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ekaag ata oftca mm requested..
Let iiB hope there will be no rage
for the Importation of the Paris style
of strikes this year.
There may be no collegiate signifi
cance In the fact that the new solicitor
general Is a Yale man.
Still. Charley Ross unquestionably
got more publicity than any other boy
.who was ever kidnaped.
China's decision to build a big navy
will naturally call for an increase in
Nevada's coast defenses.
The tariff on fence posts Is to be re
duced, bat there Is the earns old back
breaking duty. on pestholes. .
The tariff discussions are developing
the fact that many men are suffering
pains in the lumber regions.
The peach-basket hat is listed
among the eastern styles. Omaha can
furnish the peaches, all right.
Despite the efforts of adventurous
explorers, both the South and North
poles are still In the wireless cone.
The Inheritance tax would be a hard
blow at Pittsburg, where most of the
younger folks are living on inheri
tances. It might be a good plan to allow the
mothers of the land to frame the law
providing for the punishment of kid
napers. Now that Champ Clark has dined
at the' White House, the congressional
war dogs may be sent back to their
kennels.
President Eliot of Harvard is still
denouncing foot ball as a college snort.
The Harvard team has rarely played
winning foot ball."
Membership card No. 92 S In the
Punk Punsters' union goes to the New
York Herald for Its comments on "the
Payneful tariff bill."
If ' benioate of soda will preserve
anything, as it is claimed, it might be
tried, on International peace, thus pre
serving the warships.
The horses balked with six demo
cratic members of congress who
started for a drive in the Virginia hills
It isn't easy to fool a horse.
While most of the chemical sched
ules In the new tariff bill have been
merely 'reduced, oxhide of beef has
Veen placed on the free list
The crown prince of Servla, having
Surrendered his title to the throne and
discharged his typewriter, the Balkan
war clouds have blown away.
The tariff on anchors is to be cut
half a cent a pound. The man who
wants to keep an anchor to windward
should appreciate the saving.
Richard Harding Davis denies that
be err said, "Of the qualifications of
the literary person I possess none."
No matter. Others have aald it.
Harper's Weekly expresses the fear
that oratory is becoming a dead art in
America. Others are expressing' the
fear that Harper's Weekly la mistaken.
t
A Harvard professor says that all
th books needed for a good education
may be placed on a five-foot shelf. Just
about hold the Bible, Shakespeare and
an unabridged dictionary.
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Dr. Eliot for St. James. .
According to most reliable authority
the position of ambassador to the court
of St. James has - been tendered by
President Taft to Dr. Charles W. .Eliot,
soon to retire from the presidency of
Harvard university. Dr. Eliot's high
standing and his fitness for the posi
tion are universally conceded. The
only question about which hesitation
is felt in any quarter is whether he
could keep up the high standard of
social entertainment, which has been
maintained by the present ambassador,
whom he would, succeed.
It is known that President Taft does
not place particularly high store upon
social prestige as a factor In the dip
lomatic service and that he has ex
pressed his conviction publicly that
our representatives abroad should ap
peal successfully to the thinking peo
ple of the country to which they are
accredited without lavish social dis
play. If Dr. Eliot goes to St. James,
he will have to rely upon his reputa
tion as a man of letters and his person
ality as an educator to command the
desired attention.
In his "Recollections of Seventy
Years," the late Senator Hoar of Mas
sachusetts, records that at bis suggest
tion the name of President Eliot was
seriously considered for this same mis
sion by President Hayes at the time
when James Russell Lowell was ap
pointed. Secretary of State Evarts was
opposed to the appointment of Mr.
Lowell and likewise to the appoint
ment of President Eliot, strangely
enough because his Intense loyalty to
Yale, set him against everybody and
everything Identified with Harvard.
Mr. Evart's antagonism was finally
overcome and James Russell Lowell
transferred from Spain to Great Brit
ain, giving us one of the bright pages
In our diplomatic history.
The strange part of the present offer
of the post to Dr. Eliot is that the
whirligig of time has brought the ap
pointment again within the gift of a
president who is not only an intense
partisan of Yale, but also one of its
trustees and yet so far above the
rivalry of the two great universities
that he takes it to be a privilege to
be able to favor the president of Har
vard.
A Moral for Mr. Bryan.
In a contribution to the March num
ber of Pearson's magazine, our old
friend, Richard L. Metcalfe, has pro
nounced a beautiful panegyric on "Mr.
Bryan In Defeat,"- which seems to
have struck the subject so responslvely
that Mr. Bryan has evidenced his ap
proval by reproducing it in his Com
moner. It is good reading, of course,
but this one paragraph deserves spe
cial attention.
I do not believe the average newspaper
editor of the east has oven the remotest
concoction of the. affect upon Individuals
of Mr. Bryan' 1906 defeat. There are so
many Instance where the deth of sick
or aged men wa apparently, hastened by
the election returns, etc.
The inference evidently intended to
be conveyed is that had Mr. Bryan
been elected many lives would have
been saved, which, because of his de
feat went prematurely to the grave,
and that should be run again consid
eration of these devoted followers, if
nothing else, should rally the votes
needed for his success.
One of the popular novels of the
day not many years ago was written
by Archibald Clavering Ounter under
the title, '.'Mr. Barnes of New York."
In narrating his history at the outset,
the hero asserts that he had studied
medicine and after graduation, made
all preparations to begin practice when
he read somewhere the statement that
"every doctor killed his man," and
seised by remorse he abandoned his
profession and decided to let his man
live.
Moral: The way for Mr. Bryan to
win a life saving medal is clear.
Women and the Tariff.
Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee has been hearing
from the women of the country and
has hastened to explain that the tariff
bill as presented Is really but a pre
liminary draft and that It is quite
probable that certain changes will be
made in It before It is finally enacted
into law. It appears that this storm
of protest has broken out because Mr.
Payne declared that the tariff had been
increased on "luxuries," and the
women soon afterwards discovered
that stockings and gloves evidently
came under that definition.
The tariff bill at best Is a lengthy
and technical document and the lay
man will find much difficulty in inter
preting it. The explanation is offered
that the apparent increase In the tax
on hose is not an Increase at all, but
a plan to secure a better adjustment of
valuations than was possible under the
old law, whose manipulation allowed
German and French hose makers to
come in under the tariff wall and play
havoc with the home manufacturers.
It Is hoped that the tangle may be
straightened out. but that will not end
the protest from the women.
Framers of tariff bills need not
think they can cover their tracks by
juggling with pig Iron, vegetable ivory,
catgut, coal tar, old brass, binding
twine, caraway seeds and commodities
of that kind and then, without catch
ing breath, turn to an Increase of the
tariff on hats, hat pins, furs, boas,
feathers, boutonnieres, wreaths and all
kinds of fluffy things without the
women finding out about it. Mr.
Schwab may tear bis hair over the
steel schedules, the Haveineyers may
sour on the sugar schedules and the
Filipinos go on the warpath over the
tariff treatment of their products and
congress may go Its own stubborn way
ignoring such protests, but It Is a .dif
ferent proposition when . the women
are affected. The tariff may be re
moved, as in the present bill, from
gunwads, dice, dominoes, dolly heads
and indurated fiber, but the law
makers will stir up a hornet's nest if
they persist In classing as 'luxuries
those articles of apparel and ornament
which lovely woman views as necessi
ties. If Mr. Payne Imagines that silk
stockings, millinery disguises, hair or
naments, aigrettes, ostrich and other
feathers, furs and funny things made
of furs and feathers are "luxuries," he
has only to call upon the women to
hear of something to his distinct disadvantage.
The Search for the Poles.
Attention to the penetration of hu
man beings into the polar region has
again been aroused and popular inter
est in the subject revived by the re
port of Lieutenant Shackleton of the
British army that he has succeeded In
getting within one hundred and ten
miles of the long-sought south pole,
thus coming nearer to the goal than
any other explorer in the high lati
tudes, north or south. Commander
Peary's farthest north, which Is the
most advanced of all human endeavor
In that direction, was more than 170
miles of the point he aimed to reach.
Even that was about 100 mlleB better
than the best of tbe Antarctic pioneers
until the latest .exploit of the British
officer.
Lieutenant Shackleton appears to
have established beyond question that
the south pole is located on land, thus
robbing Its exploration of the dangers
of ice floes and the terrors of tides and
cold combined. The pole, however, Is
supposed to be located at an altitude
of 12,000 to 13,000 feet. In a region
of snow, glacier, rarefied air and ex
treme cold. Scientific knowledge has
been enlarged by the last trip of the
explorers, as Lieutenant Shackleton
reports that coal has been found In the
Antarctic circle, proving that in some
remote period the region supported a
luxurious vegetation. The British offi
cer confirms the conclusions of Nor
denskjold, the Norwegian explorer,
who wrote rf that region some years
ago:
There ha been a time when the Antarctic
continent formed a bridge. Unking the three
southern continents and forming this now
frosen land. America, Africa- and Auh
tralla probably received from there much
of their now existing animal and plant
forjns, ere cold and Ice came, to kill all
that could not take refuge in the watera of
the sea.
Polar exploration has long attracted
adventurous spirits and exacted the
toll of human lives by the thousands.
It were profitless to argue that the suc
cess of these expeditions can accom
plish no lasting good nor add much to
the Bum total of human knowledge.
Until the white spots are wiped off
the map bold men will continue to risk
tnelr-lives to discover the polar se
crets and national and personal rivalry
will lre men on to the discovery that
can be made but once.. The Pearys
and the Shackletons will keep at it un
til some man makes the goal and
achieves the distinction that they and
a long line of brave predecessors have
sought for themselves.
John Bull, Land Grabber.
The British have always been the
most successful land grabbers in his
tory, seizing possessions In different
sections of the globe with the nonchal
ance of a roan borrowing a match from
a casual acquaintance and acquiring
territory that would provoke a war if
any other nation sh6uld attempt it.
The latest British exploit is the acqui
sition by Great Britain of a slice of
Slam about equal to tbe combined
area of Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Delaware, without attracting more
publicity than' a mere recording men
tion of the deal.
, It appears that Slam has ceded about
15,000 square miles of territory to the
British, which will be annexed to the
Malay states already under control of
the British flag on condition that Eng
land Invest about $20,000,000 in the
construction of a railway southward
from Bangkok, the Siamese capital.
It will doubtless develop later that the
eventual absorption of Slam by the
British Is Involved In the deal. It Is
not mentioned in the documents in the
case, but therailroad will be built and
owned by the British, it will be de
fended by the British, operated by the
British and probably furnish the Brit
ish excuse and opportunity for benevo
lently assimilating Slam and ultimately
taking charge of the affairs of its gov
ernment. To Study Insanity.
Henry ' Phlpps, the Pennsylvania
iron manufacturer wno has devoted
millions of his wealth to the advance
ment of the study of tuberculosis, has
recently made another donation in the
cause of science which physicians be
lieve will be equally productive of
great good. He has contributed more
than $1,000,000 for the establishment
of an Institution in connection with
Johns Hopkins university devoted to
the investigation of incipient insanity.
The buildings are already partially
completed and the investigations al
ready conducted are of much promise.
While remarkable progress has been
made in medh-al science in the last
halt century the achievements have
largely been with diseases of the body,
and it is only quite recently that effort
has been directed to the study of dis
eases of the mind. Physicians for
ages shared the common belief that
insanit was synonymous with de
moniac possession and there was al
most gross ignorance, amounting to
brutality, in the treatment of those
whose mentality was impaired. The
development of . medical science has
established the fact that the brain is
as susceptible of treatment as the kid
neys and that mental aberrations are
to "a large extent due to physical con
ditions that may be Improved.
In the past insanity has been studied
from the outside. It Is the purpose of
the Phlpps donation to study It from
the inside. The discovery of just
what Is the con-elation between the
human mind and the human brain is
one of the most important medical
problems of the age.
Playing on the Grass.
The park commissioners of Cincin
nati have decided upon a policy for
the coming summer of removing the
"Keep Off the Grass" signs and in
viting the children to lie on the green
sward, to play their games on the
grass and have just the best kind of a
time, being always careful to be as
careful of the grass In the public parks
as they would be of the lawns at their
own homes. If the children and
grownups co-operate with the park
commissioners the new order will be
made permanent. If they are careless
and destroy the parks the old signs
will be restored and the visitors con
fined to the paved walks aud the stiff
backed wooden benches and settees.
The experiment Is well worth trying
for the benefit of all cities supplied
with these breathing places. The
grass, the flowers, the trees and shade
are the natural heritage of children
and should be theirs for the fullest
enjoyment possible, so long as they do
not become reckless or destructive in
their play. Parents may help In the
movement by impressing upon the
boys and girls that while grass itself
is hard to injure, the sod on which it
grows Is easily damaged and that flow
ers and shrubs should be enjoyed from
a distance. With even moderate gare
in this regard' the parks could be made
real resting and romping places for the
children.
Eggsact Justice.
Every housewife who occasionally
borrows something needed In the
kitchen or, what is more common, has
a neighbor who borrows about every
thing required in the practice of do
mestic economy, will find keen interest
In a court case arising out of a borrow
ing espisode recently decided in Pitts
burg, even though the facts are quite
commonplace.
Responding to a hurry call for cake
baking, a certain Mrs. Wagner, it
seems, went to the cupboard and found
it of the Mother Hubbard variety. She
wanted eggs, but the cupboard was
bare and the hens were on a strike.
Eggs were quoted at 50 cents a dozen
and Mrs. Wagner's purse was like her
cupboard. The most natural thing In
the world to do was to borrow a dozen
12, count 'em, 12 eggs from her
dear neighbor, Mrs. Brown, whose
hens were working overtime. The
eggs were beat, the cake was eat and
Mrs. Wagner allowed the incident to
pass from mind until several weeks
later, when her hens began to take an
interest in the affairs Of men. Then,
like a good neighbor who always re
members her obligations, she gathered
a dozen 12, count 'em, 12 eggs and
returned them to Mrs. Brown.
That is where the row Btarted. Mrs.
Brown having been reading the mar
ket reports, her husband's brother-in-law
being a broker, Mrs. Brown knew
something about the value of hen
fruit. She insisted that she had loaned
Mrs. Wagner 50 cents worth of eggs.
As the market at the time of the re
turn quoted eggs at 20 cents a dozen,
she asserted that she should of" right
have thirty eggs Instead of the original
twelve. It was plain as A B C. Twelve
eggs at 50 cents a dozen were equal
to thirty eggs at 20 cents a dozen, and
Mrs. Brown did not think much of
Mrs. Wagner's mathematical education
if Mrs. Wagner could not figure out
that little problem in mental arithme
tic. Still Mrs. Wagner was not with
out, argument that sounded logical.
She insisted with much vehemence and
eloquence that "eggs is eggs," and,
anyway, the twelve big brown eggs
from her Leghorns were worth as
much as twelve eggs laid by Mrs.
Brown's puny little Bantams any day
In the week, regardless of stock mar
ket quotations on luxuries. In addi
tion to all that, Mrs. Wagner had come
over to return the bk5 and return
them she would. Sho returned them
one at a time, In a perfect imitation of
Robe Waddell getting la trim for the
opening game on Decoration day.
There were no wild throws. Mrs.
Brown .received them all, with pic
turesque result, transforming her into
a human imitation of a Turner land
scape. When the case was taken into court,
unfortunately for borrowers and lend
ers, the judge refused to rule on the
grave economic question involved, but
contented himself with placing both
women under bonds to keep the peace.
Although the question remains unde
cided, obviously Mrs. Wagner made 30
cents by the transaction, whether she
sold the eggs or ate them, and just as
obviously Mrs. Brown loaned a dozen
eggs and got a dozen eggs In return.
It is a proposition that . lenders and
borrowers will have to settle for them
selves. '
There should be no difficulty in get
ting tasters and samplers for the
American Society for the Investigation
of Alcoholic Beverages, just organized
In New York. ,
A theatrical manager is trying to
sign Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson for
a starring tour with The same com
pany. That vould surely make them
fight. ,
It Is suggested that the appropria
tions committee of the next congress
use a safety razor in shaving the esti
mates of the different departments.
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
The man who larks friends usually lack
In friendliness.
, If you fear to lose your dignity you have
none worth losing.
Many are saving up all their piety for
purposes of penitence.
The soft man hits no success at smooth
ing down life' angle.
The lowliest walk sounds louder In
Heaven than the loudest talk.
If you cannot give your religion away
you had better throw It away.
They who have fought temptation are
always tender to the tempted.
Rxcerslve emphasis on a few Ideas la
evidence of the absence of many.
Only as a man lives a life of hi own
can he have life to give to others.
Many people who want noble character
are unwilling to go to Its school.
Few things are more foolish than rraylng
for a high task while neglecting a lowly
one.
People who blame Providence for their
crops are usually reticent as to their Bow
ing. The best argument against th devil Is
the one ihat eats Into the profits of his
business.
You can tell whether a man ts walking
with God' by whether folk Ilk to walk
with him.
Most of the burdens for which we blame
Heaven are simply our own needless bag
gage. Chicago Tribune.
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT
New Tork World: Certain Roston church
trustees have ordered women to remove
their hats at services, under the Impres
sion that attention can be transferred thus
from millinery to sermons. Thl Is a tale
of foolish elders. The trustees will but sub
stitute for contemplation of visible head
gear the Infinitely more disturbing element
of wonder over millinery things unseen.
New York Sun: It may be doubted if
muscular Christianity ever had a brawnier
exponent than the Rev. Dr. Ijcander W.
Munhall of Ocean Grove, leader of ' the
summer Bible class. In the pride of his
self consciousness a an abstainer he has
Issued a challenge to moderate drinkera
between the ages of 21 and 64, the latter
his own age, to contest with him in the
running broad jump, hop, skip and jump;
putting the 10-pound ahot, throwing the
18-pound hammer, a 50-yard dash, 6-mlle
walk, handling the 60-pound dumbbell and a
bicycle race of eighty-four mile, from the
Cit hall, Philadelphia, to the Princeton
Theological seminary and back. The doctor
stipulates that the sw'nmlng test shall
be along the ocean front at Orean Grove,
a heavy sea preferred. He contends that
his great vigor, elasticity of limb and
soundness of wind are due to temperance.
HEALTH A NATIONAL, ASSET.
Duty of the Individual to Maintain
HI Efficiency.
World Work.
The Individual' duty is to keep himself
well that Is to say, in condition for. per
forming his part of the work of the world.
He must come to look upon his physical
organism a a tool, and to realise that
upon the state of thl tool depend the
quantity and the quality of the work that
he can do with hand or brain. A a social
asset and it Is In this respect that wo are
now considering him a man Is valuable
precisely in proportion to the quantity and
the quality of . the work that ha can do.
Therefore, a a part of the social organ
ism, it Is a man' duty to keep himself
In the highest .possible state of . working
efficiency.
How to do this Prof. Fisher indicate In
two words. "Avoid poisons" poisoned air,
poisoned water, poisoned food, poslonou
thoughts, poisonous emotion, and just
plain poisons like alcohol, tobacco and
drugs. Breathe deeply of pure air, eat
abstemiously of foods demanded by appe
tite. Exercise for the delight of physical
expression, not te win a game or because
you think you ought to -and exercise the
Intellect and 'the emotions aa well as the
muscles. Wear aa few clothes aa possible
and these of porous materials, so disposed
as not to weigh heavily upon, constrict or
destroy the balance of the body. Batho
frequently enough to keep the skin In con
dition for performing its ellmlnative func
tions. Keep cheerful. Don't worry.
The man who does these thing will not
only bo mnking his country greater and
richer, but also will be laying up a great
treasure for himself and his descendants
forever.
Roosevelt In the Npotllght.
Springfield RepubUcan.
While Mr. Roosevelt sought temporary
oblivion by his expedition tc Africa, it is
now the moat palpable of facts that the
foremost of publicity experts whoever hs
may be could not have conceived a project
more brilliantly designed to keep the former
president in the public eye. The hunt in
the African jungle has caught the popular
fancy, and. If Mr. Rocsevelt really insist
upon privacy, he should have taken an
army corps to keep the reporter at a safe
distance. Everything thaf happen to him
in the next eighteen month, and alsj
everything that doesn't happen, will receive
prodigious attention; and when he top off
with hi lecture In England. France and
Germany, with all Europe at hi feet and
all the crowned heads at his side, his jubi
lant fellow countrymen may be expected
to go Into fresh transports of adoration.
It'a going to be a painful eighteen month,
after all, for Mr. Roosevelt's enemies, who
had hoped to hear the last of him for a
while.
Fad of Ancestor Worship,
New York Sun.
Probably nowhere else, not even In China,
1 ancestor worship so common a In these
United State. Every man being "a good
as another." In theory, I eager to prove
that he la better. The Chinese slowpoke
use the distinction of the descendant to
confer honor upon the ancestor. The Amer
ican of wealrli and taste for ancestry can
buy or have Invented for him ancestors who
confor honor upon lim. As im:UrtlaJ
sociologists we record without praise or
blame tlu passion of the American de
mocracy for ancestors.
The La Word on Revision.
Washington Post.
There i no doubt that Mr. Taft will
have the courage to speak If th action
of either house of congress should con
vince him ..hat the tariff Is not being
revised In accordance with the people's
will. And if h should speak for the people,
members of the house and senate are
likely to listen, whatever the plans of th
leader in either body may be.
Fairy Talcs Outclassed.
' Baltimore American.
An aerial navy, equipped with, wlrelea
telegraphy, 1 among the possibilities even
the probabilities of the future. The old
tlrr.' fairy tales, with their marvelous
achievements, ate In danger of l-s'.ng the
recc rd.
Problem Easily Solved.
Boston Transcript. ,
A westerner would settle th Bacon
Brakspear controversy forever. A drama
tic club In hi town played "Hamlet" the
other day. Now. say he, open tbe grav
and as which.' one of tb two baa turned.
"
8)8
During February near!? 08 per
m denth claims by the Equitable In
paid within one day after proofs of
Policies Paid A......843
Paid within one day 886
There was only one claim remaining unpaid at the end of the sec-'
ond day. When policies are not paid Immediately it is usually due to
delay on the part of the beneficiary in submitting complete papers.
' 08.4 of the TOTAL AMOUNT PAID WITHIN A DAT."
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Tour early Inspection Is Invited, aa
it will afford an opportunity of choos
ing from a large number of exclusive
styles.
W Import In "Single suit- length,"
and a suit cannot be duplicated.
An order placed now may be deliv
ered at your convenience.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
There are mighty few observer of March
weeth or- who- have, not een- better day.
Development In areonautic crowd th
waiting list of the Optimists' club.. People
are looking up. . , -
There la peculiar fitness In naming th
midway of the Seattle show, "Pay Streak.
In mining parlances, a pay streak require
considerable digging in dirt. .
The perfection of magazine enterprise
must be awarded a current monthly, which
features the thrilling story, "Why There
Is a Grasshopper on London's Royal Ex
change." A record of sixteen child kidnaping cases
at home and abroad In the last fifty years,'
compiled In connection with tho Whltla
crime, show nine rase In which the atolen
children werajiever recovered.
Special Judge William Krelger In trying
at Louisville, Ky Jake Ericlson, charged
with pouring coal oil on rats and setting
them afire, dismissed the prisoner, hold
ing that rats were not property, dtd not
belong to anybody and the charge of
cruelty could not be sustained.
The manager of the girl who Salome
danced , through Iowa lately , must have
done a land lottery business. ' Press, pulpit
and nil the comers are discussing the
fairy wfth the knowledge, observation gives.
Some of the law makers must have seen
the sights for one of the propose to de
fine by law the cut of Salome' garments.
"Charities and Common," a weekly
magaslne of social and civic progress, pub
lished In New York City, announces a
change - of name. Hereafter it will be
known a "The Survey." Edward T. Devlne
will continue a editor and Graham Tay
lor a associate editor. The Survey starts
undnr Its new nanie with 10,000 subscriber
Willi Moore, chief of the government
weather bureau, has given Atlantic City a
vigorous slap to get even with member of
the city council for having sought to re
place the large weather map in Pennsyl
vania avenue, and for having failed to
appreciate the gift of a weather kiosk, and
to get a place for It on the outer edge of
the board walk. The chief, has ordered
both the map and the kioek to other lo
cations and cut Atlantic City off the map.
JUST AS GOOD J
NEW PIANOS
WITH' PRICES ONLY HALF AS MUCH
A number of nearly new Klmballs, Kranlch & Dachs, Hospes,
Cramers, Hallet-Davls, Wood, Smith and other Pianos. Some out on
short time rentals, others exchanged Pianos, others shop-worn, worth ,
double we ask, but It takes only f 125, $143, f 155, 9 175, to $250 on
payments of f 10 down and $5.00 per month to own piano Just as good
as new.
NEW -PIANOS '
Three ears of Kranlch & Bach, Krakauer, Klmballs, Bush-Lane,
Cable-Nelson, Burton, Cramer and Imperial Pianos on our floors with
prices of $190 and up, on easy payments. Old pianos taken as part pay.
PLAYER PIANOS ' 1
Old and used Player Pianos, $275, $300, $330 up to $l,OUO. Easy
Terms. These are the pianos that are known as I.lve Pianos. You play
thorn by hand, rfbe old way), or play them with perforated iuubIc by
foot pedaling this makes the piano playable by anyone owning two
feet. Come and see and hear them. This Is the lime of the year to
bav pianos tuned; we do the work right.
A.. HOSPE CO.
1513 Douglas Street
The Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States.
"STKQXSEST IN IKE WORLD"
"POLICIES SIGHT DRAFT -T MATURITY."
RAUL MORTON, Prcs.
PER. CENT
cent (07.0) of the polWew paid
the United States and Canada were
death were received.
$i,10S4O.S7
1,17B,'O70.4
Guckert
McDonald,
Tailors
317 Soth Fifteenth Street
ESTABLISHED 1887
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, .
Artist I will guarantee, lr, to paint jrou)
a speaking likeness of your wife, . -
Customer You can't do that.-
Artist Why can't IT
Customer Because she's dumb. Battf.
mors, American. : , ,. . i ;
Bhet beard 'yon singing h' your rootii
this morning. '
He Oh, I dng a.liftle to kill tlm. '
fine You have -.a . good weapon. Astoa
Transcript,
"A woman' hat is a ridiculous affair,"
said the man. .
"Yes." unxwered the 'woman; "I don't
see why you Insist -on taking it so eri
ously when the bill come in." Washing
ton Star. "
Bahful Youth Miss Bella, does does
your mother object to my coming here so
much?
Fair Charmer-Oh, I think not. I heard
her telling papa the other evening that you
merely came to pass away tlit? time you
didn't mean anything serious. Chicago Tri
bune. "Out of a Job. are you?" asked lh flrat
girl. ' "Boss catch you fill ting?" -
"No; I caught the bosa. Say, what sort
of a wedding dress do you think 1 real
well?" Philadelphia Ledger.
WEAITH OF THE TRAIL
Arthur Chapman In Denver Republican.
There a grass-grown trail near the hin
Ing rail where the train go whlszing
by
Where the amoke from the overlan fast
express Is spread like a veil In the
sky;
It's the trail where the stage went rum
bling through In the daya of th real
frontier.
But where is the driver who braved the
path, and whose stout heart knew no
fear?
'Twas a perilous trip that the prairie ship
made across the high, brown plains,
But has anyone kver heard men tell of a
coward who held the reins?
There are plenty of tales of heroes' work
and, of passengers saved from death.
But when did a driver ever quail in the
fiercest billiard s breath?
So go to the trail when the atari are pale,
and 'tts scarce an hour till dawn,
And you'll see a ghostly stage flit past, by
four ghost horses drawn;
And high on the box sits the ghost of a
man, and he throwa you an eerie hall
It Is thus that the stage goes by today on
the grass-grown overland trail.
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