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THE OMAHA SUNDAY HER. FERKUARY 9. 1908. n Tim Omaiia Sunday IJeex FOUNDED UT EDWARD HOSE WATER VICTOR IIOSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflce as second eluas matter. TERMS OF 8UUHCH1PTION. rnl1y (without Hunday), on year..M no I 'aily Bee and Hunday, one year Hunday Hee, one year 2-m Saturday Hoc, one yer 1.50 DELIVERED. Bt CARRIER: rally Iie (including Sunday), per week..irc Ially Uee, (without Sunday), per eek..lOe Kvenlng Hre (without Sunday), r week 6c Evening Ue (with Sunday. per we.k,.10c Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. : Omaha The Bc Hulldln. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council liluffs 16 Scott Htrect. Chicago IMo University Knildlng. New YorK-15 Home Life Insurance lluflrtlng. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. ' Communications relating to news and edl torlal matter should be addressed, Omaha Hee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Itee Publishing Company. Only Jf-cent stamps received In payment of mall acoounta. 'cr6nal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: Oeorgs 11. TiHtrjick, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening ana Sunday bee printed during the month of January, 190s, was as fol lows: 1... 36,800 2 36,180 8 38,330 36,400 6 38,300 . 6 36,340 7 36,600 36,390 36,380 10 36,410 11 36,330 12..... 38,150 13 36,430 14 36,800 15 36,360 It 36,100 17 36,300 18 36,150 1 36,400 20 36,550 21 36,410 22 36,140 23 36,350 24 36,460 25 36,540 26 35,100 27 38,140 8 37,130 29 36,060 80 38,330 tl 36,980 Totals 1,133,390 Less unsold and returned copies. . 8,430 Net total 1,114,840 Dally average. 35,963 UEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of February, 19118. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHES OUT OF" TOWN. nbsrrlbers leaving; the city tem porarily should have The lie Dialled to them. Addreaa will b chugt4 aa oftea as requested. Anyway, February Is proving that It is not a calendar mollycoddle. The New York Sun Is happy again. It has revived the third term rumor end has something to iworry about. Moved and seconded that Harry Thaw be removed from print, whether be is removed from the asylum or not. San Francisco formally announces that the city is free of bubonic plague. It is still afflicted with the graft plague. '..''. David Bennett Hill is going to the Denver convention. He .Insists that while he is out of politics he has not worn off attending big shows. Tom Taggart says Mr. Taft will be nominated on the first ballot. It begins to look very much that way, in spite of the fact that Taggart thinks so. Guess the campaign is open, all right. One New York democratic paper is calling another New York democratic paper a "googoo guerrilla." A New York man solemnly an nounces that he dreamed that he went to hades and( liked it immensely. Naturally he would, alter having lived in New York. The Japanese Parliament has in creased the tax on beer, and sake and reduced it on petroleum. The name of the John D. Rockefeller of Japan is not announced. Mr. Bryan declared that the New York Stock exchange has graduated more embezzlers than Fagln's school of thieves. The exchange is larger and has more Improved facilities. "Remorse" has restored $800 to a bank in New York which he de frauded. 11. E. MorBe may have that kind of a conscience, but C. V. Morse Mteuis to be built on different lines. Tames K. Jones declares that Bryan is not the man of the hour. Jones, It will be remembered, conducted one of Colonel Bryan's masterly defeats and served a term in the Bryan cabinet. A railroad official reports that a re cent wreck was caused by "a broken fish-plate." Dining car conductors Ihould be compelled to be more care ful about dropping fish-plates on the tracks. It is shown that 3761 was paid for a single chair in furnishing the Penn sylvania state capltol at HarrUburg. That will occasion no great surprise out here. Omaha once paid for hav ing its city hall furnished. Of course, if Bryan wants them to jink their differences, the warrlug Dahlmanites and Jacksonians will ob sequiously subnet. Democracy is "the rule of the people." but Mr. Bryan is the only oracle empowered to tell what the people want. Secretary Taft will make a western trip this week as far as Kansas City, where he will be welcomed by new friends as well as old. Governor Hughes Is scheduled for au address in Chicago next week, which will be his first appearance in public west of the Alleghenles. This illustrates the dif ference between the two lu poiut of lmdlh o( experience. SOCTHKR! rKiUHLF-ntADKR. The assurance that Florda will be before the coming republican national convention with a double-header, each claiming to be the regularly elected delegation and duly authorized repre sentatives of the republicans of that state, will be seized upon by the oppo sition for political capital, although it was only to be expected and presents no new situation . Ever since reconstruction days some of the southern states have had con testing delegations demanding recogni tion at, every republican national con vention In which political prizes were to be distributed. The southern double header is the Inevitable outcome of the peculiar basis of apportionment that prevails in our natlonnj conventions, by which a state like Florida, for example, which Is practically without a republi can organization and which by no con ceivable contingency can give a single electoral vote to the republican presi dential ticket, is given the same num ber of delegates as a state like Wash ington, whoso entire congressional delegation is republican and whose electoral vote is Bure to be republican. Georgia, which has not a single repub lican senator or congressman at Wash ington, will have Just as many votes In the Chicago convention as Iowa, although there are not as many repub lican votes cast in all of Georgia as there are in a single county in Iowa. The unavoidable result of the dis proportionate representation accorded to southern states is to put a premium on double-headers and to make na tional convention delegations from the southern states merely trading stock for federal office-holders and their friends on one side and federal office- seekers and their friends on the other. It makes the quadrennial scramble for national convention delegates In these states merely a contest between a hand ful of "Ins" and a handful of "outs" who want to get In. It is not for the democratic opposi tion, however, to berate the republi cans for this unfortunate state of af fairs, because the democrats have Just as flagrant examples of misrepresenta tion in their convention as have the republicans. While the republi cans give two delegates apiece to each of the territories and insular posses sions, the democrats give them six dele gates apiece, with the consequence that Hawaii will have as much voice in the Denver convention as Wyoming, and that Hawaii, Porto Rico and Alaska will have more weight in numbers than Nebraska. It is notorious that at the Kansas City convention eight years ago Mr. Bryan's draft of the platform was saved in the committee on resolutions only by the vote of the delegate from Hawaii. Efforts have been made repeatedly by the republicans to correct the fnaiil fest Injustice of the long established basis of apportionment for the national conventions, but with no more success than has attended the efforts made to correct the disproportionate and unjust representation accorded to southern states In congress. Most of the pro posal have alined to give each state and congressional district an arbitrary number of delegates and additional delegates either for a prescribed num ber of votes polled in the preceding presidential election or for each repub lican senator or representative in con gress. Every time a convention is held, the double-headers from the southern Btates emphasize antw the eventual necessity of revising the basis of ap portionment In our national conven tions, if our political parties are to respond correctly to the real wishes of the rank and file of their membership. COLLEGE SPORTS CONTRASTED. Germans and Americans alike will have a better appreciation of the in fluence of college sports on student life and character after a study of the address delivered by President Hadley of Yale before a distinguished audience at Berlin. By the terms of an agreed ment made last year for an exchange of professors between the German and American universities. President Hadley will spend this year at the 1'niversity of Berlin. He signalized his appearance by an address on "Ameri can University Life," somewhat daring In the extent to which It pointed out, at least by implication, some of the detects of the educational system in Germany and other European coun tries, particularly in the matter of col lege sports. While cabled reports of the lecture are disappointingly incomplete, they are sufficient to show that President Hadley praised American superiority in the matter of college athletics. He pointed out that the American college students row, swim, play base ball, foot bull and other games and have intense rivalry and activity in all field sports, with the result that the college man who has participated In th ath letic part of the course leaves hid uni versity with a physical as well as a mental equipment. The reports do not state that President Hadley con trasted this with the habits and train ing of the students In the German uni versities, but he left the inference plain that the American system was more desirable. In Germany much of the time of the student's career Is given over to drinking bouts, endur ance tests at pipe smoking and duels with rapiers. This system is in vogue also in most of the European countries except in England, where alone the American love of outdoor athletics Is shared. As a result the German stu dent is not capable of meeting an American in any form of outdoor ath letics or in any test of physical endur ance. Merited criticism has been directed at th a brutilisiu of foot ball and the unfortunate tendency of American col leges to make athletics too prominent, but In the final analysis our system is Incomparably preferable to the Euro pean system, where more attention is paid to the sword, the "knelpe" and the pipe than to the oar, the base ball and the pigskin better- hub pstkaks in prospect. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is one of the staunchest republicans in official life, although be is so wrapped up in his plans for improving and ad vancing the nation's agricultural in terests that he rarely takes any active part in political discussions. On that account, some of the political leaders may experience a shock when they learn that the secretary has been warmly approving certain policies of Thomas Jefferson. However, more careful reading of the secretary's ad dress to the cattle growers will re lieve all political anxiety. He has en dorsed Jefferson's policy of improving American live stock and has with' held all reference to Jefferson's policy of improving American politics. According to Secretary Wilson, Mr. Jefferson was the first American to take an active Interest in getting bet ter breeds of horses, mules and sheep. He scoured Europe to secure the best breeds to improve the native stock, al though he made the mistake of neglecting the American cow. Secre tary Wilson urges the American farm ers to pay more attention to the breed of cattle and asserts that If this is done the humblest table in the land may, in a few years, be abundantly supplied with the choicest beefsteaks of the kind now reserved for epicures and sold at exorbitant prices. The prospect la most alluring, seem ing almost too good to be true, but the improvement already made is promise of the greater improvement that may be made. Only a few years ago the bulk of American beef was furnished from wild cattle of the Texas plain that ran largely to horn and tough gristle. Today we depend more largely upon the home-fed product. As the ranges disappear, more and more of the beef stock will come from the farms, where special attention is given to the care of the animals and more sense used in selec tion for fattening purposes. Secre tary Wilson is, urging the growers to study and appreciate the fact that it costs less to fatten a thoroughbred than it does a maverick and that it pays better to have a few choice beeves than a pasture full of half-fattened stock. The farmer should understand that he must have the best of every thing and Improve all his stock, of no one will be benefited. Nebraska farmers and those adjoin ing western states have long ap preciated the importance of this ad vice. They are paying top prices each year for the best breeders the mar kets of the world offer and, as a re sult, are furnishing the choice beef steaks for the tables of the world. THE WIRZ Muy VMEtIT In view of the remarkable and grati fying progress made In the last decade toward wiping out the last vestige of sectional hatred between the north and the south, It is deplorable that the or ganization known as the "United Daughters of the Confederacy" has seen fit to decide upon an inscription upon the monument to be erected to Henry Wirz, the former keeper of the confederate prison at Anderson vllle, which distorts the established facts and calculated only to rekindle a contro versy that had much better be for gotten. The proposed Inscription is as follows: In memory of Major Henry Wlrs, tried by illegal court-martial under false charges of excessive cruelty to federal prisoners, sentenced and judicially murdered at Wash ington. D. C, November 10, 18tS&. That the United Btates government, not Major Win, la chargeable with the suffering at Ander sonville, there la abundant proof furnished by friend and foe. To rescue his memory from the stigma attached to It by em bittered prejudice and Ignorance, and to restore It to its rightful place among men, the Georgia division of the United Laugh ters of the Confederacy has rained this shaft. In the first place, Henry Wirz was never a major. He was a captain, and, in his own petition for clemency, stated that he was a native of Switzerland and Intended to return to that country to live If pardoned. While he served the confederacy, he was not of It, and should not be mentioned In the same breath with the brave men who gave their lives for the cause they thought was right. He was tried by a special military commission, composed of three major generals, three brigadier gen erals, one colonel and one lieutenant colonel, all men of the highest stand ing and incapable of rendering a false or malicious judgment, even under the stress of the enraged public sentiment of that time. The attorney general of the United States pronounced the pro ceedings thoroughly legal. The trial lasted two months and more than 160 witnesses were examined and an im mense mass of documentary evidence offered. Captain Wirz was represented by -eminent counsel and had every op portunity of defense. The charges in cluded murder, cruelties and unspeak able atrocities practiced on the union prisoners. The prisoner was found guilty on every count In the indictment and the judge advocate general. In re viewing the evidence, Bald: This work of death leems to have been g saturnalia of enjoyment for the prisoner, who, amid these savage orgies, evidenced such exultation and mingled with them such nameless blasphemy and ribald jests, as ut times to exhibit him rather as a demon Mian a man. It was his continual boast that by these barbarities he waa de stroying more union soldiers than rebel generals were on the battlefield. lUstory lu this matter cannot be 1 v I changed by writing Inscriptions on later day monuments. The south hag heroes whose memories are properly cherished, but no organization can ever succeed in making a hero out of the unspeakable Wirz. While it Is hoped that the exchange of fraternal feeling between the solderg of the north and south which hns recently been In prog ress may continue until all past differ ences are obliterated, the north should Insist, and will insist, that if Wirz is to have a monument the Inscription on it should not pervert the truth. MOVLDlNQ HOUSES WHILE YOV WAIT. America's great wizard of invention Thomas A. Edison, is said to be en' gaged just now in ierfectlng a scheme by which dwelling houses may be moulded to order after various stock patterns, very much as pressed glass vases are produced at the glass factory or coins struck off at the mint. As quoted by interviewers, Mr. Edison is confident that he can set up a hollow model of nickel-plated cast iron and pump it full of cement concrete, so that when the mould Is removed the dwell lng house will be practically complete, except for the interior finishing and decorations, from the cellar to the garret, including the kitchen Blnk and the wash tubs and two beautifully turned flower vases at each side of the porch steps. Aladdin's lamp furnished the ma terlal for a series of fairy tales upon which succeeding generations of young people have been regaled for centuries, but if Mr. Edison can make good on his present proposition, Aladdin's lamp will have to go to the scrap heap. Of course, the very name of Edison in connection with an advertised inven tion made, or to be made, carries im mediate conviction to a great many people, but even Edison has been known to make promises not yet ful filled. At one time he predicted that, with the perfection of his phonograph, the art of writing would vanish from the earth and Instead of mailing letters to our friends, we would simply send a scroll Into which we had talked and communicate our thoughts to distant lands by tfie sound of our own voice. But the volume of the mails has been constantly increasing instead of de creasing and, instead of abolishing let ter writing, we have been constantly seeking for new contrivances to enable us' to write more and to write faster. It is to be hoped that Edison's dwell ing house moulds may turn out better than did his voice moulds, but most of us, like the gentleman from Missouri, will have to be shown. MORE EXCISES FOB BAD SPELLING. The Simplified Spelling board, a more or less self-appointed body, has made another attempt at vivisection of the English language by a call to the coun try to accept another job lot of seventy seven ' orthographical atrocities as 'something equally as good" as the slmon pure article. This list la In addi tion to the 300 words offered by the board in March, 1906, thus making a total of 377 different excuses for bad spelling. The new list runs from "ake" for "ache" to "yoman" for "yeoman," at which point the appropriation for clerk hire was apparently exhausted. No school boy with an Inborn hatred of Webster and McGuffey ever suc ceeded In the vast enterprise of twist ing the English language into unrecog nizable shape so well as this new word factory has done. Among the new words Is "thum" for "thumb." It sounds all right, but the American peo ple are going to be slow about having their thumbs amputated In that way. While the people suffer, particularly in political campaigns and at house clean- ng time, from too much tongue, it is doubtful if they will Boon agree to shorten it to "tung." There will be a protest, too, against changing choir to 'quire," making the announcement music by the quire" look like a call for a music roll. But the real protest will come against the proposition to change "phthisic" to "tlslc" and 'phthiBis" to "tisis." Those words are never used except at spelling bees in the rural districts and the attempt to change them Is nothing short of a direct blow at one of the nation's most cherished and firmly established insti tutions. , There is doubtless room for reform of our written language, as there Is of business, political and social methods, but it will be a work of slow growth, enforced by custom and approved by reason. It will not be accomplished by asking the public to accept as a guide a list of words that look as though they might have been coined by an out of gear typewriting machine. After 2,500 men had marched to the city hall at Detroit clamoring for work, the city authorities decided to relieve the apparent distress by be ginning the construction of a canal across Belle Isle. Ten men applied for work. There are unemployed In all the large cities at this time of year and every effort should be made to give them assistance when necessary and work when possible, but the men who Join parades of "the unemployed" are usually missing when the work test is applied. The Due de Chaulnes Is said to have won his favor with the Shouts family because of bis performance on the violin. In spite of that, the terras of the marriage agreement shows that Papa Shonts has refused to set aside any cash to pay the fiddler. The Kansas legislature, called for the specific purpose of passing a de positors' guaranty law along lines sug gested by Mr. Bryan and the Okla homa legislature, killed the bill and passed one permitting the formation of a private Insurance company in which banks might insure their de posits if they wished. That extra session of the Nebraska legislature is indefinitely postponed. Mr. Bryan's Commoner prints the tnaln parts of President Roosevelt' message, headed, "The President's Call to Arms." Mr. Bryan would like very much. If he could, to make the presl dent's call to arma a call to enlist be hind Colonel Bryan, but he will have a hard time persuading the people to see it that way. In a recent speech the president of the New York clearing house declared that "when the load was too heavy to carry it had to give way, and all this would have happened If President Roosevelt had never been born." Busi ness men appreciate the truth of such statements, even if the politicians do not x It will be noticed that congress is giving more heed to the demand for tariff revision since it comes from the men who keep the wheels of Industry going instead of from the professional Agitators against the existing order George Ade has been selected as delegate to the republican national convention from the Tenth Indiana district and Instructed to vote for Mr. Fairbanks for president. Mr. Ade is also working on a new comedy. Bound to Knock Home Way. Cleveland Leader. The eastern democrats who are trying to find a substitute for Bryan are determined to compel the Nebraskan to laugh himself to death. Cause for ltejolctna-. Cleveland Tlatn Dealer. ( Seventy-five unoffending words have been added to the list of mangled examples of simplified spelling treatment. It la pointed out that of this number the condensing board has really done the language a service In shortening phthisic and phthisis to tlRic and tlsls. A Grateful Republic. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A number of British soldiers, veterans of the Indian mutiny and the Crimean war, have been discovered In English work houses, and a subscription Is under way for their relief, King Edward heading the list with 85,250. No reproach of this kind can rest against the United States. The brave men who responded to Its call to arms have better places provided for them than the almshouses. "Come, Lef He Friends." Springfield Republican. With three United States supreme court decisions, one . after the other. In their favor, employers of labor who have been active In fighting the unions are expressing a desire for peace. "Come, now, let us be friends," says one of them who has every reason to be well satisfied, and the unions might do worse by themselves than to ac cept the Invitation. It seems to concede some degree of that "recognition" of their existence which Is so much Insisted on. Taxing; Imported Husbands. Baltimore American. A bill has been Introduced In the Albany legislature taxing all dowries or marriage settlements made by female residents of the state to aliens. The Idea is to keep at least' a part of the money In the country which Is now going out to titled fortune hunters. If the bill passes Imported hus bands will be taxed like other luxuries, but not In proportion to their worth, as In the majority of the cases, as they turn out, that would amount to practically nothing as a revenue. White Labor Crowding; Out Japs. Portland Oregonlan. Hard times In southern California havo not proved an unmitigated evil, for they have brought with them an abundance of white labor which 1s now crowding the Japanese out of employment. The change Is welcomed by the fruit growers and small farmers, for during the good times of the last few years labor had been so scarce that the Japanese became very tyrannical in their bearing und correspondingly ob jectionable to the men who were paying the bills. Consider the Source. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Bryan was able to deport himself at the Berry dinner on Saturday night with admirable self-repreSHlon and forget fulnesa. He did. Indeed, find occasion to commiserate with the people of New Jersey because they are "so near the big cities that the minds of the people are poisoned with the paid editorials of a subsidized press." This harmless hulluclnallon Is one of Mr. Bryan's peculiarities. He edits a newspaper himself which tirelessly exploits favorable candidate for the presidency, nd he has succeeded In so far convincing himself that he has no use for newspapers that put forth contrary opinions. On this subject he is a political paranoiac, who must be leniently considered. PERSONAL AND OTH ICHWISE. As a specimen of pure fiction, a current description of "Wall street's laugh" takes the ribbon. From n w on till Friday night youthful hopes will rise or fell as the postman pauses as he passes the family door. Toledo Ice men send out from their grated doors this chunk of advice to dealers in congealed water, "Be good and you'll bo happy." Out of his abundant navigating experience Mark Twain draws the opinion that thf most difficult task now before the American battlebhip fleet Is "climbing up to the equator. " Consideration played a part In the matri monial career of the latest unhitched American heiress consideration at the wed ding and at the divorce. The earl of Yar mouth is doing nicely, considering. A Chicago Jury overtops Omaha's record personal Injury verdict of $JS,000 by $7.(XI, the highest every returned in the windy city. Juries are becoming expert In hand ing sockdolagers to arrogant wealth. James J. Hill 'distinguishes himself In weurlng as conspicuous ly Is in other activi ties. He tackled a $:!60,O)X) personal tax assessment in New York recently and when he got through with It the, figures were melted down to $16,000. An Ohio Judge sentenced himself to the workhouse to feel by practical experience the nature of the punishment he handed out to others. As the Buckeye slate Is xerctslng special privileges this year, the precedent la not likely to spread. Torn Lawson turns upon his whilom ad mirers a look of Intense disgust and shrieks that the people watched him waging war on the system" and "Just grinned." Evi dently, some of the lambs were on to the game and rude enough U show IL EYES EXAMINED FREE aMMi Aw ACf ' il M 1 .'III We make no charge for Kye Kxamlnatlon by the Latest Solsntlflo Instruments, Our prices are as low as Is consistent for high grade Spectacles and Kye Ulasses. -3. J. Penfold & Co. Leading Opticians. 1408 Farnam Street that's i of going to a rood physician, paying him rood money then going to some Aram tores and paying more good money and then not getting results' cause the pre scription was not nronerlv filladt wait a MOwsa r u-.. .11. 1 ....( ., .. lnferlng that we are the only druggists who fill preHcrtptiona properly, but we do say we are four who do fill them as written. v. cordially Invite anv one, physlcliin or otherwise, to rial and examine the stock In our four 4i prescription rooms and learn ir we have the genuine articlo of every thlntf needed to fill prescriptions. Another thine (a mOSt Inillnrtunt one), our nnMi-l-tnlinn ilennrtoionf nr.) a.nat-AA from the Htore, and the pharmacists In prescriptions lots of them. Schaefer's Cut leih iChlcago,v'UaUll 11CU. SUKMO.XS BOILED DOWN. There can be no recreation in any dese cration. Humoring our sins will not heal our sinfulness. High livers are likely to come down to low levels. Its hard getting solid with sin without getting soiled. Folks seldom fuse together much In a heated argument. The best way to sympathize with some is to shake them. It Is better to find freedom through puin than freedom from it. It's not much use praying for fruits until you get some roots. Heavenly treasures are only saved for ourselves as we share them. The nearer home any reform begins the farther and higher It will go. Many think they are bold because they enjoy entertaining the devil. Praying Is not a scheme for making peaches grow on pumpkin vines. There are no good points about the char acter that sticks Into everybody. There is little of the bread of life In the sermon preached for bread and butter. The holiness that makes no one happy s one of the most subtle forms of Inh-ulty. Making a child happy Is the first step and a long one, too, toward making him holy. The markets of sin are those where many characters are sold and yet none arc bought. Chicago Tribune. 8ECILAII SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Kansas City Star: The Ministers' asse- clatlon in Cluclnnatl halla President Roose velt as "a greater force for righteousness than all the preachers In the world." Presi dent Roosevelt has two distinct advantages over the other preachers: His congrega tion numbers $5,on0,0 and he does not have to "pass the hat." ' Bultlmore American: The Utlca mlnlater who haa started a series of meetings at which women can assemble and relieve heir minds by Indulging unmolested In gossip should remember that gossip is not confined to any one sex. However, the men will doubtless Induce their respective wives to detail to them the choicest and most scandalous stories upon their return home, and In this way benefit by tho minis ter's scheme. Philadelphia Ledger: A church In Jersey City Ih Inclined to call a certain man to Its pulpit, but the objection has arisen that he has Beven children. This domestic cir cumstance the thrifty congregation fears will necessitate a larger salary than It cares to pay. Perhaps the objection is sound. To see tho minister wearing shiny clothea, and his wife a shabby dreBS and year-bcfore-last bonnet Is trying enough, but the thought of seven youngsters, each reproachfully hungry, Is enough to give pause. The alternative of paying a fair salary and not taking any 'official count of tho ministerial babies Is, of course, too radical to be considered. DOMESTIC Pl.KAS ANTHIES. "That girl Jinx married turned out well, didn't she, dear?" "Hump! She turned out today in a nrr wouldn't wear to a dog fight." Houston Post. That rich heiress let me hold her hand last night." Don t tell me inem yarns. a thA hriHire table, while she nswered a 'phone call." Louisville Cour ier-Journal. "When you graduate from that cooking school," asked Tess, "110 y"" ev dL"T.;'i'm.. " renlled Jess, "you get a certificate for a post-graduate course." A certificate r .. . . Yes. a marriage certificate. Philadel phia Press. Tess-And what do you think? Mr. Ooodart hadn't been alone w 1 n me nve linules beforei he ouereti ... Jess Yes, that s one imiii i.ui . Ooodart; he's Just as soii-iit-aneu .no The Pleasure ol Producing Music Without the Labor is Yours if You Have an Apollo-Piano Do you realize why bo many people spend years learning to play the piano? You know that the irrpat majority do not make their liv Iuk from it, and do not expect to. What is it. then, that encourages them to persevere? If you had ever produced mualc yourself you would know. You would realize that one of the ktenest Joys you can experience comes from personally producing music. You would understand why the Apollo, which enables everyone to participate In this pleasure, has become so tremend ously popular lu the few years of its life. What the ApolU Will Mean in Your Home It will mean that you will have ready access to every musi cal composition ever written that is worth hearing a second time. It will mean that you can become a pianist yourself that you can experience the greatest of all forms of musical en joyment, that of personally playing a musical instrument. Guests can always be successfully entertained with the Apollo I'layer-Flano. , The Apollo I layer-Piano is the only jMayer-Plano that plavs the entire scale of 88 notes. We ask your inspection of the Apollo Player-Piano. Come in at any time and enjoy a demonstration of tho beauties of this modern marvel. A- HOSPE CO. DauV. " iUtANCII HOl'SES; Council llluffs, Iowa; Lincoln, Xeb.j Kcarucy, NeU. - 5 ' "4, -j-- a: the Use charge do not wait on tradei but they fill Price Drug Stores OV, VUldlld. J gj. VV. Cor. 24tli 61 !J charitable. I'rets. as he can be.-rhlladelphla . "Drinking Is Is It not ;" matter of habit with him, "Kxactly; he goes on n tear rverv lime his wife buys a new habit." Cleveland I'luin-Deuler. Poor Dear Public You ought to be abb? to do something lor us next summer. Mr. Iceman. It's such frcezlitK weather now. Iceman ( haughtily) That cuts no ice with me. Baltimore American. "It was a curious thing nbnnt that miner who was rescued after being entombed f'r nearly a week." "What about him?" "He didn't nk for a chew of -tobacco tlio first thing." Chicago Hi-cord Herald. "What are the senator's relations Willi the Standard oil trUHt?" asked tho visitor from the west. "I believe he's a sort of relation by mar riage," said the Washington man. Chi cago Tribune. Old Hunks When I came to this town, sixteen years ago, real estate in the block where I 1,1 ve was higher priced than It is now. old Hewligus It would be so In any block where you'd settle down. Chicago Tribune. (0TETMET, Chicago Post. Day, and the songs It sings; Night, and the dreams It brings These are tho best of all; Rustle of nlghlng leaves, Promise of golden sheaves. Throstle and robin call. Sweep of the atalely stars Through realms where no line bars , Them In their endless course; Dawn laughing at the brook Which breathes to every nook Word of Its distant source. Aye, and the song Is sweet Borne In the clashing street in a soft undertone; Blending the harsh and dull Into fair strains that lull When they are fainter grown. Night, with the city lights Gleaming from all the heights Telling of some one's quest, Glimmering one by one A though torch-bearers run Calling tho world to rest. City, and field, and wood Ho, but the world is good When one looks on and sees! When one looks on and hears Tuned to the chiming spheres All of the melodies. Dav, and the songs It sings; Night, and the dreams It brings Woven are they, and blent Into the perfect nesa That is but meant to bless Into a great content. No Deadly Drugs We do not resort to the annoying and much dreaded dnpn in making eye examinations, or fittlnir kImkm-s; but we are able to demonstrate to PhytU clans and others that we are capable of doing betu-r and more accurate work than can he done by resorting to the drog referred to. Spectacles fitted $1.00 and op. Factory on the premises. IIUTESOH OPTICAL CO. Kxclusive Opticians 213 Kouth Sixteenth Street. Factory on the premises. 1
