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TTIE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 17, 1907. i n Tim Omaiia Sunday. Ber FOUNDED BT EDWARD, ROSEWATEIt. j L VICTOR ROSEWATER., EDITOR. Entered at Onuht postofflo as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Iatly pee (without Sunday) on yea $4.0 Imilv Km anil H.inrinv. one rear e.VO Sunday B, one year t.f9 Saturday Dee. one year 1.6S DELIVER KD BV CARRIER. I"a11y Pee (Including Runday), per week lBc Jally Bee (without Sunday), per wees loe Rvmiiss: Hee (without 8undaj). per week. 6c Evening- Hee (with Sunday!, per week 10c Address complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE8. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Ifill Building. Council Bluffs 10 Peorl Btreet. t'hirairo 1840 fnlty Building. New York 1 BOH Home U(t Ins. BlJ Washington 01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating; to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing; Company. Only l-cent stamps received In payment fit Wall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCUL,ATl6N. Btae of Nebraska, Doug-las County, ss: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager f The Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 107, was as follows: 1 0,900 IT 31,70 S sa.eoo it si.mo I tl.970 II..: 31,780 4 81.M0 II 80,300 1 31,860 II 8100 80,800 II 33,030 T 81,850 II 81,840 8 SajIOO 24 31,780 I 1 83,380 II 81,700 10 83,040 14 3130 11 8170 IT 8000 II 83,000 II 8130 II 80,400 II 31,659 14 81,730 SO 8190 II 81.830 II 3130 II 83,180 Total 883,480 Lees unsold and. returned copies.. 8,134 Net total 873,348 Dally average 31,388 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this list day of January, 1907. : (8eal) ROBERT HUNTER, , . Notary Public. WIIK3 OIT OP TOWN. Subscribers leavlna the city tem porarily should have The Be nailed to them. Address wQl be changed as often as reqaested. Carrie Nation says she la going on the stage. She can't act any worse there than she doea oft the stage. Honduras and Nicaragua have greed to do the dancing for the con cert of the powers In Central America. Ice companies in New York are in dulging In cut-price war. The coal men will pull off a similar stunt about tho middle of next July. . An Indiana baby girl Is puzzling scientists by rapidly turning red. The report of the Thaw "trial should not be read aloud In the nursery. Milwaukee Is boasting that it has the best water works system in the country, but Milwaukee's fame can never rest on Its water supply. , Japan may refuse to get over its war scare until Richmond Pearson Hobson and Mayor Schmitt are placed under bond's to keep the peace. Dr. Mary Walker says the odor of onions will keep disease germs out of room, showing that disease germs bare some almost human traits. King Edward has complimented Governor Bwettenham of Jamaica for his . courage. The governor's need, however, is an endorsement of s his judgment. t ' - ' Editor Bok t th; Ladies -Home Journal says no gentleman should ever take a drink before his wife. It would seem more polite to let her drink first , . ' Y The legislative member who thinks tax of a few dollars will hurry bach elors Into matrimony will discover that he has only been thinking that he was thinking. .A western woman whose husband Insists upon moving to Chicago has asked for ft divorce without assigning ny . other cause. No additional reason in necessary. Emperor William says he would do almost anything to pjease the United States. He might capture Harry . Lehr, who is now visiting la Germany, and put him to work. It would look like the irony of fate if Chancellor Day's university at Syra cuse should fall to get any of those millions donated by Mr. Rockefeller to the General Education board. A determined effort Is being made to pass a prohibition law in the Di trict of Columbia. - If that is done some congressmen may discover that they do cot need that increase In sal ary, v The claim that ft state senator in Texas has drafted a law which will positively put the trusts out of .bu'bl ness in that stats loses weight when it is discovered that the author's name Is Looney. Democrats Insist that they are not worried by the size of the republican majority in the next house in con greas. Democrats realise that oae man may be ft majority it Speaker Cannon votes with ntm. I If the Omaha Commeclal club would adopt some form of initiative and referendum by which ordinary dues paying members ' would bate equal voice with executive committeemen, the dub would not be put on record so often la such Impossible positions. BAILROAD it IS X A It AG KM I JTT- Much attention and no little discus sion has been aroused by scathing review of railroad mismanagement contributed by Albert Shaw to the Feb ruary cumber of his "Review of Re news" magazine. Without mincing words. Dr. Shaw declares that if the mismanagement of the railroads of the country were laid bare by investigation as searching as that which the great insurance companies underwent a year ago the insurance scandals would pale by comparison into Insignificance. His Indictment of the railroad managers Is severe yet dignified and all the more cutting because it comes not from a yellow journalist nor from ft profes sional muck-raker, but from an intelli gent and careful observer, standing on conservative ground, "Judging merely by surface indications, which reveal only ft small part of the rottenness con cealed beneath. It has been a favorite retort for rail road spokesmen to ask how any one but an experienced railroad man could dare to adjust rates, revise train sched ules, or regulate the hours of trainmen or the use of safety appliances. It Is strongly intimated now, taking the results as a whole, that the railroads could not have been much worse mis managed by absolutely inexperienced men than they have been under the di rection of Wall street jobbers and side line rafters who have been running the railroads for the benefit of neither the public nor the stockholders who really own them, but for their own per sonal and Illegitimate profit- There are, doubtless, plenty of hard working, conscientious, faithful rail load officers and employes who do the routine work efficiently and for pos sibly Inadequate wages, but It is rail road mismanagement "higher up" that is chargeable with the succession of in excusable wrecks, with countless cost of life and property, for the Inadequacy of equipment clogging business and disturbing Industry, for the diversion of legitimate earnings to parasitic com panies by means . of rebates, special right-of-way privileges, favoritism con tracts and" the use of railroad funds for speculative enterprises. It Is notorious that 'free passes have been used not only for bribery of pub lic officers, for tampering with Juries, for manipulating political conventions, for influencing commercial shipments, but also exchanged by railroad officials for all sorts of personal favors and ac commodations entirely foreign to the railroad corporation. The most fla grant case of this sort of graft yet dls-" closed was found in a transaction un covered not long ago in Nebraska by which an annual pass was made part consideration to a bank officer for dis counting the notes of a Burlington of ficial." The free passes so generously given to bank officers in former years Quito probably represent similar gifts at the expense of the railroads to bol ster up the personal credit of the man so generous with his employer's prop erty. What is needed, and what is coming. is as complete reorganization of busi ness methods in railway management as has occurred in the big Insurance companies voluntary if possible, in voluntary if must 'be. Dr. Shaw sug gests that the growing agitation for government ownership Is due largely to distrust of the system of loot and graft so long entrenched In the rail road management. If so, nothing but thorough reform will head off this agitation and convince the people that they can be best served by privately owned railroads. TA&S1SQ or THE JIU-JITSU FAD Midshipmen in the naval academy at Annapolis will no longer be Instructed in the art of jiu-jitsu, the authorities having decided that the method holds no advantage over the old forms of wrestling and other athletic exercises long In vogue at the academy, except in offering teachings in ways of per manently disabling one's opponent, an accomplishment not desirable by Amer icans in their contests of skill or strength. By this decision the Japa nese Instructor in Jiu-jitsu at Annapolis has been Informed that congress has failed to make any appropriation for his services for another year and that he Is at liberty to return at once to the land of cherry blossoms, if he has saved the price. The Jiu-jitsu fad has at least served to Illustrate anew the truth of the statement of the lamented Phineas T. Barnum that the American people love to be humbugged. During the Russ Jap war tales were wafted to us of the practice of jlu-jltsu by the Japanese la $lmes of personal encounter. , " These stories told in detail of the manner in which a Jap of tour feet six would take a Russian of six feet four and, by the practice of the magic art of jlu-jltsu, "make a monkey of him," always es caping personal hurt and smilingly awaiting the next corner. Americans became convinced that it gunpowder bad never been invented the Japs would have had no difficulty in invad ing Russia and breaking one or two arms of every man in the czar's empire, without the loss of a Jlu-jltsu expert. The advertising had its effect and, with the elose of the war, every village in America had ft Japanese expert, either real or imitation, teaching the art of jlu-jltsu, at prices whlcfh would have soon wiped out Japan's war debt had the performance been up to the prom ises of the press agent. Even the gov ernment took the bait and one of the most expert of the Jlu-jltsu operators was installed at tho naval academy to make bone-breaking Prt in the course of training of our future ad mlrala. But Jlft-JlUu has finally broken its own back. Admiral Sands) in charge at Annapolis, has reported that the old form of American wrestling is preferable In every respect. He has ordered the discontinuance of jlu-jltsu practice among the midshipmen be cause It is based on unfairness and crippling tactics. So the Jiu-jitsu fad has seen its day, but it was profitable while it lasted. COBTKLTOV A.SD TUt TBtASCRT. Criticism of the appointment of George B. Cortelyou as secretary of the treasury continues, but It Is note worthy that It comes for the most part from quarters distinctly hostile to the Roosevelt administration and as a part of systematic effort to discredit it. The depreciatory campaign, however, Is mild now In comparison with what It was when the nomination was first announced. The nomination was held up in the senate and it is no secret that the opponents of the administra tion resorted o every stealthy means to develop some sort of a case against confirmation, or at least excuse for a row. The fact that nothing could be found creates the strongest presump tion In favor of Mr. Cortelyou. The circumstances, on the contrary. serve to direct public attention to the solid fact that few men have come to the head of the treasury better qual ified than Mr. Cortelyou for a large part of Its most important work. Most of the secretaries have begun service with no departmental experience and some have left the treasury still un familiar with Its routine and organi zation. In all this Mr. Cortelyou will be at home from the start. His ex perience in government operations and methods Is most thorough and in timate. Moreover, Mr. Cortelyou 1 has the prestige of having decisively "made good" in all the severe tests and heavy responsibilities he has gone through at Washington. While he has not been known as a financial expert, as some of our most successful secre taries of the treasury were not before appointment, he has demonstrated that he Is an expert public adminis trator and ft growing and level-headed man who by force of personality and proved worth has won and held the implicit confidence of three successive presidents. PEK8IOX8 FOR COLLEGE PROFESSORS The first annual report of the trus tees of the Carnegie Foundation, es tablished for the purpose of providing ft pension for college professors who have reached the age of 65 years and have served not less than fifteen years in a higher institution of learning, contains much valuable data, covering the field for their operations. While this fund has been available but little more than a year, the report shows that much good has already been ac complished in bestowing relief in worthy cases and outlining a plan for future extension. This retirement fund for teachers is provided for in donation by Mr. Car negie of $10,000,000 in 5 per cent bonds, yielding an annual income .of f 500,000. Under its terms the in come may be devoted to the retire ment or relief of superannuated pro fessors in higher educational Institu tions, without regard to race, creed, sex or color, not controlled by any specified sect nor imposing any theo logical test. In the first year, ending October 15, 106, the trustees had admitted fifty American and two Canadian1 colleges to the accepted list and had awarded to professors, indi vidual teachers and widows of teach ers pensions amounting to $122,130 annually, or about one-fourth the sum provided by Mr. Carnegie's benefac tion. Statistics show 6,207 professors in the 827 colleges of America who receive total annual salaries of $9,631,360, or an average of $1,550 a year. The retiring allowance which the Carnegie Foundation now pays amounts to a little less than $1,450. At this rate tho Income of the fund would carry 850 professors on the re tired list at the present pay, while 12 per cent of the professors in the colleges accepted as eligible to par ticipation in the fund benefits- are eli gible to retirement. Should they take advantage of the opportunity a list would be created which would wholly Absorb the present income from the fund. The report contains 'a highly inter esting table showing how liberally the officers of the army are treated" when they are placed on the retired list, as compared with the pensions proposed or possible for college professors. Since 1890 an average of about 27 per cent of army officers have been on the retired list. In 1904, the latest data available, there were 8.860 officers on the active list, with a total pay of $4,846,000. and 877 officers on the re tired list with a total pay of 12.285.- 000. The government gives the re tired army officer an average pay of $2,605 annually, as compared with $1,450 possible tor the retired profes sor under the distribution of the Car negie fund. The trustees of the fund hope, by a readjustment of the allow ances and by other plans in contempla tion to make possible a system of re tiring allowances for something over 3,000 professors and individual in structors. Tho retiring allowance, or pension system, has been adopted by a number of institutions and corporations, in cluding railroads and commercial houses, and has become quite common in municipalities with reference to firemen and jolicemen. The result -of the operation ot the Carnegie fund may reasonably be expected to encour age the movement for the pensioning of teachers and thus attract to that profession more and more able men and women thus assured of recogni tion and reward for continued and effective service. KXPKBT rTTABMES. The disrepute Into which expert wit nesses have fallen Is largely due to the influence of money. The legitimate agency of witnesses having special or expert knowledge is often important to the ends of Justice in civil and criminal actions. Their testimony was origin ally admitted on the ground that their knowledge was not only special but also Impartial, and it was not unusual for courts upon their own motion to seek such assistance. Substantial agreement of the disinterested and competent experts was thus regarded as Invaluable on a great variety of sub jects submitted for. the determination of courts and Juries. But prejudice is inconsistent with' the essential function of expert wit nesses, and prejudice Is Inherent in the practice of retaining experts on a growing scale of fees that, have be come a scandal. Such testimony Is discredited when there is Justification for the popular suspicion that the long est purse hires the blggeBt array of experts." So gross have been the ex hibitions in notable criminal trials in which wealth and social Influence have been at the command ot the defense that it is not easy to distinguish them from outright bribery. The abuse, however, has in some measures effected Its own cure, because the expert testimony has been dis counted and courts and juries are dis posed to scrutinize It more thoroughly. A growing suspicion tends to make it perilous to enter the Insanity plea In criminal cases on anything short of substantial expert testimony, for ob vious purchase of such evidence Is apt to be treated as tantamount to a plea of guilty. KDISVyS PLAYTIME. The inventor Edison makes it plain that in treating the remainder ot his life as a playtime he does not intend to devote himself to idleness. His sixty years of life have been a period of extraordinary industry and work. No day laborer has worked so intensely or such long hours, for sfeep and mo ments of relaxation have been reduced to a minimum and mere accidents of a toilsome existence. It Is noteworthy that Edison does not now and never has complained of his arduous and laborious life, beginning in poverty, followed by the monotony of an ordinary telegrapher. There Is reason to believe that the .average ot over fourteen hours ft day that he has devoted for decades "to inventive ' ac tivity has been full 'of pleasure. The Interest and enthusiasm .of ft congenial mission are sustaining f.orces. Unlike most Inventors, ' too, Edison has been a successful business man, able to ex ploit commercially his remarkable de vices and to keep a fair share ot their profits. Necessarily the direction ot his industry has been determined in large part by commercial restraints. Playtime, therefore, means for him merely removal of those restraints and the delight of labor along lines of his free choice. It Is merely a greater Joy of ' iabor. The world bo far has not lost but gained immensely by this great worker's mingling of utility with science, and probably It was the only way, situated as he was, he could have found means for his extraordinary progress in scientific Investigation. There are likely to be even greater benefits now from the devotion of his remaining years to pure science in the field of electricity, which he enterB upon as his playground. TBV8T FUNDS IS POLITICS. A leading eastern Journal misses the significance of the awakening of public conscience or it would cot so vehemently denounce the proposition to restore to the big insurance com panies the large amounts of funds con tributed several years ago to political campaign committees. "What proof Is there," it demands, "that the com pany officers were exceeding their offi cial rights in this Instance any more than they were in contributing money to help build Grant's1 tomb in 1890 or to relieve the Jacksonville fever in 1888 or the Galveston flood sufferers In 1900?" The fundamental point is that for good and sufficient reasons the public has now awakened to the fact that such officials have ' exceeded their rights whenever they have diverted trust funds to other than the lawful trust purpose. These funds were the property of the policyholders In the keeping of insurance companies for insurance purposes only, and not for political, charitable and benevolent purposes, according to the notions ot the trustees, even assuming their mo tives to be in themselves praise worthy. These are matters for the policyholders or the stockholders of any corporation as individuals. But as to corporation Interposition in (politics with money, we have had exposures and scandals which have created wellnlgh universal demand for reform, and legislation is now pro hibiting and punishing as crimes what formerly was universally acquiesced in. The revolution is wholesome, necessary 'and iu results, instead of being called into question and weak- ened, ought to be extended and con firmed in every possible way. President Roosevelt has already ac cepted an invitation to attend exer cises in commemoration of the one Vnail sAirV em til VAVStSi tV alf ikfl tlifh a"lf ft UUUi VIA W4ft SMiiMf ws w w ae o r 1 Abraham Lincoln on tho Lincoln farm In Harding county, Kentucky. The celebration will not be held until Feb ruary 12, 1909, and the interest sure to be aroused during the time yet to Intervene Is bound to Invest the event with -momentous character. It will be recalled that when the in surance legislation demanded in conse quence ot the investigations made un der direction of Governor Hughes was pending, representatives of Insur ance companies likely to be affected were lugubrious in forecasting the ter rible obstacles that would be put in their way by the enactment of these laws. The exhibits of last year's busi ness of the big New York life Insurance companies, now being given to the public, do not in the least bear out these forebodings. The annual state ment of the New York Life Insurance company, printed in The Bee last week, for example, Is boasted the best show ing ot business and earnings for the policy holders ever made by that com pany and the same is true of the Equi table and in lesser degree of the others with one or two exceptions. The en forcement of the new insurance regu lations seems therefore to have strengthened rather than weakened the New York life companies and while some of the official sinecure men may have lost fat perquisites the pol icyholders have not been sufferers. It is quite conceivable that the very Insurance men who opposed and depre cated all restrictive legislation would cow admit that their fears were ab solutely groundless. The railroad passenger men, who are objecting to any reduction In the max imum passenger mileage rate, lay spe cial stress upon the comparatively sparse population of Nebraska along side of Jowa and Missouri, and other states immediately adjoining on the east. The fact is, however, that these figures are greatly misleading. Ne braska still has thousands upon thou sands of acres of public domain which are cot inhabited at all and other thousands of acres whose principal oc cupants consist of grazing cattle. On the other hand are lots of counties In Nebraska just as thickjy settled as the average county in Iowa. Draw a north and south line through Kearney and take the territory to the east of it for population comparisons and the dis parity with pur neighbors will be scarcely appreciable. The question has been asked, What would happen if, after the legislature adjourns, the supreme court should knock out the state railroad commis sion by declaring invalid the amend ment to the constitution voted at the last election 7 That is an easy one. We would have a call for an extra ses sion of tho legislature before the rail road folks could say "Jack Robinson." Senator Foraker is not attracting much attention with his Benate investi gation of Vhe Brownsville affair. Even the senators are falling; Co keep track of the inquiry,, as they have killed all the time necessary this session and do not need the excuse. For some strange and unaccountable reason no more amendments have been offered by our statesmen at Lincoln to vindicate the dignity of the common wealth by substituting a capital "S". for a small "s" at $1,46 per page paid to the printer. Art of Vocal fearing. St Louis Olohe-Democrat. King- Edward hurts nobody's feelings in referring to the Jamaica incidents. The king has no equal In the art of saying nothing In particular agreeably. Part of Keaolar Routine. Chicago News. Mr. Btlckney of the Great Western rail way indicated to the agriculturist mem bers of a legislative committee that water ing stock was part of a railroad president's regular chores. ' When Dreams Come True. , St Louis Republic Already In 1807 the gift to education In the United States amount to about 10.000, 000. At this rate the schools and colleges a hundred years hnoe wni be rich be yond the dream of philanthropy., . Imperilling Political Jobs. Indianapolis News. -True enough, Mr. Bryan, if the Influence of great corporations could be. removed from ' American politics it would simplify matters Immensely, but how would all the politicians manage to make a living? Hardships Exasrarerated. Baltimore News. Sir William Howard Russell, better known In this country as "Bull Run" Rus sell, at least proved that the hardships which a 'war correspondent undergoes need not be hurtful to health. He described the big wars from ths Crimean, campaign of ISM to the Egyptian struggle of ISM, and lived to be ss. ' Food for tho Sweet Tooth. Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' The United States produced 1. S3, 000. 009 pounds of sugar In 1806, and Cuba sent to us 1,668.000,000 pounds. The country made a sweet morsel of this, and plucked from the sugar bowls of other foreign nations lumps aggregating 1,600,000,000 pounds more. Hawaii, Porto Rico and Java furnished half of the latter Importation, and Osr many, the West Indies, excepting Cuba, and South America the bulk of the rest. The averaga American cltlson consumed one-half his own weight in sugar, or sev enty-six pounds, according to the report published Friday by ths bureau of sta tistics. . . Tho Act of nostltatloa. Springfield Republican. Dr. Washington ' Gladden of Columbus, , thinks It would bare been much fitter for John IX Kocnereuer 10 nave wunneia his recent 1000,000 gift to education until after some of the Indictments lying against hire have been tried out in the courts. Then perhaps the gift would appear more clearly in tho character if a restitution and less clearly In that of a benefaction. But Mr. Rockefeller does not need to be convicted of having violated law In ac quiring his money to spread the Impres sion that his gifts should be regarded as acta of restitution. That Is already tLt quiet view of moot reading people. . ...yw i - ill ' HlBf fA . V? -:v:, ISIiSllilliil!' It enable a "person in the most moderate circum stances to possess a Diamond, Watch or any other desirable piece of Jewslrj. It is not always convenient to pay cash so if you are a responsible party M and el berg extends credit, and you pay just a little every wek in a way that you can't miss it. $50.1)0 A WEEK $100.00 '77T $2.50 A WEEK j 8ERBION9 BOILED DOW 5. No one ever regretted burying a slander. A man does not pick up sand by licking the dust. There never la uch good in ''good enough." The fool always greases his track on the up grade. The ignorant may be foolhardy, but only the wise are brave. The saddest morality Is that which Is satisfied with itself. Deeds of golden hearts are better than dreams of golden harps. , They make but little mark on time who are only marking time. Ths only stand some men will take on any question is a band stand. Plenty of people who talk of honesty as a good policy fall to pay the premiums. If this world is none the better for your living the next will have none of your life.- It Is faith mixed with facta and not with fancies that holds - the conviction In a sermon. The man who is drowning in drink usually hopes to save himself by catch ing at a straw.' Some folks think they are generous be cause they are willing to give up their good intentions. The happy Christian so advertises his religion that the other man will not be happy until he gets It. Many a youth who would scorn to wear second-hand clothes Is living on a hand-me-down reputation. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The riatte river is not as Imposing or as deep as the Ohio, but the spread of its wings is immense. Reports from New York enable people in tho provlnoea- to understand what la meant by "The Great 'White Way." The shortage in tho lemon crop is doubt leas due to the number legislatures have In stock for distribution among corpora tions. Tom Rriiunn Is 68 and thinks he has reached the time when more play and less work would be enjoyable, tjesiaes, uom doesn't need the money. what a waste of aood energy Is this rooting in the ruins of Egypt for ancient fossils, while the modern artlclo openly defies time and the undertaker. tt nf va Mrt nf the fathers mj minim. w prohibiting cruel and unusual "punishment, Utah proposes to have dental students practice on the teeth of convicts. T)n-v. r h mmt remarkable thing about that celebrated case In New York la the ...i... iiihuii a fellow may nosseos which doctors cannot recognise until he gets into trouble. u.r v.iiMhALh Lease breaks self-imposed silence long enough to say that men have not Improved any since tne aays or Aaara. Mary's recollection of childhood days ap pears particularly robust. The Missouri legislative genius, whet would restrict Easter bonnets to the $1.98 variety, is now exercUlng his gray matter on a bill requiring uwuiio w equipped with dog catchers. The Piano ol Steady Service Thafs the Bush & Lane No piano lasts forever. Few pianos lost as long as the Bush & Lane. None of them have that quality of tone. There are some marvels of beauty In design and finish In the new 107 Bush & Lane Pianos. Bush & Lane pianos are fully ruaranteed by the factory and by ourselves. Don't fall to sea these really remarkable crea tions. Our prices are the most economical because we are posi tively one price and do not pay commissions. The New Bush & Lane for $375 And f 10 a month pays for It. A. IIOSPE CO., 1513 Doufllas SI. WE PROTECT YOU . IN EVERY WAY 18 GUARANTEED IN EVERY PARTICULAR , VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1G05 Firnam-Tcl. Doug. 127 $75.00 $2.50 A WEEK 8 DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Tounger Yes, Indeed, my new typewriter girl is quit, a success. Merchant Huh! She seems to spell quite as badly as the other one. I can see that In her letters. Younger Yes, but you can't see her hair and complexion In her letters. -.Philadelphia Press. "Why were you in such a hurry to pick up my glove when I dropped It?" "I thought there might be something in it for me, some time." Cleveland Leader. Nan Archie proposed last night, did he? I suppose you snapped your fingers at h(rn. as you always said you would." Fan I did try to, but well, he was kind o' holding them, you know. Chicago Tribune. "Darling, you would not like me to take tainted money, now would you?" "Certainly not, dearext, but but couldn't you sterlllie It before using r' Washington Herald. "Miriam," said, her mother, "have you ever given young Mr. Stapleford any reason to believe you cared for him enough to marry him?" "He seems to think so," answered the daughter, "because I told him the other evening that he was sending me too many costly flowers and ought to begin to save his money." Chicago Tribune. MY OWN FOI K WALLS. Thomas Carlyle. The storm and night is on the waste, Wild through the wind the herdsman calls . As fast on willing nag I haste Home to my own four walls. Black, tossing clouds, with scarce a glim mer. Envelope earth like sevenfold palls; But wlfekln watches, coffee pot doth sim mer . Home In my own four walls. A home and wife I, too, have got, A hearth to blaze whate'er befalls; What needs a man that I have not j Within my own four walls? King Oeorge has palaces of pride. And armed grooms must ward those halls; With one stout bolt I safe abide Within my own four walls. Not all his men may sever this; It yields to friends, not monarchs' calls: My whlnstone house my castle Is, I have my own four walls. When fools or knaves do make a rout ' With glgmen, dinners, balls, cabala, I turn my bark and shut them out These are my own four walls. The moorland house, though rude it be. 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