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THE OMATIA SUNDAY BEE; T)ECFTrTflTR 29, 1907. '
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
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Charles C. BOHewater, general manager
Of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Hunday Utee printed
during the month of November, 1SU., was
as follows: . ,
3700 1
7,eao . IT
3,60O II
4 37.820 II 37'430
1 39,890 ' il 30,970
1 37.330 II ll'l
t 3740 l
I 87,390 14 3,'10
10 38,900 15 37,690
11 37,630 21 37,090
1 37,730 17 37,340
IS 37,880 28 38,940
14 37,360 19 39,890
15 37,600 10 37,690
Total 1.133,420
Less unsod and returned copies. 10,188
Net Total 1,113,363
Dally average 37,108
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
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ROBERT HUNTER,
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changed aa aftesi aa requested.
New Year's resolutions are about
ready to blossom.
Tbe Colorado Utes have gone dem
ocratic again and are on the warpath.
"Where are you going after the hol
idays?" asks the Philadelphia Inquirer.
To work.
The political situation in Ohio il
unchanged. Senator Foraker is still
out for Taft.
Governor Sheldon may not have had
to run to catch any trains lately, but
neither br.s ha missed any.
Richard Croker has decided to spend
the winter in Egypt. How thoughtful
in him to give proper warning.
Chicago Is planning a 16,000,000
hotel and the newspapers are adding
several stories to It each morning.
The local stenographer who lost a
couple of fingers in an accident has at
least added to his knowledge of short
hand. A base ball player, cited as co
respondent in a St. Louis divorce case,
succeeded in making two singles out of
a double.
Among the things difficult to explain
is why Chicago should send a party of
investigators to South Africa to study
savage life.
"Bryan is the only great talker left,"
declares an enthusiast who evidently
does not subscribe tor the Congres
sional Record.
"There will be fifty-three pay days
In 1908," say the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Yes. and a board bill for
every pay day.
"Wall street brokers omitted their
Christmas gambols," says an eastern
paper, which is a little weak in it
spelling of gambles.
"How would Senator Stone do for
vice president on the Bryan ticket?"
asks the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Oh,
urobably as well as anyone.
The shopper who got left in the late
rush before Christmas has an oppor
tunity to make up the oversight by
being first at the after-holiday bargain
tales.
Now it is claimed that flour can be
made of wood. That kind of flour
would seem to be specially appropriate
for boarding houses and railway eat
ing stations.
The advice is being freely given that
the best way to start the new year is
to pay off all the debts you can and
open a new ledger. . That is good ad
vice. Pass It along. -
Sixteen member of the Russian
Duma have been sent to Siberia for
oppoclog the cr.ar's wishes. The
ciar's powers must be almost as large
as those of Speaker Cannon.
Congressman Hobson has been ap-.
pointed to membership of the commit
tee on naval affairs: That should be
ss good in effect on foreign nations as
building two or three more battleship.
Secretary Taft says he has been
iway bo long that he does not feel Jus
tified in discussing political conditions.
It Is really too bad that some other
candidate cannot be induced to take
another trip around the world.
TR US T CUM PA HY 8 CAP CO OA TS.
The first plank In nearly every pro
gram of remedial legislation suggested
by the recent panic provides for the
subjection of trust companies to the
same regulations and restrictions in
their banking operations as are Im
posed upon regularly incorporated
banking Institutions.
Trust company abuse unquestion
ably contributed much to precipitate
the final break-down, and did even
more to accentuate the evil conse
quences, and there will be few to take
issue with the demand that the big
trust companies be required to keep
the same reserve and observe the
same limitation on their loans a did
the national state bank. But when
the effort 1 made to shunt to the trust
companies all the blame for the bad
condition arising out of stock ex
change speculation and give the Wall
street bankers a clean bill of health,
there will be vigorous dissent
Nearly every one of the big Wall
street banks has had a trust company
attached to it and nearly every one
of the big life Insurance companies
had been clearing its speculative trans
actions through a subsidiary trust
company. Running over the list ef
directors of the average New York
trust company, especially before the
recent reorganizations, one could not
(all to be struck with the names which
Indicated that each one of them was
owned and controlled by a bunch of
closely allied bankers and life insur
ance officers, who were using the trust
companies as agencies for doing busi
ness Which their respective banks or
life Insurance companies could not
legally handle. The principal trust
companies, as a matter of fact, were
organized by tbe bankers for the ex
press purpose of getting away from
the limitations which the law put upon
their banking establishments and
which were found to be embarrassing
obstacles to their syndicating schemes.
In other words, the trust companies
before the panic served simply as a
cloak for the Wall street bankers to
wear, under which they could have
freer action. '
Trust company excesses, as formerly
practiced fn tbe eaBt. will have to be
curbed by legislation, but the sins of
all the speculators and get-rich-qulck
manipulators cannot be loaded onto a
trust company scapegoat.
thk nupiso adva wet.
The first legislative assembly of the
Philippines has shown its appreciation
of the educational work, inaugurated
in the Islands by the Americana some
years ago, by appropriating 11,000,000
for the construction of school bouses
throughout the islands of the archipel
ago. Under the direction of the
American congress much good work
has been done in the Philippines.' This
government has supplied teachers of
high grade and offered every encour
agement to the establishment of a gen
eral system of public schools. .The
work has been hampered by lack of
suitable school facilities, a defect
which the Filipino assembly has now
taken steps to remedy.
The action of the Filipinos must be
a cause of gratification to those who
have labored so earnestly for the ad
vancement of the administration pro
gram for training the natives o the
islands . and preparing them for ulti
mate self-government. With "a suffi
cient number of schools in the prov
inces, directed by efficient and well
paid' teachers, the Philippine problem
cannot long remain unsolved. Educa
tion will do more than all other influx
encea and forces combined for the ad
vancement of the standard of civiliza
tion of the native and their equipment
for the larger dutleB that must come to
them eventually. It will require time,
of course, to establish properly the
proposed general school system and
more time for its benefits to be felt
among all tbe people, but the result Is
inevitable. The young Filipinos are
buying books where their fathers
bought machetes, and with their read
ing will come a fuller appreciation of
tha benefit accruing to the Islands and
its people from American rule.
With the firm establishment of a
general educational system the chances
are greatly Improved for a settlement
of the Philippine problem In complete
justice alike to Americans and the na
tives of the Islands.
WOMKN IX THK JURY BOX.
Denver has been trying the experi
ment of a Jury composed entirely of
women to pass upon a case In which a
woman' dres waB tbe cause of the lit
igation. The result is that one woman
in Denver is convinced there are
twelve other women in that town who
do not know anything about the
proper fit for a tailor-made gown and
are mean, hateful old things, any
way. " It appears that the fair de
fendant hired a man tailor to build
an elaborate gown for her one that
would make the female population of
Denver green with Jealous envy. The
gown was built, but she declined to
pay, insisting that it did not fit. The
mere man tailor brought suit and a
trial wag demanded before a Jury of
women. When the case was heard,
the 'omen jurors, or J ureases, exam
ined the gown, bad the defendant to
try it on and returned a verdict in
favor of the tailor.
The verdict is being discussed
lengthways and sideways in Denver
and an effort la being made to con
strue it into an argument for or
against jury service by women. One
side contends that the verdict was due
to the jealousy and prejudice of the
women and proof that women can not
ba trusted to try a causa at law on
its merits. .The tailor and his friends,
on the other band, cite the verdict as
proof that women are not swayed by
prejudice, but have the will and the
wish to decide legal controversies on
the etldence and the perfection of the
waist line.
Out of the discussion is certain to
come future complications in jury
trials In Colorado. Down in Ken
tucky a man's politics, according to
precedents established in Caleb Pow
ers' trial, enter Into his qualifications
for Jury duty, and under the Colorado
law sex may be as important as poli
tics In Kentucky. The suit over the
tailor-made gown can be only a
starter., The real test will come when
we see how the women Jurors will
act in a breach of promise action or a
divorce case.
1SD1AKA tOR FAIRBANKS.
The resolutions unanimously
adopted at the annual love feast of the
republicans of Indiana give assurance,
if such assurance were needed, that
the Indiana, delegation to the repub
lican national convention will be Bolldly
for Charles Warren Fairbanks for the
presidential nomination. Irrespective
of the attitude which the republicans
of othef states may take toward hi
candidacy, it Is highly creditable to
Mr. Fairbanks that he should have the
undivided and hearty support of all
the republican elements In his home
state, and It la also highly freditable
to the republicans of Indiana that they
should have a favorite son for whom
they can enlist who stands so high and
commands such universal personal re
spect as the present vice president.
While Mr. Fairbanks' candidacy has
been subjected to some detraction and
much ridicule, there Is no question'
among those who know the man as to
his unblemished character and high
Ideals in public life. He was one of
the men who stood closest to the la
mented McKlnley and enjoyed his im
plicit confidence, and it was partially
In tribute to the memory of McKlnley
that he was chosen to second place on
the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt
four years ago. It Is probably his
misfortune, now that his conception of
the function of the vice president re
quired him to keep aloof from the ac
tive work of legislation during his in
cumbency of that trying position, but
he has at least been steadfast and con
sistent in bis course of noninterfer
ence. The compliment of being pre
sented to the country as the unanimous
choice of a great state like Indiana for
the exalted office of president of tbe
United States 1b In itself a great honor,
whether or not he may finally become
the standard bearer of the party.
A PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY
The General Education board, the
organization so richly endowed by Mr.
Rockefeller, has Just made a most in
teresting report of recent operations
along a new educational and philan
thropic line In the south. Under tha
auspices of the board, more than 1,000
"demonstration farms" have been es
tablished in the south, particularly In
Mississippi, Alabama and Virginia, for
the purpose of giving practical object
lessons in scientific tilling of the soil.
The United States government has lent
the aid of its experts in soil culture
and plant Industry and the reports of
the experiments are most satisfactory.
The work of the board in this di
rection Js being confined largely to the
south because that section shows the
greatest need for it. The average
southern farmer has been doing his
work In a haphazard manner for many
years. The south has few agricultural
colleges and general education is less
advanced than in the north. With
good soli, an equable climate and the
advantages of a market near at hand,
the agricultural development of the
south has been disappointingly slow,
and there is the widest room for the
improvement ef existing conditions. It
Is the purpose of the Education board,
aided by the government, to teach the
southern farmers to grow -good crops
instead of poor ones and to take
greater advantage of their splendid
opportunities. Soil experimentation,
seed selection and economy in labor
are almost unknown in the south,
where misapplication of energy and
waste of opportunity through lack of
knowledge are the chief characteris
tics of agricultural life.
The report of the work on these
"demonstration farms" proves that
tbe southerners are taking keen ad
vantage of the opportunities for agri
cultural Instruction and that results
are already being shown In generally
Improved conditions on southern
farms. The poorer farmers are learn
ing the folly of wasting nature's en
ergies and preparing to make more of
their opportunities. The work of the
Educational board In directing atten
tion to the vast possibilities for im
provement in agriculture in the south
Is the most practical form of philan
thropy. irons' or the busy use.
Tardy recognition of the work of the
American honey-makers is found in
an obscure paragraph of the report of
the secretary of agriculture on the
farm products of the last year. Tbe
oversight is perhaps pardonable when
it la remembered that the secretary
has been dealing only with the big
figures essential to the total of $7,000,
000,000 placed as the value of the
farm products of the year, but the
bee's contribution Is too Important to
be overlooked. According to the sta
tistics, the year's output of honey is
valued at $25,000,000, a little more
than the value of Colorado's gold pro
duction for the same period, a little
leas than the value of the country's
beet sugar product, a little more than
the value of . the raw cane sugar pro
duction and enough to build about six
of the most approved types of battle
ships. The honey bee' contribution to tbe
material wealth and creature comforts
of the race are but ill-appreciated.
The Insect Is as busy as a man with
the itch and a Waterbury watch and
never files a bill for working overtime.
It Is the greatest forager in existence,
asking nothing but room and a chance
to get Its own grub supply. It asks
no favors In the way of chop feed,
gravel beds and other luxuries that are
essential to the coaxing of the busy
hen to do her duty. The bee only
asks to be let alene, a request that
Is denied only with attendant peril,
and allowed to do its alloted work in
Its own sweet way.
Owing to a somewhat perverse dis
position, the bee cannot be raised as
a pet and apparently makes no bid
for expressions of gratitude or appre
ciation, but It certainly merits some
of the national affection that Is given
so unsparingly to workers on the farm
that contribute less and make more
fuss about it.
VIJV PRISUX AT LAST.
By a decision of the United States
supreme court Greene and Gaynor,
two contractors indicted for defraud
ing tha government of $575,000 In cer
tain river and harbor contracts, must
go to prison and serve out their terms
of four years each. The final disposi
tion of the case serves to illustrate the
poi sibllltles offered for delay in the en
forcement of the law's decrees, when
those accused have big resources in
the way of money and friends.
Greene and Gaynor were Indicted
eight years ago. They fled to Canada,
carried their case to the high courts
of England and contested the prosecu
tion at every point of the case. They
have finally loBt, although In the mean
time Captain Oberlln M. Carter, a
member of the army' engineer corps,
who was convicted of complicity with
Greene and Gaynor in their conspiracy
to defraud the government, has served
his prison sentence of four years and
has returned to the practice of his pro
fession. The significance of the Greene and
Gaynor case will not be lost upon con
tractors engaged upon federal work.
A government contract has often been
looked upon as practically a license to
loot the federal treasury. Men with
lax consciences and strong pulls se
cured government contracts and used
them for the enrichment of themselves
and their friends, tampering with the
laws whenever necessary to secure a
freer right-of-way. to the treasury
vaults. The Greene and Gaynor case,
however, shows that a change has been
effected in these contract matters. The
government has demonstrated that it
has not only the power, but also the
disposition, to pursue thieves and
frauds even to distant lands, and at a
heavy cost, in order to apply the pen
alties prescribed by law.
Great emphasis is being laid on the
fact that the number of immigrants
arriving In this country during the
last fiscal year aggregated 1,285,349,
as Indicating the magnitude of our
foreign peril. The admission of
1,250,000 . newcomers through the'
gates of a nation of 80,000,000 people,
however, forms a smaller ratio to the
total population than the admission of
half that number when the population
was less than 40,000,000. The ex
tent of the peril, if there be any peril,
Is In the proportion of the annual Im
migration rather than in the absolute
numbers.
A democratic authority has figured
it out that congress will have to ap
propriate approximately $1,500,000 to
pay the campaign expenses of the va
rious political parties on the basis of
10 cents for each vote cast for the
candidate of such party at the preced
ing presidential election. Wonder
where the democrats do business on
the baslH of 10 cents a vote?
To the remark of the Sioux City
Journal that the democratic national
convention "was Bold to the highest
bidder," ' the Commoner retorts that
even if so "that is better than selling
the offices to the highest bidder." The
trouble is that the principle at the
bottom of both is the same and that
selling the convention sets the exam
ple for selling the offices.
The late Lord Kelvin eetlmated that
the internal temperature of the sun
Is 200,000,000 degrees, centrlgrade.
When we get through conserving the
natural resources of poor mother earth
we may turn attention to tapping tbe
power plant located in our orb of
light.
The thermometer registered up to
70 degrees in Washington the other
day and the weather Bbarps are won
dering, where the hot ah- came from,
inasmuch aa congress was not in 'ses
sion at the time.
It Is asserted that the advance in
tbe price of beer is due to tbe Increase
in the price of hops. They seem de
termined to preserve that ancient fic
tion about hops being used in the man
ufacture of beer.
If early activity among the candi
dates measures the expectations of
victory, tbe democrats have not half
the confidence of the republicans in
the success of their ticket in the 1908
election.
Tbe Chinese have decided to adopt
a constitution, but admit that they
may not get to it for another century.
Adopting a constitution la China la
like' building a union depot In Kansas
City.
George Fred Williams and Tom
Law son ought to unite their two par
ties bo the presiding officer would not
be compelled to make all the motions
and act at the same time as the audi
ence. Means ta an Rad.
Balllmoro American.
Riches and power to a good and great
man are only meana to enable him to better
the condition of his fellows and leave be
hind an honored name for the glory of
his country.
A Political Taallner.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
President Roosevelt Is making a series
of suggestions regarding the next cam
paign, all of which are pregnant. The top
liner Is "Keep the republican party close
to the people."
No Cause for Alarm.
Cleveland Leader.
The average bachelor can look upon the
approach of leap year without trepidation,
the more because he can recall other leap
years wherein he ran so little danger that
lire was positively a bore.
Taffy Pull vrlth Spielers.
Brooklyn Eagle.
An orator used to be a man who could
profoundly stir others by able and Im
pressive discourse. Today, reporters who
regard It as their first . duty to reconstitute
standards, call any man who can make or
read a speech "an orator," and any speech
at all "an oration." There will be a re
action soon.
Fleet O. KM. Be Kvanst
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Fighting Bob" reports that he Is more
than satisfied with the performance of the
battleships In his fleet. He ought to know
something about battleships, and we havo
no doubt that he would be among the
first to worry If there was anything radi
cally wrong with the ones he is taking
round to the Pacific.
How Lightly Rest Marriage Tlea.
New York Tribune.
How lightly the marrlRge tie rets upon
persons living under the free and easy
divorce laws of theso United States may
be seen In the strange adventure of a
New Jersey woman, who discovered a
few days ago that her husband, with
whom she had beem living, had secured a
divorce from her five years before. This
did not hinder the husband, however, from
retaining some real estate which his
quondam spouse had deeded to him under
the assumption that he was still her liege
lord. At the same time the decree re
leased Mm from the obligation of sup
porting her. Will any other country try
to beat this record?
I.oaar-Felt Want Supplied.
Portland Oregonlan.
When Uncle Sam took the Philippines
It was supposed that the archipelago com
prised 1,700 islands. Now It Is discovered
that there are 2,600. This supplies a long
felt want. There are quite a number of
more or less eminent residents of this
country who are extremely dissatisfied with
our form of -government. They know Just
exactly how a government should be
formed and conducted. Uncle Sam is now
in a position to give each of them an
Island, with permission to set up model
governments of their own. " It , will be a
great pleasure to the rest of the people
of the United States to observe the work
ings of the kind of a government they
would construct. Mr. Debs should have
first choice of Islands.
TRIUMPHANT OPTIMISM.
Hope Perched High on the American
x Banner.
Success Magazine.
Our people have unbounded confidence in
America's future, and this vigorous Ameri
can optimism will ultimately make any
t'ery extended financial panio impossible.
Our resources are too vast, our people
too gritty, too resourceful, too Inventive,
too determined, too hopeful, to long be
materially affected by any financial dis
turbance. Nowhere In the world Is there crowded
together such untold resources, such vaBt
unexplored wealth,' as In this country;' and
nowhere else have the Inventive, resource
ful faculties of man been developed to such
'an extent as here In America. And better
than all this Is the fact that the hope
fulness of the Individual matches our na
tional optimism, for here no youth Is ham
pered or manacled In his race for success.
His only limits are. In himself.
We have as yet scarcely scratched the
surface of our vast resources. Even dur
ing the recent panic we knew that the con
fidence of our people aa to ' our future
greatness and grandness was not shaken
in the least. Everyone knew that It was
only a temporary storm; that behind It
the sun of American progress and enter
prise was shining and would soon dissi
pate all the clouds.
Running all through the American people
la a great underlying philosophy of op
timism. Hope, not despair, carries the
American banner.
PAV VOL II BILLS.
Admirable Way of Turning; Over
New Leaf.
New York Outlook.
Panics are always irrational, because they
are born of unintelligent fear, or because
they greatly increase the possibilities of
peril. There ' are many occasions which
naturally give rise to fear; there are no
occasions which Justify a panic. When a
real danger comes, the first duty Is to keep
one's mind at the highest point of Intelli
gent action and to keep one's emotions out
of sight and hearing. In the face of a
great danger a man ought to listen to his
judgment, not to his emotions. The worst
feature of a panio is that it makes men
cowards when it does not make them
brutes; and the special form of cowardice
which comes with financial stress Is un
willingness to part with' money, the tend
ency to hoard what one haa and increase
the peril. Instead of generously giving it
out and thus removing the cause of the
peril. In every stringency a host of people
begin by not paying their, bills. It Is the
delay In paying small bills even more than
large ones which prolonga hard times, and
unjustly and unnecessarily lays a heavy
burden on the backs of some of the most
prudent and honest members of the com
munity. An honest man always pays his
debts. If misfortune overtakes him, the
day of the discharge of his obl.gation Is
only postponed; It comes as soon as he
can make ready for it. Rut In a time of
panic it Is every man's pressing duty to
pay his debts with the utmost promptness.
There are hosts of people today who have
money In hand and are letting their grocers,
butchers, milkmen and others who supply
the necessities of life go unpaid simply be
cause they are timid, and, like some coun
try and city banks, want to cohWct and
keep as much money on hand as possible;
as If money were for hoarding and not for
circulation. This small. minded precaution
Is bringing misfortune to many industries
and faithful men and women. Those who
supply the means of life, whose coming and
going from the house are part of the dally
routine of keeping the family alive, ought
to be the very last to suffer from delayed
payment. As a matter ( fact, Uiey are the
Vary tuU
PERie.VAL A!D OTHF.RWIHB,
Get busy. Practice writing "I!."
Tha Central bank proposition furtively
looks In the direction of the ghost walk.
But Andy Jackson1 has been dead long
time.
Let us be fair with Wall street The
street would not strip the pantaloons from
those golden eagles and leave the feathers
untouched. Wall street never does a half
way Job.
Just to show he bore the heirs of his
victim no 111 will. Judge Hargls of Ken
tucky settled with them In cash for a
murder for which he was tried and ac
quitted. A painful slump prevails In the diamond
trade in Maiden Lane. Those New' Yorkers
who are able to keep their autos1 out of
hock are content with the headlights on
the machines. K
Another hot bird of Pittsburg, a doctor,
haa been asked to pay $2,000 for a kiss
swiped from a fair patient unable to defend
herself. It is now up to the doctor to
make his bill fit the crime.
If there are any well disposed subjects
of the csar, the shah and the king of Por
tugal determined to wish them "Happy
New Year" they should eo adjust their
rubber tires as te break the force of the
concussion.
According to the weather bureau there
has been a deficiency of over 700 degrees
In Pittsburg's temperature since January
1. If Pittsburg would have ' the country
believe the story the local papers should be
put on Ice.
The coroner of Chicago, having digested
the records of his oftlce, finds that more
married men commit suicide than single
men. During eleven months of the year
107 persons personally shuffled off, mostly
by the lake route; 200 were married, 124
single, 36 widowers, 13 widows and 10 di
vorced. This Is Interesting chiefly because
It shows the bachelors of this country owe
the coroner a loving cup or "something
Just as good,"
The Manitoba Free Press sent out this
year toy barrels of real flour from home
grown wheat as a Christmas offering to
The Bee and other select newspapers in
the United States. A pamphlet descriptive
of western Canada accompanied the barrel
and Its contents forcibly reminds the reader
that Winnipeg and the country tributary
are moving pictures of progress and pros
perity. That the country Is developing
rapidly Is well known to those who have
taken note of American emigration north
ward during the last five years, but few
realise the extent of it. Take, for example,
the growth of the Free Press, a reliable
barometer of the country's development
In a little over five years Its circulation
Jumped from 15,941, to 36,970, requiring two
Hoe sextuple presses to do the work per
formed by a Hoe pony quad. The show
ing Is a tribute to the enterprise of the
Free Press and the discriminating Intelli
gence of the people.
OUTLOOK KOII NEW YEAR.
Evidence of Restored Confidence and
Industrial Activity.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It has been said more than once that
the recent panic was more a bankers' than
a business men's panic. Comptroller
Rldgeley is one of those who have com
mented on the remarkable calmness and
confidence which the Industrial and com
mercial interests generally have displayed
throughout the financial crisis.
The truth is, the business community has
had no reason to doubt the essential sound
ness of our industrial situation. The neces
sity of a quiet readjustment, of a check to
extravagance and inflation, has been widely
realized, but few who have anything to do
directly with the production and sale of
goods have tot any serious uneasiness as
to the future.
If this may Justly be said regarding the
past, how much truer is it 'today, when
the financial conditions are Improved, with
the banks resuming cash payments, the
depositors' notices of withdrawal being
waived, the various substitutes for cur
rency being called In, with everything in
dicating, an upward trend in industry, a
gradual and steady movement leading to
a return of our normal prosperity.
A symposium In the official organ of the
National Manufacturers' association, In
which many trades are represented, shows
a practical unanimity of opinion aa to the
brightness of the present outlook. No
"bad times" are expected by any manufac
turer, though some are disposed to be con
servative for a time and will start the new
year on a basis of restricted output. All
feel, however, that this policy of curtail
ment will scarcely outlast the winter. By
spring all hope to get back to the full-time
an.d full-force basis.
In New England the shoe factories are
already returning to full time. The -cotton
and woolen mills of the same section that
shut down some time ago will resume next
week. Representatives of the metal, ma
chinery, lumber, paint, vehicle, piano and
Jewelry trades are quoted as saying that
good business Is undoubtedly ahead of
them. Some have not suffered even a tem
porary decline, while ethers say that the
recession' has been wholesome for them, as
the previous rush for business had involved
an overstraining oi credit and other fa
cilities. ' 1
Reasonable . moderation with decided
hopefulness as to the future is an excellent
mood in which to begin the new year industrially.
Start tho New Year With a Now
Piano Why Not?
A great sale of Pianos has been In progress at the A. Hoepo
Co.'a Music Store. Hundreds of Instruments were sold and
hundreds of homes made happy.
But scores of Pianos are still on our floors Pianos that
were a part -of the enormous stock with which we began the.
month of December. On each of these the price tag will remain
(he same as it was during the big Bale.
In other words this unprecedented Piano Opportunity still
confronts you. You still have a chance to buy a fine, fully
guaranteed instrument at a greatly reduced price.
What could mean bo much to your home at the beginning
of the New Year as a New Piano. Think of the companionship
it will bring to your children, to your wife, to yourself during
the next twelve months.
Such a variety of Pianos, all of them representative of the
best known manufacturers In America and such prices cannot
be found anywhere elBe In the United States. In this stock
are the best, the most beautiful, the latest styles of the Kranlch
ft Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & I-ane, Hallet ft Davis,
Cable-Nelson, H. P. Nelson, Melville-Clark, Wesser Bros., Whit
ney, Decker Bros. Co., Hospe, Conway, Schulhoff & Sons, Bell
and many otherB. The same lowest snot cabh prices prevail
on every Instrument In the house. Pay monthly $5 and up If
not convenient to pay cash.
Remember, now's the time to buy a piano.
A. HOSPE CO. J3i2
WOMEN ARE NEVER SO AMIABLE
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Yourself and Advise Others To Do So. Clean and Hot, S7.S3
VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1214 faraim. TcL Bsug, 122
F.RMo" nou.rcn DOWT
The bonds of a good home are forged fg v
heaven.
Your sympathies determine the breadth ef
your life.
The heart rrosen with selfishness Is aura
to he fruitless.
The wise know enough to sacrifice a
good deal of wit.
Faith in God may be manifested ay
good feeling for men. I
Many a shurrh Is praying for a shewef
that needs only a thaw.
Halving another's sorrow Is a aura Vay
of doubling your own Joy.
The best cure for the blues Is te try
to bo a blessing to someone.
No man ever reaped any more happiness
than he was willing to sow.
Often It Is the pull on our heartstrings
that gives us our biggest lift. 1
If you cannot find the divine every.
where you will find it nowhere.
The hand doea not reach very far nor
verv helnfnllv wlHimit ihm h..M
The tear of pity Is a good thing, but It
doesn't go far In a thirsty world.
The best way to lead anyone to heaver
Is to help him to a good home here. j
No one gets much out of t'hrlstmaa Who
is thinking much of what he will get.
The angel's song can always be heard
when love leads you Into the ways of tho
lowly.
Inviting men to your firelight roay do
them as much good aa Inviting them to,
your faith. Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PI. ES AN TRIES.
Mrs. Vlck-Senn I had ever so man
chances to marry somebody that amount!
to something, and I threw myself away ed
you!
Her Husband (unexpectedly spunking ur
In my case it was quite different, niadaim
lou were absolutely the last resort. EverJ
other girl had refused me. Chicago Ttlbt
une.
"Don't you ever feel a yearning for reus!
affinity?" asked the romantic girl.
"Well, I guess yes," answered the pra
tlcal ninrrled woman. "John's been awajl
on business a week, the cook's quit, tht
baby's teething, the coal's getting low ani
somebody's got to shovel tho snow olT th
walk, you'd have a right to yearn If yoi
,.vj iiij ha. iriijiuuciijiiia Aeuger,
"Dear," said tlie melancholy wife, "li I
you die first you will wait for me there oa
that far shore, won t you?"
"I guess so," replied her husband. With
a yawn. "I've always had to wait for yml
wherever I go." Catholio Standard ana
Tlm.
"You have broken oft the match between
your daughter and that young fellow yoU
don't like?"'
"Yep; it was easy."
"tld you command her to give him tin?"
"Nope; I told her I thoroughly ai proVed
of him." Houston Post.
"Maude was afraid the girls wouldn't
notice her engagement ring."
"Did they 7"
"Did they! gix of them recognised it at
once." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Mrs. Naybor says," began Mrs. Yerner.
that she never has to ask her husband
Tor money, because he gives her all shf
wants. I wish I could snv that "
"Well," Interrupted Mr. Yerner, "why
don t you, my dear? You ran talk Just aa
big as she does." Philadelphia Press. ,
"If you've got a boy who has lots of am. I
bltlon, but no capacity," advised Unci
Allen Sparks, "train him up to be a leader
In polite society." Chicago Tribune.
"The Idea of that lawyer asking me such
ruue queswons:
"Well, auntie, how else did you expect
lawyer to treat a witness for the other
Side?"
"But I was told this was a civil suit"-'
Baltimore American.
"Children - make life lots brighter and
happier."
"ies," answered Mr. Slrlus Barker. "If
It weren't for children we wouldn't havo
any excuse for going to the cirrus in sum
mer nor for fooling with mechanical toy
during the holidays." Washington Star.
THIS LABORER AND HIS HIRE,
P. A. Daly In Catholic Standard and Time,
Hallo! Slgnor, I ain't see you
Eor manny, manny day.
I wondra moocha w'at you do
All time you was away.
All deesa seexa monf or more
Dat you are gon' from home.
I 'spose you went out wes', Slgnor
Eli? No? You was een Rome?
An' Pareess. too? Wnl, wal, my frand,
W'at Joy yeu musta feel
To see all 'dose so granda land
Where you have been. But steell
iou musta worka longa while
for save tta rnon to go.
Eh? Deal een stocks ees mak' your pile?
Escuse! I deed not know.
I weesh dat dere was soocha treep
For Dugoman like me;
Ees manny now dat taka sheep
For home een Eetaly
Eh? w'at ees dat? You say dees men
Are mean as Wjlrt een street
For com' an' maka mon' an' den
To run back home weeth ect?
I am su'prlse weeth you, Slgnor,
For hear you talk like dees.
Da mon' we gat by workln' for
We do weeth as we pleass.
You say dey leave no theeng bayhlnd
For deesa mon' dry mak';
Escuse, Slgnor, but you weell find
Dey pay for all dey tak".
Dey pay for ect weeth harda toll,
Weelh gooda road an' street, ,
Weeth crops dat spreenga from da soli
An' geeve you food for eat,
Weeth wheat dat mak' your bread so good,
Weeth grape dat mak' your wines.
An', yes, dey pay eet weeth deir blood
On railroads, een da mines!
Wat deed you geeve for w'at yeu mak'
p..n ileeRR stoca deal?
Not wan good theeng for all you tak',
Not wan, Slgnor, but steell '
You say dees men no gotta rigns
To do da theeng dey do.
Escusa me for gat excite".
I would shak' hands weeth you.
Ees Crees'mas-tlme, so let us be
Good "Merlcana men.
Shak' hands! Eet ees a Joy to me
For see you home agen.
AS WHEN THEY'RE USEFUL
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