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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 2, 1907. Tiie Omaiia Sutcday Be& FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSBWATXR, VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflca a second cIkas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dllr Bee (.without Sunday), one year. .WW Daily lse and Hunday one year 00 Sunday Be, one year i 0 Saturday Bee. one year 1W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..15o lally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..loo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week.So Evening Bee (with Bundnv), per week,...10o Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to Clly Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tke Bee riuilding. South Omaha City .ll Building. - Council Bluffs lo Scott Street. Chlesgo IMO Unity Building. New York UW Home Ufa Insurance Bldg. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cnt stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern , exchange, not accented. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa. Charles C. Hosewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, bclnir duly sworn, snys that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee print during the month of May, 1907, was as follows: 1 38,680 1 36,610 85,9 90 4.......... 39,410 ( 34,300 36,680 T 88,480 36,660 1 35,730 10 38,390 11... 36,390 11., 34,560 It 35,430 14.. 35,380 1.. 35,230 1 .... 36,460 IT 35,360 18 35,760 19 33,800 20 35,370 21 35,830 22 36,510 2 35,600 24 39.890 25.... 35,800 26.. 34,600 27 35,460 f 28 35,610 29 38,010 80 35,830 81 36,810 Total. 1,098,830 Less unsold and returned copies 9,667 Net total 1,089.953 Dally average 36,063 CHARLES C. HOSEWATER, . General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of May, 1907.- -(Seal) M. B. HUNOATR . Notary Public WHEN OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; the city tern aorarlly should have The Bee . mailed to (hem. Address will bo changed as often aa requested. Just A possibility exists that the straw hat rumor may be verified. The unprejudiced juror crop in Idaho seems to have been damaged by the late spring;. , The Chicago Board of Trade cares not who raises the wheat so long as it may flx the prices on futures. Wall street, praying for a change of luck, might, try a change of methods and be honest for a few days. May, 1882, was colder than-May, 190 1, and the country produced splen did crops that year. Cheer up. Platinum has fallen from $38 to $34 an ounce. Now is the time to lay in jour winter's supply of platinum. Another battle has been fought be tween the forces of the sultan of Mo rocco and Bandit Ralsuli. Care which won? By the way, wasn't the man who originated that . pleasant fiction about the stork something of a "nature fakir?" A New York waiter who won 500, 000 on the races has returned to his old Job. Probably he wants to make tome real money. A St. Petersburg cable says the drouth has been broken In Russia. Everything seems to get broken in Russia; sooner or later.' Some of the officials of the Standard Oil trust want to change the company's tame. More good. would result from a change of Its methods.!' ,' ' That Illinois 'barber who has been ordered 'y the' court . to obey his father-in-law ought to know how Con gressman Long worth feels. . An Italian has Invented a perpetual motion machine. The only perpetual motion affair. in the world la the. per petual motion Invention story. "Taf t s election .. would mean four more years of fatness, says an Ohio paper, It would, although Mr. Taft has tried every way to .reduce It Wall street brokers secured copies of the president's Memorial day ad- drees the day before It was delivered. Their Memorial day grief waa there fore unfeigned. . . There are four Jobs in Chicago looking for every, man out of work," says the Tribune. The man out of work in any part of the country has to be an expert dodger, Wall street is now finding fault with 1, the secretary of the. treasury. The speculators have been giving the dis tress sign, .but Mr. .Cortelyou appears to have forgotten the combination on the federal strong box. "Last year," write Stephen Bonsai, "Russia spent $20,000,000 to build new prisons and only f 11,000,000 for new and old schools and the pay of teachers In the primary schools of the vast empire from the Baltlo to the China sea.". That fact explains much. Colonel Bryan has confused some of his political .enemies by heartily en dorsing their plan for "favorite son" candidates for ' the democratic presi dential nomination. Colonel Bryan knows that aa long aa he has to make the fight against the field the. bigger the field the better his chances of land ing Utt nomination, krat or tve Burs aud qirlsi The subject of a popular lecture by a once famous humorist was "And what shall we do with our girls?" Amended to include the . boys, this question, can be again very prop erly asked in connection with recent developments in the field of our Juve nile courts and child labor prohibition laws. The Juvenile court was organized to exercise disciplinary authority over de linquent children under the age Of 16. Boys and girls accuitcd of being ha bitual truants, disobedient children, in corrigible and untruthful or thievish are being brought Into court day by day and there reprimanded, held to the Detention home or sent to the re form schools according to the gravity or persistence of their offenses. With the Juvenile court acting In loco pa renti, the real fathers and mothers are in many instances getting the idea that they are relieved of their responsi bility and becoming accustomed to look to the court to manage their chil dren for them. Most frequently it develops that what the delinquent children neod Is more careful oversight and guidance and an opportunity to keep busy at something not distasteful. It is found that they either do not fit into the schools or have already had as much schooling as Is likely to prove of ad vantage, and the best service that the juvenile court has rendered has been through its agents to find for its wards suitable employment calculated to de velop the latent abilities of the boy or girl and keep, him out of the mischief bred by Idleness and Irresponsibility. But now. comes the child labor law and expressly provides under strict penalties that no child unde the age of 14 shall be employed In Nebraska in any gainful occupation, and that no child under the age of 16 shall be em ployed unless he shall have first passed through eight grades of the public schools. The children brought before the Juvenile court are all under 16 and the vast majority of them have never reached the eighth grade in school or they would not have been found to be delinquent. Shut oft from finding employment for these children, all the juvenile court can now do is to put them in detention homes or reform schools or return them to the neglect at home, which is likely to bring them back to court again from time to time. This Is a really serious situation that calls for thoughtful attention from those who have the good of the chil dren truly at heart. To pile up court records against thousands of boys and girls, who In former days would sim ply have" been sent to bed with a sound thrashing, threatens to cast a blight upon the future careers of many prom ising young people. The boys and girls, as the coming men and women, should by all means have evqry possi ble care and protection calculated to keep them out of temptation and to make them good citizens, but they should not be exposed under the guise of reform to treatment more likely to make them worse citizens Instead of better. JIB ITSI? AlfD AMERICAN WOMEN. An illuminating light has been! thrown upon the position and condition of the women in America who have to work for a 'living, by two statistical publications of rctent issue. The census bureau at Washington has Jtet published a report, based on the statis tics secured by the census of 1900, showing that something like 14,600,- 000 American women are employed as breadwinners In gainful occupations, the number comprising about one-half of the femlnino population of the coun try, In the many comments that have been made upon the report, particular stress haa been laid upon the fact that the, American woman has, as a rule, lost none of her social standing because of her necessity to earn her own liveli hood. On the. heels of this report comes a bulletin Issued by the British Woman's Trade Union league, contrast ing the condition of the workingwomen of America with that of her sister in the United Kingdom. The comparison, at every point, Is In favor of the American woman. The report of the British organisa tion, was based upon a series of investi gations by a representative who was sent to America for the purpose. The representative a woman prominent In labor work in London was struck by the higher standard of education among workingwomen here, and also with their better housing and living conditions, and especially with their better clothing. Trust a woman to see that comparison. The English expert expresses some won.der that American workingwomen dresv better and take more pride in their personal appear ance than do their sisters similarly situated In Eugland. The explanation Is simple. The law of caste does not obtain in America. In England, as In most of the European countries, the girl who goes out to servlco, in a home or in a factory, becomes automatically labeled as a member of the working class and has no hope of a marriage, a home or a future above' fhe rank of her fellow employes. In America, the domestic servant of today may be the wife of the millionaire and society leader of tomorrow. - The woman who possesses beauties of face, mind and heart loses nothing in the estimation of American men because she la compelled by force of circumstances to earn her own living. The English expert made a rather careful inquiry Into the question of wages and the cost of living for women in America and Omt Britain. Her conclusion la that Vhlle American prices of living are from 20 to SO per cent higher than In England.Xmerlcan workingwomen receive front 10 (7 to 160 Sir cent more in wages than their Eng- llsh sisters. This leaves a clear eco nomic advantage of very liberal propor tions in favor of the American woman worker and may explain why she dresses better, is better educated and holds her head a little more proudly than her wage-earning sister across the Atlantic. The average American man. while he may regret the fact that any American woman is compelled to work for a living, must find consolation in the knowledge that her condition Is better than that of workingwomen anywhere else on the globe. . v the enforcement or treaties. Japanese authorities are naturally puzzled Over the admission of the fed eral authorities at Washington that they are unable, under American laws, to enforce provisions of treaties with foreign countries which guarantee the protection of the life and liberty, of such foreigners temporarily domiciled In this country. Japan has such a treaty with the United States and Is now trying to seek redress for a viola tion of it. The trouble, of course, oc curred in San Francisco. Two white men were ejected from a Japanese restaurant, whereupon a mob of Amer icans followed the two men to another Japanese restaurant, maltreated the proprietors and wrecked the restaurant and then tore down a Japanese bath house which had committed the offense of being in the same neighborhood. The Japanese officials have laid the facts before the State department and are now receiving an assorted lot of highly illuminating explanations which do not explain. The Japanese, in order to under stand the situation, should post them selves on the fine distinctions made be tween the state and federal Jurisdic tion and that ever-present question of "state's rights." Under the law and the customs the duty of suppressing the outbreak fell on the police of San Francisco. Iflthe police and the sher iff could not control it the state troops might be called in and, as a last resort, federal forces might be summoned. The government forces are used- only when other means have failed and must respond only when requested to do so by the state authorities. In the light of San Francisco sentiment to ward the Japanese it is more than probable that the outbreak would have resulted In a reign of riot before the state and city officials would have asked for federal aid. An attempt by the government to punish the rioters will be denounced as an invasion of state's rights, while It Is equally cer tain that little effort will be made by the state or city authorities to punish the offenders. . The case probably will be settled by the government paying a liberal in demnity out of the federal treasury, which may satisfy the Japanese, but will not have any bearing on the final settlement of the case. Similar Tay ments have been made to Italy, in the case of the Mafia riots In New Orleans, and to other countries whose citizens have suffered from the lawlessness of American mobs. If the treaty is the supreme law of the land, as tsgener ally accepted, It would seem that in all fairness to other countries that are parties to such treaties and for the good name of the' United States, con gress shouldiass a law giving the fed eral authorities plenary powers for the enforcement of such treaties and for the punishment of the violators of their provisions. Unless this is done, or aome equally as good remedy pro vided, the signature of .the United states to a treaty guaranteeing for eigners in this country the same legal protection as American citizens will become a source of Jest and ridicule among the signatory powers. The gap between the law and its enforce ment in such cases 'is a defect that should promptly be remedied. TEARS AS DlSlfii FECTA K TS. Dr. Oliver Wandall Holmes, that de lightful old "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," declared that "tears are an 111 dlsgulsed expression of self-conscious ness and vanity, inadmissible in good society." But the good doctor wrote that some years ago before scientists had acquired the habit of dissecting human emotions and finding germs in everything. One Dr. C. Lindhal of Copenhagen has Just issued a docu ment In which he proves, at least to hU own complete satisfaction, that for genuine disinfection purposes tears should have a place on the shelf right alongside the bottle of Iodoform and above that of listerlne and the com mercial chlorides. The Copenhagen physician has anafyzed the tear and finds that It contains certain sub stances of an enzyme nature which, properly applied, will put the staphy lococci, the streptoccocl and other germs of that brand out of business in one round. Dr. Lindhal's discovery, if taken seriously, Is going to cause a rather radical revolution in our customs. Here we have been going on for years practicing the art of suppressing the outward signs of emotion ' without knowing that we. were, In so doing, furnishing food for the staphylococci and its desperate pal, the streptococci. The misguided mother who has urged her 3-year-old to dry his tears and "be mamma's little man" has little thought that her dnty should have been to en courage the course of rivulets of dis infection down the baby's face. We have been erroneously trying to dry up the lachrymal fount when we should have been encouraging an Increased outflow, It is not too late, however, to rem edy the evil done and perhaps to make up for loet time. The staphylococci and the streptococci must be put to the bad at all hazard. The antiseptic quality of "grief's dumb pearls" has too long been allowed to go to waste. The tear-stained face may not be pleas ing to our falsely educated ideas, but it is far better than a system full of staphylococci and strephlococci. The germ-beset race must and shall be pre served. Let us weep. SO WKAKL1KOS AT WEST TOIWT. War department officials are going Into the antl-weakllng crusade with a vengeance. New regulations have been adopted which require applicants for appointment to the military acad emy at West Point to not only have good health, keen Bensory organs, ac tivity, strength, endurance, intelli gence and training in his work, but he must be an Inch or two taller than his predecessors. Heretofore young men who met other requirements have been admitted to West Point if they meas ured up to a plump five feet and three inches In height. The new regula tions provide that a youth of 17, in or der to secure appointment to military academy, must be at least sixty-four Inches tall and for another year of age there must be another inch of height, and this Increase of stature must be accompanied by a proportionate in crease in other particulars. The wisdom, to say nothing of the necessity, of the order is open to de bate. From a "purely spectacular point of view it may be desirable to have the army commanded by men who are the average size or better, but there Is nothing in the record of past military achievements to Indicate that the effi ciency of the service will be improved in the least by compliance with the new requirement. Napoleon, Sheri dan, Joe Wheeler, "Little Mac," Funs ton, Kuroki, Oyama and a host of other commanders whose names and achievements have become an eradica te part of military history were small statured men who did not win battles because of ability to meet the require ments of a tape measure and a weigh ing machine. The Russo-Jap war dis sipated any notion the public might have had that smallness of stature Is a handicap on the battlefield. The lit tle man can shoot as well as the big fellow and Carlyle is authority for the statement that the pistol renders all men equally tall. The short-statured officer on de tached duty at Washington does not cut a commanding figure at the mili tary receptions and social functions, but that fact contains no proof that he may not be a very military genius in his command of men and ability to lead them In the field. It taight be all right for the War department authori ties to see to it that only tall, graceful, handsome officers should be detailed to duty at Washington during the giddy season, but the lack of inches and weight should not, in all reason, be come a bar to admission to the service. The real officer is not measured by Inches. REVERSING THE LAW OF QRATITT. Scientists In London are convinced that Louis Brennan has solved the problem of transportation by his In vention of the gyroscopic mono-railway. Nothing since Jules Verne's de scription of his trip around the world, or Puck's promise to girdle the globe in less than a minute, is more thrlll ingly Interesting than Brennan's promise of the revolution he Is going to work in the domains of war, com merce and pure pleasure. Eliminating the scientific terms, Brennan's scheme calls for the constuctlon of a single track railway, without the necessity of grades, as the new train will adapt Itself to the condition of -the ground over which it travels. The train will run at equal ease uphill or down, on the side of a hill sloping at an angle of forty-five degrees or around the sharpest curve. The invention is sim ply the application of the principle of gyrostatlc action, such as shown in the spinning of a top, to the locomotive and cars of his train. The monster spinning top, which is a part of the equipment, holds the train level while it speeds along the single rail. The inventor has just completed a series of experiments with models and apparently has convinced the London scientists that he can do all he claims. He now proposes to build cars 100 feet long and twenty feet wide and shoot them over the world as fast as the mono-rail roads can be built. The lay man always scoffs at such Inventions, In their experimental stage, and it is but natural that the average citizen should-fall to share Brennan's en thusiasm over the possibilities of his invention. It looks well on paper and the members of the Royal society In London are charmed with It, but the outsider can figure how quickly the gyroscope car could be turned Into a telescoped car if the gyroscopic ma chinery should get In a snarl while the-train was pounding along at 200 miles or more an hour. From ,the looks of the thing, an Invitation to ride in It would appeal about as strongly as a free seat In one of those "loop-the-loop" automobiles now shown in every up-to-date circus. Mr. Brennan explains that his model, which has acted so satisfactorily, is only a toy and the public will have to be educated a good deal beyond Its present ideas of safe and sane methods of transportation before it utters any loud calls to Mr. Brennan to remove, his invention from the boundaries of toyland. Illat Worth IleedlaaT. Portland Oregonlan. Japanese spies are reported collecting photographic data of the various Paclflo coast harbor a If they are securing data with a view to tackling the United States on a war proposition, It would be well for them to Incorporate with It a few details of the kind of men who reside In the In terior, which., stretches, back ulU a Xaw miles from these harbors. Americans are not Chines or even Russians except In 'Ft! ace. t'sromsien Cesdenernilsn. Chicago Record-Herald. Mahntma Agumya Guru Paramahansa ad mits that he Is God and has existed from the beginning of things. He does not con descend to explain who was at the head of affairs prior to that time. Aaj Illostrlons Precedent. New Tor World. The Chickasaw Indian girls who hava ex pressed their preference for paleface hus bands have an Illustrious precedent. And It Is not recorded that any American bride of her time surpassed Pocahontas in wifely qualities. .Cut 'Era Out J Chicago Inter Ocean. - ' And now a surgeon of Berlin, Germany, makes the statement that there are too many operations for appendicitis. What he means, of course, Is that there are too few cases of appendicitis for the number of operations. A Necessary Step. Brooklyn Eagle. Ban Francisco's district attorney says the assaults on the Japanese In that town were due to lack of police. If Ban Fran cisco can't protect foreigners from mobs, the federal government will be reluctantly compelled to take the police duty oft its hands. Mora I.an-yera Than Jurors. Minneapolis Journal. The Haywood defense has secured an other lawyer, making a total of eight. Fortunately fOr the defense, attorneys are not subject to challenge for actual or Im plied bias, while a knowledge of the case appears not to militate against their use fulness. Evil Prophesies Flouted. Portland Oregonlan. The gross receipts of the Union Pacific for March, 1907, were more than 11,000,000 greater than for the corresponding month a year ago. This Is one more step In the direction of that bankruptcy which we were assured would come If the president and the states did not recede from rate regulation. And there was no backing or side-stepping either. Where Strom Lenders Arc deeded. Sart Francisco Chronicle. With the former boss awaiting sentence to state's prison, , with the mayor about to be tried for felony, and already on the verge of collapse, with all the supervisors save two and the president of the Board of Public Works confessed boodlers, with those In control of the police In sympathy with riot, with the olty department rotten with graft, with the turbulent element In our city only half under control, with no brains In our officials even If there wero honesty, to direct municipal affairs, San Francisco needs leaders. Hitch Telegraph Tolls. Chicago Tribune. The natural consequences of the extor tionate charges now made by the com panies will be, first, a falling off In busi ness, and, second, an act of congress reg ulating the rates of the companies and re ducing them to a point below that which they were at the beginning of the year. That would be Just, for the companies can afford to do business for much less than the rates which they are now charging. Their capital stock Is enormously Inflated, They do not represent the hundred mil lions of dollars at which their stock Is valued In any present value. Whatever their plants may have cost, they have de preciated. Punishing- the Brlbe-Clrtr. ' New York Everting Post. The action of the Ban Francisco grand Jury in returning Indictments against six public service corporations. In company with Mayor Schmlt and the fallen boss Ruef, goes to the heart of the entire ques tion of political bribery.'' To punish the giver of the bribe as well as the receiver Is not only Just and logical it is effective. An Indicted or threatened official may re sign In the face of attack, or may seek Im munity by confession or weeping in court, or, at tl worst, may "take his medicine" philosophically. In the knowledge that a short trm In prison may be forgotten In tire 'c Aim old age of retirement that a fat bank account always makes possible. To the "respectable citizen" who buys fran chises, on the otjier hand, -the prospect of punishment must be unpleasant, to say the least. TUB PRESIDENT AND TRUSTS. Origin and Development of Correc tive Policies. Baltimore American. Democrats are wont to say that the ad ministration's policy toward the trusts and railroads has been borrowed from demo cratic platforms. If this were so It would not be reprehensible. All parties are or ganized for the public good, and If one party advocates sTwise policy, but Is unable to carry It out. It would be an evidence of good statesmanship for the other to adopt that policy and carry it out. But if any Intelligent man in America today can clearly define any Item of democratlo policy or principles he will be hailed as a deliverer by the democrats and as a political sage by the country generally. The democrats when they assemble In convention are like a lot of birds pecking at cherries. They denude the tree of fruit, but they do not share their plunder with the people they profess to represent. They peck at every thingin the clouds, or on the surface, but they accomplish nothing beyond momen tarily exalting themselves into a hysterical condition. The evils flowing from trusts and rail roads have been glaringly apparent for manj years, and they have occupied the time and attention of the ablest men In the country. Tho reason why action was so long delayed was the perplexity of the problem. No one in particular suggested the policy, because none had an Intelligent remedy. It remained for the president of the United States to grasp the subject practically, and give a direction to the principles and suggestions which had been gathering for many years. From a party standpoint It wss peculiarly his own policy, becaus he had the nerve to take hold and carry out what he deemed to be the best views on the subject. He knew, and all Intelligent persons knew, that a policy for the correction of such gigantic evils could not be carried out by the wave of the hand, which Is evidently the notion of the demo cratic leaders. To do so would have been to cripple the Industrial Interests of the country. The president went about his buslnen slowly and Judiciously. He Investigated, so as to have the actual facts, and then suggested to congress the laws that It would be advisable to pass. Those laws are now being enforced. Ha does not at tempt to throttle the trusts or check the railroads In their headlong career. All things are being done In order. Offending trusts and offending railroads are being brought before the courts. It Is a slow business; righting wrongs Is always slower than the perpetuation of them.. There Is also a disagreeable novelty In disciplining great enterprises, and a wise statesmen does only enough of it to convince offend ing organisations that the government pro poses to administer the law equally, for the benefit of all citizens. When that con viction is brought bom evils wU aural ston, DIAMOND llll MMC3i nvr U1V LILiUl X H A r. ..DON'T KEEP HER.. 5 J .... WAITING.... JUNE IS oA MONTH OF WEDDINGS Don't keep her waiting for that Diamond. You don't need to have ALL the cash, for YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD. You pay a small sum down and the balance in a way you can't miss it. A DOLLAR OR TWO A WEEK WILL DO X SECIXAR SHOTS AT TIIE PILPIT. Minneapolis Journal: The Presbyterians believe In mortifying the flesh. They have agreed to meet next time In Kansas City. Brooklyn Eagle: A decreane of 40 per cent In the number of young men enrolling to become Presbyterlnn ministers Is re ported. This may be due to a generally noted Increase In the cost of living. Indianapolis News: However much Arch biBhop Ireland may disagree with Oencral Sherman as to Just what war Is, he will doubtless agree that we do get along very comfortably and prosperously between wars. fit. Louis Republic: Presbyterlanlsm's stand against marrying persons divorced contrary to the tenets of their faith Is a decided step, which, if taken by other de nominations, would go a long way toward uprooting the divorce evil. New York Tribune: A professor of the University of Chicago has come to the front with a disavowal of belief In the Bible record of Methuselah's age.. We do not know which Is more, deserving of sym pathy Methusalah or the University of Chicago. Boston Transcript: It has passed Into a proverb that "One bumblebee can break up a whale campmeetlng." The stampeding of a prayermeetlng by a mouse In the First Congregational church at Flttsfleld seems to Justify It. A church mouse may be poor, but under favorable conditions it Is potent, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. May, with Its chills and tears, never will be missed. It is to be hoped those "rare June daya" will not be too rare for appreciation. The advent of the green bug developed a fine colony of whole wheat goldbugs In the grain pits. Nevertheless thera were evenings In May when the radiator radiated mora Joy than a package of trading stamps. The unwonted calm pervading the royal nursery of Spain suggests that a thumb Is as soothing to a kinglet as to a plebtan kid. . ' " Notwithstanding successive reports of grand Juries, experts say the level of San Francisco was not altered by the earth quake. ' The matrimonial perplexities of the Gould family makes serious Inroads In the family fortune. That waa the Intention at the hitching. "Most remarkable street railway Una In the country," said the end-seat man on a Harney street car. "Runs from a cemetery to a brewery." . People Inclined to knock on spring should remember the unseasonable hint of the offi cial forecaster "There are only two kinds of weather, hot and cold." General Kuroki Is said, to have been as tonished with the extent of the Industries In and about the Chicago" stock yards. What he said about the atmosphere stumped the Interpreters. The Louisiana lottery crowd, managers of the Honduras graft, have concluded to pay Uncle Bam an aggregate fine of 1300,000 and keep out of Jail. Fooling with a federal Indictment nowadays Is as perilous to com fort aa playing with a buazsaw. A scene that would bring Joy to the heart of Omaha's mayor was witnessed In Now York. A ball of fire set in motion by an electrical storm chased a yelping dog up a street and cremated a few Inches of Its tall. The purp wasn't muzzled. A; famous aerie of Eagles In Argentine, Kan., Just across the Una from Kansas City, was visited by the sheriff of the county. The nest was unusually well stocked with the necessaries of fraternal life, but the official, heedless of distress signals, stripped It bare and flew off with forty-five cases of beer, thirty gallons of whisky, several bottles of wine and fancy liquors. The fact that the drouth In that vicinity has been broken by copious rains brings no comfort to the plucked Eagles. Economy! Economy! Economy! How to Obtain it in Buying a Piano Let's suppose you are going to buy a Piano. What question comes to your mind? Are they not these: Where shall I go; where will I obtain tho best Piano for the smallest amount; where I can depend upon what the salesman tells me as being the truth and where an absolutely square deal will be given me In every respect? To most families the question of economy Is the most Importaat. 'To you. too, no doubt. It means a great deal, if you are a business man you will know that the store which bears the highest reputation for integrity Is the one that is sure to give you the bent value for your nmnry. The Hosts Plan is a guarantee of a square dJ; therefore, It Is an assurance of economy. The Hospe store has always lftood for what Is best In the relation between merchant and customer, and In that respect has built up an unassailable reputation. ova rsuoB aits vo coxaussioxs Few people know how much other stores depend on a sliding scale system and the effort to get as much from thvlr customers as possible' also, of the thousands of dollars they pay out In secret commissions to people who recommend or bring customeis to their stores to buy Pianos We do not believe It Is possible fur anyone to get a square desl or full value for his money lit trading Willi sui u stores. Heoldes we seil h( best Pianos in the world such as the Krakauer, the-Kranlch St riach Kim ball, Kell, Bush & Lane, Cable NelHon, Hallett Davis, Conway 'Weser Bros., Cramer, Whitney, Bell, Ipiperial, Kensington, itc, etc. ' TSZ9, X.ZOXTX.T DAMAGED 1ID IKOr-WOIV FIAlTOfJ All next week we will clean up the uch pianos and will offer some great s ea any sna get me cnoice. A nice new. Easy terms. Our prices the A. HOSPE CO. DOHCtAS SI Writ tor Catalogues sad Prices. r-riirTiTrr i ' m$mv & ITnWIMrllnlWHf H1 ill li I HUTTl SERMOX9 ROILED DOW1C. Uvlng heartily .it u.io secret oX living happily. - The only evil that can harm us la the evtl we love. The man who la steadfast Is not going to tick fast. The critic Is the laat to discover his own crookedness. He who prays for himself alone prays only to himself. The weapon of malice always goes off at the wrong end. The man who faces both ways never sees much any way. The fairest flowers of Joy spring front the soli of sacrifice. It never hurts your grip on a doctrine to lay hold of a duly. The man who lives with God does not have to advertise the fact. You cannot bear the fruits of heaven If you live In the clouds of hatred. It's always the short winded man who does the loudest Shouting at a foot race. There are too many people trying to clean up the world by scalding their neighbors. You often can lead with the silken cord of love when all the cables of logic would fall. A great many saints blow the gas out with their sighing and then complain that God has forsaken them. A review of life reveals that the things we most regretted at the time are the ones to which we owe most now. Chicago Tribune. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "You needn't sit up for me , tonight, Maria." "I won't, dear.. I'll be standing Just In side the door for you." Chicago Tribune. "No," said Mies Prim, with maidenly pride, "no man has ever klsseil me." "O! come, now," replied Miss Pert. "X don't think you're really that homely.''--Philadelphia Press. Mamie I want a man to marry me for my real Inner qualities. I Maud Well, dear, I'm glad you don't expect anybody to take you for your fac ' value. Baltimore American. "When I want to go to sleep, he told' her, "I simply think of nothing." She looked thoughtful. "But can you always concentrate your thoughts on yourself?' she gently asked. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Bacon I see that nearly one-half of the fishes caught in the Indian ocean belong to a species not heretofore described In any book. ' Mrs. Egbert That must be where my husband goes fishing! Yonkers Statesman, Dolly Molly Wolcott told me a month ago that her new gown was going to be a dream. Polly Well, that Is alt It is so far. Her husband won't give her the money for It. Somervllle Journal. AS SLOW OCR SHIP. Thomas Moore. As slow our ship its foamy track Against the wind was cleaving. Its trembling pennant still lnoknd back To that dear Isle 'twas leaving. So loath wo part from all we love, From all the links that bind us; So turn our hearts, as on we rove, To those we've left behind us! Wben round the bowl of vanished years We talk with Joyous seeming With smiles that might as well be tears, So faint, so sad their beaming; While memory brings us back agdln Each early tie that twined us, Oh, sweet the cup that circles then To those wa ve left behind us! ' And when, in other climes we meet Some Isle or vale enchanting, Where all looks flowery, wild and sweet An.1 naught but love Is wanting. We think how great had been our bliss If heaven had but assigned us To live and die In scenes llke-thls. With some we've left behind us! As travelers oft look back at eve Whi-n eastward darkly going. To gase upon that Unlit they leave Still faint behind them glowing ' Bo, when the close of pleasure's day To gloom hath near consigned ua, Weturn to catch one fsdlng ray Of Joy that's left behind us! accumulation of a busy season In bargains. It will pay you to call upright i'lano for 1125, as good as lowest in the United Stales.