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j Any beta on the election of a Cuban
president?
i Only forty days till Christmas. Count
them yourself.
In this kind of weather the merciful
man is merciful to his horse.
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Banker Morse declares that he is a
pauper. Who got the money?
Jack Frost must be traveling in a
cushion-tired airship these days.
This gun-toting business seems to
know no cast, no west, no north, no
south.
That extra session of the legislature
never will be missed If It falls to ma
terialize. i
Mr. Bryan's next trip will be to
Mexico, but ho will not take Roger
Sullivan along with him this time.
An Illinois man got a bride on an
election bet, but it Is too early yet for
i him to tell whether he won or lost.
President Castro of Venezuela serves
notice on the powers that he is not
tired of his Job. Well, everyone else
is.
Minister Wu may get Into trouble
for his failure to supply his rulers at
' home with his recipe for living 200
years.
The advantage of the foot ball score
Is that It does not make us wait for
the slow motloni of a canvassing
board.
"Will it be the same old Cannon?"
asks the Chicago News. Well, efforts
to spike It have not yet been suc
cessful. The simplified spellers have opened
1 headquarters In Europe. They have
a rich field In the Balkans and in
Russia.
j With strictly fresh eggs selling at
l 40 centa a dozen, the thrifty farmer's
jwlfe will sell them before they are
hatched.
Missouri republicans have passed
the examination and received creden-
' tlala entitling them to enter the dec
toral college.
Mr. Roosevelt has also demonstrated
, that it is easier for a president to be
1 come editor than it Is for an editor to
' become president. .
The number of candidates after
1 Senator Platt'a shoes leads to the sus-
! plclon that the old senator roust be
I built on the centipede plan.
, Being well versed In the scriptures,
Mr. Cannon will remember that ad
monition about "Beware tho Bnare of
the Fowler" of New Jersey.
Another American banker has come
back from Honduras to stand trial
Lite in an American prison is evidently
preferable to life In Honduras.
Howard Oould says he cannot live
comfortably on $400,000 a year. Lots
of folks would be willing to live un
comfortably on a tenth of the amount,
Mrs. Howard Gould gays that $200,'
000 a year Is a reasonable Income for
a ' woman. A reasonable woman
should be able to worry along on that
amount.
John Hays Hammond has expressed
a willingness to accept a place In Mr,
Taft's cabinet. It la very thoughtful
in Mr. Hammond thus to lighten the
labors of the president-elect.
religion jy roLlTKS.
The letter of President Roosevelt
made public last week decrying the In
jection of the religious Issue Into the
recent presidential campaign hns met
with general approval. According to
good authority this letter was written
by the president during the heat of the
campaign, but was withheld from the
public until after the election In order
that It might not be used to stir up
the religious Issue which It was In
tended to deprecate. The argument
of the president Is absolutely unan
swerable and no one could make
clearer the dangers which would beset
the republic If religious tests were to
be applied in determining fitness for
ofllce.
The most remarkable thing about
the undisguised effort to make polit
ical capital out of religion in the recent
contest is that at no. time did Mr.
Bryan publicly denounce It While it
may be true that the official part of
the democratic campaign management
In inciting religious prejudice was con
fined to the circulation of Mr. Bryan's
address on "The Prlnco of Peace," the
democratic candidate was to have been
the beneficiary of some of the most
vile and vicious attacks on Mr. Taft's
religious affiliations. These attacks
were made In the interest of Mr. Bryan
on the. stump and through leaflets
and circulars, and were never dis
claimed by him or his representatives.
The failure of Mr. Bryan to repudiate
the distardly work of these political
Jackals and to declare openly that re
ligion should have no place In politics
disclosed a weakness which must have
disappointed his friends and reacted
against him.
It turns out, fortunately, that the
American people recognize the fact
that Mr. Taft's strong religious char
acter Is thoroughly attested by prac
tical works of Christianity, and that
the particular church he attends or
denomination to which he belongs
cuts no serious figure with the broad
minded thinking people. The dismal
failure attending the attempt of the
democrats to make a religious Issue
against him should effectively prevent
reBort to any such plan of campaign
in the future.
INTERNATIONALISM OF EDUCATION.
In his annual report to the trustees
of Columbia university President Nich
olas Murray' Butler declares that "the
rapidly growing Internationalism of ed
ucation Is one of the Interesting phe
nomena of our times." He goes on
to Bay that "while each nation reflects
in its educational system its own po
litical and social types and ideals, yet
each Is now willing to confess that it
has much to learn by the study and
experience of others. The interchange
of professors, followed as it has been
by the interchange of secondary school
teachers between Prussia and the
United States and by the visit under
the auspices of Alfred Mosely of 300
American school teachers to Great
Britain, all testify to the desire to
study foreign educational conditions
and to the usefulness of the results
of such Btudy."
President Butler aptly emphasizes
what is becoming evident to careful
observers of the educational uplift
throughout the world. Educational
standards are rising In every civilized
country and the facilities for popular
education have increased moro In the
last fifty years than in all time before.
The dependence of higher education
on the general level of rudimentary
education has been thoroughly dem
onstrated and the co-operative Idea
greatly strengthened both as between
secondary and higher instruction, and
as between educational institutions of
the same class in different countries.
The preliminary step toward Inter
nationalism of education was the inter
change of students and the ne'xt step
the interchange of instructors. These
transfusions are bound to result in
correlation of both' methods and sub
ject matter. There are no geographi
cal lines In the world of knowledge
and the lines of geographical deniarka
tion in the educational world are like
wise being rapidly blotted out.
THE TOBACCO TRUST DECISION.
The decision of the federal circuit
court in New York that injunctions
dissolving the American Tobacco com
pany should issue Is the most impor
tant ruling yet made under the Sher
man anti-trust law,' even though the
finding has been suspended pending a
final appeal to tLo tupreme court of
the United States. The New York
court's finding is based on the su
preme court's Interpretation of the
Sherman law as laid down in other
cases, and the federal authorities are
thoroughly confident that it will be
sustained by the highest Judicial tribu
nal. The Tobacco rrubt is composed of
some sixty different corporations which
for nearly nineteen Year have been
united in one gr-jat organization for
the control of tha tobacco trade of
tho United States. The company is
capitalized at $180,000,000 and owns
$20,000,000 of the $30,000,000 stock
of the British - American company
through which it conducts its export
business. The company pays a regular
dividend of 10 per cent and bo far
this year an extra dividend of 25 per
cent has been declared. The com
pany claims that these dividends are
possible because of tho efficient or
ganization by which the cost of pro
duction and distribution are kept down
to tho minimum. The tobacco raisers,
however, allege that the enormous
profits, amounting to nearly $50,000,.
000 a year, are possible only because
the trust baa destroyed competition in
the purchase of raw material.
The charge of the tobacco raisers
Is apparently borne out by the situa
tion in Kentucky and other tobacco
producing d la t riots where the growers
have been compelled, in a mistaken
Idea of how their rights might be se
cured, to use force to compel a re
duction of the crops in order to get
decent prices from the trust. These
growers assert that when their to
bacco Is ready for the market there
Is never but one bidder for it and they
are compelled to take the price of
fered or let the crop rot In the ware
house. The case against the Tobacco trust
has been most stubbornly contested In
the lower courts and its final decision
will be Important as definitely fixing
and determining the efficiency of the
Sherman law to suppress unlawful
combinations In restraint of trade.
.4 J4imV.4L HEALTH BUREAU.
President Roosevelt has let It be
known that he ill recommend to con
gress in his anninl message the or
ganization of all existing national
henlth agencies into a single national
public health department. The plan
has the endorsement of the "Commit
tee of One Hundred" appointed at the
recent tuberculosis congress in Wash
ington and is being supported gen
erally by medical societies and medical
Journals In all part 3 of the country.
These committees and publications
have about agreed to abandon the
earlier agitation for a department of
health with Its head a member of the
cabinet and to confine their efforts
to fusing all the exlstiug health activi
ties of the government under one con
trol. While the "public welfare" clause
of the constitution Is thought to be
all-embracing enough to warrant con
gress in making laws giving the fed
eral authorities control of health regu
lations in the .itatoa, no such legisla
tion will be asked by the' promoters
cf the present movement. They will
ask only that the nif-dical and chemi
cal agencies of tho army and
navy, the marine hospital service,
the bureau of animal industry and the
different medical branches bo united
under one head. It is urged that this
consolidation of forces would result
In co-ordinating the present health and
pure food work and thus making the
government an active force for the
promotion of sanitary movements and
in the safeguarding of communities
against contagion and unwholesome
products.
Under the existing system there is
a conflict and overlapping of author
ity among the various health divisions,
with the result that none of them
does aa effective work as It might.
The union of these branches and di
visions would furnish a better rea
son for co-operation between the gov
ernment and the state health authori
ties. As a rule the state authorities
arc- willing to take their cue and lead
from the federal authorities, but this
has been Impossible in the past owing
to the conflict of authority among the
federal representatives of the health
departments. If the federal govern
ment perfects its organization for
fighting disease the state authorities
should be encouraged to increase their
endeavors along similar lines and the
whole people benefited by the co-opera
tion.
THE BEREA COLLEGE DECISION.
The decision of the United States
supreme court upholding the Ken
tucky law will be a disappointment to
those who have fought so long In the
south for equal educational opportuni
ties for the white and black races. For
many years Berca college has con
ducted a co-educational work of this
kind in the face of a divided sentiment
In the state. Tho subject became a
political issue in 1904 In tho state and
the legislature passed a law prohibit
ing white and negro children from at
tending tire same schools. The higher
state courts held that the races are
naturally antagonistic and that the en
forced separation of the children is
necessary for the preservation of
peace.
The supremo court's decision does
not touch upon the reasons laid down
by the state courts, but simply holds
that a Kentucky college, like any ether
Kentucky corporation, owing its life
to the state, must be amenable to state
authority. The decision will be en
couraging to those who have been in
clined to worry over the alleged ten
dency in this country of the central
government to override state authori
ties, but the application of this princi
ple to a college that has been doing
such good work as Berca will bo re
gretted. The authorities of the col
lege, however, have already discounted
the effects of the decision by taking
steps looking to a duplication of the
college plant. This will allow the In
stitution to educate the races sepa
rately, according to the law, and yet
under the same management and ac
cording to the same standards that
have long been followed by the college
In the Kentucky hills.
In the Berea college case Justice
Harlan, a Kentucklan, filed a dissent
ing opinion, in which he was Joined
by Justice Day, in which he contended
that the decision of the state courts
was based on dangers assumed rather
than real. He pointed out that it will
now be lawful to exclude negroes from
markets where white people buy and
that the race may be forced to almost
complete seclusion. "Have we become
so inoculated with the prejudice of
race," asked Justice Harlan, "that an
American government professedly
based on the principles of freedom and
charged with the protection of all citi
zens alike, can make distinctions be
tween such citizens in the matter of
their voluntary association for inno
cent purposes simply because of their
respective races?"
While many persons, north and
south, do not believe in the co-education
of the races, It will be difficult to
construe the decision other tbaa a
blow to the legislation, passed just
after the civil war, designed to give to
the negro tho same civil rights as the
white man. The question Involved Is
sure to be a live one for some time, in
asmuch as the courts are likely to be
called upon to rule more definitely
upon It.
THE CHRISTMAS STAMP.
One of the novelties of the year
will be the Christmas stamp, which U
a happy idea borrowed from the Red
Cross Boclety of Denmark and whose
pioceeds will be devoted to the anti
tuberculosis campaign in tho United
States. The Christmas stamp was In
troduced in this country last year by
the Red Cross society of Delaware,
which placed 50,000 of tho stamps on
the- market two weeks before Christ
mas. The supply was exhausted in a
ftw days and finally 300,000 stamps
wtre disposed of before' Christmas day.
With the proceeds the society prepared
an ' anti-tuberculosis exhibit that was
.visited by 20.000 persons in ten days.
It is proposed to Issue these stamps
this year In every state in the union,
under the direction of the Red Cross
societies. The stamps are to bo sold
singly or in sheets, like ordinary
stamps. They can not be used for
postage, but merely as a message of
good will and an evidence of a dispo
sition on the part of the sender to
help a good cause. Every stamp pur
chased Is a contribution to tho fund
to fight consumption, the cause of
more deaths than all wars. The stamps
cost 1 cent each and their use is cer
tain to become popular, particularly
as they will be In voyue at the time
when the Christmas spirit of giving
and helping is at high-water mark.
MORRILL COUNTY.
By the addition of Morrill county as
a subdivision of Cheyenne county, Ne
braska is now made up of ninety-one
counties, instead of ninety counties, as
heretofore. The birth of a new county
is not likely to convulse the state as
would an earthquake, but It will leave
more lasting results by changing the
geography of the state. The birth of
a new county Is a good sign because it
indicates the increase in population of
the territory affected and the desire of
the people to get closer to their own
local government.
Incidentally, the name of Morrill
county commemorates a citizen of Ne
braska who has done much for the de
velopment of the state. Morrill county
is named after Charles II. Morrill, for
many years president of the Board of
Regents of the State university, and
who has with public spirit encouraged
the work of the university by many
private gifts. While Mr. Morrill has
almost reached the period of retire
ment from active business life, this
recognition of him and his work must
be particularly gratifying.
THE TURK AND THE TYPEWRITER.
Through the medium of a dry con
sular report comes the news of a gen
uine reform that has found its way
in'o Turkey and promises to do much
toward brlngins that more or less be
nighted nation into hailing distance
of the progressive march of civiliza
tion. The American consul at Con
stantinople writes that the sultan,
who has been living for years in tho
belief that the worst is yet to come,
has finally let down the bars and de
cided to admit the typewriter Into
Turkey. .
This marks the beginning of the end
of Turkish isolation and mystery. The
typewriter girl follows the typewriter
machine and where she goes business
pursues. The veils, the cushions, the
yards and yards of silk wrappings, the
turbans and the bangles will have to
be thrown "into the discard when the
typewriter girl moveg up close to the
Invading machino and gets down to
business. The "Young Turks" may
have done much In the way of Intro
ducing reforms into the Ottoman em
pire, but the master stroke was de
livered when the embargo was taken
off the admission of the typewriter
girl.
A statistician figures that fourteen
carloads of printed speeches were dis
tributed from Washington during the
campaign. He figures that the paper
contained in tho mass would cover
forty-five square acres of ground or
reach 947 miles if laid lengthwise. It
would be more Interesting if the statist
could prove how many of the speeches
were read or how many votes were in
fluenced by them.
"What shall I do when the young
lady whom I have been courting re
fuses to let me know Just where I
stand?" asks a troubled correspondent.
Just put yourself in the list of doubt
ful states and wait for the final re
turns. The Century magazine has sup
pressed its entire Christmas edition on
account of an article about the kaiser.
It Is unfortunate some other maga
zines do not get articles about the
kaiser.
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Mr. Gompers denies the report that
he is not on good terms with President
Roosevelt. In proof he may offer some
personal letters he received from the
president as late as last October.
The Department of Justice is deter
mined to punish the Tobacco trust to
the full extent of the law. Possibly
the department officials have been
sampling the campaign cigars.
"John W. Kern would attract atten
tion In the United States Benate,",say8
the Indianapolis News. The man
must bo thinking about shaving those
whiskers.
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The new German ambassador has an
American wife. So had the late Ger-
nan ambassador. No small part In
the diplomacy of the world Is being
played by American women.
If the Reichstag decides that the
kaiser may not talk as ho pleases he
may decide to transform Germany into
a republic and have himself elected to
the senate.
f.oocl Job Epitomised.
Boston Transcitpt.
No one has sired up the results of Tues
day's election better or mi briefly thtifi
Governor Hughes: "A tonic to the coun
try." Freaks of the Election,
Kansas City Times.
Among other freaks of the "whirlwind
finish" It blew Missouri's democratic ma
jority over Into Nebraska. Also. It took
one corner off the Maryland majority, leav
ing tho rest Intact.
Signals to to Ahead.
Indianapolis News.
Now that such an authority as tho Hon.
Leslie M. Shaw has declared that there
will he a steady Improvement along all
lines of business, of cournc you will hesi
tate no longer about contracting fur thnt
Thanksgiving turkey. v
Another l.ncld Klnsh Probable.
Iloston Transcript.
In I'M the Empire state, wearied of being
represented In the senate by commonplace
men, flashed upon tho country Wlllinm M.
Evnrts, it Its great delight. History would
repeat Itself If Ellhu Root should now suc
ceed Thomas C. Piatt
A -Me be tor Charles.
Boston Transcript.
Five Jameses, three Johns and three
Williams will be tho record of presi
dential given names, with only one each
of all the rest. Including such pypulur
favorites as George, Thomas and Ben
jamin. We never had a Charles. A
chance for Hughes!
"Tsms Jim's" Distinction.
Springfield Republican.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
may, after all, continue In that position
under President Taft. There Is report to
this effect. He will thPn share a distinc
tion held almost or quite exclusively by
Daniel Webster of having held a cab
inet position under threu different presi
dents. ROOSEVELT'S 1IAPPV DAYS.
Chief Executive Gives nn Inkling; of
Ills Vibrant Optimism.
Washington Dispatch to Brooklyn Eagle.
President Roosevelt Is a mighty happy
man these days. He simply bubbles over
with good nature. If anyone has a remote
suspicion that the president's elation over
Taft's sweeping victory is tinged with a
shade of Jealousy or envy, the Idea is
quickly dispelled after a few moments with
the chief executive.
"I have had a better time during my
seven years in the White House than any
other president of tho United States,"
enthusiastically declared Mr. Roosevelt to
a New York man the other day. "I leave
the White House with fewer regrets than
any president of the X'nited States. Just
think of it! All my policies fully endorsed
by tho American people, many of them in
practical operation and a president to suc
ceed me of my own choice. What more
could I want? I will leave, the White
House without the least shadow of regret,
and that Is something that no other presi
dent could say."
All this was spoken in the president's
most emphatic, spontaneous and convincing
style. His Jubilant manner was a completo
refutation of tho story that the adulation
given to Mr. Taft, as the rising star, had
a dampening effect on the president's ardor
and enthusiasm and that he was beginning
to realize, with regret, the truth of the
saying: "The king Is dead; long live the
king."
rER0AL AD OTIIERWISH.
The situation at this distance does not
size up as "a corking good time" for
Kaiser Wllhelm.
If Kaiser Wllhelm would spring one of
his musical compositions on the concert
of thepowers it might help some.
N.it Goodwin's fourth debut as a matri
monial star is Interesting chiefly as a
showing that actors may be happy though
formally married.
Although Noiman Mack has definitely
retired from the business, a lease Imitator
turns upHn New Jersey, prophecylng a
long cold winter.
The suggested Individual disarmament
as a move toward longevity In the south
Is recommended by experts as equally effi
cacious for the north.
Earthquakes could not have chosen a
more appropriate place for an executive
session than Death Valley. A few human
ghosts there will welcome an excuse for a
walkout.
Regarding the law's delay, critics might
stay their pencils and pass up a gob of
sympathy to the reviewing federal . Judge
who will tackle a bill of exceptions cov
ering 2,359 closely typewritten pages, com
ing up from a Chicago court.
After a long period of rest for his Jaded
nerves, Persia's sporty shall Is seeking a
little excitement. Aa a slarter fur his ap
proaching roundup of I'aris, he has thrown
the constitution over tho walls of Teherun
and packed his grip with confiscated
"dough." Mohammed All Mirza is a bird.
Lovers of art "as Is art" will hail with
Joy the prospective collapse of the Ameri
can tobacco combine. This odious and
merciless monopoly has done more than all
other agencies to banisli the picturesque
"wooden Indian" "from our midst." The
decline and fall of cigar store art was an
immerlted knock for makers of tho "city
beautiful." -
6ECILA11 hllUIS AT THE 1'tLPlT.
Boston Herald: A distinguished Metho
dist preacher. Rev. Charles Goodcll, ex
presses a somewhat prevalent notion when
he ristj to remark that If tlie superfluous
money of Mr. Carnegie and of Mr. Rocke
feller Is really tainted, it Is Incumbent on
the churches to take It and relieve it of Its
taint.
Buffalo Express: The young clergy of
the Protestant Episcopal church are en
thusiastic socialists, according to Bishop
Walter Webb of the Milwaukee diocese, if
he is correctly reported. There is no doubt
that the socialistic Idea, which can be found
In the sayings of Jesus himself, is growing
among Christian churches. It is the bish
op's opinion that the old political parties
are bound to develop In this direction by
remedying conditions which exist, or eUu
socialism must come.
Springfield Republican: One would sup
pose that It would not lave been in th
least ueiessary for Bislup Itwrence to
have said to the Episcopalian club of
Massachusetts: "There Is not even un in
finitesimal chance th:it the American
church, either through the bishops or with
out them, Is coming Into any such relation
that It will In any administrative or organic
way be beholden to the Church of England
or archblthop of Canterbury." But soma
one seems to have feared such aa absorp
tion of merger. Not while tha United
States lasts, or while England xemalus un
annexed, will it happen.
TpTOlIX.
DIAMONDS
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One carat, white; up from $115.00
CARVING SETS
Three-piece sets, heavy bone handles and high grade
steel blades.
$o..)0 Carving Sots, now $1.89
$.".00 Carving Sets, now $2.90
$10.00 Carving Sets, now $G.25
CONFIDENTIAL
SERMON 1IOII.EI1 DOWN.
He cannot defend the truth who Is afraid
of any truth.
He who has nothing to do always does
worse than nothing.
It takes adversity to show whether we
have any real prosperity.
Getting sore at the world is a ready way
of laming yourself In the race.
Trying to get even with an enemy is a
sure way of sinking below him.
The worst of all failures are those who
never fail because they never try.
The man who has nothing but reflection
puts his headlight on the caboose.
He does not know what forgiveness is
W'ho Is too lazy to resent a wrong.
Many a man thinks he Is a saint because
4io has dreams of heaven every Sunday.
The man who talks to please himself soon
has the audience well pleased with itself.
It's a waste of time to fix up your sta
tistics for the benefit of the recording
angel.
There never was a church that went down
except It had first failed to get down and
serve men. Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Did your summer flirtation bear any
frult7" v
"You bet. I've got a date to pair with a
peach!" Baltimore American.
Mr. Stubble You say that you lived with
your wife a whole year and never said a
word to her?
Mr. Trouble Yes; you see. I didn't like to
Interrupt her. St. Louis Times.
"Papa, why do brides wear long veils?"
"To conceal their satisfaction, I presume,
my son." Smart Set.
"You told me," said the young man, de
jectedly, "that you would marry me when
Bryan was elected. Did you mean that?
es, I meant It. said the girl, flushing
modestly, "but I'd been given the wrong
tip. I really thought he'd be elected."
iiy mutual consent tne terms ol the com-
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WHAT
"WANT" Columns
Every true man aims to provide adequately for the material
needs of those dependent upon him. To this end he toils dili
gently and willingly denies himself many of the ordinary pleasures
of life for the greater pleasure of ministering to the welfare of
others. In supplying current
forgets or defers provision for future needs. Especially is the
breadwinner prone to close his eyes to calamities that befall when
the breadwinner is suddenly taken away. That is a misfortune
rarely counted uion by either himself or his family; but the want
columns of the daily papers bear frequent witness to the tragedy
of the bereaved wife and mother
battle for bread. And it is a cruel public to whom she appeals.
No one wants the woman with a child. She is denied opportunity
to gain even the pittance that the "unencumbered" woman may
earn. The following "wants," taken at random from hundreds
of similar appeals in recentissues of New York City papers, elo
quently tell the story:
"ONLY ONE WAY FOR A POOR
From a speech by Governor Charles E.
I claim to be an insurance man. and
Ing millions through the country who are
security of their homes. Aa a young man, when 1 was first looking forward to the
obligations of manhood and the duties of fatherhood, 1 realized that there was only
one way In which a poor man without capital could protect his family from tho
vicissitudes or roriune. ana inane proper security against me nay whlcli must coum
to us all, and that was through life Insurance. And 1 have been Interested In life
Insurance, adding to my holdlnKS In life insurance from that time to this If 1 were
to die tonight, to a very large extent the entire protection of my family would con
sist of life Insurance policies."
HOUSEKEEPER Yo ing widow with boby
1 y, years old wisnes situation working
housekeeper; .references. Nelson, 727 E.
St.
HOUSEKEEPER Widow, . with boy 2
years old, as Housekeeper, jurs. ,
231 W. SW
HOUSEKEEPER Widow, child years;
reference. , care oi ,
E. 67th.
HOUSEKEEPER Refined American
widow, Willi cnini or e. capaoie. eco
nomical; no objection to country; no
trlfleis. Mrs. Smith, care ,
Lenox Ave.
HOUSEKEEPER Widow, with boy of 2
years, as Housekeeper. Mrs. ,
W. 4th St.
HOUSEKEEPER Widow, working house
keeper, farmhouse, witn two ciiiuuen,
daughter 14, son 12; good home pre
ferred; reference. J , World, up
town. HOUSEKEEPER Refined, educated
widow, excellent ciiuK, economical ouyer,
desires position. H , World, uptown.
Hon
on. Orover Cleveland, Ex-President of thp I'uited States, on "Life Insui
ml Its Relationship to Our IVoi-le," published In the Spectator, New
ani e a
York, April 23, 1908.
'With the facilities orreren ry sound
and trustworthy American life Insurance
companies, I can scarcely undertand how
nnv prudent or sensible man, engaged in
active woik or business, and not possess -
lug an assured Income and fortune, sliuuid
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
"STRONGEST IN THE WORLD"
PAUL MORTON, President
II. D. NEELY, Mgr., Omaha, Nebraska
CREDIT TO ALL
pact were abrogated then and there. Phila
delphia Ledger.
"Well, dearest, I'm going to ask your
father for your hand tomorrow.".
"Oh, I'm so glad. George! I was afraid
you didn't have the couiHge."
"I've got to do it. It's im of the election
bets 1 lost" Cleveland Plain Dialer.
"Before we were married you said you'd
lay down your life for me," she sobbed.
"I knew it." he returned solemly; "but
this confounded flat Is so tiny there's u
place to lay anything down." Harper's
Bazar.
Husband In reviewing your weekly ac
counts I see that you haven't made any
entry of the amount I gave you for the pur
chase of soothing syrup.
Wife Yes, I have;' that's entered tinder
the head of hush money. Boston Courier.
TIIE VOICE OK TIIE MGHT.
Samuel Minturn Peck In Boston Transcript.
I heard a voice In the night,
It came from far away,
"i'wus the voice of my vanished youth;
In the gloom I heard it say,
"Where are tho deds you vowed to do
Where are the laurels bright of hue?
There's naught In your hands but dust and
rue.
And your face is worn and wistful.
Once 1 held your promise true; ,
Tho end is drear and tristful."
It paused. And again in tho night
I caught the sorrowful tone
Fading and dying away.
Like the echo of a muun:
"I was so happy, happy then!
Where are the prizes of sword and pen?
I limned you high mid the sdiis of men,
And glory -crowned forever.
Alas, we never shall meet again
No, never never never!"
t
It spoke no more. n the night
I hreuthed a weary cigli;
And then to the eerie voico
I soft;y made reply:
"O vanished youth, that laughed In glee,
'Twas you 'twas you that promised me;
Where are your visions fair to see?
Klown. like dew from the heather;
Each, alone, his weird must dree,
But all may mourn together."
leweal
necessities, however, he too often
left suddenly to fight alone the
MAN TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY."
Hughes of New York, January 8, 1U08.
I am tho kind of Insurance man renrpMcnt-
laruelv denendent unon insurance for the,
HOrsEKEEPEIl Respectable widow with
girl of 6 wishes position as housekeeper;
no objection to children or country;
Long Inland preferred. Call or wrltn
Mrs. , l'atchen Ave., Brooklyn.
HOUSEKEEPER Widow with girl aed
9, capable taking entire charge. House
keeper, Stebblns Ave., Broux.
HOUSEKEEPER Woman with boy of S
as working housekeeper. C. H., W.
45lh St.
HOUSEKEEPER Refined widow wants
situation km housekeeper; willing to use.
own furniture, iij St., Elatbuxh,
Brooklyn.
HOUSEKEEPER Intelligent widow
wants position as housekeeper or care
of children; references. Mis. ,
care . sth Ave.
HOUSEKEEPER Wblow with child of
wishes position, city or country. Mil,
, care . Lenox Ave.
HOUSEKEEPER Young widow with I
vear hoy wishes position as housekeep
er. , care , 223 E. St.
ian in proiTi mniseir unit Iliose ue
dent upon hint Lv a reasonable hiiiouii
life Insurance. It seems to ine that t
j tl:ls Is but to illHcliHi'k-e a iliity Imp
, lively suggested by Intelligent forts
, and w Ue precaution."
fail to protect himself ami those ilepen-
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