Tiffi OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNl? 18, 1907.
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VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR,
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Pouglas County. .
Charles C. Rosewater, general manager
Of Th Be Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, savs that the actual number
f full and complete copies of The Pally,
Morning, Evening and Bunday Be prlntad
during th month of May, 107, waa aa
ioiiows:
1 35,650
lg 35,780
II 33,800
20 35,370
;l 35,630
tl 35,510
SI..... 35,500
24 35,090
26 35,800
2 34,600
27 35,450
21 35,510
2 36,010
10 35,630
21 35,810
1 35,610
I... 3BJS0
4 85,410
I... 34,300
t..i 38,880
35,480
t. ......... 35,650
35,730
10 35,390
11 35,390
It 34,650
It 36,430
14 36,380
II 35,330
1 85,460
17..... 35,360
Total... 1,096,630
Less unsold and returned copies 8,667
Net total 1,089,953
Dally average 30,063
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this list day of May, 107.
(Seal) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public
WIIE.1 OUT OF TOWH.
Sabacrlbere leaving? tk city tem
porarily snoeld have Th Be
nailed to them. Address will be
June is finally beginning to make a
DOlse like a straw hat.
The Cannon boom Is using
imokeless and noiseless powder.
both
It is plain that they have some yel
low Journals over in Japan, too.
The corn crop Is also short about
six inches short, according to latest
. measurements.
Physicians are again insisting that
germs are spread by the kissing of the
babies. Boll the babies. -
Appearances are deceptive. Secre
tary Taft confesses that his capacity
for banquets has been overtaxed.
A' Kentucklan has just married his
mother-in-law. The prohibition law
Is not enforced In some parts of Ken
tucky. Deacon Baer says he does not think
much of the government's suit against
the Coal trust. Still, the suit was de
signed to fit Baer.
Harry Orchard says he made most of
his money swindling farmers. He
was not a member of the Chicago
Board of Trade, either.
Does not Colonel Watterson lay
himself open to the charge of being a
nature fakir by declaring that his dark
horse haa a moustache?
Horace Greeley advised young men
to go west and grow up with the coun
try. Harry Orchard decided to go
west' and blow up the country.
The Honduras lottery has gone out
ct business. Hondutan gamblers may
now ; pass their time making bets on
who will be president of their republic
the next day.
College commencements are apt to
be a little tame this year. Senator
Beverldge and Colonel Bryan, have left
very few big problems for the gradu
ates to solve.
Rebels have captured 300 wives be
longing to the sultan of Morocco. The
sultan may now decide ' for himself
whether he has, suffered a defeat or
won a victory., . ' '
Prof. O. Stanley HaU of Clark uni
versity is anxious to find out why
women graduates of colleges do not
marry. Possibly It is because they
are not asked.
Secretary Taft Insists that there will
be no war with Japan and that the
coal which tie government Is trans
porting to the Pacific coast is to be
used for pacific purposes.
The Wisconsin legislature has
passed a law prohibiting the smoking
of tobacco by persons under 21 years
of age. Young men will have to
smoke Wisconsin-made cigars.
Colonel Bryan Is speaking In very
cordial terms of endorsement of the
Hoke Smith presidential boom.
Colonel Bryan looks kindly upon the
boom of any democrat who stands no
show of being nominated.
It Is plain that Secretary Taft Is not
a rough rider. Had he been com
pelled to go through a Porto Rlcaa
campaign on canned soup and em
balmed beef he would have been la
bhspe to digest any food that might
be give him la Minnesota. -
-ASOTHER IRREPRESSIBLE COSPLICT
Resistance by the railroads of the
2-cent fare law enacted In Missouri
seems to be rapidly bringing to a head
an Irrepressible conflict between the
authority of the federal government
and of the separate states for the regu
latlon of railroad trarr.c within the
states. While the law entails criminal
penalties for Its Infraction, Attorney
General Hadley has secured from the
state courts an additional restraining
order that will make Its violation on
the part of the railroad officials con
tempt of court as well, and the legal
representatives of the railroads have
secured from the federal courts re
straining orders prohibiting the rail
roads from obeying the law under like
penalties, on the ground that the pro
posed rate reduction would be non
compensatory and therefore unconstl
tutlonal. This multiplex litigation
promises to Join In issue the principal
points In controversy and eventually
to lead to a judicial decision that will
be epoch-making in its effect.
Without discuBslTjg the merits of the
case, It Is Interesting to note that when
the matter of rate regulation was pend
ing before congress the railroad
spokesmen took refuge behind the
powers vested in the several states,
insisting that the abuses complained
of could and should be effectually
reached by the operation of state laws.
Falling to persuade the president and
congress not to exercise rate-making
power over Interstate traffic, the rail
road lawyers have now faced clear
about, arguing that the exercise of
this power by the national legislature
supersedes all power over rates vested
In the states and have appealed suc
cessfully to the different legislatures
to leave to the Interstate Commerce
commission the whole subject of rate
regulation within the states as well
as between the states.
In order to make their position
strong for resisting 2-cent fare laws
like those of Missouri and Nebraska,
the railroad attorneys will have to
maintain that through rates are deter
mined by local rates between points
wholly within the states and that regu
lation of local traffic necessarily car
ries with It regulation of Interstate
traffic. Manifestly, If all the acts of
the several states for the regulation of
railway rates were to be dependent
upon acts of the federal government
and Ineffective except so far as made
part of federal regulations, the power
of the states In this respect would
soon become completely nullified.
The fixed determination of the rail
roads not to submit to state authority,
except by compulsion of a court of last
resort, foreshadows a long-drawn legal
battle bound to engender further strife
With the public, costly to the railroads,
no matter what the outcome.
THE NATIONAL GUARD,
From the office, of the secretary of
war comes the announcement that by
January, next, the National Guard must
be brought up to the requirements in
order that It may participate in the
distribution of the money appropriated
under the operations of the amended
Dick law. This means that the or-
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ganlzed militia of the several states
must be carried on a footing approxi
mating a war basis. The equipment
must be equal in efficiency to that of
the regular army and must be so
maintained that the soldiers can take
the field on telegraphic orders and
within the shortest possible time 4e
transformed from state militia to part
of the army of the United States.
The military service of the United
States is essentially volunteer service.
Enlistment In the regular army, that
small body of highly trained men
which has served as the nucleus for
the grVat armies the nation has put
into the field at various times, has al
ways been voluntary, Spme measures
are even being proposed to make the
service more attractive in order that
the men who enter will be better sat
isfied while wearing the government
uniform. It has been our boast that
the country's safety rested secure on
the willingness of the citizens to take
up military duty when necessity re
quired. The sentiment back of this is
beautiful, but war has reached a stage
where patriotic sentiment and per
sonal courage are minor factors.
The experience of the United States
in 1861 was repeated in 1898. Thirty
five years of profound peace had
offered opportunities that were neg
lected, and it was found when the
troops were called to take the field
against Spain that, while the patriotic
ardor and Individual' valor of the
American soldier had In no wise de
creased, he was lamentably lacking in
the special qualifications for military
service. His arms and equipment
were of obsolete type and his knowl
edge of the duties and requirements
of a soldier In camp and In the field
amounted to a little more than a de
gree of familiarity with the manual of
arms and the simpler company evolir
tlons. The lessons taught In the
great camps of Instruction were costly
In human life, but If taken advantage
of now will not have been In vain.
Since the episode of 1898 the mili
tary authorities of the United States,
both In the regular establishment and
the National Guard, have bent their
every energy to the instruction of' the
National Guard in the matters that are
vitally important to the health and
security of troops In camp and in the
field. Matters of camp routine which
were deemed Inconsequential in the
past have now been glvea their proper
places in the regime of the regiment
of the army. Sanitation Is placed
above all. -The care and preparation
of food and the proper care of bedding
and clothing come in order named.
Singular as It may seem, the greatest
the Am extras ' aoldlar haa tA
learn Is to take proper care of himself
when in camp. The progress recently
made in this direction has been most
important. Camps of Instruction
which have been held annually la con
junction with the regular army have
given the guardsmen much needed In
formation and the lessons taught by
experience are not likely to be quickly
forgotten.
War is no longer a showy undertak
ing, nor Is a battlefield the spectacular
scene It once presented. Campaigns
are planned and armies are moved
with mathematical accuracy and the
appllctlon of the most recent of scien
tific discoveries. To achieve this It
is absolutely necessary that the men
who are to take part In Uie movement
must be thoroughly trained in what is
expected of them. In order that the
assistance of the United States govern
ment to the National Guard, provided
under the Dick bill, may be had the
state must be prepared to show that
Its guardsmen are in every way up to
the mark. Nebraska has enlisted in
its National Guard more men than are
required, and has kept them np to a
high standard of efficiency. The
Importance of the militia to the gen
eral military scheme cannot be over
estimated and liberal support given
the National Guard Is money well in
vested.
rVBLIC 8CHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS.
The award at the commencement of
the Omaha High school of the scholar
ship of technology, founded under the
terms of the will of the late Edward
Rosewater, deserves more than passing
attention, as a unique and extraordi
nary event. So far as is known, the
public schools in no other city are in
position to award a scholarship of
similar character, the usual practice
for those founding such scholarships
being to place the endowment at the
disposal of the college or university
which the beneficiary Is expected to at
tend. The propriety of making the
school board the trustee for the execu
tion of this philanthropy and of utilis
ing the public schools as the best
means of bringing out the wofthiest
competitor must be manifest to all and
It must be regarded as a special piece
of good fortune that the Omaha High
school should be enabled to Inaugurate
benefaction fraught with limitless
possibilities.
The award of the Edward Rosewater
scholarship of technology ought also
to Impress itself upon the public mind,
as was suggested at the commencement
exercises, as an example to be followed
by other public spirited citizens. There
ought to be, and doubtless in time will
be, endowment funds at the command
of our school authorities yielding an
Income to be utilized In assisting pro
ficient and deserving public school
graduates through the walks of higher
or technical education. While these
prizes should be made available only
to those who would not otherwise be
able to pursue their studies further,
th conditions should at the same time
be sufficiently broad as to safeguard
the self respect of the recipients and
keep from them all suggestion of pub
lic charity.
The public school scholarship opens
vista for expanding the usefulness
of the public schools. With the first
step in this direction already taken,
the second step should soon be made
and further progress from time to
time.
f AVISO WEALTH ICR THE TEOPLE.
Delegates to the public lands con
vention, to be held In Denver this
week, could read with profit that por
tion of President Roosevelt's address
at Jamestown constituting a serious
plea for the preservation of the natural
resources of the country for the peo
ple. ' Of all the reforms the president
has championed few are to be com
pared with this for permanent value
to the people of the nation. His posi
tion in favor of reserving to public
control the coal, oil and forest lands
n the public domain Is entirely sound.
No attempt has been made to meet his
arguments, although a desperate ef
fort has been made in congress, and Is
to be renewed at Denver, to defeat the
president's policies and continue the
domination of the lumber, cattle and
oil syndicates that have already cap
tured the cream of the nation's re
sources In these lines and will not let
the rest go without a struggle.
The lumber syndicates have denuded
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
the former great forestry states of the
lake region and have succeeded In se
curing control of most of the rich Um
ber lands la the Pacific coast region.
They have adopted the same tactics
pursued by the land syndicates and
the cattle barons in enriching them
selves by the exploitation of public
resources at the expense of the people
to whom they really belonged. The
congressional exposures of land frauds
In so many western and northwestern
states Indicate the extent to which this
system of loot has been carried. The
opposition to the president's forestry
policy shows the reluctance which the
syndicates feel to lose' any source of
enormous private profit at public ex
pense.
The development of the resources
of the country, the welfare of the peo
ple and the'lnterest of the nation de
pend upon the proper protection of the
natural resources on the public lands
from fraud, waste and encroachment
and their conservation for the general
good. It Is a little late to contend that
all lands containing mineral or forest
wealth should remain In possession of
the nation, to be leased for private
exploitation on reasonable terms. The
most valuable timber and coal lands
of the nation have passed into private
Avnarahlo and hare bsxa eaaauaUa.
The only recourse In safety now is to
save what Is left, make a beginning In
reforestation and conservo the natural
resources for the future. This la the
president's policy and his position Is
unassailable. Whatever the result of
the lands convention in Denver may
be, the public Judgment will not be
confused on the right and duty of the
government to safeguard the public
land resources of the nation for the
benefit of the whole nation
PASS 1KB or THE DVLK.
Ambassador Bryce the other day
called attention to a forgotten incident
In the history of American social de
velopment, by inquiring what had be
come of the "dude," wno was playing
quite a part In the national social life
many years ago, when Mr. Bryce was
in this country gathering material for
his book on "The American Common
wealth."
The word "dude" Is now almost
obsolete, although It was marked
"(Recent)" In Mr. Webster's diction
ary of 1884 and was defined as "A
kind of dandy; especially, one charac
terlzed by an ultrafashionable style
of dress and other affectations." The
"dude" was very much in evidence In
those days and Berry Wall, king of the
"dudes," got more space In the New
York papers each day, describing his
new costumes and fads than Is now
accorded to the entire society smart
set Every village had its Berry Wall,
Its languid gentleman, dressed in freak
ish styles and looking upon exertion
of every kind as an exhibition of
"hahwld fohm." The "dude" was
good fun while he lasted.
Ambassador Bryce's question as to
what has become of the "dude" Is
easily answered. The "dude" was an
artificial plant, not indigenous to
America. He was petted and admired
for a time and then allowed to wither.
The young American of today, who has
the leisure and the wealth essential to
the success of the "dude," is out on
the golf links, tanned to a bronze, with
blistered hands and aching shoulders,
trying to break his record. Or he may
be about fifty miles out in the country,
lying on the fiat of his back under an
automobile, acquiring practical knowl
edge of machinery and smashed
thumbs. Or he may be after the tennis
championship or making new records
with the oars. He has become Inocu
lated with the virus of the "strenuous
life" and Is living like a real red
blooded American. The "dude" has
ceased to exist the species is extinct
and no signs of restoring it.
musical Malpractice.
At first glance the subject, "Musical
Malpractice," might be readily taken
to refer to the untimely serenades of
amateur, artists on the tronibone or to'
charivari parties misusing instruments
of harmony In an effort to produce dia
bolical discord. In this case, however,
reference is made to the opinion newly
reiterated in an article entitled "The
Gift of Song With Practical Advice
on Voice Culture," subscribed, if not
written, by that famous vocalist, Nel
lie Melba, and printed In the current
Century. Madame Melba's article de
clares that "the great singers of our
day would not be so few If there were
more competent teachers," and
goes on to explain more In detail, as
follows:
In all learned and mechanical professions
certain technical tests are Instated on be
fore a person Is accepted as an authority
but in music It Is not so. Any charlatan
whose only qualifications may be confidence
and casual observation may set up aa a
teacher and persistently trick the public
which is only too easily deceived. I speak
strongly on thla subject, having In mind
the cruel vocal habit to which I have lust
referred. Just as the engineer must know
the structure and parts of his engine, or
the architect the nature and relative values
of material aa well aa the principles of de
sign, so must the would-be singer under
stand the easily Injured structure and dell
cate functlona of vote mechanism. No
student has any light to expect to sing by
Inspiration any more than an athlete may
expect to win a race because he Is naturally
fleet of foot.
A systematic movement on the part
of lovers of "the art divine" Is certainly
In order to put an end to musical mal
practice plsylng havoc with God-given
voices that ought to be trained only
by Infallible experts. The doctors and
lawyers and veterinarians and under
takers, and sometimes even the bar
bers, have procured legislation cre
ating boards of examiners to pass upon
applicants before they may be licensed
to practice their handicrafts upon un
suspecting victims. Why not a board
of music culture to test the qualifica
tions of would-be teachers and stamp
those that come up to tone require
ments with, labels "passed by govern
ment Inspection?"
A serious difficulty might come up
with the selection of the board of ex
perts because no two professional mu
sicians are apt to agree upon the qual
ifications of a third, or of one another.
Should the board be loaded down with
musical malpractioners, the evils com
plained of would be but aggravated.
But when musicians disagToe, who
shall decide?
The Judgment for $500.00 damages
entered by the district court of Doug
las county in a libel suit against Editor
John C. Sprecher of Schuyler should
make newspaper men throughout Ne
braska sit up and take notice. The
Bee is not familiar with all the facts,
nor will it venture any opinion as to
the Justice ot the verdict or the ade
quacy or inadequacy of the damages
appraised, but It regards It as an un
mitigated outrage that any editor pub
lishing a local paper la Colfax county
should be dragged away from home
Into Douglas county to defend himself
In a civil suit for libel because a few
copies of his paper may have been
mailed to Omaha. If th law permits
such a thing to be done to Editor
8precher,' it makes It possible to In
flict every editor In Nebraska In th
same way and might force an Omaha
editor up to Box Butte county to de
fend for civil libel, it accidental service
could be gotten upon him. The State
Press association should be spurred
cn by the Sprecher case to secure a
thorough revision of our libel laws In
the interest of Justice to the editor as
well as to the individual who may
have a grievance.
Mayor Fitzgerald of BoBton was aw
fully shocked in Chicago when he saw
a barefooted boy drinking water from
a rubber hose In a horse trough. Now
it he had gone on to St. Louis or Mil
waukee he might hare seen bearded
men drinking beer from a hose In a
brewery vat.
Omaha's trade boosters have doubt
less had some tempting propositions
put before them on their swing around
the Puget Sound circle, but they are
all of them too firmly riveted to Omaha
and Nebraska to be pried loose under
present promising business conditions
at home.
The Congressional library at Wash
ington will install a department where
phonographic speeches of statesmen
and distinguished persons from all
parts of the world may be preserved.
Cold storage Is the proper treatment
for most of the speeches of statesmen.
It may be embarrassing if the courts
should finally decide that Mr. Harrl
man must answer the questions of the
Interstate Commerce commission and
Mr. Harriman should suddenly re
member that he had forgotten the an
swers.
A man out in Washington is being
prosecuted for stealing a train. That
is a brand of petty larceny that will
not be tolerated. He should have
taken a lesson from Wall street mag
nates and stolen the whole railroad.
Jack London is blaming the presi
dent for criticising things he did not
write in one of his books. The record
has been established that most of the
good things in London's books were
written by some other person.
Mr. Knox's Handicap.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
Senator Knox Is a receptive, acttve and
suggestive candidate for president. Even
with the handicap of Philander he haa an
Indisputable right to enter the lists.
Head I'p, Admiral.
Minneapolis Journal.
Admiral Slgsbee says wars' will continue
because men like to fight Admiral Slgs
bee Is a barbarian who has not read the
resolutions adopted by Mr. ' Carnerle'a
peace society,
Jingoism Alike In All L(nn(M.
Philadelphia Press.
Th Jingo politician of Japan vldentlv
are not different from th lingo politicians
of any other country. But that need not
be surprising; Jingoism la lust about th.
same in one language aa another.
Varleaated Poll t tea.
v New York Sun. j
Ohio politics seem to be conducted on a
simple and easily mastered system. On
each even date Senator Dick makes an
announcement In behalf of Senator Fnr-
aker, while on the following odd date Sen
ator Foraker repudiates and "chargea
against his enemies. Thus the situation is
kept sufficiently muddled to satisfy eveu
a Buckeye statesman. -
STEH11.1Z1Q LITERATURE.
Move to Strip Heroes of Fiction of
Some Haitian Habits.
Philadelphia Record.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union, Frances E. Wlllard branch, pro
poses to exercise Its Influence, and desires
all other branches to do the same, to have
excluded from public libraries all books In
which the hero r heroine Is represents
as using cigarettes or liquors or oaths.
rw . . .....
' women aaia mat to ner "an
oath la Just as bad as a murder." What
a sad lack of perspective! It reminds one
of the baker's plea In the Hunting of the
snark:
Tou may charge me with murder, or lack
ui an late
We are all of us weak at tlmee.
Think what would really happen to the
llbrarlea If auch a fellowship of crime were
decreed! From Shakespeare to Stevenson,
trom Bcott to Barrle Why, we should
have to get out bowdlerized editions even
of the Holy Scriptures! The Old Testa
ment must go that la platn. The o!d
Hebrews did not smoke tobacco but other
things! What a pretty nursery literature
we should have!
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
To insure a safe and sane Fourth In Chi
cago, policemen will go armed with bed-
slats.
The absence of flies Justifies th doubts
of summer entertained by bald-headed
men.
San Francisco plumbers, appreciating
good thing, propose to perpetuate It by re
stricting apprenticeship to sons of plumbers.
Mrs. Carrie Nation blew Into Washing,
ton last week and created as much Inter
est In the boozeries as If Congress waa in
session.
The June bride and th June graduate
ahed enough sweetness on th June air to
compensate for th vagaries of June
weather.
The editor of depot bulletin boards can
In a pinch dlsplayJlashes of that genlua
which is esteemed an open sesame to th
Ananiaa club.
The motion of a correspondent to cut out
Fourth of July orations la out of order.
What if the crowd la heedless? The orator
need the exercise.
A veally story of an Iowa man, asserting
that a shot in his right calf relieved him of
the snoring habit, comes too late for the
competition. No vacancy exist in the ros
ter of nature fakirs.
The Oklahoma farmer who saya a tor
nado picked up his cow and carried her
a quarter of a mile haa mistaken his call
ing. He ought to be a press agent of a
summer resort show.
The scientific uncertainty aa to what con
stHutea real whisky having feaaed the
chemical department of the national gov
ernment Is now passed up to the federal
court for an expert opinion.
Th blind goddess doffed her blinkers In
a New York court th other day and landed
With both feet oa a scrubwoman who ad
mitted stealing a caka of soap valued at
t cents. Kfiicaeitovkw luetic needs a ray
AitaUoa, ,
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GIVE HER A SOLITAIRE
The Diamond is symbolic of love.
Get the spirit of this month-place
a Diamond on her finger. Don't
let lack of ready money stand be-,
tween you and future happiness for
YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD
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SECULAR
Minneapolis Journal: Rev. Stanard Pow
Butler of Middleton, N. v., laid the corner
stone of a big cigar factory, to be erected
by one of his wealthy parishioners. The
Incident la causing some smoke In theologi
cal circles.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: One' hundred
American clergymen are now in Paris, but
we have our doubts whether even that
number will constitute a sufficient leaven
of righteousness to leaven the whole loaf
In that famous city of frolicsome Satan.
What Paris needs as a counteragent Is
about half tho population of Philadelphia
and th swap would help Philadelphia, too.
Louisville Courier Journal: A prominent
New York minister told his congregation
that one, John Eckhoff sold liquor on
Sunday at 100 Park avenue, the fact
that the congregation remained seated of
fers touching proof that a aenso of grati
tude exists even In our soulless metropolis.
especially when we consider that the rest
of the sermon must have been an anti
climax. Minneapolis Journal: Rev. May Pepper,
pastor yof the First Brooklyn Spiritual
church, has astonished her congregation by
marrying a wealthy lumberman and going
to Europe on her wedding trip. Mrs. Pepper
Is the medium who Interested Dr. Funk
in certain strange phenomena. The
"wealthy lumberrran" whom Mrs. Pepper
materialised Is Edward Ward tVanderbtlt,
age 66, of . 197 Waverly, avenue. His chil
dren are now claiming undue Influence and
asking the courts to test his mental status.
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
The acid of envy eats out all happiness
from the heart. . ... ' "
You cannot get high moral tone out of
loose muscular wlrea.
If you do not know how to let up you
do not know how to live.
You can do little for humanity without
the saving salt of humor.
There Is no complete understanding of a
duty until It Is completed.
The man who borrowa trouble Is little
better than the one who makes it.
No learning can make up for to lack
of that which the home can give.
The greatest sins are. the ones committed
against the least of the children.
When the wage Is the end the work loses
much, but the worker loses more.
When we confess to our own faults us
ually we are thinking of our neighbor's.
Every man may have a right to his own
grouch, but he has a duty to keep It to him
self. If you are afraid of being misunderstood
you are not likely to do much worth under
standing. It seems to be as easy to think our Cher
fulness to ourselves as It Is to think our
troubles out loud. Chicago Tribune.
SHOTS AT THE PtTI.PIT
SaJe Starts Monday Morning
One aTandied and nfty Pianos, Organ and Plano-riayers Xnrt Be Sold. Sent
Miss This Opportunity, Oiu rrlcae Will Aatonlsa Too. Cems, and S
Convinced.
W have contracted for a big alteration to be made In our store, to give
us more room for our growing business and to accommodate the large stock'
of high grade Planoa. Piano-Players and Organs we are going to Install. Car
pentera, Paperhangnra and Painter will soun start to tear up things and dust
and dirt will fly and if our stock of Planoa and Organs Is not removed it
will greatly damage the same. To remove them to our Warehouse and store
them away takes too much time and money, therefore, we are cutting the
prices on our new and aecond hand Pianna, Plano-Players and Organs' to
nlrk'y f11 them and get them out of the way. Bemember our large stock of .
srtanos, Plano-Flaysrs and Organs haa not been damag-ed or marred, It 18
fttrlctly first-class and th finest In th west.
LOOK AT THESE BARGAINS
Btelnwsy A Hons, regular Errf ,
Sold on term to sun your conve
nience.
livery Piano Guaranteed front Plve
to Twenty Yean.
Outside and
65 Organ, both Chapel and Parlor, (rout V up at 50c per wpeJk
Cuane and be convinced. Bala starts Monday morning.
A. HOSPE CO.
1513 DOUGLAS STREET
CR
Assume No Risks
I Engagement
Rings ,
DOMESTIC RISIBLE.
"Tou told me you thought of marrying
the widow Hrown and then you married the
widow Jones."
"Well, it wasn't my fault; the widow
Jones met me first. ".-Houston Post.
"I suppose the Joys of proposing es
hllnrate one like champagne.
?ot exhilarate, but something like."
How did you make out?" ,
First. I popped; then I erTesvesoed, till t
found out It waa -all a fizzle "-Baltimore
American.
Her Will you love me when I'm old?
Hln-More than ever. You'll know bet
tr than to ask silly questions then.
Cleveland Leader.
Elderly Uncle LonUlAa. why don't you
marry some good woman?
Scapegrace Nephew I'll do It, uncle. If
you 11 find some good woman whom you
can conscientiously advise to marry me.
Chicago Tribune. . .
w'afh" Mked me t0 meet her by ! rda
'..Y-1 you "m apprehensive."
ies; I'm afraid she Intend to throw raa
over."-Wahington Herald.
Henry Peck says Henry never
spoke a cross word to herr ilnn't inn hiu
that shows a great deal of love?"
HoT.eton0Po.at.rre'at dCa' W-
i"y rl?"ce-9' George. I sometimes
think I would rather die than be married!
Qeorge-What, darling! . Rather di.?
tfhllr'lL f,nce-;T; you don't have to
lJrS r"?n"lf 0Ien tlnea for that, yea
know.-Chlcago Tribune. .
GRADUATION TIME.
J. 'TIT ... I T . . '
... . , , now IOIITDMI, .... .
. j uhu viiat .AIM HAa . ir. -.,..
'Through 'obelachia in 1 .- ..'f
me.. death If not liberty:'., ,v '
, " -w " in man r
come, ye benlahted mnri.i.
Soar up to helahta auhiim . .
By
merely hearing, being dumb
"Its - graduation time.
A gown of white, s
A ribbon-gathered
mortar board.
A. mind with vastest learning itnnj
crun,
A high and lofty soul;
ow' a "''ture. and a hand
..XhJ Pol,lt "P t the sky:
vt ,' Zrnny r rule this landt
No!!( Echo makes reply."
Bring moldy Bhakespeare from his tomfc
And trot him to and fro;
Oo follow Cranmer to his doom,
Lay Robert Emmet , low;
Lt bold Rlenzt speak again.
Go ransack prose and rhvnio
For lofty thoughts and visions when
It s graduation time.
So now we pry Into the deeps
Of coward Brutus' heart.
Shed . tears where sad Ophelia
And move wtth Pbe aoart:
weeps.
Sail with Columbus when he went
Far from hie native clime.
To find a world and lessons lent
For graduation time.
And yet and yet I would I might
Oo back there and somehow
Add to my learning of that night
The knowledge 1 have now;
I would go forth so well equlS$S
That with a lusty shout
I'd have the demon Failure whlppel
Before the week Is out.
price, J7oo; our pric. . . . V'
Vose t bona, regular prloe, (g i t
4i5,- our price...., spXUW
Fisner, reguiar price. ftOu; K'fH
our prlc , psvVJ
Emerson, regular price, ej-s rjt"
$404; our price jXa
Ilaaen A Bon, regular price,
1276; our price p
Jswett, regular price, Wlh;dpf
our nrlca tSlUU
" cc ouuo, regular price,
$400; our price
New Upright Pianos, regu-
$175
$125
$145
iar price, iiao; our price.
New Upright planoa, regu
lar price, $100: our prio.
iNew upright Pianos, regu
lar nrln. flTftA- n.,.
$165
$450
. - - ww, yi i t;o .
New Grand Piano, regular
price, iiuv; our price...
Inside Players
W ear nr th rre.it e.t ..l. a..
w?f!lUeI'Jttrun"",U ,n the west
dVr'l'nr't'hu".!." Unh"r1 ot
JTrw Angela Player, regular
1250. our iirir-. '
price
lightly Used Anceiaspia,.,;
sua
,.r pnu- our price Sloe
These price lnclud J dozen .
lected roll of music and you can bur
at your own terms.
Inald Pleyev-piaaos from StSO mp,
. Automatic Organ, Keglna Knsle
f mnsi Boxes, &Vgina
Chlm Clock and ElectrU PtaVoe.