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STATEMENT OF CIRCrLATTOI.
State of Nebraska. Douglas county, es:
Charles C. Rwsewat.-r general manager
of The Ree Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says hat the actual number
of full and complete conies of Tha Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Baa prtntad
during the month ot Juna, UW7, wu aa
follows:
1 36,830 17 98.480
S 35,600 IS 38,490
1 86,630 1 86,480
4 B6.690 20 88,310
s M,4io tt M.aao
38,810 it 36.610
7 88,830 23 85,780
8 88,800 24 88,300
t 88,800 15 88,880
10 38,860 26 38,550
11 38,930 27 36,570
12 36,830 28 36,470
IS 36,640 2D 36,860
14 36,930 SO 85,950
1.5 37,170
1 85.800 Total. . .1,094,320
l.esa unsold ami raturned copies.. 10,389
Net total 1,083,831
Dally average 36,137
CUVkLa.8 r ROf EWATER,
Geaeral Manager.
Subscribed in my presence ana sworn to
before me this 1st day of July, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNOATB,
Notary Public.
W1IKN OUT OS" TOWlt.
Sabarrlbers lravlag- tke city teaa.
porarlly akonld hava Tha Baa
mailed to then. Address will ba
Germany reports a mild mid-July
now storm. The report will excite
envy rather than sympathy.
The Immigration record has again
been broken. The Immigration record
is as fragile as a good resolution.
The theatrical merger is not a vio
lation df the federal anti-trust laws.
It tan prove that It Is only a play
trust t
The accident on the battleship
Georgia is tempting people to remem
ber the Maine. Just when they ought to
forget It
"Has the republican party seen a
vision?" asks Judge Parker. PobsI
bly, but some of its leaders refuse to
see re-vlslon.
That Chicago physician who advises
children to eat green fruit Is at least
frank about admitting how dull busi
ness la with him.
Eleven carloads of dried prunes are
on the way from California to Boston.
That is one shipment no one will try
to sidetrack in transit.
"Are the salaries of public officials
too large?" asks the Philadelphia
Record. No. But the public officials
are too frequently too small.
"Too many farmers do not live on
their farms," says a Richmond paper.
Some wetern farmers, at least, can
afford to lire off their farms.
Senator Piatt admits that his power
Is slipping from him and that he bag
outlived his usefulness. Senator
Piatt Is the Corea of America.
The Wall street suggestion that the
dollar mark be removed from stock
certificates looks like a scheme to put
up new bait for the easy mark.
'Tractlce in rtfla shooting develops
steadiness and Judgment under excite
ment," says President Roosevelt It
also develops work for the coroner.
The courts are accommodating out
San Francisco way. Mayor Schmlt
paid he wanted another term and
Judge Dunne gave him a five-year one.
New York managers are promising
a season of "advanced vaudeville."
The "advance" will probably be more
noticeable at the box office than on the
stage.
Richard Croker has refused a nomi
nation for Parliament. In former
days Croker always was content to
control the officials. Instead of holding
office himself.
The next task before the advocates
of Governor Hughes as a presidential
possibility Is to musila the editor of
Harper's Weekly before his over-ardent
teal produces a ftareback.
Nebraska democrats, without dis
loyalty to the peerless leader, Jiav an
Idea that Governor Johnson of Minne
sota Is the only democrat suggested
who would stand a chance of carrying
Ffielps county.
Colonel Bryan's Commoner prints
the substance of an address delivered
by its editor at various college com
mencements on tie subject of "Faith."
This la on place where Mr. Bryan
will be universally credited wltb. yrac
Uclng what ha preacha.
A'J .VoflE GOVERNMENT DIRECTORS.
Through a series of declaratory res
olutions propentod by Bourke Cockran
and formally adopted by the general
coniinitteo of Tammany hall, It Is seri
ously proned to solve the question
of lawless trusts and law-defying rail
roads by requiring; them to be gov
erned by boards of directors on which
the government shall have representa
tion. The PiiKKe-stion has not met
with any response of applauding ap
proval and in the light of experience
already had along this line the people
are not likely to welcome It as the
long -sought remedy.
People hereabouts and In all the
states along the line of the Union Pa
cific easily remember back to the time
when the government was represented
on the board of that road by directors
appointed by the president of the
1,'nited States. No one, however, can
recall a single noteworthy instance in
which the government directors ac
complished anything whatever for the
reform of abuses within the corpora
tion or for relief of the people without.
Government directorships of the
Union Pacific served for years as soft
berths for several eminent gentlemen
who were wined and dined at direc
tors' meetings, took annual Inspection
excursions over the road In handsome
private cars and enjoyed free passes
for themselves, their families and their
dependents on all the railroads of the
country. One distinguished director
served the government so faithfully
on the board for six years that when
bis term expired he was retained by
the masters of high finance then In
control to reprepent them as a real di
rector for six or seven years longer.
But no difference was visible in the
character of the service rendered be
fore or after. At no time from the
beginning up to the receivership did
the managers of the road ever fail to
get the consent of the government di
rectors to any scheme , they really
wanted to put through.
Resumption of the system of gov
ernment directorships in our railroads
and giant corporations would promise
no better results than were achieved
by the experiment with the Union Pa
cific. A government director In every
national bank would be no more sensi
ble and just as ineffective. The way
to regulate the railroads and other
oppressive corporations Is to enforce
the existing laws, and if they do not
suffice, to strengthen them and supple
ment them by legislation covering
phases of the situation not yet dealt
with.
DIPLOMATS AND SOCIAL DUTIES.
Times have changed since rare old
Ben Franklin, as United States am
bassador to European courts, gave the
diplomatic corps of the world Its first
lesson, in American "shirt-sleeved
diplomacy." The record indicates that
Franklin had an old-fashioned notion
that he was In Europe solely on diplo
matic business, and he attended to It
without frills or flurry. He lived
modestly, saved something of hla
meager Balary and served his country
with signal success. His record Is
totable, by contrast with the stories
now coming from European capitals
of the troubles besetting ' American
diplomats In a social way. Here Is
an excerpt from a recent Issue of the
London Express:
Those who have secured cards for the
ambassador's Independence day "at home"
may feel sura of being entortalned with
almost royal magnificence. Like all his
entertainments, it will ba In striking con
trast to the extreme simplicity of the
official functlona given by previous Amer
ican diplomats In London.
The grateful thanks of all Americana are
due to Mr. Held for having raised the
embassy to Its present eminence at great
personal expense. The list of brilliant
entertainments given at Dorchester house
since his accession Is unprecedented. The
house Itself la one of the most magnificent
private residence In I.ondon, and yet the
rental paid by Mr. Reld, 5,000 guineas ($26,
2R0). Is a mere trifle compared with his
total expenditure. Ills salary of 1,500 a
year ($17,5Kn hardly paya for the floral dec
orations tor his state dinner parties. His
retinue of well-trained servants Is the envy
of mora than ona American multl-mllllon-alra
who has been Mr. Reid's guest. The
household Itself la managed on almost
royal lines.
A different story comes from Paris,
where Ambassador Henry White had
to rent a mansion in which to hold a
reception on July 4. Mr. White Is
a poor man and the expense took a
$4,000 slice out of his salary. Mr.
White complains that he ran find no
house In Paris which he can afford
to rent In keeping with the social lugs
he hag to wear as American repre
sentative at the French capital. On
top of this comes another tale from
Belgium that the American minister
at Brussels cannot get into the Ameri
can legation there on account of the
low ceilings while wearing his high
hat. Of course, that can be remedied
by cither sending a shorter man to
Belgium or providing the present min
ister with a crush hat, but the situa
tion at Paris and London presents
greater complications.
A feeling exists in the country,
proper or not, that American diplo
mat are not requlied or expected to
ape the manners of the fashionable
at European courts, although some
rather liberal compliance with customs
is essential everywhere. The ambas
sador to England or to France who
would attempt Franklin's style ot sim
plicity would probably have difficulty
in getting more than a backstairs ac
quaintance with the European diplo
mats and the American fit to represent
his country at a European capital
would probably refuse the position
under conditions making such humili
ation necessary. At the same time.
Ambassador Reid has apparently over-
ldon the social game by carrying
everything on stirh a grand scale as to
strengthen the Impression that none
but rich men may hope to serve In
the American diplomatic, corps. He
has established a precedent sure to
make It hard sledding for his suc
cessor. A compromise between
Franklin simplicity and Reld extrava
gance would appear to fill a long-felt
want in America's diplomatic repre
sentation at European rourts.
HINDSIGHT VERSUS FORESIGHT
Initial attempts to put Into opera
tion the child labor law, which was
railroaded through the legislature
under stress of a few hysterical men
and women, go to vindicate the warn
ings given by The Bee and its editor
at that time, when the bill then pend
ing was pronounced altogether too
drastic.
Up to this time the officers charged
with the duty of preventing child labor
within the prohibitions of the law have
been busy chiefly seeking means of
escape from its literal enforcement.
They have discovered at the cost of sad
experience on the part of displaced
wage-earners that there are many
worse things besetting the boys and
girls than wholesome employment in
store or office. The Nebraska child
labor law, according to its terms,
leaves no discretion anywhere, but
draws a sharp line upon an arbitrary
age limit. Its stringent penalties upon
employers leaves them no choice even
where the law officers might be will
ing to stretch a point, the consequence
being that the principal sufferers are
from the class of children for whose
benefit and relief the law was urged.
The Nebraska child labor law will
either have to be revised and revamped
the next time the law-makers get to
gether or many parts of it will become
a dead letter as dead as the no-treat
law.
BETTER TEACHISG OF HIST0R1'.
Educators and students of events
will commend heartily the address of
President Schaeffer to the National
Educational association when in ses
sion at Los Angeles, on the imperative
need of a better teaching of history
ia our public schools. President
Schaeffer took his text from the work
of the peace conference at The Hague
and contended that there could be no
universal peace between nations until
the people had been educated to abhor
war and appreciate its dire results on
the nations engaged in it He con
tended that in teaching history too
much stress is laid on the military
achievements of 'the different nations,
the effect being to glorify the fighter
and inspire young people with a desire
to emulate bis achievements.
The 80undnes4 of this contention
cannot be successfully questloued, but
the fault ia as much with the writing
of history aa with the teaching of it.
The school histories used are almost
entirely devoted to military narratives.
Most of the history of the world, espe
cially as prepared for use in the com
mon schools, is a recital of military
conflicts, from Thermopylae to San
Juan, and the average pupil learns
little of a nation's life except as viewed
from the standpoint of the battlefield.
True, the life of most nations has
been shaped and influenced very ma
terially by results on the battlefield,
but the history text books most gen
erally used place much emphasis on
the military achievements and too
little attention to the causes of the
wars, too little to the "horrors of them,
the expense and burdens placed on the
people. Green's "History of the Eng
lish People" is almost the only work
used in the common and high schools
that gives more space to the accom
plishments of reace than to the vic
tories and defeats of war. A history
of the United States, with the military
achievements minimized and due at
tention paid to the nation's progress in
arts, science and industry, might not
be as thrilling as the books now in
use, but would have a better influence
upon the education of American youth.
President Schaeffer's suggestion de
serves more serious consideration than
It is apt to receive.
REARDS AS AX INVESTMENT.
The keeper of the golf links at the
St. Louis Country club has furnished
another illustration of the commercial
spirit of the age by embarking in the
business of raising whiskers for profit,
Just as a lot of his neighbors raise
spinach, .cauliflower and other garden
truck. Heretofore the beard has been
cultivated from vanity, for artistic ef
fect, as a means of disguise or for
other reasons satisfactory to the owner
of the hirsute adornment, but it re
mained for a twentieth century genius
to put beards on a commercial basis.
Many men have achieved distinction
iu the whisker line, but for different
reasons. The "beard of the prophet"
Is the form of a vow among Mahomet's
faithful and In the olden days the
flowing whisker was the mark of the
patriarch and commanded respect and
reverence. In Inter days statesmen
like J. Ham Lewis have grown luxuri
ant rasbuttans as marks of distinction,
in the absence of others, and young
physicians, desiring to look wiser,
have assiduously cultivated the Van
Dyke. It has been a fad, too, for
bald-headed men to raise prolific
whiskers, just to show that they can.
In the populist days whiskers became
common, chiefly because it was cheaper
to raise whiskers than it was to raise
the price of a shave.
It appears the golf links keeper,
whose name is Fritz, discovered that
he could turn out a crop of golden
bued whisker. . reaching to his belt
line, that fuund a ready, market at f 8
per crop with a St L-ntils wig maker.
With proverbial St Louis thrift. Frits
figured out that he could at the same
time save $50 a year in his shaving
bill, a total of $158 every three years
three years being the time required to
bring the beard crop up to the $8
value and $1SS will take you a long
way on the street cars In St. Iouia.
Added to this, of course. Is the sav
ings In necktks and the time con
sumed in the barber's chair.
This authenticated case also em
phasizes the truth of the charge made
by foreigners that Americans are the)
most extravagant people on earth and
fail to take Advantage of their oppor
tunities. Here is evidently the only
man In the nation taking advantage
of the whisker market. If each of
the 30,000,000 men of whisker age in
the nation should follow his example
the American whisker crop, at present
quotations, would be worth $2 40,000,
000 for three years, or $80,000,000 a
year. In nn emergency $80,000,000
a year would go far in keeping the
wolf from the door. The whisker
problem contains morp than barbers
dream of In their philosophy.
WHEN RA U.ROADS MO OVT OF POLITICS.
The declaration of President
Winchell of the Rock Island that his
read is going out of politics has been
followed up with the assertion by
President Hughltt of the Northwestern
that his road has been in politics only
for self-protection, and a statement
from President Harris of the Burling
ton that his road has never been in
politics at nil.
To use a good slang expression of
Ihe street, "This is to laugh." Every
one of these railroads has been In pol
itics from time Immemorial, although
with the railroad bosses it has not
been a question as between one polit
ical party or another, but of manipu
lating and controlling all political par
ties. There has not been a political
convention of one of the big parties.
or a session of the legislature of any
states within the sphere of influence
of these roads, respectively, at which
they have not been represented both
Inside and out.
The money belonging to these roads
which has been spent as a political
slush fund before elections and as
bribery and corruption funds after
elections would pay a good, big divi
dend on all their watered stock. The
idea of one or all of them voluntarily
retiring from politics at this stage of
the game belongs to the current hu
mor of the day.
When the railroads go out of pol
itics it will be because they are driven
out and forced to realize that they
have more to gain by keeping out than
by staying in.
The Railway Age prints an Illus
trated article describing "an Invalid
and family compartment car," Just in
stalled on the London & Northwestern
railway of England. An invalid car
is one of the long-felt wants demanded
by American railway travelers, espe
cially for transcontinental passenger
traffic. Such a sanitarium car, fitted
up with all the modern conveniences
for the comfort of afflicted travelers,
would not only be a boon to its occu
pants, but would also be welcomed by
the occupants of other cars thus re
lieved of the annoyance of and ex
posure to unfortunate invalid com
panions. If an English railroad can
provide special compartment cars for
Invalids, American railroads can surely
be equally enterprising.
Statistics of the Terminal Railroad
association of St. Louis for the fiscal
year ended June 30 show the freight
movement at St. Louis to have been
the heaviest in its history, 2,838,731
cars being interchanged, or an increase
of 141,115 cars over the preceding
year. In the first six months of the
calendar year 1,411,823 cars were
interchanged, being a net Increase of
44,922 cars over the corresponding
period of the preceding year. And yet
the railroads of Missouri are in court,
alleging that the rate reduction legis
lation signed by Governor Folk Is con
fiscatory and would drive them into
bankruptqy.
Simultaneous efforts on the part of
newspapers in different parts of the
country usually hostile to organized
labor to impress the public that the
Haywood trial out in Idaho has been
"eminently fair," notwithstanding the
earlier apprehension that an unpreju
diced court and jury could not be had,
must be iutended to forestall and
counteract a possible outcry In case of
a verdict of conviction. Should the
Jury disagree or acquit the defendant
the chances are that these papers will
suddenly cease harping on "the emin
ent fairness" of the trial. In a case
like this it is a safe plan not to pass
judgment until the Jury Is discharged.
The allied telegraph companies have
apparently headed off a strike for
higher wages by the operators. They
were previously successful in heading
off patrons from making a strike
against higher charges. After con
gratulating each other on these twin
victories, the Western Union and the
Postal will buckle down to another
feather-duster bout at competition.
New York has undertaken improve
ments, including tunnels, railway ter
minals and new water supply, that call
for ah expenditure of $625,000,000.
The government's appropriations for
the Panama canal begin to look like
small change.
A Topeka man has been indicted
for "feloniously, in the night time,
stealing, taking and carrying away
twenty-five hens. In common language
called thickens, the same being do
mestic fowls." Kansas officials appear
to have adopted the Boston method
of calling a man a chicken thirf.
Governor Hughes of New York de
clares that he is tired of politics and
will return to the practice of law at
the end of his present term. Inciden
tally, the politicians are tired of Gov
ernor Hughes, who has Ignored their
pleas for help, with a hard winter
coming on.
The mikado of Japan has purchased
n herd of American cows for the im
perial d.tlry. It will surprise some
American jingoes to learn that the
mikado drinks milk Instead of warm,
red blood.
Colonel Bryan is not disturbed
about this acitatlon for a southern
man for the democratic nomination.
He Is relying on the south to vote for
him from force of habit.
Whltelaw Reld Is said to be tired
of bis Job as ambassador to the court
of St. .Tames. Mark Twain might be
tent to relieve him, as Mark seems to
like the place.
A Pine Trfm.
Baltimore American.
One man owns only his clothes and the
other owns the country, yet each are
equal hefore the law.
ow I oo'rp Spieling.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
It might help things were II provided
In the contract for our battleships that
some of the designers and contractors
should be present at nil explosions.
Ciood Poll (leu.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
Nebraska's Idea of (rood politics In 10OT
Is raising 37,000,0,00 bushels of wheat. It
will have plenty of time in lHfiR to give Its
electoral vote to any Rood republican who
nets the nomination.
Koniidlng n Tender ( honl.
Washington I'ost.
Summer resorts find that the abolition of
railway passes has hurt tho hotel business.
After tho average rran gets through Inter
viewing the ticket seller he hasn't much
left for the landlord.
lints Off la the Prophet.
Brooklyn KhkIc.
"Japan would he foolish If she fought,"
says Phra Ratanayaptl, Siamese minister;
"she would get licked." Phra has acquired
the vernacular very quickly, with a sort of
Slam ease, If the expression may be per
mitted In a hot weather paragraph.
A I'lea for the l.olmler.
Washington Herald.
Iet us, then, unite as a people for the
protection of lobsters. Bleeding them, we
are happy to believe, Is not a universal
custom among American gentlemen, but
Is largely confined to the callous chorus
girl. It Is by her, too, that most lobsters
are consumed, and we think that the
whole question of continuing the custom
of keeping them In hot water may safely
be left to her tender administrations.
COLLUSIVE niVORCKS.
Two Notable Examples of a Common
Practice.
New York World.
The ion of Senator Gibson of Louisiana
and the niece of Marshall Field, a multi
millionaire of Chicago, eloped while the
bride was attending school. 6everal years
later they "agreed to disagree," as the
society writers put It, or to obtain a
collusive divorce, as the courts and law
yers style it. There can be no marriage
without the consent of both pitrtles; tha
law forbids tha granting of divorce wheie
both parties agree to It. . Yet in this case
the wife files her suit, the husband his
"defense," and the wife her reply thereto
on Friday afternoon, and after an eleven
minute hearing the next day, the husbaed
actually making no semblance of appear
ance save on the record, Judge Honors,
granted a decree on the ground of cruelty.
Then the wife cried.
It Is a matter of gossip In Chicago that
the wife paid the husband a large sum
not to oppose her suit. Dan Manna of
Cleveland, divorced by three wives, set
tled with each of them out of court and
consented to their obtaining decrees. The
fact Is notorious that most of the divorces
granted to persons of wealth and social
prominence anywhere In the country aro
the result of agreement. Thus the courts
make marriage a mockery and divorce a
deception.
PERSOXAL AXU OTIIEHWISR.
The weather man does not improve his
looks by becoming a regular old soak.
New York police scored a notable catch
last week. A thief ran Into a station house
by mistake.
A new book entitled "The Prevaricator;-'
la out. It is presumed to have some refer
ence to the last campaign.
Dallas and El Paso are the only towns In
Texas that have not gone "dry." The towns
are far enough apart to prevent cutthroat
competition.
An eastern paper solemnly asks: "Will
forty cocktails keep a good man down?'"
Depends on where he puts them and how
he bunches his hits.
The country will not know until the fine
Is Imposed whether Judge Kenesaw Moun
tain Landis received an Illuminating letter
from Miss Ida Tarbell.
After a month's service In the finest, a
New York policeman resigned because he
could not find sny "hard work." Ho was
unworthy of the high traditions of the
service.
An Iowa court and a Nebraxka court
have rendered opinions on certain phases of
the mother-in-law question, but with char
acteristic, discretion passed to the plaintiff
the Job of enforcing the respective decrees.
These courts know themselves.
Andrew Carnegie and Charles Schwab rid
icule the notion that war for the mastery
of the Pacific is probable. Still, should It
come, they would rheerfully aid the gov
ernment with a superior article of armor
plate on the usual liberal terms.
According to the legal schedule of human
irrigation In Alabama, saloons must close
at 9 p. m. In cities of the first class, at
t p. m. in cities of the second class and
at 6 p. m. in cities of the third class. The
higher the scale of a community the greater
the thirst in Alabama. Clever recognition
of civilisation's weakness.
A St. Ixiula commercial tourlHt with a
long memory writes to a New York paper a
letter ridiculing the lamentations of rail
road managers about the losses which the
!-cent rate will entail. The writer says that
twenty-three years ago he purchased mile
age books from the Illinois Central and
the Burlington for IVi cepts a nitle. At tha
oine time the Chicago & Alton, running out
of 8t. Louis, aold week-end tickets, good
from FrHay evening until Monday morning,
for one fare for the round trip. From which
tha writer Infers tha present fuss against
reduction ia a very wa&lc article of hot air.
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SKHMO. Roll K, )ow.
Faith Is not fostered by blinking fac ts.
No tool gains a keen edge, without loss.
Precept is powerless without personality.
Faith In tiod Is teen In fellowship with
men.
On light tongue can make many heavy
hearts.
Living for self alone Is
suicide.
a way to soul
The heart
ethjuet i.
is the best text book vn
Worry born of Imaginary trouble is the
paient of real worry.
The suspicious seek In others Rhal they
have hidden In themselves.
You can never get to know a man by
fln.Hr out things about lilm.
This woild will never be saved by people
too spiritually mln.led to wash dishes.
No man overcomes sin until he hts
Its power more than he fears its punish
ment. Many a man thinks because he Is blind
In business he must be blest with spiritual
vision.
Many find greatest satisfaction In fight
ing sin when it Involves firing at tlicn
neighbors.
There's a lot of people hoping for winga
on the strength of the chicken teed they
drop In the collection. Chicago Trlbuno.
SECIXAR SHUTS AT THE Pl'LPIT
Kansas City Journal: The Michigan
niinister who is alarmed to see little girls
with Teddy bears Instead of dolls should
calm himself. Teddy bears in the arms of
nine gins don t Indicate race suicide half
so mucn as pug dogs in tha arms of mar
ried women.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vp In Chicago
a pastor has added a brass band of thirty
five pieces to his corps of helpers. A brass
band that could he trained to start In sud
denly with a rousing quickstep when the
pastor's sermon became tiresome should bo
highly appreciated In hot weather.
New York Post: A London clergyman
says that he can recognize a Baptist by
tha way in which his hair la cut, an
Anglican by his collar, and a Methodist by
his Intelligent and pleasant face. Seem
ingly, Christian unity would be promoted if
Methodists would patronize Baptist barbers
and wear the right collars.
Chicago Record-Herald: A Washington
preacher has found, after studying the
matter for fourteen years, that heaven Is
located on the star Alcyone, where, he
snys, the angels build with bricks and
stones that are transparent. Unfortunately
the reverend gentleman has failed to ex
plain whether he did or did not discover
any evidences of a plumbers' union there.
Boston Transcript: More than V,100 cler
gymen of the Church of England are de
pendent on an average stipend of J3u0 a
year. This Is worse, even, than the nig
gardly reward of many of the rural minis
ters of New England. And the English
clergy have not the refuge of their Amer
ican brethren of eking out 'a professional
salaiy with the earnings of a little farm.
It Is no wonder that a cry for reform goes
up from the rural English clergy to the
bishops.
Jndsrea and Hallroad Fare.
Philadelphia Record.
Law Is an uncertain commodity. A
federal Judge In tho south has enjoined
state officers from enforcing a law lim
iting railroad fares. Just as another
federal Judge In New York enjoined state
officials from enforcing a law reducing the
prlco of gas. But a federal Judgo In Mis
souri acted as an arbitrator and arranged
for a trial of the state law for three
montha at the pnd of which time the rail
road companies are to come Into court
and show how badly they are hurt. And
now a federal Judge In Iowa refuses to
Interfere at all with the enforcement of a
2-cent fare law on the ground that no In
Jury to the roads was shown, and the com
plaint that tha new rate would reduca
dividends was not proved.
Good Motto to Follow.
Wall Street Journal.
Give most of your head to your business,
give much of your heart to your friends,
give the best of both to your home, and
give all to the Ulver of all good glrlta.
c Power
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LOVE of muslo is universal. The whole world Is Its slave. The
soul of no man is so calloused that he can persistently resist Its
uplifting lufluenoe. In every hiimaji breast there la a chord which
responds to Its delicate touch as an aeolian vibrates htn carcssetl
by a breeze.
And tha power of music has no limit. It has made the sick wellj
It has turned crime into honesty; Infused the weak and unfortunate
with new life, Inspired -tha poet to nobis lines, tha artist and tha
sculptor to achieve world famed work.
A home without muslo li Ilka a flower without sun or molstura.
Refinement's growth Is stunted without It and domestic tranquillity
withers to dull, leaden monotonous commonpl&renesa.
Find a happy household and there, too, you will find a piano. This
Is Inevitable. The piano Is the most satisfactory of all muslo pro
ducers. Those who ran play It, possess an accomplishment whlofc
through their entire life will prova a comfort to thera ajid a Joy t
others.
Buy a piano today. Don't allow your home to longer lack the In
fluence of music. Perhaps your if has been pleading with you aver
since your marriage to get one. Don't ba hard-headed snd hard
hearted by continuing to deny her the happiness a piano brings.
It Is an investment you will never regret. And when you declda
come to tha Hospa store. There you will find the best pianos and tha
lowest prices. You will deal with a ,iouse that gives the best values,
pays no commissions and marks avery Instrument with ona price.
No store In the world could give you beiter value than ours. If you
can't pay cash wa charge you only a small Interest per annum, for
twenty to thirty months' time. We sell the best pianos In the world.
Including Xraalclk Bash, Xrakaunr, Xallat ft Davis, XlsabaU, Bush
ft tans, J. F. Balson, Wsser Bros., Oabla-BaUon, Whitney, Conway,
Xnlgut-Brlakarnolf, Kauslcgtoa, Hlnsa, Crams, Imperial, tod dart,
Kingsbury, etc., etc. S00 to select from, every liu,lrununt tha best
In Its class. Send for cstalogue and prices.
A. HOSPE COMPANY
1513 Douglas Stroot
wa o xxrnBT riAiro xubiho aits icruinr
DOMESTIC Pl.F.A l.M niF".
"But," said the summer girl, "what Trn
looking for Is a parasol suitable for usa at
the seashore."
"This," said tha clerk, "Is Just the thing."
"O! no, I'm sure people could see through)
that." Philadelphia Proxa.
Tho Qlrl-A. bachelor is a self-confessed
fool.
The Man-Itow do you make that ontT
The tilrl His slate pr.xlalnis that he la
either Hfrald to ask a girl to marry him,
or not smart enogli to tnke rare of her
if he gets one. Cleveland leader.
"Is your husband kind and sym pathetic t"
asked the Inquisitive woman.
"Ves, Indeed," ajiswered the recently mar
ried girl, "he Insists on livltig at a hotel
rather than have men eat, my own cook
ing." Washington Star.
Miss Oldglrl (simpering)- -Mr. Oush la
such a flntterer! He puiil last night thera
whs something in mv fice that went s
perfectly with my raven tresses, but ha
wouldn't say what. I suppose ha meant
mv eyes.
Miss pert No; he meant the crow'a feat
around them. Philadelphia Press.
"I wonder," remarked Nervey, casually,
"If kissing reallv Is Injurious."
"Well," replied the athletic girl, mean
ingly. "I've known men who have found
the mere attenipt at kissing injurious."
Baltimore American.
"Has your boy made any sort of a record
at college?" asked the sedate relative.
"I should say so," answered the enthu
siastic parent; "strained bis wrist rowlnif
and was carried away from the foot ball
field three times in an ambulance!" Wash
ington Star
THE PR AY Kit OF MV HOY.
Elmer Allen Bess In Record-Herald.
The praver of my boy, as he kneels by his
bed,
With words disconnected and sentences snlrt
At promptings of mother, forgetting It half,
Subdues conversation and boisurous laugh.
My mind wanders back to the faraway
times
When stories of fairies and nursery rhyme
Held sway over all. and the Innocent daya
Gain power In my life as my little boy
prays.
"I lay me" brings back to my doubts and
my fears
The trust that was lacking. Ah, there fall
the tears!
I turn from the sin which so nearly dla-.
mays.
And cling to the truth when my little bo;
prays.
I snv to nivself when nnnlvlng the test!
"Ah, never again shall the evil be best!"
At peace with the world and lta varying
ways.
My sleep shall be Just for my little boy
prays.
Not much does he ask for himself. I dls
cern;
Except for his lessons of goodness to learn.
He prays for the world, for lta wickedest
ways,
For saints and for sinners my little boy
prays.
He prays for the father and mother and
boys;
Nor ever neglects to include the mere toys:
The blacks and the whites, the redeemed
and tho strayB,
Together are blessed, when my little boy
prays.
i
If trust and the holiest thoughts of tha
good
Can reach to tho Father and gain dally
food
The Father will answer, without bitter
"nays."
The prayer of the heart which my llttla
boy prays.
Mineral Waters
The mineral water business has fof
many years been a special'. v with our
firm. We buy our waters Clract from tha
aprlnga or if a foreign watr, direct from
the Importer. We aro thus able to make
the lowest possible price and to absolutely
guarantee freshness ami genuineness. ,
SOUZ MI1TEBAI, WATES PRICES
Manltoti Water, dozen, 2.00; case, SO
quarts. $7.00.
Uoro-Llthia Water, doien, I1.C0; case,
SO quarts. SO.
Nek-rok Llthia, dozen, 12.00; case, 60
quarts, $6.00.
Crystal Llthla Water, E-gallon Jug, tl
Rubinat Serre (paln), bottle, S5c;
doxen, 14.20.
Idanha Water, dozen, 12.60; case, tt
quarts. $S.0o.
Hnthorn (Saratoga), dozen, $2.00; casa.
48 pints $7 5".
Pure Distilled Water, casa, 1 -&l.,
$2.25.
Boro-Llthla Water, ease, 12 U-gals., IS.
Allowance for return of empties.
BXEKKAX It MoCOWZLL DKUO CO
Cor. 16th and Dodge
OWL SBUO COMPACT
Cor. lth and Harney
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