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STATEMENT OV nttCC I.ATION.
Ptate of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss:
Charles C. Rosewater. general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
worn, says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally
Morning. Evening and Bunday Bee printed
during the month of September, 1907, was ai
follows:
1 38,700 16 88,650
3 36,840 7 36,690
1 36,300 II 36,680
4 38,980 It 36,600
1 36,350 20 36.290
36.340 tl 36,970
7 36,840 II. 36,320
I 35,600 23. 37,360
36,140 14 36,830
10 36,620 SB 36,380
11 36,470 36,930
12 3670 17 38,600
13 36,030 tl 36,660
14 31,610 tl 36,663
II 34,400' 10,. 3M90
Total 1,093470
Less ursold and returned copies. 8,887
Net total , ....1,08383
Daily avers 36,119
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and swora
to before me this SOln eay of Septem
ber, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNQATE,
Notary Publlo.
WHBJf OCT Or TOWN.
abeeribera leaving; the elijr tern
porarlly satoald have Tat Bee
nailed to them. Address will be
changed aa often aa reqaeeted.
The lack of money appears to be
' the root of all evil in Wall street just
now.
According to a fashion note,
women's skirts are to be shorter this
year. Same with men's pockets.
After a centiry" -ol .conservatism,
almost equal to that of Philadelphia,
St. Louis is becoming real flighty.
When Mr. Harrlman declared that
money is a liquid he must have been
thinking of the Wall street kind.
There seems to have been a flare
back in the turret of the Lewis Stuy
vesant Chanler presidential boom.
Only, remaining chance to register
comes next Saturday. It is then or
not at all. No registration, no vote.
Cranberries have been advanced 10
per cent in price, but they will have to
grow wings to catch. .p''wlth the tur
key. Alfred Austin is said to be at work
on a poem of 1,000 stanzas. So far
as Americans are concerned, he may
take his time.
The speed of those balloons was not
so remarkable after all when it Is re
membered they were getting away
from St. Louis.
As county, coroner Harry B. Davis
will attend strictly to the duties of the
office and that is the kind of a coroner
Douglas county wants.
The price of peroxk'e of hydrogen
has 'been1 advanced 200 per cent. None
but wealthy brunettes can hereafter
afford to become near-blondeB.
Blame for the New York traction
mandal is now placed at the door of
William C. Whitney, who has been
dead for several years. Naturally.
It is stated that nioequitoes kill
200,000 persons every jear. That
Brems to furnish an answer to the an
cient query, "Oh, death, where Is thy
sting?"
David Warfield is said to have re
fuged a contract calling for $1,000,000
for ten years' service. Warfield is a
good actor and has always had a good
press agent.
At tho close of the recent repub
lican legislature the democratic World
Herald said editorially that it was
"the best Nebraska ever had." An
election is now on and it wants to take
it all back.
By starting the next international
balloon race at Omaha the aeronauts
would have a little longer course to
cover before being required to descend
in order to avoid drorplng Into the
Atlantic ocan.
"Democracy Up to Date" is the sub
ject of Mr. Bryan's, latest political ad
dress. Democracy always claims to
be up to date except on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in Novem
ber, when it is almost invariably de
layed by a landslide.
"John Strange Winter" announces
btr retirement from authorship be
cause Bhe is making so much money
out of the manufacture of toilet lotlous
that she has not time to devote to lit
erature. It U too bad more authors
cannot take up toilet lotions as a side
line.
A TIMELY STtP. .
Tho banking, commercial and Indus
trial Interests of the country must find
hearty patlnfactton In the timely ac
tion of the clearing houtte committee
of New York City toward - systematic
plan for purging the banking Interests
of New York of its speculative clement.
The cheering information . is offered,
plentifully corroborated, that the bank
ing situation is rapidly returning to
normal and that confidence Is being
restored. The clearing house commit
tee has rendered a most valuable serv
ice to the country by' coming to the aid
of certain big financial Institutions
weakened by bad management and by
giving assurance that the interests of
depositors would be secured.
The greatest servlco of the commit
tee, however, was in fixing conditions
upn which this aid was to be tendered
that bad management ehould cea?e
and the causes of It eliminated. In
other words, the committee agreed to
aid only such institutions as would re
move their officers who were engaged
in speculation and would give assur
ances of a return to the recognized
principles of safe and sane banking.
Tho acceptance of these conditions
has done much toward strengthening
the financial situation. The New York
Journal of Commerce, a most con
servative spokesman of the financial
interests, discusses the situation in
these words:
These, Important developments all center
around a single point, namely, tho culmi
nation of the policy that has been an un
fortunate development of the last decade,
that of buying the control of a bank, then
putting up the stork representing that con
trol as collateral for funds to buy control
of another bank and continuing the pro
cess with banks and trust companies so
that the final result Is a pyramid con
trolling "chains" of financial institutions
the funds of whose depositors thus become
available In the form of loans, for tho
private or company enterprises of the
shrewd manipulators. There la no denying
that the crisis that the clearing house
banks have come together to avert has
been a serious one; but the clearing house
officials are positive they will be success
ful and will at the same time succeed In
crushing out an evil that they have been
powerless to deal with until now. But now
that the opportunity hafe presented itself
they will, It is no overestimate to say, muke
the cure a complete one.
The abuse which the clearing house
committee has undertaken to abolish
has been of long standing In New York.
The practice of allowing regularly or
ganized banking institutions to pass
into the control of speculators, pro
moters of great corporations desirous
of UBlng it to serve their purposes has
been in violation of the duty banks
owe their depositors. The personal in
terests of bank directors and officers
Bhould not be allowed to conflict with
the rights of the depositors to full pro
tection and fair treatment.
The operations of F. Augustus
Helnze, C. W. Morse, E. R. Thomas
and others, who have been forced out
of the embarrassed New York banks,,
furnish illustrations of the evils of the
"pyramid" banking system. These men
were interested in the Copper trust,
the Ice trust, the Steamship trust, the
Telegraph trust and other combina
tions They Instituted the plan of es
tablishing a "chain of banks," more or
less interdependent, using the funds o
one to buy control of another, and so
on until the pyramid was complete.
Then the funds of the depositors, in all
these banks, were at the mercy of the
directors for any speculative purposes.
The result has spelled financial dis
aster to many captains of finance, but
the remedy now adopted promises to
prove most effective and lasting.
With the elimination of the specula
tive interests, the banking system of
New York may speedily become what
it should be, a directive force in the
buBlneos of the country. A return of
the eastern banks to a basis of sound
principle and upright methods'. Inde
pendent of the sinister Influences of
special Interests, will be a most potent
factor In the complete restoration of
public confidence.
H'JOFS llf 7FE SOUTH.
The Fort Worth Record takes ex
ception to a recent editorial in The
Bee asserting that one of the prin
cipal reasons why the south finds diffi
culty In securing or keeping immi
grants is its failure to pay the scale of
wages offered in other sections of the
country. The Record insists as fol
lows: In the north the farm laborer works for
from JIM to fa) a month, together with his
keeping, but his Job lusts only about aix
months because his services are not needed
during the long, cold winters. In the south
the aanio farm . hand would get lilgher
wages than this and hla work would last
nearly all of tho year because of the mild
climate permitting almost constant employ
ment. Bo it la in all other lines of work.
Wages are higher than they are In the
north. Living conditions are more inviting
and the progressive citizen who locates in
the aouth sticks here because he can do
better than in any other section of the
courtry.
The mere assertion of the Record
that "wages are higher than they are
in the north" does not prove anything.
The fact remains that farm; laborers
are paid from $30 to $50 a month In
the north, find employment all the
year round, and have a choice of occu
pations. Day laborers, on railway and
street Improvement work, draw from
$2 to $3 per day and have all the work
they can do or care to do without
being subjected to the lines of social
distinction drawn against the work
ingman In too many sections of th
south. This prejudice, it is pleasing to
note, is disappearing rapidly in the
south, but enough of it still exists to
make the new comer feel more or less
uncomfortable until he becomes accli
mated. The wonderful latent resources
of the south offer many inducements
to the immigrant, the worklngman
and the honie&eeker, and the develop
ment must come, but U v-111 be when
the south realizes it 3 handicap, tho her
itage Of slave labor, and shows a wil
lingness to compete on the same level
with Other sections for the services of
high-grade, competent workmen.
.VI IM IDA TtnX.
It. is reported that when the peti
tions were being circulated in South
Omaha asking the county board to
submit to the voters the question of
consolidation many people solicited to
elgn "declared that they would like to
do so, but would have to be excused
because they feared to expose them
selves to retaliation by the office
holding gang.
This throws a sidelight on the situa
tion In South Omaha, where, whatever
sentiment has been worked up against
annexation, has been brought about by
self-interest, misrepresentation or In
timidation. It Is notorious that of
the petltlon-in-boots sent down to Lin
coln to make an anti-annexation
demonstration half the excursionists
were dragooned into going by open or
covert threats of reprisal or disfavor
with politicians then in control of the
city government and the police board
and the school board. With the ma
chinery of the municipal administra
tion in their hands, including the tax
commissioner's office, the "antls" hold
clubs which can be effectively used
and which they are not hesitating to
use. Business men and home-owners
who have taxes to pay and others who
will have to get along with the city
authorities in case consolidation is not
brought about naturally hesitate to an
tagonize publicly the bosses who might
make it decidedly uncomfortable for
them.
The existence of such a condition
ought to be one of the strongest argu
ments in favor of the consolidation
proposition, which offers the only way
to escape this reign of intimidation.
When Colonel Bryan was making his
first campaign he used to tell his audi
ences, "Wear the gold badges if you
must if It will help you keep your
Jobs but when you get to the polls,
be a man and vote your convictions."
Wherever intimidation Is practiced to
coerce voters against their true Inter
ests it may be necessary for some to
lay low, but they should resolve firmly
to throw off the shackles by voting
right at the proper time.
ENGLAND'S T A BIFF FAILURE.
The new tariff law Just put into
force by the commonwealth of Aus
tralia furnishes the final blow to the
plan of Joseph Chamberlain, put on
foot four or five years ago, to wean
the English colonies away from the
principle of protection by making Eng
land itself protectionist, with a special
preference' in behalf of the goods and
products of the colonies. The Cham
berlain party went to defeat on the
issue at the polls, and now' Aus
tralia has completed the discomfiture
of the English protectionists by mak
ing a tariff schedule that in effect bars
English manufacturers out of the Aus
tralian market. Under the new Aus
tralian schedules the import on manu
factured goods is placed at 10 per cent
or more above the prohibitive point,
and then a 10 per cent concession
made in favor of English-made goods.
On blankets, for example, a duty of 50
per cent is laid, with a 10 per cent re
duction in favor of English-made
blankets. This furnishes no particular
consolation to the English blanket
manufacturer, as the remaining 40 per
cent effectively keeps him out of the
Australian market. The London
Times, apparently hoping against hope,
says.
We fear It must be admitted, even by
those who are most earnest In promoting
commercial Intercourse with the common
wealth, that tho course taken by Aus
tralian statesmen is scarcely calculated
to achieve that result. We can only hope
that British goods, though the advantage
which they receive as against foreign onee.
Is in many cases almost derisory, may
be sufficiently In demand to prevent the
volume of our Australian trade from un
dergoing appreciable diminution.
The entire purpose of the new tariff
is apparently to encourage manufac
turing In Australia. The duty on soap
and toilet articles has been advanced
from 25 to 50 per cent. All goods
made from leather have come under a
tariff that is simply prohibitive and
the duty placed on woolen goods is suf
ficient to cause Australians to estab
lish mills at home instead of shipping
their fleeces to England and buying
the manufactured product in return.
It appears that American manufactur
ers will have to Buffer a considerable
loss of trade by this new tariff, partic
ularly in the line of vehicles and agri
cultural Implements, of which Aus
tralia has heretofore been a large
buyer in American markets. The duty
on the.se products has been advanced
to a point that will eventually shut
out imports and encourage the Aus
tralians to make their own goods of
that character.
The net result, therefore, of the
Chamberlain policy, is to leave Eng
land more firmly committed to free
trade than ever, and to convince En
glishmen that Chamberlainium is hope
lessly difficult of application. The
Englishmen are also learning that,
while the colonies still express and
profess love and loyalty to "the mother
country," there is precious little sen
timent In trade.
An American consul reports a boom
in the Central American demand for
American typewriters. Since the re
cent peace protocol the Central Amer
ican revolutlonibts will have to do
their fighting with paper wads.
The Business Men's club of Mem
phis, a city rated by the last census
with the same population aa Omaha,
has a handcoinc new club house of Its
own. Tho commercial clubs of Kan
sas City and several other citleB neor
Omaha's claps are housed In their own
buildings and a home of Its own Is the
eventual goal of the Omaha Commer
cial club, the only open question being
how long to wait for It.
The expenses of the delegates to
Tho Hague peace conference aggre
gated $2,970,000, of which $523,600
was spent on 317 dinners. More than
I, 000,000 words of press matter con
cerning the conference were sent out
and the longest speech, containing
II, 736 words, was mado by Mr.
Choate, the American delegate. No
nation has yet reduced the amount of
1U military budget.
The Railway Age lnslnts that the
public reaps no benefit from reduc
tions of railroad rates, but that tho
money thus saved is pocketed by the
Jobber, the merchant and the shipper.
Accepting that as true, it would be
taking an excessive profit from one
pocket and apportioning it among
three, which is going some in the di
rection of more general distribution.
The democratic organs must be
mighty much afraid that the vote sup
posed to be controlled by the brewerw.
and liquor dealers will go to the dem
ocratic candidates for office. Yet at
the same time these identical demo
cratic papers are telling the liquor in
terests how much better off they would
be with democrats holding down the
offices.
A committee of the Real Estate ex
change will report on the merits and
demerits of the pending bond proposi
tions which the voters of Omaha are
asked to ratify or reject. Let the real
estate men look into these questions
without bias one way or the other and
irrespective of whether they involve
the purchase of real estate or not.
Tho World-Herald has been
awarded a bouquet at an anti-annexa
tion meeting at South Omaha for its
"fairness" to "antis." This means
that the World-Herald is straddling,
as usual, and playing both ends of the
game at once.
The kind of "nonpartisanshlp" that
would give a democrat preference over
a republican for the supreme bench ia
the same kind of nonpartisanshlp dis
played by the democrats when trying
to get hold of every other elective
office.
The last time one of our democratic
city councllmen was elected to a county
office bo held on to both offices and
drew two salaries. "The taxpayers
should take no chances on a duplica
tion of this sort of democratic hogglsh
ness. " '"
Miss Jane Addams'J advises club
women to declare their independence
of fashions. Every club woman is in
dependent of fashions,, but no one of
them is going to be outdressed by her
neighbor, if she can help herself.
Long; Felt Want Passed I p.
Chicago News.
President Roosevelt declined to take home
a live bear cub as a present for the child
ren. Yet a hearty diet of office seekers
might have rendered the animal entirely
harmless to members of the family.
Another Doubt Banished.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The telegraph informs us that a speech
which Mr. Bryan delivered in New York
the other night Indicates that he will be a
candidate for the presidency next year.
Let us hope this may clear away any
doubts there may have been In the minds
of the people.
Characteristic Hot Air.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Bryan says the large metropolitan
dallies are open to the highest bidder. The
huge bid of an Inflated currency didn't
catch any of them, and the silver barons
failed to get the support of a newspaper ,
of any consequence. Mr. Bryan's charge
Is the result of disappointment In hia at
tempts to foozle the press. The leading
newspapers have always sized him up cor
rectly. Mr. Root's Unlet Labors.
New York Bun.
Had Mr. Root, aa secretary of state, done
no more than establish new and closer
relations between this country and Latin
America, his country for that alone would
owe him a great debt of gratitude. It has
all been done so quietly that its value
Is little understood by the public and leaa
appreciated. It Is even restful to see
good work done in such a wuy, itd Is
reassuring to know that good work is
possible without exploding of fireworks,
shooting of guns, and beating of tomtoms.
I'kHSOAI, SOTES,
M. Nelidorf. the president of Tho Hague
conference, suggests tliut another confer
ence be assembled In twelve years. Why
this hurry?
King Alfonso bads a clmrmed life. The
bombs buret without hurting lilm and the
worst effect of his automobile dropping
through a bridge is a ducking.
At tho express Invitation of the queen
of Roumanla, J. W. Lawson, a blind man,
JO years old, living in Leeds. England. Is
going to Bucharest to act as Instructor In I
cabinet making In the settlement for the
blind which the good queen is establish- I
Ing there. j
Prince Ouatavus Adolphus of Sweden is
very much Interested In the proposal of his
countrymen to. compete for the cup which
America now holds. It is said that he sum
moned William Olnnon. one of the pro
moters of the idea, to the palace nnd prom
ised him a lurge subscription.
Sarah Bernhardt, n denying a rumor tint
she will soon retire from the stuge. huI
to an interviewer: "This may, of course,
be my last season, as rumor says, io. I
am an old woman and my life is in 1 j.l u
hands, but I ahull play until my di-atli,
and the fate I hope for ia the death Sir
Henry Irving died."
Rear Admiral H. W. Lyons wlj has just
been relieved of the command of the Mire
Island navy Jurd and granted u month's
leave of absence, pi lor to being pla ed on
lue retired list becauw of age, is one of
tho hcrO'-s of the disastrous Bamoan hurri
cane and tidal wave, tn which several war
ship lit the different powers were lost in
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HOt n A noi'T F.W YORK.
nipples on the I'srrest of l.'fe In the
Mrt ropolle.
The nnnunl repnit of the New York
t'lty Department of Taxis and Assessments
discredits the common assumption that per
sonal property Oocs not contribute Its
proper share of expenses of the city gov
ernment, rndoubleilly a vast amount of In
visible property escspes taxation in the
greater city, and scores of supposedly
wealthy ni"n "swear off" a portion of their
assessments, an avenue of escape provided
by law, jet thl aggregate of personal prop
erty Is 8.2 per cent of the total assessment,
a proportion considerably higher than that
of any other c'.tv In the empire state. But
these figures do not tell the whole story.
Bank shares are not Included, as they pay
a fiat tax of 1t cent, amounting last year
to almost S-t.fxo.tva). Trust companies are
not Included, as they also pay a Mat tax,
which, however, all goes to the state,
though nearly all of such companies are In
New York City. Then, too, mortgages on
which the recording tax lias been paid,
half of which tax goes to the stat-?, are
exempt from assessment as personal prop
erty. The total amount of this specially
taxed ieraonal property Is some $700,000,
wero It on the personal list.
This year for the first time the de
parttnent makes public In its report the
total of the land values In the city and
each borough. And while buildings are
not assessed as such, their value Is the
difference between what a parcel of land
would sell for if unimproved and what It
la worth with the Improvements. The fol
lowing totals nro Riven:
Land value per capita.. , t S3
Improvement value per capita.. fii4
Total assessed land value '. 3.5S7.r,1.R04
Total real eslato assessment 6.704.009.6W
With the flag of Ireland snapping haught
ily from Its foretruck and a yellow poodle
barking a greeting to the Goddess of Lib
erty, the Irish Monarch. 4.300 tons, and the
pride of the Kmerald Isle, has steamed Into
port, sugar laden, from Java.
For more than a year the 400 footer, with
Its Irish officers and a crew of thlrty-flve
Chinamen, had been wandering over tho
; seven seas. It was afire once. It ran
l through a monsoon which blew the blouses
off eight Chl-'men and picked slivers off
the deck.
It fell afoul Of a hurricane In the Indian
ocean and was all but sent heavenward by
a cyclone off the cape. It picked Its way
through a forest of waterspouts In the Went
Indies and ripped up a few spouters which
got In Its path.
But never once did the Irish flag fail to
flaunt Its yellow and green from the mast
head Its yellow harp upon an emerald
field.
In Java It caused consternation. Natives
trained their field glasses upon It. Shippers
and merchants, not so familiar aa persona
elsewhere with the history of Robert Em
met and St. Patrick, asked whence the ship
steamed.
"Sirs," said Captain George Gordon Gra
ham of Cork, "the Irish Monarch came from
Ireland, and it flies the flag of what will
be the greatest nation In the world, Eng
land willing."
And It will fly it, says he, as long aa
It plies the main, which, weather favor
ing, he expects to be thirty-five or forty
years.
"No, sir; the Irish Monarch Is not the
Irish navy." said Captain Graham, standing
on the bridge alongside the yellow poodle,
which he proudly said was second In com
mand. "It is a plain, e very-day ship, able
to take care of Itself wherever It goes,
arid It files the finest flag that was ever
sewed together. Why have I ho Irishmen
In the crew? Do you see the officers? Well,
they'ro Irish, ain't they?"
A "aplte" fence, or, rather, a wall erected
In Ix-fferts' park, Brooklyn, Is tho subject
of much discussion in that locality. John
Johnson built a two-family house In Thir
teenth avenue right on the boundary of the
lawn of Joseph Mann. Mr. Mann's house
is at the corner of Seventy-fifth street and
he has a lawn and flower garden of which
he ia proud. While the Johnson house waa
being erected the garden of Mr. Mann suf
fered by building refuse accumulating In
the yard. Mr. Mann complained to Mr.
Johnson, but the latter said lie could do
nothing. When hla house was completed
he moved In and rented the ground floor.
Mr. Mann then had a concrete fence
erected twenty-six feet high, shutting out
the light and air.
Kver since the Egyptian obelisk in Cen
tral park waa treated with a coating of
paraffin, many years ago, in the hope of
staying the ravages of the weather on the
soft and porous atone, that method has
been more or less in favor as a preserva
tive of sandstone structures In this climate.
At tthe present moment the crumbling
gravestones in old Trinity church yard
are being given a coating of wax with the
samo end in view. Many of the memorials
are brown or red stone and those of porous
structure have suffered most from the
weather. Workmen heat the surface to be
treated and then cover It with melted paraf
lin. When tho wax becomes cold the men
rub It smooth and It repels rain. The mon
ument to Alexander Hamilton la one that
has been cleaned, restored and treated In
tills way. Skilled workmen have recently
been transforming some of the headstones
which after a century or more had lost
nearly every trace of tholr original records.
The nearly obliterated letters have been re
caned and deepened and the material hoe
been polished and then covered with hot
paraffin.
"Kurd and Polack and Lett and Hun,
Wallachian gypsies. In their red sashes;
strange peoples babbling a hundred lan
inUMjes, cargoes of spice from the Indies,
suKur and coffee and ivory from China,
milk from Denmark, rugs and drugs and
silks from Singapore, fully 1100,000,000 worth
of merchandlbe a month all cast In hetero
genous confusion and tumult by a thousand
ships Into that hungry, eager mouth, the
port of New York." says the New Broad
way Mugazine. "Warships, heavy with
menace, steam slowly up the Narrows, vis
itors from Russia, Germany, France, from
the yellow eastern seas; ferry bats splash
ing their Mti:ooth way across river and har
bor, tuns plying criss-cross like clucking,
crazy hens In the choppy waters; a string
of freight cars, t u strings, fifty strings,
go floating by; a big liner, black with
travelers, docks ut its North river pit-r;
oyster boats bob in the Gansevooit market
hUHin; Massachusetts fishermen In the East
river cluster about the Fulton stre-t slip;
coast wiso steamers buck away from their
mjorlngs and fkiat outward; there, on the
Brooklyn shore, the greatest warehotir.-s In
the wot Id welcome t lie commercial booty
of the earth 30.Ml,W0 tons of it a year!
"And wheat from tlm great western prai
ries moves through these Narrows to sup
ply the whole world with energy, and cat
tle by the tens of thousands and provi
sions by the tons! Oil from the Texas and
Kansas fields, bound for London and Am
sterdam: machinery for digging ditches la
Arabia and Panama: typewriters for Per
sia: phonographs for I lie idle lords of
Mozau.hlnue: cash registers for the Boers;
tlirevhing machines fur Cape Town, llre
ia the aally port of the American invasion."
Drams Lin at the Horn.
Wabhlngton Post.
In oilier wolds. Governor Hughes sees no
objtctioa to his supporters riding oil his
band wagon, but tliey should not expect
him to blow the big horn.
NATURE PROVIDES
FOR SICK WOMEN
a more potent remedy In the root
and herbs of the field than was ever
produced from drugs.
In the (rood old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers few drugs were
nscd ia tnedioinee and Lydin. K.
PinUhain. of Lynn, Mats., ia her
study of roots and herbs and their
power over disease discovered and
;ve to the women of ihe world a
remedy for their peculiar ills more
potent and eflicaelous than any
combination of drug.
LydiaE. Pinkham's
is an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable there peutio valua
During its record of more than thirty years, it long list of actnal
cares of thoe serious ills peculiar to women, entitles Lydia E. Pinkham's
vegetable compound to the respect and confidence of every lair minded
person and every thinking woman.
When women are troubled with irregular or painful functions.
weakness, displacements, ulceration or Inflammation, backache,
flatulency, general debility, indigestion or nervous prostration, they
should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound.
No other remedy in the country has such a record of cures of
female ills, and thousands of women residing in every partof the United
States bear willing testimony to the
nam s vegetable compound and what It has done for them.
Mrs. Pinkhara invites all sick women to wrte her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health. For twentv-flve years she has been advising
sick women free of charge She is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E Pink
ham and as her assistant for years before her decease advised under her
immediate direction. Address, Lynn, Mass.
BAR REFORMATION.
Utah Treasure Caloric Fired from
Within.
Tittsburg Dispatch.
At a recent meeting of the American Bur
association a report on professional ethics
dealt severely and urgently with some of
the practices by which attorneys swell their
Income. The practice of briefless barristers
In drumming up cases where they scent
probable litigation was strongly repre
hended. It was urged that this was de
moralizing and discreditable to the profes
sion, Inconsistent with Its Integrity or dig
nity and should be sternly repressed.
All this Is Indisputable. The "ambulance
chaser" who may beat the news of an acci
dent to the home of the victim; the police
court lawyer win drums up fees from tho
flotsam and Jetsam of the night's haul of
a city, and other equivalents of the bar
are unedlfylng. But It Is worth while to
remember that these ore obscure elements
of the profession, struggling for a living
nnd making perhaps an unherolo choice be
tween these methods and more or less gen
teel starvation.
If the reformers of the bar wish to place
their professional ethics on the highest
plane, they must not direct their attention
exclusively to the shifty methods of the
lower strata. The demoralization Inflicted
by the gain of a hundred dollars by an am- i
balance chaser" Is infinitesimal beside that
which comes from the $260,000 that some i
eminent and learned counsel will get from
a big trust for showing It how It can evade
the law with practical injustice and proba-
oie impunity. The gifted attorney who,
when one corp irate practice has been de-
clared Illegal, turns his talents' to Inventing
another method tc accomplish the
same
illegal purpose, does more to lower the pro
fession, by every other standard except that
of dollars and cents, than the police court
lawyer who solicits the retainers of the
anonymous world.
Furthermore, when we consider the real !
ethical advance of th nrofesstnn mimt n,.t
its theory revolutionize the purpose of prac
tice? If It Iks trm that members of the bar
are officers of the court to aid It In securing
Justice. Is It not the essential deduction
that their effort should be the securing
of Justice, and not the earning of rich
fees?
For there Is nothing that tends to 1
lower Justice In the general estimation
morn thou the belief that success before
the law can be Influenced by the possession
of tho largest purse, and the employment
of Hie highest priced counsel.
Hlttlnr the Pace.
Baltimore American.
vt tin nie army omcers aoing Blunts on '
horseback, the navy commanders '"skin
ning up" ropes and the department em- I
Dloves in WashlnBon roller-.k.tino.
in Washington roller-skating to
mnr piuurv ui uunnieee, ins
government i
is pitching Into work with a atrenuoslty !
w htrh out mu it I,., .i.
: - - - w,cIDroppin on the leaves below-
I.usitanla to keep up with the procession.
Visible Wheat Jars Speculators.
Pittsburg Despatch.
Computations of world's shortage In the
wheat crop have been routed by the ap
pearance of 70S carloads of the actual com
modity at Winnipeg. That amount of
"visible supply" Is quite shocking to the
gentlemen of the Chicago pit, who trade
mainly in wheat not in sight.
35rd Anniversary
Piano Sale
A. Hospo Company
33ri
Friday and Saturday we will give special attention to our
Player department. A straight discount of 10 per cent on every
new Player Piano, Outside Player, Automatic Organ, Etc.
The Player Piano has come to stay. It liaa taken deep hold of the people
You buy not only the piano, but alao the ability to play It. We have perfected
Piano Players In the Krakauer. Melville Clark. Kimball, Kingsbury, Weaaer Bros.,
Htoddart, etc., etc. The Player Piano costs from 450 to 850. It la eold either
for cash or on moderate monthly payments. We guarantee the lowest prices in
the United Stats, besides our Thirty-third Anniversary fcouvenlr of 10 per cent
off on all new instruments of this kind during our sale. If you wish to limit
your Investment to a smaller sum and have no piano in your houtte now we will
fix you up a fine combination with some good medium-priced regular i.'lano and
an outside Piano Player. In this sale we will diapose of all the Angelus, Apollo
Kimball and other outside or cabinet players returned from rental stock and exchanged
on Player Pianos. Hplendld instruments. OriK'nallv eohl at $2r0 up to l.tuo lt
best of condition now.. Will be sold at $iu. 7fi, 9 i 00, 12S, tloU and 1175 Vasy
payments. We will alao Include a small library of up-to-date new muaio with
each instrument. Come in and hear them anyway. Surely there ia no reason why
you should not own this splendid aourci of amusement, recreation and education
if you really want It.
Be sure and c&ll this time.
A. Hospe Co.
1513 Douglas Strett
33ri
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LYDIA E. PINKHAM
Vegetable Compound
wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pink-
FI.ASIIE3 Or tCW
B'lxirterx met the returning delegate to
tho peace consross.
"Did you muzzle tho dogs of war?" they
asknd him.
"Naw," he said, with some asperity, "we
couldn't even muzzle each other." Phila
delphia 1Cdger.
"Young Rhymer seems to think lie owns
Miss Prettyface since he apostrophized her
in hla poem."
"He bus a right to think to. Isn't an
npostrnphe the sign of the possessive
case?" Baltimore American.
"Of course he has barrels of money now.
nlthouRli early in life he had nuite a
checkered career."
"Well, no one need complain of a check
ered career In the beginning so lonn as
It's exchequered In the end." Philadelphia
Press.
"Is she an active member of the. New
York smart set?"
"No, she's too hopelessly conservative."
"Wljat do you mean by that'.'"
"She's only leen married once." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Knlcker I believe the office should seek
the man.
Bocker Yes, but we won't be really
happy till the flat seeks him. New York
Run.
"It's somewhat odd that a tailor will
send his customers trousers on credit."
"Why shouldn't he If the customers are
reliable?"
"Because no matter what the customers
are, trousers on credit are always breeches
of trust." Baltimore American.
Mrs. Bubbuhs Breakfast won't le ready
for twenty minutes yet, George.
Mr. Hubbubs What? I thought the cook
had everything fixed.
Mrs. Bubbubs So she has: everything ex-
Cert that new "Instnntjaneoos hrpalrfnsf
food," Philadelphia Press.
"You may say what you like about old
Hunks, but I know him to be a man that
studies to please "
"Shucks! He's the most cross grained,
111 conditioned old"
"Bo kind enough not to Interrupt me. I
was going to say I know htm to be a man
who studio
to pleaae himself, and no.
body else on
earth. Chkago Tribune,
OLD OCTOBER.
James Whitcomb Riley In Home Magazine.
Old October puit nigh gone,
And the frosts is comin' on
Little heavier everv rt.jv
klka our hearts Is thataway!
Leaves Is changin' overhead
Back from gran to gray and red,
Brown and yell ?r, with their stems
LooHenin' on the oaks and elms;
And the balance of the trees
Git tin' balder every breeze
Like the heads we're scratehln' on!
Old October purt' nigh gone.
I love old October o,
I can't bear to see her go
HeeuiH to me like losln' some
Old-home relative or chum
P(-a" like sorter settln' by
Some old , friend 'at sigh by sigh
""'",." " J.ZV,a
Into everlastln' night:
Hlckernuls a feller hears
inauun aown is more ime tears
I love old October so!
Old October kncks me out!
Can't tell what it is about
I sleep well enough at night
And the blamd -st appetite
Kver mortal man possessed
Last thing et, it tastea the best
Walnuts, butternuts, pawpaws,
'lies and limbers up my Jaws
Per real service, sich as new
Pork, spareribs and sausage, too
Ylt, fer all. they's somethln 'bout
Old October knocks me out!
JJrd
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0 Special ffop
Saturday
Dining Room Chair, like cut,
with brace arm, long post in
back, cobbler's seat (fhfh
and well-finished, (P
price, each yyJ
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Miller, Stewart S Beaton
413-15-17 So. 1Cth Ot
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