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B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: . FEBRUARr 7. .1DW. iTim Omaha Sunday Beb FOUNDED" BT EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSBWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha potofflra a econd clas matter. - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Be wlthout Sunday), one year..$j.W Dally Bee and Sunday, one year .t DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Be (Including Sunday). per week..1Sc Pallv Be (without Sunday). per week...lOc Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Kvenlng Bee (with Sunday), per week...inc Sunday F, one year f Saturday Bee. ona year................... Addrssa all complaint of Irregularltlea In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES.. , Omaha The Be Bundtng. South Omah--Twenty-foiirth nd N. Counrll Bluff 16 Scott Street. Llncoln-JUS Little Building. Chicago 164 Marquette Building. New York Boom 1101-11(4 No. 34 west Twenty-third Street. Washington 72& Fourteenth Street. . W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poetal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. On'lv 2-cent stamps received In payment or mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Qeorgo B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, saya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January. 109. wa aa follow. , , 1 38,000 IT.'. 3S.100 .38,850 It 38,850 S 38,300 19 38380 4 88,180 JO 38,090 5 38,010 21 89,180 ... 37,060 22 39.030 T 38,400 II,.... 38,880 t 38,360 24 37300 t 38,400 IS 39,010 10 88,900 24 39,030 11 38,310 27 39340 12 88,370 28 38,990 1 38,690 29 39,030 14 38,670 30 38,600 IS 38390 31 37,700 IS 38,830' Total 1,196,130 Less unsold and returned copies. 10,416 Net total 1,188,714 Dally average 38,846 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thla 2d day of February, 190a. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. abeeribera leaving the city tem porarily should kave Tke Bee nailed to tkem. Addreaa will be changed aa oftea aa reqaeeted. It is much easier to break an egg than to break the price of It. Why are nearly all the monologlsts In vaudeville men? That's not natu ral. Charles P. Taft wants It understood that, it was another Charles that had his Cromwell. I Eggs may now bo batched by eloc trlclty, but they are still laid in the lame old way. The Simplified Spelling board re ports rapid progress. - It bas issued another circular. Lucky for Mayor Jim thathe was not the captain of, a battleship when he sailed up to Sioux City. Move to increase the pay of wire less telegraphers on steamships to at least as much as the stokers get. When Mr. Taft bas that alligator feast at New Orleans we will know whether alligator is served as fish or meat. Mr. Rockefeller says be earned his first money driving turkeys. He made the bulk of it, however, shearing lambs. Congress has voted $500,000 for. airship experiments, but it will make more money than that fly between now and March 4. Watch the competition of the auto makers for the privilege of equipping the White House garage with a ma chine built for Mr, Taft. t Upton Sinclair says be Is ashamed that he is married. Really, Mrs. Up ton Sinclair is the party who should feel ashamed on that score. "Is the Indian specially adapted for any trade or profession?" asks a mag' aslne writer. Well, originally the In dian was an adept bair dresser. . Senator La Follette Is having a hard time looking Innocent when strangers inquire what Is the cause of the delay In re-electing Senator , Stephenson. Castro says he will start no trouble jf he goes back to Venezuela. He will Sot need to. . The other fellow will I" futart the trouble If Castro returns. Forrest Crlssey bas an article in a , Chicago paper in which he Bays he ; takes off his bat to a certain chirop- odist. Must have corns on bis head Captain Qualtrough of the Georgia has been court-martialed for getting , drunk at a reception. Possibly be t bad not beard that Georgia had gone , dry. There must bo some mistake in the Inauguration program. The printed , order of march makes no mention of a place In the procession for the An anias club. Mr. Taft Is confident that, If con greas will dig vp as fast as Colonel , Goethals force digs down, the Panama , canal will be completed in less than four years. Congressmen are trying to stir up a muaa over whether the special ses sion of congress shall b convened March 10 or March 15. It will save trouble If the esse were referred to Mr. Taft without argument. HAD LINCOLN LIVED. In his always Interesting survey of world progress in the current Review of Reviews Dr. Albert Shaw raises the interesting question as to what would have happened had Lincoln lived. Would Lincoln have been able .to accomplish in his second term, com pelled as he would have been to grap ple with the Intricate problems of re construction and to steer between sharply divided factions of his own party, results in any way comparable with the great achievements of his four years in the White House? Had Lincoln lived, would he have escaped the shoals upon which the po litical craft of his successor, Andrew Johnson, went to shipwreck? Had Lincoln lived, would his char acter have stood out In Buch towering contrast to those around bim, and would his memory have been revered, as It is now, with Its crown of martyr dom? It Is suggested by Dr. Shaw that while Lincoln's death was a great calamity. It has doubtless helped to give "that peculiar touch of dignity, pathos and heroism" to the accepted figure of Abraham Lincoln that so tragic an ending of a great career at its moment of climax must have be stowed. "If he bad fought congress through four bitter years on Us re construction policy," he continues. "and then lived on afterward as an ex president, the historical portrait would have lacked something of the bold, statuesque outlines that it now pos sesses." It is well known that Lincoln, him self, had something of the fatalist In hla makeup, and while his untimely ending was entirely unexpected, it could not have taken him at any other moment and left his part pf the work practically at completion. He would have seen In the tragedy evidence of the hand of destiny concluding the ca reer of the great captain at the very moment that the men warring to de stroy the union were laying down their arms. The verdict of history is that Lin coln's, greatness was full reached and that, had he lived, he could not have added to It, but might have postponed the day of its full realization. THE BUILDINO REVIVAL. One of the most reassuring proofs that business conditions and confi dence are being restored to normal throughout the country Is found in the report Just issued by the Construction News of the building operations in forty-three American cities for the month of January compared with sim ilar operations in the same cities for January of last year. These figures show that permits were issued In these forty-three cities In January for 6,895 buildings, involving a total estimated cost of $36,592,845, compared with 5,555 permits issued in January, 1908, for buildings estimated to cost $17,- 962,643, a gain of 104 per cent in the construction investment. The exhibit is specially significant in showing that the Improvement in conditions Is general, the statistics be ing taken from cities in all parts of tbe country. Decreases are shown in bnt five cities, Cincinnati, Portland, Tcrre Haute, Davenport and Tacoma, and these are explained by the fact that permits for large public build ings, involving an unusual expenditure of money, were taken out in those cities in January of last year. Chicago leads among the larger cities with an Increase of 220 per cent. New York shows an Increase of 112 per cent. Omaha's increase is placed at 4 7" per cent and the gain all along the line runs from 55 per cent up. The Omaha showing is particularly satisfactory, as this city's record for January of last year was better than the average and the increase of 47 per cent is equal to that of double gain in some of the other cities. The en tire showing Is highly gratifying, as the business confidence necessary to the investment of big money in build ings is of the lasting kind. A 'DEAD DUCK" DINNER. The dinner given by Vice President Fairbanks to the members of the In diana delegation in congress who fell by the wayside at the last election was something of a novelty and somewhat significant in that the guests num bered nearly all of the present house membership from the Hoosler state. A more startling and complete reversal of form in a single campaign is seldom recorded than that shown 4by Indiana in the last election. Congressmen Landls, Overstreet, Watson, Foster, Chaney, Holllday andjGilhams were among those who fell outside the breastworks, along with Senator Hem en way. Congressman Watson, who was whip of the house, was not a can didate for re-election, but was de feated as the republican candidate for governor. Judge Crumpacker was the only one of the old guard to sur vive the slaughter at the polls and be was appropriately selected as toast master at the "Dead Duck" dinner. From a party standpoint the dinner was important, as the guests displayed a determination to get together, to bury factional differences that have ex isted in the ranks and to seek to re cover Indiana to the republicans. The defeat of the congressmen and the loss of the state was not an unnatural re sult of conditions existing within tbe party. One of the strong factions of the party was not in full harmony with President Roosevelt nor with the national ticket during the campaign. A presumably republican Indianapo lis newspaper bolted tbe nomination of Mr. Taft and practically the entire republican ticket. Some of the con gressmen were with Mr. Fairbanks for the presidential nomination and some were opposed to hira and they all went down together, losing the delegation In congress, the legislature, the state offices and a United States senator, while Mr. Taft, whom the 'disgruntled members of the party wanted to de feat, carried the state. The recovery of Indiana to the re publicans will be one of the interest ing political fights of. the near future. If the democrats retain control until the next apportionment they will un doubtedly redlstrlct the stale in a manner to keep them in power for an Indefinite time.. This Is easy of ac complishment, owing to the closeness of the vote in nearly all the con gressional districts. ' The democrats have an advantage by having a num ber of hold-over state senators, and if they win in 1910, for which they are already planning, the republicans will have a decidedly uphill fight to pre vent congressional and legislative re districting to their disadvantage. It will have been worth while If the "Dead Duck" dinner makes some eminent statesmen in Indiana realize the home situation. SPOILS LEGISLATION VETOED. President Roosevelt's veto of the bill for the 1910 census, because of the clause exempting the census force from competitive examinations for ap pointment, is in entire keeping with his attitude toward the civil service and his policy of making merit a test for the clerical employment of the fed eral government. It is also in line with the recommendations of the cen sus bureau officials, whose experience has taught them that the spoils sys tem of appointing census clerks results in inefficient service and increased ex pense. The vetoed bill was passed by the senate and the house only after long and exhaustive debate. Census bureau officials and civil service reform advo cates presented what should have been convincing figures to show that the service would suffer making the clerks and enumerators political spoils. These arguments wero futile, however, in face of tho proposition advanced by the house committee, which arranged for a distribution of the census pa tronage so that all members of con gress Bhoulfl, share in it, republicans and democrats alike. Under the terms of the bill each member of con gress is given the selection of about twenty clerks or other census em ployes whose names are to bo certified to tbe director of the census for ap pointment. The director is practically without recourse in the premises and the plan would result in the appoint ment of the entire census force, except the permanent employes of the bureau, without reference to their qualifica tions for the work. It plans a return to the spoils system, pure and simple, and Is particularly attractive to mem bers of congress whose patronage has been for years greatly . curtailed by the operation of the civil service. The president's veto message makes the point plain that the proposed plan calls for a prodigous waste of the peo ple's money in a task of such great importance; that it demands intelli gent workmen, and these can be surely had only by competitive examination. The eleventh and twelfth censuses were taken under a law excluding competition in the making of appoint ments and the entire testimony of the officials of the bureau is that the con sequence was extravagance and demor alization. President Roosevelt has vetoed but few acts of congress, and this census bill is one of the most Important of the measures from which he has withheld his approval. A BLOW AT THE TRUSTS. The decision of the United States supreme court that an illegal trust is not entitled to collect from its cus tomers for goods sold to them is cal culated to lend some embarrassing complications to business dealings with the trusts and also to emphasize tbe need of a comprehensive anti trust law which shall not make it nearly so Impossible for large business enterprises to organize honestly and extat honestly. The opinion of the court was deliv ered In the case of the Continental Wall Paper company against Lewis Volgbt A Sons of Cincinnati, in which suit was brought by the wall paper concern to recover on a debt of $57, 000. The defense was that the paper company was an illegal trust and that the $57,000 claimed by it simply rep resented the excess that Voight & Co. had to pay above what the natural price would have been bad there been free competition. The company ad mitted that it was operating in defi ance of law, but contended that it could properly collect debts due to it. Tho supreme court refused to grant the Judgment, a portion of the de cision being as follows: The present suit la not based upon an Im plied contract of the defendant company to pay for goods that It purchased, but In fact Is baaed upon the agreements to which both the plaintiff and the defendant were parties, pursuant to which the accounts sued on wore made out and which had for their object, and which It Is admitted had the effect to accomplish, the Illegal ends for which the Continental Wall Paper com pany was organized. If judgment be given for the plaintiff the result will be to give the aid of the court In making effective the illegal agreements that constituted the forbidden combination. We hold that such a judgment cannot be granted without departing from the statu tory rule, long established In the jurispru dence of both this country and England, that a court will not lend Its aid in any way to enforce or to reallxe the fruits of an agreement which appear to be tainted with Illegality, although the result of applying that rule may sometimes be to shield a de fendant who bas got something for which, aa between man and man, ha ought perhaps to pay, but for which he Is unwilling to pay. Justices Holmes, Brewer, White and Peckham dissented from the majority opinion of the court, Justice Holmes declaring that the party buying from an illegal trust, knowing it to be such, forfeits the right to set up such a de fense. Conceivably this decision might paralyze business, as it offers an invi tation to purchase goods of an Illegal trust and then refuse to pay for them on the ground that the courts can not be used to collect the debts of a com pany operating in the restraint of trade. Carried to the extreme, It would place the big corporations un der penalty of forfeiting their rights to collect their debts by the slightest violation of the anti-trust laws. The majority of the supreme court evi dently holds that it has no option in the matter, whatever the results of its decision may be in actual business practice. The court does not concern Itself with the reasonableness of the Sherman law, and combinations vio lative of its provisions have no stand ing in court, however honest may be the particular transaction in question. The decision furnishes new argument In support of President Roosevelt's position and conflicts with the opinion of the senate Judiciary committee that the Sherman law needs no amendment whatever. THE FLEET A T UIBRALTA R. Nearly all the vessels of the Ameri can fleet have assembled at Gibraltar, ready for the long dash home, where their arrival is expected about the end of February. The fleet has been fit tingly welcomed by the British com mander at Gibraltar and its condition Is. reported to be a cause of marvel and admiration by the foreign naval authorities. Having accomplished the greater part of a round-the-world voyage a feat never before achieved by the bat tleships of any power the fleet after months of travel in all kinds of seas and in all kinds of weather, reports at Gibraltar ready to go into a fight at a minute's notice. Tbe ships have not been injured in the least by their long and trying voyage. The health and spirits of officers and men are reported splendidly good, and the nation will have it prestige . increased by the demonstration that its navy is ready to do active service in any part of the world. The sea strength of the United States is no longer a questionable quantity and the nations of the world have been impressed with that fact. The moral effect of the Journey of the fleet will remain long after the vessels are safe in the home harbors. 7BE HAT IN THE ELEVATOR. The Washington Herald has revived discussion of that old question whether men, should remove their hats and keep their heads bare' In the company of women in elevators. It Is some thing of a moot question, with propo nents and adversaries always ready to take either side and argue it to a hoarse finish, without conclusion or conviction. Politeness of the real variety is al ways a genuine delight, whether dis played in an elevator or a drawing room. It cannot be measured like beans or cal Iceland is not governed by set rules. Its abuse or exaggeration Is as marked as its naturalness is ac cepted as a matter of course. In the elevator problem it is more a question of common sense than of politeness or etiquette. Much depends on the loca tion of the elevator. Common sense would indicate that a man should not be expected to bare his head in an ele vator in an office building any more than he would in a street car or any other public conveyance. If the woman who enters the public elevator is an acquaintance the man will of course raise his hat In courteous salu tation, but there is no reason why he should remain bared and risk a cold. On the other hand, the man who re fuses to bare his head in a private ele vator, in a hotel or apartment bouse, in the presence of women would be equally Justified in wearing his head gear in the drawing room. After all, it is a good deal a matter of taste and appropriateness and Indi viduals must decide for themselves. A bill la pending in tbe Pennsyl vania legislature providing for the for feit of his license and expulsion from the profession of any physician who stupefies himself with liquor or drugs. It is nothing short of criminal for a doctor to be irresponsible while at tending to his practice. Fortunately, a law of the kind proposed would be seldom Invoked. The three democratic senators from Douglas say the democratic mayor and council of Omaha are four flushers. The democratic mayor and council of Omaha intimate that the three demo cratic senators from Douglas deal from a Btacked deck. They ought to know all about each other. "Senator Brlstow of Kansas has set out for Washington with a war whoop," says the Baltimore Star. Does that mean that he has set out for Washington with Senator "Jeff" Davis of Arkansas? Wonder why the showman who of fered President Roosevelt $300,000 for a thirty weeks' tour with a Wild West outfit did not make the offer in person instead of sending a letter? A Brooklyn girl married a Chinese "Just to spite" her parents. It will probably be about eight weeks before she returns to father and mother "Just to spite the Chink." Pleat y ef Ctoasaaay. Washington Star. Statement about millionaire being mis erable call attention to the popular will ingness to trovld tile company; misery Is aid to lore. " ERMOX BOII.RD DOWN Short prayers often last longest. Friends do not freote to a fro sen heart. Kasy times often account for hard habit. Nothing Is really tarred until all things re. ' Short cuts to fortune are often bottomless cuts. Rig plana do not balance small perform ance. If wishes were wings good work would soon cease. No man ever saw his father by climbing over Ma brother. That soul Is truly lost that gathers dark ness of the light. Your rank amongst men depends on how you help them to rise. The faint hearted are those who think only of feeding themselves. There Is sorrow without eotfishness, but never selfishness without sorrow. It a poor kind of piety that seek all the. pleasure and dodges the pain. The significance of sins against ourselves la that they are alns against society. Many think they are going forward bravely because they fear to go back. It' the habit of our mlnda never to think of thorns until we are paying for the roses. It often happens that the man who talks much about going to glory has neighbors who wish he'd make a start. Chicago Tribune. SKCII.AR SHOTS AT THR Pl'LPIT Washington Tost: Rockefeller could have been pope It he had wanted to. savs a De troit Driest. Tes: and 1nt ahnnt nnw hm would be sidestepping an Investigation of purgatorial rebates across the old Styx ferry. St. Taul Dispatch: Women mav he too lacking In the sense of humor to be preach ers, as Dr. Pattlson says, but there are also some men preachers who never can see the funny side of hell fire, election, damnation ana similar topics, or, at least, they never show it In their sermons. Boston Transcript: Assumlna- that th statistics of the Catholic population of the United States approximate accuracy and that Catholicism ha 14.233.451 followers. t. elusive of those In our "possessions,"' It Is noieworiny that almost half of these are found in the great urban dioceses. Thn. of New Tork, Chicago. Boston and Rronb. lyn contribute one-third of the total for me united States. Baltimore American: A hitrh h,.n, ji nltary, asked to nreslda at mrwt trior rt ganlaed friends of labor, to protest against me sentence or officers of the American Federation of Labor, for contempt of court, ha declined, giving reasons which ought to be Illuminating, even to the warmest advocates of the cause. n , . hn. sentenced men have the sympathy of all .....v,o t ,00r, ine case is not yet ended and until the law of the rase is decided the courts must be rcnw( tr ,. i la correct, it must be obeyed. If it Is at fault. It must be corrected. Americans, he saya, have It In their Just laws by the ballot, and should use i..-.. yuwer. remembering in union there I strength. Here is wise and temperate ad vice which seems fullv in n.- -... tlon. especially from the moral side of the uum-B vi ciuzcnsnip. rERSOAL AND OTHERWISE, Speaking of Nebraska. wh.- t ... V,. J,,,,...,, . - uuUnm to go mrther and fare better. An authority on the auhieot -i.i... sausage were compounded as far back a 897. Some of them' look it. The New Tork Stock ,rh.n.. of scant business, while New Tork hotel "' wim guest. Wall atreet ap pear to have a reputation. An improved quality of nrlnf r,.. urged for the permanent edition of the Con greslonal Record. Asbestos seems to meet the requirement of a depository of hot air. "Anxiou inquirer," is Informed that a good look at the grotesque gutterspout on the Omaha city hall I more enlightening ....... . u.tuunary m denning th9 word "gargoyle." Soul mating in Knsa will be put In a class with bootlejglng if a pending bill become a law. Thereafter, affinities caught in the act will be hustled to dif ferent penitentiaries. . London policemen are about to introduce, for. the benefit of suffrage raiders the Parisian aystem of bodily pressure, forcing the mob against the nearest wall. Then will the uffragetta be up against it. "No man will ever again enter Into my life." exclaimed a Chicago club woman who had sidetracked a husband some time before. Card for wedding number two are out. A sacrifice 1 necesaarv in mmi-i. the brute." A New Tork critio assure victim of neuralgia that the Salome dance of the even veil aa executed in that town la an excellent emollient for the taut chord of the neck. The victim forget their pains in following the pace. If Chicago's health sharps insist on ban ishing the festive germ from the milk can, milk vender insist Chicago must nav fnr the trouble. A conference of milk producer in tbe Chicago territory decided to boost the price of germles milk to nine cent a quart. Scandal of Expert Kvldeape. New Tork Tribune. The New Tork State Bar association haa unanimously decided to recommend the passage of a law tending to end the acan dala of expert evidence. It would establish a body of experts in each appellate divi sion of the supreme court to be called on to testify at the state's expense when ex pert testimony waa needed, and would thus relieve the, givers of expert evidence from any feeling of obligation either to the de fense or the prosecution. Their only ob ligation would be to their reputation and the truth. This 1 a desirable reform. If w are to have expert at trial let us have thoroughly impartial and unpreju diced one. ... Gay Deceivers, Never I Baltimore American. Truly, this 1 an age of Iconoclasts. The national Boot and Shoe Manufacturer's association in convention ajujerobled ha frowned upon the code atgn which enable the dealer to cater to the vanity of a woman customer by deceiving her aa to the else of her shoe and has decreed that the exact number of the footwear shall be plainly atamped. Caa T Kec a Secret 1 New Tork Sun. Admiral Kvana say that the Instructions given hire by the president when the bat tleship fleet left Hampton Road on the "practice. cruise" will not be- made public until the admiral or Mr. Roosevelt dies. Can both of them keep tbe secret? Looking la Wrosf Direction. Indianapolis News. Somehow it never seems to occur to the wisdom of congress that Increasing the revenue Is not the only way to avoid the embarrassment uf the deficit, and that much could be done by reducing the ex penditure. , , . , Old Hellaola Kserelao. Minneapolis Journal. There 1 the Swedish' movement cure and the Emanuol movement cure; but, af ter alt, the buck saw or the smow shovel movement furnishes Just aa rood axercia as they did twenty yean ago. . Ancient J. L, Brandeis & Sons Doston Store Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S., Omaha, Nebraska. My Dear Sir: Regarding my $5,000.00 Twenty year deferred dividend policy. No. 244,280. written by yourself February 18, 1887. I elect to accept the cash value, a sum In excess ol nil premiums paid. You have written all the members of our firm for largo amounts. My confidence in you snd your great Company has never been shaken, and now, after twenty years of unbroken friendship and business deal ings, I have taken an additional new policy with you in the sum of $20,000.00. ' ' I think this letter is an answer to your question this morning, "Are you satisfied!" Yours very truly, Modern CHARLES N. DIETZ, OMAHA Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, Omaha, Nebraska. My Dear Mr. Neely: ' I am, this morning, in receipt of New York draft In settlement of my $50,000.00 policy in the Equitable Life Assurance Society. I notice the cash value is more than the premiums I have paid. The absolute protection of $50,000.00 has been a great source of comfort all those twenty years. I regard the future of the Society most auspicious under the guid ance of our fellow Nebraskan, Paul Morton, and I farther desire to congratulate the Society upon having such efficient representatives in Nebraska. Yours very truly, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. "Strongest In the World" PAUL MORTON, President H. D. NEELY, Manager, Omaha, Nebraska. LINCOLN'S FAME. .. Death Came at the High Tide of III Labor. Rev. T. I. Cuyler in Homlletlc Review. Terrible a was the.otragedy of thai April night. It I still true that Lincoln may have died at the right Urns' for . hi . im perishable fame. He had conducted an im mense nation through the most tremendous civil war ever waged and never committed a single serious mistake. He did not pos ses Hamilton' brilliant genius, but Ham ilton never saw the future more saga ciously. He made no pretensions to Dan iel Webster' magnetic oratory, but Web ster never put more truth In oratorical form for popular guidance. He possessed Benjamin Franklin's immense common sense, and that twenty-line address on the battlefield of Gettysburg is the high water mark of American sententious eloquence. It Is fitting that after such a career hla own life should be the last to be lost In that stupendous struggle. He had called over 200,000 heroes to lay down their live and then hi own life wa laid down beside the humblest private soldier or drummer boy of Gettysburg or Chlckamauga. DOMESTIC PLKA9ANTIUE9. Orlando Spoons more bent over the fair band and respectfully kissed It. "Young man," screeched the parrot in the cage overhead, "la there anything the mat ter with my lips?" Chicago Tribune. "Does your wife ever take your advice about anything?" asked the impertinent relative. "Certainly," answered Mr. Meekton. "She frequently consults me as to whether her hat 1 on straight." Washington Star. "Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar?" "Yes, judge, and he can drink like a fish'-Harper Weekly. "Do you turn your aalary over to your wife?" "Of course," answered Mr. Meekton. "I'm obliged to. She is one of the most enthusiastic bridge players In the city." Washington Star. "Johnny," said Mrs. Lapsling, putting on her wraps, "I've been In the house all day and I need the fresh air. If you'll mind Can You Ignore To the woman who studies economy, this store makes an especial appeal. Spend a few mlnntea of ydar shopping time here tomorrow. To look at the piano bargains on our floors will cost yon nothing aor will yon incur an obligation to bay. Simply see them. Bealdea a Urns of special new pianos, we are showing several scores of slightly used pianos, which have been taken In exchange or returned from rent. Wo must dispose of them. The good values are astonishing. Come in, in spect these Instruments carefully. We welcome the most searching Investigation. We quote a few just to show bow far a dollar will go now at Hospe's. . Chlckering, Walnut. A fine Piano, only 9300 Cramer, Oak. Good beginner's Piano 9150 Hospe, Mahogany. A reliable Piano 9210 Whitney, Oak. A good wearer 9108 Russell & Lane. Oak. A bargain 9235 Kimball, Square Piano. Pine shape 940 110.00 takes one home. Permonth and up 95.0O CABIXET ORG AX BARGAIN'S Taylor A Farley Organ, Walnut. , 922.00 Molina Organ. Walnut 925.0O XhnbaU Organ, Oak 935.00 .. AO the above organs ars high tor instrsments. Cheaper organs tram fin. 06 wa. Tea pay X0 casth, b frfie per weak. A. HOSPE CO. KjS&s History Omaha. Neb., Feb. 4." 1907 History Jan. 12th, 1909. baby a little while I'll go and take a pre amble around the block." Chicago Trit bune. . j "I've never played card in my life." -dtl dared Mrs. Flurry, seating herself at the card table to fill out at the hostess's ret quest. "But never mind , I always, team things quickly." - "Please cut' the -cards, Mrs. Flurry." "All right. Please hand me a knife." Judge. "You say you have know that dashing woman all her life?" "Yos." "What is her name?" , "Can't say. I don't pretend to kerfc track of her divorces." Chicago Recoril- Hcrald. Anxious Mother Mr. Wyld N. Woolly Is a most estimable young maTT, my (laugh ter. Why don't you accept lilm? He is a diamond in the rough. Daughter (pertly) Because I don't caro to do the polishing. Puck. LINCOLN. James Russell Lowell. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind Indeed, Who loved hia charge, but never loved tb lead; One wnose meek flock the people joyed to be. Not lured by any cheat of birth Hut By his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity! They knew that outward grace Is dust; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill. And supple tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. HI was no lonely mountain-peak of mind. Thrusting to thin' air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now. now Inst In vapors blind; Broad prairie lather, genial, level-lined, j Fruitful and friendly for all human kind. ' Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of lofti. est stars. He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide. Stilt patient In hi simple faith sublime, , Till tlie wise yeara decide. Oreat captains with their guns and drum Disturb our Judgment for the hoar. But, at last, silence comes: These all are gone, and standing like ' tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. These Savings?