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4' THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBKK 27, 1907. 1 Tiie Omatia Sunday Ber i FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEH. VICTOK nOSKVVATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha I'ostomce as second class matter. TEKM3 OF FLI'.SCRIPTION. Dally liee twlthnut BtmUsv), one rcar..f4.n0 Daily iirfi and Bunlay, one year 600 riunday lie, one year Saturday Kue, one year LW HELiVKRED H CARRIER. Daily lies (liicliKlliii Hundayj, per eek..lSo Daily live (wltnout Sunday), per week. .IOC Evening Lioe (without Huntlay). per week he EvnnliiK liee (with hundayj, per week...No Address ail complaints of irregularities la delivery to City Circulation L.pareL Ol'FK.'EB. Omaha The Hee Building. Boulh Oinaha-Clty Hull Hulldhif. Council bluffs 11 Scott Street. Chicago io4o I nlty Hulldlng. New York 1308 home Life Insurance Bid. Washington 7P5 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPuNDENCki. Communications relating to news and edi torial t. .tter should he addressed, Omaha liee. Editorial Department. RK.Viil TANCE8. Remit by draft, expreRB or postal order ray able to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, esrept on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION. Btaie of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss: Charles C. Roswater, general manager cf The Uee Publishing Company, being duly worn, says that the actual number n, full and complete copies of The Dally Mvrnlnfc, Evening and Sunday Bee printed urtrlnir the month of September. Vt. was as follows: i 1 88,700 1 88,850 J 38,640 17 8,690 36,300 18 36,680 4 38,980 19 36,500 5 36,350 20 36.296 6 38,840 II 38,870 7 38,340 ' 22 38,320 S 35,600 it 37,360 36,140 24 36,830 10 38,830 26 88,380 11 38,470 2. 36,930 12 38,270 37 36,600 It 36,030 21 36,660 14 36,610 29 36,659 36,400 10 36,890 Total 1.093,470 Lees utiaold and returned copies. 9,187 Net total Dally average 1,083,583 36,119 CUABLE3 C. ROSEWATEH. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before ma this Join uay of Septem ber, 1007. (Seal) U. B." irUNGATE, Notary Public. WUEN OUT OP TOWJT. Subscribers leaving? the city tea porarlly should ' have The Be nailed to them. Address will be changes as often aa req.ue.ted. The New York clearing house la also cleaning house. Call money la bUII a little hard o hearing In i Wall street. Wall street Is learning that confi dence is best maintained by punishing those who misuse it. An Indiana man gave a hypnotist $600 to make his wife Insane, but it poly resulted in mailing her mad With the return of Governor Shel don from hla southern trip Lieutenant Governor Hopewell may feel ' himself relieved. The Knickerbocker Trust company of New York Is to be reorganized and strengthened. ' Going into long pants, as it were. An automatlo typewriter has been Invented, but it will not look natural In the office unless it knows how to chew gum. The Department of Justice has dis covered the existence of a Spice trust. There Is a variety of reasons why it ehould be ground up. George Iernard Shaw says he la go ing to write a comic opera. Any opera that Shaw writes will be comic, no matter what he labels It F. Augustus Ilelnze would have dominated Wall street all right, ac cording to hla original plan. If his money had only held out. Former Mayor Schniltz of San Fran cisco has finally landed In the peniten tiary. He will not ask for a second term when his time expires. It is to be noted that Chairman XIayward of the republican state com mittee Is attending strictly to business Without any blowing of horns. t . Mr. Harrlman says that he has "lost Interest" in the Illinois Central. He appears to have lost some of the prin cipal, too, as well as the interest. I President Stahl of the National Farmers' congress Insists that farmers handle only untainted . money. Let them be equally particular about eggs and butter. Mr. Rockefeller's contention that he la a servant of the public la open to Question, as the public does not ap pear to be able to either stop his pay or discharge him. The people of Nebraska trusted the republicans last year and had every platform promise, fulfilled. It Is an axiom of business that a satisfied cus tomer will come again. Those South Omaha "antls" must be thoroughly alarmed over the growth of consolidation sentiment. That is Quite evident from their reckless appeals to Ignorance and prejudice. Taken altogether, the ticket pre sented by Douglas county republicans this year Is so far superior to that put up by the democrats that no Intelligent voter should have any hesitancy In choosing between them. Postmaster Oeneral Meyer la going to change the names of all poet office that sound slangy. Tin Cap, Tex.; bhlnbona, Ala.j and Skldoo, Pa., have already been given new name. Cal ifornia may as well prepare to drop I'uba Dam from Us vocabulary. WORKS RATHKR THAN WORD. The democratic campaign managers are trying to coddle the labor vote by a pretended contrast of platform decla rations upon which democratic and re publican candidates are running in Ne braska this year. The democratic platform has been loaded full with a lot of honeyed words promising support for various measures, presumed to be of Interest to wago earners, but which are In no way state issues and which cannot be directly or indirectly affected by this election. As against these empty offers of democratic sympathy, the republicans have works to show which should ap peal most forcibly to Intelligent work ingmen. The recent republican legislature put on the statute books of Nebraska several laws of vital Importance to wage earners, repeatedly promised by the democrats, but never delivered by them. The workingmen of Nebraska have Governor Sheldon and the republican legislature to thank for the abolition in this state of the $5,000 limit to re covery for death losses. This legisla tion for the first time In bur history entitles the widow and children of an employe killed by accident traceable to neglect of hla employer to mako good the real loss as assessed by a Jury in excess of f 5,000. The workingmen of Nebraska have the republicans to thank for a new law on the statute books relating to employers' liabilty corresponding with the employers' liability law previously enacted by congress. By the terms of this enactment common carriers are henceforth deprived of the defense of fellow-servant neglect In personal In jury cases, and responsibility of fellow-workers bars recovery only in pro portionate degree. The workingmen of Nebraska have the republicans to thank for a new child labor law, which, while more stringent than The Bee believes neces sary, is nonetheless calculated to keep out of ihe ranks of wage earners im mature boys and girls who should be at school. This Is supplemented, too, by a more effective compulsory educa tion law, which raises the age limit of required school attendance. The workingmen of Nebraska have the republicans to thank for respond ing to thelr demand for a fireman's double-shift law by which the hours of consecutive service of the men in the Omaha fire department have been limited to half of the twenty-four each day. If works count for more than words, every wage earner In Nebraska la un der moral .obligation to endorse the record of Governor Sheldon and the recent legislature by going to the polls next-week and voting the republican ticket. SPANISH WAR PENSIONERS. The annual report of the commis sioner of pensions contains a hint that the pension division of the government service will soon be out of business on account of the death rate among civil war ' veterans. During the last year 31,201 survivors of that conflict died and the net loss on the pension roll was greater than for many years, notwithstanding the fact that many new names were added under the new service pension law. The number of pensioners remaining on the roll at the end of the fiscal year was 967,871, the smallest since 1893. "Every year," declares the pension commissioner, "now records a vast harvest of deaths among the survivors of the civil war, and all too soon the last man who answered to the call of his country In that great, conflict to keep the union whole will be gathered to his com rades." ' Another feature of the pension com missioner's report will also cause some surprise, and serve to discount the pre diction that there will soon be no'busl ness for the Pension department Ac cording .to the report, already 24,000 participants in the Spanish-American war have secured places on the pension roll and a large number of applications are pending for pensions for survivors of that little war. The surprising fea ture ia the large percentage of pensions compared with the number of men actually engaged In battle and also the fact that at the beginning of the war, when call came for volunteers, the physical examinations were to be so rigid that the danger of a pension roll for causes other than actual Injuries lu battles would be reduced to the minimum. , The Fifth army corps, which as saulted Santiago, had only 17,000 men In It when It sailed from Tampa and all told only about 350,000 men served In the army In the years 1898 to 1901, Inclusive. At the battle of Santiago twenty-one officers and 222 men were killed and 101 officers and 1,688 men were wounded. If every man wounded In the Philippines and Cuba had been given a pension and one allowed for every one killed, the number would still be far short of the 24,000 already on the pension rolls. . The report on the regiment that was raised In the District of Columbia may furnish somo light on the pension fever among Spanish-American war veterans. This regiment contained 1,200 officers and men. ' It spent some weeks at Tampa and finally arrived In Cuba, just after the fighting was over. It never smelled the powder of the enemy and yet 600 of the 1,200 men on the roster have applied for pensions for every possible cause from measles to home sickness. Our government has been liberally generous with 1U civil war pensioners and no serious complaint Lu ever been made against this recognition of the nation's defenders. No protest will be filed, either, against liberal pensions to men who suffered In health or person in the Spanish-American war, but it would certainly seem, to be an imposi tion on national good nature to make every certificate of enlistment a pass port to a pension. A PARTISAN OF THE PARTISANS. While the democratic campaign managers are playing soft on "non- partlsanshlp" in the Judiciary, it Is notorious that the democratic nominee for supreme judge Is a partisan of the partisans. Everyone who knows any thing about Judge Loomis knows that he is a hide-bound democrat, Who prob ably never voted for a republican In his life, and who, to protect his party regularity, followed along from Cleve land to Bryan and from, Bryan to Parker and back again from Parker to Bryan, and would, doubtless, again go back to Cleveland if necessary to attest his party loyalty. Judge Loomis has served two terms in the state legislature and as a law maker he constantly proved his sub serviency to the party whip. The con troversy with Editor Sprecher over Loomis' backsliding on the rate reduc tion bill, sponsored by C. J. Smyth and M. F. Harrington, turns upon the ex cuse offered by Loomis that the bill was never made a party measure, while another bill for which he voted was equally favored in the fusion caucus. No question Is raised as to the demand of the public for relief from excessive railway charges, but simply the ques tion wi ether giving preference to the railroads constituted an offense against party discipline. The most typical Illustration of the Intense partisanship cf this great "nonpartisan" lies in Judge Loomis connection with the revenue bill passed by a subsequent legislature. This bill was drafted by a special committee, of which Loomis was a member, and It was introduced with his name among others printed at the top aa one of its authors. ' In formulating the bill, It waa agreed upon unanimously, clause by clause and section by section, and had Judges Loomis' unqualified ap proval. In committee of the whole Loomis took charge of the bill himself and presented the committee amend ments to correct typographical errors and minor omissions. In the interval, however, the fusion bosses had concluded that there was a great chance to make political capital by opposing the revenue law, and had persuaded the fusion caucus to brand It as a republican measure, unworthy of fusion support Bowing to the caucus decree, Judge Loomis faced about and turned against his own bill. The official record of the vote on final passage, as printed in the House Jour nal, contains this memorandum: Mr. Loomis, being sick and absent from the room, desired to be recorded "No" on House Roll 244. Could any more flagrant example of submissive partisanship be found any whereT How much "nonpartisanshlp" could be expected from such a Judge if elevated to the bench? Would he reverse his Judicial opinion over night to conform to a caucus decree? Would he try to figure out whether a, decision would make political capital for or against his beloved democratic party, and then vote his political convic tions? In the light of a "nonpartisan" record of this partisan democrat, these Questions are not irrelevant BCNDAT BASK BALL IS THE ARMT. President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft have Invited a storm of protest from tealoua advocates of strict Sab bath day observance by their frank refusal to grant a petition for official orders prohibiting base ball on Sun day at the army posts. In response to the petition Secretary Taft after consultation with the president, haa replied that no efforts will be made by the department to discountenance the Sunday base ball playing. He contends that the soldiers must have some form of recreation and amuse ment and that base ball is the least harmful of any that haa been popular with them. He points out frankly that the soldiers and spectators at the base ball games on Sunday are kept Just that long out of the dives and re sorts that have been built up around the army posts since the abolition of the canteen. ' The secretary also calls attention to the fact that the army Is already 20,000 men below Its au thorized strength and that. In his opin ion, the failure to secure enlistments desired is due largely to the restric tions that have been placed upon the conduct of the enlisted men at the army posts. The refusal to comply with this pe tition Is naturally calling for all sorts of protests, of which this one, dated at Albany and addressed to the New York Sun, Is a fair sample: What shall be done to the offloers of the army who have permitted the custom of playing ball on Sundays to grow upT It is difficult to ooncelve of a punishment severe enough for them. They may urge that the ball games harmed no one, disturbed no one, were played without the knowledge of the vast majority of the public and con tributed appreciably to making the soldiers happy and contented. Such pleas will not avail them. The very fact that tha nm.i have been played on federal reservations and in a manner calculated not to attract general attention shows how sly and de ceitful they are. Men capable of these things will not reform. They cannot be saved. The army should not be left In their bands. For my part I should like to see the whole army list deprived of office and sent to jail and the management of the military en trusted to a committee nominated by tha Woman's Christian Temperance Colon and the Sabbath observance committee and elected by saloon keepers whose establish meutfl Una tha entrances to military recur vation now that wine and beer are not sold In the post canteens. Army officers who have discussed the matter insist that much of the dis content among enlisted men is tracea ble to the abolition of the canteen and that If base ball were to be outlawed they would have to throw up their hands, stop trjlng to secure recruits for the already depleted regiments and conclude that an army In this country based on the enlistment plan had be come impossible to maintain. This is perhaps an exaggerated view of the situation, but no more so than that of persons of the type quoted; Who would enforce a system of blue laws at army posts. However, the position taken by Secretary Taft will be approved generally by liberal-minded people who cah see no objection to allowing the soldier boys a healthy, manly recreation on Sunday or any other day, so long as its exercise does not disturb or Interfere with others. SCREENS. If the effort to compel drastic en forcement of the law prohibiting screens obstrnctlng doors and windows of places licensed to sell liquor were aiming to correct any real evil It might evoke popular approval, but coming as it does from a source that Is bent not on regulation but on extermination of the liquor traffic, it must necessarily fail to strike a popular chord. Public sentiment, no doubt, demands stricter surveillance of the liquor traffic than it did a few years ago, but It Is highly doubtful whether anyr real Improve ment could come or will come from the removal of saloon screens. The law against obstructions to view is about the same In Iowa as it Is In Nebraska. In Iowa it Is enforced In some cities and unenforced in others, without producing any appreciable difference in results. The removal of the screens does not stop drinking, but merely makes the drinking more pub lic, and certain evils will only be stim ulated by this publicity. Of course, the old explanation will be offered that every law on the statute books should be enforced to the letter or be re pealed. Yet everyone knows that there are lots of laws on the statute books all the time that are neither en forced nor repealed, but remain dead letters because there Is no call for their enforcement nor any advantage to be gained for the public by strict enforce ment With a police board In control In Omaha completely Independent of the liquor Interests, It would seem to us far better to leave the details of regu lating the business of those licensed to sell liquor to the wise discretion of the board. A EOViE WHILE YOU WAIT. The building of air castles is rather tame and tedious operation, compared with Thomas A. Edison's new plan for building a three-story house for you while you are down town attending to the day's work. Mr. Edison's achievements In other fields entitle his claims to certain sober con sideration, and something like a revo lution in the home-building business Is In store, if his theories work well in practice. His house will consist of concrete and will be cast from iron molds In one solid piece, Including stairs and bathtub. It will be fire proof and the same set of molds may be used for an indefinite number of houses. The whole plan Is absurdly simple, when explained by Mr. TEdlson In these words: After the cellar Is dug the contractor will bring his sand, cement and crushed stone, together with his concrete mlxln machinery, the molds and a derrick to the spot. As fast as the concrete is made it is poured into the molds, which fit to gether from cellar bottom to roof -tree. The workmen keep on pouring in the con crete until It overflows at the top. Then they go away, and six days later they go back and take off the molds, piece by piece. This Is going to make life a lot easier and pleasanter for people. If an undesirable citizen moves into the house next door all the offended resi dent will have to do Is to call up The House-Built-While-You-Walt company (limited) and order a new house erected in any locality desired, with a forfeit fixed if the place hj not ready for occupancy by dinner time. If the fashion In houses changes, a new mold can be ordered and houses built to suit any taste or change of whims. As the new style house is to cost but 11,200, It will be cheaper to buy one than to pay rent Only one objection appears to the popularity of the proposition. Mr. Edison's proposition starts off with, "After the cellar la dug." As cellars are not carried In Btock, the delay in getting them dug 40 suit may defer the moving into the new house until the next morning. It only re mains for Mr. Edison to Invent a port able cellar and thus put a concrete finish on hla abstract proposition. An attempt to enforce an anti-Sunday theater ordinance In Kansas City failed because the indictments were filed against "actors on the stage." Thecomplaints had to be amended to read against "persons found on the stage," which can hardly be accepted aa flattering by those who have been posing as actors In Kansas City. Nebraska's new law governing regis tration gives ten days in which to check up the voters' lists. If there are any fraudulent registrations or fake names on the books It ought to be disclosed in that time and proper measures taken to call the offenders to account . " . " The Indiana -bankers have decided that cocktails shall not be served on the occasion of their coming banquet That la ail right, but is a banker evet Justified In severing friendly relations with the mint? Hetty Green has been defeated In a law suit costing her $18.24. As she had to pay it In real money, she feels the loss as much as some of those Wall street speculators who figure their slumps In millions. Dr. Robert Morris declares that "ap pendicitis ia caused from lacy habits of life, but no more from that than from other causes." That should put an end to all speculation aa to the catlse of appendicitis. Governor Folk of Missouri says that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the democratic presiden tial nomination next year. Governor Folk's hard common sense sometimes gets the better hold on him. All the aeronauts who sailed from St Louis In their balloons have been accounted for, but some of the bal loonlsts who went up from Wall street have not landed yet The attorney general of Ohio haa filed charges against the Plumbers' trust. ' He might as well give up. The plumbers can beat him every time. In the matter of filing charges. , Mississippi has barred all foreign born children from the public schools. Mississippi will probably continue to wonder why immigrants prefer homes and employment In the northern states. , Useful In Their Easiness. Washington Herald. Mr. E. Benjamin Andrews thinks certain editors should be hanged; but he may rest assured very few editors want to see him hanged especially news editors. Troubles of the Jnaale-ra. Baltimore American. When one reads of the suits which are being Instituted by stockholders to recover funds Juggled away by frenzied finance, it is small wonder to hear the financiers la menting these organised attacks on capital. They're Looaenlaa; Up Now Kansas City Star. Mr. Harrlman asked the newspaper men to get the railroads side of every story that comes up before printing it. The humor of this suggestion will be wholly lost to those persons who have never tried to pry Information from a railroad man ager. ProeBeu Platitudes. Philadelphia Record. It is easy for Mr. Bryan to bs crttloally platitudinous when he dares not be pre cise. He says "the columns of many of the metropolitan newspapers are for sale to the highest bidder." But he keeps the details of this momentous knowledge to himself. He refuses to specify. When he was directly asked why he would not name the newspapers he had In mind the great man said: "Because I won't" Room for Improvement, Philadelphia Ledger. No doubt the Inventive genius that has brought wireless telegraphy so rapidly to Its present development will eventually make It independent of wind and storm. For the present however, It is just as well that we still have the cable, secure at the bottom of the sea, to rely upon in bad weather. While no one need feci discour aged by the temporary Interruption of the wireless system, through the failure of the land connections, this early experience In dicates that there are still some practical obstacles to be overcome and that the wire less has not yet made submarine telegraphy obsolete. PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE. People who take the balloon route to get away from St Louis assume needless risks. "Made In Germany" embossed on a bal loon possesses only passings. Interest for the nations who are holding their empty bags. By waiting long enough 130,000,000 came to Alfred Owynne Vanderbllt from the family estate. Al knew It was oomlng. Patience did the rest. The power and dignity . of a Chicago alderman were rudely shaken by unfeeling policeman who raided his saloon and swiped a Juicy poker pot No campaign In Chicago this tall. Those who applaud the amount of Ameri can liberty handed lo the Filipinos have a different roar coming. A quiet gams of whist for prizes was suppressed by the authorities of Manila. The pleasure of SLouis over the suc cess of the balloon race would be much keener If the bloated bags had taken other routes than the air line toward Chicago. That they didn't stop there affords some consolation. Cartoonist Davenport need not bother about that projected exhibition of the spead and endurance of his Arabian steed. The celerity of Muley Hafld'e warriors in dodging French Are is enough for all prac tical purposes. A siity-milo-a-mlnute automobile got busy on a New Jersey road, collided with a stone wall head on and broke the collar bone, two ribs and one leg of the driver. That machine cavorted with the precision of human wisdom. . SERMO-NS BOILED DOWlf. When ambition weds avarice aspiration dies. The evil we remember is surpassed by the good we forget. The church with a head for gold usually has a heart of wood. The world will never be driven to God by advertising the devil. Inclination always furnishes the most convincing argument. Watch your works and your wings will take care of themselves. Borne men hope that a golden crown will give them a golden mind. Fashion le&.la many to starve the Inmates In order to paint the house. Where the sermon Is only a work of art the saints are usually artificial. No man ever succeeded In walking one way when he was looking another. If you sell your soul you will never be able to make enough to buy tt back. You can always get fine feathers with money, but a fins face you cannot buy. The preacher who trembles before ths areat has cause to tremble for himself. Many a man mistakes a stock of pious quotations for riches of religious character. Ths ideal that is only a dream and never a deed la always a detriment to the charac ter. Men of business will be in the ohurch when the church gives them some business there. Many who think they are defending the faith are only barricading truth out ot their Uvea Chicago Tribune. 33d Anniversary 33d PI ano Sale A. I10SPE CO. fig Piano Tou will bear Its call If you visit the A. Hospe Co. store and see the wonderful ffeiings of the Thirty-Third Anniversary Bale. Never In the entire west baa an opportunity been offered to buy such high grade Flanoa at such low figures as that which now confronts you in tha big sale. This Is ot a boast. It is a fact In former years this store has had great Sales, but none ' that compares with this one. rJ Until Thursday, October 31st., a Straight Discount of 10 on E?ery New Fiano-Pl&jer, Piano, Player-Piano and Orjtn in Our Retail Stock As our pianos are and have been plainly marked and sold at the marked prlva (no more, no less) It will be a simple matter for the customer to know for himself Just what the Anniversay Price Is, and no mistakes or Juggling of figures. Further, more the dlsconnt is the same on time payments aa it Is for cash, and admits of no duebUls or trades, but stands for ths bona fide buyer. If you have been contemplating the purchase of a piano for tha last year, and know exactly that tha One Price system prevails at the A. Hospe eV Co, as nowhere else, can testify, after a first visit, that a real Souvenir ia offered. We call attention to the remarkable bargains In New Upright Orand Pianos. The majority of them were bought In the dullest season, when the manufacturer needs ths money more than any time In ths year, hence the low prloes. A few of tha special ones wa will now mention! An extra large Upright Grand "Corliss" In double veneered mahogany ease of ths latest design. In a special value of $145, 110 cash, 18 monthly. Thoss brand-new, upright grand, double vsneared latest design, Ivory key, Kensington Pianos, quoted generally throughout ths United States at 1176, are going at 1121, 110 oaah, II monthly. Ths beautiful 1800 Cramer Pianos are selling at only 1 180, 10 oaah. Is monthly. We have Just reoelved, also, a special shlpmsnt of fine Cable-Nelson Pianos they are sold elsewhere for 1300 and $160 and 1400. our prloes are 225. 1376 and VJ5 and any of them may be had at $10 cash and IT monthly. In this shipment there are not simply ons or two Pianos, but quantities to select from. Besides we are showing ths latest creations from! , nAxxox a back, xmAJCAtrxm, KrarBT.i kuiit a batzs, mi a uura, h. w. nxAom, xa&Tixx.a c&abk, wxiih smog, bto. Ths special bargains In used Upright and Orand Pianos, together with Square Pianos and used Organa, also used Piano Players are on a line with the above. WB HAVE NO BPACE3 TO DESCRIBE THE EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS WH HAVJfl AT THIS TIMH. IT BEHOOVES EVERYONE WHO HA8 ANY THOUGHT OB BUYING! A PIANO TO DECIDE THE MATTER QUICKLY AND BUY IT NOW. Special attention given to inquiries by malL Send for Catalogues and Prices. A. HOSPE CO. ONE PRICE SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Philadelphia Record: Although tha mea gerness of the Incomes of clergymen Is a very general reproach of tha churches, a burglar In Wilkes barre found on minister with twenty dollars and a gold watch In his olothes. Cincinnati Enquireri Tf the doctors can agree to be Just doctors, without quarrel ing about schools or creeds," says an ex change, "perhaps the ministers will be In clined, in time, to do the same."' Let the ministers alons. The doctors are dealing with questions that work themselves out In our mortality. The ministers are treat ing with eternity, and must have more latitude for discussion and division. Buffalo Express) There ia an old Scotch story about the minister Who' complained that he had found golf and the "meenls try" incompatible, and therefore had given "It" up. "What," asked his friend, "given up golf r "Na, na," said the reverend gen tleman) "I have given up the meenlstry." The story Is pretty nearly realized In the clergyman of Worcester, Mass., who has resigned his charge because he wants to "loaf and play golf." But it should be ad mitted in extenuation of the choice of this minister that he has been in the pulpit for many ears, and feels that he needs rest. Philadelphia Ledger: The gneral conven tion of the Episcopal church has once more put off the organization of ths provincial system which has been under discussion for nearly a generation. Never before, how ever, has a well-considered plan failed so narrowly. It was adopted by the House of Bishops and sent to ths House of Deputies for' concurrence. The clergy voted for It by a large majority, but the lay vote was in the negative, and so ths whole matter will go over to another convention. There can be no doubt of ultimate action, because the present organization, with nothing be tween the single diocese and ths national council, has become too unwieldy and wasteful of efficiency to be much longer tolerated even by the most conservative. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Why do you call your husband "HubT " "Because he is the central point of my weal." Baltimore American. Tees May Ouscher and her husband call each other "Birdie." Isn't that ridiculous T Jess Oh, I don't know. She's a goose and he's a jay. Philadelphia Press. 0e, but that girl's got a mean dis position." Yea?" "Uh-huh. Tou know that fellow who bawled her out before a big bunoh last month? She's going to marry him. Cleve land Leader. Stella So she dtvorced him for desertlonT Bella Yes, he positively refused to live In the auto. New York Sun. "George, dear," said the girl, "you know I Insisted on a long engagement?" He admitted it ruefully. "Well." ahs resumed, "I've changed my Orchard & Wilhelm 414-16'18 So. 16th St. Omaha. Headquarters for GOOD Office Furniture. Money Invested In a good, reliable desk is never lost. A desk of the RIGHT kind will outlive the man who uses It, to say nothinx of the comfort tt gives every minute ot his business life. Particular attention la called to our OUR PRICE is the RIGHT PRICE, $3.75 Cash Dritish Columbia Clear Rod Cadar Shingles. FULL COUNT, that's why they go furthor; these Canadian shlnglis are well worth $4 50. the price asked for the American brands, which are packed "scant." Crit Top. the best prepared roofing made. $1.00 cash. Wo simply are overstocked. 20 discount for cash onour immense stock of Lumber. Get It now. C. H. Diotz Lumber Co. AoHVr.Vi 33d Opportunity 1515 Douila. Street NO COMMISSION mind. At the present price of chocolates a long engagement would be ruinous." Philadelphia Ledger. "He's a wonderful actor." "Think so?" "Yes. Notice how passionately he makes love to the leading lady in the last act?" "Yep." "Well, she's his wife." Cleveland Leader. "I hear some of your workmen struck for fewer hours of work the other morn ing." "Yes, and they won." "Indeed V "Yea, they haven't worked a single hour since. "Philadelphia Ledger. She Mr. Wlmbleton spoke of you in, glowing terms last night. He I am gratified to hear you say so. I have always regarded him as a fine Judge of men. She Yes. 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