TJIK OMAHA- SUNDAY HEM: .TAXKARY 10. 9Y).
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delivery to City ( lrri,l itlun department.
OFFICE
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, KKMITTANCKfl.
Remit by draft. eprc.s or postal or ler
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Only 2-ccnt stamp received In payment of
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Plate of Nebianka, Do iglao County, :
Oeorgo II. TchiH k treasurer of The
lie- Publ shlrg c mpany. be n duly sworn,
aaya that the actual numlier of f ill and
complete copiea of The Dally, Morninn,
F.venlng ami fiunday Pee printed during the
month of December. It 8 waa ua follows:
1 S7.780 17 37,370
3 .....37,810 IS 36,800
1 37,870
4 37-090
37,630
37,360
T 37,840
8 37,040
36,10
10 36,790
11 43,330
12 36-660
it 37,100
24 36,710
2t 37,460
19 38,790
20 37,390
21 36,860
22 37,010
21 37,030
24 3'. ,000
2( 38,463
20 36,930
27 37,150
28 36,630
29 ,40,730
30 48,900
31 48,830
II 37,170
Total 1,171.470
Lx unsold and returned coplas.. 9.a4a
Net total...; l.iea.aas
Jjaily average 37,4al
GEORGE B. TZdCHUCK. ,
Treasurer. '
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before mo this Slsl day of December, W0S.
Hubert huntkk,
Notary Public.
W'HK.N OIT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving th city tem
porarily ahoald have Tha Dee
nailed to them. Address mill ba
changed as often aa reqneated.
Some, luventor should produce an
asbestos film for moving picture
shows.
The news columns show a lot of
bowling in this town In spite of the
Mew Year resolutions.
The president has discovered that
a soft answer will not turn away the
wrath of a congressman.
'Reports from Lincoln indicate that
even a sweeping political victory may
not to be a clean victory.
Colonel Watteraon calls the king of
Italy "four aces." He's better than
that. lie's a royal flush.
Republican optimints should be re
Ininded that the south has the habit
of bolting Bryan in off years.
Residents of Washington are com
plaining of dirty streets. Residents
of Omaha are tired of complaining.
All brooms and brushes, according
to a trade report, have been advanced
10 per cent In price. It's a sweeping
charge.
Perhaps congress will be discreet
enough next time to tackle a man who
has not been practicing dally with an
elephant gun.
Walter Well man says that President
ltoosovelt'a messages were written for
posterity. Congress may file a dis
senting opinion.
A congressman was held up and
robbed while on his way to a tard
game. The robber simply beat the
card sharps to him.
Of course, there's no escaplug the
man who Insists that while a cold
wave may produce some discomfort, it
Is good for our health.
Senator Tillman wua after timber
lands, although It Is diflU-ult to see
how a mil n could do much expert work
with a pitchfork In the woods.
The Agricultural department states
that a hen attains its best laying ca
pacity lo its third year. There seems
to be a duarth of 3-year-old hens.
The republican legislature of Ore
gon will probably do things to that
law which compels them to vote for a
democrat for the Uuited States senate.
That Philadelphia girl who has been
sobbing for six weeks may he training
to act as a newspaper writer In report
lug trials like that of liains uud Thaw
Tho women are all referring to Mm
as "Chump" Clark wince be told,the
ways and meims committee that $5
was euough to payf' for any Parlsiau
hat.
"Cursed be thou, miserable liar,'
aaya tha Russian church to Tolstoi
who is thus equipped with credentials
entitling him to membership in the
Ananias club.
Kansas democrats propose to start
a campaign of education to prove the
"necessity" of nominating Mr. Bryan
again in 1112. R.'publlcuus will not
obstruct the movement.
Senator Borah hua. proposed a
law
which will forbid senators and rep
resentatives In congress from htrtnc
out aa counsel In matteis In which tho
United States is Interested. Congreu
slonal tense of decency should make
suu . law uanec8aarj-
1HK SKXEUASIMAS IX THK n'WJDPlLK.
Neither the senate nor the house
agrees with th president about tha
secret service. Its una and the lefdsla
tlon affecting; It. I'Mially admitted
fart bear hut one construction, but
enr'Hs roads the rev-ords'dlffercntly
from tho president. The reault li an
overplus of strain from both ends of
jlho rapltol. In which the executive I
charged with anaallln the dignity of
jf legislative, Invading tne preroga-
fives of conjjresM and uslnjr, the secret
FOrvice to pry Into the personal and
private affairs of members. The sen
ate has ordered a more specific Inquiry
Into the workings of the secret service,
the house has refused to receive the
president's message, alleRlni; thiit It
was beneath dignity to do so, and Indi
vidual members of both bodies are fill
ing the Congressional Record and the
public prints with explanations and
more or less direct attacks upon the
president. All of which Is calculated,
if not designed, to obscure the merits
of the controversy.
Congress was at a hopeless disad
vantage from tho first in Its bout with
the president over the use of the secret
service, as Its very opposition placed
It In the altitude of trying to hamper
the authorities in. their efforts to run
down law-breakers and uncover crime.
The president has asserted that he has
intended no attack upon any member
of congress, but he has, by citing the
records, made an unanswerable argu
ment upon the necessity for maintain
ing a secret service that shall be use
ful and effective. The effort of con
gress to assume nn air of Injured inno
cence and offended dignity does not
alter the case in any degree, or shake
popular support of the president's de
mand for removing the limitations put
on the secret service appropriation.
While surface Indications point to a
great breach between the president
and congress, with continuous quarrel
until the president's term expires, it
will undoubtedly develop that there Is
deep motive back of the agitation
designed to keep the executive and
congress apart. Rut about forty ac
tual working days yet remain to the
Sixtieth congress, and there are four
teen main appropriation bills to be
passed, making the time for considera
tion of general legislation, demanded
by the public, at best exceedingly lim
ited. The big corporations and the
powerful Interests that are opposing
the bill Increasing the powers of the
Interstate Commerce commission, that
are retarding the postal savings bank,
that are blocking statehood for Ari
zona and New Mexico, that are against
the improvement of the inland water
ways, that object to a real employers'
liability law and that are fighting a
dozen or more measures urged by the
president and approved by the people,
will gladly fan the flames between the
president and congress to make sure
that legislation on these 'subjects will
be Impossible at this session. ' This is
the Senegamblan in the woodpile.
PASSIXH OF THE riOXKKRX.
The death of William P. Snowden,
who has been very generally accorded
the honor of having been the first per
manent white settler In the city of
Omaha, again emphasizes' to our citi
zens the steady passing of the pio
neers. The first Burvcy of Omaha was be
gun in the late spring of the year 1S51
and completed during the following
summer and autumn. For anyone old
enough to vote to have lived here at
that time would have presaged an age
of 7 6 now, or six years more than tho
biblical three score and ten. The
late "Bill" Snowden had reached his
Igbty-fourth year and had made prac
tically all of his career after his serv
ice in the Mexican war right here in
Omaha. Only a few other pioneers
still remain whose coming dates back
from the first year of the city's found
ing. To grasp the full meaning of the
changes that have occurred under the
eyes of living persons by which a bit
of barren prairie has been transformed
Into the magnificent city which over
looks the Missouri today suggeats
miracle working. Omaha's pioneers
builded far better than they knew.
rut: xusiiT HtuuHs .vuxrit i t:n.
Law and order have won at least a
surface victory In the conviction In
Tennessee of eight men charged with
leadership In the Night Kider raids
and the recent murder of Colonel
Quentln Rankin. Six of the accused
have been found guilty in tho first de
gree and the court has Indicated that
the death sentence will bo Imposed
upon them, while two others have
been sentenced to twenty years in the
penitentiary.
It is feared, however, and generally
believed that the finding of the courts
in these cases will be but. the negln
nlug of real trout'e. The Night Rid-
ers have already sworn vengeance
upon all who have taken part in bring
ing the guilty members of the band to
Justice and the conviction of the eight
men threatens to be followed by a ven
detta against the officers of the law
aud th? citizens who have upheld the
courts. A cowardly uttempt was
made to assassinate the attorney gen
eral Just before the conclusion of the
trial; a woman witness, who confessed
her knowledge of some of the move
ments of the band. In the hope of sav
ing her husband from puuUhment,
was taken from her home and brutally
whipped; notices have been sent to
witnesses and their friends that they
must leave the state or take chances
on their lives.
ruder such circumstances the task
before the authorities of Tenuessee is
a stupendous one. Governor Patter
ion has shown a laudable disposition
to put an, end to the lawlessness of
certain elements among the moun
tdneara and it will require a high or-
der of courage on his part to continue
hla efforts until tha work has been
done thoroughly.. If he succeeds in
checking lawlessness and protecting
life and property he will not only ills
charge an Imperative obligation to the
citizens of Tennessee, but he will set
an encouraging example to other
stetea of the south where feudists.
Night Riders and desperadoes in gen
eral have brought discredit On the
states of whoso citizens a great ma
jority are law-abiding, but where cer
tain types of law-breakers have been
able to defy authority with Impunity.
THE UKIIUILDIXU or MKSSIXA.
Writing of the earthquake at Mes
sina, K. Marion Crawford expresses
the belief that the ancient port will
be permitted to reinuiti a cemetery
and a new city founded somewhere
farther removed from the dangers of
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Mr. Crawford has written many
stories of Italian life and Is accepted
as an authority on Italian history and
Italian affairs, but he falls to appre
ciate Itallau natuio or human nature
if ho really expects MesBina to be
abandoned.
Messina was old when Christ was
borti. For more than a thousand years
prior to that time the Sicilians and
Calahrlans knew of Its exposure to
earthquakes and eruptions and genera
tion after generation suffered the ef
fects of them, each confident, however,
of escaping a repetition of the city's
history. Messina was almost com
pletely destroyed about 125 years ago,
and yet before the fires bad been en
tirely suppressed in the ruins, the
work of rebuilding MesBina had be
gun. The new city was made more
beautiful than its predecessor, and it
is certain that the Messina yet to be
born will be larger and more beauti
ful than the Messina which was turned
into a cemetery in the closing hours
of 190S.
The sites of cities are seldom
changed by catastrophes, even when
there is reasonable certainty of recur
rence. The hope that the recurrence
may be long delayed is usually suffi
cient to cause spirited activity in the
rebuilding. San Francisco, greater
and bigger than ever, has risen over
the ruins caused by an earthquake a
few years ago and in spite of the fact
that scientists all agree that the
region is almost certain to be again
visited by earthquakes. Galveston,
almost completely destroyed by a tidal
wave, has been rebuilt on the old site,
defying the might of the sea by a
masonry wall which may or may not
withstand the force of a wave such as
swept the city to almost total destruc
tion. Johnstown "has been rebuilt in
the same gulley that, formed a mill
race for the flood that, washed the city
off the face of the earth. All along
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers towns
are Jbullt the. rlvec. bottoms with the
certainty that they will be disastrously
flooded each spring. Man is appar
ently never willing to confess his fear
of or defeat by nature.
So it may be taken for granted that
Messina will be rebuilt. It occupies
a position wnicn nas msae it com
mercially Important since the days of
Greek ascendancy. Its soil is fertile,
Its climate perfect and the force of
habit Is as strong with Italians as', with
other people.
f.MliL' VF HOXIFLF.SS (HILDMJX.
President Roosavelt has called a
convention of noted charity workers
to meet soon In Washington to con
sider the best plan for caring for chil
dren who are utterly dependent on
charity. Statistics show that on De
cember 31, 1906, there were 1)2.561
children in orphan asylums and kin
dred institutions in the Culled State.
while probably 50,000 more were In
family homes under supervision of
charity organization workers. What
to do with these children Is the seri
ous question and for which the presi
dent has asked consideration. Among
the propositions that will be submitted
to the conference are the following:
Slmtild tlu-ro b established in one of thr
fi-di-ial departments a mittmml children's
biiivuti?
Hhould the state Inspect the work of nil
chlld-i-nrlnK agem-lea. Including both Insti
tutions and home-finding societies?
Bhould the breaking of a home In- per
mitted for reasons of poveity or only fur
reasons of Inefficiency or linnior.illly ?
Should the sluto cduratlonnl uutlnuilii
fxerclse supervision over the educational
woik of orphan asylums and klmlrpd in
stitutions? Would It be helpful and denlratvle if some
permanent committer or ornnnlxution com
parable to the N.itlonal Association for the
Study Hml Prevention of Tulierculnsls, the
National Child l.a!or committee, etc.. could
be established fur tin- purpose of carryitiK
on an active propaganda Willi a view of
sreiuliig hitter laws In relation t children,
better oiKHiilr.atlnns of chlld-carlnK agen
cies, better methods of relief anil aid lo any
hlldien thtouKhout the 1'nlled Slates?
There will be little difficulty in an-
swering all the president
questions
in the affirmative, with the exception
of th flrt one. None will question
the good that will doubtless come
from the interchange of views and ex
periences of those vho have In-en
active In charity work among chlljren
in different seel ions of th-? country
and uuder different conditions. There
appears, however, to be no call for
the president's proposition to estab
lish in one of the fcdcr.il departments
a national children's hurexu. any more
than there Is for the establlishment of
a federal bureau for the blind, the
halt and the mulmed, the aged or the
destitute from any cause. Any move
ment thi? will result In ino Intelli
gent legislation by the states in the
treatment and training of dependent
children or that wi'l arouse philan
thropists to provide for their educa
tion will ba welcomed and approved,
but it is clearly a question with which
the federal government has nothing to
do, except as it has local Jurisdiction
over tha District of Columbia, tha
territories and insular possessions aud
tha Indian wards still under tribal relations.
THUTS-THF. MATTFR WITH THK
That up-to-date monthly magazine
which goes by the name of American
Medicine contains a breezy editorial
discussion In its Inst Issue under the
heading, "What Is the Matter With
the Medical Profession?" The most
casual perusal of the dissertation that
follows will quickly convince the most
skeptical that a lot of things have
gone wrong with the position that
used to be filled by the family doctor.
Anong other aliments from' which the
medical profession is suffering, accord-l
Ing to this skillful diagnosis may be
enumerated :
Tho general practitioner's sphere of use
fulness has been contracted until about the
only thing left for him to do Is "first aid"
work, or to act as advance agent for his
friends, the surgeon and the specialist.
Medical rrlen, themselves, are certainly
to blame for many of the conditions which
now confront them. With an almost fatu
ous adherence to the archaic tenets of by
gone days, they have clung to the Idea that
the practice of medicine is something so
far removed from business or trade that
the consideration of ways and means by
physicians Is ignoble, If nit diverting.
Mad medical men studied their patients
aa assiduously as they have diseases; had
they realized that the one great demand
of the sick Is for rrompt effects, or, at
least, prompt action; had they realized that
certain ends Justify certain means, we
would not find today doctors of divinity
treating hysterical women and hypochon
driacal and neurotic men by "laying on of
hands" and "soothing words."
The real trouble with tho medical pro
fession after all may be that It has over
estimated the intelligence of the people.
The public has asked for medical fiction.
the occult and the hysterical, and wc have.
alas, betrayed them by telling them the
truth.
If there Is any more useful man among
men than the genuine. Simon-pure doctor of
medlclno, we have yet to meet him, and we
doubt If he exists. The American people
will, doubtless, have to experience some
great affliction to realise the real worth
of their doctors, and when the time, docs
come they will not be found wanting.
Pity the poor doctor. Between the
specialist on one side, the faith curlst
on the other and bis own Innate mod
esty and devotion to an obsolete eth
ical code preventing him from blazing
his talents forth to the world, he has,
Indeed, fallen upon hard lines. The
chief trouble is that the doctor has not
yet awakened to the miserable exist
ence he Is leading and medical col
leges continue to turn out annually,
If not oftener, hordes of new prac
titioners to follow In the footsteps of
those who have gone before and wait
for the great affliction that is to make
the people appreciate them at their
true worth.
W'e have it on the most direct au
thority that when the municipal home
rule plank was being written into the
last democratic 'state' platform the
question was. askqd right out lqud
whether or not It' meant an elective
police board for Omaha, and that, if
so, it should be so stipulated in the
platform, but that a long and effective
protest was immediately registered by
the Douglas county spokesmen. If
the platform-makers meant to promise
Omaha an elective police board, why
didn't they say so?
The Italian military authorities
have asked for an appropriation of
$6,000,000 for additional reforms in
the army. An appropriation to put
the soldiers at work removing the de
bris at MeBSina would be more fitting.
John W. Kern announces that he is
going to make a determined effort to
bet elected United States senator from
Indiana. That name sounds familiar,
but we can't recall Just now what he
has done to make himself famous.
An actress who was seeking a di
vorce from her actor-husband at Sioux
Falls was surprised lo have the decree
granted without any testimony, until
the Judge on the bench calmly re
marked. ' I hvvo seen him act."
Dr. Wiley complains that the ab
sinthe used In this country is adulter
ated. The impression prevails that
any adulteration added to absinthe
would lessen its power for evil.
At any rate, It is to be noted that
since that fateful occasion no other
land law violators have been sen
tenced to six hours' Imprisonment In
the Omaha club.
Oor "Uasy I nclr." ,
Indianapolis News.
Panama bus to pay Colombia IJjo.' a
year for ten years, but we're to furnish
tlu- money. It's nice to have a rich and
Iteneioua foster father.
Patriotic Dream.
New York World.
Cut from a special homo weave, Mr.
Taft's Inauguration suit may well be a
patriotic dream. As there are tin) yards in
the Mere It cannot be even figuratively, a
"aluiy made out of the wbolo cloth."
The tirntle Huam-r.
New York Tribune.
To HJiv that a dismissed official has
"rheumatism In his leg" Is much more
pollie than to explain his removal on the
g. und of the good of the service. They
order these thlnss Ix-tter In China. We
should borrow the expression.
'eel scores la Tula Instance.
rt. I.ouls Olobe-lemocrat.
Improved means of communication and
transportation have minimized thet distress
caused by a great calamity like the earth
piake in Italy, and l!ier has llke-wlsa bn
a ar't Improvement I" the open-hearted
character of tilt" wholes civilised world.
A t.lrtou .Mltalua.
I'luliidtflplilu Heboid.
No war fleet that ever was launched to
bombard dfeiele citiea and to destroy
neiu:es was ever sent on so florloua a
n 'slon as that of tle American squadron
that Is approaching tha cot of HU-llr
with tha purpoaa of survortnc ' victims
of cartbtiuaka and coufUs ration.
krmo nou.Kii uim.
No man ran own any more 'than he c,n
carry In his own heart.
Tho best evidence of a hungty soul Is
Its hunger for work to do.
Every man must buy the riches of ex
pel lenco with bis own coin.
The things you really stand for air re
vealed to those you run after.
No man can take Iniquity Into his creed
and keep It out of his character.
No prayer meeting la long enough that
dose not reach to the market place.
Most users of sarcasm think more of Its
sound than of tha service It mlaht render.
There, Is never room at the top for the
man who thinks It waa built for only one.
The man who hasn't thr vigor to he vi
cious usually prldea himself on his vir
tues. Tho welfare of the world may depend
partly on whether you can whistle in the
rain.
Rome of the virtues of our friends grow
out of the graves where we have burled
their faults.
Ton many when they attempt to leave
their sins make the mlsake of holding
farewell meetings.
Our example when we are on parade has
no Influence at all compared with tho ef
fect of our everyday living.
You may have a right to your own sor
rows, but you have no right to throw their
shadows In another's way. Chicago Tribune.
SECl'LAR SHOTS AT THR Pl'I.PIT
Clevland Plain Dealer: The Indiana pas
tor who lost his well filled pocket book
searched for It all day and then prayed all
night that he might find It. He searched
again the next morning and found It, but
he wouldn't have found It If be hadn't
searched.
New Tork World: A Des Moines clergy
man who hua reformed a drunkard by
hypnotism warns the public against the
use of hypnotism by unscrupuloa and un
godly persons. But who la to be the Judge
of the rlghteouaness of the hypnotlzer'a
purpose the hypnotlcorT
Boston Herald: Tho death of "Father
John of Cronstadt" removes one of the
most popular and moat original personali
ties that the Orthodox Greek Church of
Russia has known. A mystic, a "faith
healer" and a promoter of many charities,
he waa respected and loved by the laity
more than any other priest of the church,
and had touch with their purses. Ife re
mained popular with royalty and with the
nobility clown to the last. But his grip on
the people waa lost when he chose the
side of reaction and absolutism against the
side of progress and constitutionalism.
Here Is one of the plainest cases In eccles
iastical history of a man who might have
been a prophet becoming only a courtier.
FEItHO.VAL AMD OTHERWISE.
When Medicine Hat mixes bis weather
dope. Old Mercury scoots for tho cellar.
Wan Shi Kal and one Castro are suf
fering from similar Jolts. One kick did
the buciness.
The New York man who paid $1,000 for
the return of a lost necklace had un
bounded faith In the genuineness of pearls.
"An crican wives are mere slaves." ex
claims Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Oilman.
Where was Oilman when the fire went
out?
Father Knickerbocker Is the real thing.
Thcugh old enough to be a greatgrand
father, last year his crop of babies was
tho largest In ten years.
It is hard to reconcile our notions of
tha exulted .Intelligence of .the Justice of
the federal supreme court with the fact
that they blew out dollar gas In New
Tork-
Th report that Governor Stubbs of
Kansas would not appoint any women to
offlcu has been denied. Mrs. Stubbs held
an executive session Just before the de
nial went out.
Observe what thrilling periods rnite
the arching domes of legislative halls In
behalf of the "dear people." Tongues
lash the ambient air while feet point for
the pie counter.
To diminish the pinch of hard tlinei
and relieve the strain on shoe leather,
the street ear company of Minneapolis
accepts a promise to pay in lieu of the
coil from passengers on its cars.
The unsophisticated excise board of
Bortoii expresses surprise over the dis
cover;.' that drug stores In certain "dry"
suburbs sell vast quantities of booze
for "medicinal" and mechanical" purposes-
more, In fact, than saloons sold
In the same localities before the drouth.
Members of the board have not applied
for guardians, but something should be
done to keep them off traveled roads.
DOMESTIC PI.KAATHIKS.
Pieathes there Rlrl on earth todny
with hair that's slowly turning erav, who
In the mirror scans her bead und ne'er
unto horaelf hath said, as who lit out a
soulful siah: "I really think I eiimhl to
dye?" Emporia Qaaette.
"Mrs. Ka Flippe Is down with double
pneumonia."
"That woman always did go to extremes
in everything." e.'hiciiKo Record-Herald.
"How do you know your husband Is not
a g-iod peiker player?"
riecnuiee." answered younu Mrs. T01K
ins. "no good poker player could be as
popular as he 1 with other poker play
ers." Washington Star.
To you have domestic puzzles too in
addition to yur businea ones?'"
Io 1? I had one on my hands lately
that made me walk the floor at niRhta in
eleep distress. "
"Pear me! What was It?'
"The baby." Haltlmore American.
"Si-metimes when alone-." aaid the S' nti
menlnl maid, "I sit and dre;im of my hh-l
. . . , , .
"That is vour cue to wake up. rejoined
the praetical airl. "Dreams always ao by
contraries, you know." Chicago News.
Young Wife John waa so mean Ihi
Christmas to dear iniimma. j
Krleiiel What did ho do?
Yriing Wif He heard her ssv casually ,
he liked u a present soinotning npiru
priatc for the house suniethii.g aniin.u
and e-haracti-rlMtlc.
Friend-Well?
Young Wile He he sent I er a Knocker.
Haltlmore American.
KISKII lOKS'T WANT MICH.
O. K. Klser In the Hecord-llerald.
I would sing a song of heartiest thanks
giving . ,
If 1 were twenty-three or twenty-four,
I d be thankful for the chance lo make a
living
Without the nei-d of wo-.kleg uny more;
I'd be thankful if my income wore about
Ten thousand eiou.trs yrai ijr , u
bout ,
With gladnesa that would make the
echoes roar.
I'd 1 thankful If. instead of working
duly
Wiint Icy blasts come sweeping o er
the plains,
I might far In the southland saunter
say ly
With some enchanting maid througn
flowery lanes;
I'd be thankful If I had a touring car
In which to travel blissfully and far
From where I need must toll for
meager gslns.
I'd be thankful If I'd come from o'er tha
AmThad the right to wear a coronet.
And by soma multimillionaire's fair
daughter
Ware generously lifted out of debt;
Though her father ata his wheatcakea
eslth his knits.
And hsd never studied grammar in his
I'd"'' bulging out with thankfulness,
you bckV
Second Week
JaLiuaLfy Clearance Sale
25-
oOff
A Few of the Hundreds of Bargains
i5 Diamond Rings (T (J y f
January sale price 14) 3 Ota D
$50 Diamond Rlng3, rn
January sale price. $J JU
$25 Diamond Rings.
January sale price.
$15.01)
Shrewd buyers are taking advantage of this jrront clearance sale
by making purchases in solid silver articles for January Brides. . Not
bad, is it? The savings are very special.
Extra Special
Lot of only 50 beautiful genu
ine cut glass water pitchers
never sold less than $10 a piece
January sale price special for
$4.50
Another Big Shipment of Rogers Knives and Forks Now Here
Last week's sale was such a success that wt wired for
more goods was ouly uhle to ohtain .'?.") dozen sets and tluw
go on sale tomorrow. These are Kogers' hest 0
guaranteed plate. Are warranted for ten years''
and are hand hurnished. Kegular $4.(XI values
as long as they last twelve
and six forks, for only
Why
VV HI .11 IIM SU IM",. ITWeJWBy" f '"" ' nil1"'
i. i.. 11 j inm.i. aB,in, ...n.-, .....iWfc, mar, moA t&iVLZ-iitoM
Equitable
Policies
Itecause the average man realizes that security is Hie lirsi con
sideration in any financial contrait and desires his Insurance in
the strongest company in existence.
HecatiKp In addition to tlu unparalleled strength of ibe Couij any,
every Equitable policy bears the endorsemeni cf the St.ite nl" New
York.
lie-cause a life insurance company is In business to pay every
death claim promptly and In full: over fl7 per cent of the Socie
ty's domestic death claims are paid within 24 hours aft?r receipt,
a record not even approached by, any... other couiuany.
Recaiisc" Equitable agenta receive advantages und :jld from their
General Agents and from the Home Office not usually accorded
by other companies.
leca-use even me eveijuaj luuLioe: uimnii-M wn.11 puut.t uuiuria
and agents Is characterized by courtesy; llberulity and fair deal
ing, the effect of which is to make the work of the field ( man
smoother and more profitable. '
Equitable represeiilaflves are mikir.ij money.
For information regarding an agency address:
H. D. NEELY, Mgr.
Mere limit's Nnt'l. Hunk Rlelg., Omaha.
The Equitable Life Assuraice Society
OF THE I'NITED STATES.
STRONGEST OF TIIE WOP. I. It.
PAUL MORTON, President
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YOU CAN STILL PICK UP A NUMBER OF
PIANO BARGAINS
....AT HOSPE'S....
While the carpenters, movers, paperhangers and pliinih
ers are at work we will endeavor to assist you the hest way
we can so you can take advantage of the "get out of the
way" piano prices made during the workman's racket and
muss.
Three new mahogany upright pianos just like the
ones you see elsewhere at $'J.'0 to $.U0 during the racket
at $139 to $169, on ijtf.OO monthly payments. They have t
move.
The Chickering Piano will get mussed, therefore we
have decided to take our cost, $275. You pay $L)r).(X) cash,
then $10.00 per month till paid for. This is easy and could
not he done if we were not mussed up.
The $ti00 Hallet-Davis piano is doomed to go at
terms to suit. It will get filled with grit if we don't sell it.
Same with the $.57." ( 'ahle-Xclsou this you can huy for
$2'2o on $.00 payments.
The remaining Cramer pianos, ilospe pianos, llinze
pianos, Kensington pianos, Willard pianos, and ahout three
dozen instruments which are in the way will go on Monday
ami it's up to you to take advantage of this extraordinary
inducement. (
Next week our office will he moved to the third floor.
This will give us ample room to show off our NEW 1909
KRANICH & BACH Grand and Upright Pianos.
Have you seen, heard or tried them? Artists say
"There's but one Piano now, it's the Kranich & Bach."
Some of their new appliances are worthy of note. You must
ask to see the new Parlor Grand Kranich & Bach Piano.
You don't have to pay all cash to buy a high grade
piano at llospe's.
Our easy terms, low prices, high quality and a 35 year
reputation make piano buying a pleasure at our store.
A. HOSPE CO. Souolas" SU
p. y.Save your piano by ordering our tuner 'to. do,
the work. ' -
of Our Big
Everything 1 n
Our Immenso
Stock Gorham
Silver Excepted
$30 Gold Watches. T y rA
January sale price. 14) a. J U
$20 Gold Watches, CI C rt A
January sale price. ?U "
$10 Gold Stick Pins,
January sale price. .
$7.50
This Week Only
A few dozen genuine cut . glass
tumblers, set of 6 to match pitch
ers Former selling price $8
January sale price special for
$3.50
pieces, six knives
Sell
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