THE OMAHA STINT) A V iw.V.- MAV i ions
THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: MAY 24, VMS.
i I
tk
Im
T
CI
a
ell
ml
l.
H
fai
thj
tw
th)
oil
OU
of J
hi
Ru
tioj
wal
nl
P
th
a
I
Hi
to
m
a
tj
a
U
0
IS
III
win!
bod J
kin
bur
t
i
2
i7
jqrnOMAiiAf Sunday ' Deb
rOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBE WATER
VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR.
Entered t Omtbt Post office second
elaaa matter.
TERMS OF BLTBCRIPTION:
Iny Be (without Sunday), one jrar..K
pally Bee and Sunday, on year "0
eJunday Bee, one yesr
liatgrday Bee. one year 160
DELIVERED BY CARRIER:
Pally Bea (Including Sunday), per week.ISc
Ially Be (without Sunday), per week. 10c
Kvening Be (without Sunday), per wk So
.vnlng Be (with Sunday;, per week... 10c
Addrera all complRlnti of Irregularities
In delivery to City CTrrulation Department
OFFICJ5S:
Omaha The Be nulldlng.
Goqfh Omaha City Hail HuHrttng.
Council Bluffs it, Scott Utreet.
Chlcaao (0 University Building.
New York Roomi 1101-1101. No. 4 Wet
rhlrty-thlrd Street.
Washington 726 Fourteenth Street N. W.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communications relating to news and edi
torial matter should be addressed: Omaha
lae, Editorial Department.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft, express or postal order
Only J-cent stamps received In payment of
mall accounts. Personal checks, except on
Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted.
STATEMENT OF- CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.!
Oeorg B. Tzschuck. treasurer of Th Be
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that th actual number of full and complet
copl of Th Dally. Morning, Evening and
Sunday Be printed during th month of
April, Hot, was as fallows:
1 3,M0 ! 86,960
1 8,00 ' 36,600
8,780 . ST.140
4 7,010 II 36,660
86.8O0 tO 38,830
S7,680 tl 86,a0
"... 37,840 11 86,460
87,040 21 36,660
37,140 14 36,860
JO.. 87,000 St 36,630
11 87,090 it 36,600
II 37,000 17 36,760
II 87,340 21... 36,830
14 37,390 II 36,990
21 37,130 10 36,870
Total 1,108,620
unsold and rsturned copies.. 11,341
Nat total 1,097,179
Pally average .. 9fi7a
OSORCE b. tzschuck.
Treasurer.
ubcrlb4 In my presence and sworn
to before me Uils 1st day of May, 1U08.
tU ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHICH OUT 0" TOWN,
gabscrlkter. laaviaaj tka city tern
porkrlly abaalal kav Th Be
mailed t tkasa. Address will ba
sULBgjaa mm efta aa requested.
The propoattloa to bar cigarettes
from the navy will likely end In smoke.
Nebraska baa a governor now who
takes no back seat in any gathering of
governors.
Wheat In Oklahoma Is as high as
a man's head. It ia even higher than
that In Chicago.
Senator Piatt apparently did his
share in bringing the merry widows
into prominence.
Between the rate-makers and the
lax assessors, the Nebraska railroads
are between two fires.
The Clevelandlte who has to walk
to his office these days saves only 8
cents instead of a nickel.
Cleveland has 3-cent street car
fares, but only those immune from
dynamite care to use them.
The scientist who has captured the
paresis germ should go right on until
he corrals the brainstorm germ.
Congressman Hobaon wants the fleet
to stay in the PacUlc. He thinks the
Atlantlo is pacific enough without the
fleet.
One thing muat be said in Senator
Piatt's favor. There Is no evidence
that he ever wanted to marry Mrs.
Guinness. f
It Is the farmer of Nebraska and
other corn belt states that will make
the railroads get busy and work over
time again.
' In the matter of straw hats and
gauze underwear, the wise, man will be
guided by the thermometer rather
than, the calendar.
i
With six votes from Delaware and
seven from Maryland. Judge Gray can
figure out how near 13 comes to being
two-thirds of 1,008.
The Kansas popullnts are to hold a
ratification meeting on June 11. it
will be interesting to learn what they
are going to ratify.
"Governor Johnson has his back
up," says ' Minneapolis dispatch. He
will probably back down, as the be
lated returns come in.
It is announced that the Chicago
convention will be in session five days.
Senator Carter of Montana must be on
the program for a speech.
Evelyn Thaw promises to withdraw
her divorce suit. If she will only fol
low that by withdrawing herself from
the publio.eye much will be forgiven.
.
The Douma has refused to grant
the cxar's request for four new battle
ships. t The Douma must have an
"Uucle Joe" Cannon in its member.
ship.
It is stated that a building thirty
iU luclii In width ia being- erects it
Reno, Nev. Secretary Taft will natu
rally decline any Invitation to attend
the opening of it
t 11
Tammany proposes to spend about
$100,000 at Denver and Deuver has
just elected a mayor who has a repu
tation for refusing to limit the activi
ties of the tiger.
Congress haa voted an appropriation
for the exposition ,to be held in Japan
la 1911. The exhibit should Include
some peace doves and the models of
acme of our fUest batUhlia.
NEBRASKA AHD THE CARNtOlt FUND,
According to trustworthy informa
tion, some new conditions have been
added to the 'terms of the Carnegie
foundation, recently enlarged by $5,
000,000, to provide pensions for super
annuated professors of state univer
sities as well as privately endowed
universities. ' In inditing the formal
letter of gift for the additional 95,000,-
000, Mr. Carnegie has taken warning
from the Incident which occurred in
the Nebraska State university over tho
Rockefeller donation, by requiring be
fore any state university may be put
upon the accredited list that an appli
cation be made in its behalf not only
by the president and board of trustees,
or regent3, In immediate control, but
with the endorsement of the governor
and legislature of the state by whom
appropriations are made for the sup
port of the Institution. The reason
for imposing on the state universities
this condition, not imposed on the
privately endowed universities is said
to be that Mr. Carnegie does not wish
his bounty to be thrust upon any state
even as pensions for its retired educa
tors in the face of opposition or objec
tion from the people of the state.
Outside of this requirement as a
condition of the gift, the trustees of
the foundation have also established a
rule that before pensions may be
granted to the superannuated profes
sors of any state university the board
must be satisfied that the appoint
ments, promotions and dismissals of
the teaching staff in such institution
are not made for political considera
tions. Tho inspiration for this rule is
said to come from Oklahoma and
Wyoming, whose state universities are
reputed to be the foot balls of party
politics. The trustees of the Carnegie
foundation insist that the pensions
awarded out of its income must not
become ' prizes for political pull or
preferment.
The Bee believes that the teaching
staff of the University of Nebraska
should participate in the benefits of
the pensions provided by Mr. Carnegie,
and it has not hesitated to say so from
the first. Were our university to be
excluded, or to refuse to take advan
tage of the opportunity, the possibility
of getting on the pension roll by be
coming attached to some other univer
sity would increase the handicap al
ready suffered in competition with
other similar Institutions seeking de
sirable instructional talent. Our uni
versity authorities should make out
the necessary applications to have the
University of Nebraska put upon the
accredited list for the Carnegie foun
dation, and we believe the governor
and the legislature may be counted on
to give it promptly their official en
dorsement. makisq farm life attractive.
Senator Hansbrough of North Da
kota has proposed the establishment
of a "national commission, of co-operative
service to promote agricultural co
operative organizations." The (meas
ure is said to be in accordance with a
plan of President Roosevelt to appoint
Immediately after the adjournment r.f
congress a commission for the thor
ough study of rural life, with a view
to determine in what way the govern
ment can most effectually co-operate
in its Improvement. It Is even indi
cated that the president has selected
Prof. L. H. Bailey of Cornell univer
sity. Prof. A. A. Noyes of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology and
Gifford Pinchot, head of the forestry
bureau, to compose this commission
and conduct the desired investigations,
with these questions as a basis of its'
inquiry:
How can tha life of the farm family be
made less solitary, fuller of opportunity
freer from drudgery, more comfortable
happier and more attractive?
How can life on the farm be kept on the
highest level and where It Is not already
on that level to be so Improved, dignified
and brightened as to awaken and koop
alive the pride and loyalty of the farmer s
wife and of the farmer himself?
How can a compelling desire to live on
the farm be aroused In children who are
born on the farm?
With agriculture as the chiefest
source of ..he nation's wealth, any and
every step designed to improve the
condition of the farmer and make ru
ral life more attractive should be en
couraged, but there is a strong suspi
cion that most of the people away
from the farms have an erroneous and
exaggerated idea of the "hardships
and drudgery" 0f existence on the
American farm. A wonderful change
has been wrought in the condition of
the American farmer within the last
decade. Hit-and-miss methods are no
longer popular on the farm any more
than they are In the thoroughly -organised
commercial or Industrial estab
lishment. The farmer of the day
knows the character and value of his
oil. its productiveness and adaptabil
ity for different crops. He under
stands the value of fertilizing, crop
rotation, deep plowing, seed selection
and many, if not all. tho discoveries
of science for making two blades grow
where one grew before. Ho may not
have mastered the lesson entirely, but
he has passed the elementary branches
and is making progrtes with each
passing season. He knows by experi
ment that it requires less feed to fat
ten a thoroughbred than it does to get
a scrub In market condition and a part
of the proceeds of each year's sale is
aet aside for the purchase of improved
tock and beiter equipment for the
next year's work.
Nor has the social side of farm Ufa
been neglected. A certain amount of
drudgery still attaches to farm work,
and la perhaps unavoidable, but the
burdens are growing lighter each year.
The farmer's children attend the
schools, have their pianos, their auto
mobiles, their fine libraries and all the
little essentials to comfort and pleas
ure. Farming has been made more at
tractive because It has been made more
profitable, and the president's commis
sion Is certain to find that "the com
pelling desire to live on the farm" is
already strong In the hearts of children
who were born on the farm. Practical
organization for the co-ordination of
the various forces and agencies calcu
lated to make farming more profitable
will furnish a satisfactory answer to
the other questions to be submitted
to the proposed commission.
TUB WATERWAYS COM MISS Wy.
Spurred on, no doubt, by the con
ference of the governors at the White
House, congress finally shows some
interest in the president's plan for the
creation of a permanent Inland water
ways commission. The senate has
passed a bill providing for continuing
the life of the commission until 1910,
with an appropriation of $20,000 for
that purpose, and the house will
doubtless concur In the measure be
fore the adjournment of the session.
The commission has already been
In existence for a year, and has done
a notable work, although but partially
organized, in arousing public Interest
in the necessity for the Improvement
of the nation's navigable streams and
in planning for positive, systematic
action1 to that end. The scheme
which the commission la called upon
to consider includes forest preserva
tion, irrigation, storing of water to
prevent floods in the spring and water
famines In the summer, and the deep
ening and widening of channels of the
navigable rivers, in the Interests of
trade and commerce.
The work is of necessity of a charac
ter which can not be hurried. It wiU
require the services of expert engi
neers and will call for a careful in
vestigation extending throughout the
country. It is important, therefore,
that congress lend its support to the
preliminary work and to this end a
liberal amount should be set aside an
nually until the scope and plan for
the general improvement system have
been finally determined. Then provi
sion should be made' for the im
mediate commencement and prosecu
tion of work on the entire project
TWO DESERVED PENSIONS,
Pensions of $12 5 a month ha been
granted by congress to the widows of
Major James Carroll, surgeon, U. S. A.,
and Acting Assistant Surgeon Jesse W.
Lasear, U. 8. A., in recognition of serv
ices requiring as high a test of real
bravery as facing death on the field of
battle. These two members of the medi
cal staff of the army did not lay down
their lives In the conflict of opposing
arms, to the clarion notes of heroic
bugles and surrounded with all the
enthusiasm-inspiring accompaniments
of war. They went to death calmly,
having weighed all chances. In order
to prove a new theory of the origin of
disease which annually claimed thou
sands of lives in the tropics.
In the closing days of the Spanish
American war, scientists advanced the
idea that yellow fever was caused by
the bite of a certain species of mosqui
toes. To test the theory, Drs. Carroll
and Lasear submitted themselves to
be stung by mosquitoes brought from
houses where yellow fever victims had
died. , Other volunteers were covered
with netting, to prove the converse of
the theory. Carroll and Lasear were
bitten by the mosquitoes, were stricken
with yellow fever and eventually suc
cumbed to the effects of the disease.
As a result of the test, science ap
pealed from medicine to sanitation.
War was waged on the mosquito, with
the result that Cuba, New .Orleans and
other southern ports have been prac
tically free from the yellow fever
plague which formerly claimed thou
sands of lives annually. Carroll and
Lasear died that others might live and
furnished one of the finest examples
of patriotism in the nation's history.
THE VVTVRE Of CANADA-
Hon. James Bryce, the British am
bassador at Washington, and Justice
J. H. Longley of Halifax, N. S., were
the principal speakers at a banquet of
the Canadian club in New York the
other night and, in the course of their
remarks, differed rather widely on the
political future of Canada. Justice
Longley declared that while Canada
as a colouy enjoyed as much self-gov,-ernment
as the United States, the
country would not always be a colony,
but would some day be an Independent
nation. The time would come, he
said, when Canada's relations with the
mother country would be "readjusted,
if not severed." Canada, he con
tended, had "no idea of Joining any
project of imperial federation or turn
lOS its back upon the immense advan
tages of North American conditions, to
link itself with the semi-feudal insti
tutions which still prevail on the other
side."
Justice Longley's prediction brought
a prompt answer from Ambassador
Bryce, who sidd:
Canada's feelings ior Great Britain are
reciprccnted by the feeling of Great
Britain for Canada. There has never f en
a time. I think, when the teeling
stronger among Canadians that Canada
should remain a part of the British em
pire, always and forever.
It was perfectly natural that Mr.
Bryce, as official representative of the
British empire, should take that view
of the future of Canada, but students
of history and those familiar with the
character of the people of North Amer
lea must realize that Justice Longley
is the better prophet when he foresees
the day when Canada will sever its re
lations with Great Britain. By ' a
process of development Canada must
eventually become independent of
Great Britain. It will naturally as
sume national autonomy and throw
off Its condition of national depend
ence. The effect of this Inevitable
change on the relations between Can
ada and the United States cannot be
foreseen or Intelligently forecasted.
There Is slight thought In Canada to
day of political union with the United
States and no thought in the United
States of securing a "forced union,"
but as Canada foregoes the advantages
of Imperial defense and assumes the
responsibility of complete self-government
and self-defense, it Is but natural
that Its relations with the United
States should be more close and cor
dial. Canada cannot hope to become
a powerful Independent nation except
with the aid and friendly alliance of
the United States. The people and in
terests of the two countries are almost
Identical and their futures linked in
the same destiny.; Ultimate union of
the two nations Is inevitable. It may
be political and It may be only com
mercial, but it cannot be prevented
nor long deferred.
"STAYING Mr THE RACE-"
Although the outcome at both Chi
cago and Denver Is practically assured,
spokesmen of all the various candi
dates for presidential nomination may
be expected to continue to reiterate
that their favorites are still In the race.
That the candidates insist upon stay
ing in the race, however, does not
mean that they are confident of win
ning, but merely that they will take
care to be within reach in case some
thing unforeseeable should occur,
necessitating a change of program.
All things human are more or less
uncertain and likewise all things politi
cal, although the expected happens
much more frequently than the unex
pected. Should any lightning stroke
between now and the balloting of the
Chicago convention put Mr. Taft out
of the running, the other candidates,
who constitute the field, would at once
get into the game. But in the absence
of such a contingency, which con
tingency is not at all proximate, the
lesser candidates may be expected to
content themselves with the compli
mentary votes of their own states and
some of them even to withdraw their
names In advance from the considera
tion of the delegates.
What is true with reference to Chi
cago is equally true with reference to
Denver. Unless Mr. Bryan should be
bombBhelled off the track, his two
competitors for democratic honors will
be simply on dress parade. Should
the unimaginable withdrawal of Bryan
take place these two minor favorite
sons of democracy would suddenly see
themselves surrounded by a host of
other willing volunteers, ready to fall
heir to Mr. Bryan's mantle.
Under present conditions this ex
plains what is meant by "staying in the
race." Few men have ever been nom
inated for president, especially for a
first time, by acclamation or by unani
mous vote, and it will be surprising if
either the Chicago convention or the
Denver convention chooses a standard
bearer without scattering a few bou
quets among others than the leader.
TBE BIRTH OF A JtATION.
Without any flourish of trumpets,
almost unnoticed, a new empire has
been formed in the last few days and
sturdy little Iceland, on the northern
edge of the temperate sone, with an
inhabitable area about as large as an
average Nebraska county and a popu
lation less than half that of Omaha
and its suburbs, has become an inde
pendent state' In the United Danish
empire. After nearly ten centuries of
dependency, this cold, uninviting and
all but sterile island in the North At
lantic, the most advanced outpost of
civilization, has taken Its place as an
integral and self-governing state in a
union.
Real romance surrounds the history
of Iceland. It was the haven to which
the oppressed of Norway flod almost a
thousand years ago. Energy, thrift
and unceasing toll were the tolla t-
acted from those sturdy Norsemen who
wrung a living from its barren soli,
yet out of this condition sprung a race'
of people, limited in number, but
strong in heart and spirit, who had
free government, a trial by Jury and
the respect of individual rights nearly
three centuries before the people of
England secured the magna charta.
They were Christians, almost to a
man. almost a century before Europe
turned from paganism. They had a
rich literature when most of the learn
ing of Europe was confined to a lim
ited few. They had a republican form
of government almost ten centuries
ago. After a war, Involving the Norse
people and extending over three cen
turies, Iceland became a subject of
Norway and later of Denmark. Th
spirit of the dependents, however, was
always unrestful and Denmark has
been compelled to give Iceland auton
omy and complete local self-government.
The new empire haa a population of
about 75,000 people and an inhabita
ble area of about 10,000 square miles.
About five-sixths of the population de
vote their attention to sheep and cat
tle raising, the country having 1,000,
000 sheep and 20.000 cattle. The
country Is without timber and the
only industry, outside of raising live
stock, Is fishing, the exports of fish
and fish product amounting to about
$2,000,000 annually. The number of
illiterates Is exceedingly small, the
Bchool system being In advance of that
of many more favored nations. The
Icelanders are an earnest, quiet, mel
ancholy people, the purest Aryans of
us all. They have learned to fight
with nature for everything they have,
but they have never abandoned their
love of liberty or their adherence to
the fundamental doctrine of Individ
uallsm and equality. These have
again won Independence for the sturdy
people and enabled thera to come Into
closer relation with the outside world
as an Independent people, strong In
the never-Subdued spirit that led the
old Norsemen to seek a refute from
oppression on Uie inhospitable shores
of this Ice-locked region when civlllza
tton was young.
THE DIRECTOIRB OO WX
Making the usual, or even unusual.
allowances for exaggerations that are
liable to creep into press reports by
mere men reporters when the question
of women's gowns is under discussion,
a real sensation Is promised if the plans
of fashion leaders are carried Into ef
feet and the modish women of the day
adopt the directolre gown. This gown,
though a Paris creation, has been en
thuslastlcally championed by fashion
leaders In this country and promises
to be all the rage before the, season Is
much farther advanced. The fashion
has already got as far west as Chicago,
the esteemed Chicago Tribune assert
ing that two of these gowns have been
constructed by a dressmaker in that
city and sold to customers who have
not yet mustered sufficient courage to
wear them in public. The plans and
specifications are thus described by a
dressmaker quoted In the Tribune:
It la simple. The arown la silt nn
side from the knee down and underneath
the woman wears trousers. Just like a
mart It is pretty and nothing could be
more modest. I see that the foreign dis
patches tell about the women's stockings
showing through the slits. That is possible.
Of course, in such a case the woman leaves
off the trousers. That Is all a matter of
taste.
With this semi-official threat that
tho directolre epidemic is apt to break
out anywhere, with its accompanying
privilege of allowing the women to
wear or leave off trousers, according
to taste, and the always present pros
pect that the directolre wearer may
also elect to combine It with a merry
widow hat and a peek-a-boo shirt
waist, the timid man may as well get
his cyclone cellar in readiness.
America is to participate In an in
ternational conference to decide upon
plans for suppressing the traffic in
opium in China. After that is done
it imay be the proper thing to ask
China to aid in suppressing the traffic
in the drug in some of our larger
American cities,
Good police work when needed to
catch reaf criminals Is worth a lot
more to the community than countless
arrests of Inoffensive citizens for seek
ing recreation .it Sunday base ball
games.
Radiant Hop Quickly Perishes.
Indianapolis News.
Ah! we Imagined something of the kind
would happen. Biggest fruit crop In sight
you ever heard of. But sugar has gone up
In price, and there 111 bo fewer preserves
put up as a consequence. What' the use?
Any Excuse Will Do.
Washington Post.
When considering the statement that
33,000,006 drinks are served over th bar
every year in Washington, it should be
remembered that Washington is almost
constantly overrun with visitors from dry
districts.
Climate anil Pessimism.
St. Louis Republic.
In a telegram whose date line shows the
Influence of Atlantlo fogs, James J. Hill
is made to say that rates must go up If
wages are to go down. When pessimism
of this kind begins to develop, the sun
shiny atmosphere of the northwest is
needed for Its cure.
Sprlnsrtlme In Kentucky.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Spring has come at last. The son of the
catbird, the twittering of the swallow.
the chest notes of the bullfrog,
the low contralto of the honey-mooning
turtle dove and the high soprano of tho
stegonyla fasciata, make music in the land,
turning the young man's fancy to thoughts
of lov and fly screens.
Apelngr European Ways.
Mrs. John A. Logan.
A majority of our people are cnntlnuailv
boasting of our national powers and of
the blessings of a republican aovernment
but the same time trying to Imitate Im
perialism In every nopslblo wav. We
should live up to our much heralded In
dependence by refusing to be Imitator. t
things which are un-American and without
merit, and also at variance with republi
can principles and Institutions.
Wall Street Looking Vp.
i Springfield Republican.
Million share days on the New Tork
stock exchange are again becoming com
mon enough to pass without much remark.
There was another one yesterday, with
further advance In quotations under the
continued lead of Union Pacific, which
reached 150, or fifty points up from the
panic level. Many other leading stocks
are alro touching figures not seen in over
a year. Indeed, In the street, the panic
la far past, the depression Is over, and
abounding prosperity Is with us again and
to stay.
SEItMOS HOILEU DOWN.
Serving two masters Is stealing from one
or both.
Conceit of ourselves breeds no confidence
In others.
He Is not brave who does not fear to do
the base thing.
No man knows whether he Is brave until
he has to stand alone.
No man Is true to tha truth of today who
does not press beyond It.
When your religion Is nothing but listen
ing It hears nothing from heaven.
A lot of faith In eternal damnation, hat
crm out of present bad digestion.
Faith Is the power to discount the toll of
the night by the promise of the day.
The amount of any man's possessions de.
pends on his powers of appreciation.
Live the ethics of Christianity and its
arguments will take care of themselves.
You never will move the world toward
heaven by going through the motions of
religion.
You have no power to help mankind until
Its sins move you to compaeslon rather
than to condemnation.
It la aasy shutting our eyes to tha
brother who la down when our hungry
hands ara going out to those who are up.
Many a man who has always guarded
tha door of his Hps will look small when
th door of his heart la opened. Chicago
Tribune.
' I yMWomcn ;
) Would Jump
A DOLLAR OR TWO
SILVERWARE, GOLD JEWELRY, TABLEWARE,
DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CUT GLASS, "
Make Ideal Gifts for Juno Weddings.
Every thing sold for cash or on easy payments. Your credit Is Good.
I
personal And otherwise:.
Tornado stories differ from the fish va
riety In one essential. The biggest one
doesn't get away.
The receivership of a traction company
In Chicago proves a richer gold mine than
any in sight In tha newer camps of Ne
vada. Three million matches are consumed
every minute ,of the twenty-four hours of
a day, exclusive of tha matches burned
up In divorce courts.
The Influence of environment in Phila
delphia showed itself when the city hall
clock stopped work. In sympathy, doubt
less, with the crowd In the building.
One of the cheap skate of St. Louis Is
seeking a divorce on suspicions aroused by
finding skate marks on the heels of his
wife's shoes. Men's skates mark the other
end.
Senator Thomas C. Piatt made no effort
to qualify or. deny the statement alleged
to have been made In one of his love
letters to the effect that be was "an old
fool."
One of the snappy, topical ministers of
Philadelphia, having smashed modern fash
Ion plates with oratorical contempt, ex
alts the simple life by commending to his
audience the cut of the clothes of Adam
and Eve.
Despite sneering remarks and official
mpekings, the Russian Duma is steadily
rising 'to the dignity of a responsible par
liament. Two members Indulged In knock
down arguments on the floor of the cham
ber the other day.
TREASURES.
Adelaide Anne Proctor.
Let me count my treasures.
All my soul holds dear.
Given me by dark spirits
Whom I used to fear.
Through long days of anguish,
And sad nights, did Pain
Forge my shield, Endurance,
Bright and free from stainl
Doubt, In misty caverns,
'Mid dark horrors sought,
Till my peerless Jewel,
Faith, to ma she brought.
Sorrow, that I wearied
Should remain so long,
Wreathed my starry glory,
The bright Crown of Song.
Strife, that racked my spirit,
Without hope of rsst,
Left the blooming flower.
Patience, on my breast.
Suffering, that I dreaded.
Ignorant of her charms,
Laid fair child, Pity,
Smiling in my arms.
So I count my treasures.
Stored In days long past
Arid I thank the givers,
Whom I know at last
88
88
Nothing Equal to It
88
The Melville Clark Apollo Player Piano
TH ochtaveiayer'Plan that C" plY " n0tM or the entlr P'no key-boara;
Th6 PS"r-Wno with the effective transposing mouthpiece that rh.n...
tha music to any key to suit the voice or accompanying laitJuinJit Tm'
mouthpiece reprints it per cent of Player-Piano value instrument. ihl
Every sensible buyer will want a Player-Piano that will nl nu.
rpnteu,m.ht?cAr?n0g1erPl''er ' th " WlSVVtttScTO
Would you buy a 6 octave planoT Certainly not. Then whv would
a octave Player-Piano when you can get the Apollo with ! ? u. T Yl 7 u
The Apollo Is THE HTANDARD lVtmiSMlvmnint!l'tn,
fct; It. cas. deigns extremely attractive; It. duV.bill y a,"dn.,?un.
pf.ryerlp"noUm,in enenuU "n '' the WglM.it ypKKS
If you ara Interested In tha Player-Piano subject, send for Illustrated
catalogue or call at our store for a free demonstration.- uiustrated
A. HOSPE CO.
14513 Douglas St.
tb Ao?loI:Un0" PUyer PUn' n1 PUno pl'er taken Pt exenange tot
At the opportunity of owning a nice diamond ring,
watch or fancy piece of Jewelry. I have customers
who have traded with me for a great many years,
and the role still holds good, "Once a customer al
ways a customer."
The RIGHT GOODS at the ItlGIiT PIMCKS com
blned with LIBERAL TREATMENT In every re
spect, make my customers my friends for all time.
The list is constantly increasing. Let me add VOL"?
A WEEK WILL DO
DOMESTIC PLEASANTIUES.
"'I understand your husband always goes
out between acts."
"You heard wrong; he sometimes comes
In between drinks." Cleveland Leader.
Miss Romany It's funr.y that all these
love stories open In the early summer.
Mr. Crabbie O! that's nuturiil. How,
else, could the heroine bo discovered stand
ing among the roses "none of which ere
fair as she?" Philadelphia Press.
"Millie," said the young man, as he
slipped the engagement ring on her finger,
"have you told your mother about this?'1
"O, you Innocent I" exclaimed Miss Millie.
"Why, Clarence, mamma knew It six
months before you did." Chicago Tribune.
Miss Belle Towne may be a pretty woman,
but she has such a fixed countenance."
"Of course she has. It takes her halt
her time to fix It." Baltimore American.
"But remember, my dear, that you and
I ara one."
She looked at him scornfully.
"One!" she echoed. "Nonsense. We aro
10. I'm the one and you are the cypher."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THERE'S
A WORLD
OF COMFORT
IN A PERFECT FITTING
PAIR OF GLASSES
ORJPECS
They should set easy upon the
nose, not make a large red ring or
groove upon it, nor feel like they were
cutting your ears off.
AVE GIVE YOU COMFORT IN THE
FRAME AS WELL AS THE (J LASS.
rACTORV v
lNYISISLEEKCALSTUrJCl'nYS
88
ferr