tax of ll.0U0.OW. During life Mr. Field was a generous taxpayer, but he did not know how much he was worth. Five fairly competent business man con sumed nearly a year In determining the value of Marshall Field's estate. Yet tbe law of Illinois expect a plain assessor to do a like job in sixty day. The proposition to tax bachelors has broken out again In several legislatures. Let's see. Didn't King Oeorge Impose un just burden on liberty, and didn't George get what was coming to him? The Year 1906 Brought Many Blessings No other piano store in the United States has such a business as ours. In the last year we sold 1,000 pianos, a great increase over th business of the preceding year. This statement means muchespecially when coupled with tbe further assertion that ours Is the only one price, no commission pay ing piano store In the west. J We pay spot cash for every piano we buy, and buying In such large quantitiea, too, secures to us price concessions impossible for small dealers to get. We are not afraid to quote you from time to time the names, styles and prices of pianos. The public is becoming well acquainted with the Hospe price, always tha lowest; for In stance: It Is Impossible to buy a piano elsewhere for the same money that's as good as our 8tyle M Cramer at 1 190, our Style 80 Hlnxe at S200, our Style X Weser at S2&0. or our Style B Cable-Nelson at 1275. We have not space to mention tbe entire line, but as factory distributers for the Knabe, Kranich it Bach, Kimball, Bush Lane, Hallet Davis, Hospe, etc., etc.. carrying always the best and latest product of these factories, marking tbem in plain figures at the low est cash price, is making for the people of this section the greatest possible economy and the most satisfaction. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas St. MARY 10 A GRAND OLD NAME 80 18 .'SHEROD&fw L WE HAVst THE ONLY GENUINE - BEEN OUT FOR 3 MONTHS VICTOR WHITE COAL CO.. 1 605 FARNAM STREET, TEL. DOUGLAS 121 TEL. DOUGLAO 127 FOR GENUINE CAN NOW SUPPLY IT AFTER BCINO OUT FOR 3 MONTHS VICTOR WHiTE COAL CO.. 1G05 FARNAM OT. for a Valentine This hand some watch, fully guaran teed, Elgin or Waltham move ment, actually valued- at $25 in other stores. 1522 FARNAM STREET DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Are you hungry, George, dear?" "Who cookeii the dinner, pet ?" -Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Your wife Is of quite an open disposi tion. Isn't she, CharleyT" "I should say she was! She never shuts up." Baltimore American. She You must reflect, dear, that w must make some sacrifice now that our daughter Is "out." He (Kloomlly) Yes, and as a result the coal and the flour are out, too. Philadel phia Press. Nan I wonder If that's a real diamond that Kitty's wearing on her linger. Do you know who the young man is? Kan I don't know of any young man. , but I know it's a real diamond. 1 happened in when she was buying It. Chicago Tri bune. Miss Gaddle Did you hear about the piteful thing Miss Meanley said to May on her wedding dayT MIbs Ascum You mean May who mar rled old Mr. De8emberT Miss Gaddle Yes. . She said she wished tbem both long life. Philadelphia Ledger. The Rev. Mr. Fourthly I congratulate you on your church being out of debt, I arn told you are going to burn tbe notes and mortgage just before the service begins next Sunday morning. Th Rev. K. Mowltt Lalghtly Well-r no, not exactly; we decided that such a thing would look too much like business to be appropriate for Sunday. We shall tak up a collection for a new carpet instead, and burn the mortgages next day. Chi-, cago Tribune. k A LITTLE3 HAND LIES ON MY K1TEB Berlab F. Cochran In Youth's Companies. A little hand lies on my knee. Two trustful eyes look up to me, A thrill the childless cannot know Sets all my quickened blood aglow. And so 'tis given me to feel What power Is In this soft appeal. While these bright eyes his mother gave Are holding me a willing slave. This little five-leaved, rosy fist, Hy loving lips so often kissed; Was ever force more beautlliedT Can strength In greater beauty hid? Unsteady are his steps Just now, But when white locks lie on my brow, And age creeps on with vision dim, My waning strength may trust In him. Then he will be the strong, and I The weak and trusting one; I sigh To think It, but I see that day. And aoquiesce in Nature s way. For thus the links of life connect, In love we give, and so expect That love and lite will ever spring Wber hearts and hopes their treasures bring. And so In giving and receiving Is found the best and sweetest living! So life to life renewal gives. And in the young the parent live. Whate'er may come of good or ill, 'Tls good to have these loved ones fill The measure of donieatio joy My sweetheart wife, my bouncing bojrt sT(m $1822 Week. IT jf- v 1