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TITE OMATIA SUNDAY BEE: JULY '29, 1H07. 15 Tim Omaha Sunday Pes FOUNDED BT LDWARIJ fcUSBWATEK. VICTOR KOSEWATKH. KUITOR. Hntered at Omaha postofllce as second claM matter. TKR.V1S OF SUBSCRIPTION. iJally H' without Sunday), one yeur..$4.0Q lmlly Bee anj Mundiiy, one year t 00 Sunday Ltf-f, oi.e year 2..W Baluruay Boe, one year l.J DBLIVKItKD BY CARRIER. Daily lii-e tliu'lU'liriK Hunduyj, r we k. l."c LaJly Hee iwlilioiit Sunday", per wek..luo Kvenlng liK (without Sunday;, per week ic Lvening Bee rwltli Bunduy). per week..pc Address all complaints of lrnKUlarlties In delivery to City Circulation Department. OKKICES. Omaha The Uee liullding. South Omaha Clly t Ia.ll Building. Council blurts 15 Scott Stieet. Chicago li,4u I'nlty Building. JVew York l&OS Home Life insurance Bid. Washington iul Fourteenth Street. OOKKEHl'ONDriNCK. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Res Publishing Company. Only 2-omit stamps received In payment of inall account!. Peistitml checks, except on Omaha, or eastern exchange, not accepted. 8TATRM ICNT OP CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebrnska, Doug-Ins county, as: Charles: C. Rosewater, itinera! manager of The Ren Publishing" Cnmpnny, being duly sworn, says that the actual number cf full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening; and Sunday Hee printed during the month of June, lwi, wan as follows; 1. t. 36,830 35,000 IT 38,480 36,490 . . . 36,480 ... 86,310 . . . ue.aao ... 36,010 . . . 86,790 ... 36,800 8M80 ss.sso 6 86,410 31,810 7 88,630 86,800 88,800 86,660 86,830 86,880 8. 10. 11. 12. li 36,680 it 36,660 ST 86,970 tl 86,470 29 36,860 80 39,860 II 86,640 1 86,930 IS 37,170 1 36,800 Total. . .1,04, aao Less unsold and returned copies 10,389 Net total., tteily average 1,083,831 30,S7 C. ROSE WATER. CHARLES . ., . , General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and swum to before me tliU 1st day of July, Ism; (Seal) M. B. Hl'NOATE, Notary Public. W11K.V OUT OF TOW.W Subscribers leaTlnit the cltr tem porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed aa often aa requested. It appears that Duke, the tobacco magnate, has made another matrimon ial mixture. Japan has decked to save Its coal reserve, however prodigal It may be with its hot air reserve. Grover Cleveland is suffering from the gout. Other democratic leaders are suffering from the grouch. "A sound thrashing would do the United States good," declares the Mon treal Star. Yes.' Want the Job? "Oklahoma will come out all right," ays the Kansas City Star. Thought Oklahoma's trouble was constitutional. The new mayor of San Francisco is n expert fruit grower, but It Is hoped that he will not practice expert graft ing. "Hell Is full of peek-a-boo waiBts," ays a St. Louis minister. Tho peek-a-boo was designed for warm weather wear. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says her pres ent diet Is milk and prunes. The milk feature of her menu had not been sus pected. According to Manila advices, the Igorrotes refuse to be aroused over the report that that Thread trust is preparing to advance prices. "Mr. Bryan does not possess fine, tactful Judgment," sayB Senator Till man, who Is a great admirer of fine, tactful Judgment in others. Colonel Bryan may as well hunt for bis life preserver. There is nothing left that he can throw overboard and the storm shows no signs of abating. Colonel Watterson may continue to make a noisd like a national conven tion, but the candidates of both par ties will bo nominated In the usual way. Captain Hobson says war with, Ja pan la Inevitable. Colonel Bryan says war with Japan Is Impossible. They agree upon that as well as democrats do on most subjects. Despite her record of efficient serv Ice In that direction, Mrs. Carrie Na tion has not been asked to aid the De partment of Justice in putting the To bacco trust out of business. King Leopold has finally granted the concession giving an American syn dicate control of tho Congo rubber forests. Now we may look for that locg-talked-of elastic currency. "Democrats," exclaims Senator Dan iel," should get together and get busy." They always get busy, If not too busy, as soon as they get to gether, as the police can testify. Mayor Dahlman aud every demo cratic member of the city council are pledged specifically to an economical administration of city affairs. Econ omy In this case means mulcting the taxpayers for $2 75,000 more next year Uian this year. ' The bravery of the crew of the ill fated Columbia seems to have been quite as marked as tho culpability of the owners, who allowed a vessel that bad been in service for twenty-seven years and had degenerated Into a death trap to be used for passenger service ta dangerous waters. BREWER a BAD BREAK. The interchange between Justice Brewer and Governor Folk on the subject of railroad regulation and the duty of the courts to pie-vent on the one side exaction of extortionate charges from the public and on tho other to safeguard the railroads from confiscation by legislative limitation to Inadequate crV"jt's is evoking much discussion In th public prints. Justice Brewer appears to be solicitous for fear the railroads might suffer if com pelled to reduce rates pending judicial Inquiry into their reasonableness, and defends the application for writs of injunction out of the federal courts for thU purpose. Governor Folk in answer emphasizes the loss which is Fustalned by the public when the en forcement of laws for the public bene fit are deferred by Injunction, assum ing that the laws are later pronounced reasonable and Just. Justice Brewer's connection with the Nebraska maximum rate cases of a decade ago should have forewarned everyone of the position he would take on the present controversy over rail way regulation laws, which turn on the same Issues that were then in volved, it should be remembered that when the Nebraska law reducing freight rates was about to become operative nonresident stockholders of the railroads doing business in this state secured from the federal courts restraining orders prohibiting tho offi cers bf tho railroads from obeying the law and likewise prohibiting the officers of the state from enforcing the law or exacting penalties for disobedience. By a clever scheme worked by the railway attorneys, Justice Brewer was specially invited to sit in the case at the hearing for the permanent injunc tion and rendered a decision in favor of the railroads at every point. In fact, It would be difficult to distinguish his opinion from a brief by the paid railroad lawyers. The case was ap pealed on behalf of the state to the United States supreme court, where It was again submitted to a bench on which Justice Brewer sat, and while the court spoke this time through Justice Harlan, the opinion is for the most part a verbatim repetition of the opinion previously handed down by Justice Brewer from the bench of the lower court. No one familiar with this litigation, or who will read the opinions In these cases, would expect anything of Justice Brewer except championship of the railroad Interests and should any of the present litigation go up to the su preme court there should bo no diffi culty In telling In advance where Jus tice Brewer will be found. ABOUT HAWK 8 AXD OWLS. Right on the heels of this discussion on "nature faking" going on between the president, Dr. Long, Ernest Seton-Etcetera-Thompson, Jack London and John Burroughs, who have de voted much thought and time to the study of game birds, wild animals, magazine publishers and other beasts of prey, Comes Prof. A. K. Fisher of the Department of Agriculture with a pamphlet that is going to make the farmer and his boy sit up and take notice. Prof. Fisher's pamphlet Is la belled, "Hawks and Owls From tho Standpoint of the Farmer," and he etarts right off to destroy a whole grlBt of illusions about the habits, uses and customs of these raptorial fowl. He lets us know that the preju dice against the hawk and the owl is unjust and due to a lack of discrimi nation. In ot,her words, there are good and bad hawks and owls, Just as there are good and bad corporations, and man has made the grievous error of classing them all as bad on account of the depredations of the few, just as there 1b a disposition to denounce all Japanese because one of them cheated a San Francisco man in a trade. It will come as something of a shock to learn that the average hawk is pot a chicken thier, but Prof. Fisher is th.i authority who says so. He goes further and Justifies the chicken thief by assorting that the hawk's taste for chicken is acquired. The hawk pre fers rats, moles, grasshoppers, beetles, bugs, boll weevils and all that army of pests that work havoc in (he farm er's crops and resorts to chickens only when its natural food supply runs low. j Even If the hawk docs eat a few chick ens now and then, It more than pays for its Indulgence by a persistent and gluttonous warfare against tho pests and other Injurious foes to man. Yet the professor protests, the hawks and the owU are persecuted unceasingly by man, while "thit most destructive mammal, the houw Cat. is petted and fed and securely sheltered to spread destruction among the . feathered tribe." Again, the hawk and the owl do team work that ought to furnish a les- Bon to base ball organliations. While hawks hunt by day and keep diurnal mammals in check, owls, whose eye sight is keenest during twilight and before dawn, capture nocturnal spe cies. The bugs and beasts and pests that make continual war on the hus bandman are themselves the subjects of attack by vigilant winged detectives working on the double-shift system, waging incessant warfaie against the enemies of the orchard, gardeu aud harvest field. Much of Prof. Fisher's pamphlet is devoted to a description of the differ ent kinds of hawks and o-ls. the char acter of the food they rat, the pests they destroy and an account of inves tigations showing that these fowls are really (of great value to the farmer He urges a better study of the hawk and the owl, contending that It these birds are properly understood state legislatures will bo passing laws for their protection, rather than offering bounties for their destruction. KERRAfiKA'8 MORAL R.4T7.VO. In the course of an interesting ad dress before tuc Htatrlce Chautauqua on the subject of Juvenile courts, child labor laws and the general system of providing for prevention or punish ment of crime. Judge lee S. Estelle of the local district bench made an assertion, subject of substantial proof by the records, that must be gratify ing to every citizen of Omaha and of Nebraska, os it will bo of surprise, it not doubt, to the citizens of the effete east still wont to look upon Nebraska as a part of the "wild and woolly west," with Omaha as its storm center. Reviewing the results of Nebraska's educational laws and Its measures for the safe-guarding of the youth of the state, Judge Ii.-Uelle declared: "In addition to having the smallest per cent of Illiteracy of any state in the union, Nebraska Is the most moral state in the union and Omaha is the most moral city in the United Slates, according to its size." Judge Estelle is to be congratulated upon having avoided the error, too common among students of criminal nffatrs, of gauging the criminal condi tions of a city, nation or stale by the appropriations for police and court purposes. Pessimistic reformers are prone to point to the increased cost of the maintenance of police and courts as prima facie evidence of an Increase In crime when, in most cases, and this Is particularly true In Omaha, the in creased outlay for police and court expenses is due to the growing popu lation, the demand for larger police equipment for the proper protection of tho city and the natural enlargement of litigation that has not even the remotest rela tion to crime. Intelligent analysis of the statistics supports Judge Estelle's claim of a marked decrease In crlmo and immorality In Nebraska and Omaha and the record is supported and corroborated by the common knowledge of those who have lived In Omaha for more than a decade. It serves no purpose to cite the fact that the number of arrests in the po lice and criminal courts is larger than it was ten years ago. The increase is small compared with the increase of population and the more rigorous en forcement of laws and ordinances against petty offenses formerly ac cepted as a matter of course. The great improvement is In the character of the offenses. Public gambling, the all-night dance house and the crime breeding wine rooms have gone, and with them the disturbances that filled the jails and burdened the dockets of the criminal courts. The state and the city are being settled up with hon est, wholesome, law-respecting people who build up business enterprises, support churches and colleges and add a marked Impetus to the development of public morals. SHORTER HOURS tX SIOXAL TOWERS New York has a law just enacted carrying into effect one of the impor tant provisions of the LaFollette law which passed congress at the last ses sion, but which was so hinged with provisions that no time has been fixed for placing It into effect. The New York law prohibits any railway com pany from employing a man In a switch tower or signal tower' for more than eight hours In any twenty-four. The congressional law contained a sim ilar provision, as well as others, lim iting the hours of telegraph operators and trainmen. Before it can be made effective certain investigations will have to be held by the Interstate Com merce commission. Like the safety applianco law, the new measure prom ises to be enforced piecemeal and no general relief can be expected from It for Borne years. The New York law was urged and passed on account of testimony offered at coroner's inquests Bhowing it to be the custom of nearly all the railroads in the state to work their signal tower men twelve hours a day and, In many Instances, to keep them on duty from eighteen to twenty hours at a stretch. As a result, the block System, installed to prevent collisions, had proved prac tically worthless because not properly operated. The success of the block system depends absolutely upon the alertness of the operator in the tower and safety cannot be furnished by men worn out by extra hours at nerve stralnlng work. The lives of the trav eling public are almoBt entirely at the mercy of these signal operators and in limiting their working day to eight hours the New York legislature has set an example worthy of general emu lation. THE I.AlSi li DAY PA HADE. The Chicago Federation of Labor has taken a radical step in deciding to abandon the annual street parade of tho allied labor organizations on La bor day. The federation has declared that the street parade is an antiquated and expensive way of Impressing the public with a sense of the strength of labor and that the money it costs may be better employed. The action is significant as Indi cating the changed conditions and the changed relations existing between the employers and the employed of the country. If, as Indicated by the reason assigned for its abandonment the purpose of the parade la the past was only to Impress the public with the strength of the labor organizations. that reason no longer holds good. The couutry fully appreciates the Impor tance of labor and Its essential part in. the Industrial, economic and social de velopment of the nation. The mere fact that nearly every state In tho union has, by legislative enactment, made Labor day a holiday Is proof sufficient that the numerical and voting strength of the labor organi zations Is understood and appreciated. The decision of the Chicago Federa tion will evoke a response for other reasons as well. The purposeless street parade business has been over done In our American cities. It must be confessed that there is nothing par ticularly instructive In the average street parade by undrllled organiza tions. The blockading of streets, the suspension of business and the inter ference with traffic, while long lines of tired men cover a long line of march, produces little of either pleasure or profit, either for the participants or the spectators. The ' Inconvenience and liability to accidents that result from the average street parade tend to outweigh possible benefits and It is pleasing to find the Federation of La bor In Chicago Betting the example of reform in this direction. AX OFFICER AXD A OKXTLEMAX The board of visitors to the Military academy at West Point is unhappy, to say the least, in Its choice of words in making certain recommendations for the improvement of conditions at the institution. After reviewing the course of study at the academy and calling attention to the fact that the studies are too technical, the board concludes Its report with the state ment that the graduate of the West Point institution "should be an all around educated gentleman." The Inference, If not the insinua tion, is that the present army officer graduated from West Point Is not "an all-around educated gentleman," and, of course, If the. officer's education Is Incomplete, as the board Insists It must be under existing conditions, he is not "an all-around gentleman." The report will come as something of a surprise to the general public, which has long held the conviction that the system of education at West Point was such as to complete the education of the officer, in addition to giving him a special training in the art of being "a gentleman," with an acute sense of honor. But the board's findings is apt to renew the old discussion as to what constitutes "a gentleman" and what kind of an education is really necessary to equip a first-class fighter. Many of the old-time heroes, some of them graduates from West Point, would hardly have met the require ments exacted by the visitors' board, but they knew the art of war. It is probable that the course of study at West Point needs attention and re vision by skilled educators, but the present board of visitors has not shown any Indications of being equal to the task. Army officers should be, and usually are, men of intelligence and trained In their art. The complaint made by the board of visitors that the course of study is too technical may be well founded. It is asserted that West Point, instead of being a military school, has become a technical school and the demands upon the students made so burdensome that many fall out of the classes entirely, while an increasing number Is required to take an extra .year to finish. This evil should, of course, be remedied, but the cadets are educated for a special purpose and this purpose should not be lost sight of by giving the students an education that would differ, In no material respect, from that obtained In any of the universities of the country. ' The fact that It is the Southern rail way and Its officials that will have to bear the brunt of the fracas In North Carolina will probably prevent any sympathy from being wasted on the victims. The Bouthern railroad Is known throughout the railroad world as the meanest, mot reckless and moBt neglectful of public rights of any road that Is operating. Not long ago it killed its own president In a smashup that could have been avoided bad It epent a few dollars for decent equip ment and efficient operatives. Instead of trying to depend on broken down rolling stock and overworked signal and trainmen. If the court contest over this road should compel It to In vest a little money for the safety of Its passengers and employ wide-awake station hands and train crews, It would be a Godsend to the people who have to travel on It. , While the supreme court has made poBBlble the continuance of fusion In Nebraska, the chances are still good that the democrats will nominate some candidates who will fail to get the requisite plurality of the populist votes. The old conference committee will then have to be resurrected to try to finish the Job by involuntary substitu tions. Governor Sheldon has been making a round of the junior normals. The difference between Governor Sheldon's circuit riding and the Chautauqua en gagements of other public men Is that the governor gets no hundred-dollar stipend for his talking. Colonel Bryan has gone on record that government ownership is not an issue for the coming campaign. If he will keep It up by process of elimina tion, he may reduce the issues to one simply the appetite for office. One trouble with these delinquent paving contractors Is that they load up with too much work, undertaking to accept contract not only in Omaha, but In South Omaha, Denver aid other places as well, without having facili ties to deliver the goods. Every pav ing contract ought to have a time, limit In It and a big enough forfeit to make the contractor live up to its utlpulatlons. Governor Cummins says the next republican national convention will declare for tariff revision. Perhaps, but the governor's predictions have usually been good only until the com mittee on resolutions makes its report. Bourke Cockran defines democracy as "the application to political Institu tions of the Injunction to the first man: 'In the sweat of thy brow thou shalt earn thy bread. " Bourke earns his bread by the sweat of his voice. Aspirants for the presidential nomi nation are a little slow In Identifying themselves with this movement for the reduction of the tariff on champagne and other forms of French booze. No Worthier Pride. James O. Blaine. No manly man feels anything of shame in looking- back to early struggles with adverse circumstances, and no man feels a worthier pride than when he has con quered the obstacles to his progress. Kngles and Elks. Boston Transcript. The Eagles stood the heat better In New Haven than the Elks did In Phila delphia. But the former are at home In the sun's fierce glare, while it Is the na ture of the latter to haunt the shade. Seeking Kir Money, Baltimore American. The scandal concerning the sale of British peerages Is not so remarkable. With American millions so eager to re purchase them at enormous profit to the holders In the matrimonial market they are a good business Investment. Novelty in Presidential Dooms. Baltimore American. Vegetarians have started a presidential boom for LaFollette on the ground that a nut, milk and vegetable diet in the White House will be largely conducive to world peace. The rest of the nation Is apt to find in this theory much meal for ridicule. Fro in. Jackson to Glenn. Bprlngfleld Republican. President Jackson onoe defied the United States supreme court and won out. When the court ordered a certain thing done in the Cherokee case, involv ing the relations between the federal government and an Indian tribe, Jackson Said: "Marshall made the decision, now let him enforce It." Governor Qrenn of North Carolina wishes he was situated as Jackson was and could say the same thing about Judge Prltchard. Poet Drops to Polities. New York Evening Post. The old Roman, when called to high of fice, was found at the plow; the new mayor of Ban Francisco, In a book store. It was there the district attorney discovered Dr. Taylor, who was no doubt turning over the leaves of his "Visions and Other Verses." The poet Is revealed In one of Mayor Taylor's latest utterances: "1 love San Francisco. She Is lying prostrate. I want to see her rise to her feet, spread her wings and fly." But there has been alto gether too much "flying" out there. Ban Francisco had better "light." no MAN CATHOLIC Y. M. C. A. Compliment of Imitation Paid to the Parent Organisation. Boston Transcript. The. Roman Catholic church shows an Increasing adaptability to the conditions of American life which does great credit to Its leaders and organizers. It adopted and improved many suggestions for the use of Its Sunday schools and now at the Indian apolis meeting of the American Federation of Catholic Societies It was seriously pro posed to organize a Roman Catholic Young Men's Christian association. The material for such an organisation exists abundantly In aU, the larger towns of America and it could not fail to improve the type of young manhood In the church. It is a pity that it should be necessary to duplicate thu plant and divide the Interests of the young men, but we already have the Young Men's Christian union, Including the liberal wing of Christians, and the lovers of our country will all bid godspeed to the attempt to organize those young men whose church affiliation forbids them to unite with either of the existing organizations for purposes of Instruction, fellowship and recreation under a different Christian name. The movement may be postponed, but It Is likely to succeed Sooner or later and the new association will become a part of the church machinery for the training of Its members. Incidentally, the movement In the Roman Catholic ranks is a high tribute to the efficiency and success of the general work of the Young Men's Christian associa tion. Unless It held the highest place in the regard of the American public, ani especially in the regard of the leaders of business life who know the needs and dangers of young manhood as they de pend upon young men for their business assistants the shrewd and thoughtful lead ers of the Roman Catholic church would not pay this compliment of Imitation. PERSONAL A.VD OTHERWISE. French statesmen are not the only ones who get up in the air occasstonally. A sharp drop In the exports of gold will Interest people who need yellow polish on their teeth. The strike against the Frankfurter trust in New York might properly be called the wurst ever, but we forbear. Medicine Hat took off the lid long enough to remind corn belt boosters with a re freshing puff that he haa considerable of the article In cold storage. The offer of bottles of hair tonic as a premium by a new magazine foreshadows the transition of periodical literature from muck-raking to hair-raising. What the governor of North Carolina said to Judge Prltchard bears no resem blance In vocal atmosphere to what he once said to the governor of South Carolina. Borne one who thinks he knowa says every Inch of human skin contains 1,500 perspiration pores. Harry Deuel's skim mer Is outclassed by the walking article. Some heartless cubs wants Jim Hill to dig out of his Jeans $!0,in,CM and hand it over to the plaintiff. Captains of Industry, like common people, have troubles In fly time. Gorgeous pictures of naval life on the ocean wave are not hypnotizing aa many recruits aa the service needs. Most of the eligible boys prefer to take high rollers ashore. A Philadelphia Justice of the peace claims the record, having married a couple In sIxty-Ave seconds. Chicago divorce courts will have to put on more pressure to keep uo the M A MfhTMTTh ON No Security No Indorsement No Interest When you deal with MANDELBEKO. If you aro honest your credit is good with me. 1 am always ready to opeu a charge account with an honest person in any part of the city. Many persons get the impression that 1 extend tho courtesies of a Charge Account only to those who are "well fixed" financially. As a matter of fact I do not concern myself about a person's wealth when extending credit, and any person can determine In advance whether his or her credit is good. If you can answer the following questions in the affirmative, your credit will certainly be as good with me as though you had unlimited wealth, at your command. 1 Are you honest in your dealings. 2 Are you prudent in assuming obligations and prompt in paying them. I make no distinction In opening Charge Accounts between men or women, old or young, the well-to-do employer or his honest employe. A greater part of our charge accounts are with persons having small in comes or earning moderate Balarles. as well as people in all walks of business or professional life. Always remember that A dollar or two a. week will do. SKHIUO.VS BOILED DOWN. Hypocrisy is the gold of virtue used to gild vice. The man who does nothing does much harm. One thing believed Is worth a million heaven. No man is refined until he is purged of selfishness. You cannot attain purity by any process of polishing, things denied. A good home Is the best sermon about If you cannot learn humility you cannot bear elevation. The man who is ashamed of his religion has none to boast of. Laughing at little trials is more thun half of winning great triumphs. There is no virtue in doing right In such a way as to lead others wrong. Many think they are doubting who only are dodging the duty of thinking. Light-hearted people are those who al ways are looking for the sunshine. The world has suffered a good deal less from thinking without saying than from saying without thinking. It's no use inviting a man to reBt on the gospel of peace If you hand It to him on ths end of a pitchfork. Chicago Tribune SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Chicago Post: The lata Rev. John Wat son (Ian Maolaren) left an estate valued at $288,600. The point seems to be that a literary man ought to be a clergyman, or vice versa. New York Post: Bishop Mats of Colo rado makes a violent attack on the Car negie libraries. They are, It seems, "sinks of corruption," where Voltaire and sensa tional novels get In their work. But If the purchase of books had to be regulated by religious prejudice, ths shelves would be half empty. Brooklyn Eagle: The people In England who want that there shall bo no more bishops, on the ground that all they are good for Is to take tea with duchesses, ought to know that taking tea with duchesses is one of the most solomn and Important things possible to an English man. Some of these fussy revolutlonarlos will be wanting to abolish duchesses next. And then-cliaos! Nw York Mall: Now we know why April, May and June of this year were the coldest on record. The heat of the sun is kept up by the burning of sinners, the sun being really the seat and scene of the Infernal regions; and the world has been getting so much better recently that the supply of sinners for purposes of fuel has In a considerable degree failed, and abnormally cold weather on the earth and other planets is the result.' Such, at least, is the Inference to be drawn from the Im portant discoveries made by Rev. Zeb Het zel Cobb, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church In Washington, and minister In charge of the Bethany Mission chapel In that city. DOMESTIC 11. EASA.M HIES. "Now," said Miss Yerner, "you'd better go up and speak to papa." "Oh!" exclaimed Mr. Hlopoehe, who had finally proposed, "is he up yet?" "Yea, he's waiting for you in the sitting room, unless he's isl tired and gone to bed." Philadelphia Press. "Queer fellow, that flnlfklns! lie Is al- ways looking tor trouble." "Why does he have to look Mr ltT he married?" Baltimore American. Isn't "The lady whose name you gave as refer ence, Delia," said Mrs. Hiram Offon. "tells me you were not always truthful and obedient." "No, ma'am," replied tho new servant, "I couldn't be, wld her tellln' me all the time to say she wasn't at home." Chicago Tribune. "What has become uf the maid you thought such a prize?" "Oh, I had to let her pn." replied the second fashionable Woman. "After her What the Hospe Plan Means to the Man Who Wants a Piano IT MEAXS the piano you buy of us, no matter how email the price, is a thoroughly reliable instrument. IT MEAN'S that the guarantee of the biggest piano house in the west is behind every sale. IT MEANS that we save you 150 to to $1&0 by trading with us. IT MEANS protection from the sliding price vlnrm dealer, who would get the most he could from you for a piano, regardless of its value. IT MEAN'S that every instrument in the Hospe store is marked with one price. If you cannot call write for catalog A. Hospe Co., 1513 Douglas St. We do expert piano One Price CREDIT HOF operation for appendicitis she thought Bits was one of us." Philadelphia ledger. Madge What did Molly mean by saviim that joining the Audulion society was a Komi buxIneKs proposition? Marjorle The dues are only $., while a lint with feathers on it costs at least o. Harper's Weekly. "Let me kiss those tears away I" ho bPKRed, tenderly. Kho fell for it, and he was busy for the next fifteen minutes. And yet the tears flowed on. "fun nothing stop them?" ha asked, breathlessly sad. "Nope," she murmured. "It's hay fever, you know. But go on with the treat ment. Cleveland Leader. OXE OF THE LITTLE WOMEJT. Chicago Post. One of tho Little Women, she cams up to heaven's gate; And seeing tliu throng was pressing, aha sighed that she lain would wait, "For 1 was not great nor noble," sha said; "I was poor and plain, And should I go boldly forward I know It wouiu us in vain." She sat hear the shining portal, and looked at tho surging crowd Of them that wore kingB and princes, of them that were rich and proud; And sudden she trembled greatly, for one with a brow like flame Came to her and hailed her gladly and spoke unto her by name. "Come., enter the jeweled gateway," ha said, "for the prize is thine; Hie work that in life you rendered was work that was fair and fine: So come, while the rest stand waiting enter In here and now A crown of the life eternal is waiting to press my prow. - Then tremblpd the Ltttlo Woman and cried: "It may not be I. Here wait they that wrought with great ness, so how may I pane them by? I carved me no wondrous statues, I painted no wondrous things, I spake no tremendous sayings that rang In the ears of kings. "I tolled in my little cottage, I spun and I baked and swept, I sewed and. I patched and mended O. lowly the house 1 kept! I sang to my little children, I led them In worthy ways, And so I might not grow famous; I knew none but cure-bound days. "So was it by night and morning, so was It by week and year; I worked with my weary fingers through days that were bright or drear, And I have grown old and wrinkled and I have grown old and bent; I ask not for chants of glory now that I have found content." "Arise!" cried the waiting angel. "Come1 first of the ones that wait. For you are tho voices singing, for you do we open the gate; So great as has been thy labor, so great shall be thy reward." Then gave ho the Little Woman the glory of the Lord. Mineral Waters The mineral water business has for many years been a specialty utth our firm. We buy our waters direct from ths springs or If a foreign water, direct from the importer. We are thus able to make the lowest possible price, and to abso lutely guarantee freshness and genuine ness. We sell 100 kinds. Write for cata logue. 8okb amrsBAij wati fsiosi Manltou Water, dosen, Sli.OO; case, 60 quarts,. 17.00. Uoro-Llthia Water, dosen, $2.60; caao. (0 quarts, 18.50. Nek-rok Llthla, dozen, $2.00; case, 60 quarts, $tf.D0. Crystal Llthla Water, 6-gallon lug, 1 2. Ruhlnat btrre (tipaln), bottle, 85c; doz en, Hill). Idanha Water, dozen, IJ.DO; case. 60 quarts, 18.60. Hathorn (Saratoga), dozen, 12.00; case, 48 pints, 17.60. IAjts Distilled Water, case, 11 Vs-gals, 6-gal. Jug Crystal Llthla, $1.00. Allowance for return of empties. BXKISAV It HcOOiraTEX,& DBUO CO Cor. 18th and Lodge. owl jua oomtutt, Co. 18th and Harney. IT MEANS protection from the perni cious communion that custom of giving a consideration to a supposed friend for bis Influence in brlnglug you into the store. IT MEAN'S satisfaction and the privi lege of making a selection from an enormous stock of planosv, represent ing the best factories In the forld. IT MEAN'S that one man's money Is as good as another's. IT MEAN'S that you can Belect from the following: Kranlch &. Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Hallet & Davis', Hush & Lane, Cable Nelson, Krell' J. P. 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