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cf full and complete copies of The Dally
Morning, Evening; and Sunday Hee printed
during the month of June, lwi, wan as
follows;
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t.
36,830
35,000
IT 38,480
36,490
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... 86,310
. . . ue.aao
... 36,010
. . . 86,790
... 36,800
8M80
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6 86,410
31,810
7 88,630
86,800
88,800
86,660
86,830
86,880
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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
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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. Nelson, Weser Bros., Cramer
etc. '
jes and prices.
tuning and repairing.
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