THE 0MAI1A SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 17, 1909.
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"STATEMENT OP" CIRCULATION.
Plate of Nebraaka, Douglas County, aa.:
Oeorge B. Tsschuck, treaaurer of The Bee
Publlahlng company, being duly aworn, aaye
that the actual number of full and com-
filete copies of The Dally, Morning, Even
ng and Sunday Bee printed during the
month ot December, 1908. .was aa follows:
1 S7,TSO IT
J 17,810 II
t ST.STO II
4 arto to
S 37,630 21
37,380 2 2
7 37,940 It
1 37,040 24
1 36,110 26
10 36,70 21
11 48130 27
12 36,660 21
It 37,100 21
14 36,710 tO
IS 37,480 tl
18 37,170
Total
Lea unsold and returned copies.
Net total
.37,370
.36,800
. .36,70
. .37,880
. .86360
..37,010
. .37,030
. .37,000
. .38,460
. .36,930
..37,160
. .86,630
..40,730
. .4S.SO0
..48460
.1,171.470
446
. 1,168486
Dally average 37,41
GEORGE B. TZSCIIUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my preaence and aworn to
before me this llat day of December, 1808.
ROBERT HUNTER.
Nolay Public.
WHEN OUT Or TOWN.
Subscribers leavlag the etty tem
porarily should hare The Bee
walled to them. Address wUI he
' changed as often aa reasjested.
The. public domain ot the nation has'
furnished graves for more than one
political reputation.
Ii la time for the thermometer to
get on the water wagon. It has been
taking a drop too much. .
8enator "Jeff" Davia is on the alck
Hat, but congress seems to be able to
make noise enough without him.
Everything is reasonably peaceful
in Indiana, although the state has just
been placed under Marshall rule.
Senator Tillman's experience should
have taught him better than to go
into an engagement with a dull pitch
fork. -..
Congress has been asked to provide
new and larger Jails for the District
of Columbia. Some of them going to
plead guilty?
F. Hopklnson Smith says President
Roosevelt has fceen hitting public
evils with "a holy flail." That's a
new name for the Big Stick.
Mr. Tift does not often indulge in
profanity, but he has formally an
nounced that be is going to Panama
to settle a dam controversy.
Every vote in one county In Texas
was cast for Mr. Taft. The surprising
feature is that 429 Texans could ever
think alike on any proposition.
Statistics from Minnesota show that
one out of every three girls in that
state is a breadwinner. The propor
tion of breadmakers is not given.
Physicians have discovered a man
who has two hearts. Still, he is not
in any special seat of vantage, as he
could not hope to catch three more in
the draw.
... Captain Chance has returned to
' Chicago and "Cy" Young has signed
for another season with Boston. The
regular order of business njay now be
taken up.
' I r Trzrrr
Collier's is opposing the reappoint
ment of Secretary Wilson because he
is opposed to the pure food law. We
auspect that Collier's has been finding
out "a lot of things that ain't so."
Senator Oalllnger received 256 of
x the 166 votes of the New Hampshire
legislature for his re-election. There
Is no proof that the ten members who
voted against him are readers ot Col
lier's. Statuettes discovered in the island
of Cret show that oorseta were worn
4.000 years ago. It is a safe wager
that the Creto Tuck of that date an
nounced that "the corset has come to
stay."
N. Bunau-Vartlla says he does not
believe that the Qatun dam is safe.
This will be alarming to those who
care a tinker's malediction about what
M. Bunau-Varllla believes or professes
to believe.
A nurse asks a Washington paper
if it is proper for her to accept a pro
posal of marriage from one of her
patients who Is not In bis right mind.
Many proposals of marriage are made
by men in that condition.
"t was. perhaps, 'disingenuous," de
clares Senator Tillman. . Webster de
Ines disingenuous as: "Not frank,
sincere or candid; wanting In open
ness" , and honesty; underhanded."
That eems to dispose of the case.
MR BHTAX8 BACK 9VMKRSAVLT9.
Confronted with the necessity of
putting his preachings Into practice,
Mr. Bryan seems to have discovered
that framing a political platform and
framing a workable law are not neces
sarily Identical. During the cam
paign Mr. Bryan talked long and loud
about the beauties ot his bank deposit
guaranty scheme, but now In outlining
the plan of action for his Nebraska
democratlo legislature he turns a sue
cession of back somersaults that take
him far from his starting point.
Mr. Bryan's classic on bank deposit
guaranty is his carefully prepared ad
dress delivered at Topeka, In which he
eulogizes the Oklahoma law and
proudly pictures its perfection. The
bulwark ot the Oklahoma law ! that
It requires Immediate payment of the
depositors of a tailed bank. Said Mr.
Bryan at Topeka only last August:
The Oklahoma plan la working satisfac
torily. A bank recently failed in Okla
homa. Within forty-eight minutes after
the notice of suspension the officer In
charge had authority to pay all deposl
tora. In Oklahoma the bank commis
sioner telephoned the farmare to come In
and get their money and the answer we,
"I am busy today with my crop; I will be
In In a day or two."
In his latest pronouncement on the
guaranty of depositors Mr. Bryan says:
Provision should be made for the
prompt payment of depositors In failed
banks Immediately upon the establish
ment of the depositor's claim.
It la explained on the outside that
under the ordinary procedure of bank
receiverships it requires at least
twenty to thirty days for a depositor
to establish his claim.
The Oklahoma law fixes an unlim
ited liability on all the banks con
tributing to the guaranty fund for any
and all banks that may fail, thus giv
ing preference as creditors to the de
positors of any one bank over the
shareholders of all the banks. On this
score Mr. Bryan said at Topeka:
There In another reason why the claim
of the depositor is superior to the claim
of the stockholder. The stockholder has a
voice In the selection of the bank offi
cials: the depositor has not. If anyone
mu jt lose, therefore, as the result of bad
management It ought to be the stock
holdar rather than the depositor. I ven
turo to ask. If the banks will not trust
eacu;' other, why should they expect the
depositors to trust the bankst
In his newest scheme Mr. Bryan
abandons altogether the unlimited lia
bility. Seeking the line of least re
sistance, he suggests:
It Is wise to make the experiment In
such a way and under such conditions as
to produce the minimum of friction and
a maximum of assessment, therefore. Is
suggested of not less than 1 or 2 per cent
in any one year.
In other words, while in principle
the depositor's claim is superior to the
shareholder's, he Is to be preferred
under the modified guaranty only to
the extent of 3 per cent a year, and if
the fund is exhausted, wait a year for
the next annual assessment.
The Oklahoma law is supposed to
be primarily for the benefit of bank
depositors and on this point Mr. Bryan
dwelt specially at Topeka, aa follows:
I submit that In .this effort to make all
banks secure the democratic party is the
champion of the farmer, the laboring
rata, the business man, the professional
m.in and the champion of the banker as
well. No class is outside of the benefits
of this law, tor It bestows Its blessing
upon all.
To sugar-coat the law a little more
for the' banker, Mr. Bryan now pro
poses this Improvement:
Solvent banks should be permitted to
borrow from the fund upon approved se
curity In anticipation of a run, the
amount so borrowed to be repaid within
a reasonable time with a fair rate of In
tercet Presumably after the bankers who
conjure up runs have borrowed all the
guaranty fund on approved security
the depositors of banks that really
suffer runs and collapse may have
what is left If they -wait long enough
for it.
It is reported that in the make-up
of the legislative committees at Lin
coln Mr. Bryan protested against put
ting so many bankers on the banking
committee until be ran up against this
retort: "Do you want the banking
law to be framed by blacksmiths?"
"'POSSUM EN TATERS."
One result of Mr. Taft's visit to
the south has been to give prominence
to the pleasing fiction that " 'possum
en taters" Is a staple article of diet
In the south and a dellcaey such as la
rarely tasted by ordinary mortals.
Prairie chicken en tirobales, capon,
squab, mallard and teal, terrapin and
all the other palate ticklers prized in
northern cities are supposed, accord
ing to the myth, to be flat, stale and
unprofitable compared with the sav
ory 'possum, properly roasted in its
own fat and garnished with the suc
culent yam. A New York newspaper,
discussing the 'possum which has been
given by the south to the president
elect, says:
Through untold cycles he haa fought
and flanked a multitude of enemlea, all
knowing, well that he la toothsome. As
a last resort he feigns death In order to
gain time by exciting curiosity, a master
passlou in the animal world. Though he
has little to defend himself with except
nimble legs, a great showing of teeth and
clambering reeourees, the 'possum goes so
far back Into geology that the pundlta
make him a stsrtlng point. No need to
lecture the 'possums on their duty to so
ciety. It Is a wise 'possum that knows
all his own families and the generations
to which they belong. '
All of which sounds fine and may
start a watering ot the moutha among
those who have never tasted 'possum.
As a matter of fact, all this talk about
the 'possum does not strike a re
sponsive chord in the breast or
stomach of anyone who knows the
'possum and its potent powers for In
digestion and aauaea. Probably less
than one In one thousand, among the
whites of the south, tastes 'possum
once a year and even these eat It only
under stress of hunger when nothing
less obnoxious is available. Cooked
In the highest style of the art, the
'possum is nothing leas than s greasy.
Indigestible varmint that causes a re
vclt In the average' digettlvs ma
chlnery. It taatea a good deal like fat
pork, lavishly soused with molasses,
with a little rancid batter added for
flavoring. It Is oleaginous and filling,
but few southerners ever admit that
It Is toothsome. Shiftless whites and
blacks eat the 'possum, because the
animal growa luxuriantly and abund
antly and the hunting of It Is good
sport A stranger may enjoy the dish
as a novelty and becauae of the myth
surrounding it, but there Is little dan
ger that Mr. Taft or any other sane
citizen will acquire a chronic taste for
" 'possum en taters."
HAT AILS THE POSTOFFKE.
Discussing the "postal complica
tions" that have arisen over the limi
tations on the 2-cent postage rate re
cently put into effect with Great
Britain and with Germany, the Chi
cago Tribune says "there must be
some education of the people before
the plan works smoothly," and then
goes on to explain the details of the
new arrangements. Thla remark
opens up, although in an altogether
too buy way, the real trouble with
our postofflce.
The postofflce is a great commercial
institution depending on popular pat
ronage, and yet the people do not
know what It has to offer or bow to
take advantage of Its facilities.
The postofflce Is a gigantic piece of
industrial machinery representing an
Investment figuring high into the mil
lions and maintaining aji organisation
that reaches every nook and cranny of
the earth, and yet it is utilized only to
a small fraction of its capacity because
its possibilities are not fully exploited.
If the postofflce were to be' taken
over by a private corporation of up-to-date
business men the first thing
the new owners would do would be to
set aside an appropriation of from
$a, 000, 000 to 16,000,000 a year for
an advertising campaign that would
i each every man, woman and child
who" could be taught to make uae of
the postofflce facilities.
When the new postal agreements
were to go Into effect good, big catchy
announcements should have appeared
In every newspaper in the land
Two eats to (treat Britain sad Ireland
or
Two oeats to any part of Germany.
And there ahould have been a
follow-up scheme of publicity that
would have drummed it into the heads
of everyone who reads that two letters
can now be sent Vcross the Atlantlo
for the same price previously exacted
for one and leave 1 cent over. Im
agine a railroad voluntarily cutting Ha
passenger rate three-fifths without
buying some printer's ink to stir up
new travel. '
' The postofflce does a lot of things
besides delivering letters. It sells
money orders and transfers credits
from any part of, the country to any
other. It insures safe delivery
through Its registry department. It
sells return postage to bring back re
ply letters from foreign countries. It
will before very long become a savings
bank depository. It is constantly
opening up new territory and making
all sorts of Improvements. But it re
lies entirely upon free notices in the
newspapers to spread the Information
that la needed to make business for it.
A proposal to spend each year sev
eral million dollars of public money
to advertise the postofflce may sound
revolutionary and startling, but un
less other people's experience counts
for nothing, every dollar wisely ex
pended for thla purpose would come
back many times multiplied and the
postal deficit bogle would soon take to
the woods.
LIMITATION OF NAVAL ARMAMENT.
In an address to the Reichstag
Chancellor von Buelow haa made it
plain that Germany has never been
formally Invited to participate in the
dreams of universal disarmament. The
chancellor explains that , Germany
shares the belief of other powers that
a reduction of armament Is, of itself,
highly desirable, but at the same time
the German empire haa no intention
of taking the initiative in that direc
tion. He declares that somethng more
than a wish to reduce armament is
necessary to secure such result and
that it will be necessary, before any
action Is taken, for a general program
to be agreed upon among the powers.
In this Germany Is apparently in
the aame position as England, France,
the United States and all the world
powers. Naval budgets are growing
with alarming proportions in all coun
tries. Each government feels the
urgent necessity of a reduced outlay,
but each is forced, by the very nature
of things, to keep its taavy equipped to
the beat standard of Its rivals. This
Is the real barrier to disarmament
plans, for it would be absurd to expect
England to'flx Its naval strength as no
greater than that of Germany or the
United 8tates, Just aa it would be ab
surd to aak the United States, with its
vaat coast line and Its varied interests
in two oceana, to limit Its navy to the
Bise of that of Austria, which baa a
very limited coast line and practically
no outside Interests.
As a further illustration of the fu
tility of disarmament plana Chancellor
von Buelow frankly explains the Ger
man naval program. He says that it
is proposed, by the close of 1112, to
have added to the German naval
strength fifteen battleships, nine ar
mored cruisers, eighteen small cruisers
and 10S destroyers,' a fleet which in
Itself would be about as potent sa that
American fleet which Is now returning
from a trip around the world. Eng
land is going ahead with plana for
more Dreadnoughts, Japan sad Russia
are floating loans for Increases in their
navies and the house at Washington
has agreed to the construction of two
of the biggest battleships ever designed.
XTnder the circumstances the talk ot
early universal disarmament Is an Ir
idescent dream. Each nation will
have to determine the strength ot the
navy necessary to maintain Its power
and prestige and safety, with mors or
lens disregard of the action of rival
powers or the resolutions of peace
congresses.
THE INAUGURAL BALL,
The refusal of the bouse committee
to recommend that congress authortse
the uae of the pension building for
the Inaugural ball on March 6 is by
no means conclualve, but It has caused
woe among the Washlngtonlans, who
profess to fear that It may be neces
sary to abandon that part of the in
augural festivities this year. Chances
are that the congress will relent In
due time and grant the request of the
cltlsens In charge of the arrange
menta.
This Is the program repeated with
eome variations every four years.
Congress always grants the use ot the
pension building for the ball, swear
ing solemnly that It will never, never
do so again. The Washlngtonlans go
ahead, however, making their ar
rangements, file their request for use
of the building and after laboriously
debating it for a week or more con
gress surrenders. The thousands ot
employes of the pension office are
given a vacation for several weeks
at no inconsiderable cost to the gov
ernment end the big brick-paved
court of the building is turned into a
ball room, in which there is never any
dancing.
It would ba no irreparable loss If
the ball were not held st all. It la
a laborious sham of brilliant gayety at
best. The tickets are sold at $5 per
to purchasers In numbers sufficient to
tax the capacity of the ball several
times over. Admission is gained only
after a real fight. Standing room is
out of the question and the reward
is the appearance of the president
elect and the members of the high
official life in Washington for a few
minutes' parade around a roped and
strongly-guarded arena. Then the
guests resisting the temptation to
say "mob" tear up the decoratione,
even to the frame supports and posts
and carry them away aa souvenirs.
HOME TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Perhaps the best result thus far de
veloped from the world-wide war
against the white plague is the atten
tion directed to the possibilities of
curing most of the cases at borne. All
the physicians who have been making
a special study of the disease agree
that fresh air and an abundance of nu
tritious food are the best weapons with
which to fight tho disease and much
valuable testimony Is being offered of
cures effected by this treatment, even
with the patients in an advanced stage
of the disease. Dr. Rufus A. White,
the pastor of a prominent church In
Chicago, haa Just published his experi
ments with his own case, which com
pelled him to give up his work, but
after the "home treatment" he has
been pronounced cured and will re
sume his pastoral duties. He says:
I took a large south room in my house,
removing the window casings so the win
dows could not be closed, put up awnings
as a protection against storms, and there
I have slept for six months. I go to bed
at 8 o'clock and rise at 8.
Then I fixed up a sun parlor on a south
porch. When the weather was pleasant I
put In three or four hours a day walking,
riding or playing golf, but any exercise
will do as well.
The main thing Is plenty of air, plenty
of rest and plenty of food. I eat three big
meale a day, larger meals than an ordinary
worklngman would eat. I rest a half hour
before eating and an hour after. Then I
eat plenty of fresh egga and drink milk
between meals. With plenty of exercise
in the fresh air, this diet was not too
heavy. That Is about the gist of my treat
ment. I have gained thirty-two pounds
I now weigh 19 and I never felt better In
my life.
Air, rest, eggs and pure milk these
embrace the whole treatment. Dr.
White explains that even men com
pelled to work can take np the cure.
They can aleep In open rooms, eat
hearty of nutritious food and take
plenty of exercise. All over the coun
try the "home treatment" is growing
in favor steadily. The simple treat
ment furnishes a world of cheer to suf
ferers from tuberculosis in its Incipient
stages by proving to them that there
is a treatment tor the disease that
does not require the banishment ot the
patient from family and friends. With
enlightenment on the advantages of
this open air treatment for tuberculo
sis will also come better breathing,
better bousing conditions and better
modes ot living that will prove bul
warks against other less dangerous
diseases. The health of the people,
the greatest asset of a nation, will be
improved when they have been taught
to live In a saner fashion and made to
realize the value of sunshine, air and
proper diet.
Democratic and republican mem
bers of the house rivers and harbors
committee have joined in a demand
for an appropriation bill at this ses
sion, in spite of the general sentiment
that such appropriations should te
discontinued until a systematic plan
for Improvement of Inland waterways
has been s greed upon. There Is no
partisanship in the "pork bar'Is" ap
peal. ' Governor Hoke Smith has decided
to leave the enforcement of the pro
hibition law at Savannah to the local
officials. Reports indicate that the
Savannah officials have their faces set
against booze and rather like it.
A bill offered In the Illinois legisla
ture provides that burglars, thieves,
pickpockets, holdup men and porch
climbers be sent to prison for lite.
Still. It Is doubtful If the rural coun
ties will agree to pay tor the mainte
nance at Btate expense of such a large
proportion ot Chicago's population.
"Jim" Jeffries says he can not go
Into the prise ring again because his
"wind is out of shape." still, his
typewriter seems to be oiled up and
working well and that Is Just as es
sential in the preliminary sparring.
Do 6 are s the Mala Pelnt,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bull, the Indignant houae fails to folly
explain Its set objection to allowing the
secret service to detect land grabbers and
timber thieves.
Better Wake I p.
Indianapolis News.
In recommending an Increase for the,
navy amounting to 129,000,000 the house
committee on naval affairs must be labor
ing under the misapprehension that John-
dee paid that fine.
I ndeslrwble Twists,
Boston Herald.
The familiar proposition that poverty
and Ignorance generally travel hand In
hand Is again attested by the faet that
over 80 per cent of the applicants for
British old age pensions are found unable
to Sign their names to their applications
So I alike Ben.
Wm porta (Kan.) OaseMe.
Ben Tillman's spiel must have been a
great disappointment to the president, who
had every reason to expect something
picture sque in the way of a roast. Mr,
Tillman has Ions; been recognised as an
undesirable -cltlxen, but It was never before
suspected that he Is a mollycoddle.
Forests ef the ratara.
Wall Street Journal.
People who are despair over the rapid
disappearance of timber supply may find
comfort In the knowledge that the produo
tlon of cement In the United States has
Increased from less than 100,000 barrels In
1X88 to 48,000,000 barrels In 1907. Cement will
be a leading factor in forest conservation.
A Prophet Without Honor.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A prophet announces that the entire west
ern section of this continent Is to be vio
lently shaken between now and the 1st of
August. If nothing happens before March
4 a majority of the statesmen assembled
In Washington will decline to believe that
the disturbance can possibly be very dam
aging. The Price of Gas.
Philadelphia Record.
New York's Consolidated Oas company.
which complains that a price of 80 cents
thousand foel Is confiscatory, bought
nearly a million 1000-feet of gas from the
New Amsterdam Gas company at a price
of 35.04 cents per thousand, which price,
under the contract, waa arrived at by
adding 10 per cent to the cost of production.
The gas bought was delivered In the holder,
and not to the consumers, but It Is perfectly
well known that the cost of distributing gas
is less than the cost of manufacture.
Fixed Salaries for Bank Examiners.
Philadelphia Press.
The proposition to compensate national
bank examiners by fixed salaries instead
of fees is not surprising, and ss It has the
support of treasury offtolals and others
who would be best Informed on the sub
ject the probability Is the ohange will be
made. The fee system In the public ser
vice Is being abolished whenever it is found
practicable, having long since got Into
disrepute. There are more than ordinary
reasons for doing away with It In the case
of national bank examiners, slnoe it is
alleged that it Impairs their efficiency.
Beating About the Bash.
Kansas City Star.
Bear in mind that the protests made b"
certain senators and representatives against
the "abuse" of the secret service Is really
a protest against the use of the secret
service. There are men now prating about
the "unlawful" diversion of contingent
funda In the payment of secret service
agents the "unlawful acts" charged to
President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft
while these men stand before the country
convloted by documentary evidence of
flagrant improprieties as public servants.
It is a habit of those who have been
brought to book, and who chafe under ad
ministrative or leglslstlve checks, to assail
the methods employed In bringing them to
acoount. Criminals are never very fond of
detectives, policemen and prosecutors, you
know.
WHO DESERVES THE SPANKING!
Move to Pnnlnh Parents for Mlscoa-
dact of Their Children.
New Tork Tribune.
The western reformer who would punish
parents for the misconduct of their chil
dren is on the right track, but perhaps does
not go quite far enough. Oliver Wendell
Holmes once remarked that the education
of a child should begin a hundred years
before It Is born. In order to reach the
real seat of the evil which Mr. Whitehead.
secretary of the Child and Animal Protec
tion soolety of Colorado, alms to correct,
possibly the statute which be proposes
should be made to Include grandparents
and great-grand parents. Unfortunately,
however, the real culprits would be fre
quently found to have taken refuge In the
cemetery. In such cases the next best
thing would be to Impoee the proper pen
slty on some one who could be caught. It
often satisfies the Innate Instlnot of jus
tics to "lick" the wrong person If hs can
not get at the right one. Moreover, Mr.
Whitehead Is not mistaken in holding the
immediate progenitors of at least a few
depraved youngsters responsible for the
misconduct of their progeny.
To give the fulleet effect to Mr. White
head's scheme an extension at Colorado's
penal ayatem might be deemed Judicious.
How would It do, for Inetance, to le-estab-llsh
the pillory and set It up ao consplcu
oualy that men going to their places of
business and women bound to the ahops
and markets would be compelled to paaa
the site? Consider for a moment the in
fluence on public morale of en inscription
displayed above the heads of the criminals
there detained announcing, for example,
that John Jones had encouraged reckless
extravagance In his daughter by giving
her elxteen new hats in one year. Would
not other parents find a powerful stimulus
to duty In their dread of a similar adver
tisement of their shortcomings?
Think, too, of the good the plan would
do to the rising generation. Generally
speaking, children who have made an un
wise choice of parents discover the mis
take too late. It is practically impossible
to train up fathers and mothers In the
way they should go after their most glar
ing faults havs become apparent. Nevei
thelees, an avoidance of the sins of omis
sion and commission which have called for
the Interposition of the law and have in
vited the contempt of the neighbors is
quits wltbln the range of feasibility, pro
vided that an adequate motive be supplied.
Let Colorado furnish the motive by mak
ing adequate examples of such offenders
aa ars within its jurisdiction, and it will
give the rest of the world a magnificent
Object lesson In reform.
8BRMOIVS BOILBD DOW.
To great hearts the sorrows ef others are
never small.
They who are always ready te serve are
never servile.
Some folks measure their faith by tholr
fault finding.
Tour faith is ail f lly if it does not load
to fair dealing.
Me makes s poor business of life who
lives for business alone.
Tou cannot cheer ths world with a smile
that starts at the teeth.
You can teli what a man really is by
what be brings out in you.
t'nderestimatlng others is due lo the op
poslte error In regard lo nureolves.
It will take tears ss well as inlk about
happiness to make earth heavenly
"Ihe mark of a heavenly blessing Is that It
ignores all our earthly boundaries.
The best wsy to reinforce your troubles
Is to use Ihem ss a refuge frm others'
tsres.
Wstch a man driving a borrowed horse
and you can tell whether he has any plty
of his own.
Block the windows of your heart with
dirt and It will not be strange If you deny
the divine light.
It often happens that the man who seeme
to tske most Interest in heaven has the
least Investment there. Chics go Tribune.
PERSONAL AND OT1IERW19B1.
Nevertheless, the smile of the Iceman la
the real thing.
Mr. Mercury will command vastly more
popular esteem if he will keep a position
several Inches out of his hole.
In a liat of forty-eight books most popu
lar with 11.000 children In the New Tork
elementary schools, "Little Women" came
out ahead. They generally do.
The budding statesman who secures the
passage of a law requiring persona who
announce the first robin to exhibit the
goods will win the esteem of the doubting
multitude.
A Cleveland girl finds that she cannot
live like Christ and keep her Job as a
stenographer. A few spelling lessons might
help some In restraining the melting ex
pressions of the dictator.
According to the social code of a Chi
cago club, caressing a fellow member with
a bowl of salsd constitutes sn offense pun
ishable by expulsion. Chicago clubs have
passed their salad days.
By ths time Lillian Russell s 1,000 love let
ters from admirers are In print, the census
bureau and other statistical sharps will
have a baals from which to calculate the
number of "Johnnies" at large in this
oountry.
Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, editor of
the home department of the senator's new
paper, advises a large, old-fashioned yawn
a cure for Irritation. Marked ooplea of
the weekly should be placed on the desk
of every member of the congress.
One of the surgeons on on Atlantic liner
finds hypnotism a splendid means of ban
ishing seasickness. A few passes and the
suggestion that It is Impossible for the pa
tient to be sick does the trick. Easy as
rolling off a log. But who ever heard of
ship doctors encouraging regularity at the
dining room tables?
WARNING TO THE) CHURCH.
Decrease In Nsimber of Clergy Is
Without a Parallel.
New York Time
A decrease In the number of tho clergy in
the Protestant Episcopal church Is reported
In this year's Issue of the Living, a church
encyclopedia and almanac, which has Just
"been published simultaneously In New York
and Milwaukee by Thomas Whltt&ker and
the Young Churchman company. Tho edi
torial says:
"When we come to take a statistical view
of the church the most glaring fact ia that
the church olergy list shows a decrease of
thirteen names as compared with that of
last year, and that there Is a decrease of
seventeen candidates for orders, though an
Increase of thirty-one In the number ot pos
tulants. That the clergy have not even
held their own In number is an occurrence
without parallel, at least for a long term
of years.
The first thought Is that the scarcity of
candidates for ordination has been accentu
ated even beyond its hitherto unfortunate
degree. Further Investigation, however does
not bear out this tear. The number of
names on the death roll of the clergy this
year ia greater by thirty than it was last
year, and there have been fifteen more
depositions than last year, while appar
ently the number of accessions to the
clergy list by removal from England and
Canada Is leas than usual.
"But. though these considerations some
what explain the decrease In the clergy
list, they only throw Into still greater prom
inence the glaring fact that at least the
supply of new candidates is not sufficient
to make good any extraordinary depletion
such as that of the year past. Moreover,
it la more and more difficult to find proper
clergymen to place In charge of new work.
"The Increase in parishes and missions
this year Is only forty-four, as compared
with an increase of 129 In ths year pre
vious. It is obvious, Indeed, that there can
be no material Increase In the number or
stations manned unless a larger number
of candidates offer for the work of the
ministry."
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by this most famous piano manufactory.
Distinctive Features in the
Kranich (Si Bach Pianos
The Kranich & Bach piano Is built upon exclusive lines, and Its
success and superiority lie mainly in the fact that in moat important
respects it differs from any other piano made. For Instance:
(1) It Is the only piano wherein ths
action Is equipped with our cele
brated Bplral spring washer, the
only preventive against unfavor
able atmosphere conditions.
(2) The Kranich & Bai h pianos have
greater length of strings and
greater Bounding board surface
than any other of equal dimen
sions.. (3) No other pianos having the same
tonal capacity are as compact In
form or as graceful In denlgn.
(4) Our patented fallboard offers a
larger open apace directly behind
the keys than In any other piano
made.
(J) Our reversible music desk In up
right pianos is the only one pre
venting the front of the upper
panel from being marred by the
use of sheet music or books.
) The backs of our upright pianos
sre entirely different and mure
Sols Representatives
A. Hospe Co.
ISIS Douglas St.. Omaha. Neb.
Ldnooln and K.rney Branches. Council Bluff
97
PERCENT
during lierembor nearly 97 per
rent. (00.0) of th pedicle
pnitl ss tlcat h claims by the
Kquiuble In the United
Mates and Canada were paid
within one) day nfter proofs
of death were) received.
Raer sanest
Policiit Paid 358 1,U6,866,09
P.I.WKhU1D.r345 1,159,168,11
There were) only seven poHcJsai
remaining unpaid at the sad
of tho sonortd day.
When policies are) not paid im
mediately It is n anally doe
to delay on the part of tho
beneficiary In snbrnxttln
complete papers.
t7.T of the TOTAL AMOUNT
PAW WITHIN A DAY.
Eqnitiblt Life Assurtncc Sseittf
Strongest in th World.
PAIL MORTON, lYtwkkwt.
if. D. NEELY. Mgr.
Merrhjutt National Dank,
Building, Omaha, Neb.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"She thinks men are foots.
"Did she say sot"
"Npt In those words, hut she aald aha
could marry any man she wanted t."
Houaton Post.
BJhen-Peareet, when shall I ret the- mar
ries n llcanseT
Flo Not until I hsve worn for a few
months the engagement ring vou are going
to buy for me. Chicago Tribune.
"It must be very nice," said the caller
to the author's wife, "to have your hus
band at home so much of the time."
"Yes," replied Mrs. Richard Darlington
Sprigsrles. "it gives me a cheroe to get
out. Harper's weekly.
"Bon, why don't you marry EmllyT You
have been attentive enough to her.
"Father, I will never marry Emily. There
Is an insuperable bar to our union-"
"What mystery Is this?"
"No mystery. Only I asked Emily and
she won't have me." Baltimore American.
Mr. Scrapplngton (musingly) As Ltnonln
aald, a man may fool some of tha people
all the time and all the people soma of the
time
Mrs. Scrapplngton (briskly) But you)
can't fool me nny of the time.. Puck.
A new baby came to a family In a small
eastern Kansas town the other day. It wss
the ninth.
"Well, I guess It's all right." said one of
the other eight, "but I'll tell you there are
things we needed a whole lot worse at our
house than a new baby." Kansas City
Journal.
Wife Is there any difference between a
fort and a fortress?
Husband Not much, except, of eoirrse,
that a fortress must be harder to silence..
Llpplncott's.
"And now," said the old family friend
to the Vassar graduate, "slnoe you have
won your B. A. I suppose you are working
for your M. A."
"Oh., no. Indeed, she replied with en-
4 n . eanlnA 1 T rr WAIlIn tt9 mv
M. B. 8." New York Times,
TUB SKATING LBSSOJT.
W, D. Nesblt In Chicago Post.
Old Banty Claus brought me sotna skates
first pair I ever had
An' you Just bet when I saw them it made
me mignty giant
My pa he said he d hat to go an' show me
how to do.
An' so he tellumphoned downtown an got
him some skates too.
My ma she said pa'd better not go oat to
skste with me;
She said he hadn't skated since 'way
back in 'ninety-three.
But pa he sniffed on' said hs guessed
he's not a old man yet.
That skatln's Just like swlrnmln' it's a
trick you dun't forget.
Well, all th" way to where they skate my
pa ha told me how
You got to keep your balance up, an kind
o' halfway bow
An' strike right out, an' not be 'fraid
then say I better wslt
An' watch nim just a minute while he
shows me how to skate.
He put his skates on. an' be started out
across th' ice.
An' one foot it went out one way, ha wab
bled once or twice.
An' then th' other foot went out, an pa
went In the air
An' knocked down three young ladles that
is skatln' here an' there.
But he Just say he slipped, an' so he got
up on his feet .
An' started out agsin-an' fait as far as
'cross th' street.
An' some big fat man. he waa there, an'
pa hit him kerflop.
An" they come down an' break th Ice
with that fat man on top.
When we got home, why, I tell ma how
nice my pa can skste.
An' how th' ice It breaks right through
because o' ao much weight,
An' p he's rubbed .with arnlcky an' 1
ain't go' to tell.
Because he's go' glvs m a dollar bill
when he gets well.
The New Scale
fa-nich . Back
Grand Pianos
varic ts sizes havs arrived and are now ess
sale and exhibition In their new parlor wherein ws
likewise display the new scale upright pianos made
highly finished than in any etker
piano.
(T) The metal frames In ail of our
pianos are actually full siae. aod
are not cut away and therefore
weakened at such points where
not exposed to view.
(I) Our'metal pedal brackets give ab
solute freedom from trouble
caused by dust, grit or dampness.
() Not a single screw or other me
tallic substance penetrates either
the soundboard or bridges of our
plsnos.
(10) All hardware on the case. Includ
ing pedals. Is of solid brass (not
plated metal).
( 1 1 All mouldings, o r n s m e n t s ,
truHHea, etc. are made of solid
woods, corresponding to ths ve
neered surfaces, and all are dou
bled or croes veneered with ma
hogany veikeer.
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