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State of Nebraaka, Douglas county, aa:
Cb dries C. Hose water, general manager
of The Hee publishing Company, being
duly iworn, caya that the actual number
pf full and complete coplea of Tha Dally
Morning, livening and Sunday Bee printed
during the
month of July, 1M. was as
follows:
1
t
4
30440
30,180
38,180
BS.600
85,840
36,480
8S,600
36,800
80,81ft
86,840
38,480
86,380
IT
II
1
86.TOO
86,480
36,810
88,880
SS.SS0
37,870
86,870
86,880
86,480
36,400
86,700
89,400
It
11
It
tl.
It 86,840
14 S8.600
15 86,780
U. ....... 41.370
tO 3680
11 38380
1 64,690 '-
Total 1,138,880
Less unsold and returned coplea. . 10,336
Net total. .......1431,86a
Dally average 88,133
CHARLES C. R0SEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and aworn to
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tSoaU M. B. H UNOATB,
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WHEN OUT Or TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; tha city tem
porarily ahonld hare Tha Baa
mailed to them. Addreae will be
changed aa often aa requested.
The French tanners seem to be
monopolizing business In Morocco.
Men who are short on wheat realize
that the green bug made a bad bull.
Georgia is now estimating Its corn
crop by the bushel Instead of by the
bottle.
Too many employes have an Idea
that more pay and less work means
prosperity.
Colonel Pope's failure Is explained.
He was building automobiles Instead
of running a repair shop. ,
It 1a time to quit abusing General
Humidity. He will soon be reduced
to the ranks by General Frost.
The operator at Newport has joined
the strike. Here's hoping he stays
out until the end of the silly season.'
The telegraph strike has saved the
public from learning a lot of things
from the yellow Journals that are not
"I have never felt the sting of de
feat," says Governor Vardaman, thus
again calling attention to his thick
skin.
The fact that no one Is trying to In
terfere in tho fight between Bryan and
Hearst ought to be suggestive to both
I them.
Japan announces an international
exposition In 1912. This seems to
spoil the story about Japan's financial
depression.
Wall street cannot get over its cha
"-vgrln at the fact that the country Is rap-
IdiV learning the difference between
jta64aud values.
It will be impossible, too, to prevent
comment to the effect that the newly
organized Corset trust Is preparing to
squeeze Its customers.
The report that Caid McLean has
been released by Raiaull seems to be
accepted as true by everybody except
Cald McLean and Ralsull.
i ou win be Hanged It you come
back," says the Japanese ruler to
Prince HI of Cores. "I'll be hapged
It I go back," retorts Prince HI.
"When." asks the New York Globe
"will this wholesale prosecution of
corporations enai When the cor
porations quit violating the laws
I
In justice to Colonel Pope it should
be explained that ho did not attribute
his failure to the alleged fact that
motor cars art) selling too cheaply.
Fifty denizens of Kentucky have
been made desperately 111 by drinking
milk. Those Kentucklans should go
elow in experimenting with new bev
erajes.
I , '
A Pittsburg millionaire has bought
an entire town in Florida. Ordinarily
the Pittsburg millionaire is satisfied
with buying the mayor and town
council.
i
Colonel Bryan has been propound
lng questions to Secretary Taft, who
111 answer them In his keynote speech
tomorrow. It Is not necessary tor Sec
retary Taft to propound questloaa to
Colonel Bryan, because he keeps .9,(18-
iaalng Liaiaelt all the time. . j , ,
PLATlItO BARD TOR PUBLICITY.
No on watching the game of the
rail road can fall to noj.lce tns changed
methods that are being etnplod now
to secure publicity for tha railroad
side as compared with previous efforts.
The first attitude of the railway
magnates toward the prying lnqulsl
tlveness of the people was that of
defiant Indifference. No one knew
anything about the railroad business
except the railroad men In active
charge of manipulation and operation,
and It was not even worth stopping to
discuss the subject with representa
tives of the Ignorant masses. .
The next turn of the card found the
railroads trying to manufacture public
opinion through subsidised newspaper
organs and cunning press bureaus,
smuggling railroad apologies Into th
public prints wherever possible and
paying for them as advertisements
when necessary. The pre is bureau
business was supplemented by pamph
lets, circulars and magazine articles
prepared by hired retainers and dis
tributed free of cost. A palpably
biased book on railroads, made to order
by a professor Is Chicago university,
was scattered broadcast in beautifully
bound editions bought by the whole
sale with railroad money.
This method of campaigning seems
to have proved disappointing. At any
rate, it fell far short of convincing the
people of the Immaculate Innocence of
the high captains of the steel track. A
new order, therefore, has gone out and
the big guns of the railway world have
started talking for publication on each
nd every occasion, without any Inter
vening agent or agency. Speeches and
interviews and signed contributions
from Harriraan and Hill and Yoakum
And Mellen and Flnley are to be bad
almost for the asking by any pews
paper willing to give them space. The
big 'una" are all talkative and affable
and eager only to submit their case to
the Intelligent consideration of the
people whom they are zealously anxi
ous to serve.
It Is a good game. The head moguls
can break Into print free of charge a
good deal easier than the paid publicity
agents or the hired lawyers. Thev are
entitled to a fair hearing and a square
deal. If they have anything to say
which Is worth listening u they vlll
get a respectful audience, but they will
have to come down on tho level wlih
their patrons and employes and talk
common sense If they expect to produce
any effect.
TBS DIVORCE XTIL JJT EUROPZ.
The London Times has done Ameri
cans a good service and Incidentally
administered a merited rebuke to
European critics of this country by
compiling certain statistics showing the
extent to which the 'divorce evil has
spread In foreign countries. The
Times oalla attention to the tact that
it has been one of the nleasant diver
sions of European newspapers' to ridi
cule Americans on acooant of divorce
scandals made- so prominent In the
press. It is pointed out, at the same
time, that Europeans are Just as great
sinners as the Americans In that re
spect, the chief difference being that
divorces are accepted as a matter of
course in most of the European coun
tries, while In America they are made
the subject of much comment and ad
verse criticism.
The English law does not recognise
divorce, except by act of Parliament,
but decrees of separation, amounting
to divorces In effect, are quite aa com
mon in London as in New York. In
Switzerland, according to the London
Times, forty of every 1,000 marriages
end in divorce. France shows twenty
one divorces to the 1.000 marriages
and Germany comes next with seven
teen. French divorces in 18S4 were
1,447, while in 1808 they were 16 224,
a remarkable increase, that has given
rise to much speculation by the au
thorities. .
While nothing is gained by matching
statistics on this or any other evil.
It Is a little cheering to know that
Americans are not alone in accumu
lating thla form of social error. What
ever the causes, the figures are appal
ling to 'people who still retain the
notion that the marltlal relation carries
with It obligations that should not be
set aside in response to every whim of
either party to the sacred contract
THB PUlfO IS THE FLAT.
Chicago authorities are wrestling
with a case of particular Interest In
volving the rights of tenants and land
lords, tne comfort of neighbors and
a weakness, long recognised, In the
architecture of American houses and
places of residence. Mrs. Daly has
1400 piano and lives in a flat The
piano was moved Into the flat by means
of a block and tackle,' through a side
window which has since been closed up.
Now Mrs. Daly wants to move to
Seattle, whero her husband has pre
ceded her, but cannot get her piano
out of the flat. The doorways, hall
ways, stairways and landings of the
apartment house are too narrow. Shi
refuses to leave it behind and declines
longer to pay rent for the apartment
she Is trying to vacate. The landlord
wants his money and has a tenant
ready to move In as soon as Mrs. Daly
moves out. In the meanwhile the case
Is In the courts.
Every housewife tn the country will
sympathise with Mrs. Daly In her pre
dicament and wish her success. The
women of the country learned long ago
of tho deadly feud bfttweea architects
and the manufacturers of pianos and
other furnltire. Apparently the archi
tect, when employed to plan an
apartment house, make a careful study
of the latest styles la pianos, beds.
iAavenoorte. sideboards and tha tier
heavy equipment of the home. Sup
plied with accurate measurements of
these articles of necessity or luxury,
the architects proceed to draw plans
for windows, doors, hallways, stair
ways and landings, each of which must
be too small by a few Inches to admit
a piano or other heavy article of furni
ture. 8ome real artists in the architect
business will manage to make a door
way look wide enough to pass the
piano, with the door removed, but after
the tenant has bribed the janitor and
removed the door from the hinges, the
piano Is found to be still too wide, by
about an Inch and a quarter. That Is
where the profanity Is usually un
corked.
Mrs. Daly will not have suffered In
vain If out of her contest in the courts
comes a decision that tenants with
pianos have rights in the matter of
wider hallways, doors and windows,
which even the haughty architects are
bound to respect.
HA8TEMXQ THE POSTAL TELEORAPH.
The strike of the telegraph opera
tors, with Its widespread interference
with business, is sure to be a potent
factor in hastening the advent of the
postal telegraph in this country. Noth
ing so much as a sudden stoppage of
service makes people realize the inti
mate dependence of trade and Indus
try upon telegraphic communication
second only to Its dependence upon
the malls.
The business man, the professional
man, and men in every walk of life,
must find themselves set athlnklng by
the strike, of the advantages which the
postofflce enjoys by virtue of being a
department of government and of the
improvement which the telegraph
service would undergo by merger with
the postofflce. The more thoughtful
must wonder how the government
could successfully withstand a tele
graph strike, if It were engaged in
war with another nation, with the
very life of the republic hanging, as
it were, on the .telegraph wire.
The fact is that the government
telegraph is by no means new. or novel
even in this country. During. the late
war of the rebellion a vast network
of telegraph wires, forming a com
plete military telegraph system, was
strung to assist in reinforcing the
army, and the military telegraph corps
was one of the most effective branches
of the service. After the war these
wires were disposed of to the Western
Union, but more recently in the Philip
pines and Alaska, and in the Panama
zone, the government has re-entered
the field of telegraphy.
There is no more reason why the
government should operate a telegraph
service successfully for Its own needs
and for private patrons in time of
war, or In its insular possessions in
time of peace, than It should do the
same thing among all the states at
home all the time. The military
necessity of the government owned
and operated telegraphs in time of
war is obvious and manifest The
necessity of government owned and
operated telegraphs for the protection
of Industry and promotion of commer
cial and social intercourse will be
come more obvious as a result of the
present strike.
ARMY AND NAVY COOKERY.
Some wise man connected with the
War department at Washington has
hit upon a scheme which promises to
remove one of the strongest objec
tions to army and navy life for the en
listed men. Tho plan calls simply for
official recognition of the accepted
adage that civilized man can not live
without cooks and, accordingly, .pro
vides for the establishment of cooking
schools for the army and navy. As
an experiment the army officials at
Fort Riley are not only educating
regular cooks and bakers, but are
drilling the enlisted men In the
science, art, profession, trade, or
whatever it may be called, of mak
ing the seductive plo, broiling the
juicy steak and manufacturing bis
cuits that will not stand the resistance
test essential to high class ordnance.
Reports show that the enlisted men
are taking kindly to the innovation
and the experiment has been so suc
cessful with the army that a similar
department is to be established at the
naval school at Newport
It has taken Uncle Sam a lone time
to learn that low wages and a repel
lant dietary have done more than any
other causes to make army life unat
tractive, so much so that It has been
almost impossible In the last few years
to recruit soldiers for shore service
or sailors to man ships. Veterans of
American wars will tell with possible
boasting of their participation on hard
fought battlefields and of scenes of
carnage they have witnessed, but they
will almost Invariably shudder when
reference is made to the dangers they
faced in the army mess tents. Manv
of them will admit that when choice
mas offered between a conflict with
the enemy In deadly battle and a bout
at the mess table, brave men walked
cheerfully against the enemy's guns,
glad to escape the hidden foes that
lurked In the cook's skillets
The experiments now being tried
are the results of another lesson
taught by the Japanese. Military at
taches of this and other governments
who aoeompanied the Japanese army
in the Manchuria campaign mad
glowing reports of the marvelously
well equipped commissary department
of tha Japanese army. ' Every soldier.
it appeared, understood cooking, and
the meals were at all times prope
cooked,' were cleanly and well served.
The result was aa almost entire
senoe of sickness from digestive
ab-
de-
rJranfeiaeXtU tod ftUaUar
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coiofUlUumwiit
that keep the field hospitals of other
armies well filled.
American soldiers and sailors
should be fed upon properly cooked
food. It Is essential, In the interest
of health, discipline and good morale.
in times of peace Or In war, and no
ticeable Improvement may be expected
when the soldiers and sailors have
learned how to turn the raw material
of their rations to palatable account.
CHILD LABOR AND CHILD JDLEBE88.
Enthusiastic advocates of anti-child
labor legislation may find food for
much thought In the published results
of certain Investigations made by Speed
Mosby, pardon attorney of Missouri, as
to the causes of crime among the youth
of the land. In an article In the North
American Review, Mr. Mosby contends
that most criminals are such because
they have never learned to earn a liv
ing, and he offers the suggestion that
there Is danger of carrying the pre
vention of child labor to a harmful
extent. "Before making it Impossible,"
says Mr. Mosby, "for the youth to ac
quire practical as well as theoretical
knowledge of gainful pursuits, we
should reckon the latent dangers that
lurk within the possibilities of a gen
eration brought up without effective
knowledge of useful work."
Mr. Mosby's conclusions are based
upon statistics secured from the penal
and reformatory institutions of the
country. He shows that of 52, SO 4 con
victs in the penitentiaries of tho coun
try in 1890, 31,426 were Ignornnt of
any trade. In one Institution, vhere
3,154 boys were confined, not on3 had
anv 'knowledge of any trade. Jn the
largest penitentiary In the country,
containing 2,000 convicts, laore than
65 per cent of the prisoners are with
out acquaintance with any means of
living except crime. The general rule
holds, says Mr. Mosby, that criminals
are not made out of working boys end
girls, but out of those who are idle
and whose energy finds vent In mis
chief, which leads to crime.
Unprejudiced students of ouonomlc
conditions, while agreeing with some
of Mr. Mosby's contentions, A'lll not go
with him to the extreme of opposing
all child labor legislation. His statis
tics and conclusions do not weaken
the argument that the young child
should be kept at school and not
stunted by work, but the child who is
ready to learn a trade should not to
prevented from doing so by prohibitive
legislation. There is aa little excuso
for forcing a child Into idleness as
there Is for forcing it to the slavery of
child labor. The danger to the child.
lies in the claims and efforts of ex
tremists on both sides of the question.
THE CASDY CURE.
If further testa confirm' the merits
of the claim made by Dr. Abbott, chief
of the Philadelphia Health bureau,
that the appetites for candy and alco
hol are kindred and that it one is sat
isfied early In life the other Is likely
to atrophy, the entire plan of cam
paign against old John Barleycorn Is
apt to be revised. Dr. Abbott Is so
sure of his ground that he advises
parents to make a regular allowance
of candles to the toddlers and to en
courage gratification of ' the sweet
tooth's demands as far aa possible
through adolescence. He contends
that the appetite for sweets, If prop
erly encouraged. Is natural and whole
some, but when Indulgence in fudge,
sugar plums, all-day-suckers and the
lasting taffy Is denied the harmless
longing becomes a burning, persistent
and irrepressible thirst for booze. In
other words, candy is a cheap form of
temperance Insurance which all pa
rents should take out for their chil
dren. Dr. Abbott supports his claim by
calling attention to the fact that
women are the greatest patrons of the
confectioner and the poorest patrons
of the bars. Ha shows further that
the Turks and other Mohammedan
people live on sweets and rarely in
dulge In Intoxicating beverages and
that the growth of temperance in the
world has been coincident with the
cheapening of sugar. When sugar
was a luxury and obtainable only by
the rich, Intempeiance prevailed to an
alarming extent Now that sugar is
within the reach of everyone, drunken
ness is becoming rarer and may be en
tirely eliminated if the lid la entirely
removed from the sugar bowl.
Of course, the reform advocated by
Dr. Abbott will not be adopted with
out a struggle. Many doting parents
still cling to tha notion that little
Johnnie and precious Susie should not
be allowed to eat candy or any of the
sweet stuff for which they have an in
satiable hankering. It will take some
time to convince them that every time
they give the baby a hunk of taffy they
are gratifying a taste which, If denied,
will grow Into a demand for cooling
beer or for the seductive cocktail. Dr.
Abbott's alleged discovery raises a
question certain to cause more or less
worry among parents The children
will naturally contend that the doctor
la right and will fsel that they owe him
a debt of gratitude. Tha Sugar trust
will also naturally feel kindly toward
htm.
The legislature of Georgia has car
ried out the recommendations of Gov
ernor Hoke Smith for a law disfran
chising negro voters In that state,
Governor Smith is a democrat who has
been mentioned as a possible running
mate for Colonel Bryan on the demo
cratic national ticket and, the leglsla
tare is demooratlo with practical unan
imity. The acUon of Georgia is simply
a part of the generally aeeepted demo-
orath) program for negro dlsfranchlse-
intelligent negroes want to endorse this
policy by voting the democratic ticket
even to show their displeasure over the
Brownsville affair?
Crop reports, railroad earnings and
nnabated activity In every line of
produce, merchandise and manufac
ture form a line of lnformatory read
ing for the American publio that has
a greater Influence than all gloom ra
diating from disappointed Wall street
gamblers.
Prof. 8tarr of the Chicago univer
sity says our army could not stand up
against Japan because our army has
10,000 deserters every year. N But our
army has no deserters worth mention
ing when there's any fighting to be
done.
Georgia promises rigid enforcement
of the prohibition law. We can tell
more about that later by noting
whether the male patrons of Georgia
theaters remain in their seats between
acts.
It is claimed that Edmond Rostand
writes a play every month and then
tears It up. Unfortunately, not many
playwrights are following the tearing
up part of Rostand's laudable example.
Should General Corbln be sent to
congress from Ohio, any comment by
General Miles will be for private cir
culation only, owing to certain postal
regulations.
There is nothing particularly new
in these reports about automobiles
breaking the records. Automobiles
break about everything they go
against.
la It a Natare Fakaf
Brooklyn Eagle.
Tha bear which la reported to be prowl
ing through the woods on Sagamore 11111 Is
brave to the verge of rashness. It Is, so to
speak, taking ita life In its paws.
Grave Problems to Solve.
Minneapolis Journal.
Talk is made of Investigating the Coffin
trust, which is undoubtedly robbing the
dead. Where is the statesman1 who Is
going to solve all this miserable problem
that now confronts usT
Alienee Wm Golden.
Washington Herald.
One thing may be said In favor of old
Rameses' astuteness: If he was a grafter,
he managed to keep people from finding
It out until a long; time after his death,
and the money was all out of the family.
anyhow.
Testing. Prediction.
.Pittsburg Dispatch.
Dr. Blsrirar's prediction that John D.
Rockefeller will live to be over M must
wait for fulfillment before it offsets the
example of those ancient characters who
die in poor houses after using whisky and
tobacco for the greater part of Jong lives.
Knookisg the Coffin Trust.
" Pittsburg Dispatch. '
Report has It that tha Department of
Justice is to go after the Coffin trust. This
la not exactly 'harmonious with a leading
principle In the admlnlatratlon. By at
tacking 1 the combinations which males It
mora costly to live, and leaving that which
makes It more costly to die, a course of
skillful opposition to raoa suicide can be
adhered to.
Blindness of Wall Street.
Washington Post.
The mighty millions of tha United Btates
are happy In their busy occupations creat
ing wealth on a scale never before equaled
In tha world's history. Tha prosperity of
the nation Is not a blissful dream, nor can
It be shaken by a Wall street nightmare.
It Is as substantial aa nature, having nat
ural products for Its basis and tha energy
of 80,000,000 peoplo for Its motive power.
Tha contrast between the majestic, healthy
confidence of the nation and the cowardly
delusion f Wall atreet la a striking and
sarcastlo commentary on the Inability of
the Btreot -to see beyond Its own nose.
An Inalienable Right.
Baltimore American.
Whether the right to go through a hus
band's pockets Is guaranteed by a wife's
marital endowment of all his worldly goods,
or whether It is a constitutional right in
the pursuit of happiness, or whether It Is
Just because she needs the money, snd will
have It, right or no right, law or no law.
this essentially feminine privilege has long
been accepted as ona of the neoeasary
evils of married life. Few men would take
the matter into court, even with a chance
of suocess, because the pocket graft Is
much Cheaper In the end than alimony,
and few courts, with proper regard for
their own dignity would prohibit wlvea
from going through their husbands' pock
eta, slnoe there Is no earthly way of pre
venting them.
FORMER TELEGRAPH STRIKE.
Elements Which Hastened a Peaeefol
Settlement.
Indianapolis Mews.
It Is twenty-four years slnoe the last
great telegraph strike which the Western
iTninn wnn after one month. The strike
came more suddenly than the present one,
and H was more complete except ma in
those days the railroad men were not or
.nit uiil tha ODerators In that service
were called in to help "atart the wheels"
again. In the present instance the rall
nnaratora are oraranlsed and ready to
aid the atrlkers. But wa have the long-
dlatanoe telephone service today, wnicn
did not than exist, and this will, to some
degree, supply urgent publio need. One
thLr.g that hastened the settlement or me
former strike was something entirely un
locked for by the operators. The number
of m'saages offered fur transmission fell
off almost to the vanishing point. People
knowing the Ukllhood of delay refrained
from using the telgraph except In most
urgent eases. The men. however, bad
taken It for granted that the demands on
the telegraph company would be as great
as ever: that the ecmpany. being unable
to transact a telegraph business under its
charter, would be compelled to call in the
man for help. But the publio. Instead of
forcing the laaue in this wise, offered so
few mesaages that the company was able
to set along after a fashion. As the pub
lie continued to show no Indlqatione of de
manding full normal servloe, the atrike
ended la victory for the company. The
same thing U likely to happen now. The
telegraph service Is not like the railroad
service, such that Its oessatk.1 means scar
city of supplies for living. It la more In
the nature of a luxury or convenience than
a Meeaatty. While the Interruption la irk.
some, people knowing that the service Is
uneertaln or subjeot to Indefinite delay, In
stinctively avoid the telegraph and use tne
telephone or the mail a So the preaaure
from the ' Inooovealencea puouo is oem-
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BEKMON9 ROILED .DOWN.
He Is lifted in blessing who lifts an
other's burden.
Only a fool takes experience for a road
Instead of a guide.
The surest way to Impoverish the heart
Is to set It on riches.
The striking sermon is the one that hits
the other sinner hard.
Few things choke syrripathy quicker
than cherished Borrows.
Only those who are not afraid of being
poor really become rich.
All the treasure houses of truth open to
the master key of sincerity.
People who have sympathy for humanity
are not sighing for heaven.
The man with a hot head evens up on
temperature at the other end.
Tou never will make much headway going
at things with the head alone.
The Lord not only loves a cheerful giver)
he loves a giver of good cheer, r -
This world only becomes beautiful as ws
tackle Ite unpleasant' problems. , . : .
It may be better to mark time than to
stand still, but It Is a great sin to do
either when battle or work awaits us.
Cblcago Tribune.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
The Corset trust manages to squeeze out
20 per cent per annum and still maintain
a- square front.
Bhould tha Moors of Morocco Inaugurate
a: "holy war," would the victims exude an
odor of sanctity?
In the traction settlement in Chicago
the city is to receive' JO per cent of the
gross receipts of Its street railways in ad
dition to the regular city taxes.
The delegatea to The Hague peace con
ference ehowed the courage of their con
victions by refusing to adjourn while the
shooting, at Casablanca waa going on.
Trifles like that disturb not the serenity of
great minds.
New York's subway receives a mighty
boost as a sanitarium for victims of
vitiated blood. An expert finds that the
tons of iron dust from hrakes and wheels
Is mighty good for poor circulation. The
expert can call on the company and name
his salary any day.
The whole Damm family, made famoua
by cartoonists, answered roll call in a
New York court the other day and so
rllod the dignity of the magistrate that he
adjourned to a private room to ahed his
chuckles. There were three slsteru and a
brother In the mlx-up. When the magis
trate had Ironed his face he apoke aoberly
and shooed the bunch P. D. Q.
Of .-JoIhefflA
Piano Economy Comforts You
1X1VT LET IT PASS. BUT MEET IT KQVARELY IY IIUYINO A
AT THE GREAT THIIITV-TH1K1) ANNUAL MID
SUMMER SALE OF A. HOSI'K COMPANY
BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
.AtlVweV -
recS;orC yTcne of those who M
,6t wlltVnuVeale ha. been completed and then say: I
wish I. too had bouiht onell included In this sale.
anywhere at any time.
S10-SENDS A PIANO HOME-S10
New S.275
BELL PIAJiO
Km
KNIGHT BRINKERHOFP
ei A
PIANO for
READ ABOUT A FEW OF OUR OFiEKInuj
cW2rsjs ,wr." .rsssR x $
WAY at II 10; a beautiful VOSB upright, ebony case, at $ 126. a
wivn tr rov a very Dretty walnut case, at 1175.
W ?htse S5ce Ind pianos we have mentioned do not begin to tell
of all the bargains we have on hand. Columns of newspaper space
wou d be necessary to speak of each. Suffice It to say that repre
Tented In this sale Is nearly every good and rel able piano nufac.
?ured sid each Instrument at a bargain price. If you ever intend to
own a Piano now Is the time to select one. There is no JockeylnE
with flKurei in this store, no exaggerating the quality of Instruments
We toll you the absolute truth about each. Each Piano is marked
with Its one lowest price. If you live out of town, write to us. You
will get the same treatnyent as you would get did you call on us per
sonally. We sell bundeds of Planoa each year to people we have
sever seen. '
A. HOSPE COMPANY. 1513 Douglas St.
k'e ExncoBt TltaiUaC d4 ItaualrLuai
Anume No Risks
Sa.vc a. Diamond
Dy that I mean, pay a small amount
each week and In a short time Its
yours you'll not miss the money and
the Investment is far better than a
bank.
A WEEK WILL DO
$20
$1.00 a Week Bays
This Ladles' IVatch
In
SALE PKICK. SIS.00
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Collector (exhibiting his curios) I'd glv
you thla figure, only It's so ugly I hardl)
like to.
Young Lady I'd love to have it. It would
always remind me of you. Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Oh, Harold," cried the fair Gwendo
line, "what haa happened? Did pa put
his foot down when you told him of our
love?"
"No, dear one," replied Harold with a
pnlnful, reminlHcent guep, "lie put It up."
Kultlmore American.
"I don't think she'll ever marry him,"
Said Mrs. Henpeek. "She quarrels with
him so and Is so domineering that ."
"Sho Is?" Interrupted Henpeek. "I'll bet
they've been secretly married alreadyl"
Philadelphia Press.
"I wish to goodness," said the girl, "thati
It would stop raining." rl
"This rain," replied the man, "Is Just V
what the farmers have been praying for.
It will mean a great deal to them. With
out It their crops Would have failed."
"But It takes all the curl out of my
halrl" Chlcug-o ' Record-Herald.
i "The- elopement la off for the present,"
said the girl, firmly.
"What's the matter?" asked the young
mtm in the automobile; "I'm here on time,
the minister is waiting, your parents have
kept their promise not to be In the way.
Haven't the reporters showed up?"
"Yes." pouted tho ulrl, "but the camera
man didn t come." Philadelphia Ledger.
. . MOTHER.
Baltimore Bun.
No sweeter woman ever trtl the earth
Than mother!
A flower of sweetness, to her soul at blrtn
Hands of her Infants clung with baby
And futle'eyes looked up into her face,
And little lips of love In childhood bliss
Felt the soft roseleuf of her velvet kies(
With happiness too much for tongue to tell.
They wandered trustful In her beauteous
spell!
No gentler spirit ever dwelt with men
Than mother!
Bringing the old time's sweetness back
Wlth'charm of nature, patient heart-con-
No grander courage In a stronger soul,
8-rene above disaster and content
With the sweet love she gathered as she
FronTlhose who drew about her day by
In thecalm beauty of her mother-way!
No sweeter name, no sweeter spell of life.
Than mother! .
Down the dark valley of the years of strife.
O mothr, mother, we who go our way
As men found fighting where the lightnings
Lookback with longing to your arms of old
And dream tho dreaming of their sweet
And kn'ow'your goodness and are glad to
On the6soft pillow of your breast to steep!
S300
New 3O0
IMPERIAL PIANO
For 9165
$200
