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IB 4 - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUOUST 23, 1003. The Omaha Sunday Eta FOUNDED lit KUWAHD ROSEW.UER. VICTOR IIOSEWATEH, LD1TOK. Enteied at U:nha pustjfftte as second class matter. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION: Ial1jr Ree (wlihout Sunday), one year. .Woo Laily be and Sunday, one year W DELIVERED HY CARRIER. Dally Rce dm hiding Sunday, per wefk..U Ially Bee (wlihnut Bundavi. per week.. .10c Evening Hee (without Sunday, per week 6e. EveniMt Bee (with Sunday), per wcek.,..10o Kunday He, one year 2.M Saturday Bee. one year Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The I'o Bunding. Kouth Omaha City ilali Building. Council fJluffa 16 Scott Street. Chicago if4 Marquette Hjildlng. New York Room 1101-1102. .no. M West Thirty-third Street. Washington 7.'5 Fourteenth Street, N.-W. Correspondence. Communclatlona relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Edltorlnl Department. KEMITTANCE8. R-mlt by draft, cxprtsi or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent rtampa received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. : George B. Tsschuek. treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete cor lea of The -Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1908. was as follows: 1 38,760 2... 88,740 38,710 4 36,100 6 36,600 38,400 7 ,.. 35,630 S 38,030 9 35,960 10 38,400 11 36,100 12 36,100 12 36,030 14 36,330 16 36,360 17 38,400 II 33,980 19.,., 36,000 20 38,400 M 88,980 Ji 85,800 ZS 35,780 34 38,800 26 85,960 2 35,660 77 36,880 28 36,360 29 36,380 SO 35.730 SI 38.160 H 36,180 Totals 1,118.460 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9.043 Net total 1,109,418 Dally average 35,788 GEORGE a. TZSCUUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of August, 1908. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public WHKJr out or toww. abscrifcera leaving- the city tca porarlly aaoold have The Be (nailed to taena. Address will be chanced aa of tea aa requested. It is time for the summer girl to come home, leaving her freckles be hind her. France has Intervened to make the situation In Morocco leas binding than It was. The City railway of New York re ports the loss of $6,112,714. Haven't found it. There's a vast difference between doing all the good you can and canning all the good you do. Honors are easy again. Every time Mr. Taft buys a new horse, Mr. Bryan mounts a new hobby. Agulnaldo is running Tor alderman In Manila. Can't Mr. Bryan say some thing for his old pal? . Mr. Bryan is -,o make a speech on bank failures. 'He is also qualified to make a speech n rank failures. A murderer named Leak has es caped from the New York police. The plumbers should be sent to find him. "Has Bryan grown?" asks the Springfield (Mass.) Union. Yes, measured by girth and his bar.k ac count. . A New York motorman claims to have saved. Now, we could have un derstood that If the man had been a conductor. Another unfortunate feature of the Halns-Annis murder case is that It will be a signal for the sob squad to go Into action again. Candidate Sherman has been pre sented with a loving cup. The next thing in order is trf present Candidate Kern with a Bhavlng cup. That good old democratic paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a little discour aged, but still clings to the conviction that Bryan will carry Texas. Prince Eltel Friederlch of Germany is sawing wood several hours a day in order to keep down his obesity. Mr. Taft Is also sawing some wood. Great Britain is a little ahead of time with the request for a loan of $500,000,000. The Nebraska farmers have not sold their crops yet. Speaker Cannon says that in time Washington will be more beautiful than Paris. All of the presidential candidates doubtless think that Wash ington looks that way now. "Bob" Burdette writes from abroad to say that there are more poets in Ireland than there are in Indiana. What's the difference? Most of the Indiana poets are Irish, tinyway. Congressman Burke of Pennsylvania says the office of president is Infinitely more powerful than congress. We can see Mr. Burke'a finish if Speaker Can non happens to see that statement. Another "Omaha to the Gulf" rail road Is being planned. The space be tween the Atlantic and the Pacific Is Fitting a little narrow to accommodate all of the "Omaha to the Gulf" rail roads. Mr. Bryan criticises Mr. Taft for adding to the republican platform. Iu the meantime, the number of "para mount issues" .which Mr. Bryan sub tracted from thtt democratic platform would fill several large volume. j'ntfi am jv r. lochia acceptance speech i!r. Bryaa declares that a platform is binding on the candidate and that it is further more binding "as to what It omits as well as what it contains." He goes on to say that he approves everything In the Denver platform, which everyone knows he approved before the conven tion was permitted to adopt it, and that it will be his political creed. In March of this year Mr. Bryan promulgated his political platform through the voice of the democratic convention in his own state of Ne braska, which formally launched bis candidacy as Nebraska's favorite son and Invited the other states to join in making him the third time presiden tial nominee. If the Denver platform of July is binding ott Mr. Bryan, the Nebraska platform of March must also be binding, and yet the former con tains some things which the latter omits and omits some tntngs which the latter contains. The difference be tween March and July is striking and worth noting. 1. In the first place, Mr. Bryan's paramount issue, or at least the ex pression of it, changed completely from March to July. In March the over shadowing issue was "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none." In July the overshadowing issue was, "Shall the people rule?" What the overshadowing issue will be in Novem ber is yet to be disclosed. 2. In March Mr. Bryan declared the election of United States senators by direct vote to be "the gateway to all other national reforms." If this were true, of course, no national reform could be accomplished until the gate way were first opened, and It was man ifestly impossible to open the gate within the four years of the one term to which Mr. Bryan had limited his possible public service. So In July the word "all" was removed from the pledge, so that the Denver platform, while favoring the popular election of senators, still leaves the door of hope open for the accomplishment of some reforms even In advance of this achievement. 3. In March Mr. Bryan was unqual ifiedly for postal savings banks and wanted ' his bank deposit guaranty only as an additional measure of safety. In July the postal savings bank became a secondary considera tion and is held out as a possibility only in case the guaranteed bank can not be secured. , 4. In March Mr. Bryan went on rec ord in favor of an Income tax, author ity to Impose the same to be secured by constitutional amendment and, in the Interval, in favor of a national in heritance tax for which no constitu tional amendment would be necessary. In July the hazy promise of an Income tax dependent upon the difficult and tardy process of constitutional amend ment 'was retained, but the national Inheritance tax to reach the "swollen fortunes" already In existence, which congress is fully empowered to levy, Is discredited and Mr. Bryan promises to be bound by the. omission. 5. In March Mr. Bryan was for dras tic railroad regulation. He wanted both the nation and the various states to fix railroad values, based only on the cost of reproduction, while In July he wanted this valuation to be made by the Interstate Commerce commission alone and to take Into consideration the physical value of the property, the original cost of production and all other elements of value. In March he promised legislation to permit the is sue of no more watered stock. In July he discredited this pledge and promise to be bound by the omission. In March he wanted to reduce trans portation rates to a point yielding only a return sufficient to keep the stock of the roads at par when honestly capi talized. In July he favored such re duction in transportation rates as con ditions will permit and threw a sheet to windward for the labor vote, adding that "care should be taken to avoid a reduction that would compel a re duction of wages or prevent adequate service." 6. The sudden switching of Mr. Bryan's position on labor and injunc tions during the Denver convention was noticed at the time. In March, in hib Nebraska platform, he favored without equivocation notice and full hearing before the Issue of the injunc tion writ, trial before another Judge and jury trials for all contempts com mitted outside of the court room. In July, In his Denver pronouncement, he threw dust In the public eye by refer ring vaguely to the platform pledges of 1896 and 1904, and a Judicial pro cedure act pending In congress twelve years ago, which is said to include all the points in the Nebraska plank, al though careful not to say so out loud. 7. In March Mr. Bryan went on rec ord for a law to shut nonresident cor porations out of federal courts and compel them to submit their local dis putes to state courts. In July he for eot entirely to Insert this pledge in the Denver platform and promises to be bound by the omission. These are only a few of the discrep ancies between Mr. Bryan's two plat forms the one on which ho placed himself in March and the one on which he had himself nominated at Denver In July. MACHisrHY vs. micf. The white mice of the British navy are to lose their Jobs, a test having shown that the service which they per form in his majesty's service can be performed more effectively by the use of machinery. It may be news, but it is noue the less true, that up to date a colony of white mice has been con sidered an essential part of the equipment of the submarine craft of the British navy. A white mouse ran smell petrol vapor more readily than any other known creature, and it has an added value In the fact that It squeals just an soon as It smells the vapor. When petrol vapor begins to escape In a submarine It is time for the craft to make a dash for the sur face, for petrol fumes are deadly poison and their escape leads to speedy asphyxiation. The white mice emell the fumes long before the human mem bers of the crew detect it and they promptly give the alarm by their squeals. On this account, white mice have been carefully maintained as a part of the ship's crew, as skillful little watchmen, certain to gtve notice at the first hint of danger. An enterprising American chemist has discovered the way of putting the white mice off- guard. He lias per fected a mechanical device which de tects the slightest Jrace of petrol fumes and rings a gong that sounds loud and clear above any squeal that might be manufactured by the white mice crew. The British navy has tested tho inven tion and approved It, so the white mice will be mustered out of service and thrown upon the mercies of a world that will not pay much attention to their squeals. MJTCHiyG WITH MLL10S8. Close on the heels of the report that the king of England and the emperor of Germany discussed, at their recent meeting, the feasibility of limiting the naval extension program of the two powers, comes the authenticated state ment that the British government is about to raise a loan of $500,000,000 for the purpose of distancing all at tempts on the part of Germany jtr any other rival power to compete with Britain in naval armaments. The situa tion in England Is peculiar, owing to a public sentiment that has been aroused in favor of a marked extension of the naval powers of the empire. British officials are apparently in the hands of the magazines, some of which have become real muckrakers In calling attention to the country's danger of being outstripped in the naval race. The magazine and review editors insist that England must pre pare for a war, either with Germany or with some Asiatic power. While causes for such a conflict are neither apparent nor numerous, the public sense has been keyed up to the belief that a war Is Imminent and that some action muBt be taken along radical lines to put England in a &tate of preparedness. It is easy enough to make blue prints of a powerful battleship squadron, but it takes cold cash and lots of it to turn these ships out of the navy yard, and there England is apparently at a dis advantage, so far as plans for outstrip ping Germany in a navy construction program Is concerned. The British t:x rate la already 30 shillings per capita, and to this must be added an other burden assumed by the recent act providing for the payment of old age pensions, a matter involving theg expenditure or aDout 540,000,000 a year. This Is exclusive of the annual interest on the country's debt, which brings the British tax rate up to about 4 2 shillings per capita. The German citizen pays a rate of 17 shillings for the maintenance of the army and navy and a total tax rate of 26 shillings. Germany could add SI. 250, 000. 000 to Its debt before It would be as large as that of Great Britain and could in crease its tax rate by 60 per cent be fore the German citizen would have a burden equal to that already carried by the Englishman. Under such circum stances, the kaiser could easily double the British loan and still be in better position with his people. Germany Is, therefore, in a position to meet any bluff England may make In the naval extension game, and then put In a few fleets of battleships for good measure ment. "TVF. VKWRlTTrS I ATT " The law makes no discrimination be tween types of men in Its written In junction, "Thou shalt not kill." All the laws on this subject since the time of Moses have been directed to the pro tection of human life, and the safe guarding of the Individual. Official or social standing, environment and the mental state furnish no justification for the violation of the law, and not even the tacit recognition of the right to personal vengeance in extreme cases, which, In some sections, has found rating as "the unwritten law." The sensational Halns-Afinis murder In New York is another appeal to this un recognized law, which will be appealed to In an effort to cover an atrocious assassination. Accepting, for the sake of argument, "the unwritten law," the killing at Flushing, Long Island, can not, by any stretch of the imagination or the argu ments, come within that law. Admit ting that Captain Halns was deeply wronged, he did not take the law In his own hands on impulse after the dis closure. He did not seek out imme diately and put to death the despoller of his home, as Is customary with those who appeal to "the unwritten law." On the contrary, he calmly and deliber ately began suit for divorce, naming a co-respondent and by that act forfeited his "rlgt" to protect his wife and waived, his privilege of appealing to the unwritten law. The sheer frenzy that might furnish a Justification for appeal to the law of personal vengeance disappeared, In face of the implied ability to reason calmly enough to go Into the courts with a divorce proceed ing. That suit, incidentally, put the wife outside the pale of the husband's protection and stripped him of his right to take any action in her behalf or in vindicating their marital relation. Assuming the guilt of Annls, the alleged destroyer of the Halns' home, I pity would be wasted upon him, but his character does not rob the manner of MARCH AND JULY--WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Bryan'a Nebraska Platform, March. 100ft. "Squat rlf-hta to all and special privileges to none." This la the overshadowing- Issue at this time; It manifests Itself In all the questions now under discussion and demands immediate consideration. THE GATEWAY TO REFORM We favor the election of 1'nited States senators by rllrert We favor the election of United Stales senators by direct vote of the people and regard this reform as the gateway to ail vote of the people and regard this reform as the gateway ta other national reforms. other national reforms. POSTAL SAVINGS FIRST OR LAST We favor the pistal savins') hank, and In addition thereto We favor the portal savings bank if the guaranteed bank Insist upon the passage of laws state and national for tho cannot be secured., better regulation of hanks and for the protection of uank de posits. LOSTTHE INHERITANCE TAX We favor an Income tax as part of our revenue system end we urge the submission of a constitutional amendment speeitie ally authorising congress to levy and collect a tax upon In dividual and corporate Incomes to the end that wealth may bear Its proportionate share of the federal government. We favor a national Inheritance tarn to reach the "swollen fortunes" already In exljtencc. THE RAILROAD REGULATION We believe that both the nation and the various s'ates should first ascertain tha present value of the railroads, meas ured by the cost of reproduction; second, prohibit the Issue of any more watered stock or fictitious capitalization ; third, pro hibit the railroads from engaging In any business which brings them Into competition with other Jobbers; and, fourth, reduce transportation rates until they reach a point where they will yield only a reasonable return on the present value, of the roads, such reasonable return being defined as a return suffi cient to keep the stock of the roads at par when such roads are honestly capitalized. We favor such a modification of the law relating to injunc tions as will first prevent the Issuing of the writ in industrial suits, except after notice to defendants and full hearing; aecond, permit trial before a Judge other than the one who Issued tho writ; and, third, allow a jury to be summoned In all cases where the alleged contempt is committed outside of the pres ence of the court. TV insist upon the recognition of the distinction between the natural man and the artificial person called a corporation, and we favor the enactment of such law as may be necessary to compel foreign corporations to submit their local duputes to courts of the stales In which they do business, and tnus place themselves upon the sume footing as domestic corporations. his taking off of its murderous atrocity. The assassination was planned with all dellberateness. The husband and his brother had a killing to perform and they did It in a most theatrical man ner, selecting a regatta crowd as the occasion for It, keeping the crowd at bay at the pistol's point and doing their killing In the presence of women and children, among them being the chil dren of their victim. They shot down an unarmed man without warning. The brother of the Injured man has no standing In the case. Even the un written law contains no clause that would cover or condone his part in the assassination. All the evidence shows that Hains acted with deliberation In accordance with a preconceived plan of vengeance, and he was In collusion with his brother. He carried out his evident Intent to murder Annls and to publish to the world the whole miserable story of his domestic troubles. The bnrbarlc code of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" can not be extended to furnish Justification for such a cowardly crime. REP M1SFS-TJ1E1R CAVSr A.D CVPF. All unwittingly, perhaps, Mrs. James Brown Potter, known to fame through tho stage and the divorce courts, has placed many men under lasting obliga tions to her by a little book she has Just published, captioned, "The Secrets of Beauty and the Mysteries of Health." Asvery man knows that he possesses beauty of the rarest and finest type, the first section of the book's title will indicate that It was Intended for feminine perusal only, and this was doubtless Mrs. Potter's Idea, originally, but It has been discovered that the book contains an explanation of the red. nose that will make, every red-nosed man In the world a grateful friend of the author. Men may pats over as not intended for them the large mass of information contained In the book about the art of preserving and enhancing beauty and the simple processof preserving eternal )uul" lu ''"''"" and decrepit individual, but they will devour with eagerness Mrs. Potter's I bald and emphatic assertion that "It j Is wrone; to at tribute red noses to over indulgence in alcoholic 3tlmulants." That's a man-winning proposition for fair. Too long lins the suspicious and scornful populace looked upon the red nose as the badge of a devotee of John Barleycorn. The sunset-tinted probos cis has too long been associated la the public mind as the natural and Toxical product of nights of riotous devotion in the ranks of the Independent Order, of Booze Fighters. It is true that ministers of the gospel, eloquent work ers in the cause of temperance and champions of reform In all fields have had red noses and have conducted themselves in a manner above re proach, but there has always been left the suspicion that their early lives were not what they might have been and that their wild oats crop, even if har vested early, was over the bumper variety. In such cases, a sympathetic public has accepted the red nose more In sorrow than In anger and rejoiced, either openly or in secret, that Its owner had seen the error of his ways and repented and reformed before it was everlastingly too late. Mrs. Potter's discovery clears the atmosphere, removes suspicion and af fords relief. She explains that the red nose may be caused by the use of cigarettes, is usually the product of In discretions of appetite in men or of tight lacing in women, and la rarely or never attributable to Intemperate con sumption of ardent spirits. While no man will be accused of deliberately seeking to acquire a red nose or to THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE LABOR AND INJUNCTIONS by Jury In cases of Indirect contempt. Questions of Judicial practice have arisen, especially m con nection with Industrial disputes. We deem that the parties to all judicial proceedings should be treated with Impartiality and that Injunctions should not be Issued In any cases In which Injunctions would not Issue If no Industrial dispute whs In volved. ANOTHER LOST DECLARATION (No mention of courts.) welcome one that comes upon him with out being sought, it Is a real relief to know that as soon as the world is en lightened on the subject, as it will be if it accepts Mrs. Potter's teaching, the red nose will not be an invitation to criticism or innuendo when worn by a man whose conscience is clear and whose conduct is void of offense. " The difference between Mr. Taft's promise of tariff revision and Mr. Bryan's pledges in the sume direction Is that Mr. Taft. if elected, will -be in position to redeem his pledge, while Mr. Bryan, if elected, would be power less to accomplish anything with a re publican senate arrayed against his free trade plans. "American jokes do not travel," says the Detroit- News, whloh ap parently has overlooked the tact that the socialist candidate for the presi dency is going across the country in a special train, scattering speeches on the way. The sheriff of Saratoga county, New York, where the races are soon to b held, says that a bet Is not a bet unless he sees It made. Willing to lay a small wager that he will be looking the other way. King Edward and Emperor William are said to have discussed the limita tion of their navies at their recent con ference.. Chances are that each thought he was fooling the other. "The automobile is rapidly dimin ishing the aristocracy," says the New York World. It is also diminishing the common people, too rapidly Top octt of Optimism. Minneapolis Journal. The wheat crop Is turning out In a way to make the farmer as cheerful as the Lincoln, Neb., hotel keeper. Takes the Blue IlibJon. Baltimore American. The report comes from Nebraska that a man there shot hla wife because she wouldn't talk. As far as the Ananias leeord is concerned the flxh and sea ser I pt.nt stories are now putclasrd. Keeping In the iotllht. 'Minneaprllg Jn.irnal. Candidate Chafln. having fallen Into the water tank out west, and having stopped ha f a l)i iik with hla pers.m at Springfield, will, if he is going to keep in the lime light, have to luue his diamonds, or do a buck and wing with Mrs. Nation. Reciprocal Boosting. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Judge Parker Is laboring for the Bryan cause in California, which recalls the fact t hut Bryan's campaign In Nebraska for Purker kept the republican majority In the state down to Stf.Wnj. Here and liuyal Hecord. New York Tribune. At 7S years of age the Austrian kaiser ranks as one of the world's grandest old men old In yenrs and grand In the almost Infinite patience, tact and benevolence with which he has held the bulance true among the many Jangling and Jarring elements of his conglomerate realm. Where Meal KluhCng Is Assured. Washington Htur. If the government should tako up the iiuestlon of regulating the theatrical trust some real fighting may be looked for. M' li who have been accustomed to dealing with grand opera singers and burlesque comedians deve lop a fearlessness of vocab ulary which no lawyer can hope to equal. Where Justice rails Dona. Shu Francisco Chronicle. The miscarriages of justice which we con tinually see are not the result of venality or Incompetence. They are the result of the fine-split technicalities which have grown out of generations of technical study by clear and analytical minds. Nearly all of them are logical from generally ac cepted premises. In the aggregate their result Is almost a breakdown of our Judi cial system. In such criminal rases as those which have, occupied our courts In this city for the last year there is not merely a breakdown. There is a smashup. Bryan's Peinver Platform, July, 1908. "KhaU tka people relet" Is the overshadowing issue which manifests Itself In all questions now under discussion. We favor an Income tax as part of our revenue system end we urge the submission of a constitutional amendment specific, ally authorising congress to levy and collect a tax upon the In dividual and corporate Incomes to the end that wealth may bear Its proportionate share of the burden of the federal government. We favor a sufficient supervision of rate legislation of rail roads engaged In Interstate commerce. To this end we recom mend the physical valuation of railroads by the Interstate Commerce commission, such valuation to take Into considera tion the physical value of the property, the original oost of production and all elements of value that will render the valua tion fair and Just. We favor such legislation as will prevent the railroads trom engaging In business which brings them Into competition wltn other Jobbers; also legislation which will assure such reduction in transportation rates as conditions will permit, care being taken to avoid reduction that would compel a reduction of wages, prevent adequate service or do Injustice to legitimate Investments. Kxperlence has proven the necessity of modification of one present law relating to Injunctions and we reiterate the pledges of our national platform of 1 SfS and 1904 In favor of the measure which passed the United States senate In 1890, but which a republican congress has ever since refused to enact relating: to contempts In federal courts and providing for trial foreign corporations submitting to state KFHMONS BOILED DOWN. The best fitting for divine work is fallh fulnesa in dally work. The open mind Is the only one that can slay In the open way. The lis 'its of the world do not invite thl world to watch their smoke. No ma i ever died of poison by burying the gall i malice in Ills own breast. Bplrltua wealth niay often depend on wtlllngncs'i to experience material poverty. The pot o cannot understand why roses are ponula: since they cannot be eaten. Painting people with depravity seems to be a pcor way to produce desires for purity. People who relish mud are apt to talk about the need of realistic studies In mor als. , The gloomiest hearts on earth are those that have never earned any glow of grall tude. Goodness cannot become habitual unless we will to be better than we absolutely need to be. Ho becomes a drag rather than a leader who makes his appeal to the prejudices of the people. When a man sets up to be a guide to heaven Just watch to see If he goes before In the hard places. It's a popular delusion when you take sand for your foundation to Imagine that you are putting It In your backbone. Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL A.ND OTHERWISE. Barnttm originated or revised the truism, "A fool Is born every mli.ute." Tom Law son's amendment raising the birth rate to two is In order. Six thousand votes were cast against a free bridge proposition In St. Txuis. Evi dently the local cemeteries are not getting all they are entitled to. Some people are mighty hard to pl.vse. Inmates of a Jail In Perry county, Penn sylvania, are kleklnpg agalrst being over fed. They lack the exercise of a rock pile. The amazing tank capacity of Cleveland girls for soda water, loe cream and the like convinces the Plain Dealer that South America hasn't a monopoly of the rubber crop. An enterprising business man at Atlanta, Ga . who put In operation a wagon dis tributing distilled water has retired from business. His tank was too large for the color of his fluid. T. Jenkins Hains, the fellow who held off the crowd while his brother did the killing at Resednle. L. I . has also a large notch on his gun. Ha killed his man seventeen years ago. Miss Russell, the "airy, fairy Lillian," is In love again and Is Just as happy as a 16-year-old under first treatment. He Is a Greek prince, and. though she doesn't speak the lingo of his tribe, she understands, and that's enough for any young old girl. Whet will his number be? You Can Own a Piano Our Created AUGUST PIANO SALE 5hows the Wy "You certainly ought to sell lots ot pianos when you give bucq excellent quality for such low prices," said a customer. That's It exactly. It's these splendid underprlced plano that make buyers. That's why we are breaking all records for August piano sales. Take advantage of our sacrifice and make your home happy with a piano. We mention a few of tha special bargains: Slightly used upright piano, ebony case 5 Shopworn upright piano, oak case S175 Slightly used upright piano, walnut case 8165 New sample piano, mahogany case S225 Used upright piano, French walnut 8135 Used square piano, rosewood case $ 25 Used square pWio, rosewood case 8 45 Slightly used upright piano, oak case 81811 1 Slightly used grand piano, mahogany case 8400 ' Stool and 8crf Free With Every llano. S10 - Sends a Piano Homo - Slf Remember there are many more bargains in this sale; that the Hospe's plan always assures you of the lowest cash prices. ' A GREAT SACRIFICE OF ORGAN They are crowding us; we'll clear them out.. Every one in finest clndition. A $75 Eatey for 125. An S0 Kimball for $20. A $G6 Peerless for $18. A $75 Wilcox White for $25. Payments $1.50 ' to $2.00 a month. Economy calls now. Hundreds of positive money-saving bar gains are here. Come today to the best place to buyy a piano or , organ. If you can't call write or telephone. A. H0SPE CO., 1513 Douglas Strec W Do Epert Piano Toning and Heyairtjig, BHCt'LAR SHOTS AT THE PIXPITV Raltimore American: The pope declares that Americans have the gift of tact to a degree unknown to) other nationalities. Evan those who deny Ms Infallibility will hedge on hlg dictum In this respect. St. Louis Times: We may In time fonret the singer, but "The Ninety and Nine" and other great hymns from the heart and pen of Ira D. Sankry will insist on remaining In the memory. Brooklyn Eagle: Bishop Green has come home with a very simple plan for a reform which has troubled his church for years. He says that If It was aa socially disgrace ful to get divorced as It la to get drunk, wo should hear no more about the United States as the home of divorce. When the Episcopal church refuses contributions from its wealthy divorcees wo shall be lieve that Bishop Greer's plan of social ostracism for that practice Is being carried out. Springfield Republican: What a picture that is of the thousands of men and womea at Old Orchard, the other day. wildly tumb ling over each other to give their offerings "to the Lord ' at the missionary meeting of the Christian alliance. Things have ad vanced slncu Savonarola's dsy, when tha Florentines flung Into the fire their gew gaws as a sacrifice of the world. The Americans were Indeed excited enough, but the women who stripped themselves of earrings and finger rings, bracelets and bangles, and even dropped lorgnettes and Jeweled combs Into the collection baskets, were practical. AH these things could be, sold and used not wasted In ashes. Men, too, put in their acarfplnl and bosom studs, cuff buttons and so forth sometimes even watches not to mention actual money and pledges. There were almost six bushels of valuables, It Is reported. What an astonish ing affair. Sixty thousand dollars worth In all. reported Rev. Dr. A. D. Simpson, and 'yet there are those who say that In terest In missions, and even In the Chris tian religion. Is dying out. Not, it seems, under conditions. Human nature Is SS ex citable as ever, when it's hit right. . DOMESTIC ri.KA8ATRIK9. He Do yo'u believe that silence gives eon sent? , She 1 certainly do. He Well, when I ask your fathpr for your hand, manage to have your mother In the room. Vonkers Statesman. "Esmeralda, when are you and Geoffrey going to be married?" "Just as soon as I say the word." "When are you going to say the word?" "Just as noon as he asks me." Chicago Tribune. Him You are the only girl I ever loved. Her But you have had a lot of affairs. Him Yes. but all I did was to tell 'em they were the only girls I ever loved, and all that sort of kidding. Houston Post. H (In the hammock) Daro I light my cigar? She (also In the hammock) Do you wish us to be regarded in that light? He A cigar? She A match. The Bohemian. "My husband Is always cross as a bear at the bieukfast table and delightfully agreeable at dinner. 1 can't account for It." "That's easy. You want money for shop ping In the morning, don't you? The stores are all closed at night." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Craggs Toil look warm. Why don't you go where It's cooler? 1 know a place only six miles from here where the thermometer drops way below sero. Snaggs What are you giving me? Where is this place? Mrs. Lushlngton And there you were, st 8 o'clock in the morning, hugging that cigar store Indian. Mr. Lushlngton Surely, my dear, you are not Jealous? Judge. l!lrits-rSo Mr. Gayboy Is going to spend a fortnight at Old Orchard while Ills wife Is In the mountains? Wleks Yes; what of It? Hicks Oh,, nothing only she ought to tie a string around his finger to remind him that he la married. Somervtlle Journal. Office Bov Tile editor Is much obliged' to you for allowing htm to see your draw ings, but much regrets he Is unable to use them. Fair Art'st (eagrlyi-Did he say that? Offl e Bov (tntbfutlvl Well, not exactly. He Just sa'd. "Take 'em away. Joe; they make me sick." Harper's Weekly. Cracps Straight up. Take a balloon. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How is It that ynu cultivate the society of tht deaf and dumb couple so assid uously?" "Don't have to listen to the smart thlnas their 2-year-old gets of f." Baltimore American, "TUB MKTY A.NP NINE." ElixalK-th C. Clephane's Poem, Mads Famous by Hankey's Singing. There were nlhety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold; But one wss out on the Mils away Far off from the (rules of rold. Away on the mountains wild and bare. Away from the tender Shepherd's care. "Lord, thou bast' here thy ninety unit nlnef Are thev not enough for thee?" But the Shepherd made answer: M,T Is one of mine Has wandered away from me; And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find my sheep.'" But none of the ransomed ever knew How deep were the waters crosl. Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through Ere he found his sheep that was lost. Out In the desert he heard Its cry, Sick and helpless and ready tg die. "Lord, whence are these blood-drops all the way. That mark out the mountain track?" "They ner shed for, one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him buck." "Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and tore?" "They are pierced tonight by many a thorn." But all through the mountains, thunder riven. And up from the rockv steep, There rose a cry to the gate ,f heaven, "Rejoice! I have found my shep!" And the angels echoed around the throne, "Rejoice for the Lord brings back his own!"