THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 14, 1907.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION,
fttata of Nebraska. Douglas county, as:
Charles C. Kosewater general manager
of Tiie Pea Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, savs that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dily,
Morning, Evenlrg and Sunday Pee printed
during the month of June, 1W7, was as
follows:
. 36,530
. 36,500
36,820
. 36,690
. 36,410
. 36,810
. 36,630
36,800
17 36,480
1 38,490
j 36,480
20 36,310
21 86.330
22 36,610
2g 86,730
24 36,300
25 36,580
2g 38,660
27. 36,570
28 36,470
29 38,860
30 35,950
9 35,900
10.
36,660
36,930
36,830
36,640
86,930
37,170
35,800
Total... 1,094,820
Less unsold and returned copies.,
10,389
Net total 1,083,831
Daily average 36,127
CH4.KL.S " ROSE-WATER.
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before me this 1st day of July, 1907.
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changed as oftra as requested.
Chautauqua reports show that war
is Hobson'e choice.
Geronimo naturally wants to go on
the warpath. He has been having
trouble with his eighth wife.
"Bad water is the greatest menace
to health and happiness," says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. No worse than
firewater.
It is just as well to remember that
while the jingoes are always active in
starting a war, they are not always
found in the fighting ranks.
A Kansas mau has sold his whiskers
for $8. Kansas populists must have
discovered that it pays better to raise
more wheat and less whiskers.
As soon as Judge Landls fixes the
fine of the Standard Oil monopoly the
consumers may figure out what their
proportion of the penalty will be.
Irrespective of any conflict between
the battleships of the United States
and Japan, the New York and Toklo
editors are going to fight it to a finish.
Parker Woodbury, a Wall street
financier, proposes to build a home en
tirely of glass. Kvidently he does not
Intend to entertain any Pittsburg mil
lionaires. Tom Law son has completed his ex
posure of the "System," but he still
keeps his "K3medy" up his sleeve.
How much more will It cost to get the
"ltemedy?"
Jack London's assertion that he Is
not an authority on any subject just
fits him for expert opinion on the prob
able war between Japan and the
United States.
The Chicago .Record-Herald refers
to Senator Piatt as "merely an orna
ment in the senate." The Record-
Herald must have queer taste In the
matter of ornaments.
Japan might be able to win a
cratch victory in a naval fight, but
tould never hope to defeat General
Prosperity, who Is In command of the
American land forces.
The price of milk has been advanced
to 10 cents a quart In Philadelphia for
some reason entirely disconnected with
the fact fiat the Elks are holding
their convention there.
The valedictorian whose address on
"The World Needs Us" created a mild
sensation in hi college a few weeks
ago is now wondering why the world
does not koow its needs.
That Interview with Richmond Pear
ton Hobson beginning with the wordB
"I fear," must be a fake. A man who
has klBsed his way across the continent.
and back know no such word as fear
Editor Wattersun feayt: "We agree
that if the ticket next year were
Roosevelt and Bryan. Bryan would
win hands dow n." That probably ex
plains Mr. Watterson'e effort to de-
teat Bryan for the nomination.
Kelroku Tuzukt. a Japanese dele
gate to The Hague, whose name
Bounds like a leak In an overcharged
sod fountain, declares that the United
States 1b the last country with which
Japan would seek war. That Is the
on thing in which this country 1b
willing to be last.
7EACHISO MORA MTF
How should morality be taught In
the iiuhiic p hools? This is one of
tho questions on which the National
figuration association, which has Just
concluded it.3 annual nr-ssion, has
ordered a report from a special com
mittee charged with Investigation and
recommendation.
The weakest spot left by the divorce
ment of relislous and secular teaching
is that touching moral discipline and
the tendeicy everywhere han been to
read thi prohlbiilon of religious teach
ing In the pchools as a prohibition of
moral teaching as well. What little
leaching of ethics and morality was
included In the old curriculum seems
to have been largely crowded out by
latter day methods of child culture
now practiced in the schools. Boys
and girls used to get the point of the
maxim when they had to write in their
copy books fifty or a hundred times
wise sayings like "Honesty is the best
policy," or "Lying is stealing," or
Virtue i. its own reward," but even
lhcne little reminders have mostly dis
appeared. The old theory was that
the moral training of the child de
volved upon the home rather than
upon the school, but present condi
tions indicate that In many cases the
home is not performing this function
well. If at all. This Is the sad lesson
of the juvenile courts and detention
homes, the stagnation of the Sabbath
schools and .the increase of truancy.
Unfortunately, Just liow the prob
lem is to be solved is not quite clear.
Should the renponsibj!lrty of the home
be again emphasized' and enforced, or
should the schools take over the en
tire moral training of the child? Or
should the field be divided definitely
betv.een them? If the Investigation
proposed by the National Education
association will Illumine the subject
and answer these questions by out
lining some satisfactory remedy for
this defect in our educational system,
growing constantly more flagrant, it
will prove of Immense value for all
future time.
rniZKKsniP s Ay asset.
American citizens of foreign birth
are furnishing the naturalization
bureau at Washington with additional
evidence of the value of citizenship in
this country by filing protests against
that part of the new law that pre
sumes citizenship to have lapsed after
two years of residence In the mother
country. The protests prove the ex
cellence of the measure, which was
adopted by congress at the request of
the State department officials, who
have had no end of trouble in the past
trying to protect, as American citizens,
foreigners who had taken out natural
ization papers in this country and then
returned to 'their native land to reside.
A striking illustration was furnished
in the case of Ion Perdlcaris, captured
by Raisuli, the Morocco bandit, In
1904. Perdicarls, a Greek by birth,
had lived in America and secured natu
ralization papers. He then returned
o Europe and engaged In business at
Algiers, where he was captured. He
had not been in America for twenty
years, had no property or Interests
here and did not discover his wonder-
ul allegiance to the land until he was
n the hands of the bandit. Then he
appealed to our State department and
aused an international wrangle before
he was released.
Reports from other countries show
hat the practice of trading in Amer
ican citizenship has grown too com
mon. Foreigners, with American clt-
zenshlp papers, return to their homes,
evade military duty, avoid jury service
and hold themselves exempt from
many obllcations and taxes that must
be born by their fellow citizens. They
do this as American citizens, although,
for the most part, they have no Idea
of ever returning to this country or
.sing their citizenship except for the
exemptions it may secure them in their
old homes. Under the new law these
persons will have to choose between
one country or the other and realize
that American citizenship 1b something
more than a convenience.
GtRoyiMU'S FALL FtiOM BRACK.
Nothing but the warpath will suit
Geronimo and it really seems a pity
that the old terror should not be al
lowed to end his Inglorious career by
dying with his boots on, as he desires
He has tried everything else, without
finding conteptment or comfort or be-
lng able to suppress his longing to
respond to the call of the wild. He
has been in captivity for twenty-one
years and every effort has been made
by the authorities to cultivate in him
a taste for civilization, but he is still
a "bad Injun," with riotous blood in
his heart.
In his last cumpaign! in '1886
Geronimo put up a fight that would
have won undying glory for any band
of white men. He and his warriors
had risen In rebellion and the United
States army sent General Miles and
Captain Henry W. Lawton to capture
him. The old Apache led the troops
a terrible chase across river, through
plalnB and over mountains, the pursuit
extending over 3,000 miles, and finally
ending In surrender, with twenty-two
men and fourteen squaws, to an arm
of 3,000 trained men. Since then h
has been a problem for the army au
thorlties.
The old man has not profited by ex
perlence. A hen the news came the
other day that some of the remnants o
the once proud Apaches were lh
trouble in Arizona, Geronimo brok
parole and started to Join them. Th
bltternetuj of hi heart against th
white man Is still unquenchable. He
has made some bluffs at trying to be a
good Indian. He Joined the church,
the one to which President Roosevelt
belongs, and promptly applied for a
pardon. This was refused and Oeron
Imo Immediately became a backslider
and tried to drink up all the whisky
In the neighborhood, declared open
hostility to all preachers and gave
every possible demonstration of the
fact that his conversion was only skin
deep. He tried matrimony right times
and scored a brilliant failure with
each effort. He has been allowed to
attend "expositions, as a money-making
attraction, and has promptly spent his
earnings in riotous living. Perhaps
he has been honest In his efforts to
reform, but soldiers and officials who
know him well refuse to believe It. The
spirit of his ancestors Is strong in him
and there is no hope that he will ever
be any better than ho Is until his im
placable hatred is lost on his trip to
the happyunting grounds.
MAHR TfTAIS'S DEGREE.
Those English folks have utterly
refuted the long standing charge that
their sense of humor always travels
on a belated train. Americans have
been having a deal of quiet fun in
reading the accounts of Mark Twain's
exploits abroad, incident to his visit
to Oxford, where he received a degree
as doctor of literature, and have been
wondering whether the English
brethren who are supposed to be a lit
tle slow in the uptake so far as humor
oes, have really appreciated all of
the klllingly funny things Mark has
been telling them. There Is some
evidence that they have not. For In
stance, the London Tribune's report
of Twain's speech at the Pilgrim's
uncheon shows that every good point
he made was carefully eliminated
from the published synopsis. The
Times, on the other hand, printed the
speech verbatim and sprinkled the
'applause" and "laughter" notations
liberally, without once hinting a point
that would appeal to American read
ers or hearers as funny. Perhaps all
that was due to the English editor's
failure to appreciate Twain's jokes.
Then It may have been because of a
keen appreciation of them. The Eng
lish may have thought It a joke on
Twain to conceal his Jokes. Who
knows?
But there is no question of the. Eng
lish sense of humor having been work-
ng right up to the top notch at Ox
ford, when Twain received his degree.
After he had been supplied with a
scarlet robe, above which his flowing
gray hair shone like a chrysanthemum
in a scarlet Jardiniere, Lord Curzon
of Kedleston, chancellor of Oxford,
advanced upon him, looking him
squarely in the eye and said:
Vir Jocundlsslme, lepillisslme, facetlosls-
slme, qui totlus orbls torrarum lutera na-
tlva tua hllarltate concutls, ego, auctorl
tate mea et totlus unlversitatls, admitto te
ad gradum doctorls In Uteris honoris causa.
Twain has been a roustabout and a
steamboat pilot. He served as a re
porter In Nevada in the pioneer days.
He has mixed up with politicians,
bookmakers (of all kinds) and has
spent sonio effort as a lobbyist at
Washington. He has lived among
cowboys, miners, printers, army and
navy officials and has attended social
functions at Newport and Pittsburg.
He has a speaking acquaintance with
Missouri mule drivers and is known
to have taken luncheon with Admiral
Evans, but It is doubtful whether he
had ever heard any language like that
before and Lord Curzon didn't even
smile when he said it. If the English
do not understand Mark Twain they
are at no disadvantage. Under the
circumstances there was nothing for
him to do but imitate the example of
his "The Jumping Frog" and "shrug
his shoulders like a Frenchman."
HOGS VERSUS HUS1AXS.
Dr. W. A. Evans, the health com
niisgioner of Chicago, remarked the
other day, In the course of an Inter
view:
I'd rather be a hog than (man. Thit
Is, If I had to be born again and had my
own way about It.
Of course, Dr. Evans did not give
utterance to that remark in order to be
sensational, but he realized that in
this busy day it was necessary for him
to do something startling In order to
dynamite , public opinion, as it were.
and rivet the attention of the audience
He went on to say that he had Just
completed a careful personal Inspection
of the work of the bacteriologists In
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington and had come away pained
to learn that so much care is being de
voted to the health of the American
hog, while so little is being paid to the
health of mere man. Continuing his
Interview, he said:
Hundreds of bacteriologists labor every
day, and all day, to find means of pro
venting disease In hogs. Do anythrng for
man? This much. The government spends
more in one year for the bacteriology of
hogs than for the bacteriology of man In
twenty-five years. This Is because th?
farmers of the country always are de
manding that something be done for hogs
and cuttle.
Like most enthusiasts. Dr. Evans
has allowed his convictions to run
away with him, and has exaggerated
the importance of things under his
personal observation. Much highly
valuable work Is being done by the
government for. the Improvement of
hogs and other food antmals, but the
Chicago health commissioner Is de
ceived if he thinks the work is being
done for the benefit of the hog. The
experiments made by the authorities
In improving the health of the hog are
1I inspired by the desire to furnish
man with fiure. healthful food. Of
course, the hog and Its owner benefit
I by the operation, but the benefit la
incidental, and not by any manner of
means the motive behind the Investiga
tions. Dri Evans will learn, too, if he take
the trouble to make even casual In
quiry, that at no other time In the
history of the world has so much
money and time been expended in
study for the "benefit of man. Richly
endowed colleges in all parts of the
world are commanding the services of
the most eminent students and special
ists In seeking the cause and cure of
diseases that afflict mankind, from the
cradle to the grave, with highly satis
factory results. Many diseases that
were formerly looked upon as Incurable
have yielded to the advance of medical
science and have been robbed of their
terrors. Yellow fever has been prac
tically banished from the country,
while smallpox? diphtheria and other
virulent diseases that were once con
sidered almost certainly fatal now
create no more consternation than
measles or mumps.
The work of scientific research is In
Its infancy and progress is reported
dally. Dr. Evans may continue to re
gret, If he wishes, that he was not born
a hog, but he will find himself in a
hopeless minority.
BIG1I8 Of A SAVER FOCR-fa.
It Is gratifying to note many signs
of saner celebration of the glorious
Fourth, which threatened, unless
checked, to become disastrous to life
and property. Compilations of casu
alties may differ In footings and in
minor details, but they all tell prac
tically the same story. One compila
tion made up by an enterprising and
painstaking newspaper on the morn
ing after gave the list of reported dead
up to that time as thirty for 1907, as
against thirty-three for 1906; the in
jured at 1,468 for 1907 as against
2,789 for 1906; the estimated fire loss
at $95,206 In 1907 as against $66,450
in 1906.
Taken altogether, the casualty fig
ures for the Fourth Just passed are
smaller than for several years since
the statistics have been collected. This
decrease denoting improvement In the
method of celebrating the Fourth Is
still more marked when subjected to
critical analysis. The population of
the United States Is steadily Increas
ing and the normal tendency would be
for the Fourth of July fatalities to In
crease at a Btlll more rapid rate. Then,
again, we must remember that the fa
cilities for securing prompt reports of
accidents, even in the most remote
hamlet of the country, are becoming
better every day, while the zeal of the
newspapers that make a specialty of
chronicling these events is being whet-
led by competition, so that no Impor
tant accident, and few of trivial char
acter, now escape public notice,
whereas formerly many serious catas
trophes were entirely overlooked.
We do not believe that It Is claim
ing too much to say that the large part
of the credit for saner Fourth of July
celebrations properly belongs to the
press. The newspapers from one end
of the country to another have taken
up the agitation and hammered It
down upon everyone intelligent enough
to read. Precautionary ordinances
and restrictive regulations on the sale
of fireworks have been the outcome of
newspaper agitation and would not
last from one Fourth of July to the
next were It not for steadfast vigilance
of the newspaper monitor against the
encroachments of dealers in explosives
and firearms who profit by murderous
pastimes. The glorious Fourth of
July will, in all probability, always be
followed by lists of dead and Injured
the next morning, but the reckless pa
triotism that was on the point of play
ing unlimited havoc seems to have
been stopped within certain bounds.
The dedication today of the Schiller
monument, erected in Rlvervlew park
as a gift of our citizens of German
ancestry, Is of more than ordinary
significance and more than a personal
tribute to the great German poet. If
there is one thing above all others in
which western titles like Omaha are
behind those of Europe and of the east,
It Is in the monumental and orna
mental embellishment of their parks
and public places. The education and
culture value of statues In commemo
ration of great men or great deeds Is
not to be underestimated and the ex
ample set In this contribution for mak
ing Omaha more beautiful should be
far reaching. It should not be long
before the beautiful bust of Schiller In
Rlvervlew park finds Illustrious com
pany not only there, but in our city
parks as well.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner declares that
"the presidential nomination ought
not to be regarded as a compliment to
be handed to some one because he
would be pleased to have It," but, on
the contrary, should be selected "be
cause the rank and file of the party
want him nominated," and that the
questions which ought to control this
election are: "First. What will the
party stand for? Second, Who can
best represent these principles In the
campaign?" The reder is thought
fully left to his own imagination to
picture the man whose personality
answers these two questions best.
T "
Human nature is queer In Virginia.
Although the male population almost
unanimously applauded the verdict of
the Jury that acquitted Judge Loving
for the murder of the alleged assailant
of his daughter, the women of the
county are raUlng money to build a
monument to the victim.
The Japan Advertiser of Yokohama
advises the adoption by the Japanese
of the Engliaa language as a ubitl-
tute for their own. In view of all the
fool things being said about the Japa
nese Just now, it is rmbnbly Just as
well they do not as a rule understand
English.
The two Judge Mungers have taken
under advisement the motion to re
mand to the i.tate courts) the suit
brought to compel the Nehrnska rail
toads to obey the rate reduction laws.
Suppose there should be a deadlock.
Now that President Wood row Wil
son of Princeton has recorded himself
in favor of jailing law-defying trust
magnates, Harper's Weekly is finding
new democratic presidential possibili
ties with every Issue.
Governor Hughes of New York says
he will not take second place on the
republican presidential ticket next
year. Mr. Roosevelt, then governor
of New York, said the same thing in
1900.
The opinions of those editors in Ber
lin and Paris that Japan would win in
a naval war with the United States re
minds us that they placed odds on
Spain in 1898 and on Russia two years
ago.
Omaha's t'pllft.
Kt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Omaha has planned eight more parka,
four playgrounds and a connecting boule
vard. News like this from a town shows
that It is wide-awake and In a generally
hopeful condition.
IVh.nt Versus Wind.
Kansas City Journal.
Nebraska's 3,00n.O0O-bushcl wheat crop
doesn't get as much space In the news
papers as Colonel Bryan's political ha
rangues, hut It Is worthsvastly more to
Nebraska and to the wld.
Mollycoddles ,,t VV noted.
Washington Herald.
A democratic leader says the party of
his affiliation must be "neither too radtcnl
nor too conservative" next year. If that
means the same thing as the late lamented
"safe and sane" Idea, we fear the said
leader Is not destined to muster any great
number of followers.
A "Hole" Lot In This.
Saturday Evening Post.
The various resignations of Wallace,
Shonts and Stevens from the work of the
Panama canal were discussed with much
fervor on the Isthmus. Many reasons have
been assigned, but It Is the unanimous opin
ion that the clerk solved the problem who
wrote: "Great minds run from the same
channel!"
Nerloua mid Sincere.
Springfield Republican.
Mark Twain has been Herioua for a mo
ment. A reporter called on him at his
hotel in London for word on the report that
the humorist was to marry again. Mark
went to his desk and after silent thought
wrote out the following: "I have not known
and shall never know anyone who could
fill the place of the wife I have lost. I
shall not marry again." That little state
ment exacts a new tribute of affection. Xroin
us aU. '
Question of the Hoar.
Baltimore American.
"Is It hot enough for you?" Is a very
natural question and a graceful way of
opening the conversation. It may be fol
lowed up by reminiscences of previous sum
mers. If you are one of the oldest Inhabi
tants, going away back Into the 80s, The
people who object to the question say that
they do so on the grounds that If It was
not mentioned they would not think of the
discomfort of the high temperature, but
these persons generally belong to the An
anias club.
SEllMO.VS BOILED DOWX.
Blowers are poor builders.
Killing hope Is moral suicide.
Sow happiness and reap heaven.
Kvery man Is made up of many men.
Men are not uplifted without the lever
of love.
,Tou can never find rest by retreating
from duty.
Everty time you serve a superstition you
enslave your soul.
Too many of us are blaming fate for the
fruitage of our fears.
The door of opportunity Is not much use
to the man who Is asleep.
The child of heaven always sees some
thing of heaven In the child.
Many people who pray for barrels of
blessing set out only teacups.
It's hard for the pulpit to see truth when
It fixes it's eyes on the treasury.
It takea more than ability to knock the
church to open the doors of paradise.
Some folks think they are pious because
the sight o pain gives them pleasure.
There never yet was a sermon that could
have any force on a head full of fashion.
Some folks feel they are building on
rock because their hearts are hard as flint.
The burdens of earth demand that our
hearts be nourished with the bread of
heaven. ,
The spirit of brotherhood never needs to
hire billboards to have it's good deeds made
known.
There are too many people hungry for
love for any one ever to talk of Buffering
from loneliness.
Some men think that the ladder to heaven
has but three rungs, called wages, salary
and Income. Chicago Tribune.
SECl'LAR SHOTS AT TH K PI'I.PIT
Boston Transcript: Dr. Aked renounce
his allegiance to King Edward. Mean
while what of his allegiance to King John?
Philadelphia Ledger: Bishop Turner's
plan for negroes to emigrate to Africa
would receive some support if he would
agree to head the first outgoing delegation
and start unprovided with a return ticket
Baltimore American: A Washington
minister has come forward with the start
ling announcement that hell Is in the sun-
Perhaps this Is a ministerial method of
swearing at the torrid weather to which
Old Sol has been treating us.
Chicago News: That earnest St. Joe
minister who. objects to the Teddy bear
does not understand the situation. It Is not
half so much work for a tired mother to
turn over a toy animal to her child aa It
was for her to alt up nights dressing a
new doll.
Chlcsgo Record-Herald: A Massachusetts
evangelist says that he and his family have
for years depended wholly on prayer for
their food and clothing. An evangelist and
his family may now and then be able to
get along that way, hut for the nuies'S
steady jobs are more effective.
Washington Post: Candidates for the
ministry continue to be In great request
As the annual church conventions, one
after another, are held the fact that began
to be seriously menacing ten years ago
Is becoming more and more manifest and
serious. The religious press and the pulpit
are discussing the question with Increasing
gravity. It is said to he a fait, demon
strated by reliable statistics, that whereas
fifty years ago more than 29 per cent of
the oollege men sought the pulpit, today
not more than 6 per cent of them look
Jo ward, tha ministry, aa a life work
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They have been increasing in value at the
rate of 30 per annum. Who could wish
for a better investment. BUY TODAY.
Tomorrow may see another increase.
A Dollar or Two a Week Will Do
Gmi Mm
A man without good alms is of little
value to himself and less to the world at
large.
A piano store without good aims is
a place to avoid.
To get as much money out of a cus
tomer as possible without a fair return
Is not a good aim.
And yet it is the aim of many stores.
The HOSPE store believes that it is bet
ter to lose a sale than to misrepresent
even In the slightest particular.
Our aim Is to give satisfaction by fair,
honest trading, to be as careful of the cus
tomer's Interest as our own, to keep In
mind that success without honesty is suc
cess not worth having, to conduct our
business strictly on a business-like plan.
A. MOSFE CO.
We do expert piano tuning and repairing. 1513 dovglas street
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIK.
'She did a very foolish thing when she
married."
"Why, he was rich, wasn t ne:
"Yes he was the foolish thing." Cleve
land Leader.
I see Phoebe Cousins has a scheme for
the aovernment to confiscate the fortunes
of American girls who marry titles.-
"What'd be the use? The men with the
titles attend to that." Philadelphia Uedger.
"Didn't vou tell me the other day that
Mrs. Schreecher had loBt her voice?''
"Yes. Hasn t she?
hv several octaves. I heard her
using it on her busband this morning. Sue
still has It. and it's worse than ever. '
Chicago Tribune.
"Tour discovery of America has proved
a great disappointment to you, has it not?''
said the sympathizing friend.
"Yes," answered Columbus. "Owing to
the fact that the typewriter and the maga
zine have not yet been Invented 1 have
)n unable to make anything out of it
worth mentioning." Washington Btar.
There are two periods In a man'n life
when he Is unable to understand woman.
One Is before marriage and the other after.
Harpers Weekly.
"Dear me, John, this Is dreadful with hot
weather on us and no money to ko any
where. Haven't you any country relations
you can scare up?"
"That's the trouble. I've scared all I ve
got already." Baltimore American.
"How did ho become an Inventor?"
"By making excuses to his wife when he
came home late." Cleveland Plain Dealer,
"Well," remarked Nupop, In rather a loud
tone of voice, "It's pleasant to think that
we can remain comfortably at home this
evening"
"Why, George," began Mrs. Nupop, "you
know we've got tickets for the"
" 'Bh! Can't you see the baby's listening?
I said that for his benefit," Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
"Mildred, dear." said the happy youth,
who had Just been accepted. "I can scarcely
believe It's true: What In the world did
you ever see In me?"
"Nothing. Gerald," she answered toying
emi-Annual
CLEARING SALE!
1 ROM now on with the advance of the season
with no apologies to a late spring we
want to dispose of all our Spring and
ried over if good goods' and unusual values will serve
to close them out.
The quality is not to be lost sight of in buying our
clothing at reduced prices.
Children's Wash Suits at 25 per cent discount.
REMEMBER WE CLOSE SATURDAY EVEN
INGS AT 9 O'CLOCK DURING JULY AND AU
GUST. PURCHASE EARLY.
Browning, ICing 81 Co
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
it
in...
...Plait Selling
giving eaoh customer the cordiul. courte
ous consideration thut la his due no mat
ter who or what he Is.
This la the reason why our piano, are)
all marked with the lowcBt price, a prlca
that does not slide nnd Is the same to onsj
and all alike. This Is the reason, too, why
we pay no commissions to people who
bring or send customers to our store.
Do you know any other store conducted,
on such a fair, square plan?
TO YOUR ADVANTAGE to trade with)
us, because our stock Is composed of th n
lest pianos and Is many times the largest,
Kvery piano marked In plain figures, tha,
very lowest.
If you cannot come, write for Catalogue
and prices.
with a button of his coat. "I think It wa
your magnificent possibilities that attracted,
me." Chicago Tribune.
TUB BATTLEFIELD. , I
Baltimore Sun.
A mother's heart Is a battlcllold.
A mother's heart is a nel
Where love leans down with snowy shield
And lips that sing to rest.
A mother', heart is the plain where meet
Through all her d:iys of life
The legions of the childhood feet.
The glittering ghosts of strife.
A mother's heart Is a field of war
Where none may know, may see.
The wounds that bleed, the guns that roar,
The anguished hours that be.
A mother's heart is battle s home,
But, oh, o few have knelt
With her where shadows till the gluam,
Have felt what she has felt!
A mother's heart Is warfare's realm,
In It, unseen of time,
Rae the grim wars that overwhelm
But for her faith sublime.
A mother's heart is where she hides
So much she never tells.
So much that In her soul abides
Anil conquering lovcliood quells.
A mother's heart oh, uttered place.
Oil. tempted fnne, how fair
To kneel Ik-sMc Its shrine of grace,
To kneel and worship there.
A mother's heart Is calm retreat,
la rest and love and song,
And round It, oh. how tender-sweet
The shades of memory throng!
A mother's heart has seen so much,
Has felt and borne and known
The rug aed blow, the tender touch.
Within Its wardering zone;
Has borne so much for thotse that lean
I'poii its help and trust. ,
Has done so much to keep them clean.
To lift them from the dust!
A mother's heart Is a battlefield
Where sacred strife lias been.
Where spear on spear and shield on shield
Hath raeed the battle's din!
Oh holy shrine, Invtolete spot.
Where love and memory come
When all the rest of life's forgot.
When all the rest la dumb.
Snmmer Clothing. This includes every
thing in Men's, Boys' and Children's
light weight clothing.
Starting Monday we will offer all our
light weight clothing at a reduction of
20 rer cent, so that nothing will be car
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