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TITE OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY' 10. 1007. n Tiie Omaha Sunday Bes FOUNDED BI EDWARD ROSE-WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffie a second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PH7 Re (without Sunday) on yar...$t00 Ially e and Sunday, on year MS Sunday Bee, one year J J? Saturday Baa, on year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Br (Including Sunday), per week..ljc IwUly Hm (without Sunday). per Week...luo Evening Ue (without Sunday), per week. 00 Evening Be (with Sunday) per wetc....)"c Addrens ornpaint of Irregularity In 0 llvery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. Couth Omaha City Hall Fulldlng. Counclt Bluffs 10 Pearl BtreoU Chlrago-lftaj Unity Building. New York-lCW Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comunlcatlona relating to new and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Oman be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, exprea or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In pnyment or mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not 'ecreptea. THE BEK PCBLIgHINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. ' Btate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, : Charlea C. Rnsawater, general manager f Th Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, say that th actual number of full nd complete copies cf The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of January, 1W7, waa a follows: 1 30,900 17 I 81.990 It 31,790 10 30,300 ii.;.. x,9oo II.,.., 33,050 II 81,640 H 31,780 16 ...31,700 C 31330 17 30,800 31,930 It ...31,653 0 31,390 II.. 31,630 I .83,090 91,970 4... ...... .81.960 91360 ....80,600 7f 31,950 I .....33300 33.360 10 ....83,040 11 81370 II... 83,060 It,.. 80,400 14 31,730 15...; 31,930 It 83,180 Total t 889,480 Lees unsold and returned oopies.. 9,134 Nat total 078,346 Daily average 11,301 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this list day of January, 1907. CBeal) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public WHEN OUT Or TOWS. Sabacribers leaving tb city teas rarity should bav Th Be mailed t them. Addrees will b ks(t eftea aa reaatU Tho Thaw case strikingly re-enforces the saying that "dead men. tell no tales." The naval appropriation bill baring passed, there will probably be a no ticeable cessation of Japanese war talk. President W. E. Corey of the Steel trust has returned from Paris and, strange to say, still clings to his maiden name. ' . ' Senator Da Pont of. Delaware and 'Admiral Schley bear a striking re semblance to each other. Both were originally powder experts. The country Is now "full of men whose work behind the snow shovel ought to qualify them for Jobs at Panama. ' " " , - - Financial reports show a shrinkage of $600,000,000 in the value of Wall street securities since January 1. That Is the usual etfect of cold, weather on water. A Kentucky Jury has assessed the value of two fingers at $3,227. It must -have been a rare brand, as the ordinary price of two fingers is but IS cents. The Swettenham incident has gone a-gllmmerlng along with the Bellamy Storer incident and several other in cidents that make much smoke and little fire. ' "If we give up the Philippines, Cap tain Hobson will have nothing to talk about," says a Virginia paper. ' An other argument In favor of giving up the Philippines. A New Yorker has devised a new system of memory training. It might be tried on some legislators who Bhow Signs of having forgotten their plat form promises. ' ' After It la all over, there will be a disposition to give Senator Bailey credit for being one of the few men Stble to get something out of the Stan Card Oil company. China send a report that 1,000,000 subjects are starving and that the gov ernment has just appropriated $10. 000,000 for a new navy. China is certainly awakening. - BBaSBaBtaBB9aSsSaBaaBBxBBBa Senator Foraker seems to be laying the foundation tor proof that certain deceased cltlsens of Brownsville ts - gulsed themselves in soldiers' uniforms and committed suicide. . About a half-million cubic feet of dirt was taken from the Culebra cut In January, That la almost as much as they used to take out of a Farnam or Douglas street block. rr rr Prof. Thomas of the Chicago univer sity told bis class the other day that "monogamy is unsatisfactory." , The record falls to . show what happened to Prof. Thomas when he got home. Tennessee has passed a prohibition law, buv, It remains to be seen whether tt wa t the instance of the temper ance advocates or to' meet the desire of the moonshiners to eliminate out side competition. ' . ' "Boss" Ryan of New York refuses to go into the deal for building the Panama canal by contract. This looks Ilk a corroboration of Mr. Oliver's claim that bis bid left, no room for tat pickings by syndicates and sub contractors. ' RKTrtlKO THX TREE PORT. Secretary Shaw's proposition for creating bonded . zones .or export manufacturing is meeting opposition from those who apparently look upon it as a theoretical Innovation, a scheme to aid manufacturers in certain lines without interfering with tariff schedules. Newspaper criticism of the plan has been generous, the general contention being that the bonded tone plan is simply shield against alleged popular sentiment for tariff revision. As a matter of fact, the bonded tone, or free port, proposition is not original with Secretary Shaw, but was sug gested first for this country by the late Edward Rosewater, then editor of The Bee, as a result of his observation of the free ports of Germany during his trip abroad in 1891. Bills drawn at his Instance were Introduced in the Fifty-third congress, in 1894, and fa vorably reported by the committees in both the senate and the house, al though they failed of securing - final consideration. The measures were sponsored by Senators Frye and Chandler, and backed by a . proposal from the late Austin Corbin to estab lish a free none at Fort-Pond bay, on Long Island. Mr. Rosewater reported op bis study of the free port, systems at Bremen, Hamburg and other points to the senate committee considering the measure. Only the sudden death of Mr. Corbin put an end to the agita tion for free ports at that time. Secretary Shaw's proposition is dim ply a revival of the plan then urged for encouraging American manufac turing for export trade, the need of which Is even more urgent now. The proposition does not conflict with any policy of the government, but, in fact, simply extends the present bonded warehouse system by which imported materials used in the manufacture of goods for export are relieved from the payment of customs duties or internal revenue taxes. As elaborated by Sec retary Shaw, this plan is as follows; Suppose ' Instead of a bonded factory w bond a well defined section of land, con. talnlng, If you please,' several thousand acres.. Within this) bonded territory all kind of factories could be built, .and Into this son all kind of raw material could be entered without th payment of duty. This port should, of course, contain no dwellings. I would allow free coal and every other element of manufacture, ex cept labor, o be entered free. Competition is keen in the export trade and experts in trade affairs con tend that the facilities for shipping and transshipping merchandise, un hampered by burdensome customs regulations, contribute quite as much to the success of manufacturers in free port as does relief from tariff fees. The establishment of these .bonded zones would also bring to them the manufacturing establishments now conducted by Americans in other coun tries, for foreign trade,. thus Increas ing employment fdr' American work men. The free porta at' Hamburg, Bremen, . Copenhagen and , .other Eu ropean points have been marvelously prosperous, adding materially to the shipping industry where they are lo cated and proving nbtable factors in the general growth and development of these cities. ... The drawback feature of the pres ent tariff laws was intended to meet this demand, bt its cumbersome operation causes costly delay and ex pense incidental to th entry of the raw materials and to the rebate when goods manufactured .from them are scheduled for export All this would be obviated by the bonded sone plan, under which goods would be subjected to tariff and customs regulations only when entered for home consumption instead of for export. The free port idea Is both practicable and desirable and deserving of early and serious consideration by our government. A T0REU3S CBlTJv'S JVDQUEST. Our changed national attitude Is strikingly Illustrated by the welcom ing and stimulating Interest excited by a book of criticism under the title'; 'The Future in America," by H. O. Wells, a keen and cultured English man. No more than a generation ago such a dissection would have aroused resentment. But that what Mr. Wells calls our eeotlstlc Interest in our own past is largely at an end has been since notably signified by our self-ques ttonlng of our own methods and moral and political standards and by the whole anxious movement of our peo ple the last few years for their eleva tion. Such a-frame of mind, honestly seeking for betterment, naturally in vites instead of repelling the view of sincere foreign criticism. It will strike most of our people as curious that Mr. Wells regards as com paratlvely unimportant in our na tional life "things like the Chicago scandals, th insurance scandals and aU fh MllM crU(llUe9 of Amer, I ...... .,thouffh he Dercelvo. mucl can life," although he perceives much wrong doing of this sort. It is sug gestive that in this connection he em phaaiies tne point tnat "graft is no American specialty." In his view the protest that is so vehemently and to some extent sensationally and fantas tically made against such excesses proves a genuine awakening to the criminal character of the economic and cutthroat game that has been per mltted to develop here as elsewhere In the most advanced nations. The protest proves two things first, that the same has been carried so far as to "hurt obviously universal self-interest, and, second.' that there is here also pervading moral sense to bo of fended and to assert itself efficaciously While, therefore, few have drawn In stronger colors the nnscrnpulousness, the cruelty, the corruption and the lawlessness of our Industrial and com mercial abuses and -our "political degradation," as he terms it, in con nection therewith, still Mr., Wells forms npon the whole a distinctly and boldly optimistic Judgment of the situ atlon and the outlook. " And he argues with discrimination and far more faith than many of our own prophets that amidst our current self-accusations and agitations there are Incomparably more signs of public health and hope than of decadence and demoralisation. MR UARRIMAS S JOCVLAB VIEW. Mr. Harriman must misconceive the public movement to correct transporta tion abuses as totally as Swettenham misconceived the Kingston catastrophe, or he would not in a conspicuous pub lic utterance treat it as a Joke. That attitude of so important a factor in transportation and finance as Mr. Har riman is gravely Inauspicious from the point of view either of the corpora tions or of public interest. The effort to reduce them to subjection to lawful uthority proceeds from Inflexible pur pose and not from any mere popular whim or caprice. The overt proofs of that purpose, aside from the neces sity of the case, ought certainly by this time to be apparent even to the aughtiest railway magnate, and espe cially to those who must In their vital concerns deal with a determined and aroused people. Their settled purpose is. Indeed, the paramount fact with which the administrators of great transportation and other corporations must now perforce deal and adjust themselves. To treat such a situation facetiously, to sum op in the spirit of sarcasm the results of the memorable conflict culminating in the rate law enacted at the last session of congress, neces sarily carries the unfortunate Infer ence that Mr. Harriman and the In fluences he represents miss the true significance of the popular movement. It would be infinitely better if they could realize the serious character of public purpose, not, indeed, to hurt corporations as corporations, but by correcting abuses to harmonise their doings with public good. Inability or failure to realise this truth can tend only to protract the struggle for pub lic supremacy, to produce irritation nd animosity and to foroe In many cases, perhaps, extreme measures from which-corporate as well as public in terests may receive injury. GOVERNMENT AND DISEASE. Present action and interest in legis latures show what a change has been effected in conceptions not only of the facts regarding tuberculosis and like diseases, but also of the duty of the government with respect to them. Laws are being considered to estab lish state sanitariums, for medical ex amination of school children, for seg regation and treatment of the dis eased, as well as for Increased com pulsory general sanitation and popu lar education in correct principles of preventing capital contagious diseases. Few more notable features in lawmak ing are to be fonnd than 'the Scope of pending propositions regarding these ubjects and the earnest attention being given to them. . The old let-alone theory of govern ment long influenced the course of our legislation. It has not been many years since the idea of such state provision tor .treatment of consump tives, as has already been successfully employed at sanitariums on a large scale In several states, would have been peremptorily rejected as a perversion of government function, even it its efficacy had been admitted. Govern ment interference in innumerable sanitary and health matters, which within the memory of the generation now living would have seemed Intoler able aggressions on Individual liberty, are how accepted as a matter of course and even welcomed and demanded. The auspicious fact, is that we have got rid of the fetish of a false idea of the character of government so as tonishingly soon, opening the way for beneflclent legislation on humane and scientific lines. It means much that now, when progressive proposals are made for the protection of the public against "the' great white plague,," the only question is as to merit or as to ways and means. Popular Ignorance and the force of habit are, of course, still formidable obstacles, but an In calculable advantage has been gained since the power of the state can now be enlisted for dealing with all such problems. INCREASING GOLD. The struggle going on throughout the commercial and Industrial coun tries for the possession of gold could hardly be sharper It the output of the world's mines were now, and had for a series of years been, on the decline. Yet sre in the midst of- the most remarkable increase la gold pro ductlon known In history, and every sign points that the increase' will con tinue indefinitely Corrected figures given out by the director of the United States mint, the universally accepted authority, shows the total gold output for 1906 to.be $400,478,448. an Increase of more than $22,000,000 over 1905. The low est point of production In a half cen tury was In 18S2, when the total was slightly below $100,000,000. But la the eleven years since 1896, when It bad risen to $202,000,000, there has been added to the world's gold stock the enormous aggregate of $2,222. 000,000. . It is a matter ot dlepute to what ex tent such an Increase of th world's basic money metal has directly had on prices, though the better opinion seems to be that it has been consider able. But there Is no difference ot opinion that the stimulus to enterprise has been immense. It has a most im portant part in Increasing production, conmerce and credit, which have over leaped all previous bounds, and this unprecedented , expansion la turn causes the eager competition for every dollar of gold Increment as tt is pro duced. The fact that the Increase of the new gold supply is almost certain to continue is therefore regarded as hav ing an essential bearing on the gen eral business outlook. The strength of the position of the United States arises from the circumstance, ' not merely that our country is one of the greatest producers of gold, but also that it has demonstrated its ability to hold its own according to its finan cial needs out of the gold stores and output of the rest of the world. VPES SEASON FOR PROM 0TI ISO FREAKS July and Newport have long been synonymous with the opening of "the silly season," the monkey dinners, the society circus and other bareback per formances, affording the smart set a desired relief from the round of for mal social duties and contributing in a large degree to the.gayety of the rest of the nation. However, even casual reading of the telegraphic re ports In the daily press will convince the observer that July and Newport have been backed off the board to make room for first best bets on Feb ruary and the state legislatures, as odds-on favorites for the silly stakes. For many .years Kansas was in the limelight as the storm center of freak legislation, but a summary of the week's proceedings shows that the virus has taken and that Kansas has been outpopped from Maine to Mexico, from Oregon to Florida, the authors of freak legislation parlaying their bets, playing both ends against the middle. It would stump Solomon to award the belt for championship freaklsm, on the exhibits now being made by the different states. Bills pending, in one form or another, propose to regu late or restrict everything in the whole gamut of human emotldns, from love to larceny, from matrimony to mur der. In five states, bills are pending providing for ' making divorce more difficult and marriage as trying as a civil service examination. Indiana, Wisconsin and Vermont propose to tax bachelors, while Iowa wants to have candidates for matrimony undergo ex aminations as to their mental state and ancestral records, while Kansas contemplates compelling the publica tion of engagements thirty days before marriage. Nothing affecting the most sacred of all human relations has been overlooked by the freak legislator. Missouri has apparently Inherited some of the freaklness of Its former neighbors, and the legislature at Jef ferson City is wrestling with such Im portant problems aa to whether a man shall be allowed to tip his barber, his waiter or the cabman, and whether it is law, Justice and good public policy to limit a wife to two new hats a year, neither to cost more than $1.98. Ala bama proposes to make It a Jail of-f fense for any woman to play or al lowed played in her home any . game of whist or euchre that carries with It prizes of value. California would make it a penitentiary offense for any person In the state to dock horses' tails or to import docked horses. Utah wants ' to allow amateur dentists to practice on the convicts of the peni tentiary,, and a half-dozen states are considering anti-cigarette and antl- treating laws. If there is any fool prop osition that has not been made the subject of a bill In one of the state legislatures, it Is because the right man has not thought of it. WIDE AiTAKE CAL1FORNIANS. California's enterprising citizens are making a determined effort to offset the advertising they have received from the earthquake and the Japanese school muddle by fnvestlng a large sum of money in calling attention to the state's resources and advantages through advertisements in newspapers, magazines and other mediums of pub licity In the country feast of the Rocky mountains. The work Is being done in a systematic manner, as all adver tising should be, by the Development Society of California, an organization formed for the purpose. It is the an nounced purpose of the society to spend at least $500,000 in advertis ing the state. Promoters ot the California plan apparently appreciate the fact that ad vertlsing is as essential In these busy days for the advancement ot a state or city as It is for the sale ot a com modity. Capital is seeking investment and enterprising men are looking for locations for employment and the es tablishment of business enterprises. Men and money will go where Induce' ments are offered rather than spend time In seeking fields themselves. The state or city that has attractions for investors or homeseekers can employ advertising to as much advantage as the merchant who has bargains on his counters. The wide-awake Call fornlans are not only entitled to credit. but their publicity plan is worthy of emulation. , Reading between the lines of some editorial comment in the Commoner on the speech delivered by Senator Bailey at Austin, Tex., the conclusion is inevitable that Colonel Bryan and the Texas senator are no longer pull ing together in double harness. Col onel Bryan suggests Ironically that "If Senator Bailey doesn't make any more mistakes than the democratic party made in 1896, he will have made a. fine record for sagacity." Senator Bailey's rejoinder is yet to come. The judiciary committee ot the house has reported to congress that th regulation of woman and child labor rests with the police power of the various states and Is not a proper subject for federal legislation or regu ration. It will be difficult to convince Senator Bevertdge that the members of the house Judiciary committee read his seven-days' speech on the subject Another argument against the re vised federal judiciary bill Is that It would deprive jurymen and witnesses In federal cases out In the state of their occasional visits to Omaha at Uncle Sam's expense. The educational features of these expeditions surely more than repay any Inconvenience of which litigants may complain. f San , Francisco is willing to make the school concessslon asked by Japan if Japanese laborers may be excluded from this country and Japan replies that It Is anxious to have Japanese laborers kept at home. That seems to furnish a basis for compromise satis factory to everybody except Richmond Pearson Hobson. , Now that John D. Rockefeller has added $32,000,000 to his general edu cation fund for the endowment of colleges and universities, it Is up to Andrew Carnegie to slap in at least $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 more to the pension fund established by him to take care of superannuated college professors. ( Governor Sheldon has been In office now for nearly six weeks without hearing a single application for par don or commutation. Just imagine how many legalized prison breaks would have taken place in these five weeks had former Governor Mickey been holding over. John N. Baldwin will have to induce Justice Moody In some way to sell his stock In the Union Pacific railway before any more Union Pacific cases are taken up to the United States su preme court. If the railroad attorney is to insist on trying them before a full bench. Adjusted to the Setting-. . Baltimore American. Roosevelt's portrait will be hung In Th Hague Peace place, but it will not bo a copy of the one which represent him as charging up Ban Juan H11L Band OS by Courts. Kansas City Star. In no state In th union where a legis lature has passed a law providing for 3- cent railroad far have the courts passed adversely on the1 enactment. Reqalem of the Free Pass. Washington Herald; , With one concerted voice th various stats legislature are demanding 8 cents pen mile aa ample compensation for the railroad in th matter of passenger traffic This may be looked upon as something In the natur of a requiem for the free pas. Blocking- Jary Betteraaeat. Chicago Record-Herald. It Is all very well to cry for better Jurors, but there will be no lasting Improvement as long as technicalities and absurdities and musty legal notions as make speedy and reasonable procedure an Impossibility The way to reform the Jury system Is quit clear. Courts and lawyer must begin by simplifying and rationalising practice. . v. Appeal to Wtsdena ef Coagreas. New York World, Dr. Anita Newcomb McQee, th famous army nurse and surgeon, adds her plea for the restoration of th post canteen. 'Like every on who knows something about It," sh says, "I am heartily In favor of giving our American soldier their club whera they may enjoy themselves harm lessly. As a woman and a physician, I deplore the horrible results of making a man .seek ills amusement where he la liable to fall a prey to the worst temp tations." This is the ort of wisdom which, will prevail if congress ha the strength to undo Its own mistake of five years ago. PUBLICITY AND. THE! CHTRCHES. Blsm Pointing; th War to Increasing , Chwrch Attend. St. Tjoula Republio. Advertising for an Increased Sunday school attendance ha proven successful In the case of an East St. Louis church. It 1 on of th first Instance of. direct re mits of publicity used to promote religious Interests and confirms a suggestion made some time ago In St. Louis by a visiting clergyman. The advertisement, which ap peared in a church paper, propounded a scriptural conundrum In the form of "Who Was Cain's Wife?" That th curiosity of nine persona wa aroused was evident from the appearance the following Sunday of that number of new attendant. None of them were so un coached on bible class Information aa to Insist upon an answer to the question, but th novelty of the mean used to draw them Into a new atmosphere made a gain for th church. This response to the un usual, or "catchy," to use expressive colloquialism, emphasises the power of novel advertising even when applied to religious Interest. The practical outcome of the first reli gious "ad" recorded In this locality prob ably will leave Its Impression on this side ot the river. That its us brought such Immediate returns suggests at least the wisdom of the scriptural Injunction not to hide one's light under a bushel. In Its quaint way, the command seems to Intimate th seeking of publicity. PERSONAL AMD OTHERWISE. ClArngo has street car to burn, but pot enough to accommodate the rush hour. Ice men are working now, but the finish ing touches will be reserved for summer. Cleveland man who fell heir to a for tune of t30,0U0 fell afoul of John Barleycorn and hit the unknown pike. Sudden pros perity Is a dangerous chum. Nothing short of a large package of money from Uncle Bam' treasury, to be used In building fortifications, will ease th Japanese war scare In Honolulu. Taking th cue from Washington, th lawmakers of Pennsylvania regard aa the acme ot wisdom a bill fixing their pay at I1M a month for the full terra of two years. Believing that state regulation affords a wide field for reform, an Indiana legislator proposes a law limiting , women to two bats a year and th cost to 11.98 eaoh. As a bargain statesman th Hooator take th yellow ribbon. Kew York courts are unfeeling enough to reject the suggestion of th Ice trust that short weight and high price promote longevity by restricting the consumption of lc water. Trustful philanthropy 1 getting hard knocks these days. As ground for a divorce a St.' Louis woman points tb finger of scorn at her husband "trying to beat a pat hand' with a pair of deuce." If th udg ha any sporting blood In hi system the deer of seiaraUoa Will be Issued promptly. ". vyt ".iVM wrry,mm ww ''" wio svj Si FOR A ."VALENTINE TAKE advantage of my Liberal Credit system and give a Diamond for a Valentine. A gift that will last sweetheart, mother or sister a life-time. Always remember, "YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD." $75.00 $100 $2.59 a Week $2.50 a Week My Liberal Credit System is open to all. If you are an honest or responsible party "Mandel berg's Credit System" is at your service. A DOL LAR OR TWO A WEEK WILL DO. AsMaMelberg OMAHA'S GIFT SHOP SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULP IT. ' Washington Post: A Colorado minister who quit preaching and went Into mining U now worth $3,000,000. Hereafter ha can let his money do th talking for him. Chicago Chronicle: It becomes mor and more apparent that John Alexander Dowle was th Zlon movement. With his decline Zlon has come to th verge of disintegra tion. The men who have made war upon him now realise that It Is on thing to gain possession of the "giant's rob" and an other thing to wear It Boston Globe: Th ministers at that Reading convention who discussed race sui cide In the home, declaring that Americans live under too high pressure, indorsed the statement of one speaker that U Is a de scent average number of children for-eaoh family. ' Soma' might regard living In a fam ily of 11 children -as high pressure living. Baltlmor American: A year ago a min ister in a Connecticut town gave shelter on a stormy night to ft. shabby old man. Now th minister is th richer by many thousands of dollars for his benevolent hospitality. These angals.unawares ar vary common in stories and plays, but they ap pear so'soldom In real llf that when they do tho fact Is considered real news, aston ishing enough to print., SERMONS BOILKO DOWN. Many a man loses bis heart trying to get ahead. ' v ' " . ' He cannot be clear eyed who Is not clean hearted. ' ( They ar best remembered who forget themselves. ' A man does not get on the bright aid of llf by scouring hi fellows. Manv men would be righteous II thy could be ur of th revenue. Some folks never feel cheerful unless they are dispensing bad news. ' There are big . black shadows behind th Ufa that seek th limelight. It take more than information to worg th transformation-of th world. No man has power with man until be understands the patience of God. Tou may be sura you ar wrong wmu some men ar sure you ar right vnivi hn tnka Ufa a a dos always want to prescribe for th rest of th world. Whn a man is conscious or nis recuuiue ne is least convincing in talking about It TkA iu r.t tha-world .never wholly will be healed without the healing of our hearts. The preacher wnose siuay is uuuuuou w four walls Is sur to say many fcoltah things. ni. nrAno nnl la not wasting any Ink on th good you ar planning to do later on. tong suffering acquired through listening to the sermon will not help in th trials of th week. Arguments aa to the orthodoxy of the pat era of your lamp will not aton for Its light being out Chicago Trlbun. It Was Napoleon Who nevor entrusted an Important matter to an nnlucky man. It is still more-reasonable that customers should PJ J best value and best treatment trom the store dolnj buslnets-betse success In business Is a masnet that draws the 'etonetxt. ot further success, and best values come as J aatura! from the moat successful store aa doea water to 1U level. The business we have won has come on this laonai ONE MUCB-KO COMMISSIONS BEST "OSr-" EST PRICKS. A cLlld can buy here as safely and a well as U most expert. The February Sale ASfir Tarsias V "" creasing our sales. And It could not be otherwise. The very exceptional values found In those new B ddle Pianos at $65 00. those new Gilbert Pianos, a few left at $16.00 These, are handsome, up-to-date pianos. There is a very special bar gain In a most expensive .upright mahogany Kimball Piano at 1 23 5 00 There are Knabes. Kimball. Krallch A Bachs, Bush & Lane 'and a few used Planoa which offer unequaled possibili ties for economical people. ' ' We guarantee the lowest spot cash price to each and every customer, and you have the privilege of settling monthly by paying 8 per annum. If you are too busy It will be perfectly sate to send one of the children down to make the selection. They will get the same low price and the best service that could be given to the most experienced buyer. A Hospe Co. 1513 DOUGLAS 8TSEET. WE DIVINE? YOUR THOUGHTS! YOU WANT WI NAVB TH GENUINB-ArrtR 3 MONTH ADSKIfCK r VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1605 Farnam Tel. Doug. 121 - yw.v ywyMrw yttw tiw vm'w y u. 3 1522 FARNAM STREET DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "And did you really enjoy my sermon this morning 7" asked the Kev. Dr. New man. "Yes, indeed," replied Rownde, "it waa' very refreshing. You see I iiMl, crmt sleep last night and I need It" fniladeipiua He Marriage without love 1 a terrible thing. She (sighing significantly)-Not ' half so terrible as love without marriage Jtkwtou Transcript , "Her is a paper with a department headed XJdd Things Women Are Doing.' Uut they don't mention the oddest tuiuc of "What's that?" .''Remaining single." Cleveland- Plain Dealer. , :"Why do you hav everything in , your wife's name?" "I don't. W hav our children In my nam." Chicago. Record-Herald. . "I hear you've been to Dr. Hlprlc." "I hav "Did h do you goodT" "To th queen's taste I' Houston Chron icle. "I say, mamma," asked little Tommy, "do fairy tales always begin with "One upon a tlme T' "No, dear, not always," replied mamai Vthey . sometimes . begin with 'My love, I hav been detained at the otnee again to OlghV "Judge. . .. i "Ladle," said the. male speaker at th Suffrage convention, "there la a way out of all your troubles. There Is an eaay method by which th foot of tyrant nma may b lifted from you." -f There waa a murmur Of applaua and then breathless interest i "Just move to Colorado,',' continued th speaker. Then they remembered that th West had agents out to drum up population. Philadelphia Ledger. "AW OLD-TIMID VALENTTifa. New Tork Sun. I found It In a drawer today, With half forgotten, old time thing , Holding within a ring of gold A Cupid with close folded Wings, And greeting traced in faded ink, Signed with a name that once could stir Each languid puis of swiftest beat Ah, tne, how wt those old day werei W UtU dreamed th tlm would com) When seas and continent would b Tb least of ail tS mighty bar Between the path you tread and ma. What cruel wind of draumstanc Was it that blew across our way, , Till all Hope's cloud capped palaoe " In Shattered ruins, round u layl , What matter sine a ramory Alone unite our Uvea todays Bine I am. sitting hr'iona,. , ; And you ar wandering far awayT Z would not turn Tim' chariot back, E'en if the power was given to met I know the dream, waa sweet who knows If th fuUlllment sweet would bet If I oould know that you Soday , Remember one this faded scroll, And wondered If, In time to come, . When soul goes seeking kindred soul. Our souls might meet across the suae With understanding, death beatowe The lagging year would seem to m But ntiilston on a pleasant road. OMAHA, NEB. pi k 1 In fcjr r.