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Charh-s C. Rose water, general manager
of The Hee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn. Bays that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of July, 1907, was as
follows:
1 86,840 IT 36,700
1 36,190 II 36,480
I 36,180 II 96,610
4 86,600 10 36,530
I 36,840 11 3S,SS0
38,490 tl 87,870
7 36,600 38 36,670
S 36,900 14 36,530
1 86,810 26 36,430
10 86,340 It 86,400
11 86,430 17 86,700
11 86,330 21 36,400
II 36,340 II 41,370
14 36,800 10 3880
15 86,780 II 36,890
II 36,690
Total 1,138,330
Less unsold and returned copies . . 10,336
Net total 1,131,986
Daily average. 88,193
CHARLES C, ROSEWATBR,
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(Seal) M. B. HUNOATE,
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WHEN OUT OF" TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; tbe city tem
porarily should kaT The Ilea
mailed to them. Address will bo
changed aa often aa requested.
Evidence la accumulating that tbe
president ia getting tired of resting.
The telegraph companies refuse to
believe that President Small is big
enough.
The army worm has Invaded Oyster
Bay. Probably Just called to report
to the commander-in-chief.
Mr. Bryan has been in four railroad
wrecks, but in only two presidential
lection wrecks.
The country at large ia showing no
disposition to Interfere with Wall
street's desire for an occasional panic.
Anyway, no politician except Mr.
Bryan has declared that he does not
understand what Secretary Taft
meant.
After the ticket Is made up the next
task will be to get the rival "press
bureaus" to work together for the
nominees.
A glance in the stables shows that
all the republican entries for the pres
idential sweepstakes are wearing the
Roosevelt colors.
Mr. Taft makes a concession to the
standpatters when he agrees to stand
hitched for eighteen months before
starting revision.
The dimensions of the new battle
ship to be built by England Indicates
that it will be about the site of the
state of Delaware.
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The country will be glad to know
that Colonel Goethals Is using steam
shovel Instead of typewriters in dig
ging the Panama canal.
"Has the laborer no brains?" asks
Mr. Hearst's paper. Not if he accepts
the kind of labor doctrine preached
by Mr. Hearst's editors.
A Now York court has decided that
a bigamist must support both wives.
That Is a clear case of making the
punUhment fit the crime.
Russia and Japan have made a
treaty which they will doubtless ob
serve until they can borrow enough
money for another war.
Mr. Harrlman must be sequestering
at some distance off the railroad line.
He has not given out a newspaper in
terview for about a week.
Incidentally, Wall street Is awaken
ing to the fact that the country Is
learning the difference between confi
dence and a confidence game.
"What the Human Race Owes to the
Moon" is the title of a magazine arti
cle. Can't think of anything, unless
It's that old green cheese bill.
Colonel Henry Watterson says the
country Is easily humbugged by politi
cians. That may be, but It Ill-becomes
the colonel to boast of his work.
The straw vote man Is starting up
early for the campaign of 1908, but
the wind may change the direction of
the political weather vane on very
short notice.
Ex-Senator Allen's oft-threatened
suit to knock out the direct primary
law has not yet materialized. The
former populist senator must have
moved a reconsideration when he got
Uto eaalon with his law books.
roOLISH FACTIONALISM.
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There will always bo differences of
opinion between members of every po
litical party. There Mil always ba
conflicting aspirations among those
who wish to serve In public office.
.'There will always be rival political
J clubs so long as there is political work
to be done. There will always be fac
tionalism within every live and grow
ing political organization.
But there is a factionalism which is
fruitful and a factionalism which la
foolish. There is a factionalism which
accomplishes something for the good
of the public or for the purification of
the party that vindicates its existence.
A factionalism that works a reform or
extinguishes a graft, or divides on any
legitimate issue on which an honest
difference of opinion exists as to what
Is best to be done, needs no defense
or apology. A factionalism, however,
which rests simply upon a determina
tion to rule or ruin, which rends a
party asunder on purely selfish lines,
which opposes candidates not because
they are disqualified or undeserving,
but because someone else supports
thern or because they do not belong
to a particular club, is foolish faction
alism running riot. Such foolish fac
tionalism has no regard for the publio
welfare nor for party success beyond
the distribution of the spoils. Such
a foolish factionalism would sacrifice
principle to opportunity and would
divide the forces that must be united
to achieve final victory at the polls.
It is needless to say that these re
marks have a particular application
Just now to local conditions in the re
publican party In Omaha and Douglas
county, i There is no real division be
tween the rank and file except that
which is artificially fomented by short
sighted factional leaders. The rank
and file, which is Inspired only by de
votion to republican principles and by
a desire for republican success, now
more particularly with a view to get
ting ready for the big fight of 1908,
will have to ignore outgrown factional
lines and place on the ticket only
candidates who add strength to valid
claims for preferment.
a school ron RAILROAD men.
The traveling public will warmly
commend the action of a score of high
officials in railroad circles who have
Joined in a plan for the establishment
of a school of railroading to educate
men needed in the operating depart
ments of the big systems of the coun
try. It is asserted that the railroads
of the country need fully 200,000
more men to meet present require
ments and it is claimed that the new
plan will fit men, already physically
acceptable, for employment In many
positions requiring additional forces.
As a special inducement to young men
to take up this work it is proposed
that the tuition be refunded by the
railroad company with which they se
cure employment and give satisfac
tory service for one year.
The new venture la in response to
the recognized demand for more and
better trained men for the railroad
service. Officials of the railroads
fully appreciate the losses suffered by
the railroads and by the public
through the use of "green" hands.
The officials have always had the ex
cuse that they were compelled to use
Inexperienced help because of the
short supply of the men trained in the
work, and the public has been forced
to accept the excuse, while taking the
risk of loss on account of the raw re
cruits. It Is not to be expected, of
course, that men can be taught by
mail to run locomotives and operate
trains, but railroad officials are con
vinced that the rudiments of railroad
ing can be taught so as to enable men
to become expert In their work in a
short probationary term of service.
The presidents of the Rock Island, the
Northwestern, the Santa Fe, the Erie
and other roads have endorsed the
plan and agree that students who pass
a satisfactory examination shall be
given prompt employment and prac
tical trial by one of the railroads, with
a permanent position if hla work is
satisfactory. The significant feature
of the plan Is the indication that rail
road managers have become impressed
with the absolute need of more trained
labor.
VKS0VXCE8 THK WHIPPING TOST.
The delectable relic of barbarism,
tbe whipping post, has been In vogue
in Delaware for more than a century
without much protest until now, when
Warden Meserve of the county work-
bouse at Newcastle has resigned be
cause of his unalterable opposition to
this method of punishing offenders
against tbe law. Warden Meserve has
held office for several years and has
applied the lash to the bleeding backs
of many prisoners, but he has finally
sickened of the task and asked to be
relieved with this explanation:
I have made a very careful and unbiased
study of the effect of the whipping post
on men of thla class, and have come to
the conclusion that It Is all bad. It brings
out In a man all that Is revengeful and
hurtful, and he arrays himself against
law, order and society.
Students of criminology will prob
ably continue to be divided in their
opinion of the whipping post as a
remedial institution. It will be con
tended that for wife beaters, assailants
of children and other criminals of that
class, the lash seems the only form of
punishment, as such offenders are too
hardened to be affected morally by It
and the pain Inflicted acts beneficially
In making them wary of repeating
their offenses. This argument, how
ever, does not appeal to enlightened
people, who will be found on the side
oi Warden Meeerve'a conclusion tbt
the whipping post Is more degrading
to society than It Is to Its victims.
The best illustration of the degrad
ing effects of the whipping post is
found in the fact that while the law
was originally Intended as a means of
punishment of wife beaters and of
brutes who had assaulted women or
children, it has been employed In Dela
ware as punishment for petty offenses
and on boys and men capable of suffer
ing tortures from Its degradation and
who might be reformed by other
means.
The whipping post is wholly at
variance with the twentieth century
theory of punishment a relic of bar
barism that ought to be eradicated.
THE LAW A AD THE FAN.
Every now and then New Jersey
arises to the emergency and shows
that some news except bad news can
come out of that state, the mother of
law-defying corporations. The news
in question relates to a little proceed
ing in the Newark police court in
which a healthy majority of the male
population of America will feel a keen
personal and abiding Interest. Like
many great epoch-making affairs, this
Newark case had Its origin In a trivial
incident. A plain working man, name
not given, was up on a charge of abus
ing his wife. The prosecution had
presented its case and it looked like
one of those "$60 or sixty dayB" prop
ositions, until the magistrate asked
the prisoner If he had anything' to say
for himself. He had. He explained
that while he was charged with the
offense of wife-beating, his real of
fense rested in the fact that he was an
inveterate and Incurable base ball fan.
With this opening the accused con
cealed nothing. He told the Judge
that he earned $18 every week and
never missed a day's work. When the
whistle blew at noon on Saturday he
hastened home, gave his wife $17 in
lawful coin of the realm and then hus
tled down to the ball grounds, where
he got a choice seat on the bleachers
and saw the game from the prelimi
nary practice to the throwing of pop
bottles and cushions at the umpire at
the close of the last Inning. Then he
went home, every Saturday afternoon,
to go through an experience that made
the mobbing of the umpire look like
child's play. His wife was not a fan
and she always proceeded to tell him
in language of disagreeable pungency
and unmistakable clearness what she
thought of a man who would waste
his time and good money at ball
games.
One fateful day the wife went so
far as to deprive him of his supper and
to hurl words at him until he fell Into
a troubled sleep. Burke had made a
single, stolen second and gone to third
on Dooley's infield sacrifice. It was
the ninth inning and the score was
tied. Then Kelley lined a "bute"
down past first base and the game was
won until the wooden-headed umpire
called the hit a foul. The defendant
in the police court case was the first
man over the ropes and had the um
pire by the throat, ohoklng him for
fair, revelling In the keen Joy of tak
ing a hated human life; when he woke
up and found he was rapidly placing
his wife in a position where she could
never roast him again. The next
thing he knew clearly he was in the
police station with a charge of wlfe.
beatlng opposite his name on the ser
geant's blotter.
That's all there Is to it, except that
the wise and upright Judge, who goes
to a game occasionally himself, ac
cepted the prisoner's story, ruled that
he was within his rights and could go
to a game every Saturday, regardless
of his wife's protest. All of which
vindicates one of the most prized priv
ileges' of the American man. Tho
rooter has a right to root, married or
single.
ABDICATION OF T8l AN.
Other nations of tbe world that have
been predicting, with either hope or
fear, the early awakening of China,
may look for a speedy fulfillment of
the prophecy if the announced abdica
tion of Tsl An, the dowager empress,
at the beginning of. the Chinese new
year is verified by the fact. The qual
ification is warranted, for rumors of
her abdication have been rife for years
and at times seemed to have been Jus
tified, but the strong-minded old
woman has always refused, at the crit
ical time, to step aside and allow oth
ers to manage the affairs of the Chi
nese government. The present an
nouncement, however, bears all the
earmark of authority and widespread
satisfaction will follow, if she keeps
her promise to yield the reins to the
legitimate emperor, Kwang-Su.
The civilized world doubtless rates
Tsl An below her Just measure, for in
many respects she Is the most remark
able woman in history. For half a
century she has ruled an empire of
400,000.000 people with an Iron band,
brooking no opposition, elevating pup
pet emperors and pulling them down
at will, defying all the powers of Eu
rope, matching them in Intrigue and
diplomacy, keeping her nation in a
state of nonprogresslveness, lopping
off liberal heads as they appeared and,
all In all, making a record unparalleled
Jin history. She was of lowly origin.
a slave girl who became a royal concu
bine In the palace and rose to be the
power behind the throne of the Man
chug; finally, upon the death of tbe
emperor, assuming power and author
ity never before possessed by any Chi
nese ruler. A foe to national prog
ress, she wrested the throne from
Kwang-Su, the legitimate emperor,
years ago because he had become Im
pressed wlta the beoessitj of Institu
ting reforms that did not suit her
Ideas. She la suspected of being re
sponsible for the Boxer uprising of
seven years ago, and It was the failure
of this movement that first weakened
her remarkable power over the Chinese
people. Every step toward progress
since that time has been over her op
position. The development of China with the
retirement of Tsl An should be rapid.
The nation is already awakening from
its long lethargy to the possibilities of
progress along modern lines. It has a
civilization of great antiquity, a liter
ature and a philosophy older than
Confucius and Menclus. The Chinese
people are temperate, patient and in
dustrious, with every promise that
they will be quick to catch step In the
march of civilization as soon as they
are relieved of the coercion of the
throne.
THE "IDEAL" THEATER.
Arnold Daly has been in the theater
business a long time and his ideas of
what should constitute an ideal thea
ter are good, so far as they go. He
has been making a study of the Ideal
theater, with ideal plays and all that,
from his viewpoint, and proposes to
try the experiment of running a thea
ter that will have ho orchestra, In
dulge In no advertising, do without
the claque and present none but plays
of the artistic and intellectual quality,
without the elaborate scenery, tanks,
sawmills, railroad trains, race tracks
and other essentials of the too com
mon thrillers of the modern stage.
All of which, as has been intimated,
may be good, as far it goes, but we
suggest that Mr. Daly has planned his
Ideal theater too much from the stand
point of the playwright and the man
ager and with too little thought of the
patrons. There Is room for vast im
provement in front of the footlights
before the Ideal theater can be more
tangible than an actor's dream. The
comfort of the patron ought to figure
in the ideal plan. An enlargement of
the box office, so that two or more
ticket sellers could come to the rescue
of the very tired young person who
now keeps would-be patrons waiting
in line for half an hour or so would
help some. Then, suppose some thea
ter manager should decide to put In
seats large enough to allow a man or
woman outside the welterweight class
to sit in them without tortureT With
that kind of a seat the space between
the rows might be made wide enough
to allow the ingress and egress of late
comers without a crush of corns and
the ruin of gowns of those who had
arrived at a decent hour. Then, how
would it do to have a system of con
veniently arranged trap doors through
which the pests who Insist upon going
out between the acta might be dropped
without inconvenience to other guests?
It would be a glorious relief, too, to
have a program on which the ink had
dried and which gave some hint of the
cast of the play in the first eight or ten
pages, with the corset ads made an
incident rather than the main feature.
Other improvements will suggest
themselves to patrons who think about
their past experiences. Clearly, Mr.
Daly should not complete hla plans for
his ideal theater until he has spent a
few nights out among the audience
and studied its annoyances and needs.
It is charged that Secretary Taft
submitted hla Columbus' address to
President Roosevelt before he deliv
ered it. Some plan of that kind ought
to be adopted with Attorney General
Bonaparte's speeches.
With all those appointments made
by Governor Sheldon to go Into effect
September 1, there cannot be much
left at the pie counter and It should
be safe to resod the front yard of the
executive mansion.
Senator Foraker has gone to a great
deal of trouble to explain that he dis
agrees with almost everything said by
Secretary Taft in his Columbua speech.
We all know that before Senator For
aker told ua.
The Milwaukee Sentinel attempts
to palm off a story about a woman try
ing to commit suicide by swallowing
two $20 bills. It won't do. A woman
with that much money would not want
to die.
Tammany proposes to back Louis
Stuyvesant Chanler for the democratic
nomination for the presidency. Chan
ler is almost as well known as Judge
Parker was at the time of his nomina
tion. A Massachusetts physician claims
that he bleeds his patients Just as he
did sixty years ago. The average phy
sician has adopted more modern meth
ods of accomplishing the same result.
Attorney General Bcnaparte refers
to himself as "the very unworthy bead
of the Department of Justice." Oh,
well, there's hope for a man so long
as he is finding it out himself.
Berlin has it "on the highest possi
ble authority" that Japan is going to
buy the Philippines for $50,000,000.
Berlin should follow China's example
and quit hitting the pipe.
It develops that the big corporations
had oo objection whatever to the Elk
Ins law so long as tbe federal authori
ties did not attempt to enforce It.
Ia tho Presidential Claaa.
Washington Post.
Vncle Joe Cannon hasn't saved any wait
ress from drowning, but that kick in the
ribs he gave a mad dog last week proved
that ha, too, haa in him tha stuff that
heroic presidential oaodidatea are made of.
IIJTDAT ETIMET9.
Religion makes do man; but w'en man
make de religion Lawd help de worl'l
Da's trouble 'nuft In dls worl' ter keep a
man gwlne so fas' de rheumatism don't
stan' no show wld 1m.
Many a man knows Msse'f ; but de reaaon
he don't proflt by de knowledge Is he too
wise ter give hlsse'f away.
Batan keeps busy six days In de week, en
even w5on he go ter sleep In church, on a
Sunday, he still got one eye open.
No man In de worl' would live In de Sor
rowful country ef he could have ten min
utes' talk wld a cltlsen f urn Hallelula Hill.
Some folks what all time hollerln" for
"de or-time religion' never had enough re
ligion In de ol time ter fan de feathers er
a angel's wing. Uncle Remus Magaalne.
Eri'LAIl SHOTS AT TUB Pt'I.PlT
Philadelphia Press: If the preacher who
declares there are forty roads to hell will
look around a little he may find people who
are traveling all of them at once.
Brooklyn Eagle: The good news comes
from the west that & lot of thrt Tnrllnna
are turning Baptists. Shows they mean to
make the acquaintance of water at least
once,
Chicago Record-Herald: The preacher
who wants John D. Rockefeller to con
tribute 1100,000,000 to the cause of religion
must have an ldoa that money talks aa
forcibly for salvation aa for other things.
Baltimore American: A priest in Wis
consin has started a badly needed reform
by forbidding the throwing of rice at wed
dings. There is not a grain of sense In the
practice, no matter how many there may
be in the rice.
Springfield Republican I A New York
clergyman preached directly at John D.
Rockefeller In the letter's church at Clove
land Sunday on the one hand Urging a
gift of HOO.OUO.OOO for the evangelising of
the world, and on the other hand denounc
ing the current attacks on corporations. He
was warmly congratulated by the rich man,
who manifested pleasure at the sermon,
but every one seems to be in ignorance
whether it woa the proposed gift which
enthused him or tho other feature of the
sermon.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
With the assistance of an Ohio court
Hetty Green adds $1,000 to her pile. "She
us haa, gita." j
The poet who sang of "pathos drawing
tears from angels" probably had in mind
the Standard OH plea of Injured innocence.
The northeastern states have not had a
good shower of rain for a month and are
reported dryer than Kansas with the lid on.
The Hunchakists of New York, got such
an unexpected hunch from the police that
blackmail by rlb-iUcklng suddenly ceased
In the metropolis.
The moat picturesque feature of the
scenic routes on Nebraska prairies is the
procession of farmers in touring cars in
specting their crops.
Modern art is nothing if not progressive.
A Collier artist pictures a summer mer
maid in the act of drawing inspiration and
ice cream soda from the small end of a
cockleshell.
Mulal el Hafld may have all the quali
fications of a propnet, but if he fools around
the machine gunB of the French he may get
a revised edition of tho connecting link
of bis name.
The meanest man has appeared in Ohio,
He pumped a bicycle across tha continent,
Z.600 miles, Just for the fun of prosecuting
his wife, who shook him for a saner and
handsomer man.
Sentiment is a minus quantity In New
York City. Old Kara Meeker, the Orgon
trailer, on reaching town was denied the
privilege of parading down Broadway with
his oxen and prairie schooner. Ezra
should buy an automobile and get in tha
push. '
The advertising agent of a railroad in
Pennsylvania pulled off the only gleam of
humor observed in the state since Penny
packer retired from business. In a catchy
handbill announcing four prominent speak
ers at a county fair this postscript appears
In red Ink: "During speaking all ma
chinery will stop except windmills."
FAMILY L1FU MENACED.
Easy Divorce Breaking- Down Civil
isation.
Dean Mathews in Leslie's Weekly.
ThtTfl Ia a. tendency to renlare tha Idea
of romantic love that gives beauty to life. I
regret this because it la likely to break
down our civilization and the sanctity of
the family. If the relations of men and
women are to be merely those of anlnials
then we are going backward In our evolu
tion. I do not see any help for any Chris
tianity that does not face this problem
squarely. If Christianity cannot grip hold
of this family problem and get the spirit
of Christianity into the lowest group of
our civilization, then society is doomed
and marriage ties will be "turned into mere
conventionalities and relations respectable
enough, but Increasingly un-Chrlstlan. Di
vorce is increasing with alarming rapidity.
The conditions are much the same today
as In the days of Jesus, and He forbade
divorce, although It had become so com
mon that a man might divorce his wife
merely because she was not a good enough
cook. So with us. the family has become
. m conventionality and a matter of
personal convenience. There are many ,
young men and women wu b.
up with the idea that marriage, while It
may not be simultaneously, at least may
be successively, polyandrous and polyga-
Beauty for American Cities.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A city Is not built in a day, nor in a
hundred years. The great sight places
of Europe have been slowly and labori
ously wrought out by far-sighted men.
and are admirable only after many cen
turies. But American cities have money
and the experience of Europe to guide
them, and now,' with the awakened in
stinct of civic beauty urging thera on,
they may accomplish the wonders of
Paris and Berlin and Vienna possibly
even of Florence and Rome In a period
short in comparison with the term of
a city's life.
Foreign Critics Hard to Please.
Springfield Republican.
Herr Bebel's reasoning must be some
what Involved to enable him to reach the
conclusion that the Haywood trial "has
shown all the world that in the United
States liberty, law and justice exist only
on paper." That Is-exactly what Bebel
would have told the International socialist
congress bad Haywood been convicted.
Evidently he has determined to say it any
way, regardless of Comrade Haywood's
fate. It is pretty hard for America to
please such a critic
Cvmforts of a snriilas.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There has been an increase of more than
$10,000,000 in the treasury's Internal rev
enue receipts during the last year. What
with the lntornal revenue receipts and
tha oil Ones Unci Sam ought to be able
to get along without worrying much
about coal bills during tha next year or
two.
V. MIL
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SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
The love of truth goes before likeness to
truth.
The poverty of life is due to the things
we miss.
Every life may be known by the way It
leads.
Qod Is not In the closet If he is not on
the street.
Ornamental piety UBually adorns an
empty heart.
The beautiful life wastes no time looking
for a mirror.
When faith gets to dreaming there soon
Is something doing.
If you have faith you will see something
glorious in every face.
You may know the greatness of anv man
by the way he treats a child.
Some think they are full of faith hncaima
they turn their backs on the facts.
You cannot keep life sweet and wholp-
some by taking all your salt on Sunday.
-rten the best way to understand your
brother is to look in the face of your
Father.
There would be fewer m-avers for h
moval of mountains if all were called by
vir ngni names. Chicago Tribune.
NATURE LOVERS.
Debt We Owe to Tho.e Who Truth-
munr i-oriray Outdoor Life.
President Roosevelt in Everybody's Maga
zine. We owe a real debt to the men who truth
fully portray for us, with pen or pencil,
any one of the many sides of outdoor life;
whether they work as artists or aa writers,
whether they care for big beasts or small
birds, for the homely farm land or for
the vast, lonely wilderness, whether they
are scientists proper, or hunters of game,
or lovers of all nature which, indeed,
scientists and hunters ought to be. John
Burroug and John Muir, Stewart Edward
White, and Frederic Romtngton, Olive
Thorne Miller, Hart Merrlam, William
Hornaday, Frank Chapman, J. A. Allen,
Ernest Ingersoll, Wltmer Btone, William
Crane, George Shlras to all of these and
to many like them whom I could name, we
owe much, we who love the breath of the
woods and tho fields, and who care for
the wild creatures, large or small. And
the surest way to neutralize the work of
these lovers of truth and nature, of truth
In nature study, is to encourage1 those
whose work shows neither knowledge of
nature nor love of truth.
The modern "nature faker" Is, of course,
an object of derision to every scientist
worthy of the name, to every real lover
of the wilderness, to every fuunal natural
ist, 'to every true hunter or nature lover.
But it Is evident that he cornpetely de
ceives many good people who are wholly
Ignorant of wild life. Sometimes he draws
on his own imagination for his fictions;
sometimes he gets them second-hand from
Irresponsible guides or trappers or Indians.
For You, Mrs. Family Woman, The
A. Hospe Company's 33rd Annual
Midsummer SaJe Where Depend
ability a.nd Economy Meet.
In the first place, do you want a piano do you need a piano? If your
home Is still one of those cheerless abodes which lacks one, these questions
are superfluous for of course you want one, of course 70a need one.
Well, then, Mrs. Family Womanyou who havo so capably managed the
economies of the household and know that sooner or later that l'luno must
come doesn't the economy of this salo appeal to you? Doesn't It mean some
thing to you that, should you Induce your husband to buy now, the saving
would be from $50 to ISO? Think over these questions us logically aa yuu
have thought over others affecting the welfare of the family and you must
arrive at only one conclusion that it is better to make the Piano invest
ment now, even though a sacrifice is necessary, than wait until auothur day.
You need the Piano, the children need it; yea, and the husband nm da It. too.
What other Influence could be of such geiiorul benefit to the family as
music?
And in addition, Mrs. Family Woman, consider this every l'luno in this
great stock is a fine, dependable Instrument for the amount at which it ia
sold and no matter whether you pay 500 or leas than $100 you will posi
tively get more value for your money than you could possibly get anywhere
else.
A good story bears constant repetition. So It Is with the story of the
Hospe great 83d Annual Midsummer Hale. The good story we have told and
retold this month is of new 2D0 Cramer Pianos for 1KU, new 400 Decker
Bros. Co. Pianos for $275. new $250 Shullhoff Planus for $105, besides num
bers of very special bargains tu new Kimball, Cublo-Nelson. Wescr Bros.,
Bush ft Lane; in fact, almost an unlimited variety of well-known makes.
The good story is also of bargains In used Pianos. Kvery day finds some
thing new and different on our wureroom floors. Never before have w
had such an accumulation of really deslruble fine Pianos.
This is your opportunity, Mrs. Family Woman.
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DOMESTIC 1'LEASA.MHIHS,
"I never could respect my huslmnd If
ho came homo in an Intoxicated comiIiihhi. '
"1 don't bluiue you. Tho man ho .I n s
such a thing certainly lacks judgment. ''
Chicago Rccoid-lleiuld.
"Tho way that grass widow Is net lug1
looks as though she were usinK her fas
cinations to put something by lor a laii.y
day."
"Well, what of It? Isn't It quite natii:.il
for a grass widow to mako buy whlK: Iho
sun shines?" Baltimore American.
"Darllnfr," ho said, "whnt would you il.i
If I should die?" Tell me." "I'leuse d"ii t
suggest such a thing," sal.! his wife. 'I
can't bear tho thought of a stepfuiln r
tor our little boy." Brooklyn Life.
"How beautiful this landsoapo Is hy
moonlight! 1 think I could be happy fur
ever amid such surroundings." '
"The surroundings are not nltojrethir to
my liking, Mr. Spoonamore. l'lcane talo
your arm a ay." Chicago Tribune.
"Would you love me better," ask. .1 H e
Sweet Thing, "If I were very wealthy ""
"Sure," responded the young ? tei,
promptly. "I'd have more time." Ch v,
land Leader.
Scrllmlngton I think I'll write a sonm t
to MIhs 1'echls.
Wise Now, don't you do It. It may turn
her uirnlnst you.
SrrlhhiiiKton Why, I thought she like.l
poet ry.
Wise So she does. Philadelphia Press.
The old woman who lived In a rn
nodded sympathetically. "I know Just hmv
Ohio feils." she remarked: "flic hiv s
many favorite sons she doesn't know ' at
to do."
Herewith she watched the campaign villi
Interest. Judge.
"No, Geoffrey." Protested the bnuCfil
g1rl,"you mustn't do thnt. I hove nev. r
allowed a young man to put his unit
around my waist."
"That lielnir the case. Owendolen." hn
answered, sartlv but, with Inexorable fine
ness, "you will have to take your head '''.
my shoulder." Chleniro Tribune.
THE LOST C1IOIID.
Adelaide Anne Proctor.
Seated one day at tho organ,
I was weary and 111 at ease.
And my fingers wandered Idly
Over the noisy keys.
I know not what I was playing.
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a grand amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight
Like the close of angel's psalm.
And It lay on my fevered spirit
Like a touch of Infinite culm;
It quieted pain and sorrow
Like love o'ercomlng strife,
It seemed a harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
It linked all perplexing meanings
Into one perfect peace.
And It trembled away into silence,
As If It were loath to cease.
I sought, but I seek It vainly.
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the orsu
And entered into mlno.
It may bo that death s bright nnvl
Will speak In thut chord ugnlu:
It may be that only In heaven
I shall beur thut grand ames.