TITE OMAHA STJXDAY BEE: AVTUH 23, 1007.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Sti of Nebra',1. DouRlna County, ss:
Charies C. Itnsewater, general manager of
The Bee Publishing Conuany. being duly
worn, says that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Illv, Morning,
Kverlng and Sunday Be printed during the
uum vi .naaren, l'JOi, was as follows
33,080
33.310
18 33,190
1 33,330
10 33,930
II.., 33,340
12 83,390
2a 33,690
24 30,460
26 34,040
26 33,990
27 33,850
21 33,790
29 34,120
80 33,880
11 30,650
30,800
39,190
33,130
31,870
31,850
81,980
31,840
80,400
U 33,370
H...- 81,870
! 33.690
1 33,640
18.. 9Q man
! 33.320 Total 1,008,560
1 30,410
Less unsoid and returned copies. 8,184
Tot' 999,378
Dally average 33,337
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
b..k. ..u a . General Manager,
subscribed In my presence and sworn to
bfre, me ,hu lst dny f April, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. H UNGATE,
Notary Public.
WHEN OIT OP TOW..
Subscribers leaving; the city tem
porarily should bare The lie
mailed to them. Address will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Either the dogs will have to be mui
led or the letter carriers encased In
armor-proof clothing.
At latest reports Colonel Bryan and
the czar were standing pat on their
refusals to abdicate.
Just to show the Influence of Amer
icanization, Havana bass ball fans
hare mobbed an umpire.
"What Is a kiss? Heaven knows,
not I," trills a poetess in the New York
Times. Evidently she is a stranger in
New York.
An Arkansas man has been shot for
trumping his partner's ace in a whist
game. The shooter may plead Hoyle's
rules in Justification.
"AH the Wyandottes are for Roose
velt, says the Detroit Free Press. So
are the Leghorns, the Brahmas and
Dearly all the other roosters.
Havana dispatches state that the
Cubans are praying for rain. It is
encouraging to find the Cubans in a
prayerful mood about anything.
A magazine writer asks, "Should the
unwritten law be written?" This leads
to the next question, "How long there
after would it bo unwritten law?"
Secretary Taft's future plans
1
are
not fully outlined, but he will proba
bly be able to visit the United States
again before the end of the year.
A scientist asserts that the star fish
may be trained to turn somersault.
Politicians know that the Jelly fish
does that without special training.
China has Just ordered 2,000,000
improved rifles for its army. China
also is appealing for relief for 15,000,
000 of its people who are starving.
A Chicago woman is suing for a di
vorce because her husband has not
Woken to her for sixteen years. His
defense will probably be that she never
gave him a chance.
Mr. Harrlman says he got into re
publican politics by accident. What
has happened to him constitutes a
warning against the adoption of the
political accident policy.
John W. Gates has rented 7,000
acres of land In France as a game pre
serve. It is a safe wager, however,
that he will continue to bag most of
bis big game in Wall street.
John Temple Graves says that
Roosevelt and Bryan are the two
greatest men in the world. Modesty
doubtless prevents Colonel Graves
from naming the third man in the list.
Rev. Dr. Johnson Meyers declares
that the Baptist church needs brains
more than money. Dr. Meyers is crit
icising hinibelf, unless he expects Mr.
Rockefeller to furnish both the brains
and the money.
Vermont reports a record-breaVlng
maple sugar crop which will be put on
the market In an absolutely pare
Btate. It will require time to educate
public taste up to appreciation of pure
maple sugar.
Aside from to fact that the James
town exposition will be held fifteen
miles from Jamestown, and the further
fact that there is no Jamcbtown, the
advertising of the Jamestown exposi
tion U substantially correct.
LLSSUX or HIE DEADLOCKS.
The adjournment of the Rhode
Island legislature without coming to
any choice of United States senator
and leaving the vrtrancy dating fro.n
March 1 unfV'ud, and the inability so
far of the Wisconsin legislature to
agree upon the beneficiary' of Senator
Spooner's resignation, furnish new
arguments for the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
Because the people of Rhode Island
hud no way of making their wishes
effective they will have only one rep
resentative In the United States sen
ate and be disfranchised of half their
voice in legislation in the upper
branch of congress. Because the peo
ple of Wisconsin have no way of mak
ing their wishes effective In the pres
ent emergency their legislature is com
pelled to devote valuable time to tho
conflicting claims of contesting sena
torial aspirants, distracting attention
from their work as law-makers.
Worse than that. In each of these
states the chances are that when the
end Is reached someone will be in
vested with the senatorial honor with
questionable claims and doubtful qual
ifications, who could not possibly have
landed the prlzo on his merits by an
appeal to popular suffrage.
Whatever objections may be entered
to the election of United States sena
tors by direct vote of the people, they
are insignificant as compared with the
vlciousness of senatorial deadlocks.
Nebraska has had several experiences
of this sort in years gone by, but wants
no more of them. The new Nebraska
law for direct primary nominations in
cludes the selection of party nominees
for United States senator. In this
way candidates for that office are to
be popular selections and by special
provision of our constitution, which at
the time of its adoption was unique in
this respect, the people are permitted
to express a preference as between op
posing party candidates at the polls at
the same time that they elect legisla
tive members to carry out their will.
As this practice becomes established
It will doubtless come about that the
legislator in Nebraska will be under
as strong compulsion to vote for his
party candidate for senator as is the
member of the electoral college to vote
for his party candidate for president.
The popular election of United
States senators in Nebraska may be a
roundabout method, but it is accom
plishing the purpose and it will com
mend itself to other states at least un
til the federal constitution shall have
been amended to give us direct elec
tion without subterfuge and forever
banish legislative deadlocks.
OFFICIAL ADVICE Q& DIET.
Nothing escapes the active attention
of the scientists of the Department of
Agriculture. They have told a wait
ing world the number of millions of
microbes that can find sleeping accom
modations on the point of a cambric
needle, and the number of germs that
may find concealment in the dirt on
a $1 bill of old paper money. They
know the habits of the boll weevil, the
Guatemalan ant, the gypsy moth, the
chinch bug and the cinder beetle, and
can write learned treatises on every
subject from chicken pip to the rhythm
of cow trails. Members of the scien
tific squad recently have been paying
special attention to the study of diet
and the individual who neglects to
post up on Just what is good for him
in the eating line has only himself to
blame, because the information may be
had for the asking.
Dr. Wiley and his assistants have
reached their conclusions only after a
long series of experiments. They have
maintained "poison squads" at Wash
ington for some years, composed of
young men willing to be used as test
ing tubes for food poisons in order to
save the price of their meal tickets.
The government charges nothing tor
its poisoned food used in the experi
ments. The scientists have discovered
to a nicety Just how much borax a
man may eat in canned meat without
fatal effects and io what extent
salicylic acid, formaldehyde and em
balming fluid may be used in ice cream
and similar dishes without overwork
ing the coroner. They have also dis
covered the answer to "What is
whisky?" and the secret formula for
the construction of limburger cheese.
Encouraged by these successes, the
scientists propose to come to the relief
of fat persons who want to get thin
and lean persons who wlbh to be stout.
According to the official bulletin Just
issued, the matter of reducing or add
ing flesh is as simple as rolling off a
log. The department makes It plain
that all a fat man has to do to rid
himself of his surplus adipose is to cut
out meat from his bill of fare during
the summer and, aided by the heat,
take exercise enough to sweat away
his surplus weight. He must limit his
supply of drinking water, but may eat
all the fresh vcg-table3 he wishes. If
observance of these simple rules do
not accomplish the desired ' result be
fore the summer is over, the scientists
have a set of rules rigged up for the
winter fat man, certain to reduce his
weight by worry over them, if for no
other reason. The thin man who
wishes to add weight is advised to eat
and drink anything he can stomach
eat as much and as often as possible
and sleep as much as he can.
The government scientists have done
well to point out the dangerous adul
terants and impurities that have en
tared into the nation's food supply and
to give information in their possession
as to the nutritive value of different
articles of diet, but when it comes to
prescribing the diet and the mode of
eating It, the average citizen will fol
low his natural appetite and eat what
he relishes without consuming his
dally meals with a fork or spoon in
one hand and a microscope in the
other.
' AXOTHKR REFORM STEP.
The purchase by State Treasurer
Brian, acting under tuthorlty of the
State Board of Educational Funds, of
an Issue of $279,000 of Idaho bonds
directly from tho state without the In
tervention of middlemen or brokers
marks another distinct rrtorm step.
While It would be much more to our
advantage to have the monev belong
ing to our state school fund all in
vested In Nebraska securities, and that
desirable object may soon be accom
plished by adopting tho pending
amendment to the constitution en
larging the field of investment, it is
far better for Nebraska taxpayers and
school patrons to have the bonds of
other states bought, If bought at all,
from the authorities issuing them by
direct negotiation without premium
than through the circuitous route of
bond peddlers cutting off interest cou
pons to pay themselves for their trou
ble. This new departure has only ex
tended to the purchase of state bonds
a reform forced by The Bee a few
years ago upon the state board with
reference to its purchases of county
bonds issued by Nebraska counties.
The Bee uncovered and denounced the
scandalous practice at that time exist
ing by which a state treasurer in col
lusion with confederates used the
state money to buy county bonds to be
turned over forthwith to the state
school fund, only after extracting a
fat brokerage fee by detaching inter
est coupons from the bonds while in
transit. By turning on the search
light of publicity this flagrant con
spiracy to loot the school fund was
effectively stopped and the board
brought to bid directly on behalf of
the state for all bonds thenceforth is
sued by Nebraska counties.
The people of Nebraska want the
trust funds belonging to their schools
managed according to strictly business
principles and should appreciate every
effort to protect these investments
against loss as well as against fraud.
A PESALTY OF PROtrERITT.
The assertion of some prominent
operating officials who have been at
tending the meeting of the American
Railway association that many of the
recent disastrous wrecks on American
railroads were due to the inferior qual
ity of steel rails is only a little less as
tonishing than the plea of guilty of
fered by certain steel rallmakers who
offer In mitigation the explanation,
that the steel mills are taxed beyond
their capacities to meet the demands
and that inspection of rails has been
Blighted. In other words, the rail
ways and the traveling public are pay
ing the penalty of prosperity.
No acceptable excuse can be offered
for the existence of such conditions.
The railway managers presented re
ports at the association meeting that
careful investigation of recent wrecks
showed that in an unusually large
number of cases the disasters were
caused by broken rails evidently de
fective when they came from the roll
ing mills. A Pittsburg rail maker re
torts that railway managers have in
sisted upon rush orders, with penalty
provisions for delay, and that, as a re
sult, rails have been rushed from the
mills to the roadbeds with hasty and
Incomplete inspection.
In the meantime the traveling pub
lic pays the penalty. The rails fur
nished to the American railways are
the highest-priced supplied to any rail
roads in the world and are supposed
to be the best that are made. If they
do not meet this requirement it is due
to a negligence that is nothing short
of criminal.
PASS1SQ OF THE AFFIDAVIT.
Secretary of the Interior James Ru
dolph Garfield has delivered a solar
plexus blow at both red tape and es
tablished precedent, two of the old
standbys In the government service,
by an order abolishing the empty and
superfluous formula of an affidavit to
expense accounts by employes in his
department. Hereafter clerks, special
agents, pension examiners, attorneys
and other employes of the department
will certify to their expenses in writ
ing and the government will pay them.
The voucher and Jurat have been sent
to the discard.
The government will doubtless be
the gainer by the adoption of the new
system. Under the old plan, still in
force In other departments, an agent
of the government dispatched to the
interior on an investigating mission
was practically required to carry an
extra trunk for the accommodation of
vouchers from railroads, hotels, hack
men, lunch rooms, dining car conduc
tors, baggage delivery agents, express
men and all the agencies employed in
the business of transportation and the
furnishing of accommodations to trav
elers. Unless the vouchers were In
exact form, properly attested by some
legal authority from a notary public
to a Justice of the supreme court, the
expense account was certain to be held
up for investigation and probable re
jection by the different auditors and
comptrollers. Secretary Garfield esti
mates that his order will save at least
110,000 a year In notary and clerical
fees and many times that amount in
the time lost' by agents and employes
who, under the old rule, have had to
spend about as much time getting ex
pense accounts properly verified a
they have to their other duties.
More significant than the saving of
time and money by the new order is
the recognition of the honesty of the
department employe. Mr. Garfield
evidently appreciates the fact that the
expense account of any honest em
ploye is not made more honest by a
notarial seal, nor that an employe who
wants to pad his expense account and
defraud tho government would be de
terred from doing so by making an
affidavit. The thief would Just as
soon swear to a lie as not. He is glad
to pay a notarial fee to have legal
color lent to his crooked accounts.
LATT HOXESTT ASD LAWYERS.
Mr. Justice Brewer of the United
States supreme court has started a
lively discussion among attorneys by
an address before the Ethical Culture
society of New York, In which he de
livered a pointed warning against the
commercializing of the profession,
holding that a lawyer owes a duty to
sodety and to himself that should pre
vent him from subordinating every
thing to serve his clients. Justice
Brewer declared that a lawyer has no
right to barter his own Integrity or
prostitute his honor and conscience
because his client is willing to pay
him for doing so.
The question as to whether an at
torney should defend a client known
to him to be guilty is one that has
been debated since the establishment
of legal tribunals, but Justice Brewer
brings up a new question, one growing
out of the modern day conditions and
directed especially to the corporation
lawyer. After referring to some of
the trust promoters of the day and
their methods, tho Justice says:
Counsel responding to such clients may
in one sense of the term be honest, but It
la a negative honesty. It Is an honesty
which regards simply the client, the statute
and tho pay. It is an honesty which Ig
nores the fact that both client and counsel
are member of society and assumes that
there is no moral obligation upon either to
respect the general welfare.
This brings out the clear distinction
between an attorney who accepts the
defense of a man known to be guilty
of the crime" of murder, for instance,
and the attorney who accepts employ
ment from a corporation and devotes
his talent to devising methods by
which the wording and Intent of a
statute may be overcome, on the
theory that whatever is not positively
and specifically prohibited is legally
right, even if morally wrong. Justice
Brewer's contention is that the law
yer who accepts this class of employ
ment forgets his duty to the public,
Ignores his obligations that make him
an instrument of Justice and becomes,
In effect, a party to offenses against
the moral law which may be commit
ted by bis clients under his chaperon
age. That these conditions exist may not
be questioned, but all lawyers are not
to be blamed for them. Honorable
and capable men, who constitute a
large majority of the profession, must
endorse this plea for a higher stand
ard of professional ethics for lawyers
who mix their brains with their con
science and refuse to accept clients
who wish to do something not illegal,
but none the less dishonest. Justice
Brewer's appeal is forcible and his
criticism of abuses pertinent, but it is
too much to expect that the moral
standard of lawyers will be so ele
vated that it will remove them from
the temptations and influences to
which the rest of mankind almost hab
itually yield.
THE MEAT-EA TIXO AilERlCAXS.
The gensrally accepted opinion that
the Britons are the champion beef eat
ers of the world Is proved erroneous
by statistics recently Issued by the De
pat tmect of Agriculture, which show
that, with the exception of the Aus
tralians, the Americans consume more
beef and other meats per capita than
any other people in the world Aus
tralia's greater consumption is doubt
less due to the fact that cattle are
more plentiful in that country than
elpewhere in the world, while the pro
duction of grain and vegetables is
comparatively small.
According to the figures of the De
partment of Agriculture, the number
of animals slaughtered annually in
America for food purposes Is about
88,000,000, including 12,000.000 cat
tle, 3,000,000 calves, 58,000,000 hogs
and 15,000,000 sheep. Making proper
deductions for the export trade, the
per capita consumption of meat in the
United States is estimated at about
179 pounds. In other words, the av
erage American consumes more than
his weight in meat every year. The
latest obtainable per capita estimates
for various countries are: Australia,
2C2 pounds; America, 179; Argentina,
140; Great Brttai l. 122: Germany. 99;
France, 81: Denmark, 76; Switzer
land, 75; Danublan states, 75; Bel
glum, 70; Austria-Hungary, 64;
Greece, 64; Sweden and Norway, 62;
Poland, 62; Holland, 55; Russia, 50;
Spain, 49; Italy, 27.
Students of lletetlcs may find ma
terial hei;e for all kinds of deductions
and bpeculatlon, but the bout expla
nation to be ottered for the showing
probably is that the Americans are
better able to afford a meat diet than
are the citizens of any other country.
A simplified spelling enthusiast sug
gests among some of the next steps in
revising the English language that
"victuals" will be written "vlttles,"
that "opaque" wlU be written "vpake,"
that "scent" will be written "sent" and
"freight" will be written "frelt" The
simplified spelling board surely put
discretion before valor when it con
tented itself with making a start on
300 words only.
J. Plerpont Morgan has recently cele
brated his 70th birthday anniversary.
It is pretty near time for him to get
Into the Carnegie and Rockefeller class
of public benefactors and philanthro
pists. There are plenty of colleges,
libraries, museums and hospitals to
take his money to save him from the
disgrace of dying rich.
The Khode Island senatorial dead
lock has ended without election, leav
ing the state with but one member in
the United States benate. As tho
principal candidates for the position
were trust magnates or representa
tives of special Interests, the citizens
of Rhode Island may be quite as well
off in the long run.
And now the answer is made to the
protest against the UBe of elks' teeth
as the emblem of a fraternal order
that most of the teeth used would bo
disowned by any self-respecting elk.
Manifestly the misbranding clause of
the pure food law should have its scope
widened.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
voted down a resolution endorsing
President Roosevelt for a third term.
The president is more apt to be forced
Into another term of office if the coun
try gets an Idea that the Pennsylvania
legislature I- apainst him.
The Department of Agriculture has
furnished a list of about fifty different
brands of cheese that are properly
made and limburger leads all the rest.
Tho limburger needs no government
endorsement. It is strong enough to
speak for Itself.
If the founders of Jamestown had
only known what honors were In store
for them three hundred years later,
they might have selected a site for
their settlement above the malarial line
so that it might have been Inhabited
down to this day.
Sbort on Worries.
Indianapolis News.
In order to diatract Ilia minds of the over-
blessed Porto Rlcana from the profitless
discussion of citizenship It might be worth
while for the administration to give thorn
something to worry about.
Who's Afraid t
Pittsburg Dispatch,
The declaration that there will be no re
duction in the price of coal this year re
veals a heartless disbelief on tho part of
the corporate powers in the efficacy of the
numerous substitutes for- fuel now being
invented.
Impartial Knock.
Kansas City, Star. , .
You wlU observe that the president la
Just as prompt to rebuke union labor when
he thinks it la wrong as he la to admlni-
teter reproof to capital when He thinks It
is vroni. And no one has a right to be
quite ao well satisfied with this display of
Impartiality as union labor.
Folly of Time Killer.
New Tork Tribune,
with all due credit to the Ingenuity and
persistence of those amateurs of psycho
lofiilc science who are trying to ascertain
tha wotuht of a soul by avoirdupois, apoth
ecaries', troy or metric system, it seems
fitting to remind them that their labors are
lailv vain for the reason that if what
they regard aa the soul could be weighed
that fact would be proor positive tnat u
was not a soul.
False Prophets of Evil.
Washington Star.
The "crop killers" are at work again.
Thoy are blighting the fruit blossoms and
ruining the cereals. They are telling of
the terrible ravages of the frost in the
wheat belt and the devastating advance of
the green bug that kills the new grain
sprouts. They are '"predicting losses to the
farmers mounting into the tens of millions,
and forecasting a bad year for everybody.
The "crop killers," Indeed, are having a
very fine time. But somehow or other the
country ts not panlc-strtckeni as a result of
the activity of these prophets of gloom.
Dlsaareeable Discoveries.
Philadelphia Record.
By direction of the president of the United
ei.t ,ita tinvo hepn instituted aealnst
several proprietors of hotels and amuse
ment places for excluding soldiers or sail
ors because they are In uniform. And now
It la found that two marines were excluded
tmm h mnei -eeslonal library becatias of
their uniform; the commissioned officers
who denourice the discrimination against
ik niiatMi men are barred by law and
custom from having any social relations
with them.
rERSnlL An OTHERWISE.
"Silent" Smith, the deceased New Tork
millionaire, lived up to his name In life,
but his money Is talking now among the
heirs.
The award by a New York court of $3,000
for damages raused by smoke clouds from
a nearby factory opens up large opportuni
ties for Industrious nlalm agents.
Forty thousand immigrants are booked
for New Tork from Mediterranean porta
The disarming campaign of the New Tork
police promises to be prolonged indefinitely.
Honors Jaxion, the Chicago man favored
with a "roast" from President Roosevelt,
is president of the Canvassers' union. His
great forte Is letter writing and Jaw ex
ercise. Just as the Kansas breweries were taken
In by the stats a big gas well blew off the
lid at Caney. Foaming schooners may go
dry, but gas will never forsake ths conv
monweal'h.
The American Mosquito Extermination so
ciety has been launched in New York. This
declaration of war on the greutwt of New
Jersey's industries comes hard on the heels
of the peace conference.
"We must snatch the trident of Nejrfune
from the black hands of war," shouts Cap
tain Hobson. Bure, Mike! But can a man
of Hobaon's experience pass up the mer
maids for a measly pltchforkT
Dr. John Carner of Marshall, Mich., ac
cumulated seventeen wives and their
money, some H50.0O. in half a doxen years.
Compared with the Phlladelphlan who
scored fifty the Michagander is a piker.
The Michigan peach crop Is s fe, Chi
cago's just celebrated lake breeze Is on a
peaos footing, BL Jos la ready for the usual
crop of weddings and Milwaukee promises
to fumigate Its harbor. The lake excursion
.season Is about to bloou)
A LITTLE INVESTIGATION
Will prove to you the great merit of my
CREDIT SYSTEM. Just a little down and the
balance in a way that you can't miss it.
Diamond Department
no
$2.50 a Week
CUT GLASS DEPT.
I am still selling a beautifully
cut and massive Water Pitcher
that formerly sold for $10.00
now
$5.00
INVESTIGATE
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OPTICAL DEPARTMENT
Does your work tire you? Toward evening feel fagged out and depressed?
ergy is required to
ence, we are capable
most suited for your
GHADCATE
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
You cannot knit the souls of men with
soft sawder.
Your credit in heaven depends on earth's
debts to you
Living In Itself is tha great lesson in
making a life.
The fortune of all la founded on faith
In one another.
To attempt a great work Is to become
a great worker.
Many a good Intent sticks fast In honeyed
words of resolution.
The practice of hupplneas does much for
the power of holiness.
There is no profit in the friendship that
knows no investment of the self.
it is possible to be a connoisseur of ser
mons and still be far from a saint.
No man ever found this world a weary
placs who had a worthy work to do.
The people who expect great things of us
are the ones who help uh to great things.
The hypocrite s great business is to find
soms appearance of virtue to cover every
vice.
He who adopts no hlfh standards Is the
only one who never falls. Chicago Trib
une. It's no use talking about the religion
In your heart if it la not visible in your
home.
When the pulpit sees no good In anyone
the pew is not likely to seek the good any
where. The only people who insist on cIsbs bar
riers are those who are too small to see
over them.
8ECVLAH SHOTS AT THE PIXPIT.
Philadelphia Ledger: A missionary who
advocated elevation of the Filipinos through
introduction of buae ball surely does not
intend to acquaint the simple native with
the lingo, too.
Baltimore American: The new minister
of the Rockefeller church In New York
asked his hearers in his first sermon If
they were prepared to have their business
books stand a heavenly audit. This Is a
cruel qulizlng of the Oil trust in the midst,
too, of Its other earthly afflictions, which
at present are taking up all its time und
attention In the face of prosecutions and
Indictments, present and to come; it Is
little short of brutal.
Portland Oregonian: Fourteen years ago
a New York minister promised a woman
member of his flock that he would dance
with her on her 100th anniversary. A few
days ago the anniversary occurred and he
kept his promiBe. No' proceedings have
yet been brought to expel the pastor from
the church. First thing we know it will
become fashionable for ministers to dance
with the 100-year-o!d women of their
churches. Tt ought to be.
New Tork Tribune: The delegate to the
National Conference of Church clubs at
Washington, who said that 75 per cent of
the sermon output ought to be dispensed
with was warmly applauded by his hearers.
Probably the sentiment will meet the aaine
approval elsewhere, with by no mean
unanimous dissent from the ministers them
selves. Surely the day has passed when
the congregation thinks the minister Isn't
earning his salary unless he delivers so
many written pages of sermon weekly.
Kansas City Times: At La Porte, Ind.,
a Quaker preacher has been compelled to
resort to manual labor to support his wife
and has "accepted" a position In a drug
store to supply the defirlt between the $36
a month paid him by the church and the ex
pense of maintaining a home. From the
occupation of making tents, as followed
With the Blossoms
and the Green Leaves
comes the desire in the beaTt of every woman to "house clean."
Tbia is the best time in the world to get a new piano. No other
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nothing else so binds the family together. Music educates, re
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OPTICIANS
by the Apostlo Tnul, and mixing summai
drinks at u soda fountain Is a long stety
marking the advance of Christian civilisa
tion since the day when the chief apostle
exhorted the Komana to lite from tha
wrath to come. Incidentally, the story em
phasizes the fact that the church has not
been able to separate Itself from the par
simonious habit of "pinching" the preach
er's salary.
IOMKSTIC I'l.lOASAM KIK9.
"He has always prided himself on hla
ability to size up a woman's character and,
ilipiltlon."
"Yes, and he only made a mistake once.
"When was that?"
"Just before lie was married." Phila
delphia lTess.
"Wns the social season a success wtth
you?" ,
"1 don't know," answered Mr. Cumrox.
"Oiw of the girls is enxaged. but none of
them are married." Wushlngton Star.
"I see that an armless man married an
armless womaii somewhere down east re
cently." "He's a lucky man."
"Lucky ?"
"Yes. His wife will never Insist on ha
Ing him button her waist down the back,"
Chicago Kecord-lierald.
Mr. Misfit (savagely Bnfore I married
you was there any doddering Idiot gons on
you t
Mrs. Miaflt -There was one.
Mr. Mlstlt I wlHh to goodness you'd mar
ried him.
Mrs. Misfit I did. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Maid And do you make love o every
girl you meet the Kime as you do to me T
Yoiintf Lawyer My dear young lady, It
I Is unprofessional to ask a question that
wmiM tend to incriminate the witness.
Chicago News.
"Whnt a big girl you nre getting to be
Kdlth. I suppose you help your mother
ubout the house a preat deal."
"i, yes Whenever mother says to ma,
'Do get out of my way,' I do it." Phila
delphia Press.
"Y'our daughter I a skillful performer on
the piano, is she not?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Cuinrox. "The way
she can play for hours without getting an
ear ache or a sprained wrist proves to me
that she's uncommonly expert." Washing
ton Star.
hk!tim; inn;.
Houston Post.
Grant me to sit when lifetime's sky grows
golden.
Low In the west,
Before a chimney place, wldo-mouthed and
olden,
To dream and rest.
Where hemlock logs now sputtering and
sparkling.
Now dully red,
Muy paint in hues, bright, ashen gray and
darkling'.
Tha duys lung sped.
Grant nie to sit alone, or all about me
Gather ine then .
The little ones who now can't do with
out me, s
At home again.
Grant me beyond the years of separation
My easy chair.
And loved ones near, or lonely segrega
tion, With none to care.
Then I shall see. by memory's unlocking.
Hack through tlmo's door
Luch limply hanging Wca expectant stock
ing A-row once more.
And In the light of embers grayly falling
Hliall come again
Nccklaelng arms, and lilting voices nr"
Ing.
Calling me then. '
Bo let me sit when living skies grow
golden,
J jaw in the west,
Before a chimney place, wide-mouthed and
olden,
Waiting for rest
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