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.
